After a whole night of hard work, the catchers and the officials finally completed the search of the Xue Mansion and its back garden. As a result, no traces of human existence have been found here, no recent domestic waste, and no fresh feces, and the whole Huawei is really just a deserted garden.

Perhaps, the mysterious woman in scarlet clothes is really a ghost.

For Wang Qi, the weirdness is not only that, his subordinates carefully inspected every well in Huali, and did not find any other corpses except Xue Yingtang.

Xue Miaoren, the former No. 1 beauty in Pinghu County, everyone was sighing for her facilitated life, but they didn't know that she was joking with everyone. Is it really as the rumors say, the beauty died, the incense disappeared, and the body has been transformed into the world?

…

When Wang Qi came to report the search situation to Yin Qianshan, he had just finished reading the file of the Xue Mansion back then.

Yin Qianshan drank ginger tea, his cheeks were slightly red, and he coughed twice from time to time. After all, it's a cold, and the well water in October is not an ordinary cold, although he has a good foundation since he was a child, and he has also learned some protective martial arts, and this time it is indeed a big one.

After listening to Wang Qi's report, he pondered for a moment and said slowly: "I have read the file carefully, did Wang Zhutou think it was okay for this case back then?" ”

Although it was just an understatement, Wang Qi immediately felt that the aura around him had changed. He smiled at Yin Qianshan a little stiffly, and rubbed his hands unnaturally.

Yin Qianshan began to tell himself: "According to records, on the seventh day of March last year, on the night of Mrs. Xue's birthday, Xue Yingtang fell ill and died. Three days later, Xue Yingtang went out for the funeral, and Mrs. Xue finally threw herself into the well and died after dismissing a group of slaves and maids. Mrs. Xue and Mrs. Xue were daughters in their later years, and they had already passed away at that time, and Mrs. Xue had never come out, and the Xue Mansion was dilapidated ever since. At that time, the county commander Lord Lin ordered someone to blockade Xue's mansion. Am I right, Wang Zhutou? ”

Wang Qi nodded hurriedly: "Lord Hui, it's true." ”

Yin Qianshan dug out another file and continued: "The day after Xue Yingtang's death, a county citizen Gong came to report the case, saying that his daughter Gong was poisoned in the house, and the murderer who accused..." ”

Wang Qi wiped his sweat and looked at a loss.

"But the strange thing is that Gong withdrew the lawsuit the next day." Yin Qianshan continued, "The pain of losing his daughter only lasted for one night, and he hastily buried his daughter the next day. Lord Lin neither sent someone to conduct an autopsy, nor did he go to the Xue Mansion for questioning, so the case was closed. ”

"Lord Yin," Wang Qi whispered, "Actually, everyone can see what's going on in the case." Master Xue must be secretly cooperating with the daughter of the Gong family behind Mrs. Xue's back, the Gong family has never had a lot of money, how can they afford to live in such a big house? It must be the support behind Master Xue! Originally, there was nothing to do, but who knew that the Gong family was unwilling to just be a nameless concubine, so he threatened Xue Yingtang to go to Xue's mansion to make trouble. My lord, you think, Xue Yingtang is just a wealthy son-in-law, and he has always been in awe of Mrs. Xue, how can he allow this Gong family to mess around..."

So, Xue Yingtang didn't do anything and poisoned Gong to prevent future troubles. Is it? Yin Qianshan continued his words.

Wang Qi said: "Exactly, my lord. A look of disdain appeared on his face again, "This Gong came to report the case, just to get a sum of money, after all, Master Xue was dead at the time, and the revenge for killing the woman was also avenged, so he naturally wanted to withdraw the lawsuit." ”

"So you think that Gong's case, Lord Lin has no problem settling it, right?" Yin Qianshan asked.

Wang Qi was stunned for a moment, and nodded with some hesitation.

Yin Qianshan smiled: "Maybe that's the case." But now, Xue Yingtang's body is there, not from illness, but from poisoning. And, judging by the puppet, he will not have been dead for more than a month. ”

Wang Qi patted his head: "I know, adult!" Look at my stupid head. He said excitedly: "I'll just say, Master Xue also died too coincidentally, and he died of illness on his front foot when he killed people on his back foot." Although it is said that the retribution of the cycle of heavenly principles is not happy, it is not so godly! Master Xue is simply faking his death! ”

"Oh?" Yin Qianshan's face was full of seriousness, "What do you say?" ”

"At that time, Master Xue killed someone, and he must have regretted it immediately. After he returned home, he explained the cause and effect of the whole incident to Mrs. Xue as it was. After all, they are married and dependent on each other, although they know that their husband betrayed him and killed someone, Mrs. Xue must also try to save Master Xue. Therefore, Mrs. Xue pretended that Master Xue died of a violent illness, but in fact, she borrowed the corpse to resurrect the soul and hid Master Xue. After all, the murderer is dead, and the Gong family naturally has nothing to say, and the matter is over. Mrs. Xue dismissed the servants again and pretended to die by throwing herself into a well, but in fact, she changed her face with Master Xue and went to live somewhere else. ”

He seemed to be quite proud of his speculation after he finished speaking, and his eyebrows swirled.

Yin Qianshan nodded: "This seems to be quite reasonable." But," he sighed, "since Master Xue had already gone somewhere else to start over, why did he die under Hua Xu's well?" And he was poisoned in recent times. ”

Wang Qi was stupid all of a sudden, he blinked his eyes and couldn't hold back half a word for a long time.

"Wang Zhutou thinks, how should you verify your speculation now?" Yin Qianshan asked again.

Wang Qi wiped his sweat: "Humble duty... Humble and stupid. ”

"Two things. First, send someone to the place where Xue Yingtang is buried, dig up his coffin, and I will open the coffin for an autopsy. Yin Qianshan immediately ordered, "Second, send someone to invite Lu Sheng, I have something to confirm with him." ”

"Yes, sir. The subordinates will do it. Wang Qi was relieved and ordered to retire.

…

"My lord, Lu Sheng brought it."

Yin Qianshan was pondering, but was interrupted by a sudden voice. When he opened his eyes, he found that Wang Qi was bowing down to report to him, while Lu Sheng was standing respectfully at the bottom of the hall, looking at him expectantly.

"I called you here today to identify something." Yin Qianshan said slowly.

Lu Sheng's face changed: "Really found it?" ”

Yin Qianshan frowned, looking at Lu Sheng with some confusion.

Lu Sheng cried with a sad face, and cried loudly: "I knew that Jingzhi must have been killed!" He beat his chest and whimpered, "Respectfully, sigh that you have been cold for ten years, and the day of your rise is imminent, who wants to die in a foreign land." How to bear it as a brother, how to explain it to your mother! ”

The few catchers standing next to him shook their heads helplessly.

Yin Qianshan smiled bitterly: "Don't cry first, I didn't ask you to identify the body, we haven't found Liu Sheng yet." ”

"Huh?" Lu Sheng was stunned, sniffed and said, "Jingzhi is not dead?" So, what did the adults make me recognize? ”

Yin Qianshan motioned for a catcher to quickly present an object to Lu Sheng. Lu Sheng glanced at it a few times, and suddenly exclaimed, "This is not. . . Isn't this Yanagi's kaftan? My lord, how can he be with you? ”

"Why is this Liu Sheng's clothes, isn't this Master Xue's clothes?" Wang Qiqi said.