When Zhenjiang heard this, he was terrified and said, "Master, I was wronged!" Who doesn't know that Xiaohong is the master's person, how dare I? ”

"Don't you dare, or for the sake of you being a cow and a horse in the Hao family for so many years, it's not easy to ask for a maid to be your wife, but what you like happens to be your master's woman, so you don't dare to say. ”

Hao Tianbao stood up, walked to Zhenjiang's side, and slapped him: "Okay!" I now finally know why you are so reluctant to get married, how many times have I asked you? Every time you shirk and say that there is no suitable person, now I understand, if you like Xiaohong, you say, I'll give it to you! ”

The town steward weakened his knees, knelt on the ground and cried: "Master, I was wrong! I know that you treat me like a brother, and I also know that although you like Xiaohong, if I ask you for it, you must give it to me, but Xiaohong She doesn't want to be with a housekeeper for the rest of her life, she is unwilling. Although she was good to me, she never wanted to marry me, she disliked me, and her dream was to be the grandmother of the Hao family, not the wife of a housekeeper. ”

"But, but...... She's pregnant with your baby, huh? Hao Tianbao knocked on the ground with his cane and said bitterly.

I told her, since it's all like this, I went to ask the lord to promise her to me, but she didn't do it, saying that this was an opportunity, and she wanted to find a chance to ...... with the lord did that, and then said that the child was the master's, and at that time the grandmother was about to give birth, and there was no time to serve the master, but the master was in the Cuilian room every day, and she couldn't find a chance. Later, when her grandmother died, she wanted to find another chance, because after a long time, it was difficult to hide it, but she didn't expect it, and she was later discovered by Cuilian. ”

"Zhenjiang! You're confused! That's your woman and your child, how can you do that? Hao Tianbao was heartbroken. "You ruined her, you know?"

"Yes....... I hurt her, I'm too cowardly...... I hate Cuilian even more, if she hadn't seduced the master, Xiaohong would have gone back to mourn for a month, and when she came back, Cuilian changed from a maid to the second lady of Haojiadi, after Xiaohong disappeared. The first thing I suspected was that Cuilian did it, so I asked her to inquire, but she knocked me unconscious. If Cuilian doesn't kill Xiaohong, I think one day, she will follow me. But now everything is gone, Xiaohong is gone, and my children are gone. Nothing left......"

Hao Tianbao smiled bitterly: "Zhenjiang! You have been my old housekeeper for many years, just like my own brother, looking at your obsessive appearance, I will tell you the truth, in fact, Xiaohong is not the kind of woman you imagined. She is angry, even if she can't climb my high branch, she won't be wronged to be your wife in Zhenjiang, do you know why? ”

Zhenjiang was stupid and looked at Hao Tianbao in a daze.

Hao Tianbao sighed: "One day I was talking to your big * grandmother in the room, and Xiaohong came in and knelt down for us, begging us to marry her." At that time, your eldest * grandmother asked her whose son-in-law she had a crush on, and she said that it was the boss of Zhou, who often worked with me in the salt business. They have been together for a long time. You know the boss that week, grandma died last year. has not yet renewed, Boss Zhou often meets her quietly, and has promised her that she will marry in the future, and she will be Mrs. directly, I said that this matter must be discussed carefully, but I didn't expect that she would have an accident in a few days. Now that I think about it, the child in Xiaohong's belly may not be whose it is! ”

Zhenjiang's face was pale, his expression was desolate, and he sat on the ground.

Meng Tianchu thought to himself, this Hao Tianbao is really true, it is not enough to let the housekeeper have a good memory, what do you have to do to break other people's illusions, anyway, everyone is dead, why destroy this little good memory of others. After thinking about it again, maybe this Hao Tianbao is deliberate, he actually likes Xiaohong too, and deep down he actually hates Zhenjiang for giving the woman he likes to Missy, so he deliberately said this to anger him, maybe, what Boss Zhou's story was also made up by him to anger Zhenjiang.

