When Ye Qiong woke up, her head was still groggy and her body was a little chilly.

Taking off the cold veil on his forehead, Ye Qiong supported her head with one hand, lifted the curtain with the other, and asked the liuying who was holding the charcoal basin: "I remember that I was still kneeling in the Buddhist hall before, how can I go back to Qionghuayuan now." ”

Liuying was very surprised to see her wake up, and first added a pillow behind Ye Qiong, and then took the medicine and said: "The girl also said that others want to be lazy when they are punished for kneeling, but the girl really knelt for three days, didn't she suffer from the wind and cold and fell ill?" The old lady and Mrs. were frightened, and the whole Qionghua Courtyard was messed up, and Mrs. Lu, who lived next door, brought the doctor over. ”

Ye Qiong frowned and drank all the decoction in the bowl, Liuying handed over a plate of candied fruit in a timely manner, Ye Qiong chewed several pills in a row to relieve the bitterness in his mouth, and said, "What time is it now, what is the matter in the house?" ”

The warbler replied, "It's the beginning of the hour. There is nothing to do in the house, but I heard that Chief Zou Shan has come to see the girl, and now the old lady and his wife are receiving it in Wutong Courtyard. ”

Ye Qiong's heart moved, and she immediately got off the bed, and instructed Liuying: "Change the clothes for me to meet the guest, and I will go to see the mountain chief." ”

Liuying responded with a "hey", and couldn't help but persuade more: "The girl is really hardworking, and she is still sick now, so she should rest more." ”

Ye Qiong's heart softened, and said: "Daddy is still in prison, how can I rest at ease, okay, I'll go back when I go." ”

When Ye Qiong came to Wutong Courtyard, Chief Zou Shan was about to say goodbye and return to the academy, when he saw Ye Qiong coming, he stroked his beard and smiled: "I can move around, it seems that it should be fine." ”

Xie Shi was also very surprised to see that Ye Qiong could stay, and when he saw her cheeks slightly red, he glared at her and said, "The illness is not completely cured, why did it come out?" ”

Ye Qiong said with a smile: "I heard that the mountain chief is here, so I think I have to come and see him anyway." Since I'm here, A-Niang will go back, and I'll personally send one to the mountain chief. ”

Xie Shi originally wanted to refute, but the two of them guessed that they had something to say, so they said, "Okay, I'll be lazy, Qiong'er, you can send the mountain chief out." ”

Ye Qiong saluted to Shan Chang Zou and said, "Shan Chief, please come with me." ”

The Ye Mansion is not big, the Wutong Courtyard is not far from the main gate, Ye Qiong led Zou Shanchang, and followed the maids far behind.

The two stopped when they walked to a nan tree not far from the second gate, and Zou Shanchang took the lead in asking: "Classmate Ye Qiong, what did you ask Master Ye to bring me a letter?" ”

Ye Qiong bowed his knees slightly to Chief Zou and said, "I have something I want to ask Chief Zou for help." ”

A few days ago, when Ye Qiongshang was kneeling in the Buddhist hall, he asked Ye Jin to bring news to Ye Yu, asking Ye Yu to make sure that he wanted to move Zou Shanchang to come to Ye's house, he had important matters to discuss, and he would find an excuse for Zou Shanchang to come to Ye's house.

Ye Qiong's illness is an excuse.

The Master cared about the students, and it was normal for the Master to visit the students at their homes when they saw that they did not come to the school due to illness.

So, Ye Qiong quietly rained for an hour in the middle of the night in the Punishment Buddha Hall, which made herself infected with the wind cold.

It's just that Ye Qiong didn't expect that her body was worse than she thought, probably because she didn't recuperate her body when she fell into the water last time. Seeing her relatives worrying about herself, Ye Qiong's heart was not very comfortable, but there was no way, she needed the help of Zou Shanchang.

Thinking like this, Ye Qiong asked to be detailed: "Chief Zou should have heard about the bridge on the outskirts of Beijing. The people are ignorant, and superstition cannot be broken by me alone, nor can it be broken by the Ye family. But you are different, you are the head of Wenshan Academy, you are highly respected, and you are full of peach and plums. The people will not listen to the Ye family, but they will listen to you. Ye Qiong hereby asks the mountain chief to come forward to break the superstition for the people. ”

Zou Shanchang's expression was unmoved, he only looked at Ye Qiong and smiled: "The situation of the Ye family's case is unclear, and now that human lives are involved, why do you think that I will be willing to do this thankless thing?" ”

Ye Qiong smiled: "Because it's advantageous." Breaking the superstition can help the mountain chief and Wenshan Academy to a higher level of prestige, isn't the mountain chief excited? ”

Zou Shan was long but silent.

