ten mile river moon

After breakfast, Liu Chengyue felt a little overwhelmed, so she walked out of the county government office and started walking by the river.

After passing through a piece of cultivated land, he found that Aunt Li's dog egg was actually under the tree, smiled wretchedly, and Liu Chengyue walked under the tree.

"God, hurry up and call brother." Liu Chengyue was in the process of abducting a child.

Six-year-old Goudan shook the dog's tail grass in his hand, "Brother."

"Hey~" Liu Chengyue felt that she was still very popular with children, "Goudan, why are you called Goudan?"

"Because it's Goudan, so it's called Goudan." Goudan looked at Liu Chengyue suspiciously, as if wondering why this grown-up didn't even know such basic things.

Liu Chengyue: ...

So for the next long time, Liu Chengyue squatted on the ridge of the field, arguing with the six-year-old Goudan from the name Goudan until the dog couldn't lay eggs.

The people who passed by doing farm work heard the words, and they all thought in their hearts. They didn't expect Master Liu to be so childlike. It's not easy. It's not easy. Sure enough, Tanhua is different from others!

When Liu Chengyue and Goudan were discussing whether the dog could lay eggs, Master Ding hurriedly called Liu Chengyue on the other side of the ridge.

Because the usual cases are really nothing to watch, and there is no case for ten days and a half months, so Liu Chengyue often wanders around the fields on the grounds of looking for visits. The small town of Border Town.

Master Ding has never been so familiar with every part of the border town as he is now, because his family may appear in a corner at any time.

"My lord, it's not good, the county government has a big case, you, you go and have a look?" Master Ding rushed to the tree out of breath.

Liu Chengyue thought that another chicken was stolen or the cow was missing, so she stood up leisurely, patted Goudan's little head kindly, and followed Mr. Ding to the county government office.

As soon as she arrived at the gate of the county yamen, Liu Chengyue found that there were many people surrounding the gate of the yamen. You must know that there are no other people present except the plaintiff and the defendant during the trial of a case.After all, the short-lived lawsuits of the parents still feel novel after reading it once or twice, and I am tired of watching it after so many years.

Liu Chengyue looked at Master suspiciously, and Master Ding wiped off his cold sweat, "Just now, the youngest son of the Wu family went to play by the river and found a dead body. He was so frightened that he ran home and told Wu Uncle, after reporting the case, the government servants have brought the body back."

That's really novel, the border town is just a small town with a small population, and the relationship between the neighbors is not bad, the biggest cases are just feuds between husband and wife, stealing chickens and dogs, etc. There hasn't been any homicide in the past ten years.

Now a corpse unexpectedly appeared out of thin air, and it was discovered by a child by the river again. It is not surprising that some bold people who heard the news came to watch the excitement.

However, I haven't heard of anyone drowning or missing recently. The corpse probably came down the river, but was washed ashore due to the rush of water.

Holding doubts, Liu Chengyue passed through the crowd of spectators, and walked towards the special mortuary room in the county government office. As soon as she reached the door, a disgusting smell of stench and decay permeated Liu Chengyue's nose.

Desperately resisting the desire to vomit, Liu Chengyue covered her mouth and nose with her sleeve and walked into the room.There was no one else in the room except Liu Chengcheng. There were three waist-high wooden beds in the middle of the room. On a wooden board near the door lay a "person" whose whole body was so white that it was almost transparent and swollen beyond recognition.

Liu Chengyue took a closer look at the corpse that had obviously been soaked in the water for a long time. Judging from the height and clothes, it should be a male. He was wearing simple, short clothes, and straw sandals tightly tied to his feet. This person was obviously not Born into a wealthy family.

Without seeing too much information, Liu Chengyue walked out of Wu Zuo's room, closed the door, and called the yamen servant, master, and Wu Zuo to the hall.

It was obviously the first time Liu Cheng saw such a "horrible" corpse, his face turned pale, "My lord, the deceased was a male, although his hands and feet were swollen, but because of the thick calluses, the skin on his hands and feet was different from his body, and there were also thick calluses on his shoulders." , the scapula and kneecap are somewhat deformed, and it is preliminarily inferred that it is a coolie."

After hearing the words, Liu Chengyue asked the yamen servant who went forward to pull the corpse some information, but there was nothing abnormal.After pondering for a while, Liu Chengyue ordered the master to post a notice to see who had fewer family members, and asked the yamen servants to go door-to-door to check, and wrote another letter, which was sent to the Yeshuicheng county yamen in the upper reaches of the border city.

Since the imperial court clearly stipulated that the corpse could not be destroyed within half a month before the case was solved, so although the corpse that had been soaked in water for an unknown number of days was extremely smelly, everyone still had to endure it.

After a day, Liu Chengyue couldn't take it anymore. Now that she had a meal, her nose was filled with the smell of rotting corpses. If this continued, she would really starve to death.

