Wang Zhutou was surprised again: "What do you mean, Wang Xuezhu should be able to see the Su Wang clan who came over and hide?!" ”

"It's not absolute, for example, he was in a panic at the time, it's not impossible." Song Ning thought about it, and felt that the point of suspicion was not very valid.

If Wang Xuezhu was a rapist at the time, he should have panicked, even if he was not a murderer, seeing a dead man and this dead man was still a woman he liked, and he was still lying naked, such an impact and panic, few people could stay calm.

"How many people were there at that time?" She then asked.

"When the villain arrived, there were people all around, and later asked Su Wang's when she shouted, who came around, she reported a few names, a total of four, three women and a man, it was his uncle in the next room, and he was about to go out to work, passing by here."

"Later, the villain asked these four people, and they said the same, seeing the deceased and Wang Xuezhu."

Song Ning asked, "What kind of Wang Xuezhu do they describe?" ”

"The pants were lifted, but the belt fell to the ground, and he sat on the ground shivering with his pants up." Wang Zhutou said.

"It seems that Wang Xuezhu had already lifted his pants when Su Wang's shouting and people arrived." Song Ning said.

Wang Zhutou nodded: "The villain thinks so." ”

"Go to Su Qingniang's house first." Song Ning was about to leave, and found that Lu Miaomiao was still lying on the ground, she couldn't help kicking him, "What are you doing, asleep?" ”

Lu Miaomiao sat up and rubbed her back: "It hurts, I hurt from the stones and mud here." ”

After he finished speaking, everyone was stunned and looked at Wang Zhutou.

Wang Zhu's hair stood on end, and it was rumored that Lord Song's group had a strong ability to handle cases, but it was not said that their process of handling cases was gloomy.

"What, what?"

Lu Qingqing asked: "The corpse grid says that there are bruises on the front chest and back of the corpse, but there is no detailed description, have you seen it at the time?" ”

Wang Zhutou was stunned again, shook his head and said: "Because it is a woman, there was no autopsy on the spot, and I didn't look at it after returning to the yamen, but according to the old man's habit of doing things for this person, if there is a scratch or bleeding wound, he should write it, and if it is not written, it should be not." ”

Lu Qingqing looked at Song Ning and waited for her to speak.

"As a new suspicion." Song Ning glanced at Song Yuanshi, who was writing down in the notebook, and she asked, "How do you feel?" ”

Song Yuanshi coughed twice: "I'm fine." ”

"Are you sure it's okay, how can I see that your face is very red." As she spoke, she pressed Song Yuanshi to probe his forehead, and as soon as she touched it, she was burned, "My God, you can fry eggs at this temperature." ”

Everyone gathered around and took turns touching it.

"yes, yes, it's time to fry eggs."

Song Yuanshi was speechless: "I won't touch them one by one, I'm really fine!" ”

"No, let Brother Qing send you back to the inn to see a doctor." Song Ning said.

Lu Qingqing nodded: "Let's go, I'll accompany you back, can you walk?" I'll carry you on my back. ”

"I'm fine, I'm not that weak." Song Yuanshi smiled bitterly, but still handed the book he recorded to Yan Feng, "Then I'll go back first." ”

Song Ning told Lu Qingqing: "Doctor Zhao take a look, prescribe the medicine, you fry it yourself, don't let people get started!" ”

"I see, you can rest assured." Lu Qingqing helped Song Yuanshi back to the inn, and Lu Qingqing gave money to send the guys from the inn to invite the doctor.

When Song Yuanshi lay down, he felt that he couldn't hold it anymore, and he was groggy, and Lu Qingqing guarded him.

The doctor arrived, and Lu Qingqing led him in: "My eldest brother has suffered from the wind and cold all the way on horseback, doctor, take a look." ”

"Okay, okay." The doctor stepped forward, Song Yuanshi woke up, he looked at Lu Qingqing, "Qingqing, I want to drink white porridge, you ask the guy to boil me a bowl of porridge!" ”

Lu Qingqing nodded: "First number pulse, when the doctor is sent away, I will stop by the way, don't I still have to grab medicine?" ”

Song Yuanshi insisted: "Go ahead, a matter of one word." ”

Song Yuanshi rarely joked with them and talked nonsense, he would only joke in front of Song Ning, Lu Qingqing didn't dare to refute, so he trotted downstairs to explain to the guy to boil white porridge, and hurriedly came up, the doctor was writing a prescription.

