With a heavy "squeak", the lid of the coffin finally slowly rose.
Jiang Xixi tiptoed and looked in, and sure enough, he saw the familiar face and the shroud embroidered with white chrysanthemum, but the old lady Dong lying in the coffin was blue, and every wrinkle seemed to be frozen, stiff and profound, and it looked even weirder than yesterday.
The officials carried Mrs.
Dong's body out of the coffin and placed it on a white cloth outside the pit, and her face was covered with a layer of sunlight, which was a little more hideous.
Cheng Muyou walked over, leaned over and looked up and down at the corpse, and then stopped his gaze on Mrs.
Dong's face: her face was a little blue, and her expression was slightly weird, but there was no other abnormality.
He pondered for a while, then reached out to open Old Lady Dong's eyes and mouth to take a closer look.
It was clean inside, and there was no blood left, even in the pierced ears and nostrils.
Cheng Muyou was a little surprised in his heart, he knew that if he was poisoned to death, he would usually bleed from seven orifices, but this old lady Dong's mouth, eyes and nose were clean, and there was no sign of poisoning to death.
Jiang Xixi found that his expression was wrong, so he also squatted down on the side and asked quietly, "My lord, why don't you drive the villagers away and strip for an autopsy?"
” Cheng Muyou didn't speak, his eyes fell on the collar of Old Lady Dong, Jiang Xixi was puzzled, and asked hesitantly, "My lord, what did you find?"
” At this point, she suddenly stopped, stretched out her hand and reached out to the neck of Mrs.
Dong, where her hand fell, she really touched a hard lump, which was blocked in her throat, like a hard and abnormal stone.
"My lord, what is this?"
Jiang Xi was stunned, and his words were a little unreasonable.
Cheng Muyou narrowed his eyes slightly, grabbed a wooden stick casually, and said to Jiang Xixi, "It's a pity, you open her mouth and hold it up." ” Jiang Xi cherished his understanding, and hurriedly reached out to break Mrs.
Dong's mouth open, Cheng Muyou lay on top of her head, supported the ground with one hand, and pinched the wooden stick with the other hand into her mouth, and went deep down her throat inch by inch.
Eventually, the stick touched a hard thing and was blocked in its path.
Cheng Muyou's face sank, a layer of cold light appeared at the bottom of his eyes, and a very cold smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, "Yes, of course you didn't die of illness, you died of tin water." ” As soon as these words came out, there was an uproar among the onlookers, and the crowd rushed forward, wanting to see what was going on.
Jiang Xixi also looked surprised, and Chong Cheng Muyou said, "My lord, why did you say this?
” Cheng Muyou put the wooden stick in front of her eyes, "Look at it, what is the top of this stick?"
” Taking advantage of the daylight, Jiang Xixi saw a small layer of silver-gray on the top of the stick, emitting a seeping glimmer in the warm winter sun, her eyes widened, "This is tin lead" Cheng Muyou nodded, and then said to her, "Go and borrow a pair of pliers, the real culprit behind this scene has been hidden for a long time, and it is time to see the light of day." ” With a burst of exclamations from the crowd, a piece of tin stained with blood was pinched out of Old Lady Dong's throat.
Jiang Xixi looked at the piece of tin that was shining with silver light, clenched his palms into fists, and said hatefully, "This murderer is really ruthless, and he actually kills people with such vicious means." ” "If you use other methods, you will definitely leave marks on the corpse, but tin water is not easy to be found unless you examine it carefully.
When I checked Mrs.
Dong's mouth, I found that there were some burn scars inside, so I became suspicious, and with the strange bulge on her throat, I suspected that her death was not simple. ” Hearing this, Jiang Xixi was already furious, she stood up "Teng", and searched back and forth in the crowd, trying to find the murderer who was like a snake and scorpion and murdered blood relatives.
But his eyes circled around the dense crowd a few times, but he didn't find Dong Zongyuan's figure, only saw Mrs.
Dong prostrate in the outermost circle, her face as white as paper, and her eyes were full of panic.
"My lord, it's not good, Dong Zongyuan is gone."
Jiang Xixi shouted while rushing out of the crowd, looking left and right.
But she had only taken a few steps when she noticed a black smoke rising not far away, and the smoke was getting thicker and thicker, suppressing the orange-red flames that followed below.
"Oh no, it's on fire, there's a fire in the village."
"Look at the direction, it seems to be the Dong family" "That's right, it's the Dong family, the Dong family is on fire, it's burning" Mrs.
Dong was already paralyzed on the ground, but now she saw the fire in Dong's house again, her body was completely weak, and she struggled to climb a few times and couldn't get up from the ground.
Cheng Muyou ordered a servant to watch her, and then ordered the other two to search for Dong Zongyuan's whereabouts, and he took Jiang Xixi and others to run towards Dong's house, and when he arrived in the courtyard, he found that the burning West Wing had no power to return to the sky, the beams of the house were burned by the flames, and the roof also made a piercing popping sound and fell to the ground.
It was inevitable that it would affect other houses, and everyone was busy fetching water to put out the fire, and it took more than half an hour to put out the fire, but at this time, the west wing had completely turned into a ruin, and the ruins and broken tiles were "hissing" with black smoke, and the heat was pressing.
Jiang Xixi wiped a handful of black ash from his face, frowned and muttered, "Strange, how could this house burn down for no reason?"
So where did Dong Zongyuan go?
Is it really afraid of crime and absconding?
” Just thinking about it, the officials who were looking for Dong Zongyuan came back, and the two of them saluted Cheng Mu and said in a low voice, "My lord, we have searched the entire Yushan Village, but we haven't found Dong Zongyuan, do you want to look for it outside the village?"
” Cheng Muyou was just about to answer, but Mrs.
Dong, who had been sitting in the courtyard, suddenly screamed, got up and rushed towards the ruins, regardless of the fact that she carried the beam that was still emitting black smoke.
Her hands were blackened at once, but as if she were unconscious, she tried with all her might to lift the severed beams.
Seeing this, Jiang Xixi hurriedly rushed over, grabbed her waist and pulled her out, and shouted, "Are you crazy?"
Even if there is possessions in this house, you can't give up your life. ” Mrs.
Dong was still screaming, her voice was full of horror, and the others were shocked into a cold sweat, and she broke Jiang Xixi's fingers hard, almost breaking her fingers.
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But in the next moment, Jiang Xixi suddenly let go of her, not because her fingers hurt, but because she saw the thing under the beam: it was not gold and silver jewelry, but an arm, an arm that was burned black.