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The few remaining people in the mansion were all busy, Gu Changqing was next to Master Gu, while Gu Chengze kept bending down or squatting down on the other side to observe the corpse, and from time to time he would stretch out his hand and grope back and forth on the corpse.

His soft eyebrows deepened as he observed one corpse after another, as if he were troubled by some kind of confusion.

Gu Changqing was busy with various chores on the other side, looking at Gu Chengze from time to time, and he couldn't figure out what he was doing when he was squatting there, only that he had been squatting there for a long time.

Gu Changqing finally couldn't help but walk towards Gu Chengze, and stared at the corpse for a long time with his gaze, but he didn't understand what could be so engrossed.

"Any questions?" Gu Changqing couldn't help but ask.

saw that Gu Chengze seemed to be immersed in his own world, turned a deaf ear to Gu Changqing's questioning, and still stared at the corpse without saying a word.

After a long time, Gu Chengze finally stood up, but he still turned around and left without saying a word.

Gu Changqing stared at Gu Chengze when he saw it, and he felt that Gu Chengze was as strange as being possessed by a ghost.

Gu Chengze ignored Gu Changqing behind him, or didn't notice that Gu Changqing was standing behind him staring at him.

Gu Chengze just walked straight towards Master Gu.

"Father, can you count the number of people in the government now?" Gu Chengze stood beside Master Gu and said.

Master Gu turned around, twisted his eyebrows slightly, nodded randomly, and turned around to greet Zhang Cheng.

Before Master Gu could speak, Gu Chengze whispered again.

"Keep it a secret for now."

Master Gu was slightly stunned, then approached Zhang Cheng's side, leaned over and whispered a few words in his ear, Zhang Shi nodded after hearing this, and Master Gu waved his hand Zhang Shishi retreated.

Gu Changqing also ran over at this moment, standing on the side without speaking.

Gu Chengze waited for Zhang to go away, and then leaned forward again and whispered: "We must keep these corpses well, and we must not let them fall into the hands of the Xu Governor's Mansion." ”

Master Gu nodded, turned his head sideways and asked, "What the hell is going on?" ”

Gu Chengze's expression was cautious, and he replied after a while: "I can only make a conclusion when Zhang brings back the news." ”

Master Gu didn't ask any more, and Gu Changqing returned to the corpse again and began to observe it carefully several times, and finally had to go back to work on other things in frustration.

When the affairs of the government were over, Master Gu first called someone and ordered them to bury all the corpses.

Governor Xu looked at the corner of his mouth and nodded at Ma Tong's judgment.

After noon, the government finally sorted out some clues for the time being, and the people who were busy in the government went home to rest, and Master Gu, Xu Zhifu and others had already prepared a sedan chair and rushed to their respective houses.

After a few hours, Zhang Shi came to Gu's mansion, and Master Gu and the two sons of the Gu family hurriedly stepped forward to greet him.

"How's it going?" Master Gu hurriedly asked.

Zhang Shishi opened the booklet in his hand, flipped through a few sheets and said in an orderly manner: "After a day's statistics by the lower officials, I learned that the number of rescued people was 184, the number of injured was 57, and the number of deaths was 35, a total of 276 people. ”

Master Gu then asked, "How many people are there in the Xiangyang Mansion?" ”

"Lord Hui, two hundred and seventy-six people in total." Zhang replied respectfully.

"That means there are just too many people, no less, right?" Master Gu confirmed again.

"Yes." Zhang Shi covered the booklet and nodded.

"So have the identities of those officers and soldiers been found out today?" Gu Chengze asked on the side.

Zhang Shi shook his head: "There are too many people, and because the register was burned, it takes at least four days to determine the identity of the deceased. ”

Then Gu Chengze and Master Gu exchanged glances, and Master Gu turned his head to look at Zhang Shi again.

"I also hope that Zhang Experience can keep this matter secret to the end."

Zhang Shi glanced at Master Gu's eyes, and then nodded solemnly.

Zhang has been in the Xiangyang Mansion for many years, and when Master Gu whispered to him in his ear to find out the number of people in the Mansion, he had already thought that this matter needed to be kept secret.

The three members of the Gu family then sent Zhang Shi away, and Master Gu sat sideways on the front seat and looked at Gu Chengze and said slowly.

"I've probably guessed it." After a pause, Master Gu said, "The number of people in the Xiangyang Mansion is obviously passive. ”

Gu Changqing finally understood the whole story, and said on the side: "There are still more than a dozen officers and soldiers of Xiangyang Mansion lying on the side of Wenqu Town, how can it be that the number of people is exactly two hundred and seventy-six." ”

Gu Changqing paused for a moment, then said with a frightened face: "The fire in Xiangyang Mansion last night was actually Xu ...... How? ”

"The case in Wenqu Town needs to prove the identities of the dozen or so corpses, if it can't be proven, I'm afraid it's almost impossible for Miss Xie Thirteen to overturn the case." Gu Chengze said: "Now that the roster has been burned, there is no way to start, and the Xu Governor's Mansion has filled all the vacancies of the dozen or so officers and soldiers that Xiangyang Mansion lacked through a fire. The most hateful thing, all the mistakes are unrecognizable, even if you find your relatives, you may not be able to recognize them. ”

"So what do we do now?" Gu Changqing frowned helplessly and asked: "Now I can only take those relatives of the deceased to Wenqu Town to testify, and it will take nearly four days for all the deceased to be identified, and some relatives live far away, although it will take two days to bring all the relatives to Wenqu Town, but I don't know if Miss Xie Thirteen can hold on for at least six days." ”

Gu Chengze sighed helplessly: "It's been four days since I left Wenqu Town......

Even if Xie Zhuoyan can hold out for another six days, the county government may not be able to wait that long.

"But......" Master Gu suddenly said, "How did you find out that something was wrong?" ”

There is no way to deduce the number of people in the entire mansion based on the corpses of the more than thirty people lying in the Xiangyang Mansion alone, unless Gu Chengze has the ability to reach the sky.

"Actually, I just inadvertently noticed that something was wrong," Gu Chengze said as he recalled: "I groped for a long time on those people to confirm their identities, but I didn't find any definite evidence, but because of this, I instantly noticed something was wrong when I touched some other people's bodies." ”

Gu Chengze raised his head when he said this: "The muscles on some of them are obviously atrophied, they don't look like officers and soldiers at all, and the soft ones on their bodies are not as hard as those on several other people, so it can be seen that those people are not officers and soldiers." ”

(To be continued) (To be continued.) )