Chapter 900: Death of Jia Huan (V)
Among the crowd.
After the first division, after waiting for a long time without any further news, Musk Moon could not help but stretching her neck to look around. She saw that among the remaining twenty or so people, nearly half were from the Grand View Garden, especially from the Yihong Courtyard.
She couldn't help but pout and mutter, "That's great! Aunt Zhao will probably make trouble again!"
The three maids behind her didn't dare to say anything, except Qiu Wen, who secretly tugged at the corner of her clothes, signaling her not to talk too much.
"What are you afraid of? She's not here right now."
Sheyue turned around and replied, then fixed her eyes on the face of the little maid Zhuier, and asked suspiciously: "What's wrong with you? You look pale, it seems..."
Halfway through her words, her face suddenly tensed and she subconsciously took a step back, looking at Zhuier in surprise and doubt.
The people around him were puzzled at first when they saw this, but after thinking about it carefully, their faces changed drastically. Although they did not retreat like Musk Moon, they looked at Zhuier with some caution.
"What are you looking at me for?!"
Zhuier became more and more panicked, and explained without caring about the consequences: "How could I dare to offend the Third Master? It was actually when I accompanied Miss Xing to the Sun family, I made some... some minor mistakes, so I was worried that Master Sun would take the blame and use me as a scapegoat!"
Everyone was half-believing and half-doubting. Musk Moon put one hand on her waist and started to act like a maid, asking her what mistake she had made.
"What are you guys doing?"
At this moment, Xiren's voice suddenly reached his ears. She hurriedly came closer and whispered, "Lord Sun didn't expect that there would be so many people wearing green clothes yesterday. We just discussed it and decided to try the people in the front yard tonight - after all, the person died in the front yard."
"Where are we?"
"Go back to the ear room and wait. No matter what happens, you won't have a peaceful night tonight."
As Xiren was speaking, the maids nearby also received the news. Not to mention those serving in the front yard, those in the Grand View Garden were either relieved or worried, and they dispersed in groups of three or four.
Seeing this, Musk Moon prepared to lead everyone to the three side rooms to wait for orders. She also thought about how to take turns to rest at night so that they would not be too tired to deal with interrogation tomorrow.
"Xiren, Xiren! Come here quickly!"
Just at this moment, Baoyu started shouting again not far away. His voice was high and vague, and it didn't sound like a good thing.
How could Xiren dare to be negligent in the slightest? She quickly left Sheyue and the others and hurried over in two steps.
When Musk Moon saw that it was Baoyu calling her, she did not rush to leave but waited at the side of the road not too far away, wanting to make sure that Baoyu was fine before leaving.
But when Xiren rushed closer, she saw Jia Baoyu with a frown on his face. He looked avoidantly at Sheyue and the others, with a look of indecision on his face.
She lowered her voice and reminded him: "This is not the time to hesitate. Didn't you agree to it, Lord Sun? Besides, isn't it a good thing to prove their innocence through this method?"
"But what if..."
Baoyu was still hesitant. Just now in front of Sun Shaozong, he was only concerned with speaking for the people around him and his words were too confident. So he had no choice but to bite the bullet and agree to Sun Shaozong's request.
But looking at those familiar faces, he couldn't help but feel anxious.
"Oh my Second Master!"
Xiren stamped her feet in anxiety, and did not bother to speak tactfully anymore, and went straight to the point: " What time is it now? Aunt Zhao wants to eat you alive, and the master must have some suspicions in his heart. If it is really them who did it, we should find out by ourselves, which is better than being caught by others!"
What she said was completely from Jia Baoyu's perspective, trying her best to help him clear suspicion and avoid being implicated.
But when Jia Baoyu heard this, he was thinking of the miserable plight of Musk Moon and the others who had fallen into the hands of Aunt Zhao. His spine shrank and straightened, and he immediately cried out: "Itchy, itchy to death! Help me scratch it!"
To be honest, his acting skills are quite poor, and he may not be able to catch up with the poker-faced young actors in the future.
Fortunately, Musk Moon and the others were still far away, and Xiren was there to help.
When it comes to scheming and acting skills, Xiren is not lacking in them.
