The county magistrate has no time to save the world

Chapter 26 Another Headless Corpse
The cock crows seven times.

Zheng Nian bravely rushed out of the room and grabbed the rooster on the wall, "Today I will make soup for you."

The rooster, Dayi, remained unmoved, choked with sobs and continued to crow.

Just as he was about to raise his hand, he felt dizzy for a while, and the rooster was able to escape.

Zheng Nian slumped on the ground and took a few breaths. The rooster had already reached the top of Fangtou Temple, screaming indiscriminately, as if he was angry.

Unable to catch the chicken, Zheng Nian walked into the room full of evil spirits.

After checking that she didn't lose her virginity, the little girl probably doesn't understand this professional skill.

He was still wearing an official uniform, and there was a faint sour smell. The mother who came over after hearing the news looked at Zheng Nian's appearance, and said distressedly, "Leaving so early..."

Zheng Nian hurriedly entered the scene, stretching his waist, "Yes, there is business in the morning, so I'll come back to pick you up at noon."

"Okay, where is Xuan'er..." Mom asked.

"You haven't woken up yet." Zheng Nian pointed to the room, "I'm leaving first, mother."

"Shall we go after eating?" Mom asked, and Zheng Nian said, "No need, the cakes that Xuan'er made for me last night were delicious, and I ate them all this morning."

When we arrived in the backyard, we saw a girl with closed eyes standing outside the firewood room, staggering as if asleep, when Zheng Nian approached, she woke up suddenly.

"Is the fourth young master of Mingjian Villa sleeping in the woodshed?" Zheng Nian looked inside.

"Yes... so what! If you dare to speak out, I will kill you!" said the girl with closed eyes.

Zheng Nian snorted, "By the way, I didn't ask your name."

"I am a sword slave with no name or surname." Hearing this, the girl with closed eyes said in a dark tone.

"Zheng Nian!" There was a roar from the firewood room, and then Ye Xuan staggered out, leaning on the wall with one hand, tearing off the clothes all over his body with the other, the dog was still hanging on it, drowsy.

"you wanna die!"

"Hey!" Zheng Nian raised his hands, "Don't renege on your debt, you are the one who loses, not me, you owe me three bets."

Ye Xuan's short and fat figure was unsteady, and he was quickly supported by the girl with closed eyes, and then turned around and vomited all over the girl.

The closed-eyed girl who didn't dodge and dodge didn't dislike the young master either, she just patted his back, burning with anxiety.

"Go to my mother's place and get something to eat. It's hard to go on an empty stomach early in the morning." Zheng Nian pointed behind him.

"No hurry! Let's talk about your bet first! We'll compete after you finish your business today!" Ye Xuan looked like he could afford it.

Zheng Nian clasped his hands in front of his chest, "Okay, first, some workers in the middle courtyard are under renovation, you go and settle the bill."

"Bastard!" the girl with closed eyes said angrily.

"Second... hiss." Zheng Nian ignored her and thought for a while, "Don't mention anything about Chen Xuan'er in the future."

"The third word." Zheng Nian glanced at the girl with closed eyes, "Give her a name."

The girl with closed eyes tightened her heart, and looked at Zheng Nian in surprise and gratitude.

"It's called Wang Gangdan!" Zheng Nian asked, "How is it?"

"Okay! I would like to admit defeat!" Ye Xuan said.

Wang Gangdan was so angry that he was about to pass out, he had no choice but to support his young master, he could only watch Zheng Nian go away, and yelled, "You are such a beast! Zheng Nian! You are a beast!"

Zheng Nian, who turned a corner and exited the courtyard gate, leaned on the courtyard wall on tiptoes, bared his head and shouted, "Okay, Wang Gangdan."

Instead of going to the government office, Zheng Nian didn't know how to face Mr. Chen who was about to be executed, so he went directly to the home of Tailor Zhang where the unsuspecting case happened.

Xu Zhu and a few people were squatting at the gate of the courtyard eating buns.

Zheng Nian threw him a tael of silver, "Thank you for your hard work."

"No, no, no... no... it's not hard work." Xu Zhu said happily as he quickly put away the money.

"Have you checked around?" Zheng Nian asked, "What do the neighbors say?"

"No...no problem...it's just...that his old ladies...beautiful...beautiful." Xu Zhu said.

Zheng Nian nodded, "Is that Zhou Dong not married?"

"No." Xu Zhu said, "I am alone, one by one, and the business of my family is also... Take care of myself."

"Let's go and have a look." Zheng Nian asked Xu Zhu to lead the way out.

The oil shop is not far away, just around the corner.

There was a flag hanging on the door, with a word in oil on it. The door was blocked by wooden boards. Xu Zhu led a few people to remove the boards, and Zheng Nian walked in.

There are more than a dozen oil tanks, large and small, ledgers are placed on the counter, and there are some silver taels in the locker.

The boy was checking in front, and Xu Zhu and Zheng Nian went to the backyard.

The yard is not big, just a dozen steps to the end. There are some tools for making oil, and there are four tanks as tall as a person.

"This business is not easy to do. I think there is less than three pennies in the cabinet." Zheng Nian sighed while sitting on the tooth path.

"Yeah... this year... these years, eating and drinking are all problems, let alone being alive." Xu Zhu was also sad.

The boy wandered around but found nothing useful, so Zheng Nian got up and wandered around the yard.

The four-port oil cylinder stood upright, opened the first one to look, "What are the two brothers of the Cui family doing on weekdays?"

"Knit a wool sweater." Xu Zhu said.

The oil in the first oil tank was full of oil, and the smell was strong, so he walked up to the second one, "Their family is quite rich? I think there are quite a few out of it on weekdays."

"No, no, I don't know, I just feel very rich." Xu Zhu said.

"Okay, go back and check them..." Zheng Nian hesitated halfway through.

There was a dark thing floating in the second tank, and I couldn't see it clearly with squinted eyes, so I had to turn around and point to the boy, "It's down."

The boy took the lead, and the three of them went up and directly overturned the oil tank.

A head!
It has been soaked badly, I can't see my face clearly, my face is full of oil stains, it's extremely disgusting!

Several boys vomited on the spot.

"The third mouth." Zheng Nian pointed to the third one.

Xu Zhu stepped forward without hesitation, opened it, and vomited a full tank.

"I told you to fall down, why did you spit it out?" Zheng Nian was so angry that he had to do it himself.

Another one.

Suspicion escalated in his heart, so he went to pour down the last oil tank directly.

This time it was not a head, but a corpse.

"Where's the head?" Zheng Nian looked at the ground in shock, and there was another headless corpse!

The two heads originally corresponded to the two corpses in Zhang Tailor's house, as long as they were confirmed by the assistant, but now another corpse was found!
The case suddenly became confusing.

"Go back and call someone to move the corpse," Zheng Nian said.

The two boys ran out with a limp, looking terrified.

Zheng Nian endured the greasy and foul smell, walked to the corpse, and looked through it while covering his nose.

This should be the corpse of a woman, who is quite old, maybe 27 or [-] years old, but the skin should be well maintained, and there are no calluses on the hands. After thinking about it, I suddenly thought of what Zhou Dong said before.

The daughter-in-law of Zhang Tailor's family should be a mature woman. If I guessed correctly, she should be in a high grade, at least she looks like 24 or [-], and she has not yet given birth.

Thinking of this, Zheng Nian suspected that the corpse at the beginning was not Zhang Tailor's daughter-in-law, but someone else.

(End of this chapter)