Mrs. Wang's real surname is Wang, not because her man's surname is Wang, but because she herself is surnamed Wang. And she doesn't have a man at all! Although Mrs. Wang is just a woman, she is a typical white rich beauty.

The house alone is a brick house, which contrasts sharply with the surrounding wooden walls and adobe rammed walls, and in addition to that, it can be found that the area occupied by the house is the largest in the whole village.

This village is called Wang Village, not far from Yuhang City, less than a quarter of an hour's walk! So, when I went out of the city gate, I saw this house from a distance, and it was very conspicuous in the middle of a bunch of houses!

When Feng Xiaoyun stepped forward and knocked on the door of the palace, a door poked his head out and asked, "Who is it?" ”

Before the words were settled, he drove to a group of officials in the back, knowing that it was someone from the yamen. Hurriedly ran in to report!

After a while, I saw a young woman about thirty years old going out, and when she saw Mrs. Liu, with a trace of joy and sadness on her face, she said, "Mrs. Liu, please come in quickly!" ”

After speaking, he said to Feng Manlou: "My lord, please!" ”

Feng Manlou looked at this Mrs. Wang, but she was wearing a plain skirt, and there was no decoration on her face, just a faint amount of pollen, which looked very noble and elegant! Set off a dusty temperament!

I thought that Mrs. Wang should be an old woman in her forties and fifties, but I didn't expect to be so young!

After Feng Manlou entered the yamen, the four guards followed in, and the other officials waited around the area!

As soon as Feng Manlou entered the front yard, he said, "This lady, but Mrs. Wang? ”

Mrs. Wang hurriedly said: "It's the people's woman!" I don't know if the adult is here for the case of the daughter-in-law of the Liu family? ”

Feng Manlou said: "Exactly! I wonder if Mrs. Wang can bring the county to the scene? ”

Madame Wang nodded immediately and led the way in front. I saw a group of people turn in a direction from the right side after entering the gate, and they walked all the way to the end, just a side room!

But he saw that the windows of the wing room were damaged, and the door was closed. Feng Manlou looked at it and asked, "Mrs. Wang, can you open the door of the wing room and let the county take a look?" ”

Mrs. Wang said with a sad face: "My lord, please listen to the words of the people's woman, the door of this wing room is latched from the inside, and it can't be opened at all!" ”

"Oh?" Feng Manlou was surprised for a while, it was a murder in a closed room again?!

But I heard Mrs. Wang say: "My lord, that's the case, yesterday the daughter-in-law of the Liu family, Qiuhua, came to the woman's house as a guest, because it was late, so I arranged for her to live in this room!" Who knew that the next day I didn't get up for a long time, and the maid asked the maid to ask for it, but there was no answer, so she asked the servant to smash the window and let the maid go in through the window! ”

Speaking of this, he also carefully explained the situation at the time in detail, Feng Manlou did not find anything suspicious, but heard Mrs. Wang continue: "After the maid entered, she only heard a scream, shouting that there was a dead man!" At this time, someone followed him into the window, and sure enough, he found Qiuhua dead in the room. The woman was worried about the lawsuit, so she didn't go in at all, so she let the maid and the servant come out of the window again, and then notified Mrs. Liu to report to the official! ”

Feng Manlou asked: "You have so many people in your house, and you don't let people report to the official, why do you let Mrs. Liu report to the official?" ”

Mrs. Wang hurriedly defended: "What the woman thinks is that although the person had an accident in the woman's house, she is from the Liu family, so she notified Mrs. Liu and asked her to report to the official!" ”

Feng Manlou didn't say anything, but circled around the wing room a few times and observed it carefully. In particular, the window was broken by man, so I paid special attention to it, but I didn't find any clues.

The entrance and exit of the entire wing, except for the windows, is this gate. Feng Manlou carefully surveyed the door of the room again, and vaguely felt that something was not right. Because this door is made of wood, there is a hinge on it, and the hinge is stuck in the door frame, so Feng Manlou pays special attention.

It's a wooden door, and there is nothing unusual about it! But the door frame, it seems, has signs of loosening.

Feng Manlou asked Xue Ba to slam the door open! Dong Chao also rolled up his sleeves and wanted to go up to help, but Feng Manlou stopped him. saw Xue Ba kick hard, the strength was not great, but the door fell down with the door frame!

After the door was opened, Feng Manlou's face suddenly changed, and he motioned everyone not to go in, and he went to look at the door frame first, and then walked into the wing room alone. Everyone hurriedly followed.

Mrs. Liu saw her daughter-in-law lying on the bed, but she didn't take off her clothes, you can imagine how rushed the time was yesterday!

Feng Manlou carefully observed the traces on the ground, except for the traces of coming in through the window, there were no other traces, and observed the dead body on the bed, but found that the deceased was neatly dressed, but it was only the whole, but the corners and cuffs of the clothes looked messy. The quilt on the bed was not spread out, and it was obvious that it had died before going to bed.

