The chill deepened, and the streets were crowded with pedestrians.

If it had to be, everyone didn't want to go to the street to be exposed to the cold wind, so Guan Chu took a quick catch, crossed his arms and shrunk his head, and stood in a slightly desolate courtyard.

The trees that looked quite precious had fallen all over the yard of leaves, and tiny insects crawled in and out from under the broken yellow leaves, making a rustling sound.

"Boss, what should I do?" Tie Wan grabbed his collar, leaned over to Guan Chu's side, and asked in a low voice.

Guan Chu frowned, Zhang Jiusheng didn't come back, and he couldn't make up his mind.

"That's it, you go and call Zhang Tong first, let's follow the process, don't make a noise first, so as not to startle the snake." Guan Chu tilted his body slightly, leaned over to Tie Wan and whispered.

"Okay." Tie Wan replied, and the cat walked away quickly.

At that time, Zhang Tong was chewing small biscuits at the door of the Yamen coroner's room, and when he heard Tie Wan say a few words to him mysteriously, he immediately threw down the biscuits and rushed into the house, picked up the autopsy box and ran away.

The old house of the Xiao family.

Guan Chu also brought people here to look for it before, but because it was the old mansion of Xiao Mansion, there were people guarding it on weekdays, no matter how you said it, it was a private house, Guan Chu didn't have that righteous and bright reason to go in and search, so he just took a rough look outside, and didn't find anything, so forget it.

But now that I think about it, I should have sneaked a look at it a long time ago, otherwise I wouldn't have spent so much time and found nothing.

Seeing Zhang Tong coming, Guan Chu's hanging heart settled slightly, but his brows were still furrowed.

The location of the corpse is relatively hidden, it is in an abandoned well in this yard, the waste well is covered with some weeds and stinky straw, not much, but enough to block people's view, if it is not for a sensitive nose in the fast catching team, passing by this piece and smelling a little strange smell, it will not be found here.

The light inside the abandoned well was dim and the space was narrow, and people standing outside the well could not see what kind of state the body was in inside, nor did they know whether the person was thrown into it before he died, or whether he fell into the well before he died.

There are too many questions, and we have to wait for Zhang Tong.

Zhang Tong came quickly, just stepped into the gate of the courtyard, and he didn't look at Guan Chu, and a pair of eyes were about to fly down into the waste well.

"What's going on?" Zhang Tong asked.

"The smell is quite heavy, I guess it should be rotten inside." Guan Chu pinched his sleeves and covered his mouth and nose, and followed Zhang Tong to the side of the abandoned well, even if it was dark and he couldn't see anything inside, he still looked down.

Zhang Tong stood by the waste well, frowned slightly, and glanced inside, only to be at that moment, the turbidity in the waste well came head-on along the wall of the well.

"Hmm!" Zhang Sympathy couldn't help but exclaim, then quickly retracted his head, turned his head and rummaged through the autopsy box, took out a mask from the box, looked up at a few traps around, and said, "Go get the rope." ”

A few catchers around responded quickly, and soon brought a hemp rope.

Zhang Tong didn't say anything, tied the rope to his waist numbly, supported the edge of the well with both hands, raised his legs and prepared to drill into the well, Guan Chu looked at it and grabbed his arm.

"What's the matter? Are you going to go down first? It doesn't taste good, I'm afraid you won't be able to stand it. Zhang Tong looked surprised, turned his head and asked Guan Chu, the voice came out of the mask, and the urn sound was angry.

Guan Chu waved his hand again and again when he heard this: "No, no, I mean, you went down like this?" So what are we doing on it? ”

Zhang Tong thought for a while: "You asked the two brothers to pull me, and then get me a few more torches, let me take them down to light, I have been dead for a long time when I smell this, but it's not summer now, and the taste is okay." ”

"Minato...... Improvised? Guan Chu stared in horror.

"Hurry up and get the torches, and I'll see what's going on down there." Zhang Tong pushed Guan Chu and urged.

Before Guan Chu could give the order, a few catchers under his hand had already prepared torches very intimately and handed them over, Tie Wan also held one in his hand, and said, "Zhang Chengzuo, I smell too uncomfortable, will it be poisonous?" ”

Zhang Tong frowned and shook his head: "I'm not sure either, so I'm not wearing a mask?" You take a few more ropes, and when I'm done, I'll have to pull the body up." ”

"Okay." Iron Wanying.

"Be careful." Looking at the black wellhead, Guan Chu worriedly admonished.

Zhang Tong sat at the mouth of the well, wrapped the hemp rope in his hand several times, and with the other hand he tugged the rope tied to his waist, nodded at the two catchers who were pulling the rope next to him, and motioned to let him go.

As the rope slowly became tense, Zhang Tong stared at the wall of the well with both feet, slowly slid down, looked up at Guan Chu standing at the mouth of the well from time to time, nodded slightly, and motioned for the catcher behind him to continue to go down.

The abandoned well has been dry for many years, and a lot of weeds have grown on the wall of the well, but the root system is not stable, and it can be uprooted with only a little force, and the further down, the darker the light, Zhang Tong wrapped the torch in his hand with hemp rope several times to fix it, and the smell below is getting stronger and stronger, even through the mask, Zhang Tong still smells the pungent smell of rot.

