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Chapter 224 Retrial Case Mou Biao Digging Grave

"died!"

Mou Biao was startled.
"How did you die?"

"It is said that he knew that Hu Kuang's crime was unforgivable, and the whole family died of poisoning in one night..."

"Where's the corpse?"

"Hu Kuang's family has no relatives in the local area, and the head of the village came forward to bury him..."

"Where was it buried?"

"This... the little one didn't ask..."

"Call the boss there..."

It didn't take long for the subordinates to bring the chief over there, and Mou Biao asked the chief with gray hair and beard,
"Who discovered that the four of the Hu family took poison?"

The head of the village replied,

"Back to the little official, it's the neighbor next door to the Hu family... He said that he had agreed to ask the daughter-in-law of the Hu family to go out of the city to offer incense yesterday, but he went to call for her early in the morning, but found that he couldn't be called no matter what. Looking at their house from the wall, they saw that the main room was open, and the neighbors felt something was wrong, so they asked their men to climb over the wall, and saw that the whole family died on the bed..."

Afterwards, the neighbors were frightened and rushed to report to the government. After the people in the government came to see it, it was confirmed that the family of four had committed suicide by taking poison.

"The Hu family originally came to the capital to seek refuge with relatives, but..."

But that relative had already been killed by Hu Kuang himself, so there were no other relatives in their family, so the head of the village had to come forward to collect the family of four.
"Where is the body buried?"

"In a mass grave outside the city..."

It is considered the utmost benevolence for the head of the village to help their family collect the corpses. Naturally, he can't be expected to find any geomantic treasures. If he can find a place in the mass grave, it would be good for a few thin coffins!
Mou Biao frowned for a while and asked,

"Did you witness the death of all four members of their family?"

The chief thought for a while and said,

"The little old man went to take a look. The four members of the family closed their eyes tightly, their faces were pale, and they seemed to be dead..."

After a pause, he said,
"Wu Zuo came to the yamen and said he was dead..."

Mou Biao nodded and asked again,
"Which yamen's office is it?"

"It's from the Yamen of Shuntian Mansion..."

"Hmm...you go back first!"

The head of the village retreated, and Mou Biao sat in the hall and thought for a while, always feeling that there was something strange about this matter. It is said that the pillar of the family died. But there is no reason to even take away a pair of children at home!

Hu Kuang's pair of sons and daughters are both under ten years old, which pair of mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are so willing?

This is not normal!
On the second day Mou Biao interrogated Hu Kuang again, but he said as soon as they met,

"It seems that we don't need to bother this time..."

After a pause, he stared at the puzzled Hu Kuang and said,
"It turns out that half a month ago, your mother, wife and children committed suicide by taking poison in fear of crime!"

Hu Kuang was taken aback for a moment, then his eyes flickered, and then he burst into tears.
"My mother! Hui Niang... my Tian'er, Zhi'er...I have harmed you...Mother...it is my son who has harmed you!"

He was sobbing and crying, but Mou Biao stared at him for a while, waved his hand,

"Take people down!"

The two came over and took Hu Kuang, who was howling, down. Mou Biao folded his hands on his chest, and rubbed his thumbs on his smooth chin.

"Why do I feel more and more strange about this?"

When Hu Kuang first heard the news that his family members were all dead, he seemed to be relieved for a moment, as if... He was also faintly happy, but the howling afterwards was too hard, it seemed fake!
Why did Hu Kuang behave like this? Could it be that his family members were not the ones who died?
Mou Biao thought about it all night, but the next day he took him to the mass grave outside the city.

"Where is the Hu family buried?"

It grows under the desolate small cemetery outside the city. After turning around half a circle, it pointed to a raised new burial path.
"right here……"

Mou Biao went over to have a look, and saw that it was indeed a new tomb, and the soil on it was very fresh, but...it was too new. The Hu family had been buried for half a month, and the soil on which the tomb was built had to sink for half a month. The ruler becomes more compact, but why is the soil on the grave mound so loose that it can leave a mark with a kick!
wrong!

"Dig... dig up all these graves..."

The people below immediately excavated, dug open the mound of the grave to reveal the thin coffin inside, the chief said hurriedly when he saw it,
"Little official, this coffin was ordered by the villain to buy, and it is indeed the four of the Hu family..."

Mu Biao nodded,

"Open the coffin..."

The thin coffin doesn’t need any tools at all. You only need to draw a long knife around your waist to lift the lid of the coffin, revealing the empty coffin box inside. After opening the coffin four times in a row, there is no corpse inside. The chief was surprised when he saw it ,
"That's not right! The little official is wrong! The villain saw the four members of the Hu family put into the coffin with his own eyes, and the villain personally ordered people to bury them. This... this is gone..."

Li Chang is old and believes in gods and ghosts, cold sweat is breaking out on his forehead,
"Little official... this... this can't be cheating!"

"Humph!"

Mou Biao snorted coldly, looked at the four graves with narrowed eyes,
"Fake corpse! According to the young master, this is a scam!"

It seems that someone used the golden cicada's trick to get out of their shells and took the four members of the Hu family away!

