There was indeed a murder in Taoyuan Village a few years ago, and it was well known.

And the well-known reason is that the county magistrate who served as Lin'an County back then was discerning and just.

The facts of the case were indeed confusing, and the accumulation of various reasons caused a sensation and well-known at the time.

It is said that there was a family surnamed Jiang in Taoyuan Village, the husband Jiang Xing, often went to the county town to do coolie work to help the family in the idle days, and when he returned home, he actually caught his wife in bed, but the adulterer ran out of the window, and was not caught by Jiang Xing, he was very annoyed, and naturally beat his wife, and forced him to ask the adulterer's name and surname, but Jiang's wife did not confess the identity of the adulterer, Jiang Xing left home angrily, and that night he had a drink with his friends and was drunk.

When Jiang Xing returned home the next day, she saw that her wife had died, her whole body was blue and purple, bleeding from her seven orifices, and even a pair of eyeballs fell out of her sockets. After an examination, residual rat poison was found in the mouth of the deceased, and because of the two signs of cyanosis and bleeding from the whole body, it was concluded that the deceased was poisoned and died, and the torture room at that time asked Jiang Xing's friends, and determined that Jiang Xing was resentful of the deceased, so he advocated that the murderer was Jiang Xing, because his wife Hongxing went out of the wall and refused to tell who the adulterer was, he was angry and forcibly poured rat poison into the mouth of the deceased, and then in order to get rid of the crime, he deliberately went to a friend's house to drink, hoping that his friend could testify for him and help him escape.

However, when the county magistrate reviewed the file, he had different opinions.

The county magistrate also knew a lot about the knowledge of corpse inquest, and believed that although rat poison could cause the poisoned person to be bruise all over his body and bleed from the seven orifices, it would not cause the deceased's eyes to fall off, and believed that the deceased was killed by a heavy blow to the head, and then someone put rat poison in his mouth, causing the deceased to be poisoned.

However, there was no wound on the deceased's skull, and the county magistrate concluded that someone should have first buckled something like an iron helmet on the deceased's head, and then hammered it, causing the deceased's head to be shocked and died, and then poured rat poison to create the illusion that the deceased had died of poisoning. And there was no iron helmet or anything like that in the deceased's house, which obviously did not meet the judgment of the torture room that Jiang Xing killed people when he was angry, that is to say, the murderer was premeditated.

On closer inspection, he saw a blacksmith from a neighboring village, who was extremely powerful and could trap wild quails.

This method is to set up a copper pot in the field, sprinkle bait such as rice in it, wait for the quail to enter it, be caught in the copper pot, and hit the pot repeatedly with a hammer, and in a short time the birds will be shocked to the point that their purple eyes fall off and pass out.

So the county magistrate arrested the blacksmith for interrogation, and finally found out the facts of the case.

It turned out that the blacksmith was the adulterer of the deceased, because he was discovered by Jiang Xing, he was afraid that the deceased would confess him, he was also one of Jiang Xing's friends, and borrowed a sum of money from Jiang Xing, but the blacksmith was not only lustful and addicted to gambling, so he was not able to repay the loan at all, so he was afraid that the deceased would confess him and cause Jiang Xing to force debts, and sneaked into Jiang's house again that night, originally to take Jiang Xing's life, but Jiang Xing was not at home at all, and the blacksmith knew that Jiang Xing bought a few packs of rat poison from the county last time, and before it was used up, Jiang's wife put it in the cabinet. So he had a poisonous plan, first deceived Jiang's wife into agreeing to elope with him, and then deceived Jiang's wife into going to his blacksmith shop, and then covered Jiang's wife with her mouth and nose to make her faint, but the blacksmith did not prepare rat poison, and served as Jiang's wife in Jiang's house

Fortunately, his blacksmith shop was originally built in a secluded countryside, so as not to harass the neighbors when he was in a hurry, so he could only use the method of trapping quails, put a copper helmet on Jiang's wife's head, hit it with a heavy hammer, and then move her back to Taoyuan Village at night, find the rat poison in the cabinet and pour it into Jiang's wife's mouth.

It is precisely because of this murder that most people in Taoyuan Village know that rat poison can cause the poisoned person to bleed all over the body, and the difference between being killed by an unknown blow is whether the eyeball is out of the eye socket.

King Zhou's personal guards even made it clear that when this case occurred, Fei Hou had already returned to Taoyuan Village due to lung disease due to serious injuries, and when Peng and his neighbors scolded the blacksmith for not dying well, Fei Hou did bow his head again and again.

"Fei Hou knew that rat poison could cause the poisoned person to bleed all over his body, why didn't he question the cause of his eldest daughter's death?" Lan Ting questioned.

"Fei Hou is too cowardly." Zhou Wanggang said a word, and remembered the judgment of Lan Ting and Chun Gui, the two of them didn't think that Fei Hou was as bad as the rumors, so they changed their tone again: "Or is it that Fei Hou and the Peng family are simply complicit?" ”

Lan Ting didn't think about this possibility, but after careful consideration, he slowly shook his head: "Fei Cong did not turn against his biological father, but in fact, he was sent to Lin'an County by Fei Hou, before he had the opportunity to worship 'Brush Chen' as a teacher, he still cared about the relationship between father and son, and thanked Fei Hou for not listening to Peng's instigation and simply selling him as a slave, so over the years, Fei Cong has not completely ignored his biological father, although he hates Peng, but he often takes care of his own family, and Peng's family is also in a good way, and his life has not reached the point of being stretched." And Fei Hou never favors the children of Yuan, although the daughter of the Peng family is not from Fei Hou, but she has never been treated badly in the Fei family, although the Peng family is jealous that the stepdaughter Fei Hui can be hired for Lou's Silk Village, but I think there is no motive for seeking people's lives, you must know that once the murder of people's lives is revealed, they will face a catastrophe. ”

This means that the benefits are not proportional to the risks taken.

