The short-lived ghost of the Xie family has lived a long life

Chapter 772
Finally, Yan Sanhe said: "What's your name?"

The man: "The younger one's name is Chen Mao."

Yan Sanhe: "How old are you this year?"

Chen Mao was stunned. Why did he come here and ask about his age?

"38."

Yan Sanhe: "How old were you in the eighth year of Yonghe's reign?"

Chen Mao was stunned for a while, "28."

Yan Sanhe: "How many years have you been doing this?"

Chen Mao: "I have been following my master as a helper since I was a child."

Yan Sanhe: "How much does it cost to play a child?"

Chen Mao: "Looks like seven or eight years old."

Yan Sanhe: "You are the only one collecting corpses in Haitang Courtyard?"

Chen Mao nodded.

Yan Sanhe: "How many corpses are there in total?"

Chen Mao: "There are four in total."

Yan Sanhe: "Which four?"

As soon as she asked this question, Xie Zhifei, who was standing behind her, also frowned slightly.

This girl is weird, why do you ask so many irrelevant questions?
Chen Mao: "Two male corpses are outside, one big and one small; two female corpses are inside the house, one big and one small."

Yan Sanhe: "Which room? The wing room or the main room?"

Chen Mao: "The wing room."

Yan Sanhe: "East wing or west wing?"

Chen Mao: "The west wing room."

Yan Sanhe: "What kind of tree is planted in front of the west wing?"

Chen Mao was startled. Didn't he ask about the corpse? Why did he ask about the tree?

"Little one, little one doesn't care."

"Did you not pay attention, or have you never seen it at all?"

Yan Sanhe suddenly smiled.

"Haitangyuan Haitangyuan, as the name suggests, grows begonias.

In the eighth year of Yonghe, there was such a big murder in the Zheng Mansion. Many corpse collectors would never encounter such a scene in their lifetime. I asked you how old you were at that time. You were stunned for a while before saying that you were 28.

Chen Mao, you are bullying me for being young and a woman. I can't see that you are under the table, twirling your fingers and calculating in your mind, right? "

Chen Mao's face turned green, "Master, everything I said is true. If any of it is false..."

"Is your stomach starting to hurt? This wine is poisoned, and the tea is the antidote."

Chen Mao: "..."

Yan Sanhe slapped the table and said sternly: "Seriously, we officials and family members only eat free food and do no work, and we will believe anyone who swears a poisonous oath?"

Chen Mao clutched his stomach and shivered.

No wonder, I have to drink a cup of tea before I can leave this private room. It turns out...

A heavy cold sweat broke out from his forehead, and his stomach started to hurt faintly. Is it, was it, was the poison about to take effect?

"grown ups!"

Chen Mao stood up in a hurry, rushed to Yan Sanhe's side, and knelt down, "I, I..."

"The person who collected the body for Haitangyuan was not you at all."

Yan Sanhe's face was expressionless, "If you want to survive, hurry up and tell me, is that person your father, your brother, or your grandfather?"

Chen Mao's mouth was wide enough to fit an egg in, with fear in his eyes.

After a while, his head drooped.

"It was my brother who collected the body for Haitangyuan!"

Yan Sanhe's voice was as cold as ice: "Where are the others? Where are they now?"

Chen Mao's expression froze, "My brother... is at home."

Yan Sanhe turned around and raised his eyebrows: "Let's go?"

"go!"

Xie Zhifei nodded.

……

The Chen family is in the north of Sijiu City.

In a small courtyard house, two brothers lived together with a half-blind old lady Chen.Father Chen died young, leaving behind two sons and a daughter.

My mother supported the family by doing sewing work during the day and at night. Her eyesight got worse and worse, and she eventually became half-blind.

Chen Mao’s brother is called Chen Pi.

It is said that the eldest brother is the father. Chen Pi started working for his master when he was about eight years old. He left the apprenticeship four years later and earned money for the family, supporting the family business at a young age.

When Yan Sanhe and Xie Zhifei saw Chen Pi, they were both shocked.

This man was lying on the bed. The April sky was covered with a thick quilt, and his whole body was covered tightly. Only a pair of skull-like eyes were exposed.

Seeing the person coming, the skull-like eyes slowly turned around.

"Brother, this is Mr. Xie from the Five Cities Military and Horse Division. This person is an expert invited by Mr. Xie. I don't know her name either."

Chen Mao cried sadly: "Brother, they caught me out and gave me poison."

Chen Pi closed his eyelids and sighed softly.

He didn't seem surprised at all that his brother was found out.

When Chen Mao heard this, he quickly lifted the quilt and helped him sit up.

As they sat down, Yan Sanhe and Xie Zhifei looked at each other.

Not only did this man's eyes look like a skull, but his entire face also looked like one. There was almost no flesh at all, and his face was all attached to the bones, making him horribly thin.

Moreover, he was wearing a cotton-padded jacket.

Yan Sanhe felt something was wrong, "Expose his wrist and show me."

Chen Mao neither dared to say no to Yan Sanhe nor did he dare to lift his clothes on his own initiative, so he had to call out "brother" in a bitter voice.

Only when the elder brother nodded did Chen Mao dare to lift up his sleeves a little.

This is an arm like a dead branch, with a thin layer of skin hanging on the bones, which is even skinnier than skinny.

No wonder I'm afraid of the cold.

There really wasn't any flesh on his body.

Xie Zhifei frowned: "Chen Pi, what disease do you have?"

Chen Pi ignored Xie Zhifei and looked at his brother.

Chen Mao quickly poured some tea from the teapot and fed it to Chen Pi's mouth.

Chen Pi took a sip and said, "Tell me, what do you want from me?"

His voice, soaked in water, was unusually hoarse, as if he hadn't spoken for a long time.

Xie Zhifei glanced at Chen Mao, who immediately moved two chairs.

While Yan Sanhe sat down, he said, "In the eighth year of Yonghe's reign, the Zheng family, Haitang Courtyard."

When Chen Pi heard these words, not only was he not surprised, the skin hanging on his face moved and he actually smiled lightly.

Yan Sanhe: "Why are you laughing?"

Chen Pi touched his left hand with his right hand and said hoarsely: "I expected such a day to come."

This is as explosive as dozens of firecrackers exploding at the same time.

Yan Sanhe turned to look at Xie Zhifei, unaware that he was also looking at her, his brows serious.

At this time, Chen Pi stretched out his two chicken claw-like hands and turned them over and over to take a look. "I am what I am now because of that time."

Yan Sanhe: "Eight years of Yonghe, how old are you?"

Chen Pi: "Exactly thirty."

Yan Sanhe: "A 30-year-old is still very young among people who do idle things."

"That's why Haitangyuan sent it to me."

Chen Pi pointed at the two people in front of the bed, "Which of you will detoxify my brother first?"

Xie Zhifei glanced at Yan Sanhe and saw that she had no reaction, so he said: "That won't work. You talk first and then detoxify."

"It's not poisonous, just some croton juice added to his wine."

Yan Sanhe: "Going to the toilet a few times is enough to detoxify."

Chen Mao said "Ouch". No wonder his stomach was cramping. It turned out that he was going to have a bowel movement.

Couldn't hold back.

Chen Mao quickly rushed to the toilet with his butt between his legs.

Xie Zhifei looked at Yan Sanhe's profile and took a deep breath.

Ming Ting and Li Daxia were asked to mobilize troops to go to Pei's house to get poison, but it turned out that it was for Huairen to see.

Three times in a row, three feints...

It seems that she is guarding against the Zhao family in her heart.

(End of this chapter)