Su Mei died a terrible death.

Her eyes were wide open, and the whites of her eyes were covered with red blood, and the blood flowing from the corners of her mouth was black and brown, and her expression was unwilling and desperate, and she looked very hideous.

Chu Cheng raised her arm and took a closer look, and there were no scars of being abused and beaten.

She lay on the bed, but her hands scratched five fingernails on the edge of the bed, and the nails of all five fingers were turned up, and blood was dripping with blood.

This can only show that Su Mei was poisoned without knowing it, and she even wanted to take a good rest, but unexpectedly she suddenly became poisoned, and she didn't even have a chance to ask for help. She wanted to live, but she died here.

Hu Yu had already hurried back to the county government to report.

Chu Cheng turned her head sideways and said to Yang La: "Bring the medicine jar from the kitchen." ”

Yang La didn't know why, she was very relieved to Chu Cheng in front of her, and turned around to do it.

Su Yu couldn't bear to look at it at all, he knelt beside Su Mei's bed and cried: "Mother! Mother...... You don't want to die, mother! At this moment, all the bits and pieces of his memory of getting along with Su Mei emerged, and he forgot all about Aunt Mei and what she snatched. He only remembered that it was the dead woman in front of him who raised him for ten years, she was frugal, and almost all the money she saved was used on herself.

Liang Xiuyun stood beside him, at a loss.

Chu Cheng pulled him away a little, raised her hand to wipe away his tears, and said, "Cry, it's better to cry." ”

Su Yu threw herself into Chu Cheng's arms and cried breathlessly: "Madam...... Why is this happening? Who poisoned my mother? Why did he poison her? ”

"Don't worry, Lord Lin will find the truth for you."

Chu Cheng's words were originally intended to comfort Su Yu, but for some reason, after finishing speaking, she herself agreed very much.

Lin Boqin...... I guess we can really find out the truth.

When Su Yu heard this, he restrained his crying a little, he raised his teary hazy eyes, and trembled his lips: "I believe in Lord Lin, if he can find my biological mother, he will definitely be able to find the person who killed my adoptive mother." ”

Chu Cheng nodded and did not speak.

She actually guessed that it could be that Su Mei committed suicide by taking poison herself?

But when Yang La brought the medicine jar, she denied the idea.

The medicinal herbs in the jar were pitch black and charred, but when you raised your fingers, there was a sticky feeling like asphalt, which is unique to arsenic. Obviously, if you put too much arsenic, you will be discovered, but the amount in this medicine jar is just the dose that can poison people without being discovered.

Of course, this is just Chu Cheng's speculation.

At this moment, there was a sound of footsteps in the courtyard, but it was Hu Yu leading the way with a lantern on his head, and Lin Boqin and Gu Jing walked briskly with the same group.

Yang La hurriedly stepped forward to report, and Lin Boqin said to Xue Yao in a deep voice: "Autopsy first." ”

Chu Cheng pulled Su Yu, who was crying into tears, outside the door, not wanting him to see more.

Xue Yao raised his hand and pressed Su Mei's skin, carefully examined the body, and then said to Lin Boqin: "Lord Hui, Su Shi did not have external injuries, but died of poisoning, and the time of death should be between the time of yesterday and the time of day. He also presented the charred medicine jar, "The poison in it is the most common arsenic, which is highly poisonous, but a small amount of it is used externally, and it has the effect of eroding sores and removing decay, robbing phlegm and intercepting malaria, and it is sold in ordinary pharmacies and medical centers." ”

Lin Boqin turned his head sideways, suddenly remembered something, and asked: "The corpses of Zhu Chengye's family, the color of the cervical vertebrae to the middle of the waist bone is black after ten years, is it also because of arsenic?" ”

Xue Yao pondered for a moment and said seriously: "Very few poisons have medicinal properties that reach the drama of arsenic, and the color has not faded for ten years...... Most likely arsenic. ”

"Xue Yao, do you know who was the servant in the yamen when Wang Xianling was in office ten years ago?"

Xue Yao's hometown is in Wangzhou Prefecture, and because he is poor, he followed him to study autopsy. He had only been transferred from the government for two years, and shook his head: "I don't know about this...... But my master knows a lot, so I'll write a letter and send it over tomorrow to inquire about the situation. ”

Lin Boqin said "um": "The money sent by the letter is recorded in the account, and the county government will reimburse it." ”

Gu Jingtong kept staring at Su Mei's corpse and did not speak.

He frowned, thoughtfully, and analyzed word by word for a while: "From the Zhu family's difficult birth, the dispute over the seizure of the child, and the involvement of the six members of Zhu Chengye's family in Shiliwan, Su Mei has always been a crucial figure, and these two cases must have a great relationship." Assuming that the murderer is the one who killed Zhu Chengye's family and Su Mei, then he must know that the case of Li Zhongyi and Su Mei has been clarified, and you have to follow Li Zhongyi to Shiliwan, but these two things are well known in Qingyuan County. In any case, the murderer had a ghost in his heart, and he was afraid that something suspicious would lead him to him, so he simply didn't do anything and killed Su Mei. ”

Lin Boqin didn't quite understand, he said: "If it weren't for the fact that the grave was split by lightning, I wouldn't have found out the suspicions of this old case at all, so why did he have no silver three hundred taels here, but exposed his whereabouts." ”

"Well...... this"

Gu Jingtong didn't know how to explain.

Chu Ji outside the door couldn't listen anymore, she turned her head and said, "Because this murderer is stupid!" ”

"Nonsense." Lin Boqin glanced at her.

can say that Li Zhongyi dug a tunnel to Shiliwan to commit murder, and her analysis is simply a whimsical crookedness.

Chu Cheng snorted and continued to gently pat the back of Su Yu's hand to comfort him.

