In the Yali of the Beijing Mansion, the county magistrate Dongfang Ye was working on the pleadings of the case in the study, and he was writing carefully.

A servant ran in in a little panic: "Master, something is wrong, a female corpse has inexplicably appeared on the official road, let's take care of it?" ”

After hearing this, Dongfang Ye hurriedly put down the pen in his hand, raised his hand and gave the official a burst of chest: "We don't care who is in charge of the government in the capital, didn't you wake up in the morning?" ”

The official replied stupidly, "Oh, then I'll go find a few brothers." ”

"Let's go." Dongfang Ye said as he wore an official uniform, and at first glance, he was a person who had not been taken care of by his side, and his hands and feet were very quick when he wore a cumbersome official uniform.

The place where the female corpse was found was at the mouth of the alley of Lepei Garden, and it was also very close to the government office.

Dongfang Ye walked there with a few steps of kung fu.

After hearing that a corpse had appeared, several officials woke up the old servant who was still asleep, and carried one of them to the place where the corpse was.

The old man drank a lot of wine at noon, his mouth was full of wine, and his spirit was very weak, otherwise he would not have to be carried by a few servants to come here.

But the moment he saw the corpse, the old man seemed to wake up all at once, and even with some excitement, he suddenly came to his senses.

The old man leaned down and pulled the sack off the corpse with his hand, revealing the full picture of the female corpse.

Dongfang Ye and several officials in the capital were mostly only in their twenties, and looking at the hideous-looking corpse, they all covered their mouths and noses and took a few steps back.

The female corpse was dressed in a gorgeous and luxurious style, wearing a blue and purple robe, which was embroidered with Su embroidery in the style of peony flowers. The turquoise bracelet on the wrist is not ordinary at first glance.

Just by dressing up this one, you can know that it is not an ordinary character.

The old man looked over the head of the woman's corpse with his hand to confirm that there was no trace of the impact of the heavy object, and then put his fingers into the woman's hair and touched it, but there was nothing unusual.

Only the finger marks on her neck pointed to the woman being strangled to death.

The old man lifted the trouser legs and sleeves of the female corpse again and examined her limbs.

A terrifying scene occurred.

The female corpse had no visible scars on her hands and face, her arms and legs were mottled with bruises, new wounds were stacked on top of old wounds, and old wounds were stacked on top of older wounds, and these injuries were definitely not formed, they were accumulated over many years.

This woman is only bright and beautiful on the surface, but on the inside, I am afraid that her body and mind have rotted.

Live like this....... It's a relief to be afraid of dying.

This cruelty was so cruel that even a few officials couldn't stand it, and they turned their heads and turned their backs to the corpse.

The old man lifted the hem of his skirt and found something unusual, not only did there be bruises on his legs, but also fresh blood left along his thighs.

This blood is too fresh, so that the old man has a new idea.

With the force of his hand, he completely tore the woman's skirt apart.

When a servant turned around, he saw this act and quickly stopped him: "Are you crazy, what are you going to do on the street?" ”

The old servant pushed the young servant away, looked at the place where the blood flowed, and closed the hem of his skirt.

Sure enough, the old man's conjecture was correct, there was a child in the woman's womb, but the child had already died with her mother.

A real tragedy.

The old man stood up: "Come on a few young men, carry the body back to the county office." ”

Dongfang Ye leaned forward and asked, "How did you die, can you see it?" ”

There was some pretense of relaxation in the old man's tone: "Isn't it just strangulation, if there is anything to ask, a fool can see it." ”

Dongfang Ye spoke with the impetuousness of the young man: "Then you just looked here and there, I thought there would be something else to discover." ”

The old man pointed to the woman's gorgeous clothes: "At first glance, it is not an ordinary girl, report to Dali Temple." ”

Dongfang Ye was unwilling on his face, and muttered on the side: "I can also see this." ”

Lao Qizuo patted Dongfang Ye's face, stood on tiptoe and whispered at the root of Dongfang Ye's ear: "Then can you see that this woman has a dead fetus in her womb?" ”

Dongfang Ye's face changed suddenly, and he pointed at the female corpse and was speechless.

The old man patted Dongfang Ye's face triumphantly: "Young man, there are so many things to learn." Hurry up and report to Dali Temple, this thing is troublesome, don't you get involved and hear it. ”

The old man's last words were very serious, and he really thought about Dongfang Ye so bluntly to warn him like this.

Dongfang Ye nodded, turned his head and instructed a few officials: "You two, go to Dali Temple, and say that there is a woman who looks extraordinary and died on the street, and the rest of the people will first move the body back to the county government for placement." ”

After hearing this, several officials hurriedly moved, and the two of them ran to Dali Temple, and the rest of the people put the female corpse on the sack, and a few people carried a few corners of the sack, and followed Dongfang Ye and Lao Zuo back to the county office.

The two county officials ran to the gate of Dali Temple, and went directly to the officer's duty room from the side door of Dali Temple with the waist card of the officer, and a group of people gathered around a huge table in a noisy manner.

The people of the county government were a little helpless to squeeze in, and after a look, it turned out to be a gamble.

A government official patted the shoulder of one of the officials closest to him: "There is a case in our county office, and the woman who died looks noble, should we come to report the case?" ”

The officials looked him up and down, and saw that what he was wearing was indeed someone from the county government next to him.

But the officials of their Dali Temple are at least six-rank officials, which one of the officials can only come in without the support of the family, and the person with the lowest grade in the whole house is higher than a county magistrate in Beijing County.

The official who was accosted waved his hand impatiently: "Go, go, if you die, your county government will interrogate you first, and then look for us if something happens." After saying that, he shouted "Big, big, big" and pressed the silver in his hand into a circle on the table with the word "big" on it.

The two officials came out with some disappointment, and their county order asked them to tell the people of Dali Temple, so that they ended up without a problem, and returned to the county government empty-handed, although they also expected it, but it always made people a little weak.

When the official came out of the duty room, he happened to bump into Chu Shancheng, who walked in from outside the door.

Dali Temple Qing Yan Yingzhong since Chu Shancheng came to Dali Temple, all the dirty work, tired work to him to do, he just went to the countryside, did something, thinking that it was not easy to come back to rest.

looked at the two officials dressed in the clothes of the Beijing County government next to them, and then looked at them coming out of the duty room, and asked, "What are you doing here?" ”

How dare the officials offend the old men of Dali Temple, and answer honestly: "There is a female corpse dead on the official road, it looks noble, our county lord asked us to come to the people of Dali Temple and ask how to deal with it?" ”