Chapter 35: Ill-fated
Shen Lingjun thought about it for a while, and felt that it would be better not to tell her that Xie Tao not only burned Jingling Village in retaliation, but also that she might kill her father, which would be too exciting.
Moreover, it is not yet confirmed that these two things are really related to Xie Tao.
Therefore, Shen Lingjun did not answer Xie Tao's words, but said: "You saw your husband commit suicide with a knife, and there was no movement around him at that time?" ”
“…… No, it seems to be, and it doesn't seem to be, I don't know, it was so sudden, I didn't notice anything, I saw that Ah Yong was fine, turned around and stabbed himself with a knife. Xie Li held her face in her hands and whimpered.
Shen Lingjun couldn't ask anything when he saw this, so he asked Xie Li not to think about it, the matter had come to this point, and the most important thing was to find out the cause of her husband's death.
Shen Lingjun and Su Musha went to Xie Xiuyuan's house again, naturally on the surface, Xie Xiuyuan also committed suicide and died, smashing his head with a mortar made of a stone. In addition, Shen Lingjun didn't see anything, so he asked the guards to move Xie Xiuyuan's body back to the county office.
On the way to the county office, the two rode side by side, because there were many people in the city, and the march was not fast.
Shen Lingjun patted Hui Feng's neck and said to Su Musha: "If all this was done by Xie Tao, it would be really incomprehensible. ”
Su Musha frowned: "It's understandable that she destroyed her husband's family, but it's a little angry to pretend to be a ghost and take revenge on the people in the village." ”
"I think she's crazy." Shen Lingjun shook his head and said: "Whoever has something to do with her will not let go, but why did she kill her own father." ”
Su Musha looked at her: "Origin." ”
"Huh?"
Su Musha thought for a moment and pondered: "She should hate her origin, and hate her parents for bringing her a body that is neither male nor female. ”
Shen Lingjun nodded understandingly, but was puzzled: "What about Xie Li?" Her situation should be the same as Xie Tao's, and Xie Tao doesn't need to hate her. ”
"Xie Li is not dead." Su Musha pointed out: "It was her husband who died. ”
Shen Lingjun was stunned: "Are you saying that Xie Tao's target was originally Ah Yong?" But I asked Xie Li, and there was no holiday between Ah Yong and Xie Tao. ”
Su Musha groaned for a moment and said, "Or something happened that Xie Li didn't know." ”
Shen Lingjun nodded: "If it weren't for Xie Tao killing the wrong person, it can only be explained like this." ”
When the two arrived at the county office, Shen Lingjun instructed Mao Li to send someone to bring back the body of Xie Li's husband Ah Yong, and turn around for Ye Qingzhi to examine it. It's not good to think about it, just in case, just let him bring Xie Li over and protect it first.
Coming out of the county office again, Shen Lingjun saw Shen He directing people to put the rope on the horse at the door, and there were already several set carriages parked next to him.
Shen Lingjun walked over: "What to do?" ”
Shen He turned his head when he heard this, and immediately hugged his fists and said, "My lord, the general asked me to prepare some carriages to pull the injured people from Jingling Village over in batches and place them in the county government first." ”
"Well, you guys should get busy first." Shen Lingjun nodded, and when he was about to leave, he remembered something again, and said to Shen He: "When you go, bring a few more doctors and exchange Qingzhi back." ”
Shen He received the order and responded: "Yes, my lord." ”
Su Musha looked at the somewhat deserted county government and asked, "Yu Deshui has been imprisoned?" ”
Shen Lingjun nodded and said with a smile: "So now it has really become the empty water yamen." ”
After finishing all this, it was close to noon, the two put the horses in the county horse shed, fed the horses enough grass, and then walked to a nearby restaurant to eat.
After eating lunch and returning to the county office, I saw Zhao Qi sitting alone in the courtyard, with two legs on the stone table, looking depressed.
Shen Lingjun asked, "What about Qingzhi?" ”
Zhao Qi raised his chin and pointed to the house behind him: "I only took two mouthfuls of food to see the corpse, this girl is really, she doesn't care about her body too much." ”
Shen Lingjun walked to the row of houses behind: "I'll take a look." ”
Su Musha felt that the corpse was nothing to look at, so it was better to sit and stare at Zhao Qi.
When he came to the autopsy room, Shen Lingjun pushed the door in, and Ye Qingzhi had already cut open the chest of the deceased, took the internal organs and put them in his hand to observe carefully.
At first glance, at this strange scene, Rao is Shen Lingjun couldn't help but swallow his saliva.
Ye Qingzhi turned her head when she heard the movement, and when she saw that it was Shen Lingjun, she said: "This corpse, the heavy object hit the brain, causing death, and there are no other injuries on the surface. As he spoke, he picked up the wooden clip placed next to him and clamped a red and white object for Shen Lingjun to see.
Shen Lingjun leaned over: "What? ”
Ye Qingzhi said lightly: "Brain." ”
Shen Lingjun touched his nose and took a step back without a trace, thinking to himself, in terms of ruthlessness, none of them could compare to Ye Qingzhi.
Ye Qingzhi looked at the things in her hand and sighed: "Even if it is murder, unless you have a deep hatred, you can't do it so hard." ”
After speaking, he put down the clip, picked up a thin and narrow knife, and pointed at the young man next to him: "This is a sharp weapon pierced the chest, the heart was ruptured and hemorrhaged to death, except for the small wound of the finger cut, there are no other wounds." ”
Shen Lingjun watched Ye Qingzhi cut off the heart and liver of the deceased without mercy and neatly while speaking, and inexplicably felt that if she knew kung fu, she would definitely have something to do.
