At the beginning of the next day.

When Weng Junding was anxious, Chen Wenqi returned to the county office exhausted. Weng Junding hurriedly stepped forward, took the burden in his hand, and said with concern:

"I haven't slept all night, have you? go wash up first, eat something and sleep, and we'll talk about it in the afternoon." ”

Chen Wenqi nodded and said, "There's no need to eat, I'll go take a nap." ”

Weng Junding knew that he was extremely tired, so he accompanied him to the guest house, and when he went to bed, he brought the door for him, and then called a strong official to wait outside the door, and did not allow idle people and livestock to make noise here.

After sleeping for about an hour, Chen Wenqi opened the door and saw a person standing outside the door.

He asked the official to invite Lord Weng, Xie Po, and Qiu Sen, saying that he had something to say.

After a while, the three of them arrived, Chen Wenqi asked for the piece of cloth from his hand, unwrapped his burden and took out a navy blue armor, compared with the two, the color was the same.

"Brother Chen, this armor is ......," Weng Junding asked.

"Found in Guo Xilai's house. Chen Wenqi said lightly.

"So, the person who transferred Sun Er's body was Guo Xilai?"

Chen Wenqi took out a pink skirt from his baggage and said, "This was also found in Guo Xilai's house." ”

"Guo Xilai doesn't have a woman, where can I get a woman's clothes at home?" Weng Junding asked puzzled.

"I asked a few people in the village, and some people remembered that Wei Lingyi used to wear a skirt of this color. ”

"Guo Xilai has Wei Lingyi's skirt at home? By the way, Guo Xilai must have hooked up with Wei Lingyi and was caught and raped by Sun Er in bed, afraid that the adultery would be exposed, so he killed Sun Er. There is a motive and physical evidence, and Guo Xilai is seriously suspicious. Weng Junding then reasoned.

"My lord, there's a clue on this mace, too. Xie Po said, holding up the mace.

"What clues?"

"Your Excellency, please see—" Xie Po pointed to the tip of the hammer handle near the mace.

Chen Wenqi and Weng Junding looked down, and there were four words the size of soybeans engraved on it: Moon, Day and Rain.

"What do you mean?" Qiu Sen muttered to himself.

"The little one came back yesterday and washed the stains off the hammer and found these words, but I don't know what they mean?" Xie Po said.

"It must have been a secret mark made by its owner. Since Guo Xilai's torn cloth was left in the coffin, this nail hammer must have been left behind by Guo Xilai. Instead of conjecturing without a clue here, it is better to go and meet this Guo Xilai and say, Brother Chen, what do you think?" Weng Junding proposed.

Chen Wenqi nodded: "It's okay." ”

There are several transept rooms on the side of the public court, which are temporary resting places for the prosecution, defense, and witnesses when the court is open for questioning. Qiu Sen took Guo Xilai to one of the rooms and asked him to sit on a chair that had been placed in the middle of the room beforehand.

Guo Xilai didn't know what to do with him, and asked with a sad face: "This official, what are you going to do?"

"What are you going to do? Qiu Sen replied coldly.

As soon as Qiu Sen's words were finished, Chen Wenqi and Weng Junding both walked in and sat behind the only table. Weng Junding asked in a deep voice, "Guo Xilai, do you know why he brought you to the county office?"

Guo Xilai replied with a crying voice: "I know, for the sake of Sun Er." My lord, I really don't know how he died, so please be aware of it. With that, he slipped down from his chair, got down on his knees, and moved towards the two of them.

"Get up and sit back in your chair. Reply honestly, if there is the slightest falsehood, never forgive. Weng Junding shouted.

Guo Xilai was stunned for a moment, slowly stood up, returned to the chair and sat down, and said:

"My lord, what do you want to know? As long as the villain knows, he promises not to hide anything. ”

"Good. Let me ask you, where is Sun Er's body?"

Guo Xilai seemed puzzled, and asked rhetorically: "Isn't Sun Er's body buried in a mass grave?"

"It was true that he was buried in a mass grave before, and then someone buried him in another place, don't you know?" Weng Junding asked rhetorically.

Guo Xilai looked surprised and said, "Buried in another place? Why? Who buried him in another place?"

"Hmph, pretending to be deaf and dumb. I'm asking you, you're asking me?" Weng Junding slapped the table and said sharply.

