The morgue of Dali Temple will basically stop the corpse every three or five days, and over time, the house leaves an indescribable smell of corpses, saying that it stinks or not, but the first time people come here, smell this, they will definitely want to vomit out all the internal organs.

Gu Jiong was very familiar with Dali Temple, and walked in directly, Zhao Hanzhuo still wanted to cover his mouth and nose with his sleeves, but he walked in directly with a swagger.

Zhao Xi took the first step back and carried Zhao Xi here to standby, Zhao Xi was still thinking that someone was so arrogant that he couldn't believe his autopsy conclusion, and he had to come and see it himself, but when he saw Gu Zhi's face approaching without changing color, he suddenly tensed his body.

Judging from his experience in just a few years of work, this person in front of him is definitely his natural enemy!

Under Zhao Xi's strong attention, Gu Zhi walked to the door of the morgue, raised his hand and lifted the curtain, the stronger smell of corpses in the room came out, Gu Zhi stopped, and looked back at Zhao Hanzhuo: "Has it been renovated here?" ”

"When I first took office 10 years ago, it was renovated, and the layout didn't move, just whitewashed and dusted."

"Before, the wall tiles here were specially left with exhaust holes, there will be no such smell in the house, if you don't want to be smoked to death, let them scrape the ashes in a few days!"

Gu Zhi ordered coldly, not treating himself as a suspect at all.

Zhao Hanzhuo was stunned, the renovation was done by someone from the Internal Affairs Office, and he didn't know about it, but the morgue became like it is now, and he also had a responsibility that he couldn't shirk.

"Okay, I'll pay attention to it later."

Zhao Hanzhuo calmly admitted his mistake and took responsibility, Zhao Xi's eyes widened in disdain, and when he saw that Gu Ji had opened the curtain and had already walked into the room, he hurriedly followed up.

In addition to the corpses of the four members of the blacksmith family, the body of the mother-in-law in the Hou Mansion was also parked in the house, Gu Ji only glanced at the corpse of the mother-in-law and said, "Why is there one more?" ”

Dali Temple generally receives major homicides, and the bodies of different cases cannot be parked in one room, which is the rule.

Zhao Xi hugged his arms thoughtfully: "You haven't been to the scene of the murder, how do you know that the body is superfluous?" ”

When ordinary people mention this murder, they will only say that the blacksmith's family of four was wiped out, this woman is quite old, and she may be the blacksmith's mother, but the young and beautiful continuation of the string seems incompatible with the blacksmith's family.

Zhao Xi is raising the bar, Gu Bing lifted his eyes and glanced at him, the remaining eye refracted a dark and sharp cold light, seeing that Zhao Xi's scalp was numb, and seeing that he couldn't hold on, Gu Bing looked away, raised his hand and pointed to the sole of the woman's shoes.

"Her shoes are half-new, there is no mud on the soles, and the wear is relatively small, it can be seen that life is relatively good, and the four corpses next to her, no matter how old or young, the soles are very worn, so naturally she is not a family."

The basis for this judgment is actually very simple, but if it weren't for people with very rich experience in handling cases, they wouldn't have diverged so much through this detail.

Gu Zhi said reasonably, Zhao Xi had no way to refute it, only held his breath and looked at Gu Jiong, Gu Ji didn't bother with the origin of the mother-in-law, and walked to the side to carefully examine the four corpses.

The corpse had been stitched up by Zhao Xi, but the face was still in a state of staring, his eyes were staring at him, refusing to close, and there was a crooked black suture around his neck.

"You sewed this?"

Gu Zhi looked at Zhao Xi and asked, Zhao Xi nodded hesitantly with his neck stiffened, thinking that if Gu Zhi dared to say that he didn't sew well, he would pounce on him and fight him.

However, to Zhao Xi's surprise, Gu Zhi praised him very pertinently: "The sewing is good." ”

“……”

Does he want to admit that he was actually happy to hear such a compliment?

After a moment of happiness, Zhao Xi's whole person fell into deep self-doubt again, why did he feel happy because of the praise of a suspect who might be the murderer?

Gu Ji didn't know how rich Zhao Xi's mental activity was, so he leaned over and carefully observed the sutures on the necks of the four corpses.

