The seven corpses were still neatly stacked there, and Nangong Cheng walked straight to the fresh one and lifted the white cloth.

The corpse, with each extra second, becomes a little more terrifying, and when you go out and come back, the corpse becomes a little more terrifying.

Nangong Cheng said lightly, "The face of the national character, the wide forehead, the five short figures, and the slight fat." ”

Bai Wanzhou snorted, isn't this the old Xiao described by the fat woman just now?

Take another look at the corpse, lying in the groove, isn't it just a national face, a wide forehead, five short figures, and slightly fat!

The murderer was disfigured, but he couldn't ruin his figure and face.

Nangong Cheng took out the belly pocket again, and gently put it next to the corpse's clothes to compare, Bai Wanzhou bent down to see that although the corpse was wearing a dark blue silk dress, the fabric of the placket and cuff piping was exactly the same as the belly pocket!

Liu Gui also gasped, "This person is Lao Xiao!" No wonder he died at home. ”

Since Lao Xiao has come back a long time ago and has returned to his hometown, what ...... Mei Niang also went to the frontier to find a ghost, the woman on Rouge Street is very likely to be Mei Niang!

Bai Wanzhou didn't hide it anymore and told Nangong Cheng what she saw that night.

Nangong Cheng clenched his fist with his right hand, and his thumb kept rubbing his index finger, he liked to do this action as long as he thought about it.

After a long time, he said, "Hu Lai should still be in the capital." ”

Bai Wanzhou had a faint bad premonition, "Will Lao Xiao be killed by them?" ”

Nangong Cheng shook his head, "I don't know, I'll see if I've caught someone and interrogated him." ”

After that, he said to the servant, "Go back to Dali Temple." ”

A group of people soon returned to Dali Temple, Nangong Cheng asked for paper and ink, quickly drew a small portrait of Hu Lai and Mei Niang, and handed it to the official Dao, "The whole city is blocked, search for these two people, live to see people, dead to see corpses." ”

Bai Wanzhou stretched out her head to take a look, but she didn't expect it to be vivid, "You can still paint?" ”

Nangong Cheng didn't bother to pay attention to her, and Liu Gui whispered, "The prince not only has great achievements, but also the best reading among the princes, which can be described as a masterpiece of poetry and painting." ”

Bai Wanzhou stuck out her tongue, "I really didn't see it." ”

Nangong Cheng guessed well, Hu Lai was really still in the capital, and in the evening of the next day, he was caught by the officials of Dali Temple from a dilapidated small inn.

I saw that his beard was unkempt, and the clothes on his body had been worn for an unknown time, and they were all oily, sloppy like a bum, but he behaved calmly, as if he had been waiting for this moment for a long time.

Bai Wanzhou asked, "Did you kill Lao Xiao?" ”

Hu Lai confessed very simply, "Yes." ”

Bai Wanzhou was puzzled, "Why?" ”

Hu Lai was silent for a long time before he said, "If you don't kill him, I can't take Mei Niang away." ”

According to Hu Lai's confession, this is what happened.

As soon as smallpox ended, Lao Xiao actually came back, unfortunately, when he went home, he happened to bump into Mei Niang and Hu Lai's private meeting, and caught the rape on the top of the bed in a green Hulunbuir grassland, no matter how good the temper of the man encountered, this kind of thing will explode, Lao Xiao immediately picked up the kitchen knife to cut Hu Lai, Hu Lai is taller than him, stronger than him and younger than him, how can he let him succeed, three or two times to give him a counter-subdued.

Hu Lai actually had a murderous intention at that time, but Mei Niang was reluctant to stop the husband and wife, Lao Xiao angrily shouted to report to the official, let the government cure the adultery of the two, and the two didn't dare to really let him go, so they hid him in Hu Lai's inn, and it happened that there were six travelers in the inn at that time, and these six people said to be from outside the customs and came to Beijing to do business together.

One of them crashed into the room where Lao Xiao was locked up, and was killed by Hu Lai on the spot, for fear that the other five people would look for companions, Hu Lai did not do anything and put sweat medicine in their wine and food, and when a few people were unconscious, they cut their necks one by one, in order to hide the identities of those people, they were ruined, Mei Niang was careful, and found that they had tattoos on their backs, so that Hu Lai even cut the tattoos for others.

killed six people at once, and it was not easy to throw the corpses, so the two of them could only take advantage of the middle of the night to pull them to Lao Xiao's house.

There are dead people at home, Mei Niang said that she would not stay at home anymore, Hu Lai came up with an idea, let Mei Niang pretend to go to the border to find her husband, what about him, and then closed the inn, saying that he was going out to do business, Hu Street businessmen, many people who have been out all year round, no one has ever suspected anything.

The two of them are planning to elope here, and they are worried that there is still an old Xiao in the inn who has not been solved.

At this point, both of them understood that Lao Xiao's life could not be spared, and he witnessed Hu Lai killing people, so it would be strange if he let it out and didn't shout it.

Mei Niang's wife said that after all, she couldn't see her husband's blood splashed on the spot, so she got a bag of poison and poisoned Lao Xiao to death.

