Chapter 316: The Source of the Footprints
Although the people in the yamen didn't know Jiang Lingfan, Cao Mao, the county magistrate who acted as the county magistrate, respected him well, and they all knew Yu Xia and knew that this little girl was a master.
So when Jiang Lingfan said this, the leader nodded very happily.
"Since that's the case, then it's going to trouble Lord Jiang and Miss Yu."
Then he simply waited for people to leave, and when he passed in front of Yu Xia, he specially greeted Yu Xia respectfully.
The Fan family only left the Fan family, the Yu Xia family, and Jiang Lingfan.
"You'd better leave too." Jiang Lingfan is humane to Yu Dayou.
The Yu family heard what Jiang Lingfan said to the people in the yamen before, and now Jiang Lingfan opened his mouth to let them leave, and they naturally understood the meaning of Jiang Lingfan's words.
"But ......"
Yu Dayou glanced at Yu Chun hesitantly, his face full of worry.
"Dad, mother, you wait for Xiaoxian to go back first."
Yu Chun stood up, his eyes still red, and his voice was still dry, but he looked much calmer.
"This lord, I want to stay, can I?"
These words were naturally said to Jiang Lingfan.
Jiang Lingfan only hesitated for a moment, then nodded.
With her relationship with the person lying in the coffin, she does have the right to know, not to mention that there is a Yu Xia here.
"Second girl, take care of your eldest sister." Before leaving, Yang Cuilian specially explained Yu Xia.
"Alright, let's open the coffin."
This is a gloomy wooden coffin, carved with ornate patterns, heavy and atmospheric, which is obviously not made in a hurry.
Jiang Lingfan didn't say much, just tied Fan Changxin and opened the lid of the coffin.
Verdon's body fell into the eyes of everyone.
The clothes had obviously been changed, and now the corpse was wearing a clean silk shroud, but the size looked a little too large, and it hung loosely.
But it was not so much that the clothes were bigger, but that the people were smallโnot much different from what the villagers had said before, the corpse was completely shriveled down, almost skinny and bone-like, very different from the young man who had always been strong and hearty.
It's a powerful image.
Yu Chun was dizzy again, Yu Xia was quick and quickly supported Yu Chun.
When Fan Yuping saw Yu Chun's appearance, he felt pity and helped her to a chair and sat with him.
The man in the coffin has been changed beyond recognition.
Of course, for the people in the Xuanmen, there are means of discernment.
Jiang Lingfan didn't trust the Fan family, but turned his head and asked Yu Chun: "Do you have a token of love from him by your side?" โ
Jiang Lingfan's asking this question was tantamount to taking a needle to pierce Yu Chun's heart, but Yu Chun was sad and sad, and he still wanted to find out the truth about Fan Erdong's death, so he immediately untied a jade pendant from his neck.
"This is what he gave me a few days ago, saying that he brought it up since he was a child."
Saying this, Yu Chun's eyes turned red again.
Seeing her eldest sister like this, Yu Xia felt very uncomfortable.
Yu Xia sighed, took out a tranquilizing talisman from his waist and handed it to Yu Chun.
"Eldest sister, stick this on your head and rest for a while."
Yu Chun's emotions were still a little excited, but she had to participate in the investigation of the case, which was a lot of load on her spirit.
Yu Chun naturally knew his sister's good intentions, but he didn't reach out to pick it up, but shook his head.
"I want to know why he died."
Jiang Lingfan looked at the various reactions of the people in this room, and laughed in his heart.
The reaction of this wife who has not passed through the door is much more normal than that of the Fan family, who are close relatives.
The Fan family's sadness is true, but there is a slight sense of self-blame and weakness in their expressions, and there are many complex emotions that cannot be explained.
Yu Xia's persuasion was ineffective, so he could only carefully examine the body under the nose of his eldest sister.
On the other side, Jiang Lingfan held the jade pendant in his hand, took out a small porcelain bottle from his arms, opened the lid of the porcelain bottle, and a bee flew out of the porcelain bottle.
"This is the Lingfeng I asked Peng Wushu for, they specially domesticated Lingfeng in Wuzhou to identify Gu worms, and the one I want is used to distinguish various smells, their noses are more intelligent than dogs, even if there are many mixed smells confused, they can also distinguish the most essential taste."
Jiang Lingfan explained, while bringing the jade pendant to Lingfeng, Lingfeng flew around the jade pendant a few times, and then swayed and slowly fell to the corpse in the coffin.
Yu Chun's tears welled up again.
That's pretty telling.
In the coffin was indeed Verdon.
Jiang Lingfan returned the jade pendant to Yu Chun, and glanced at Yu Xia, at this time Yu Xiayi had already gone around to the other end of the coffin, staring at Fan Erdong's feet.
Fan Erdong's shoes have naturally been changed, and they are matched with a set of clothes, which are different from clothes, but the shoes fit very well, after all, the bone frame is there, even if it is turned into a dry corpse, the feet will not become smaller.
Yu Xia stared at Fan Erdong's shoes for a while.
"What's wrong? Did you find anything? โ
Jiang Lingfan walked to Yu Xia's side, stood with her, and looked towards her shoes, but didn't find anything different.
Yu Xia looked up at the Fan family, they only took a hand when Jiang Lingfan said that he was going to open the coffin at the beginning, and then he stayed silently on the sidelines, neither stopping their actions, but also not assisting them.
As if he didn't pay much attention to investigating the cause of Veldon's death.
The family is weird.
Yu Xia frowned, remembering the scene when she met Fan Erdong at the back door of Widow Xu's house.
At that time, Fan Erdong said that his name was Widow Xu's aunt, and Yu Dashan was good friends with Fan Changshan.
The Fan family is a master, but they are willing to be farmers and live in seclusion here.
The Taishan stone in front of Widow Xu's house.
Plus some of her discoveries in the past few days......
Faintly, it all seems to have some connection.
"Fan Erdong went to Widow Xu's house a few days ago." Yu Xia raised his eyes to everyone.
When she said this, she paid special attention to the expressions of the Fan family, and sure enough, she saw that they did not show any surprised looks.
Yu Chun was surprised, she couldn't think of why Fan Erdong went to Widow Xu's house quietly, didn't she say that Widow Xu had disappeared before? Why did Fan Erdong sneak in while Widow Xu was not at home?
"How did you find out?" Jiang Lingfan asked.
Yu Xia pointed to Fan Erdong's shoes, "I saw his footprints at Widow Xu's house. โ
Fan Changli's face sank, Fan Changshan glanced at him, and said to Fan Changyi: "Your third brother is not in good health, you can take him to rest." โ
Jiang Lingfan watched Fan Changyi push Fan Changli away, and then glanced at the remaining three Fan family members, with an inexplicable smile on the corner of his mouth.
"In that case, let's go to Widow Xu's house and have a look."