The bodies of the Du family and his wife were found after the seventh day, and under the heavy reward, there was finally a coolie on the Tongzhou wharf who ran into the Tongzhou Yamen, saying that he found two bodies on the river around June, a man and a woman, and they were all soaked at that time, he reported the case at the time, but the Tongzhou Prefect Yamen did not find anything at that time, and even the identity of the man and woman could not be verified, so it was characterized as a suicide, and he did not pursue it further.

Or he looked at his heart and couldn't bear it, coupled with superstition, he felt that he had actually met, these were the two corpses that could not be blinded, he was originally running a boat on the dock to unload the goods to make a living, and he usually believed in ghosts and gods to repay these, so he was very soft-hearted, found Yizhuang, and invited the two corpses to be buried.

I don't know how many ownerless corpses there are in Yizhuang every year, and they are all buried on the mountain in the south, and it's over if they are wrapped indiscriminately, someone wants to get the corpse away, and it is also an ownerless corpse, and there is no case involved, so they are naturally happy and leisurely, so they agreed.

The coolies buried the man on the top of his hill.

He wiped the sweat from his head, and said to Cheng Lan who rushed to Tongzhou with a simple expression: "I went out to run the boat, and it took more than a month to come back, and I heard about it as soon as I came back. So I rushed to report the crime. ”

He was wearing a brown skit, and his whole person was very tanned, but his two eyes were bright and bright, Cheng Lan was very gentle towards him, and asked him specifically: "What is the name of this big brother?" ”

He was suddenly a little flattered, but he didn't expect the young man in front of him to be so polite when he saw that he was brightly dressed and knew that he was not small, and hurriedly said: "Don't dare, don't dare, because I have great strength, so others call me a strong voice, and you can just call it that." ”

Cheng Lan nodded congruently: "Brother Dali, then can you take us to the place where their bones are buried?" ”

Dali originally came for this matter, of course, there was no reason to refuse, he immediately stood up and led the way: "Please come with me, my lords." ”

He scratched his head, took a sickle and cut off the weeds on the side of the wooden tombstone a few times, then turned his head and nodded to Cheng Lan and said, "My lord, this is it, I didn't know their names at that time, so I only put up a sign." ”

One brand, two lives, is silently hidden here.

If they hadn't met the force, or they wouldn't have even had a place to stay.

Cheng Lan was silent for a moment, and saluted the wooden sign before the grave bag was dug up.

Vigorously is from a poor family, and they are desperately unloading in the boat to maintain the life of the family, if their own family dies, it is just a thin-skinned coffin, so the bodies of the Du family and the husband and wife are wrapped in a thin-skinned coffin and buried in the ground.

The prefect of Tongzhou followed the yamen, and soon opened the coffin, and the corpse was already very badly decomposed, and some places had become white bones, which made people want to gag when they looked at it.

Everyone couldn't help it, and they all couldn't stand this scene.

Scratching his head vigorously, he told Cheng Lan with some embarrassment: "This is the case with people who drowned in the water...... If you have been soaked for many days, even the corpse capital is much more ugly than ordinary people, just like soaking, we have seen a lot, and we are used to it, don't be surprised. ”

Cheng Lan also couldn't accept it, but now he was investigating the case, and Chu Tingchuan attached great importance to this case, of course he wouldn't do anything because of this little difficulty, he asked the servant: "It's all like this, can you find out anything?" ”

It is said that many clues can be found in the corpse, but they are all destroyed like this, and he is afraid that there are not many useful clues, and he can't help but feel pity.

also felt wronged and aggrieved for the people of the Du family.

It's sad that when something like this happens, even the corpse can't be used as a clue to find the sinner.

He felt a lot of pressure, but after a closer look, he wiped the sweat from his head, nodded affirmatively and said, "You can also give it a try, wait a minute......

As he spoke, he seemed to have found something, and after putting on his gloves, he carefully reached out and played with the corpse in the coffin, his eyes changed suddenly, and after beckoning a young man over, the two discussed for a while, and then gestured a few times at the corpse in the coffin, and finally looked back at Cheng Lan with a serious expression and said, "My lord!" The two men were not drowned, but they were killed by broken neck bones. ”

It's just that the corpse is soaked in water.

It should have been killed before being thrown into the water and destroyed.

Cheng Lan suddenly came to her senses, looked at them and asked, "Really?!" How so? ”

He turned the corpse around, and the bones were clear, but he could see that the neck bone of the taller male corpse was broken.

He also showed Cheng Lan the situation on the side of the female corpse as it was, and said in a solemn tone: "They were killed in advance, otherwise if they were really drowned, why bother?" ”

Cheng Lan squatted down and took a closer look, nodded, and instructed the servant: "You write a detailed document to record all the circumstances you find, and I will take it back." ”

It should be in a hurry.

Standing vigorously stunned, looking at the two corpses sadly, sighed and then knelt down to worship, and said something in his mouth: "It turns out that you were unjustly killed, no wonder you died blindly, we are also destined, and now your grievances can be seen again, I hope your soul in the sky can rest in peace." ”

Cheng Lan patted him on the shoulder.

Dali is such a good person.

He transported the body back to Yizhuang, and was very conscientious, and after three days, he carefully recorded all the circumstances and handed them over to Chenglan.

Cheng Lan took it, glanced at their master and apprentice again, and said solemnly: "Please also ask the two of you to go back to Beijing with me, if there is anything you don't understand, you still need to explain it." ”

Of course they are willing.

Staying here, although idle, but there is not much room to play, they are doing this business, although it is a third-rate cheap industry, to do a lifetime, but if they can do well, it is much better than being nameless.

Cheng Lan said to the prefect of Tongzhou and took the person away with the corpse.

On the day they returned to the capital, many people had already received the news.

Zhou Shilang has been waiting for them for a long time.