After a few little girls got closer, they found that the place that was fenced off was actually Uncle Zhou's house, and the surrounding villagers were all staring at Zhou's house, and there was a faint sound of talking inside, they didn't know what was going on, so they had to look at everyone with a puzzled face, wanting to hear a little detail from their discussions.

"That seems to be the town's official errand, right? Wasn't Aunt Zhou's death an accident? Why did you alarm the official master? A lean young man asked, full of surprise.

"I heard that the county lord wanted to deal with this case, so I sent someone." Another sturdy young man standing next to him said.

"What does it mean to deal with a crossover?" Xing'er was puzzled, leaned over and whispered to a few people.

"It seems that there is a rule that the county government should report as many cracked cases as it takes every time to go up, and there is a quantitative requirement." Gu Changning replied in a whisper.

"What if you can't pay it?" Chen Shuang also said curiously.

"I don't know." It should be that the deduction of Yulu may affect the assessment in three years, but Gu Changning will not say this, this is not something that an ordinary peasant child can know.

"But Aunt Zhou died in a dream, what is there to check this?" Xing'er still asked ignorantly.

"I don't know about this anymore, maybe it's because the cause of death is too bizarre?" After all, a good living person, if you say no, there will be no more, and it is not justified and evidenced to die of illness like a seriously ill person, so you have to send someone to investigate, right?

Everyone crowded in front of Zhou's house to look inside, and the black pressure of the people's heads was blocked here, not to mention a few little girls who were less than people's shoulders, even if they were on tiptoe, they still couldn't see anything.

"Forget it, it's nothing to look at, Aunt Zhou died suddenly in a dream, what's there to be curious about." Chu Chu stretched his neck and looked at it for a while, then quickly gave up looking at it and rubbed his sore neck.

After so many days, everyone has gradually accepted that Aunt Zhou passed away unexpectedly, and the officials will not find any clues when they come and go, and there is nothing to see.

The other little girls nodded in agreement, and everyone reached a consensus that they would no longer continue to pay attention to this place, and they all squeezed out of the crowd and returned to the original place to continue the previous thing.

Gu Changning turned his head again before leaving, and saw an official he knew from the gap in the longing of the figure.

Xue Mingkai.

She paused, glanced at the surrounding villagers, gave up the opportunity to get acquainted with him, and turned to leave with a few little girls.

Xue Mingkai was standing on the threshold at this time looking at the courtyard gate, his face full of seriousness.

"Boss, we have carefully checked these, and there are no traces of destruction, as for the others, I am afraid that they have been inadvertently erased by these villagers who came to the door these days, and judging from the current situation alone, there is no abnormality." Li Yuansan leaned closer to Xue Mingkai and whispered.

Xue Mingkai was noncommittal, he also knew that it would be difficult to find any useful clues when he came to the scene of the crime after these days, but he still wanted to take a look.

After reading it, the conclusion he came to was similar to his previous conjecture, there was no trace of invasion by outsiders, everything was as usual, so it seems that it was really Aunt Zhou's sudden illness and stopped breathing in her sleep?

Xue Mingkai frowned slightly, and was about to call a few brothers back to the yamen to close the case, but at a casual glance, he saw a little girl about twelve or thirteen years old washing clothes with well water in a corner of the courtyard, he thought about it and walked over.

"Who are you from Aunt Zhou?"

Sister Lian'er's hand washing clothes was stunned, she raised her head to look at the official who was asking, shrunk her neck, and said timidly: "If you go back to the official master, Aunt Zhou is my grandmother." ”

Xue Mingkai frowned when he heard the title of "Master Official", and just wanted to speak, he saw Sister Lian finish answering and continued to rub her clothes with her head down, looking very afraid of him, he thought for a while, and decided to continue asking.

"The night your grandma had an accident, did you notice anything unusual about her?"

"Nope." Sister Lian was a little frightened when she saw these officials with knives, but she still shrunk her neck, didn't dare to look up, and said in a low voice.

"What's different about that? Anything goes, as long as it's different from before. Seeing that the little girl was scared, Xue Mingkai tried to lower his voice, softened the expression on his face, and asked gently.

Sister Lian'er's hand paused, she paused for a second, but still shook her head in denial.

Xue Mingkai didn't miss her action, he squinted his eyes and asked without a trace: "You think about it carefully, even if it's a subtle place." ”

Sister Lian'er hesitated, glanced at him timidly, and quickly withdrew it, lowering her eyes and saying nothing.

Xue Mingkai didn't say anything, and waited patiently for the little girl to reply to him.

At the same time, Li Yuansan saw that several brothers who came together were about to turn their houses upside down, and almost lifted the roof to check, he turned his head to look for Xue Mingkai, wanting to ask if it was about the same, but when he turned around, he saw the leader squatting next to a little girl, as if asking something.

Seeing this, Li Yuansan had no choice but to touch his nose and continue to let the brothers search for clues.

This time it was more thorough, and even the stove was not spared, and the stove was turned over.

Xue Mingkai didn't know that Li Yuansan was delaying him, he looked at Sister Lian'er patiently, watching her fan her little eyelashes nervously, and her hands also grasped her clothes.

