Meng Tianchu went to the cell again to see Xi Xuan, this time Xi Xuan didn't do anything, just lay on the bed, lying upright like a dried corpse, until Meng Tianchu walked into the room with Xiaonuo and Slaying Dragon.

Xi picked up the smell again, he straightened up, this time he knew that it was not his hallucination, but the smell emanating from this stunning woman who he had fallen in love with at first sight, and in his nearly twenty years of memory, this was his favorite smell.

This is the taste of mother, but not the mother of the Xi family in the walled village, but her own biological mother, the graceful and picturesque woman, the woman who always likes to hold herself in her arms and whisper to herself to give herself osmanthus candy to eat, the gentle and beautiful woman whose eyes are like crescents when she smiles.

Xi Zhu's heart hurt when he thought of this.

Meng Tianchu: "I have something to ask you. ”

Xi picked up and walked to Meng Tianchu's side and knelt down and kowtowed, Meng Tianchu: "Get up." ”

Xi pick-up: "No, my lord, the grass people still kneel and talk, anyway, it's all the same." In fact, what he wanted was to be closer to Xiaonuo, or closer to this long-lost fragrance.

Meng Tianchu: "Okay, I think of something, do you remember when you found out that your mother and your two sisters were dead?" ”

Xi pick-up: "To be precise, it wasn't me who found it, it was the person next door who found it." ”

Meng Tianchu: "Where were you at that time?" ”

Xi pick-up: "I said that although I was at home at that time, I was already an adult and did not live with my mother and two younger sisters, and the eldest sister lived in Xi's mansion at that time. Mother and little sister live together. ”

Meng Tianchu: "I've seen that the area of your house is not very large, if something happens to them, there is no reason why you can't hear it?" ”

Xi picked up a wry smile and said, "Actually, I also think it's very strange. I really didn't hear anything. ”

Meng Tianchu: "You said that your eldest sister lives in Xi's Mansion, why did she go home that day?" ”

Xi pick-up: "I don't know, anyway, my eldest sister didn't come home when I slept, and later I learned that she was dead, and I knew that she had gone home." ”

Meng Tianchu: "Judging from the dossier. You wrote in your testimony that when you woke up, you found that you were sleeping in the same bed as your eldest sister, is there such a thing? ”

Xi picked up and thought about it. "Yes, but I really..."

Meng Tianchu: "I found out that your eldest sister was pregnant, and found that you were all disheveled, why did you do at this time?" ”

Xi picked up a little angry, his voice was a little louder, and said: "My lord, even if I am no longer human, I will not have an affair with my own eldest sister, that is intolerable, I said it." I don't know how I ended up sleeping in the same bed with my eldest sister. I really don't know. ”

Meng Tianchu: "Don't worry, as a party to you, it's natural for me to ask you." ”

Xi picked up his breath and stopped talking.

Meng Tianchu: "The mourning hall was set up in your house the next day, right?" ”

Xi nodded his head.

Meng Tianchu: "Do you still have an impression of how to start a fire?" ”

Xi pick-up: "Master Meng, why are you still asking, didn't I tell you all last time?" ”

Xiaonuo: "Xi pick-up, the adult naturally has his reason for asking, don't you want to settle your grievances?" Then you shouldn't be so impetuous. ”

Xi picked up and looked at Xiaonuo's skirt. Suddenly, it was as if I was hallucinating. Bluestone slabs, rainy mornings. A huge mansion, a five or six-year-old child on the cloister laughed and played with a maid, a jar in his hand accidentally fell to the ground, the jar opened, and the gnats inside came out and jumped a few times and disappeared, the child kicked at the maid, the maid ouched, and the child angrily channeled: "What are you yelling about, that is, to kill you, you can't afford to pay me for the iron general I spent five taels of silver to buy back."