He was stunned for a moment, scratched his head and asked, "How is Mr. Yuan?" ”

"Open a pair of chaihu soup, relieve the table to ward off the cold, sweat after drinking tonight, and it will fade tomorrow." The doctor gave the prescription to Lu Qingqing, "Little brother, follow me to grab the medicine." ”

Lu Qingqing should have looked at Song Yuanshi.

"Thank you, I'll sleep for a while." Song Yuan Shi said.

Lu Qingqing should be, close the window, fold the quilt, close the door and go out.

Song Yuanshi fell asleep in a daze.

……

Song Ning followed Zhao Zhutou into Chestnut Village.

The reason why it is called Chestnut Village is because there are a lot of chestnut trees in front and behind this village, and in autumn and winter, every household is reluctant to eat rations, so they will come back to eat chestnuts and eat them for a month, saving the rations for the next year.

Chestnut Village is not rich, but fortunately, everyone is not a tenant, and although there are not many fields, they are all their own.

"There are 231 households in the village, and life is okay." While introducing, Wang Zhutou led everyone to the village, and the village chief Wang Shishi was called back from the field to entertain.

When everyone heard that an adult from the capital had come to the village, they all rushed over to see the excitement and look at the appearance of the five of them.

stared at Zhao Yi one by one, unable to take their eyes off it.

"Immortals, right?" Someone exclaimed.

I've never seen such a good-looking person.

"No, no, no!" Lu Miaomiao shook her head, "I'm not an immortal, I'm Lu Miaomiao!" ”

The crowd stared at him blankly.

Song Ning quickened his steps and left Lu Miaomiao behind.

Wang Zhutou was full of curiosity about Lu Miaomiao's Qingqi. You have to say that this man is stupid, but he is not stupid when he speaks and behaves, but you have to say that he is smart...... But it's really not very smart.

If you can't say it, just ......

It's hard to say.

Wang Zhutou also quickened his pace and went to Su Qingniang's house.

Lu Miaomiao stayed at the entrance of the village to chat with everyone.

Su Qingniang's house is in the middle of the village, and it is indeed about a quarter of an hour away from the scene of the crime. Her house is a tiled house with no yard, and there are chickens at the door, but there is no, and the cleaning is quite clean.

On the east side, the clothes of men, women, and children are hung on the penny, and most of them are women's clothes.

No one was seen in front of or behind the house, but the door was open.

On the road, the village chief Wang Shishi had already heard Wang Zhutou say what Song Ning and his party were doing in the village, so Lao Yuan shouted inside: "Su Li, are you not at home?" ”

"Four-seven?"

A girl wearing a peach blossom short coat came out of the side room, bending down and holding her wet hair and couldn't open her eyes: "Village chief, my brother and sister-in-law have gone to Zhang Village, and I am alone at home, do you have something to do, can you wait for me to wash my hair?" ”

It's a girl's voice.

"You can wash it later, comb your hair first, an adult is coming." Wang Shishi said.

"Huh?" The little girl lifted her hair and wiped her face, and when she found a bunch of men standing at the door, she exclaimed, "Wait, wait for me!" ”

As he spoke, he snapped the door shut.

"This little girl is so ignorant." Wang Shishi and Song Ning explained, "It's Qingniang's sister, Yun Niang, and she hasn't finished yet." Children, adults, don't be angry. ”

Song Ning waved his hand: "We have nothing to be angry about when we are uninvited." ”

She entered the door and stood in the hall to look at it.

It's not a wealthy family, but it's very clean, and even on the repaired offering case, in addition to the tablets of his parents, there are also melons and fruits and two bouquets of wild flowers.

It was the first time Song Ning had seen such a person walking through the streets and alleys, although he was also very poor, but he was very poor and exquisite.

"Yes, I'm sorry." Later, Su Yunniang, who washed her hair, stopped washing her hair, tied her wet hair into a braid, and saluted shyly and solemnly, "Meet the adults!" ”

As he spoke, he looked at Wang Shishi.

Song Ning looked at her, thirteen or fourteen years old, her figure was very well developed, and some small clothes wrapped her in front and back. She also looks good, although she is not well nourished and a little sallow, but she has a goose egg face and big eyes, and she is a very delicate and delicate little girl.

Song Ning raised his eyebrows and asked Wang Zhutou in a low voice: "Sister Su Qingniang, who is more beautiful?" ”

"Her sister." Wang Zhutou said in a low voice, "People in ten miles and eight towns know that it is beautiful. ”

Song Ning understood. If she is more beautiful than Su Yunniang, she will indeed be famous for ten miles and eight towns.

