The old man said: "My daughter-in-law is a good person, the most filial piety, has been filial piety and widowhood for me for so many years, but I didn't expect to be killed, which makes us reliable in the future, who will live a good life?" Who will give us a pension and send us to the end? Master, you want to avenge my daughter-in-law. ”

Lu Jinping nodded and said, "Condolences are changing, I have to ask you some questions now, and you have to answer them truthfully." ”

Only then did the two of them put away their tears, stood up, stood with their hands down, and waited for Lu Jinping to ask.

Lu Jinping said: "What do you call the two of you? ”

The old man said: "The old man's surname is Han, if the lord appreciates his face, he can call the old man outside." ”

Lu Jinping took a look and saw that he was wearing a coarse cloth shirt, a bun, and a turban, and his clothes were very simple, not like a rich man.

The old man seemed to see Lu Jinping's doubts, and said with a smile: "The old man was also a rich party in his early years, but later my son was not angry, and all the family property was lost, and he himself died of illness, so my family ended up like this, when I was young, I also used to be a village leader in our village." Later, because of the ...... of the family's ruin, alas, I stopped talking about it. ”

The village on the side hurriedly testified and said: "Yes, yes, Han Zhangyuan's previous net worth is amazing, and it is all blamed for giving birth to an unfilial son, this is all fate, and the people in our village still respect Han Zhangyuan very much." Until now, he is still called a member. ”

Lu Jinping nodded and said, "In that case, Han Yuanwai, can you tell me how you found your daughter-in-law's body?" ”

When Jin Yuan mentioned this incident, tears rolled down again, and he sobbed and wiped his tears and said: "This morning, my daughter-in-law said that he was going to Jia's shopkeeper's house to borrow some rice, because. Jia Feng, the son of Jia's shopkeeper, has always coveted our daughter-in-law, and once came to the door to marry her family, I said that she has to make her own decisions, my daughter-in-law will not do it, and she insists on widowing my son for life. Although my daughter-in-law rejected his proposal, Jia Feng never gave up. I often come to my daughter-in-law. ”

"Our Jia family is in dilapidation, life is unsustainable, my wife and I are both old, the farm work in the field depends on my daughter-in-law alone, how can I be busy, the family has not much land, it is very tight to support the three of us, plus the harvest is not good, green and yellow. The daughter-in-law also feels sorry for our old couple. I want to deal with him and borrow some money and food from him to get by. ”

"Today, the rice in the rice jar is empty again, my daughter-in-law is filial, so I offered to go to Na Jia Feng to borrow some more rice, and I will return him after the autumn. Unexpectedly. The daughter-in-law went out for a long time and didn't come home after noon. We couldn't sit still, so we went out to look for her, until we arrived at the shopkeeper Jia's house, but the shopkeeper Jia and his son denied that my daughter-in-law had come to look for them. Saying that we hadn't seen it at all, we were in a hurry, so we looked around. I found this latrine and found that my daughter-in-law had been raped by someone who took off her skirt and died tragically in this latrine. Master, my daughter-in-law is a good daughter-in-law who has nothing in the sky and no earth, and she died so miserably. Sir, you have to be the master of my family. ”

Lu Jinping nodded, looked at the crying woman, and said, "Mrs. Han, was that the case at that time?" ”

Mrs. Han nodded and said, "Yes, my daughter-in-law went out early in the morning, saying that she was going to Jia Yuanwai's house to find his son, and the purpose was to borrow some money and rice." I waited at home with our master, and waited until after noon and did not see him come back, so I hurried to look for him, and when I arrived at the shopkeeper's house, he said that he did not see it, and we finally found the body of my daughter-in-law in this latrine, with bare legs and skirts at the ankles, which is really pitiful, my son. When she said this, the old woman cried loudly, as if her heart was broken.

Lu Jinping looked around and asked the village official, "Who owns this vegetable field?" ”

Without waiting for the village to answer, a thin middle-aged man who had been standing next to the thatched house with his head hanging and bending over hurriedly took a few steps up and said, "Back to the master, this vegetable field is a villain." The villain's surname is Cai, and the three generations of his ancestors have grown vegetables for a living, and this large area is the villain's vegetable field. ”

Lu Jinping glanced at him, and saw that he had a sharp beak and monkey cheeks, and his two figure-of-eight eyebrows were drooping, looking a little obscene, but on a hot day, he was holding his sleeves, and he seemed to be very nervous.

Lu Jinping asked, "Where are you on this day?" ”

The villain has been resting in the shack, who would dare to come out on such a hot day? The sun is so hot? It's strange if you don't tan off a layer of skin. ”

"Where's your home?"

The farmer turned and pointed to a shack at the other end of the field, which was supported by four pillars and hung in the air, and a ladder climbed up. It is surrounded by bamboo mats, but there is a wind on it, and it seems that it is a place to live for food in summer.

Lu Jinping asked: "Have you been squatting in the vegetable shed all day and not coming out?" ”

"It's really not, the sun is too hot, I just sleep in the store, and I can see the vegetable patch with the door open, so even if someone comes to steal the vegetables, I can see it."

