"So, there should be two horses pulling this carriage!" Master Jin also participates in this guessing game.

"No, it should be four horses!" Yang Qiuchi said, "If it is two horse-drawn carriages, in order to exert force and control at the same time, they should generally be side by side instead of one in front of the other." In that case, the other horse will not be able to step on the child's chest. ”

Master Jin and the others all nodded in agreement. Yang Qiuchi had already sketched a rough outline for them, but it was not clear yet.

Yang Qiuchi then described: "What kind of carriage would be a carriage drawn by four horses? ”

Now not in the Han Dynasty, the days when the number of carriages and horses were used to indicate identity are gone, replaced by sedan chairs or horseback riding. Whereas, horse-drawn carriages are generally two-wheeled carriages drawn by a single horse.

After all, pulling one or two people, the strength of one horse is enough. There are very few horses drawn with two horses, and there are very few horses drawn by four horses, and generally only horse-drawn carriages are used to pull goods, and they are very heavy objects.

Therefore, Master Jin first guessed: "It's a carriage pulling goods!" ”

"Yes!" Yang Qiuchi said, "And it's already full of goods, if I'm right, it should be pulling wood." ”

Song Yun'er asked, "Brother, how did you guess this?" ”

"It's not a guess," Yang Qiuchi said, "Didn't I just say that any crime will leave traces." Yang Qiuchi turned around and pointed to the short piece of wood that Gong Xiong was still holding in his arms: "This was found next to the official road with horseshoe prints, it should have fallen from the carriage, and it didn't take long." ”

Bai Sumei also asked curiously, "Why?" ”

"White girl, think about it, in the cold winter, such a short piece of wood is enough to keep warm for several days. If it had been here for a long time, the people would have seen it and would have taken it back a long time ago. You were born an official eunuch, and you don't know the suffering of the poor. ”

Bai Sumei's face turned red, and then she lowered her head: "How can I talk about any official eunuchs......"

Song Yun'er saw that it caused the white girl to be sad, and hurriedly changed the topic: "Brother, do you mean that this piece of wood is likely to have fallen from the bumps in the carriage?" So, the wagon should have been filled with this kind of wood. ”

"Clever!" Yang Qiuchi praised, "So, the carriage that killed the child should be a carriage full of short wood with four wheels pulled by four horses!" ”

"Huh?" Song Yun'er asked again, "How do you know it's four wheels?" There's only one wheel print on the child's leg. ”

"There's only one wheel that has pressed against the child's lap, but didn't you notice the row of ruts? On the same side, there are two rut marks of about the same width, narrowness and depth. The explanation should be four wheels, and besides, the carriage that pulls the goods, the horses are all used four horses, indicating that the goods must be very heavy, so the cargo box should be relatively long. The two wheels are unstable, so it should be a carriage with four wheels. ”

"Got it!" Song Yun'er suddenly realized, and then thought again: "I don't know how long this carriage has been gone, can we still catch up." ”

"It won't take more than half an hour to leave, and it's a heavy car, so you should be able to catch up."

Just now, Yang Qiuchi twisted the mandible of the child's corpse, generally speaking, this is the first part of the corpse to appear zombie, and it feels that the mandible is only slightly jerky, indicating that the zombie has only just begun to appear, and the corpse spots have not yet appeared, so it is estimated that the time of death is only about one more than an hour.

"Then let's chase after it!" Song Yuner said.

"Don't worry!" Yang Qiuchi waved his hand: "This carriage can't run, it's in the nearby charcoal kiln." ”

Song Yuner and the others were stunned, how could Yang Qiuchi be so sure?

Yang Qiuchi saw their doubts: "It's very simple, judging from the wood that fell, it's just an ordinary elm, sawn so short, and it was split with an axe, so it is likely to be used for fire." The carriage was pulling the wood for the fire, which usually doesn't travel very far, so it should be nearby. ”

Yang Qiuchi's judgment was based on the fact that the Ming Dynasty had not cut down indiscriminately, and this wood was everywhere, not as scarce as it is now. Therefore, this kind of wood for burning will not be transported over long distances, and the money from selling it will not be enough to open the freight.

Yang Qiuchi continued: "Ordinary people don't have money, so they don't spend money to buy this kind of wood for heating, they go up the mountain to chop firewood to burn. And large families will not directly buy wood to burn, because the smoke is too big, not only choking, but also smoke and destroy the house furniture. Therefore, large families buy charcoal to burn. Therefore, the short wood of this cart will not be used directly for heating the fire, but ......"

Song Yun'er's eyes lit up, and she took the words and said in surprise: "It was transported to a nearby charcoal kiln to burn charcoal!" ”

"Clever!" Yang Qiuchi said with a smile. Turning his head, he asked the old man and the others: "Walking along this official road, is there any charcoal kiln that burns charcoal?" ”

The old man said: "Yes, more than 20 miles ahead, there is a big charcoal kiln, and the burned charcoal is often pulled to the Taiping Mansion in front to sell. Even Chizhou has come to buy this charcoal. ”

"Chizhou?" Yang Qiuchi remembered that the father of the mud doll Song Qing used to be an official in Chizhou. I don't know how Song Qing is doing now, Yang Qiuchi thought of the mud doll, and his heart hurt a little. Asked, "How far is it from Chizhou?" ”

"If you don't hurry, we still have two days to go."

