"Asi, do you remember when I went to your house a few days ago and told you that my mother was acting strange recently?"

Jiang Si nodded.

Xie Qingyao wiped away her tears: "At that time, I guessed that my father had a mistress outside. It was you who reminded me when we were chatting. After I got home, I found out that my mother was uneasy because my father behaved strangely and often did strange things at night. My mother thought that my father was possessed by evil spirits, so she thought of looking for Liu Xiangu to exorcise the evil spirits. After Liu Xiangu died, my mother was very depressed. I persuaded her to invite a good doctor to see my father. After inviting the famous doctor, we found out that my father was not possessed by evil spirits, but suffered from sleepwalking..."

Jiang Si listened silently and frowned.

"This is not a good thing, so I didn't mention it to you. My father has already started taking the medicine prescribed by the doctor, who would have thought--" Xie Qingyao couldn't continue and covered her mouth and started crying.

"No—" Jiang Si's brows furrowed deeper and deeper.

At this time in his previous life, Earl Yongchang also suffered from sleepwalking, and because he did not see a doctor, he was joked about sleeping with a pig. But even if Earl Yongchang had slept with a pig, he had never killed Earl Yongchang's wife in his dream.

In this life, Uncle Yongchang was diagnosed with sleepwalking early on and was taking medicine prescribed by the doctor. No matter how you think about it, he should not have accidentally killed his wife.

"What's wrong?" Xie Qingyao stopped crying and looked up at Jiang Si with her pale face.

"Could it be that the maid saw with her own eyes that uncle killed aunt?"

Xie Qingyao's eyelashes trembled, tears rolled down her cheeks: "Father and mother have been staying together, and usually several maids help them wash and dress in the morning. This morning, when they went in, they saw father sitting next to mother without any reaction, holding a blood-stained candlestick in his hand, and mother had already -"

Jiang Si grasped the point: "But they didn't see the uncle stabbing the candlestick at the aunt, right?"

Xie Qingyao was startled: "Asi, what do you mean?"

Jiang Si squeezed Xie Qingyao's hand hard and said, "Qingyao, people say that what you hear is not what you hear, but what you see is not what you see, but sometimes your eyes can be deceiving. Those maids saw that my aunt was murdered, and my uncle was sitting there with a bloody candlestick. Of course, they thought that my uncle killed my aunt. In fact, if you think about it carefully, they didn't see the murder process."

Xie Qingyao was already confused: "But there were only my father and mother there at the time, and it would have been impossible for others to go in without being seen by so many people—"

Of course, she was unwilling to believe the cruel fact that her father had killed her mother with his own hands. Not only was she unable to accept it, but her father had been trying to atone for his sins by dying after he came to his senses. If it weren't for a group of people stopping him, he might have died with her mother...

When Xie Qingyao thought of this, she felt so hopeless that she wanted to cry.

The pain she and her brother suffered was not only the loss of their mother, but also the unbearable pain of their father killing their mother.

Now, Asi tells her that her mother might not have been killed by her father?

Xie Qingyao found it hard to believe, but deep down in her heart she was still hoping for something, which made her even more anxious. She stared at Jiang Si and asked, "Ah Si, why do you say that?"

Jiang seemed to calm down.

Facing her friend like this, she had to remain calm.

"I've heard of sleepwalking. People with sleepwalking will have some abnormal behaviors after sleeping, such as getting up and wandering around, or doing something. But in the final analysis, although these things are done in his sleep, he seems to be unaware of it, but his subconscious behavior actually reflects his inner thoughts. Qingyao, do you believe that your uncle has the intention to kill your aunt?"

"That's impossible!" Xie Qingyao denied excitedly, "My parents are so loving, how could my father have such an idea!"

"Every effect has its cause. Since we all believe that uncle would never have the intention to kill aunt, then the result of aunt's murder should not fall on uncle—"

Before Jiang Si finished her analysis, Xie Qingyao excitedly grabbed her hands and said, "Ashi, you are right. My mother could not have been killed by my father! That's great, that's great—"

Jiang Si sighed silently.

She made this analysis mainly based on the completely different results of her past life and this life. But nothing is absolute, whether the wife of Yongchang Earl was killed by Yongchang Earl or not, in the end, it still depends on evidence.

Xie Qingyao wiped her tears and walked out impatiently.

Jiang Si hurriedly stopped her and said, "Qingyao, where are you going?"

"I'm going to tell my father that he didn't kill my mother accidentally. There must be someone else who killed her!"

"Qingyao, if you say this to your uncle, he will definitely think you are comforting him."

Xie Qingyao was at a loss: "What should I do if my father doesn't believe me? Ah Si, please help me, I'm so afraid that something will happen to my father. I've already lost my mother, I can't live without my father again."

Jiang Si thought for a moment and whispered, "Qingyao, take me to the room where my aunt was murdered."

Xie Qingyao shuddered, and finally nodded: "Okay, come with me."

The Yongchang Earl and his wife lived in the main courtyard. At this time, the Yongchang Earl's wife had already been packed up and moved to the mourning hall by the maids. Her resting place was deserted, with only two maids guarding it.

"Miss." As soon as they saw Xie Qingyao coming, the two maids greeted her.

Xie Qingyao was usually very kind to the maids, but at this moment she had no intention of paying any attention to them. She walked to the door and reached out to push it open.

A maid couldn't help but said, "Miss, the master said that no one is allowed to enter——"

Xie Qingyao glanced at the maid and said coldly: "Get out of the way!"

Seeing Xie Qingyao's tough attitude, the maid stepped aside and let her open the door and walk in with Jiang Si.

Before entering the inner room, the strong smell of blood hit me in the face.

Jiang snorted as if he was uncomfortable.

The smell of blood is so strong that it might cover up all other smells.

The smell of blood in the inner room became stronger. The screen fell to the ground, and the sky-blue gauze curtains were lifted up after the rain, with bloodstains all over them.

The quilt on the bed was crumpled into a pile in a corner, and the sheets had turned dark red. It was obvious that the incident happened suddenly and too horrifically, and no one had bothered to clean it up yet.

"My mother should have slept outside." Xie Qingyao pointed at a bloodstain outside the bed and burst into tears.

"Generally speaking, uncle would choose to sleep outside, right?" Jiang Si thought subconsciously.

After she married Yu Qi, the scoundrel never slept in the study room for a single day. He would go into the inner room as soon as it got dark. At that time, he told her that he wanted to sleep outside so as not to wake up at night and disturb her...

"I don't know." Xie Qingyao looked at Jiang Si blankly, "You should ask the maid who takes care of mother at night."

Jiang Si's face turned red.

She seems to know a lot...

"Is this question important?" Xie Qingyao was desperate and immediately called in a maid guarding the door: "Chunfang, does mother usually sleep inside or outside?"

"Madam..." Chunfang glanced at the bed subconsciously. The glaring bloodstains made her lips tremble. "Madam was sleeping inside at first, and then..."

She glanced at Jiang Si, unsure whether to continue.