"Ruyi, what old way are you talking about?"

Chang Tai only heard Xing Ruyi muttering in a low voice, vaguely as if mentioning the word "underworld", but he didn't know what was going on in her head.

"Oh, I mean, is it possible to use the ancestral method of the folk to call the soul of the Zhu family from the underworld, and then ask her who this murderer is? How did you lose the shoes on your feet? ”

"I know you know you know how to do some magic, but can this spirit really be called up from the underworld?"

After going through these many things, Chang Tai's mind has also changed, and now he doesn't feel anything when he hears Xing Ruyi say these Shinto words. It's just that if this soul can come out of the underworld to testify against the murderer, then what else do they need to do with these errand catchers?

"There is indeed a folk technique called asking rice."

"Ask Mi! Is this asking rice, millet or glutinous rice? ”

"Rice! It should be rice! Xing Ruyi looked at Chang Tai and replied with some tears and laughter: "Actually, I have only heard this method talk about it, but I have never used it." This method of asking rice is a spell that will cooperate with the deceased relatives and friends and their families. Through the goddess, the ghosts of the underworld are brought to the yang world, so that they can possess the goddess and talk to the people of the yang world. During this ceremony, a bowl of white rice is placed on the side, so it is also called askan rice. ”

"Sounds interesting, but there's a problem here. Ruyi, you just said that this method of asking rice is a spell that will cooperate with the deceased relatives and friends and their families. Well, there are several problems here.

First of all, who are the people this family refers to? Judging from the current situation, the little beggar was put on death row as a murderer, but Zhu's husband Wang Jiang never showed up from beginning to end, nor did he question the identity of the little beggar's murderer. What does this mean? It shows that if this Wang Jiang is not the person who knows the inside story of this case, he is too lazy to investigate the details of his wife's killing. For him, the life and death of his wife may not be as important as the business in his shop. If you go to him at this time to cooperate with you in this technique, Wang Jiang will definitely refuse. In addition to Zhu's husband Wang Jiang, does Zhu have other family members? ”

"There is also an old mother, but the old mother of the Zhu family is not in good health, and she has just sent away her other daughter, if she is saddened by Zhu's affairs at this time, I am afraid that her body will not be able to endure it."

Xing Ruyi said and sighed.

If it is not difficult to find Zhu's soul, she has the ghost card given by the Hades King, and Cui Fujun is a good friend, just find a ghost and secretly bring Zhu up to ask a few words. But Xing Ruyi didn't want to do this at this time. First, it seems that she has no real skills, and secondly, the fox also explained before leaving, so that she should be cautious about using the ghost card given by the Hades King in the future. Although there are people in the underworld who are easy to do, every time this underworld is accommodating, it means that she owes a favor to the underworld, and with the childish temperament of the underworld, she may put forward some strange repayment conditions in the future.

Chang Tai heard Xing Ruyi sigh, and thought that she was worried about asking Mi. got up and patted her gently: "Don't worry, I'll do it when I find embroidered shoes." ”

After dinner, Chang Tai went out alone, and when he came back, it was already late at night. He looked tired, so he didn't ask anything. When it opened the next day, I found that there were many more officials dressed in government officials on the street, each holding a stack of thick papers. If you look closely, it is actually a list used by the yamen to post, which reads: Wangmen Zhu's family was plotted by others and lost his performance. Now that the murderer has been arrested and imprisoned on death row, if anyone picks up this important physical evidence, he will hand it over to the government and reward the official with money. ”

"Brother Chang, you shouldn't have come up with the idea of posting the list, right?"

Chang Tai nodded.

"Now that the verdict has been pronounced in this case, why does the official still agree to post the list? No matter how I look at it, this official does not look like the kind of clean official who can distinguish between right and wrong, is willing to make decisions for the people, and helps prisoners on death row retract their confessions at the expense of slapping himself in the face. ”

"Ruyi, you are not an official, so naturally you don't understand the truth of being an official. As an official, there will always be something to seek, something not to ask for, something to fear, and something not to fear. ”

"Ask for something, ask for something." Xing Ruyi looked at Chang Tai's eyes and continued: "Be afraid, be afraid. Brother Chang went out last evening, but he didn't come back until the time of his son, and when he came back, he was tired, and it seemed that the conversation with this official must be very tiring. Coupled with what you said recently, Brother Chang, can Ruyi think that it was Brother Chang that you promised this official master, or that this official master had some handle that fell into your hands Brother Chang, so you had to give in. ”

"It's not as complicated as you think. The so-called senior officials are scared to death, and besides, this official will do some unclean things behind his back, so I just need to move Master Xie out and fool him again, and it will be over. ”

"Is it really that simple?"

"It's really that simple!"