"I'll check to see if the two of them have also been poisoned." Ye Qingzhi threw the deceased's liver on a plate and took it to the next room.
At this time, Ye Qingzhi likes to work quietly alone, so Shen Lingjun went out to find Su Musha to drink tea.
More than an hour later, Ye Qingzhi came out and said with certainty: "They have also been attracted by the immortals." ”
Shen Lingjun sighed: "I didn't expect Xie Tao to even be able to do it to his biological father." ”
Finally finished being busy, Ye Qingzhi drank two sips of tea to moisten her throat, and was going to change the medicine for the injured people, there were a few seriously injured people, she didn't feel at ease if she didn't take a look with her own eyes. This time, Zhao Qi volunteered to help.
Because of the fall of the water, no one has taken care of the county government for the time being, and there are many things, Shen Lingjun asked people to tidy up a few guest rooms and temporarily live in the county government to deal with these.
However, Qinghe and they still stayed in Su Mansion, so they had to go to the restaurant for dinner and order a few side dishes to deal with.
After eating, Liang Yue came, he first ran to Su Mansion, but everyone was in the county office, and then ran to the county office.
Without waiting for Liang Yue to speak, Xie Li, under the leadership of the officials, came over to find Shen Lingjun and them.
Xie Li's eyes were red and swollen, thinking that she had been crying for a long time, she looked at the few people present, pursed the corners of her lips, and finally spoke: "My lord, I have something to say." ”
Shen Lingjun asked her to sit down first: "What do you want to say?" ”
Xie Li sat down nervously, put her hands on her knees, and unconsciously stirred together: "My lord, I think Ah Tao ...... Ah Tao: She may be crazy. ”
Ye Qingzhi glanced at her: "You didn't say that Xie Tao hadn't seen her since she disappeared, how could you conclude that she was crazy." ”
"I'm sorry......" Xie Li looked down at his hands, his expression was annoyed and sad: "I did hide some things from adults before, if it weren't for this, maybe my father wouldn't have died......"
After Xie Li was arranged to the county office, he heard that Xie Xiuyuan was also dead, and he fainted directly, and it took a while to wake up.
Shen Lingjun stared at her for a while and said, "You start from the beginning." ”
"Hmm." Xie Li nodded, raised his right hand and wiped the corners of his eyes, before saying, "Ah Tao's body is actually different from ordinary people......
Xie Tao was a little embarrassed and didn't know what to say.
Shen Lingjun leaned back on the seat and waved his hand: "We already know this, you continue." ”
Although Xie Tao wondered how they knew, he still said: "Actually, after Ah Tao was suspended, he came to join me at first. Later, she heard that Ling Youfu's family spread rumors everywhere, saying that she was a monster, and that she would not only restrain his whole family, but also bring disaster to the whole village. Ah Tao was angry, and while Ah Yong and I were not paying attention, I secretly went to Ling Youfu's family to theorize. During that time, it happened that the San River was at high tide, and the river had flooded some of the surrounding low-lying fields, and Ling Youfu's family saw that Ah Tao was coming to make trouble, and actually colluded with their patriarch, and insisted that Ah Tao brought bad luck to the whole village, and sacrificed her to the river god in order to make the river god angry. ”
Zhao Qi twitched the corners of his mouth when he heard this: "It seems that Jingling Village has always had this tradition." ”
Shen Lingjun supported his chin with one hand and wondered: "How can everyone in Jingling Village insist that Xie Tao disappeared after being suspended, and he has never seen him again." ”
Xie Li bit her lip and said hatefully: "How can they admit that they have done something wrong." ”
"How do you know that?" Su Musha swept over with a pair of black eyes and asked.
Xie Li took a breath and said, "Ah Tao told me later. ”
Shen Lingjun asked, "Have you seen Xie Tao once after that?" ”
Xie Li nodded: "Hmm." ”
Shen Lingjun made a gesture for her to continue: "What happened after that?" ”
Xie Li frowned slightly, and recalled: "It's also Ah Tao's fate, the rope is not particularly tight, Ah Tao let go when she struggled in the water, and she escaped because of this." However, after she climbed up from the river, she didn't have the strength to run again, fainted on the river beach, and was found by Ling Youfu. ”
Xie Li sighed deeply for Xie Tao's ill-fated fate, and the others also felt that they were really unlucky, and they were silent for a while.
"Ling Youfu sold her to a brothel?" Ye Qingzhi broke the silence and said.
Xie Li closed his eyes and nodded, calmed down his emotions for a while, and then continued: "One day, a friend of Ah Yong who came to do business from other places said that there were two new girls in Zuixiang Pavilion, one of whom was similar to me, I didn't know those things at the time, although I wasn't sure how Ah Tao could go to Zuixiang Pavilion, but I still asked Ah Yong to ask." Ah Yong spent some money, and finally found out from a mother-in-law who was in charge of sprinkling and sweeping that it was her man who sold the girl, and the bustard called him blessed. ”
Zhao Qi couldn't listen to it: "This Ling Youfu is simply not a human. ”
The others nodded, even if they didn't miss the old love, they couldn't do these things to a stranger.
Xie Li looked at the dark sky in a daze, her eyes were blank, and she didn't know what she was thinking.
Shen Lingjun poured a cup of tea and handed it over, Xie Li came back to his senses and took it busily: "Thank you, sir." ”
"Later, what did Xie Tao say after seeing you?" Ye Qingzhi waited for her to drink saliva and calm down a little before she spoke.
Xie Li lowered her head again and sighed, but did not answer immediately.