"My lord, the villain really doesn't know. Guo Xilai spread his hands with an innocent face.

"It seems that you are determined not to tell the truth?" Chen Wenqi leaned over and took out a navy blue armor from his baggage, held it up in front of Guo Xilai's eyes, and asked, "Do you know this armor?"

Guo Xi came to look at it for a while and said, "Yes, this is my clothes." Hey, didn't it keep it in my house? Why is it in your hands, my lord?"

Chen Wenqi didn't explain, shook off the armor, pointed to a big gap in the hem, and asked, "What's going on?"

When Guo Xilai saw it, his face suddenly changed, and he stammered: "This is ...... It's ......"

"Say, what is this?" Weng Junding suddenly slapped the table and shouted.

"I ...... I said, this is a flip...... Accidentally hung up the window. Guo Xilai's head began to sweat.

"Turning the window, where is the window?" Weng Junding didn't allow him to think too much about it, and asked closely.

Guo Xilai lowered his head and did not answer.

Chen Wenqi took out the strip of cloth hanging in Sun Er's coffin and asked, "Do you know this?"

Guo Xilai shook his head: "I don't know." ”

"Don't you know, there is a gap in your clothes, and there is just this strip of cloth in the coffin, why do you say it is so coincidental?" asked Weng Junding.

"How does this villain know?" Guo Xilai said aggrievedly. He stared at the clothes and strips of cloth for a while, seemed to have found something, and hurriedly said: "Look, my lord, if this strip of cloth is torn from my clothes, they should be the same shape, but this ......"

"But this shape is different, isn't it?" Weng Junding intercepted Guo Xilai and said, "This is your cunning. For fear that others will find out, you will tear off another piece of the broken place, and it will become what it is now, don't you say?"

"No, my lord, it was like that in the beginning, the villain didn't dare to lie. ”

"The evidence is right in front of you, do you still dare to be stubborn? Do you have to force the county to torture before you are willing to confess?"

"My lord, the villain really didn't lie. ”

"Hmph, I see that you don't cry when you don't see the coffin, I'll let you see something again. After Chen Wenqi finished speaking, he opened the baggage, revealing a pink skirt, "Guo Xilai, you are a big man, you shouldn't wear this kind of woman's skirt, right?" Say, why is Wei Lingyi's skirt placed in your home?"

When Guo Xilai saw it, he knew that the matter was exposed, and he immediately collapsed to the ground, and said in a loud voice: "The villain is willing to recruit, and the villain is all recruited." ”

"Get up and speak slowly. Weng Junding shouted.

Guo Xilai sat back in his place and began to confess:

It was one day in August the year before that—

After lunch, Guo Xilai came to his own sorghum field at the head of the village. Feeling lonely working alone, he carelessly used a hoe to plow the soil and weed, and from time to time looked at the road not far away, if nothing else, just to see if there were strange women passing by, and feasting his eyes by the way. has lived for thirty years and has never touched a woman, Guo Xilai's heart is full of longing for women.

Suddenly, as he had hoped, a man and a woman came in the distance, and in a short time they came to him.

"Big brother, is there a village called Huojiazhuang near here?" the woman approached Guo Xilai and asked.

When Guo Xilai heard this, who was talking to him? It was simply Bailing singing. The woman who asked the question was graceful, curly and tingting, and only looked at the half-body ** of a bachelor, and even forgot to answer people's questions. It wasn't until the woman asked again that Guo Xilai woke up like a dream, and hurriedly replied: "Yes, it's not far ahead, two or three miles away from our village." ”

The woman and the man looked at each other, and the man asked, "May I ask the eldest brother, is there any vacant house to rent in your village?"

"Are You Going to ......"

"Oh, our husband and wife are doing small business and want to rent a house here for a while. ”

When Guo Xilai heard that these two people wanted to rent a house, he was overjoyed (he didn't want to think that this woman was already a famous flower), and immediately enthusiastically introduced to them that there were two idle houses in a certain household in this village, but they were dilapidated, and they were a little remote, a little far from the village. When the man heard this, he seemed to be even more interested, and immediately gave him five copper coins and asked him to lead the way. The unexpected fortune was beautiful in my heart, but after thinking about it, I couldn't let the beauty in front of me look down on me, so I took the opportunity to excuse myself and stuffed the copper coin to the woman, and pinched her delicate soft twing.

