I saw someone talking like this, Wang Yi was about to get angry, Meng Tianchu looked at Wu Zhe and said, "My lord, I'm really embarrassed to be late, I won't take an example." ”

Wu Zhe didn't speak, but when he saw Meng Tianchu, his expression eased a lot.

Several people went up to an attic, Wu Zhe pointed to an open room on the east side, and said, "My Siqi is in this room." ”

Meng Tianchu looked at the yard from the embrace, and when he came in, he found that the yard was very quiet, it stands to reason that there was an accident at home, there should be crying or something everywhere, at least it would look very chaotic, there was a feeling of people everywhere, this family seemed to have nothing to do with his own family, and there was something abnormal in the quiet.

When I came to the door of the room, I was still startled by the scene in front of me, only to see a woman in a white gauze skirt hanging from the beam of the room, it can be seen from the stool kicked off by the woman's feet, the things in the room should not have been touched, the woman probably just took a nap, her hair has not had time to comb, and it falls on her chest and face, and her head is lowered because she can't see her face, but this look is like Sadako in the Japanese ghost movie "Midnight Bell" that she watched before.

Wu Zhe saw Meng Tianchu standing at the door and watching, and he didn't go in for a long time, so he said anxiously: "Master Meng, what are you doing standing here?" ”

Murong Zhenxue: "My lord, Master Meng wants to look at the situation in the room outside the door before entering." ”

Meng Tianchu looked at Murong Yuxue and laughed secretly, when did this girl know to stand up and speak for me.

Meng Tianchu walked in the door, and Murong Zhenxue and Wang Yi also followed. The window was closed well, and Meng Tianchu opened the window to see that there was an alley outside.

"What's next to the alley?"

Wu Zhe: "It's a private school, where my family Bao'er studied." ”

Meng Tianchu looked around the deceased, and then motioned to put the body down, Chai Meng saw this, and was about to go up to hug the body, only to see Wu Zhe push Chai away. said angrily: "My daughter has not come out of the cabinet yet." Where can you just let a man hold it. Is! ”

Chai Meng was very embarrassed all of a sudden, Meng Tianchu looked at his young and white face, and knew that if he hadn't been watching from the sidelines, with the temper of these people from Dongchang, I was afraid that Wu Zhe had already been thrown into the courtyard of the private school opposite by Chai Meng. Chai Meng squeezed his fist with a rattling sound, and Meng Tianchu couldn't help laughing, but after all, his daughter died in the family. If you laugh, you will seem to be a little gloating.

I saw that Wu Zhe was struggling to take his daughter down, but after all, he was old and didn't succeed for a long time, Meng Tianchu said: "My lord, I still call your local family or subordinates to help you, we are all men, and we can't help you much." ”

Wu Zhe didn't speak, just hugged his daughter's leg and pushed it up. Meng Tianchu looked anxious. Can't you cut off the white silk on the woman's neck, knowing that the old man is stubborn, he won't say anything.

At this time, Murong Yuxue walked over. Said: "My lord, you still cut off the white silk, so..."

Wu Zhe glanced at Murong Zhenxue with disdain, and said, "I don't need a girl to tell me to do things yet." ”

Meng Tianchu saw that Wu Zhe was choking like this, and Murong Yuxue was also choked and stepped aside, while Chai Meng walked out of the door directly and never came in again. So he had to pretend that he didn't see anything, looked at the situation around the room, and then walked outside the room to look, Wu Zhe said behind him: "You're done reading it, are you leaving?" ”

"If you go back to your lordship, judging from the situation in the house, you can't see any signs, so you have to come out and take a look or appear near your home?"

"No... No, ask these... Do... Do what? "It seems that Wu Zhe is really tired.

Meng Tianchu laughed and laughed, thinking that this old man was probably too sad, and he naturally wanted to investigate the murderer by asking these questions.

"I wanted to see when and where the murderer entered the room, because the window was closed from the inside, so..."

Before Meng Tianchu finished speaking, Wu Zhe said: "My daughter committed suicide, what murderer are you looking for?" ”

When Meng Tianchu heard this, he almost didn't fall down the stairs.

