I am imprisoned in Kaifeng Mansion

The skins of the three mummies were all dark brown and leathery, and it would take at least six months for such mummies to form naturally if the environmental conditions allowed.The clothes on the three mummies are relatively old, but compared with the mummies, the clothes are not too old. Although they are old clothes, they are more like the clothes that are usually not worn on the mummies, which is similar to the mummies. In comparison, it is a bit too 'new'.

There were obvious bloodstains on the chest, face and top of the head of the three mummies. Although the bloodstains had dried up, they were bright red. The bloodstains were obviously formed recently, relatively fresh, and did not match the time when the mummies were formed.Cui Tao also checked the place where the blood was, and there was no wound on the part corresponding to the mummy.

The soft tissues of the entire body of the mummy have shrunk and hardened, and the weight is only about one-tenth of the original weight.The hair is disheveled, and there are no ornaments on the hair, because the mummy will shrink in the process of shrinking and drying, so the original clothes hanging on the body should be loose.

However, the clothes on the lower bodies of the three mummified corpses were tightly fastened and fixed, so there was no phenomenon that some of the clothes were loose and falling off when they were dried.The sexes were two men and one woman. Because there was no obvious trauma and the body was more desiccated, the cause of death could not be determined for the time being.Due to limited technical means, it may or may not be known after the corpse is transported back to the mortuary for detailed inspection.

At this time, Li Yuan reported what he learned to Han Qi and Cui Tao.

The owner of the house is a middle-aged couple, Wen Shanquan and Tang's.The two have a son, who is 23 years old this year, but he is a little silly, as wise as a child of four or five years old.

Today coincided with the Tiankuan Festival, early in the morning Tang wanted to pull a clothesline between the two big willow trees at the door, intending to take out the clothes at home to dry in the sun.But only one end of the rope was tied, and she heard her son shouting that he was hungry, so Tang got busy cooking first.

Tang's husband, Wen Shanquan, works in the kitchen of the liquor store and has to go to work early in the morning. He never eats three meals a day at home, so there are only Tang and Wen Dalang in the house.

When Tang's rice was half cooked, she heard screams coming from the door, and the neighbors shouted that there was a dead person hanging in her house.Tang went out to check, and saw three blood-stained horrible mummies hanging on the clothesline in front of his house, and his silly son was standing in front of the mummies, giggling.Tang was so frightened that she immediately fainted, and it was the neighbor Aunt Luo who sent her son Luo Dalang to report to the government.

Afterwards, the Military Patrol Store got the news, blocked the scene first, and notified Wang Zhao, Li Yuan and others. Han Qi and Cui Tao also got the news and rushed here.

Now Tang is still fainting in the courtyard, Wen Dalang is kneeling beside Tang, crying for his mother.Because there were three mummified corpses hanging at the gate of the courtyard, no one dared to go in and take care of the mother and son.

When Wang Zhao arrived at the scene, Tang woke up, but his hands and feet were so frightened that he couldn't move.Although Wen Dalang is stupid, he protects his mother very much and doesn't allow anyone to approach her.Wang Zhao saw that the Tang family was fine, so he stopped detaining Wen Dalang, since the doctor didn't come anyway.After the man was frightened, they didn't dare to move casually, so they just followed their mother and child.

At this moment, Cui Tao's preliminary autopsy was completed, and the body was also removed from the gate. Wang Zhao asked Cui Tao to help check Tang's situation.

Wen Dalang immediately protected his mother, staring at Cui Tao warily.Without saying a word, Wang Zhao ordered the two yamen servants to arrest Wen Dalang.

Tang watched helplessly, tears streaming down her face, she opened her mouth and hummed twice, but she didn't say what she wanted to say.

Cui Tao briefly checked Tang's situation, and found that the problem was not serious, so she gave her an injection on the spot, prescribed another dose of shock-reducing soup, ordered someone to grab the medicine, and then helped Tang up.

Only then did Tang realize that he seemed to be able to move, sobbing and thanking Cui Tao.

Wen Dalang didn't know where he got his brute strength, he broke free from the escort of the Yamen servants, rushed to Tang's side, and hugged Tang's arm tightly.

At this time, Li Yuan told Han Qi the testimony from the interrogation. No one noticed who the three mummies were hanging on.When everyone saw it, they only saw Wen Dalang standing happily in front of the mummy, clapping his hands and laughing.

Cui Tao sized up Wen Dalang and asked him, "Did you hang those three clothes by the door?"