Now, it doesn't matter if the story is true or not.

Meng Tianchu and his entourage escorted Cuilian back to Renhe County, Hangzhou, and put Cuilian in prison.

Zuo Jiayin's Zhiwei Guan made a new dish and invited Meng Tianchu to taste it.

Meng Tianchu has been busy with the case in the past few days, although he suspects that there is another real murderer who has not been caught, but he can't find the clues left by the murderer for a while, but he is helpless. Now that he was finally free, he took Xia Fengyi, Feiyan and Murong Zhenxue to Zhiweiguan to taste Zuo Jiayin's new dishes.

Zuo Jiayin personally accompanied, took out the aged wine to entertain, the beauties were on the side, the delicious food, and the aged wine made Meng Tianchu sweep away the fatigue of several days and return with a good drink.

Early the next morning, Lao He Tou sent a shop guy to report that their "Xizi Restaurant" came to a drunkard last night, did not give money for eating, and smashed the tables and chairs in the store with drunkenness, and then slept on the tavern floor drunk.

Meng Tianchu hurriedly took Xia Fengyi and Feiyan to the "Xizi Tavern".

As soon as I entered the tavern, I heard the shouting and scolding inside, thinking that the man had woken up after a night of drunkenness.

Meng Tianchu and Xia Fengyi came to the door of the firewood room and smelled a big smell of wine, Xia Fengyi frowned, Meng Tianchu saw it, knew that women don't like to smell these smells, so he asked Xia Fengyi to wait in the front hall, and asked the young man to open the door of the firewood room, as soon as the door opened, the man rushed out, Meng Tianchu's eyes were sharp, his body flashed slightly, and he made a mix under his feet, the man fell forward and made a standard "dog eats" action, and the guy on the side couldn't help laughing.

Meng Tianchu stepped forward and stepped on the man's back, the man turned his head, and Meng Tianchu saw that it was actually Wu Lai!

When Wu Lai saw that it was Meng Tianchu, he was also stunned, struggling to remember, Meng Tianchu let go of his feet.

Wu Lai got up and looked at Meng Tianchu: "Master, are you ...... Why are you here? ”

"I was about to ask you. What kind of drunken mania are you running into my hotel? ”

"Your hotel? Ah, this hotel turned out to be the master's land...... I'm sorry...... I'm really sorry, I didn't know at all, I was drunk on the West Lake flower boat last night, and when I went back, I passed by your store, and I was hungry and wanted to eat something, but your shopkeeper's mouth was not clean. They tied me up and threw me in the woodroom......"

"You talk nonsense!" The shopkeeper next to him shouted, "You slapped the table and smashed the stool as soon as you came in." smashed the shop with a stool and beat us, so we ......."

Meng Tianchu waved his hand, stopped the words of the shopkeeper, and said slowly: "I'm sorry, I frightened Wu Gongzi, it's not a big deal, right?" ”

"Hey, hey. It should be that I said I'm sorry, the flood washed the Dragon King Temple, and the family doesn't know the family! The little one thought it was the cat urine that drank a little more yesterday, and I don't know what I said, so please forgive me for my excuses, as for how much those tables, chairs and benches are, I will pay, I will pay! "Out of his bosom he took out an ingot of ten taels of silver. He handed it to Meng Tianchu with both hands and said with a sneer: "Master, do you think this is enough?" ”

The old man next to him took it, and Meng Tianchu patted Wu Laidi on the shoulder: "Wu Gongzi is really generous!" What kind of business do you do on weekdays? ”

Wu Lai smiled: "Hehe, where to do business......." The villain didn't return home overnight, and my lady was very fierce. If you don't go back, I'm afraid you're going to be powerful, and if the master doesn't have anything else, the little one wants to go back. ”

"Alright, you go! In the future, if you have time, you are still welcome to patronize my business, just stop getting drunk and smashing things. ”

"Good, good, good, that's a must come and patronize, then I'm leaving. After saying that, Wu Lai left in a hurry.

