Qiao Chu looked coldly at the woman who was lying on the coffin crying, her lowered eyebrows and eyes were faint, making it impossible to see any emotion in his heart.

The woman's eyes looked at Qiao Chu tightly, her red lips were pursed tightly, and the hand holding the coffin was clenched into a fist, but she looked like she was at home.

Qiao Chu's eyes were dark, she pursed her lips and said nothing, the two of them were stuck, the woman bit her lip and took a step forward to protect the coffin, but accidentally kicked the spiritual position, she looked down, and still did not take half a step back.

"Since Mrs. is so protective of her husband, it is not good to be too bothered in the future, but since the person has passed away, Mrs. does not have to be obsessed with anything, and please mourn and say goodbye."

Qiao Chu lowered her eyebrows, smiled faintly, and turned to leave, the woman looked at Qiao Chu's back, her eyes were dark, and she couldn't see any emotions.

Qiao Chu walked out of the door, and could still feel the woman's eyes piercing his body like a needle, he glanced back sideways, and smiled coldly with his lips.

Li Chengdu had already changed into civilian clothes, waiting for Qiao Chu at the door, and when he saw him come out, he hurriedly greeted him, and said in a low voice: "Master, what can you see?" ”

Qiao Chu was silent, pursed his lips, his eyes began to sink gradually, his gloomy eyes were oozing with coldness, and his originally dull temperament suddenly became ruthless and obedient.

"She's hiding."

Li Chengdu was stunned and asked, "You mean that woman knows the truth?" Isn't it...... Is she the murderer? ”

Qiao Chu paused slightly, and snorted coldly: "Even if this woman is not the murderer, she knows who the real murderer is, and she must cover for it, otherwise, she will not protect the corpse with death and prevent me from examining it." ”

Li Chengdu frowned and said, "She and the deceased are husband and wife, if that woman really doesn't want her husband to be at peace after death, this kind of practice...... There is nothing wrong with that. ”

"Understandable?" Qiao Chu glanced at Li Chengdu, his eyes were full of ridicule, and he said in a deep voice: "She doesn't have the slightest affection for his husband, how can she give up her life to protect her!" ”

Li Chengdu was puzzled at the moment, and said, "How can the master see it?" ”

Qiao Chu's narrow eyes narrowed slightly, a little empty, as if he remembered that Bai Hanyansheng was not like this when Duan Changge left, he hooked his lips and smiled, and said: "That woman looks gorgeous, even if she is mourning at the moment, there is still a fragrance on her body, which means that there is a sachet in her clothes, and there is no sadness in her eyes, I am afraid that their husband and wife are just looking good." ”

Li Chengdu suddenly stepped forward and said: "It's better to arrest that woman for interrogation and torture to extract a confession, don't be afraid that she won't confess!" ”

"What's the hurry, that lady is thin, killing people and setting fires is not something that she can do as a woman's family, there must be helpers, but the murderer is watching in the dark, and it's not good to startle the snake."

Qiao Chu stood at the entrance of the town, spit out a sentence quietly, raised his eyes to look at the town, he chuckled, raised his legs and walked in.

In the evening, everything is shrouded in a layer of gray, whether it is a lively long street or a dark alley, it looks particularly eerie.

Qiao Chu sat in the most prosperous tavern in the town, because of the proximity to the official road, there are many people passing by every day, this town is bustling with people every day, and the crowds in the past are also coming and going, pausing and resting, and the business of this restaurant inn is also very hot.

Qiao Chu leisurely tasted a pot of old wine, just a few side dishes, and ate pleasantly, but Li Chengdu was a little restless.

Qiao Chu couldn't help frowning when he looked at him, and said, "What's the hurry, some things can't be rushed."

Qiao Chu's temperament has always been very bland, except for the hatred in his heart that can arouse his heart, nothing seems to arouse his interest.

Li Chengdu approached him and said in a low voice: "Master, didn't we come here to inquire about things?" ”

Qiao Chu glanced at him lightly and said, "This town is so big, it's dinner time at the moment, and people's talk is just a little thing that goes over and over, so why bother to startle the snake, just listen to them." ”

Li Chengdu nodded a little abruptly, looking at the tavern that was gradually filled, he listened with bated breath.

Sure enough, as soon as the three of them sat down at the table behind them, one of them, a man with a long face, said impatiently: "Hey, this gold will be buried tomorrow." ”

Another gray-headed man, his face was a little depressed, and he said lightly: "If you are buried, you will be buried, that golden ...... Damn it too. ”

Qiao Chu's hand holding the wine cup paused slightly, his expression was solemn, and he glanced at the side with a bad trace, and saw the man with the long face and continued: "Hey, it's a pity that Aunt Shen, with her long flower and moon appearance, was already unsatisfactory, and she was even more widowed when she stood there. ”

The frustrated man was angry and said angrily: "It's not a good life, it's just that I haven't met a good man." ”

Another person at the table sneered, looked at the depressed man with raised eyebrows, and said, "Why, don't you have that idea?" ”

The frustrated man's face turned red, as if he had been stabbed in the heart, and he didn't say a word for a long time.