Ye Qiong continued to say: "Mountain Chief, let's make a bet, if the Ye family can get rid of the suspicion of using the technique of disgust when building the bridge, the Mountain Chief will help to break the superstition, okay?" ”

Zou Shanchang laughed out loud, and finally showed a little appreciation in his eyes: "Good! Many readers don't like to talk about profits, but I don't. If you don't benefit others first, how can you benefit yourself? If you can take into account my difficulties, I will make this bet with you! ”

As he spoke, Chief Zou stretched out his hand, Ye Qiong understood, and also stretched out his hand, and as soon as the two of them clapped their hands, the bet contract was decided.

After clapping his hands, Zou Shanchang said with a smile: "Since it has been decided, we can't let the Ye family be busy." If you're struggling, you can tell me, and while I may not be able to help, there are many ways to do it. ”

Ye Qiong's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly said: "I don't know if Zou Laoshan has connections in Dali Temple, so that the Ye family can see those two floating corpses."

Zou Shanchang pondered for a moment, then laughed, smiling like an old fox: "You asked the right person." Dali Temple is Du Siheng is my student, yesterday came to my home as a guest, and complained to me that there are not enough people in Dali Temple, let me recommend a few students who can be used to him. I'll recommend you to him. ”

Ye Qiong smiled and thanked him.

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Du Siheng felt a little unlucky.

It's just that he complained to his teacher a few days ago, and the teacher found himself an errand that he couldn't refuse, and asked him to take a group of young ladies to Yizhuang in the north of the city to see the corpse in the middle of the night.

Du Siheng carried a paper lantern, followed by Ye Qiong, Ye Yao, Ye Jin and Lu Shaodan.

In Ye Qiong's group, Ye Qiong and Ye Yao secretly came out without telling their elders.

In the autumn breeze, Ye Qiong wrapped herself in the cloak of the big red gorilla felt, lowered her head and coughed lightly.

Lu Shaodan frowned, hugged his sword and walked at the end of the group without saying a word.

Ye Yao quietly raised her eyes and peeked at Du Siheng, then withdrew her gaze.

I just didn't worry about my sister and came over, but I didn't expect it to be this Lord Du who led the way.

Du Siheng sighed resignedly, Bai Jun's face looked a little terrifying under the flickering candlelight of the lantern, and he said, "You can only enter two people, you can choose two people to follow you in." ”

Everyone, you look at me, I look at you, or Ye Qiong said first: "I must go and see." Forget it, sister, you're cowardly, you can't stand it. ”

Ye Yao nodded resignedly, at this point, she was really inferior to her sister, when she was a child, she was scared to cry by the ghost stories told by her sister.

Ye Jin also wanted to speak, but was interrupted by Lu Shaodan first: "I'll go too, Ye Jin, don't go, you haven't seen a corpse, and you don't know the horror of floating corpses." ”

Ye Jin just wanted to ask if you have seen it too, but Lu Shaodan said coldly: "I have seen it." After speaking, Lu Shaodan and Ye Qiong followed him into Yizhuang.

Ye Jin reacted at this time: "No, the little sister hasn't seen it before, can she stand it?" ”

In Yizhuang, the two of them cleaned their hands and changed into professional clothes and gloves, wrapped a special face towel soaked in potion on their faces, and turned the corpses in front of Ye Qiong and Lu Shaodan.

Even with the use of ice, the corpse was still infested with maggots, pupae under its fragile pale skin.

This is the first time that Ye Qiong and the two have faced the corpse together, and the first time he saw it, Ye Qiong felt that his stomach was overturned, and he pinched himself hard to get a little better.

He glanced at her, admired this delicate little girl from the bottom of his heart, and then looked at Lu Shaodan, who looked calm, and sighed even more in his heart.

Well, what did he say about the people who could come to see the corpse in the middle of the night, these two were not ordinary people.

Taking care of Ye Qiong's emotions, he said the autopsy results as quickly and concisely as possible: "The cause of death was drowning. Both bodies had a bruise on the waist with a rope and a blunt force wound to the back of the head, but there were no other wounds or signs of struggle, presumably after being knocked unconscious, they were stoned around their waists and thrown into the river to drown. ”

As he spoke, he couldn't help but sigh: "The cause of death is very clear, and the identity has been identified by Dali Temple, and it is a street gangster who is known to the people of the two markets." But the time of death is really impossible to determine, the body was found in a long soak, the degree of decay is too deep, can only be judged to be around the Mid-Autumn Festival, the error is about two days. ”

