After the second watch, the husband patrolled the night: "The weather is dry and dry, be careful of the candles." ”

Huo Guang led people to squat in the alley outside the wall for three hours, but Cao Xiang never went out, and the lights in the house were not extinguished. The cold wind blew all the time, and suddenly I got goosebumps all over my body.

After the third watch, Huo Guang was leaning on the wall and dozing, and was suddenly reminded: "Huo Shao, there is movement in the house!" ”

Huo Guang rubbed his eyes, and saw from a distance that the lights in the house were extinguished, but a figure crept out quietly, but a group of people rushed out to take him as soon as he entered the alley two steps.

"Are you sure it's not one of ours?" The source of this group of people who suddenly appeared was unknown, Huo Guang instantly sobered up and turned back to the group behind him and asked.

Everyone shook their heads, and the people they brought were all here.

"Let's act when we see the opportunity, and when they are tired of tossing, let's go up and take people and withdraw, don't fight." Huo Guang couldn't tell the situation inside, but he kept in mind the purpose of this trip and repeatedly told everyone.

Chu Jiakang also encountered this kind of situation, but he didn't dare to wait, after all, this student was really powerless, and he was knocked over to the ground and held it twice.

"The two of them went up and grabbed people directly, I took people to cover, and the three of you broke off. After succeeding, meet at the south gate. On the ......" The two sides were short and hand-fought, and suddenly people turned on their backs, and the special squad of the ghost hand battalion that was killed obliquely in this dark night was extraordinary, but the other party was not ambiguous, and it took a lot of twists and turns to shake off the tail that was biting.

Huo Guang's team fell into a melee with an unknown enemy in the alley, and the two sides were bound to win if they did not give in, but Cao Xiang took advantage of the loophole. This person used the terrain to pick alleys and alleys, and finally disappeared after chasing him to the West Market.

"Who said that Cao Xiang is a powerless scholar? Flying eaves and walking walls, this kind of skill can't be held by a few of us alone. Huo Guang was out of breath tired, and scolded angrily as he pulled off his mask.

Huo Guang kept in mind what Brother Cui said about the rule of the golden twelve hours after the incident, although Cao Xiang was allowed to get away for a while at this time, as long as he hurried back to report the news, Brother Cui and they blocked all the checkpoints at the city gate, presumably Cao Xiang would also be unable to fly.

"Let's go, let's go back to Xiaolian Village and meet with Brother Bai to discuss the next step." Huo Guang had no choice but to return to Xiaolianzhuang with his people, but before he arrived at Doumi Lane, he ran into Bai Yanqiu, who came to look for them.

"Xiaoguang, what's the situation?"

"Don't mention Brother Bai, that Cao Xiang is as slippery as a loach on the wall, and the two teams can't catch him, so he ran away in Xishi." Huo Guang said with a dejected face.

"Two teams? Who else will take him? Bai Yanqiu didn't blame them, but asked.

Huo Guang did things with heart, although he couldn't catch Cao Xiang, but he finally took one of the people on the other side.

"It's him, and it took a lot of effort to catch him. Tell me who sent you. ”

"Humph! Take people's money to eliminate disasters for others. If you don't have someone, you have to die. "The masked man's breath was hard when he took off his mask.

"Whoa, your mouth is hard! After a while, Benhou will let you see the means of the downstream cavalry. ”

"Xiaoguang, you guys go to the south gate to support Jiakang now, I guess they should have encountered another group of people over there, I will take this person back and interrogate it personally." Lingwu Hou Bai Yanqiu is not afraid of a hard mouth, and there are more than a dozen kinds of torture in the army to make him speak.

Bai Yanqiu immediately sent Huo Guang and the others away, raised his hand and groped his chin full of stubble and thought, who was going to arrest the two witnesses of Sima Rui's death? What is the connection between Cao Xiang and Sima Rui's death? There is a lot of suspicion behind this case, and it is not yet overnight, and it is not yet known what strange things will happen tomorrow.

"Bai Yun, you take someone to the Taiyuan to get Cao Xiang's portrait and life history, since he has been hiding it, there must be some ulterior secrets."

"I remember to take the portrait and print it overnight, and scatter it all over the four gates and nine passes, and I must not let this person go out of the city." Although he couldn't think of a clue for the time being, Bai Yanqiu ordered the whole city to arrest Cao Xiang, and he vaguely felt that Cao Xiang must be related to Sima Rui's death.

The gatekeeper of Sima Mansion was stunned for a moment when he saw Cui Hanzhang, he had never heard that the eldest young master had a friend who was on an errand in the military department. Seeing that this person is dressed up, he looks more like a thief who has traveled through thousands of households at night, and he doesn't look like an official at all. This person reported his surname Cui Minghanzhang, and he vaguely felt that this name was familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had heard it. The porter is smiling when he meets people, and he doesn't dare to slack off the people of the Yamen of the Ministry of War, so he hurriedly said:

"This son, please wait, the little one will go and pass it on."