"Don't panic, adults come to do things, just answer whatever you ask." Wang Shishi yelled at Su Yunniang.

Su Yunniang grabbed the corner of her clothes and hung her head.

"We're here for your sister's case." Song Ning wasn't going to comfort the little beauty, "You were eight or nine years old at the time, right?" Tell me what you remember. ”

Su Yunniang was very surprised, looked up and glanced at Song Ning quickly, didn't dare to ask why, and began to recall: "My family has to hunt pigweed every morning, sometimes I go with my sister-in-law, sometimes I go with my sister. ”

"That morning, my sister-in-law was supposed to be with me, and she said that the pancakes were for me to eat, but then my sister-in-law didn't call me and went to hunt pigweed with my sister."

"When I woke up and squatted at the door to wash my face, I shouted that something was wrong. Xiuxiu said that my sister was strangled to death by Brother Xuezhu. ”

"I was scolding her at the time, but my mother ran from the kitchen to the woods."

"I, I'm scared, I want to go, but Xiaohua is still at home, I have to watch her."

Xiaohua was her niece, who was more than a year old at the time and hadn't gotten out of bed yet.

"My brother, sister-in-law, and my mother never came back. I was particularly scared with Xiaohua. Later, my aunt came to take me and Xiaohua home. ”

"I realized that my sister was really dead, and the body was taken to the yamen. Brother Xuezhu really strangled my sister to death. ”

"My mother and my brother and sister-in-law came back the next day, my mother kept crying, my brother squatted at the door and slapped himself in the face, and my sister-in-law sat in the stove house with Xiaohua in her arms."

"One day later, they brought my sister back, and I saw her. I helped my sister change her clothes, and I buried her, and the coffin and coffin were still the coffins that my mother prepared for herself, and I used them for my sister first. ”

After a pause, he asked in a low voice, "I—That's all I know." ”

"Thank you, you're complete. After listening to what you said, there are a few curious points, can you please answer? ”

Su Yunniang nodded.

"How many baskets did you have at that time?" Song Ning asked her.

Su Yunniang didn't know why Song Ning asked this, so she replied truthfully: "I, my brother can tie it, my family has five or six, and sometimes he even ties it when he is at home and sells it." ”

"Got it." Song Ningyou asked, "You squatted in the yard to wash your face, and Xiuxiu came to tell you that your sister was strangled to death, and your mother immediately ran out of the kitchen?" ”

Su Yunniang was puzzled.

"What I mean, didn't you scold Xiuxiu when you heard it at the time, saying that she was talking nonsense?"

Su Yunniang nodded.

"Didn't your mother scold her? For example, you dead girl, early in the morning talking nonsense, and so on. ”

Su Yunniang recalled and shook her head: "I, I don't remember, I was too young at the time, maybe maybe not, anyway, I remember my mother running out." ”

"What was she doing?"

"When I was cooking porridge, I remember that the porridge was mushy, and the smell of burning was all in the house, and Xiaohua refused to eat breakfast and cried all the time. When she cried, I was even more scared, and I cried too. ”

Song Ning asked again: "After your sister brought it back, they changed her clothes, are you there?" ”

"I'm not here, it's my sister-in-law and my mother who have changed, and they won't let me in."

Song Ning nodded slightly.

"You just heard you call Wang Xuezhu Brother Xuezhu?"

Su Yunniang was startled, and glanced at Wang Shishi for help, not knowing whether it was right or wrong for her to call the murderer her brother, she said timidly: "I, I called him brother when I was a child, and sometimes when he beat chestnuts, he would take me to fight together, and after beating me, I would be half a basket." ”

"I—I'm not shouting anymore, I know it's wrong."

Song Ning said: "It's okay. When will your brother and sister-in-law come back from Zhang Village? ”

"Siqi is cold, my brother and sister-in-law took him and Xiaohua to see a doctor together, and it is estimated that he will be back in a while."

"Where's your mother?"

Su Yunniang replied: "My mother also went in the second half of the year after my sister went, she was not in good health, and after my sister went, she vomited a few mouthfuls of blood, and she went after five months." ”

Song Ning bowed his head, sat down on the bench in the hall, and looked at Zhao Yi.

Zhao Yi shrugged.

Su Yunniang was too young back then, and she may have seen many things at the time, but it was normal for her not to remember the past five years.

"Wait a minute." Zhao Yi asked everyone to sit.

Everyone sat down, Wang Shishi and Su Yunniang went to his house to get tea leaves to make tea, and they worked for two quarters of an hour before serving tea with the bowl that the three families had gathered without gaps.

