Jiang Fang smoothed over and then asked: "You mean, you entered He Xiaoxiao's house and stole the bracelet after she went out. Did you see her come back?"
Lianxiang shook her head: "I only saw her going out, not her coming back, but there was a light in her room at night. I should have been to her room."
Jiang Fang asked: "How do you know that I have been to her house?"
Guilian said: "Because there were shadows of several people on the window in her house, but there were only cries and no curses that day. It should be the master.
Xiaoxiao thought that although she was carrying his father's child, he didn't think it was his child. Privately, everyone was saying that he didn't have the ability to have children, so he suspected that it was not her child.
So I would go to Xiaoxiao's house every now and then, and I would hear Xiaoxiao crying while she was talking. Madam and other aunts couldn't stand her look, so they went to her house.
Mostly to scare her, Xiaoxiao usually won't cry and will yell and scold the ladies and aunts. After all, the master's children died inexplicably. If she is really pregnant with the master's child, it will be the only one in the Xu family.
's child."
After listening to some of the gossip in the house, Jiang Fang asked, "Then do you remember why those people left He Xiaoxiao's house?"
Lianxiang shook her head: "I went back to look for it because I found that my hairpin seemed to have been left in Xiaoxiao's house. After all, I took Xiaoxiao's bracelet, so naturally I didn't dare to keep it for a long time."
Jiang Fang nodded and asked, "Does the prefect know this?"
Lianxiang's mood suddenly became excited: "I told the magistrate, but he insisted that I went to Xiaoxiao's house and poisoned it.
They said that I was the only one who entered Xiaoxiao's house, but when I went there, Xiaoxiao came out. I said that I was going to steal the bracelet, and he said that I was jealous of Xiaoxiao, so I killed her.
It's true that I'm jealous of her, we entered the Xu Mansion together, but she's going to be an aunt, but I really didn't kill anyone, I just can't stand the way she looks like that."
Jiang Fang did not speak, walked to He Xiaoxiao's body, and then asked: "Have you seen He Xiaoxiao's body after her death?"
Lianxiang shook her head: "I'm afraid."
Jiang Fang thought for a while and then said: "I know you have done something wrong and it is normal to be afraid, but I really need you to help me take a look at the body."
After saying that, Jiang Fang lifted up the white cloth covering the corpse, revealing the face of the corpse inside. Lianxiang screamed in fright, and Jiang Fang frowned: "If you don't want to lie on it for a while, I advise you to stay closed."
Good mouth."
Lianxiang was so frightened that she quickly closed her mouth, but the panic and fear on her face did not diminish at all. Jiang Fang said, "Is she He Xiaoxiao?"
Lian Xiang didn't dare to look back. Jiang Fang sighed and coaxed: "I know you are scared now, but if you don't help me, then only you will die, not me, do you understand?"
Lianxiang nodded. She forced herself to look at the body behind her, but after taking a look, she quickly turned away and said, "She is not Xiaoxiao."
Jiang Fang asked: "Are you sure?"
Lianxiang nodded: "Xiaoxiao and I have been playing together since childhood. I can't admit it wrong. What's more, there is a butterfly-like birthmark on Xiaoxiao's neck. It's so obvious that I can't make a mistake."
Jiang Fang carefully looked at the neck of the female corpse, and indeed did not see the birthmark that Lian Xiang mentioned, so he covered the female corpse with the white cloth again.
Jiang Fang patted Lianxiang on the shoulder, and then said: "After you know the cell, you don't have to say anything, you know? Including what happened tonight, you just need to insist that you don't kill anyone."
After saying that, Jiang Fang left. Lianxiang felt frightened when she thought of a dead person lying behind her, and wanted to break away, but she couldn't.
Soon Nangong Chuiyang and Chen Ding brought all the fragrant powder available on the market to Jiang Fang, which was already used by the brothel girls in the provincial capital.
When Jiang Fang entered the room, he was choked and breathless. The room was filled with the smell of all kinds of powders, and the mixture together really made people cry.
Jiang Fang said quickly: "You should bring it to my house one by one. The smell is really overwhelming. Sure enough, sometimes one plus one does not equal two."
Jiang Fang spent the whole morning smelling all the fragrant powder, but he couldn't find the smell he smelled on the woman last time.
Chen Ding said: "This is the powder used by all the brothel girls in the provincial capital. I really went to every brothel this time, every time I was lazy."
Jiang Fang only felt strange. The woman was clearly a girl from a brothel, but how could she not find that smell? So Jiang Fang asked: "Did the madams say that they lost the girl?"
Nangong Chuiyang shook his head: "No."
Jiang Fang was a little disappointed. Logically speaking, it should be easy to find, but why is the first step so difficult? Now he doesn’t even know who died.
Suddenly, Jiang Fang thought of something, and she quickly asked: "Is there another kind of person in this world called a military prostitute?"
Chen Ding nodded: "Yes, they are usually the female relatives of people who have committed crimes, but there is one less military prostitute and one more. I'm afraid no one will care about them, and they may not survive more than a month."
"That smell is not as strong as the smell of the Fireworks Alley and Willow Land. It's a bit light. It's not so cheap when asked, it's more like the high-quality stuff used by some young lady.
But when I looked at her body, she didn't look like that of a young lady, so I thought she was from a brothel. But now that I think about it, those thin-skinned and tender hands should belong to a young lady.
Chen Ding, I know that you have an extraordinary status, and you came here with the emperor last time. I would like to ask, which family has committed a serious crime recently, and have their female relatives been used as military prostitutes?
It should be the recent one. After all, it was the young lady's life and she suddenly became a plaything. No one can bear this. I'm afraid, as you said, she won't survive more than a month, so it is very likely that it was the recent one."
Chen Ding thought for a moment and said, "I don't know if I should tell you about this."
Jiang Fang looked at Chen Ding's embarrassed look and asked tentatively: "Could it be related to the Queen Mother?"
Chen Ding walked to the door, looked outside, closed the door after seeing no one, and then whispered: "The Queen Mother recently ransacked a general's home.
Empress Dowager Jiang had always been afraid of the general who held military power, but he had always supported the emperor. Now the emperor's identity was in doubt, and there were rumors that he wanted to rebel.
This general does have a little sister in his family, but no one knows her whereabouts yet. Jiang Fang, are you too bold to doubt her?"
Jiang Fang shook her head. She didn't know why she had such thoughts, but now she felt more and more that maybe the royal family really had no true feelings.