That year, in the field outside Taozhuang Village in northern Hubei Province, a young female corpse was shocked.

The Xiao family is a big family in the village, with thousands of acres of fertile land, a herd of mules and horses, rich and powerful but not overbearing. As long as she heard that there were beggars who had died outside the village, she came to inspect them, took out two pieces of ocean, and hired someone to transport them to the barren hill for burial. This time he was on the scene again. Although the female corpse was disfigured by Yan Zhan, he still recognized it as his second daughter Xiao Lianzhi at a glance, and the old man fainted on the spot.

The villagers are angry and angry, and they really deserve to be thundered by the sky, and they can't die well!

After receiving the report, Dong Yuqing, the chief of the Xiangxian County Police, did not dare to slack off and urgently ordered the detectives to go to investigate.

Detectives inquired on the woman's body and found that she had been poisoned and dumped, and her face had been smashed by a blunt object. The Xiao family was grief-stricken and even more confused. In the past few days, the second lady has been bedridden by the wind and cold, and she has never left the door. How could he walk out of the deep house compound in the middle of the night and die? It was the height of summer, and the body could not be stored, so it was buried on the same day.

Since then, at night, in the Xiao family's cemetery, there are often women's cries. It made people's scalps tingle. No one dared to pass through there after dark.

A month has passed, and the police have made no progress in the investigation. Mrs. Xiao is a famous country gentry, and her eldest son is the commander of the Beiyang Army. Soon, the officials of the Hubei Governor's Office began to inquire into the case. Extremely annoyed by the long-term unsolved. Reprimanded the Xiangxian Police Department for its ineffective handling of the case! Dong Yuqing panicked and hurriedly ordered a reward to reward the clue provider.

Then. The lining is full of old men who said. On the morning of the crime, he was picking up dung outside the village, and when he saw Liao Shuhai pulling a rickshaw, he looked panicked and rushed to the city. Suspiciously.

Of the four daughters of the Liao family, only one son, Liao Shuhai, is naturally pampered in every way. When you reach the age of reading. He opened the book and became sleepy, picked up the pen and shouted a headache: mahjong, pai gow, dice, betting, at a glance, he understood at a glance, he knew it without a teacher, and he began to enter and exit the casino at a young age. The knife is not afraid of your thick neck, the casino is a bottomless pit, and the amount of money is not enough to fill it. The old couple has used both martial arts. If you don't hit the master, you won't change it if you kill him, and you can watch him lose all his family property. In the end, he was alive. The sisters who got married couldn't bear to see their younger brother so poor that they had nothing to eat, so they pooled money to buy him a rickshaw to go to the city to pull his feet.

The detectives found Liao Shuhai and at first he didn't say anything. Later, I had to tell the truth. It was foggy that morning. He pulled the car out of the village, saw a person lying in the field, and went down to see it with curiosity, and saw the corpse of a well-dressed woman.

Detectives searched Liao Shuhai's house and found a gold bracelet in a crack in the bricks. It was identified by the Xiao family as the second lady's thing.

The detectives were overjoyed and took Liao Shuhai back to the police station for interrogation. He only confessed to removing the gold bracelet from the corpse. He denied killing. Dong Yuqing was furious and ordered the interrogation to be intensified. Not more than three days. Liao Shuhai confessed to murder and robbery, and the physical evidence and confession were complete.

The murderer is in the law, the revenge has been avenged, and the second lady under Jiuquan should also rest in peace, but the woman in the Xiao family's cemetery is still crying. What's even more incredible is that since Liao Shuhai's body was buried in the Liao family's cemetery, a man's whining cry was heard at night.

Late that night, the wind was strong and the rain was pouring down. Fang Quanyou, who was in his sleep, flashed through the thunder and lightning, and saw Liao Shuhai standing in front of the bed, crying like a girl. The old man has a stubborn temper, even if he is a ghost, he has to be reasonable, and he said angrily: "Since ancient times, debts have been repaid, and murder has paid for life." You killed the second miss, you should give someone your life, what grievances are there?" Liao Shuhai said: "Uncle Quan, I really didn't kill people!" I was wronged......"

A thunderbolt woke Fang Quanyou up, it turned out that he had a nightmare, and he didn't go to his heart. These days, he almost died of anger, and the day before the Xiao family's murder, his daughter Xiaocui eloped with someone.

Fang Quan's nephew Peng Xinyu, his father died when he was a child, and his uncle helped him study. Uncle and nephew are like father and son. He is now teaching in a school in Hankou, and when he heard that his cousin eloped with someone, he made a special trip to persuade his uncle that the Republic of China advocates freedom of marriage, and that men and women can love freely, without shame or breaking the law! During the chat, he heard about the Xiao family's case, and was shocked, the police inquired on the body and died of poisoning, so Liao Shuhai had no contact with this lady, how could he ask her out at night to poison and throw the body?

Later, a classmate of Peng Xinyu worked as a reporter in "Chutian Minsheng Daily", and after hearing the case, he also felt very strange, and decided that there must be a hidden secret, so he went to Xiangxian County to investigate and secretly investigate, and quickly found out the truth. At that time, the police chief Dong Yuqing, the more he interrogated, the more he felt that Liao Shuhai was not the real murderer, and the more he investigated, the more he felt that he had arrested the wrong person; But if the case dragged on, it would be difficult for him to protect himself, so he ordered his subordinates to be punished. Liao Shuhai was beaten into a confession, confessed indiscriminately, signed and detained, and only wanted to die.

