Chapter 48
Li Zhongyi took the lead in breaking this embarrassing atmosphere.
He smiled and said, "My lord, madam, how was your rest last night?" ”
Lin Boqin saw that Chu Cheng didn't answer, so he took over the conversation and bowed slightly: "It's okay." ”
Chu Cheng sneered, turned around and left.
Seeing this, Hu Yu leaned into Yang La's ear and muttered in a low voice: "I just said that Mrs. and the adults quarreled last night." Yang La patted him on the shoulder as usual: "There is a fight at the head of the bed, and at the end of the bed, you didn't know it on the first day." ”
Lin Boqin seemed to hear the two of them chewing their tongues, and glanced at them coldly, and the two immediately lowered their heads and sloppy eyes.
The group put away their things and left.
Before leaving, Liang Xiuyun suddenly didn't know what was crazy, suddenly screamed, broke free from Su Yu's hand, pulled his legs and ran around to the backyard.
"Mother!"
Su Yu shouted.
Chu Ji and a few people hurriedly chased after him, but saw Liang Xiuyun kneeling in front of Zhu Xiujun's tomb, clasping his hands together and bowing one by one.
Li Zhongyi breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Don't look at my wife and aunt who are usually crazy, but occasionally they can still carry it." ”
Su Yu stepped forward to help Liang Xiuyun, his eyes swept away, he was suddenly stunned, and raised his hand to Zhu Chengye's grave: "Uncle, look, how my grandfather's grave is cracked." ”
When he said this, everyone looked over there.
The earthen bag cracked wide, the old coffin lid was also split, there were some burnt marks around it, and the white bones wearing the shroud could be faintly seen.
Yang La was bold, he stepped forward, glanced at it, turned his head and said, "It seems that it was split by the thunder last night." ”
Li Zhongyi frowned, and said to Chu Cheng and Lin Boqin, "Why don't you let Master Lin go first?" I'm going to carry some soil and repair my father-in-law's grave. ”
Lin Boqin subconsciously glanced at the grave that was blown open by the thunder, and suddenly his eyes froze.
"Lord Lin?"
As if he hadn't heard it, he walked quickly to the side of the grave, and looked down at the coffin condescendingly, with a shocked expression.
Although Chu Cheng was in conflict with Lin Boqin, he couldn't help but be curious when he looked like this, and Hu Yu and a few people surrounded him, and when he looked at it, a corner of the decaying coffin was exposed, and Zhu Chengye's skull was bright and snow-white. However, on this white bone, the position of the cervical spine and throat was pitch black.
This is clearly not what happens after being burned to death.
Lin Boqin commanded in a deep voice: "Hu Yu, Yang La, open the lid of the coffin and carry out Zhu Chengye's bones." ”
"Yes!"
The two have followed Lin Boqin for many years, and they have a tacit understanding, bringing hoes and shovels, and priing open the lid of the coffin while digging the soil.
Li Zhongyi hadn't figured out Lin Boqin's intentions yet, so he looked left and right in a bit of a panic, and asked, "Lord Lin, why are you, why are you digging the ancestral grave of the Zhu family?!" ”
Without waiting for Lin Boqin to answer, Chu Cheng interjected: "You'll know later." ”
If she guessed correctly, Zhu Chengye's family died strangely, what kind of "ghost baby killing" is simply a pretense!
In just a moment, Yang La and Hu Yu carried Zhu Chengye's remains out and laid them flat in the courtyard.
Tomorrow is a sunny morning, but for some reason, looking at this corpse, Chu Cheng felt a little cold behind her back, and panicked.
Lin Boqin squatted next to him and rolled up his sleeves, his face sank like water, and he stretched out two fingers to check the position of the cervical vertebrae of the remains. Then he tore off the shroud on the remains, revealing the entire remains.
Everyone's eyes widened, and Li Zhongyi staggered forward two steps, and said in disbelief: "This ...... What's going on? ”
But on the white bones, the cervical vertebrae to the waist bones are dyed dark black, and the black is immersed in the bones, which looks very weird.
Lin Boqin's sword eyebrows tightened, he looked left and right at the remains, and said in a deep voice: "If I didn't guess wrong, it was because of poisoning." ”
This coincided with Chu Cheng's guess, and she could even be sure that the poison in Zhu Chengye was arsenic!
"Poisoned?" Li Zhongyi only felt a cloud of white mist, "How can it be poisoned?" My father-in-law was obviously burned to death! ”
Lin Boqin did not explain to him first, and ordered Yang Lahu Yu to dig up all the bones behind the house.
In the morning, seven corpses were lined up in the courtyard, and the other six bodies were all blackened from the cervical vertebrae to the waist bone, except for Zhu Xiujun's body, which was normal.
Lin Boqin looked down at the pile of white bones, and his face was solemn: "I thought that Zhu Chengye's family in Shiliwan was buried in the fire, but I didn't know that this was a man-made tragedy." ”
Chu Ji glanced at it, only to feel shocked, and hurriedly tilted her head aside.
In the face of the facts, Li Zhongyi naturally didn't doubt it, he just couldn't understand it, and said abruptly: "My father-in-law's family, although it has a bad reputation in the local area, it shouldn't be so hateful!" Who would be so ruthless and poison all six members of his family? Even the two five-year-old children are not spared, don't they have a common hatred? ”
He didn't look like he was lying.
Lin Boqin hesitated for a while and asked, "This matter was a sensation in Qingyuan County back then, what did the government say?" ”
Li Zhongyi recalled: "Wang County, who was in Qingyuan County at the time, came to see it in person and called a person to examine the body. He told me that it was a fire accident, not poisoning. ”
"Who is that man, do you remember?"
