Daming's Bizarre Story: Painted Skin

"Because the villain is going to the capital to buy new goods, so the inventory in the store that day." The shopkeeper's confession flashed in the county magistrate's head, his eyes with dark circles lit up, and he shouted to his subordinates, "Hurry up and arrest the shopkeeper of the bookstore!"

The county magistrate didn't wait for the yamen servants to catch them, so he took his men and horses to the bookstore by himself. Because there was a light rain in the second half of the night, the bluestone road looked oily and slippery, and the light blue sky was reflected in the morning light.

The yamen servants surrounded the shop, and the head of the class kicked open the door, only to see the owner of the bookstore lying on the side of the table, with blood bleeding from his nose and lips, and died of anger.

"Dead!" The yamen servant snorted.

Zhao Ran lowered his head and touched the shopkeeper's face, then peeled off a piece of human skin, revealing a half-burned face.

"Here is the shopkeeper's self-report!" A yamen servant shouted.

The magistrate took a look, glanced up and down, breathed a sigh of relief, handed the paper to Jiu Ru and said, "It seems that the whole story is clear."

Zhao Ran jumped on the chair, and leaned over to look at the paper, the content on it was like the shopkeeper's self-report.

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Back then, the shopkeeper of the bookstore went out to do business. When he encountered a flood, he accidentally fell into the water. Although he did not drown, he lost all his belongings. Because he borrowed money and borrowed money to go out to do business, he did not dare to return home, so he wandered away. several years.Later, with the help of a friend, he had to turn around again, saved a sum of money and returned to his hometown, but he learned that his wife had already married into the Meng family with the young lady from the Baifu.

The shopkeeper missed his wife eagerly, paid off the debt, and immediately rushed to the bookstore. A friend who was traveling with him told him that he had faked his death for three years. I don't know if this Mrs. Song is keeping the chastity for him. You might as well give her a try.The shopkeeper followed his friend's advice, disguised himself as a homeless man, and took refuge in the Meng Mansion in the name of a relative of the Song family.

Mrs. Song was shocked when she first saw him, but she was very considerate. Instead of blaming him for disappearing for so many years and being in such a poor state, she also said that she would intercede with Miss Bai and help him make a living in the Meng Mansion.

The husband and wife hugged each other and wept. It was Xiao Sui that day, and there was a banquet in the Meng Mansion. So Song arranged the shopkeeper in the woodshed to settle down temporarily. The shopkeeper sneaked out of the house and asked a friend to disguise himself as a homeless man. And he himself went out to buy new clothes and re-dressed to prepare for a surprise for Song Shi. After redeeming Song Shi, the couple went out to celebrate the New Year together.

But who would have thought that when he returned to the Meng Mansion, there was a fire in the Meng Mansion, and the hottest place was the firewood room. Although the shopkeeper rushed into the firewood room, his friend had already been burned to death.

The shopkeeper was suspicious and did not dare to stay for a long time, so he left the Meng Mansion immediately with injuries.

At that time, there were also guests participating in the fire fighting. The soldiers were in a panic, and none of the servants of Meng's house who were fighting the fire paid attention to the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper healed his wounds in other places and resettled his friend's family members before he returned to the bookstore and opened a family bookstore. He made many inquiries and found out that Mrs. Song had followed Mr. Meng Shan long ago, but there was no direct evidence to show that the The fire was set by the Song family.

Many years have passed, and the shopkeeper has been in the bookstore for another ten years, and he still has nothing to do with the things of the past, and gradually his heart fades away. Let him verify the suspicion of the year.

What he said that day was not as simple as what he said. That day the shopkeeper heard a scream, and then he tripped over his leg. Seeing Hengsheng's back hurriedly going out, the shopkeeper couldn't help but feel suspicious, so he quietly hung up. Go down, so he also heard the conversation between Mrs. Meng and Yinniang that Hengsheng heard.

These conversations aroused extreme resentment and anger in the shopkeeper's heart. He felt a little confused when he entered, so he went to the capital to enter the book as planned, but on the way to the book, the shopkeeper gradually figured out one thing, That is, he wants to avenge himself, and even more so, his friends.

The shopkeeper returned to the book city, and first testified to the wronged Hengsheng, because only in this way, the real murderer, Mrs. Meng, would panic and truthfully tell the truth to herself.Then he took the opportunity of personally delivering the book to the Meng Mansion, using the truth about Yinniang's death to successfully invite Mrs. Meng to the teahouse. Climb up to the second floor.

Because he planned to see the old lady with his real face, the mask of that day did not stick to his face. During the climbing process, in order not to fall off, he simply put it in his arms. Who knew that when he climbed to the window, Old Man Meng People were so frightened that they died of anger.Seeing that the matter was about to come to light, but the result fell short, the shopkeeper was angry and sad. He had opened a bookstore for many years, selling books, calligraphy and paintings, and he could draw a few strokes himself. I drew a string of skeleton feet with a rag and bamboo to imply that Mrs. Meng had done something wrong.

