"After the second young master and I buried the body of the animal, he did not dare to go back to Gaobeidian, nor to go to the capital. We lived in Beihou Village for two days. Seeing that no one mentioned the animal, we went back to Baoding Mansion. Since then, the second young master and I have thought that this has not happened. I am rheumatism and cannot follow the second young master to travel around the country. The second young master gave me 200 taels of silver and went home to farm."

After Mao Guier finished speaking, she did not raise her eyes. He was still lying on the ground, with water stains on the blue bricks under him. I don’t know if it was sweat or tears.

Hua Jingyao's eyes never left Mao Gui'er. Suddenly, she said coldly: "After you buried Lao Li's body, you did return to Beihou Village, but you left Beihou Village, but you didn't go back to Baoding Mansion immediately. At least it wasn't you who went back together. Let me guess, your second young master sent you to the capital. After you arrived in Beijing, you first sneaked into Lao Li's house and found the house deed, and then entrusted Yaxing to sell the house. The people from Yaxing have been to Shitou Hutong, and the neighbors all know about Lao Li's selling house. In addition, Lao Li's shop has long been unable to support it, so the neighbors naturally thought that Lao Li could not survive in the capital and returned to their hometown."

Shen Xiao watched coldly. Mao Guier, who was lying on the ground, finally raised her head when she heard this. His eyes were full of horror and he stared at Hua Jingyao in disbelief: "You...how did you know?"

Hua Jingyao sneered and said, "Even though Old Li was not dead at the hands of your master and servant, you are the one who kidnapped Old Li, and you are the one who secretly sold Old Li's house. According to the Great Zhou law, your master and servant are the most supreme, and you are exiled for thousands of miles. Therefore, even if your son is stolen, you dare not report to the official position or borrow money from Dong Xiang. There is a saying that you did not lie. You really don't want to trouble your second master. You have no money and status. Why did the thief who steals children take your son away? So you are worried that someone would know about the things that happened back then, and that person wanted to take the opportunity to blackmail you. You are a loyal servant. In order to protect your second master, you would rather borrow money by yourself than go to Dong Xiang, because you are worried that the disaster would lead to the east and implicate him."

Mao Guier was stunned. His lips trembled. It took a while to speak: "I did this. It was me who tied the beast to the big tree in front of the grave. It was my idea to bury the beast in the grave of the second cousin. It was me who stole the land deed and entrusted the tooth shop to sell it. All of this was done by me and it had nothing to do with the second young master. My son was kidnapped, it was my retribution, it was my retribution."

Hua Jingyao waved her hand, and Shi Ding picked up Mao Guier and took her out.

Shen Xiaoze called Ping'an and asked him to take the people from Shuntian Prefecture to visit Beihou Village, find Xiao Qiao's tomb, and see if what Mao Gui'er said was true.

In fact, Shen Xiao and Hua Jingyao both knew that Mao Guier would not lie about this matter. He said that Lao Li's body was in Xiao Qiao's tomb, which was true.

A few drops of tea were sprinkled on the kang table at some point. Hua Jingyao stretched out her finger and dipped it in tea to write six words on the kang table.

Da Qiao family, Xiao Qiao family.

Before interrogating Mao Guier, three people in this case were not seen in life or dead.

Now Lao Li's whereabouts are roughly clear, so the whereabouts of Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao are unknown.

"I want to go to Beihou Village in person and ask the two elders of the Qiao family." Hua Jingyao said.

"Well, I'll go with you and ask Corsair Luo to go with you. If there is really Lao Li's body in the tomb, the autopsy will be performed." Chen Xiao said softly.

Hua Jingyao raised her smile and suddenly pouted again. She looked at her plain clothes and said, "I don't know if there is any rule that you can't travel far in the filial piety period."

If Madam You was by my side, she would definitely know the rules, but if Madam You was not there, Xiao Ai would definitely not know.

"Don't worry about that much, I'm also in the filial piety period. If the censors say so much, then I'll just join in." Chen Xiao said.

Hua Jingyao burst out laughing. She asked Xiao Ai to go out to find someone to go back to the eldest princess's mansion to deliver a letter. Beihou Village is still thirty or forty miles away from Tongzhou. This time, I am afraid I will spend the night there tonight.

Xiao Ai came in from outside, and quickly moved the bedding from the back room and put it into the carriage. He was not afraid of putting the ready-made snacks and candies in the book shop in food boxes and brought them with him. After thinking about it, he folded them back and took the small red clay stove, and asked Shi Ding to scoop two buckets of water from the jar and bring them together.

Hua Jingyao was dumbfounded and asked, "Why do you still have to bring water? You can't load it on the carriage. Besides, there is no lid on the bucket. The road is bumpy and before you reach the place, all the two buckets of water have been spilled."

"The third master said that the water in the wilderness cannot be drunk casually, and it will get sick." Xiao Ai was unwilling to refuse.

Hua Jingyao touched her forehead and said, "The place we are going to is Beihou Village, not the wilderness. If the water there is drunk, you will get sick. Then won’t all the people in Beihou Village be sick?"

Xiao Ai still refused: "The third master is knowledgeable, so what he said will not be wrong."

What else did Hua Jingyao say? Chen Xiao interrupted and said, "I have to bring some things too. It's better to put all our things in the same car."

As he said that, he ordered Xile to return to the Duke's mansion to get things to drive the carriage.

Since there was a carriage specially used to hold things, Hua Jingyao no longer stopped it. When the carriage from the Duke's Mansion rushed over, she let Xiao Ai command Shi Ding to move it and that.

Chen Xiao suddenly asked Hua Jingyao: "I have never seen the case of Gou Zisheng in Shuntian Mansion. Do you still remember which year it was? I want to take a closer look."

Hua Jingyao: "There is not in the case sect room, but in my book shop... I saw it in the verbatim book."

Chen Xiao...

In the afternoon, they arrived in Beihou Village.

Beihou Village is built against the mountain. It is a small village of three or four hundred people. The village is still immersed in the atmosphere of the next year. In addition, it is the slack season, so there are many relatives in the village.

Several tall horses and more than 20 yamen runners did not enter the village, but followed the route given by the previous group of people and went directly to Xiao Qiao's cemetery.

But it was still seen. Although Xiao Qiao's tomb is an lonely tomb, it is not far from the Qiao family's ancestral tomb. There are two families. Because a relative is going to go back to the city tomorrow, they say goodbye to their ancestors in front of the tomb today. They happened to see people from the government coming here. These people were a little scared at first, but the government did not come to this cemetery and surrounded a place.

“Is there a grave there too?”

"Yes, it's an lonely grave."

"I remember it, it was the grave of the short-lived daughter of Qiao's family."

"Why is the grave of a married daughter buried here?"

"There is no formal marriage, but I just gave my daughter a few years to sleep for free. Later, I died. My husband's family refused to let her go, and my parents' family could not enter, so I could only bury her there."
Chapter completed!