A sedan chair came directly to the palace, and after entering through the corner gate, it didn't land until the second gate.

There was a twelve or thirteen-year-old boy standing at the second gate, and when he saw the situation, he came up and saluted: "Gongzi, the master is waiting for you in the back hall." ”

"Little brother, do you know me?" besides, seeing that this child was childish, he suddenly had a good impression.

"I met during the exam that day, you don't know me, I'm the master's scholar. "The boy said, and led the way.

"Scholar?"

Besides, I thought in my heart, maybe it was the son of the family in the mansion of the Lian Lord, otherwise I would not buy such a young child to be a scholar.

It was the first time he had come to the mansion, and he had never seen what the lobby in front was like, but the back was similar to a normal large family. After passing through the courtyard, I walked through the house again, and then I arrived at the back hall of the mansion, which is actually the inner house.

When I arrived here, I saw Lian Daning and a middle-aged woman standing side by side, with more than a dozen maids lined up on both sides.

"Besides, here. Lian Daning said hello.

Moreover, as soon as he came in, everyone's eyes were fixed on him, and when Lian Daning shouted, these people stared even closer, as if they were going to dig out the gold mine from his face.

Besides, he felt that his body and face were about to be burned through a few holes by these gazes, he suppressed his embarrassment, walked over with his head bowed quickly, and came to Lian Daning's side and bowed: "Disciple, I have seen the teacher." ”

"Excuse me, besides, if you have seen my wife, it is your wife. ”

Besides, he hurriedly knelt on his knees and bowed down: "Disciple, knock on my master." ”

"Hurry up, hurry up, this can't be done. Besides, the lady next to her hurriedly asked a few maids to pull her up.

Besides, when he saw Lian Daning, he could not kneel or worship, but his mother was like a mother, so he had to kneel and worship.

Lian Daning and his wife both wear homely clothes, and official uniforms are only worn on formal occasions or when receiving bosses, and Lian Daning is often promoted to court to try cases only in civilian clothes.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Taizu ordered the world to restore the clothes of the Han people, which was actually the Hanfu movement, but in fact, it was just the restored Tang costume, and there were still many differences between the clothes of the real Han Dynasty.

The regular clothes worn by ordinary scholars are similar to the Taoist robe, becoming a straight embellished, with a round neck on the right side, a waist belt, and the hem of the clothes was only over the waist at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, and in the Jiajing period, it was basically over the knee. The so-called civilian clothes of ordinary officials are also this costume.

The official uniform of the Ming Dynasty is called the supplementary service, also known as the regular uniform, there is a square piece of cloth on the front chest and back of the clothes, which is embroidered with various patterns with gold and silver threads, this cloth is called the complement, to the epaulette ribbon of the later soldiers, which is used to indicate the civil and military grades.

The civilian official's supplementary uniform is embroidered with birds, and the military attaché's supplementary uniform is embroidered with animals, and the civil and military routes are roughly the same.

Akito himself explained the meaning of this system, saying: "I am customized, and the officials have their own tricks. Gong, Hou, horse, uncle, embroidered unicorn Bai Ze, not in the number of civil and military; civil and military products to nine products, all have the pattern of clothing, civil officials use flying birds, like their literary talents, military attaches use beasts, like their fierce eagles. ”

As for whether Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang thought so in his heart, it is unknown.

If you want to distinguish the rank of an official, the answer can be derived from the shape of the birds and animals.

Hongwu twenty-four years customized, Gong, Hou, horses, Bo, embroidered unicorn, Bai Ze.

The civil officials wore a first-grade scarlet robe embroidered with cranes, a second-grade scarlet robe embroidered with brocade chickens, a third-grade scarlet robe embroidered with peacocks, a fourth-grade scarlet robe embroidered with clouds and geese, a fifth-grade green robe embroidered with white pheasants, a sixth-grade green robe embroidered with a heron, a seventh-grade green robe embroidered with a brook, an eighth-grade green robe embroidered with a yellow oriole, and a ninth-grade green robe embroidered with a quail.

The first and second grade of the military generals are painted with lions, the third grade is painted with tigers, the fourth grade is painted with leopards, the fifth grade is painted with bears, the sixth and seventh grades are painted with green robes, the eighth grade is painted with rhinoceros, and the ninth grade is painted with seahorses.

