Jinyi Music

Chapter 58

The two walked in along the traces of blood, and the low door was also sealed. Mou Long took out the small dagger he carried with him, picked up the seal bit by bit with the tip of the knife, and stretched out his hand to open the door.

"Squeak..."

The door of the house slowly opened to the inside. The inside of the room was dark and damp, with a strong smell of blood coming in. To protect the scene, the people in the yamen did not move except to remove the corpse. The two lit a fire and went in, looking around. room.

The furnishings in the room are old, there is a table in the middle, and only a bed against the wall. On the messy bed, there are human-shaped bloodstains. Mou Biao checked around the bed and found nothing unusual. I didn't notice anything unusual, so I stood in the room for a while,
"Come on, let's go to the kitchen to have a look..."

The two went to the stove again, the stove was also searched by the people in the yamen, and it was very messy everywhere, Mou Biao's eyes fell on the stove, there was half-burned firewood in it, which was obviously used by the owner's family. Too much fire, the stove was empty, Mou Biao remembered what Si Lian said,

"Then Qiao Niang was given drugs to paralyze her body, and after she fell unconscious on the bed, she was ripped open..."

In other words, Qiao Niang was dissected by life, and she died a terrible death!

"By the way... Lord Fu Yin didn't seem to ask where this medicine came from..."

Mou Biao looked around and found nothing unusual in the yard, so he took Mou Long and left!
Afterwards, Mou Biao planned to investigate Qiao Niang's husband's family. Qiao Niang's husband's family was not difficult to find out. After the murder case was revealed, it spread around and many people on the street were talking about it. Qiao Niang's, so he knew where she came from, and Mou Biao found out from the aunt who sold sugar water in the alley with two qian silver.

"Then Qiaoniang's husband's family is said to be in Guanmao Hutong. His surname is Hu... and he's a scholar!"

Mou Biao nodded, and while it was still dark, he rode his horse to Guanmao Hutong again. After inquiring in the alley, he found Hu's house, but he didn't go in. A restaurant for dinner,

"Master, why don't we go in and ask Hu Xiucai?"

Mou Hu asked, and Mou Biao rolled his eyes,
"If you are Hu Xiucai, people will ask you...your wife ran away with someone, and was killed with a child in her belly. Do you know... Tell me...do you want to talk to someone?"

Mou Hu laughed when he heard this,
"Then... I will probably beat people out?"

Mu Biao nodded,

"That's right, let's go in in the middle of the night, hold down Hu Xiucai for a good beat, and then ask questions!"

"Master..."

Mu Long hesitated,

"Master... We are here to investigate the case, so it's not easy to hit people?"

Mou Biao said with a hey,

"Look at that yamen, but mortals are bound to be beaten when they enter. This is a killing stick, standing upright, he is so courageous that he is frightened, so naturally he said everything!"

Mou Long is silent,

"Master, you are not an adult in that yamen either!"

After the three of them had finished eating, the sky turned dark, and the guests of the restaurant left one after another, and there were only two or three guests left in the bustling lobby for a while, so Mou Biao beckoned the waiter to come over and ask,
"In the Guanmao alley opposite, does that Hu Xiucai know about it?"

The shop clerk laughed when he heard this,
"You're talking about the lady scholar who ran away with someone and was killed again?"

Mu Biao nodded,

"You know about this?"

The waiter in the shop smiled and said,

"It's been spread all over our area... That Xiucai lady is not comfortable in the house. Hu Xiucai suffered from tuberculosis two years ago and has been taking medicine. It's good and bad. She can't have sex with her for a long time. She They were hooking up around outside by selling tea... and ended up hooking up with Lai Dongsheng, who was driving the car... I'm afraid you've heard about it later, he was disembowelled... tsk tsk tsk... a terrible death!"

The waiter in the shop shook his head and clicked his tongue while talking, and Mou Biao asked again,

"Then...how did Hu Xiucai react?"

The waiter in the shop let out a hey hey, exhaled a breath of air from his nose, and said contemptuously,
"Hu Xiucai is a sick child. His mother-in-law was abducted and she didn't dare to say a word. Now she was killed and dared not even go to the Yamen to meet the officials. Now she is nestling at home. It has been three days. I dare not come out to meet people!"

Mou Biao chatted with the shop waiter for a while, rewarded him with five copper coins, and put the horse in the restaurant. The three of them entered Guanmao Alley and waited in front of the courtyard of Hu's house. People stood in front of the door and listened. Occasionally, there was a cough from inside, but no one was heard.

The three of them climbed over the wall again, but this time because there were people in the room, they didn't dare to jump in, so Mou Hu was at the bottom, while Mou Biao and Mou Long stepped on his shoulders and climbed in, and then Mou Hu climbed over the wall to get in.

The three of them went into the yard, and a chicken that was raised in the corner felt an outsider enter, and clucked a few times in the nest, and someone in the room said,
"Mom...the chicken at home is crowing, maybe someone stole the chicken, I'll go and see..."

