Yinxiang's counterattack was cruel. During these days, she had become familiar with all the exits in the Shuyu Pavilion's backyard, so after she ran out of the kitchen, she ran forward as hard as she could along the route in her memory. Anyway, she ran forward
If she was caught, she would die anyway. If she was lucky enough to escape, there might be another way to survive. But she didn't expect that Xia Houshu had been waiting for her for a long time. As soon as she ran out of the kitchen, she was killed by Xia Houshu not far away.
Relief stopped.
Xia Houshu subdued Yinxiang in a few clicks, then covered her mouth with a piece of coarse gauze from the kitchen, and quickly pulled her into a room filled with debris, successfully avoiding the others.
He chased her, and then he called her name and asked her about Yi Wu's life.
"How do you know my name? I haven't told anyone here..."
Yinxiang looked at Xia Houshu in confusion. She had been hiding for too long, and she was like a frightened bird. She gritted her teeth and showed that she was not afraid of death, but her whole body was trembling.
In the kitchen earlier, Yinxiang was scolded by several cooks. She was immersed in her sadness and getting out of trouble, and didn't even notice that Xia Houshu came with Uncle Qiu to deliver the food.
She looked at Xia Houshu and saw that she had no intention of harming her, but he also had no intention of saving her, and she couldn't figure out her true identity. She couldn't help but beat a small drum in her heart. She secretly made a calculation, thinking that no matter what, she would die.
Not caring which side died more miserably, Xia Houshu turned around and left while he was taking in his surroundings.
Xia Houshu had quick eyes and quick hands and quickly controlled her again. She was afraid that Yinxiang's rampage would alert others and cause trouble, so she had to pull out the dagger hidden in her shoe and put it on her neck, warning in a low voice: "If you dare to scream,
I will kill you!"
Yinxiang immediately behaved and nodded desperately to Xia Houshu with a pair of innocent almond eyes.
Xia Houshu thought for a while and then took out the coarse cloth from her mouth.
"Girl, please spare your life!" Yinxiang kowtowed on the ground and said tremblingly, "As long as the girl lets me go, I can tell you everything I know!"
"Then it depends on whether what you say is valuable!" Xia Houshu's mouth curled up, but the dagger in his hand did not leave. He gently moved around her slender neck and deliberately threatened, "You said you were so good.
Why does a girl have to come to a place like this when she can't work as a maid from a wealthy family? It's really easy for me to find her!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Yinxiang's face instantly turned pale.
"I have my own reasons too!" Yinxiang said with red eyes and a hoarse cry in her voice.
It seems that everyone who has committed a crime will say this when defending themselves, so the word "difficulties" seems particularly cheap.
Xia Houshu looked at Yinxiang's embarrassment and questioned the credibility of her words from the bottom of his heart. He said coldly: "I think you dared to kill people and run away when you were in the Prime Minister's Mansion. Now you are here and you are making people upset."
, the cock and the dog are restless, you are quite capable, what could be your reasons?"
As soon as she mentioned the Prime Minister's Mansion, Yinxiang burst into tears of grievance, sobbing and said: "I didn't harm Mrs. Yi, her death really had nothing to do with me! As for why I ended up here, I just wanted to take it easy.
It’s just an ignoble existence, but it’s still extremely difficult…”
Although Yinxiang came from a humble background, she was favored by Yi Wu because of her cute appearance and proper behavior. When she was in the Prime Minister's Mansion, she only did the fine work of serving the master in dressing, washing, and eating, and had never done rough work as a maid.
She didn't know anything about the kitchen, so she suffered a lot during this period, and she couldn't help but cover her face and cry.
"In the past, I thought that by following Mrs. Yi and being a high-class maid, I would be able to live and breathe well for the rest of my life. I didn't expect that Mrs. Yi died suddenly and suddenly. I was afraid that Prime Minister Wang would suspect me, so I sneaked out overnight. But I
I have no family or relatives in Beijing, and all the sisters I used to be close to were offended after I became acquainted with Mrs. Yi, and they all avoided each other. I had no choice but to see that Shuyu Pavilion was looking for a kitchen helper, so I stole it.
A young girl from out of town, Wenqi, sneaked in and worked as a fire-making maid. She wanted to wait for the limelight to pass before changing her identity and sneaking out of the city. But I never expected that Shuyu Pavilion looked bright and bright, but it was not a person.
A relaxing and decent place. I have to get up before dawn every day to work. In the dead of night, I have to help clean up the kitchen scraps. If I meet a rich patron who is hungry in the middle of the night, I have to get up and work...
That's all the hard work, the most intolerable thing is those vicious and unreasonable cooks, they humiliate and beat me every day..."
The more Yinxiang thought about it, the sadder she became, and her tears couldn't stop flowing out.
Xia Houshu turned his head slightly and saw that she had a sincere look on her face, and it seemed that she was not lying. But she was not a soft-hearted person, so she would not be fooled by the other party's words. Ruo Yinxiang had nothing to do with Yi Wu's death.
