Liaozhai Great Sage

soon.

Li Xiuyuan and his party came to Fang Shengyu's house.

At this moment, the door of Fang Shengyu's mansion was open, with white lanterns and white cloths hung on it, mourning music was played inside, and there was the sound of family members crying and mourning. Many relatives and friends came to pay respects.

"It's fine if you die, so you can live in this world and continue to harm the people." Li Xiuyuan didn't show any pity when he saw the funeral, but he was a little happy.

Chapter 7 to eighteen

Some people are worthy of sadness and emotion when they die, and some people will only make people applaud when they die.

In Li Xiuyuan's view, Fang Shengyu was the latter.

However, he did die a little too soon. I remember that during the Lantern Festival, he met this Lord Fang by the Longyin Lake.

Only a few days later, Fang Shengyu wades into the coffin.

"My lord, on the day of my master's death, can I ask you not to enter the mansion to disturb me? Also, for the sake of the dead, my lord will leave some cleanliness for the mansion. After the master's funeral is over, my lord It's not too late, no matter what the adults want to do, the villains will cooperate with the adults one by one."

At this time, an old housekeeper saw Li Xiuyuan and the others' unfriendly appearance and hurriedly greeted them, saluted them respectfully, and then begged Li Xiuyuan and the others not to enter the mansion in a tactful manner.

"Oh, do you know what I am here for?" Li Xiuyuan asked.

The old housekeeper replied: "President Cui from the Six Doors is arresting anyone in the capital who doesn't know, who doesn't know, your lord must be the new magistrate, here to investigate the case, but the master has passed away, so it is an urgent case Please take it easy, my lord."

"Your words are right. Your family is having a funeral. It is really inappropriate for someone like me to come to investigate the case. But then again, there are still some clues left in this case. If time If it drags on for a long time and the clues are gone, I can't guarantee whether the case will be solved. If you, the old housekeeper, really think about it for your master, please let me go and investigate."

"The sooner the murderer is caught, the sooner Fang Shengyu will be wronged, won't it?" Li Xiuyuan said calmly.

"However, when the master's former friends and relatives are paying homage today in the house, it is inevitable that your lord will be disturbed when investigating the case at this moment. Can you please come back in three days?" the old housekeeper said.

Li Xiuyuan said: "From a human point of view, I should indeed stay away for a few days to let you finish the funeral, but after all, Fang Shengyu died, what does it have to do with me today? I am here to investigate the case. It didn't say that Fang Shengyu was not allowed to investigate in the past few days after his funeral, so please step aside, and Fang Shengyu died in the government office and was assassinated again. According to the court law, he should be asked to do an autopsy. Return the body to the family."

"Fang Shengyu died on the night of the fourth day. You brought the body back in the early morning of the third day. You didn't stay in the yamen for a day. Wu Zuo didn't have time for an autopsy. This is neither reasonable nor reasonable."

"If someone breaks the rules first, then don't blame me for not being sympathetic."

After finishing speaking, he ignored the old housekeeper and strode into the mansion with his men.

This time he came to be a villain, why should he be so scruples.

"My lord, my lord..." The butler of the Fang Mansion hurriedly followed behind, trying to stop him but was powerless.

When Li Xiuyuan came to the mourning hall, he saw Fang Shengyu's wives, concubines, maidservants, and young son kneeling in front of the altar, weeping sadly. From time to time, there were people who came to pay their respects. In addition, there were monks chanting scriptures. Transcendence, the method of Taoist priests...but they are all without real skills, they are just craftsmen in this line of work.

At this moment, his eyes moved slightly to look at the coffin in the mourning hall.

Needless to say, what lay inside was Fang Shengyu's body.

"My lord, what are we going to do?" Cui Wei asked in a low voice.

"Autopsy." Li Xiuyuan said.

Cui Wei looked around and said: "The people who come here to pay homage are all dignitaries in the capital. I'm afraid there is something wrong with opening the coffin for an autopsy today..."

"What are you doing here without an autopsy? Could it be to offer incense to Fang Shengyu? My relationship with him is not so good yet." Li Xiuyuan said.

"An autopsy? Who dares to open the coffin for an autopsy? Li Xiuyuan doesn't say that you are just a magistrate now, even if you return to Yangzhou to be the governor in the future, this official will definitely not allow you to do so. Is there anyone in the world who investigates cases like this? Fang Brother just put it in the coffin and you are going to open the coffin for an autopsy today, is your heart really so vicious that you don’t have any compassion at all?"

A literati who came to express condolences heard Li Xiuyuan's words, and immediately stood up and yelled loudly.

Li Xiuyuan took a look and immediately recognized this literati, isn't this the clerk who fought with Fu Tianchou at the court meeting yesterday?

At this moment, the civil servant's voice immediately attracted other people's ideas.

After a while, relatives and friends from the house gathered one after another.

"What? Someone wants to open the coffin for an autopsy."

"Who, who is so vicious, if anyone dares to open the coffin for an autopsy, I will fight him."

"Damn dog officer, won't even let the dead go?"

These relatives and friends of Fang Shengyu were filled with righteous indignation, and some were even furious, as if they wanted to fight Li Xiuyuan and others desperately.

The Song Dynasty ruled the country with filial piety, and it is indeed an outrageous thing to open a coffin for an autopsy in front of relatives.

Li Xiuyuan knew something was wrong, but he felt that it would be even more wrong to dig up Fang Shengyu after he was buried.

"Since my lord forbids me to open the coffin for autopsy, then I won't do it." Suddenly, he looked at the official and said.

The civil servant was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect Li Xiuyuan to give face so much, and immediately smiled complacently; "Yes, a child can be taught, much better than your father-in-law Fu Tianchou."

But before he finished speaking, Li Xiuyuan said again: "Then let Fang Shengyu come out of the coffin by himself."

"What, what?" The civil servant immediately became suspicious.

Before he could react, Li Xiuyuan shouted at the coffin in the mourning hall: "Fang Shengyu, Fang Shengyu..."

His voice seemed to contain some kind of special power. After the voice came out, it would reverberate around three times before disappearing. As he kept chanting Fang Shengyu's name, the entire mourning hall seemed to be surrounded by him. Sound enveloped.

This voice instantly overwhelmed the monks chanting sutras, and also overwhelmed the crying of the family members.

The people nearby couldn't help covering their ears for a while, but they found that covering their ears could not block the sound.

"This is a spell." Cui Wei, who was on the side, immediately realized something was wrong.

It's just that his knowledge is limited, and he doesn't know what kind of spell this is.

Li Xiuyuan kept calling Fang Shengyu's name.

The next moment, something unexpected happened, and I saw the thick coffin in the mourning hall trembling violently, as if the person lying inside was suddenly alive and struggling violently, trying to push the coffin away Like the cover jumping out of it.

This scene shocked everyone in the mourning hall.

"Cheat, cheat the corpse."

I don't know who yelled, and for a while, the people who looked around turned around and ran away in fright. Even the monk who chanted scriptures and the Taoist priest who practiced rituals threw away the wooden fish, whisked the dust, and left the mourning hall in horror.

And the civil servant who scolded Li Xiuyuan before was even more courageous, his legs trembled in fright and he didn't even have the strength to run.

"Fang Shengyu hasn't gotten up yet." Li Xiuyuan's voice suddenly became severe, with a hint of order.

"Bang~!"

Immediately, the lid of the coffin fell to the ground, and Fang Shengyu's body suddenly sat up, with half of his body exposed outside the coffin.

"Ah~!"