Lonely on a cold night, sleeping alone but waking up.

It's been cold this spring.

There was no earth dragon, no hot wine, and no nephrite warm quilt, although a few old quilts were laid, it was still cold.

Cold hands and feet. The heart is also cold.

His real name is Wei He, he used to be called Wei Shao, and now he is called Wei Sheng.

In the huge Long'an County, there are not many people who know that his name is Wei He.

Li Ningzhu, who was married to him, is considered one, and Li Ningzhu's maid Xiaoman is also one.

I couldn't sleep for most of the night, because I was afraid of the cold, so the whole person was buried in the quilt, and I couldn't hold it back at this time, Wei He got his head out of the quilt, and took a sharp breath of cool air, choking on pain.

Wech got up and put on his clothes, moved over the old wooden table at the head of the bed with a large pile of books, bent down, and opened a brick from the corner of the wall, where lay a bronze hairpin of workmanship, and an awl for the sole of a shoe.

Wei Sheng held the awl upside down with both hands, and his face was hideous against his throat.

With a little exertion, blood flowed out.

Because he felt some pain, he quickly released the awl.

Wei Chang let out a long sigh, threw the awl on the ground expressionlessly, and leaned on the edge of the bed in a daze.

After a long time, as if feeling that something was wrong, he picked up the awl from the ground again, put it back under the brick, and stepped on it with the legs of the table. Just dressed and got into the bed again.

Pain, cold, exhaustion, and some unknown emotion brewed in his chest, Wei He fell asleep, but his eyelids kept fluttering, and the expression on his face was a little desolate, and it looked a little hideous!

...

"Carefully compare the size of the wound, you will find that whether it is a hairpin or an awl, it seems a little thin, but in this year, the outside is very cold, so that the muscles contract, and the ice and blood condensed on the outside of the wound, interfere with our preliminary judgment of the size of the wound. Yang Qian said with a smile: "I also found out later after I put the corpse in a warm room and melted away the ice and snow." ”

Han Yi said: "You haven't said how you judged that the murder weapon that killed Xiao Man was ice!"

Yang Qiandao: "This is simple, I have doubts, so I naturally have to verify it." I used tweezers to remove some bloody ice ballast from the wound a little inside, and the color after melting is relatively light, if the blood coagulates directly into ice, it is stuck to some water vapor and ice and snow outside, and after it melts, the color will be darker, and it will not be diluted to this extent. The only explanation that makes sense is that Xiao Man's throat was originally stuck with an ice pick, the outer layer was blood, although the inner layer was melted by her body temperature, but because the murderer abandoned her body in the ice and snow, the ice pick froze again before it could be completely melted, so after melting, the water in it was much more than ordinary blood. ”

"The only explanation is that before that Xiaoman died, someone took an ice pick and plunged it into his throat, and after the killing, the tip of the ice pick accidentally broke inside. ”

Han Yi said: "Your reason makes sense, but it always sounds a bit far-fetched, the ice in Xiaoman's throat has been taken out by you, this red mouth and white teeth have no proof, who can prove it to you?"

"The ice pick is just a murder weapon that the murderer took in his hand, and he lost it when he ran out, so he didn't always hold it in his hand, this New Year, every family stayed at home, and few people went out, if Yang Qian's inference was fine, as long as he looked for it nearby, he should always be able to find it. Jiang Ning said with a smile: "Since Yang Qian dares to say it, presumably the half of the ice pick has been found by you, right?"

"Not bad!" Yang Qian smiled: "The half of the ice pick was put in the snow outside the door by me, the size, length and Xiaoman's wound are extremely consistent, although there are very few, but I still found a small amount of blood on the half of the ice pick." The murder weapon must be this ice pick!"

Xiaomei happened to walk in with a pot of warm rice wine at this time, and poured a glass for everyone at Jiang Ning's signal.

Yang Qian drank all the wine in the cup and said with a smile: "This sip of wine will eliminate the cold breath that has been inhaled for a long time, and it is comfortable!"

Xiaomei filled him up very intimately, and patiently waited for Yang Qian's second glass of wine to eat, Jiang Ning said: "The place where the ice pick was found should be the place where the crime occurred, where did you find it?"

Yang Qian's mouth spit out two words: "Wei family, Mei Yuan." ”

Only then did Han Yi stand up, stretched slowly, and said with a smile: "It seems that it's time for me to go to the Wei family." ”

Jiang Ning nodded, and Han Yan led Xu Yan, who had just come in, out again.

"The murderer is not him!" Yang Qian said suddenly.

As for the one in his mouth, he was naturally referring to Wei Sheng.

Jiang Ning smiled playfully: "In that case, why didn't you say it when Han Yi was there?"

Yang Qian showed a scheming smile and said, "That bastard has eaten so much wine, it's time to go out and move his muscles and bones, and take him away, won't this pot of good wine belong to me?"

"You can calculate!" Jiang Ning said: "It's just that Han He is not a fool, the reason why he took the initiative to bring Wei Sheng is not that he really thinks that he is the murderer." ”

"Oh?" Yang Qian was a little puzzled.

