Nongmen Shenjue

There are some bamboo leaves falling on the bamboo roots, stepping on them in the daytime can't hear any movement, but in the dead of night and it's close at hand, a little bit of noise is immediately transmitted to Qiu Baozhu's ears.It was the sound of footsteps on fallen leaves, and it was because of this that she was startled immediately, but it was still too late.

Without waiting for her to react, two hands were stretched out from the shadows, one hand covering her mouth, the other hugging her around the waist, and pushed her directly into the bamboo forest.The bundle fell to the ground, and there was also an embroidered shoe that Qiu Baozhu fell off when he was struggling.

This small bamboo grove is so dense that there is no starlight at all. It is pitch black inside, and only black shadows can be seen faintly moving.

Qiu Baozhu's mouth was covered. Even though she was a delicate little girl, facing this situation, she was terrified and helpless, struggling desperately, making a suppressed whining sound from her throat, and kicking her feet on the ground... The sound of tearing was very clear, accompanied by the man's low panting.

Mu Qingyan frowned.

Qiu Baozhu's voice was no longer heard, and even the weak struggle disappeared.

Having experienced many cases, it is easy to guess what is going on.In order to prevent Qiu Baozhu from yelling, the man tightly covered her mouth, and because he didn't pay attention, he also covered her nose.This kind of situation is the most common in some rape cases. It is often when the murderer has vented his animal desires that he finds that the victim has stopped breathing.

"Ah!" The man finally found out, let out a low cry of horror, and hurriedly crawled away from Qiu Baozhu's body.He ran without leaving. The black figure remained silent for a long time. After a quarter of an hour, the black figure suddenly walked towards the depths of the bamboo forest.Not long after, the man came back again, holding something in his hand, occasionally reflecting a little coldness.

The man squatted beside Qiu Baozhu's body, swung the murder weapon in his hand, and slashed fiercely.

The murder weapon in his hand looked like an axe.

There was the sound of a sharp weapon cutting into flesh and blood, and the man raised his hand to wipe his face, and then slashed several times.It can be seen that although this man was ruthless, his movements were not neat, and it took a long time to chop off his head.He took a piece of cloth, wrapped his head around, tied a knot, and left quickly from the depths of the bamboo forest.

Although the man didn't speak from the beginning to the end, the low whistling...

Not Yang He.

The night returned to silence, and there were footsteps approaching the back garden quickly, the footsteps were very light.

"Baozhu? Baozhu?" It was Qiu Baozhen who came, and she was in a hurry, she seemed to know that Qiu Baozhu was in the garden, so she just lowered her voice to call out for fear of alarming others.She was alone with no one else.

When Qiu Baozhen found the bamboo forest, he saw the burden falling on the bluestone path at a glance, and at the same time, he also smelled a strong smell of blood.

"Baozhu? Don't be naughty, come out, or I'll call someone." Qiu Baozhen's voice was trembling, obviously she realized that something had happened, but she didn't dare to think bad things about her sister.

She stepped into the bamboo forest step by step, and finally saw the person lying on the ground. Even though she couldn't see the face clearly, she could recognize the vague figure and clothes.She ran over in a hurry, only to feel her feet slipping, and with a bang, she fell down. When she touched the ground with her hands, which were sticky and greasy, she realized that the people on the ground were not right, and she couldn't see her head.

When he was wrestling, the person yelled, but now he was so frightened that he couldn't make a sound.

After all, the scream just now attracted the night watchmen, but the servants just walked around the garden and left without finding anything.

After a while, Qiu Baozhen came out of the bamboo forest trembling, with a lot of blood on her body, her face was pale, and she stumbled and ran out.

About half an hour later, Qiu Baozhen came back.

After changing her clothes, she finally cried aloud, but she didn't dare to make a loud noise, sobbing, which made the night very cold.

Beside her was Yang He, Yang He couldn't stop comforting her, seeing that her legs were too weak to walk, and he was also feeling guilty, so he discussed in a low voice: "How about, tell Dad..."

Qiu Baozhen shook her head again and again: "No, I can't. My father loves Baozhu so much. If he knew that she died so badly, I'm afraid... the main reason is not to let my mother know. My mother is not healthy and can't bear this stimulation. If you want to hide it from my mother , I have to hide it from my father, my father has never been able to hide things from my mother."

"Yes, sooner or later you will know."

"...Even if she dies, she has to leave a clean reputation. You can't let her be scolded after she dies." Qiu Baozhen wiped away her tears fiercely when she said this, and dragged Yang He into the bamboo forest.

Qiu Baozhen's intention was obvious, to move the body, to cover up Qiu Baozhu's elopement in the middle of the night, and to conceal the traces of her brutal rape.

Maybe she didn't understand the importance of the original crime scene to solve the case, but even if she did, she would do it.Between finding the murderer and maintaining a clean reputation, many people will choose the latter. How it was programmed, not to mention the slander the Qiu family suffered.

The husband and wife moved the corpse to cover up the traces in the bamboo forest, and no one knew except the real culprit.

Withdrawing the ability, Mu Qingyan found a stone bench and sat down to rest.