"Then why did you look tired last night?"

"It's not that I'm tired of doing things, it's that I'm too tired to talk to these adults. When talking to each other, we must always say three points and leave seven points, neither too full of words, nor too much, and when we speak, we must also speculate on each other's thoughts from time to time. I'm not good at that, so I'm going to be more tired than usual. ”

"It's hard work, big brother!"

Chang Tai is a fast catcher, and he usually does things, and he does have some one-eye. Although there have been some changes in the past year, if you deal with these intrigues in the officialdom, it will inevitably be difficult to meet the bends.

"Actually, I didn't do anything?"

Chang Tai's face showed a slight embarrassment.

"I just told the lord that the little beggar was condemned to death by just one piece of clothing, and that if anyone tried to help the little beggar overturn the case in the future, I was afraid that it would be true. At present, it has reached the end of the year, and the imperial court is evaluating local officials, if this case is left in normal times, it will be fine, but at the time of the year, if it accidentally reaches the ears of those officials in charge of evaluation, whether it can be promoted is small, I am afraid that this little black yarn hat will also be taken off.

The officials are all smart people, and I am from Luoyang, the capital of the gods, and it just so happens that this year, Lord Xie Xuanxie is one of the officials in charge of the evaluation this time, and he will always have some scruples. Besides, I didn't ask him to do anything, just let him post an article to find the relics of the deceased, which is just a matter of moving his mouth to him, if it happens, it will add a full amount of physical evidence to this case, and if it doesn't work, there is no loss.

It's just that even if this physical evidence is found, it also proves that the perpetrator is someone else, and I want the official to admit his mistake and retry the case, but I'm afraid it will take some effort. ”

"Brother Chang's meaning, Ruyi understands. If I can really find out the facts of the case and find the real perpetrator, I have my own way to get this official to retry the case, so that the innocent little beggar can save his own life. ”

"Oh, there's something I forgot to tell you. Last night, in addition to going to the mansion, I also went to the homes of Wang Jiang and Wang Chong. ”

"Brother Chang, what did you find?"

"There are some discoveries, but it's not clear if they're related to the case." Chang Tai combed it slightly: "Wang Jiang's house is the initial place of the crime, and it may also be the first crime scene where the murderer murdered the Zhu family, so I took advantage of the night to go to investigate first." Wang Jiang has lived in the shop most of the time since Zhu's murder, so the furnishings in the house have not changed, and I found something on the grass in front of the door. ”

Chang Tai said, taking out a paper bag from his body and handing it to Xing Ruyi.

"The white powder I found on the dried grass leaves, it was densely distributed, and there were some blood spots scattered around it. Based on the situation you described to me on the night of the crime, I suspect that that this is the place where Wang Chong found the injured cook, and that the white powder was most likely scattered from one of them. This paper bag was also picked up by me at the scene. You know, I'm not very good at these things, so I'll bring it back to Ruyi and show you what's in this paper bag. ”

Xing Ruyi took the paper bag and looked at it carefully, "This is arsenic powder, which is what we often call arsenic." ”

"Arsenic? Poison! ”

"Well, it's poison. It seems that someone did want to murder the Zhu family, but judging from the news obtained from the government office, this Zhu family did not die of arsenic poison. Could it be that the person who poisoned the poison was the same two people who murdered the Zhu family that night? Xing Ruyi said, and looked carefully at the arsenic powder, and found some faint green on some of the powder. Looking at the paper bag again, there are also traces of green on the paper bag.

"Brother Chang, did you find anything else at the scene?"

"Something else?" Chang Tai thought about it carefully: "It seems that there is a fragment under the steps in front of the door, which is a porcelain bowl." Because the fragment was small and there were no other fragments around, I just took a look at it and didn't bring it back. ”

"It seems that Li Mao's previous guess was right."

"What?" Chang Tai was puzzled.

"We have made some conjectures about the facts of the case, and one of the questions is whether the cook was killed before or after Zhu was killed? Also, the cook usually lives in the adjacent courtyard, and when Zhu was killed, it was already past dinner, so why did the cook go to Zhu's courtyard? Now, with the fragments of this porcelain bowl, we can probably deduce some of the circumstances of the night of the crime, and this inference is more consistent with one of the several situations analyzed by Li Mao before. ”

"Since she is a cook, she goes to the master's yard after dinner, and it is possible that the master is hungry, so she temporarily calls the cook to come over and prepare supper. Because he didn't plan to go out, while waiting for supper, the owner, Zhu Shi, had already taken off his shoes and socks and sat on the bed. This also explains why the Zhu family, whose status is not low, and whose family economic conditions are acceptable, was barefoot when the accident occurred. ”

(Education 123 Literature Network)