Little Detective of the Tang Dynasty: What to do if you are beheaded at the beginning?

"Does she have any physical characteristics?"

"She is plump, with good skin, and no signs of long years of farming."

"Anything else? For example, her face."

"Well, I don't really know how to describe it."

Di Renjie took out a manual from his arms, which was filled with various portraits of people, and handed it to the young woman to identify.

"None of them look like her." The woman shook her head gently.

"Definitely not." Because these portrait drafts were all drawn by Cui Mengzhu, including various facial features.

Di Renjie pointed to the first portrait: "Is her chin round, square or pointed?"

"Pointy, with little meat in the pocket."

"Which picture do you think it looks more like?"

"This one." The young woman pointed to the third portrait.

Di Renjie asked someone to write it down, and then he continued to ask.

"Then are her lips thick or thin? Is her mouth big or small?"

"Cherry mouth, not thick lips."

In the Tang Dynasty, there was already a fruit called cherry. When the new Jinshi was announced, it was also the season when cherries ripened.

"Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Cherries are everywhere, and the most abundant in Luozhong (now Luoyang). The trees are shady and the fruits ripen before all other fruits, so the ancients valued them very much."

This shows that Luoyang has been suitable for growing cherries since ancient times, and the woman is no exception.

But whether you can afford to eat it is another matter.

Bai Juyi can be said to be the spokesperson for cherries. He has written many poems praising cherries.

Among them, the most famous one is "Wu Cherry" "Han Tao is the best to talk about Dongwu, with a fresh and colorful fragrance and a unique smell."

"Benshi Poetry" compiled by Meng Qi records that Bai Juyi had a singer named Fan Su at home. Her mouth was small and bright, like a cherry, which is the origin of the cherry mouth.

It can be seen that Lao Bai is really a man of temperament.

Di Renjie asked one by one, and the woman looked at the picture and spoke.

Soon, he got a general description of Xue Zhong's wife.

"Thank you." Di Renjie bowed before leaving the yard.

"Slow down, young man."

After Di Renjie took two steps, he suddenly remembered something, so he leaned over to the ear of the clerk beside him and whispered.

"Remember to arrange ten people to secretly guard this place day and night, so as not to be harmed by thieves."

Since the group of thieves dared to attack Song Zhen, they probably wouldn't let this family go easily.

Ensuring the safety of witnesses is an important issue in judicial practice.

On the way back, Di Renjie was always alert.

Fortunately, the thieves did not jump out to assassinate.

He suddenly thought of something, and then turned back: "Let's go and take a look at the nearby mountain graves."

Several people came to a towering mountain, dismounted at the foot of the mountain, tied the horses in place, arranged a person to take care of them, and Di Renjie and his friends chose to walk up.

Along the way, Di Renjie saw that there were graves everywhere, almost every ten meters.

Coincidentally, a person in mourning came down from the mountain, and he went up to ask.

"Old man, I want to ask why people in the village like to be buried here?"

The old man looked at him and said with a vigilant look: "Who are you?"

Di Renjie showed the fish talisman on his waist: "Don't be afraid, old man, I'm from the Dali Temple."

"The feng shui of this mountain range is very good, and it has been recognized by Yuan Tianshi. Look there." The old man pointed to the top of the mountain in front, "Does it look like a dragon head roaring to the sky?"

"If you climb to a high place and look down, you will find that this mountain range is like a dragon body twisting and wriggling, and it looks like it is flying in the sky. It is the South Dragon, one of the four dragons guarding the East Capital."

"And this mountain is located at the seven-inch position of the dragon body."

Di Renjie nodded, so that's it.

"The foot and the middle of the mountain are all the graves of common people. Going up, there are the graves of princes and nobles. I suggest you don't go there."

"Why?"

"How can you be so ignorant, kid? They are princes and nobles. How dare ordinary people step forward?"

Di Renjie laughed secretly. What about princes and nobles? They have already turned into a pile of yellow soil.

Besides, don't I have the chance to become a prince and noble?

Di Renjie bowed to his father-in-law and continued to move forward.

He took out the statistical data of Luozhou government office. According to the investigation, there have been 31 new graves since the beginning of the month.

Di Renjie visited the new graves one by one.

However, there were three graves that made him feel very strange.

According to the customs of the Tang Dynasty, after the new graves were sealed, the family members needed at least one month of "de-mourning period".

But the three graves had long been overgrown with weeds, no one cleaned them, and there was no trace of worship.

It can't be a month, and no relatives have come to pay their respects, right?

Di Renjie asked the villagers who were worshipping next door: "Excuse me, have these three graves been here for a long time?No one is paying respects to him?"

The man in plain linen clothes answered, "I don't know exactly when he was buried. Anyway, I haven't seen anyone paying respects nearby these days."

"Do you know whose graves those three belong to?"

"Not sure, I haven't seen them."

"Excuse me, when was your new grave buried?"

"On the tenth day of the month." The man took the initiative to say, "My grandfather is buried here. My family comes here to pay respects every morning."

"My condolences."

The man nodded and ignored Di Renjie and his party.

The moment he turned around, he immediately burst into tears, saying that grandfather, you died so tragically.

It doesn't look like an act.

This operation stunned Di Renjie.

Di Renjie retracted his gaze and looked at the three adjacent lonely graves.

Of the three graves, only one had a tombstone.

"The tomb of Mr. Liu Li, the late father, is respectfully erected. "

Di Renjie squatted down and straightened the wooden sign. He found that there were at least three unreasonable places on the tombstone.

First, the words. Generally speaking, it should be written in regular script, but the words on this sign are crooked? Such a rebellious act, if the deceased knew about it, he would definitely open the coffin and beat people.

The second is the title. The surname is before the king, and the given name is after the king. Is this tombstone reasonable, with both Lu and Liu? Generally, few people would name it like this.

The third is the signature. Before the tombstone is erected, the name of the person who erected the monument is usually added. Why is there no signature on this tombstone?

Erecting a tombstone is a This is an extremely solemn matter, and it must not be sloppy.

It is said that there are several situations where a monument cannot be erected. The first is that the deceased is no more than 60 years old. The so-called "sixty Jiazi is a reincarnation", without a reincarnation, there is no talk of benefiting future generations.

The second is that a monument cannot be erected for a person who died suddenly.

The third is that a monument cannot be erected for a person who has no successor.

The two graves next to it have no monuments, which can be explained.

It's just that the tombstone of the grave in the middle is a little strange.

Di Renjie walked to the grave of the man next door for comparison, and he became more and more certain that there was definitely something wrong with that grave.

"Did you bring any tools?"

"Report to Di Sicheng, I didn't bring the Luoyang shovel invented by Song Sicheng."

"Go back and get it, I'll wait for you here. Remember to bring a few more people."

"Okay."

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