Fortunately, this torturous problem did not last long, and Xu Jia's arrival made everyone breathe a sigh of relief.

In fact, judging from the situation of the corpse, whether the autopsy is not so important anymore. After all, there were so many shocking wounds there, especially the hideous crack in the neck that was almost cut off, and a discerning person could see at a glance what the cause of death was.

But it would be nice to have some more insidious clues.

Xu Jia nodded to Zhou Zhi, squatted next to Gao Yiqiu's corpse, and looked through it carefully from top to bottom, the corpse had many wounds, large and small, the skin and flesh were turned over, and some even had deep bones.

This scene is not just ugly, but terrifying, as if the evil claws of hell tore the ground and broke free into the world, leaving a series of hideous finger marks.

Zhou Zhi suddenly thought of something, looked at Xie Jianmian, and worriedly thought that this little thief would not be frightened, after all, not everyone will always know all kinds of crimes and blood, but when he turned around, he saw Xie Jianmian standing there well, his face was calm, and he did not show a trace of panic.

"You're not afraid?"

It wasn't until he heard Zhou Zhi's question that Xie Jianmian had a trace of expression, he was a little surprised, and he didn't understand why Zhou Zhi thought he should be afraid.

"What am I afraid of?" He didn't care, "I didn't kill people, and I can't ask for my life." ”

Zhou Zhi raised his eyebrows, feeling that his words were not unreasonable, but he didn't expect this person to see it so clearly.

Indeed, if there is a ghost in the heart, it will tremble and be anxious, if you act openly and with a clear conscience, even if you are riddled with evil spirits, what is there to be afraid of.

To put it bluntly, what people are afraid of is nothing but an illusory illusion, and all illusions come from the human heart.

Xu Jia stood up and shook the dirt accidentally stained by the corners of his clothes, and his gestures were full of discordant scholarly anger in this situation, which was interesting to say, obviously he was doing the closest thing to the vicious blood, but he had a polite face.

Zhou Zhi has said more than once that Xu Jia should be a scholar and become friends with sages in the examination, instead of performing autopsies in the mortuary of this mansion.

Xu Jia just smiled every time, as if he didn't take it to heart, but Zhou Zhi knew that he was thinking, but he didn't dare to admit it, so that he could be regarded as having no thoughts, no thoughts, and he would not be disappointed.

Xu Jia's grandfather and father were both servants of the government, and passed on all the experience of the autopsy to Xu Jia, whether he wanted to or not, he would inherit his father's mantle and continue to work hard for the government. can enter the line of work, how can there be a chance to withdraw, from now on, the title of the fame and fortune gold list can only be the water moon mirror flower, he can see but can't touch it.

"Zhou Zhi, I've tested it. The fatal wound of the deceased was indeed in the neck, which was cut with an axe. Xu Jia pointed to Gao Yiqiu's almost broken neck, and then said, "He has a wound on his hand, which means that he resisted before his death, and the murderer is not fatal with one blow, and you look here." ”

Xu Jia uncovered Gao Yiqiu's clothes, the flesh and blood on his chest were blurred, and the lines of the wound could be vaguely recognized.

"There were four wounds on his chest, two of which were skinned and bloody, which were inflicted before his death, and the other two were slightly white, and after being squeezed, they were obviously suffered after death."

"The same is true of the rest of the wounds, which show that the deceased suffered multiple cuts after the blood flowed from the blood in the neck split open by the axe, and these wounds were long and short, deep and shallow, with different forces, and irregular, like ......"

Zhou Zhi continued: "Vent your anger."

Xu Jia nodded, his mood was very heavy, he had roughly counted just now, and there were seventeen wounds that could be seen at a glance, densely distributed in the limbs and torso, and there was almost no good meat on the whole body.

How much of a grudge does this have to make up for after hacking someone to death?

"Can you tell when you died?"

Xu Jia: "It was about last night."

戌時...... According to Liniang, Gao Yiqiu was planning to go home for dinner, if everything was expected to go, and Gao Yiqiu was already at home at the time, then he must have been delayed by something before going home, and this incident happened by accident and was not expected by Gao Yiqiu.

What could it be? What changed his plans to return home and pushed him to the hell of death?

Who did he see before he went home?

"Chen An." Xie Jianmian, who had been quiet for a long time, finally spoke up, as if he had guessed what Zhou Zhi was thinking, and he reminded, "The woman at the entrance of the village said that she saw Gao Yiqiu near Chen An's house. ”

Zhou Zhi glanced at Xie Jianmian and had a slight change in his opinion, this little thief is still a little useful at a critical moment.

Zhou Zhi turned to Liniang, who was sitting on the ground, and felt that something was wrong, so he squatted down and looked at her eye level: "Do you have a lot of contact between your husband and Chen An on weekdays?"

Li Niang came back to her senses, her eyes were still red, she opened her mouth, but she couldn't make a sound for a while, and then replied after a while: "My husband opened a small shop and sold some sundries, Chen An...... Chen An learned some bookkeeping skills, so my husband asked him to help and would give him a salary every month. ”

"How is the relationship between Chen An and your husband?"

"It should be good...... Chen An is a foreigner, he only came to Duhe Village a few years ago, there is no relative in the village, and he is a mute, usually strange and pitiful, but he has a good temper and treats people kindly, and the neighborhood will take care of it, and my husband also asked him to keep an account because he was pitiful. ”

Liniang's voice became more and more choked, and tears flowed down again.

