Self-help guide for non-professional young masters

"The key to this case is Cuiniang's whereabouts. Since Aunt Xiao insisted that Cuiniang killed Xiao Baichuan, the key now is to find the suspect who is suspected of murder."

Jun Ziyou came to Xiao's old house again, facing several dilapidated earthen houses with his hands behind his back, asked about the room where Xiao Chong's body was buried, and opened the door to enter.

The scene of the crime was the main house of the Xiao family’s old house. The hemp rope that hung Xiao Chong’s neck was still hanging on the beam when Xiao Chong died, and blood spatters could be seen on the ground. Everything here is still as it was when the incident happened. .

Jun Ziyou looked up at Daliang, turned his head and looked at Xiao Beicheng, the two of them tacitly remembered the case where the famous actress Lin Muqi was murdered, obviously, it is very difficult to kill an adult with the strength of a woman. Men hang from high places.

He asked again: "What kind of body is Cui Niang?"

"I was pretty thin when I was young, and I got a little fat after I was [-], but I can't call it fat, it's just plump."

"Bring Xiao Baichuan's autopsy report."

Su Shi'an handed over a few sheets of thin paper that had turned yellow, and the gentleman returned it after hastily looking at it.

"The dossier states that Xiao Baichuan was stabbed in the chest and did not hurt his heart. He died of suffocation because his lungs were punctured, making it difficult to breathe. If it was a man who committed the murder, the force would have caused the tip of the knife to stab deep into his chest. It is not impossible to directly penetrate the heart, so the credibility of Aunt Xiao's testimony that a woman killed Xiao Baichuan is still very high."

"Could it be Cui Niang?"

"That's not necessarily the case. Even if she really did it, it will be difficult to find evidence after such a long time. Unless she herself confesses to the murder, it will be very difficult for the government to convict people."

What was said inside and outside the words was to criticize their Gusu government office for their ineffectiveness and hastily closed the case without finding out the truth, which led to the frequent occurrence of murders.

Su Shi'an thought he was in the wrong, and he also waited for him to make a decision with the intention of seeing Jun Ziyou show his talents.

But Jun Ziyou didn't notice his thoughts, he thought for a moment, and then pulled Xiao Beicheng outside the door who didn't bother to come in to have a look.

"My lord, can you find out what's wrong with this case?"

Xiao Beicheng glanced in, his tone was lazy, and he couldn't lift his spirits at all, "There is nothing to say, Xiao Baichuan was not killed by Xiao Chong, and Xiao Chong did not commit suicide in fear of crime."

“How come you see?”

"Goat epilepsy and acrophobia are just one of the suspicious points. Just look at the scene. Although the girder is not high, it is not enough for a grown man to touch the knot."

Jun Ziyou also looked at the place where the hemp rope was hanging down, and it happened that Su Shi'an was standing at the bottom. He raised his chin and gave him a wink, and the latter obediently straightened up and made him a measuring stick.

In fact, Su Shi'an's height is half a head taller than that of Gusu men, and the hemp rope that hangs his neck falls about a foot above his head. Obviously, Xiao Chong alone can't hang him at all. up.

"And no pedals were found at the scene. Could it be that he flew up?"

Shen Ci started to make old mistakes again, and timidly said a few more words: "In case, in case it was made by Piao Diaozi, there is no need for people to climb up by themselves..."

"Shen Ci..." Jun Ziyou looked at his serious fear, and sighed helplessly, "You would rather believe in ghosts and gods than doubt people's hearts."

Seeing this, Xiao Beicheng just shook his head, knowing that Shen Ci's superstition was deeply ingrained, and persuading him was useless, so he simply ignored him, and instead said to the gentleman: "It seems that you already have a clue."

"It's not a clue, it's just a doubt. I never understood why Aunt Xiao still guarded this old house after her husband and son died unexpectedly. This place should be a sad place for her, and even more ominous, but she gave up. I want to come back because I have the opportunity to retire in a nunnery, is it to hide something?"

Especially on the day when he was pretending to be Xiao Chong, he also discovered that Mrs. Xiao was rummaging for something in the fence, which further strengthened this guess.

So he walked out of the scene, went to the cowshed where Mrs. Xiao lived before, looked inside, and suddenly asked without end: "Did the Xiao family raise livestock before? After the death of Xiao's father and son, they were all resettled. Where is it?"

Su Shi'an replied: "It is true that we have raised a farming ox, but Mrs. Xiao is unable to manage the farmland, and she has no means of earning her own livelihood. How can she have the energy to take care of the livestock, so the government decided to temporarily lease the Xiao family's land to The monthly rent is used to buy clothes for Aunt Xiao, as well as three meals a day for his cousins."

"If that's the case, don't you think the soil here is too hard?"

Jun Ziyou didn't mind being dirty, so he lifted his clothes, turned over and stepped into the cowshed, looked up at the thatch-stacked roof, and bent over to touch the hard ground under his feet.

"The soil quality in our village is different from other places. It is easy to agglomerate when exposed to water, and becomes sand and gravel after drying. Therefore, the way farmers raise cattle is also different from other places. They usually shovel some soil from the field and spread it in the cowshed. Every once in a while, the soil must be turned over and replaced with new soil, so that the cattle can adapt to the hardness of the soil from an early age, so as not to damage their hooves. But look here, the soil in the cowshed is obviously higher than the outside, and all It is firmly stepped on, which means that within a period of time, the land has been filled with soil, flattened, filled with soil, and flattened again.”

