In the middle of the night, Liao Shucai came to knock on the door of Hua Youcai, because of Xu County's concubine, Aunt Cuihua, died suddenly!

"Dead? How did he die? Hua Youcai hurriedly went to the utility room to get his toolbox. Hua Qiao heard the sound in the yard and quickly got dressed and got up.

"How do I know? I was sleeping in a daze, and I heard a commotion outside, and when I came out, I saw that Aunt Cuihua had died in the well in the backyard! Liao Shuren ran in a hurry, sweating, and used his palms as a fan, desperately fanning the wind.

Now it's Hua Youcai's turn to sweat: die in the well? There was a well in the backyard of the county government, and if the corpse was soaked, it was more difficult to determine the real cause of the corpse's death.

"Let's go, let's go."

Hua Youcai was about to close the door, and Hua Qiao squeezed out: "Daddy, I'll go too!" ”

Seeing that she was wearing a little girl's clothes, Hua Youcai had no choice but to acquiesce, and the father and daughter followed Liao Shushi towards the county government together. In the dark, Hua Youcai also hopes to give everything he knows and the knowledge that Daming can use to Hua Qiao as soon as possible.

When Hua Youcai arrived, everyone silently made way for him, and Aunt Cuihua's body suddenly appeared in front of him. The clothes were wet and sticking to the body, and Xu County ordered people to take a piece of cloth and cover most of it.

"When she was first fished out of the well, we rescued her, pressed her stomach, and squeezed out some water, but she still couldn't save her." A servant explained to Hua Yan. Hua Youcai nodded.

Aunt Cuihua's hair is tied well, but there is no bead hairpin on her head, I don't know if it fell into the well when she pulled it out of the well. Hua Youcai started to check from the head as usual, there were no obvious injuries on the head, and there were no signs of poisoning, if according to the officials, the stomach can squeeze out water, and the probability of drowning is indeed relatively large.

"You have money, you come and see." Xu Xianling suddenly spoke. Hua Qiao followed the direction of his finger and saw two words written on the ground in the ash of paper money: Na Zheng. What does that mean? Nazheng is one of the six ceremonies of marriage, that is, the man gives the bride price to the woman's family.

"Lao Hua, can you tell if my aunt was scared to death?" Xu Xianling asked dejectedly. These two words on the ground, do they mean that Aunt Cuihua has been pulled to be the bride?

If Hua Youcai can be asked to dissect the corpse, he can judge by observing whether there are hyperemic red spots on the heart, whether the aunt was overly frightened, and the heart suddenly bleeds excessively, resulting in sudden death. On the surface, he has little evidence to prove it.

Hua Youcai didn't talk yet, but he just listened to Qian Xunshu and shook his head and said: "No, no, this kind of marriage is not with a dead person, but with a living person." The reason why my aunt was thrown into a well and drowned is to warn us that if we don't do what he says and deliver the bride on time, we will kill the people who live here to avenge our death! ”

"Huh? ......" The people next to him all whispered, you know, the county government is not only Xu Xianling's family lives in it, the county Cheng family, and more than a dozen single officials, by the way, Qian Xunshu himself also lives in the county office.

Xu Moyan also had a tense face, holding her mother and standing next to her.

"Qian Xunshu, you have been doing it every day for the past few days, why can't you catch or drive away that dirty thing? Now that someone is dead, do you mean that if you don't find him a bride, you have to die? Xu Xian Ling felt a little Jiujiu in his heart: If you just want a young girl to accompany the funeral, the county is so big, it should be easy to fool a girl who is sent to death.

Hua Youcai stood up and said: "Judging from the surface of the corpse, I tend to think that the deceased drowned, as for whether he encountered that before his death...... I can't understand it for the time being. Although he himself does not believe it, he cannot say that there are no ghosts in this world, and no one believes him.

"Then, then ......" Before Xu Xianling finished speaking, a servant next to him shouted: "My lord, there is a package under the tree!" ”

Because it was dark, everyone's attention was on the dead body and the words on the ground, and no one saw a package under the tree next to it. Xu Xian ordered to open it for inspection, and as soon as the package was opened, the lady rushed over and rummaged through the inside and out, inside were a few good clothes from Aunt Cuihua, as well as some gold and silver jewelry.

Madame gritted her teeth and said: "Pan Cuihua, this slut, this is to run away softly, no wonder even the ghost doesn't let her go!" ”

In the past few days, there has been a lot of commotion in the county government, Aunt Cuihua is crying every day to go back to her parents' house, although she is also in her thirties, but because she has no birth, she has a slender figure, a smooth face, and she is still like a little daughter-in-law. Xu Xianling was afraid that she would give herself a green hat when she went out, how dare she let her go?

Thinking that she wanted to sneak away quietly tonight, she bumped into the unjust soul and fell into the well and drowned in fright. Thinking like this, Xu Xianling calmed down and ordered the officials to move the body to the public hall outside for a night, and tomorrow the coffin was fixed and the mass grave was buried. It's just a subordinate.

After the arrangement was made, everyone dispersed, and Hua Qiao also followed Daddy to prepare to go home.

"Ah......" A scream pierced the night sky, and even the birds in the trees in the courtyard of the county government were awakened and staggered to the sky as if they were drunk.

Everyone's hearts were half cold, and they all stood still. I saw Xu Moyan stumbling out of her room, turning around and pointing to the room, and stammering, "Yes...... There was ......"

"He's coming?"

The officials all protected the Pu knife on their chests, and they didn't know if they could beat the ghosts, and it was enough to be better than the ones who didn't hold knives next to them.

"No...... No...... It's ......" Xu Moyan fought with her legs, and sat down against the pillar on the porch.

"Let's go, go in and have a look!" Xu Xianling pointed to the few officials with Pu knives. The official walked in hard, and came out in two clicks.

"My lord, in the boudoir of the eldest girl...... There is a box of ...... Dowry! ”

Everyone followed Xu Xian's order to take a look, and sure enough, there was a red box in the middle of the room, the lid had been opened by the officials, and it was full of a box of gold ingots, but this ingots were made of paper, which was usually burned for the dead to spend in the underworld during worship. And that's ...... It's really a soul to recruit people, and the bride chosen is still the pearl of the county order, Miss Xu.

"Daddy! Mother! ...... I don't want to get married! Xu Moyan, the county-level princess sitting on the porch, cried hoarsely.

Mrs. hugged her daughter and cried together, and now, half of the county heard it.

Hua Youcai saw that there was still a Zhang Minggeng sticker on the table, picked it up and looked at it, and almost sat on the ground with weak legs.

This name is pasted on it, and it is clearly written: Lin Guangzong, Bingxu year Gengzi month Yihai day, tomorrow to get married...... This is exactly the name of the tailor Lin that Hua Youcai saw today, and his death sacrifice! Sure enough, it was a dry well case.

Xu Xian Ling took it and couldn't see the reason, and when Hua Youcai said about the dry well case, his face turned green. It's really him, it must be that wronged soul! Tailor Lin personally supervised the beheading back then, and it was impossible for him to pretend to be a ghost alive.

"Lift ...... Carry it outside and put it in the public hall, this matter is not allowed to be spread outside! If anyone out there knows a little bit, don't blame me for not leaving you alive! Xu Xianling gritted his teeth and said fiercely.

Hua Youcai quietly turned around and took a look, staring at Hua Qiao, who was standing behind him with big eyes, and regretted that his intestines were blue:

I shouldn't have been, I shouldn't have let my own girl come!