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Chapter 753 The Troubled Mu Family
The case has already been exposed, and it is impossible not to investigate.

With the help of Gao Xian, Liu Zhuan finally decided: the case of hiding the corpse in the Dou Mansion and the case of the missing girl accepted by Dali Temple should be merged into one case, and Yu Tie'an and the new minister of Dali Temple, Shao Lizhen, will file a case for investigation together.

The case of Dou Yan Yinlei's murder of Guiqian was presided over by Kou Zhangkang, a court official in Qiu.

All in all, except for those officials who were busy with emergency rescue and disaster relief, less than half of the people in the court were busy working on the case of the Dou family.

There were new developments in the case that night.

Shi Douqian, the foreign secretary, Dou Cunxu's father, drew his sword and killed himself in his study at midnight.

The servants slammed into the door smelling the smell of blood, and they were already lying on the table in the cold.

Dou Cunxu's mother, Bai Shi, has been in a daze since she saw the corpses hidden all over the wall, and she didn't say a word. After hearing the sad news of her husband's death, she suddenly collapsed, pulling her hair like crazy, and crying loudly. Sorry husband and son.

The servants and maids couldn't stop them, they held umbrellas and carried lamps all night, and followed in the dark to the side courtyard where Mrs. Bai kept the dowry, and together they helped lift a pile of abandoned boxes and cages in the corner of the courtyard.

Below it was a dry well.

Bai yelled "retribution" and jumped down the edge of the well, but was stopped naturally.

Bai's strange behavior caught Shao Lizhen's attention.When the rain was lighter in the morning, Shao Lizhen asked people to carry a torch down into the well to check, and a pile of bones came out from the mud at the bottom of the well.

After splicing by Wu Zuo, it was found that these human bones came from three women.One of the bones was older, about seven or eight years old, and the other two were at least five years old.

Shao Lizhen had an idea in his mind, and retreated to the left and right, leaving only one scribe to record the confession, and he got the words out of Bai's mouth in a few sentences.

It turns out that Dou Cunxu's murder did not happen only in the past two years.

When he was 12 years old, Dou Cunxu accidentally killed one of Bai's close maids. Bai was eager to protect her son, and lied that the maid's family members were seriously ill, so she sent her back to her natal family to serve the sick.

Afterwards, with the help of her mother's family, she sent the servant girl's family far away, covering up for her son.

I thought it was over here.

Unexpectedly, only two years later, Dou Cunxu killed a pair of sisters in the family, Hua Geji, and gouged out their eyes before the murder. The two pairs of eyeballs were bloody and confessed on the case. Bai was frightened and softened at that time legs and feet.

If this matter gets out, not only will Dou Cunxu's future be ruined, but the reputation of the Dou family will also be implicated.

Bai's gritted her teeth, spent a lot of money to bribe the people in the house, and did not know how many lies they made up to get this matter over.

But this time Bai did not let Dou Cunxu go easily.

After the turmoil subsided, she found an excuse to lock up her son and beat him severely, and then forced him to make an oath that he would never harm anyone again, that's all.

Because of this incident, the old lady of the Dou family who was protecting her grandson even made Mrs. Bai kneel down in the ancestral hall.

In the next few years, the Bai family lived in fear, but fortunately, Dou Cunxu did not cause any trouble again.

Bai thought that the beating had played a role, and felt a little comforted in her heart. It wasn't until this time when the corpse hiding case broke out that she realized that instead of repenting, her son had worsened.

It's just that it's done more secretly, and even her mother is also hidden from the past.

Bai Shi cried to death, it was his own fault for crying and crying.After confessing so upside down, the person passed out.

Bai Shi went crazy when she woke up, talking nonsense, even the people close to her usually didn't understand.

In Bai's narration, Shao Lizhen noticed a very important point, that is, Dou Cunxu treated the pair of sisters very well, and even begged Bai to take them into the house.Later, for some unknown reason, the two turned around and met Dou Cunli, Dou Cunxu's cousin.

According to Bai, it was the sisters who often laughed at Dou Cunxu together with Dou Cunli, which provoked Dou Cunxu to kill in anger.

Shao Lizhen immediately sent Dou Cunli to ask questions, and combined with the rumors about Dou Cunxu's congenital insufficiency that he heard earlier, he came to a judgment in his heart.

After Dou Cunxu's body was sent back to Dou's house, it has been parked in the mourning hall.Because the death condition was too miserable, and fearing that the undead would not be reborn, a Taoist priest was invited to perform a ritual ceremony for three days and three nights. After that, the coffin would stay for seven days, so the burial was not carried out in the hot weather.

The results of the coffin autopsy were as Shao Lizhen expected, but whether it should be recorded in the case file for others to read depends on Liu Zhuan's will.

After all, the Dou family is Liu Zhuan's natal family, and Dou Cunxu and Liu Zhuan are also cousins ​​in the next room. Liu Zhuan's face is not good when such private and embarrassing things are exposed.

Shao Lizhen thought it through.But who would have thought that just after the autopsy on his side, and before he had time to enter the palace to ask the emperor for instructions, the series of events that happened in Dou's mansion would spread outside.

In a fit of rage, the emperor summoned Shao Lizhen into the palace, and scolded her head and face.

Shao Lizhen couldn't argue with anything.It was obvious that someone wanted to punish Dou's family, but he just happened to be unlucky and became the fish in the pond that suffered.

The only advantage is that it's easy.

The hidden body case and the missing girl case merged with the Lei Ji case again.

The reason is that Zhang Kang also found Dou Cunxu along the line of Guiqian.

Dou's family has a farm in the suburbs of Beijing, and the head of the farm happens to be Wu Ding, Guiqian's later married husband.Years ago, Dou Cunxu escorted his mother, Mrs. Bai, to the farm to collect rent, and stayed at Wu's house.

What a coincidence—even storytellers dare not say that!

The life and death of the people who escorted the prisoners followed Dou Yan.Only Wang Wuzhi was clever, first he saw that something was wrong when Chang Qianfo sent Ling Fu away, and followed him down the cliff, and then saw that Mu Cangping was moving wrongly, so he led his men to evacuate in time, and saved his life dangerously.

After the Jizhou army returned to Beijing, they were taken into custody pending trial, and at this time they were suddenly brought up for questioning.

The Langya faction that Wang Wuzhi belongs to is not close to the Dou family, and they have no serious feuds with each other, everything is factual.

Zhang Kang picked two more honest Jizhou to interrogate separately. The three people's statements were only slightly different in details, but they were completely consistent in major matters.

First, Guiqian knelt at the gate of the official post and begged for help with her son who was poisoned by Gu.

Later, Zhou Mingrong, Dou Yan's long follower, discovered that this person was Han Luojun's old friend, and brought him in.Guiqian kept claiming that this son was Han Luojun's flesh and blood, and Han Luojun also rescued him later.

But after saving people, Han Luojun seemed a little anxious, and left in a hurry before his "son" woke up.

Not long after, Dou Yan led soldiers to surround the room where Qu Yuer lived, and then went to find Mu Cangping alone. The two of them did not know what they said.

Later, Dou Cunxu's body was carried out, and Han Luojun was tied up and locked in the woodshed.

After repeated inquiries from interested people, Zhou Mingrong "accidentally" left out a little bit, saying that Han Luojun had an affair with Jin Yanchen's wife and was bumped into by Dou Cunxu, and Han Luojun killed Dou Cunxu in desperation.

Whether it was surrounding the scene or catching people later, Dou Yan used the Huben army brought from the capital. The Jizhou army never participated.

(End of this chapter)