The stitches are fine and flat, indicating that the wound is also very smooth, and it should have been cut off with a sharp weapon.

As long as people live, they must struggle, no matter how fast the murderer moves, the incision cannot be so neat and neat, as if he was being lined up to die.

Then there are only two possibilities, first, the family of four was stunned at the time, and then the murderer put them on the ground and cut off their heads one by one, but the zombie caused by the death of these corpses shows that they were in different states at that time, so there is only the second possibility.

The family of four should have been awake at the time, but they couldn't move, or they didn't dare to move, so they could only be at the mercy of the murderer, and then die at the hands of the murderer.

"Is there any signs of poisoning in this family?"

Gu Zhi asked, Zhao Xi frowned a little dissatisfied, and was about to question Gu Jiong's qualifications, but was glared at by Zhao Hanzhuo, so he had to answer honestly: "I tried it with a silver needle, and there was no poisoning." ”

"Then do they have hidden weapons like silver needles on their bodies?" As he asked, Gu Ji raised his hand to unbutton the blacksmith's son's clothes, and as soon as he unbuttoned two buttons, he had already seen a small needle eye on the child's corpse-spotted shoulder.

The eye of the needle is really insignificant, even if ordinary people look for it carefully three times, I am afraid it will be difficult to find, but in Gu Jiong's eyes, it is very eye-catching.

"Nope!"

Zhao Xi replied categorically, and Gu Zhi pressed it on the child's shoulder, confirming that the muscle was slightly different from the rest because of the coagulated dead blood.

"Really?"

Gu Zhi raised his voice slightly, Zhao Xi opened his mouth, and suddenly his heart was weak and he didn't dare to respond, although he talked a lot, but in terms of doing autopsies, he has always been serious and careful, and he has never made any omissions, at this time, he was questioned twice by Gu Jiong, he didn't dare to be sure, this has never happened before!

"What the hell are you trying to say?"

Zhao Xi was angry and raised his voice to hide his weakness.

Gu Wei pursed his lips and lost his voice, pressed it on the wrist guard of his left hand, only to hear a small 'click', and a burst of silver needles slowly appeared on the child's shoulder.

"It's ......"

Zhao Xi was dumbfounded, Gu Ji took out the needle and handed it to him: "Check the other three corpses again, and wait until you find out what hidden weapons are hidden on their bodies before leaving this door." ”

Gu Zhi's voice was a little stern, he was actually very similar to Zhao Hanzhuo in handling cases, he had an extraordinary dedication to the truth, there was no room for sand in his eyes, and he did not allow the slightest omission.

Zhao Xi's face flushed, his self-esteem was so bruised for the first time, but he couldn't help but ask Gu Jiong: "What's the mystery in your bracer?" I've obviously examined it very carefully before, how could there suddenly be more silver needles in these corpses? ”

When the words fell, Gu Ji raised his hand to take off the bracer and threw it to Zhao Xi, Zhao Xi took it apart and found that Gu Ji had installed a circle of magnets in the bracers, the magnets were very clever, and only when the mechanism was turned on, it would take effect, and the silver needle in the child's body just now was sucked out in this way.

Zhao Xi was still skeptical, but when he saw this magnet, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he looked at Gu Ji happily: "How did you come up with this method?" It's just wonderful! ”

Gu Zhi replied lightly: "I made it for fun when I was three years old." ”

“……”

Zhao Xi looked at Zhao Hanzhuo silently: "My lord, can I beat him?" ”

"No, do what you have to do!"

Zhao Hanzhuo ruthlessly refused, left with Gu Zhi, and went to the room where he usually worked.

"What did you just find?"

Zhao Hanzhuo asked, closing the door, Gu Zhi has not completely cleared the suspicion, and he is obviously not in line with the rules by bringing Gu Zhi here now.

Gu Bing didn't speak, walked to the table, spread out the rice paper, and directly picked up the pen and ink.

A few strokes fell, and the blacksmith's rugged face jumped on the paper, Zhao Hanzhuo was a little surprised, but he didn't expect Gu Zhi to draw a good hand, and a few strokes highlighted the blacksmith's charm to the fullest.

Zhao Hanzhuo didn't bother Gu Jiong, seeing that the ink was not enough, he also helped him study the ink for a while.