Wu Zhe finally asked Wang Yi to take out his saber to cut off Bai Aya, and his daughter fell steadily into Wu Zhe's arms, Wu Zhe carefully put his daughter on the bed, and then sorted out his daughter's clothes, and then walked to Meng Tianchu's side and said: "My wife took the maid to the temple to burn incense, and she hasn't come back yet, and Bao'er hasn't finished school yet, so I'm alone at home." The daughter committed suicide, nothing wrong, you see. ”

No wonder the courtyard is so quiet, is there no other person to call for a janitor and a maid in this house?

After speaking, Wu Zhe took out a piece of paper from his arms, and saw that there was a line of graceful and smooth small letters, it seems that this woman has worked practicing calligraphy on weekdays.

"Jade can be broken but not changed to white, bamboo can be burned but not destroyed, and there is nothing to do except death."

Looking at the dozens of words, Meng Tianchu was a little misty, and it was not difficult to see from the literal point that this woman seemed to have suffered something angry and insulted, so she died. But how can it be said that the woman committed suicide and died, not to mention that if it is really suicide, what do you Wu Zhe still ask us Yamen people to do?

Meng Tianchu: "Can I take a look at the wound on the little girl's neck?" ”

Wu Zhe: "Do you suspect that it was not the little girl who committed suicide?" ”

Meng Tianchu was noncommittal, Wu Zhe had no choice but to nod, Meng Tianchu walked to the woman's bed, brushed her hair and lowered her shirt slightly, then saw the strangled mark, and then looked at the eyes, mouth and nose, and found no poisoning.

"My lord, how old is Ling Yan this year?" Meng Tianchu inspected his hands and feet and asked.

"I'm going to turn seventeen next month."

Meng Tianchu didn't speak, after the inspection, he did not find any other injuries, and if he wanted to further confirm it, he probably needed to return the body to the yamen for dissection, but this Wu Zhe looked like a stubborn old man, and Wang Yi couldn't help just now. If you say that you are afraid of taking it back, you will refuse to take a bite.

"I want to check your Ling Yan's body, but I know it's inconvenient for me to check it myself, so can you let me

Your concubine will check the body parts to see if there are any injuries or anything. ”

"Your scribe?"

Murong Yuxue walked over, saluted humbly, and said with a blank expression: "I am the scribe of the master." ”

Wu Zhe: "When did the yamen start using women as scribes?" It's ridiculous. ”

Murong Zhenxue also had a time when she was furious, probably choking just now. The anger has not yet come to pass. See Wu Zhe say so. He was a little angry, and said angrily: "If you don't believe me, and you're worried that I won't be able to talk if I touch your little girl's body, if you can't find any results, then don't say that our yamen is incompetent!" ”

Meng Tianchu pretended to say: "Xue Xue must not be rude to adults. ”

Murong Yuxue snorted, thinking that I was still afraid that your old man would not succeed, so it was a big deal not to be this scribe. Anyway, he was about to get married, thinking of this, Murong Zhenxue secretly glanced at Meng Tianchu, and his heart was warm.

Wu Zhe himself was choked by a girl, and he was so angry that he couldn't speak, but after thinking about it, he felt that although Murong Zhenxue didn't like what he said, it made sense. She's a woman anyway. So I agreed.

Meng Tianchu and the others followed Wu Zhe out of the room, leaving Murong Zhenxue in the room to check the body of the deceased.

Meng Tianchu walked out of the door and said to Wu Zhe: "Since my lord thinks that Ling Yan is committing suicide. What does it mean to report to the officer? ”

Wu Zhe said: "Didn't you look at that piece of paper?" There is nothing false about my daughter committing suicide, but someone forced her to do it, and she wouldn't do it for no reason. ”

Meng Tianchu nodded and said, "I take the liberty of asking, can the adult's order be denied a kiss or someone comes to ask for a kiss?" ”

Wu Zhe's face changed, and he said, "Meng Tianchu, what do you mean?" Let me tell you, my little girl has never left the house, staying upstairs every day embroidering and writing, and never even talking to my family. ”

Meng Tianchu thinks that Wu Zhe seems to be very taboo when people talk about topics like this, in fact, this is normal, women in the Ming Dynasty can leave the cabinet at the age of thirteen, although most of them wait until after the age of fifteen, but your little girl is seventeen years old and still needs to be asked in the boudoir As for blowing your beard and staring at the ground?

