Lu Jinping thought to himself, in this case, help others to the end, let this poor little girl follow him, it is better to be a little maid by his side than to be cold and hungry in this poor country. Seeing that she is nimble, she should be able to train her.

So Lu Jinping turned his head to look at Ye Qingqing, and before he spoke, Ye Qingqing had already begged: "Sir, otherwise, just take her, take her with you, and take care of you with me." We are short of manpower in our house. ”

Lu Jinping nodded and said, "Since that's the case, you can follow me." ”

When the old man heard this, a stone in his heart finally fell to the ground, and he couldn't help but feel happy and sad, and couldn't help but cry.

Lu Jinping asked: "Your son died, and you gave me your granddaughter again, so what should you do if you are alone?" ”

Su Laohan wiped his tears and said, "Even if the third sister stays by my side, she will marry in a few years, and she can't guard me for the rest of her life." Our family is poor and can't recruit a son-in-law, so it is her blessing to follow the lord. I have a cousin, he has several sons, last time they discussed with me, after my son died, no one inherited, I still have a few acres of thin land, there is no problem to feed two or three people, there is a shortage of labor, when the time comes, my cousin will give me a son as an heir, give me a pension, and in the future these fields and houses will belong to him. So don't worry. I also told the third sister all these words, so she can go with you with confidence. ”

Lu Jinping nodded, judging from the previous investigation, Su Laohan told the truth, their family has land and land, but they are just short of labor, and his son didn't farm well after his illness before, so he didn't live well, if he really succeeded a capable son, he would farm seriously and support the two of them, so there was no need to worry.

Lu Jinping said goodbye immediately, took Ye Qingqing and Su Sanmei, and came to the village house. After meeting with Tong County, they set off to return to Tongguan City.

The melon head was eventually executed. Su Laohan happily paid tribute at his son's grave. Fulfilled this wish. And his cousin's step-son is also very diligent and filial. And after Su Sanmei followed Lu Jinping, she had a lot of money every month and saved it. From time to time, he bought some things for his grandfather to send to his filial piety, and Su Laohan was very comforted in his heart, and he lived a peaceful and healthy life from then on.

Lu Jinping and Tong County ordered them to Tongguan, and then the county lieutenant took the arrester to escort the winter melon head and followed Lu Jinping to Tongzhou to dig up the bodies of Gao Lao Er and the coachman. Sure enough, under the old locust tree by the Tongzhou River at the foot of Yunya Mountain, under the guidance of the winter melon head. Sure enough, two bodies were dug up, both of which were fatal with sharp wounds.

The two corpses were buried directly in the soil, and it was a cold winter month, and the time was not long, so the ** degree was not high, and one of the two corpses was dressed like the coachman, with multiple knife wounds on his body. The other is gorgeously dressed, estimated to be the second tall, with only a knife in the neck. It is consistent with what the winter melon head said.

After the careful Lu Jinping identified the corpse, he found that the corpse's face was slightly bruised, his lips were cyanotic, and there was a faint very fine strangulation mark on the neck that had begun to decay, because the corpse was buried directly in the soil, and the neck was full of mud, plus the decay of the muscle layer, only a professional forensic doctor like Lu Jinping who had undergone countless autopsies could identify it as a strangulation mark.

When interrogating the winter melon head before, the winter melon head only said that he stabbed Gao Lao Er's neck with a bull ear sharp knife, and did not say that he was strangled to death with a rope. Now that the head of the winter melon has confessed to killing. He will not hide his means of killing. From this, it can be judged that this strangulation mark should not be carried out by the head of the winter melon.

Lu Jinping needs to find further evidence. So, let Tong County order them to leave far away, and they had to perform an autopsy on the corpse.

Lu Jinping is a Shangguan, and of course the people who have ordered him to disobey him. Although this case was passed by them, they avoided it from afar. Lu Jinping carried out the dismantling of the body at the scene.

After dissection, some evidence of mechanical asphyxiation death was found from the internal organs of the corpse, and an autopsy of the wound on the neck found that there was no life reaction. In the end, it turned out that the strangulation mark on Gao Laoer's neck was a fatal injury, and he died of mechanical asphyxiation. And not the knife on the head of the winter melon. In other words, the deceased was already dead before the head of the winter melon was stabbed into his throat with a knife from the tip of a cow's ear.

Who killed Gao Laodi? And why kill him?

Lu Jinping barely thought about this question and got an obvious answer, - killing people and killing people.

Judging from what Dong Guatou said before, Gao Lao Er said that he found this errand, so it seems that the person hiding in the house entrusted Gao Lao Er to deliver the corpse. And Gao Lao Er happened to meet the winter melon head and asked him to help, but neither of them thought that the person who entrusted them did not intend to let them survive from the beginning, so they were ready to kill the mouth, so after they completed the task, they carried out the murder and extermination.

