Ma Liu turned around and replied with a smile: "If Mrs. Hui is still in that hole." Because he couldn't figure out the origin of the dried corpse, he didn't dare to move it indiscriminately, so he left it in its place and didn't move. The last general had already sent someone to guard the house, and the hole was covered with a mesh cloth, so that nothing else would fall into it and destroy the dry corpse. ”

"What about the kid?"

"Madame wants to see the child?" Ma Liu is a smart man, and he can understand the meaning of these words as soon as he hears them: "If Madame wants to see her, I will send it to Madame after dawn." It's just that kid, stupid, stupid, I'm afraid it's-"

"I'm afraid of what." Gu Yunfei stretched out his hand and patted Ma Liu's body: "I'm afraid you don't know, our wife's medical skills are the best in the world." ”

"Oh!" Ma Liu hurriedly showed a look of admiration, and did enough to make the sycophants.

Because it was about the eldest uncle, after dawn, Yan Suwen urged Ma Liu to take her to the half-abandoned courtyard.

"This courtyard was originally the courtyard of a large family in Kucheng, and the owner of the courtyard was surnamed Hong, who was engaged in the sale of horses. Shopkeeper Hong and his wife had three children together, the eldest is a daughter, married elsewhere, and came back the year he just got married. The two sons, the twin sons of the same mother, look exactly the same. When the two children were young, the Hong family was a happy family. Later, the two children grew up and married their daughters-in-law respectively, and the days slowly became different.

The eldest Hong Shi'an is married to the daughter of a businessman who is the right person. The parents-in-law only gave birth to such a daughter, who was held in the palm of her hand and raised in her heart. After having Hong Shi'an, the son-in-law, he was in pain together, and the life of the boss was more and more beautiful.

The younger brother Hong Shikang married the daughter of a common family, with a brother and sister-in-law, and a younger brother and sister, not to mention taking care of him, and dragging him to take care of his parents and brothers. Because he often goes home to ask for money, this younger brother Hong Shikang is not only disliked by his father, but also complained by his brother. ”

"These are all children of the Hong family, why did one marry the daughter of a businessman who was a good family, and the other married a girl from a civilian family?"

"It's not about the personalities of these two brothers. The eldest Hong Shi'an, with a stable personality and a single-minded pursuit of wealth, has no requirements for a woman's appearance, but requires a woman to be smart and able to take care of the family's business with him. The daughter-in-law of this big house, just talking about her appearance, is indeed plain, and even a little ugly. But when people are seven or eight years old, they can take charge of themselves and go out to talk about business with others.

This younger brother Hong Shikang has a detached personality and is a person who attaches great importance to women's appearance. The daughter-in-law he married was the first beauty in our reservoir city back then, and she didn't look like that. But the background is not good, the father and mother are lazy, and they all point to their daughter's face to live. When he first got married, he didn't need his own wife to speak, Hong Shikang sent large bags of good things to his mother-in-law's house. As the days go by, they fade. But what about this parents-in-law, they don't have any eyesight at all, if you don't send it, I'll go to the door to pick it up myself, and the couple who are making trouble directly are also getting more and more unhappy.

Just a year before the Hong family's accident, Hong Shikang was still clamoring to divorce his wife. Although the letter of resignation was torn, Hong Shikang brought a concubine into the door from the outside, and from then on, the Hong family was even more uneven.

Seeing that life was bad, Mr. and Mrs. Hong called their two sons to them and said that they should live separately. The eldest Hong Shi'an said that he could not want the Hong family's house, and after the family was separated, he could move to his father-in-law's house to live, and in terms of money, he could also give more money to his younger brother. The younger brother Hong Shikang said that he was not willing to live with his father and mother at home, his living conditions were not as good as his brother, and it would not hurt to give more money, but there was one point, that is, the piece of jade in his father's hand must be kept to himself after a hundred years. ”

"Baoyu?"

"Yes, I heard that when Mr. and Mrs. Hong went to the Western Regions to sell horses in their early years, they inadvertently got a piece of precious jade. It was with the blessing of that piece of treasure that the Hong family made the business better and better. The eldest Hong Shikang didn't care about his parents, but when his younger brother brought it up, he felt that it was better to leave this treasure jade to him than to his younger brother. According to his younger brother's temperament, he may pawn this treasure jade and exchange it for money one day. Stay in his hands, the business will get better and better, and he will be able to help his younger brother more or less in the future.

Proceeding from reality, the consideration of the boss Hong Shi'an is not unreasonable. If I am this younger brother, I will take the opportunity to negotiate with my brother about the conditions, I can not want this precious jade, and I can also do without the business of the Hong family, but the daily expenses must be borne by my brother. As long as you don't go too far, you can be safe and secure for a lifetime. But this Hong Shikang is obviously a brainless person, who doesn't know how to plan for the long term, and doesn't know how many catties and taels he has.

