"Xiangye, madam, are you all right?"

Zuo Zongquan came over covering his mouth and nose, Gu Changfeng had a calm face and did not say a word, Yan Suwen shook his head slightly, broke free from Gu Changfeng's arms, and poked his head out to look outside.

The black smoke had cleared a little, but the air was still filled with the stench.

"It's the smell of corpses." Yan Suwen stretched out his hand and waved: "Although these cigarettes also have a certain toxicity, as long as they are not in a confined space, they are fine." Let's wait a while, and then go in and check it out when all the black smoke has cleared. By the way, what about Granny Ho? ”

"I was just here." Li Erxing covered his mouth and nose and looked around.

"There must be something strange about this old woman, this coffin is from her shop, she can't be unaware of the cats in it. Judging from the following officials, she has already made up her mind, and the stories she just told are just to distract us. ”

"Granny He is not like that." Li Erxing muttered quietly.

"People's hearts are separated from their bellies, and they can't be seen by their age and face." Zuo Zongquan glanced at Li Erxing: "Look for it again, and ask these shops along the street to see if there are any strange things in this He Ji." ”

Li Erxing nodded and went to work. Gu Yunfei covered his mouth and nose and guarded the side of He Ji's shop, and when he saw that the black smoke inside was almost gone, he called: "Master!" ”

When I entered He Ji again, the scene was messy. All the paper ties, all missing arms and legs, were mixed together, the coffin was aside, and the air was still filled with the foul smell of corpses.

"Yunfei."

Gu Yunfei nodded, covered his mouth and nose and went to the coffin, and with just one glance, he "babbled".

"What's wrong? Could it be that the person in the coffin ran away? Yan Suwen asked casually, and also arrived at the coffin.

"Do you know why your subordinates are babbling?"

"Hmm." Yan Suwen nodded: "Because the people in the coffin not only didn't run, but one more came out." ”

In the black lacquered coffin, there were two people, one was a young woman whose body had been clearly decomposed, and judging from her dress, it looked very much like the daughter-in-law she described in Granny He's mouth. The other one is Granny He herself. She lay on her side in the coffin, one hand still gripping the edge of the coffin, her legs curled up, as if she was struggling to get out of the coffin.

"How did this old woman get into this coffin?" Zuo Zongquan also came over.

"This, probably only she knows." Gu Yunfei pointed to the female corpse that was pressed under Granny He.

"I can't see it clearly. Yunfei, see if you can remove them from the coffin. Yan Suwen took half a step back and pointed to the position near the door: "Put the corpses over there, and by the light outside, I can see how they all died." As a part-time monk halfway through, I don't believe there are any ghosts or gods in this world. ”

"This Granny He is okay, forget the one at the bottom." Gu Yunfei waved his hand to dispel the unpleasant smell of corpses in the coffin: "Lord Zuo's criminal department has a pretence, let Li Erxing's kid call people over later." Madame is a bride, and it is not very good to get this touch. ”

"What kind of bride and old wife, do you think I will mind, or will your grandfather mind." Yan Su asked, and pointed to the door again. Gu Yun flew to Gu Changfeng and glanced at it, and when he saw that the prime minister did not object, he stood next to the coffin, bent down and hugged Granny He out first.

"His face was dark, as if he had been poisoned by a corpse."

"Will there be any treasure hidden in the coffin, this Granny He was worried that we would open the museum for an autopsy, so she secretly ran into the store and wanted to take the baby away while taking advantage of the black smoke, but she was poisoned by the corpse, and she fell into the coffin, she was frightened and scared, and it was too late to climb up."

"The analysis is very reasonable, so, please Yunfei, go to the coffin to see if there is any treasure."

"I knew it was my job." Gu Yunfei returned to the coffin, looking left and right and didn't know how to start. Zuo Zongquan searched around the store and found an old dress that he didn't know who it was and handed it over. Gu Yunfei hugged the old clothes on the female corpse and carried her out of the coffin. Before he could move, he heard a commotion, so frightened that he almost threw the body back. Stabilize his mind and carry the female corpse to the place designated by Yan Suwen, and then free his hand to look inside the coffin. I saw that at the bottom of the coffin, that is, where the female corpse was just lying, there was a layer of things, including a child's gold bracelet, silver bracelet, gold collar, silver collar, and some agate pendants.

"Hey, there's a baby."

"Is there really a baby?" Yan Suwen also leaned over, and when he saw the coffin, he was also stunned.

I searched for things and took them out.

"These things don't look like they came out of a family, you see this gold collar, the workmanship is very meticulous, and the carving pattern is made with special craftsmanship. This pattern should pray for the health and safety of the child. This gold bracelet, although equally delicate, is significantly inferior in workmanship to that gold collar. As for the silver bracelets here, the silver is all ordinary silver, and the bracelets are also very rough in workmanship, and they are all glossy, like ordinary people. Yan Suwen said as he looked at those things carefully, and then picked out two items and handed them to Zuo Zongquan: "There are words on it, it should be the child's surname or first name, please ask Lord Zuo to check it." If you can find the owner of these things, you may be able to know the secret hidden in the He Ji paper shop. ”

Zuo Zongquan took it with both hands and quickly arranged for someone to check.

