The rue girl lying in the wooden box was not wearing an outer garment, and her middle garment still had signs of being torn. At this time, her eyes were slightly closed, and the corners of her mouth were still covered with a trace of blood that had long since dried up. Maggots crawled inside and outside her clothes, the smell of decay growing stronger. Cui You'an softened his legs, and kept saying, "Don't!" No! ”

"Cui You'an, you tell me honestly, how did Miss Rue Xiang die?"

"I didn't want to kill her, I didn't want things to be the way they are today."

Gu Yunfei let go, and Cui Youan knelt on the ground.

"That day, I was depressed, so I went to the wine store and drank a few more glasses. When I went home, I didn't know how to walk outside Ruxiangfang. The door was open, and I saw Rue counting the spices inside, and staggered in. Rue Xiang saw me and called out to Brother. Brother, that's what she called me since the day she learned to speak. She came over with a frown and asked me if I had been drinking? I nodded, grabbed her shoulders, and asked her why she refused my proposal, and asked her if she knew how much courage I had to be cheeky to beg the lord. She looked at me and was silent. ”

"If you like other people's Rue Girl, do other Rue Girl have to like you?"

"Nope! You don't know anything. Cui Youan shook his head: "I'm not wishful thinking, Rue Xiang also likes me, she just doesn't want to, and she doesn't want to marry me." I know that she dislikes me for being unproductive, and for the rest of my life, I may just be a doorman. ”

"People go to high places, water flows to low places, you have no interest yourself, do you still complain that other girls are picky?"

"I'm not complaining about her, I just want her to tell me clearly and clearly." Cui Youan hugged his head: "But she refused to speak, and she always refused to speak." I looked at her, and somehow that thought came to my head, and I thought that as soon as she became my person, she would bow her head and marry me. ”

"And then?"

"I don't know, my mind is dizzy, I just remember that I tore with Rue and she tried all her strength to break free of me. I somehow grabbed her neck with my hand. By the time I calmed down and came back to my senses, Rue was dead. I sat down on the ground, all my thoughts going blank. Then, they showed up and told me that they could help me with everything in Rue Xiang Fang, but asked me to help them get the spices out of Rongcheng. ”

Cui You'an thumped his head: "I don't know how they appeared in Ruxiangfang, or maybe they saw the door open, so they walked in by themselves." Master Gu, please believe me, I have only done this one thing from beginning to end. The case of the disappearance of the girl in Rongcheng and the case of the disappearance of the child, it really has nothing to do with me. ”

"Are they spice merchants? Why are spices being shipped out of Rongcheng? ”

"I don't know, I didn't ask, and I'm not in the mood to ask."

"Where did you put that batch of spices after you got it out of Rue Xiang Factory?"

"As Miss Yan guessed, they loaded the spices into a truck at Rue Xiang Fang and delivered them to my house. On the second day, after daybreak, spices were transported out of the city by taking advantage of the large number of people coming and going at the city gates. ”

"There are so many boxes, and no one checks them?"

"I did it secretly." Cui You'an hung his head decadently: "I know, as long as Master Gu and you go to the city gate, I can't hide the things I secretly arranged for them, and as Miss Yan said, there are so many boxes, it is impossible for no one to see them in and out, as long as you follow the clues, you will definitely be able to find out about me." I didn't think about running away, I just wanted more time, I just wanted to bury Rue well. ”

"Who are those people?"

"I don't know, when they appeared, they were wearing night clothes, and their faces were covered, but their voices didn't sound like they were local to Rongcheng."

Gu Yunfei nodded and said to the official, "Take Cui Youan back." ”

"And ...... this box?"

"Carry it back too."

In the autopsy room of the prefect's yamen, Yan Suwen looked at Chen Yunxiang's swollen face because it began to rot, her eyes were dark, and after a while, she looked at Gu Yunfei and said softly: "Take off her clothes." ”

"This-" Gu Yunfei scratched his head: "It's not suitable." ”

"What's suitable or inappropriate, is it difficult, you let me do it alone?" Yan Su asked, deliberately glancing at Gu Changfeng, who was standing aside.

There were only three of them in the entire corpse, and she could take off Miss Rue by herself, but the corpse that had begun to decompose was easy to cause secondary damage due to external reasons, affecting the results of the autopsy, and besides, she was responsible for inspecting the corpse, and when she undressed and turned over, she could not pay attention to the details on the corpse. The prime minister is in a high position, and she doesn't dare to speak easily.

"Don't dare, don't dare, there are subordinates, how dare you work Mrs. to do it. It's just that this rue girl is a woman, how can I, who has not yet married, be embarrassed to take off her clothes. Besides, the deceased is great, wouldn't it be too much to do this? ”

"What does General Gu mean, let the prefect find a few maids to come over?"

