The third uncle said without thinking: "Are you talking about Qi Cao Qili?" I haven't seen him for more than half a month, my wife has been looking everywhere but I haven't found it, and I went to the state yamen three times and twice to ask for someone, saying that he was called by two officials to drink and never came back, and he was killed by someone in the yamen...... But there's still some nonsense, this? ”

Qin Lin said with a smile: "That's what you say, just say the news of chasing the wind and shadows, I will slowly check the truth." ”

"Yes, yes, Lord Qingtian won't wronged people, I'm always confused," said the third uncle, so he looked around, approached Qin Lin with the characteristic caution of an old farmer in the countryside, and whispered: "There are also rumors, saying that it is the wife of Qi Li who stole people and murdered him!" ”

Qin Lin thought for a moment and asked again, "So, before Qi Lichang disappeared, did you hear that his wife stole people?" ”

"No," the third uncle shook his head, "I only heard about it slowly after he suddenly disappeared." ”

The corners of Qin Lin's mouth curled, a mysterious smile appeared on his face, the candlelight flickered, and his dark eyes flashed with dancing flames.

Qi Cao's house was five miles away from Fuchi Town, and Qin Lin ordered Han Feilian to lead five archers from the Inspection Division, light up the lantern ball torches, and bring Qi Cao's wife Wang.

Qin Lin himself stayed in the yamen of the inspection department, and took the two household clerks in Xingguo Prefecture to write a self-confession, writing out the things about favoritism and fraud in the clearing of acres of land one by one, and signed and detained.

was going to let Lu Yuanzhi take it out and read it, but Jiang Mao volunteered to grab the errand and walked out happily.

After a while, I could hear the thunderous sound on the dam outside, and the villagers and peasants shouted in unison, and it took a while for Jiang Mao to come back, because his face was a little red because of the excitement.

"Haha, I only learned the joy of being an official today, it doesn't matter if I don't take the Jinshi exam, big brother, little sister, now I have to take the top prize!" Jiang Mao tried his best to keep his voice down, but his excitement could not be suppressed.

Jiang Mao's voice was a little louder, Lu Yuanzhi stood closer, and vaguely heard it, the fat man turned sideways and despised this son: Zhongju is very great, Qingdai's father Li Jianzhong is a lifter, and Zhongjinshi is even more Wenqu Xing, this person is ashamed to say that he wants to win the champion, it is really a man who does not know the height of the sky!

But what made the fat man strange was that Jiang Mao's brother and sister didn't think there was anything strange, and the eldest brother, who seemed to be old and serious, nodded slightly, as if he took it for granted that his younger brother won the champion.

Jiang Zi took the self-confession from the third brother, and looked carefully in the dim light, her heavenly face was covered with an indescribable frost, and she didn't know what she was thinking.

An hour later, Han Feilian mentioned Wang Shi, the wife of the chief Qi Cao.

This little woman was in her twenties, dressed in plain clothes, her hair was a little disheveled, and she seemed to have been woken up from her sleep and taken straight to the inspection yamen. Her skin is a little yellow, and she is not very beautiful, but her facial features are peugeot, and her eyes are watery, and she can be regarded as a beauty in the countryside.

"I see that the suspicion of annihilating love and murdering her husband is very high," Lu Yuanzhi whispered to Qin Lin: "The woman's peach blossom eyes and murder do not see blood, Wang's eyes are enough to attract bees and butterflies, and besides, she does not wear filial piety clothes when her husband dies, and she clearly has a love for annihilation!" ”

Qin Lin couldn't cry or laugh: "Fatty, tell me, how did she know that her husband was dead and she should change into filial piety clothes?" If she really wears filial piety clothes, I am sure that she is a murderer! ”

"Yes, Qi Cao has been missing for eighteen days, and the body was fished up from the river, of course she didn't know that her husband had died early...... "The fat man touched his fat face and smiled embarrassedly.

The corpse that presented the view of the giant, the swollen lips turned out, the face was bigger than a football, and the eyeballs were bulging, even if the relatives identified it, it would be wrong, so Qin Lin did not rush to take the Wang family to identify the corpse, but asked with a pleasant face:

"Are you the wife of Li Chang Qi Cao? This official is Qin Lin, a hundred households of Jinyi Wei, who picked up a floating corpse in the river, so he came to investigate this case. Tell me what shoes your husband wore when he left home, whether he had black moles, scars, birthmarks, etc., and whether his teeth were missing? ”

When Wang heard that Qin Lin was the one who investigated the case, his eyes lit up suddenly, and he knelt and climbed a few steps forward: "The man of the people's women is Qi Cao, he is Chinese New Year's Eve eight years old today, because his grandfather passed the examination, he has been the chief of this area since his father who died in the family. The third tooth worm on the left side of his mouth was pulled out by Fang Langzhong the year before last, and there was a black mole the size of a fingernail on the back of a thigh on the right, next to his buttocks, well~ There are two conspicuous marks. ”

Qin Lin and Lu Yuanzhi glanced at each other, and nodded in unison: It is completely consistent!

