Yang Qiuchi said: "In that case, you can go home." ”

Long Zixu wiped his tears: "Go home? My mother is long gone, what can I do when I go home? I'm not alone. ”

Yang Qiuchi said: "That white bone is not your mother, she is not dead, she has already gone home." ”

Long Zixu's eyes widened: "Really? Isn't she dead? ”

Yang Qiuchi simply eloped with the carpenter Mo Douqiao, and simply told Long Zixu about the arrest of them by himself through the relationship between Jinyi and Wei.

After hearing this, Long Zixu's face turned pale and shook his head: "This slut!" I eloped with someone else for nearly a year, and I was never heard from, so I suffered a lot from prison, and I almost lost my surname, and she had no conjugal affection for me, and I went back to see what she did. ”

"And what are your plans for the future?" is also a scholar, although he is ancient and he is modern, but Yang Qiuchi still has a feeling of pity in his heart.

Long Zixu was a little ashamed, but when Engong asked, he couldn't help but answer, so he had to say, "What else can I do?" I have no long skills, so I can only help others copy and write, and eat with a mouthful of food. ”

Song Yun'er and Song Qing have been by Yang Qiuchi's side. Song Yun'er saw that he was pitiful, and whispered beside Yang Qiuchi: "Brother~!" Why don't you take him as your scholar? ”

Yang Qiuchi was angry and funny, and said in a low voice: "He is in his forties, have you ever seen such an old scholar?" ”

Long Zixu heard the two of them talking, bowed down and said, "The supervisor is very kind to me, and I won't go back to that home anyway." I have been reading poetry since I was a child, and I am familiar with the four books and five classics, and I can write and calculate, if the adults do not dislike it, I am willing to follow the adults around and be a staff. I don't think I'm pedantic, and I'm familiar with people. ”

Long Zixu saw that Yang Qiuchi was in his twenties, he should have been married for many years, and he was a heroic young hero, maybe there were a lot of children, so he said: "If the supervisor can be trusted, I am also very willing to be an enlightened gentleman to the adult's son-in-law and repay the adult's great kindness." After that, it was a deep sigh again.

Song Qing grinned and winked at Yang Qiuchi: "Brother Qiuchi, how old is your child?" It must be fun, can you borrow me for two days? ”

"Hee-hee-hee-hee......," the two girls laughed triumphantly.

Want to play with kids? Won't you give birth to one yourself? Yang Qiuchi glared at the two of them.

Thinking about Long Zixu's proposal carefully, his heart moved, yes, there is a lack of a housekeeper at home, and he has come to the Ming Dynasty for so many days, and there are still many things that he can't understand, especially in this officialdom. Now that I have become a commander and envoy, there are many fights, but there are really not many people who do learning, and it is inevitable that I have to deal with various figures in the government to solve cases. Then he said, "In that case, you can follow me in the future." ”

Long Zixu was overjoyed, bowed down and said, "Thank you, Lord Supervisor, I will do my best to serve the young master and Miss well." ”

"Hahaha......" Song Qing and the two sisters laughed so hard that they couldn't straighten their waists.

It's really two crazy girls, Song Yun'er was enough to make trouble before, and now there is another Song Qing, the two have company, just make a couple, don't expect to be quiet in this Guangde County.

Yang Qiuchi said to Long Zixu: "I don't have a child yet, you can't be a teacher anymore, so you can follow me first and be a squad leader." "I thought to myself, you are a little talent, and when I am the follower of the envoy of the commander of the Jinyi Guard, it is not a bargain.

Long Zixu bowed and said, "Yes!" I will do my best to assist the Supervisor in order to repay His kindness. ”

Song Zhixian and Master Jin secretly laughed to themselves, they had only heard of the official asking for staff, and they had never heard of the cell boss also inviting staff. The two of them didn't know that Yang Qiuchi at this time was no longer called Wuxia Ameng in the past.

Song Zhixian said to Yang Qiuchi: "Virtuous nephew, it's noon now, let's eat first, and then go to open the coffin for autopsy, what do you think?" ”

Yang Qiuchi was also hungry, and the autopsy couldn't be completed for a while, and said: "That's it, since I have newly accepted Mr. Long as a staff member, I should celebrate and come to my house at noon, so that Mr. Long can meet with my family." ”

"Okay~!" Song Qing first clapped her hands in agreement, the small dimples flashed, and the neat snow-white little shell teeth dazzled people's eyes, "I haven't seen my sister-in-law and aunt yet." Let's go. Regardless of whether Song Zhixian agreed or not, he pulled Song Yun'er and ran out first. Song Zhixian shook his head, there was no way to take these two living treasures.

