Chapter Ninety-Six: The Secret of the Bronze Lock of Longevity

Dolma's expression is different from many people, many villagers are very excited when they learn that they have found the nest of big ants, and at the same time they are very angry, and they want to destroy the nest as quickly as possible, but Dolma has no joy, she is grief, and the pain is like her son has died.

Zhuoma walked to the big pit with heavy steps, and with the help of Song Ruilong, he walked down the big pit, picked up the rotten gourd with his hands, shook off the big ants in the gourd, and cried bitterly.

Everyone was surprised, they didn't know what this Dolma aunt was crying so for, if she cried because the old nest of the big ants was destroyed, then she didn't need to find out the old nest of those big ants. If she cried for the sake of that rotten gourd, it seems that she can't say it. There was nothing in that rotten gourd except for the big ants.

Song Ruilong seemed to see the doorway, and said with some sadness: "Aunt Zhuoma, do you know the whereabouts of your son?" ”

After this sentence was asked, many people were shocked, that is, Su Xianrong was also staring at the situation in the pit next to Song Ruilong, as if he had seen the corpse of Aunt Zhuoma's son.

Some of the people were talking, and they were observing in the pit, as if they were looking for the son of Lady Dolma.

Is the son of Aunt Zhuoma these big ants? There is nothing in the pit, many people are speculating, and they are also looking at Aunt Zhuoma's hands.

Dolma dug next to the rotten gourd with her hands, and she dug out a copper lock with a lot of green patina on it. Lady Dolma's tears fell on the bronze lock, and she cried bitterly: "My son! You've died so miserably! ”

Aunt Zhuoma's voice not only confused Song Ruilong, but also confused many people present. Could it be that Aunt Zhuoma's son is not a big ant, but a copper lock?

But what is the value of a copper lock? If it's rotten, it's rotten, just buy a new one.

Song Ruilong asked strangely: "Aunt Zhuoma, why are you so sad when you see the rotten gourd and the rusty copper lock?" ”

With a trembling hand, Dolma put the copper lock on his hand, took out a key from his arms, and poked it into the copper lock, and the copper lock was opened.

Zhuoma handed the copper lock to Song Ruilong and said: "My lord, please see, this copper lock is the longevity lock that the old man hung on my son, and the shape of the lock is like a rooster, and the size of this rooster is the same as the size of those earth-shaking chickens."

At the foot of the Chicken God Mountain in Tibet, our people there regard the Shaker Chicken as an animal with fairy spirits, and we all worship the Shaker Chicken very much, so we will make many things in the shape of the Shaker Chicken. Of course, this longevity lock also means the same. ”

Song Ruilong understood what Aunt Zhuoma meant, he took the copper lock, locked the copper lock, tried it with the key, and the lock was opened by Song Ruilong with a "bang".

Song Ruilong said: "That is to say, when your son went out three years ago, he brought such a long-lived copper lock in the shape of a chicken, and also brought a gourd, and now, the eldest mother found the copper lock on your son's body here, and at the same time found the gourd, the eldest mother thinks that her son is dead, right?"

Zhuoma's head twisted to the side, not daring to look at the situation in the big pit, and said, "If the old body is not mistaken, my son should be buried here."

Song Ruilong looked into the big pit and said, "Aunt Zhuoma, you come out first, and the county will let them dig down again to see if they can find your son's bones."

Zhuoma slowly walked out of the pit with Song Ruilong's support.

Song Ruilong instructed the officials who were digging the soil to dig gently, and the officials slowly waved the hoes in their hands, and after gently digging up the soft soil for three inches, a person's hand bones were exposed.

Song Ruilong instructed the servants to put on a kind of linen gloves and dig up the humanoid skeleton with their hands, and he wanted to conduct a comprehensive investigation into the cause of the person's death.

When Dolma said that her son was probably buried there, those people thought that Dolma was joking, and that there could be no son of hers there, because Dolma was a Tibetan, and it was at least more than a thousand miles away from Tibet, and wouldn't it be absurd that his son died here?

Now that they saw the facts, they all stopped talking, and they were all staring at the skeleton inside the pit.

The skeleton of the humanoid was quickly dug up by the officials.

Song Ruilong personally went down to the pit, put on gloves, and after doing a comprehensive examination of the skeleton, he found a green jade wrench from the chest of the skeleton, that is, where the stomach was, and the green jade wrench was engraved with the pattern of double dragons playing with pearls, and there was a broken finger on the green jade wrench.

After careful observation, Song Ruilong found that the deceased's ten fingers were intact, so Song Ruilong concluded that the severed finger on the deceased's stomach and the green jade wrench must be the murderer's.

From the skeleton of the deceased, Song Ruilong found that the deceased's hip bone had been broken, the leg bone of his right leg had been shattered, and the bone of the back of his head had also been shattered. The place where his bones were buried was not the first scene, but the place where the body was removed. Because the bamboo forest of Liu Wanshun's house is at the foot of the mountain, there is not a single cliff that is steep, and it is impossible for a person to fall into a crushed fracture from those places with a very gentle slope.

After inspecting the scene, Song Ruilong ordered someone to put the skeleton of the deceased into a burlap bag, and put the green jade wrench and the severed finger into the small sack he had prepared.

After the dead body was found in the bamboo forest of Liu Wanshun's house, everyone put the matter of catching the big ant behind them and paid attention to the murder.

When Song Ruilong saw the green jade wrench and the severed finger, he already had an opinion on the case in his heart, and in order to find out the truth of the matter, Song Ruilong took all the people back to the village protection office in Liujiatun temporarily.

In a house in the village protection office, Song Ruilong gathered all the people there for a brief questioning.

Song Ruilong sat behind a table, Liu Tianxiong was in charge of taking the confession on the side, and the five officials stood on both sides, and after everything was ready, Song Ruilong said: "Let Aunt Zhuoma come forward and reply."

Zhuoma soon came to the front of Song Ruilong, knelt there, with a painful face, and said, "My son died unjustly, please Lord Song to make the decision for my son!"