As an emperor, he was used to intrigues and intrigues. He simply did not believe that Sister Yi would jump into a well. Moreover, when he came just now, he found that this place was in the direction of the kitchen, filled with smoke and far away from the yard where Sister Yi lived.
Sister Yi had thousands of ways to die, but she chose the most puzzling one.
From the time Jinghua drank the poisonous wine to the time he died from the poison, it was only a stick of incense. How did Sister Yi learn that Jinghua was dead, and how did she jump into the well desperately?
This is also unreasonable.
"The reason why the girl jumped into the well was because this well was the only one leading to the outside. The girl didn't want to be bound by the shackles anymore. The girl also said that the county owner had done something wrong and she had no shame in living in this world anymore."
A maid was kneeling beside him, crying.
As everyone knows, the more you explain, the more doubts you arouse.
As a dozen guards went down into the well to search, Chu Xuanzhi immediately ordered that all the people in the county lord's mansion be imprisoned individually, large and small, and no one was allowed to be missed.
After more than half an hour, Chu Xuangzhi ordered the housekeeper to take out the list of all the slaves in the house and compare them one by one to see who was missing.
Immediately afterwards, everyone was asked to interrogate, and each maid and servant was asked to name the people they knew in this house. Every name called out must be recorded one by one, and then compared with the list of slaves.
None of these slaves had ever colluded to confess beforehand, so they all told whoever came to mind in their own memory.
As Chu Xuanzhi expected, there was a maid named Ding Xiang missing from the roster. There was no such person, but this name appeared in several maids' dictations.
In other words, Lilac disappeared for no reason.
Chu Xuanzhi winked at Yin Feng, and Yin Feng immediately pointed at one of the maids who had named Dingxiang: "There is no Dingxiang in the house, how dare you talk nonsense!"
The little maid was so frightened by Yin Feng, and she quickly trembled and said: "Dingxiang was still in the house yesterday. She was the second-class maid in Miss Yi's yard. The slave girl and Dingxiang were fellow villagers, and they were sold into the house by Yazi together.
How could there be no cloves?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the butler on the side turned pale with fright. His chin was pinched by Yin Feng and he was forced to raise his head: "Why is there no Lilac on the roster?"
"Slave... I really don't know." The butler shook his head and tried to muddle through.
"The crime of deceiving the emperor is to copy the nine clans!" Yin Feng said angrily, and the housekeeper quickly said: "I really don't know this. Yesterday, the county master sent someone to take away the roster, and after checking it for half an hour, he returned it.
Sorry, I haven't noticed who is missing yet, so I beg your Majesty to show mercy."
Chu Xuangzhi did not embarrass these people. He waved his hand and asked Yin Feng to take care of everyone and deal with them after listening.
He looked at the edge of the well again and could confirm that it was Dingxiang who jumped into the well and not Yi Jie'er, which meant that Yi Jie'er was still hiding in the County Lord's Mansion.
"Continue to search the county lord's mansion. Don't miss any corner. Dig three feet into the ground to find the person!" Chu Xuazhi ordered to Yin Feng.
Yin Feng nodded: "Yes."
At the same time, people were sent to search along the direction of the moat, and no one was allowed to approach the moat for two days.
It was only said to the outside world that there were assassins hiding in the moat.
Before leaving, he said to Yin Feng: "If you find someone, there is no need to report back and forth. Just drink a glass of poisoned wine and watch her drink it. After burning it, bury the mother and daughter's bones together."
"yes!"
After arranging all this, Chu Xuanzhi walked towards the inn with heavy steps. Along the way, he was a little angry at himself, why he didn't notice Xu'er's strangeness earlier and let her bear so much alone.