Because of this piece of precious jade, the brothers of the Hong family, who originally respected each other, turned against each other, and fought openly and secretly. The boss let people beat his younger brother, and the younger brother secretly poisoned the boss, and in just a few months, the Hong family was defeated. Because the shopkeeper Hong and his wife couldn't withstand the blow, they hanged themselves in this courtyard. Before committing suicide, the shopkeeper Hong set fire to the yard, originally wanting to take the entire yard to the end, who would have thought that when it was halfway burned, it rained, and the yard became what we see now.

Since then, this courtyard has become a ghost house, and ordinary people don't say that they go in, even if they have been in this vicinity, they will feel hairy in their hearts. It's just those children, who are not sensible and have nothing to fear, who use this yard as a place to play all day long. ”596

"Aren't the children afraid, aren't you afraid?" Yan Su asked Ma Liu.

"What are we afraid of, we don't kill more people on the battlefield than they die in the Hong family? The corpse that I saw, and the one that was not miserable. This common people did not dare to provoke the ghost house, because they were afraid that they would die. But what are we afraid of as soldiers, as long as we still go to the battlefield to kill the enemy, then the result will definitely be fatal. Ma Liu thought about it very much: "Madame's body is inconvenient, please be careful." Otherwise, I'll have the road cleared from here. ”

"No need, I'll let Shen Jiu go over and watch, you find two people to help carry out the dried corpses in the hole." Yan Su asked and looked at Shen Jiu: "Later, you can also go down to that hole and take a look, and pay attention to it." It's inconvenient for me right now, and if it's convenient, I'll go down on my own. ”

"Madam, don't worry, Shen Jiu will check carefully." Shen Jiu bowed his hand, took two soldiers, and followed Ma Liu into the depths of the courtyard.

After Gu Changfeng entered the city, he hid in the shadows with Jiang Li. Although the emperor said that Gu Yunfei was appointed as the general of the town, it was impossible to see what the situation was in Kucheng from under the sun. Gu Yunfei has been by Gu Changfeng's side for many years, Gu Changfeng has long been regarded as a brother by him, if he can't do it, he won't worry about leaving him here alone.

After waiting for about half an hour, Shen Jiu led someone to move the dried corpse out of the courtyard. Shen Jiu did it very carefully, and the entire dried corpse almost maintained his original appearance.

Yan Suwen guarded his stomach and slowly approached the dried corpse, his eyes swept over it. The dry corpse was not wearing a coat, but only a gray middle coat, which was clean and clean, and there were no accessories in sight. Even if there were, it is estimated that someone would have taken it a long time ago.

Raising his gaze, his gaze fell on the face of the dried corpse.

There is no trace of blood on the thin face, whether you look at it from a distance or up close, there is only a layer of skin, a layer of dry skin left after the water has been removed.

"Didn't Ma Liu say that there was a layer of human skin on the surface of this dried corpse? What about the human skin? ”

"It's been taken off." Shen Jiu glanced behind him, and a frowning soldier took the human skin that had been removed from the dried corpse. This human skin, after a few days, has also been somewhat deformed.

"The human skin wrapped around the dried corpse has no face, no hands and feet, only a torso." Shen Jiu put on a disposable sheep intestine glove, and carefully spread out the human skin in front of Yan Suwen: "In this part of the human skin, there is a mole, and this is the only information that the human skin has left for us. ”

"Miss, is this our eldest master?" Errong asked in a low voice, his face already turning pale when he saw the dried corpse.

"If you ask about this human skin, I can't confirm it, Miss. You also know that I haven't lived in Yanfu for a long time, and I'm not the kind of person who is particularly close to my uncle. I don't know if there is anything on this body or not. At the moment, I can only put away this human skin first, and after returning to Yecheng, I will hand it over to my grandmother, father or big brother for identification. They might recognize. ”

"The slave didn't ask about human skin, but about the dried corpse in front of the young lady. How can the slave and maid look at it, the figure of this dry corpse is similar to that of our eldest master. ”

"It's about the same size." Yan Suwen looked at it seriously: "After the water is dehydrated, the height and fat and thin will undergo some changes, if these disappeared things are added, the height of the dried corpse in front of you, fat and thin, should be the same as when the eldest uncle disappeared two years ago." ”

"So, Miss means ......"

"But he's not an uncle." Yan Suwen stared at the face: "Although his face is very similar to that of the eldest uncle, the shape of the eye sockets is different. The height of the bridge of the nose is also different, and the shape of the ears and lobes is also different. The lower part of the nose is quite similar to the shape of the lips. To put it mildly, this is a middle-aged man who looks seven or eight points similar to my eldest uncle, and his age is almost the same as that of my eldest uncle. The clothes he is wearing are made of very good materials, and in this small town, there are not many households that can afford to wear them. ”

"The last general will send someone to check now, and see if there is a man who has disappeared in this big family in the reservoir city." Ma Liu casually beckoned two people: "You, and you, also go to the inn in the city to ask and see if there are any richly dressed guests who suddenly disappeared." ”