Yang Qiuchi was a little proud, it seemed that he was really a sweetheart, and Bai Qian always took the initiative to marry his daughter to him (but that was also a little helpless, who called himself a skin-to-skin relationship with his daughter). Now this Hao Yuanwai is also like this, hehe, it's strange, I don't think I'm so great, why is it so popular with the people.

However, this Hao Yuanwai is a businessman, the Ming Dynasty valued agriculture and light business, although the merchant is rich, but the social status is relatively low, and himself, although the envoy of the Jinyi Wei command envoy can't say it now, others don't know, just for now, he is a big landlord who owns all the real estate and land of the old man He in Hejia Village, and he is still the director of the Guangde County Detention Center (although he is only hired), so although his money may not be as good as the Hao family, his social status is higher than theirs, and her daughter marries her as a concubine, which is not a loss to her. Besides, this Hao Qian can be regarded as an old girl in the Ming Dynasty, and if she doesn't marry, she won't be able to marry.

This concubine is not as good as marrying a wife, you don't need the order of your parents, the words of the matchmaker, "concubines are bought and sold", taking a concubine is the same as buying things, the buyer and the seller are willing, so theoretically there is no need to ask for the opinion of Yang's mother. However, if you don't ask for their opinions, Yang Qiuchi has no bottom in her heart, especially Feng Xiaoxue, if she doesn't ask for her opinion, she will take a little wife home, although she will definitely not say anything, but she will be embarrassed.

Before Yang Qiuchi could speak, Hao Yifeng had already guessed Yang Qiuchi's thoughts, and said with a smile: "Does Brother Yang want to go back and discuss with Ling Ci and sister-in-law?" That's as it should be. sighed, and said, "It's a pity that the mourning period of the younger brother has not expired, otherwise, the younger brother's marriage and the brother's family affairs will be done together, wouldn't it be lively!" ”

What the? Yang Qiuchi seems to have been hit on the head, this Hao Yifeng wants to do a happy event with him? In other words, he wants to marry Song Qing? Didn't he know that Song Qing was good with himself? No, the blind man could see the intimacy between Song Qing and himself last night, so what does he mean? A change of horses? I said how could there be such a good thing, this Hao Yifeng's family must have seen that Song Qing liked herself, but she didn't dare to fight openly, so she came up with this trick and exchanged her sister for her daughter-in-law, just now Hao Yifeng's words are already obvious: I will marry my sister to you as a concubine, so don't come to rob my wife.

No way! What has come of this? A deal? Yang Qiuchi's face changed. Although Hao Qian is indeed very good, and being her own concubine is not a loss at all, but Song Qing is in love with herself and has established a relationship, how can she exchange her feelings? Although Song Qing is the daughter of an official eunuch, their family may not be willing to marry Song Qing to themselves as a concubine, but that is another matter.

Yang Qiuchi thought to himself, it is good that this Hao Qian can marry (although it is a bit too much to put the daughter and daughter-in-law of the Hao family in one pot), but it is also the will of God if he can't marry, and he must not trade his feelings, let alone Hao Qian, even Chang'e in the sky! ――Thinking about it, if Chang'e in the Heavenly Palace really came down to earth, would she do it? You have to think about it. Forget it, what do you want to do here? Chang'e doesn't have it at all, where did she come from.

Hao Yifeng's family saw that Yang Qiuchi's face was cloudy, and they didn't know what to say for a while.

Yang Qiuchi's head turned quickly, and he figured out all the benefits and disadvantages in a moment. This deal is absolutely not negotiable, but it is not good to refuse in person, how bad the girl's face is. Looking at the situation now, I have to go back as soon as possible to let Song Qing withdraw from the marriage, so as not to have too many dreams at night. However, now that they are pretending to be deaf and dumb, they can't tell their relationship with Song Qing, so as not to embarrass everyone, and they will naturally know when they withdraw from the marriage. As soon as this marriage is withdrawn, the Hao family will definitely not marry their daughter to themselves, and this family business will naturally be resigned.

Thinking of this, Yang Qiuchi smiled: "Thank you Master Hao for your love, I am flattered, but the old mother at home is still here, and I have to go back to report this matter to my mother first, and get the permission of her old man, and I also have to ask the cheap." ”

Hao Yuanwai breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "Of course, of course. The old man is waiting for good news! ”

Yang Qiuchi secretly thought, Song Qing likes herself so much, the divorce is certain, and I am afraid that all you are waiting for is the "good news" of the divorce.