A soft voice came from behind him, and the child turned around and smiled, rushed forward, and shouted, "Mother! ”

"Jiong'er, isn't it just a grasshopper? How can you say such hurtful words, you are a man, beware of being broad-minded, how can you be so impetuous? ”

Meng Tianchu knelt there in a daze, and said, "Xi picked up and asked you something." ”

Xi Shu came back to his senses, peeked at the skirt again, and then said: "My lord, I was guarding the spirit in the mourning hall that day, and I originally called the people from the government to come to see the village that day, and I was also going to be taken away by the people of the county government on the same day, but then the old lady Xi of the Xi Mansion said that my mother and my two sisters were the only ones left with me, and I would wait for them to be buried." The county officials handcuffed me hand and foot, fearing that I would escape. ”

Meng Tianchu: "They saw the scene at that time and immediately decided to arrest you back?" ”

Xi pick-up: "Yes, because when I woke up, the neighbor's landlord had already broken into the door and saw me sleeping with my eldest sister, and I was still holding a bloodstained scythe in my hand, so I just..."

Meng Tianchu: "Why did the neighbor's family break in? ”

Xi picked: "I said that I heard screams in the house in the middle of the night, and I shouldn't knock on the door after dawn, so I broke down the door for fear that something would happen." ”

Meng Tianchu knew that Xi's neighbors had moved away, and no one knew where they had moved, it seemed that the murderer not only wanted to destroy the corpse, but also send the witnesses far away, so that you, the prefect of Hangzhou, would rack your brains and not want to know the truth.

Meng Tianchu: "Then you were handcuffed by the people of the county government, why did you have nothing to do when the mourning hall caught fire?" ”

Xi Zhu thought for a while and said, "Probably my mother blessed me in heaven and didn't let me die, it happened that day, I was out of the mourning hall for a small relief, and the mourning hall suddenly caught fire, so I didn't have anything to do." ”

Meng Tianchu: "I heard that when you went to Xi's house, your biological parents were both from scholarly families, and their family backgrounds were not bad, don't you remember them at all?" ”

Xi shook his head indifferently and said, "I don't remember." ”

Noon on the third day.

Chai Meng brought a message to Meng Tianchu, according to Meng Tianchu's predetermined plan, Chai Meng has been secretly monitoring Wu Min, so that when Lao He Tou has nothing to do, he chats with Wu Min and talks nonsense, which is naturally not some sensitive topic. In addition, Lao He Tou gave Wu Min some small things from time to time, drank wine with him, and ate some side dishes, so Wu Min gradually eliminated the mustard for Lao He Tou. The relationship between the two was much better, but Chai Meng found that Wu Min was very cunning, and he didn't say anything in front of Lao Hetou, and he didn't even mention the walled village, what he said was something that had nothing to do with the walled village and himself. To put it bluntly, the more he is like this. Chai Meng felt that there was something wrong with this person, and sure enough, just last night, Chai Meng saw that Wu Min and Lao He Tou were drinking in their own room first, and after knocking on the second watch, Lao He Tou was drunk and drunk, Chai Meng thought that Wu Min would also sleep, who would have thought, after Wu Min sent Lao He Tou into the room, he did not return to the room. Instead, he turned and walked out the door.

Meng Tianchu was lying on a tiger skin recliner. The temperature in the room was just right, and it was very pleasant.

A few pots of daffodils on the windowsill have been opened, exuding bursts of fragrance, Meng Tianchu is holding an idle book to read, Xiaonuo is sitting in front of the desk not far away to draw, and the maids are also tiptoeing in and out, and the room is very quiet.

Chai Meng came in. Come in and get a chill. Meng Tianchu couldn't help but shudder, and squinted at Xiao Nuo. Seeing that she didn't even raise her head, she looked very serious.

Meng Tianchu put down the book, picked up the tea bowl and took a sip, the maid on the side brought a plate of snacks, Meng Tianchu waved his hand, the maid retreated, Chai Meng walked to Meng Tianchu's side, and whispered: "Wu Min last night..."

Meng Tianchu coughed twice, motioned for all the maids to retreat, and after the door was closed, he said to Xiaonuo: "Either Chai Meng and I go to my study to talk, or it won't affect you." ”

Xiaonuo: "Don't get in the way, you say yours, I'll draw mine, don't go out, it's snowing outside, walk from me to your study, you two have already become snowmen." ”

Meng Tianchu smiled and said, "If you don't paint well for a while, don't blame me and Chai Meng for arguing with you." ”

Xiao Nuo raised his eyes and smiled, "I'm not as boring as you." ”

Meng Tianchu motioned for Chai Meng to sit down, and Xiao Nuo said, "Chai Meng, how are you preparing for your marriage?" ”

Chai Meng hurriedly got up and replied respectfully: "Back to the sixth lady, there are a few ladies who help with it, and it's almost there." ”

