The Hong family is a well-known wealthy family in Bishui County, so holding a funeral can be regarded as a great pomp.Although the county magistrate had already greeted him in advance, Su Mu still felt guilty when he followed Liu Xiaoran into the mansion.

Lu Lingjue is a person who is very good at dealing with people, so not long after entering the mansion, he mixed into the crowd and was never seen again.

And their table has received special orders from the host, and there are no other people. Now Su Mu has no one to talk to, so he can only turn the teacup in his hand boredly in his seat, and listen to the guests sitting at the next table.Chattering discussion.

"Have you heard? This Mrs. Liang's death is - tsk tsk, it can be said to be quite bizarre." First, a person started talking mysteriously, and the other people around naturally listened to the excitement.Time is also curious.

"Tell me quickly, what kind of bizarre method?"

Su Mu also became interested at this time. Maybe this group of people would know some inside information that he didn't know, so he immediately straightened his back and listened carefully.

"First, it was the day the lady died. It rained heavily. We haven't rained here for more than ten days, but it rained heavily on that night." The man took a sip of tea, paused and continued., "And look, she drowned, she died in the water. In my opinion, this is a flush with a water criminal, and she was captured by a water ghost!"

Everyone sighed once or twice, and some echoed: "The rain did come suddenly that day. The sun was good during the day, but at night, it rained heavily. It's really strange."

Su Mu silently sipped his tea, and recited the feudal superstition in his mind several times.

Before the end was over there, the person who spoke began to play tricks again: "The autopsy Wang Yuzuo is just opposite my house. When he came back one day, he said that the corpse was terrifying. Everyone died, and he even gave birth to a baby."Stillbirth—if he hadn’t collected the corpse for some years, he wouldn’t have been frightened to death.”

Now the audience was in an uproar, and everyone became commotion, thinking that this must be caused by something unclean.

"But Mrs. Liang is also a good person on weekdays. How could she get into trouble with these things?"

"Hey, who can see clearly what's going on in Hong's mansion, don't think too much of them, this kind of rich family, who doesn't have any ugliness, who will believe it?"

"When you said that, I remembered it. I heard that the fourth son once molested Mrs. Liang in front of outsiders?"

"There is such a thing, so I said, maybe, Mrs. Liang and the fourth young master really have such a relationship—" the person who started talking said in a low voice, "The second master has been away for many years, there may be something that he doesn't know about. This woman, the most important chastity is gone, so it is reasonable for her to be dragged away by a ghost."

"Hey, I've also heard that Mrs. Liang has always loved the qin, so after she died, there was always the sound of the qin in the Hong Mansion in the middle of the night. Maybe her dead soul is still in the pool and refuses to leave."

Su Mu frowned, not to mention that the group of people who are talking now are all here to attend Liang Xuanxuan's funeral, even if they are unrelated people, it is too much to speculate on a deceased person like this.He clenched his fists tightly, thinking that the identities of the few of them should not be exposed, so he had no choice but to give up, and took a sip of tea sullenly to suppress the anger in his heart.

Fortunately, the few people who spoke did not continue this topic, perhaps because they felt unlucky, and chatted about other things after a while.Su Mu listened again, and found that they were all trivial things in the neighborhood, rather boring, so he stopped worrying about them, turned his head slightly, and looked at Liu Xiaoran.

Liu Xiaoran really did what Lu Lingjue said, no matter what she was doing, she didn't show her likes and dislikes.The tea is so tasteless that even the modern Su Mu finds it tasteless, and Liu Xiaoran looks like a man of a noble family, but she doesn't mind at all, and even looks a little gentler than when she came to mention her that day.

Thinking about the first meeting that day, Su Mu became fascinated again. That day, he almost bounced off the opponent's body and stood firm. Now that he thinks about it, he still feels a little ashamed. That day, Liu Xiaoran really regarded Liu Xiaoran as the king of Hades.In addition, it is not as scary as the rumors say, and it is not enough to describe it as vicious.

Three people become tigers is really a big deal.

Originally, Liu Xiaoran just felt that the surrounding environment was a bit noisy and didn't like it, and she was also thinking about how to investigate this case, so she was very absent-minded while drinking tea. She didn't expect that after taking a few sips, she found that Su Mu was staring at her intently.Look, and seem to be thinking things out.

This is not the first time this has happened.

Liu Xiaoran withdrew her gaze, continued to take a sip of tea calmly, but didn't want to feel that the taste was quite bland as soon as she took it, so she frowned subconsciously.

Although Su Mu was still wandering in the sky, he still sensitively caught the change in Liu Xiaoran's expression, and suddenly came to his senses. After realizing that he was staring at someone in a daze for no reason, he suddenly became nervous.

"It's bad, if you keep staring at others like this, Liu Shaoqing won't think I'm someone with malicious intentions?" He thought silently, while sneaking another glance, and Liu Xiaoran noticed the gaze falling on her.After suddenly disappearing, he subconsciously glanced this way, and met Su Mu's gaze just in time.

They looked at each other for a moment, and the two looked away in a tacit understanding. Su Mu felt an inexplicable numbness flowing through the tip of his heart, just like a tiny electric current touching his fingertips in an experiment class, piercingly.just disappeared.

He belatedly thought about the feeling just now, and felt that he must have been too involved when he was a suspect, so that now he had become so guilty that he would feel guilty when he saw Liu Xiaoran.The more he thought about it, the more he felt that he really shouldn't be doing this. He obviously hadn't done anything, but Liu Xiaoran's behavior would make Liu Xiaoran suspicious. He turned his head and was about to start a random topic, when he saw Liu Xiaoran holding up the cup of tea again.It seems to be drinking a lot faster than before.