Cui Tao deliberately didn't say it was a mummy, but used 'three pieces of clothes'.

Wen Dalang hid behind Tang Shi in fear, and stared at Cui Tao in fear.

Tang was still a little startled and didn't calm down, but still cooperated with Cui Tao and asked Wen Dalang in a trembling voice if that was the case.

Wen Dalang nodded.

"My God! You bastard, how could you hang a mummy at our door!" Tang cried again in anger.

"Mrs. Tang, don't be too excited. There is something strange about this. I don't think he can tell what a mummy is." Cui Tao said.

After being reminded by Cui Tao, Tang came to his senses, nodded repeatedly, and explained to Cui Tao that the child was really stupid.

"Yes, yes, when I saw him, he was still clapping and laughing at the mummy. I really don't know how terrifying that thing is." Tang wondered, "I just don't understand, it's just the work of cooking two dishes , how did he get three mummified corpses out!"

Cui Tao looked around the house. There was a wooden cart in the yard, and jars, dustpans and other things were piled up beside it. It was very messy and hadn't been sorted and put away.There were still firewood piled up in the corner in that compartment, but the quantity was not much.Cui Tao saw through the window that the layout of the house was not neat.

"You just moved into this house not long ago?" Cui Tao asked.

Tang was stunned for a moment, looked back at her messy house, and said to Cui Tao embarrassedly: "Indeed, I have just moved in for three days, and there are still many things that have not been cleaned up. In addition, he is still making trouble, always making trouble, I pack even slower."

The house has an ordinary three-room layout, the main room and the east and west wing rooms.The kitchen is at the corner of the main room and the west wing, not too big.There is also a small room at the corner of the corresponding main house and the east wing, which is used as a utility room.

Cui Tao asked Wen Dalang in a soft voice: "Where did you find those three clothes and dry them for your mother?"

Wen Dalang still looked at Cui Tao with some fear, not daring to speak.

Cui Tao remembered that she still had a pack of homemade plums on her body. She planned to give it to Han Qi to taste, but now she took it out and gave Wen Dalang a taste of two. Go find where the mummy used to be, and give him the whole bag.

Don't look at this Wen Dalang's intelligence seems to be only four or five years old, but he is very wary of outsiders, and he is also very dependent on his mother Tang.Even if he ate the sweet plums Cui Tao gave, he was so greedy that he still hesitated to be seduced by Cui Tao.But in the end, when Cui Tao brought the bag of Huamei to his nose, he couldn't help it, snatched the bag of Huamei, turned around and ran towards the utility room.

Cui Tao followed Wen Dalang.

Wen Dalang didn't go into the utility room, but walked around to the back of the utility room, and pushed aside the straw on the ground, revealing a wooden board with a handle.

Grab the handle, lift the wooden board, and found a cellar inside.

"There is a cellar in this place? I didn't know!" Tang was very surprised.

The cellar is not deep, in fact, it is only as high as the shoulders of an adult. After jumping down, you have to walk on your waist. When the door is open, the light is not too dark.

After Wang Zhao and Li Yuan jumped down first, they searched the cellar.

The cellar was relatively empty, and there weren't many other things, only a few ragged clothes, three burlap bags, and three ropes that should be used to tie the sacks.

Cui Tao found that not only were sand and dirt sticking to the ragged clothes, but the fabric was also a little bad, and they would tear if they were slightly torn.Compared with the "sturdy" clothes that the three mummies are wearing now, these bad clothes are more like the clothes that the mummies should have worn.

It is somewhat impossible for a child like Wen Dalang to dress the clothes on the three mummified corpses so properly.

Cui Tao confirmed it to Tang.

Tang agreed: "That's right, I usually dress him, and he would be dressed in a mess by himself, and the belts are not neatly tied."

Tang asked Wen Dalang for details, how he jumped into this cellar, and how he carried the three mummies.

"Hmm... Mother cooks and wants to dry clothes for mother!" Wen Dalang grabbed Tang's sleeve and looked at Tang anxiously.He could feel from everyone's expressions that he seemed to have made some mistake again, and everyone was blaming him, but he didn't know where he was wrong, he was so wronged.

Cui Tao first confirmed to Tang whether the clothes on the three mummies belonged to their family.

Tang shook her head, "I wash the clothes of the family members. I know every piece of clothing. None of the clothes on them belong to my family."

"During the three days since the move, have you been at home?" Cui Tao asked again.

