The buckwheat, who is remembered by the hearts of the people, is sitting in her yard with a sad heart, peeling beans for A-Niang, while listening to the movement outside the door with her ears pricked up.

Finally, the courtyard door was pushed open, and Hua Qiao threw the beans in her hand and quickly greeted her: "Daddy! What do you think? What's new? ”

Hua Youcai shook his head. This is not scientific, there can be no real ghosts, but no matter how you look at it, I don't find anything strange in it. Spending money is incomprehensible.

A few days after Hu Yanjin and they left, something strange happened to the county government of Baoying County.

Bao promised the county order family, living in the backyard of the county government, Xu county order had a wife and a concubine, but only his wife gave birth to a daughter, that is, seventeen-year-old Xu Moyan.

For several days in a row, the backyard of the county government was haunted, and the county magistrate's family encountered it. Now his concubine is crying and crying to go back to her parents' house, she has not come out for many years, and she can't be buried in the ancestral grave of the Xu family, so she has long been disheartened, and she took this opportunity to leave, just right.

"Daddy, I secretly went to the county office yesterday to find Xu Moyan...... She told me that she really saw a male ghost, that is, her hair was scattered to cover her face, and her tongue was sticking out, and her window was closed, but she was knocked open by the ghost hanging outside the window......"

Hua Qiao spoke with relish, but Hua Youcai shouted: "I told you, don't run to the county government during this time." I don't know who is pretending to be a ghost, you go, and I will plant you on the head when I turn around! ”

"I'm not a ghost, how can you plant me on my head? You see, I have a shadow! Hua Qiao stretched out her hand and turned in a circle, and in the sun, a shadow on the ground also moved. Hua Youcai's heart suddenly moved: since you can't catch that ghost, you can't explain it by scientific methods, so it's better to use the traditional saying that ghosts can't see the light.

He turned around and walked out, even if he heard Hua Qiao anxiously calling "Daddy" from behind, he didn't pay attention to it. When he arrived at the county office, he said to Hu Yuhou: "Hu Yuhou, if those fast catchers and officials dare not go to catch ghosts, you will ask someone to light a torch at the window of Xu County's order and his family. If you come again, see if he has a shadow, and if he has a shadow, he is a person! ”

"Your method is good, kill two birds with one stone, and you don't need us to go forward and die in vain." Hu Yuhou nodded, and said mysteriously: "Hua Qizuo, you should be careful, this matter may also be related to you, but the ghost has not found you for the time being!" ”

Hua Youcai was stunned for a moment, and his tongue was a little unstraight: "What...... What concerns me? I'm not a ghost, you see I have a shadow......"

"Hey! Didn't say you were a ghost, didn't you listen to what people outside were saying? said that the county government was haunted, which was related to the dry well case more than ten years ago! You don't remember? That's your autopsy! "Hu Yuhou is a little funny, Hua Yan is known for being timid and afraid of things, and he has never seen the world, so he can't stand being scared.

"The dry well case more than ten years ago? I have the impression ......that "Hua Youcai came to the Ming Dynasty in the twenty-ninth year of Hongwu, and the dry well case should be a matter of the fourth year of Yongle, and at that time, he became a member of the Ming Dynasty for exactly ten years." In the first few years, Zhu Di seized power, Emperor Jianwen was nowhere to be found, and after Zhu Di ascended the throne, he settled accounts after the autumn, and there was a river of blood, and the corpses of loyal and good people who died unjustly were everywhere.

Chop off his head at every turn, he is a "stranger", how dare he make a mistake? This fostered his cautious character.

"It's seventeen years...... Is there anything wrong with the case from seventeen years ago? Hua Youcai muttered to himself, and went to the clerical room again, he wanted to find the record of the case to see what was wrong.

Hu Yuhou smiled and shook his head, and went to arrange the lighting of the torch in front of the window.

The master bookkeeper went to dinner, gave the key to Hua Youcai, he got into a pile of case files, flipped through the afternoon, it was dark, and he picked up the lamp and continued to turn it over, until Hua Qiao stretched out his little head and called him at the door: "Daddy!" Dad! It's time to go home for dinner! ”

Hua Youcai happened to turn over the record of the dry well case in his hand, and he couldn't help but secretly say in his heart: My daughter is really my lucky star!

"Daddy? Are you looking for a dry well case? "The buckwheat has already burrowed into the room of the clerical room.

"How did you get in? No outsiders are allowed to enter, get out quickly! Hua Youcai drove Hua Qiao, and he also walked out with the case file, and he asked again: "How do you know that Daddy is looking for this case?" ”

"It's all out there! It is said that it was the dry well case seventeen years ago...... Daddy, I wasn't born yet? Why did it take so long to find the door? Is it because you didn't reincarnate and come back for revenge? Hua Qiao tilted her head and looked at the file with Daddy, and asked casually.

Hua Youcai is already a little old, he lifted the file far away, squinted his eyes: "Don't follow those uneducated people outside to talk nonsense, people will take revenge, ghosts have no heart, what revenge?" ”

The father and daughter didn't speak, so they read the case and the autopsy sheet by the light, and there was nothing wrong with it. Until the two returned home for dinner, they were still thinking about each other, Hua Rong felt that his father and sister were stunned, and said casually: "Today Mr. Wu said in the school: There are no ghosts in the world, and when people's hearts are broken, they become ghosts." ”

"Not bad! But who is this broken heart? Hua Qiao asked stunned.

Seventeen years ago, a tailor surnamed Lin in Baoying County had an affair with the wife of the blacksmith Luo, and after being discovered by the blacksmith Luo, he stabbed the blacksmith to death with scissors.

At that time, Hua Cheng conducted an autopsy, which proved that the blacksmith Luo died from the murder weapon scissors, and his wife died from a head impact. And the fornication is because someone saw that Luo's blacksmith's wife was laughing with him in Tailor Lin's shop.

Xu County ordered the case to be closed for the fornication between the tailor Lin and the married woman, killed two people in a row, and sentenced him to be beheaded in the autumn of that year.

"Daddy, did you have any doubts about your autopsy back then?" Hua Qiao thought about it, the three parties in this case are dead, even if there are grievances, after many years, it will not be able to be verified.

Hua Youcai shook his head and said: "I don't have the impression that there were doubts at the time, and I will write down the cases that are suspicious, and I will take them to think about it." ”

This is a habit left over from the time of being a forensic doctor in the 21st century. But after all, the Ming Dynasty is different from the 21st century, Taizu hates the following officials the most for judging unjust cases, and anyone who finds that officials have decided unjust cases will be made to be guilty of the same crime. Who would dare to overturn the case easily?

Each case is signed by the individual officials in charge of the case, which can be easily traced at a later date. The same is true of the dry well case, and Hua Youcai is also one of the signatories.

"Daddy, sister, if the dry well case is really an unjust case, are you helping ghosts or Lord Xu?" Hua Rong ate the last piece of sweet and sour pork ribs and asked with interest. Hua Youcai looked at this stupid child...... It's really sad!

In the middle of the night, Liao Shuren hurriedly came to knock on the door of Hua's house:

"Brother Flower! Flower brother! Something happened! Lord Xu's concubine is dead! ”