Song Tongzhi was about to get angry again, Yang Qiuchi waved his hand and said: "I know what you are talking about, you are laughing at the third aunt who is too during the day, laughing at her for being ugly, and predicting how the old lady will deal with her." Right? ”

Yang Qiuchi guessed so accurately, which made Yang Aixiao a little surprised, Yang Qiuchi's words were prickly, which made her a little embarrassed, and nodded.

Yang Qiuchi asked again: "In the second aunt's room, there is also the eldest grandmother, right?" ”

Yang Aixiao nodded, and was even more surprised in his heart, Yang Qiuchi said so accurately, as if he was watching from the side.

She didn't know that Yang Qingshui had already told her how they rectified and tortured the third aunt. The third aunt is so ugly, how can they not gloat together.

"Who else but the three of you?" Yang Qiuchi asked.

"And the eldest sister-in-law, Zhou."

Sister-in-law Zhou is also there? Yang Qiuchi was shocked, and looked back at Song Tongzhi, who also found this problem and looked at Yang Qiuchi suspiciously. Both of them thought in their hearts, didn't Yang Qingshui say that his wife could testify that he was at home that night. Could it be that Yang Qingshui is lying? It seems that Yang Qingshui is still hiding something, and Yang Qingshui will have to be interrogated again later.

Yang Qiuchi then asked, "Have the four of you been chatting in the second aunt's room all night?" ”

"No, it seems that we talked about the fifth watch, and I remember that my grandmother said that if I don't go back to sleep, it will be dawn. That's when they dispersed. ”

"Can you be sure that the five are scattered?"

Yang Aixiao nodded: "I can be sure, after chatting, I heard the sound of the fifth watch, and I knew that it was very late, the eldest grandmother said that she wanted to go back, and the sister-in-law said that everyone was happy to chat, and now that I am a little hungry, it is better to go back after eating supper." The eldest grandmother agreed, and told Steward Pang to go to the kitchen to prepare supper for us, and we dispersed after supper. ”

"Steward Pang? Is Steward Pang with you too? ”

"Yes, he also hates the third aunt and says that the third aunt is immoral, so we asked him to stay and talk together. Waiting to serve tea and pour water at any time. I remember my mother teasing him that he didn't have a wife, how about the third aunt stripping naked and hugging him during the day? Everyone laughed at him. His old face was flushed with shame. ”

"Isn't Steward Pang married?"

"No, I heard that he married a relative in the early years, and then he went to sea with the boat, and when he came back, he found that his daughter-in-law had run away with others, and he never got married again."

"Out to sea?" Yang Qiuchi was a little curious, "What sea?" There is no sea in Guangde? ”

"I don't know very well, this is what Steward Pang said when he was drunk before. People wanted to introduce him to a family business, and he said that he would rather be with ...... Sleeping with the sow, he didn't look for a woman, saying that he hated women to death. ”

It seems that this housekeeper's daughter-in-law eloped with someone else, which caused great trauma to his soul. So he hates women very much, no wonder he beat his second aunt Zhang that day and attacked him so ruthlessly.

Yang Qiuchi asked again: "How many of you have been chatting in your mother's room, haven't you ever gone out halfway?" For example, a small solution or something? ”

Yang Aixiao frowned and thought about it for a long time, then shook his head: "It's been so long, I really can't remember." Besides, who would pay attention to such things as going to the thatched house. However, there must be someone who went to the thatched house, chatted almost all night, drank tea and ate snacks, there must be. ”

Yang Qiuchi estimated that the murderer strangled the third aunt, and then prepared Bai Ling to hang on the beam of the house and hang the body up, the whole process took at least twenty minutes, and it took at least ten minutes to enter and exit the window and re-paste the window paper, and the paste and window paper should have been prepared to be placed near the scene.

The distance from the second aunt's yard to the third aunt's small attic is relatively long, and it takes about five minutes to run briskly and ten minutes to come and go. If one of the four of them is a murderer, it will take about forty minutes in total, which is not a short time, and if someone disappears for so long, they should have an impression.

Since Yang Aixiao can't remember, it means that it is very likely that none of them have been out for so long. If this is true, then none of these four men had time to commit the crime. Can be excluded.

