Governor Liao asked Chang Lichang to take them to the victim Hao Wei's house.

When they came to Hao Wei's house, it was almost dusk. Hao Wei had just returned from working in the fields and was cooking pig food in the kitchen. Chang Li shouted at the door: "Hao Wei! The prefect is here, they are here to investigate the case, why don't you hurry up and come over to meet a few masters! ”

His man hurriedly ran out, bowed his waist and said with a smiling face: "The grass people knock on a few big masters!" ”

Leng Yi looked up at Hao Wei's house, and saw three large tiled houses, very new, obviously just built. But the wall was old, and it was adobe, and it was somewhat dilapidated. "Your house is really interesting, the house is new, but the wall is old." ”

Hao Wei said: "This is a house that has just been renovated this year, and the courtyard wall has not had time to be demolished and rebuilt. So in this way, it made the old man laugh. ”

Leng Yi said again: "Your family looks good, I went to your village, and I didn't see a few brick houses." ”

"It's not good, hehe."

Xing Tongzhi interjected: "This is not good, isn't it? That's good! ”

Hao Wei turned his head and smiled and said to Chang Lichang: "The house of the Li Chang family, that is called a good, the big courtyard with three entrances, the outer courtyard of the servant and the inner courtyard of the master are separated, the blue bricks and blue tiles, not much worse than the Su family, tsk, if one day, my family has a house like Chang Lichang, even if I live for a day, I will be willing to die!" ”

Chang Li smiled a little embarrassedly and said, "What kind of ...... am I, let's talk in the house!" ”

"Yes, yes!" Hao Wei hurriedly agreed and let them into the house. Inside, the furniture is all brand new, and it looks relatively high-end.

Leng Yi looked around, there was no one in the house, and said to Hao Wei: "What about your family?" ”

"Family, it's gone, my mother was killed, my father and mother live with my eldest brother in Rotten Peach Village, and I live here separately."

"No kids?"

"No, we haven't been married for long. Alas! If I had a child or something, my mother would not have been killed in the house all day without anyone knowing. Speaking of this, Hao Wei was a little gloomy.

Leng Yi said: "We are here to investigate the case of your lady being killed, how your lady was killed, you can tell me what happened." ”

Hao Wei said: "That day, my brother brought a letter saying that my mother was sick and asked me to go back, and I went back." Because my daughter-in-law has always had a bad relationship with my mother, and my mother will scold him when she sees him, she is reluctant to go back with me. I went alone. After staying at home for a day, my mother's illness improved somewhat, and I was worried about my family and came back. When I returned home, I found that the door was hidden, I pushed open the door and called my wife, but I didn't hear an answer, so I went into the main room, and the door was also hidden, and I shouted again, but no one answered. I wondered, how could the door be left open, but the person was gone? What if a thief comes in? So I looked everywhere, and when I saw my lady lying on the ground, motionless, with blood all over her head, I was frightened, and ran up to inspect it, and found that my lady was dead, and her body was so stiff that she couldn't lift her hands. I ran out and shouted, the neighbors next door came, I hugged my wife and cried, and someone ran to call the chief, but Chang Lichang had already gone to Bazhou City three days ago and went to relatives. I had to go to Bazhou again to report to the official. After inspecting the yamen, he said, "The man has been dead for at least a day and a night, and I came back at noon, and my wife must have been killed at noon the day before." ”

Leng Yi said: "Who was the last one in the village to see him?" ”

Lu Tongju interjected: "It's Aunt Liu and the couple next door, they saw Xia come back from the field at noon that day, and they talked at the door, and they didn't see her since, which is what we learned from our visit." ”

Leng Yi asked Lu Tong again: "When did Hao Wei come back, have you checked it?" ”

"I checked, and I did come back at noon the next day. Their families and villagers can testify. ”

"You surveyed the scene, did you find anything in the house?"

"Nothing special was found, the yard gate and the door were intact. We asked the nearby villagers, and we didn't see any strangers in the village that day. However, no one paid attention to who had been to Hao Wei's house, because it was still very cold at that time, everyone was roasting in the house, and few people came out. ”

Leng Yi asked Hao Wei: "Do you usually open the courtyard door in your house?" ”

"Never open! As soon as you get home, close the door, you don't know, sir, some children in our village have unclean hands and feet, and they sneak into the yard to steal things when you are not paying attention! My family has built a new house, and it is inevitable that some people will be jealous. I took the opportunity to come in and steal my things, so I usually close the yard door. Moreover, I was going back to my parents' house that day, and my mother was the only one in the house, so I definitely didn't feel at ease, so I specifically explained that she should close the door at any time, and not let people in, and don't open the door casually. ”

Leng Yi nodded and said, "After your lady was killed, did your family lose any valuables?" ”

"Not really. The silver jewelry on the dresser in the bedroom is still in good shape. I wondered, if a passing thief robbed a house, how could he kill people and not steal them? ”

Lu Tong next to him judged: "The strange thing is that his wife is neatly dressed, and besides, the yamen Wenpo has checked it, and there is no trace of his wife being annihilated, so it is not annihilation." ”

"Their family has the habit of going home and closing the door, and at that time, there was only one woman in the deceased, so they will definitely be more cautious, and there are no traces of outsiders intruding and destroying the courtyard door and the door of the house, so the murderer is likely to be an acquaintance of the deceased to deceive the door."