The group came to Yang Qiuchi's house, since Yang Qiuchi obtained all the confiscated family wealth from Old Man He, he has a lot of land rent and ground rent income every month, and the family has also lived a rich life, hired two cooks, and the home layout is also closer to the rich man, but unfortunately this small courtyard is a little smaller now, and Yang Mu and Feng Xiaoxue are already thinking about buying a larger house.

Song Qing is much more sensible than Song Yun'er, and after entering the courtyard, after Yang Qiuchi's introduction, she said a blessing to Yingying respectively, and greeted sweetly: "Hello aunt~!" Sister-in-law is good~! "Mother Yang laughed so happily, Feng Xiaoxue also liked this sweet and well-behaved Song Qing. Yang Qiuchi introduced Yang Mu and Feng Xiaoxue to Long Zixu again. Long Zixu was courteous and courteous.

Yang Qiuchi ordered the preparation of a banquet. After a while, the banquet was set down and he began to drink. Song Qing, Song Yun'er and Feng Xiaoxue all drank some wine, and after Song Qing drank the wine, her face was flushed and charming, which attracted Yang Qiuchi to look at her directly.

When he was pushing the cup and changing the cup and drinking lively, the doorman of the yamen hurriedly ran in and reported to Song Zhixian: "Master, the lady of Long Zixu who just came back Wang and the little carpenter are dead!" ”

Yes? Everyone was stunned when they heard this, they were still fine in the morning, why did they suddenly die? When Long Zixu heard the news, the wine glass in his hand trembled twice, and still fell on the table.

Song Zhixian and Master Jin glanced at each other, but they were both happy. Seeing this scene, Yang Qiuchi's heart sank, could it be that the Wang family and the carpenter Motou Qiao were assassinated by them? Because if the two of them died, Song Zhixian and Master Jin would find a ready-made scapegoat who would not distinguish and push the blame on them, anyway, there was no proof of death, and everything was valid. But after thinking about it, I felt that it was impossible, because after this wrongful case was exposed today, Song Zhixian and Master Jin had been with them, and they didn't have time to send someone to do it. Besides, the most wrongful case is a loss of office, and murder can cost one's life. Unless they're crazy, they won't make this move lightly.

If it hadn't been killed by the two of them, it would have been a good result for them.

Song Zhixian asked, "How did you die?" ”

"I don't know if it's a little one, it's Li Zheng who sent someone to report it, please go and test it, master."

After this incident, this wine will not be drunk. Song Zhixian sent someone to call the officials, catch fast and complain, and come to Long Zixu's house together. Such a lively Song Yun'er and Song Qing, the two bold little girls, will never miss it, and they came together.

One of the two doors in the middle of Long Zixu's house was already hanging there diagonally, and the wooden planks on the door were also broken, as if they had been smashed by something.

The door was full of people, talking about each other. The officials shouted, "Get out of the way!" The county magistrate is here! The crowd retreated. Li Zheng came up with sweat on his head and bowed to Song Zhixian.

Song Zhixian frowned and asked in a deep voice, "What, what's going on?" ”

The sweat on Lizheng's head flowed like a stream, took out a sweat towel from his arms, wiped it carefully, and said: "Back to the master, after you left, Wang's wife has been insulting and beating Wang and the little carpenter, we can't see it, we want to persuade them to leave, but his wife just didn't follow, and ran out of the door to find a wooden stick, saying that she would kill Wang." We hurriedly ran out of the door to stop it, but unexpectedly, we all went out of the house, and the Wang clan slammed the door behind him, leaving only her and the little carpenter in the room, and the door was bolted from the inside. We knocked on the door, but it wouldn't open, and even the windows were closed tightly. ”

Li Zheng secretly glanced at Song Zhixian, and when he saw that he didn't speak with a gloomy face, he was even more nervous, wiped his sweat again, and then continued: "We persuaded them to open the door twice, no one cared about it, knocked on the door for a long time, and there was still no movement, so I was in a hurry, and discussed what to do, a few young men carried a rough log, knocked the door open, and found that they had been hanged in the house." When I stepped forward to touch it, they were already out of breath and didn't dare to put it down, waiting for you to test it. ”

Master Jin snorted: "Didn't I tell you to be a good guard?" How can they be allowed to die? They're dead, what do you say about this case? Who can tell? Well? ”

Li Zheng bowed vigorously and said damn it.