Tang shi nodded, while holding Wen Dalang to prevent him from running around.

"I just moved and there are a lot of places that need to be cleaned up. Besides raising a child like him, I can only stay at home and can't do anything else."

Seeing that Wen Dalang is tugging on his sleeve now, and still arguing to play, Tang can't help but look worried and sigh repeatedly.

"It means that the clothes on them were not changed by Wen Dalang, but someone else changed the clothes of the three mummies and splashed blood on them." Cui Tao said to Han Qi, "The three mummies should have been changed before they moved. , should already be in the cellar."

"Changing clothes, deliberately splashing blood, as if someone intends to use the mummy to scare people." Han Qi pondered.

Cui Tao nodded, "I think so too. The environment in this cellar is not enough to form a mummified corpse. Those three sacks were probably used to hold the three mummified corpses, and they should have been transferred from elsewhere."

Cui Tao then explained to Han Qi the conditions under which mummified corpses are formed under natural conditions. Under hot and dry conditions or completely airtight conditions, corpses need to be dehydrated quickly.

In view of the fact that the original clothes of the mummies were covered with sand, Cui Tao felt that the three mummies should have been buried under relatively dry and hot sand.Generally, places like deserts can meet such environmental conditions.Bianjing boundary, the natural environment does not meet these conditions.

The first thing that should be found out now is who moved the three mummies to the cellar for storage, changed the clothes of the mummies, and sprinkled blood on them.

Tang quickly expressed that she really didn't know anything, "I haven't tidied up the things in my house yet, and I didn't even know there was a cellar behind this house, and no one told me there was a cellar when I bought the house."

Tang then told Cui Tao that they bought the house from the owner of a lantern shop.The owner moved his family to the south of the Yangtze River, saying that this house was left undisposed, and the price was cheap because it was sold urgently. After the price was negotiated on the same day, the land deed was issued, and he went to the government office to pay taxes and transfer the ownership.

Anyone who buys a house in Bianjing will have an account post, because it is a recent transaction, Wang Zhao quickly found out the account post of the previous owner of this house, surnamed Xue and named Ai, who indeed opened a lantern shop in Beijing, and in two The lantern shop was changed hands a month ago.It was also found that there were eight private houses under his name, and within these two months, the rest of the houses had been sold, and indeed only the house that the Wen family lived in was the last one left for sale.

"Can the original owner live here before you buy the house?" Cui Tao asked.

Tang shook her head, "This house should have been vacant for a while. When we came to see the house, dust was everywhere on the door and window sills. The house was empty, without even a single piece of furniture."

Li Yuan and others went to inquire about Xue Ai's former neighbors. Xue Ai's family left two months ago and moved to Jiangnan first.Xue Ai stayed in Beijing to handle the property by himself, and he has been staying at the home of his friend Li Ziming for the past two months.

According to Li Ziming's confession, Xue Ai left Beijing for Jiangnan on the second day, that is, the day before yesterday, after finishing the last house.Li Ziming didn't know whether the house the Wen family lived in now had a cellar, and Xue Ai had never heard of it.However, Li Ziming said that Xue Ai said that he lived in the largest house and rented out the other seven houses, so the house purchased by the Wen family should have been rented out to others before that.

Cui Tao: "Xue Ai bought this house for seven years. If it has been rented out to others, it cannot be ruled out that the tenant dug the cellar without him knowing."

The former tenants are not difficult to find. I asked the neighbor next door, Mrs. Luo, and I learned that the residents who lived here were the Sun couple. There were seven members in the family. There were parents, two children, and a wife and brother. live.

"The couple sell lotus seed soup at the Zhouqiao Night Market, and the soup they use for their lotus seed soup is very particular," Aunt Luo said.

Cui Tao's eyes became brighter than usual when he heard about the Zhouqiao Night Market, and he asked Mrs. Luo what was so important about it.

"Not to mention how many different ingredients are put in this lotus seed soup, which makes the taste different. There are many kinds of soup bases, such as those made from rice leaves, bamboo leaves, tea leaves, and pulp. Boiled. Among them, the one with syrup is the best seller, we also like to eat it, and they often buy a big bowl of it!"

Aunt Luo immediately sighed with emotion. It's a pity that their family has moved away for more than a month, but the business at Zhouqiao Night Market is still going on. In the future, if they want to eat, they can only walk to the night market to buy it.

"Are there still iced ones this summer?" Cui Tao asked.