It had been three years since Qiu Baozhu's death, and going back to three years ago, it happened to be a hurdle.However, this time seems to be a little easier than before. It's just a little dizzy and weak at the moment, and the ability to speed up is running, and it gradually feels better.Because he was in front of outsiders, he didn't want to be exposed, so he just pretended to be tired from walking, and braced himself to think about what to do next.

Finding the murderer is not difficult for him, as long as he chases the shadow in the bamboo forest, he can always see the person's appearance clearly.

But what about the evidence?

It's like seeing some police detectives with keen intuition before, who clearly knew who the murderer was, but couldn't find any evidence, and watched the other party get away with it.Even though Mu Qingyan is not a member of the Yamen, he still has to produce evidence to prove that the murderer committed the crime and give a convincing explanation to the victim's family.

In addition, this time things are not so simple.

First, Qiu Baozhu eloped, why did Qiu Baozhen find the garden so quickly?

Second, the murderer had long been hiding in the bamboo forest, and seemed to have known that Qiu Baozhu would come.

Third, who is Qiu Baozhu's lover?Why is she waiting in the garden to meet?

All signs indicated that the murderer was someone from the Qiu family.

There are very few masters in the Qiu family. Ever since Qiu Baozhu was murdered and Mrs. Qiu died of illness, there are only Qiu Hai, Qiu Baozhen and Yang He and his wife left in the family.There are quite a few servants downstairs, but the male servants are all in the outer courtyard, and there are only maids and women in the inner courtyard. Even if it is the back garden, the male servants will not be allowed to enter. Even if there are guests, the place must be cleared in advance during the day, let alone at night.

He frowned and remained silent. Chen Shiliu was used to it and didn't bother him.

But Yang He didn't know that since he stepped into the back garden, he felt uneasy, and when he saw the place where he was sitting, he felt even more nervous.

"Mr. Chen, Mr. Mu, this is..." Yang He asked tentatively.

Chen Shiliyi was unpredictable: "Brother Mu is analyzing the case, so he must have discovered something."

Saying that, Chen Shiliu was also distressed, and he also looked very carefully, but he didn't find anything wrong.In fact, according to his thinking, he would definitely have to stay in Qiu Baozhu's yard to investigate carefully at this moment, and then question all the serving maids, so he couldn't understand how Mu Qingyan came to the back garden.

He didn't doubt anything, he had a kind of blind trust in Mu Qingyan, and he felt that the other party must have discovered something.

It's not yet April, and the weather is very cool, but Yang He's forehead is covered with sweat.

Mu Qingyan didn't ask anything, and went back to Qiu Baozhu's yard.

He called Chen Shiliu: "Go and talk to those maids."

Chen Shiliu had followed him to handle cases not once or twice, and he knew what it meant when he heard the voice, so he went there with a smile.Gao Chun and Gao Dong were not idle either, looking around the yard, looking carefully at the furnishings in the house.He Chuan followed Chen Shiliu.

Yang He finally couldn't hold back: "Mr. Mu, but what did you find?"

Mu Qingyan looked at the floor tiles in the house, and said with a faint smile: "Have you changed the floor tiles in this house?"

Yang He followed his gaze and looked down. The floor was covered with blue bricks, very neat and clean, but he didn't understand what he meant: "It has never been replaced, it has been like this since the house was repaired. Why, is there something wrong?"

Entering from the door is a small hall with a round table. Not only is the tablecloth covered, but a square carpet is placed under the table.This is nothing, but compared to the round table, this carpet is a bit too big, which seems uncoordinated.

Mu Qingyan squatted down, lifted a corner of the blanket, and saw that there were a few blue bricks underneath that were obviously newer, and they were not the same color as the surrounding blue bricks.

Seeing this, Yang He hurriedly said: "These bricks were replaced later, those bricks were stained with blood, and they couldn't be washed clean."

Therefore, the easiest way is to change a few bricks, which is very convenient.It just seems that the chroma is not uniform, so I took a bigger carpet to cover it.Even though there are usually no people there, but when Mr. Qiu or Qiu Baozhen misses Qiu Baozhu, at least they won't think of the reason because they see a few new bricks of different shades.

Mu Qingyan nodded and looked at Yang He: "It's just three bricks changed."

"...What does Mr. Mu mean by this?" Yang He always felt that the other party had something else to say.

"I once handled a similar case. A woman was beheaded and died tragically. At that time, she also died in the bedroom. Not only the bed, tables, chairs, and walls were splashed with blood, but the place where she lay was covered with blood. Soaked." Saying that, he glanced at the room again and went out.

Cold sweat broke out all over Yang He's body, he opened his mouth to say something, but couldn't.

When the incident first happened, they also reported to the officials, and the county government came to work.It was just to conceal the fact that Qiu Baozhu's innocence was ruined, the body was cleaned up, the place was changed, and the yamen was managed, so after Wu Zuo came, he mainly checked the broken marks on the neck, inferring the murder weapon used by the murderer and the method of attack and times etc.As for the body, Wu Zuo was not allowed to look through it, and the Qiu family was present during the whole process, so Wu Zuo didn't mention that there was something wrong with the blood stains in the house.Speaking of other people, just seeing a headless corpse is terrifying enough, who would want anything else.

Yang He always felt that Mu Qingyan knew about it, otherwise how could he say such a thing?It so happened that I went to the back garden.