Xiaonuo: "Is it three days later?" ”

Chai Meng nodded and said, "Exactly." ”

Xiaonuo: "Okay, I'll just ask, you said your land, I won't intervene." ”

Chai Meng sat down and whispered to Meng Tianchu: "I followed this carpenter for three days, and he finally made a move last night." ”

Meng Tianchu: "Well, you say." ”

Chai Meng: "Last night he went out from the west gate of Fuzhong in the second watch, I kept following, I saw him go out and went west, about less than an hour, when he arrived at a shop, only knocked on the door three times and opened, and then he went in, I went up to the roof of the shop, and saw that he actually went to a woman's house, the woman was about the same age as Wu Min, and the lights went out as soon as Wu Min entered the house. ”

Meng Tianchu smiled and said, "It's some dirty things again, don't say it, is there anything else?" ”

Chai Meng: "I thought the same way before, and I was about to leave, when I suddenly heard Wu Min speak, and I felt that something was wrong when he spoke." ”

Meng Tianchu: "What did he say?" ”

Chai Meng: "What he said I was in the clouds, I don't know what it means, what to say, all the people think you are dead, who thinks that you are still alive, living incognito." ”

Meng Tianchu was taken aback when he heard this, and said, "What do you mean?" ”

Chai Meng: "I just don't understand." ”

Meng Tianchu thought for a while and said, "Then, judging from what you observed, is their relationship between men and women those things that are not reconciled?" ”

Chai Meng: "I haven't heard that woman speak, only Wu Min's voice, it should be that kind of relationship." ”

Meng Tianchu: "Who will this person Wu Min say?" ”

Xiao Nuo put down the paintbrush in his hand, walked to Meng Tianchu's side, and said, "A woman in her thirties shouldn't be Xi Pick's two younger sisters. ”

Meng Tianchu: "You reminded me, could it be Xi Xi's mother?" Xiaonuo: "Probably not, I heard Sister Ning'er say that there was an autopsy report at that time, and said that the wounds on the necks of the three people were not made by a murder weapon, so the three of them should be dead." ”

Chai Meng: "Will someone steal the beams and change the pillars?" By the way, it reminds me that the woman only said one word, don't bite my neck. ”

Xiao Nuo snickered. But there was no speech.

Meng Tianchu: "This possibility can't be ruled out, so you waited until Wu Min came out before leaving?" ”

Chai Meng: "No, I waited until the sky was slightly bright, and I came back in advance for fear that people would find out, and when I left, I found that it was a silk village." I also know better about the boss of that house, the fourth lady took Liu Er to measure the clothes a few days ago. ”

Meng Tianchu: "Since Feiyan knows each other, it's easy to do." You call Feiyan, and we'll ask. ”

Chai Meng: "What about Wu Min?" ”

Meng Tianchu: "Don't startle the snake, continue to monitor his every move." ”

Chai Meng went out in response.

After a while, the Swift arrived.

Meng Tianchu: "Are you familiar with the silk village you took Liu Er to last time?" ”

After Feiyan sat down, she said, "I know you very well, almost all of our clothes are made in that house, the craftsmanship is good, and the texture of the satin is also good." ”

Meng Tianchu: "What's the name of that boss?" ”

Feiyan thought for a while and said, "I don't know, we only call Boss Li." What's wrong? ”

Xiaonuo: "Is the clothes that my sister made last time she came to Liu'er ready?" ”

Feiyan snapped her fingers and counted. Said: "You can take it today." ”

Xiaonuo looked at Meng Tianchu and said, "Anyway, I'm idle, or I'll go with my sister to have a look, and by the way, let the boss make a few sets of New Year's clothes for Jin'er and Xue'er." ”

Feiyan smiled and said, "I've already asked them to do it, and the whole family has already asked them to do it." ”

Xiaonuo was surprised and said, "How many people are in the family?" Are they busy? ”

Feiyan: "I said it a month in advance. There are a dozen guys below the boss and there should be no problem. ”

Xiaonuo: "Then Boss Li's business is quite big." It should be very rich. ”

Feiyan: "It should be, or Xiaonuo and I will go with me to see if your ground clothes are suitable, and if they are not suitable, let them change them immediately."