The previous long-faced man hurriedly played the round field and said with a smile: "Don't talk about him, I like Aunt Shen very much, hey, that woman is gorgeous, but she has no good life, I'm afraid that she will be Kefu, otherwise that Zhang Jin will not be killed by a female thief!" ”

As soon as these words came out, none of the three of them spoke, Qiao Chu held the wine cup with two fingers, sneered, raised his head full of drinking water, took out the broken silver from his sleeve, and said, "Check out!" ”

After that, he raised his leg and left the tavern, Li Chengdu was full of suspicion, glanced at the three men at the adjacent table, and still raised his leg to chase after Qiao Chu.

At this time, the sunset is coming to an end, night is falling, the stars have been embedded in the sky, Qiao Chu found an inn to settle in, the room is dimly lit, the wooden stairs are narrow and dilapidated.

Li Chengdu packed up the bed, frowned, and said, "It's really dilapidated here, why doesn't the master find a better inn?" ”

Qiao Chu seemed a little tired, bent over and lay on the bed, closed his eyes and said, "The big inn is too ostentatious, there is a curfew at night in this town." ”

Li Chengdu's eyes sank, and he took a step forward and said, "Master, don't you want to go out at night?" ”

Qiao Chu opened his eyes suddenly, his eyes flashed, and he hooked his lips and said: "Naturally, that Zhang Jin has only been dead for three days, and the murderer has not yet confessed, but the Shen sister-in-law is in a hurry to bury him, there must be something greasy inside, I will go to investigate tonight." ”

Li Chengdu was a little worried, and said: "Master, if the body is burned like that, you and I will not conduct an autopsy, and we may not be able to find out anything." ”

He paused, he seemed to hesitate for a moment before he said, "It would be good if Master Duan and Bai Hanyan were here, maybe the two of them would find out something." ”

The three words of Bai Hanyan made Qiao Chu's body tremble slightly, his sword eyebrows were also tightly furrowed, and he closed his eyes and did not speak.

Li Chengdu pursed the corners of his lips, turned around and went to the soft couch next to the door to lie down, Qiao Chu on the bed quietly opened his eyes, pain filled the corners of his eyes, and his heart gradually became bitter, sad and embarrassed but slightly sour, but all this, in the end, was like this.

Li Chengdu didn't feel sleepy, his eyes were rolling, and it was time for Qiao Chu, who only felt that it was time to recognize the reality, Bai Hanyan was just a dream after all, and when he woke up from the dream, he wanted to look forward.

Outside the inn, there was a knock on the second watch, Qiao Chu opened his eyes from his light sleep, came to his senses, jumped up from the bed, slipped out of the door, and thought about the road of Zhang Jin's house on the edge of the town during the day, and jumped in the direction of his house in the dark.

Zhang Jin's coffin was still parked in the courtyard, and there were white candles burning in the courtyard, but the woman was no longer there, Qiao Chu stuck to the door of her room and listened with bated breath for a while, the woman in the house breathed for a long time, and she should have been asleep for a long time.

Qiao Chu quietly walked under the coffin, and saw that the confetti in the brazier had been cold, obviously the fire had been stopped for a long time, and the spiritual position also fell obliquely under the coffin, Qiao Chu suddenly remembered that when the Shen sister-in-law was guarding the coffin in the afternoon, she had accidentally deviated from the spiritual position, and she may have had no time to help her husband in her heart, but after Qiao Chu left, she never straightened the spiritual position.

Qiao Chu's eyes were as deep as the night, it seemed that his guess was right, that Aunt Shen and Zhang Jin had no relationship at all, everything was pretended by her, so she sacrificed her life to prevent him from performing an autopsy, what did she want to hide?

Thinking of this, Qiao Chu's eyes raised slightly, fell on the coffin, and slowly walked over, gently pushing the coffin lid open with the strength of his palm, and as the lid slid up, a scarlet-skinned corpse burned by the fire was gradually revealed.

Qiao Chu covered his nose with his sleeve to block the fishy smell, the corpse was already scorched, he measured it for a long time, but he couldn't see the reason, he couldn't help but sigh faintly, and sighed silently in his heart, Li Chengdu was right, if Duan Changge or Bai Hanyan were here, they would definitely discover the secret of the corpse.

Just as he was about to close the coffin, the closed mouth of the corpse attracted his attention, Qiao Chu's eyes burned, remembering what Li Chengdu said, Zhang Jin was burned after death, so his mouth must have been closed when burned, and maybe there would be any clues left.

After thinking about it, he raised his hand and opened Zhang Jin's mouth through the handkerchief, his teeth had been blackened by the fire, but fortunately, his mouth was not completely burned, Qiao Chu took a closer look through the firelight and moonlight, and finally found something in the gums between his teeth.

He was overjoyed, and carefully pulled up the thing, and looked carefully in front of his eyes, and under the moonlight, he could see the contents of the veil very clearly.

It's a fish bone with a bit of flesh on it.

Qiao Chu held the fish bone in his hand, his eyes turned slightly, and he seemed to understand something!

The fish bone was pierced into the gums, that is, when Zhang Jin died, he may have been eating, and he had just taken a bite of fish and put it in his mouth, and someone took advantage of his inattention to be attacked to death.

That's why that fish bone pierced into his gums!