Gu Bing drew the portraits of the four members of the blacksmith's family and the mother-in-law of the Hou Mansion, and then circled the blacksmith's wife.

The blacksmith's wife is very beautiful, and this beauty is not very obvious in the dead man, but it is very obvious in Gu Jiong's pen.

In his pen, the blacksmith's wife has raised eyes, shiny eyes, thin lips slightly hooked, and is looking at the person outside the painting with a smile, but a bewitching aura arises spontaneously.

"You painted her as a dusty woman."

Zhao Hanzhuo reminded that he has always paid attention to evidence in judging cases, and will not judge a person's identity and industry because of subjective assumptions.

"There is a rouge smell on her, you haven't been to Hualou Xiaoqi, and it's normal that you haven't smelled that smell."

Gu Ji said lightly, in fact, the rouge was already very light, but he was a well-known dog nose, so he still smelled it.

"You can be sure she's a dusty woman just by that taste?"

Zhao Hanzhuo couldn't agree, such a judgment was too hasty.

"The blacksmith is a mute, even if he usually doesn't work very eye-catching, but how can he marry a young and beautiful wife impress the neighbors, when you go to check, does there a person have any special impression of the blacksmith and his wife?"

Gu Jiong's question stopped Zhao Hanzhuo, he also felt that this was abnormal before, but he hadn't figured out what the problem was, but now Gu Jiong gave an explanation.

In Yuanzhao, it is considered that it is not a good thing for a woman to marry well, and she will not hold a wedding, but will be secretly carried into her husband's house that night, and after marrying into her husband's family, she will be bound by stricter etiquette than ordinary women.

After the woman is good, she is not allowed to show her face during the day, and if she wants to take on any work, she can only let people help introduce her or go out at night, and she has no freedom than a widow.

Although the blacksmith had married a beautiful young wife, no one else knew much about it, only the widow who lived next door to him and the few masters who assigned them work, so it was only reasonable that the blacksmith's house had a wife that no one knew about.

Most of the women in Fengchen were abducted and sold into Hualou, and their net worth has long been a thing of the past, and Jing Zhaoyin naturally will not have household registration information.

Two people of unknown origin got married, is it really just because of fate?

Zhao Hanzhuo didn't believe it, Gu Ji picked up the pen and clicked two points on the blacksmith's wife's ear.

"She has a mole on her ear? Why didn't I see it? ”

"It's not a mole, it's a scar." Gu Ji corrected and looked up at Zhao Hanzhuo: "The boss behind the Lanyue Pavilion was An Wuwu, I heard that the people who entered the Lanyue Pavilion had to leave a unique mark on their ears, even if they were ransomed and left in the future, this mark could only be cut off, not destroyed." ”

The people up and down the Lanyue Pavilion have long since died, and others have no way of knowing this kind of secret, Gu Jiong and An Wuwu had only heard this news because they had a half-alliance relationship.

Zhao Hanzhuo didn't speak, he looked at Gu Ji fixedly, Gu Ji looked at him, and put down the pen after a while: "What, do you think I'm talking nonsense?" ”

"The informant found a silver mask in the blacksmith's shop, which I have seen, and it bears the imprint of the Ministry of Internal Affairs."

"Having the seal of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on it only means that the mask was made by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, not that the person wearing the mask at that time was me."

Gu Zhi replied very quickly, he was wearing the silver mask on his face, one eye was empty, and the rest of the eye was deep and dark, making it impossible to see the bottom.

"Gu Jiong, you have the secret method of solving the case inherited by the Gu family, I know that if you are the murderer, you can definitely make this case seamless."

Just like the game he did at the beginning, he calculated Yuan Zhao and Hu Ren and even the An family, whether he defected halfway or not, for him, the final result did not have a great impact.

"I'll just ask you now, is it you who is the real culprit behind the scenes?"

Zhao Hanzhuo asked bluntly, and after reading all Gu Jiong's reactions just now, Zhao Hanzhuo knew that if Gu Jiong was the murderer, there was no need to investigate this case at all, and everyone would only be led by Gu Jiong's nose to run.

So he asked Gu Ji for the most direct answer with the most honest attitude.

"Didn't you believe me when I said it?"

"I believe it!"

"I'm not."

