I saw the green grass and blue sky, the spring color in the mountains was sultry, the buds had not opened, the bees were in array, and the blue birds jumped up among the trees, flashing a good sun.

In the ears is the warbler bird crying, the birdsong straight into the mountain ridge towering clouds and smoke, this road everywhere seems bright and peaceful, everywhere is the new breath of spring, so that the people who go to it do not feel a trace of fatigue.

Duan Ling'er and An Niang walked briskly, and both of them were physically and mentally happy.

The two of them walked for less than half a pillar of incense, and the afterglow was collected into a scene, and Duan Ling'er stood up unconsciously.

"Sister Ling?" An Niang also stopped.

Duan Ling'er narrowed her eyes and pointed to a pile of barren grass under the tree over there: "Nurse, look, is there a person buried there?" ”

An Niang looked over, and sure enough, in the barren grass, there seemed to be a corpse, which looked like it had been washed out of the burial place by heavy rain in the past few days.

An Niang was suddenly frightened: "Did you hit someone's grave?" Let's hurry up! ”

Duan Ling'er shook his head: "Whose grave will be buried in a place where the slope of the mountain is easy to slope, and it is not buried deep enough that it will rush out as soon as the heavy rain rushes, and there is not even a monument?" ”

She walked forward quickly, and saw a dead man lying on his back, covered in mud and thatch.

That face is one of the Pan family members who fought with Xie Ci a few days ago.

"I think we need to report to the police." Duan Ling'er said softly.

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On the gentle slope of the ridge on the south side of Guanyin Mountain, the afternoon sun shines on people's faces.

Three or four of them stood in the grass and mud, sweat flowing from their foreheads to their necks, and each of them had the same pattern on their cuffs.

Xie Ci was stepping on muddy water: "This person is one of the three missing people in Ling County, and I had a fight with him a few days ago. ”

The sun shone obliquely on Xie Ci's handsome face, and he was in a light that people couldn't look at directly.

Duan Ling'er looked away.

A few years later, there were 300 temples near the water and mountains here, and the monks' rooms traveled all over the place with sticks, but no one expected that there would be such a murder in this place that was about to become the focus of Buddhism.

For the living, every day is a good scene, but for the dead, there is only the color of the budding in front of them, and the north, south, east and west are all on the way home.

How many can be born again like themselves?

Duan Ling'er suddenly had a strange feeling when she thought of this, in this world, besides herself, there should be other people who were reborn and lived their entire lives all over again in order to accomplish something.

Duan Ling'er was in a trance, only to hear a slightly older and dark-faced catcher say dissatisfied: "Thank you, is that the time you came out for that oiler?" It stands to reason that you have also crossed paths with the missing three, so Xing Zhutou shouldn't let you investigate the case together! ”

"Brother Ding, just say a few words! The thank-you speech is also for the poor people, and you keep saying it as if he did something wrong. "The other catcher was in his thirties, with a chubby white face.

He stood in the grass and mud, his hands drooping, and he looked like he had nowhere to start.

Lao Ding's face was unhappy, but it was inconvenient to say thank you, so he turned his head and looked at Duan Ling'er and An Niang in front of him again.

It is said that it was these two people at the foot of the mountain who paid a beggar to hurriedly report to the official, saying that they had found one of the missing people a few days ago, and a group of brothers went to look for someone with great interest, but who knew that they followed the beggar to the foot of the mountain, and then these two people led the way here, but they saw a corpse.

And this woman and this little girl, except for the two trips that went down the mountain to find someone and went down the mountain to pick up people, have been guarding this dead man until now.

It's bold enough......

Lao Ding looked at the woman in front of him, her face was pale, her legs and feet were trembling, but the little girl looked calm.

It's weird......

Lao Ding involuntarily stared at Duan Ling'er's face again, the swollen left side of his face was shocking, he immediately didn't want to look at it anymore, and looked over Duan Ling'er's shoulder to look at the bushes on the mountain: "So, you haven't left casually since you found out, and you were the first to find this man?" ”

"It may not be the first to be discovered, but it is the first to report to the official." Duan Ling'er replied lightly.

Lao Ding was stunned: "How do you say this?" ”

Xie Ci walked over: "There is a temple under construction on this mountain, and it rained heavily last night, so looking at the footprints on this side of the trail, except for a few of our official boots, the rest are the people who have passed here from early morning to now today." ”

Lao Ding snorted, and then continued to say: "Except for us, plus this pair of delicate footprints, and obviously a pattern on the soles of women's shoes, there should be more than four or five people passing by here, but none of them reported to the official, maybe they didn't see it, or maybe they thought that this was just a grave that had damaged someone's house, and they felt bad luck so they quickened their pace and walked." ”

After thanking him, he walked to the side of the path, took out a rice paper brush from his cuff, and carefully rubbed the footprints that passed here.

An Niang nodded vigorously: "At first, I thought I had run into someone's grave, and it was our girl who asked me to report to the official quickly." ”

Ding Zhutou was stunned and looked at Duan Ling'er: "How can you be sure that this is not?" I think it's just a wild grave, not buried for the rain to wash out. And what you just said that the murderer may be nearby, it's just a child's imagination! ”

Duan Ling'er raised her head and met the other party's eyes: "Are you joking?" This is clearly murder. ”

Xie Ci patted Lao Ding's shoulder: "Brother Ding, judging from the death of this person to the place of burial and the burial method, it is not a normal cemetery. ”

Duan Ling'er looked at the two catchers over there who were stuck in their waists and how to start, and said slowly: "If it is an ordinary cemetery, no matter how poor the person is, he will have a straw mat to bury him, and he will never give up his relatives or friends who know him without a coffin straw mat to cover himself, only those who suddenly cause death and have no time to prepare will dig a pit on the spot to bury the body without wrapping it." ”

Listening to Duan Ling'er's words, the other two catchers also turned around and looked everywhere, and there were indeed no straw mats.