Zhou Zhi couldn't bear to ask any more, and ordered Lao Wei to take someone to transport Gao Yiqiu's body to the mansion, and was about to go to Chen An's house to have a look, but was pulled by Liniang's sleeve.

"Master Catcher...... The corpse of my old man ......"

Zhou Zhi understood what she was worried about, and comforted him softly: "Don't worry about this, when the case is solved, he will be put in peace."

"My boss Gao is a good person, and he has never done anything harmful. You're not going to let him die in vain, are you? ”

Zhou Zhi closed his eyes fiercely and said solemnly: "Don't worry, we will definitely let him pay for his life."

"Qi Fei, you send your eldest sister home, and He Si and I will go to Chen An's house."

After speaking, he glanced at Xie Jianmian and found that the little thief did not have the consciousness of leaving on his own: "It's nothing for you, you can go."

"Are you sure?" Xie Jianmian didn't plan to go, and took a step forward to block Zhou Zhi's way, "Remind you, Chen An is a mute." ”

Zhou Zhi frowned: "So?"

"Will you be dumb?"

Zhou Zhi: "......"

He had forgotten about it.

Xie Jianmian looked at He Si again: "It's still ...... Will you? ”

He Si didn't know what to do, he didn't know who the good-looking white-clothed boy in front of him was, so he shook his head in a daze.

"Sure enough." Xie Jianmian raised his eyebrows when he saw this, and he took out a fan out of nowhere and shook it a few times, it didn't look like a dead beggar who wanted to follow the investigation of the case, but like a boy who traveled the mountains and rivers without learning or knowing, "I will." ”

When this case is solved, the first thing is to learn dumb language!

Zhou Zhi strode towards Chen An's house with a tense face, and behind him was Xie Jianmian's low laughter and He Si's shout of "Boss wait for me".

However, although I was angry again, my mood didn't seem to be so heavy.

Chen An's house is at the foot of the mountain in the west of the village, and there are no other residents around, only this courtyard is located here. The location of the house was very distinctive, in the shade of the hill, and there was no sunlight shining in even at noon.

There is a strange plant planted in the yard, with green leaves and white flowers, and plain petals are clustered in the leaves, and a courtyard is fully opened.

Zhou Zhi saw a young man busy in the green from a distance, as if he was watering.

Zhou Zhi knocked on the courtyard door, and the young man turned around when he heard the movement, his face was soft, and the corners of his mouth were smiling, which was very easy to get close to.

The young man didn't know what was going on, and looked nervously at the strange three people who broke into the house in front of him, with a hint of panic in his eyes.

Zhou Zhi tentatively took a step forward and stepped across the courtyard gate: "You are Chen An, right?"

Chen An nodded and made a gesture that Zhou Zhi couldn't understand.

Zhou Zhi: "......"

Who just swore that they could see the mute clearly? Why didn't you make a noise at this time?

Zhou Zhi turned his head and saw that Xie Jianmian was also looking at him with a smile, with a clear expression on his face: "If you don't ask me, I won't take the initiative to speak." ”

Zhou Zhi took a deep breath, thinking that it was not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years, and he could suppress the hand that wanted to greet someone's head.

He gritted his teeth and squeezed out a smile: "Excuse me."

"Hmm...... He asked who you are and what are you looking for him? ”

Zhou Zhi: "I am Zhou Zhi of Jinzhou Mansion, and I want to ask you something."

Chen An tilted his head, the doubt in his eyes was even thicker, he glanced at the wooden barrel in his hand, and made a few more gestures.

Xie Jianmian will accept it when he sees it, and if he makes trouble again, he is afraid that the head-catcher will really beat people, so he stopped teasing and explained seriously sentence by sentence.

He asked if he could finish watering the flowers first.

Zhou Zhi: "......"

Is the heart so big? Ordinary people must be in a hurry to clear their suspicions when they encounter this, but this person is good, and he still has time to water the flowers.

However, this request is not unjustified, and he cannot stop it.

"Pour it." Zhou Zhi nodded and said, "Can we take a look in the house?"

Chen An made a gesture of please, this time Zhou Zhi understood, he walked in front, and his footsteps paused when he saw Chen An's watered flowers.

The originally plain white flowers slowly became transparent after being stained with water, and even the tender green leaves could be seen through the water-soaked petals, which was almost illusory.

Zhou Zhi found it interesting and asked casually: "What kind of flower is this?"

"Mountain lotus leaves." Chen An put down the bucket he had just picked up, and made complicated gestures, "My waist and legs are not good, and I feel pain from time to time when it rains on a cloudy day. ”

"And that effect?" Zhou Zhi casually pinched a white flower, and raised his hand to pin it behind Xie Jianmian's ear, "I haven't seen it before." ”

Xie Jianmian took off the flower behind his ear, put it on the tip of his nose and sniffed it, without a trace of dissatisfaction, but winked at Zhou Zhi, smiling like a little fox.

Zhou Zhi unexpectedly didn't see Xie Jianmian annoyed and angry, and pouted his lips with some regret.

"This flower is not common, it can only be found in the depths of the mountains." Chen An pointed to the back of the house, "I moved from the mountains to raise it, and other people in the village will come to me to pick it up if they need it." ”

Zhou Zhi nodded, indicating that he understood, and then motioned to He Si with his eyes to follow him, and took the lead in raising his thin and slender legs and walking into the room.