"yes, that's what we thought, too." Lu Tong sentenced: "Moreover, we have framed the suspect on people who have enemies with his family, especially acquaintances. However, we asked all the people who Hao Wei provided who had a holiday with him, and they didn't have time to commit the crime. Among them was Chang Lichang, who was having a banquet at a relative's house in Bazhou and never left. ”

"Oh?" Leng Yihuan looked at Chang Lichang with interest, "I don't know what the chief has to do with Hao Wei?" ”

Chang Li laughed dryly twice and said, "It's nothing, it's just a little misunderstanding, it's all over, right?" Hao Wei. ”

"Yes, yes, misunderstanding, just a misunderstanding. The yamen insisted that I say that I had a holiday with my family, so I had no choice but to say it. Actually, there is nothing. I also believe that it is impossible for the lieutenant to kill my wife. We didn't celebrate that much, and it turned out to be right. ”

Leng Yi said: "What kind of festival is it, can you tell me?" ”

"Hehe, it's all over, and the grass people don't want to mention it."

Leng Yi said: "Can I take a look at the scene of the murder?" ”

"Okay." Hao Wei hurriedly got up, took Leng Yi and them to the kitchen, and gestured to the location of the body at that time.

Leng Yi thought for a while, and said to Hao Wei: "Your lady's case is very strange, especially the injured object, according to the description of the corpse, it is two pointed heads relative to the triangle, I really haven't seen this kind of thing, I'm worried that the drawing is not accurate, so I hope to open the coffin for an autopsy and check it." Do you agree? ”

Hao Wei was very embarrassed and said: "My wife has been buried for so long, and suddenly opened the coffin for an autopsy, I'm afraid, it's not good." ”

"If the stab is to the soft muscle layers such as the chest and abdomen, after such a long time, the opening of the coffin is indeed meaningless, but the deceased was stabbed in the head, and the brain pulp flowed out, indicating that the skull must have been pierced, so it is likely to cause damage to the skull, and it may be possible to see what kind of murder weapon caused it, and accurately judging the murder weapon has a very important role in solving the case."

Liao Zhifu said: "This is reasonable, okay, let's open the coffin for autopsy!" ”

Now that the prefect has spoken, Hao Wei naturally has nothing to say.

Chang Li hurriedly called a few villagers to help, followed him to the grave of Hao Wei's wife, dug up the grave, and lifted the coffin. Pry open the coffin nails and lift the coffin lid to the side. Revealing the corpses inside.

The corpse was already [***], and the coffin was filled with a suffocating stench. Almost all of them retreated far away.

Leng Yi walked up as if nothing happened, bent down, and carefully examined. His examination site was placed on the head of the deceased, the deceased's head and face had basically decomposed, only a skeleton with hair and black and green rotten residues, Leng Yi carefully uncovered the hair on the skeleton, and swept away the residue on it, revealing the skull.

There are four striking holes in the roof of the skull and the back of the head, which are exactly two triangles with opposite tips. This proves that there is no problem with the shape of the wound drawn on the corpse grid.

Leng Yi was a little unwilling, and he decided to further examine the injury to see if there were any other suspicious traces. Finally, the emperor lived up to his wishes, and at the scar of the deceased's broken skull, Leng Yi saw a small bright thing!

This thing was not jewelry, nor gold or silver, but a small thing that was only half a small part of the shell of a melon seed, stuck in the cracks of the broken bones of the deceased!

Leng Yi carefully removed the little thing, looked at it carefully, and his eyes couldn't help but light up.

He instructed the yamen to follow him and make a record of what he had found, and then he brought a piece of brown paper and put the little thing away. After further examination, no new findings were made. He then ordered the coffin to be closed and reburied.

Governor Liao asked, "Have you found anything?" ”

Leng Yi thought for a while and said, "I still need to do some investigations, and then report to the adults." ”

"Okay, what else do you want to investigate?"

"I want to go to Song Cai's house again."

"Okay, do you want us to go together?"

"No need, I'll just ask briefly, please have tea and wait at Changli's house."

After that, Leng Yi went straight to Song Cai's house.

(To be continued)