Lin Boqin didn't believe it.
Generally speaking, it can be seen that the Zhu family was poisoned first and then burned, how could they hide it and not report it? Either that, the county commander of Nawang was afraid of the trouble of investigating the case, so he deliberately ignored the poisoning and counted it as an ordinary fire case.
Li Zhongyi shook his head: "I can't remember clearly, but I heard that he lives in Qingyuan County, and if you look carefully after you go back, you may be able to find it." ”
Lin Boqin let out an "um" sound.
He looked at the remains placed in the courtyard, his expression calm, but his eyes were full of turmoil.
Yang La stepped forward and asked, "Lord Lin, how to dispose of these remains, do you need to bring them back to Qingyuan County?" It was placed on the roof of the carriage and tied with a rope, which should be tucked in. ”
"It's not good!"
When Chu Cheng heard this, her hairs stood up.
She glared at Yang La, who hurriedly covered her mouth.
Lin Boqin pondered for a moment, as if he was thinking about the possibility of this matter. Chu Ji didn't care about the cold war with him, and hurriedly said: "Lin Boqin, your remains have been examined, can you let the family be buried in the ground?" ”
Lin Boqin did not speak.
Chu Ji quickly caught up with him and said, "The carriage is so small, isn't it a joke to put a bundle of human bones on it?" ”
Lin Boqin still didn't speak.
Chu Cheng was in a hurry, so she didn't want to go with these bones. Turning his head to see Li Zhongyi, Su Yu, and Yang La, they all looked at her and Lin Boqin, and simply dragged Lin Boqin into the house: "Don't be angry first, answer my words!" ”
Lin Boqin didn't expect her to have so much strength, she almost stumbled, pulled her sleeve back, and said angrily: "Li Siniang, what kind of system is pulling?" ”
"I don't know what you don't know." Chu Cheng thought of the pile of remains, and her tone softened, "You have already checked it anyway, so there is no need for the bones of the Zhu family to be transported to Qingyuan County." Back and forth, I don't know how much time I have to toss. ”
Lin Boqin said coldly: "These are evidence. ”
Chu Cheng hurriedly said: "Everyone has seen the evidence." ”
She raised her hand and pointed to herself, and then to the person outside the door: "We are a group of seven people, fourteen pairs of eyes, which one didn't see?" Testimony is needed, and everyone can come forward. ”
Lin Boqin's forehead twitched: "Fourteen pairs? Extra eyes grow on you? ”
Chu Cheng was stunned, and found that she had miscalculated, so she said unhappily: "If you miscalculate, you can correct it, why are you still scolding." ”
Lin Boqin snorted coldly.
Chu Cheng became angry when she looked at him, glanced around the room, her eyes fell on the simple and old bed, and her tone was depressed: "Lin Boqin, I really don't understand you, every time you get angry with me for some reason." She blinked, "We were obviously happy to get along last night, and I also helped you suck snake venom and ...... it with your mouth."
"Shut up." Lin Boqin turned around suddenly, his face was blue and white for a while, and then turned red again, slightly hot.
Chu Cheng was also embarrassed, but in order to make Lin Boqin deflated, he had to be cheeky.
Wrapping her fingers around, she continued, "What can't be said? I dare to be, you are a big man, don't you want to admit it? I was bent on saving your life, for fear that you would be poisoned by snakes, and at the risk of being poisoned myself, I would help you suck out the poisonous blood, but you were fine, and you turned your face and began to speak coldly to me. I was angry at you, and that's because I was really angry. There are three 'En' words that really suit you very well. ”
Lin Boqin frowned: "What is the word 'en'?" ”
"I am as kind to you as a mountain, but you will take revenge, you are simply an ungrateful person."
“……”
Lin Boqin lowered his eyes and pursed his thin lips.
He was angry, in fact, he was minding her past. There is no origin for this kind of anger, and now that he thinks about it carefully, he also feels that he is narrow-minded.
Even if you read thousands of sage books, you can't become a saint after all.
Seeing his expression, Chu Cheng couldn't help but say, "You are angry with me for no reason, I really don't understand." After all, I thought ...... We're already friends. ”
When Lin Boqin heard this, his expression was a little complicated.
After a while, he relieved his tone and said, "You are right, the corpses of the Zhu family are already strict, and there is no need to take them to Qingyuan County." ”
Chu Cheng was stunned, and immediately reacted, almost jumping up with joy. But after glancing at Lin Boqin's sparse eyebrows, she couldn't help but hook the corners of her mouth and asked, "Lord Lin, do you mean to apologize to me?" ”
“…… No. ”
Lin Boqin's mouth was hard.
Chu Cheng knew what he was thinking, and said to herself: "Okay, I accept your apology." With that, he stepped out of the room and walked out humming a song.
Seeing this scene, Yang La nodded at Hu Yu: "I'm right, there is a fight at the head of the bed and the end of the bed." ”
Lin Boqin also came out.
At this time, noon had passed, and it was inconvenient to stay here, so he instructed Hu Yu and Yang La to rebury the remains, and then prepared to go back to Qingyuan County directly to investigate the case of Zhu Chengye's six murders.
Chu Cheng was a little hesitant in the end, she stepped forward and asked, "Do you really want to spend energy investigating an old case ten years ago?" ”
"It's not exhausting."
Lin Boqin looked at her, his expression was sparse, and he was clear, "The world is inexhaustible, I just want to do my best to return the world to a clear blue sky." ”