When Sima Li went out and saw Cui Hanzhang in a night suit, he couldn't figure out what this Tanhualang wanted.

"Brother Cui came to visit late at night, but there is something important?"

Cui Hanzhang cupped his fists and saluted back and said: "Brother Sima, don't blame Hanzhang for being rude, but in fact, he went out in a hurry, so he didn't care about changing his clothes." I heard that my brother was unfortunately killed, so I came here to visit and offer condolences. ”

Sima Li muttered in his heart: "Although the two of us have drunk a lot of wine in the suburban courtyard of King Kang, the relationship is not so good that this is true!" The first one in the middle of the night came to see my brother off. Although there were doubts in his heart, it did not prevent him from quickly thanking him: "Brother Cui's heart is unfortunate, Brother Cui has a heart, hurry up and enter the house." ”

"Inform your subordinates to prepare some incense, candles, wine and food, and set them up in the main hall." Sima Li instructed the porter while leading Cui Hanzhang to enter.

After several generations of their operation, Sima Mansion is one of the best mansions in Manyun Lane, where the water pavilions, pavilions, rockeries and waterfalls are staggered and overlapped, and if there is no one to guide the way, I am afraid that I will not be able to find the main hall for a while.

Cui Hanzhang followed Sima Li and walked into the main hall, and what caught his eye was Sima Rui, who was mortuary in the center of the hall, followed by Xiao Wu who was standing in the corner and Yin Teng Ruhai, who was sitting there with his head bowed and drinking tea. There are already people in the funeral hall who are arranging the funeral hall, and presumably they will be going around tomorrow to report the death and prepare for the funeral.

As the saying goes, death is great, since Cui Hanzhang came, he should go up to the pillar of incense, so he took the incense from Sima Li's hand and respectfully saluted the incense, and then laid three glasses of wine.

"Brother Sima left in a hurry, he was wronged, Cui Hanzhang came to Shangzhu Xiang to send him a ride!" Cui Hanzhang was drinking wine and chattering at the same time.

It seems that the speaker has no intention, but the listener has a heart. Sima Li felt that there was something in his words, and after he met Fu Yin Teng Ruhai, he invited him to the side and sat down and asked, "Brother Cui, what did you hear?" If you have something to say, you might as well say it directly. ”

Cui Hanzhang was waiting for Sima Li to ask, and he continued along the way: "Since Brother Sima has asked this, the younger brother has something that I don't know whether to say or not?" ”

"But it doesn't hurt to say it, you and I are like brothers, so why be polite." Sima Li waved his hand, and his face showed eagerness.

"The younger brother has also heard about Xiao Rui's death, but doesn't Brother Sima think it's very strange? It's just a fight with classmates, you and I have experienced it back then, it's the most normal, right? Who would kill someone? Cui Hanzhang first threw out some questions and pointed out the unreasonableness of things.

"It's pure brother's guess! When I came, I heard that Lord Yin came to the door many times a day, after all, he has been in charge of the streets of Taikang for many years, and he is well-informed, so he must have an idea to solve the case? Cui Hanzhang said and led the matter to Taikang Mansion Yin.

"Humph! Teng Ruhai wants to bring his younger brother back to the yamen and let him do the autopsy, but he doesn't take our Sima family in his eyes! ”

As a result, he ruthlessly lost the face of Teng Ruhai in front of Cui Hanzhang on the spot, originally thinking that his city government would never say such offending words, but at this time he must have been carried away by hatred.

Cui Hanzhang heard that he looked down on Taikang Mansion Yin so much, so he stopped pestering. Instead, he continued to return to the topic just now and asked: "I heard that the three younger brothers beat Ru Jingxiu, and the kid who beat him was looking for teeth all over the ground, how could he suddenly be killed?" Isn't that logical? ”

"Cui Hanzhang, what do you mean?" Sima Li is not a fool, when he heard Cui Hanzhang say this, he suddenly realized that something was wrong, and couldn't help but slap the table and shout angrily.

"Brother Sima, forgive your sins! Don't be angry! The younger brother also felt that there were many doubts in this. Cui Hanzhang knew that Sima Li might have guessed the purpose of his trip, so he got up to comfort him and sat down again.

"The facts are all there, what else is there to deny when he Ru Jingxiu killed my second brother. I treat you as a friend, the visitor is a guest, and Sima's family entertains you, if you have ulterior motives, don't worry about me turning my face and being ruthless. ”

"Brother Sima, look at what you said, if the murderer is really Ru Jingxiu, I will be the first to kill him to help Xiao Rui avenge him. But I'm afraid that someone will secretly stir up the relationship between the Sima family and the Ru family, but let the real murderer get away with it, and let Xiao Rui die unjustly. Cui Hanzhang said categorically.

