The thin man looked at Song Ruilong timidly and said, "Xiaomin Liu Dashu, I didn't see Zeng Qiang's wife last night."

Zeng Qiang said angrily: "You are talking nonsense, my wife clearly said that she would hang herself in front of your house, and now, my wife is gone, you have to be responsible." It must have been when you opened the door that you saw my wife hanging in front of your house, and you were afraid of a lawsuit, so you hid my wife, didn't you? ”

Liu Dashu was so frightened that his legs became weak, and said, "I haven't seen your wife at all, where do you let me go to return your wife?" If I saw your wife hanged, I would definitely get a report from the county government. ”

Song Ruilong glared at Liu Dashu and said, "You haven't seen Zeng Qiang's wife, then I asked you, how can the vermilion lacquer on the beam of your house have traces of being pulled by hemp rope?"

Liu Dashu's eyes looked up, and he saw that in the middle of the beam, the vermilion lacquer had fallen a lot, and it was indeed a trace of hemp rope pulling.

Liu Dashu was shocked: "Ah! My lord, Xiao Min really didn't know what was going on, and Xiao Min didn't tie it with hemp rope. ”

Song Ruilong pointed to a big stone at the door and said, "Tell me honestly, what's going on with that big stone?"

Liu Dashu glanced at the big stone and said, "Oh, that's right, there was no big stone in front of Xiaomin's door, but this morning, as soon as Xiaomin opened the gate, he saw a big stone blocking Xiaomin's gate. Xiaomin also scolded at the time, saying that some bastard put a big stone on my doorstep. After scolding for a long time, no one came out to speak, and in the end, it was Xiaomin himself who threw the big stone to the base of the wall opposite the door. ”

Song Ruilong said: "When you scolded, did anyone hear it?"

Liu Dashu said: "Xiaomin was very angry at the time, so the scolding was also very loud, and it is estimated that more than a dozen families in this alley heard it."

Song Ruilong looked at room 19 and said, "Whose family is that?"

Liu Dashu also glanced at it and said, "Oh, it's Yang Sangui's Yang Laohan's family."

Song Ruilong said: "Go and call Yang Sangui over."

Liu Dashu quickly called Yang Sangui to Song Ruilong.

Although Yang Sangui is already in his fifties and walks with three crutches in one step, he has never used crutches.

Song Ruilong glanced at Yang Sangui and said, "Yang Sangui, in the morning, what did Liu Dashu scold in front of his house?"

Yang Sangui lost a few teeth, and his speech was slurred, and he said, "The old man heard it." Liu Dashu seemed to be scolding someone for blocking a big stone in front of the gate of his house, or the old man came out to persuade him, the old man said, isn't it just a big stone, you just remove him yourself, and the neighbors who scolded know it, and they will think that you are a small-bellied chicken intestine. After Liu Dashu listened to the old man's words, he moved the stone away and stopped scolding. ”

Song Ruilong said: "Bencha knows."

Zeng Qiang saw that Song Ruilong was leaving, he was a little anxious, and said, "My lord, don't you go to Liu Dashu's house to search?"

Song Ruilong said: "Do you think Liu Dashu will hide the body in his house when he sees your wife hanging in front of his house?"

Su Xianrong looked at Zeng Qiang with some strange expressions and said, "How do you think your wife has hanged?"

Zeng Qiang said with a bitter face: "Xiaomin is also guessing."

Song Ruilong said: "Your case, this county already knows." Your wife is not a child, if she is not dead, she just pulled a rope on the beam of the gate of Liu Dashu's house a few times, and placed a stone at the door of Liu Dashu, creating a false impression that she has hanged herself, the purpose is only to scare you, so it is better to go to your wife's maiden house to have a look, maybe she is really in her maiden house. ”

Zeng Qiang seemed to be a little disbelieving, and said, "Okay, Xiaomin, let's go to Xiaomin's wife's maiden house to have a look."

Song Ruilong and Su Xianrong walked out of Qingyun Lane and came to Tieshi Road.

Both sides of Iron Lion Road are full of vendors hawking along the street, presenting a bustling scene everywhere.

Su Xianrong and Song Ruilong bought ten steamed buns, and the two of them ate and walked towards the south of Tieshi Road.

Su Xianrong said: "Brother Song, why do I think this Zeng Qiang is a little weird."

Song Ruilong swallowed the bun and said, "I can't say it, but he seems to have decided that his wife was hanged in front of Liu Dashu's house."

Song Ruilong said: "This Zeng Qiang is indeed a little strange, but we can make such a bold assumption. Assuming that Zeng Qiang's wife was indeed hanged in front of Liu Dashu's house, where was her body? ”

Su Xianrong was surprised: "If that's the case, I think her body should have been removed by someone else." It's hard to say what the purpose of the removal is. According to common sense, the first reaction of others when they find out that someone has hanged them is to be frightened, and then to report to the official. If that person didn't report to the official, maybe he had ulterior motives. ”

Song Ruilong nodded lightly and said: "What happened last night is indeed very strange, first of all, the monk ran to Chenjia Village in a shroud, and then died in a dry well for unknown reasons, and then the disappearance of Zeng Qiang's wife, maybe the two cases will be connected, let's go to the coffin shop in front of us, maybe there will be new discoveries."

Su Xianrong said with some surprise: "Coffin shop? What to do in the coffin shop? ”

Song Ruilong said: "We know that the monk is wearing a shroud, which means that there is someone who wants to do a funeral, no matter which family does it or not, he always has to ask for a coffin, right?" The Niuji coffin shop in front is the largest coffin shop in Ping'an County, there are more than a dozen guys invited inside, and the coffins they use are also the best in Ping'an County, and the coffins are also the fastest, so if someone wants a high-quality coffin, they will definitely book in the Niuji coffin shop. We already know that the shroud and jewelry on the monk of Qing Xiu are not owned by ordinary people, and a pair of gold bracelets on his body can buy ten high-quality coffins, so I conclude that if that family uses coffins, they will definitely buy them here. ”

Su Xianrong smiled and said, "It turns out that there are so many ways to investigate this case. In the past, I always thought that investigating a case was to find the root of the matter according to clues, but I didn't expect you to start from places that others couldn't think of. ”

Song Ruilong was a little excited: "Everything in this world is universally connected, it is impossible for a person to do something for no reason, he has done a certain thing, he must do something else to cooperate." Let's go, let's go in and have a look. ”

Song Ruilong pointed to the Niu Ji coffin shop in front of him and said.

There are a lot of wooden planks parked in the Niu Kee coffin shop, and there are a lot of wood chips on the ground, and the wood chips exude a woody fragrance.