Chapter Eighty-Six: The Coffin Is Opened in the Mountain
The first time I ate chili stuffed zongzi, I burst into tears!
It turns out that bacon == chili + meat! Knowledge......
Me: "......"
My aunt: "Didn't you say you wanted chili peppers and meat?" β
Hurry up and call and ask, "Why are zongzi spicy?" β
When my aunt came to the house, I said I wanted to eat bacon dumplings, so my aunt sent the wrapped dumplings this morning. I was so moved, Ma Yoer went to cook and eat, and took a bite - Emma, spicy!
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Twilight nodded and said, "People were strangled to death." β
Although he was young at that time, his father's age and length were remembered clearly.
Zheng Danggui didn't dare to look at the coffin, but after hearing this, he nodded, "Exactly!" β
She took a cursory look, took out the pelvis from the coffin and looked at it, took out a leg bone-like bone and looked at it a few times, put it back and looked at Zheng Angelica, and asked, "Your father was about twenty-eight years old when he died, and he was five feet four inches long?" β
She took out the tweezers, and half of her body fell into the coffin in front of everyone's eyes, not afraid of the smell, pinching the few strands of clothes that had not yet been rotted and lifting out the rags, and after that, a complete skeleton of a male corpse was laid out in front of her eyes.
Twilight put on her coat, put on a mask and gloves, and brought the autopsy kit. The toolbox was brought by Yuan Xiu's personal soldiers from Yizhuang when she fished out the corpse at the bottom of the lake, and she sent someone to Yizhuang to say it, and the toolbox was left by her side.
Zheng Langzhong was soaked in the well before he fished it up, and when he was buried, because the meat was soaked soft, he fell off when he moved, and the family couldn't even change his shroud, only covered him with a crown of clothes, and pressed it with some antique pearls. Now the antique pearl is still there, the flesh on the corpse has long been rotten, the robe is black, and it is so rotten that only a few strands of embroidery are left on the corpse. Some beads rolled on the side of the coffin, accompanied by dense pupae, black, smelling of stench, disgusting to watch.
Twilight strode to the coffin, at this time the coffin lid had been removed, the Zheng family turned their faces with red eyes and couldn't bear to look at the situation in the coffin, the young adults who helped to dig the soil and open the coffin were all bold people, but they glanced at the coffin, they all took a few steps back, and did not dare to look again.
When Wang and the others went up the mountain, they also brought out the two little grandsons of the family, and only reacted when they heard Twilight's words, and the two daughters-in-law were busy protecting the children to avoid the upwind direction, and the people next to the cemetery also dispersed at this time.
"Take the baby away!" Twilight Road.
The two sons of the Zheng family carried the head and tail of the coffin, and they were helped to carry it together, only to hear a click, but they did not see the situation in the coffin, and first smelled a putrid smell. The stench was blown by the mountain wind, and the villagers turned their backs to cover their mouths and noses.
"Open the coffin-" The voice of the clan lord was dumb, but this voice shouted very long, and the mountain wind carried this sound away, spreading halfway up the mountain, accompanied by the cry of the women and children of the Zheng family, and the hearts of the people were blocked when they heard it.
Some of the rivets on the coffin lid have been loosened, and some of the sides of the coffin lid have been exposed, and the two sons of the Zheng family have riveted the rivets, and then threw the hammer to the ground.
"Nailβ" shouted the patriarch again.
The four young men went down to the grave, the two sons of the Zheng family went down to the grave to support the head and tail of the coffin, the mountain wind blew the paper money in the sky, the women cried and whimpered, and the men shouted in unison, gritted their teeth and lifted the coffin to the top of the grave.
When Zheng Langzhong was buried, the family still opened a pharmacy in Shengjing City, some family wealth, the wood used for the coffin is very good, Shengjing is located in the north of the Yangtze River, the rain is not as much as the south of the Yangtze River, the coffin rots slowly, the person has been buried for more than ten years, the coffin is only rotten around it, and the middle of the high mound of grave soil is still good.
