In September, oranges are yellow and oranges are green, and the golden breeze blows coolly. Qiao County has avoided drought and locust plagues for the first time in a long time. People are busy in the fields, and the whole Cao Mansion is peaceful.

Cao Pi was resting in the courtyard covered in stinking sweat. Following Cao Ang's martial arts practice these days, his originally boring life became very fulfilling.

Bian didn't want Cao Pi to endure hardship at such a young age, but Cao Pi was afraid of what happened that day, and had a stubborn desire to improve his self-preservation ability. After repeated persistence, Bian could only follow Cao Pi's wishes.

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"Master, my wife calls you to dinner." A young female voice came from behind Cao Pi. The owner of the voice was Li Nu, Bian's maid, a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl with a delicate appearance.

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, ordinary people did not pay much attention to the naming of their children. In many families, boys were directly named after their ranking, and girls were given names by adding the word "女" after their surname. Li Nu was the girl of the Li family.<

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"I'm going to change my clothes, and I'll go right away." After finishing speaking, Cao Pi wiped the sweat from his face, thinking that this autumn tiger was really poisonous, and within an hour his face was burning.

A dinner was spent in Mr. Bian’s meticulous nagging...

After dinner, Cao Pi went back to his room and lay on the couch, recalling the key points of action that Cao Ang had said today. Suddenly he heard a scream coming from the door. Cao Pi quickly got up to check and found that Li Nv had fainted by the flower bed in the courtyard. Someone called Zhang.

The woman's maid is calling for help.

The movement in the hospital also alarmed Ms. Bian. After Ms. Bian arrived, she asked a few maids to carry Nv Li back to the room. She asked Nv Zhang to find a medical worker outside the house. After a while, an old man with gray hair came in.

Led by Ms. Zhang, the old man also had a surname of Cao and was the most famous doctor in the area.

After some diagnosis, the old man said that Nv Li's dizziness was caused by hunger. He only needed to feed Nv Li some rice porridge before she woke up, and after a few days of recovery, she would be fine.

The Cao Mansion has always treated its servants well, but no one knew why Lady Li fainted from hunger. Bian asked the maids on the left and right, but none of them knew anything.

One day later, Mrs. Bian summoned Nv Li, who had woken up from a coma, and inquired. She learned that Nv Li’s father had been ill in bed recently, and that Nv Li was frugally saving money for her father’s soup and medicine.

Moved, he gave Lady Li some silk as money and asked Lady Li to go home and take care of her father.

Li Nu cried bitterly and knelt on the ground and kept thanking her. After Li Nu left, Bian slowly broke away from the uncomfortable emotions and lamented the ruthlessness of the world. Cao Pi knew that his mother was a poor and homeless person before she met Cao Cao.

People, Li Nu's experience will more or less remind Bian of her former self.

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Nv Li hugged the silk tightly and ran all the way back to her courtyard. The Li family's courtyard was surrounded by earthen walls. The house had a simple layout of one hall and two rooms, and the walls were full of broken traces.

"Dad, I'm back. Are you feeling better these days?" Nv Li opened the door, and lying on the couch was an old man with gray hair. The old man was Nv Li's father.

"Where did these pieces of silk come from?" Mr. Li looked at the silk in Ms. Li's arms and asked with difficulty as he stood up.

"It was given to me by Madam." Ms. Li's cheeks turned red and she avoided Mr. Li's gaze.

"Don't fool me! Although your master treats you well, how could he reward you with such valuable things? Could it be that you stole these things from your master?" When Mr. Li said this, his anger rose.

Coughing repeatedly, the aggrieved Mrs. Li couldn't help but shed tears. While stroking Mr. Li's back, she talked about her experience in Cao Mansion.

After hearing his daughter's story, Mr. Li knew that he had wrongly blamed her. He wiped away the tears from the corners of Li's eyes with his rough hands and sighed: "It's all my father's fault that made my daughter suffer. The master's kindness must be

Keep it in mind, I will go find Qu Jiazi to exchange for some medicine later. The remaining silk will be waiting for you to use when you get married. There are many things in the mansion, so you can go back."

Ms. Li rubbed her red and swollen eyes, warned Mr. Li, and then returned to Cao's Mansion.

After his daughter left, Mr. Li picked up a piece of silk and walked tremblingly outside the hospital. In his mind, he and his colleagues fought against the Qiang people in Liangzhou. Mr. Li lamented that the people he had shared life and death with were all buried in a foreign country.

, and the one who survived by chance has now become an old man with many diseases. Fortunately, he still has a well-behaved and filial daughter to accompany him. Since he escaped from the war and came to Qiao County, his life has gradually got on the right track.

Just as Mr. Li was reminiscing about the past with faltering steps, he didn't know that he had been stared at by a pair of sneaky eyes.

Ma San is a well-known scoundrel in his surroundings. He is always lazy and enjoys playing with his peers. He also enjoys teasing women from good families.

When Ma San was wandering around out of boredom today, he happened to see Li Nv who was carrying silk silk home. Where did a maid get these valuable belongings? Could she be the concubine of a wealthy man? Ma San, who wanted to find out, hid in the

Outside the hospital, after Ms. Li left, she saw Mr. Li walking awkwardly, and then he had evil thoughts.

At night, the moon and stars are scarce.

Mr. Li vaguely heard a rustling sound in the room, and his vigilance from being a soldier for many years reminded him that there was a thief in his home. Mr. Li picked up the short knife for self-defense from the pillow and touched the place where the noise came from.

The sound of Mr. Li getting up also shocked Ma San, who was nervous. Ma San's legs began to tremble a little, his hands trembled unconsciously, and he froze in the corner for a moment. The distance between the two became closer and closer, and the moonlight outside the window shone on

Looking at Mr. Li's face, Mr. Li tightened the handle of the knife and stabbed Ma San.