Meng Tianchu took Xia Fengyi and Feiyan back to the yamen. After doing official business for a while, I suddenly heard the drums in the hall of the yamen being beaten loudly.

Murong Yuxue glanced at Meng Tianchu: "Master." Someone shouts injustice? ”

"Hmm. It seems to be in a hurry. ”

"yes, maybe it's another homicide. ”

Ancient regulations. The drums of the Yamen Hall can only be beaten to urge the county lord to ascend to the court when there are serious and extraordinarily serious cases such as life cases, robbers, and rebellions.

Meng Tianchu nodded, put down the brush, and walked to the door to look.

Sure enough, after a while, the porter Han's mother hurriedly ran to report: "Young master, the county magistrate said that there was a murder, please hurry to the lobby." ”

Meng Tianchu looked at Murong Yuxue: "You're really right, let's go!" He picked up the forensic evidence investigation box and took Murong Yuxue to the lobby.

Several sedan chairs were ready, and Cai Zhixian saw Meng Tianchu come out, and arched his hand: "Sir, there is another murder, and this time there will be Mr. Lao again." ”

"Don't be polite. I don't know what kind of murder it is? ”

"The drummer is here, and the late student will tell him to come and report to the gentleman in person. Then he ordered the soap to bring the drummer.

After that person came, Meng Tianchu was slightly taken aback, this person turned out to be Wu Lai, who was drunk last night and made a big fuss about his "Xizi Restaurant"!

At this moment, Wu Lai was already crying to tears, and he knelt down with a handful of snot and tears.

Meng Tianchu asked, "Gongzi Wu, what happened?" ”

Wu Lai cried silently: "After I left the master's restaurant, I returned home, and found that the courtyard door was locked, and I couldn't open the door, I thought that my lady was asleep and didn't hear it, so I climbed over the wall and entered the yard, and found that the door was also closed, and I couldn't knock it open, so I had to call the neighbor to help, so I smashed the door open, and found that my lady was lying under the bed, and it had ...... It's been a long time since I've been dead...... Woowoo woo ......"

"Did you mess up the scene?"

"No, after Xia found out that the lady was dead, he asked all the neighbors to come out, waited outside the door, and ran to the Yamen to report to the official. ”

Meng Tianchu and Cai Zhixian each took a sedan chair, and Murong Yuxue, Wang Zhutou, Yamen Yuzuo and others followed on foot, led by Wu Lai, and came to the scene of the crime.

Wu Lai's house is a small house, and it is neatly cleaned up, and many people have gathered outside the yard.

Cai Zhixian and Meng Tianchu got off the sedan chair, entered the room and looked at the corpse on the ground, Cai Zhixian entrusted Meng Tianchu to investigate, and sneaked out to sit down on the Taishi chair that had been prepared in the courtyard to drink tea and wait for the results.

Meng Tianchu is now investigating the on-site environment. The latch of the gate was broken by an external force, and after inquiry, it was learned that Wu Lai could not open the door, so he called a neighbor and broke the latch.

In addition to this, the windows are closed and tied from the inside. There are no signs of outsiders infiltrating the roof tiles, walls, or floors.

The center site is in the inner bedroom. Wu Laidi's lady Tan was lying prone on the ground, half of the thin quilt on the bed. Half of it was drooping on the ground, and it seemed that Tan had dragged it down when he climbed down from the bed.

Tan was wearing close-fitting obscene clothes, relatively neatly dressed, and there were no obvious signs of struggle at the scene.

The deceased Tan was wrapped in a white bandage on his head, and a trace of blood leached out of the bandage on the back of his head. The bandage was unwound and a fresh blunt epidermal laceration was found in the occipital region. The blood binds parts of the hair together. There was a small amount of blood-stained powder on the bandage.

Undressed for body surface examination, the stiffness of the corpse was high, the limbs showed a convulsive and spasmodic posture, and the whole body showed obvious signs of suffocation.