What about Steward Pang? Steward Pang is a big man, it's impossible to chat with the four of them all night, Yang Qiuchi asked Yang Aixiao: "Hasn't Steward Pang never gone out?" I mean the kind that takes a long time, almost half an hour? ”

Yang Aixiao thought for a while and shook her head affirmatively: "No, I remember that when we were talking about the third aunt, Steward Pang kept sitting at the bottom, interjecting a few words from time to time, often talking about everyone's itching, I remember everyone praised him for getting to the point, and then she wanted to go back late at night, but my mother didn't let her, saying that he would always accompany him to talk." Therefore, he didn't leave until the fifth watch was over. ”

This Steward Pang seems to be quite good at sycophancy, since he has no time to commit the crime, he can rule it out.

However, even if he has the time to commit the crime, he doesn't have a sufficient motive to commit the crime, could it be that he is annihilated by the third aunt?

Although Steward Pang is more capable, he is a shriveled old man after all, and he looks shrunken, which is worse than that of Old Lady Yang. Do you want to be guilty? In addition, Steward Pang hates women very much, if he is still interested in fighting with women, then he will not refuse to find a wife.

Yang Qiuchi then asked, "What about you?" You can always remember if you ever went to a thatched house, right? ”

A big girl's family was still a little embarrassed when asked about the thatched house. Yang Aixiao blushed and said, "I can't remember, it's been almost two years, who will remember this." ”

"You can't remember this, you always remember that you went to strangle the third aunt, right?"

Yang Aixiao was shocked: "I didn't!" I didn't kill the third aunt. ”

"Who killed that?"

"How do I know!"

"Who else could it be if it wasn't you? You strangled the third aunt first, your mother helped you poison the little young master Shan'er, and you also tried to poison the eldest young master to hallucinate and scare to death, but you didn't expect the eldest young master to leave the village, and your trick did not succeed. So, all this was done by you and your mother after full planning from beginning to end! ”

Song Tongzhi and Luo Xiancheng were taken aback, and they didn't expect this result at all. Only Song Yun'er looked at Yang Qiuchi excitedly, happy that his detective brother had solved another big case. Although she didn't hear how the case was solved.

Yang Aixiao was even more stupid, didn't react for a while, and asked, "No, it's not us, why are we doing this?" ”

"It's simple, for the sake of the family!" Yang Qiuchi smiled very sophisticatedly, complacent about his analytical and reasoning ability, "Your mother poisoned the little young master, and at the same time drugged the eldest young master to scare him to death, and then strangled the third aunt to death, so that no one would come to fight with you for the Yang family's property." Right? ”

Song Yun'er didn't quite understand, and asked, "There is also the eldest young master's daughter Cao'er, and the eldest young master's daughter-in-law Zhou." ”

"Cao'er is a granddaughter, can she compete with Yang Aixiao's daughter? Zhou is a daughter-in-law, and it is impossible to have the right to inherit. Yang Qiuchi came to this conclusion mainly because of the current inheritance law in China, which stipulates that daughters-in-law generally do not have the right to inherit, unless they are widowed daughters-in-law who have fulfilled their main maintenance obligations. In ancient times, it was even less to think about.

"Then, there's still a big grandma!" Song Yun'er seems to be deliberately provocative this time.

"The eldest grandmother is also a daughter-in-law...... no, the eldest grandmother is the original spouse of Mrs. Yang's main house, belonging to the spouse, different from the daughter-in-law, according to the provisions of China's inheritance law, this spouse is the first-order heir, and has the right to inherit her husband's estate, but I don't know if it will work in the Ming Dynasty.

Yang Qiuchi thought about it for a while, and felt that it didn't work, in ancient China, it was the primogeniture inheritance system, and the daughter-in-law remarried, and even her own dowry could not be taken away, let alone the family property of her husband's family.

According to the reasoning, it is like this, however, it is more practical to ask. Yang Qiuchi turned his head to look at Old Lady Yang and asked, "Uncle, can this daughter-in-law inherit the inheritance of her husband's family?" ”

Although Mrs. Yang was born in the imperial examination and read the Four Books and Five Classics, she is not very familiar with the Ming law, but there is still some common sense. said: "Woman, if the woman's husband dies and has no children to remarry, the husband's property and original dowry will be merged, and the ex-husband's family will be the master. But the widow keeps the festival, and the one who keeps the festival bears the husband's share. ”

Although Yang Qiuchi's ancient literary level is not very good, he still understands these words, that is to say, in the Ming Dynasty, if her husband died and her wife remarried, she couldn't even take away the dowry, which was consistent with her own memory, but if the widow kept the festival and didn't marry, she could take over her husband's property, of course, this is not inheritance in the real sense, because she only has the right to use but no right to dispose of, and she can't take it away.

