Yongle twenty-one years.

In the twilight of spring, it is warm and cold.

"Chun'er, go in and add some lamp oil, don't let the ever-bright lights go out." The mother-in-law of the Guo Mansion, Li, instructed a little girl kneeling next to her. She rolled up the quilt herself and continued to sit in the corner and take a nap.

Chun'er didn't stand up either, and rolled her eyes at her mother-in-law: "When the girl was alive, you wanted to stuff your daughter to the girl's side all day long, why don't you arrange for your own daughter to keep a wake for the girl?" If you call your godmother, should I call you for nothing? If you have the ability to do bad things, don't let people see them! ”

Mrs. Li is surprised, this girl has taken gunpowder today? She didn't sleep anymore, and lifted the quilt and scolded: "You little hoof! Your master is already dead in the coffin, if I wasn't willing to be your godmother, would you still be able to stay in Guo's mansion? I don't know what to do, the little goblin, after being a girl's personal maid for a few years, I think I am the deputy girl in the house? See if I don't kill you today! ”

Chun'er was Miss Guo's personal girl, the girl died inexplicably, Master Guo may have felt unlucky, so he planned to call someone to sell her. Mrs. Li, who was in charge in the backyard, wanted her monthly money of half a tael a month, so she recognized her goddaughter in front of the master, left Chun'er in the house, and followed her to do things.

Outside the mourning hall, Mrs. Li and Chun'er were in full swing, and it was quiet in the mourning hall. The delicate Nanmu coffin has been covered, and in a few days, after the first seven, the coffin is nailed, and it can be carried to the burial.

At this moment, in the coffin, lying quietly is a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl, with clear eyebrows and beautiful clothes, and she has been well groomed during the day today, and it looks as if she is asleep at this time.

On the offering table behind the coffin, incense candles and lanterns are burned. Although it is late spring, the night is still very cold, I don't know whether it is the depression in the mourning hall, or the stuffiness of the rain, which makes people always feel a little uneasy. Suddenly, a gust of wind blew, and the flames of the white candle and the everlasting lamp shook in unison, and the spirit card on the offering table suddenly "snapped" and fell.

Mrs. Li and Chun'er outside heard the movement and stopped. "Chun'er, did you hear the voice?" Mrs. Li's teeth chattered, and her mouth suddenly became dry: "There is movement in the mourning hall!" ”

Chun'er did hear the sound, but she said stiffly: "I didn't kill the girl, what am I afraid of?" Whoever has done something bad understands it in his heart! ”

Mrs. Li originally didn't believe in ghosts, but she was indeed a bit of a thief. She didn't dare to come out, and stretched out her head to look in: a woman in a white gauze and white dress was standing in front of the coffin. Isn't that the big girl? "Hell! Corpse fraud! Mrs. Li mustered her last bit of strength and rushed out screaming.

As soon as Chun'er heard Mrs. Li call her "corpse", she saw the girl standing there in a white gauze and white dress at a glance, she also panicked, and ran out without looking back: "Ghost, ......"

The mourning hall of the morgue is not the main hall of Guo's mansion, but an annex of his family on the outskirts of the county. Why in the annex? Because the eldest girl is suicidal. The body hair and skin are taken from her parents, she committed suicide, she died so much that she lost the face of her ancestors, and the funerals were done quietly, where would she set up a mourning hall in the main hall of the house?

The two of them ran out a few steps, only to find that they were in another courtyard, and there were no people from Guo Mansion outside, and there was a desolation all around. When a thunderclap suddenly sounded, Mrs. Li was even more convinced that she had seen a ghost, and Chun'er and Chun'er ran to the county seat one after the other.

In the mourning hall, the ...... of the white gauze and white dress Man, when the two of them ran away, lifted the white veil covering their heads, revealing a triumphant face.

There are poems:

Two bend veins spring mountain eyebrows,

A pair of Chu Chu Qiu Shui eyes.

Plain clothes are not as good as skin and snow,

Agarwood is more jealous like an orchid.

What a beautiful girl!

The girl in white picked up the fallen spirit card, only to see that it was written: Guo's light dust spirit position.

The girl in white sighed, put the tablet away, saluted three sticks of incense, bowed, and muttered: "Miss Guo, forgive me for disturbing me, I am the one who repays your innocence, if you offend, please forgive me." ”

As soon as the words fell, a thunderbolt sounded outside the window, and the rain began to fall from sparse to dense and noisy.

The spring thunder came at the right time.

"Look, even God says that you have grievances, don't worry, this girl will never let you go with grievances." The girl in white wore a narrow-sleeved top, which looked very neat.

She turned around and slowly pushed the coffin lid open, revealing Guo Qingchen's body lying inside. The girl in white was unequivocal, and moved all the candlesticks and lanterns on the offering table to the side of the coffin, and now, the entire corpse was clearly displayed in front of her.

The girl in white took out a pair of white gloves from her bosom and put them on, and began to dismantle the corpse's clothes. The movements are skillful, as if they had been done a thousand times.

Although before entering the coffin during the day today, her father, the county magistrate, had already done an autopsy, but Guo Qingchen's father, Guo Chengshilang, refused to take off his clothes as his daughter on the grounds that Qingchen was his daughter, and Hua Chengzuo could only check the hands, feet and head of the exposed clothes.

At that time, Hua Yanzuo carefully touched his head and found no foreign objects. There was a bruise on his forehead, but it was not fatal, like a wound from a hard hit.

Hua Cheng used a silver medal to poke into his throat for half an hour, and took out the silver medal, and did not find that the oropharyngeal stomach was poisonous, his silver medal was specially made, this size, it could even reach into the stomach door.

Finally, Hua Yanzuo did a skull irrigation sand test, and a small amount of sediment flowed out of the nose and mouth. Although it is not absolute, it can also be said to be a characteristic of drowning.

Zhang Yuhou, who also went to handle the case, urged Liao Shucai to record the conclusion of the autopsy: Guo's Qingchen jumped into the river and drowned.

On the surface, Guo Qingchen, the daughter of Guo Chengshilang, committed suicide by jumping into the river because she was dissatisfied with the family's marriage to Zhao Xifeng, the son of Zhao Zhushu. What puzzled Hua was why the deceased had some red spots on his face, hands and feet?

However, he was not allowed to do further investigation, and he could not find the answer. Back at home, Hua Youcai told his daughter his questions, his eccentric daughter who had learned his first-hand autopsy skills, went to the people's mourning hall at night to pretend to be a ghost and scary.

The girl in white didn't dare to delay, and after untying her clothes, she skillfully checked inch by inch. Sure enough, she saw the red spots that Daddy said, all on her face, hands, and body.

Touching the corpse, the hand of the girl in white stopped, and after touching it for a while, she put her gloved fingers under the candlelight, and then brought it to her nose and sniffed it, and immediately wrinkled her nose.

I saw that she carefully took off her gloves, turned the gloves inside out, and the things that stuck to the gloves were wrapped inside.

After getting the evidence, the girl in white quickly put on the clothes for the corpse.

grinning again, it took a lot of effort to put the heavy coffin board back up.