At this time, Hao Qian returned to her seat with the help of Yahuan, I don't know if she drank the sour plum soup, her face was even redder than before she went in, and she replied shyly. Could it be that they were eavesdropped on them from behind? Thinking of rejecting their family's proposal, Yang Qiuchi felt a little sorry in his heart.

By the end of the feast, it was already afternoon. The painting that Hao Qian painted has been framed. Yang Qiuchi and Long Zixu were about to say goodbye and leave, when they hurriedly ran into a family outside the door, reporting that someone from the prefect's yamen said that Yang Qiuchi should go back quickly, there was something urgent.

When Yang Qiuchi heard this, he and Long Zixu immediately rushed back to the yamen.

Zhou Zhifu and others were already waiting there and told Yang Qiuchi that in an adobe house in the slum area of Xicheng, Tu Laosi's body was found, which had been killed, and the body of a woman.

Murder again? Yang Qiuchi's heart was cold, and he immediately rushed to the scene.

The scene of Tu Laosi's murder was in a small courtyard in the slums west of the city. The catchers and soaps of the Yamen of Ningguo Mansion have blocked this small courtyard, and many people have come from outside to watch the excitement nearby. A few of the catchers were making inquiries with their neighbors.

The person in charge of the on-site vigilance was the head catcher who admired Yang Qiuchi so much last night. Seeing that Zhou Zhifu and Yang Qiuchi and others were coming, they hurriedly stepped forward and bowed. said: "Tu Laosi and a woman died in the back room, and both of them were stabbed in the heart. It's dead. It has now been ascertained that the deceased woman's name is Xu, 45 years old, and she turned out to be in the drunken Ying Building. Later, when I got older, I was kicked out by the bustard, and I had no choice, so I rented this house to pick up customers. I don't have any good customers, so I take some peddlers and pawns and the like, and make a little money to survive. This Tu Lao Si is likely to have come to her, but I didn't expect the two of them to die together. ”

Yang Qiuchi asked, "Have you investigated the surrounding neighbors?" ”

"That's pretty much done."

"Did you ask when you last saw this woman?"

"I asked, and said that it was the afternoon before yesterday, and the neighbor said that she was chatting with the neighbor at the door while collecting the soles of her shoes, and later borrowed rice from the neighbor. But I haven't seen her come out all day yesterday. The door was also hidden. The neighbors knew she was doing this, so no one knocked on the door to inquire. ”

"Did the neighbors hear any unusual noises or cries for help?" Yang Qiuchi looked left and right, the neighbors' houses were next to each other, although there was a low wall in the courtyard separating them, but they were relatively close, if there was any loud noise, they should be able to hear.

"We asked, and the neighbors on both sides said they didn't hear any special noise, let alone a call. ”

"Have you asked them if they've seen strangers who look suspicious?"

"I also asked about this, and they all said no," the head catcher said sympathetically: "The neighbor also said that this Xu family is already old, and he has been doing this kind of business for many years, and his appearance and body are not as good as before, so it is difficult to have a guest in a few days, but the old man surnamed Tu often comes, and the neighbors know him." ”

Yang Qiuchi nodded, and suddenly remembered the scar on the right temporal bone of the white bone, so he said: "You go and ask, is this Tu Lao Si left-handed?" ”

This head catcher was a little surprised, and he couldn't understand why Yang Qiuchi suddenly thought of asking this, but he didn't dare to ask more, so he agreed and ran over to ask. After a while, he came back and said: "Lord Yang, you are really a god, this Tu Lao Si is left-handed, and several neighbors have proved it." ”

Yang Qiuchi secretly thought, what kind of god is this, this is judged from the location of the scars on Jin Keying's bones.

Tu Laosi is left-handed, which is consistent with the autopsy, and Liu Biao proved that the IOU was given to Tu Laosi by Liu Biao at that time, so Tu Laosi is likely to be the one who killed Jin Keying and buried the corpse in the vegetable field. Sadly, he is now dead. Why did he kill Jin Keying, and whether there was someone behind the scenes, these can't be checked now.

How could the real culprit know that we were looking for Tu Lao Si behind this scene? Yang Qiuchi immediately understood that this big group of people was going crazy all over the city in Ningguo Mansion, looking for clues to the murderer of Jin Keying, making a big fuss in the Drunken Ying Tower, and even Wang Tongzhi was implicated and killed by his younger brother, I am afraid that these things have already spread throughout Ningguo Mansion. The real murderer behind the scenes must also know, and he was afraid that Shun Teng would find him, so he preemptively killed the murderer Tu Laosi.