Ye Qiong endured nausea and watched the whole process, and was a little disappointed when she saw that there were no clues available on the corpse, and asked Xiang Zuo: "What are the objects on or around the corpse?" ”

"Yes." He nodded and said, and led them to the other side, "Here are all I took from the floating corpse, most of them were taken away by Dali Temple as evidence and archived, only these remained, because it was a big case, so I didn't dare to move." ”

There was no need to face the corpse, and the rancid smell between his nose was a little lighter, Ye Qiong's face relaxed a little, and he looked at the evidence one by one: "Hey, the fabric of this dress is silk, can this person afford it?" ”

He said: "That's what the Dali Temple said, saying that someone paid for the lives of these two people. ”

Ye Qiong frowned, picked up the coat with her gloved hand and looked at it carefully.

"What, did you find any clues?" Lu Shaodan on the side asked.

Ye Qiong shook her head: "I'm not very familiar with the fabric of clothes...... I remember that when my sister was married before, Ah Niang gave her sister the silk village in her dowry, and my sister took care of it for a while, maybe she knew. ”

"I'm going to call her in." Lu Shaodan immediately said.

Ye Qiong waited for a while, and Ye Yao walked in, her face was a little unnatural, she should have been holding back fear and nausea.

Ye Qiong sighed in her heart, showed the fabric of her clothes to Ye Yao, and said, "Sister, look at this fabric." ”

Ye Yao forcibly suppressed the sour water that had reached his throat, took the fabric and put it under the lamp to look through it carefully, and said excitedly after a while: "Qiong'er, this is the original pattern of the Xie family in Jiangnan, it is a fabric that is directly transported from Jiangnan, and other satin villages do not have it, only A-Niang's ready-to-wear shop will use this kind of fabric!" ”

Ye Qiong was also ecstatic when she heard this, Ye Yao had already continued: "Clothes that can be made of this kind of fabric must be expensive, and there must be records in the ready-to-wear shops for sale of such expensive clothes!" ”

Ye Qiong's heart moved.

With the garment sales records, it may be possible to determine the time of death of the two men.

It is said that the time of death of the two deceased is uncertain, probably around the Mid-Autumn Festival, the bridge in the suburbs of Beijing was repaired the day before the Mid-Autumn Festival, and on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the father and the eldest uncle returned to Yefu for the holiday, and on the second day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the father and the eldest uncle were imprisoned......

Daddy has always been very close to the construction of the project, the real culprit is not easy to start before the completion of the bridge, the Mid-Autumn Festival people have the habit of admiring the moon, but also can not do the murder and throw the corpse, the real culprit is likely to be killed after August 16.

On August 16, my father and uncle happened to be in prison, and they were definitely not the real murderers. And at this time, the bridge had been built, and my father and uncle had no motive to kill people for the bridge.

If it can be proved that these two deceased are still alive after August 16, the suspicion of the father and the eldest uncle can be solved!

Ye Qiong felt as if she was walking in the dark and finally saw the light, and she was very excited, so she immediately asked Ye Yao to describe the pattern, then changed her equipment, and told Ye Yao her thoughts with everyone.

Du Siheng praised: "This statement is reasonable. Fortunately, Miss Ye Yao also came along, Dali Temple only regarded the clothes as expensive, and also asked the owners of several silk villages, they only said that the fabric was expensive, but they didn't expect it to be so special. ”

Ye Yao just wanted to be humble, but when she opened her mouth, she vomited and fell dark.

Ye Qiong followed Ye Yao's back, and at this time she felt a little top-heavy, and she also covered her mouth sideways and coughed.

Rao is like this, Ye Qiong still tore off the tooth card that Xie gave her before from her waist and handed it to Ye Jin: "Brother, this is A-Niang's tooth card, take it to mobilize all the stewards in her dowry, you go to the steward of the garment shop to bring up the records and take a look." ”

Ye Jin solemnly took it.

At this time, the sky was already slightly bright, Ye Jin went back to the inner city first when the curfew was lifted, and the rest of the people also went home first.

After Lu Shaodan sent Ye Qiong and Ye Yao back to the house, Ye Yao was uneasy, and followed Ye Qiong to wait in Qionghua Courtyard, and when she shook Ye Qiong's hand, she found that her palms were also full of sweat.

Ye Qiong smiled reluctantly at Ye Yao, and the two waited anxiously for a moment, then they heard Ye Jin eagerly knock on the door of Qionghuayuan: "Eldest sister, second sister, I found out, those two bought clothes on August 17, and the steward still has an impression of that person's face!" ”

August 17 is one day later than August 16 expected by Ye Qiong!

Ye Yao cried with joy, and when she looked back, Ye Qiong was also in tears.