However, after examination of the epidermis of the neck, the surface of the mouth and nose, and the mucous membrane, there was no trace of mechanical asphyxia caused by external forces.

Meng Tianchu called Wu Lai in and asked, "What's the matter with your mother's head injury?" ”

Wu Lai squatted down to check it and said, "I don't know, she was still fine when I left yesterday afternoon." There was no head injury. I must have been injured and went home and died, woo woo woo...... I knew that I shouldn't have left her last night to go on a boat ride, my hard-working lady...... Woowoo"

"Are you sure she wasn't hurt when you left?"

"Definitely not!" Wu Lai said with tears in his eyes.

"She has been given hemostatic medicine for her wound, and she knows medical skills?"

"I don't understand. It's just that there are some bruises and bruises at home. Maybe it was too late, and she thought that the injury was not serious, so she put medicine on it and bandaged it herself. ”

Meng Tianchu nodded, subacute intracranial hemorrhage caused by head trauma is sometimes easy to be overlooked, and when he really finds out that something is wrong, he is already unable to save himself due to consciousness disorder. This would have to be done autopsies.

After obtaining Wu Lai's consent, Meng Tianchu decided to conduct an autopsy on the spot.

Before that, he called the king to catch the head and instructed him to send out a catcher to investigate and visit the neighbors.

Anatomical findings. Blunt force trauma to Tan's headrest caused only epidermal laceration. No skull fracture was caused, and no hemorrhage was found in the intracranial dura, arachnoid membrane, or hedged site of the brain parenchyma. In other words, the headrest trauma only broke Tan's scalp and did not cause intracranial hemorrhage, which was not the cause of Tan's death.

After biological tests on the stomach contents, no toxic substances were found. No significant fatal lesions were found in other parts of the body.

How did Tan die? Meng Tianchu frowned and pondered.

At this time, the catcher brought a neighbor over, and the neighbor's family could prove that Tan had come to their house last night to talk, and went back on the second watch, and was sure that Tan's head was not injured at that time.

This shows that Tan's head should have been injured after the second watch in the evening.

What happened then? After a detailed investigation, the neighbors next to Wu Lai's house proved that around the second watch that night, they had heard Tan scolding in the yard, but they didn't pay attention to what they were scolding.

When you came back from the second watch, you scolded in the yard? There was blunt force trauma to the head, and it is likely that Tan was attacked at that time!

Meng Tianchu immediately conducted a careful search in the courtyard of Wu Lai's house, and soon, he found a diamond-shaped stone the size of an egg in the courtyard, with dark red blood-like traces on one side of the stone.

Meng Tianchu immediately took the stone to the room for a bloodstain examination, and confirmed that it was human blood, and the blood type was the same as that of the deceased Tan. This shows that Tan was most likely injured by this stone.

He also used a magnetic fingerprint brush to wipe the stone, hoping to find the fingerprints, but unfortunately, he did not extract them.

Tan's death was very strange, Meng Tianchu couldn't understand it for a while, and ordered the body to be transported back to the Yamen mortuary to be parked, and said to Wu: "The cause of your mother's death has not been investigated, whether it was murdered is unknown, before the truth is clarified, we must seal the murder scene, I don't know if Wu Gongzi has a place to live?" ”

Wu Lai nodded: "You can go to a friend's house to live temporarily, anyway, my wife is dead, and I don't want to live here for the time being, so as not to be sad to see things." I only hope that the master can solve this case as soon as possible and avenge my wife. ”

Meng Tianchu asked with concern, "Where is Gongzi Wu going to stay temporarily?" Please leave your address, and we will find you in time if there is something. ”

"Oh, I...... I'll go to my friend Huang Qi's house for a while. Wu Lai thought about it and told the address of Huang Qi's house.

On the way back to Yamen, Meng Tianchu called Wang Zhutou and muttered for a while. Wang Zhutou nodded, and hurriedly went to arrange it according to Meng Tianchu's instructions.

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