The drizzle gradually dissipated, and the noon sun was very scorching, and the clouds burned into a thin sheet.

In the county government meeting hall, Bai Hanyan, Li Chengdu, and Wang Tu knelt together.

"Hanged to death?" Duan Changge sat in the first seat, holding a teacup, his eyelids raised, and his expression was cold and permeating.

"Indeed...... It was hanged to death. Li Chengdu replied in a speculative tone.

Duan Changge jerked the teacup on the desk on the side, and there were fine lines on the small case, which turned out to be cracked on the desk, and there was originally an official uniform of Li Chengdu thrown by Wang Tu in Wang Jin's room on the desk, but because of Duan Changge's action, the official uniform slipped on the ground again.

"Could it be that the five of them can't think about it at the same time, and they will hang themselves if they have discussed it? It's a joke! ”

The three people kneeling on the ground felt a chill pour into their faces at the same time, and the hairs of the people who were freezing with a piercing chill stood on end.

Duan Changge squinted at Bai Hanyan who was kneeling in the middle, and his voice fell on her ears with compassion: "Han Tuiguan, why do you have to tell this official that the husband and wife of the Wang Governor's Mansion and their younger brothers and sisters, as well as a pregnant woman, all can't think of committing suicide at the same time?" ”

Bai Hanyan lowered his head and felt the cold breath coming to his face, sighed silently in his heart, and bowed respectfully: "Back to Lord Duan's words, after the autopsy of the lower official, according to the temperature of the corpse, it is speculated that the time of death of the five people is almost at the same time, and the death of the five people does meet the characteristics of suffocation." Merely...... The identity of the woman in the bed is not unknown, and all five committed suicide at the same time, which still needs to be investigated. ”

Duan Changge leaned over slightly, picked up a corner of Li Chengdu's official uniform from the ground, measured it carefully in front of him, and smiled softly: "Since this official uniform can be discarded at will, this official will give you five days to find out this matter for this official, otherwise...... I took off my clothes and went home to farm! ”

After saying that, Duan Changge stood up and threw the official uniform on Li Chengdu's head, flicked his sleeves, and got up to leave.

After Duan Changge left, Wang Tu's body suddenly withered, lying on the ground wiping cold sweat, and crying continuously: "I, I've really fallen moldy for eight lifetimes, Li Tongzhi, Brother Li, you killed me!" ”

Li Chengdu stretched out his hand and grabbed the official uniform, lowered his head and pursed his lips silently.

Bai Hanyan slowly stood up and turned his head to Li Chengdu and said slightly: "Lord Li, please find out the identity of the woman on the bed." ”

Li Chengdu nodded, picked up the clothes and hats scattered on the ground and turned around and left.

Bai Hanyan's eyes fell to the ground and the mournful Wang disciple stepped forward and asked, "Lord Wang, the woman on the bed, have you really never seen when she walked into the county office?" ”

Wang Tu immediately jumped up, and said: "This matter is related to my career, how can I be a child's play, you can ask the officers guarding the gate of the yamen to see if they have seen that woman?" ”

Bai Hanyan frowned slightly, and turned to leave, Wang Tu hurriedly followed, and hurriedly said, "Lord Han, can I help in any way?" ”

Bai Hanyan shook his head and sighed: "Lord Wang has been away from home for a few months, and he died so bizarrely, I still ...... for a while I don't know how to find out ......"

Wang Tu stopped in a daze, looked at Bai Hanyan's departing back, and suddenly sat on the ground and couldn't stop crying: "It's over, it's over, I'm afraid I can't keep my official hat!" ”

Bai Hanyan stood at the corner gate leading to the backyard, looking at the corridor leading to the main courtyard, except for this entrance, the entire backyard of the prefect was like a large secret room.

Bai Hanyan frowned, this case is indeed a little suspicious, what can make five people choose to commit suicide at the same time?

Taking 10,000 steps back, even if Wang Jin's five people were killed, the method of killing people was a little too perfect, only killing five people in one hour, and camouflaging the scene was impeccable, and there was no mistake at all.

Moreover, the five of them obviously dressed up quietly before they died, which is not something that the murderer can do, unless Wang Jin and the five of them change their clothes by themselves, is it ...... Are they going out?

Bai Hanyan shook his head and denied this idea, Wang Tu said that they had only been back for an hour, and the younger brother of the same sect had come to the province again, how could they go out without eating?

and Mrs. Wang, why she didn't hang herself with her husband, but died with her brother-in-law, while Lord Wang died with her brother and sister of the same clan, this point is incomprehensible.

There is also an unknown woman on the bed, she is pregnant with Liujia and is about to give birth, and there is no reason why she would choose to commit suicide.

Bai Hanyan sighed lowly, raised his legs and walked to the yamen wall to look up, this wall is three zhang high, and it was built in accordance with the requirements of the Ming Dynasty for the government.

It is impossible for the average person to climb in unless they ...... is a martial arts master like Duan Changge, but with such martial arts, he can come and go freely, killing people is invisible, and it takes a lot of trouble for the government to be wanted, and there is no need to use such troublesome means to kill people, and he bother to create the illusion of suicide.

