In the heavy rain, the cyan figure hurriedly came, shouting loudly as he ran, breaking the layers of rain curtains.

Shen Lingjun heard that it was Li Yi's voice, so he said, "I'm here." ”

Li Yi ran in a hurry, and couldn't stop panting after stopping: "Big man, there is ...... Someone died. ”

Hearing this, Shen Lingjun frowned, and his dark eyes turned and said, "Could it be that someone in Jingling Village has died again?" ”

"No, it's not," Li Yi waved his hand, panting before he said, "It's not from the village, it's a family in the town." ”

"He killed?"

Li Yi scratched his head: "It's like suicide." ”

Shen Lingjun looked at him speechlessly: "What do you want me to do if you commit suicide, report to the prefect of this prefecture to deal with it!" ”

"No, sir." Li Yi considered the words, twisted his brows and said: "This way of dying is a bit peculiar, I think it's better for you to take a look." ”

Shen Lingjun thought it was funny, Li Yi was also a person who had seen the world, but he was shocked.

"You wait for me, I'll go back to my room and get something with you." Ye Qingzhi opened her mouth and left without waiting for Shen Lingjun to reply.

Shen Lingjun originally wanted her to rest, and the yamen also had a trick, but after thinking about it, since Li Yi said that this matter was a bit strange, it was better to let Ye Qingzhi run away.

The three of them walked through the front hall, and Shen Lingjun saw that Ye Qingzhi's complexion was white and transparent, even whiter than usual, and said, "Your face is not very good." ”

Ye Qingzhi looked at the pouring rain outside the eaves, and there seemed to be no sign of stopping, and said lightly: "The old problem will occur once a year at this time." ”

Seeing that Shen Lingjun's eyes were full of questions, he said again: "I have it since birth, and it is okay for my body, but I just take two more medicines every year." ”

"That's good." Shen Lingjun patted her hand and smiled slightly: "Have a good rest these days." ”

"Hmm." Ye Qingzhi nodded, her eyelashes drooping, covering a certain emotion that flashed in her eyes.

Just as he was about to go out, Qinghe ran over: "Miss, you don't have breakfast." ”

Shen Lingjun touched his stomach and was hungry.

Chan Yu wrapped a rice cake and two fritters in oiled paper and sent them over, and looked outside: "Go out now, the rain is still quite heavy, I'll go find two big umbrellas." ”

Tang Tang ate a mouthful full of powdered sugar and greeted him: "Where are you going early in the morning?" ”

Li Yi looked at the group of people eating inside, and inexplicably felt that the adults of his family were getting more and more nourishing these days.

"Someone is dead, Qingzhi and I will go and see." Shen Lingjun replied while chewing fritters.

"Dead people? Not interested! Tang Tang wrinkled his nose, continued to eat, and said to Shen Changfeng: "Stinky Taoist, we will go to the lion park to play in a while, and I heard that boating on the lake on a rainy day is the most beautiful." ”

"With such a heavy rain, the water level rises, and then the wind blows, it is easy to capsize." Shen Changfeng shook his head.

Tang Tang twisted his face and was very unhappy: "The Central Plains people of the fish lips!" ”

While the two were talking, Chan Yu took two umbrellas over, and as soon as Shen Lingjun opened them, it was really big, twice as big as an ordinary umbrella, and the three of them could hold it. It's just that this umbrella is very heavy, and it is really difficult for ordinary people to hold it.

Shen Lingjun just thought about it and Ye Qingzhi just held it up, Zhao Qi opened the other one, found a hidden buckle at the lower end of the umbrella handle, and pressed it lightly with his hand, and several hidden weapons flew out with a sigh, passed through the rain curtain, and fixed on the wooden pillar in front.

It turned out that the handle of this umbrella was hollow, and there was a hidden weapon.

Shen Lingjun's eyes lit up and praised: "This umbrella is good, where did it come from." ”

Chan Yu said with a smile: "Su Bo said that Lu Seventeen did it. ”

"Lu Seventeen?"

Su Musha happened to come over and said, "His original name was Lu Xing, because he is the seventeenth generation of Lu Ban, everyone is used to calling him that." ”

As he spoke, he took an umbrella from Shen Lingjun's hand to show everyone the mechanism at the bottom of the handle, and explained: "You can usually shelter from the sun and rain, but in case of an attack, you only need to open the button at the bottom of the handle, the umbrella cover is used as a shield, and the blade hidden in the handle of the umbrella is to deal with the enemy." ”

Shen Lingjun touched his chin: "I heard that Lu Qiqi's skills are good, but he is a strange person, and he picks the door, why can he give you two at once so generous." ”

"I saved his life." Su Musha said simply.

Zhao Qi looked at the umbrella and pondered for a long time, then looked at Ye Qingzhi, thinking that this girl couldn't do any effort, it was good to have such a hidden weapon to defend herself.

Thinking of this, he asked Su Musha: "This guy is good, but it's not very easy to carry, is there anything small and lightweight." ”

Su Mu covered his seven tricks, understood what Zhao Qi meant, and said, "I'll write a letter for him to make one." ”

The two tacitly agreed, and Zhao Qi smiled with satisfaction: "Okay." ”

Li Yi saw that these people were talking and laughing, unhurried, and couldn't help but pat his head speechlessly, and urged: "Your Excellency, ......"

"Got it." Shen Lingjun responded, and didn't go to get the umbrella, Lala Su curve: "Let's go." ”

On Ye Qingzhi's side, Zhao Qi had already held an umbrella and waited in the rain, and it was rare to step over without objection.

As a result, the threesome became a five-person walk, and there were two cornices and walls.

Halfway through, Shen Lingjun finished nibbling the fritters and began to nibble on the rice balls again, and after taking a bite, he remembered something and asked Su Musha: "Have you eaten it?" ”

Su Musha shook his head, he never ate breakfast.

