When the girl in white dismounted in front of a small courtyard, there was no place to dry.

She was about to quietly lead the horse into the yard when a large umbrella propped up on her head. The girl smiled crookedly: It's Daddy.

"Hua Qiao, you are so bold! Did you run to someone's funeral hall and turn over the coffin? I wouldn't have told you if I had known...... As soon as I saw that the black light was gone, I knew that you were not doing good deeds. Hua Youcai whispered.

Hua Qiao wiped a handful of the rain on her face, didn't speak, looked at Daddy and smiled.

Hua Youcai glanced at her twice and urged: "Hurry in, I'll boil hot water for you and take a hot bath to drive away the cold." After saying that, Daddy took the reins from her hand and handed her the umbrella.

Hua Qiao took the umbrella, tiptoed into Daddy's ear and said, "Daddy, I didn't go in vain, the evidence is under the saddle!" ”

Hua Youcai glared: "Don't take a shower yet!" When he saw Hua Qiao enter the house, Hua Youcai pursed his lips and smiled proudly: He is worthy of being a good apprentice taught by me.

After taking a bath, Hua Qiao slipped into a small utility room behind the main house, and when Daddy heard the movement, he said without raising his head: "Drink the ginger syrup on the table." ”

Hua Qiao grinned and picked up the bowl, and drank it all the time. From childhood to adulthood, this small utility room has been her favorite place.

"Daddy, what did you find? What's that thing stuck to the glove? Hua Qiao asked.

Hua Youcai nodded and said, "It should be, mercury poisoning." Did you just dig your fingers into it? Mercury poisoning often has erythema on the skin. Master Guo didn't let him take off his clothes for an autopsy, it seems that even if he is not a murderer, he is an insider. ”

"Then tomorrow we will go to testify against Master Guo and bring it back to the yamen for the first trial." Hua Qiao was a little puzzled, and said angrily: "What hatred and what grudge?" Isn't it his own father? Even his own daughter can do it! ”

Thinking about it, Hua Qiao asked again: "What if Master Guo said that it was after the death of the person that they poured mercury into it, in order to keep the body from rotting?" ”

At that time, some nobles did this in order to keep the corpse from decomposing for a long time. They often poured mercury into the body and then applied it to the surface.

Hua Youcai put the glove in his hand on the table, and said while cleaning up the tools on the table, "Where is the brain?" Can a person get red spots on his face when he is filled with mercury after he dies? He turned his face to see that Hua Qiao was sitting there with her lips pouted, indicating that she had a brain.

Hua Youcai couldn't help but smile and said, "I know, you have made a great contribution tonight." At least we know that Miss Guo died of mercury poisoning, not by drowning. Go to sleep, when your aunt finds out, neither of us can escape. ”

Hearing Daddy praise her, Hua Qiao laughed. She is about to get married this year, she has grown taller than Ah Niang, her facial features are neither like Ah Daddy, nor like Ah Niang, the bigger she is, the more beautiful she is.

Hua Youcai also had such an idea: Hua Qiao's father, I don't know what kind of tall and handsome person he was, so he could give birth to such a handsome daughter.

Hua Qiao herself didn't know that she was not Hua Youcai's biological daughter, she and her aunt were both picked up by Hua Youcai in the mass grave.

One night nearly fifteen years ago, Baoying County, the capital of Yangzhou, carried the corpse of a homeless man who had starved to death in Yizhuang to a mass grave for burial.

Originally, he was fine after the autopsy in Yizhuang, it was just a normal homeless man who starved to death, and there was no sign of murder. Hua Youcai packed up his tools and said to the Liao scribe who came with him: "It's okay, when you go back to the yamen to hand in the case form, you can help me get it by the way." ”

There were eight scribes in the yamen, and Liao Shuyi was the youngest one, only sixteen years old, so he made the most work with Hua Yan. Liao Shuren smiled: "That's not a gesture? Why explain. It's a strange time that more homeless people have died than ever before. We were here yesterday and we are here again today......"

Lao Kang, who was guarding Yizhuang, replied: "What's so strange about that? This year's flooding in the south is particularly serious, how many people have left their homes empty-handed? Running out and starving to death on the road is not a common thing? Look at my unlucky one, carrying the two corpses yesterday, and being flashed by the old waist......"

As soon as Hua Youcai came in just now, he saw Lao Kang standing with his waist propped up. Lao Kang usually takes care of him, and sometimes the two of them have a little wine together. Anyway, Hua Youcai is an old bachelor who is almost forty, one person eats enough for the whole family, and he is idle when he is idle, so Hua Youcai said casually: "Fortunately, there is only one today, and I will carry it for you and bury it for you in a while." ”

Lao Kang thanked Hua Youcai and the corpse of the homeless man and sent them out of Yizhuang together.

On the mass grave, Hua Youcai had just filled in the soil when he heard a baby's cry.

Hua Youcai was angry when he heard this, and couldn't help scolding: "Which damn it, throw the child here?" Throwing it on the side of the road can still live, throwing it here is not sending it to death? What a sin! ”

Hua Youcai slapped the last two shovels hard and filled the soil. He threw his shovel, clapped his hands, picked up the torch next to him, and walked towards the cry.

I thought that someone had thrown the child in a mass grave, but when Hua Youcai came closer to take a look, he found that there was a young woman next to the child. He hurriedly stepped forward and sniffed, the living.

Hua Youcai hurriedly picked up her head and pinched the middle of the person, the woman snorted, raised her eyelids, and tilted her groggily to him. Judging by the wealth, it should be excessive fatigue, and he has not entered the water and rice, and he has lost his strength.

After looking at the woman and the baby in swaddling clothes, Hua Youcai untied his belt, tied the swaddling clothes, hung them around his neck, put out the torch, and finally carried the woman on his back. The little baby dangled around his neck, but he was so comfortable that he stopped crying, and fell asleep with his mouth chirped twice.

Hua Youcai looks ordinary, there is no mother-in-law at home, and he is not very trimmed, he was thirty-nine years old at the time, and he had a beard. Maybe it was because he often crossed mountains and mountains, and he had a lot of strength, so he carried the two mothers and daughters home from the mass grave with one foot deep and one foot shallow.

Hua Youcai only had one bed in the house, so he put the woman on the bed, unswaddled it, and placed it next to the woman. He took out another cotton robe as a quilt, found a bed that had not rolled a dead man's straw mat, spread it on the ground outside, and slept haphazardly.

Holding his arms folded in front of his chest, Hua Youcai lay on the ground on his side, he didn't feel a little funny: usually, he carried dead people to the mass grave, but tonight, he carried two living people back from the mass grave. This is the first time he has been in this world for more than ten years and has had such intimate contact...... A living woman.

Could it be that he, who was unlucky in any world, began to be different from then on?

The next day, the woman who had picked it up woke up and told him that the family had fled and that her husband had been killed by robbers. The woman had nowhere to go, and the child had only been born for a few days, so she had money to stay at home and move to the utility room to sleep by herself.

The woman lived in his house for several months, and there were many gossips in the neighbors, and the woman felt that Hua Youcai was a good person, so she decided to marry him, and the two became relatives, and the woman's name was Liu Yunniang. After more than a year, Yun Niang gave birth to a younger brother to Hua Tuan, named Hua Rong.

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