If he is not a master, then the murderer must be in the county office, Bai Hanyan broke out in a cold sweat for no reason, could it be that the murderer was mixed in the county office?

Bai Hanyan quickly denied this idea again, within the county government, except for the fixed yacha, that is, the maids, Li Chengdu has checked them one by one, and it is impossible to mix in them.

So how did the murderer walk in and out of this large secret room?

Bai Hanyan couldn't figure it out, so she came to Wang Jin's room to check again.

At this time, the bodies of Wang Jin and the five people had been moved to the county morgue.

Bai Hanyan has been measuring for a long time, as Li Chengdu said, the doors and windows are intact, and they are all locked from the inside, the house is clean and tidy, there are no traces of destruction, and there are not even superfluous footprints.

Bai Hanyan chuckled in his heart, no, five people are in the room, even if they commit suicide, it is impossible not to move, plus the drizzle in the early morning, it is impossible for the house to be so tidy, it is like ...... It's like someone has cleaned up their room for them.

Even if Wang Jin's younger siblings need to walk to tear off the bed curtain, Mrs. Wang and Wang Jin's younger brother of the same clan also need to walk to go under the window lattice, why didn't they leave any footprints.

Even if the five of them had new clothes and shoes, where would the clothes they had taken off?

Bai Hanyan rubbed her chin with her hand, more and more she pondered the strange meaning, slowly walked under the beam of the house where Wang Jin was hanged, raised her eyes and looked, she always felt that something was wrong, what was wrong, she couldn't remember it for a while.

Bai Hanyan knocked her head with her hand, raised her legs and walked to the table in the flower hall and sat down, sighed, and suddenly she stood up, her eyes were shining, why didn't she think of it!

It's a stool!

Wang Jin and the five died in the inner room, but the stool was in the outer hall, when they pushed the door and entered today, there was no stool under Wang Jin's feet, so how did Wang Jin reach the rope on the beam to hang himself?

If the five of them had discussed suicide together, Wang Jin's younger siblings would have twisted the bed curtain with a rope in advance, waited for Wang Jin to hang himself, and then hanged himself at his feet, and there was a distance between the beams and the hall outside the door where the tables and stools were placed, if she wanted to go to the flower hall to deliver the stools, then she would be one step later than them, which was unreasonable!

Bai Hanyan's eyes lit up, it seems that the five of them really did not hang themselves, but someone deliberately murdered!

There was wind in the slightly open door, which was very cool, and a layer of fine beads of sweat appeared on Bai Hanyan's forehead.

What a murder with ulterior motives!

Li Chengdu ran in in a panic, Bai Hanyan looked at him running with a red face, and wondered: "Master Li, why are you so panicked?" ”

"That woman, no, doesn't exist, can't be found!"

Li Chengdu was out of breath and couldn't get his words right, but Bai Hanyan still understood the meaning of his words, and exclaimed: "Lord Li, do you mean that the woman on the bed can't be found in the entire Guiyang Mansion?" ”

Li Chengdu took a few breaths, gradually calmed down, and nodded: "Yes, that woman is a non-existent person at all!" I inquired about the maids in Lord Wang's house, and they all said that they had never seen the woman, and I traced her portrait and asked Lord Wang's familiar protégés and staff to identify them one by one, but they all said that they had never seen her, and I even went to the county government household register, but I could not find any trace of this woman. ”

"It can't be!" Bai Hanyan didn't believe it: "There won't be a woman in this world for no reason, and she is still pregnant, will she marry here?" ”

Li Chengdu shook his head and said: "If it is a foreign marriage, then it will also be registered by the household registration office, and it is impossible not to find it." ”

After a pause, Li Chengdu speculated: "Perhaps, it's from Lord Wang's hometown."

"Not bad." Bai Han looked at him with a pair of dark eyes, and his eyebrows raised: "Wang Jin has been gone for four months, and he died in just an hour after he came back, and his death will not be without signs, maybe as long as you find out what happened in Lord Wang's old house in the past four months, maybe this case will be solved." ”

"What do you mean......" Li Chengdu frowned at her.

Bai Hanyan smiled faintly: "I think it is necessary for us to go to Lord Wang's hometown." ”

"We?" Li Chengdu's face was pale.

Bai Hanyan looked at him, raised his eyebrows and smiled: "What, Lord Li doesn't want to investigate the case?" ”

Li Chengdu sneered and said disdainfully: "I wanted to resign, whether this case is investigated or not, I have no benefit, why should I go through this troubled water?" ”

Bai Hanyan shrugged his shoulders, shook his head and sighed: "Love words are really hurtful, I didn't expect the death of the wind chime to give Lord Li such a big blow, alas, in the past, I thought that Lord Li was enterprising and a person with a lofty heart, but I didn't expect that Lord Li was also an infatuated species, trapped by love......"

Li Chengdu flicked his sleeves, his face became even more ugly, and he said angrily at Bai Hanyan: "If I don't go, I won't go, Lord Han, you are saying that today is breaking the sky, and I, Li Chengdu, will not go!" ”