The door of Zhang Cuiyun's son's house was open, and the door to the upper room was tightly closed.

After Zhang Cuiyun came out of her son's house, it was as if she had fallen into an evil spirit, and when she walked back to her house, she would not say a word.

Wang Laixi looked at Zhang Cuiyun nervously and said, "Cuiyun, what's wrong with you?" What's going on? Don't scare me, you can say something. ”

Zhang Cuiyun's mouth moved for a long time before he said: "Blood-blood-it's terrible, blood-"

Wang Laixi immediately ran to his son's house to take a look, his head was clouded, and he almost fainted, but fortunately, his neighbor Uncle Wang helped him.

Uncle Wang came to Ping'an County instead of Wang Laixi and reported the case to Song Ruilong.

It was another homicide case, Song Ruilong didn't dare to slack off, and immediately called the master and the others, and came to the scene of the crime with five officials.

In Wang Furui's home, Zhang Meixian looked around, walked out of Wang Furui's cave room with some anger, came to Song Ruilong and Su Xianrong, and said, "Who reported this case?" There was only a pool of blood at the scene of the crime, and there was no body, so what should I do to examine the body? ”

Song Ruilong called Uncle Wang to his side again and said, "Didn't you tell the murder case?" Where is the body now? ”

Uncle Wang knelt in front of Song Ruilong and said in a panic: "My lord, this... This little man was also kind enough to help report to the official. At that time, Wang Laixi's face was pale with fright, and he said to Xiaomin at the door of his son's house that something serious had happened, his son and daughter-in-law were gone, and he should report to the official. Isn't this dead? Xiaomin looked at Wang Furui's house, and there seemed to be a pool of blood at the door of the upper room, so Xiaomin concluded that Wang Furui was dead, so he went to the county office to report the case. My lord, this is none of the business. ”

Song Ruilong knew that the countrymen had never seen anything big, and it was inevitable to panic when they encountered such a thing. It was inevitable to report a murder case, so he no longer held him accountable for reporting a false case, and said: "You get up, and you will report the case after you find out what happened." ”

Uncle Wang kowtowed to Song Ruilong three times, slowly got up from the ground, thanked Song Ruilong and walked out of Wang Furui's house.

Zhang Meixian said unhappily: "What do you say this is called?" A pool of blood can also be concluded to be a human death? ”

Song Ruilong felt that this matter was not so simple. Said: "Mother, don't be angry first, this Wang Laixi's son and daughter-in-law, who only became a relative yesterday, the two should have enjoyed the joy of being married in the cave room, but they disappeared for no reason, there is no blood in other places, but there is a pool of blood at the door of the upper room, isn't it strange?" ”

Zhang Meixian sighed: "Strange is not strange. I don't know, I just know that all I see is a small puddle of blood. ”

Song Ruilong said very seriously: "Then according to the clotting time of the blood, can you determine when this pool of blood flowed out?" ”

Zhang Meixian became serious at this time, she looked at the pool of blood carefully, and said: "Looking at the color of this blood stain and the softness of the coagulation, the time when this blood flowed out should be around the third watch." ”

After Zhang Meixian concluded by herself, she was very surprised and said: "This is strange, you said that the groom was not with the bride last night." What did he do when he ran out on the third watch? ”

Song Ruilong said: "There are many doubts about this, and we must investigate this case clearly." First of all, we have to find out when the family will end after the happy event of the Wang family yesterday? Why did the bridegroom return to the cave so late? ”

Zhang Meixian said: "Do you want to solve this case as a murder case?" ”

Song Ruilong said very seriously: "Judging from the situation at the scene of the crime, even if the groom and bride are not poisoned, they are afraid that they will be more auspicious, although there is no body in this case, but we should also attach great importance to it." At least the whereabouts of Wang Furui and his new wife Zhao Danxia, we have to help Wang Laixi find them. ”

At the scene of the crime, Song Ruilong did not find the body, so he asked Zhang Meixian to go back first, and he and Su Xianrong carefully checked the scene of the crime again.

Su Xianrong stood in front of the door of the upper room. Looking at the bloodstains on the ground, his eyes lit up and said: "Brother Song, look, the location of this bloodstain is only eight feet away from the threshold of the upper room, and there are obvious traces on the threshold that have been rubbed by shoes, what does this mean?"

Song Ruilong said: "This shows that when someone passed through the threshold, he tripped over the threshold, and that person fell outside the door." Judging from the location of the pool of blood, there is no sharp stone next to the pool of blood, indicating that the person who tripped and fell is likely to have a nosebleed, of course, we cannot be sure whose pool of blood it is, maybe it is the murderer. Maybe it's the groom's, maybe the bride's. Judging by the amount of blood shed, this blood does not kill a person at all. ”

Su Xianrong nodded and said, "What you said is very reasonable, but the groom and bride are gone, what is going on?"

Song Ruilong said: "Something unusual must have happened last night. Let's go back and have a look inside the cave room. ”

The furnishings in the cave room were elegant, the candles on the table were still half-cut, the bright red mandarin duck quilts were scattered on the bed, and the clothes and shoes of the bride and groom were gone.

Su Xianrong said: "Brother Song, look at this quilt, the bride seems to have disappeared in her clothes."

Song Ruilong said: "The groom's clothes are also gone. What happened last night? ”

Su Xianrong found a piece of white silk on the bed, and she said in surprise: "Brother Song, look." This white silk seems to be used to hang herself. ”

Song Ruilong took the white silk, estimated the length, and said, "That's true." It's just that it's not clear who used this white silk to hang herself. ”

Song Ruilong turned around slowly, handed the white silk to Su Xianrong, he looked at the red lacquer stool in the corner of the room, looked up at the beams again, and said to Su Xianrong: "Rongrong, look there."

Su Xianrong walked to Song Ruilong's side with the white silk in his hand, looked in the direction that Song Ruilong's hand was pointing, and said, "There are indeed strangulation marks there, the traces are obvious, and they are new." There is also dust underneath the beams, and this dust is the same dust that falls from the beams. It can be concluded that someone hanged themselves here last night. ”

Song Ruilong nodded and said, "It's certain that someone hanged himself." But where did the hanged man's body go? And who freed the hanged man? Where did the man put the body again? And whose pool of blood is it outside the upper room? These are all questions that we need to verify. ”

After Song Ruilong learned about the situation of Wang Ruifu's family, he and Su Xianrong came to Wang Laixi's house.

Liu Tianxiong stopped Song Ruilong and Su Xianrong in the courtyard of Wang Laixi's house, and asked eagerly, "How is it?" What happened to the bride and groom? ”

(To be continued.) )