Today, Pei Xia is not dressed in coarse cloth. She has lived with Pei Qifang in the past few years, she is used to being poor, and she has long been not particular about food and clothing, but Qiu Niang is careful, and said that it was just in this small county town before, but now that she has gone to Qiuzhou City, she has to buy a few beautiful outfits, so as not to make her colleagues look down.

Although Pei Xia felt that it was unnecessary, she still couldn't resist Qiu Niang, besides, she was a girl in the end, and she was as old as a flower, so people dressed up and pushed it to the bronze mirror to take a look, how could she really refuse?

After Le Zhong turned his head, he was stunned for a moment. The person who came was dressed in a moon-white dress, and wore a plain white pink satin skirt inside, the skirt style was not complicated, but the person wearing it was graceful, with skin like clotted fat and a beautiful face. Le Zhong didn't read much and didn't know how to describe it, but he felt that this person seemed to come out of a painting, like a fairy, which made people admire.

Lu Fang copied the dossier, and suddenly noticed that there was no sound outside the door. It's really strange, this group of people wasn't noisy outside one day, could it be someone here?

Lu Fang called twice, but no one answered him, curiosity came up, and finally put down the pen and got up from the desk, came to the door, and saw that there was an extra girl in the yard. He paused for a moment before he reacted, this is about the same as the new colleague that Master Cao said a few days ago. Before anyone noticed him, he hurriedly retreated into the house, tidied up his appearance, and then coughed loudly twice to remind everyone of his presence.

"What, are you the new governor?" Lu Fang wanted to make his tone sound arrogant, so as to give the newcomer a dismount, but he couldn't bear to really scare the girl, and he unconsciously softened down when he said the last few words.

Pei Xia saluted.

Lu Fang pretended to brush his mustache and said, "Lord Cao has been out on business recently, and I will be the chief of the Criminal Prison Department during this time. At the moment, there is a case in the government and there is no clue, so you can go with the two of them to see what happened to the corpse. ”

Le Zhong was reminded like this, and then he remembered that he was here to ask for help, but he hadn't said this good thing yet, he offended people first, and if people refused to go in anger, Zhao Zhutou probably had the heart to kill him after knowing the reason.

Even if he changes his face on the spot, he has to shoot this sycophant hard, Le Zhong squeezed and said to Pei Xia with a smile: "That...... Miss Pei, we are really in a hurry, please take a look. Just now, Brother Zheng also told us that you have solved the case in Linci County, and you have a unique ability when you hear it! ”

Zheng Wu: "......" That's not what you just said.

Pei Xia will not really get angry when people talk about two sentences behind her back, she is a woman, she is young, such doubts are common, and she knows that only by showing real skills can she convince these people, so she is not too embarrassed about the tolerance in front of her, and said lightly: "Lead the way." ”

Le Zhong was originally ready to be scolded, but he was let go like this, he couldn't believe it, and when he saw that Pei Xia was about to be discharged from the hospital, he hurried to follow as if he had just woken up from a dream.

"Hey! After the corpse is examined, let them check it themselves, you come back quickly, I still have a lot of files waiting for you! Behind him, Lu Fang shouted loudly.

Pei Xia and Le Zhong came to the morgue of the Qiuzhou Mansion together, and in the room, Zhao Zhutou was staring at the corpse with Qi Zuo.

"Zhao Tou'er, this is Miss Pei, the new girl from the Criminal Prison Division." Le Zhong stepped forward to introduce Zhao Zhutou.

Zhao Zhutou heard a little about the case in Linci County, and hurriedly asked Le Zhong to invite someone in to talk.

Pei Xia entered the door, didn't make much politeness, walked straight to the corpse, lifted the white cloth covering the corpse, and under the white cloth was a young female corpse, the clothes on her body had been taken off, and the corpse looked very clean at a glance. She looked at it and asked, "What is the condition of the deceased?" ”

"Here's the thing." Zhao Zhutou explained, "This person is the wife of a wealthy businessman, Tao. The rich merchant went out to buy goods and came back half a month earlier than the original time, but the people who had just entered the house cried and reported that his wife had died of a sudden emergency at noon. The rich merchant didn't believe it, saying that his wife was in good health, how could a good person die violently? I reported it to the official to find out the truth. This kind of brainless thing Lord Wang didn't want to pay attention to, but a few days ago, Lord Qin sent Lord Zuo to come to our trial of Du Xiao's case, that person saw that Lord Wang refused to investigate, so he made trouble in front of Lord Qincha, Lord Qin Cha ordered Lord Wang to pay attention to every possible doubt, and be sure to find out the ...... of this case."

Zhao Zhutou babbled a lot, and Pei Xia automatically eliminated those Taoists about the comings and goings of the prefect and the Qincha lord in the officialdom, and captured useful information for the case.

"Where was the deceased found?" After Pei Xia took a rough look at the corpse, he took out the gloves from the toolbox and began to examine them little by little, while continuing to ask questions in his mouth.

