How could Yao Shun not have imagined this, if it was really treated as a homicide case, and the corpses were blown up like this, how could this case be solved? And there are no clues at all, if the case is opened and cannot be solved in the end, it will inevitably be a stain on his political achievements.

Therefore, as soon as Yao Shun heard Ke Bei's words, he interrupted: "Recently, except for Fang Shao, no one in the capital has come to report the disappearance of a large number of people, how to determine this matter?" Moreover, there has been a famine and plague recently, and people have died of starvation and disease everywhere, and it is not surprising that people have died and are buried here. ”

Ke Tuiguan wanted to do it again, but was interrupted by Yao Shun waving his hand: "We are here for Fang Gongzi's case, and we will talk about the rest later." ”

Fang Congzhe listened to Yao Shun's words, glanced at Ke Tuiguan and walked away, although he didn't speak, one look was enough to express Fang Congzhe's many dissatisfactions.

One of the two of them was the head of the court, and the other was the governor of the Shuntian Mansion, since they didn't want to ask about this matter, he had no choice but to sigh in his heart, and then continued to look for clues in the pit in frustration.

A group of people searched for nearly half an hour, and found many burnt pieces of cloth and scattered bones, all of which had nothing to do with Fang Shihong after examination.

After looking for no clues related to Fang Shihong for so long, Fang Congzhe couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, maybe he thought too much, on the day of the Beijing camp's martial arts, the Zhang family father and son strongly recommended him to test shoot the first shot, maybe it was really as they said in order to calm down the rumors of the outside world, but the sound of the cry for help that day still made him faintly uneasy.

Fang An saw that he hadn't found any clues for a long time, he came to Fang Congzhe's side and said, "Master, it's a good thing that no clues have been found here, which means that the young master was not here that day." ”

Fang Congzhe nodded.

"Master, why don't we go up to the mountains and look for it? Now with the help of the people of the Shuntian Mansion, there are more people who can go to the mountains and forests to look for them. ”

Fang Congzhe listened to Fang An's words and thought deeply, and he said to Yao Shun who was not far away: "Lord Yao, since there is nothing to be found here, let's go up there and look for it, right?" ”

Yao Shun said: "The lower official has this intention. Then he said to the officials: "Stop, dig a pit and bury these bones first, and then continue to search the mountains with the officials." ”

When the officials heard this, they stopped what they were doing and dug a pit in this pit on the spot, although there were several people's bones, but they were all very mutilated, and these bones together could not make up a complete person, so the pit dug by these officials was not large, and soon a group of officials dug a shallow pit and buried the scattered bones that they found.

When these officials were busy digging the pit, Fang Congzhe and Yao Shun all came out of the pit and watched on the pit, only Ke Tuiguan was still looking for it in the pit, and when those officials buried the bones, Ke Tuiguan's face sank when he looked at the edge of a dirt pit.

He looked up at the few people standing on top of the pit, and said slowly, "Two adults, you don't need to go up the mountain to find it. ”

Fang Congzhe's face changed suddenly when he heard this, and then he stared at Ke Tuiguan without blinking and said in a deep voice: "Ke Tuiguan, what do you mean by this?" ”

Ke Bei threw away a handful of soil in his hand, and then looked at Fang Congzhe without the slightest fear: "Lord Fang let people dig in from this place." ”

Yao Shun saw that Fang Congzhe's face was ugly, and he hurriedly reprimanded Ke Beidao: "Ke Tuiguan, don't make a fool of yourself, we have searched all over this pit, there is nothing to look for anymore, why do you still dig there?" ”

Ke Bei grabbed a handful of soil from the place he pointed out and said to the people above: "The soil in this place is different from other places, it is the scorched earth mixed with the newly dug soil after the explosion, and this piece of soil is mixed with bloodstains, the blood stains here are different from the bones before, those bones are buried after death, and the blood mixed in the soil here is sprinkled into the soil and coagulated." ”

"What does that mean?"

"It means that there is another person in this place in addition to the previous bones, and this person is not the same as the previous bones."

After listening to Ke Tuiguan's words, Fang Congzhe's body shook for a while, and Fang An hurriedly helped him and said, "Master, this can't explain anything, maybe it's the blood shed by other beasts on the mountain." ”

Fang Congzhe shook his head and said to Yao Shun: "Listen to Ke Tuiguan, dig it." ”

When Yao Shun heard this, he ordered the officials: "Dig in according to the place pointed out by Ke Tuiguan." ”

The few officials who had just buried the bones were ordered to draw their sabers again and start digging, Fang Congzhe saw that a few officials were moving slowly, and he said to a few guards, and a few of you should also go to help.

As soon as the guards jumped down the pit, they heard the officials exclaim, "My lord, I dug it." ”

When Yao Shun heard this, he hurriedly asked, "What did you dig up?" ”

The official said, "I can't see it yet." ”

When the group of officials saw that they had dug up something, they hurriedly quickened the movements of their hands, and after a while, the first two officials reached out and pulled out the dug things.

When everyone saw it, they were suddenly nauseated, but what the two officials were holding in their hands was a pair of broken feet.