, why leave the relaxed and respectable maid of the Prime Minister's Mansion alone and hide in the back kitchen of this dark brothel?
This is clearly a contradiction.
Xia Houshu said coldly: "Since it has nothing to do with you, then why are you hiding here?"
"If I don't hide, they won't let me go!" Yinxiang suddenly said loudly. She seemed to have remembered something, and her whole body was shaking like chaff.
Xia Houshu didn't expect that she would suddenly act like this. He was afraid of alerting the people who were searching everywhere, so he had to stuff the coarse cloth into her mouth again and threatened fiercely: "If you don't want to be caught and torn apart by those people outside,
Block, just save your energy!"
Yinxiang realized that she had been too selfless just now, so she nodded obediently.
Xia Houshu patiently took off the piece of coarse cloth for her, put down the dagger at the same time, and then continued to ask: "You just said they would not let you go, who are they?"
Yinxiang did not directly answer Xia Houshu's question, but said with tears: "Usually, the Prime Minister dotes on Mrs. Yi the most, and he obeys our wife's words even more. It's really hard to hold it in your mouth until it melts, and hold it in your hand."
I was afraid of falling. But one day two months ago, after the Prime Minister came back from outside, he went directly to Mrs. Yi's yard and had a big quarrel with Mrs. Yi."
"Why are they quarreling?" Xia Houshu couldn't help but interrupt.
"I don't know." Yinxiang shook her head and said, "At that time, the Prime Minister asked us to wait outside, and no one dared to come close. I only know that they were arguing very fiercely. I have never seen the Prime Minister treat Mrs. Yi like that.
I got so angry that I broke many vases, porcelain and jewelry. Later, I asked Mrs. Yi privately what happened, and she scolded me severely, saying that I was too talkative and dared to interfere with her business, and
He was fined a month's wages. Later, the Prime Minister stopped coming to Mrs. Yi's yard. Within a few days, Mrs. Yi suddenly died in her room..."
"How did she die?" Xia Houshu asked.
While carefully recalling the situation on the day of Yi Wu's death, Yinxiang rambled: "After lunch that day, Mrs. Yi said she wanted to take a nap and asked us to wait outside the door. Mrs. Yi had the habit of taking a nap on weekdays.
In addition, she was in a bad mood at that time, so we didn't think much about it. Mrs. Yi slept for a very long time, and she didn't get up until dinner time. I saw that it was getting dark, so I went in to watch for a while.
My son, he is indeed asleep. Mrs. Yi hates being disturbed when she is sleeping, so none of us dared to wake her up. Later we found out that Mrs. Yi died in her sleep."
Xia Houshu thought this statement was ridiculous. How could a good person, young and without any illness or pain, die after just one sleep? Yinxiang must have other intentions when she said this. She didn't bother to guess, so she asked directly: "Then how can you be sure that she is really dead?"
"When Mrs. Yi died, she looked as if she had fallen asleep. Her face was rosy and there was nothing unusual about her. However, less than half an hour later, when we went in to take a look, we found that her whole body was black and purple, and she was also... Accompanied by a strange smell, she had lost her breath a long time ago. If not, we would never have discovered that my wife was dead." Yinxiang said while thinking about it. "Later, I heard that the doctor who was called in said that she was poisoned, but he didn't say it right. What kind of poison was there? But Mrs. Yi looked as if she was asleep at that time, and there was no sign of poisoning at all."
When Yinxiang recalled this, her face was still full of horror, as if it was her lingering nightmare.
Such a strange way of death is unheard of.
Xia Houshu imagined that scene and found it very strange. He didn't know that there was such a poison in the world, which could keep a person's appearance unchanged for a period of time after death, and then quickly fester and emit a strange smell. Then she asked Yinxiang: "Since you were poisoned, why did you secretly leave the Prime Minister's Mansion?"
"I...I was forced to have no choice." Yinxiang said tremblingly with tears in her eyes, "I am Mrs. Yi's personal maid. I was the one who took Mrs. Yi's lunch break that day. I also went to Mrs. Yi's room later, and at that time Everyone knows that Madam has just punished me, and they will definitely suspect that it was me who committed the murder! I have a conscience, Madam Yi has shown me kindness, how could I want to murder her? If she were still alive, the Prime Minister's Mansion would still have She is no longer in my place of refuge, and I am worse than a pig or a dog!"
"I think your worries are unfounded." Xia Houshu breathed a sigh of relief, "Your Mrs. Yi died in such an unusual way, how could you do it? If you escaped, wouldn't it prove that you are the murderer?"
Yinxiang nodded hurriedly and said: "I only thought of this after I escaped, but I don't want to go back. Mrs. Yi offended all the other ladies in the house during her lifetime, and Princess Mingjia even regarded her as a I have long wanted to get rid of this thorn in their side. Now without Mrs. Yi's protection, how can they tolerate me? If I go back, I won't be able to defend myself!"
Xia Houshu did not intend to continue discussing with Yinxiang whether she should escape. He only cared about Yi Wu and asked, "Did Mrs. Yi have any other unusual behavior before her death?"