The thank you had already been rubbed, he stood up and stepped forward, looked at it intently, and echoed: "Not only that, this person's back is intact, there are no traces of force and beating, and the scratches on the back of his neck are caused by rolling off after death, and the shape of the wound is different from that produced when he was alive. ”

"But there is no sign of damage on his body other than that, is it poisoning?" Lao Ding hugged his arms, his face full of hesitation.

Why "again"? Duan Ling'er turned her face to look at Lao Ding.

At this time, Xie Ci looked at Lao Ding: "Brother Ding, is it coming soon?" ”

The other catcher looked at Duan Ling'er with a surprised look, and replied: "Come soon, someone reported to the official behind the pancake shop in the south of the city, Lao Zhu led the others to go, Lao Zhao Tou accompanied him, and he didn't have time to come back. ”

Duan Ling'er stood up, took out the handkerchief in his sleeve and wiped the sweat on his forehead: "You just need to dig the bottom of a pit more than two feet deep in the flat place over there, heat it with firewood according to the length of the corpse, and then throw the corpse into the pit and cover it with clothes." Wait a while for the body to warm up......"

"If you splash paper with wine and vinegar, a fatal wound will come out." Xie Ci looked at Duan Ling'er, his eyes full of surprise: "How do you know the method of this autopsy?" ”

Duan Ling'er dealt with it randomly: "It looks like it is in the book." ”

In fact, she can never forget that in her previous life, her personal slave Xiaoru was beaten to death by Chen Shufei, but there was no trace on her body, at that time she learned about this method through her cronies in Dali Temple, and finally used it as a ignition to open up all kinds of Chen Shufei framing her, and then seized the power of Chen Shufei's six palace assistants with thunder.

Duan Ling'er closed her eyes, every time she thought of Xiao Ru, she would cause a tingling pain, and at this time in this life, Xiao Ru should still be an inferior maid in Duan Mansion in the capital.

If he does not enter the Duanfu of the capital in this life, he will not marry Liang Guo far away, and Xiao Rubian should not have to marry away from home and country.

I hope that Xiaoru can do well in this life and don't enter the palace as a slave again.

Duan Ling'er's thoughts turned, looked at An Niang and said, "Nurse, let's go." ”

"Girl. Girl, please wait! ”

I saw an old man in an earth-colored shirt coming from not far from the rear, carrying a wooden box of utensils, walking very briskly.

Xie Ci smiled: "Uncle Zhao, why did you come up from behind?" ”

Zhao Yanzuo responded with a smile: "I am familiar with this mountain, I know where the path is, the yamen said that I was in a hurry, I didn't delay for a moment, and I came from the path." ”

Several people turned their heads and thanked Duan Ling'er and said, "This is what we are doing here, Uncle Zhao." ”

Duan Ling'er nodded to Zhao Lingzuo, but Zhao Lingzuo went straight to look at Duan Ling'er, only to see a slender little girl in front of her, half of her face was red and swollen and ulcerated.

I can't help but give a thumbs up in my heart, this little girl is a good hand!

Lao Ding greeted Zhao Cheng: "Old Zhao, come and see what's going on." ”

"No hurry, no hurry." Zhao Qizuo waved his hand to Lao Ding: "I'll ask this little girl first." ”

Duan Ling'er looked at his gentle smile on himself in the sun, and smiled politely again.

Zhao Yan said: "Little girl, aren't you afraid when you see this?" Not afraid of ghosts and gods? ”

Duan Ling'er shook her head: "The person who dies is not reincarnated, I found out here that he went to report to the official again, he is avenging him, how can he harm me?" If I really have a soul, he should bless me. It's not the ghosts that are scary, it's the people who are right. ”

After saying this, everyone was in awe.

There was a touch of appreciation in his eyes.

Zhao Yanzuo nodded and sighed: "The little girl has a pair of good eyes and can see things in this world clearly...... It's really rare to meet you, old man, I want to ask, are you interested in learning something from me, I just want to take another apprentice......"

When An Niang heard this, she only felt a cold breath on her neck: "Learn from you...... What to learn from you? ”

"Learn autopsy." Zhao Yanzuo glanced at An Niang easily, as if this was the same thing as reading and playing the piano.

When An Niang heard the autopsy, she was immediately frightened and her legs became weak, and she waved her hand and said: "No, no, our girl is a serious girl, how can we learn that!" Absolutely not! How could the girl from Duanfu learn that! ”

Duanfu? Is that Duan Mansion that is rich enough to rival the country?

Zhao Qizuo was slightly depressed.

Duan Ling'er raised the corners of his mouth to Zhao Yanzuo: "The old gentleman is very loving and looks up to Ling'er, but Ling'er's ambition is not here, please don't blame the old gentleman." ”

Zhao Yanzuo shook his head: "It's a pity, it's a pity......"

Lao Ding and the others all hurriedly said: "You old man Zhao, you usually refuse to let you teach us a few tricks, but now you want to accept a delicate girl from Duan Mansion as an apprentice, it's just strange!" Amusing!! ”

Zhao Yanzuo only shook his head and didn't speak, took out the utensils and went to the corpse.