Yang Qiuchi asked the head catcher again: "Who found it first?" ”

Before the head catcher could speak, an old man who followed the head catcher said, "My lord, the old man was the first to find out. ”

The old man looked like he was fifty or sixty years old, his face was full of wrinkles, he wore a crumpled green cloth shirt, dirty, with a strip of cloth of unknown color tied around his waist, and a dry tobacco pouch with an earthen ceramic mouth inserted diagonally.

Yang Qiuchi asked, "Tell me what happened." ”

"Yes, sir," the old man replied respectfully, "Yesterday I worked for Yuelai Restaurant for a day of short-term work, and got a few dollars, in addition to buying rice, I came out to drink some wine at noon today, and then I was ready to go to Xu's here to have fun, alas~!" My wife died a long time ago, and I was alone. ”

"As soon as I knocked on the door, I found that the door was not closed, pushed the door open and went in, and saw that the two of them had died on the kang, I quickly ran out, fortunately at this age, I have seen a lot of life and death, but I was not so alarmed, I quickly reported to Li Zheng. Later, these fast catchers came. ”

Now that the search is complete, it's time to conduct a site survey. Governor Zhou said: "Young Master Yang, you still have to investigate the scene of this murder, and the corpse can be handed over to the person for recording after you finish examining it." ”

"Yes!" Yang Qiuchi bowed and said.

Yang Qiuchi walked to the door of the room and took a general look first, this is an adobe bungalow similar to his original old house, with two rooms inside and outside, and a passage in the middle.

I took a closer look at the gate. It is a double door, and the paint on the door is mottled and very shabby. The latch inside hung crookedly to the side. After remembering the position of the door latch, Yang Qiuchi gently took off the door latch, and looked carefully, the door latch was on the side outside the door, and there were several long diamond-shaped small eyes that attracted Yang Qiuchi's attention, the distance between these small eyes was roughly equal, and they were picked out towards the side where the door latch fell, and the traces of the small eyes were clear, and the time left should not be long.

Yang Qiuchi gently closed the two doors again, observed it, and found that the two doors were not closed tightly, there was a gap, from the analysis of the situation just now, the murderer may have inserted a sharp weapon into the crack of the door, opened the latch inside, and then sneaked into the room to commit the murder.

Yang Qiuchi was not in a hurry to enter the room, he squatted down at the door and carefully observed the ground, the light in the room was very dim, and he couldn't see it clearly, there were a few scattered footprints on the ground, but it was very unclear, vaguely absent.

It would be good if the footprint electrostatic extractor on your truck was not smashed, this instrument is very effective in finding colorless footprints on the dust layer or subtractive layer, and can search in a large area on the spot, quickly find and extract footprints. After the footprints are extracted, the footprints of the suspect can be found by removing the old footprints belonging to the deceased, the old man who reported the crime, and the old footprints that obviously do not belong to the time period of the crime.

Carefully bypass the footprints on the outside, come to the passage inside, first take a general look inside, by the window is an earthen kang, the quilt on the kang is rolled up in a mess, sticky with bright red bloodstains, lying two corpses, the whole body is blood, there is a pool of blood on the ground, and there are scattered splatters of blood. There were obvious wiping marks on the wall and the quilt hanging on the edge of the kang.

Yang Qiuchi squatted down and obliquely checked whether there were any traces on the ground, and soon found several shoe prints that were also scattered, but they were also very blurry, Yang Qiuchi carefully avoided these shoe prints, stood by the kang, and observed the two corpses first.

The deceased is a man and a woman, the man should be Tu Laosi, almost sixty years old, lying on his back on the side of the kang, one hand under the edge of the kang, the lower body is still in the quilt, the thin body is **, and there is a wound on the chest and heart.

A ruler was found for measurement, the length of the wound was 0.9 inches, it was short spindle-shaped, the wound angle was blunt and sharp, the wound margin was neat, and there was no intertissue bridge in the wound cavity. Judging from this, this is a sharp wound, and the murder weapon is a single-edged knife. Judging from the obtuse angle, the back of the stabbing weapon is not thick, and the length of the wound shows that the blade of the murder weapon is relatively narrow, and it is likely to be a short, narrow and relatively thin dagger or other murder weapon.

Yang Qiuchi found a long thin stick, carefully inserted it into the wound, and after going all the way to the end, he slowly pulled it out and measured it with a ruler, the length was six inches, and from this depth, it had pierced into the chest.

Although no autopsy was performed, it was not possible to accurately determine whether the heart was stabbed, but it could be judged from the location of the wound and the large pool of blood under Tu Laosi's body that it should have been stabbed in the heart. Because only when the heart is punctured, the blood vessels of the great arteries, etc., causing blood loss, it is possible to form a pool of blood of this area.

(To be continued)