Chapter 14

Yan Ziqin dared to bring Mingshu here, so he didn't want to stop her, and made a gesture of invitation, signaling Mingshu to do it himself.Wu Zuo stood aside, and Gao Rui consciously picked up a pen and paper to take notes.

"If there are no obvious wounds on the corpse, first check whether it was poisoned." Mingshu pinched the mouth of the deceased while speaking, "Check whether there are corrosion spots on the oral mucosa, whether the skin is blue or cyanotic, and finally The common toxic substance is arsenic, also known as arsenic, which can lead to congestion of esophageal and gastric mucosa, softening of the liver, enlargement of the myocardium, and more obviously—redness and swelling of the anus.”

"..." Yan Ziqin was speechless.

"..." Wu Zuo was speechless.

"..." Gao Rui stopped his writing and asked weakly, "How do you write the word anus..."

Obviously, no one paid him any attention.

Yan Ziqin suddenly regretted bringing Mingshu over, he raised his forehead and said, "You don't know... you still want to see his one?"

Mingshu has already entered the working state, and has no time to take care of his little emotions, so she replied routinely: "Not for the time being, he probably didn't die from poisoning."

"Then it must have been a sudden death." Wuzuo twirled his beard proudly, see, he was right to go around.

"Not necessarily." Mingshu tore off the skirt of the deceased, and Wang Rangping's chest was dark red, "Well, there are corpse spots, and finger pressure can temporarily fade. The time of death should be one to two hours."

"That is, before dawn, from Yinchu to Maochu ([-]:[-] to [-]:[-]), which coincides with the servant's claim that the deceased was still warm when the tea was delivered." Yan Ziqin said.

Mingshu nodded, then suddenly lowered her head, and there was a white spot the size of a coin in the water-like chaos of dark red. Mingshu said firmly, "It was murder."

"Hey, how can you be sure that it was homicide!?" Zuo Zuo, who was still complacent, said hastily.

"The white area in the middle of his chest is called the pale area. It was squeezed by external force before death and caused by the lack of blood recovery after death. It usually appears in the lower part of the corpse, such as the lower back." She instructed Gao Rui to turn the corpse over. There are indeed many pale areas on the part that touches the bed.

Yan Ziqin paced and said: "What would squeeze the chest of the deceased before death... I am afraid that the murderer used a certain part of his body to hold Wang Rang's chest, such as his knees, in order to suffocate Wang Rang to death and was afraid that he would struggle. or elbow."

Wu Zuo lowered his head and said, "So, there is no doubt that he killed him?"

Gao Rui stretched out his ink-stained finger and pointed at Wu Zuo: "Don't be stubborn, old man, will the chest of a person who died suddenly be squeezed hard!"

Yan Ziqin said to the yamen servants outside the door: "Quickly pass on to Wang Rang's relatives."

After a while, a young couple and an old servant came over, neither of them dared to look at Wang Rang's body.The husband of the young couple, surnamed Zheng, is Wang Rang's friend. This house is his property. Wang Rang has been living here for more than half a year since his ancestral house was destroyed. The old servant is Wang Rang's only servant and the first to die. discoverer.

The young couple said that there was no sound last night, let alone Wang Rang's cry for help, and then briefly stated Wang Rang's life. Yes, he has been studying in the county school and has no enemies. The only thing he can think of is that the Yu family once had a grudge with him because of the shop and Wang Er.

"What's the matter with the grudge because of Wang Er?" Yan Ziqin said excitedly, seeing Wang Rang's vagueness earlier, he knew that Wang Er and the Yu family were not simple.

"This..." Zheng Xiucai faltered, and looked at Wang Rang on the bed guiltily, "Wang E used to teach in a family school, and taking advantage of convenience, he gave Yu Qing's younger sister, the young lady of the Yu family... to... ... tricked..."

"Tell me in detail!" Yan Ziqin said, thinking, could it be that Wang Er had done things that couples can only do, such as sharing the same bed and feeling yin and yang?

Zheng Xiucai shuddered, "The Yu family hid this matter very well, and most people don't know about it. I also heard a few sentences occasionally from Wang Rang's drinking and scolding, not necessarily in detail. It is said that Wang Er and the Yu family After the little lady made a private decision for life, she was discovered by her elder brother Yu Qing. Yu Qing uttered a few cruel words, and Wang Er ran away as soon as she was afraid. In shame and indignation, he hanged himself."

Suicide by hanging?Mingshu suddenly remembered that Wang Er was also hanged first and then thrown into the well. Is this really a coincidence?

Zheng Xiucai said again: "Wang Er was crying bitterly when he was chased back by Yu's family. He said that he had a deep affection for his young lady, and he was willing not to marry for the rest of his life. After becoming an official, he would fight for an imperial order for her, and an adopted child would come and honor her. So Yu Qing probably forgave him, but who knows, he still couldn't escape, and now his younger brother..."

Never marry?Fight for her order?Mingshu sneered, didn't she climb up to be the daughter of the Minister of Rites just after finishing the provincial exam? It seems that the lucky man will never get rid of his stink in his life. It is reasonable to kill him in the same way in anger, but there is no evidence in hand, so it is still speculation at present.

So what happened to Wang Rangzhi's death?Ming Shu was thinking that Yan Ziqin had already started questioning Wang Rang's old servant, but he slapped the gavel and said sharply, "What! You said Wang Rang lost the cup he used to drink? "

The old servant said: "Not only the cups, but also the kettle, all of which were lost overnight. The old servant used his own tea set to pour tea for the young master this morning."

"Could it be that the murderer added something to the water, Ming... Qu Ning, can you see it?" Yan Ziqin almost called out the word Mingshu.

