The old tailor didn't know where he offended this old man Ding, so he had to apologize resignedly, but fortunately, Brother Xun interjected at this time: "Old Ding, he doesn't know about your family, why bother to lose his temper with him!" ”

Because of Brother Xun's soothing cheeks, Master Ding waved his hand and said to the old tailor: "Go down!" Then he asked Brother Xun, "Who is this gentleman?" ”

"This is the master I invited for you, Mr. Tang, who knows Western reasoning, I believe he will be able to help Brother Ding solve this case." Brother Xun helped to introduce.

Although he didn't know Tang Ning, for the sake of Brother Xun's face, Master Ding still said politely: "Then there is Mr. Lao Tang." ”

After learning about the case, Tang Ning felt a little headache, because there were too few clues in this case, only that Mrs. Ding had been missing for more than a week, and now only the head was found in the river, and the rest was still nowhere to be found, so how could Tang Ning solve it?

Looking at Tang Ning's embarrassed look, Master Ding didn't know him originally, but he asked him to give it a try just for the sake of Brother Xun's face, so he was a little dissatisfied, so he asked Tang Ning in a somewhat unkind tone: "Mr. Tang, what do you say this case should do next?" ”

"We'll have to continue to investigate this, but I'm sure we'll have a clue soon." Tang Ning replied stubbornly.

Hearing Tang Ning's perfunctory words, Master Ding was even more disdainful in his heart, but just when he was about to ridicule Tang Ning for a few words, the housekeeper Lao Xu suddenly rushed in and said excitedly: "Master, master, the body has been found!" ”

"Corpses? Whose corpse? Master Ding asked puzzled.

"Madame's corpse!" Lao Xu replied of course.

"Madame's corpse? Where, and where was it found? Master Ding asked in surprise.

"Isn't this an old Zhang who delivers vegetables to our family all the year round, just now when I was unloading the car, I found a quilt roll in the vegetable pile, and when I opened it, I saw that it was the headless body of Mrs. Lao Xu explained.

"How can you be sure it's Madame's body?" Brother Xun on the side interjected and asked.

"Because the clothes and shoes are all Mrs.'s, and the figure looks similar, and the most important thing is that there is no head, so we think this should be Mrs.'s corpse!" But in the end, Lao Xu finally reacted and said to Master Ding: "But you have to go and see it yourself, master, to be sure." ”

Master Ding couldn't wait for a long time: "Then don't take me there quickly." ”

Everyone walked quickly to the courtyard, looked at the people who were holding them down, and shouted to themselves, "This has nothing to do with me!" Lao Zhang, a vegetable farmer, and the headless female corpse in a roll of quilts on the ground.

As soon as Master Ding saw his body and hat, tears flowed, but fortunately, he could still control his emotions, so he shouted: "You all turn your heads, if anyone dares to peek, I will break his dog's legs!" ”

Everyone understood that Master Ding was going to check the hidden parts of the corpse, which was the secret of other husbands and wives, so it was naturally inconvenient to peek, so they all immediately turned their heads and closed their eyes.

Within two minutes, I heard Master Ding's heart-rending shout: "Xiujuan, you, why did you leave like this!" ”

Obviously, this corpse really belonged to Mrs. Ding, so Lao Xu and Brother Xun hurriedly stepped forward to comfort Master Ding. After a while, after Master Ding's mood stabilized, he grabbed Tang Ning's hand and said, "Mr. Tang, you are really like a god!" You said that there would be a clue soon, but you didn't expect that as soon as you finished saying this, the clue really came! ”

In fact, not only Master Ding, but even the housekeepers Lao Xu and Brother Xun looked at Tang Ning in amazement, but Tang Ning complained in his heart, how can I be like a god? I was purely lucky, but I couldn't dismantle my own stage at this time, so I pretended to be a master and said: "Since we have Madame's body, then I suggest that we should call the police quickly and hand over the cause of Madame's death to the forensic doctor, so that we can continue to investigate." ”

Unexpectedly, Master Ding stopped: "This is not good, my wife is already so miserable, I can't let her body be cut into pieces again, and the forensic doctor must be a woman." ”

Tang Ning said in his heart, it would be good to find a qualified forensic doctor in this era, do you still expect me to find Nie Baoyan and Zhong Xuexin for you?

Master Dante ignored this, but instructed the butler: "Old Xu, go, call me the tailor just now!" ”

Lao Xu didn't react for a while, and asked with some confusion: "Master, why are you still looking for him?" ”

Master Ding said angrily: "What are you looking for him?" Find him to make a shroud, won't the lady's body be recovered! Oh, find a good shoemaker! Sew up the body and head of the lady! ”

Why do you have to find a shoemaker to sew a corpse? Because at that time, this was the job of a shoemaker, and there were several shoemakers in charge of this business at the entrance of the vegetable market in Xuanwumen, and as soon as the head was beheaded, then the family members brought the head and the body to the shoemaker to stitch it together for burial, after all, even if it is a criminal, it can't let people die without a corpse.

The shoemaker's business is easy, but the old tailor is a little puzzled, hasn't this just been discussed? Why did you call me back just a few minutes after you went out?

Just when the old tailor was puzzled, Master Ding instructed: "That is the matter of calling you over or cutting a shroud for his wife!" ”

"I know this, isn't it the hat of the sea dragon!" The old tailor replied inexplicably.

"This time I don't need a hat, I want the clothes on my body, I want everything but satin, the better, the better!" Master Ding said angrily.

This request made the old tailor a little confused, because this was the first time he had met to make a shroud and he had discussed it twice, and this was not a poor family? So he cautiously asked, "Do you want the hat?" ”

"Why not? Must have a sea dragon! ”

"That clothes also need sea dragons?"

"What are you kidding?! Can you ask for a sea dragon? It's all said that silk and satin are all in addition to satin! ”

PS: It is the place where the Ming and Qing dynasties specially executed criminals, and now even the housing prices there are more than 100,000 square meters, and I don't know if the harm of living there is not afraid, and how many souls are there. There is also the Hufang Bridge, which is the direction that the prisoner must face before he dies, which means that he is sent into the tiger's mouth.

PS2: A friend explained that the family members are not allowed to take back the corpse of the canonical punishment, yes, it is not allowed to take it, but as a family member, especially children, you can rob it, and no one will punish you for this, because this belongs to filial piety, which is in line with the concept of governing the country with filial piety at that time, so it is an unspoken rule.