When the soil next to the coffin was also picked up, two young adults came over to return to the patriarch, the patriarch looked at the crying Wang, sighed, and raised his voice: "Lift the coffin-"
While the two were talking, the mound was flattened, and the two young men who dug the grave often did farm work, and their hands and feet were sharp, and the frozen soil was not slow, and soon they saw the coffin. Twilight didn't say anything more, just watched as the two men continued to clean up, and the villagers who had been invited to witness the opening of the coffin all stretched out their heads to look at the coffin, frightened and curious.
The second elder of the Zheng family nodded like pounding garlic: "Exactly, the little one doesn't dare to deceive the governor!" I heard that the governor decided the case like a god, and asked the governor to be the master of the small family, my father's death was unjust! β
Twilight was silent for a moment before asking, "That's what the murderer told you?" β
It is precisely because of this matter that the Zheng family discussed the opening of the coffin, but the opening of the coffin is a major event, and it is necessary to inform the clan father, and the clan is to discuss and set the regulations of the sacrifice, and it took four or five days to come and go, and today Zheng Danggui was sent to Shengjing City to find the shopkeeper of Wangshan Tower, and took the token to the governor's mansion to pass the message.
"That's, that's it...... That night, about three watches, while the small family was asleep, a black-clothed and masked murderer suddenly broke into the house, holding a knife in his hand, and said, ...... said that my father knew too much back then, and he must have told us those things, so he wanted to kill people. Fortunately, a few military masters were in the village, and when they heard the noise, they came into the house and beat the murderer away! β
"Tell me more!"
"On the eve of the fifth day!"
"When?"
When the second child of the Zheng family heard this, he hurriedly said: "Exactly! β
The Zheng family has never sent anyone to Wangshan Tower, but today she suddenly went, she was wondering, it turned out that the family had entered the murderer?
When Twilight heard the words of the second child of the Zheng family, her eyes sank, and she asked, "There are murderers in your family?" β
When Wang heard this, he stopped crying in fright, and watched as the two middle-aged men handed over the hoes to the patriarch, who chattered on the grave and gave them to the two prime-aged men, who began to dig the grave with the hoes.
The cries of the Wang family and the two daughters-in-law suddenly became louder, sad and panicked, and the Wang family saw the middle-aged men of the two clans carrying hoes, crying and wanted to stop them, but the second child of the Zheng family hurriedly stopped her and whispered: "Mother, have you forgotten what happened a few days ago?" If this matter is not investigated, the murderer will come again......"
Zheng Langzhong's widow Wang led the eldest daughter-in-law, the eldest grandson, and the second family to kneel in front of the grave, crying and burning paper money in front of the grave like a new funeral, and Zheng Angelica took the filial piety clothes from his wife and knelt down. The patriarch presided over the sacrificial ceremony, recited the sacrificial words in public, and Twilight went to the grave to put incense and sprinkled silver treasure paper money, and the clansmen went into the incense one by one to sacrifice, and it took half an hour, only then did I hear the patriarch shout: "Open the grave-"
Liu Heizi handed over the official document of Shengjing Mansion to the old patriarch, and the scholars in the clan took it and read it aloud, and the villagers looked at Liu Heizi while listening, I don't know how the three major officials in the court and the middle of the country could find a lame man to be a person. After the official document was read, the old patriarch trembled and took the official document into his arms, and respectfully invited Dui Qing to Zheng Langzhong's grave.
The people of Daxing paid attention to the aftermath of the Yin Division, and there were cases, and there were few open coffins for autopsy, but it was not completely absent. If the case is special, the corpse can also be dissected or the coffin can be opened, but the first must be agreed by the sufferer, the second must be an official document issued by the government and recorded, the third must be carried out in public, and the fourth must be sacrificed to comfort the soul in heaven.
"Excuse me! There is a lot of disturbance when the coffin is opened, and I hope that the clan will not be blamed. The first moon twilight helped the old patriarch up, and looked back at Liu Heizi.
"The old man and the Zheng family have seen the governor." The old patriarch was busy taking the Zheng family to salute, and the village chief of the village where the Wang family lived was also busy leading the villagers to kowtow.
No one expected that the young man who looked at him from a distance with such a fierce momentum would look so ordinary, but his age was indeed young, and it was hard to imagine that he had already been on the Northwest battlefield at the age of seventeen, and he was still awarded the third rank in armor!