Aunt Luo nodded quickly, "Yes, yes! But the ones with ice are more expensive, and like those vendors who sell ice and snow cold yuanzi, they have to spend money to buy them from the icehouse. I’m afraid of wasting money if I buy less, and I’m afraid of making less money if I buy less.”

Cui Tao nodded suddenly, thanked Mrs. Luo, and then reported to Han Qi that the cellar was probably dug by the Sun couple for temporary ice storage.The original owner, Xue Ai, probably didn't know about it, so he didn't tell when the house was sold. Wen's family was busy furnishing the house just after they bought it, so they didn't notice. Found.

"I think it's not the first time he discovered it today. He has seen it for a long time. Today, seeing that Tang was going to dry his clothes, he thought that the clothes in the cellar were dark and needed to be dried more, so he carried them out. He has a whole body Brute force, and the weight of the mummy is light, it is not difficult for him. That's why there are two dishes, and the three mummy are hung at the door so quickly."

Han Qi nodded slightly, agreeing with Cui Tao's scrutiny.

Cui Tao took a look at Han Qi, and found that he was standing under the tree, he was quiet, and he didn't know what he was thinking, but because of his good looks, he made a scene.It's a pity that this is the scene of the crime, and the traffic is not large enough, otherwise Cui Tao felt that he could make a small profit by setting up a stall in front of him and charging for group photos.

In fact, in a case like this, it is not necessary for officials at the pusher level to arrive at the scene, since they should be investigated first, and he can intervene after the vacation is over.

In fact, it is rare for Han Qi to have a day off. In the past, he was very busy every day.

"It's my negligence. I shouldn't have let Liulang come. I can do it here. Liulang should take advantage of the holidays to rest at home and do something fun to make himself happy."

"I'm doing it," Han Qi looked at Cui Tao quietly and softly, "Wait until you're done."

After completing Han Qi's words completely, the content is: 'When you finish your work' is exactly what makes me happy.

Cui Tao's heart skipped a beat, and she took a slow breath.This rapidly evolving level of love talk is simply too powerful, but it makes you feel endlessly sweet when you say it cryptically, the more you think about it, the more interesting it becomes.

"I want to eat lotus seed soup."

After listening to Mrs. Luo's introduction, how could Cui Tao, who was already hungry, not be aroused to eat?Recalling that when she was visiting the Zhouqiao Night Market, she only cared about eating those fresh and rare delicacies, such as this kind of common-sounding lotus seed soup, but she temporarily skipped it.

"In the future, we should treat every food with a special name or a common name fairly without distinction when tasting food." Cui Tao did not forget to reflect on herself deeply.

Han Qi, who had a clear and cold demeanor, suddenly heard Cui Tao's words, couldn't help laughing, and instantly shone brighter than Gao Yang.

"Why, am I wrong in my self-criticism?" Cui Tao glanced at Han Qi.

"Han Tuiguan, I found something!" Wang Zhao shouted.

Just now, under the order of Han Qi, I searched carefully the surrounding walls of this house, and found traces of climbing on the wall adjacent to Aunt Luo's house.

Aunt Luo on the other side of the wall planted some vegetables in the yard. Several ridges of land happened to be next to the wall, and leeks and coriander were growing green and ready to be picked and eaten.The ridges where this kind of vegetables are grown are all black soil. At first glance, the soil is humus soil that has been fertilized by itself.The soil on the side of Wen's house is yellow, which is also the color of the land in most parts of Bianjing.

On the yellow rammed earth wall adjacent to Wen's house and Luo's house, traces of black soil can be seen. If this evidence is not obvious enough, a half-height of the wall can still distinguish a half-length black shoe print. .Compared with stone walls and brick walls, the surface of rammed earth walls is relatively smooth and uniform in color.

It had just rained two days ago, and the ground must have been relatively wet at that time. When climbing over the wall, I stepped on the black soil shoes and stepped on the wall first, so that I could jump over the wall, and the shoe prints were left like this.

Seeing this trace, Cui Tao couldn't help but think of the case of Meng Da and his wife and Aunt Qiu.

"Why is the neighbor committing the crime again?"

"It's not necessarily a murder by a neighbor. You just focused on the autopsy and didn't notice it. I saw that Luo Dalang, who reported the crime next door, looked wrong, more nervous than surprised and frightened." Han Qi said to Cui Tao, "Luo Dalang is only 15 years old, and he just loves to play. They are so old. The clothes of the three mummified corpses were changed first, and blood was deliberately splashed on them, the purpose of which was to make the appearance of the mummified corpses look more horrifying."

