Song Ning heard the reply.

As he walked out, he said to Zhang Zhifeng: "Immediately let your men go to Cai Mansion, and whoever goes out and comes in will remember." ”

"Lord Song is confirming the alibi?"

Song Ning nodded: "Yes!" ”

Zhang Zhifeng immediately asked people to go.

Song Ning and Zhao Yi came to report the news and quickly led the way to the city gate.

On a small road, Cai Sanye fell on the side of the road covered in blood, two doctors were seeing, Cai Sanye's eyes were open, and he looked ahead.

It's out of gas.

The county magistrate saw that Song Ning was coming, and bowed and stepped aside.

Song Ning asked, "How is the investigation?" ”

"The ribs were broken, the left leg was broken, and the cause of death should be strangulation." He replied.

Squat down and look.

Cai Yun's body still has temperature.

"Who first found out?" Song Ning asked, "Can you see the process?" ”

A mother and daughter stepped forward, the mother was about 50 years old and the daughter was about 30.

The daughter said, "I've seen them all." The carriage was parked on the side of the road here, and my mother and I walked past the carriage and heard someone talking in the carriage. ”

"When we went into the city to buy vegetables and came back, we saw this person lying on the side of the road, and the carriage that had been parked on the side of the road was going down the official road."

She pointed to the official road.

The mother added: "I remember the car, it was a flat-topped carriage with a black curtain, and it was ...... Just the cars running on the street. ”

"Is this the car you see back and forth?"

The mother nodded, and the woman said, "Yes." We saw this man lying on the side of the road, and we were so frightened that we shouted everywhere, and then this uncle came. ”

A middle-aged man with a rake on his trouser leg came out, and he said: "I heard their mother and son shouting for help, so I came from the field, and when I saw a person lying on the ground, I felt his nose and lost his breath, so I called my son to report to the official." ”

His son nodded: "Before I arrived at the Yamen, I ran into Wang Zhutou and them." ”

Wang Xiao responded.

Song Ning stood up and looked at the surroundings, this is a small road, two carriages can be parallel, and poplars are planted on both sides, although it is now green, but it does not block the view.

On both sides of the trail, as well as in the distance, there is farmland.

"Where do you work?" Song Ning asked the uncle who was carrying the rake.

The uncle raised his hand and pointed to the left: "It's in a field over there." I saw this car too, but I didn't care about it because it was so common. ”

"Then you didn't hear any movement?" Song Ning asked.

Everyone shook their heads, and the uncle said, "There are many people working in our fields." "Did you see or hear anything?" ”

"I saw a tall, thin man with a hat, and he got out of the carriage, and I thought it was the coachman, but I didn't care." A young lad said.

Song Ning asked him, "Do you have other characteristics?" ”

The young man shook his head: "It's just an ordinary person." ”

Song Ning was not surprised, a horse-drawn carriage that would often stop on the side of the road and wait for guests, everyone would not pay too much attention to it.

"It seems that by the time the man arrived, he was already dead."

Zhao Yi bowed his head and said in a low voice: "You first see what the injuries on his body were hit." ”

Song Ning should have said to him again: "The Cai family will arrive in a while, you pay attention and observe." ”

"Don't worry, I've got it."

Song Ning conducted an autopsy, and the county government helped her record.

"The deceased's clothes were in perfect condition and no tearing injuries were found." She paused and asked Wang Xiao to pull the clothes away, and found that under the hem of the purple robe, there was a very small black spot, she smelled it, it was the fragrance of ink and humidity, "There is ink on the left part of the coat, which has not dried." ”

"In the middle of the neck, there is a furrow one inch wide, transverse, and the same depth."

"There are bleeding spots under the skin."

"There was a hemorrhagic swollen spot in the back of the head, which was caused by a blow from a heavy object. The deceased had fractures in the sixth and seventh ribs on the left side, the wrist of his left hand, and the diameter bone of his left leg. ”

"The deceased had epidermal contusions on his chest, legs and back, and subcutaneous hemorrhages."

"There were dried blood stains in the deceased's fingernails, which were initially judged to be caused by scratching." Song Ning looked around, and there were no scratches on the deceased's body.

That's the murderer's.

Song Ning finished the preliminary autopsy, the people from Cai's mansion arrived, Cai Haoyang jumped out of the car from the official road, trotted all the way over, fell on the road and was helped up by his family, and stumbled and stopped in front of Cai Yun.

"The third?" Cai Haoyang sat down beside Cai Yun, his face pale and weak, "How can this be?!" ”

Cai Yun's woman and child arrived, and the family cried around the corpse.

Although the Cai family is hateful, it is sad and pitiful to see people die, and orphans and widows crying.

Song Ning looked at Cai Haoyang and thought of the saying that brothers are against the wall.