An old voice answered,

"You're not in good health, don't move, go take a look for your mother..."

While talking, there was movement from the inner room. An old woman came out with clothes on and a candle in her hand. Her old eyes were dim and she couldn't see clearly. He held up the candle again, squinted his eyes and looked around,
"No one!"

This compartment turned around and went back, walking towards the inside and talking humanely,

"Son! No one steals the chicken..."

As he spoke, he stepped in, closed the door of the main hall, and walked to the room there. The people inside heard it, coughed twice, took a few breaths and said,

"It's better if no one is around...the only chicken left in our family..."

Having said this, he gasped twice, and said faintly,
"Mother! If I go, how will your old man live!"

The old woman was silent for a while, then slowly put the candle in her hand on the table, two lines of tears silently flowed down her wrinkled old face, but she said calmly,

"My son, if you feel sorry for being a mother, you should take good care of your illness and don't waste your body anymore!"

As he said that, he pulled the quilt for his son on the bed, then slowly returned to the table and blew out the candles, and groped to a small bed built in front of the window. When the daughter-in-law was still there, it was her in the middle of the night The one who served her son, now that her daughter-in-law is gone, Mother Hu built a small bed and slept in her son's room. In the middle of the night, he often coughed and couldn't breathe. She was always with her, so she could take care of her!
After Mother Hu lay down, Hu Xiucai on the bed over there sighed,
"Mother, tell me... Should I go to the yamen and explain what happened that day to the official?"

Mother Hu reacted greatly when she heard this, and said angrily,

"It's not an exaggeration for him to do such indecent things. It's not an exaggeration to let the official behead him. How can you get rid of him?"

Hu Xiucai was silent for a long time,
"But... didn't he do this?"

Mother Hu replied,

"You said he didn't do it, so who did it, maybe you can tell me something?"

Hu Xiucai was silent for a long time, and finally sighed,
"That's all... mother... let's sleep!"

"Well... go to sleep!"

Not long after, the sound of snoring came from Hu's mother. She was old and tired day and night, and fell asleep quickly as soon as her head touched the pillow, but Hu Xiucai on the other side could not sleep for a long time, and was staring at the top of her head. When he was in the dark, a ray of light suddenly dazzled his eyes, and when he turned his face away, he saw a person standing in front of his bed with a torch in his hand.
"..."

Hu Xiucai was startled, opened his mouth wide, took a big breath, and was about to yell, but the man covered his mouth with his hand, leaned down and said to him,

"If you dare to yell, your old lady's life will be lost. You should think clearly..."

Hu Xiucai stared and shook his head again and again, the man nodded,
"Don't move, I'll carry you out, let's talk outside!"

Hu Xiucai nodded again,

"Uuuuuuu..."

The man leaned over and picked him up, carried him on his shoulders and walked out. Hu Xiucai had been ill for a long time, and his body was thin and tight. The man carried him very easily, and walked out of the room quietly, without any alarm. Sleeping mother Hu.

The man carried Hu Xiu out of the main room, turned out of the small courtyard, and went outside the door of Hu's house. He kept going to the old tree at the entrance of the alley. Someone piled stones under the old tree, surrounded by an old man Well, the old well has run out of water, but the stones beside the well are kept very clean because people often sit and lie down.

The man put Hu Xiucai under the tree. After Hu Xiucai sat down, he coughed again. After he had caught his breath, he looked up again, and the people in front of him had changed from one to three, to three people.

Hu Xiucai was startled, and asked for a while,

"The three heroes don't know why they are looking for Hu. Hu's family is poor, and the only valuable thing in the house is the hen. If you want it, take it!"

The three were silent for a while, and finally one of them spoke,
"Hu Xiucai, we want to ask you something..."

Hu Xiucai heard that the voice was a little immature, it was clearly a child who was underage, he was very surprised, thought for a while and replied,

"I see the three heroes come and go, and I think they are people with some skills. Hu is a sick and consumptive man. He even struggles to walk and has no strength to resist. If the hero has something to ask..."

"Did you know that your wife was murdered?"

Hu Xiucai looked at the three of them in amazement, but under the big tree, it was late at night, and the moonlight was dim today. He was sitting on the rock, and he could only vaguely see three figures, whose facial features were not clear at all. After thinking about it, he responded. road,

"Hu knows..."

"Then... do you know who killed your wife?"

Hu Xiucai hesitated for a while, then sighed,

"The government said that Lai Dongsheng killed him, but I know he didn't kill him..."

"Oh...why?"

Hu Xiucai was silent for a while, and then answered after a while,
"Because I was by my side when my wife died..."

The three people heard and looked at each other, and the one in the middle immediately asked,

"But you killed it?"

Hu Xiucai immediately shook his head,
"It's not me! It's not me..."

The man in the middle asked closely,
"It's not you, why did you say that you were by her side when she died..."

(End of this chapter)