"Could it be that Brother Sima never suspected that the murderer was someone else?"

"Or can the Sima family endure this breath and simply treat Ru Jingxiu as a murderer, and fight with Ru Mansion to the death?"

Sima Li is known as Xiao Zhuge and has always been suspicious and guessing. When I first heard about this matter, I didn't have any doubts, but I was carried away by hatred and lost my calmness as before, plus there were witnesses to identify him, so I decided that Ru Jingxiu was the murderer. At this time, he was questioned by Cui Hanzhang, and once again turned out the doubts in his heart, and couldn't help but fall into thought.

Ru Jingxiu knows how much he knows, Wen Chengwu is not a typical waste boy, saying that he can kill Xiao Rui, who is not weak in fists and feet, he actually doesn't believe it. It must be known that Sima Rui grew up with the master of the nursing home practicing martial arts, although he couldn't endure hardships and didn't practice a flower, but he was burly and powerful, and ordinary street gangsters couldn't beat him. If it was said that he killed Ru Jingxiu, Sima Li believed it, but it was really difficult for him to accept that he was beaten to death.

Just when Sima Li was in deep thought, Sima Rufeng, the secretary of Dali Temple, and Ru Lu, a university scholar, walked out together, and the faces of the two seemed to be not harmonious.

"Cui Sima is really eloquent, and a few words aroused the suspicion of my family Sima Li."

Hearing Sima Rufeng's voice, Sima Li immediately stood up and saluted: "Father! ”

After Sima Rufeng glanced at him, he continued to say to Cui Hanzhang: "Since Cui Sima is also here, let's check it!" Don't stand in the corner, since you entered the main hall, don't you just stare at Rui'er's corpse, the old man will let you inspect it. ”

When Xiao Wu heard this, he no longer concealed it, and quickly walked to the corpse after saluting with his fists, and conducted another autopsy.

"It's still Lord Sima's reasoning, only by finding out the true cause of the second son's death can the real murderer be found out in the next step." Cui Hanzhang said after meeting Sima Rufeng and Ru Yu.

"You don't have to put a high hat on the old man, it's my son who died. If there is another murderer as you said, I, Sima Rufeng, will chase him to the ends of the earth and find him out and cut him with a thousand knives. Sima Rufeng's face was ugly, although he was forced by the pressure of Cui Hanzhang and Ru Yu to come to the door in person, but his heart was unwilling to overflow.

"That's nature! That's nature! Cui Hanzhang knew that at this moment, he could only hope for Xiao Wu's inspection, and if there was no real evidence, it would be difficult to convince Sima Rufeng.

At this time, Xiao Wu let go of his hands and feet, and after removing the shroud, he untied Sima Rui's clothes, from the hair to the toenails, from the auricles and nasal cavity to the perineum and the lower body, etc., he did not let go of a careful inspection, and even touched the size of Sima Rui's whole body bones, and leaned over his belly to listen to the sound when he touched his abdomen. The more he checked, the more certain he became that this Sima Rui was definitely not a sudden death by an accidental blow.

Xiao Wu almost knew it in his heart, covered the corpse with a white cloth, slowly walked in front of a few people and said: "The second son was heavily handed by the masters of the rivers and lakes, shattering the internal organs and heart and bleeding and died. ”

"What? Do you have proof? Sima Li couldn't believe it, stepped forward and grabbed Xiao Wu's collar and asked.

Cui Hanzhang couldn't look at it, so he hurriedly pulled back Sima Li and comforted: "Let's listen to what you say?" ”

Xiao Wu tidied up his collar and said unhurriedly: "If it is sudden death under an accidental blow, it will inevitably cause poor breathing in the case of lack of oxygen, but the blood will flow back to the heart an hour after the person dies, instead of causing blood to overflow and accumulate in the abdomen." ”

"Xiao Wudou dares to invite a few masters to come over and touch the second son's chest."

"The second son's sternum is weak and weak, and it was broken by gravity. The distension of the abdomen is caused by the accumulation of blood congestion, and the time of death should be less than two hours after seeing that the pupils are dilated and not dissipated. ”

"Not only that, everyone, please see that the second son is pale, there are wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, and his arms are purple-black, so he must be very painful when he dies." Xiao Wu analyzed many factors in one breath.

Sima Li stepped forward and touched them one by one as he said, and it was indeed a collapsed sternum and a bulging abdomen.

At this time, the blood in the abdomen has been piled up, shake it carefully and listen carefully, there will be the sound of running water. If Master Sima still doesn't believe it, he will know when he opens the knife. Xiao Wu really shook Sima Rui as he spoke, and suddenly there seemed to be a sound of flowing water coming into Sima Li's ears.