Cui Tao understood what Han Qi meant.

"Seven members of the Sun family live here. They do their business. No matter what, there is no need to store three mummified corpses in the cellar. Even if there are, they will not be dealt with in time when they move. The original owner Xue Ai It is also unlikely. Indeed, it is very likely that someone knew that this place is uninhabited, and there is a secret cellar, so the mummy is temporarily stored here."

The people who knew the existence of the cellar, apart from being friends with the Sun family, were the neighbors nearby.In addition, Han Qi said that Luo Dalang's condition was suspicious, so the suspicion on him became very serious.

A 15-year-old boy may be cynical, may want to play tricks and scare people, may... In short, he may have a lot of ideas, and it is not strange at his age.

The shoe prints on the wall are not too small, Cui Tao vaguely remembers that Luo Dalang seems to be tall and big, and his feet should not be too small, which are more distinctive.

So they called people in for questioning, and saw that his feet basically coincided with the shoe prints on the wall.Ask about the feet of his family members, but none of them are as big as his.Now, just ask a few words and see his extremely nervous and frightened expression, I can be sure.

When Wang Zhao and the others made a slight threat, Luo Dalang was so frightened that he cried and cried.

"I found these three mummified corpses in the sand pile of the kiln, so I thought about digging them out and throwing them at the place where they ate on Chen Sanlang's birthday to scare them.

Who told him to invite everyone on his birthday, except me!I want him to regret it! "

After careful questioning, I found out that Chen Sanlang, like Luo Dalang, both worked in Qingyao.They were about the same age and had a good relationship before.Later, because Luo Dalang laughed at his small thing in private, Chen Sanlang found out about it.Chen Sanlang wins people's hearts with small favors and small benefits, and unites everyone to isolate him.

Luo Dalang was very angry, and he had been thinking about how to get revenge on Chen Sanlang these days.

Ten days ago, Luo Dalang accidentally found a mummy in the sand in Qingyao. He wanted to report directly to the officials, but then thought that if he reported to the officials, the yamen closed the Qingyao, and the dead people in Qingyao were publicized Everyone knows it, and it delays people's business.When the time comes, he who reports to the official will inevitably be hated by his boss, how can he continue to work in Qingyao to make money?

So Luo Dalang simply pretended that he hadn't found the three mummies, and when he finds out who is unlucky later, he will let that person make trouble, anyway, he doesn't care about this nosy business.

But not long after that, Luo Dalang heard that Chen Sanlang Zhang Luo's birthday banquet invited all the peers in Qingyao, except him.Luo Dalang was even angrier and wanted to take revenge on Chen Sanlang, so he thought of these three mummies.

"I cleaned up the three mummified corpses, changed their clothes, and sprinkled pig's blood to make them look like ghosts, making them even scarier. When it's Chen Sanlang's birthday in two days, I can find bad luck for him , Scared them. Who would have thought that the house, which had been vacant for so long, would suddenly be sold, and suddenly a new family would move in."

Luo Dalang was caught off guard by the beating, he really wanted to transport the three mummies out and find a way to deal with them, but the Wen family had been occupied for the past two days, so he had no chance to do so.

Cui Tao and others then took Luo Dalang to Qingyao and asked him to identify the place where the mummy was found.

Blue kilns often use sand to make bricks, so there are always some sand piles beside the brick kilns.The place where Luo Dalang found the mummy was next to an abandoned brick kiln in Qingyao.There used to be an earthen pit, but sand was piled up later.Later, the brick kiln was no longer used, and no one took care of the sand pile next to it. Gradually, the sand pile became somewhat flat.

Luo Dalang was lazy that day and came here secretly for convenience. As a result, when the water washed the sand, he saw a withered finger. He dug it twice with his hands and saw that it was a mummified corpse.At that time, Luo Dalang didn't know there were three of them, so he ran away in fright.

Later, when he turned back and planned to scare Chen Sanlang with the mummies, he dug up and found that there were three of them.Thinking that one more person would scare Chen Sanlang and others even more, so he moved them all away without stopping.

When Wang Zhao and the others heard that Luo Dalang was moving the corpse like this to scare people, they couldn't help feeling that this child was both courageous and naive.It is too uneconomical to go to prison for this crime and be punished.

