Chapter 40: Bribery

"That's enough, stop quibbling." Pei Xian's face sank.

Jing Wan'er smiled, and simply exposed her white neck: "Then you can kill me." "She doesn't care if she lives or dies anyway.

Pei Xian wanted to draw the knife several times, but his hand couldn't move steadily. The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, if Zhongzong really wants to retrial, who will he find.

It must be Pei Tan.

Killing Jing Wan'er may be a way to survive in the future.

Jing Wan'er raised her eyebrows and looked at Pei Xian: "If you don't kill, I'll leave." ”

As she spoke, she turned around and completely exposed the empty door behind her, she had been to Dali Temple before, so she naturally knew where Pei Tan's study was.

She can go on her own.

And Pei Guards did just watch her go away, and they didn't stop her.

When he arrived at Pei Tan, he looked at Jing Wan'er's clean body, and the girl's charm was fully revealed.

Jing Wan'er saw that the food on the table, although it was just a small dish of porridge, it was already a delicacy for people who hadn't eaten for a few days.

Pei Tan pulled out a chair beside him: "Sit down." ”

Jing Wan'er couldn't help but glance at him, he was an official, she was a slave, and she hadn't heard that officials and slaves could sit at the same table and eat.

And Pei Tan, over there, had already picked up the chopsticks. Gu Gu picked up a dish and put it in his mouth.

Well, she's so hungry. Just as she picked up her chopsticks and was about to start, her eyes caught a glimpse of a glass of water next to her.

For people who are hungry for a long time, a glass of water can moisten the esophagus and avoid choking on hard food.

She slowly put her chopsticks back down, picked up the glass of water and drank it.

The whole eating process was extremely quiet, Jing Wan'er ate the bowl of porridge in front of her and the three side dishes on the table, and then exhaled with satisfaction.

She looked at Pei Tan, "Thank you, sir." "Especially that glass of water.

Pei Tan had already put down his chopsticks, he had eaten less, and these dishes on the table today were obviously deliberately made more in the kitchen.

At this time, the voice of the official came from the door: "Report to your lordship, I have finished reading the corpse, and ask if my lord will be buried tomorrow." ”

Because the nameless corpse cannot be identified, it is a death case, and the case is closed directly in Dali Temple.

At this time, Jing Wan'er's expression moved, and before her surprise flashed, Pei Tan beside her had already said, "Just do it." ”

If you continue to toss like this, it will be in vain.

Waiting for the official to leave, Jing Wan'er looked weird, and suddenly asked, "Why did the adults bury so quickly?" Why don't you put up a notice in the city asking if anyone is missing? ”

The nameless corpse may not really be nameless, if someone happens to come out to claim it, wouldn't it be wrong?

Pei Tan couldn't help but look at Jing Wan'er: "The body was found outside the city, and the identity has basically been confirmed to be the person who went to Chang'an to take the exam. ”

Because the dead people were not from Chang'an City, how could they post notices to find them.

This is naturally the basis for the verdict of Dali Temple, there are a lot of various cases that occur in Chang'an every day, not every one, Dali Temple can find clues to detect, although it is a little ruthless, but this is the reality.

Jing Wan'er seemed to look at Pei Tan thoughtfully, and Pei Tan said, "What do you want to say?" ”

As if she was considering, Jing Wan'er said for a moment: "My lord, the knife wound on the corpse, didn't there be any problems?" ”

Jing Wan'er is a person who has "close contact" with the corpse, although the coffin is dark and lightless, it is precisely because of this that Jing Wan'er can feel every inch of the corpse under her body more clearly......

Pei Tan felt something wrong, "What do you think should be tested?" ”

Jing Wan'er blinked at this time. Pei Tan's expression was really unaware, could it be that the dignified Dali Temple's work didn't even see such an obvious wound?

"Although there are many knife wounds on the corpse, there is only one that is really fatal, can you tell your adults about these deeds?"

Pei Tan looked at the girl's face: "I know." ”

Jing Wan'er's expression was a little strange: "That adult must also know that except for the fatal heart blade, the rest of the knife edges were cut after the death of the deceased?" ”

The expressions of Master Pei and Pei Guards were shocked.

Jing Wan'er realized that she had guessed correctly, and many things about the corpse, Pei Tan, who was the secretary of Dali Temple, did not know.

The reason is that the "autopsy results" that he told him were not abnormal.

But what do you do not tell Pei to talk about the truth.

What is the purpose of his concealment of the truth.

"How can you tell if it's a wound after death?" Or how to tell if it was an injury caused before or after death.

Jing Wan'er said slowly: "I dealt with it in the palace, and the corpse was sent after being whipped. After death, because the skin tissue is inactive, the color of the wound will be different and it will be easy to distinguish. ”

This last sentence is to say that it is impossible for an experienced person to fail to see such a simple thing. But the truth is that either he is really blind in his eyes, or Pei Tan has been deceived.

Once the body is burned, there is no proof of death. Besides, the corpse was only brought to Dali Temple today, and it was impatient to be burned and buried tomorrow, which in Jing Wan'er's opinion, was even more like a cover-up.

