If you don't open the coffin, you won't know the cause of Shen Shi'an's death, and if you don't know the cause of his death, you can't find out the truth. It's a matter of desperation.

Liu Yu waved his hand at him and said, "Lord Ben knows what the impact of opening the coffin will be, you don't need to say it, just do it." ”

Seeing that Liu Yu could not be persuaded, the officials reluctantly got up and led more than a dozen officials to start digging.

The guards who followed Liu Yu saw the officials carefully digging behind the tombstones, and they also picked up the tools in their hands to dig together.

Time passed little by little, the earth was dug out and piled up, and the entire coffin was exposed in front of Liu Yu.

Liu Yu didn't rush to open it, but bowed in front of the coffin and said silently in his heart: The kid also had to do this in order to find out the truth about the killing of adults. If you offend, please forgive Lord Shen.

After praying, Liu Yu ordered the coffin to be opened. More than a dozen servants, you look at me, I look at you, no one dares to do it, Li Hengyao saw this, and took the lead in priing the rivets on the coffin with a tool.

The other guards followed, using the tools in their hands to pry the rivets on the coffin one by one, and after removing all the rivets.

Two people have one head, one person has one corner, and the four of them lift the cover plate above at the same time and put it aside.

After the coffin board was opened, a thick corpse stench spread outward, frightening the surrounding people to retreat one after another.

Liu Yu took out a handkerchief from his sleeve, wet it with water, covered his nose and stepped forward to check. It was found that there was actually a headless male corpse inside, the body was decomposed in many places, and the clothes on the body were also soaked in corpse water and discolored.

Seeing this, Liu Yu couldn't help but turn her head and vomit, until she vomited until the sour water came out and wanted to vomit.

Li Hengyao, who had just put down the coffin board, saw that Liu Yu was vomiting, so he hurriedly stepped forward to help her and said, "My lord, you can go to the side and rest first! ”

Liu Yu finally stopped vomiting, waved his hand at Li Hengyao and said, "Just do as you say, and I'll come back after I have done a check." ”

With the support of Li Hengyao, Liu Yu came to a big tree to rest with vain steps, and saw an old man in his forties and fifties with a young man come to the open coffin to take a closer look.

Liu Yu guessed that he was the official servant, and the man behind him thought that he was the apprentice of the servant, watching the two of them busy around the coffin, and the apprentice was holding a pen and paper to record beside him.

After carefully inspecting it, he asked his apprentice to record everything he had found, and finally handed it over to Liu Yu.

Liu Yu picked it up and looked at it, first saw that the deceased was about the age of about the year he was standing, and then saw that he was about eight feet tall. With a "snap", Liu Yu closed the recorded paper.

Came to the coffin and took a closer look at it with nausea.

Sure enough, this headless corpse did not look like an old man, although the body was rotten badly, it could be vaguely seen that the deceased was very young, and it was not the age that Lord Shen should have at all.

Liu Yu called Li Hengyao and handed him the case record in his hand and asked him to read it carefully.

Li Hengyao was also surprised when he saw it, he didn't expect that the coffin was not filled with Lord Shen, so who was the headless corpse lying in the coffin now? Where is Lord Shen's body?

Or is it that Lord Shen is not dead at all, but is secretly locked up by Lu Zhizhong somewhere?

The situation is getting more and more complicated, originally I only wanted to find out the cause of Lord Shen's death, but now there is another body. Moreover, the government has not received any reports of missing people, so where did this headless corpse come from?

This mystery is unsolved and there is another, this coffin is not Lord Shen, so where did Lord Shen's body go?

Liu Yu ordered someone to carry the headless male corpse back to the mansion, ordered a document to set up a reward notice, and ordered the official to go to the city to defend it, could there be a missing person nearby?

The notice was posted for more than half a month, but no one answered the notice, and the officials were on the guard day and night, and there were no clues.

The only missing person was also drunk and fell into the river and drowned, and the body was recovered by the villagers and buried only after being identified by relatives.

For half a month, there was no progress, which made Liu Yu a little frustrated. What went wrong? Why did there be a corpse but no one claimed it? This is unreasonable, there must be something that I didn't think of?

Liu Yu fidgeted alone in the study, and when he was in a hurry, he would hit his head with his hand, Li Hengyao saw it in his eyes and was anxious in his heart.

Since the last time Liu Yu was injured and got out of the carriage with her, Li Hengyao always felt that something was wrong with him, and he would always keep paying attention to what Liu Yu was doing?

Seeing that Liu Yu was anxious because there was no progress in the case, he would also be anxious.

Now seeing that Liu Yu actually hit her head with her hand, Li Hengyao hurriedly stepped forward and pulled her sleeve and reminded: "My lord, sit down and rest for a while! Don't push yourself too hard, maybe you will think of the problem after relaxing!"

Liu Yu turned around and looked at Li Hengyao for a moment, then nodded and said, "Brother Li, you're right! I'll take a rest first and take care of it, maybe I'm thinking about it somewhere." ”

Saying that, Liu Yu sat down at the desk and asked someone to serve her a pot of tea, and asked Li Hengyao to sit down and drink tea with her.

Soon the next person brought the brewed tea, Liu Yu picked up the teacup and raised it in the direction of Li Hengyao and said, "Taste it, the best Biluochun, sent from Jiangnan." ”

"Thank you, sir, for the good tea!" Li Hengyao replied.

Liu Yu smiled and didn't speak, lowered his head and scraped the teacup with the lid of the cup, but what he thought in his mind was who was this headless male corpse that was put in a coffin by Lu Zhizhong?

Where did it come from? Why doesn't anyone know?

As soon as he thought of this, Liu Yu's mind flashed. Wait! Where did it come from? Where did it come from? yes! Why didn't you think of it!

This headless male corpse may not be a native of Kaifeng, but came to Kaifeng from other places, so no one knows him, and naturally no one will look for him, let alone know that he is dead.

After figuring out the problem, Liu Yu immediately put down the teacup in his hand and said to Li Hengyao: "Brother Li, you go to check if there are any outsiders missing in Kaifeng, especially those who came with Lord Shen, and see where these people have gone? Are they returning to their hometowns or missing?"

"Yes. ”

Li Hengyao took a few officials to visit Kaifeng City, and Liu Yu stayed in the government to find a way to get Lu Zhizhong to speak.

For several days, Liu Yu didn't wait for news from Li Hengyao's side, and Lu Zhizhong's side didn't cooperate, no matter how Liu Yu was with him, he didn't speak, and he didn't even raise his eyelids.

Time passed day by day, but there was no progress in the case, and Liu Yu was very irritable in her heart.

One morning, Liu Yu was about to go out for a walk in Kaifeng City to see if there would be anything to discover. When he reached the door, he was stopped by a hurried officer.

When the official saw Liu Yu in civilian clothes, he knelt on one knee and said breathlessly, "My lord, it's not good." The Lu family was killed, and no one was left.

The murderer was very cruel, the house was full of stumps and broken arms, and there were no intact corpses. Even the toddlers were not spared. ”

"What?" Liu Yu said in surprise.