The informant's name is Luo Shuzi, who lives in the countryside on the outskirts of the city, and his family has several acres of paddy fields, and the husband and wife make a living from it. Today, thinking that the paddy fields should release water, he came to his own land with an iron at dawn, and was about to dig a ditch, when he saw a black thing lying there in the field in front of him. Luo Shuzi thought that he was a drunk, and when he saw that he had overwhelmed the seedlings, a wave of anger rose in his heart, and he rushed up in a few steps and was about to punch the man's sleeve, but he didn't expect to pick it up and see this person's face muddy and watery, his eyes were closed, his face was blue, and there was a breath of death. Luo Shuzi let go in fright, and the man fell heavily into the muddy water with a snap, splashing the water on Luo Shuzi's body and face. Luo Shuzi clutched his chest, threw down the iron and turned around and ran. rushed home to call his wife to guard the ridge, and he rushed to the county office to report the case.

When Liansheng and the others arrived, only Luo Shuzi's wife was sitting on the ridge, and when she saw a group of people coming, she hurriedly stood up, patted the soil on her body, and blessed: "Meet the eldest master." ”

Niu Zhixian nodded, stood on the ridge and took a look, it was inaccessible, Luo Shuzi's wife had been guarding the ridge, and the scene was well protected. Niu Zhixian expressed his please, and Liansheng also praised: "You have done a good job, so that protecting the scene is conducive to solving the case." ”

When Luo Shuzi heard this, he straightened his back happily: "The little one wants people to die in a small field, for fear that someone will say that they are killed by a small one, and they don't know how to protect it, so they just want to invite the eldest master to come, and the fewer people who want to know, the better." ”

"Master, reward him." Niu Zhixian also felt that the people under his rule were so sensible and reasonable, and it was very face-saving for him. Luo Shuzi took the silver handed over by the master, and thanked him a thousand times.

The corpse was lying down in the paddy field, and according to the position of his feet, he should have been killed standing on the ridge of the field. It is then poured into the paddy field. There was a blow wound on the head, Niu Zhixian squatted down to carefully observe the wound, and Liansheng asked on the side: "Did Lord Niu investigate the scene by himself?" ”

The master smiled: "Our master likes to study "Clearing Grievances", and often comes to the scene to see it himself. ”

Oh, I see. Liansheng has a little more affection for this Niu Zhi County.

"This is standing behind the victim and hitting him directly with a heavy object, and the victim fell into the paddy field with one blow." Niu Zhixian pointed to the wound on the top of the victim's head: "The fatal blow is on the top of the head, this victim should be nearly six feet tall, and the murderer who killed him must be an extremely burly man." You have to be a lot taller than this guy to hit the top of your head. ”

At this time, one foot was about 30 centimeters, and from Liansheng's point of view, the victim was a strong man about 1.8 meters tall, and such a strong man was hit on the top of his head with a heavy object. Could it be that the murderer is a person who is more than 1.90 meters long? People of such height. It should be easy to find in the city, right?

Sure enough, Xu Yan also thought of this, and said with a smile: "Such a tall and strong person must be easy to find." This case is simple. ”

Liansheng also squatted down. Look at the face of the deceased. The deceased's face was bruised. There was mud on the mouth and nose, especially on the nose, which was almost filled with mud, and there was a square mark in front of the deceased's left hand. Lian Sheng took a closer look at the mark and exclaimed, "Lord Niu, what do you look like when you look at the mark?" ”

Niu Zhixian and Master hurriedly came to see that this imprint was rectangular, because it was a paddy field, there were vague horizontal and vertical lines on the soil, and there were snails crawling slowly on it, dragging out a long trace of water.

"This ......" Niu Zhixian hesitated: "It's like a trace of a rattan box!" ”

"Yes, it looks like a rectangular box, and there are faint traces of rattan weaving." Liansheng pointed to this person's mouth and nose: "This person has muddy water in his mouth and nose, and there is muddy water and grass seedlings in his hands in an empty fist, it should be that the blow on the top of his head did not completely kill him, he fell in this paddy field and drowned in muddy water, the deceased should still be carrying a rattan box in his left hand, it seems that it was taken away by the murderer." ”

"Could it be that the rattan box that He Gui snatched should have been carried by this person?"

Niu Zhixian twisted his long beard and looked into the distance: "How far is this from the broken temple He Gui said?" ”

At this time, Luo Shuzi, who had been standing next to him, asked, "What the master is talking about is the land temple in the west of the mass grave?" ”

"There's a mass grave, it should be there."