Fortunately, at the critical moment, Qu Chu really gained a lot, so Mo Wen immediately reported the news on this day, and of course, "Qu Chu said" became "Fei Hui Dao".

Because seeing that the daughter of the Peng family was about to leave for training in Lou's Silk Village, the county seat, and the time was already quite short, Lan Ting finally decided on a strategy of dividing the troops into two ways, while he went to stop Fei Cong first, Chun Gui and King Zhou went to Taoyuan Village again to be responsible for fighting grass and scaring snakes.

King Zhou originally had "jealousy", thinking that it was enough to prove that Lan Ting deliberately made him sing in black face, and the excuse that he had already offended Miss Liu so it was not appropriate to sing white face was simply ridiculous, but considering that Lan Ting's arrangement could give him the opportunity to return to his private place with Chun, King Zhou couldn't say anything about his complaints.

That's it, although Xiao Wang tried hard to suppress the attempt, he no longer thought about prying Zhao Jibei's corner, but in the end, he had a final decision, but he secretly couldn't calm down, since he still hoped that he could at least be treated by Gu Yiren as a confidant, he shouldn't care about the rest of the details.

"You'll stop it later!" When he entered Taoyuan Village, King Zhou pretended to have palpitations: "Don't let Miss Liu's clothes-pounding pestle knock on my head, my eyeballs will fall off after being hit hard!" ”

Mo Wen, who was traveling with him, hurriedly took two steps forward: suddenly there was an ominous prediction

sense, why do you think that His Royal Highness King Zhou treats Grandma Gu...... As if there is already an adulterous affair?!

Besides, Liu's family, since I heard about my daughter's frankness, these days are like ants on a hot pot are not at peace, Miss Liu has been locked at home by her mother, but this day when I saw Mo Wen Xiaodao and came to the door again, Liu still seemed to see Guanyin Bodhisattva who rescued the suffering, so he almost didn't take out the incense candle directly to worship, and completely ignored the other two people who were ten times more noble than Mo Wen Xiaodao.

Chun Hui took advantage of this lack of attention and looked around at the situation of the Liu family.

The tile house is locked, so this time you can only sit in the yard behind the tile house, and it is also surrounded by a bamboo fence, but it is obviously not as dense and firm as the fence of the Fei family, and the window grille in the kitchen is smoked black and not replaced, and the traces of walking water are obviously still left, and the yard will naturally not be set up with a basket frame that can be used for cooling, but fortunately, at this time, most of the yard is not exposed to direct sunlight, and you can find a cool place to sit down - close to the pigsty.

Even so, Chungui didn't feel the smell of the smell, she looked at it carefully, and felt that the pigsty had been cleaned cleanly, and the two big fat pigs seemed to have just been washed, and they were a little cute.

Measuring Liu's clothes again, the old clothes, even the shoes are patched, but they are extremely clean, which complements the simple but neat backyard, Liu's husband is also dressed in shabby but clean clothes, even the fingernails are spotless.

"The Taoist must persuade the little girl, persuade the little girl, the little girl can persuade Cong'er, the two of them are actually good children, just because Xiaohui is really pitiful......" Liu sried: "There are only two girls in our family, I am the elder, Xiaohui and her mother are my only sister, my father and mother have told me since I was a child, because there is no son in the family, I must recruit one of the daughters, I am the eldest daughter, naturally should bear the responsibility of supporting the family, I knew at that time that the husband my father and mother found for me was a beggar, and I was reluctant to hide it from the Taoist, However, after getting along, I feel more and more that my family is diligent and kind, although my brother-in-law also looked like a diligent and kind person back then......"

Liu shook his head and sighed: "In response to the saying that knows people and faces but doesn't know their hearts, before my sister-in-law passed away, Fei Hou was already unclear with Peng's, and my sister-in-law often came back to cry, what can I do?" I had to persuade her to endure it for a while, but I didn't think that she couldn't think about it like this, so in order to take revenge on her brother-in-law, she went to find a ...... The child that Xiaomei conceived later was not her brother-in-law's flesh and blood at all, so Xiaomei has always been weak-hearted, nervous and suspicious, and finally failed to give birth smoothly when she gave birth, and ended up with one corpse and two lives. But how can I completely hide such things from my brother-in-law? In the end, it was because the little sister had passed away that Fei Hou didn't want to make a fuss, so as not to make people laugh. Our family couldn't stop Fei Hou from marrying another because of my little sister's mistakes, and later we always had a little confidence, so that the Cong'er brothers and sisters suffered for so many years. ”

As soon as she finished saying this, Chun Gui heard a mournful shout.

"Auntie, what nonsense are you talking about? You can't slander my aunt anymore! ”

Heading straight into the high window of the backyard, I could only see the woman's slender fingers tugging on the fence.

I don't know why Chungui suddenly had the feeling that this ordinary farm yard was actually a prison.

Before she could pass through this thought, she heard an angry and rough voice—