Meng Tianchu: "It's okay, don't stay in the house all day, it's okay to go out for a walk." ”

Xiaonuo: "Tianchu, are you going?" ”

Meng Tianchu waved his hand and said, "I won't join in the fun, by the way, you'd better bring Miss Jian and make her a few clothes, she has worked hard this year." ”

Xiao Nuo naturally understood what Meng Tianchu meant by bringing Jian Ning, nodded, put on his long jacket, pointed to the things on the table, and said, "I haven't finished painting yet, don't move." ”

Meng Tianchu turned his head and said, "Got it, let Liu'er and Chai Meng go with you." ”

Xiaonuo took Feiyan's hand and the two of them went out.

Defu Silk Village

Li Defu is very busy in front of the counter, every year is like this, a few years ago, he almost couldn't even sleep well, although the business is good, but his body is getting worse and worse, these days his wife is also resentful, saying that he can hardly see his own people, even the gift of husband and wife is bright three months ago, but Li Defu has no way, this year is full of wars and famines, if he doesn't save more silver, If one day you really need money to take care of everything, you will know what it means to cry without tears.

Li Defu's subordinates quickly fiddled with the abacus beads, today there are several batches of goods arriving in the cabinet, and there are some regular customers who want to come to get the finished clothes, thinking of this, he can't grow a few more hands, at this moment, a gorgeous carriage stopped at the door of the store, and a guy next to Li Defu shouted: "Yo, it's the fourth lady and the sixth lady of the prefect's house are here, hurry, hurry, hurry, it's so cold outside, hurry into the house to talk." ”

Two guys have already won out of the kung fu of speaking, Li Defu fiddled with the last account and raised his eyes when he was already full of smiles, seeing that four women and one man had already walked in, he quickly put down his brush and walked out of the counter.

"Fourth lady, sixth lady, Defu is polite."

Feiyan led Xiaonuo behind Jian Ning and Liu Er, and Chai Meng walked last.

Feiyan said with a smile: "We just came over to see if the goods that were ordered here in Shopkeeper Li a few years ago can be obtained on time, and in addition, Liu Er will be married in three days in the clothes customized in your store, so we can't delay." ”

Li Defu smiled. The flesh of the double chin shook and trembled, like a Maitreya Buddha, which was very amiable.

"What the fourth lady said is that Defu didn't dare to delay the words set by the fourth lady, don't you say? It's so cold. A few of them still went into the inner room to roast the fire, and the younger ones asked the guys to bring you the finished clothes. ”

Xiaonuo looked around and said, "Shopkeeper Li, you are so busy, why doesn't your wife come out to help you?" ”

Li Defu thought of his wife's face, which was longer than a horse's face, and his heart was half cold, but he still said with a smile on his face: "Who said it wasn't." She used to be indispensable on the cabinet, but she has suffered from the wind and cold in the past few days. So just let her lie in the house. ”

Li Defu welcomed Feiyan and the five of them into the inner room, and everyone felt a lot warmer.

After sitting down, Li Defu asked the guy to take Liu Erdi's clothes to the inner room for everyone to see, and Jian Ning said: "Shopkeeper Li, you are busy with you, if there is anything, we will call you." ”

Li Defu was actually really busy, but he couldn't leave the two wives of the prefect and the daughter of the political envoy in this room, so he had to smile and say, "No... Not busy, hehe, not busy. ”

Xiaonuo: "By the way, I told Feiyan last time that I fell in love with a style that your wife gave her as a counselor." I think the waist of that dress is good too. Dressed also happy, Feiyan has been too busy recently, I forgot which one, I looked outside just now and didn't see that style, if it weren't for your wife's health, I really want her to come out to see, I want to wear that style for the New Year. ”

Li Defu thought that he was so busy. The sixth lady specified the style to be seen, only her wife knows, or she still said some good things to her wife and asked her to come out to accompany her. I have to bring a few guys to pick up the goods, thinking of Li Defu here. Hurriedly said: "I'll go and ask the to come out, and the two ladies will wait a minute." ”

Xiao Nuo looked embarrassed and said, "Isn't this good?" ”

Li Defu: "No, no, the small ones will come when they go, and a few people will use tea first." After saying that, he left in a hurry.