"Then did you see the daughter-in-law of Jin Yuan's foreign family passing by here?"

The vegetable farmer tilted his head and thought for a moment, and said: "I really can't remember, because the sun is too hot during the day, I am groggy, and I will sleep and wake up for a while, and I really haven't noticed whether he passed by here, I am next to the vegetable field by the road out of the village, if she goes from here to the parents' house, she will definitely pass by this road, but I really didn't notice, I just said, I, maybe I, passed when I was asleep, right?" ”

No, you ask, "Is the shopkeeper's house outside the village?" ”

The village on the side hurriedly said: "No, no, it's the other way around, the shopkeeper Najia's house is in the village, Han Yuanwai and his wife live outside the village, their old house has been sold, and a simple house has been built outside the village." Because they couldn't afford to buy land in the village, they built a shed on the hillside outside the village, two miles away from here, next to their family's thin acre of land. ”

Lu Jinping was a little sympathetic, and glanced at Han Yuanwai, it seems that this outsider is really pitiful. It's worse than he was at the beginning, although his family is in the middle of the road, but he still has an old house, and he even sold the house, so he can only move out of the village to build a small wooden house on the edge of the field to live.

Lu Jinping looked at the latrine where the body was found, it was an adobe house, made of adobe, and covered with a flat plate. There was only one wooden door, which was open, and a foul smell wafted out of the toilet and went straight to the nose. Looking inside, I saw a big pit dug in the latrine, in which more than half of the feces and urine were piled up, and two wide boards were erected on it, which was regarded as a squatting pit.

Lu Jinping turned back to the vegetable farmers and said, "Who built this latrine?" ”

"I repaired it, and I built it this year."

"Your shack is on the other side of the vegetable patch, why did you build the latrine here?"

"It's too smelly close, my vegetable business has been booming in recent years, making some money, planting vegetables all rely on feces and urine to make fertilizer, so I built a thatched toilet here, built on the side of the road, passers-by to go to the toilet conveniently, but also give me some accumulated fertilizer. You can also use vegetable patches, which seems to kill two birds with one stone. Hey hey"

The vegetable farmer was quite proud of his shrewdness in calculation, grinning and showing a mouthful of yellow teeth, and smiling dryly, but he saw Lu Jinping staring at him without the slightest smile, so he was still embarrassed and quickly put away his smile.

Lu Jinping looked back at the latrine and said, "You don't want to get a window?" So stinky, who wants to go in and go to the toilet? ”

"We countrymen don't care about this, because my dung pit is very big, and it is not enough to rely on people passing by to and urinate, I have to go to the villages to collect and urine, and then dump it in it and hoard it. The vegetable garden is too big and needs too much fertilizer. Only in this way will it be enough for the vegetable patch. In order to save money, I repaired it myself, and I originally wanted to repair a window, but I didn't know how to repair the window, just build it myself with adobe, cover it, anyway, it's a latrine, don't pay so much attention. ”

Lu Jinping nodded, thinking that this was also the truth.

He then walked over to the corpse, crouched down, carefully uncovered the straw mat, and saw a corpse lying below. The skirt was pulled up to cover the lower body. He asked, "How did you find the body?" ”

The village on the side was busy laughing and said, "Sir, after the two of them found out that their daughter-in-law had died in the latrine, one stayed there crying and grabbed the ground, and the other ran to the village to call me." I followed, and saw his daughter-in-law lying naked on the wooden board of the toilet with her legs apart. I told her mother-in-law to quickly pull up her skirt and cover the body and carry it out. This latrine stinks. The body was placed on the grass, and I went to the vegetable farmer again, pulled a straw mat and covered the body, and when I found it, it was bare-legged. It's not like this. ”

Lu Jinping nodded and did not speak, because his gaze was already attracted by the cyanosis of the corpse's face, especially the lips, which is a typical feature of death by suffocation!

His gaze fell on the deceased's fingernails again, likewise, cyanotic nails. This is further proof that the deceased died of asphyxiation.

However, in addition to mechanical asphyxiation leading to death, which can cause cyanosis of the lips, fingers and nails of the corpse, there are other causes that can also cause this phenomenon, so Lu Jinping must further verify his speculation, that is, to dissect the corpse.

The Tang Dynasty government did not need to ask for the consent of the deceased's family to autopsy the body, but Lu Jinping still asked Han Yuanwai and his wife, telling them that he would dissect their daughter-in-law to find out the real cause of death, and look for clues to the murder, so as to finally bring the murderer to justice.

Autopsy is different from others, if you move to someone's house, no one will do it, even if you move to the village Zhengjia Murazheng dare not say it, but in my heart it must be the boss is not happy. Therefore, it is best to perform an autopsy on the spot in this case, and at the same time, once it is clear that the deceased died of murder, further investigation of the scene can be carried out. So Lu Jinping decided to conduct the test on the spot. (To be continued......)