Chapter 188: Autopsy
After the four words of opening the coffin and conducting the autopsy were put forward by Shen Ya, the faces of the peasant woman and her husband were all white, like two pieces of rice paper, and there was no blood at all.
They strongly protested the proposal.
The peasant woman even wiped her tears and said to the onlookers: "Didn't the ancients have a saying that it is safe to go into the ground, my father-in-law and mother-in-law have worked hard all their lives, and their deaths are so unstable, and now they have to be opened for an autopsy, is this disrespectful to them from time to time?" We have doubts, and the direct confrontation is, the coffin is absolutely impossible! ”
Her denial only aroused the suspicion of the villagers even more.
I didn't have much suspicion before, but now the peasant woman's attitude makes them start to question it.
"Opening the coffin for an autopsy is clearly the best way, you two couples are unwilling to open the coffin for an autopsy, it can't be that there are really ghosts in your hearts, right?"
As soon as these words came out, the peasant woman glared angrily: "What nonsense are you talking about, if you talk nonsense, I will tear your mouth apart!" ”
The more abnormal it is, the more it proves that there is something strange in it.
The peasant woman was reluctant to open the coffin, probably because there was a secret hidden in the coffin.
An Xiabai narrowed his eyes slightly, and the corners of his lips hooked up a sneer: "Whatever you say about opening the coffin is to disturb the deceased, it's all nonsense, if the deceased knows that his death has caused such a big turmoil in the family, he may be even more uneasy, this sister-in-law, I advise you to be more interesting, obediently push it away and let us open the coffin for an autopsy, otherwise don't blame us for being polite." ”
An Xiabai's cruel words became an opportunity when he heard the peasant woman's ears.
She threw her fat body directly to the ground, and then stopped in the middle of the road like a splash.
The peasant woman's behavior was clearly telling them that unless they died, it was absolutely impossible to give way easily.
She thought that if she did this, An Xiabai and the others would have no choice.
As a result, she never expected that Ruqing suddenly stood up.
Obviously she was a thin girl, but she didn't look scared at all when she faced the peasant woman's fat figure: "Since she is unwilling to retreat, how about we use some means to make her obedient?" ”
The person in front of her is just a peasant woman, and if Ruqing is allowed to make a move, maybe someone will be injured.
An Xiabai didn't dare to take the risk, and directly stopped Ruqing: "We don't have to make a move." ”
If they don't make a move, won't they let the peasant women succeed?
Ruqing furrowed her brows, and before she could ask the doubts in her heart, she heard a hurried footstep and the sound of someone shouting in a panic.
"Oh no, no, the government is here!"
Everyone present followed the prestige, only to see a villager running wildly not far away.
Not long after he came, he came with a person dressed as an official, led by Lu Li.
As the saying goes, the people don't fight with the officials, and the villagers, who were arrogant just now, saw the officers and soldiers at first glance, and their momentum was lost, and now they don't even dare to speak, they only dare to lower their faces.
The village chief's reaction was the most obvious, and he even took the initiative to greet him with a smile: "My lord, why are you free to come here today?" ”
The person who was called an adult by the village chief was the local parent official, and at this time he stood respectfully beside Lu Li.
"You still have the face to say?" The adult's face changed, and he raised his voice to reprimand, "You didn't report a murder in your village, and even wanted to use lynching to burn people to death? Who gave you such rights, did you not take the government into account at all? ”
The village chief was so frightened that the corners of his forehead sweated, and he repeatedly said no.
Only then did the adult lose his anger: "If Mrs. Lu hadn't found out about this matter and reported it, maybe we would still be in the dark now!" ”
The village chief lowered his face, and while making amends, he secretly looked at An Xiabai.
I didn't expect her to look so young and have such an identity.
"How's it going, are you hurt?" Lu Li walked quickly to An Xiabai's side, and then took her hand with a worried face, "I told you a long time ago that it is not peaceful here, and it is good to leave something to us to deal with, but you just don't listen, you insist on coming." ”
An Xiabai was a little embarrassed and tried to pull his hand out of Lu Li's hand.
As a result, because the other party was too hard, he didn't pull it out, so he simply let him hold it still.
"By the way, did you bring it?" An Xiabai suddenly remembered this important matter, and turned his eyes to look at the official not far away.
"Here, here, I'm here!" As soon as the words fell, a figure came out behind the officials.
It was an old man with gray sideburns and a box in his hand.
It seems that he is a fool.
When the peasant woman saw this, she couldn't suppress the panic in her heart, and directly scolded her: "With me today, don't think about moving my family's grave if you people of unknown origin are here!" ”
Lu Li didn't speak, but just gave the official next to him a color.
The official immediately understood and instructed the official to arrest the peasant woman for obstructing official business.
"You are oppressing the people, and I will sue you!" The peasant woman was held on her left and right, and immediately began to struggle hard.
It's a pity that the officials are all strong men, and they are not afraid of her threat at all, and they can easily control people.