She immediately supported Baoyu and said, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, "My Lord, what are you doing now? Where is the itch? Let me scratch it for you."
"My shoulders and arms are itchy, very itchy!"
While Jia Baoyu kept twisting his neck and shaking his arms according to Sun Shaozong's arrangements, he could not help but steal glances at Sheyue and others.
Musk Moon had also been paying attention to this side. Seeing his strange look, she couldn't help but come over and asked, "Sister, what's going on?"
"Oh!"
Xiren turned around and took advantage of the situation to shield Jia Baoyu's troubled face behind her, and said in a troubled tone: "Look, my arm is itchy - this tight body, how can I scratch it?"
He looked around for a few seconds and said decisively, "Let's go to the side room and take off a few pieces of clothes first, then..."
"No, my sister-in-law is still in there."
Jia Baoyu stammered something in the back.
"Then let's go to the flower hall south of Rongxi Hall! It's still quite warm there."
Xiren immediately changed her destination and asked Sheyue, Qiu Wen and others to go to the woodshed to get a charcoal basin.
Stop talking nonsense.
But after about a quarter of an hour, several pots of charcoal fire were lit in the inner room of the flower hall. Although it was not as warm as spring, it was still no problem to take off the coat in a short time.
Xiren asked Sheyue, Qiu Wen and others to wait in the hall outside, while she alone helped Baoyu undress and scratch his itch.
This is also common practice.
Although Musk Moon felt a little jealous, she didn't show it, so she gathered Qiu Wen and others to discuss Jia Huan's affairs.
"Who did this, you tell me?"
"It's not me, it's definitely not me!"
Before anyone else could speak, Zhuier rushed to explain: "You all know my family situation. How can I afford a gold hairpin?"
She Yue glanced at her and sneered, "If you hadn't told me, I would have almost forgotten - what on earth did you do wrong in the Sun family? You even alarmed Lord Sun!"
"I……"
In fact, that incident had nothing to do with Sun Shaozong. Qingwen and Yuanyang were just taking advantage of the power of Sun Shaozong.
But how could Zhuier know all this?
Besides, even if Sun Shaozong didn’t know, her stealing of Xing Xiuyan’s jewelry was still a big taboo.
Just as he was hesitating, not knowing how to evade the question, he suddenly heard Xiren from the inner room exclaiming, "What happened?! Why do you have so many red sores on your body?! Why... why is your flesh rotten?!"
There was a sudden silence outside, and everyone pricked up their ears to listen to the noise inside.
Then Jia Baoyu stuttered, "This... I don't know what happened. I felt a little itchy a few days ago, but I didn't take it too seriously. Just now, I followed my second brother to look through the body of the third brother. I don't know why I suddenly felt itchy and couldn't stand it anymore, so I called you..."
"Oh my God!"
Xiren screamed again, her voice trembling with fear: "This... this can't be the wolfsbane?! But... but isn't this disease contracted by men and women having sex?!"
"Wolf...Lysus lupus?"
"I also heard about it from Lai Wang's wife. It's a disease that has just been introduced from the south. If you get this disease, you'll first get a lot of red rashes on your body, and then your flesh will start to rot. At most... at most, you'll die in three or two years."
"The most bizarre thing is that once a person with this disease dies, they will emit corpse qi. It won't be a problem for ordinary people if they run into it, but if someone already has the disease, it will flare up on the spot, and within ten days... within ten days, they will die!"
When Xiren said this, her tone was already tearful: "Master...my master, you...wuwu...how could this happen? You haven't...you haven't gone out to flirt with other women recently..."
After hearing this, how could Musk Moon still control herself?
He immediately lifted the curtain and rushed inside.
Several little maids followed closely behind. When they saw Xiren lying on Baoyu's back and sobbing, their eyes turned red.
"Master, you..."
Musk Moon spoke in a hoarse voice and was about to ask for clarification when she suddenly heard a thud outside, as if something fell to the ground.
With just this sound, Jia Baoyu, who had buried his head between his legs, suddenly jumped up and rushed out with his upper body naked like a flying arrow.
Although it was only a flash, there was no red sore or rotten flesh on that white arm? !
The girls were just in a state of confusion when they heard Baoyu screaming outside the door: "It's you?!"
