In order not to disturb the rest of the master of the main house, the side room where the servants live will have an extra small door.
Therefore, if someone wanted to enter the side room where Xiaolian was staying last night, they could do so without disturbing Huang Jingye and others in the main room.
And last night, the Song family was busy working late, so it was very easy for someone to break into Xiaolian's room.
However, it would not be so easy for outsiders to enter Song's house quietly.
Therefore, the only person who killed Xiaolian could be the Song family.
Liang Yuanque thought it was a man at first. After all, Xiaolian was controlled by someone stronger than her.
But then I thought about it, if it was a man who did it, he might not choose to strangle her with a rope first.
Only by suffocating Xiaolian with hands or sheets, or knocking her unconscious with brute force, and then tearing open the sheets and hanging her up, can the suicide be perfectly disguised.
Since the murderer thought of pretending her to be a suicide, he must have thought about how to use the objects at the scene.
But in the end, it still entered the room with a rope, indicating that it might not be able to control Xiaolian so easily and kill her without the help of tools.
Xiaolian is a teenage girl, thin and tender-skinned. It is impossible for a man to be unable to control such a girl.
Unless he is the kind of guy who takes three steps, gasps for five steps and stumbles, but who would send such a person out to kill people?
The person who killed Xiaolian was most likely a stronger woman.
There are some elderly women in the inner house, who often worked when they were young, and generally have considerable strength.
Just like someone like the housekeeper.
As the housekeeper of the Song family, whether he was rushing back and forth on the pretext of taking care of his wife's funeral, or whether he wanted to see if that damn girl Xiaolian had acted like a monster again, he could enter the side room in the inner courtyard without arousing suspicion.
But now, there is no direct evidence to prove that she did it.
But just as Liang Yuanque was thinking about it, the housekeeper herself sent evidence.
While the door was still closed, there were noisy sounds coming from outside. The housekeeper's sharp voice was particularly prominent, as if she was scolding someone.
Liang Yuanque and Huang Jingye looked at each other and reluctantly pushed open the door. As expected, it was the annoying old woman grabbing a crying maid and scolding her.
Seeing them open the door, she immediately smiled at Huang Jingye and said,
"Uh, um, uncle, I have something to ask you."
Huang Jingye stood in the room and looked at her coldly,
"Say it."
When the housekeeper heard this, she slapped the maid next to her on the head hard, wiped away her smiling face and replaced it with a fierce look.
"Come, tell your uncle what you just told me again!"
"Yes, yes." The maid agreed in tears.
"Uncle, uncle, Xiaolian committed suicide because she killed my wife. She must have died because she was afraid of being discovered."
"What?"
Huang Jingye frowned and subconsciously glanced at Liang Yuanque beside him.
Liang Yuanque took a step back and hid in the darkness at the door. He shook his head slightly at him, indicating that he would not be exposed and let the maid continue to speak.
Huang Jingye was tangled up in his heart, but he still chose to believe Liang Yuanque first, so he looked at the maid calmly,
"You said it was Xiaolian who killed my sister, but you should tell me why!"
"Yes," the housekeeper let go of the maid. She suddenly fell to the ground, her head hanging down, as if she didn't dare to look at Huang Jingye.
"Xiao Lian and I are both Madam's personal maids, but since Madam became pregnant, her temper has gotten worse and worse, and she often beats and scolds us both."
"Xiaolian has a bad temper and can't stand being beaten and scolded. Sometimes she will whisper to me that she wants to kill my wife,"
"I thought she was just having fun with her mouth, so I quickly told her to stop talking nonsense. Who would have thought that she, she would actually take action..."
Liang Yuanque still couldn't figure out why he wanted to kill Xiaolian to silence her, especially why Xiaolian committed suicide in front of everyone yesterday.
Thinking about it now, it turns out that the Song family realized that Huang Jingye knew that Sister Huang's death was not simple, so they wanted to pull out a scapegoat to appease his anger.
Thinking about it this way, when the housekeeper was talking to the crowd yesterday, she seemed to stay in front of Xiaolian for a while.
To make her choose to commit suicide in public in desperation, there must be some leverage or weakness in the housekeeper's hands.
She didn't die at that time, but she may have regretted it later. After struggling on the line of life and death, she became afraid of death. The housekeeper forced her to die again, but she refused.
But as a scapegoat, she had to die. Only by dying would she never be able to defend herself, so the housekeeper refused to do anything and killed her directly.
Of course, it was not enough for her to die. Someone had to come out to help her "explain" the cause of death to Huang Jingye.
Anyway, now, both Xiaolian and Sister Huang are on the scene, and it is impossible for them to sit up and refute whatever they say.
Huang Jingye tried hard to control his emotions, "These are empty words. Do you have any evidence?"
These words shocked everyone present. The little maid raised her head, then lowered it hastily.
"Evidence, evidence...Uncle, I have no evidence. I just heard what Xiaolian said. Later, my wife died again, and she also died, so..."
"So you can just talk nonsense?" Liang Yuanque walked out of the shadows behind the door.
"I..." The maid choked, not knowing what to say next, and looked at the housekeeper nervously.
The housekeeper has lived to such an old age and must have experienced a lot of storms, so she behaves fairly calmly.
"Master, this girl came to me to report, and I will bring her to my uncle to see her. Whether it is nonsense or not, none of us have the right to judge."
On the surface, this is an explanation, but in fact, it means whether it is the truth or nonsense depends on whether Huang Jingye believes it or not. Liang Yuanque is just a loser.
But unfortunately, Huang Jingye really doesn’t believe it.
Every judgment made by Liang Yuanque has evidence and the analysis is well-founded. However, everything this little maid said is empty talk. Huang Jingye has no reason not to believe Liang Yuanque but to believe her.
Most importantly, he didn't believe that his sister would become a bad-tempered person who liked to torment those around her.
Sister Huang has been mild-tempered and kind to others since she was a child. Even if her temperament changed drastically due to the illness, she was also extremely weak due to the illness. How could she have the strength to beat and scold the girl next to her, even if the girl couldn't bear the beating?
"Yes, I have no right to judge," Liang Yuanque twitched the corner of his mouth with an expression that seemed to be a smile but not a smile. "Does Xiaolian herself have the right to explain?"
As soon as these words came out, everyone around him gasped.
The housekeeper's eyes were also widened. How could she forget what the boy in front of her did? If this person died, he would turn into a ghost. If the ghost died, wouldn't it be under the control of Mr. Feng Shui?
