"Seeing that Fang Ming's nephew is thoughtful, didn't he think of something?" Taking advantage of Feng Jiu and Chen Shi's spare time when they went out, Zhu Li asked in a low voice.

"It's the dead...... Although the deceased was covered in bruises, none of them were fatally wounded. Although there was foam in the mouth, he did not take the poison. Fang Ming looked at the cold corpse on the embroidery bed and wondered: "Could it be that she was born with heart disease and lung deficiency and physical ......?"

"Congenital heart disease and lung deficiency also take a certain amount of time to develop and die. Look at the dead man - his hands clutching at the sheets, his toes clenched, his body twisted, as if something was about to break through his body. Instead of covering his chest with angina......" Zhu Li explained to Fang Ming with a little helplessness: "Fang Ming's nephew, you are still young. I don't know that there is a medicine in this world, not a poison, but it can make the heartbeat of the user, the blood surge, and the inability to help themselves. The light ones are confused, there is no distinction between good and evil, and the heavy ones are overdrawn and at the mercy of others. ”

"There is still this kind of medicine in the world that is indiscriminate and spurned by the world. Fang Ming frowned, and said resentfully: "Please also ask Uncle Zhu to make it clear, what kind of medicine is this?"

"This ...... I've only heard about it and never seen it in person. For details, you should send someone to take a trip to Beili Street and go to a shop called 'Xingle Fang'. ”

"Xingle Fang ......"

......

"Your Excellency...... My lord, Uncle He is here. Feng Jiuren hadn't entered the door yet, but the voice came a few steps ahead.

After hearing this, Fang Ming hurriedly picked up the Luo skirt on the ground and covered the female corpse. Xu felt that the deceased was greater, and she should be allowed to go decently after death.

"He Yonglin, I've met all the adults. When Uncle He entered the door, he was about to kneel down when he saw Fang Ming, and it seemed that he was still thinking about the favor of the five taels of silver.

Fang Ming hurriedly stepped forward to help him up, and said with a smile: "Don't be so polite, Old Master He, the junior invited Old He to come in because I want you to identify the deceased." ”

"The Dead...... Where?"

"On the embroidery bed. Fang Ming said, making a gesture of please.

Uncle He grabbed Fang Ming's arm and moved tremblingly in the direction of the embroidery bed. After seeing the appearance of the corpse on the bed, he gasped in horror: "Oh......! It's really dead!"

"Uncle He, can you see clearly, is the woman on the embroidered bed really Zhao Tiehan's daughter-in-law?" Fang Ming asked again.

"Uh...... Rong Old Man took another look. Uncle He said, raised his arm and wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, then took a few steps forward, gritted his teeth and looked at the truth, and then said to Fang Ming with certainty: "This time I saw clearly, the old man is true, this woman is indeed Zhao Tiehan's daughter-in-law who just married this year - Cao Xinran." ”

"Oh! It turns out that the deceased's name is Cao Xinran......" Zhu Li said, and added another stroke to the case file.

"Well, Cao Xinran, what a beautiful name ......" Old Man He replied and recalled: "Old man, I still clearly remember the scene on the day when the hard-working Tie Han Wa'er got married. The sky is cloudy, and the snow is overwhelming, and someone has to step on the seal in front of him, so that the palanquin man can barely move in the snow. ”

But even though it was so heavy snow, there were no fewer villagers who attended the wedding, even Shaozhi County, and everyone came as promised. To tell the truth, the meal that day was not rich, but there was still not a single meal left on each table, and it was eaten by the villagers. ”

"Because the villagers are happy! Tie Hanwa, who grew up watching from a young age, finally married a daughter-in-law......" Uncle He said as he left tears in his eyes.

"Uncle He...... Don't be upset. Fang Ming held He Lao's hand while comforting.

Feng Jiu couldn't hide his surprise and asked, "Did you mean that Shaozhi County also came to attend the wedding?"

"Yes, on the day of the wedding, Shaozhi County also personally presided over the wedding, which is the first case in the entire Jinxi County!"

"Then what about Old He, what about Zhao Tiehan, where did he go, did he and the deceased still have relatives?" Fang Ming couldn't help but ask curiously.

"Tie Hanwa's father and mother died early, and she was helpless since she was a child. I finally made some money in the Dongshan mine to marry a daughter-in-law, but I went back to the mine to work the day after I got married, and I haven't been able to come back yet. As for Tie Han's daughter-in-law, it is said that she has a younger brother who has never shown up......"

......

After a morning of exchanges and inquiries, Fang Ming also had a general conjecture. An almost perfect framework for the murder case was slowly built in his mind, and the next thing was to confirm them one by one. See if the roof he designed is really suitable for this house.

......

He sent away Uncle He, and appointed Feng Jiu and Chen Shi to go to Beili Street-Xingle Fang. Fang Ming and Zhu Li walked out of the house one after the other as when they came in in the morning.

The two of them stood in the courtyard, inspecting the fruits of the morning's labor on Friday and Wu Liu—three footprints.

"My lord, master, please see, the most in this courtyard is this kind of sharp plum blossom print, which has been compared with the shoes of the deceased, and it can basically be confirmed that it is the footprints of the deceased. Friday pointed to a skinny embroidered shoe. "Then there are two men's footprints, one large and one small, the big one in the stagnant water, and the small one in the flower bed. After comparison, it is different from the shoe prints of the head of the family, Zhao Tiehan. ”

"What, are you saying there are no footprints of the man in this yard?"

"Yes, sir. ”

Fang Ming looked at the footprints made by the accidental rubbing of the water on the stone pavement, and his expression was extremely flat. Because if nothing else, the owner of this muddy footprint is the murderer. It's just that it's useless to have this footprint, there are too many people wearing this number of shoes, and you can only prove it by finding someone first.

"But whose footprints are they?" Fang Ming thought to himself.

He walked to the edge of the flower bed, looked at the intricate footprints inside, and stepped on the flower bed, which showed that the owner of the footprints had been pacing back and forth here for a long time.

"The flowers in the flowerbed are very tall and dense, what is he doing in the flowerbed? Pruning the branches? Isn't he hiding from whom? or hiding here to see whom? If he is hiding, why is he pacing back and forth? Who are he waiting for?" A series of questions germinated in Fang Ming's heart, but he couldn't figure it out.

While thinking about it, Wu Liu stepped into the flower bed.

"Hey, sixth, what are you doing here? Don't destroy the scene, come out quickly. Seeing this, Friday hurriedly spoke out to stop him.

Wu Liu didn't say anything, but half-squatted on the ground. The lush branches of flowers instantly covered him. He raised his head slightly, poked his head out, then glanced into the room and said in surprise, "It's really okay!"

"What can you do? Did you find anything? ”

Wu Liu pointed to the main room: "The embroidered bed, the table of the eight immortals, you can see it." Hiding in this flower, you can see everything in the house. ”

"What do you mean? You mean someone is hiding in the flowers and peeking?"

......

Fang Ming suddenly realized, and secretly said in his heart: "Yes, he can hide here and peek." And it's a long time, otherwise I wouldn't have stepped on so many footprints with sore legs. But who is it?"

A name emerged in his heart - Yan Xiaoliu.

"The water accumulation was caused by that light rain at noon yesterday. Therefore, the footprints are most likely to be left after that, that is, the heroine, the murderer and Yan Xiaoliu......"

Just when Fang Ming was like a treasure and excitedly recalled the case, Feng Jiu and Chen Shi entered the door with one person. The arrival of this man finally brought a ray of sunshine to this intricate puzzle......

"My lord, people have brought it. ”