Spatial medical concubine, taking the whole family to farm

Chapter 6 Another Murder in the Village

On the way to Zhang Xiucai's home, Xiao Shan talked with Gao Butou about the situation of Zhang Xiucai's home.

"Zhang Xiucai's name is Zhang Zhicai, and his ancestors also served as county magistrates. He was honored. Unfortunately, his grandfather's generation began to decline."

"His father was even more obsessed with gambling. He lost all the remaining ancestral property. Later, he contracted some kind of disease in the kiln. He died as soon as he said he died."

"After he died, the mother-in-law ran away, leaving only three sons."

"How can you afford to study in such a family?" Gao Catcher interjected.

Xiao Shan explained.

"It is rumored that Zhang Xiucai dug up a pot of silver in the corner of the old house after his two elder brothers left home to be his son-in-law. It must have been buried by his grandfather." The courtyard, "Here we are, there is the Zhang family's old house."

Xiao Ningxue followed the two silently, crossed the arch bridge and came to the front of the house.

Gao Baotou stepped forward and knocked on the door.

After a while there was a lazy voice.

"Who?"

"Catcher Gao in the yamen, ask Zhang Xiucai if you need something."

"Squeaky~~" The door was opened, and Zhang Xiucai stood there yawning and scratching his eyes, "What's the matter?"

"Can you go in and talk about things related to the deceased Xiao Mengyao?"

"Dead? Xiao Mengyao?"

Zhang Xiucai woke up suddenly from sleepiness, his face was full of shock, as if he didn't know that Xiao Mengyao was dead.

Xiao Ningxue carefully captured every subtle expression change on Zhang Xiucai's face. She minored in psychology in college and was very good at observing the micro-expressions of prisoners.

Nervous, anxious, guilty, lying...every psychological change of the prisoner could not escape her eyes.

Hiss~~ It's strange, Zhang Xiucai didn't feel nervous or flustered at all, and even the shock at this moment didn't seem to be faked at all, as if he really didn't know that Xiao Mengyao was dead.

If this person is really the real murderer who killed Xiao Mengyao, then his psychological quality is too strong.

Zhang Xiucai asked with a sad look on his face.

"Mengyao died? How did she die? What happened?"

"Let's go in and talk about it." Seeing more and more people onlookers, Catcher Gao mumbled into the courtyard.

"Oh, oh, come in quickly, come in quickly." Zhang Xiucai hurriedly let people into the courtyard.

Xiao Ningxue gave her father a playful smile, and squeezed into the yard ahead of him.

After entering, I didn't run around, just squatted aside to enjoy the flowers, such a small person didn't attract attention.

At this time, Gao Tutou, Xiao Shan and Zhang Xiucai were already sitting on the stone bench in the courtyard.

Catcher Gao slapped the official knife on the table and looked at Zhang Xiucai coldly,
"Where did you go last night? Why did you look like you didn't wake up?"

After all, Zhang Xiucai is a scholar, his fiancée died, and the head catcher in the yamen came to him, could he not know what it meant?
He hurriedly explained the whereabouts of last night in detail.

It turned out that he had an affair with the widow horse in the village. Last night, he worked as a coolie on the widow horse's bed, and spent all day at home to catch up on sleep, so that he didn't even know that his fiancée died.

Fearing that the head catcher would not believe it, he hurriedly added.

"I went out to pee in the middle of the night and bumped into Widow Ma's mother-in-law. When I came back at dawn, I met Xiao Zhe on the arch bridge who was going to look at the water in the fields. You can ask about these things."

Catcher Gao didn't bring anyone with him, so he sent Xiao Shan to call Widow Ma, Widow Ma's mother-in-law, and Xiao Zhe.

After questioning them one by one, this was indeed the case. Zhang Xiucai really had no time to commit the crime.

Xiao Ningxue frowned while listening.

The first suspect has no time to commit the crime, so who is the murderer?
"Have you ever had physical contact with Xiao Mengyao?" After the witness left, Catcher Gao continued to ask.

"No." Zhang Xiucai shook his head, "Mengyao won't give it, I have to wait until the wedding night, otherwise I won't get involved with Widow Ma."

Regardless of whether these words are true or not, there is another man hidden behind Xiao Mengyao.

This man had sex with Xiao Mengyao before her death, and this man was the biggest suspect in Xiao Mengyao's case.

After being silent for a while, Gao Butou asked casually again.

"What do you like about Xiao Mengyao? Do you want to be engaged to her?"

"She is good-looking and kind to me, and I really like her." Zhang Xiucai looked at Xiao Shan with a sad face, "Uncle Xiao, can you let me go and see Meng Yao? I want to burn a pillar for her." Xiang, see her off for the last time."

Xiao Shan nodded, but didn't say anything.

So Zhang Xiucai went back to the house to get some paper money, and followed Gao Butou Xiao Shan and the others out of the courtyard.

After leaving, Zhang Xiucai went straight to Xiao's house, while Gao Tutou and Xiao Shan continued to visit in the village.

One is to investigate other men besides Zhang Xiucai who have been in contact with Xiao Mengyao, and the other is to touch and compare the half of the belt that Xiao Ningxue picked up.

However, for two consecutive days, they found nothing, Catcher Gao asked almost all the people in the village, and no one saw Xiao Mengyao having any relationship with the second man besides Zhang Xiucai.

And the half belt of the trousers is even more incomparable. There are too many people wearing this kind of blue coarse trousers, but almost every farmer has a few pairs of these trousers.

As a result, the case has reached an impasse.

After dinner in the evening, Catcher Gao called Xiao Shan aside.

"Old Xiao, there is no clue about this case. I'm afraid we can only investigate slowly. Your niece's body should be buried first."

"Okay." Xiao Shan nodded with a heavy heart.

This case was already bizarre. It was very difficult to find a suspect because of the murder in a secret room.

Even if there is a shortage of manpower in a yamen, it is impossible to cling to this case.

What's more, on a hot day, the dead body already emits a strange smell, so it can't be parked anymore.

After Xiao Shan had a few words with Gao Tutou, he went to discuss with Mrs. Xiao, Xiao Hong and Yufen.

It's a pity that Xiao Shan's mouth was worn out, and he couldn't persuade them to let Xiao Mengyao's body be buried.

The murderer hasn't been found out yet, wouldn't she become an unjust dead ghost by just burying Mengyao girl like this?

If a good new house is haunted, how can people live in it?They don't want to move back to the dilapidated old house.

Besides, if the murderer cannot be found, there will be no compensation. Mengyao can't just die for nothing, can she?
Xiao Shan was also helpless.

"Mother, second brother, since you don't agree to the burial, you can only transport the body of your niece to the county government office and place it in a special cemetery."

Mrs. Xiao, Xiao Hong and the others nodded in agreement, and it's not a problem to keep it at home, it's the best.

Early the next morning, Xiao Shan and Gao Tutou called a carriage and took Xiao Mengyao's body to the county.

But before reaching the entrance of the village, a villager came up from behind panting.

"Captain Gao, Xiao Qianzuo, it's not good, there's another murder case in the village, you go and have a look."

Both Gao Tutou and Xiao Shan were taken aback, and immediately stopped the carriage.

"Who died? How did he die?"

"Zhang San at the east end of the village, his lower body was covered with branches, hanging from the beam... he died a miserable death."

(End of this chapter)