Then they walked all the way to the cemetery under the desperate gaze of the peasant woman.
As soon as she arrived at the grave, Qin Shuang'er fell to her knees with a thud, apologizing while crying.
She looks like this, but everyone will feel distressed, let alone An Xiabai, who regards her as a benefactor?
An Xiabai directly pushed Lu Li away, then walked over quickly and hugged Qin Shuang'er in his arms, gently patted her back and comforted: "It's not your fault, it's the murderer's fault, you don't have to blame yourself, but you should be happy." If your uncle and aunt know that you have worked so hard to find out the truth, you will also be glad to know that you have worked so hard to find out the truth. ”
Qin Shuang'er's tears were only a little contained.
Besides, because there were a lot of officials who were brought together, the digging of the grave was quickly completed.
He took the lead in opening the coffin and then began the autopsy.
Fortunately, because of the short period of time, the corpse in the coffin had not had time to begin to decompose, and the person who brought it was an experienced person, and quickly found out the cause of the deceased's death.
"There are indeed signs of poisoning on the deceased, but this is not the real cause of their death, and the direct cause of the death of the two elderly people is poisoning." After the autopsy was completed, he immediately explained the situation to Lu Li and others, "According to my years of experience, these two old men should have been strangled to death when they were weak after taking poison. ”
This way of dying sounds cruel.
Qin Shuang'er's tears that she finally managed to contain burst out of her eyes again.
"I heard that this girl is the one who is suspected of being the murderer?" His gaze turned to Qin Shuang'er, and after looking at the other party's physique, he sighed and shook his head and said, "She is petite, and it is estimated that she usually struggles to even carry a bucket of water, how can she have enough strength to strangle the two old men, she must have been wronged." ”
As soon as he finished speaking, the villagers immediately began to discuss.
If Qin Shuang'er wasn't the murderer who killed the two old men, then who was?
"A strong man should be the most suspicious of committing a crime, right?" After thinking for a moment, An Xiabai proposed that they catch Qin Shuang'er's brother and come over for interrogation.
"Since they can even suspect their own sister, we can also doubt him."
An Xiabai's proposal was quickly agreed to by most of the people, but when they looked around, they unexpectedly found that Qin Shuang'er's brother and sister-in-law had disappeared.
"Didn't they come along?" An Xia Bai asked puzzled.
One of the villagers hurriedly replied, "They came, but while the officials were digging the graves, they sneaked away while others were not paying attention." ”
The terrain around the village is relatively complicated, and if the couple runs into the deep mountains and old forests, it is estimated that they will not be able to catch people.
Just when they were in trouble, the villagers spontaneously began to help.
"It was indeed our fault to have wronged Shuang'er before, and now we help find someone, so let's take it as an apology." After they threw down these words, they followed the official messenger and turned to find someone.
With the help of the villagers, Qin Shuang'er's brother and sister-in-law were quickly caught.
"Now you don't have any reason to say you're innocent, right?" Looking at the two people who were pressed to the ground, the corners of An Xia's white lips hooked a sneer.
If they weren't thieves, how could they think of escaping from the government?
The peasant woman was obviously frightened by the posture of the arrest just now, and she did not recover for a long time, and suddenly gasped for several breaths before she spoke.
"We just thought the village was boring, so we wanted to go out for a walk!"
Things have come to this point, I didn't expect them to have the face to quibble.
Lu Li stepped forward with a cold face: "If you don't confess, the government has a way to make you open your mouth obediently." ”
The faces of the two people suddenly turned pale as paper.
I heard that there are many kinds of punishments in the government, and the officials are all fierce and vicious, and they will beat people at every turn.
Thinking of this, the peasant woman could no longer hold on, crying and explaining the truth to them.
"We were also impulsive at the beginning, watching Shuang'er grow up day by day, her parents-in-law and mother-in-law began to be busy for her marriage, the two of them, their hearts are biased, obviously their sons and daughters are flesh and blood, but they are full of only thinking about their daughters, when I was married into the door by their family, the bride price I gave was not even half of the girl's dowry, I heard that they were going to give Shuang'er all the money they had saved so hard, we, we were confused."
This confusion is a big mistake.
They first poisoned the decoction that Qin Shuang'er boiled herself, and then asked her husband to strangle the two old men to death, and then pretended to be poisoned to death, and in the end, they put all the responsibility on Qin Shuang'er alone.
Their plan is not clever, and it can even be said to be clumsy, but it is a pity that the brains of the people in the village are not flexible, so they believe their words and regard Qin Shuang'er as a murderer.
If it weren't for An Xiabai and the others who appeared in time and helped find out the truth, maybe Qin Shuang'er would not have had a chance to overturn the case at all.
"Thank you, Mrs. Lu, if it weren't for Mrs. Lu helping me, I would probably be dead by now." Qin Shuang'er took An Xiabai's hand and burst into tears.
An Xiabai turned over her handkerchief distressedly and helped her wipe her tears: "You don't have to thank me, these are what I should do." ”