Early the next morning, Shen Lingjun discussed with Li Yi about the reconstruction of the houses in Jingling Village. The strength of the county yali, plus the young and middle-aged people who can work in Jingling Village, can have a hundred or so people, and according to the current progress, it will be almost completed in one or two months.

During this period, the women and children were to be provided with shelters, and temporary sheds were erected for everyone to eat and rest, and for the working men to sleep.

If you are seriously injured, you will continue to stay in the county government office for free medical treatment, and if you are slightly injured, you will go back to help, and the men will build houses, and the women will cook or something.

After doing this, Jingling Village had a calm night last night, nothing happened, and Shen Lingjun wanted to go over with Su Musha to have a look.

Before the person had walked a few steps, Shen He hurriedly ran over: "My lord, a villager from Lijia Village came to report to the official, saying that a corpse had been found. ”

Shen Lingjun frowned: "Where is it?" ”

"On the mountain seven or eight miles away from Lijia Village." Shen He replied.

Shen Lingjun walked out: "It's so biased, how did you find it?" ”

According to him, Li Gang's family has an old house over there, built by the Li family in the early years to avoid the war, Li Gang has been thinking about rebuilding it on the ground in the past two years, making it a place of wind and snow, occasionally taking friends to live for two days, drinking, and looking at the scenery. My lord, do you want to call that person over for questioning? ”

Shen Lingjun thought for a moment and said, "Take him with you and talk about it when you get there." ”

Shen Lingjun and Shen He came to the front hall while talking, Su Musha and Zhao Qi were sitting and drinking tea, and Shen Lingjun asked, "Where is Qingzhi?" ”

As soon as the words landed, Ye Qingzhi walked over from the side: "Looking for me?" ”

"Let's go, let's go to Lijia Village together." Shen Lingjun greeted, rubbed his temples, and his face was full of helplessness: "It's dead again." ”

Several people took a group of officials and the Li family to set off from the county government, and when they arrived at the place, Shen Lingjun and they left their horses at the foot of the mountain and climbed up on foot. The path is narrow, but it is paved with small gravel and the weeds are not very thick, so it is quite easy to walk.

Shen Lingjun said casually: "It's quite clean." ”

When the Li family heard this, he immediately said: "Back to my lord, this piece is my lord's land, so I call someone to take care of it once or twice a year." ”

Walking to the middle of the mountain, everyone found that there is still a pavilion, but it is some years old, and the paint on it is a little peeling.

From the path on the left side of the pavilion, on a flat ground, a pile of broken walls and tiles can be seen, obviously the house has been demolished for more than half, and the work has been stopped in the event of an accident. There were a few strong men squatting next to them, wearing linen vests, and when they saw Shen Lingjun and them coming, they all raised their heads and looked at them.

The little servant of the Li family led everyone over, and hesitated at the gate: "It's inside." ”

The old red-painted gate had not yet been removed, and it was half-walled at the front, and the gate was halfway open, swaying back and forth with the mountain wind, making a creaking sound.

Shen Lingjun nodded: "What's your name?" ”

The little servant of the Li family replied very respectfully: "Villain Li Zhong." ”

"You were the first to find out?" Shen Lingjun looked around and asked.

Li Zhong shook his head: "It was discovered by the people who worked." ”

Shen He said to Li Zhong: "Call someone who knows about this to come over." ”

The little servant of the Li family shouted at a few people squatting on the side, and a foreman came over, and said honestly: "Hello official." ”

Shen Lingjun told Shen He to stay for questioning, and he and Ye Qingzhi walked in.

Because the top is removed, the light is still good, the shade of the trees is directly cast to block the sun, and the mountain breeze is gentle, which is also cooler.

Turning to the original backyard, I kicked the door, and the old wooden door that could be hung fell down, and in the dust, everyone saw a woman lying on the carved bed, a female corpse to be exact.