It seemed that Liu Shaoqing didn't really want to talk.

Su Mu closed his mouth obediently.

Just when he was so bored that he wanted to start the topic for the second time, Liu Xiaoran's voice suddenly rang above his head.

"Let's go to that pond to have a look." Liu Xiaoran stood up, straightened her clothes lightly, and said in a low voice, "She is pregnant, so why did she go out in the middle of the night? And why did she go to the water's edge?"

Su Mu understood: "It's easier to find out who is most suspected of committing the crime if you know the geographical location of the mansion!"

Liu Xiaoran nodded slightly, and then walked ahead. He just saw that most of the guests gathered in the open space of the front hall, and most of the servants holding various dishes came from the north chamber, and there were a few women in a hurry.The maids went in and out of the south chamber, so it was not difficult to guess that the south chamber should be the sleeping place of the masters, and the pond should also be in the south chamber.

Both of them were handsome and well-dressed, so that even though the little maids passing by would look at them occasionally, they didn't think there was anything wrong with them entering the South Chamber, let alone stop them.Su Mu and Liu Xiaoran just entered the South Chamber openly, and there was a pond in sight.

It is not uncommon for this kind of family to have a pool in the mansion, but Su Mu was still amazed by the exquisite rockery and gravel ornaments in the pool. Although Bishui County does not seem to be a very prosperous place, it isThere is no doubt that Hong's family has a big business, and this pond is even more exquisite than the one in his own home.

The pool is huge, and the two of them couldn't see where the lady fell into the water for a while, so they could only stop and go to check.The plants around the pool are well-decorated, but the pool is surrounded by a dense layer of shrubs, dotted with a few clumps of camellias and peonies. There is no way to the pool, and the only path left is still covered with soil., it was densely covered with footprints of various colors, and no useful clues could be discerned at all.

But Liu Xiaoran, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped, and Su Mu followed behind without paying attention, and bumped straight into her.

Both of them staggered, but fortunately, Liu Xiaoran was extremely stable, and soon stood still, and Su Mu was able to support his arm to stop the swaying.

"Hold... I'm sorry." He rubbed the bridge of his nose and said in a muffled voice. Just now, he bumped into the white jade hairpin on the back of Liu Xiaoran's head, and it hurt a lot.

Liu Xiaoran glanced at him indifferently, put her reddened fingertips into her sleeves, and nodded to a clump of camellia next to it: "The soil under this camellia has signs of renovation, which means it may be the flowers of the mansion.It was newly planted by the craftsman."

Su Mu squatted down and took a closer look, only to find that the soil here is lighter than other places, and it does look a lot newer, and he can't help admiring it.

Although I have some short-sightedness, but I can still see so clearly from a distance, Liu Xiaoran's eyes are too bright.

"That is to say, the original camellia bushes here are likely to be destroyed by someone, and someone walked in from here?"

Liu Xiaoran nodded, and was about to take a closer look inside when Su Mu reached out to stop him.

"Liu Shaoqing, wait a minute, let's go to the side and walk through the unrenovated soil, so we can see it more clearly."

Facing Liu Xiaoran's puzzled expression, Su Mu explained: "I just listened to the people chatting at the table, but it rained heavily on the day Mrs. Liang died, if she really walked to the pool from here, there should be some footprints left, and because the sun cleared the next day, once the soil dries, it is difficult to leave traces. Therefore, the only footprints that can be left on this land are the footprints that came here on the day of heavy rain.”

Liu Xiaoran naturally knew that what he said was reasonable, so she also took a step aside.Su Mu nodded, pushed aside the bushes in front of him, and began to step in carefully.

After walking a few steps, Su Mu saw a few clear footprints, and the soil around them had dried up, which looked like they were left a few days ago.

Liu Xiaoran frowned, this footprint would be too small if it was a man's, unless it was a boy who had not yet grown up, in contrast, it looked more like a woman's footprint.

But except for the footprints of this row of women leading to the edge of the pool, there are no other footprints, not even a trace of returning.This made Liu Xiaoran have to start to believe that Liang Xuanxuan might really have committed suicide by drowning herself.

Su Mu also mumbled a little at this time, the scars on the corpse would not lie, but neither would these footprints.And when he checked the body that day, he found that Liang Xuanxuan's nails were very clean. If she was pushed into the water by the pool, as long as she struggled hard, there would be a lot of dirt in her nails, let alone in such a situation.Muddy rainy day.

Could it be that...the scar on his neck was just an accident?Or maybe she was bullied by someone, so she couldn't think of throwing herself into the water for a while?

Su Mu stood by the pool, frowning and looking at the footprints on the ground. If they come and go, no one should go back... But these footprints, he always felt a little strange.

He squatted down and took a closer look at the footprints. The footprints were extremely deep, and they were obviously top-heavy. The traces on the soles of the feet were more obvious than those on the heels, which made a flash in his mind.idea.

"No. This footprint may not belong to Mrs. Liang."

The author has something to say:

Giving birth after death - because the bacteria in the body will produce gas after death, and then the child will be pushed out of the body~ Generally speaking, it will be produced during the period of giant view. If it is an ordinary corpse, the giant view has not appeared so fast, butCorpses soaked in water will decompose faster, so this situation will occur in two or three days~ (I am a fool π_π who forgot to save the manuscript and sent it directly, and was forced to update it twice a day orz woohoo)