"Hmm!" Gu Yunfei just nodded, then realized that something was wrong, and shook it twice in a row: "No, no, no, ordinary maids have never seen this kind of scene, and if they see it, they can't be scared to death on the spot." ”

"Then what is General Gu going to do?"

"I-" Gu Yunfei glanced at the Ruxiang girl lying there, gritted his teeth and said, "I take it off, can't I take it off?" Anyway, we are also for her good, for her to find out the truth. ”

Gu Yunfei carefully untied the belt of Miss Ruxiang's clothes, and then carefully ripped off her clothes and took them off gently. Although he had been careful enough, because the corpse had begun to decompose, his clothes and flesh had been stripped off, revealing his bones, and blood gushing out.

Gu Yunfei only felt that his stomach was churning, so he hurriedly let go of his hand and ran outside to vomit up a lot of meat and vegetables.

"Ma'am, I'll see...... I don't think there's any need to inspect this corpse. Cui You'an has already confessed, Miss Ruxiang was strangled to death by him. ”

"It's not." Yan Suwen looked at Ruxiang's fingers: "Chen Yunxiang was not strangled to death by Cui You'an, but suffocated to death after being buried alive." Her fingernails were broken to varying degrees. At first, I suspected that she had broken it while tearing with Choi, but instead of silk fabric in the cracks of her fingernails, wood chips and spice chips were found. I've just seen it, and the sawdust matches the nail scratches on the box. ”

"Cui Youan lied to me?"

"No, at that time, his mind was confused, and he was afraid that he really thought that he had strangled Miss Rue to death. In fact, the rue girl only had symptoms of suspended animation due to temporary suffocation, and after being put into the wooden box, she woke up and turned around, but because there was no way to open the wooden box, she suffocated to death in it. ”

"That's pathetic, isn't it?"

"Another point, Cui You'an didn't lie, he did have the idea of hurting Miss Rue, and the clothes were indeed torn, but judging from the test results, Miss Rue Xiang showed no signs of being hurt substantially."

"Can you check this?"

"Absolutely." Yan Su asked, continuing to test: "There is one thing, I am very strange. According to the time of death, even if the rue girl was not ossified, the body should be highly decomposed, but she ......"

"The weather, and the spices?"

"Weather should indeed be taken into account, but bodies buried deep underneath are less affected by the weather, because the environment is more likely to accelerate the rate of decomposition. I've seen all those spices, and they can cover up the smell of corpses, but they don't have an antiseptic effect, and even if they do, they don't apply to the outside. ”

"What's the reason for that? Because Miss Rue died too unjustly? ”

"It's not." Yan Su asked and shook his head: "Have you ever smelled a very special smell?" ”

"The taste? What else does it smell like besides the stench of corpses? ”

"I know you can't smell it, what about my lord, do you smell it?"

Gu Changfeng glanced at Yan Suwen, frowned, and shook his head.

"It seems that there are times when adults don't work." Yan Suwen pointed to Chen Yunxiang's corpse and said, "This smell is mixed with the smell of decay, and it is indeed difficult to distinguish it. The smell emanated from the rue girl's body. At first, I thought it was because the spices had stained her coat, but when I took it off, the smell was still there, and when I cut through the flesh, the smell did not dissipate, but became stronger. ”

"Madame means...... Meaty? ”

"That's probably what it means." The two words Gu Yunfei used made Yan Suwen a little crying and laughing: "This taste was born in the body of the Rue Xiang girl and grew in the flesh and blood of the Rue Xiang girl." Born in a family of spices, Miss Rue grew up in the spice pile, and the reason why she can achieve today is not only because of her good birth, but also because of her obsession and devotion to spices. Over time, the smell seeped into her blood and bones. ”

"So horrible?"

"It's not terrifying, just like many healers will taste herbs themselves, Miss Rue must have worked hard when she studied spices. These spices made the rue girl, but they also harmed the rue girl. Yan Suwen looked up at Gu Changfeng and Gu Yunfei: "The reason why she rejected Cui You'an and those who came to propose marriage was not because she didn't want to marry or have no favorite object, but because she knew that she was infertile and knew that she would never be able to have children again." ”

"No......" Gu Yunfei's tongue swirled back and forth in his mouth, but he never said that word.

"I'm not sure when Miss Rue knew, but her body has been eroded by spices and she has indeed lost her qualifications to be a mother." Yan Su asked and sighed, "Miss Ruxiang's corpse is decomposing slower than normal, also because these spices have already seeped into her bones and blood. Although the spices are good, they are slightly poisonous, and the poison accumulates into a deep one, and it is too late to regret it. ”