Feiyan was puzzled and said, "Xiaonuo, which of my clothes you like when you look at them, why don't you tell me?" ”

Xiaonuo looked at Feiyan playfully and smiled, and said, "After a while, the wife of the shopkeeper Li came, and I will speak and act when the opportunity arises." ”

Jian Ning smiled and said, "Don't forget what I told you just now, Xi Pingdi's wife's maiden name is Zhou, and her single name is Fang." Before I got married, I was not from our Hangzhou Prefecture, but I heard that it was in Guizhou. ”

Xiaonuo: "Sister Ning'er, don't worry, I'll find a chance to give her a try." ”

As he spoke, a woman in her thirties wore a beige jacket and walked in with a smile as she opened the curtain and walked in, Xiaonuo peeked at Chai Meng, and Chai Meng nodded slightly.

"Hui Niang has asked a few ladies and girls and this son, and I hope you will forgive me if you are disappointed."

Xiaonuo got up and walked to the woman's side, and said, "Madame is really well maintained, but a few years older than us, the skin is not delicate and white and tender, which is really enviable." ”

The woman smiled, covered her mouth and said, "The sixth lady actually laughed at Hui Niang like this, Hui Niang is already thirty and six, old, and they are all half-old." ”

Xiaonuo also smiled and said, "Is Madam from Hangzhou?" ”

The woman was stunned for a moment, then smiled, and said, "Naturally, my mother's home is in Liuwu Village, Qiantang." ”

Xiao Nuo sighed and said, "Coincidentally, Feiyan, I seem to remember that your home is Liuwudi, right?" ”

Feiyan: "It's not Liuwu, but it's not far from Liuwu." ”

The woman didn't say anything.

Xiaonuo: "I just fell in love with Sister Feiyan's dress last time, and she said that you gave her a counselor in your store, although it was the same as last year, I still like it, so I had to call you, I'm really embarrassed." ”

The woman hurriedly said: "Look at what the sixth lady said, there is nothing big in itself, where is there any reason to ignore you and the fourth lady, since you have spoken, I will help you find it, maybe you can also know which style it is, do you still have any impression of the fourth lady?" ”

Feiyan shook her head and said, "I don't have any impression at all, or find a ready-made appearance for your tailor to make, who wants to make too many clothes in the past two years." A few days ago, I asked the maid to rummage through it, but I didn't see it, and the sixth lady was in a hurry again, so you see..."

Woman: "Fourth lady, believe me." Since you're here, I'll find it for you, let's go, let's go to the front hall and have a look. ”

The woman took the first step to open the door, and Xiaonuo followed. Jian Ning suddenly said, "Have you seen that person in the walled village this time?" ”

The woman's steps were noticeably slower, but she didn't look back. Xiao Nuo said: "I didn't see it, I said I was dead." ”

Jian Ning sighed and didn't speak again, and took Xiao Nuo's hand out of the door of their inner room.

The woman walked up to some of the clothes that had been made and pointed to some good clothes for Xiaonuo and Feiyan, and the two of them also pretended to agree, and after seeing a few things, they were naturally not satisfied.

At this time, a few people came in from outside the door, and one of them walked to the counter and said loudly: "Find me ready-made clothes, I was frightened on the road and my clothes were all stained with mud, so how dare I go back." Let the family meet. It's time to worry again. ”

The woman glanced at the man and continued to talk to Xiao Nuo Feiyan, while the guy on the side went to talk to the Great Khan.

Jian Ning looked at the man, and suddenly her brain was excited, and she walked up to the Great Khan to give a salute first, and then said, "Listening to the eldest brother's accent, it looks like we are from Hangzhou?" ”

The big man turned around and saw that it was a beautiful girl talking to him, so he naturally answered yes.

Jian Ning: "Big brother is from Qiantang?" ”

Dahan: "Exactly. Qiantang Imperial Town. Is there something wrong with the girl? ”

Jian Ning smiled and said, "It's just that the sound is familiar." I feel like I've seen my relatives, I used to have a relative who was where you are, and then left Hangzhou, so..."

The big man laughed and said, "Yes, maybe I still recognize it, what's your name?" ”

Jian Ning first peeked at the woman, and then said softly, "Zhou Fang." ”

Xiao Nuo also looked at the woman's changes, and found that the woman didn't react at all, and she felt a little disappointed.

