"When did you get married?"

"Before Master Li fell ill."

"Then, when did Li Hong start getting sick?"

"The adult asked this, and Yu Niang couldn't answer." Yu Niang shook her head half contemplatively: "Master Li's stomach is not good, everyone in this Li Mansion knows about it, but there is no major problem with the master's body." When she learned that her master had died of illness, Yu Niang was also very puzzled. Maybe it's some kind of emergency. ”

"You just said that after Li Hong's death, the Li family was dispersed, and this garden was abandoned, right?"

"Yes!"

"And you haven't been in since?"

After Master Li's funeral was completed, Mrs. Yu came to Yu Niang and asked Yu Niang to return the key to the small garden to her. Since then, Yu Niang has never come in again. Occasionally, when I pass by here, I just stand at the door and look at it. Those herbs are all planted by Yu Niang, and they are all taken care of by Yu Niang herself, and there will always be some reluctance in my heart. ”

"So, did anything strange happen in this garden while you were growing herbs?" Yan Su asked casually, but she didn't want Yu Niang to nod.

"There's one thing, but I don't know if the girl wants to ask." Yu Niang said and pointed to the opposite wall: "At that time, Master Li was still there, and Yu Niang was still taking care of this small garden. One evening, it suddenly rained, and Yu Niang thought that the flavorful herbs in the small garden could not be seen in the rain, so she hurriedly took the shelter and came over. It was a light rain, and it had been raining for a long time, and just when my mother was about to leave, I suddenly heard a faint cry. The cry was weak, almost inaudible if you didn't listen closely. ”

"Crying?"

"Hmm." Yu Niang nodded: "At first, Yu Niang didn't go to her heart. The girl also saw it, and there are people here and there. Yu Niang thought that maybe it was the lady who was wronged and vented under the cover of this rainy day. But the more I listened, the more I felt that something was wrong. The cry seemed to come from under the ground. When the mother listened carefully, she saw a shadow on the wall out of the corner of her eye. ”

"Shadows?"

"Yes, a shadow, a girl's shadow. Yu Niang was startled, thinking that the girl had secretly run in, and when she looked closely, she saw that the girl had turned into a dry bone. Yu Niang was so frightened that she didn't even have time to pack her things and quickly fled back. ”

"And after that?"

I don't know if it was raining or being scared, Yu Niang fell ill and fell asleep for two days. After getting well, Yu Niang found an opportunity to tell her wife what she saw. Mrs. said that Yu Niang was hallucinating, and specially invited a doctor to treat Yu Niang, and also prescribed a lot of calming drugs. Since then, Yu Niang has never seen that girl again, nor has she seen such a terrible scene. Sometimes, Yu Niang would also ask herself if she was dazzled because she was sick at that time. ”

"Girl, dry bones."

"Xu is Yu Niang's hallucination, the girl just listens to it."

"Maybe, it's not Yu Niang's hallucination." Yan Su asked and stared at the wall: "Yunfei, can you dig up this wall?" ”

Gu Yunfei stretched out his feet and tried it: "You don't need to dig, just kick it directly." ”

With a "boom", the wall collapsed, revealing a torso buried in the wall, which had turned into dry bones.

Yu Niang screamed, not even knowing that the vegetable basket on her arm had fallen.

"It seems that the lord is right, the torso of the stump is indeed hidden in this small garden."

"Remnant...... Stump limb? Yu Niang glanced at Gu Yunfei, but her legs were weak and she sat on the ground.

No one thought that this case, which had reached a dead end, would suddenly become enlightened because of a small garden.

Now, a complete female skeleton is placed in front of Yan Suwen, who is she, how she died, and what happened after death, it is Yan Suwen and the people of Yecheng who can't wait to know.

"Although the head of the deceased is relatively well preserved, because the eyes and nose have been gouged out, it is difficult to restore the true appearance of the deceased for a while. The rest of the limbs and feet were dismembered after death, and the wounds were scattered and overlapped, and it was difficult to verify the true cause of death of the deceased without easy tools. Still, I made a little discovery. ”

Yan Suwen pointed to the female skeleton and said, "Judging from the preservation of the bones, the deceased did not die of poisoning. In addition, I found these marks on her bones, which indicate that the deceased was beaten before his death, but the process was short-lived. Also, the deceased was congenitally deficient, and her left leg was a little shorter than her right leg. If you look at the appearance alone, you shouldn't be able to see it, but you must walk differently than ordinary people. In addition, the deceased is a woman, and in order to maintain a beautiful posture, it is possible to wear shoes with heightened balance, which means that the deceased will wear a special shoe to hide his differences.

Because the corpse is not very well preserved, and there is a certain amount of time since now, there is only a little information I can find. I suggest that Jing Zhaoyin can check in this direction, and maybe he can confirm the identity of the deceased. ”

On the third day after the proclamation was issued, an old man came to the door and claimed that he might know the deceased.