What has this man become of rotten?

In the process of slowly lowering, Zhang Tong only felt that time passed extremely slowly, and finally touched the ground tentatively on his toes, which was soft, Zhang Tong's heart tightened, and he didn't know what it was, guessing that he might have touched a corpse.

He held the torch in his hand, and cautiously turned to the side, following the light of the torch.

frowned, the scene in front of him was a little better than he had imagined, but it might be really exciting for ordinary people.

The man was bent at the bottom of the well in an impossible position, his whole head bent over, almost over his right shoulder, and against his right elbow, his palms clutching the wall of the well, as if he was trying to climb up and escape from this dark place before he died.

His originally smooth and clean nails were deeply embedded in the grass and soil on the wall of the well, and they also left one black blood stain after another on the wall of the well.

Half of the corpse's face was against the ground, stained with a lot of dirt, and his eyes were half-open, as a rare white corpse worm emerged from it, and the broken wounds on his body exuded a strong smell of decay.

Zhang Tong frowned, stretched out his hand to pluck the corpse insects crawling on the corpse, and carefully pressed on the corpse, basically confirming that there were no less than twenty fractures on the corpse, both before and after death.

It's just that the light is still too dim, even when Zhang Tong came down, there were a few torches inserted on the wall of the well, but the fire on the torches was blown by the wind and flickered, which greatly affected the sight.

As a last resort, Zhang Tong shouted at the well: "Come down, take a larger and cleaner white cloth by the way!" ”

"Okay." Wellhead didn't know who answered, and not long after, Tie Wan slowly came down with a rolled white cloth.

As soon as Tie Wan landed, he immediately spread out the white cloth and asked with great interest: "Zhang Yanzuo, what should we do next?" ”

Zhang Tong glanced at him, Tie Wan was very conscious, he didn't have a mask, so he covered his face with a black cloth to put an end to the poisonous gas that might exist in the waste well.

"Zhang Chengzuo?" Seeing that Zhang Tong didn't speak, Tie Wan shouted softly again.

At the feet of the two of them lay the bent corpse, but there was no fear at all.

Zhang Tong licked his somewhat dry lips, pointed to the corpse on the ground, and said, "Don't worry, get the corpse up first." ”

"Okay."

Spread out the white cloth, Zhang Tong took the rope through the armpit of the corpse, with a little force, the upper body of the corpse left the ground, carefully placed on the white cloth, Tie Wan pinched the corner of the white cloth, covered the corpse, and at the same time carefully wrapped the corpse's feet, and then used the rope to wrap the ankle a few times without looseness.

Zhang Tong turned his back, patted his back, and said, "Come, I'll go on my back." ”

Tie Wan said: "I'll carry it, there should be some clues in this waste well, I am clumsy, I can't see it, Zhang Cheng is more suitable for you." ”

Zhang Tong's eyes rolled, and when he thought about it, he asked Tie Wan to turn his back, he picked up the corpse, pressed it against Tie Wan's back, and wrapped a rope around Tie Wan's waist and back several times to fix it, patted Tie Wan's arm, and asked, "How is it?" Is it okay? ”

"Okay."

"Pull it up!" Zhang Tong then shouted at the wellhead.

After a while, Tie Wan's feet slowly left the ground, and Zhang Tong watched him go up safely, but instead he took a torch and squatted down on the spot.

There were not many blood stains on the ground of the abandoned well, most of them were blood that had been shed due to the breaking of the body, which had already penetrated into the ground and turned into a jet-black color. And the few dried blood marks on the wall of the well can at least prove that people were alive when they fell into the well.

There were still some broken stones scattered on the ground, as if a large stone had been broken and fell into it, and by the light of the torch, Zhang Tong picked up a few and put them in a clean cloth and wrapped them in his arms.

Then he turned around the waste well a few times, and after confirming that there was nothing missing, he pulled the rope tied to his waist, and then the two catchers who had been standing at the head of the well on standby, got the signal, and began to slowly pull Zhang Tong out.

Without Zhang Tong's instructions, Guan Chu didn't dare to move the corpse first, and just stood next to the corpse, standing stunned, waiting for Zhang Tong to climb out of the well and take off his mask, he asked, "Get it back to the yamen?" ”

Zhang Tong gasped and nodded: "Get it back, there's nothing in the well, you can take someone to search this old mansion for clues, I'll go back for an autopsy first." ”

"Okay, hard work." Guan Chu patted Zhang Tong on the shoulder, then shouted two catches, and carried the corpse back with Zhang Tongdao.

Not surprisingly, the person who died was Xiao Hengyan.

Although the person has rotted, fortunately, some physical features are still there, Zhang Tong has been in Fan County for so many years, so he has naturally seen Xiao Hengyan.

Although he knew early on that the chance of survival of the real Xiao Hengyan was almost zero, when he really saw the corpse, let alone Zhang Tong, Guan Chu's heart sank.

The Xiao family, in the end, there is no living mouth left.