Looking at Lao Xiao who was twitching on the ground, Mei Niang cried very sadly, and kept saying that she was sorry for Lao Xiao, Hu Lai simply found another inn and opened a room for her, and got her out, saving him from crying on the side.

After killing Lao Xiao, Hu Lai also disfigured his appearance as if dealing with those six people, and wanted to throw him back to Xiao's house, but he was afraid that his identity would be discovered, so he simply found an irrelevant alley and threw it directly.

When Hu said this, he suddenly paused and refused to say any more.

Bai Wanzhou asked, "I killed so many people in order to take Mei Niang away, why haven't you left yet?" ”

Hu Lai pondered for a long time before he said, "Mei Niang has changed her mind." After Lao Xiao died, she washed her face with tears every day, saying that she found that what she cared about most was Lao Xiao, she couldn't go with me, be with me, and always think that I killed Lao Xiao, and she wanted to stay widowed for Lao Xiao for the rest of her life and atone for her actions. ”

Bai Wanzhou was speechless, how could this woman be more white than Chu Zuiyun, she couldn't bear the loneliness and knitted a green hat for a man, and finally poisoned her husband with the adulterer, she was still wronged?

Liu Gui sneered, "For such a girl, seven lives were killed!" ”

Hu Lai hung his head and didn't speak, like an outlaw, and the high-spirited President Hu was like two people.

Nangong Cheng asked, "Where is Mei Niang?" ”

Hu Lai raised his eyes and showed a wry smile in his eyes, "I'm a dead end anyway, why bother to compensate her again, all the sins were committed by me alone, please don't look for her." ”

Nangong Cheng said coldly, "You and her are accomplices, if you want to pay for your life, she can't escape." “

From this moment on, Hu Lai refused to speak.

No matter how everyone asked, he was like a dumb person, Liu Gui was anxious, and ordered the officials to punish him, but he still gritted his teeth and refused to reveal half a word.

Bai Wanzhou couldn't help but become more and more curious about the woman Mei Niang, plus the chance encounter on Rouge Street, I had only seen her twice, and I really felt that she was beautiful, demonic and wild, with bold eyes, and her gestures were indescribable.

How can you be downcast when you are beautiful like that?

This kind of disaster-level woman actually followed the mediocre Lao Xiao back to live a few years with peace of mind, and finally had to give Lao Xiao a lifetime of widowhood, it's not scientific to think about it!

In any case, this case finally cleared the clouds, and it also caught up with the ultimatum of Emperor Wen of Jin, and solved it before Chinese New Year's Eve.

Liu Gui meant that the nature of the case was bad, and Mei Niang had to dig three feet into the ground to find it, so Hu Lai would pull it to the entrance of the vegetable market as soon as possible and behead it to show the public, so as to make the people angry.

Nangong Cheng said, "Hold him up first, and then talk about it when you find Mei Niang." ”

On the way back, Bai Wanzhou sighed, "Hu doesn't look like a foolish person, how can he do such a foolish thing!" ”

Nangong Cheng was silent, not knowing what he was thinking.

Bai Wanzhou said again, "Where is that Mei Niang hiding now?" She is worth it in her life, she took the lives of eight men at once, she has been lying straight for seven, and she is almost a nonsense. ”

Nangong Cheng still didn't speak.

Bai Wanzhou felt a little embarrassed, as if she was holding a hot face and sticking to someone's cold buttocks, so she had no face, so she closed her mouth with an iron face.

Nangong Cheng muttered at this time, "Lao Xiao was poisoned, which is understandable. Why do those six people have a personal wound on the left? ”

Bai Wanzhou didn't want to pay attention to him and pulled back a little thin noodles, but the question he asked was very tempting, and he couldn't help but say, "That person may be the first person to bump into Lao Xiao, Hu Lai killed him from the left first, and the people who were put down with sweat medicine in the back slipped down from the right, isn't it quite understandable?" ”

Nangong Cheng shook his head, "Then why isn't the person who was killed first the other five people, but this left-hander?" ”

Bai Wanzhou was stunned and said, "It's a coincidence." ”

"Okay, just as everything is a coincidence, a person who can brutally kill so many people for the sake of his mistress, will give up taking her away because his mistress is ashamed of her husband?"

"Maybe he's in love deeply."

"In the eyes of Lao Xiao, Hu Lai and even the neighbors, Mei Niang is a weak woman who is powerless, she is now dead to her husband, she has no home, and then she has a clear relationship with her lover, what does she live on?"

Bai Wanzhou was almost stunned by Nangong Cheng's question, but every question he asked really hit the soul, so he had to answer weakly, "Hu Lai should have given her money to arrange a way back, right?" Lao Xiao must have saved up all these years, isn't it all in her hands. ”

"The last question, what is the meaning of the tattoos on the back of the six travelers?"

"This ...... Does it have anything to do with the case? ”

Nangong Cheng's eyes sank, "If you come here, do you think it's all true?" ”

Bai Wanzhou was stunned again, yes, she had never seen anyone admit her guilt so simply, so far, this case is all guided by him.

She suddenly remembered the Mei Niang she saw on Rouge Street, if she remembered correctly, her state at that time was very relaxed, and it could even be said that she was happy, which was completely different from the woman who was restless day and night with tears because of the death of her husband.