The body was sunk in the lake, and when everyone arrived, it had been picked up by the Jinyi guard and placed on the shore.

The woman looked very young, and there was a deep strangulation mark on her neck, which should be the cause of death. After being salvaged for a while, the clothes were basically half-dry, and the large stone tied to the abdomen had been untied, and through the clothes, you could see that the abdomen was a large bulge, emitting a foul smell, and the mung bean flies were buzzing away.

"After being strangled to death, the fetus was gone."

I gave a briefing on the side.

"Do muscles have a physiological response?" Liansheng asked.

Stunned for a moment, Xu Yan was accustomed to Liansheng's new noun and explained: "It is after death or before death." ”

"It should be that before he died, the flesh of the wound was obviously tightened, and his lips also had deep tooth marks, and his fists were clenched, which should be caused by pain."

Damn it! Everyone couldn't contain the anger in their hearts: this murderer was too cruel.

Yu Shizhao sat on the grass far away, looking at the sky in a daze, Liansheng came over and sat beside him and asked, "What do you think?" ”

"Look at the lake now, with such beautiful green trees and blue sky, but there is a bloody corpse, I am thinking, how to prevent these tragic things from happening."

"I think we must punish the evil and promote the good, so that those wicked people have no way out, and naturally these things will not happen."

While speaking, the officials had already wrapped the body in an oilcloth and transported it back to the yamen for the time being, waiting for the family to claim it.

At this time, one of the officials shouted, "Hey, this man seems to have something in his hand." ”

Gao Xian Ling stepped forward and forcefully broke the deceased's hand. Remove a turquoise butterfly.

"Master Gu, look, the deceased is holding this thing in his hand."

"This must be the weight of a woman's dress." Lian Sheng picked up the jade butterfly and looked at it carefully: "The carving is good, and the water is good, and if you can use such a pendant to press the corner of the skirt, I am afraid that it will be either rich or expensive." ”

"Well, what Master Gu said is extremely true. This is supposed to have been painstakingly pulled from the corner of the skirt of the murderer or someone close to the murderer before he died. The next official has been put away, this is evidence. Gao Xian Ling put away the jade butterfly, looked at the sky and sighed, "We should go back, this is really a troublesome case." ”

It was already evening when I returned to the county office. As soon as I entered the door, I saw Xiao Ying leading the maid and the old housekeeper to stand at the door. They all held bottles and cans and incense in their hands.

"Madame heard that the lord and the adults went out to solve the case. It must be hard, it's all ready early, the old man quickly washes and deodorizes, and the banquet is ready. ”

"Thank you, Madame, for your trouble." Lian Sheng couldn't help but admire how thoughtful this Mrs. Gao was.

"Yes. yes. Mrs. Gao is really thoughtful and virtuous. Xu Yan washed her hands. I kept sprinkling flower water on my body, and the filthy smell quickly disappeared.

Yu Shizhao casually flipped through the flower water held by the old housekeeper, lowered his head and sniffed it and asked, "This is the flower water that your wife configured herself?" ”

"Yes. My wife likes to configure these flower water, this kind of flower water is because the old man always goes out to investigate the case, and the body is inevitably contaminated with a bad smell, Mrs. has tried many times and finally prepared this kind, which can quickly remove the odor, and it is very easy to use. ”

Xiaoying explained on the side. The old housekeeper smiled and nodded: "Yes, my wife likes to ponder these." ”

"This is my old housekeeper Gao Sheng, who has taken care of two generations in my family." Kochi County saw that it was hot, so he took the basin in the old housekeeper's hand and said, "Uncle Sheng, you can rest, there are many people here, so I don't need you." ”

"Young Master, the banquet ...... later"

"Since Madame has arranged it, you don't have to worry about it."

In just a few words, it can be seen that the relationship between Gao Xianling and the old housekeeper is still very deep.

After washing and removing the foul smell, everyone went to the wing room under the guidance of Xiaoying, and the wine and food were already arranged.

"This is for the gentlemen. The guards of the adults, the slaves and maids have arranged for them to eat and drink next door. ”

Xiaoying is a master, and it seems that he also found that Yu Shizhao and Wang Heng's faction does not look like Liansheng's attaché.

Everyone sat down separately, and Gao County ordered the first everyone to pour wine and said: "The small county is not well governed, there have been six cases of missing pregnant women in the past two years, and the lower officials also planned to report to Dali Temple, but the families of those pregnant women were worried that they had been abducted and lost their reputations, and they were afraid that it would be too big to look good, so they went to the government to ask for the case to be closed. It wasn't until the beginning of spring this year that the body of a missing pregnant woman was discovered, and Xia Guan felt that something was wrong. ”

"Lord Gao, don't mention anything else in advance, we can catch the murderer one day earlier, and there will be one less woman killed in Nantong City. Since it was the families of those missing women who asked for the case to be closed, it is no wonder that you are the parents of this matter, and what we have to do now is to find out the truth and find out the murderer. Liansheng also knows that there are many things in officialdom that are difficult to say.