After Mrs. Meng's incident happened, he went to the Meng mansion with condolences to find out the truth. He happened to see Mrs. Song sneaking out of the mansion, so he took the opportunity to hold Mrs. Song hostage. Shocked, Mrs. Song confessed everything. At the beginning, the child who was pregnant with Monsanto thought that he could reach the sky in one step, so he deliberately gave him dinner with drugs and then set it on fire.

The shopkeeper strangled Mrs. Song to death in a fit of rage. He had both new and old grievances, and Ming people don't do secret things, so he left a page of the book in Mrs. Song's hands, and returned home by himself, drinking the poisoned drink. The hometown wine kills itself.

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"The innkeeper is a good writer, and the cause and effect are really clearly written." Zhao Ran sighed.

The county magistrate nodded and said: "Although this man killed one person and another died because of him, it is sympathetic."

The truth of the case came to light, and the county magistrate couldn't help but feel good about the shopkeeper who had not forgotten to explain the case clearly even after his death.

Zhao Ran said: "Where is Song's body?"

"It has been carried to Wuzuo's place."

"I'm going to take a look!" Zhao Ran said.

The county magistrate couldn't help but tremble with his eyelids: "I've already had Wu Zuo look at me, I'm definitely strangling to death!"

Jiu Ru said, "If he wants to see it, let him see it."

The county magistrate coughed lightly: "Little saint, since the facts of this case are clear, I don't need to let this child see the corpse."

Jiuru said: "Did you wake us up early in the morning to find out the truth of the case? Since he wanted to see it, he thought something suspicious, so you let him see it."

The county magistrate is dumb and eats coptis. He didn't know that the shopkeeper in the bookstore wrote such a clear confession, but now he is speechless, and the little sage doesn't talk much, but his status in the bookstore is no less than that of Monsanto. Under the circumstances, not to mention that he said it so bluntly, if he evaded it, he would offend the little saint again.

"Little sage, there are no rules and no rules, and teaching children just to care for them will not be a problem!" The county magistrate was a little uneasy after all, walking on the road turning and smacking his feet, "You can't just leave them alone, they should be beaten or beaten!" To beat, the so-called strict teacher produces high-quality apprentices is the truth."

What he said was only exchanged for Jiu Ru's very indifferent "um", not up or down, but Zhao Ran, who was lying on his back, grinned at him.

As soon as he saw the little skeleton, he had no good intentions, and the county magistrate couldn't help but twitched his eyelids a few times.

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When Song was alive, she was well maintained, but when she died, she looked haggard, her hair was disheveled, her face was a little swollen, and her body was covered with mud. She was strangled to death, so her face still had a slightly ferocious expression, which made people dare not Look.

"Where was Song's body found?" Zhao Ran asked.

"It was found in a remote alley." The county magistrate added after thinking, "That alley is not far from the Meng Mansion, and it exactly matches what the shopkeeper of the bookstore said. There is still a place next to her body." A bundle, which contains a few changes of clothes and silver, it seems that she originally planned to escape from the city, but she didn't expect her life to be killed, and she ran into her husband who was murdered by herself."

The yamen servant brought up the burden, checked the things clearly and then nodded.

The county magistrate just breathed a sigh of relief when he heard Zhao Ran say, "Nurse Song was not killed by the shopkeeper."

Zhao Ran pointed to the pair of shoes and said: "Besides, Nanny Song should have died after the shopkeeper. It rained lightly in the middle of the night, and the shopkeeper's shoes and socks were clean. It can be seen that he hadn't gone out in the middle of the night, but Nanny Song's trousers were stained. mud."

The magistrate frowned and said, "Perhaps the mud on the trousers was rubbed on the ground when Mrs. Song was dying."

Zhao Ran said: "Since her trousers are covered with mud, how can a pair of shoes be so clean?"

The county magistrate couldn't help but frowned a few times, and said clearly: "Because the murderer knew that the shopkeeper died in the first half of the night, but it happened that there was a light rain in the second half of the night. In order to cover up this flaw, he strangled Nanny Song to death. She put on her shoes, but it was inconvenient to change her pants, so she reapplied mud on the bottom of her trousers to cover up the mud splashed by Nanny Song when she was walking in the rain. But he was It was because she wanted to cover it up, so she showed her flaws in the same place, even though Nanny Song's trousers were covered with mud, how could her shoes be so clean?"

The county magistrate was speechless: "Mother Song didn't kill the shopkeeper, so who killed it?"

"A person who exchanged murder with the shopkeeper." Zhao Ran said, "The shopkeeper of the bookstore wanted to kill Nanny Song, and this person wanted to kill Mrs. Meng, so he persuaded the shopkeeper to exchange murder with him. Then he asked the shopkeeper out of the bookstore , let Mrs. Song, who was familiar with the shopkeeper, slip into the bookstore and poison his wine jar, and finally he strangled her to death at the place agreed with Mrs. Song. The whole case, from Yinniang to Mrs. Meng's death, Then, a circle was drawn between the death of the bookstore shopkeeper and Nanny Song."

He nodded at this point: "This person is quite smart, but unfortunately he is a little worse than me."

The county magistrate had no choice but to ask, "Where did you come to these conclusions?"

Zhao Ran pointed at the burden and said in surprise: "Isn't the answer obvious? There is something missing that should have appeared."