The wife of the power minister's family

Soon, the carriage stopped at a quiet place, which is close to the east of Xijing and some distance away from the busiest dock. Therefore, there are only a few scattered shops here, and because it is close to the New Year, those shops have already closed. .

There is a small pier on the riverside. There are such piers at regular intervals along the Xiaodongjiang River. They are used for small ships to pick up and drop off passengers or carry goods. There is also a staircase with guardrails built on the riverside for people to step on. Go down the stairs.

At this time, the small pier was crowded with people. In addition to people from the Xijing government office, there were also many men and women wearing rich clothes and heavy faces. Xu Jing had seen most of these people at the previous banquets. They were all from the Jiang family. people.

The Jiang family members were all gathered around an open space next to the small pier. A sad female voice came from the crowd, "Silly daughter, why are you so stupid! My mother knows that you suffered a lot from your last marriage. , but that is already in the past! You are still young, and you are still the daughter of our Jiang family. What kind of good family do you want to marry in the future? Even if you don’t want to marry, your parents are willing to support you for the rest of your life! You obviously, I obviously promised my grandma that I would try my best to live a good life and not think about those things in the past! How could you, how could you just abandon grandma like this!"

Xu Jing got off the carriage, and Yao Shaoyin walked to her side and sighed: "Jiang Sanniang's body... is over there. As Mrs. Xu saw, she should have committed suicide by drowning in the river this morning.

Yesterday evening, Jiang Sanniang suddenly left the house alone without telling everyone. The Jiang family searched for her all night but could not find anyone. This morning around Chenshi (seven o'clock), someone found an empty carriage near here. On the carriage... there was a suicide note and a cloak written by Jiang Sanniang. The man noticed something was wrong and immediately came to report it. Not long after, we and the Jiang family fished out Jiang Sanniang’s body from the river..."

Xu Jing frowned slightly, "Are you sure that is Jiang Sanniang's suicide note?"

Yao Shaoyin nodded, "The Jiang family has personally confirmed that the handwriting of that suicide note is exactly the same as Jiang Sanniang's, and even some minor habits in the writing have been retained. One or two spots that have been wetted are also found on it. The place, the person who wrote the letter should be crying while writing, it should be... it is unlikely to be false."

If it was fake, how much effort did that person have to put in to fake it so well?

After all, handwriting is easy to imitate, but writing habits and emotions are difficult to imitate.

Xu Jing asked again: "Where is the carriage? Are there any clues?"

Yao Shaoyin shook his head, "That was an ordinary carriage, because there are so few people here, we don't even know when that carriage came here.

But what is certain is that this carriage only came here this morning. We asked the people living nearby this morning and found several people who passed by here last night. One of them, Mr. Lang, said that he It was almost curfew when he returned home, but he didn't see such a carriage nearby at that time.

It was impossible for this carriage to come here during the curfew. It could only have come here between Mao hour (five o'clock in the morning) after the curfew was lifted and the hour when it was discovered. "

After a pause, he added: "Furthermore, because there is still snow on the ground from yesterday morning, there is a string of footprints on the snow leading from the carriage to the river. After comparison, the footprints are Jiang Sanniang's.

Except for Jiang Sanniang's, there are no other footprints leading to the dock on the riverside. "

Even the footprints are only those of Jiang Yanxia!

It sounds like Jiang Yanxia drove a carriage here alone and then committed suicide by jumping into the river.

She couldn't help but frown even more tightly and said, "You called me here because you want me to see if there is anything fishy about Jiang Sanniang's death? I want to see Jiang Sanniang's body first."

Yao Shaoyin immediately said: "Okay, I will take Madam Xu over."

With that said, he led Xu Jing towards the crowd not far away.

Jiang Shaobai was standing outside the crowd at this time, with a gloomy face. Yao Shaoyin walked over first and saluted him, "Jiang Zhaoyin, Madam Xu is here. She said she wanted to see Jiang Sanniang's body."