The woman gave him a shy look and hid behind the man. Guo Xilai grinned, picked up the hoe, and enthusiastically took the two to the house where there was a vacant house.

When the owner heard that someone was renting, he was naturally happy, and it was empty anyway, so he offered the price, and the man did not make a counteroffer, and directly paid a year's rent in advance according to the owner's offer, and moved in immediately.

Guo Xilai was very attentive because of the woman, in addition to helping them tidy up, whenever they lacked anything, as long as they had it, they would give it generously or borrow it, and they were so moved that the man and woman thanked him and herself.

Since then, Guo Xilai always likes to come and go here when he has nothing to do, and occasionally go to his house to sit. The pair of men and women who have just arrived, and they always like to ask Guo Xi for help when they encounter inconvenience. The two may know Guo Xilai's "drunkard's intentions", so they intend to "do what he likes", but whenever there is anything to find him, the woman will come forward. Guo Xilai is naturally full of joy, wishing that they often have "inconvenience". In this way, the woman made Guo Xilai's dreams haunt and linger, and a simple "feast for his eyes" was no longer enough to satisfy his physical thirst for her.

At dusk on this day, Guo Xilai was bored at home, thinking about Wei Lingyi (after many contacts, he knew that the woman's name was Wei Lingyi and the man's name was Sun Er), and he didn't bother to make a fire to cook.

"Is Brother Xilai at home?"

Wei Lingyi's voice came from outside the door, Guo Xilai heard it, and immediately jumped up with joy, welcomed Wei Lingyi into the house, and hurriedly brought a stool to invite Wei Lingyi to sit down, and was about to bring firewood to boil water for her to drink.

Wei Lingyi chuckled a few times and said, "Brother Xilai, don't be busy, I'll come to your house to borrow something and leave." ”

Guo Xilai stopped and asked, "What do you borrow?" ”

Wei Lingyi smiled: "Portable lanterns, do you have them at home?" ”

"Portable lanterns, do you want to go out at night? It's so inconvenient to be blind in the dark, do you want me to accompany you?"

Wei Lingyi didn't answer his question, but asked with a smile, "Is there any?"

"Yes, yes. It's just that it's been useless for a long time, and it's in the attic. I'll go upstairs and get it for my sister. Guo Xilai was afraid that Wei Lingyi would be unhappy and left, so he hurriedly said. He brought a ladder from outside, climbed to the attic, took out the lantern, and walked to the entrance of the attic, where Wei Lingyi happened to be standing under the ladder and looking up. The weather in September and October was not very cold, Wei Lingyi was thinly dressed, looking down from above, half of her breasts were faintly visible, Guo Xilai suddenly had a dry mouth, and she could hardly help herself. His mind moved, and he said to Wei Lingyi:

"Please help me hold the ladder, I am afraid that I will not be able to step on it steadily. ”

Wei Lingyi didn't know that he was going to make a mistake, so he hurriedly held the ladder with both hands, and shouted "be careful, be careful". When Guo Xilai went down to a height above the ground, he suddenly crooked, fell off the ladder, and directly pressed Wei Lingyi to the ground. After a while, Wei Lingyi began to push him below, and he slowly got up unsatisfied, and pinched Wei Lingyi's plump breasts by the way.

Wei Lingyi turned over and stood up, tidied up her clothes, and said angrily: "You person, if you fall, you can't forget to take advantage of others." ”

Guo Xilai was not annoyed when he saw her, he couldn't care much anymore, he bent down and hugged Wei Lingyi in his arms, trotted into the inner room, and put her on the bed, and wanted to untie her clothes. Wei Lingyi pushed his hands away and quickly turned over and sat up. Just when Guo Xilai was stunned, Wei Lingyi slapped him lightly and said in a low voice: "Not today, it's been too long, if he finds and bumps into him, it won't be beautiful." ”

When Guo Xilai heard this, his muscles and bones suddenly became weak, and he hurriedly asked, "When is it going to be?"

Wei Lingyi shook her head and said, "Not tomorrow, 'he' sometimes has to go out at night, and at that time, you will come to my house." ”

Since then, Guo Xilai has been wandering around Wei Lingyi's house when he has nothing to do, and as long as he sees Sun Er going out alone, he sneaks into the house and has a good time with Wei Lingyi. Of course, for this reason, he also has to satisfy Wei Lingyi with good food, good clothes, and easy use, and the two of them have their own place.