Just when Xue Mingkai thought that the little girl might not reply, Sister Lian spoke: "Also, it's not strange, I just went to fetch water for Grandma to wash her feet that night, and she didn't answer me after shouting outside the door for a while, I was a little scared, so I didn't dare to go in, and left directly with the basin." ”

Xue Mingkai frowned and said, "Does she wash her feet before going to bed?" ”

"No, not necessarily......" Sister Lian'er said in a voice as low as a mosquito, "Every time Grandma is angry, I will call her at the door with water at the end of the time, and if she says that she wants me to come in, I will go in and bring her water, and if she doesn't speak or is very angry and asks me to go, I don't have to fetch water for her." ”

Xue Mingkai frowned and pondered, there seemed to be nothing wrong with Aunt Zhou sleeping without washing her feet on the day she died.

"Since there is no problem, why did you say this?" Xue Mingkai looked at her incomprehensibly.

Speaking of this, the little girl was even more nervous, her eyes moved uneasily, her eyelashes trembled like butterfly wings, and Xue Mingkai waited silently.

“…… I saw that Grandma's figure was a little strange. ”

"Figure?" Xue Mingkai was puzzled, "What figure?" ”

"It's just that Grandma's shadow on the window is a little strange, looking at ...... It's a bit thin. ”

"Thin?" Xue Mingkai didn't understand what it meant, and looked at her blankly.

"I don't know how to say it, I just think Grandma's shadow is a little strange, and I can't say where it's strange."

Something strange about the shadows?

Xue Mingkai pondered, how could the shadow be strange?

"What about the other than this?" Xue Mingkai decided to put this aside for now and continued to ask about the rest.

"Other...... It's all normal. Maybe Sister Lian chatted with him for a while, and she didn't behave as restrained as she did at first, she whispered while rubbing her clothes, "What happened that morning was normal, Grandpa brought Grandma's favorite Fu Ji mung bean cake back, and shouted Grandma outside the door a few times and didn't respond, so he asked my Grandma to come into the house to have a look, but after my Auntie entered, she found that Auntie's body was hard, and she screamed in fright, and my Daddy hurriedly rushed in to check the situation." ”

"Your grandfather bought Fu Ji's mung bean cake and came back?" Xue Mingkai was a little surprised, how could no one say such important information.

"Hmm."

"Do you buy it often?" Xue Mingkai thought about it, unless Uncle Zhou often bought it back for Aunt Zhou to eat, the family would not think that this matter was very strange, and it was invisibly ignored.

"No, but every time grandma gets angry, my grandpa will buy this to coax her."

Xue Mingkai nodded and didn't continue to ask.

He stood up, looked at the brothers who had re-inspected the Zhou family's house, and shouted at Li Yuansan, "Li Yuansan." ”

"Here! Boss, are you done asking? Li Yuansan hurriedly walked up to him and asked in a low voice.

"Well, let's take it back."

"Okay." can finally go back, Li Yuansan's excited eyes lit up, "The boss said that after the inspection, you can go back, let's go back." ”

As soon as Li Yuansan's words came out, the serious expressions of the rest of the people who were still holding on suddenly relaxed, and everyone almost couldn't hold on to meeting in the courtyard, watching Xue Mingkai say hello to the people of the Zhou family, and led them back.

"Boss, are we going back to the yamen next?" After leaving the Zhou family for some distance, Li Yuansan/Unhurriedly followed behind Xue Mingkai and asked.

"Nope." Xue Mingkai stopped, turned around, and said to the rest of the people, "You all go back to the yamen first, I have a place to go with Li Yuansan, you don't have to follow us." ”

"Where is it, boss, why don't you take us there?"

"That is to say, every time there is a case, you take Li Yuansan there, we are not convinced!"

Because he often followed Xue Mingkai out to handle cases, these officials were very familiar with him, and they were even more familiar with Li Yuansan, who loved to be lively.

"Go, who's the boss? There must be a reason for doing things, don't grind and chirp, the boss said that if you don't take you, you won't take you, don't take you! Li Yuansan deliberately provoked them with a snort, and his arrogant appearance made the other people itch their hands.

"We don't accept it, boss, you look at his underwhelming appearance, he doesn't have any ability except to talk a little more, you take him, it's very detrimental to your image of wisdom and martial arts!" This is directly from Xue Mingkai, ready to squeeze Li Yuansan's position away.

"Okay, you Zhao Er, brother, I usually treat you well, you actually dig my corner at this time!" Li Yuansan glared at the speaker angrily.

"Boss, you see, he is such an uneducated guy, following you out will lower your case-handling level, you might as well take me there, I am definitely much more reliable than him!"

Li Yuansan was about to refute, but Xue Mingkai's gaze slowly swept over everyone and said, "You really can't help me in this matter, only Li Yuansanxing." ”

"Eh~ Take a look, the leaders have come out to speak, which means that in the boss's mind, I am better than you!"

Before he could finish his complacency, Xue Mingkai threw down a sentence again, causing the smile on his face to freeze instantly, as messy as a second fool.

"What I need is someone who can fight with those small traders, only Li Yuansan is the most suitable among them, you can't."