The female corpse was covered in silk and satin, her hands were clasped and placed on her chest, and her hair was also carefully dressed, curled into a flying fairy bun, and the beads on her head were decorated, but her face was covered by a mask, the mask was a beautiful smile, her eyebrows and eyes were crooked, and the corners of her mouth hooked up a shy smile, which was obviously very beautiful, but it looked extremely weird at the moment.

Ye Qingzhi took the lead and walked in the front, lifted the mask with her right hand wearing a cloth cover, and said in a perennial flat voice: "There is no face." ”

Su Musha walked at the end, and when he heard this, he took a step back when he stepped in.

Shen Lingjun leaned over with his hands behind his back to look: "People nowadays have enmity with their faces, and they like to go against other people's faces. ”

Zhao Qihuang glanced over and felt that compared to those who died on the battlefield, it was already very complete.

"Do you think it......" Ye Qingzhi looked at the corpse, hesitating to find the right word.

"What?"

Ye Qingzhi put the mask on the female corpse again and walked around the bed.

Su Musha walked in and looked at it from a distance: "Beauty." ”

Shen Lingjun looked up at him suspiciously, his face full of question marks.

"Yes, beauty!" Ye Qingzhi turned her head to look at them, her eyes shining: "This corpse is very beautiful!" ”

Zhao Qi twitched the corners of his mouth: "The corpse has a sense of beauty?" ”

Ye Qingzhi nodded excitedly: "Yes, you see her lying quietly on this old carved mahogany bed, just like a sleeping beauty, especially the mask on her face, the head of the moth eyebrows, the clever smile, the beautiful eyes, and this set of clothes, luxurious and colorful like clouds, at first glance is the cloud brocade of Linglong Fang, Linglong Fang only produces ten cloud brocade every year, it is a rare gold." ”

Shen Lingjun looked at it for a long time, and he didn't find the so-called beauty, but he still followed Ye Qingzhi and asked, "So what does this mean?" ”

Ye Qingzhi hooked the corners of her mouth and said with an affirmative smile: "It can be seen that the murderer cherishes this corpse very much." ”

"Cherish or kill?" Zhao Qi couldn't understand this logic.

Shen Lingjun also nodded, "Yes, it's still thrown in this place." ”

Su Musha said: "The murderer didn't necessarily expect that the house would be demolished, and although he took away her face, he still put a beauty mask on her and dressed her up specially, which shows that the murderer has a lot of feelings for this corpse." ”

Shen Lingjun twisted his eyebrows and said, "In that case, why do you have to cut off her face." ”

There are many flying insects in the mountains, and the people who bite are itchy, Zhao Qi reached out and scratched his neck, and said casually: "It must be a pervert." ”

Su Musha said: "Probably out of the ambivalence of love and jealousy. ”

Ye Qingzhi had already started the movement of her hands, she removed the mask of the female corpse, carefully watched the incision, and Su Musha silently retreated to the wooden door where she fell to the ground, looking at the scenery.

"The incision is very flat, and the whole human skin is torn off directly from the top down, and it is done after death." Ye Qingzhi checked down as she spoke, opened the deceased's clenched fingers and took a closer look, the fingertips were black and blue: "The fatal cause should be poisoning, the deceased has a thick layer of calluses on his hands, and the skin on his hands is slightly rougher than other places, and he may have been engaged in labor for a long time." He looked down again: "No wounds were found elsewhere, looking at the corpse spots, he had been dead for five or six days, and he was twenty-five or six." ”

Shen Lingjun was puzzled: "Five or six days after I died?" How can there be no signs of decay. ”

Ye Qingzhi guessed: "It may be that medicine was used to preservative, but the specific need to go back and cut the internal organs to know." ”

Shen Lingjun took a look at this room, because no one had lived in it for many years, except for this bed, which was not bad, everything else was very shabby, and the table and wardrobe had lost one or two legs that were gnawed by rats, and they were crumbling at that end.

