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Chapter 23 The cause of Qianniang's death is strange

Everyone was discussing, Jia Jincheng glanced at Sun Qianniang's body, his eyes fell on her clenched hands, his eyes froze, his brows frowned, and said to the widow of the Sun family,

"Daughter-in-law of the Sun family, she is dead, you should mourn!"

The widow of the Sun family was still weeping bitterly, and the people at the side sighed secretly when they saw it, but they were all dead, and the funeral had to be done, and this season showed that the neighbors are good.

The men sent two people out to collect the coffin, and the women hurriedly lifted Sun Qianniang's body to the top of the unloaded door, and someone persuaded the widow of the Sun family,
"Mother Qian, the children are gone, let her go clean!"

The widow of the Sun family hugged her wet and disheveled daughter, and cried for a while, and it took a long time to slow down a bit, and replied,

"Qianniang's room is in the East Wing..."

The women went to the East Chamber to get clean clothes, and some elderly women drove them out,

"You all go and stand outside..."

This is to change the clothes of the dead and put them in the coffin, so naturally everyone can't stand by and watch!
Seeing this, Jia Jincheng quietly pulled his fourth daughter aside, and whispered to her,
"You stay here to help..."

He lowered his voice again,
"Look carefully to see if there is anything unusual on Qianniang's body?"

Jia Silian looked back at Jia Jincheng in surprise, but Jia Jincheng led Sanlian out without saying a word. Jia Silian turned her head and said to the widow of the Sun family,
"Auntie Sun, I've had a good time with Qianniang, I'll stay and change her clothes!"

The widow of the Sun family nodded when she heard the words, tears streaming down again.

So an elderly woman, the widow of the Sun family, and Jia Silian were left in the room. The woman took a look at Jia Silian and said,

"Silian, you have flexible hands and feet, I'll carry them, and you can untie Qianniang's clothes!"

Dressing the dead is different from dressing the living. The hands and feet of the dead are stiff and cannot be bent. It takes two people, one left and one right, to work together to put on the dress.

Jia Silian nodded, went over to take a look at Sun Qianniang's pale face, and slowly stretched out her hand to untie her belt. At this time, the daughter's personal clothes at home were nothing more than an old cotton dress, and most of them were wearing bellybands inside. Underneath are obscene pants.

Jia Silian went to the cotton padded coat Sun Qianniang was wearing, and saw her naked chest. She couldn't help being taken aback, and glanced at the widow of the Sun family. When the widow of the Sun family saw her daughter's body, she was crying so hard that she didn't notice it. Strangely, she glanced at the old woman again, the woman was also strange, and asked in a low voice,

"Mother Qian, is this child not wearing a bellyband?"

The widow of the Sun family was stunned for a while, her eyes were loose, her expression was in a trance, and she didn't respond for a long time. The old woman sighed and said to Jia Silian,

"Forget it, less clothes can save some trouble, take off your pants!"

Jia Silian remembered Jia Jincheng's order, and glanced at Sun Qianniang's body one by one. There was only one oil lamp lit in the room. The widow of the Sun family had cried so much that her eyes were red and swollen, and the old woman's old eyes were dim. Only Jia Silian could see clearly. There seemed to be a few red marks on the chest, and there seemed to be some faint purple spots on the side of the waist.

Sun Qianniang clenched her hands tightly, and Jia Silian tried to break them, but she didn't move at all. Seeing this, the old woman said,

"If you can't break it, let her do it!"

In this kind of weather, the corpse has long been frozen stiff. If you want to make it stretch its fingers, you have to break the bones of the hand, which is of course absolutely impossible!

Jia Silian nodded, and didn't move Qianniang again, but her eyes paused between Sun Qianniang's clenched fingers, where a small corner of fabric was exposed, which looked different from the clothes she took off and threw on the ground.

Jia Silian suppressed her doubts, changed clothes for Sun Qianniang, and took a wooden comb to comb her messy long hair. After tidying up, the person who bought the coffin outside had returned, and opened the door to the room. Everyone helped put Sun Qianniang into the coffin, and helped to build a shed in the yard, and hung a white flag on the door. Looking at the widow of the Sun family who was crying in front of the coffin, Jia Jincheng pulled Jia Silian aside ,
"What did you see?"

Jia Silian recounted what she had seen and heard one by one, Jia Jincheng nodded, his eyes swept across the people in the courtyard, his brows were tightly frowned, Jia Silian saw the clue, and asked in a low voice,
"Father, Qianniang didn't throw herself into the well to die, did she?"

Jia Jincheng looked at his daughter in surprise,

"Did you see it?"

Jia Silian nodded, today Qianniang is still not reconciled, she was not able to serve as a slave in a big family's house, and she still wanted to win the favor of Mr. Mou tomorrow, how could she throw herself into the well at night?

And if it was really suicide, why would there be a few scratch marks on the chest and pinch marks on the waist? Could it be that before he died, he still couldn't think about it, scratching himself, pinching himself?
Jia Jincheng bowed his head and thought for a while and ordered,
"You and Sanlian go back first, you have to get up early tomorrow, dad will stay here tonight..."