Song Zhixian snorted heavily, walked to the door of the room, looked inside, motioned to Yang Qiuchi to let him in to check, and turned around and came to the courtyard. Li Zheng had already prepared tables, chairs, and tea.

In fact, Yang Qiuchi is no longer an apprentice, and he should not have been called to go to such things, but only if he came forward to check, Song Zhixian could rest assured, so he still asked him to go. For Yang Qiuchi, the investigation of the death scene is commonplace. He stepped into the door, and the two Song Qing sisters were about to go in, but they were stopped by Yang Qiuchi, afraid of destroying the scene, so let them check it outside.

There are two rooms in this room, inside and outside, and on the beams of the outer room are two people, a man and a woman, neatly dressed, hugging each other tightly, it is the Wang family and the little carpenter. A stool reclined on the ground at the feet of the two men. Yang Qiuchi simply looked at the scene and preliminarily judged that the two committed suicide. Because so many people were present at that time, it was impossible for the murderer to choose this time to kill, and besides, after closing the door, there were still so many people outside, and if there was a murder fight inside, it would definitely be heard. Of course, the most accurate thing is to perform a forensic examination.

Yang Qiuchi first observed the stool on the ground, and saw that there were a few inconspicuous shoe prints, and compared the shoes on the feet of the two people and the patterns on the stool, which were very similar, and the preliminary judgment was that they were left by the two.

Yang Qiuchi found another high stool to stand on, and carefully observed the rope on the beam, there were no obvious sliding traces, indicating that there was no resistance and struggle, in line with the characteristics of hanging suicide, there was more dust on the beam, but at the rope position, the dust was wiped off. It should be wiped off when the rope is hung by hand. Yang Qiuchi squatted down and inspected the palms of the two, and found that there was dust sticking to Wang's right hand, which was consistent.

At this point, it can be judged that the two committed suicide without a doubt. It seems that this is a pair of infatuated men and women, seeing that they can't be together alive, they simply hanged themselves together. Seeing the tragic death of the two, Yang Qiuchi was very emotional, and he didn't know if he had done the right thing by going to such great lengths to arrest them.

Yang Qiuchi told Song Zhixian and Master Jin about the inspection. Song Zhixian breathed a sigh of relief, what he was most worried about now was not to have any big cases, now that the two of them committed suicide, it would be easy to handle, and besides, there was something to blame for his wrong case, so there was no need to worry about it for the time being.

Yang Qiuchi saw that Long Zixu was depressed, and felt a little uncomfortable, so he took out a silver ingot from his arms and gave it to him for future affairs.

Song Zhixian has always been concerned about the white bone case. After the inspection was completed here, Song Zhixian ordered five sedan chairs to be prepared, and Song Zhixian, Master Jin, Yang Qiuchi and Song Qing sisters went up the mountain in sedan chairs.

It took more than an hour to finally arrive at the place where the bones were buried.

Since this white bone is not Wang's, there is no need to ask for the consent of Wang's mother's family. Under the witness of Li Zheng, several of the injustices dug up the grave, revealing a thin wooden coffin, pulled the coffin up with a rope, put it aside, pried open the lid of the coffin, and the injustices retreated.

The next job was Yang Qiuchi's, he carefully pushed open the lid of the coffin, first let the smell inside disperse, and then probe to look inside. Before he saw clearly, he didn't want to reach in and touch it. In the past, when he was a forensic doctor, he had the experience of opening the coffin for autopsy many times, which made Yang Qiuchi learn a lot. If you don't see clearly and reach in, once you touch the liquefied corpse, it's over.

After the soft tissue of the corpse is liquefied in the coffin, it is mud-like, with strong adhesion and a strange smell, even wearing double rubber gloves cannot prevent the smell on the hands. Once wetted, it must be soaked in potassium permanganate solution and then decolorized with oxalic acid, and even then, you can still smell that weird stench for a few days.

In the coffin, there was a red quilt on top, Yang Qiuchi gently lifted the quilt, and below was a white bone. Yang Qiuchi carefully observed the inner wall of the coffin and the surroundings of the white bones, and found nothing as sticky as black ash pine oil, this thing was the soft tissue of the liquefied corpse, and he did not wear rubber gloves, once it was glued, all the mm would be smoked away, including the most virtuous and considerate Feng Xiaoxue, I am afraid that it will not be spared.

Thankfully, there wasn't any, and there wasn't any strange color on the red mattress under the bones. It seems that the corpse has been completely ossified. Yang Qiuchi breathed a sigh of relief and began to examine it carefully.

(To be continued)