In addition to the regular clothes, there are court clothes, which are worn when the emperor is seen in the court, and there are sacrificial clothes, which are worn when worshipping the temple of heaven and earth, which can be written into a Ming Dynasty clothing chronicle.

The order of the official is like this, and the dress of his wife also has the same set of strict rules and regulations, which are used to distinguish between the superior and the inferior, and the hierarchy is strict.

At this time, Lian Daning and his wife were wearing ordinary clothes of the scholars and doctors, but they were also brilliant in gold embroidery, but there was no complement.

Mrs. Lian obviously just did her duty as a housewife in the inner house, and after the etiquette, after a few words of greeting, Lian Daning came to the study and took a seat.

Lian Daning's study is very different from Chen Musa's, in addition to the four treasures of the study, there are all kinds of antiques on the bookcase, although it is not a treasure, but it is also a few years old.

Some calligraphy and paintings are hung on the four walls, but there are no authentic works of the ancients, but the works of some famous calligraphers and painters in the dynasty, only one in the middle of the hall is the handwriting of Wang Shouren.

This is the same as Chen Musa, both of them hang the middle hall of their ancestors' handwriting, and it seems that they also mark their own courts.

"What is the reason why the teacher has summoned the disciples?" and sat sideways on a pestle.

"If I don't call you, you won't come?" said Lian Daning, reclining on a reclining chair, smiling.

"It's the disciple's fault. The disciple is just a little busy these days. ”

"Well, you still haven't been able to adapt to Shilin's life, now it's just one foot in, it's okay, slowly you get used to it. Lian Daning said generously.

Besides, thinking about Lian Daning's words, I didn't feel that there was any special meaning in them. He thought that if Master Lian was fine, he would never let the servants carry him over.

"Well, that's right, there's something I want to borrow your head. Lian Daning closed his eyes and pondered for a moment before saying.

"Borrowing a disciple's head?" and was so frightened that he almost slipped off the pestle.

"Oh, I was wrong. It's borrowing your train of thought. Lian Daning hurriedly corrected it.

Besides, there is a cold sweat, and the person in this deep mansion compound really wants his own head, and I'm afraid no one knows. Is it true that when adults speak, they can do whatever they want?

"Haha, that's what I want. Tell you, that's how I felt at the beginning, scare you, it's you who let me feel how I felt. ”

"At the beginning?" and it was foggy again.

"That's right. ”

Lian Daning finally officially started. It turned out that five years ago, he was a county magistrate in Lanling County, and there was a strange case in the county that caused a sensation in the government and the opposition. A family of four, including the housewife, her mother-in-law, her sister-in-law, and her daughter, suddenly hanged themselves with a towel in one night.

After Lian Daning received the report, he felt that it was a major case, which had not been seen in the history of Lanling for a hundred years. He personally took the officials to investigate, but the scene made him feel like a ghost possessing him, and the atmosphere was gloomy.

The old man in the county has inspected countless scenes over the years, and he can be said to be not surprised by the death of people, but as a result, his legs tremble when he sees this scene.

The doors and windows of the house were tightly closed, and the latches and latches were intact, and there was no sign of an outsider's incursion. Among the four women, the housewife and her sister-in-law committed suicide by hanging beams. Her mother-in-law sat on the bed and hanged herself with only a cloth tied to the bed frame.

The girl, who was only thirteen years old, died in the most peculiar way, standing on her own, pulling the cloth belt with both hands, and strangling her neck.

Regardless of the motives, this method of death is full of weirdness and even more incomprehensible.

It's okay to say that women kill themselves the most, but can they strangle themselves to death by just tying a strap to the bed frame while sitting on the bed?

Of course, Lian Daning doesn't understand any dynamic gravity, but he still understands the basic principle of hanging, which is nothing more than borrowing the weight of his body and the reverse tension of the rope to break the respiratory tract and cervical vertebrae, causing suffocation and death. But the old woman's death seemed to violate gravity.

The little girl's death is even more weird, people can die by neck, the Qin and Han dynasties loved to use this method, it is said that the Fei general Li Guang was trapped and the general Wei Qing ended his life in this way.

Later, only Wu would continue to use this method, and the literati committed suicide, either taking poison or hanging the beam with brocade silk, and these two methods were also commonly used in the court to give death.

During the Sui and Tang dynasties, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty and Yang Guifei both died under the three-foot brocade silk, which was much more natural and civilized than the neck. The death of the hanging beam is not as hideous as described in Liaozhai, and there is a lack of bloodstains.