"It was in her bedroom that the maidservants who were waiting for her found it, saying that the lady was taking a nap, and told them not to serve for the time being, so they went to rest and work, but when it was almost time, they did not hear any movement in the house, and pushed the door in to see that the people were gone."

"Has anyone been in the room during this time?"

"The maidservants said they didn't see it, but when I inquired, I found that there was no one at the door of the bedroom for a while, and maybe someone had entered." Zhao Zhutou touched his chin and recalled.

Pei Xia nodded slightly, flipped the body over, and continued to examine.

"Is there anyone else in his house who lives with him besides his wife and his subordinates?"

"He is a family heirloom business, and he has never separated the family, the father of the family is gone, the old lady is still there, he is the second in line, and the eldest and third family still live in the house. He and his brother are more capable in their family, and the third child is a mixed ancestor. This time he went shopping with his eldest brother, and the third child went to the shop to take a look twice. Speaking of which, there was a maidservant who said that the day before she saw the second lady in the garden and the third young master had an argument......"

Pei Xia looked at the side, there were indeed no obvious scars on her body, she took out a paper dipped in wine and vinegar from the toolbox and applied it to the mouth, nose, belly, and two wedges that had changed color.

"Miss Pei, I've also seen these places, and there is nothing abnormal." The servant on the side reminded him, Pei Xia nodded, or checked it again himself, and it was indeed as he said, there was nothing abnormal.

"Hey, it's been two days, and we haven't even figured out how people died, but how can we find out!" Zhao Zhutou made a bitter face and walked around the room, he was better than him, but he also looked like a crying mourner, if he couldn't find out, he would be the one who was hit by the board.

Pei Xia took a step back, frowned and looked at the female corpse again, the corpse was flat, the clothes placed on the side were also clean and undamaged, and the bun on the head was slightly loose due to lifting around, but it was not messy.

Bun......

Pei Xia stood on top of the female corpse's head, removed the jewelry from her head, and dug her hand into her hair to grope her scalp.

Qi Zuo, Zhao Zhutou and Le Zhong stared at her nervously from the side.

Pregnant!

Pei Xia felt a strange bulge, and she brushed away the hair nearby, only to see a flathead nail deep into the deceased's brain.

The other three people present took a deep breath, who would kill people in such a vicious way! This nail was pushed into the brain, and the blood was not exposed, if it weren't for Pei Xia, they wouldn't have found it at all.

"The deceased Tao, Chinese New Year's Eve 4, died from noon to noon on August 28 to ...... midday," Pei Xia added with the autopsy sheet he had filled out earlier, "The Baihui acupoint on the top of the head was pierced by a nail, and the wound was about three inches deep, which was a fatal wound." ”

After finding out the cause of death, and then there was a direction for the investigation, Pei Xia explained to Zhao Zhutou: "This nail is pierced in, the bun can't be so neat, someone must have combed it for her, you can focus on interrogating the maids around her and the ladies in the house." In addition, the deceased had no signs of struggle, and should have been in a coma at the time, either smoking, or drugged in his diet, which can also be checked. ”

Zhao Zhutou got the guidance and went happily, Pei Xia returned to the Criminal Prison Division, Lu Fang asked what had happened, sighed twice, and then gave Pei Xia half of the file on his desk.

"These are to be copied. Dali Temple let us reorganize and report it again within a time limit, Lord Du...... Ahem, Du Xiao! In the past, many cases were directly let go by him, and he didn't let us handle them, you have to look carefully, the evidence is not complete and the materials are all sent back to the original jurisdiction, let them fill it out and report it again, and if there are doubts in the case, pick it out again, and wait for Lord Cao to come back and see if he wants to go to the local area. ”

Pei Xia has not stopped for a moment since he came to report to the Criminal Prison Division, and three days have passed since this tidying up, and he didn't even care about his residence, so he slept in the duty room of the Criminal Prison Division for a while, and the original plan to visit Mu Changan after he came was also forced to shelve.

After Pei Xia came, Lu Fang was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief, and the two hurried to hurry, and finally sorted out all the files within the time limit.

It was early in the morning, and when the Criminal Prison Department was still on duty, Pei Xia hurriedly went back to take a shower and change his clothes, and rushed back.

"Today, Yutian County will have a new file from last month, I'll go to sleep, you wait here, after the file comes, don't let people go back, take a closer look at whether the materials have been submitted completely." The county magistrate of Yutian County has only been in office for a few months, and every time the materials handed over are either lacking this or lacking that. Lu Fang yawned and tried to maintain the last bit of sobriety: "If you are really unsure, call me up, I ...... Ahh......hh I won't tell you, you can do it yourself. ”

There is a total of one guard room in this prison department, Lu Fang went to sleep, Pei Xia always didn't want to follow, so he lay on the desk and took a nap, I don't know how long it took, he was suddenly woken up by Zheng Wu: "Miss Pei, people from Yutian County are here." ”