C5 Liuma

Hearing Su Mu's words, Bao Fusheng nodded his head in agreement, "That's right, I also have the same intentions. I must properly investigate and solve this case."

Although the decorations on the Zhu Mansion were exquisite, it did not take up a lot of space. After walking for a while, they arrived at the place the two of them needed to stay at for the night.

Because the Nanny Liu could not speak, he blessed the two of them and turned to leave.

Bao Fusheng quickly walked to the front of the door and locked it, while Su Mu looked around the small room. It was clean and tidy, no different from the guest rooms of a large family.

After confirming the room was untouched, the two of them sat by the table and started chatting.

"That Seventh Madam of the County Magistrate's newly hired is really a peerless beauty!"

"That's right. If I had any luck, I would definitely die here."

When the people at the door heard their conversation, they quietly retreated.

Inside the room, Su Mu had already placed a piece of paper on the table. He took out a carbon pen from his sleeve and wrote on the paper, "Liu, something's wrong."

With regards to the problem with the Nanny Liu, Bao Fusheng nodded his head in agreement.

Just now, when Su Mu had purposely stopped to say that the culprit was still within the Zhu Mansion, Nanny Liu, who was walking hurriedly in front of the two of them, had obviously stopped after hearing this.

In other words, she was not a deaf mute like Zhu Chusheng had said.

As for why Zhu Chusheng said that Nanny Liu was a deaf mute, it was unknown. Whether he was lying or Zhu Chusheng was lying, it was even more unclear.

In the afternoon, the two of them followed a servant that Zhu Chusheng had sent over and wandered around the entire Zhu Mansion, asking about what happened with their words.

"How is your young master recently?" Bao Fusheng asked the servant.

"Ever since Old Madame passed away, young master's body has become worse with each passing day, and the business at home is not doing well."

"Is there a business with Zhu Family?" Su Mu continued to ask with a hint of curiosity in his eyes.

The manservant scratched his head, "I'm not too sure either. I heard a few people who were working outside the courtyard say that the old master's business collapsed, and that he was in debt."

"Your young master is really pitiful, he lost his mother and has to busy himself with business." Bao Fusheng pretended to be sympathetic.

The attendant nodded in agreement, and his tone carried a trace of helplessness. "The Young Master is indeed pitiful. A person who treats others with the heart of a Bodhisattva, now it's really …" "Sigh."

"That is the courtyard that the Old Madame lives in. Do the two officials want to take a closer look?"

Just as Bao Fusheng was about to step forward, he was pulled by Su Mu, who stood up straight in front of us with a helpless smile on his face: "I'm not going, after all, we just died not long ago, so the both of us were helpless before being assigned such a job. It's fine to look around, it's fine to tell the county magistrate when we return."

The servant smiled and nodded, then turned around to take the two of them to another place.

After roughly remembering the location of the Zhu Mansion courtyard, Su Mu tirelessly made an invitation to go to the front hall to eat dinner with Zhu Chusheng, then quickly brought Bao Fusheng back to the resting area.

"Why didn't you go to her house just now? Isn't that the crime scene?" Bao Fusheng asked.

Su Mu lightly tapped the corner of the table with his index finger, "The crime scene was left behind by the murderer, and as long as the murderer is someone from the Zhu Mansion, the evidence that should have been cleaned up would have already been tidied up. We swaggered in, and what we saw were all things that the murderer wanted us to see, so there wasn't really too much meaning."

"Then you don't want to go to the crime scene?" Bao Fusheng was completely confused by her words.

Su Mu thought for a moment, then said, "Let's go, but it's not important. The important thing is to see what will happen to the Zhu Mansion during the night."

It was night and dark, and he could not see anyone, but he could clearly see the monsters and ghosts that were hidden during the day.

After a while, the door was knocked.

Because he did not go to the hall to eat, Zhu Chusheng courteously ordered people to bring the food over, and the person who brought the food over was the suspicious looking Nanny Liu.

Upon seeing her, the two of them pretended to ignore her. Leaning back on the couch, they continued their conversation.

Nanny Liu respectfully lowered his head, placing the dishes and soup neatly on the table. He then blessed himself in the direction where the two were resting.

Only when the Nanny Liu had obediently left the house did Bao Fusheng leap to the door. After he made sure that there was no one around, he used an extremely low voice to speak to Su Mu, "brother Su, there's no need for this food. If there's medicine in there, you and I …"

"I have to." Su Mu explained, "Even if they did make a move, it wouldn't be at this moment. Moreover, there will be people coming back later to clean up. If they see that the food has not been eaten, it will only increase their suspicion."

Originally, Bao Fusheng did not understand why Lin Yi would look at the Su brothers. He had even saved his own life as a bargaining chip for them to help solve the case. Now that he had entered the Zhu Mansion, Bao Fusheng finally felt Su Mu's complete vigilance. Ye Zichen nodded in agreement, then sat down to eat.

As expected, after about two hours, Nanny Liu once again came back to clean up the table. Su Mu half closed his eyes and laid on the bed not far from the dining table to observe. Bao Fusheng also sat beside him and slowly drank his tea.

After the Nanny Liu left, Bao Fusheng and Su Mu walked over to the "trap" that they had been waiting for.

On the table where they had just eaten, Su Mu had used a charcoal pen to write the six words: "Wu City Dream Tower". It wasn't small and was enough for a literate person to notice it and even make Bai Ding ignore it.

Seeing that, Nanny Liu who was cleaning the dishes couldn't help but slow down his movements and carefully observe his movements.

This Nanny Liu could actually read.

What kind of family, in the Great Yan Dynasty, would produce a literate servant, at the very least a scholar or a rich man, who valued his children's education, and who paid for a child of his own age to accompany him in his studies?

A large family like Zhu Family could not raise a single literate servant, and at the same time, the Nanny Liu was not suitable for Zhu Chusheng's age of study. Then, when contacting the background of the Zhu Family, only the dead mother Zhu could meet the requirements.

In other words, Nanny Liu should be a maid brought by Mother Zhu to accompany her. Furthermore, to a large extent, it is a reading maid brought along by Mother Zhu to accompany her. The two of them learned how to read and write together. If it was really like that, then Nanny Liu would not be deaf. It was possible that even this inability to speak was caused by the day after tomorrow.

Bao Fusheng subconsciously looked at Su Mu, who was deep in thought, and wanted to know what the next step should be.

Dusk was falling on Su Mu's nose, and the air was so still that one could hear insects chirping.

"Let's wait for nightfall." After a short while, Su Mu slowly spoke.

Seeing that the sky was getting darker, everyone started to get up.