Chapter 32: The Corpse in the Wall
Xie Changan and Jin You turned around a few more times, looked around, and found that there was nothing missing, so the two went to the agreed place to meet them.
When they got there, they didn't expect that they had been waiting there for a long time, and the two of them came last.
When Chen Renhe saw them coming, he said, "Since everyone is here, let's talk about what you see." ”
Shen Yigui was the first to say: "I found that most of the children in the village were not children, it seemed that most of them were young people and teenage girls, and they seemed to be very unwelcoming to outsiders. ”
His eyes were dark, as if he was thinking.
Xu Nian also followed after hearing him: "Yes, I met an old woman at the east end of the village, she seemed to be very afraid of the arrival of outsiders, and saw that we all hurriedly closed the door. ”
"She didn't go around spreading the word to people to warn of outsiders. It's just a person who stays in the house and doesn't go anywhere. It's like they don't go out except for basic necessities. ”
She said a lot, and it was all to the point.
Chen Renhe nodded slightly, and asked Xie Changan again: "What about you, have you found anything again?" ”
Xie Changan pondered for a moment and said: "We met a little girl, that girl was pale and weak, and she was still blind, but inexplicably people felt that she could actually see it. ”
"By the way, there is another point, that is, she has a fragrance from the Western Regions that can only be emitted when smeared with spices."
"The Western Regions?" Xie Changan's words attracted everyone's attention.
Their country is located in the Central Plains, far away from the Western Regions, how can there be spices from the Western Regions in this small village, even if there is, it should not appear in this right.
"Do you see what the little girl is wearing?" Shen Yigui asked.
Xie Changan recalled and described them exactly as follows: "She was wearing a sleeveless long skirt with a ...... at the waist Tied with some bells, jingling bells when walking, the figure is seductive, charming, and also wears anklets. ”
After hearing this, Chen Renhe confirmed: "This is indeed the costume of a woman from the Western Regions, but why are there people from the Western Regions here, could it be someone who pretends to be a woman from the Western Regions?" ”
Yes, it's not just people from the Western Regions who can wear it like this, there are some women who like to wear it like that in order to cater to the preferences of some sons and brothers.
"Uncle Chen, I have a guess, I found that the woman's body is very weak, because her steps are weak and she speaks with a wheezing sound, I suspect that she is someone's confiner." Xie Changan looked solemn.
Because he said it too seriously and didn't notice Xu Nian's eyes, Xu Nian began to look at him with a very ordinary look, and she felt that Xie Changan had finally let go, but she was inexplicably a little lost in her heart.
And what strange god unfolds this?
In fact, this is just a delaying tactic of the big bad wolf, I don't see it, it doesn't work now.
But Xie Changan didn't know what Xu Nian was thinking in his heart.
"Confinement?" Chen Renhe and Shen Yigui frowned in unison.
"There are not many people who can raise confinement near Jingshi, and there are not many people in the court." Xu Nian frowned slightly.
She hated the word confinement. It feels like something inhumane.
The forbidden breeding is expressly forbidden by the imperial court, although this thing is not on the table, but there are always a few people who are good at this, and they are generally secretly kept at home, and they will not ...... Put it outside.
What's more, the capital division is so big, the imperial court will always send troops to inspect the surrounding area, and the time of the key under the city gate has always been very accurate, unless there is an emergency, you can only go out of the city gate with certain tokens.
Otherwise, what is the point of him being kept outside?
Unless this person can ignore the laws of the court and has monstrous power, he can raise a forbidden person outside in a grand manner. can come out anytime and anywhere, so it seems that this candidate can only be a few people in the Jingshi.
But this is just their speculation, and it is really difficult to say whether the woman is confined or not.
"My lord, I have brought all the records of the recent cases in Huoyang Village, you can take a look." Wang Er hurried from the city to deliver such a small book, which recorded the major events that had occurred in Huoyang Village in the past few years or even decades.
Chen Renhe took it and flipped it carefully, and there were words in his mouth: "In the first year of Heshun, the Liu family caught fire and burned down the ten nearby houses, and in the fourth year of Heshun, someone jumped into the well and died...... "automatically skipped the previous years.
Xie Changan also leaned over to look at it and asked, "Is there anything wrong?" ”
Chen Renhe said: "Have you found that there is no record of any case record in Huoyang Village in the past five years, as if nothing happened. ”
Shen Yigui said lightly: "Could it be that nothing happened in the first place?" ”
"Have you forgotten the guy who was waiting at the government to recuperate? He's hiding a lot of things, and who knows if they're hiding something. ”
Xie Changan's favorite thing is Shen Yigui's face, but the latter is a lump of wood, with no emotion, cold, and doesn't care, no one knows what he thinks in his heart.