Jia Silian nodded, but Jia Sanlian was a little worried.
"Father, do you want to report this matter to the authorities?"

Jia Jincheng Road,

"If a person dies, whether it is suicide or homicide, or an accidental death, etc., he must report to the Yamen, and the Yamen will send a servant to be a servant, and the funeral can only be carried out after inspection. It is too late today, and it is necessary to go tomorrow. Report to the officials in the Yamen!"

If he reported it to the official, the autopsy matter would still fall on him in all likelihood.

When Jia Jincheng saw Sun Qianniang's tightly clenched hands in front of him, he became a little suspicious. This drowned person, no matter if he killed himself, would subconsciously struggle and thrash in the water, his fingers would spread, and even scratch around. Sun Qianniang clenched her fists when she died?

In the current situation, he couldn't do an autopsy in front of the deceased's widowed mother, so he asked his daughter to take a look on his behalf, and sure enough, something was wrong, Jia Jincheng told his two daughters,

"You guys can't say much about Qianniang when you go back. We'll have to wait until tomorrow to report to the official!"

The two nodded, and Jia Jincheng sent the two out of the door, watching the two daughters walk into the darkness with each other's support, and then turned back to the Sun's yard.

That night, the crying in the courtyard of Sun's house continued, when Silian and Sanlian went home, Xiangshi asked through the window,
"Then the little vixen of the Sun family is really dead?"

Sanlian replied,

"Mother, Qianniang...is dead..."

"Did he really die by throwing himself into a well?"

"Mother, people are fished out of the well..."

Xiangshi snorted and muttered,
"This daughter's family has a low life, so if she dies, she will die!"

Sanlian and Silian looked at each other, without saying a word, went back to the house and saw that Wulian and Liulian had both fallen asleep, so they took off their clothes and got into a quilt, in the middle of the night it was cold, and they were frozen outside for nearly an hour , the two hugged each other tightly to keep warm, and when the bed gradually warmed up, San Lian asked Si Lian,
"Fourth sister, do you think Qianniang was really killed?"

Silian was silent for a while and replied,

"Zuo Qianniang will definitely not throw herself into the well..."

Talking about what happened during the day, San Lian thought for a while and asked,
"Maybe she threw herself into the well because she lost face during the day and thought about being wronged in the middle of the night?"

Silian shook her head,

"Will not……"

He also told about Qianniang not wearing a bellyband and having marks on her body. Sanlian was older and was a daughter who was about to get married, so she knew a little about men and women, so she couldn't help but change her expression.
"Has she been defiled?"

Si Lian only knew about "defilement", but she didn't know what kind of "defilement" it was. Hearing the words, she asked in a daze,

"Third sister is saying that the scratches and choke marks on Qianniang's body were left by men?"

Sanlian nodded,

"Could it be that someone broke into Sun's house at night and insulted Qianniang, and she threw herself into the well because she was angry at her innocence?"

Silian became more and more puzzled,

"Then... why didn't she call? Aunt Sun's family is in the house, why didn't she hear anything?"

This San Lian doesn't know, the two sisters are ignorant little girls after all, it's the first time in their life that they encounter such a thing, how can they guess the reason behind it, after guessing for a while, it will be futile, and it will not be worth it Drowsiness, embrace each other and fall asleep.

They were woken up by Xiang Shi on the second day. Si Lian felt a sharp pain in her head. When she opened her eyes and looked, it was already bright outside. The daughters kicked each other next to each other,

"You little bastards, you are getting better and better now, when is this, why don't you get out of the stall soon!"

After saying that, he kicked Si Lian hard again,
"If you're too short today, I'll take your skin off!"

The sisters hurriedly stood up, put on their clothes, and hurried out the door with their burdens. When they arrived at the entrance of the alley, they saw a group of old diners waiting, and Si Lian hurriedly saluted and apologized to everyone.

"I got up late today, but I'm tired of waiting for a long time!"

People don't care much,

"It doesn't matter if it's sooner or later... Don't worry, little lady, we'll just wait!"

Everyone waited there for Si Lian to raise the fire to make soup, and someone asked,

"I heard that the young lady of the Sun family threw herself into a well last night?"

It's really good things that don't go out, bad things spread thousands of miles, it's only midnight, how can anyone know about it?

Si Lian felt very strange, but the questioner solved Si Lian's doubts by himself, he said to everyone,
"My sister-in-law is from your alley. She went to Sun's house in the middle of the night yesterday, and said she was going to help with the funeral at Sun's house. She sent her two little nephews here early this morning, so that my parents can watch !"

Everyone was stunned when they heard the words, and they asked who,
"Then why did the little lady of the Sun family throw herself into the well?"

The man spread his hands in a daze,
"I don't know what's the reason? How could such a flowery little lady throw herself into the well?"

Someone speculated wildly,

"Could it be that he has an affair with some young man?"

This daughter's family is dying, mostly because of love, love, hurting the spring and the autumn.

The man answered again,
"The little lady of the Sun family has been staying in her boudoir, and she entrusted my sister-in-law to talk about the marriage for her?"

"That's the case, why throw the well?"

(End of this chapter)