One night, Sun Er went out with a lantern, Guo Xilai couldn't wait to sneak into the room, and when he was holding Wei Lingyi and laughing, he suddenly heard a sound at the door, and it turned out that Sun Er had gone and returned. This scared Guo Xilai so much that he couldn't possess his body, but fortunately he hadn't taken off his clothes yet, and hurriedly came out of the window, and in his panic, he was hung by a nail on his armor, and he couldn't leave. At this time, Sun Er had already entered the house, Guo Xilai gritted his teeth, pulled the armor suddenly, and ran home without danger.

Although he was frightened, Guo Xilai did not stop there, and Wei Lingyi did not regard this as a big deal, anyway, the two continued to "get their own place".

One day last autumn, the door of Sun Er's rented "home" was locked. I didn't see Wei Lingyi for a day, Guo Xilai felt a little empty in his heart, and it wasn't until the evening when the cooking smoke was everywhere that Guo Xilai, who was wandering not far away, saw Sun Er and Wei Lingyi both returning. Wei Lingyi carried a hanging of meat in her left hand, and she didn't know what was in the basket in her right hand, while Sun Er carried a pot of wine and two fish. The two seemed to be in a hurry, walked quickly, and closed the door when they got home.

If it was in the past, when he saw them coming back with fish and meat, Guo Xilai would definitely eat a meal of "smiling food" with a shy old face. But since having "that incident" with Wei Lingyi, Guo Xilai has always avoided meeting Sun Er as much as possible. Today, when I saw them coming back with sumptuous wine and food, I thought that these two couples must have a big meal tonight, and then ...... Although Guo Xilai was pantothenic in his heart, he also knew that he was "no play" tonight, so he returned to his home listlessly with his head down.

After dinner, Guo Xilai hastily washed and went to bed to rest. Because a heart is always on Wei Lingyi, she lies on the bed tossing and turning, and it is difficult to sleep. gritted his teeth and got up and dressed, and then turned back to Sun Er's rented place, thinking about going to his house as if he had accidentally bumped into him, even if he couldn't make love to Wei Lingyi, it was always better to talk about her than nothing.

When he approached the gate of Sun's house, Guo Xilai was surprised to find that the gate was hung with a lock as in the daytime. Guo Xilai thought to himself, these two people have just come back from outside, where will they go in the blink of an eye? Like a cat accustomed to eating mouths, he still can't let go of the "fishy", so he decided to hide nearby and wait for them to come back. Who knew that the first wait was two watches, and when they reached the third watch, they didn't see the figure of their husband and wife. Guo Xilai couldn't stay up any longer, so he had to go home and sleep step by step.

Guo Xilai didn't sleep well this night, and when he opened his eyes in a daze, the sky was already bright, he hurriedly got up, put on his clothes and rushed to the west of the village to see if Wei Lingyi had gone home. Before he arrived at the door, he heard Wei Lingyi laughing and singing in the house. Guo Xilai thought to himself that you are finally back, why are you so happy? Singing in the house in the morning? He rushed to the front of the house, leaned on the window and looked in, only to see Sun Er lying on the bed and not waking up yet, so he called Wei Lingyi softly, wanting to call her out, but Wei Lingyi turned a deaf ear. Guo Xilai held back for a day and a night, and saw that Sun Er was asleep, so he boldly pushed open the door and walked into the house, hugging Wei Lingyi and making love. didn't think about how he hugged him, Wei Lingyi was still laughing and jumping, completely losing the sultry posture of wanting to refuse and welcome in the past. Guo Xilai felt that something was not quite right: this woman was a little abnormal today. When I think about it, my desire disappears. He let go of Wei Lingyi and went to look at Sun Er again, only to find that Sun Er had been dead for a long time. Guo Xilai suddenly felt a chill down his spine, and hurriedly rushed out of the door and shouted all the way, which alarmed the old and young masters in the village......

"As for this dress, in order to please Wei Lingyi, the villain went to the county seat to buy her a new skirt and asked her to come to my house to get it. She liked it so much that she put the new dress on at my house, and forgot to take it away when she left, and then she asked for it once, and I ...... I didn't give it back to her. Guo Xilai finally said.

"That's all?" After listening to Guo Xilai's explanation, Weng Junding asked.