Speaking of this, Xiao Beicheng understood what he meant, "Could it be that something shady is buried down there."

At this time, Junziyou still had no confidence in his guess, so he took a hoe aside and dug down, the soil was almost compacted into a rock formation, and there was a deafening crisp sound when he chiseled it down.

Xiao Beicheng winked, and asked Shen Ci to follow up to help. Seeing this, Su Shi'an also ordered the Yamen who came with him to take a shovel and dig down together.

The four of them dug for half an hour before uncovering a layer of soil on the surface.This job is not something ordinary people can do, so Su Shi'an went to the village to find a few strong men to help, and worked until the sun went down, only to find something strange.

Everyone was sweating profusely from exhaustion, and finally saw a white ball the size of a raw bun protruding from the solid soil.

Jun Ziyou dug down with a chisel, and quickly cleaned up the surrounding residual soil, revealing the whole picture of the things below.

...It turned out to be a skull that had been buried deep underground for a long time.

"It seems that we have found the missing person."

Jun Ziyou carefully wrapped the skull with a white cloth, and carefully observed the shape of the skull with the help of the candlelight Xiao Beicheng handed over.

He first compared the size of the skull with his palm, and then looked at the brow bone of the skull from the side, and came to a creepy conclusion.

"The deceased was a woman. Judging from the wear and tear of her teeth, she was only in her early twenties. The cause of death was..."

He slowly turned the skull over again, revealing the cracked scar on the skull.

"Perhaps he died from a blow to the head. This person may be Cui Niang."

The case was reversed and the victim was involved again, so the case should be reversed and investigated again.

Su Shi'an immediately ordered the scene to be cordoned off. In the next two days, fragments of human bones were dug out from the cowshed of the Xiao family's old house, and put together with the skull. After confirming the physical characteristics, the deceased was the one who had been missing for a long time. Cui Niang herself.

"Cui Niang was injured when she was young. It is well known that her left leg did not dare to strenuously walk. There are also traces of healing on the bone of the left leg. It can be seen that the deceased is indeed Cui Niang."

"What can an autopsy reveal?"

Su Shi'an seemed a little embarrassed, "This... only the skeleton remains of the body, and Wu Zuo can only deduce that the injury to the back of the head is a fatal injury."

"No, although the injury was serious, it would not kill her immediately. For a while after that, Cuiniang was still alive, and she even lived a few days longer than Xiao Baichuan."

It has to be said that even if there was no coffin for her body, Cuiniang's body decayed too fast, and it took only one year to turn into bones, which is also very suspicious.

Seeing Junziyou's doubts, Xiao Beicheng pushed a paper bag in front of him, and explained while the man unwrapped it: "This is the fragment of the soil layer closest to the remains brought back by Shenci from the scene. I can see that the color is lighter than other places. If the king guessed correctly, this should be..."

"Lime. Did the high heat generated by the reaction of quicklime with water burn off the flesh of the corpse..."

The gentleman's lobbying was frightened, and he couldn't help but sigh.

Judging from the time, the person who attacked Cuiniang was neither Xiao Chong, who died first, nor Xiao Baichuan, who was better off dying after being punctured in the lung.

So could it be...

Jun Ziyou couldn't believe it, he clutched the paper bag tightly, feeling a dull pain in his forehead and heart.

"Why is it like this... How could such an honest person like Mrs. Xiao..."

But if it wasn't for Mrs. Xiao, who else would do such a thing?

The gentleman is lying on the table, his eyes are hazy and a little dull.

Xiao Beicheng patted his head, as if teasing Xiao Hei, rubbed his forehead hair, and scratched his chin.

"Come on, maybe things are not as bad as you think."

"My lord, you don't need to comfort me... I was just depressed for a while. In fact, I should have thought of it a long time ago. To investigate this case is to suspect all the people around me. If I don't look inside, I won't be able to find out the truth."

"I'm not comforting you, I'm just explaining the facts. Even if the murder of Xiao's father and son was done by Mrs. Xiao, it still can't explain that the other deceased were killed by the so-called 'Piao Diaozi'. Could it be that Xiao Madam went crazy and lost her mind, so did she selectively kill those people?"

Hearing his words, Jun Ziyou suddenly jumped up as if electrocuted, and nodded in thought.

"My lord, you are right. Mrs. Xiao doesn't have the ability to hang herself on a barren mountain and fly away by herself, and she can't escape from the old banyan tree in full view. This case is not over yet, so we have to continue the investigation."

"Hold on."

Seeing him rushing to go out, Xiao Beicheng thought to himself that this guy really doesn't know how to learn from a pitfall, and just after he is depressed, he has to make himself uncomfortable again.

Xiao Beicheng leisurely poured a cup of tea, and pushed towards Junziyou, asking him to stay.

Although the man was reluctant, he obediently sat beside him, took his tea, raised his head and drank it, before he swallowed it, he choked up.

"Puff...cough cough! What is this thing, my lord, you will kill me!"

"The best Kuding, I will cleanse you of toxins, defeat your fire, and don't always be so impetuous in doing things. You have learned a few lessons in the capital and you haven't learned well. I don't know how much you have to suffer to understand."

"My lord, have you already figured out a way for me?"

Xiao Beicheng glanced at him, and said quietly: "It can't be figured out, at most, it's a moth."

The author has something to say: I feel that sooner or later the prince will push his son to wear women's clothing...

It's going to be a blast tonight, prepare for the million changes tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, rush to the duck! !

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