"Are there any other charcoal kilns around here?"

"No," said the old man.

"What's that charcoal kiln called?"

"It's called Dongmen Ao."

Yang Qiuchi said: "You send two people to take us to the charcoal kiln and catch the car that hit the person." ”

The old man nodded: "Yes!" Thank you for being the master for us! ”

The old man brought another young man, who was the old man's nephew. Yang Qiuchi asked Nangong Xiong to send two horses to the old man and the young man, and let the three of them go lightly first and go to the charcoal kiln to catch the carriage that caused the accident. Their own convoy followed.

Nangong Xiong and the others quickly whipped away, and Yang Qiuchi and the others returned to the carriage and continued to move forward. Seeing the tragic death of the child, several people didn't have the heart to continue to recite ancient poetry couplets, but this wine still had to be drunk. While drinking wine, we talked about what had just happened.

Bai Sumei sincerely admired Yang Qiuchi: "This kind of clueless case, it only took a while for Yang Gongzi to discover the real murderer of this case, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as solving the case like a god." ”

Without waiting for Yang Qiuchi to be modest, Song Yun'er had already preemptively said: "Of course, this case is a piece of cake, my brother can solve it with just a little finger, a serial case like the White Bone Case, and a case like the last time I went back to my hometown to drip blood to recognize my relatives, that is the real difficulty." My father and I are both in the clouds, and my brother has sorted out the clues clearly, which is called amazing! ”

Yang Qiuchi was a little embarrassed: "I'm amazing? I think you're amazing! ”

"What's wrong with me?" Song Yun'er asked curiously.

"Just now we were in the galloping carriage, and we were so far away, I only saw a group of people there, but you saw the old man in the crowd holding the child, and the child's posture was clearly visible, isn't it amazing?"

"It's nothing." Song Yun'er was a little proud, "The ancients walked around the monument and saw the sheep, so it was called amazing." ”

"Look at the flock, I think you're about the same."

This allusion to the stele is said to be the strategist Su Qin's eyesight during the Warring States Period, once he rode a fast horse past a stone stele, just squinted his eyes, and memorized all the big and small characters on the stele. To look at a flock means to know how many sheep there are in a flock at a glance.

Song Yun'er grinned: "To be honest, if there are not many of them, I can see clearly at a glance that my master took a fancy to my ability and accepted me as an apprentice." ”

Oh? Yang Qiuchi has never heard her talk about her master, this is a matter of other people's **, and Yang Qiuchi is not easy to ask. Now that she took the initiative to mention it, she asked as she asked, "Yun'er, how did your master take you as an apprentice?" Can you tell me about it? ”

Song Yun'er smiled: "Okay, when I was five years old, I remember that it was almost the New Year, and one day my mother and wet nurse took me to the temple fair, and I wanted to buy candy people." While waiting to be a candy man, I saw a person come to the steamed bun stall next to me to buy steamed buns, took out a handful of copper coins, looked at them slightly, and threw them directly into the money box that sold the buns, saying that he had given ten yuan, but after the seller of steamed buns counted the money in the box, he said that he had only given nine yuan. ”

"The two of them are arguing and arguing about to fight. In fact, the moment the person who bought the bun threw the copper coin into the money box, I could already see it clearly, and what he threw in it was indeed only Jiuwen, which was a deception of the person who bought the bun. ”

Yang Qiuchi asked curiously, "Yun'er, you enlightened you at the age of five?" ”

"Of course!" Song Yun'er was a little indignant at Yang Qiuchi's underestimation of herself, "I started to enlighten when I was three years old, my father said, it's a pity that I'm a woman, otherwise, I'm afraid I will be able to win the champion in the future and give our Song family glory to our ancestors!" ”

"Admire, admire!" Yang Qiuchi clenched his fists, "I still wet the bed when I was five years old." ”

Bai Sumei and the others all laughed. Song Yun'er said: "However, brother, you are so powerful now......"

"Stop!" Yang Qiuchi waved his hand, "Don't praise me, let's continue to talk about your advanced deeds when you were five years old." ”

Song Yun'er continued: "Of course the steamed bun seller was very happy to hear me help him speak, but the steamed bun was very horizontal, and when he saw my mother's three female streamers, he scolded and scolded us and wanted to beat us, but his hand was raised and didn't fall, and he suddenly grabbed that hand and jumped in place and shouted pain." ”

"Later, I learned that my later master had hit his acupoint with a hidden weapon. The Master also said that the man's hand had been discarded by her. Who told him to bully women, he deserved it! ”

Yang Qiuchi was a little frightened, Song Yun'er's master wasted people's arms at every turn, and his shot was indeed very ruthless, and he couldn't help but think of Song Yun'er's previous ruthlessness, I am afraid that it was largely influenced by this master.

(To be continued)