Now that the source of the corpse has been confirmed, Qin Lin bluntly told Wang: "It seems that the corpse picked up by this official is your husband, don't cry, tell the official the clues carefully, so as to seek justice and revenge for your husband." ”

When Wang heard the bad news, he was not very sad, but he was stunned for a while, and then sighed long: "Don't hide it from the chief, the woman has already guessed that the dead ghost husband is not in this world, this matter is not someone else, it is the state government master sent two officials to do it, one is called Zhang Lei, the other is called Wang Sheng, that day they called the husband of the people woman away from home, and never came back, who else could the murderer not be them?" ”

Qin Lin frowned, his sharp eyes swirled on Wang's face, and he asked in a deep voice, "You went to the state government three times, did you go to ask for someone?" Since it was Zhang Lei and Wang Sheng who called Qi Cao away, it is reasonable for you to think that the two of them killed their husbands, but why did you say that it was instructed by Master Fang of the state ya, and what did your husband and Master Fang have? If the state doesn't accept it, why don't you go to the government and the province? ”

A trace of panic flashed in Wang's eyes when he heard this, and he could barely keep his composure, and he couldn't say why.

"There's something wrong with this woman!" The fat man said in Qin Lin's ear: "If something is abnormal, it is a demon, her husband, a big living person, was called away and disappeared out of thin air, how can she make a big fuss, go to the government and the province to control and complain, why will she only go to the Yamen of Benzhou to make trouble?" Look at this woman's shrewdness, she is not the kind of foolish woman who has never seen the world and can't go far. ”

Qin Lin smiled and was noncommittal.

Of course, there is something wrong with this woman, but are these abnormalities because she murdered her own husband, so she behaved like this?

Qin Lin temporarily asked the Wang family to retreat, and invited the third uncle to come and ask him if he knew who the rumored Wang family's mistress was.

The third uncle didn't know the details, but he went outside and brought in two old mothers, one with a thin and shaved face, and the other with a swollen face, but her eyes were all rolling around, and at a glance he knew that she was the kind of super long-tongued woman with a tongue full of three feet long.

The third uncle told them to say whatever they knew, and Qin Lin also smiled and let them drink tea.

The two mothers were still a little afraid of being officials, but when they found that this official was very kind, they immediately said one by one: "Ouch, do you still need to ask Wang's little hooves?" Her little lover is her cousin Du Zhongbei! ”

"If it weren't for the fact that the Du family was so poor, she would have married, where would it be Qi Lichang's turn to marry her as a continuation?"

"This marriage can't be improvised, it shouldn't be forced, in the end, even his life will be given away, Qi Caosheng will not see anyone die or see a corpse, and he doesn't know where he was buried by the husband and silver woman!"

"Yes, yes, the crow scratched that day, and the old body knew that nothing was good......"

Qin Lin frowned when he heard this, what was more terrible than an old shrew? That's two old shrews! No, it was like a thousand crows scraping, making him dizzy.

"Okay, okay," Qin Lin shook his hand, gave them a little broken silver, and sent them out.

Wang's cousin, Du Zhong, lived in Fuchi Town, and Han Feilian led the archers of the Inspection Division and quickly brought him over.

He is a ten-year-old offspring and has not yet married a wife, Han Feilian quietly told Qin Lin that this guy lives in a grass house, he is so poor that his family is surrounded by walls, his parents are dead, and he has never married a wife, and he is single.

Du Zhong was sleepy-eyed, and wore a dark green jacket, which seemed a little shorter in terms of his relatively tall stature, and if it was fat and thin, it seemed to be too wide, if it was for a slightly shorter and slightly chubby middle-aged man - such as Qi Cao, it would fit much better.

Lu Yuanzhi's eyes lit up, and he attached it to Qin Lin's ear: "His clothes ......"

Qin Lin nodded, indicating that he had noticed.

Qin Lin decided to go straight in, and while Du Zhong had just been picked up from the bed, he asked bluntly: "Some people say that you and your cousin Wang have a love affair and conspire to kill the chief Qi Cao, is there such a thing?" ”

Du Zhong was taken aback, and quickly knelt down and argued: "This, how do you say this? Wronged, wronged...... My cousin looked at me pitiful and hid from my brother-in-law to give me something, this is some, as for the annihilation, it is all other people chewing the root of the tongue and talking nonsense, begging the master to check clearly! ”

Qin Lin smiled, didn't answer him, and asked Han Feilian to bring up the Wang family.

When Wang saw Du Zhong in the hall, he was a little anxious, and asked him without caring about others: ", did they beat you?" Execution? ”

Du Zhong shook his head.

Lu Yuanzhi and the others looked at it in their eyes, just sneering, the relationship between these two people is probably more than ordinary cousins and brothers!

"Hey, you feel sorry for your cousin," the fat man laughed: "Even my husband's clothes have been given to him, I think as long as you ask, you will know that this dress should be Qi Cao's!" Give the clothes to your cousin, didn't you already know that your husband wouldn't come back? ”

Wang Shi was stunned and blushed: "Even if it is, since my husband is dead, who can forbid me to remarry?" The dead ghost surnamed Qi was killed by someone in the yamen, but it's none of my business with my cousin! ”

(To be continued)