Gu Xin nodded: "If what you said is true, then what you said is correct."
Manzhu kowtowed: "Your Highness, I dare not lie. Everything I have said is true. It must be Song Yi who harmed our young lady. Please, Your Highness, do justice for our young lady!"
Gu Xin didn't say anything. Looking at Manzhu who kept kowtowing, her mind was a little confused. In the end, this girl was really honest. Her head was bleeding from kowtowing. Gu Xin got up and helped her up.
"By the way, you said your daughter was going to give you a purse, so she must be confessing her feelings. Why is she dressed in men's clothing? Did she wear men's clothing when she went out on the seventh day of the lunar new year?" Gu Xin asked again.
“She was wearing men’s clothing. She wore women’s clothing when she went out, and then we went to the shop to change. Whenever the girl wanted to go out in men’s clothing, she would go to the shop to change. It’s our Xie family’s clothing shop,” Manzhu explained.
"Do you remember what her purse looked like? Was there anything inside?" Gu Xin asked again.
"The purse is embroidered with ink bamboo, as Young Master Song likes bamboo. The lining fabric is light blue. Miss, you didn't put anything in the purse," Manzhu said.
"Okay, I understand. That's all for today! I'll go check the bottom of the well." Gu Xin had a general idea in mind.
This color scheme isn't very nice!
"Princess Xin Xin!" Seeing that she was about to be finished, Manzhu hurriedly grabbed her.
Gu Xin looked down at her hands.
"This servant was rash!" Manzhu quickly released her grip. "Please forgive me, Your Highness! This servant just wanted to know when Your Highness would go to arrest Song Yi!"
“Miss Manzhu, only you know about this, and you won’t let me tell anyone else. I need a charge to arrest Song Yi! He just said that on the seventh day, he was at the academy during the day, and when he came home after school, he told his mother that the sick girl from the Ye family next door had pulled through. At the time you mentioned when school ended at Sanhong Academy, if he had taken your girl away, he wouldn’t have been able to come back and know that the Ye family’s daughter had pulled through, and he wouldn’t have been able to inform his mother. The Ye family can testify for him,” Gu Xin said.
“But he could have hidden our girl first, come back and done these things, and then go to the place where he was hiding to harm our girl!” Manzhu said anxiously.
"Where's the evidence? The authorities need evidence to handle cases," Gu Xin said.
“Then, then…” Manzhu was anxious, when suddenly a thought flashed through her mind, “He clearly knows our young lady, but when he was questioned at the yamen, he lied and said he didn’t know her. He’s guilty, which means he definitely has a problem.”
Gu Xin raised an eyebrow. She had thought of this question too, but she didn't plan to ask Song Yi tonight. She already felt that the mother and son next door were hiding something, and she planned to have Bai Er send someone to keep an eye on them secretly later.
“Miss Manzhu, I understand how you feel. Don’t worry, if it’s him, he can’t escape. We have our own procedures here, just tell us everything you know,” Gu Xin said.
Manzhu pursed her lips, no longer daring to stop Gu Xin.
She followed Gu Xin outside. Madam Xie had returned to her previous state, sitting blankly in front of Miss Xie's coffin, as if she had lost her soul. Master Xie was outside talking to a steward-like person, presumably arranging Miss Xie's funeral.
Gu Xin suddenly remembered someone: Xie's son, the deceased's older brother. So much time had passed, and although the Royal Academy was in the suburbs of Beijing, it wasn't far, yet he still hadn't appeared.
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