Meng Tianchu: "I think the adults misunderstood what I meant, since you think we are asking the wrong question, then how can we investigate this case?" ”

Wu Zhe said coldly: "Won't you read it? Can't observe? Didn't you say that you, Meng Tianchu, Master Meng, were the gods who resounded in Hangzhou Mansion? ”

God? Why does it sound so uncomfortable? You're a god!

"My lord has also done things in the Yamen, so I naturally understand that we are investigating the case and asking some of the deceased and the family members around the deceased appropriately, and it is also to investigate the case as soon as possible, and there is no other meaning."

"Humph! Then let me tell you, my little daughter's name is Wu Siqi, she is about to be seventeen years old this year, and she has a nine-year-old younger brother named Wu Bao'er, her mother Zhao is forty-five years old this year, and there are two maids in the family, a gatekeeper, and I Wu Zhe, that's all. ”

What a mess, the answer is not what you asked!

Meng Tianchu: "Did the two maids in the family go to the temple with their wives to worship incense?" ”

Wu Zhe: "No, there is also a maid who is the little girl's personal maid, and she rushed downstairs to tell me when my little girl died." ”

Cough! Meng Tianchu was really depressed.

"Then the tired lord asked the maid to come over, and the late student has something to ask her."

"No need, she just said that Miss hanged herself, she told me, I told you, you don't need to see her, she went to the private school to pick up my Bao'er."

Meng Tianchu looked at Murong Zhenxue and Wang Yi, and everyone looked at each other, as if they were dreaming.

Meng Tianchu coughed dryly twice and said, "Since the adults think that someone forced Ling Yan to commit suicide, can anyone talk to Ling Yan in the last two days, or how Ling Yan is feeling?" ”

Wu Zhe: "No, I've already said it, my little girl didn't go out before, where would she talk to people, besides, she has always been in a good mood, doing the same thing every day, writing in the morning, taking a nap after eating at noon, and then embroidering after getting up, and accompanying her mother in the courtyard pavilion to talk in the cool after eating at night, and going back to sleep after dark." ”

"Every day?"

"Yes!"

Meng Tianchu looked at Wu Zhe's unquestionable expression, and began to admire this Wu Zhe and the daughter he had educated.

"Ling Yan doesn't have any other good sisters?"

"Our Wu family has never interacted with others, but has moved around with a few relatives of my wife's mother's family, but there is a child who has a good relationship with the little girl, and it is the daughter of my wife's sister who is the same age as my little girl, but she got married last year, and she used to come every year. They have a good relationship. ”

is about to be isolated from the world, and I really suspect that this woman has been driven crazy by being locked up at home for a long time.

Wu Zhe: "By the way, I know the procedures of the yamen, but you can't take my daughter away, how do you check me, but I can't let you touch her, since you have finished the inspection, I will be buried in three days." I know that you Master Meng don't necessarily have to have a physical examination to solve the case, right? The old man has entrusted you with everything. ”

Wang Yi: "My lord, since you know the rules and procedures of the yamen, isn't it difficult for you to be our Master Meng?" ”

Wu Zhe glanced at Wang Yi coldly, and said, "If you can't find out, forget it, tell me earlier, I'll tell Ke Gan, let his people check it for me, don't delay my time." ”

Wang Yi said angrily: "Then you might as well go to the prefect at the beginning." ”

Wu Zhe became angry when he heard this, pointed to Wang Yi's nose and said, "You tell me one more word!" ”

Meng Tianchu hurriedly came out to play a round and said, "My lord, don't worry, you will do your best at night, if you can't find out who that person is in three days, I will definitely come to the door to apologize and compensate you." ”

Wu Zhe said to Wang Yi: "See? Why can people be the teacher of the county lord and you can't, do you know now? Learn well. Meng Tianchu looked at Wang Yi, but Wang Yi couldn't help but speak.