On the kang, the mother changed the cotton wool to a thicker one, which was very soft, not as hard as a stone before, and Jian Qing guessed that she should have bought a new one.

When Jian Qing went to the kang, his movements were deliberately made a little big, waking up his younger brother. The younger brother opened his ignorant eyes, slowly saw that it was his brother, grinned hurriedly, threw himself at his brother, and hugged his brother, "Brother is back?" ”

"Hmm!"

Jian Qing touched his younger brother's body, and when it was warm, he held his younger brother in his arms. Jian Che didn't like his brother before, but now, he looks forward to his brother's return every day, and if his brother comes back late, he keeps holding his eyelids and not sleeping, for fear that he will accidentally fall asleep, so he won't see his brother all day.

"Xiaobao, brother asked you something, did you go to the yard next door to play today?"

Next door to Jian Qing's house is actually Aunt Wang's house, which sells tofu. Jian Che and Aunt Wang's son Wang Tiesheng are about the same age, they often play together, and the place they go to the most is the yard behind the idle courtyard, which is the season when the pears are ripe.

The temperature has been low in the past two days, and these little gluttonous cats probably can't wait, if they don't go to the backyard of that house, they will definitely not be able to help it.

"I went there once two days ago, but, brother, there seems to be someone in their house, and we don't dare to go in the past two days. Tie Dan said that if they sealed the backyard wall, they would only be afraid to climb the wall in the future. ”

"Someone in their house? Did you see that? Where did the people come from? ”

"A few days ago, when we went, we saw that the yard had been cleaned, and behind the broken wall of the backyard wall, someone had put some branches to block it, and we were afraid that there were people in the house, so we didn't dare to go."

"What was it the other day? Is it the day of the dead at the Xinglai Inn? ”

Jian Che thought desperately, "It seems to be." ”

His father is a servant, and he always wants to have a son in the family to inherit his father's business, and every day after he comes back, he will tell them something about the autopsy and the case. Jian Che has been exposed to it since he was a child, and he can be regarded as a well-educated family, with an instinctive concern for the case, and knows the importance of details such as time.

He didn't seem to be able to help his brother, and suddenly, he was a little annoyed.

Jian Qing disagreed, and the child's words could not be used as evidence in court. Moreover, Jian Che couldn't even remember what day it was. Besides, the family had never heard of anyone before, but now there was news suddenly, and this clue was already very useful to Jian Qing.

The next day, Jian Qing got up a little early.

Cui's had already cooked breakfast, and the bowl of noodles that Jian Qing refused to eat yesterday, she went back to the pot and boiled it, added bud grain, and stewed a thick pot.

The family gathered around and ate again.

Ten taels of silver, which is already a lot for this family. Yesterday, after Zhao Di asked people to send ten taels of silver, Cui's went to invite a doctor to come and prescribe medicine for Jian Chong's pulse.

"Where's the case? I heard the little descendant in front of the prince say, you have deduced that the murderer is a woman? You can't go wrong, right? ”

Although yesterday, Jian Qing really almost taught her younger brother badly, it was rare that Jian Chong did not blame her.

Jian Qing poked the bottom of the bowl with his chopsticks, "There are still a few things to confirm." Dad, do you remember who pushed you when you conducted an autopsy by the river before? Do you remember what it was like? ”

Jian Chong was silent for a while, then shook his head, "It's useless to say this now, there are people in the yamen all around, maybe they didn't mean it." It's just a pity that in that case, until now, the identity of the deceased has not even been found, let alone the murderer. ”

The case at that time, to speak, was too simple.

There are two rivers in Lingqiu County, which run around the city. One is the Tang River, which originates from Dongshuigou in Hunyuan County, enters from the northeast of Lingqiu County, passes through Beiquan Village, and exits Lingqiu County from Hongshi Township in the southwest. The other came in from Guangling County in the northwest, passed through Hanfeng Ridge, and joined the Tang River at Beiquan Village.

Two months ago, a woman surnamed Wang went to the river early in the morning to wash her clothes, and saw a cluster of white flowers under the trees by the river, and she did not move for a long time. She was overjoyed.

Li Wang's looked over, the flesh and blood were blurred, and after identifying it for a long time, he found that it was a dead man.

Jian Chong was still a servant of the county government at that time, and after receiving the report, he went over with the officials. The local Lizheng and clan elders have sealed off the scene, and there is basically no much damage except for the white "wild boar" that was pulled out of shape by Li Wang's chop.

However, the head of the corpse has been hammered to pieces, the skin of the whole body has been destroyed, all the hands and feet have been cut off, and the genitals are intact.

Basically, there are no physical characteristics that can tell the identity of the person. In an age when DNA doesn't know what it is, there is basically no possibility of identifying the deceased.

It can only be inferred that the murderer is extremely vicious.

Jian Qing had read her father's record of the deceased, and because there was no useful identifiable information, the record was very simple, and for Jian Qing, the only useful information was "male, about five feet long".

This headless unsolved case has become a thorn in Jian Chong's heart.

After the meal, Jian Chong lay on the kang in the outer room, so that he could see the sky behind him from the north window, and see the half of the old tree in the courtyard from the foyer.

Cui's took Jian Che to the street, and made an appointment with Butcher Hu yesterday to ask him to keep half a pig's head and go over early this morning to get it as a bundle for Mr. Private School.

Today, there are no distinguished guests in the Langyu Building. Zhou Shen stayed at home early in the morning. Jian Qing went to look for him, greeted him, walked through the main hall of the Zhou family, passed the backyard, and went up to the side of the city wall to the path sandwiched behind this row of houses. There was a lot of garbage piled up along the way, and the smell was so bad that every house built a fence, and generally nothing happened, and the door on the wall would not be opened.

Passing through the courtyard of the Wang's tofu shop, it is the vacant one. In the middle of the back wall, there is a gap missing, only one meter high, and the players who are a little more athletic can cross the broken wall with their hands on the broken wall with their hands. Because of this, the children around often play this kind of game, on the broken wall, after a few drops of rain fall, there is a little more floating dust, and you can see a lot of traces of hands stacked together.

As Jian Che said, there were some branches behind the broken wall to cover it slightly, and Jian Qing used a stick to pick up all those obstacles, leaving a clearing next to the wall, revealing the dry ground.