"That's all, if you have the slightest concealment, let the adults let it go. Guo Xilai changed his nervous and cowering expression, and spoke much more sharply.

"Sun Erzhen didn't hurt you?"

"My lord, the villain really didn't harm him. ”

"Since you didn't kill Sun Er, why did you secretly transfer his body?"

"Adult, the villain really doesn't, what does the villain want the corpse of that dead ghost to do?" Guo Xilai hurriedly denied.

"Of course it's useless for you to ask him, because you're worried that his body will give you out, so you dig it up and transfer it. ”

"My lord, the villain doesn't understand what you said. Guo Xilai said blankly.

"Okay, I'll let you know. After you hooked up with Wei Lingyi and became adulterous, you often wandered around his house and had trysts with her on camera. As the saying goes, if you don't know, you can't do it unless you don't know it. You have turned too many times, which aroused Sun Er's suspicions. On this day, Sun Er saw that you were near his house again, so he pretended to go out to run errands, and as soon as he left with his front foot, you entered his house with your back foot. Just as you were fooling around with Wei Lingyi in bed, Sun Er quietly returned and caught you squarely. You were shocked and frightened, so you pretended to admit your mistake and suddenly killed Sun Er when he was not on guard. After Sun Er was buried, you were afraid that the government would one day open the coffin for an autopsy and the crime would be exposed, so on a dark and windy night, his body would be dug up and transferred to another place for burial. When I got home, I realized that my clothes were torn somewhere. Because everyone in the village knows that you have such a dress, if the government can't track it down, it is equivalent to not confessing to yourself, so you will open your mouth again to hide people's eyes. Now you get the idea, right?"

"My lord, wronged, the villain did not kill him. ”

Weng Junding laughed angrily: "It seems that you are unwilling to confess if you don't move the punishment." Come and ascend. ”

At this time, Chen Wenqi secretly pulled the sleeve of Weng Junding's shirt and shook his head gently. Weng Junding understood, and changed his words: "Qiu Sen, escort him back to his original place to be taken care of, and the county will be promoted to the court for retrial at a later date." ”

As soon as Qiu Sen left, Weng Junding couldn't wait to ask: "Brother Chen, there is no doubt that Guo Xilai killed Sun Er, why didn't you let Shengtang end the case?"

Chen Wenqi said thoughtfully: "On the surface, whether it is to catch the rapist in bed or stay with Wei Lingyi, Guo Xilai does have the motive to get rid of Sun Er, and the strip of cloth in the coffin can also constitute evidence of Guo Xilai's theft of the body." However, it is still too hasty to conclude the case, and there are still doubts that have not been clarified. For example, if Guo Xilai was caught and raped and therefore killed Sun Er, why did he let Wei Lingyi run around for more than half a year, and was he not afraid of Wei Lingyi denouncing? You may say that Wei Lingyi was mentally disordered, but Guo Xilai was a thief after all, so he was not afraid that Wei Lingyi would deliberately pretend to be crazy? Also, who exactly fell the hammer? Where is Sun Er's body? ”

"This strip of cloth was obviously torn off his armor, if it wasn't for the corpse transferred by Guo Xilai, how could it be explained?"

That's exactly what I'm puzzled about. Chen Wenqi frowned tightly and muttered.

Just when the two of them were clueless, there were footsteps outside the door, and Yun Feiyan stepped in.

"Sister Yan, why did you get to the front?" Weng Junding asked in surprise.

Yun Feiyan greeted Chen Wenqi first, and then replied to her husband's words with a smile: "Come and invite two adults." Lunch is already hot and cold, cold and hot, Yan'er invited you several times but you couldn't move, there was no way, the concubine had to come in person. ”

"Hehe, shit, shit. Let's go, let's eat. Chen Wenqi laughed, stuffed the armor and cloth strips on his hands into the baggage, and was about to get up.

"Uh, wait. As the saying goes, a man does a woman's work, but he is not in the middle. No, no, Sister Yang is not here, bring it to me to help you make it up. Yun Feiyan suddenly found that Chen Wenqi was holding a torn clothes, and hurriedly wanted to help sew them, making a joke by the way.

Chen Wenqi's face turned red and he hurriedly said, "No, no." This is evidence left behind by the tomb robbers. I'm comparing myself with Brother Weng Nian. ”

"Comparison?" Yun Feiyan's next words brought their analysis of the case back to the original point.