"So Aunt Hua has the evidence of two cases in her hands, of course she has to die."
Liu Xuzhu blurted out, and glanced at Aunt Hua's corpse again, "This woman is also guilty, and it's not a pity to die, but Brother Cheng, the current situation is just like what Wang Jixun said, the witness is dead and crazy, how can we find evidence of Wang Jixun's crime?"
” "The dead can't speak, but the crazy can't still speak."
Cheng Muyou said lightly.
"Brother Cheng means that Qin Yingbao's madness can still be cured?"
Cheng Muyou looked at him with a gloomy gaze, without admitting or denying it.
Liu Xujiao's eyebrows were furrowed, trying to analyze the deep meaning in his eyes, and at this moment, a hurried shout suddenly came from outside the door, "My lord, Lord Liu, the person has been found, the person has been found." ” Person?
Who?
Liu Xuzhu didn't understand what this meant for a while, his eyelids raised, but he saw that one of his subordinates was running here in a hurry, and when he ran closer, he clasped his hands into fists, "My lord, the corpse of the Song family, Song Mingzhe's whole family has been found." ” Song family, Liu Xujiao took a long time in his mind to distinguish the two things, his tone was urgent and urgent, "Where did you find it?"
” "In the canal, it was found by a fisherman who got up early to fish today."
"Brother Xian, the case of the Song family is an important matter for the imperial court, you better go to the scene quickly, and leave the matter here to me."
Cheng Mu said to him.
Liu Xujiao nodded, shook off his steps and walked towards the door, took two steps, but turned back, "Brother Tai, Wang Jixun is a vicious person, if you force him into a desperate situation, you may use dangerous moves, you," his gaze slid over Jiang Xixi's face intentionally or unintentionally, "You guys, you must be more careful, if you need help, you must send someone to find me." ” As soon as he finished speaking, he strode out the door.
Jiang Xixi followed behind and looked at his back, "Wave after wave, adult, life is like this, isn't there a peaceful day." ” Liu Xujiao jumped off his horse, and he saw a group of people squatting by the canal from a distance, each holding a brush in his hand, and gently brushing something with the tip of the pen.
He stepped forward and leaned down slightly, taking a look at what was in their hands.
Bone.
That's right, it was the human bones that they were scrubbing with fine hair, and they had been brushed and laid on the straw mats that were laid aside, of various sizes and shapes, but they were piled up more than three feet high.
The bones were yellowed in color, and some of them were broken into several pieces, piled up on top of the straw mat.
"What's going on?"
He whispered to the guards who had brought him.
"My lord," the guard said, pointing to an old man with white beard in front of him, "these bones were found by the old fisherman."
After saying that, he beckoned the fisherman to come over and said to him, "You tell us everything you encountered the day before yesterday, Lord Liu, and you can't miss a single thing." ” The old fisherman was frightened, took a deep breath, and then said, "My lord, the villain has to come to the river every day to fish, and the day before dawn, I rowed into the river as usual, but after a few strokes, the oars touched something, and I didn't care, who thought, that thing seemed to be a lot, and hit my oars one after another, and a few of them seemed to be broken by the oars."
I was suspicious, so I poked my head into the water to check, and I saw that the mud and sand under the water were full of bones, large and small, and the whole shallow was all over it, it was like a cemetery," he said, and his hands and arms trembled.
"Old man, have you been fishing in this river for the past few days?"
Liu Xuzhu asked.
"Yes, of course, these days are especially rewarding, and I am busy in the river every day until the sun goes down before I go home."
"Didn't you notice anything unusual the day before you found the bones?"
"No, my lord, you believe me, don't dare to say anything else, I am very familiar with this river, and I can be the first to notice any changes.
But these bones, they really appeared overnight, as if they had grown out of the mud and sand, they were really too evil. ” Liu Xujiao nodded, motioned him to retreat, and he came to the straw mat and squatted down, staring carefully at the pool of broken bones: all gathered on the river beach overnight, this thing is really weird, these corpses have been missing for several months, how can they all be gathered together and thrown into the water, shouldn't they have been washed away earlier?
There was a boom in the head, and the brain seemed to be blown open in an instant.
No, a few months, only a few months, how could the corpses of the Song family decay so quickly, they have been completely ossified, and the bones have already turned yellow, even if they have been blistered, they should not be like this.
He stood up with a "swish", turned to the guards behind him, and his voice became hoarse and low, "Who is it, who said that these corpses belong to the Song family?"
” The guard was taken aback by him, and hurriedly replied, "Before leaving, the lord told me to step up the investigation of the theft of the Song family's corpse, so when I received the news from Kaifeng Mansion the day before yesterday, I thought I had found the stolen corpses of the Song family." ” "Think?"
Liu Xujiao's volume increased suddenly, "How long has the Song family been dead, will the corpse become like this?"
” The guard scratched his head, "yes, how could it be like this, the flesh is rotten," he raised his head again, "My lord, who would it belong to with so many bones?"
” Liu Xuzhu looked at the "Bone Mountain" in front of him, "Look at their appearance, people have been dead for at least five years, and some of the bones are broken, yellow and withered" He paused, slowly raised his head, his eyes widened, "Could it be that these bones do not belong to the Song family, but to belong" He turned his head suddenly, "Check, check one by one, count how many corpses there are in total." ” The guard just wanted to say something more, but was frightened by Liu Xujiao's fierce eyes, so he could only walk away from him without saying a word and lay down the order.
Starlight fills the surface of the river, illuminating the straw mats on the shore.
Although most of the bones were crooked, and some of them were misplaced, each one barely made up a complete form.
They just lay quietly by the river, staring at the starlight on the canopy with eyes that had become black holes, with a little confusion and a little longing.
"My lord, there are two hundred and seventy-eight corpses in total."
The guards counted them one by one, stood dozens of feet away, and shouted at Liu Xujiao.
"Two hundred and seventy-eight."
Liu Xuzhu read out this number, and then closed his eyes tightly, "Han Zhiyuan, it turns out that he hid you here." ”