Brocade clothing

Chapter 5
Chu Qing stayed in front of Chu Tingzhang's mourning hall for three days and three nights before being buried. After she finished all this, it was already the morning of the fourth day.

She came back from the forest, stepping on the morning dew all over the ground, wearing a plain robe and white satin hair, making her figure slender and tall, like a green bamboo, seemingly thin and helpless, but resolute and straight.

There was a pleading in her arms, and when she arrived in front of the Yamen, she would beat the drums to appeal for grievances. If the county magistrate refused to accept it, then she would try her best to get into the yamen, and no matter what the price was, she would let the county magistrate give it to her. She explained.

When Chu Qing passed the Qingshui River in Qingshui Town, there were quite a few people in front of her, noisy and lively.

The sky was just brightened, and when Chu Qing passed by, he heard that a person was probably drowned in the river, and the wife of the sufferer was holding on to a suspected murderer, so that many yamen servants came to make trouble, and the women cried and howled. Chu Qing couldn't help but look a few more times.Although she still had a pleading paper in her arms, she did not forget that her trip was to avenge her master.

"...Damn it, how could you be so cruel and leave our orphans and widows behind? Why don't I die to accompany you? God, why didn't I die!" The howling sound became louder The shriek resounded in the cool morning breeze, and then raised another decibel: "You murderer! Give back my husband's life! Give me back my husband's life—"

"Kill him? I don't even bother." A young but mature male voice came, "Also, whether to kill someone or not is up to the government to decide. You, a woman, act like this. Be careful that I will sue you for slander, and you will be punished according to the court punishment." Lock it up for a few days as an example to others."

The man's deterrence seemed to have worked, and the woman's high-pitched voice stopped abruptly.

Through the crowd, there was just a gap, allowing Chu Qing to see the crying woman—Liu Erhun's mother-in-law, Liu Xushi.

Could it be Liu Erhun who died?

At any rate, Chu Qing also went in and out of Longmen Town several times with his master, so he knew that Liu Erhun was a well-known gangster in the town, because his uncle was the head of the Liu family, the richest man in Longmen Town, so he did all sorts of jokes in Longmen Town, and liked to gamble. , Lost all the family fortune, and then the master of the Liu family simply ignored him and let him fend for himself.Liu Erhun used the Liu family's name to start cheating, but because he had a backing, nothing happened.

Chu Qing immediately decided to take care of Liu Erhun's matter. Just because his surname Liu was related to the Liu family in Longmen Town was enough for her to intervene.

She was looking for no reason to investigate the Liu family, so she sent it here?

It's just that how she will do the autopsy is a problem.

The master had an accident just now, and she was still slandered by such dirty means, and it was too late for everyone to hide from her, but Chu Qing saw a familiar person in the crowd, Cui Datou, the head of the yamen servant.

She thought for a while, walked over, stood outside the crowd and looked in without making a sound, none of Cui Datou's yamen servants stopped Liu Cui. Although they were yamen servants, they couldn't stop the difference between men and women. Don't dare to really do it, otherwise, with the attitude of this woman who doesn't care, she can scold them until they don't even have any underwear left.

Cui Datou was so worried that he had a headache, and suddenly he turned his head and saw Chu Qing who was outside the crowd.

After all, against the backdrop of a bunch of crooked and cracked men, Chu Qing is just a poplar, no matter how conspicuous it is.

Green and verdant, just like a young green onion, handsome and fair-looking, very attractive.

Cui Datou's eyes lit up immediately. He really couldn't wait for the assistant in the yamen, so he pulled Chu Qing to the corpse: "Brother Chu, come and do me a favor, let me do an autopsy..."

Chu Qing closed his eyes and said calmly: "Brother Cui, this is unreasonable. I am a co-worker, but I can't just do an autopsy before I get the county magistrate's certificate."

"What's so unreasonable? Who doesn't know that you have obtained the true biography of the lame Zhang. If the lame Zhang is so good, you still don't..." Cui Datou suddenly realized what he said, and slapped himself, but he couldn't stop the words I have already said it, so I can only bite the bullet and smile dryly: "Haha, little brother Chu, I will help you. This Liu Cui said that this young man killed her man. It is said that they followed this young man yesterday. After a dispute, he even beat her man, and she didn't come home at night, but we saw that Liu Erhun drowned in the river, but Liu Cui has always been so relentless, we are afraid of Liu Erhun The power of the family, so I’d like to trouble Brother Chu to test it quickly, so that everyone can give the county magistrate and the Liu family an explanation.”

If it was an ordinary person, Cui Datou went directly to the Yamen, but these two sons are nobles. He saw the county magistrate serving them tea and water respectfully in the Yamen two days ago. One, if he is really offended, let alone him, even the county magistrate may...

When Cui Datou spoke, Chu Qing only felt a gaze fall on him.