Jiang Ning said: "Han Hao's kung fu is not covered, and these kung fu of our county government are also brought out by him, and this bit of eyesight is still there." ”

"What are you talking about?" Yang Qian was confused.

"Wei Sheng is a rich boy, who comes to stretch out his hand to eat and open his mouth, after the fall of the Wei family, he has always relied on Li Ningzhu's help and the rest of the family to live, reading and writing at home all day long, and he has not even killed a chicken, and the wound on Xiaoman's neck killed him with one blow, stable and accurate, the murderer is obviously a veteran, and he has a very accurate grasp of the structure of the human body, as well as the position and strength required for death. ”

Jiang Ning said with a smile: "If the murder weapon is a copper hairpin or an iron awl, Wei Sheng will kill Xiao Man with a blow that may be hit by mistake, but if the murder weapon is replaced with an ice pick that is frozen and slippery, and the texture is relatively fragile and easy to break, the murderer's control of strength must be extremely accurate, and a weak scholar like Wei Sheng, who is powerless, obviously can't do it." ”

"This can be seen even by me, a layman, and Han Yi can naturally imagine it. The reason why he had to go to Wei's house to bring Na Weisheng over was to protect his safety, and secondly, I did have something I wanted to ask him, obviously he still had something to hide from us. ”

Han Yi didn't bring Wei Sheng back.

But he brought back a piece of news about Wasson.

Panting and pushing open the door, he took a sip of rice wine, slowed down slightly, and then he said a shocking news.

"Wei is dead!"

Half an hour later, Jiang Ning and the others came to the Wei family's plum garden, Wei Sheng was sitting on the ground at the moment, leaning against the trunk of a plum tree, holding an awl with the sole of his shoe in both hands, and inserting it into his throat impartially.

In the course of one night, the corpse had been completely frozen, and the awl was clenched tightly in both hands, and it took the officials a long time to take it out.

A little plum blossom falls into the soil into mud in the cold wind, the fragrance is pervasive, and the air is lifeless.

After the case, the news somehow spread to the Li family, and the head of the Li family did not come, but the little guy who reported the case last time came, as well as Li Ningzhu and her new personal maid Gu Yu.

It's just that the case has not been solved, Jiang Ning naturally can't let outsiders get close to the scene of the crime, so he sent people to guard the surroundings of the plum garden, just to let the three of them watch outside.

As the magistrate of Long'an County, the Li family is often in contact with such a local snake, the head of the Li family, Li Ningzhu's father Li Fang Jiang Ning has met many times, but this Miss Li family in the boudoir has always only heard of her name and not seen her.

Now I can see that his appearance is not inferior to his own wife Su Que! No wonder this Li Ningzhu has a marriage contract, and there are so many people who want to dig into the corner of this Wei Sheng.

Among them, there are so many people, including the young Lord Zuo Cheng who was recently arranged by Li Fang to meet with Li Ningzhu, whether it is family status, status, wealth or power, they are far from being comparable to the Li family who smuggles large quantities of goods, and they don't want the little money of his Li family at all.

It turns out that the picture is such a person as her!

Li Ningzhu stood outside and glanced at Wei Sheng's corpse under the plum tree from a distance, holding herself with both hands, squatting on the ground and sobbing.

The crying was not loud, but the two lines of clear tears turned into two big rivers, and they flowed down, even Jiang Ning, a man who already had a wife, saw it, and couldn't help but feel a lot of pity, and some impulses to go up to comfort her.

However, the little girl and the new girl Gu Yu who came with Li Ningzhu seemed a little indifferent to Wei Sheng's death, and just tried their best to comfort their young lady with kind words on the side, ignoring the things on the side.

Li Ningzhu squatted in the snow almost silently but painfully crying, and after about an hour, she got up expressionlessly, and left without saying a word.

After the outsiders were gone, Jiang Ning ordered his subordinates to take Wei Sheng's body back to the morgue in the yamen and hand it over to Yang Qian for inspection.

And he himself walked side by side with Han Yi on the way back to the Yamen.

"Hmph!" Han Hao sneered: "The murderer committed suicide in fear of crime in the place where he killed Xiao Man, it seems that the Heavenly Dao is circulating, the retribution is unpleasant, and it is enough to deceive those ignorant spectators and ordinary people!"

Jiang Ning carried a pair of shoes in his hand, and a lot of them were as he walked, these shoes were not the shoes next to him, they were the pair worn by the dead Wei Sheng's feet.

"A new pair of shoes, but there are several slipping marks under the soles of the feet, and there are a lot of mud on the uppers, Wei Sheng's clothes and pants have many scratches and dirt dust, and some traces of wear, obviously left in the process of struggling to escape, and there are only some footprints in the snow in the plum garden, there are no traces of slipping or falling, and there are no traces of shoes falling into the mud, not to mention, those dirt are completely different from the soil color in the plum garden! There are only a few footprints in the past, most of which are still left by us when we came to the plum garden yesterday. ”

Jiang Ning said with a smile: "Needless to say, this is just a second crime scene, Wei Sheng was killed outside Wei's house last night!"