After examining the corpse, he said: "My lord, it has been preliminarily determined that the deceased should have died at the beginning of the third watch, and it has been a full six hours since now, and the corpse spots on his body have gradually become obvious, and they have begun to increase. ”

"There were no wounds all over the body, and there was a distinct, deep purple mark on the throat. The pupils are dilated and bloodshot. His face was distorted, and his tongue turned purple-black. It was strangled to death! He finally came to a conclusion.

When Feng Manlou heard it, he was strangled to death? After thinking about it, since he was strangled to death, maybe there were other clues on the deceased.

However, it is a pity that no trace was found, and just when Feng Manlou was about to give up, he actually found that the nail color of the deceased's left hand, middle finger and index finger seemed to be a little different from the color of other nails.

Upon closer inspection, a piece of skin was found in the gap between the left fingernail and the right fingernail, just a thin layer of skin!

Feng Manlou let the servant pick it out, and took a closer look, but found that the skin should be on his hand.

"Can you determine what part of the skin this is?" Feng Manlou asked Wu Decai.

Wu Decai said: "Not sure! ”

"It should be the one in the hand, the surname may be bigger!" Feng Manlou said: "After the deceased was strangled, he must not be able to breathe, so he must have tried to break the hand that strangled his neck, and the murderer's strength was relatively large, and the deceased couldn't break it at all." Despite all his efforts, it was to no avail. So it was just a layer of skin that was grabbed from the murderer's hand, a very small, very slender layer. ”

Wu Decai thought for a while and said, "It stands to reason that it should be like this!" ”

Feng Manlou said: "If this is the case, the murderer must be a man, by the way, can you see it from the traces on the throat?" ”

Wu Decai said: "It is indeed a man, and the murderer obviously only used one hand!" ”

"A hand?" That's a lot of strength.

The deceased was wearing a green dress, and he looked very neat, which showed that he was usually a very neat person, especially when he came to visit the door now, of course, he would deliberately wear better clothes. However, the messy cuffs and corners of the shirt were obviously struggling before he died, and Feng Manlou noticed that the fabric on the cuffs seemed to be broken.

After surveying the scene, Mrs. Liu was able to restrain her daughter-in-law. The children at home are still taken care of by neighbors, and they must go back quickly.

Feng Manlou saw Mrs. Liu's sad appearance, and her heart was also in pain, I am afraid that Mrs. Liu with a little grandson will be very sad in the future. Hurriedly fumbled in his pocket for a while, found a few silver bills from Huitong Bank, and handed each one over consistently.

Seeing this, Mrs. Liu cried and said, "Thank you, thank you, thank you." Please be sure to catch the murderer as soon as possible and avenge my daughter-in-law! ”

Mrs. Wang was also kind-hearted, and she also took a ten-mile silver ticket and handed it to her, saying: "Qiuhua's death, I have a master and servant with her after all, this money is also a little heart, please take it!" ”

After sending Mrs. Liu away, Feng Manlou began to ask the people of the Wang family one by one. First of all, it is the subordinate and the maid that Mrs. Wang said.

The maid said that the window was indeed opened by herself, and the servant confirmed that the window was indeed opened later. And there are no marks on the windows.

Feng Manlou repeatedly confirmed that seeing the two of them didn't look like lying, so he didn't pay attention.

"Did the deceased do anything before he died?" Feng Manlou asked Mrs. Wang.

Mrs. Wang said, "No, but around the beginning of the year, I once came to talk to the people's women!" ”

At the beginning of the day, it is after nine o'clock in the evening, and this season is neither early nor late! Most people sleep, but occasionally some people don't.

"Where is the room where Mrs. Wang is resting, can you take a look around in this county?" Feng Manlou asked.

Of course, Mrs. Wang didn't agree, besides, Feng Manlou just said to go around!

In the rooms around Mrs. Wang, it was true that nothing was found, but Feng Manlou found that the outside of Mrs. Wang's wing was not far from the wing where the deceased was, and the road in the middle was smooth and smooth.

Something must have happened here! Feng Manlou thought so.

But I heard Wang Ying say: "My lord, look at your feet! ”

Feng Manlou squatted down, and sure enough, he found that on the side of the road under his feet, he found a few green silk threads, and his brows immediately furrowed. Fortunately, this was on the side of the road, and it was not swept away by the people who cleaned it in the morning.

Outside Madame Wang's wing, it was found again; The green silk thread, this time not just one, but several, and it was at the door of Mrs. Wang's wing. Because the flower beds of the Wang family's house are relatively large, holly trees are planted in the places leading to each room. Now autumn has arrived, and the branches have already hardened, and the gardener has pruned and pruned them, but the branches have become very hard.

And these green silk threads were hanging on the branches of the holly tree, and it was obvious that the cuffs touched the branches and were cut.

Feng Manlou carefully surveyed again, and then walked out of the Wang family's house, but heard the four people behind him start to discuss.

Wang Ying said: "Have you noticed that your brows are tightly knit today, and this case seems to be not easy to solve!" ”

Xue Ba was full of confidence in Feng Manlou, and said: "Impossible, you don't look at who our adults are, it's only been more than a month since we arrived in Yuhang, and how many cases have been solved, this is not difficult for adults at all!" ”

Feng Manlou said to them: "What are you muttering, go back to the yamen!" ”

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