Therefore, Liu Chengyue thought of a compromise, and temporarily built a small shed by the river as a "Yi Zhuang", and pulled the corpses into the shed to park.

Liu Chengyue originally thought that this was the end of the matter, and the corpses would be burned when half a month came. Since the population of this town is not small, then it is none of her own business, what should be done in the future.

But something unexpected happened again, Liu Chengyue avoided passing by the river where the corpse was buried during this time, but today he was going to visit Shantang, and the river where the corpse was buried was the only way to go, so Liu Chengyue had to cover his mouth and nose quickly step by step.

But this time, Liu Chengyue was pleasantly surprised to find that the smell of corpses was blocked.After walking by the river, Liu Chengyue continued to walk towards the Shantang, halfway there, Liu Chengyue stopped, something was wrong!

When I was in Wuzuo's room before, even though I covered my mouth and nose with my sleeves, I could still smell a little no matter what.It stands to reason that the longer the corpse is parked, the smell of the corpse should be stronger, but just now I just covered my mouth and nose, and I didn't smell the smell of the corpse. This must be wrong, unless the corpse is no longer there!

The more Liu Chengyue thought about it, the more something was wrong, so she ran towards the river and walked to the small shed where the corpse was buried. Liu Chengyue looked inside and felt a little bit in her heart, sure enough, the corpse was gone!

Soon, all the people in the yamen arrived, and everyone scattered around looking for the corpse.But after searching all over the village, he still couldn't find the mysteriously disappeared body.

At the beginning, some yamen officials said that maybe they were taken away by wild animals. There are many mountains in the border city, with high peaks and dense trees. Maybe some wild beasts came over and took the corpse away after smelling it.

But this statement was immediately denied by Liu Chengyue. First of all, to take away the corpse, the beast must be big enough. The beast plus the weight of the corpse would definitely leave footprints on the ground, and there were no obvious footprints in front of the shed; secondly Well, it's midsummer, even if there are wild beasts, they can catch prey by themselves at this time, instead of taking the risk of going to human villages to pick up the corpses.

After this possibility is ruled out, the only possibility left is man-made!This can also explain why the corpse was not stolen when it was parked in the Wuzuo house, but it was stolen when it was parked by the river.

If there were any secrets about this corpse, the people behind it would definitely be impatient, but Wu Zuofang was in the Yamen, so even if he went to steal the corpse at night, the probability of being discovered was very high.By the river, most villagers would not go to the river at night, and if they acted here at night, they would not attract the attention of others.

But the corpse didn't look like anything special. Who was it that took so much effort to steal the corpse?Liu Chengyue couldn't figure it out, what secrets could a coolie have?

Afraid of causing panic in the villagers, Liu Chengyue ordered the people in the yamen to block the news. The villagers thought that the corpse had been secretly burned by the people in the yamen.

The village that had been quiet because of this incident became lively again, Liu Chengyue looked at the villagers who were chattering and laughing as usual, but she couldn't calm down in her heart.If the person behind it can't be found for a day, this matter will not end for a day.

Moreover, there is a secret that cannot be known about a corpse that is not special. According to Liu Chengyue, anyone who often reads novels knows that this matter must not be simple!

As if to test Liu Chengyue's idea, a few days after the body was stolen, it rained overnight.The next day, the villagers who went out to farm found two coffins again at the place where the corpse was found last time.

The coffin is an ominous thing among the people, it is something that the dead can only use!In an instant, the news spread throughout the village, and the villagers were in a panic. The village that had been bustling once again became silent again.

The coffin was transported back to the Yamen. It was thought that two people could lift the coffin, but in the end it took six people to lift it.Finally, the coffin was finally placed in the lobby of the yamen.

Fearing that something strange would come out, Liu Chengyue ordered people to close the gate of the yamen, and finally began to study the two coffins.

It had to be said that this was the first time Liu Chengyue saw the coffin.In the previous life, there were not many relatives in the family, and no relatives died for some reason, and now coffins are generally only used in rural areas, and cremation has been advocated in cities.Therefore, Liu Chengyue's understanding of coffins still comes from the tomb robbery article "Tomb Digging Notes" that he once chased.

However, even though he only has theoretical knowledge and no practical experience, Liu Chengyue can still see that these two coffins are very different from ordinary coffins.

Ordinary coffins are made of square wood and painted with black lacquer. The coffins of rich families may be more particular about materials, such as sandalwood, golden nan, and so on.

However, these two coffins were not painted black, but coated with a layer of tung oil on the outside.Tung oil Liu Chengyue knows it, because some modern lovers of ancient styles usually collect oiled paper umbrellas. After all, things with ancient styles and charms, Liu Chengyue once knew about these things because friends around her like ancient styles.

The oil used for oil paper umbrellas is tung oil!From this point of view, someone wants to make this coffin into a high-grade waterproof coffin!

Other people in the yamen were also puzzled. The natives must have seen coffins, but they had never seen such a coffin that was painted with tung oil instead of black paint.