Dahan: "Most of our royal towns are surnamed Cao, but there are not many surnames Zhou. ”

Jian Ning hurriedly thanked him, and the man brought the clothes to Dahan, who went to the inner room to change the clothes and paid the silver and left.

Back at home, Xiao Nuo told Meng Tianchu about the situation, Meng Tianchu thought about it and said: "I think although this woman has an affair with Wu Min, she is not necessarily a member of the Xi family, so the Ming Tianqian County's servants and county orders come to me." ”

Jian Ning: "I think that person deliberately led the adult astray and went the other way. ”

Meng Tianchu: "I understand, I know in my heart, you have worked hard today, go back and rest early." "Hangzhou Mansion.

Meng Tianchu sat in the supervisor's room, Jian Ning was waiting, and there were two people standing opposite Meng Tianchu, one was Shen Naichun, the county magistrate of Qiantang County, and the other was the county magistrate.

Meng Tianchu coughed dryly twice, and said: "I called you here today, it was for a life lawsuit three years ago, this case has been put in my government for three years, and the case file is already a thick layer of dust, do you know, a lot of things can happen in three years, three years ago, I was just a criminal master in Renhe County, Lord Shen, what do you say?" ”

Shen Naichun hurriedly smiled and said, "Why do you say that? Since ancient times, heroes don't ask about the source.,Hehe.,What do you have to ask if you're looking for a lowly job today.,Just ask.。 ”

Meng Tianchu looked at Shen Naichun's appearance and said, "Lord Shen is familiar with Xi Rui, the prefect of Hangzhou twenty years ago?" ”

Shen Naichun said with a smile as if he already knew that Meng Tianchu was going to ask this question: "I know, at that time, the humble position was nothing, and by the time I became the co-knowledge of Qiantang County, Master Xi had already stepped down." ”

Meng Tianchu squinted at Shen Naichun and said, "So, you shouldn't be the cultivation ground that Lord Xi Rui Xi single-handedly pulled, right?" ”

Shen Naichun: "Lord Meng naturally understands what he means, just ask, if you think there is something untrue about the lowly position, wait for the adults to find out the matter and find out the case, and there will be no complaints about the lowly position." ”

Meng Tianchu: "It seems that you already know what I want to ask, since you know, then you should tell me about the situation first." ”

Shen Naichun looked at Meng Tianchu, saw Meng Tianchu looking at him with a smile, and secretly wiped the sweat of his palms with his hands on his official uniform. Then he said: "Three years ago, it was winter, and it was almost the New Year, and I suddenly received a report from a villager in the walled village. It is said that three of the four members of the Xi Ping family died overnight, and I went with the servants and more than a dozen servants, and at that time, the Xi Ping family had already surrounded the village with people, and the scene was not greatly damaged..."

Meng Tianchu: "Wait, what does it mean that the earth has not been destroyed?" ”

Shen Naichun looked at the work on the side. He whispered: "Lord Prefect, at that time, the contemptible people found that the house where Xi picked up was a mess. He fainted on the ground, but the neighbor was in bed when he found him, and afterwards he also admitted that he was in bed when he was found by the neighbor, and then struggled to get out of bed, who wanted to get out of bed and fainted, so that's it, Xi picked up only a pair of trousers and was naked, while the eldest daughter of the Xi family, Xi Lianhua, was lying naked on the bed and dying of blood. ”

Meng Tianchu: "What about Xi's adoptive mother and little sister?" ”

"In the middle of the room, they have only four rooms. Xi's adoptive mother and little sister are both lying in bed. There are cut scars on the neck, the methods are cruel, and the bed is full of blood from two people, which is really miserable. ”

Meng Tianchu: "Did you find any signs of poisoning?" ”

He thought for a while and said, "Only Xi Lianhua found signs of poisoning, but her mother and sister did not. ”

Meng Tianchu: "Have you found out what kind of poison it is?" ”

"Before it could be time, it was already burned to ashes." ”

Meng Tianchu: "Then did you ask Xi to pick it up at that time?" ”

Shen Naichun: "My lord." That guy is cunning. When we saw that he had a good handwriting, we asked him where he had learned it. He said that he forgot, how could it be possible, and he heard the villagers in the surrounding village say that Xi picked up and played with Xi Lianhua on weekdays, without the slightest intention of brother and sister, and did not rule out the possibility of **. ”