Xu Nian also nodded: "Yes, what Brother Xie said makes sense, in fact, we can go to that sister-in-law, maybe there are other clues." ”
Xie Changan smiled shyly when he heard this, a big man is "shy"! It's really hard to see.
But this sentence is a word to wake up the dreamers, yes, they always think about the strange aspects of the village, almost forget the sister-in-law this person, as long as they find her, maybe there will be other gains.
Besides, the original purpose of their coming here was to find their sister-in-law, so they can't forget their original intention at any time.
Chen Renhe handed the booklet back to Wang Shuang, and said, "You and Wang Yi go to guard that Fusang, and it would be good to have Wang Wu here." ”
Wang Er nodded, and took Wang Yi back to the mansion.
In fact, Wang Yi was not happy to go back, after all, he also wanted to know what kind of demons and monsters were in this village that could force a living person like that, but Chen Renhe had always said the same, so he had to follow Wang Er and leave.
"Let's go to Fuso's house and have a look." Chen Renhe said to everyone.
Before they came, they inquired about Fusang's residence, and they first searched for Fusang's residence, and then went to his sister-in-law's house.
Fuso's home was on the highest point in the village, so it was easy to find.
They pushed the door open, and a fishy smell hit them.
These people still didn't change their faces, except for Xu Nian who sneezed, and Zhuji hurriedly protected her in front of her: "Master? She looked at her worriedly.
Zhuji has completely taken over the class of Western Australia.
Xu Nian waved his hand and said, "It's okay, let's continue to watch." ”
At this time, Tang Pozi was already cold, so she was put in the carriage they were sitting in when they came.
Xu Nian's hands and feet were a little cold, so Zhuji had to hold her hand all the time to help her keep warm.
They are all dressed as men, so it seems strange that the two of them are strange, but the people present are all people who know the inside story, so they don't care about this.
Fuso's house has a large courtyard, and there is a rattan chair in the yard, and some grapes are planted around it, and many leaves are wrapped around the grape trellis, and the clusters are very lively.
Then there are only two broken thatched huts, and it is considered to lift it up, and it is crumbling, as if it can collapse at any time, and I don't know if it will be used when it rains. This living environment can also be said to be very poor, which shows that the two brothers and sisters are really not doing well.
"This fishy smell is coming from here." Jin You shouted, everyone looked at the sound of talking, and saw that he was lying on the wall of the thatched house and smelling, his movements were funny, and Xu Nian couldn't help laughing.
But back to the point, he also smelled the fragrance on the wall outside the girl's room earlier, and now it's the case, what is the connection?
Xie Changan took the lead in going over, and also leaned over to smell it, then covered his nose, and said in a muffled voice: "Your nose is a dog's nose, right?" I found a place so quickly, and I deserve to be my dog-headed military advisor......" This sentence is a bit of a joke.
Jin You couldn't hear it, but replied proudly: "I don't have any other skills, so my nose is very smart." ”
Xie Changan couldn't help but laugh when he saw him like this: "Okay, well, I know that you are powerful, so what do you smell?" ”
Jin You squatted and smelled again, thought about it and said, "It seems to be the smell of corpses." ”
When the people present heard this, their faces changed.
"Are you sure?" Chen Renhe asked Jinyou with a calm face.
Jin You said with certainty: "Yes, this is the smell of corpses, maybe there are corpses hidden in this wall." ”
Xu Nian was a little disgusted, but finally held back, after all, she was a little girl, and she had never seen a big scene of hiding a corpse inside the wall.
"Simple, you're used to tracking, you can probe the body about where it is, and we'll dig up the wall later to see if there's a body." Shen Yigui looked at Xu Nian and said.
Xu Nian nodded, Zhuji looked at her worriedly, and she patted her hand to signal not to worry.
"Jinyou, you follow me." Xu Nian commanded.
The two of them touched the wall all the way to the outermost layer, she knocked on the wall, listened to the echo with her ears, and Jinyou was responsible for smelling the smell, and finally found it in one place.
Xu Nian said loudly: "Everyone, that corpse seems to be here." She used the technique of listening to the sound in the tracking technique, which tested people's ear power and endurance, and she had just thrown herself on the wall, and she had to endure the fishy smell of the corpse and have to defend the position without distraction, which was rare.
Shen Yigui was very surprised, he didn't expect Xu Nian's tracking technique to be so sophisticated, he thought that she would only be able to do it, after all, it would take a man ten years to learn this thing. She started learning at the age of eight, and she only studied for two years, which shows Xu Nian's talent.
Chen Renhe instructed Wang Wu and Jinyou, and the two of them came to do chores: "You go there and get a shovel and shovel and get that thing out." ”
The two of them got the tools and started to them. After a long time, the wall was only half dug up.