Yao Shaoyin did not lower his voice intentionally. As soon as he said these words, the Jiang family members not far away turned to look at Xu Jing.

The leader was a man in his forties, with a round face and thick eyebrows, who showed off his wealth. He looked at Xu Jing, his somewhat dark eyes moved slightly, and he said in a deep voice: "Shao Bai, this is Madam Xu. ?”

Jiang Shaobai turned to the man, with a hint of respect on his face, and said: "Yes, eldest brother, Madam Xu has quite a lot of experience in prison matters, and eldest brother must have heard about her deeds. I am the one who invited Madam Xu to come over. Let's see if there is something fishy about Yan Xia's death..." It seems that the man is the current head of the Jiang family - Xing Guogong Jiang Shaoyan.

That is Jiang Yanxia's biological father.

Duke Xing looked at Xu Jing for a while, exhaled a long breath, took the initiative to step aside, and said: "I'm sorry, Mrs. Xu, if Yanxia... is really harmed by a gangster, our Jiang family will definitely fight for Yanxia." Get justice."

Seeing this, the others also stepped aside, making a way for Xu Jingkong.

Xu Jing then saw clearly Jiang Yanxia lying on the ground, and saw that she was only wearing a thin emerald green double-breasted skirt, with her hands folded on her lower abdomen. If it weren't for her pale face and hair, His lifeless expression really looked like he was just sleeping.

Next to her, a plump middle-aged woman in purple clothes was wailing uncontrollably. Next to her, squatting was a young man in a moonlight white narrow-sleeved robe. When Xu Jing walked over, The man slightly raised his somewhat charming fox eyes and looked at her deeply.

It turned out to be Jiang Erlang, Jiang Yu, who had met Xu Jing several times before.

Xu Jing didn't have a good impression of this eccentric and nosy man, but Jiang Yanxia was his biological sister. Today such a tragedy happened in their family, so Xu Jing temporarily put aside her personal feelings. go.

She walked over and squatted next to Jiang Yanxia. The first thing she noticed was that her lips and nails were cyanotic. When she opened her eyelids, she could see spot-like bleeding on her eyelids and bulbar conjunctiva, which was a typical sign of suffocation.

There was a small amount of mushroom-like foam between her mouth and nose. Xu Jing gently pressed Jiang Yanxia's chest and abdomen, and more mushroom-like foam immediately overflowed between her mouth and nose. Mushroom-like foam is a large amount of small, uniform white foam. , this is an important characteristic that only people who drowned before death have.

Seeing these mushroom-like bubbles, it was basically certain that Jiang Yanxia had indeed drowned.

Xu Jing's eyes darkened, she opened her mouth, wrapped her index finger with a clean handkerchief and dug inside. When she took it out again, there was obvious sediment on the handkerchief, and it was also mixed with some green algae.

Coupled with the obvious edema on her face, neck and limbs, and the chicken skin-like skin on her body that was stimulated by cold water, Xu Jing finally pursed her lips and said, "Jiang Sanniang is indeed in this river. He drowned."

Based on the time of Jiang Yanxia's death, it is impossible for her to drown in another river and then be transferred here.

When Mrs. Xing Guogong heard this, she couldn't help crying: "My son! Why are you so stupid!"

Jiang Yu stared at Xu Jing closely and said hoarsely: "Mrs. Xu, it is impossible for my sister to commit suicide. She is not such a fragile woman. A few days ago, she told me that she missed being with us when she was a child. It's time to make rice cakes. This time during the Chinese New Year, she wants the younger generations in the family to try making rice cakes together.

I trust Madam Xu’s judgment, but Madam Xu just said that my sister drowned in this river, but she did not say that my sister committed suicide. "

Xu Jing couldn't help but glance at him.

This guy's mind is also extremely sharp.

But what she said was actually more for the sake of rigor.

She stood up and said: "Indeed, just from the cause of death, it is impossible to tell whether Jiang Sanniang committed suicide or was killed by someone. Yao Shaoyin just said that there are some footprints left on the snow, and I want to go and see those footprints." "