Bring your son to chase after your wife, please go home

Chapter 65 The truth gradually revealed (2)
Beside the main street leading to Anjifang, there is a drainage ditch more than five feet wide. At this time, there is a female corpse lying on the side of the ditch. Her face is wrinkled and white. The indigo skirt she wears and the jasper hairpin faintly protruding from the scattered hair show her extraordinary status.

"Oh... what a bad luck!" It was two officials who salvaged the body, and those two were standing aside with salvage tools and frowning.

"What's going on here?" Yuan Guanghao pushed through the crowd and asked loudly.

As soon as the two officials saw him, they calmed down and replied respectfully, "My lord, this morning the yamen received a report that someone had drowned in the canal. Our two brothers came here under the order of the governor." It was salvaged, but I have been standing here all morning and I haven't waited for anyone to claim it, so it seems that I have to send it to Yizhuang."

"Wait..." Seeing that the two officials were about to make a move, Baili Changge suddenly stopped him and strode forward.

"Who is this?" One of the officials looked at Baili Changge in confusion.

"This is the cronies of the King of Jin." Yuan Guanghao explained quickly, and then looked at the carriageway with the curtain behind: "The King of Jin passed by here, but you put the corpses on the side of the road. If the prince is contaminated Unlucky, watch your heads."

The two soap officials shrank their necks when they heard this.

Baili Changge squatted down, asked a soap official for gloves to put on, then pinched the skull, hand bones, and foot bones of the female corpse, stared at the worn bracelet on the female corpse's wrist for a long time, and then stood up. He got up and took off the gloves and returned them to the soap official, then turned around and headed back towards the carriage, leaving only a word, "Send it to Yizhuang!"

The two officials looked at each other.

"I told you to send it off, what are you dawdling about?" Although Yuan Guanghao didn't see anything, but seeing Baili Changge's appearance, he realized in his heart that she must have discovered something, and after ordering the officials, he returned calmly.

"How?" Leaning against the side wall, Ye Hen's long eyelashes drooped, covering his narrow eyes. He didn't open them, and his voice was slightly cold.

Already accustomed to Ye Hen's calmness, Baili Changge didn't show much surprise, but said in a low voice: "Generally, drowned people have their mouths tightly closed and their eyes open and closed. She must struggle, so both eyes The fists will be clenched. It is the rainy season, and the water in the canal is turbid. When she struggles, there must be sand in her nails, water will flow out of her mouth and nose, and her abdomen will swell. And the mouth of the female corpse I just saw The eyes are open, the nails are clean, and there is no water swelling in the abdomen, so she was killed first and then thrown into the water. As we all know, corpses soaked in water will swell, but only the skin is swollen, and the bones are There will be no change, I touched her bones just now, and then contacted the bracelet on her left hand to confirm her identity - Mrs. Wu from our house."

After thinking about it, Baili Changge added: "The only strange thing is, where did the expensive fabrics worn by Mrs. Wu come from? As far as I know, her monthly silver in the Hou Mansion is not high. Where's the money to afford these things?"

Yuan Guanghao listened outside, feeling admiration for Baili Changge in his heart, and then shook his head and sighed—it's a pity that he is not a man, otherwise he would be able to contribute to the court.

"Oh?" Ye Hen raised his eyebrows slightly, "So this Mrs. Wu is the aunt of the foreman of the kiln shop Mr. Yuan said?"

"It's possible." Baili Changge nodded, "We've just discovered the clue, but the person behind him has already done it. He pinches it really accurately. He doesn't intend to leave us any clues."

"Not necessarily." Ye Hen said: "The faster that person strikes, the more evidence he wants to bury. As long as he takes action, we can all find clues."

"En." Baili Changge nodded, and did not speak again.

Anjifang, located in the south of the Imperial Capital, is where most of the ordinary gold, stone, jade, ceramics and antiques in the pavement Zhuangzi in the downtown area are processed and sold in batches.

When the three found Mrs. Wu's nephew Chen An, he was working in a porcelain kiln.

"I don't know why the adults are looking for me?" After asking her identity, Chen An's tone was a little timid.

"We want to ask, do you know this?" Ye Hen took out the Tao Ring Ball from his sleeve.

Chen An's complexion changed, he quickly shook his head and said, "I haven't seen it before."

"Brother Chen." Baili Changge walked forward and said with a smile, "It doesn't matter if you don't say anything. We came here to ask about this matter to reverse the case for your aunt who died innocently. Since you are unwilling to help, then we only have Find another way."

Hearing this, Chen An turned pale for a moment, and looked at Baili Changge in disbelief, "What did you say? My aunt... she died?"

"The body is in Yizhuang." Baili Changge said: "After she was killed, she was thrown into the canal on Linlang Street. I performed an autopsy on her body, and I recognized that it was your aunt, the mother-in-law of Wudinghou's mansion. "

"How is this possible?" Chen An still had an expression of disbelief, and murmured: "She told me that Mrs. Hou Fu treated her very well and gave her a lot of money. You have returned home to enjoy your life, how could you die suddenly at this time?"

Baili Changge's eyes moved, "When did she tell you these words?"

"A month ago." Chen An invited the three of them into the house, made tea and served it himself, then sat aside and said slowly: "I remember that not long after my shop opened, my aunt suddenly visited and said It was to take care of my business and let me make something for her."

"But this?" When Baili Changge turned his head, seeing that Ye Hen hadn't drunk the tea made by Chen An at all, she took Tao Xiangqiu from him.

"Exactly." After just one glance, Chen An nodded.

"Then did she tell you what's the use of this thing?" Feeling a big step closer to the truth, Baili Changge didn't let go of any clues.

"She said that there is a lady in the Hou's mansion who is going away and has no time to take care of her son, so she made this toy for him." Chen An was in a daze, lost in the memories of that time.

"Nonsense!" Yuan Guanghao slapped the table angrily, "This thing is at most similar to a children's toy pottery ball, but it's not that kind of thing. Tell me honestly, what is it for?"

Being yelled at by him, Chen An shuddered Linglingly, shaking his body and said: "This thing can actually be split into two parts."

(End of this chapter)