Gao Xianling's gaze turned to Yu Shizhao, who looked at him with a scrutinizing gaze, Gao Xianling panicked suddenly, forced himself to calm down, and nodded: "Thank you Lord Gu for your understanding." ”

Because of the heavy case, everyone was not interested in chatting, so they hurriedly finished eating and said goodbye and went back to the post house to rest. It was Xiaoying who sent everyone out again, and Yu Shizhao asked casually: "This wine and food doesn't look like it was made by the chef in the house." ”

"It's the banquet in the city's guest house, I don't know if the adults can still taste it."

"Actually, coarse tea and light rice are very good, didn't you go out of the city in the morning to buy fresh vegetables? I'm a thick-skinned person, and I want to ask for something to go back, so I can get some food at the post house at night. ”

"This ......" Xiaoying's face darkened obviously, and then smiled: "Okay, I'll ask someone to go to the kitchen to pick up the food." ”

Yu Shizhao nodded: "Then it's troublesome Miss Xiaoying." ”

He stood there motionless, waiting for Xiaoying to send someone to the kitchen to get the food.

The King of England wants to make some vegetables for himself?

Which tendon is it that is going wrong?

Xu Yan stared at Yu Shizhao in surprise with her mouth wide open, and at the same time pulled Liansheng's sleeve and said, "Master, look at ......"

After a while, a little guy came over with some spinach and said, "Sister Ying, there is only this spinach in the kitchen." ”

"The people in the kitchen have eaten all the dishes, this is really ......" Xiaoying apologized embarrassedly, "My lord, the slave didn't expect the people in the kitchen to be so ...... It's all bad for slaves and maids, or the slaves and maids will send someone to the table again in the evening, and they should make amends. ”

"Haha, it's not necessary, it's because I'm thick-skinned, and Miss Guan Xiaoying begged for fresh vegetables. Don't break the cost of the banquet, hehe, but Miss Xiaoying really looks like a housekeeper, and the banquet with a few taels of silver will be sent. ”

"Let the adults see the joke, I'll just rely on this spicy mouth."

Xiaoying laughed self-deprecatingly covering her mouth with a handkerchief.

Back at the post station, Wang Heng hurriedly asked, "Could it be that you suspect that the maid is strange." ”

"Yes, Your Highness, why did you have to take care of other people's vegetables just now?" Xu Yan looked at Lian Sheng and said with a smile: "It won't be because people are smart and clever, and they want to snatch back the palace to be a maid." ”

"This maid left us in the morning and went straight out of the city. When she came, the city gate had not yet opened, and she said that she was going to the country to get fresh vegetables early, but there were no fresh vegetables in the kitchen, and the spinach you also saw, it was not fresh at all. ”

Yu Shizhao looked at Liansheng: "There are obvious traces of ruts in the grass by the lake, you have also noticed it." ”

"Yes, those rut marks should have been left by the murderer."

"Isn't it strange to rush out early in the morning and see us lying about buying fresh vegetables? And don't forget, the body of the Meng family lady was found on the street behind the county office, and I think this maid is very suspicious. ”

"Wait, Your Highness, do you mean that the breakfast you had this morning was probably delivered with a disemboweled?"

Xu Yan finally sorted out her clues and quickly grasped the essence of the matter.

"Not bad!"

"Ah......h

Xu Yan rushed to the door and retched for a while, Lian Sheng poured a glass of water for her, and looked at Yu Shizhao with disgust: "Won't you coax her with lies?" ”

"But why don't we smell it? Shouldn't the intestines smell big when everything comes out? Wang Heng asked.

"The answer lies in that flower water!" Liansheng thought of Yu Shizhao's detailed inquiry about Hua Shui, and his eyes lit up.

"Yes, those flower waters, in the years I have been in Jinyiwei, it is the first time that I have encountered something that can eliminate the smell so quickly, everyone knows that the smell of corpses is the most difficult to remove. This Mrs. Gao and her maid are really not simple. (To be continued......)

PS: The corpse stink is really very stinky, indescribably stinky, don't ask me how I know...... To find out what the smell is is as simple as putting a piece of meat in the trunk of the car and parking it outside for three days, or filling the refrigerator with meat and vegetables, leaving the power out for three days, and then the world is eclipsed