After the case was disclosed by the newspaper, public opinion was in an uproar, believing that local officials were careless of people's lives and took people to blame! Under the pressure of public opinion, Dong Yuqing was removed from his post and investigated.

On this day, Fang Quanyou picked up dung and walked to the Xiao family's cemetery, and when he saw his daughter Xiaocui coming out of the cemetery, he was stunned!

Fang Quanyou's wife died early, and the father and daughter depended on each other. Old lady Xiao saw that he was having a hard time, so he asked Xiaocui to do some chores at his house. The night before the second miss was killed, he was eating with a coarse porcelain black bowl, and the Xiao family went to find him. Old lady Xiao said: "Xiaocui eloped with my guy Ji Feng Yan. Your family is embarrassed when this news spreads, and my family's face is not disgraceful. I have already sent someone to chase him, and when he is chased back, Feng Yan will abduct the population and send it to the official for punishment. You bring Xiaocui back and discipline him more, and don't do this ugly thing again!"

Fang Quan made a "buzzing" sound, and felt a blackness in front of him. Xiaocui has food, drink and wages here, and she is embarrassed to do such an unruly and dishonorable thing. I'm even more sorry for the Xiao family!

Now, Fang Quanyou saw his daughter come out of the cemetery. He scolded angrily: "Where did you run away with that wild boy, it makes me think so bitter!"

"Dad, I didn't elope with anyone, I've always been here ......" Xiao Cui choked up with tears streaming down her face. With that, she lifted her feet off the ground, and floated into the depths of the graveyard like a cloud, and disappeared in front of a grave.

Fang Quanyou chased after him and took a look. It was the grave of the second lady of the Xiao family, and I couldn't help but be confused.

A few days later, a cowhide dealer in the village returned. Cover your mouth and whisper: "Brother Quan, the second lady of the Xiao family is not dead." A few days ago, I went to Shimen County to collect skins. I saw her and Feng Yan walking on the street. The two are very close. It's not like the relationship between the master and the subordinate......"

Fang Quanyou "sighed" in his heart, could it be that the Xiao family admitted that he was wrong, the female corpse in the field was Xiaocui? So he hurriedly brought a letter to his nephew.

Peng Xinyu listened. He frowned and said, "Uncle." The body was disfigured and buried for several days, making it unrecognizable. Fang Quanyou said: "Xiaocui has a silver lock around her neck, and she was born with a little toe on her right foot. Peng Xinyu high-fived and applauded: "Let's go to the police station." said that the second lady of the Xiao family was still alive and asked for an autopsy in the coffin. ”

The cowhide dealer. Seeing a big mess caused by a gossip, he was so frightened that he ran away overnight and never dared to go back to the village again.

This makes the police station very difficult, not to mention that the Xiao family is a figure with a head and a face. Even if it is a poor family, it will not let people dig up the grave casually and turn over the corpse. Besides, how does it end if you get it wrong? So it dragged on.

Fang Quanyou did not agree. Everywhere shouted grievances. It made the streets of Xiangxian County talk and talk.

This seemingly ordinary case is endless, and the more it gets bigger, the more bizarre it becomes. Old lady Xiao couldn't sit still, and found Fang Quanyou and said, "Brother Quanyou, Xiaocui is running away from my house." Feng Yan is my guy again. I have the responsibility of not being strict in governing the family. Willing to take money to compensate for the private. You save me some face. Stop digging graves. I'm begging you!"

Fang Quan refused and said that he didn't want money. Be sure to find out!

Peng Xinyu risked his life to seek justice for his cousin, and sued from Xiangxian County to the Provincial Governor's Mansion and all the way to the Beijing government. For this lawsuit, he was dismissed from the school. Lost my job. The Xiangxian Police Department was forced to open the coffin for an autopsy. The medical examiner found a silver lock from the corpse, engraved with the words "Fang Xiaocui", and also found that the deceased's right foot was missing a little toe.

"The surname Xiao ...... No injustice, no revenge...... Why did you kill my daughter?" Fang Quanyou screamed, spat blood, and fell to the ground.

No one thought that it was Mrs. Xiao who killed Xiaocui.

It turned out that although Feng Yan was a buddy, he was good-looking. The second lady, Xiao Lianzhi, has been in love with him for a long time, and after she became pregnant. The two of them took a few silver tickets and left the country. The daughter of the scholarly family eloped with her subordinates. When this scandal spread, the Xiao family will lose face. It's not easy to hide this for a long time, a big living person is gone, how to explain it to outsiders? Old lady Xiao had evil thoughts, and poisoned Xiaocui with arsenic that night, and put on the clothes of the second miss for her, put on the gold bracelet that the second miss did not take away, and threw the body outside the village after being disfigured......

The Xiao family regarded their faces as bigger than the sky, and did things that hurt the sky and reason in order to cover up their ugliness, trying to hide from the sky and the sea. When Mrs. Xiao learned that her evil deeds were exposed, she immediately committed suicide by hanging herself from a beam at home. After Yuan Shikai's death. His eldest son, who was the commander of the regiment, was killed in the Beiyang Arms Annex, and the Xiao family fell from this family.

Fang Quanyou transported his daughter's bones back to his own cemetery for burial, and couldn't help crying in front of the grave: "Girl, my father has avenged you, you should be blind......"

From then on, the people of Taozhuang could no longer hear the cry in the cemetery at night. (To be continued......)