Meng Tianchu frowned and said, "What is the basis for your later conviction of Xi Zhu?" ”

"The scythe." ”

Meng Tianchu: "Didn't you say that no murder weapons were found at the scene?" ”

"Yes, when we arrived, Xi Shi was no longer in bed, and there was no sickle in his hand, saying that the sickle was just listening to the neighbors." ”

Meng Tianchu: "At that time, the people in the surrounding village had already surrounded the Xi family, so they shouldn't have said that the murder weapon was gone, didn't you look for it properly?" ”

今zuo: "I found it, and even found Xi's stove, but I didn't, and then I was worried that my neighbor would lie, so I called my neighbor to torture him, who knew that it was still the same, and when I broke into the door, I saw a bloody sickle in Xi's hand." ”

Meng Tianchu: "Then have you asked Xi to pick it up?" ”

"I asked, and he said he couldn't remember." ”

Meng Tianchu thought that he had asked Xi Pick before, and he said that he remembered that he had a bloody scythe in his hand when he was in bed, why did he tell him that he couldn't remember it, so the neighbors also saw it, and Xi Pick himself admitted it, but what happened to the bloody scythe that disappeared?

Meng Tianchu: "And it is also said that the three victims have scars on their necks, and the cut marks are not from a murder weapon, is this the case?" ”

He nodded again and again, and said, "I have been working for more than forty years, and this is the first time I have seen such a strange and funny thing." ”

Meng Tianchu: "Then do you think it should be the three murder weapons?" ”

"I have also made a one-to-one comparison, and there is one thing that I don't know whether to talk about or not. ”

Shen Naichun: "You should naturally say that we must know everything in front of the prefect, you know?" ”

He said yes again and again, and said, "Even if the contemptible people found those three wounds, none of them matched the cut marks of the sickle." ”

Meng Tianchu: "I thought about it. ”

He was surprised and said, "How did you think of it?" ”

Meng Tianchu: "The murderer just wanted to find a scapegoat, so that people could see that there was a bloody sickle on Xi's hand, but when you went, the murderer was worried that he would find that the sickle did not match the scars of the three victims, so he took it away in advance." ”

"It's still the prefect who is wise." ”

Meng Tianchu smiled slightly and said, "You go on." "I found three wounds, the wound on Xi Lianhua's neck I found out that Xi Lianhua gave an extra knife after she died, and it was injured with a kitchen knife, but I didn't find the kitchen knife in Xi's house." Xi's adoptive mother and little sister should have been killed, the wound on Xi's adoptive mother's neck was bloody and blurred, as if it was done with a woodcutter that was not sharp, and the little sister used a dagger to seal her throat with a knife, and died quickly, the most painful thing was probably Xi picking up her adoptive mother, such a blunt instrument, I don't know how long it took to cut. ”

Meng Tianchu: "This murderer is a bit perverted!" ”

Puzzled, I didn't know what a pervert was, and I didn't want to ask, so I looked at Meng Tianchu blankly, and Meng Tianchu said: "That is, these three murder weapons have not been found until now?" ”

He shook his head.

Meng Tianchu: "Okay, you leave the autopsy report and related materials to me, and I'll take a good look at it." ”

Shen Naichun and Qi Zuo looked at each other, then nodded and retreated.

When Jian Ning saw them leaving, she got up and said, "My lord, could it be?" ”

Meng Tianchu looked at Jian Ning's puzzled look and said, "Do you want to say that it could be done by three people?" ”

Jian Ning smiled and nodded.

Meng Tianchu: "I also thought about it, otherwise it would be impossible to kill three by one person, unless this murderer is very familiar with their Xi family, but this is unreasonable." ”

Jian Ning: "Didn't Xi pick up that the neighbor heard screams in his house the day before, that's why..."

Meng Tianchu: "Think about it, if your neighbor screams at night, will you wait until dawn to see what's going on?" ”

Jian Ning: "That's what the adults said. ”

Meng Tianchu: "Either the murderer is not alone, or the murderer's method will soon poison Xi Lianhua to death, and then... No, one of them would have screamed like that, unless..."

Jian Ning: "Unless what?" ”

Meng Tianchu: "Unless the neighbor really heard it, and it was over at that time, and he saw some people and things that shouldn't be seen, so..."

Jian Ning: "No wonder Xi picked it up, and the neighbor was gone." ”