"There is a good saying, 'A tree lives with a skin, but a man lives with a breath'. When you were old, you were not like him? Want to get started on impulse, and compare with others?" Li Yuan asked back Wang Zhao.

"It's true, but I won't say that people's birds are small." Because the words are not very pleasant, Wang Zhao deliberately mentioned it to Li Yuan in a low voice.

"Maybe it's really small, he just told the truth." Li Yuan said.

"It's not small even if you are really small. Men are not small, only big, really big! No matter what it is, just be happy if you exaggerate, this is a man!" Wang Zhao corrected in a low voice.

Immediately, Li Yuan and Wang Zhao made eye contact with each other and smiled knowingly, thinking that no one else heard their conversation, and that no one understood their current state.

Cui Tao was actually a little far away from the two of them, but her ears were so good that she could hear them all.

Han Qi was not idle at the moment, while Cui Tao was digging the sand to see if he could find more evidence related to the mummy, he entered the abandoned brick kiln.

Cui Tao and his men dug up three pairs of shoes from the sand, one pair of women's shoes and two pairs of men's shoes.Women's shoes are embroidered and soaked in tung oil. The uppers soaked in tung oil are like duck feathers. They are relatively smooth, not easy to get wet, and have a waterproof effect.

Shoes like this kind of embroidered flowers soaked in tung oil are usually bought by people of some status.When it rains, it is appropriate to wear such shoes to go out.However, judging from the clothes originally worn by the three mummified corpses picked up in the cellar, the fabric of the woman's clothes is very ordinary, but in terms of clothes, they are not suitable for these shoes.

As for men's shoes, they are very common cloth shoes, which are more consistent with their clothing.

Unavoidably something was missed, Cui Tao asked Li Cai and others to sift the sand again, and found another thing.A little thumbnail is the size of a small thumbnail, decorated with emerald jade flowers.This should be a small part of the decoration that falls off from jewelry such as hairpins and step shakers.

The fineness of the emerald jade is not bad, the base is silver, and the tin flower craftsmanship is refined, so it must not come from ordinary people.

Cui Tao probably had an idea, the female mummy is very similar to a wealthy woman disguised in ordinary attire, but the details are not perfect, such as headgear and shoes.

The two male mummified corpses didn't know whether they were rich men disguised in place, so they couldn't tell, or they were from ordinary backgrounds.If they were of ordinary status, were they the woman's domestic servants, or someone else?

The evidence is limited, and it is not easy to conduct detailed scrutiny.

Since the corpse appeared in the Qingyao, the place of Qingyao must be investigated carefully, and the responsibility cannot be escaped.

"When was this brick kiln abandoned?" Cui Tao wanted to rule out the time of death of the three mummies, because it is difficult to determine the time of death of the mummies, and the scope is too wide. Try to narrow down the time range as much as possible during the investigation. .

Just as inferred before, the conditions for the formation of mummies are dry and rapid dehydration.In this environment, if there is only sand, it is definitely not enough, but if the brick kiln is in use, it will be easy to explain.The temperature released by the burning of brick kilns will make the sand piles hotter and drier, which promotes the formation of mummies.In addition, Cui Tao also discovered that there are some charcoal piled up near the sand pile, and these charcoals also have the function of absorbing water and drying.

"It's been abandoned for more than half a year." Said Wang Guanshi, who is in charge of Qingyao.

"How long has this pile of sand been here?" Cui Tao asked again.

"It's been a year and a half. This kiln was originally used for firing bricks, and sand was used. But our boss found that the fired bricks were not easy to sell. Everyone likes to use rammed earth for building walls and houses. It was changed to a kiln a year and a half ago. The pottery pot was fired, so this pile of sand is no longer needed, so it has been piled here." Wang Guanshi explained.

It takes about six months to form a mummy in this environment.This brick kiln was abandoned half a year ago, that is, six plus six, and the three dead died for at least a year.

"Three corpses were found in the sand in your blue kiln, how do you explain it?" Cui Tao directly questioned Guanshi Wang.

Steward Wang was so frightened that he was immediately at a loss, "This... this villain really doesn't know!"

Cui Tao asked the manager to answer a question in advance: "Why did the murderer hide the body in this sand pile?

Steward Wang shook his head again, pleading that he still didn't know.

