Liaozhai Great Sage

Chapter 718
Some people are worthy of sadness and emotion when they die, and some people will only make people applaud when they die.

In Li Xiuyuan's view, Fang Shengyu was the latter.

However, he did die a little too soon. I remember that during the Lantern Festival, he met this Lord Fang by the Longyin Lake.

Only a few days later, Fang Shengyu wades into the coffin.

"My lord, on the day of my master's death, can I ask you not to enter the mansion to disturb me? Also, for the sake of the dead, my lord will leave some cleanliness for the mansion. After the master's funeral is over, my lord It's not too late, no matter what the adults want to do, the villains will cooperate with the adults one by one."

At this time, an old housekeeper saw Li Xiuyuan and the others' unfriendly appearance and hurriedly greeted them, saluted them respectfully, and then begged Li Xiuyuan and the others not to enter the mansion in a tactful manner.

"Oh, do you know what I am here for?" Li Xiuyuan asked.

The old housekeeper replied: "President Cui from the Six Doors is arresting anyone in the capital who doesn't know, who doesn't know, your lord must be the new magistrate, here to investigate the case, but the master has passed away, so it is an urgent case Please take it easy, my lord."

"Your words are right. Your family is having a funeral. It is really inappropriate for someone like me to come to investigate the case. But then again, there are still some clues left in this case. If time If it drags on for a long time, and the clues are gone, the official of this case cannot guarantee
It can be broken, if you, old housekeeper, really think about it for your master, please let me go and check it out. "

"The sooner the murderer is caught, the sooner Fang Shengyu will be wronged, won't it?" Li Xiuyuan said calmly.

"However, when the master's former friends and relatives are paying homage today in the house, it is inevitable that your lord will be disturbed when investigating the case at this moment. Can you please come back in three days?" the old housekeeper said.

Li Xiuyuan said: "From a human point of view, I should indeed stay away for a few days to let you finish the funeral, but after all, Fang Shengyu died, what does it have to do with me today? I am here to investigate the case. It didn't say that Fang Shengyu's funeral was not allowed to be investigated in the past few days, so please step aside, and Fang Shengyu
Yu died in the government office and was assassinated again. According to the court law, the body should be returned to the family only after the autopsy is done. "

"Fang Shengyu died on the night of the fourth day. You brought the body back in the early morning of the third day. You didn't stay in the yamen for a day. Wu Zuo didn't have time for an autopsy. This is neither reasonable nor reasonable."

"If someone breaks the rules first, then don't blame me for not being sympathetic."

After finishing speaking, he ignored the old housekeeper and strode into the mansion with his men.

This time he came to be a villain, why should he be so scruples.

"My lord, my lord" the butler of the Fang Mansion hurriedly followed behind, trying to stop him but was powerless.

When Li Xiuyuan came to the mourning hall, he saw Fang Shengyu's wives, concubines, maidservants, and young son kneeling in front of the altar, weeping sadly. From time to time, there were people who came to pay their respects. In addition, there were monks chanting scriptures. Exceeding, the method of Taoist priests. But they are all without real skills, just doing this
Just a line of craftsmen.

At this moment, his eyes moved slightly to look at the coffin in the mourning hall.

Needless to say, what lay inside was Fang Shengyu's body.

"My lord, what are we going to do?" Cui Wei asked in a low voice.

"Autopsy." Li Xiuyuan said.

Cui Wei looked around and said: "The people who come here to pay homage are all dignitaries in the capital, it might be a bit inappropriate to open the coffin for an autopsy today."

"What are you doing here without an autopsy? Could it be to offer incense to Fang Shengyu? My relationship with him is not so good yet." Li Xiuyuan said.

"An autopsy? Who dares to open the coffin for an autopsy? Li Xiuyuan doesn't say that you are just a magistrate now, even if you return to Yangzhou to be the governor in the future, this official will definitely not allow you to do so. Is there anyone in the world who investigates cases like this? Fang Brother, you just put yourself in the coffin, you are going to open the coffin for an autopsy today, your heart is really so evil
Poison, don't you have any compassion? "

A literati who came to express condolences heard Li Xiuyuan's words, and immediately stood up and yelled loudly.

Li Xiuyuan took a look and immediately recognized this literati, isn't this the clerk who fought with Fu Tianchou at the court meeting yesterday?
At this moment, the civil servant's voice immediately attracted other people's ideas.

After a while, relatives and friends from the house gathered one after another.

"What? Someone wants to open the coffin for an autopsy."

"Who, who is so vicious, if anyone dares to open the coffin for an autopsy, I will fight him."

"Damn dog officer, won't even let the dead go?"

These relatives and friends of Fang Shengyu were filled with righteous indignation, and some were even furious, as if they wanted to fight Li Xiuyuan and others desperately.

The Song Dynasty ruled the country with filial piety, and it is indeed an outrageous thing to open a coffin for an autopsy in front of relatives.

Li Xiuyuan knew something was wrong, but he felt that it would be even more wrong to dig up Fang Shengyu after he was buried.

"Since my lord forbids me to open the coffin for autopsy, then I won't do it." Suddenly, he looked at the official and said.