"Huh?" Shen Lingjun generously raised the rice ball in his hand.

Su Musha looked at the place where he took a bite and didn't move.

Shen Lingjun looked at him with a smile and emphasized: "It's delicious." ”

At Shen Lingjun's insistence, Su Musha avoided the place where he had been bitten before, and reluctantly took a bite.

"It's delicious!" Shen Lingjun didn't care, continued to send it to his mouth, and asked again: "Do you want more?" ”

Su Musha immediately shook his hand: "I'm not hungry." "I chewed a few grains of rice in my mouth, it was a little sweet, and there was a little indescribable taste.

Next to him, Li Yi smelled the fragrance of the rice balls in Shen Lingjun's hand, and then saw that she was smashing and smashing the bar, and swallowed his saliva: "I haven't eaten breakfast yet." ”

Shen Lingjun pointed his finger at the steamed bun seller next to him: "Go buy it yourself." ”

Hearing this, a faint smile appeared on the corner of Su Mu's mouth, Shen Lingjun was not heartless, nor was he like this to everyone.

Zhao Qi usually walks drastically, but now he is afraid that Ye Qingzhi will not be able to keep up, so he walks very slowly, but is a cut behind the three people in front of him.

After walking for a while, I remembered something, took out an oiled paper bag from my arms and handed it over: "I didn't see you having breakfast just now, so I packed some for you." ”

Ye Qingzhi, Zhao Qi, this person, thick and fine.

I thought it was fried dough sticks and buns, but when I opened the oil paper bag, it was a few delicate small pastries.

I touched my stomach when I was stepping on tiles on a roof, and I was still a little hungry when I was full.

Luo Cheng sighed: "As soon as I come back, the general will be an old mother." ”

"Ahem......" Zhao Qi coughed dryly, flew a sharp look, and Luo Cheng was so frightened that he disappeared for a moment.

Ye Qingzhi didn't notice these movements, took a piece and took a bite, well, crispy and crunchy, not sticky to teeth, and it tasted good.

The summer showers said that they would be harvested, and it was still in a commotion just now, and when a few people came to the scene of the crime, the dark clouds dispersed, the sunlight penetrated the clouds, and a round of rainbows was erected in the southeast.

It is a single-family courtyard, and there are a lot of people at the door to point out, if it weren't for the two officials guarding, it is estimated that they would have wanted to go in and watch.

Li Yi lined up the crowd, waved his hand to let those people retreat, and scolded angrily: "It's all scattered, what's there to see." ”

The courtyard is not big, and once you enter the courtyard in the shape of "mouth", you enter the door, and the houses inside are clear at a glance.

Li Yi took the lead and walked to the main house and introduced to everyone: "The house is rented, and the person who found the body is the landlord, I was a little frightened, and I have asked Shenhe to find it." ”

Shen Lingjun nodded, looked around, and hummed absentmindedly.

Pushing open the door, the wind from the door rolled up the scattered paper and fell again.

Ye Qingzhi bent down and picked up one and looked at it, and said, "Mulberry paper." ”

Further on, the deceased was lying flat on the bed, his clothes intact, his face swollen, and his face and lips were cyanosis.

There were a few pieces of paper next to them, some crumpled ones, which should have been soaked in water. There was a basin of water in the low cabinet next to the bed, and a few sheets were scattered in the water.

Li Yi helped explain: "This paper was originally covered on the face of the corpse, but the landlord took it off, and the others were never touched again." ”

Su Musha stood at the window, the farthest away from the corpse, listened to Li Yi's words, and sympathized with the landlord.

Ye Qingzhi stepped forward to look at the limbs of the deceased: "There are no traces of struggle, no external injuries." He rolled his eyelids again, and his eyelids bleed: "Primarily, it was suffocation, looking at the corpse spots, and he was dead for four or five hours." ”

"Can you tell if it's a suicide or a homicide?" Shen Lingjun asked as he walked around the room and looked around.

Ye Qingzhi took off the cover on her hand and said, "At present, it should be suicide, but I want to go back and examine the inside of the corpse again." ”

"Okay." Shen Lingjun nodded, and asked Li Yi to call the two servants to carry the body back.

Zhao Qi frowned: "Suicide criminals can use such a cruel criminal law on themselves? ”

Hearing this, Su Musha was puzzled: "What criminal law?" ”

Ye Qingzhi smeared her hands with the medicinal powder in the box, lowered her eyes and said coldly: "Sticker plus official." ”

"Yes." Zhao Qijiu had heard something about it in the officialdom, and said with his arms crossed: "During the execution, the mulberry paper was covered on the prisoner's face and then sprayed with water, and the mulberry paper was damp and soft, so it was immediately subdued on the prisoner's face, and the same method was concocted until the prisoner breathed. ”

Ye Qingzhi added: "Peel off the mulberry paper that has been stacked together and are almost dry, with clear concave and convex points, just like the mask of jumping on the stage, so it is called sticking to the official." ”

Shen Lingjun was puzzled: "This kind of death is not simple and uncomfortable, it is either to treat prisoners or to torture to extract confessions, and it is really rare to commit suicide in this way." ”

The rest of the people have this idea, no wonder Li Yi said that things are a little strange.

"It's easy to break free this way." Su Musha pointed out.

"Yes, the human body has some instinctive reactions, even suicide is inevitable." Ye Qingzhi nodded and gave an example: "It's like drinking poison and picking your throat and hanging your neck." ”

Shen Lingjun touched his chin and thought, "But there is no trace of struggle in his hands and feet, and there is obviously no one to persecute him." ”

"So." Ye Qingzhi covered the medicine box, raised his head and said, "I really can't imagine how determined he is to die." ”