"Those people knew a year ago that brick kilns would no longer use sand?" Cui Tao asked again

Steward Wang was stunned for a moment, "There were not a few people who knew about this matter at the time, and the owner sent a message in advance that the fired bricks would be changed to fired pottery, so I ordered them to discuss the matter, and it took about half a month before the implementation began. The specific time, probably at the beginning of last year."

Naturally, Cui Tao couldn't trust Wang Guanshi's words alone, so he asked Li Yuan and others to check again to confirm what Wang Guanshi said was true.It can be roughly inferred from this that the period from the beginning of last year to June and July last year was the time range when the three mummies were killed.

Han Qi sent someone to call her at this time.

Cui Tao followed into the brick kiln. Under Han Qi's guidance, Cui Tao looked at the brick wall inside the brick kiln.On those brick surfaces, some traces similar to scratches were seen.

"Could this be a human scratch?" Cui Tao touched it, "If it was really made by a human, it would be someone who was roasted alive in a kiln."

"If you don't see it, check it out first." Since there is not enough evidence, if you ask specifically, no one will admit it. With the shopkeeper Wang's mouth, you can just make excuses, and maybe you will startle the snake.

Han Qi always had a feeling that this green kiln was not as simple as it appeared on the surface.

She then asked Guanshi Wang, where is the owner of the green kiln now.

"Coincidentally, our boss will be in Bianjing in the next few days. When he arrives, the villain will immediately tell the boss to ask him to go to Kaifeng Mansion to cooperate with Han Tuiguan and you in the investigation." Manager Wang replied with a smile.

After that, the relevant people of Qingyao will be under the supervision of Kaifeng Mansion. Before the case is clarified and the suspicion is not completely eliminated, everyone in Qingyao is not allowed to leave Kaifeng without permission. Beijing.

After coming out of Qingyao, Cui Tao planned to go back to Kaifeng Mansion for a second autopsy, but was stopped by Han Qi.

"Who said that government affairs can never be finished, and eating on time is the most important thing?"

Han Qi asked Cui Tao to look at the setting sun, but she didn't even have a meal.

"Go and eat the lotus seed soup you want. Today is the Tiankuan Festival, and wontons are indispensable."

Cui Tao agreed, so she stretched her waist to relax, and went to the Eight Immortals Tower with Han Qi at sunset, and ate a bowl of Baiwei Wonton.

The so-called Baiwei Wonton means that Dr. Baxianlou's tea, rice and wine measure adopted Cui Tao's opinion and put together different flavors of wonton into a bowl to meet the needs of diners who want to taste all kinds of fillings.

A bite of mutton, a bite of shrimp, and a bite of shepherd's purse... Wonton soup is boiled overnight with chicken skin and chicken skeletons. The soup is very clear and sprinkled with shredded chicken and bean sprouts.All in all, for someone like Cui Tao who is not picky about food, this bowl of Baiwei wonton is full of surprises and satisfying.

Facts have proved that there are many people like Cui Tao, and today Baxianlou's Baiwei wonton is the best seller.

Before Cui Tao left, the shopkeeper asked Sibo He'an to send another money bag.This time the purse was very light, and it was all Jiaozi.Probably the understanding He An keenly realized that she is not short of money now, and there is no need to specially prepare scattered copper coins, and she simply puts them in Jiaozi for easy storage.

After leaving the Eight Immortals Tower, Cui Tao opened the purse to check, and found that there were more than a dozen denominations of ten guan in it, which was much more than Han Tui's official salary.

Seeing this, Han Qi smiled softly and said to Cui Tao, "I want to invite the God of Wealth into the house sooner."

"Oh, don't you see that the official Han Tui is greedy for money?" Cui Tao couldn't help asking him with emotion, wouldn't he be afraid of being accused of being vulgar when he raised money?

"I am greedy for whatever you are."

"Liulang!" Cui Tao yanked Han Qi while he was not paying attention.

Han Qi was stunned for a moment, stopped in his tracks, looked back at Cui Tao seriously in doubt, concerned about her business.

"Don't be so sweet, you're going to panic." Cui Tao sighed, and she had been receiving critical attacks from "Han Liulang's love words" all day long.

"I'm not afraid of sweetness, so tell me?" Han Qi stared at Cui Tao with a smile.

Cui Tao nodded immediately, and said to Han Qi mysteriously, "What I said is amazing! I just heard about it today. It is said that this is your favorite word for men! I am happy to hear it!"

"Oh? What is it?"

"Big big big big..."

"Big big big big..."

Cui Tao chattered to Han Qi like a mantra.