The old man's surname is Yuan, a single name and a new word, and he is a very ordinary person with a simple background. His wife, Nguyen Thi, was a domestic servant, but when she was young, she worked as a nurse for a family. The family's surname is Xu, and their youngest daughter, Xu Linyu, has a congenital uneven foot. Because it is a daughter's family, they are worried that they will be pointed at when they grow up and affect their marriage, so the lord and wife of the Xu family are very worried. His wife, Nguyen, thought about it for many days before she came up with a way to put her hands and feet in the shoes, which was to make the insoles of the slightly lower left shoes thicker.

Ruan had been in the Hsu family for three years, and when she left, the little girl was already three years old, and she walked in shoes no different from that of an outsider. Because of this good idea, the Xu family gave him some more reward money when his wife left.

This Xu Linyu is none other than Li Hong's original wife, that is, the Mrs. Li who handed over the small garden to Yu Niang to take care of.

Things are getting weirder and weirder.

Judging from the evidence of the bones, when she was dismembered, Li Hong's wife Xu was still alive and well.

If she's not Hsu, then who is she? If she is the Xu family, Li Hong's real wife, who is the Mrs. Li who sold the house to Lord Zuo and died accidentally?

Yan Suwen felt a headache, and even felt that there was a bigger conspiracy hidden behind these corpses.

What that conspiracy was, she didn't dare to think about it, and she didn't want to think about it.

Gu Changfeng obviously didn't want to be confused, and after listening to Jingzhao Yin Xue Donglai's report, he immediately went to open the grave of Li Hong's wife Xu who was buried in the suburbs.

Xu died by accidental drowning and has been buried in the grave for half a year, and the rancid smell after the opening of the museum almost smoked people's eyes. After an inquest, the Xu family who drowned did not have the problem of unusually long left and right legs, that is to say, the one who died accidentally was not the real Xu Linyu, but the one who was dismembered.

The whole family of Zuo Zong, the servant of the Criminal Department, found that the case of the stump had not been heard clearly, and then there was the case of Mrs. Li, who was finally taking a breath, and Jingzhao Yin Xue Donglai, who had finally taken a breath, directly took a rope and put it around his neck, and was thinking about whether to kick the stool under his feet, when the next person came in, saying that someone had gone to the government to report the case, and claimed that he was the one who knew all the truth.

The second person who appeared in Jingzhao Mansion was not a bystander, it was the missing concubine of the Li family who had already reported the case before.

Inevitably, there was another mistake, and Xue Donglai, who retracted his neck from the rope sleeve, asked the concubine who came to report the case directly into the back hall. When questioning, he also deliberately dismissed all the people left and right.

"Are you Li Hong's concubine?"

"The slave family picks green, which is the concubine of the silk merchant Li Hong." The woman knelt on the ground, kowtowed first, and then said: "In addition to being Li Hong's concubine, the slave family is also the dowry girl of Miss Xu Linyu of the Xu Mansion. ”

"Are you Xu Linyu's dowry girl?"

"Yes!" The woman nodded: "The slave family is exactly." ”

"Tell me everything you know."

"The slave family has been by the young lady's side since she was three years old. The young lady has a weak temperament and doesn't like to go out on weekdays, and the one who gets along with her the most is Cai Qing. Nominally, Cai Qing and Miss are master and servant, but in private, Miss treats Cai Qing like sisters. When the young lady came out of the cabinet, Cai Qing accompanied the young lady to marry into the Li family.

Miss and the lord soon after getting pregnant, under the arrangement of the miss, Cai Qing became the master's person, and then he had an identity, and served the lord with the miss. About when the young lady was three months pregnant, because she drank a bowl of fetal medicine prescribed by the doctor, the abdominal pain was unbearable, and the child fell out not long after. The old man was very angry, thinking that Cai Qing did not take good care of the young lady, so he asked Cai Qing to be locked in the firewood room in the backyard, and when Cai Qing came out, it was already a month later. ”

"And then?"

Cai Qing went to see Miss, but Miss closed the door, saying that she would be sad and sad when she saw Cai Qing. At that time, Cai Qing felt that something was not quite right, because the people who originally served the young lady were gone. The old man said that the young lady was sad and had no children, so he locked himself up, this pass, that is, more than half a year, and when the young lady came out, the whole person changed, became very irritable, and took people off at every turn. ”

"It is possible that people have undergone great changes and their temperament has changed."

"What the adults said was that Cai Qing thought the same way at the time. Until one day, Miss drank more wine because of her tantrum, and when Miss Cai Qingfu went to bed, she didn't know that Miss was no longer Miss. ”

"Because of the shoes?"

"Yes! The young lady was born with uneven feet, and she wore special shoes since she learned to walk, but not many people knew about it. ”

"Doesn't Li Hong know either?"