"This shouldn't be the scene of the crime." Shen Lingjun opened the wardrobe, the dust was flying, and she took two steps back: "It should be a corpse from somewhere else after changing clothes after death." ”

Ye Qingzhi nodded: "Well, those conditions are not available here, and except for the bed that has been cleaned, nothing else has been moved." ”

Shen Lingjun checked the ground, although the dust left footprints, but because the workers had many feet before, they had stepped on it very scattered, and they couldn't distinguish it at all.

Coming out of the room, Ye Qingzhi washed her hands and said, "Let's send it back first." ”

Shen Lingjun summoned Shen He over and instructed the other officials to move the body back first, and then asked Shen He to tell him what he had asked.

The foreman knew that it was similar to what Li Zhong said, because these wall tiles still had to be used, so they did not directly tear them down, but started to demolish them from the top, and when they were demolished to the room in the backyard, after the roof was lifted, the workers saw a person lying on the bed, and smiled at them, so that a worker was so scared that he almost didn't fall, so he was in danger of being pulled by the people around him.

Shen Lingjun asked, "So, no one found out that there was a corpse lying inside." ”

Shen He nodded: "This house has long been unoccupied, and the next person is to clean up the weeds around the periphery, and clean the house in the early years, since a room in the backyard collapsed, no one is allowed to enter or leave for fear of life." ”

Shen Lingjun nodded understandingly: "Leave two people here, Li Zhong and the others will send it back first, as for the house, let's talk about it when the case is over." ”

Shen He received the order: "Yes." Then he asked, "My lord, do you want to start with the missing person?" ”

Shen Lingjun knew that Ye Qingzhi had a way to restore the appearance of the deceased, and when the time came, he would be able to find out the name and place of origin of the deceased, so he could further investigate the murderer, so he was not in a hurry.

Glancing at Shenhe, he said: "Looking for a needle in a haystack, there are so many missing people every year, and there are a lot of records in the Guangxian government, not to mention how to screen just by gender and age, let Qingzhi go back and finish the autopsy." ”

Shen Yiyi thought about it, there is too little information now to check, and many troops have been sent to Jingling Village, and if you investigate, there are not enough manpower.

"That's it......" Shen Lingjun glanced at Li Zhong and the helpers of the Li family, and said in a low voice: "You go to Li Gang's house first to inquire about the situation." ”

Shen Heluo was surprised: "The adult is suspicious ......"

Shen Lingjun raised his eyebrows: "There are not many cases where thieves shout to catch thieves." ”

"Okay, my subordinates understand." Shen He received the order, walked over to send Li Zhong and them back, and then took a group of officials to carry the corpse and left first.

While Shen Lingjun and Shen He were talking, Zhao Qi and the others walked to the pavilion in front of them. Looking out from the pavilion, the peak is full of clouds and mist, the mountain path is winding, the mountains in the distance are continuous, verdant and steep, there is a magnificent scene, so that the whole person is relaxed and happy.

"Not to mention, the family is quite good at finding a place to enjoy." Zhao Qi stretched his body and sighed.

Su Musha held the sword in both hands, looked into the distance, and felt that this was indeed the case.

Ye Qingzhi watched a big river flowing around the foot of the mountain in the east, slapping the bank and rushing to the embankment, and the summer water was murmuring. Farther away from the riverbank, there was a rush of people, and many people were busy there.

Ye Qingzhi frowned: "...... there"

Shen Lingjun happened to come over and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Ye Qingzhi stretched out his hand and pointed: "Look there." ”

"Isn't this Jingling Village?" Shen Lingjun looked at it and said unexpectedly.

This mountain is actually facing Jingling Village, and now at a glance, it is far away from Lijia Village, but it is closer to Jingling Village, which is simply adjacent.

"Guess, does this corpse have anything to do with Jingling Village?" Shen Lingjun said slowly.

Su Musha said coldly: "It doesn't matter, it's really hell." ”