Li Zhongyi had been listening to them talking, but when he thought of the scene just now, he was almost out of breath. It was only at this time that he realized why Chu Cheng was afraid of ghosts. Thinking of this, he asked Chu Cheng with palpitations: "Mrs. Lin, aren't you the most afraid of ghosts, how did you see Su Mei's corpse, and you still dare to come forward to investigate?" ”

Chu Cheng explained: "I'm afraid of ghosts and skeletons, but I'm not afraid of people who die unjustly. Speaking of this, she looked down at Su Yu, "What's more, this person is still Su Yu's adoptive mother." ”

Li Zhongyi bowed his head slightly and sighed: "If the deceased wife is still alive, this case should be investigated soon." ”

"But Zhu died ten years early, Su Mei was also killed, and now the people who still know the old case ten years ago ......"

Gu Jingtong suddenly turned around and said, "Ke Zhixi is still in Qingyuan County!" ”

***

Su Mei's body is temporarily laid to rest at home.

Su Yu was worried and refused to leave with Li Zhongyi, insisting on staying by her side.

If he didn't leave, Liang Xiuyun wouldn't leave, Li Zhongyi had no choice but to let Lin Boqin send two officials to guard and let them go.

Chu Cheng went to find Ke Zhixi with Lin Boqin and his party, and Gu Jingtong was even worried about whether Ke Zhixi would also be killed by the murderer. However, they felt anxious that Ke Zhixi was drinking gruel in the house in the county office.

When Li Zhongyi saw him holding a bowl of white porridge, there were no dishes, and the chopsticks were dirty, so he couldn't help but feel sad: "Old Ke ......"

Ke Zhixi heard his voice and tilted his ear: "Li Zhongyi? Who did you bring here? ”

"It's me."

Ke Zhixi heard Lin Boqin's voice, put down the dishes and chopsticks and stood up: "It's Lord Lin." ”

Lin Boqin knew that he was unable to move, and said, "You sit down, I just have a few things I want to ask you." ”

"My lord, but it doesn't hurt to speak."

Lin Boqin went straight to the point: "We found that Zhu Chengye's family was not burned to death by accident, but was poisoned first and then set on fire. Back then, you were in charge of sending Zhu's body back to Shiliwan, but what did you find wrong? ”

Ke Zhixi was still in shock and didn't react?

"What? Six members of Zhu Chengye's family were poisoned? ”

He was stunned for a moment, tried to remember, and said with some trepidation: "I...... I didn't know much about the events of the day of the cessation of the spirit, and on the way to Shiliwan, my eyes were blinded by poisonous insects. At that time, my whole person was on the verge of collapse, but fortunately, I was not the only one in the spirit sending team, and there were three other friends who did white things, otherwise Zhu's body would not be so easy to send to the Zhu family. He paused in his tone, "I was in a hurry to go back to Qingyuan County to heal my eyes, and as soon as I put Zhu's coffin, I went back in a hurry." A fire broke out in Zhu Chengye's house that night, and I didn't learn about it until a long, long time later. ”

Lin Boqin was keenly aware of something strange, and he frowned and asked, "You are not the only one who sent the spirit?" ”

"Of course it's more than that, the coffin is so heavy, how can I afford it alone."

"Who are the other three?"

Ke Zhixi frowned and thought: "The three of them all did white things with me, and then I was blind and moved to Fengshui, and there was no contact again." One of them is called Zeng Hongcai, one is Wang Huayuan, and the other is Wei Gao. Zeng Hong died only six years ago, because he hooked up outside, and the two had a dispute because of this. Her wife was a rough woman with a quick temper, and she actually took a knife from the kitchen and hacked him to death, which should be recorded in the file of the seventeenth year of Jianwu in Qingyuan County. ”

Hu Yu nodded: "I've heard about this, it's a big fuss, Zeng Hongcai's wife was beheaded after the autumn, and there was no one to collect the body." ”

Gu Jingtong asked: "What about Wang Huayuan and Wei Gao?" ”

"I don't know, I haven't been in touch." Ke Zhixi said this, laughing at himself, "I'm such a blind person, who is willing to deal with it, living in a remote place like Fengshui, naturally no one cares." ”

When Li Zhongyi heard this, his heart was sour.

He snorted, "Old Ke ......"

Ke Zhixi interrupted him and turned his head in Lin Boqin's direction: "Lord Lin, I hope what I said can be helpful to you." ”

Lin Boqin bowed slightly: "Thank you." ”

Seeing Ke Zhixi's attitude, Li Zhongyi remembered the old things, and was furious, but he didn't say a word to him, turned around and left.

Lin Boqin said to Gu Jingtong: "Zeng Hongcai's dossier related to the seventeenth year of Jianwu, come and show me." There are also Wang Huayuan and Wei Gao, these two people must also arrange for people to find as much as possible, and they must not let go of any clues. ”

After he finished ordering, he found that Chu Cheng was still here.

The night was already dark, and Lin Boqin said to Yang La: "You escort Mrs. back." ”

"I'm not going back."

Chu Cheng pouted.

Lin Boqin was slightly annoyed: "If you don't go back to rest in the middle of the night, what are you doing in the county office?" ”

"It's not fun for me to go back alone, I want to investigate the case with you."

"Xi Dusk and Mubi are all at home, what's not fun about you? Moreover, investigating cases is not child's play! Lin Boqin didn't bother to talk to her in detail, and waved his hand to let Yang La take her out.

Yang La showed an embarrassed and flattering smile and made a gesture of invitation: "Madam, don't embarrass your subordinates, go back." ”

Chu Cheng glanced at Lin Boqin, then glared at Gu Jingtong, who was watching the excitement on the side, stomped his feet, turned around and strode away.