No wonder!No wonder that Hu Kuang would fake cry, it seems that this is the price he agreed on for his life, if something happened, he would find a way to get his family away, and he would sell his life to earn wealth for the rest of his life for his family.

Mou Biao snorted coldly and ordered,
"Pile the graves back, let's go back to the city..."

Back to the yamen, Mou Biao summoned Jia Jincheng and others to talk, and three of them came in to salute.
"My lord, I don't know what to tell me to wait for the three of you?"

Mou Biao asked the three of them to sit down, and then asked,
"Three sages, may I ask if there is any way to fake death, even scorpions can't detect it, and then bury the person in the soil, and then dig it out from the grave without anyone noticing?"

The three of Jia Jincheng looked at each other, and finally Huang Wu spoke first.

"My lord, there are really medicines in this world that can make people fall into a coma and appear in a state of suspended animation..."

After a pause, he said,
"However, this kind of medicine is extremely difficult to find, and the dosage needs to be extremely precise. If you take too much, you will die, or if the dosage is too small, you will just fall asleep and not fake death..."

As he spoke, he looked around and motioned his two colleagues to add a few sentences. Jia Jincheng nodded and said,
"My lord, the villain has been in the job of sculpting for many years, but he has encountered suspended animation, but it was only by chance, the heart was beating extremely slowly, and the whole body was on the verge of dying, but this suspended animation The situation is really rare and cannot be artificial!"

Zhu Wuzuo also nodded and said,
"Exactly, and this state of suspended animation can't be hidden from others, but it can't be hidden from experienced operators..."

After a pause,

"The most obvious difference between feigned death and real death is body temperature. The body temperature of the human body is constant. Even if a person is put into a coma by taking medicine, it can slow down breathing through the mouth and nose, and even stop the heartbeat for a short time, but the body temperature is constant. You can’t lie to people, you have to know that if your body temperature is too low, you don’t need to pretend to be dead, you will really die..."

Mou Biao nodded thoughtfully after listening,
"So according to the three of you, if someone takes poison and pretends to be dead in front of you, will the three of you be able to detect it?"

The three of them nodded in unison and said proudly,
"My lord, this is a trivial matter..."

"Um……"

Mou Biao nodded, and then asked Jia Jincheng,
"Jia Wuzuo, you are familiar with Wuzuo in Shuntian Mansion Yamen?"

Jia Jincheng thought for a while and replied,

"The villain has worked in the Yamen of Shuntian Mansion for many years, and I know everyone in the Yamen..."

Mu Biao nodded,

"Then according to what you can see, are there any of them who are not good at learning and were deceived by someone's fake death?"

Jia Jincheng thought for a while and shook his head,

"My lord, among the situations that this villain of fake death has encountered, there are those who were unconscious after taking medicine, those who were choked by someone's throat and couldn't breathe for a while, and there were also those who were hit on the back of the head and fell into a coma thinking they were dead. Yes, but this kind of fake death is just like Zhu Yuzuo said, after all, it is not real death, so breathing, heartbeat or body temperature are still there. Ordinary people may not be able to see it, thinking that people are dead, but Wu Zuo is in this business Damn, when you see a corpse, the first thing you need to do is to make sure you're really dead, so you can do an autopsy later..."

You can't carry the person to the examination room, cut it with a knife, and the corpse will jump up from the corpse bed, right?

If one is not good, the life will be in the hands of the coordinator. For those in this line of work, it is a beginner's skill to distinguish whether or not to die.

"Oh I got it……"

Mou Biao nodded and cupped his hands at the three of them.

"So...thank you three!"

The three hurriedly got up to return the salute,
"Working for the young master, I should never thank you!"

Mou Biao left Jia Jincheng alone, sent Huang Zhu and Huang Zhu out, and then Jia Jincheng said,
"Jia Fu Zuo, how many Fu Zuo are there in Shuntian Mansion Yamen, and who are they?"

Jia Jincheng thought for a while and said,
"My lord, there are not many people in our line of work. There is only one clerk in the Yamen of Shuntian Mansion, whose surname is Zhang Mingcheng..."

There is a shortage of clerks in the yamen of the capital, and only three of them can be assigned to the Fusi yamen in Beizhen. This is Shuntian Prefecture. I want to hurry up and invite the servants in the city to go over.

"Zhang Cheng?"

Mou Biao thought for a while and asked,

"How old is Zhang Cheng, how many years has he been an errand, and what is his family like?"

Jia Jincheng thought for a while and said,
"About fifty years old, I have a wife and five sons..."

After a pause,

"When the former villain left the Yamen of Shuntian Mansion, he heard that the fifth son in his family was talking about getting married, but Zhang Cheng had too many sons, and the monthly salary for his job was a bit meager, and the few married sons in his family didn't get along with each other all the time. Shouting to separate the family and room to go out and live alone, Zhang Cheng is very troubled by this..."

Mou Biao nodded, so this person is short of money?
Mou Biao sent Jia Jincheng down again, then turned his head and told his subordinates,

"Show me Zhang Cheng, who lives in the Shuntian Mansion!"

The subordinates went to do their own errands, and Mou Biao got the news, so he rode out of the city early the next morning to welcome his family back to the city.

(End of this chapter)