Jing Wan'er rolled her eyes: "If you don't believe it, you can take a look in person before the body is disposed of." ”

Although Jing Wan'er is not a puppet, the corpse she has touched with both hands is probably no less than any puppet. unexpectedly

The officials who guard the coroner's room at night are drowsy, and the corpse will not run away with long legs.

When Pei talked about it, the snoring of the official was almost known for two miles.

When he opened his eyes and saw Pei Tan, the three souls were scared out of two and a half souls, "Big, adult!" ”

The servant got up and down, and fell to his knees again.

Pei Tan didn't say anything, just stared at the door and said lightly: "Open the door." ”

The servant shuddered and took out the key from his waist and immediately rushed over to open the door.

After the door opened, the stench was even more unbearable, and the officials tried their best to resist the feeling of vomiting.

Pei Tan had already taken a step forward and walked in first.

"Your Excellency!" The official subconsciously shouted in despair, "The corpse has been examined today, and the cause of death has been reported to the adult, dare to ask the adult what else to see?" ”

Pei Tan didn't pay attention to him, but glanced at it: "Bring the door shut." ”

The servant stubbornly closed the door again.

Jing Wan'er looked calm, she had been used to this smell in the past five years.

The body lay on the coroner's table, covered with a white cloth, revealing a raised eerie color of blood.

Pei Tan slowly stretched out his hand wrapped in a silk handkerchief and lifted the white cloth of the corpse.

The face of the corpse was extremely terrifying. This whole corpse is indeed extremely miserable, and it is rare to see such an ugly person in Dali Temple.

But looking at Pei Tan, he continued to pull the white cloth down, all the way to the feet of the corpse.

Pei's guard lit an oil lamp at the corpse's feet.

Jing Wan'er had already pointed to the wound on the corpse and said, "My lord, please look, the corpse was killed by a knife in the chest, and the wound here is reddish-purple. When the deceased died, there was no time to struggle. ”

Pei Tan had already seen it, and the wound on his chest was very hideous.

"Dare to ask how the cause of death of the deceased was described?" Jing Wan'er Shi Ran asked.

In fact, from Pei Tan's expression, he already knew that what she said was not the same as what she pretended.

"I was chased by a knife and lost too much blood." Although he said that his heart was fatally wounded, his focus was on the deceased being chased and slashed with a knife, which tacitly assumed that the deceased died from bandits.

Jing Wan'er shook her head, and then said, "The corpse was not injured by a random knife before he died, so many wounds were scratched by someone after he died. ”

I saw Jing Wan'er pull out a handkerchief from her sleeve, and said leisurely: "My lord is offended." ”

Then she wrapped the veil around her fingers like a glove, and slowly probed the finger into one of the wounds of the deceased.

Inside, there are already white worms.

Pei Tan: "......"

"Don't you think these knife wounds are too neat, my lord?"

Messy knives, messy is quite messy, but if you look carefully at every knife edge, they are so neat and clean.

When did even the robbers who blocked the road and rob have such superb knife skills.

Pei Guard's eyes sank.

Jing Wan'er quickly untied the veil from her hand and threw it on the candle flame to burn it.

The Pei family's guards are well-trained, and everyone has been practicing swords for more than ten years to have such skills.

The deceased was unrecognizable, including the face, and so many knife wounds on the face were all deliberately done.

There are no bandits, no robbers, and it is a precise killing from beginning to end.

At this moment, Jing Wan'er was suddenly stunned, she stared at one of the corpse's hands, which was slender and weak, but between her thumb and index finger, there was a thin callus visible to the naked eye.

"This hand holds a pen all year round." What kind of identity will hold a pen all year round, only scholars.

"My lord, it should be a felony to deliberately murder someone to death during the big exam, right?" Jing Wan'er said softly.

The three of them were silent for a moment in the autopsy room, and the officials waited tremblingly outside, and they were suddenly surprised by Pei Tan, who was going out, again.

"Great, great!?"

Pei Tan looked at the officials: "The body will not be buried for the time being, and someone will post a notice in the city to ask if there are any missing people." ”

The official glared: "Yes, it's your lord......"

Jing Wan'er didn't know that the coffin she had temporarily drilled into had a case.

"Being able to kill people with one sword, even before the deceased has reacted, is enough to show that he is a professional killer. Only the big families in Chang'an City have the ability to raise the dead, but if they can let the dignified family kill people, this person must not be an ordinary candidate who goes to Beijing to take the exam. ”

Pei Tan looked at the girl without words, and this link became a premeditated murder case.

Jing Wan'er said: "The work was bought, and long before Qianniuwei entered Chang'an with the corpse, someone had already laid out the back game. ”

Fake it as a nameless corpse and deliberately throw the corpse on the official road, just so that the Qianniuwei patrolling the city can find it and bring it back.

The family wants to buy a person, it is not simple, and the post-mortem in Dali Temple for ten years may not be worth a silver ticket.