It seems that if all this is done by Yang Aixiao and her mother, she will not be able to get the family property, and the property will be in charge of the grandmother in the future.

After thinking about it again, the eldest grandmother is not young, she will always die, and it will still fall into the hands of Yang Aixiao at that time. said excitedly: "Grandma is old, after she dies, won't it belong to Yang Aixiao?" ”

Yang Aixiao was about to cry when Yang Qiuchi said: "I don't, I really don't, I want to marry in the future, my husband's family has money, and the old lady will send me a dowry, what do I want the old lady's family property to do?" ”

That's right, Yang Qiuchi was shocked in his heart, this Yang Aixiao said it is not unreasonable, what is she doing with the Yang family's property? After all, she is going to get married. After marrying into her husband's family, she can't even dispose of her own dowry, so she moves the entire property of the Yang family over and contributes to her husband's family for free? Doesn't make sense. Besides, she doesn't even have her husband's family now, so what kind of heart does she have.

Song Tongzhi said again: "That's it, even if the eldest grandmother is gone, this, this property, can't fall into the hands of Yang Aixiao." ”

Yes? Yang Qiuchi was even more surprised: "Why? ”

Song Tongzhi has tried a lot of cases like this, and the relevant provisions are still relatively familiar, and he recited at the moment: "The Da Ming Law stipulates: 'If there is no one with the same clan, the daughter born will inherit the share, and if there is no woman, he will become an official.'" ’”

Yang Qiuchi also understood this sentence, that is, in the Ming Dynasty, daughters had to inherit the inheritance, unless all the men in the family died, that is, "no household".

This old lady Yang is the patriarch of Yangjia Village, the male Ding in the family is prosperous, Yang Qiuchi and Old Lady Yang are also of the same clan, not to mention others, as long as Yang Qiuchi does not die, Yang Aixiao has no way to inherit, in addition, the whole Yangjia Village is a family, the male Ding is prosperous, Yang Aixiao wants to count on killing people to seek family property, then at least kill all the men in Yangjia Village.

Yang Qiuchi was a little embarrassed, it seemed that his speculation would not work.

In fact, if this case happened in modern times, Yang Qiuchi's speculation could be established.

China's current inheritance law, Yang Aixiao, the eldest young master, and the little young master are all legitimate children of the old lady Yang, and the second aunt are the first-order heirs, and if the third aunt, the eldest young master, and the little young master of the old lady Yang all die, when the old lady Yang dies in the future, Yang Aixiao and her mother have the right to share the inheritance of the old lady Yang equally with the eldest grandmother. If the eldest grandmother dies before Mrs. Yang, then all the property of Mrs. Yang will belong to Yang Aixiao and her mother.

According to this logic, Yang Aixiao and her mother attempted to poison the little young master Shan'er in order to compete for the inheritance, and similarly, they took hallucinogens for this purpose in an attempt to scare the eldest young master to death, and bribed the wet nurse Lu to strangle the third aunt and poisoned Shan'er, all for this purpose.

Unfortunately, this purpose was not valid in the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, it is not that Yang Qiuchi has a problem with his reasoning ability, but that Yang Qiuchi does not have enough understanding of the legal system of the Ming Dynasty, and he will of course make mistakes when he uses the current inheritance system of our country to analyze the inheritance problem of the Ming Dynasty.

Since Yang Aixiao's motive for killing was insufficient, Yang Qiuchi asked her to step down and decided to continue to investigate others.

Next, we need to find Zhou, the daughter-in-law of the eldest young master Yang Qingshui, to check whether what Yang Qingshui said is true. At the same time, Zhou is also one of the Gang of Four who persecuted the third aunt Tai Guo's at the beginning, and he is also suspected of a major crime and must be investigated.

Zhou's brought, it still looks so quiet and quiet, it is hard to imagine that such a girl once made things difficult for the third aunt Tai Guo, and during Guo's pregnancy, she teamed up with others to kick Guo's stomach in an attempt to make her miscarry.