The people of Shuntian Mansion have been in contact with a lot of cases, and this thing seems to be no longer to blame you, but the people of Fang Mansion and the Orion almost wanted to spit it out when they saw the thing in the hand of the servant.

And Fang Congzhe just glanced at it, and the whole person fainted, if it wasn't for Fang An's support, Fang Congzhe would have already fallen to the ground.

Fang An didn't even respond to a few shouts of "master", he said to the few guards who had just jumped off the pit: "Come up and carry the master back." ”

After a few nursing homes came up, Fang An put the unconscious Fang Congzhe on the back of a nursing home, and then said to Yao Shun: "Lord Yao, this place will be handed over to you first, our master is overworked today, and he has been frightened, and now he is unconscious, I will send our master back to see the doctor first." ”

Yao Shun said: "Lord Fang's body is important, Steward Fang should go down the mountain quickly, I will go to the Fang Mansion to visit Lord Fang later." ”

Fang An arched his hand towards Yao Shun, and then quickly walked down the mountain behind the courtyard that was carrying Fang Congzhe on his back.

Seeing the people from Fang Mansion walking away, Yao Shun had no scruples at this time, and asked Ke Tuiguan, "Master Ke, do you mean that these two feet belong to Fang Shihong?" ”

Ke Bei frowned and said: "Although I can't be sure, but I can't be wrong, you look at the boots on these feet, the satin brocade with a thousand layers of bottoms, the satin is the best ice satin in Shandong, the brocade is the best emerald wool brocade in Shu brocade, and even the simple group pattern is embroidered with the method of Shu embroidery, how many people in Beijing City can wear this kind of boots?" I don't know who made such a ruthless move. ”

Yao Shun said in a low voice: "I heard that the steward said that this Fang Shihong was killed by a round of Hongyi cannons in the Shenji Battalion on the day of the Beijing Camp Martial Arts Exercise, and I was also present in the Beijing Camp Martial Arts Exercise that day, and twenty Hongyi cannons bombarded over, and that formation, let alone blowing people up, I am afraid that even if it was not blown up, it would scare people to death." ”

"I heard that the round of test firing was personally commanded by Fang Shoufu, and now I want to come to tie up Fang Shihong, what kind of deep hatred does the person who tied up Fang Shihong have with the Fang family? It was not enough to kill Fang Shihong, but also to let Lord Fang personally command others to blow up his son, if it wasn't for Lord Fang's first shell that missed, then it would not be Lord Fang who commanded others to blow up his own son, but he killed his own son with his own hands. ”

Ke Tuiguan chatted with Yao Shun for a few inconsequential topics and then talked about the case seriously, "Lord Yao, come and see, these feet are intact from the calf down, and judging from the position dug out of these feet, Fang Shihong should have been half-buried in the soil vertically, which is why the feet are intact after a round of artillery, and then look at the wound that was blown up, more than half of them are charred, and a small part has no traces of being burned at all, it should be that the crater from the Hongyi cannon is just to the calf, Then the crater happened to be buried by the soil blasted out by the shells behind, so we only searched around the big crater, and we didn't find the slightest trace of this Fang Gongzi. ”

Yao Shun said: "In this way, that group of people tied up Fang Shihong but did not kill him, but buried here and was blown up alive?" ”

"It seems that this is the case at this point."

Previously, Fang Shihong and Furong's case first arrived in Shuntian Mansion, and then it was transferred to Dali Temple, so Yao Shun knew that case in detail, if anyone in the capital had such a deep hatred with Fang Shihong, and dared to retaliate against him, it was only Zhang Zhiji.

Thinking of the situation when the Beijing camp performed martial arts, the British Gongben and Fang Shoufu had a big fight, but they desperately gave the lottery to Fang Shoufu, so that the case was basically clear, but Yao Shun had no evidence except for speculation, if he wanted to convict a dignified public with only these, it would be whimsical.

"Lao Li, you can take these broken feet and check them." , Yao Shun said to the servant.

Lao Li picked up the pair of broken feet and looked left and right: "My lord, what else is there to check this pair of broken feet?" ”

"Don't you need to check the identity of the deceased, the time of death, and the cause of death?"

He had already heard what the two of them said, so he said, "My lord, isn't this already obvious?" The deceased, Fang Shihong, time of death, two days ago, cause of death, was killed by Hongyi cannon. ”

Seeing that he was like that, Yao Shun said: "Do you want my lord and me to write the conclusion on the paperwork that is all based on guesswork?" ”

Seeing that Master Yao, who was looking submissive in front of Fang Shoufu, he looked fierce and vicious, and hurriedly ran away with his severed feet.

Then Yao Shun said to a group of officials: "You continue to dig, find all the parts that can be found and wrap them up, and after returning to the city, the official will go to Fang's mansion, so I can leave something for Lord Fang to think about." ”

The things in the hands of these officials were not in their hands, and since the clues had been found, and then let them dig up, they were even more reluctant to do things, and they slowly dug for several hours, but they didn't find much, thinking that they were bombarded into slag in that artillery fire.

Yao Shun saw that digging no longer had much effect, so he led a group of people down the mountain and back to the city.