"Let's all go to the yamen." Song Ning said to the Cai family, "If you want to find out the cause of death of the deceased and find the murderer, as well as the cause of death and the murderer of Second Master Cai, your cooperation is indispensable." ”

Cai Haoyang looked at Song Ning, suddenly came over on his knees, and shouted: "My lord, my lord, I was wrong, I won't stop you, I beg you to find out the murderer of my two younger brothers." ”

"Although we are not good people, we have not done anything that harms God and harms people's lives."

"I beg you, two adults."

Song Ning asked him to get up: "The case is here, whether you ask for it or not, we will investigate, get up." ”

Cai Haoyang should be, supported by his eldest son.

Song Ning gestured to Wang Xiao.

Wang Xiao led people to carry the corpse, and organized and arranged for everyone in the Cai family to go to the yamen together.

Cai Zize's death made them distressed and angry, but now that Cai Yun is also dead, it brings them not only anger, but more fear.

Extreme fear.

Song Ning followed the people and asked Cai Mengshi, who came with him: "Steward Wu and others, why didn't they come?" ”

"Steward Wu and Mr. Cui are behind." Cai Mengshi looked at Song Ning in horror, "My lord, why, why is the third master also, too...... Was it also killed? ”

Song Ning looked at her and replied, "That's how it is judged for the time being." ”

"It must be the same person." Cai Mengshi said uneasily.

Song Ning looked at her: "Do you think it's a person?" ”

The sweat on Cai Meng's forehead came out after brushing it, and he shook his head and said, "I'm just guessing." If it's a person...... Could it be me next? ”

Song Ning glanced at the Cai family who was walking in front, and then looked at Cai Mengshi: "Why do you think it's you?" ”

The logic of normal people, two of the three brothers died, then the third one who was going to die, of course, was the only one left.

"I, I, I suspect ......" Cai Mengshi cautiously glanced at the person walking in front of him, "I suspect that the eldest brother killed the two brothers." In the past few months, they have quarreled every day for the money they have been cheated of, and the family's business is not as good as before. ”

"It's not impossible for the eldest brother to kill them, if they die, this family will be the eldest brother's alone. I don't have any children, the two sons of the second brother are still too young, only the eldest brother's sons have grown up, and they are the only ones in this family. ”

Song Ning took out the walnuts and showed her: "Do you know this?" ”

"This, isn't this the eldest brother's, the eldest brother likes to play this the most." Cai Mengshi said, "You, if you don't believe it, you go and ask the eldest brother." ”

Song Ning bowed his head.

When they arrived at the Yamen, they were interrogated separately.

Song Ning asked the catcher who went to Cai's house first: "Cai's family all came out of the house?" Who isn't there? ”

Uncle Cai came back from outside to the door, and then he went outside the city with his family. Also, there is also Steward Wu's absence, saying that he is recuperating in the room. ”

"Everyone else is at home, and I've seen it."

Song Ning remembered that she interrogated Cai Haoyang with Zhao Yi in the past, and she asked straight to the point: "Your brother is dead, who do you think killed him?" ”

"I don't know, the villain really can't think of it." Cai Haoyang said, "My lord, this, can you let the villain live in the yamen in the past two days?" ”

Song Ning showed him the walnuts.

"Do you know this?"

Cai Haoyang was stunned for a moment, and said with his eyebrows: "Look at this walnut villain." He got up and carefully identified the lines, and said to Song Ning, "This walnut is not a villain, although it is very similar, but it is not." ”

"Then why don't you plate walnuts for the past two days?"

Cai Haoyang replied: "I, I'm in a bad mood these days, I put away all the walnuts, and I don't have the heart to get these things at all." ”

Song Ning instructed him: "Let your family take all your walnuts." ”

Cai Haoyang hesitated, explained to his eldest son Cai Jun, and went home to get his walnuts.

"What are you doing this afternoon?" Zhao Yi asked him.

Cai Haoyang replied: "I'm at home next and afternoon. ”

"Want to be tortured?" Zhao Yi said, "You obviously just arrived home, and you met your family members at the door of your home, so you came with them." ”

Beads of sweat on Cai Haoyang's forehead dripped to the ground.

He wiped it in a panic and replied, "Actually, I actually made an appointment with an account office, and I ...... I want to close my account. You two may know that I was deceived by three million taels, in fact...... In fact, it was not only three million taels, but I also secretly embezzled 500,000 taels. ”

"This money can't be made up, once it is found out, my two younger brothers will not let me go."

Cai Haoyang began to wipe his sweat again.

Zhao Yi suddenly stepped forward, grabbed his sweaty arm, pulled down his sleeve, and said coldly: "What is this?" ”

On Cai Haoyang's right arm, there are four eye-catching fresh scratches.

"This, this is my concubine's room, just today at noon, she didn't know what was crazy, scratched me." Cai Haoyang said, "I was going to take the medicine, but the appointment time was advanced, so I hurriedly went out." ”

Song Ning looked at his arm carefully.

The four scratches were very deep, and she asked, "Which concubine caught it, shouted to confront it." ”

Cai Haoyang looked at Song Ning in horror, and his whole body was trembling.

"Is it that the concubine can't say it, or is the scratch a lie?" Song Ning asked him.