Gu Zhi said firmly, Zhao Hanzhuo stared at him, and after a while, he looked away: "Since the person wearing the mask that night was not you, it should be someone who deliberately threw the mask at the scene of the crime and put the charge on your head, can you roughly guess who it is?" ”

"In Yuanzhao, I have offended countless people, but ...... There are not many people who can work together with the Ministry of Internal Affairs. ”

Gu Zhi touched the empty eye socket and said, a calculating cold light flashed in his eyes, and at a glance, he had already thought of something, Zhao Hanzhuo was about to ask, Gu Zhi changed the topic: "That person led me to Feiying Mountain, there are some interesting things in the village, and they should be shipped back soon." ”

Gu Bing was talking about the corpses in the coffin of Feiying Village.

The corpses were all buried alive, the death was hideous, and the time of death was generally four or five years, just when the Anjia rebellion was suppressed, most of the people in the coffin were officials who were implicated and belittled and exiled because of the Anjia rebellion, and the wives and children of these officials were buried alive in the coffin.

Zhao Hanzhuo swept over the dried corpses one by one, and vaguely remembered the scene when he was in the same dynasty with those people, they didn't do their best for Yuanzhao, and even betrayed the king, the Son of Heaven was benevolent and didn't want their lives, but they still died in their wolf ambitions.

"Although these people are exiled, they are still officials of the imperial court, why has no one reported to the imperial court?"

Zhao Hanzhuo asked, Gu Ji shrugged calmly: "How can I know about this kind of thing?" ”

Since no one reported it to the imperial court, it means that something must have gone wrong.

Zhao Hanzhuo was faintly uneasy, could it be that the rebellion of the An family would be staged again?

Gu Jiong is not as worried about the country and the people as Zhao Hanzhuo, worried that the overall situation will be chaotic, looking at these dried corpses and asking, "Don't you think there is one person missing here?" ”

Missing people?

Zhao Hanzhuo was shocked, and carefully identified these dried corpses again.

The holy decree that was derogatory at the beginning was basically conveyed by him, and the exiled officials were also personally sent out of Beijing by him.

"Su Shangshu was reprimanded and exiled because Su Guifei was implicated in the incident, which is different from the nature of others."

"Different in nature? How do you know that he was not involved in the Anjia rebellion? Gu Jiong asked rhetorically, Zhao Hanzhuo wanted to refute, and his eyes widened suddenly: "You even colluded with Su Shangshu?" ”

Because he was too shocked, Zhao Hanzhuo used the word collusion, Gu Bing was not angry, hooked his lips and smiled: "The misappropriation of military salaries and private weapons is a big deal, if all aspects of the DPRK and the Central Committee are not taken care of, they will fall short, as a dynasty scholar, how can he not even know the slightest rumor?" ”

Yes, at the beginning of the Anjia rebellion, most of the ministers of the court and the central government were involved, and the court was so corrupt that with Su Liangxing's official position, it was impossible not to feel it at all.

"This old fox is too cunning, he guards the poor backbone of the literati and refuses to help the Hu people, but he is greedy for the glory and power at his fingertips, it seems to be a hard bone, but in fact it is the easiest to handle."

"What did you promise him in the first place?"

Zhao Hanzhuo asked, although he knew that many years had passed since the An family's rebellion, he still couldn't help but be angry when he heard the inside story behind it.

The evil aura on Gu Jiong's body came out again, making people itch their teeth, but he didn't feel it at all, and said with a faint smile: "It's just an ethereal posterior, so he has to open one eye and close one eye to watch from the wall." He said it so easily, as if everyone was pitiful and ridiculous in his eyes.

The back position in his mouth is naturally for Su Bangyue, Su Liangxing is already a scholar, and when Su Bangyue's mother becomes the queen with her son, he can naturally take a step closer, even if he can't become the prime minister, then he is also the national abbot, what do you want?

It's a pity that Su Bangyue didn't know what Su Liangxing's idea was, because she was jealous of Su Li, she buried her supreme grace and future in vain.

"Su Liangxing is also dead! When he died of illness on the way to exile, that was what Gu Yuanfeng, the prime minister of the dynasty, saw with his own eyes! ”

Zhao Hanzhuo raised his voice slightly, he and Gu Yuanfeng came all the way from the Anjia Rebellion to the War of the Undead, even if everyone rebelled and did a fine work, Zhao Hanzhuo didn't believe that Gu Yuanfeng would become a fine work.