In the Western Jin Dynasty, the most expensive method of giving the harem concubines to death was to use gin. This is not a good old wine, but a wine full of golden sand, after a person drinks it, the golden gold will burst the stomach, causing irreparable stomach bleeding, and you will die instantly. Emperor Jia of Emperor Hui of Jin used this method to kill people, and she finally died under this method.

What surprised and puzzled Lian Daning was not only the way to die, but also the reason why these four people had no self-hanging, that is, their motives. According to the neighbors, the family is the most loving and peaceful on weekdays, and the head of the family is a silk seller, who sells cocoon silk all year round, and although the money he earns is not much, it is enough for the family to feed and wear.

There is also an eldest son in this family, who is a showman, and when he goes out to do a museum, he goes to the rich man's house to be a teacher for his children. The eldest son had not returned to his hometown for three years, but letters were often written. Every year, dozens of silver trucks from the museum are also brought back. So at the time of the incident, there were only four women in the family.

"Teacher, are there any signs of damage to the doors and windows? After all, the person who reported the crime had to enter the room to find out, how did he get in?"

Moreover, I have read a lot of detective novels about closed room murders, which are basically set and cannot happen in real life, just like Zhenlong in Go, which is carefully crafted, not played in actual combat.

It is important whether the doors and windows are damaged, it is direct evidence that outsiders broke into and killed the deceased, and if the doors and windows are intact and are plugged in, they can be characterized as a closed room homicide.

On the other hand, if it is determined that an outsider has broken in, it is not a case of murder in a closed room.

Lian Daning's head approvingly:

"Good question. I was also the most concerned about this at the time, if there was an outsider breaking in, the case would not be a strange case, at best it would be a relatively secret burglary and murder, as long as the murderer was investigated in the vicinity. However, I interrogated the informant three times and finally determined that no outsiders had broken in.

"The informant was piercing the window paper, and when he saw two women who committed suicide by hanging beams, he hurried to the county office to report the case.

"The family is very safety-conscious, and the door latches and window latches are all three-inch square beams, and it is really not easy to break without a battering ram. I had to get some carpenters and use a saw to slowly cut the latch through the crack in the door, and the old woman and the little girl only found out when they entered the house. ”

Lian Daning said, with a palpitating expression on his face, obviously he was too stimulated at the time, and now he still feels weird and terrifying when he thinks about it.

"The teacher won't let me solve this headless case, right?" said with a wry smile.

"Exactly. In fact, it is not about solving the case or not, this is a mystery that has been in my chest for many years, and the scene often wakes me up in my dreams, and I always feel uncomfortable if I don't solve it. ”

"The teacher personally investigated the scene and interrogated the informant, but he couldn't come to a conclusion, and the disciple was even more powerless. Besides, he laughed.

Lian Daning's words were a little more relaxed, and said: "Although your talent and talent are excellent, your life experience must be shallow, this matter is not for you to infer from reason, but from a medical point of view, to see if you can find a reasonable explanation." ”

"From a medical perspective?"

"I thought through all the possible situations in my sense, and it turned out that I couldn't match the tenon. Later, I also looked for famous monks, and they answered from the perspective of cause and effect, but I don't really believe in such a thing as a grudge in a previous life, not to mention that people who have a grudge in a previous life are born in this family, which is too strange. Later, I also found Zhang Tianshi from the Qing Palace on Longhu Mountain in Jiangxi......"

Besides, he was surprised: "Zhang Tianshi?"

"Yes. Lian Daning continued.

When he entered the room, it was as if he had entered hell, and it was not humanly at all.

The housewife died very peacefully, and the old lady seemed to see through the red dust of the world, and left without regrets. This kind of death is very strange, and the faces of people who usually hang themselves have painful expressions on their faces.

He once heard from a man who attempted to hang himself that no matter how determined you are, the moment you put a rope around your neck and kick the stool off your feet, the pain you suffer is beyond human endurance. At that moment, the suicide immediately regretted it, but it was no longer possible to save himself.

This person was found early by his family and saved, and after this incident, he never wanted to commit suicide again, not because he was afraid of death, but because he didn't dare to face that kind of pain.

Although the death of these two people is strange, it is not as scary as the two little ones.

"What's a scary method?" Besides, when he heard this, the hairs on his body stood on end, and there seemed to be a forest and a gloomy wind around him.

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