It is likely that after killing Gao Er, the killer was going to kill the winter melon head, but he didn't expect the winter melon head to be in the house, and the killer didn't expect that the winter melon head went to Gao Er's front and back feet, and transported the body away and buried it, and then fled back to his hometown overnight. The killer couldn't find the winter melon head, and he didn't know where the winter melon head was home. In ancient times when information was not developed, it was very difficult to find a person, which made the winter melon head escape the murder.

From this point of view, the person who entrusted Gao Lao Er and Dong Guatou to transport the corpse in the house that day was the person he was looking for.

Who is this person?

Of course, these are just Lu Jinping's speculations.

Now the only clue is that Gao Lao Er is dead, and the winter melon head is the person brought by Gao Lao Er who has not seen that person, Lu Jinping decided to go to the courtyard at that time to see the situation first.

Lu Jinping instructed the catcher to notify Boss Gao to identify the body, and in addition, to visit the coachman's family and ask them to collect the body. At the same time, Lu Jinping led someone to escort the winter melon head and asked him to guide him to the courtyard where they were transporting the corpse.

When they got there, Lu Jinping and Ye Qingqing glanced at each other, and sure enough, as Lu Jinping expected, this place was not far from the hunting wilderness where they encountered the man in black ambush.

This further affirms that the person who entrusted Gao Lao Er and Winter Melon Head to transport the corpse must be in the same group as the man in black who ambushed him. They somehow found the bodies of the two black-clothed people buried by Lu Jinping and transported them back to the capital.

Since they transported the bodies back to the capital, does that mean that these people are from the capital?

Lu Jinping chuckled in his heart, but don't have anything to do with the dignitaries in the capital.

Lu Jinping looked at the locked courtyard door and told Xiong Zhutou to climb over the wall and go in to see if there was anyone inside. When I went in, I found that the door inside was also locked, and from the crack in the window, it was empty, and there was no furniture, and it looked like an abandoned house.

Lu Jinping ordered to smash the lock, open the door and go in to check. At the same time, let the catcher go around and look for nearby people. finally found an old man who lived not far away, and the old man told Lu Jinping with a smile that the family had moved out a year ago, and the house had been empty and empty.

When the winter melon heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned, and said: "When I came, there were people here, but I really didn't care about these at that time, and I saw a carriage parked in the courtyard, and then, after discussing with them, I drove the carriage away, and I didn't pay attention to whether there were people in the house, nor did I pay attention to whether there was any furniture."

Lu Jinping stepped in and found that there was nothing in the main hall, there was a bedroom next to it, and he went in with a curtain, and there was a wooden bed inside, without a cover, only a bed frame. There is a couch by the window. There was also a scarlet cushion on top of the couch. Some dust has fallen.

The whole room is just like someone has lived. But I don't know why the cushion wasn't taken away.

Lu Jinping immediately took a closer look at the cushion as if he had found a treasure. Suddenly, he noticed a long jet-black hair on top of the cushion.

Lu Jinping was overjoyed, he carefully pulled up the long hair, and if he looked closely in the sun, there were hair follicles at the end, which means that this hair could be DNA identified.

Lu Jinping was very excited, at least he could get an important clue from this, who was the person who explained the matter to Gao Lao Er in the house, and he could find out some clues from the identification results.

The search continued, and no suspicious traces were found.

After finishing his errand, seeing that it was still early, Lu Jinping didn't even go home, and directly ordered to go to the capital. He wanted to find the clues as soon as possible, so he escorted the criminal Dongguatou to the capital non-stop to identify the Yunlai Inn where he handed over the body at that time. Now, this is his greatest hope, hoping to follow this clue, so he can't delay for a minute.

Dong County made them not expect that the case would involve the capital, and they couldn't help but be a little frightened, but with Lu Jinping in front of them, they could only grit their teeth and follow into the capital.

Entering the capital is the first time for Lu Jinping, although Tongzhou is not far from the capital, but he has not been to the capital for so long in Tongzhou.

The capital of Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, was the economic and cultural center of the world at that time, and there were people from all over the world who came to worship and study. It is one of the most prosperous cities in the world. How many famous sayings and good sentences in Tang poetry praise this beautiful city, and today, I can finally go to find out because of business.

They can be regarded as traveling day and night, and finally arrived outside Chang'an City.

Chang'an City is really extraordinary, the city wall is tall and majestic, and the rivers in and out of the city are endless. Moreover, the inventory is also very strict. However, after Lu Jinping and the others showed their official documents and waist cards, the officers and soldiers guarding the city politely let them in.

Entering the city, Lu Jinping was really stunned, Chang'an City is strictly planned and designed, with a tic-tac-toe layout, the whole street is criss-crossed, neatly aligned, there is no paving on the street, and the shops are mainly concentrated in the east and west markets. Of course, there are high walls on both sides of the neat street, and inside the walls are residential areas called fangs. In the residential area, in addition to the house, there are also some shops selling daily necessities, as well as pharmacies, green houses, and so on. (To be continued.) )