If it is drugged, modern medical testing equipment must be used. Unfortunately, it is the Northern Song Dynasty, so there is no such condition, and the sleep state is very similar to the state of being drugged. The muscles are relaxed and the breathing is steady, so it is impossible to distinguish with the naked eye. , but it can be known by deduction that the killer has broken into the room without knowing it, either he is deaf or has fallen asleep, not to mention that he didn't have any sad expression when he was smothered to death, he should have passed out.

At this moment, a group of people who came back from the seven shops in the north of the city came to report, and they found something abnormal on the north wall of the inn. When they broke open, there was a short corridor connected to a room that was exactly the same as the other rooms. In the room, a completely decomposed corpse with only bones left was found in the room.

Yan Ziqin said calmly: "Take care of the innkeeper, and wait for me to go over and ask questions."

But the yamen servant said: "The innkeeper is not here today."

"What!" Yan Ziqin was shocked, and his expression suddenly became anxious, as if he had anticipated something ominous, "Hurry up and find the innkeeper!"

After many inquiries, I finally found a residence of the innkeeper outside the city. It was the simplest and most common small fenced courtyard. It was almost noon at this time, and the small courtyard was very quiet, which was too eerie.

The curtains were tightly closed, and in the dark room, the innkeeper was lying on the bed, out of breath just like Wang Rang, but his eyes were protruding and his expression was grim, as if he had seen something unbelievable.

"The cause of death was also a sudden respiratory arrest. He probably died while awake, and he was not poisoned." Mingshu inspected the body and said, "There are signs of struggle, broken nails, and small skin debris. It should be from the murderer during the struggle." The one caught on the body died within an hour from Yinchu to Maochu."

"I'm afraid the murderer is someone he knows. You see, there are two bowls of tea on the table, which should have been reserved for entertaining acquaintances. In addition, with his personality, those who don't know him will not go to open the door." Yan Ziqin said, "Actually, I I find it very strange, based on the observation of him yesterday, his character is not suitable for opening a store at all, but more like... more like being placed in the store to monitor others and protect secrets." Yan Ziqin said.

Ming Shu said: "Perhaps the bones hidden in that invisible room can tell us the truth."

Yan Ziqin said: "It's just maybe, I believe, the real secret lies at home, in Qing's heart."

As he said, he lifted his clothes and stepped out of the threshold, "You, Gao Rui, and Wu Zuo go to the inn to examine the bones, and bring more yamen servants, I have to go to Yu's house."

"Aren't you wearing Gaodu's head?" Mingshu was a little worried.

Yan Ziqin smiled helplessly, "If you didn't go to the meeting alone, how could the Yu family open the door?" He rubbed Mingshu's already disheveled hair on his forehead, and Gao Rui coughed twice, except that he knew that Qu Ning was his wife, In the eyes of others, they are two big men with intimate manners. In your own words, my lord—how decent!
Two flowers bloom, one branch each.

It is said that Yan Ziqin rushed to Yu's house on horseback, but he saw Yu Yifei, the head of the Yu family, had gathered a group of family members to guard in front of the door. If you don’t go to the Three Treasures Palace, our master has been waiting for a long time, but my Yu family also has the strength of character of the Yu family, so don’t let the yamen servants behind you with guns and sticks come in, Lord Yan can do what he wants.”

Yan Ziqin had expected this a long time ago, if he did not enter the tiger's lair, he would not catch a tiger's cub, so he waved his hand and ordered the government servants to guard the door, followed Yu Yifei into the gate of Yu's mansion, along the way, the flowers, trees, Fusu, and pond pavilions seemed to be quite prosperous, Unconsciously vulgar, thinking of seeing Yu Qing's back that day, I deeply feel that this person must not be a reckless and wealthy businessman who is aggressive, but a villain who is proficient in literary style is even more terrifying.

If Mingshu were to sum it up, it would be one sentence - hooligans are not scary, but they are educated.

When I arrived outside a jingshe, I could hear the clear and crisp sound of knocking squares, followed by the chirping of a parrot, softly calling the word "pipa", wandering endlessly in the quiet jingshe, but Never responded.

Yan Ziqin was speechless, and approached the room. The decoration in the room was elegant and clean. The bamboo couch and lacquered table, the cloud screen and jade pillow, looked like a woman's boudoir. Yu Qing was sitting on the Zen chair, wearing a smoky gown that accentuated her paleness. With a sickly complexion, he sighed at a portrait on the wall. The woman in a green dress holding a book in the portrait smiled, as if she was about to step down from the painting to smooth the sadness between his brows.

"The sound of the parrot is still the same, but the pipa is no longer the case." Yu Qing sighed in his weak and deep voice.

"In the past, when I knocked on the square, the parrot would call her small characters, and she would come to me, call my brother, and ask me softly what I wanted her for."

Yan Ziqin understood that the woman in the painting turned out to be his younger sister, with the small character "pipa". Now that the man has passed away, naturally no one answers the call of the parrot.

"Pipa, do you think Wang Er deserves to die? Why do you disregard your own life for a heartless person?" Yu Qing asked, still immersed in the world in the painting.

Yan Ziqin couldn't bear it anymore, and interrupted: "No one can decide the life or death of others, neither can you."

Yu Qing woke up from the fantasy and stared fiercely at Yan Ziqin, "Duke Qi Xiang will avenge the ninth generation, "Spring and Autumn" will be great! Why should I demand my life from the unjust for her!"

"Tang has laws of Tang, and Song has punishment system. You can't just rely on ancient books to govern the country." Yan Ziqin said.

"Heh, what an outspoken champion. I heard that you also have a family. If your wife dies unexpectedly, do you want to take revenge?" Yu Qing smiled coldly, like a snake showing its fangs and ready to move.

(End of this chapter)

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