"The little one knows that this temple can be reached from my house, bypassing the woods in front of me and walking west for half an hour. The temple had been dilapidated for many years, and only a few beggars lived in it. ”

"It seems that it is really possible that this person's rattan box was snatched away by the young man, and then He Gui scared away the young man to get the rattan box." Niu Zhixian looked at Liansheng, "Such a strange thing, the first time I saw it, Gu Shi must help the official." ”

"Lord Niu is polite." Liansheng pointed to the forest and asked Luo Shuzi, "Does that forest have an owner?" ”

"If you have a master, that forest is the property of the Yao family."

"The Yao family? But that fragrant powder Yao family? Master asked on the side.

"Exactly, the Yao family's incense powder is well-known in the city, even my daughter-in-law can buy the Yao family's incense powder for a month."

The scene investigation was almost over, and Niu Zhi County ordered someone to transport the body back to the county office.

The group walked on the ridge, and Liansheng couldn't help but look at the surrounding pastoral scenery. The wind blew from the side of Yao's woods, blowing the leaves rustling.

"It's a natural idyllic scene." Xu Yan closed her eyes and took a deep breath as if she was intoxicated, and suddenly she retched: "No, what kind of smell is this?" ”

Everybody smells it too! There was a rancid smell in the wind!

This smell! Lian Sheng looked at Niu Xianling, who also instantly blackened. It's the stench of rotten meat!

Wang Bantou strode into the field, jumped off the ridge, and rushed into the forest of Yao's house in a few steps. Looking east and west inside, he suddenly shouted: "Master, there are corpses here!" ”

Luo Shuzi followed behind the team, and when he heard this, he was so frightened that he sat on a fart snort: "Good and long, how can I be so unlucky!" ”

His daughter-in-law hurriedly lifted him up, and the husband and wife lamented their bad luck together, and found another dead body in the woods not far from the field, which was almost mad.

After getting off the ridge, Lian Sheng tore off the handkerchief in his hand, and told Xu Yan to come to the purse, took out some spices from it, rolled it in the handkerchief, and plugged the nostrils, Xu Yan also concocted the same. Niu Zhixian turned out to be handed over by Liansheng and nodded and said, "Thank you, Lord Gu." ”

The officials and others who followed followed suit, some stuffed with grass, and some covered their mouths and noses with a handkerchief. The group was slightly equipped and walked into the woods together. The fast-moving Wang Bantou was already holding on to a tree and vomiting.

The position of the carrion in the middle of the woods, buried not very deep, probably later by wild dogs, dragged out and torn all over the ground, it was already smelly enough, and it was fragmented, this scene is really harmful. Xu Yan glanced at it, and also covered her face and ran to the side to vomit.

Lian Sheng vigorously suppressed the tumbling in his stomach and looked at Niu Xianling. The county commander squatted down, not afraid of the smell at all, poked a small branch a little bit, looked over the corpse and said: "It seems that it is a young man, and it is not completely rotten, it should be something that happened in the past half a month." ”

Lian Sheng took a deep breath, squatted down, followed the example of Niu Zhixian, pulled a few times with a branch, and said, "Lord Niu, the killing of the deceased can probably be shortened to ten days. ”

"I want to hear about it."

"Look, there's a chrysalis here. Most of the corpse was buried shallowly, and it was very shallow, like a pit dug by a finger, and it was in a hurry. The first flies to appear in the open air are the green-headed flies, which appear a few hours after death, lay eggs at the wound of the corpse, and after about six days, the maggots will turn into pupa, and now the corpse is scattered with a lot of pupa. Assuming that the body was shallow buried, and the time for the flies to appear was slightly receded by two to three days, then the deceased should have been killed for about ten days. It's just that the corpse is so broken that it's hard to tell how it was killed. ”

Niu Zhixian nodded while listening: "Amazing, amazing, the lower officials are like an initiation!" ”

As he spoke, he bowed to Lotus Sheng. Lian Sheng hurriedly waved his hand: "Lord Niu praised it falsely." ”

"Hey, there were so many things on the first day that Lord Gu came to this county. Xia Guan is really scared. ”

"Those who commit adultery will not choose time, so it's okay, Xia Guan is here to inspect the prisons in various places, and Xia Guan also admires the spirit of Niu Daren as a pioneer, these cases, we need to work together."

The two of them were about to call the officials to dispose of the corpse, when suddenly a horse galloped on the ridge.

"My lord, my lord, Lord Gu's brother has arrived!" (To be continued......)

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