Ma San reacted very quickly. He dodged Mr. Li's stabbing attack and tried to rush out of the door. Mr. Li failed to hit the target, so he immediately held the handle of the knife and stabbed Ma San from top to bottom towards the back of the heart. Ma San failed.

Thinking of how ferocious Mr. Li's attack was, my heart skipped a beat, and I turned around and kicked Mr. Li in the chest.

Mr. Li's head hit the wall with a muffled sound, blood flowed out, and he collapsed weakly on the ground. Through the moonlight that poured into the room, Ma San saw Mr. Li lying motionless in a pool of blood, and he immediately panicked.

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After Ma San plucked up the courage, he couldn't help but use his trembling index finger to detect Mr. Li's breath, only to find that the man in the pool of blood was no longer breathing. After a long ideological struggle, he rummaged around the house and hurriedly left.

Escape.

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In the early morning, heavy rain poured down.

People in coir raincoats were working in the fields, with unmistakable joy on their faces. They were thanking God for blessings in their words. The lush wheat seedlings in the fields absorbed water freely and gradually grew.

"The weather was fine yesterday, what happened today?" Cao Pi had never seen such heavy rain. He put down the book in his hand and looked out the window and said to himself.

Before he finished speaking, Cao Pi heard hurried footsteps outside the door. Through the window, he saw Li Nu running towards the outside of the courtyard like crazy. Cao Pi felt strange and came to Bian's room to ask.

"The neighbor of Ms. Li's family just told her that her home was robbed and her father was killed by the robbers." Bian sighed and said.

Cao Pi keenly thought that Li Nv had just received a sum of money from the Bian family, and then her father was killed. There must be something fishy in this, and the people most likely to know that Li Nv suddenly got the money were probably Li Nv's neighbors.<

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"Mom, I think the thief must be a neighbor of the Li family. Yesterday, when Li went home with silk silk in her arms, it was very possible that the thief saw her." Cao Pi said to Bian.

"These things are not for you and me to worry about. There is a thief in the pavilion to catch the murderer. Don't make inferences without authorization. Go back to the house and study." Bian did not comment on Cao Pi's inference.

After hearing Bian's words, Cao Pi knew that his mother had no intention of paying attention to who the murderer was, and just felt pity for Li Nu's plight. Cao Pi stopped talking and returned to his room to continue studying.

In the evening, the rain showed no sign of letting up, and you could still hear the faint sound of thunder and rumble. When Cao Pi was having dinner with Mrs. Bian, Ms. Zhang walked quickly and said to Ms. Bian: "Nv. Li, go home."

Then he committed suicide! I beg the thief to please see my wife in the hall now."

After hearing Nv Zhang's words, Ms. Bian staggered suddenly when she stood up. Nv Zhang hurriedly stepped forward to help her. Cao Pi saw a hint of panic in Ms. Bian's eyes.

Cao Pi followed Bian to the hall. Ding and Cao Ang were also in the hall. A strong black-faced man claimed to be a thief in the pavilion. He talked about what happened after Li Nu returned home.

Mr. Li's death was discovered by a man named Qu who delivered medicine to Mr. Li this morning. The neighbor knew that Ms. Li was working in the Cao Mansion, so he sent someone to send a letter for Ms. Li to go home. After she hurried home, she saw her father's body collapsed.

She cried loudly, and then stabbed her heart with a short knife on the ground. The neighbors had no time to stop Ms. Li from committing suicide.

The Li family was a foreigner with no relatives or friends around. They couldn't raise the funds and were unwilling to raise money for the funeral. After discussion, the neighbors asked Qiu to come to the Cao Mansion to ask for some money.

Bian's eyes welled up with tears as she listened to Qiu Pi's story. Cao Pi quickly took out the handkerchief in his arms and handed it to Bian. After Bian wiped her tears, she looked at Ding with pleading eyes.

Ding knew that Bian was soft-hearted, and Li was the closest maid to Bian. Bian was always respectful to her and had never disobeyed her, so she asked her servants to take some money and give it to Qiu Thief.

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Qiu Pi was about to leave after getting the money when a childish voice suddenly came from behind him. Cao Pi said to Qiu Pi: "Is the silk my mother gave to Nv Li still in Nv Li's house?"

Qiu Pi turned around and saw the young Cao Pi. He remembered the rumors that there were few quick-witted children. He forgot his identity for a moment and replied to Cao Pi: "The Li family has always been in difficulty. When we raised money just now, we didn't ask for help from his family."

I found something valuable. I have never heard of the silk you mentioned. I think it was stolen by thieves who broke into the house. There are indeed signs that the Li family has been rummaged through by thieves."

"So anyone who saw Mrs. Li coming home yesterday is very likely to know about the silk silk incident." Cao Pi's words revealed the murderer's motive.

Qiu Pi was shocked by Cao Pi's words. He didn't expect that a child could find the key to the murder with just a few words, but why didn't he know it? Then Ma San came to his home last night and told him the whole truth of the murder.

His wife is Ma San's sister. After the wife's brother-in-law's pleading, he finally accepted the silk...

"Api, please don't say anything more about this matter. The thief will make his own decision." Ding felt that it was too strange for a young child to tell the court officials about the investigation, so she stopped Cao Pi.

Bian on the side also tugged on Cao Pi's sleeve. Cao Pi understood that what he just said and did was a bit rude, so he handed it over and said nothing.

After thanking the thief, he left the Cao Mansion and rushed to the Li family. The rainstorm became stronger and stronger, and the rumbling sound seemed to be close at hand. Even though the thief was wearing a raincoat and a hat to protect him from the rain, his face was still covered with rainwater.<
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