She raised her head and looked directly over, the young man in the green robe was looking at Chu Qing with a scrutinizing gaze. Seeing her looking over, she seemed quite surprised, "Are you the apprentice of lame Zhang?" Bian just found out that the most famous workman in Qingshui County is Lame Zhang. He hasn't found anyone yet, but this lame Zhang's apprentice has come to his door, so let's wait for him to see if this lame Zhang's apprentice has real skills.

"This young master knows Chu?" Chu lightly glanced at the green-robed man and asked, wondering why he showed such an expression when he saw him.

However, the man in the green robe had already suppressed the expression on his face, and calmed his jaw: "I heard that the most famous master in Qingshui County is Lame Zhang. I'm just curious."

Chu Qing didn't care too much, just nodded slightly, which was regarded as answering Cui Datou's request for help.She happened to be carrying the cripple Zhang's suitcase on her shoulders, Chu Qing gently lifted her eyelids, her eyelashes fluttered quickly, Cui Datou looked over inadvertently, and felt that this little brother Chu was really more handsome than a little girl, He poked his head over and asked, "Brother Chu, do you need some help from me?"

Chu Qing squatted down and nodded: "Brother Cui, please take down the autopsy list."

"All right, this is still possible." Cui Datou quickly agreed.

Chu gave a soft "hmm" and opened the box, which was neatly arranged, which was completely different from the previous mess.

The autopsy box has three layers. The top layer contains thin knives, tweezers, short saws, suture needles, and gauze for autopsy; the middle layer is the autopsy list. The most costly part of Zhang's salary is probably the post-mortem sheets that he recorded one by one; the bottom layer is filled with atractylodes, saponins, ginger, vinegar, and fire zhezi.

Liu Cuishi saw that Chu Qing started the autopsy, her eyes were fixed on the corpse, and the hand holding the young man was unknowingly loosened.

Chu Qing took out a piece of ginger and put it in her mouth. After cleaning her hands, she then used a torch to burn the atractylodes saponins next to the corpse. After finishing these, she began to observe the appearance of the corpse.

At the same time, while speaking, Cui Datou asked Cui Datou to record: "A male corpse, about five feet three inches long. The clothes are intact, there is no trauma, the abdomen is swollen, there is water in the press, and fungus-like foam at the corner of the mouth. See both sides of the chest. Deep purple corpse spots, some traces of corpse spots on the nape of the neck, and a little floc between the nails, it is inferred that the time of death was midnight last night."

As soon as Chu Qing finished speaking, the green-robed man said at the right time: "To each other, XX has already rested in the largest inn in Gui County, and all the innkeepers can testify. I don't know if this can remove the suspicion of XX?" The man's eyes fell on Chu Qing didn't show any worry, but his eyes were sharp and steady, showing a little more consideration.

Chu Qing didn't raise her head: "This is a matter for the yamen's arrest and your lord. It's useless to ask Chu." After that, without being influenced by him, she checked the surface of the corpse and cut it open with a thin knife. , Observed whether there was any injury inside, stood up after a while, and continued to ask Cui Datou to record: "Fat accumulated in the abdomen, accompanied by sediment entering the lungs, mouth and nose, and the whole body was swollen. It was preliminarily determined that he died of drowning."

As soon as she finished speaking, Liu Cui began to wail: "Why did you conclude that you died by drowning? Look at my man's body, it's bruised and purple, it doesn't look right at first glance, not to mention my man knows how to swim! Knowing how to water! They were definitely beaten to death by them, and then thrown into the water, god damn it, is there any reason for this, enemy, you died so unjustly."

"Liu Cuishi!" Cui Datou had a headache and howled angrily: "Don't think we don't know that you are specially planning to cause trouble with Liu Erhun, let the owner hit him once or twice, and then cheat other people's money. If you don't accept it, look at me, Cui Datou. Send you to a cell for a few days! What's more, don't exaggerate, what's more, you don't exaggerate, even I know it's just an ordinary corpse spot!"

When he said this, Liu Cui seemed to be frozen, he didn't howl, hiccupped, and started to twitch, but he didn't dare to make trouble anymore.

Chu Qing waited for the surroundings to return to silence, then slowly scanned around, seeing the expressions of everyone in his eyes, and when his eyes fell on one place, he frowned, and then looked at Cui Datou again: "What did she say?" , and it’s not entirely wrong.”

"Ah?" What?Cui Datou was stunned and didn't react.

"It is true that Liu Erhun died by drowning, but there are two types of drowning, one is that he accidentally drowned himself; the other is that he was coerced by external forces to 'drown to death'." Chu said softly, Let Liu Cui's blood boil again, just about to howl, but Cui Datou glared at him and choked up.

"Brother Chu, what did you mean by that just now?" Cui Datou looked blank.

What is external coercion to drown?Love or homicide?

"Homicide is not ruled out." Chu gently closed the box, stood up, and looked at the green-robed man: "However, before Liu Erhun died, he left some signals on the murderer. If this young master really If you want to eliminate suspicion immediately, just stretch out your hand. Of course, everyone also stretches out their hands."

(End of this chapter)