When he got closer, Zheng Angelica turned sideways, and the villagers screamed.
The villagers stood on tiptoe and stretched their necks, and saw Zheng Angelica leading a young man to come up halfway up the mountainside, the young man was dressed in a white robe, hunting in the mountain wind, and his hair was flying, like splashing out of Dao ink, dyed the yellow grass and snow all over the mountain.
Zheng Langzhong's grave was full of people, in addition to the Zheng family, there were also the old people of the clan and the villagers in the village.
The young man was indeed the son of the Zheng family, named Zheng Angelica, and led Twilight Qing halfway up the mountain.
Zheng Langzhong was buried on the wheat mountain thirty miles outside the city, and it was noon when the carriage arrived at the foot of the mountain.
Twilight Qing's expression was not revealed, and after getting into the car, the Zheng family sat on the wheel, and Liu Heizi drove the carriage out of the city.
Liu Heizi opened the curtain of the carriage and glanced at her, his face full of puzzlement - when will the governor greet people, and how interested is he to hold a spring banquet in the mansion?
Twilight bowed her head lightly, turned around and got into the carriage.
The five teenagers looked at Du Qing, their faces were full of admiration, and when they heard this, they were even more happy, Cui Yuan was so excited that his face turned red, and he thanked him first.
"I'm in a hurry to go out of the city to handle the case, three days later is the spring banquet, there are few people in the Governor's Mansion, if you don't dislike it, you might as well go to the Governor's Mansion to sit down." Twilight is humane to the five.
Twilight Qing looked at the five teenagers one by one, and his eyes paused on Xiao Wenlin, Lingnan people ...... It was close to the country of Nantu.
"Yes!" Cui Yuan was excited, and turned around to introduce them one by one, "This is Liangzhou He Chen, Yongzhou Liu Ze, Yuzhou Zhu Ziming, Zhu Zizheng brothers, all from Jiangbei. This is a Jiangnan person, Lingnan Xiao Wenlin. β
"Hurry out of the city to investigate the case." Twilight jumped out of the carriage and asked, "Are they your friends?" β
"The governor has just arrived, why do you want to leave?" After Cui Yuan lived in the Governor's Mansion, he befriended the children of the poor family on the order of Duqing, and he came to Wangshanlou every day, and it was the first time he saw Duqing coming over today.
Dusk Qing was just about to get into the carriage, and when she looked back, she saw Cui Yuan coming out of the Wangshan Tower with a happy face, followed by five teenagers, all wearing plain clothes and long robes, and at a glance she knew that she was a child of a poor family.
He nodded, and as soon as he stepped forward, he heard someone behind him say happily: "Dudu! β
Twilight's words were like beads, and the young man opened his mouth in a daze, and before he could come back to his senses, he heard Twilight say: "Get in the car and lead the way!" β
Twilight said lightly: "There is a smell of medicine on my body, the first knuckle of the index finger of my left hand is cocooned, and the tips of my thumb, index finger, and middle finger of my right hand are slightly yellow. The cocoon is caused by perennial medicine, and the yellowish fingertips are caused by grasping medicine. The Zheng family's road is in the middle, the eldest son is a foot Langzhong, there is no money to raise a medicine boy, so he can only walk in the nearby villages with the medicine box on his back, diagnose people, prescribe medicine, and do not miss the cold and summer. As a result, you have chilblains on your cheeks and ears and a slightly lower left shoulder. You don't carry a medicine box today, but you must be used to carrying a medicine box on your left shoulder. β
The young man was stunned and asked, "How does the governor know?" β
When she arrived at the gate of Wangshan Tower, Twilight got out of the carriage and saw the shopkeeper go in and bring out a young man, who was wearing a gray cloth robe. β
When Twilight returned to the Governor's Mansion, the shopkeeper of Wangshan Tower was waiting in the flower hall, saying that the Zheng family was still waiting in Wangshan Tower. Dusk Qing immediately ordered someone to prepare a carriage and autopsy tools, and went to the Shengjing Mansion to ask for an official document, ordered the moon kill and Liu Heizi and went out of the city.