After the fiancé was cut off by the county owner

Chapter 23 Old Cases
The news that an unnamed female body was salvaged from the Weishui River spread like wildfire, and it became the talk of the people in Kyoto after dinner.

It is said that the corpse of the woman was so decomposed that, except for a bright red dress, there was nothing on her body that could identify her.

Qi Tanying also heard about this, and it was her mother, Mrs. Qi, who told her.

She still remembered that Mrs. Qi covered her chest in fear and said, "It's only been a long time since the case of the County Lord Yong'an of the Dongling Prince's Mansion, and now another young woman has been killed, which shows that the outside world is not peaceful."

Qi Tanying has never given up on the idea of ​​moving out, and Mrs. Qi is almost moved by her, but unexpectedly there is another case of the unknown female corpse.

In this way, Mrs. Qi would not leave Jiang's house even if she was killed.

Qi Tanying didn't object, but she was actually a little uneasy.

June 29 is the anniversary of Qi Heming's death. His coffin was buried in Wuzhou. After Mrs. Qi, mother and son came to Kyoto, they enshrined his tablet at Qingxu Temple outside the city.

In the eighth year of Yuanhe, Qi Heming, then a member of the Ministry of Industry, was ordered to supervise the construction of the Tangshan Palace. When the construction of the palace was about to be completed, the Jiaozhi Hall in the northwest collapsed, and Qi Heming died in the ruins.

In the same year, Mrs. Qi took a pair of children to Fuling and returned to Wuzhou to bury her deceased husband. She did not return to Kyoto until the spring of the 18th year of Yuanhe.

This year is Qi Heming's ten-year taboo, Qi Yukun took leave of absence from the master of the academy, and went to Qingxu Temple with his mother and sister to do a dojo for Qi Heming.

On the first day of the death day, Mrs. Qi took Qi Tanying and Qi Yukun to live in Qingxu Monastery. According to the rules, they have to stay in Qingxu Monastery for seven days, and they can only leave after finishing the dojo.

Mrs. Qi attaches great importance to the anniversary of her deceased husband's death. Qi Tanying and Qi Yukun are influenced by her, and they will follow her to pray for their father who died young at this time every year.

After finishing the dojo on the last day, Mrs. Qi specially added 100 taels of sesame oil and asked for a peace talisman for each of the siblings.

After lunch, the mother and son were about to leave Qingxu Temple and go back to the Jiang family, but the carriage sent by the Jiang family to pick them up was delayed.

At first, I thought I was delayed on the way, but I didn't wait until the end of Shen Shi, and I didn't wait for the Jiang family's carriage.

Mrs. Qi was about to send someone down the mountain, when several unexpected guests arrived at Qingxuguan, all of whom were acquainted with Qi Tanying.

Wu Han, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, and Yan Li, the eunuch of Dali Temple, came to Qingxu to investigate an old case.

This case is related to the collapse of the Jiaozhi Hall in the Tangshan Palace. The old case that had been dusty for ten years was suddenly brought up today and handed over to Dali Temple for re-investigation.

Qi Heming was not in charge of the construction of the Tangshan Palace at the beginning, but was temporarily transferred as a supervisor when the construction of the palace was almost completed.

A few days before the Jiaozhi Hall collapsed, there was a torrential rain in Tangshan, day and night, and it didn't clear up until the morning of June 29.

It is said that after the rain stopped, Qi Heming hurried down the mountain and didn't come back until the beginning of Youshi, with an extremely ugly expression on his face.Then he went to the Jiaozhi Hall. After staying in the Jiaozhi Hall for less than two hours, the Jiaozhi Hall collapsed and he was also buried under the ruins.

The Jiaozhi Hall is the last hall of the Tangshan Palace. When Qi Heming was transferred, it was already in the final stage. The collapse of the Jiaozhi Hall was not due to his ineffective supervision.

The reason is that someone replaced the original wood with a batch of inferior wood that had been eaten by termites.Therefore, after Qi Heming's death, the court did not hold him accountable, but only killed a few responsible officials and craftsmen, and the matter was exposed.

Like a pebble thrown into the water, no one will mention it after the ripples have dissipated.

Because of this, Mrs. Qi always felt that Qi Heming was both unlucky and lucky. Unfortunately, a good person was buried in the rubble and died. Fortunately, his wife, children and family were not involved.

Ten years have passed, but now it is necessary to find out the truth about the collapse of the Jiaozhi Hall.Mrs. Qi's heart suddenly became high. Is there any doubt in it?

This made her feel uneasy for a while.

Like her, Qi Tanying was also uneasy. The three of them had already accepted the sudden death of their father. What is the reason for ordering a re-investigation now?
Due to the arrival of Wu Han and his party, the Qi family's mother and son could not go down the mountain for the time being, and Dali Temple temporarily requisitioned several guest rooms in the backyard of Qingxu Temple as office space.

Wu Han suspected that Qi Heming should have gone down the mountain to meet someone. If he knew who this person was, he might be able to understand why Qi Heming drove everyone away and stayed alone in the Jiaozhi Hall for so long.

Mrs. Qi is his wife and the closest person to him, maybe he can get some clues from her.

While he was asking Mrs. Qi, Yan Li was also asking Qi Tanying.

But Qi Tanying was only a seven-year-old child at that time, how could she remember if there was anything strange about her father's words and deeds a few days before his death.

Seeing her troubled face, Yan Li comforted her gently: "Don't worry, just think about it slowly."

Qi Tanying tried her best to smile, Dali Temple has made such a big battle, can you give her time to think slowly?

After deliberating for a long time, she tentatively asked: "Cheng Yansi, is there anything wrong with my father?"

Originally, she wanted to ask if Qi Heming was guilty?But after thinking about it, she changed the wording. Although she had only been with her father for seven short years, she always believed that her father would not do bad things against his conscience.

Yan Li apologized, "I cannot disclose information related to the case."

Qi Tanying was a little disappointed, but she could understand his position.

About an hour later, Mrs. Qi and Wu Han came out from the next room. Wu Han looked normal, but Mrs. Qi was frowning.Qi Tanying and Qi Yukun, who were waiting outside, hurried towards her.

Like Qi Tanying, Mrs. Qi didn't recall the weirdness before Qi Heming's death, and Wu Han didn't rush her, but it was his patient waiting that made Mrs. Qi extremely disturbed.

She was afraid that her deceased husband had something to do with the collapse of the Cochin Hall, and that her two children would be implicated, and the string in her mind was tensed.Seeing that her mother was not in good condition, Qi Tanying lived with her at night.

In the middle of the night, the mother and daughter did not feel sleepy at all.Mrs. Qi suddenly said: "Your father cares about the family the most, and he will definitely not do anything that endangers our mother."

These words seem to be comforting Qi Tanying, but also seem to be said for herself.

Qi Tanying held her mother's hand back, recalling that when her father was still there, every time she went out, she always brought some interesting gadgets to her, sometimes it was a clay doll, sometimes it was a monkey king mask, and even gave her Take the dice from the casino once.

She kept those gadgets in the sandalwood box her father made for her.

Later, after her father passed away, no one bought her those gadgets anymore, so she followed her mother Fu Ling back to Wuzhou, and she forgot the sandalwood box in the warehouse of Qi Zhai in Kyoto.

After returning to Kyoto, their family lived in Jiang's house, and Qi's house never went back.

Thinking of this, Qi Tanying said softly to Mrs. Qi, "Mother, let's go home and have a look after we get down the mountain."

Mrs. Qi didn't make a sound, Qi Tanying turned her head to look at her, and suddenly heard sobbing in her ear.

(End of this chapter)