Yang Qiuchi originally had a good impression of her, but after knowing about it, she was so disgusted and too lazy to be polite, she didn't even shout her sister-in-law, and asked bluntly: "Zhou, what were you doing on the night that the third aunt Guo died?" ”

Zhou saw Yang Qiuchi setting up an official shelf, and there were Lord Song of Ningguo Mansion and Lord Cheng Luo of Guangde County, but he didn't dare to slack off, but her father was also promoted from the deputy director of the Salt Division of Qipin, so there was no problem of fear of officials. He said, "Sleep at home." ”

"Really? Who can testify? ”

"My husband, maid and maid can be servants."

"Zhou, you have a good memory, don't blame me for not reminding you, if you play annihilation and force the eldest master to tear his face and torture, it will not be good."

"I'm telling the truth," Zhou sneered, "If cousin, you're going to torture your sister-in-law, then I can only admit it." ”

Song Tongzhi said in a deep voice: "You, although you are Lord Yang's sister-in-law, if you don't reply well, answer your adult's questions, and even violate the royal law, Yang, Lord Yang can also torture you!" ”

Seeing that Song Tongzhi was angry, of course the Zhou family knew that the government was powerful, and the so-called people did not fight with the officials, not to mention that his father had been impeached, and now he was also a cloth cloth. The arrogance suddenly disappeared, and he said in a low voice: "The woman is telling the truth. ”

Song Tongzhi slapped the table: "Bold!" Dare to play tricks! That night, you obviously talked about the third aunt's ugly thing in the second aunt's room with your mother-in-law, the second aunt, Yang Aixiao, and the three of you, and you still dare to talk nonsense here, do you really think that the official will not dare to torture you? Well? ”

When Zhou heard this, he knew that the people had fully understood, and he couldn't hide it if he wanted to, so he smiled and said: "My lord, it's the folk woman who remembered it wrongly, I was with them that night, and I forgot it for too long." Please forgive me. ”

Yang Qiuchi asked, "Where was your husband that night?" ”

Zhou didn't dare to answer nonsense this time, and said honestly: "The women really don't know, I will go to the second aunt's room to talk after dinner, Yang Aixiao and the eldest grandmother are already there." We kept talking about the fifth watch in the middle of the night. The eldest grandmother asked Steward Pang to prepare a supper, and I didn't go back to the room until I finished the supper. ”

"Was your husband already in the room at the time?"

"He's sleeping in his room."

That is to say, Yang Qingshui is likely to take advantage of the period when Zhou went to the second aunt's room, secretly climbed over the wall, slipped into the small attic, and strangled the third aunt.

Yang Qingshui had the time to commit the crime, had a certain motive to kill, and concealed important facts, and the suspicion of the crime became larger again.

Yang Qiuchi continued to ask Zhou: "Have the four of you been in the room all that night?" Did anyone go out halfway? For example, the thatched house and the like. ”

Zhou recalled for a moment and said, "I really can't remember. But it doesn't seem to be, everyone chatted happily that night, and no one left for a long time halfway, even if it was a thatched house, there was one in the yard of the second aunt, so there was no need to run far. ”

Zhou's statement is more reasonable, a few of them saw that the third aunt was too ugly during the day, and it was not good to gloat at night, so why not be willing to slip halfway and not participate. It is also necessary to check the statements of the eldest grandmother and the second aunt, if they are consistent, it can be preliminarily judged that these people have alibi evidence.

Yang Qiuchi asked again: "Has your husband ever been violently beaten by your father-in-law for standing up for the third aunt, and he can't get out of bed for a month?" ”

Speaking of this, Zhou said hatefully: "This fox spirit will hook men, I originally wanted to be my husband's concubine, after entering the gate of our Yang family, while my husband was out to collect accounts, he hooked up with my father-in-law, and after marrying my father-in-law as an aunt, he still wanted to hook up with my husband, this fox-scratching fox, broken shoes, born slut, rotten bitch who sells cunts everywhere with open legs!" ……”

After Zhou gritted his teeth and cursed a series of scolding, his chest kept rising and falling, and he still didn't understand his hatred, so he cursed in a low voice.

Yang Qiuchi and the others were simply stunned, they couldn't understand how such a quiet young woman could scold such vicious and filthy language in front of so many men.

(To be continued)