After confirming that there were no other secrets in the paper shop, Yan Suwen and Gu Changfeng returned to the mansion, and the two corpses were temporarily arrived at Yizhuang in the city by Li Erxing.

As soon as he arrived at the house, before he had taken two sips of tea, Zuo Zongquan came.

"Xiangye, ma'am."

"Lord Zuo, but the investigation has a result?"

"Mrs. Hui, there is a result."

"How?"

"The gold collar and the silver bracelet engraved with words belong to the children who were lost in Yecheng before."

"Did you get that kid back?"

Zuo Zongquan shook his head.

"I really didn't expect that the disappearance of the hairy boy would involve He Ji, and when I found He Ji, I was connected to the previous disappearance of young children." Yan Su asked, his eyes sank, "Have you checked the daughter-in-law that Granny He picked up from the river?" ”

"Checked." Zuo Zongquan handed over a file, "This is a file from three years ago, because Xia Guan has recently been sorting out the case of the missing population in Yecheng, so he is quite familiar with the content of this file. The contents of this dossier are also very bizarre. ”

"Yunfei, I'm almost ready, madam, I'm ready to listen to the story." Yan Su asked to say this, but privately instructed the maid to prepare a stool for Zuo Zongquan.

Zuo Zongquan did not refuse, and after seeing the ceremony, he sat down with the dossier in his hand.

"Three years ago, Wang Youcai's family in Wangjiazhuang outside the city married a new daughter-in-law. The new daughter-in-law's surname is Wei, with small characters, and she is also from Wangjiazhuang. This Wang Youcai and Wei Yuanyuan grew up together, although they are not childhood sweethearts, but they are also two little guesses. The two got married, and they were also matched by the parents of both sides. A year later, Wang Youcai went to the city to find a job as a short-term worker, and Wei Yuanqian came to visit him every few days. It was probably in March, Wei Yuanyuan, as usual, got up early to prepare some food, and left Wangjiazhuang to take a boat into the city, and has not been heard from since. ”

"Take a boat into town?"

"Xia Guan forgot to say, although this Wangjiazhuang is outside the city, but on the other side of the river, if you take the dry road, you have to go around a big circle, walk for a day to enter the city. But if you take the waterway, it only takes an hour. Granny He's son, He Sheng, worked as a boatman on that river. ”

"Since the person is gone, why didn't the Wang family report to the official?"

"I reported it, but I didn't find it. Later, the river sent water, washing away many people on both sides of the river, and Wangjiazhuang was the most seriously destroyed. The people of the Wang family and the Wei family almost died in that flood. When a person dies, this matter of finding someone will naturally be gone. But when Xia Guan looked at the file, he remembered one detail. According to Wang Youcai, his mother, Wei Yuan, had a birthmark on her wrist, and the birthmark was red. In He Ji, when Mrs. showed the female autopsy, Xia Guan accidentally saw her wrist, and also saw the birthmark on her wrist. For fear of remembering mistakes, I went home and read the file before I dared to say it clearly. ”

"In this way, the daughter-in-law of Granny He who was picked up from the river is very likely to be the innocent and missing bride of Wang Youcai's family, Wei Yuanyu." Yan Su asked, pondering: "But if she is Wei Yuanyuan, where did she go during the days when she disappeared?" ”

"If she didn't hide on purpose, she was locked up." Gu Yunfei interjected on the side.

After Yan Suwen glanced at him, he ordered, "Go to Yizhuang, I want to see the corpse of this female corpse again." ”

"Still going?" Gu Yunfei complained a little, and then received his father's rather displeased gaze, so he quickly changed his words: "Go, let's go now, and go down to prepare the carriage and horses." ”

Yecheng Yizhuang is cleaner than expected. The corpse of the female corpse was not placed outside, but was put into a new coffin. This coffin is made of average plates, but the workmanship is meticulous, and the paint is evenly brushed, which is even better than the one prepared by Granny He before.

"This coffin ......"

"It's from the bookstore." The caretaker of Yizhuang stood up: "Those who can be sent to our Yizhuang are either people who died by mistake, or people who have no relatives and no reason. After the bookstore, the shopkeeper Ying felt that these people were pitiful, so he made an agreement with several coffin shops in the city, but anyone who was sent to my Yizhuang would go to their shop to move a coffin and put the corpse in. The money should be settled by the shopkeeper. ”

"This shopkeeper is a good-hearted and good person." Yan Suwen had the image of the bookstore owner who was hanging in his mind: "Now that there are coffins, then when the matter is over, let them be buried in peace." ”

"Yes!" The caretaker of Yizhuang took the initiative to retreat after he passed.

"What else does Madame need?"

"Hidden wounds are those wounds that are hidden in the body and cannot be seen with the naked eye alone."