Wei Chang'an lived in the Wenjing Academy for a few days, and felt that life was better than death, because the bed board there was hard, the house was broken, and there were many rats, insects and ants, and the food was unpalatable.

It's easy to endure enough days, so I quickly ordered the little guy to beat the horse and go home, and I didn't want to stay for a moment.

When he came to the door of the Zhiyong Mansion, he saw that the door of the mansion was wide open, and there were many soap officials guarding the door, Wei Chang'an's first thought was, was his father Wei Zongyong taken away from his position, and these people came to raid the house? asked worriedly, only to know from the mouth of his servant that it was his sister Wei Yiwan who had an accident.

Although Wei Changan was not successful, he did not completely destroy his humanity, and when he heard the bad news, he cried and ran to the inner house.

Wei Yiwan stopped in his yard, Wei Changan saw his mother, and he hadn't seen Bao for a few days, as if he was ten years old. He had a yellow face, and his eyes were red and swollen from crying.

After seeing Wei Chang'an, Bao finally couldn't help crying loudly, crying sadly and sadly, like a mother ape who had lost a child.

But in any case, Bao is also a man with steel bones, although it hurts to the heart, he still gritted his teeth and asked someone to make dotted paper and hand it to the government, and sent someone to bring Mei out, and at the same time put her twin daughters under house arrest.

Mei was brought out by the mother-in-law who took care of her at home, and the palm marks on her face were like those beaten by Bao before.

"Mei, the Duchess has sued you for murder, can you plead guilty?" The head of the Arrest Division, who came to take charge of the people, asked.

Mei threw her head back, more calm than usual: "I don't plead guilty. ”

Seeing her like this, Bao Shi didn't care about decency, and gritted his teeth and scolded loudly.

"The fourth lady is gone now, and only Chunlan's words are left, how can she believe it?" Aunt Mei stood there arguing with reason.

It's just that there are a few witnesses before and after this incident, Wei Yimi and Wei Yining.

Because the wife of the decree and the lady of the wealthy family are not allowed to go to court, the officials must ask for clarification in the Zhiyong Gong Mansion.

The testimony of several witnesses should be recorded in the case as evidence in court.

Wei Yining briefly said what she saw, but when she went to the grange, she saw the poor woman leading a little girl to ask Aunt Mei for silver, and then Wei Yiwan and Aunt Mei went to Xiangguo Temple to offer incense, she happened to go to Wei's house to live, and happened to see the woman leading the child in front of the mansion to thank her.

It's just that she didn't say that she recognized that the child later was not the same person as before.

Regarding the infighting in the Zhiyong Mansion, Wei Yining just wanted to watch the fire from the other side, and didn't want to stir herself in, she just wanted to see how deep these people were.

Wei Yimi knew less, but Wei Yiwan was her own sister, so she obviously thought that Aunt Mei and the woman were in collusion, and the testimony she said deliberately pointed to the strange timing of the woman's appearance, as if it was deliberately arranged.

Just as the officials were asking, a terrible cry suddenly resounded throughout the mansion.

Hear the voice cry out, "Dead! Dead man! ”

This voice is from Mother Wu, who is cleaning up the flowers and trees in the house, Mother Wu's appearance is very special, standing is not as high as the bench, sitting is wider than the bench, shorter than the world, and the voice is higher than the world, so it is called Wu Dasheng.

It is no exaggeration to say that with her voice, the horse team can be frightened by two blocks away.

You usually have to keep your voice low when you speak, otherwise you can really deafen the people around you.

Now she is shouting like killing a pig, she can hear it clearly outside the house, and the official messenger naturally wants to ask clearly.

In just a moment, Wu's mother was soft in her legs, and her face was pale and she was hugged by several mothers-in-law.

Wei Yining was indeed frightened when she saw her, there was a water stain on the two-foot-long and nine-foot-wide coarse cloth skirt, which was still dripping down, obviously scared to pee.

The chief official asked, "What is your mother-in-law's call?" Where are the dead? ”

Mother Wu trembled and said, "Don't hide it from the official master, it is indeed a dead person, in the rockery cave in the back garden of the mansion." ”

It turned out that after a few days of rain and a lot of branches and leaves, Wu's mother was responsible for cleaning up the flowers, trees and grass in the house, so she took advantage of the sunny weather to clean up the dead branches and weeds in the back garden.

As the saying goes, people have three urgencies, and this Wu's mother is anxious when she is working.

She wanted to go to a nearby rockery cave to relieve herself, but no one saw her anyway.

The cave was very dark, and she didn't see it clearly when she first entered, and when she untied her skirt to urinate, she saw a dead man lying inside.

As a result, all the urine was urinated on his skirt.

Everyone gasped when they heard this, it was really a blessing, disaster is not a one-way street, the fourth lady Wei Yiwan committed suicide is bad enough, why is there still a dead man lying in the rockery cave?

Wei Zongyong never thought that there would be such a thing, he himself was an official of the Criminal Department, and it was his subordinates who came to investigate the case, but an unknown dead body appeared in his own home, which was really a headache.

He stabilized his official stand and asked Wu's mother: "Can you see who died inside?" Male or female? ”

Mother Wu was shocked, her head shook like a rattle, and she threw the two big fat cheeks out of the water ripples: "It's dark inside, I'm scared, and I can't see who it is, but it should be a woman." ”

Such a large group of people flocked to the back garden, although they were afraid to hear that there were dead people in the cave, but everyone was curious, but they were bold enough to stand forward, and timid to stand back, but they did not not go.

This rockery cave is relatively remote, generally no one goes in, and it has been raining these days, and people think that it is wet and slippery, so they all avoid walking.

If it weren't for Wu's mother's urgency, I was afraid that she wouldn't be able to find the dead body inside for a while.

The overseer asked for two lanterns, which were carried in by two young soap men.

After a while, he probed and said that there was indeed a female corpse inside.

This time, the official of the Zhiyong Mansion is named Liu Shun, although there is a "Shun" in his name, his personality is not harmonious at all.

Although he has no outstanding talents, he is a natural bull who admits death, not to mention that Wei Zongyong is just his boss, even in front of the emperor, he is one and two and two, and he will not be sloppy at all.

Liu Shun is two years older than Wei Zongyong, and he is just a small errand official after half his life, he has nothing to ask for, and he is upright and upright, even his boss can't help him.

When he heard that there was indeed a female corpse in the cave, he pushed everyone into the cave to check it out for himself.

I saw that the female corpse was lying on her back, her clothes were not covered, and her hair was scattered.

A pair of eyes were round, dead and dead, and there were no obvious injuries on the body, and there were no traces of blood.

At this point, the body was mildly decomposed, but the face was still clearly recognizable.

Liu Shun checked the surroundings again, there was nothing suspicious, just a two-inch-long grass carp not far from the corpse.

Of course, the fish is already dead, and it will be dried in a few days.

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