"All the seeds planted in the spring this year, right?" Song Ning chatted by the way, and Wang Shishi replied, "The seeds are all soaked, and the seedlings will be sown in the past two days." ”

"That's good. Speaking of which, can't you open up more wasteland? ”

"If you don't open it, the mountain behind here is not ours, we can go in and out, but if we open up the wasteland, we can't."

Song Ning nodded like this.

Everyone chatted, and saw Su Li and his wife coming back.

Su Li's skin is very tanned, but he is very tall, his legs are very long, his thick eyebrows and big eyes are very handsome, he came in first and held a three or four-year-old boy in his hand, wilting and unenergetic, looking like he was sick, behind his father and son, followed by Su Wang's family and his seven-year-old daughter Xiaohua, Xiaohua looks like an aunt, very cute and beautiful.

This family, only Su Wang's appearance is a little worse, her skin is also very dark, in her early twenties, but there is white hair between the black hair, and there are static wrinkles at the corners of her eyes, at first glance one is Su Li's sister or even her mother.

"Sister-in-law, brother!" Su Yunniang greeted her out and shouted, "The adults are here, and they want to ask about my sister's case." ”

Su Yunniang whispered.

Su Li was stunned, turned his head to look at Su Wang's family, and the husband and wife looked at each other, both of them with a look of surprise.

"Hello adults." The husband and wife were about to kneel, but the wind stopped them and said, "No need to kneel, just answer what the adults ask." ”

Husband and wife should be.

"Let's put the baby down first." Song Ning touched Su Siqi's forehead, "It's easy to get sick when the weather is warm and cold recently, be careful." ”

"Didn't you prescribe any medicine?"

Su Li shook his head and replied, "No, no, the doctor said that you just need to sleep and cover your sweat." ”

"Really?" Song Ning said to Su Siqi, "Open your mouth and I'll take a look." ”

Although the child was young but very well-behaved, he opened his mouth to show Song Ning.

"It's not good to cover the sweat, his tonsils are suppurated, and he will have a fever for many days without taking medicine to reduce inflammation." Song Ning asked, "Is there no money to catch it?" ”

Su Li and Su Wangshi obviously didn't expect it to be so serious, and Su Wangshi also asked the child to open his mouth and take a look for himself, and he did see a white spot: "Adult, is this pus?" ”

"Hmm." Song Ning nodded, "It's not a big deal, the doctor can cure it, but it has to be cured!" ”

Su Wang pushed Su Li: "You, you take him to the city to find a doctor." ”

"Do you want to wait?" Su Li looked at Song Ning, and they asked Su Wang's again.

Su Wang's family wanted to speak and stopped, Song Ning said: "In this way, let's go back to the city later and go together." You let the child rest first, and leave someone to take care of the warm water. ”

"I, I'll go!" Su Yunniang took Xiaohua and hugged Su Siqi to the room.

Song Ning asked Su Li and his wife to sit down.

"We said hurry up." Song Ning said to Su Wang's family, "Thank you, you will make an appointment with Qingniang to beat pigweed, and until she is finally buried, tell me all the things you have experienced." ”

Su Wang's should be, looked at Zhao Yi nervously, his eyes fell on Song Ning's face again, and asked cautiously: "My lord, why did you investigate this case again, it was Wang Xuebing who appealed again?" ”

"It's not him. Don't be pressured, just ask for clarification. ”

Su Wangshi should be, recalling the situation of the day: "...... The night before dinner, I planned to take Yun Niang there, and then Qing Niang got up early in the morning, so I said she would go and let Yun Niang sleep for a while. I followed her a quarter of an hour behind. ”

"When I went to the east of the temple, I didn't see her, so I did the grass by myself, but I didn't expect it...... Suddenly, I saw Wang Xuezhu. ”

Song Ning asked her: "You saw Wang Xuezhu at that time, did you see Su Qingniang?" ”

"Nope! At that time, the grass was so high that it was not visible at once. Su Wang said.

Song Ning asked her, "Did you see that his pants were taken off?" That's what I see in the dossier. ”

"Yes! The ...... pants that come down He was on his knees...... I can see the buttocks. Su Wangshi said for a moment and said, "Then I ran over to take a look, and I saw Qingniang." ”

"My frightened legs are weak, and I scream hard."

When Su Wang thought of the scene at that time, he still had palpitations.

"When you ran, what was Wang Xuezhu's reaction, and did he do anything?"