When Sima Li heard this, his face turned pale, his eyes were full of tears, and he raised his head and said, "Dad! The second brother died so miserably! ”

Sima Rufeng loved his son deeply, and he couldn't care about etiquette anymore, so he stepped over and leaned over on his son's stomach to listen to the sound. Cui Hanzhang sighed in his heart when he saw this scene, Sima Rufeng sent a white-haired person to a black-haired person, and the pain was difficult to suppress, and parents all over the world were the same.

As Sima Rufeng stepped forward and shook the corpse, he suddenly saw a silk thread fluttering in Sima Rui's left thumb, if it weren't for the refraction of candlelight at his angle, he would definitely not have found it.

"Xiao Wu came over to see, is there a silk thread in this left thumb?"

Xiao Wuden took off the lampshade next to him, took the candle inside and took a closer look, and the two of them carefully took out a strand of silk thread from Sima Rui's fingernail cover and put it under the candlelight to observe carefully.

"It should be the clothes that are stripped and threaded, and the material is cotton silk in linen!" Xiao Wu's eyes were sharp, and he said after carefully distinguishing them.

"Lord Ru, what kind of materials and clothes are you wearing in today's show?" Cui Hanzhang turned around and asked.

Scholar Ru recalled: "In the morning, the child said that it was organized in the Taiyuan to go to the peach forest of Yimao Peak to enjoy the flowers, so he wore it quite carefully. The old man remembered that it was the silk burqa made in Jinghai and the leather jacket produced in Jianzhou in Beihai, especially the leather jacket was impressive. ”

"That's it, silk burqas and fur coats have no such silk, presumably the second son should have grabbed it from the real murderer before he died." Cui Hanzhang concluded that the cotton silk in the linen cloth fell from the real murderer.

Combined with the test results of Mr. Xiaowu, Cui boldly guessed that the person who killed the second son should be a martial arts master wearing clothes made of cotton silk and linen. And it was when the second son was unconscious that he violently broke the sternum and shattered the internal organs and heart veins, causing the second son to die in extreme pain. Cui Hanzhang continued from what he had just said.

All kinds of signs show that Sima Rui's death is not as simple as a fight between classmates, as an old father, he also wants to seek justice for his son, and after making up his mind, he said to his eldest son Sima Li: "Go and ask Yin Teng Ruhai of Taikang Mansion to come over." ”

"Why did my father invite Fuji Ruhai to come?" Sima Li asked with a puzzled expression.

"Since you want to perform an autopsy on Rui'er, how can you do it without the presence of the host judge?" Sima Rufeng said with grief.

Sima Li was shocked when he heard this, but he didn't dare to delay for half a minute, and ran out to personally ride a horse to knock on the door of the Taikang Mansion.

"Since Cui Sima and Scholar Ru are both present, let's witness together!"

"This matter is also related to my son's life, and the old man should do his best to help the Sima family catch the real culprit." Scholar Ru said with a sincere face and clenched his fists again.

Cui Hanzhang also said that he was duty-bound, and while everyone was waiting, someone sent by Bai Yanqiu to deliver a letter to Cui Hanzhang came to find him.

After this person was brought in, he walked up to Cui Hanzhang's ear and whispered: "Someone also went to arrest Cao Xiang, but this person is so good at kung fu that he has escaped and is missing." ”

"What?" Cui Hanzhang was really surprised, with the strength of the Ghost Hand Battalion team, he couldn't take a single Taiyuan student.

Taking advantage of the presence of the parents of the two parties involved, Cui Hanzhang opened his mouth and asked: "Did the two adults send someone to get the certificate Cao Xiang?" ”

Seeing that Sima Rufeng and Ru Yu both shook their heads in confusion, it didn't look like they were pretending. Cui Hanzhang felt that this matter was even more strange, so he said: "I really don't hide it from the two adults, the lower official sent someone to ask someone to testify against Cao Xiang, but when he encountered another group of people, he also went to get people, and as a result, both parties failed to keep this Taiyuan student Cao Xiang, this person is a good martial artist, and others can't get close." ”

"And in this matter, who is going to arrest the witness? Besides, why did Cao Xiang need to run? Ru Yu was shocked when he heard this, and immediately asked.

"One of the other party's people was caught by us, as long as we use means, we are not afraid that he will not speak. It's just that Cao Xiang has nothing to do and runs away, which seems very strange, and there must be an ulterior secret behind it. ”

The case is mysterious, and the development of things has exceeded everyone's expectations. Now it seems that Sima Rui's death should have been secretly planned by someone, and then blamed Ru Jingxiu to provoke the hatred between the Sima family and the Ru Mansion to kill each other. Cui Hanzhang didn't know what was hidden behind this, but he was sure that as long as he caught that Cao Xiang, he should be able to solve the mystery behind it.