"Although Su Liangxing is dead, the two sons under his knees are not only alive, but they have also been recalled to Beijing and reinstated as officials, doesn't Lord Zhao feel strange when he thinks about it now?"

Gu Jiong called him Lord Zhao for the first time, Zhao Hanzhuo was speechless, and he didn't know what else to say for a while.

At the beginning, those officials who were exiled were almost wiped out, but only the second son of the Su family survived and returned to the court to be entrusted with important tasks.

In front of this corpse, this is unreasonable, Zhao Hanzhuo was already a little shaken, and Gu Bing added: "If I remember correctly, the current head of the Internal Affairs Office seems to have been elected by Su Qing, the waiter of the Ministry of Works, the year before last." ”

Su Qing is Su Liangxing's eldest son and Su Li's eldest brother.

……

Over there, Gu Zhi and Zhao Hanzhuo were discussing the case enthusiastically, but they said that Chu Huai'an came out of Gu's house, but he rushed all the way back to the Hou Mansion.

He understood Su Li's temperament, and his heart was not very stable, afraid that she would not be able to wait to quietly follow out of the city.

Hurriedly roaring back to the Hou Mansion, Chu Huai'an went straight to his courtyard, and as soon as he entered, he was dazzled by the two big red lanterns in the courtyard.

Qibao stood at the gate of the courtyard and looked at him in surprise: "Master Hou, are you ...... Why did you come back so soon? ”

"Where's Madame?"

"Madame...... Madame bathed in the room. ”

“……”

Bath? In the case that Yue Yan and Gu Jiong's life and death were unknown, she didn't run out of the door disobediently, and she still had leisure to bathe?

Chu Huai'an felt that there might be something wrong with his ears.

After serving for so long, Qibao also knew what kind of ruthless person his Hou Ye was, and at this time, he was afraid that he would eat his wife until he had no bones left, and he was about to make up a reason for Chu Huai'an to leave, but Su Li's voice came from the house: "Qibao, is Hou Ye back?" ”

"Huh? Be...... Be! ”

"Let Master Hou come in, Qibao, you go to the gate of the courtyard to guard, if Yue'er and Guagua are crying, they will be sent to their mother."

Su Li commanded softly, with a smile in her voice, inexplicably the bones of the person, this time Qibao doubted his ears, and Mrs. actually let the Hou Ye in at this time! Isn't she afraid of Master Hou?

Chu Huai'an had never received such treatment, but he reacted quickly.

The meat in the mouth of the daughter-in-law who married home, no matter how many tricks there are, don't you still eat it!

Chu Huai'an strode forward, pushed the door into the house, and when he heard the sound of the door closing, Qibao shuddered, and hurriedly trotted to the gate of the courtyard to guard.

Chu Huai'an went directly into the ear room, the ear room was hot, and there was a faint fragrance of flowers, Su Li soaked in a petal bath, but there was no one in the bath bucket.

Chu Huai'an walked over, reached out and fished out a handful of petals from the bucket and put them on the tip of his nose to sniff lightly, and the next moment, a soft body was attached to his back.

He was wearing thin clothes, and he felt the steaming heat all of a sudden.

"Sister Yan is okay, right?"

"It's fine."

He replied, his voice hoarse, but he was moved in an instant.

"I heard something today, I want to ask you, you have to think about it before answering, or ......"

"Hmm." Chu Huai'an snorted, sweat soaked from his forehead, and he urged in a dumb voice: "You ask." ”

At this time, don't talk about a few questions, even if she wants his life, he will give it without saying a word.

"How many times have you been assassinated in the more than a year that I went to Hudi with Kutar?"

“…… How do you know ......"

Su Li took a bite on Chu Huai'an's shoulder: "You don't care how I know, answer my question!" ”

"Not a few times."

"How many times, how many times?"

After Su Li asked, the world swirled for a while, and the whole person fell into Chu Huai'an's arms, and when he saw the thin veil on her body, his eyes burned red all of a sudden: "If you want to know the answer, just count it yourself!" ”

“……”