The civil official was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect Li Xiuyuan to give face so much, and immediately smiled complacently; "Yes, a child can be taught, much better than your father-in-law Fu Tianchou."

But before he finished speaking, Li Xiuyuan said again: "Then let Fang Shengyu come out of the coffin by himself."

"What, what?" The civil servant immediately became suspicious.

Before he could react, Li Xiuyuan shouted at the coffin in the mourning hall: "Fang Shengyu, Fang Shengyu!"

His voice seemed to contain some kind of special power. After the voice came out, it would reverberate around three times before disappearing. As he kept chanting Fang Shengyu's name, the entire mourning hall seemed to be surrounded by him. Sound enveloped.

This voice instantly overwhelmed the monks chanting sutras, and also overwhelmed the crying of the family members.

The people nearby couldn't help covering their ears for a while, but they found that covering their ears could not block the sound.

"This is a spell." Cui Wei, who was on the side, immediately realized something was wrong.

It's just that his knowledge is limited, and he doesn't know what kind of spell this is.

Li Xiuyuan kept calling Fang Shengyu's name.

The next moment, something unexpected happened, and I saw the thick coffin in the mourning hall trembling violently, as if the person lying inside was suddenly alive and struggling violently, trying to push the coffin away Like the cover jumping out of it.

This scene shocked everyone in the mourning hall.

"Cheat, cheat the corpse."

I don't know who yelled, and for a while, the people who looked around turned around and ran away in fright. Even the monk who chanted scriptures and the Taoist priest who practiced rituals threw away the wooden fish, whisked the dust, and left the mourning hall in horror.

And the civil servant who scolded Li Xiuyuan before was even more courageous, his legs trembled in fright and he didn't even have the strength to run.

"Fang Shengyu hasn't gotten up yet." Li Xiuyuan's voice suddenly became severe, with a hint of order.

"Bang~!"

Immediately, the lid of the coffin fell to the ground, and Fang Shengyu's body suddenly sat up, with half of his body exposed outside the coffin.

"Ah~!"

Seeing this scene, the civil servant screamed in fright, rolled his eyelids and passed out on the spot.

"Just this little courage?" Seeing this, Li Xiuyuan shook his head slightly.

He saw that the relatives and friends who were mourning were scared away, and it was time for the autopsy, so he immediately walked over and inspected Fang Shengyu's body.

But Fang Shengyu's face was full of anger, his eyes were wide open, and his gray and silent eyes were staring blankly at the front, with a look of death, but there was blood oozing from his stomach, which should be the fatal wound where he was killed .

"Did Mr. Cui find anything?" Li Xiuyuan asked.

Cui Wei immediately sized it up, and wanted to step forward to investigate carefully, but was stopped by Li Xiuyuan: "When the coffin is opened, the corpse will not move, and the eyes can see it if there are clues."

"Yes, my lord." Cui Wei nodded and gave up examining the corpse, he said; "From the wounds, it can be determined that the murderer must not be a martial arts practitioner. If a martial arts practitioner wants to kill someone, the sword must be on the chest, neck , it cannot be on the stomach, because it is not necessarily possible to stab a sword on the stomach
Killing people is not in line with the methods of an assassin. "

"And there are no other wounds or bruises on Mr. Fang's body, which means that he never struggled before."

"It was neither an assassination nor an enemy's murder. The humble official can only judge that Mr. Fang died at the hands of people around him." Cui Wei clasped his fists and said, "Anyone in the government office is suspect."

Li Xiuyuan said: "It's not that complicated. I'm also a martial arts practitioner. The wound in this position is obviously caused by a novice who is not proficient in swords, and it's a woman."

"How can the adults see it?"

"Only a woman's height can stab the sword to the belly, and the wound is still slanted upwards, which means that the sword was stabbed from the bottom up." Li Xiuyuan waved his hand and said: "Put the body back and cover the coffin, the murderer I know who it is."

Cui Wei immediately ordered two captors to put the body back and cover the coffin.

"It's such a simple case that no one in the yamen has solved it. I really don't know what kind of waste the imperial court has raised. The struggle for power is so fierce. If you really want to do something for the country and the people, everyone will be dumb. It's gone." Li Xiuyuan thought to himself.

No wonder the country's fortunes are in a downturn.Monsters are rampant.

The imperial court is still lucky, but the time it can last is obviously running out.

"Where is Fang Shengyu's wife now? I have something to ask her." Li Xiuyuan walked out of the mourning hall and asked the old housekeeper.

The old housekeeper was also a little scared at this time, after all, they saw Fang Shengyu's fraudulent corpse with their own eyes, so they pointed at the side room tremblingly.

"Thank you."

When Li Xiuyuan led people to the wing room.

Fang Shi, who was hiding inside, had a terrified face. She was panicked and at a loss. She wanted to run away but didn't know where she was going.

Until there was a loud bang, the door was forcibly pushed open.

"Mrs. Fang, we met again today after the farewell to Xiangguo Temple that day. Don't you plan to talk about Mr. Fang's death?" Li Xiuyuan said.

"My lord, what do you mean by that?" Fang's voice trembled, his expression flustered.

Li Xiuyuan said: "No other meaning, just want to know where Madam hid the murderer, or is Mrs. Fang's death also inseparable from Madam?"

(End of this chapter)