The Delicate Lady Coroner

This question caused Lu Qing to be taken aback, and Lu Qing respectfully said: "I have sang a few times with the other dancers in the class, so the relationship is considered close."

Huo Weilou's eyes were dim, but he continued to ask calmly: "What was the situation when I saw Liu Huiniang sent Li Yuchang back last night?"

Lu Qing immediately recalled when he heard the words: "The master hummed the sings, it was the "Resurrection of Souls" he wrote for Hui Niang. He was very happy on the face, but people drank a little dizzy, and the steps were a little unstable. Hui Niang helped him. When I entered the door, I banged the door, and lived next to the master. Hearing the movement, she came out and took a look. Hui Niang helped the master in, said a few more words, and then closed the door and came out..."

Huo Weilou narrowed his eyes, "You all call Li Yuchang your master?"

Lu Qing nodded, "Yes, the little people were bought by the master early in the morning. Some have practiced in the mansion for five years, and some have practiced for ten years. They must be trained before they can be on stage."

Huo Weilou said again: "You live close to Li Yuchang, what strange thing happened last night?"

Lu Qing thought for a while, hesitated, "I don't know if it can be called a strange thing..."

Huo Weilou stared at him, "Say."

Lu Qing said: "After Hui Niang left last night, Zai also entered the door. Vaguely, Zai seemed to hear something. It seemed that the master opened the door and went out, but when she opened the door and looked out, she saw the corridor again. There was no one among them, and the master’s door was closed. It was late at that time and everyone stopped. The light in the corridor was dim, and without much thought, he continued to sleep, and then fell asleep. I don't know anything."

Li Yuchang was drunk but went out again?

"When was it?" Huo Weilou asked again.

"It should be... it's already halfway through the second shift." Lu Qing recalled for a moment, and said in a rather affirmative tone.

Huo Weilou stared at him for a moment, then looked at Liu Huiniang who was standing a few steps away, waved her hand without saying anything, and then thought of that Yueniang, Huo Weilou asked Luke again, "Yueniang was doing it last night. what?"

Lu Ke hurriedly said: "After the play was over, she went to see Song Meiniang, and went back to the room to sleep in the next two days. Chunqin, who lives with her, can testify. The subordinates have asked Chunqin about it. Is it true? of."

Huo Weilou also somehow thought of Yueniang, probably because the Yueniang I saw that night was indifferent and cold, and she was very alert to them. It always makes people feel that she rarely has any intentions of kindness, "Except for Lu Qing, Li Yuchang The other boat passengers also asked about it, especially if he had gone out before and after two more days."

Lu Ke led the way, and Huo Weilou returned to the sundries room where Bo Ruoyou was performing an autopsy.

As soon as he approached, he saw Huo Qinghong standing farther, as if he was avoiding something. Ming Guilan was sitting in a wheelchair, next to the fence, and frowned slightly. Huo Wei Tower raised his eyebrows and took another step forward. Then he smelled a pungent **** smell.

He walked quickly to the door and saw the dazzling blood inside the door.

Li Yuchang died all night, and the body was still fresh. After Bo Ruoyou's autopsy, blood spilled from the edge of the knife. It was quite terrifying. Only Bo Ruoyou squatted on the ground with her cloak in the hands of Father Fu, and her sleeves were rolled up. , There were blood stains on the guards, and even rubbed a little on his wrists. On the side there were two porcelain plates on the ground, and some invisible filth was lying in them.

Seeing Huo Wei Tower's return, Bo Ruoyou's gaze also lifted from the corpse. Her eyes were cold and serious. When she looked at Huo Wei Tower, she had only brought up two minutes of temperature, "Master Hou is back."

Huo Wei came upstairs, "How is the inspection?"

Bo Ruoyou straightened his sore waist and said in his mouth: "The deceased's eye mask has small white spots, which have begun to dissolve. The whole body is slightly swollen. Because of the cold river water, there is only a little corruption in the internal organs, and the color of the corpse is light. He is pale, with severe joint stiffness. According to the above description and the degree of digestion of food in his spleen and stomach, he should have drowned before and after falling into the water at midnight last night."

On the second shift, not long after Liu Huiniang sent him back, Huo Weilou frowned and continued to listen to Bo Ruoyou.

"After an autopsy, the deceased woman found some food in the stomach of the deceased that could not be digested in the future, and there was a lot of alcohol. I should have really drunk a lot of alcohol last night. There are also a little mud and sand and finely chopped aquatic leaves in the Heqi Dao, which should have been inhaled when struggling in the river."

Bo Ruoyou frowned slightly, and said: "So far, the girl has not found evidence that he was murdered. These clues only indicate that he fell into the river after drinking. If he was really drunk and confused. After falling into the river, the cry for help must be small, and Lord Hou knew that at night, when the river breeze screamed, if the cry for help was small, I really couldn't hear it."

"Meaning that he might not have died of murder?"

Bo Ruoyou nodded, "It is true from the corpse. There was no fatal trauma on the deceased. After the clothes were removed, in addition to the abrasions on the hands and face discovered by Shi, there was also abrasion on the deceased's foot, but these Abrasions may be caused by falling into the river. In addition, there is a post-mortem injury to his waist, which should be left behind by the rope of the anchor. All injuries during his lifetime are not fatal. If a person is on land, You don’t even need to rub such abrasions with wound medicine."

After Bo Ruoyou said this, he asked, "Master Hou found where he fell?"

"Found it." Huo Wei Building walked closer to her. "On the platform at the stern on the west side of the second floor, there are a lot of debris. It happened to be the location of the kitchen on the first floor, where water was poured all year round. After a long time, stains of different colors appeared on the hull, just like the one on Li Yuchang's robe."

The stern of the first floor of the ship is a deck, and the stern of the second floor is a small terrace. But in the middle of the night, what does Li Yuchang run to the terrace for?

Bo Ruoyou wondered: "What did he go to the terrace for? He fell down accidentally..."

Huo Weilou stared at him, "This is also a place where the Lord is puzzled. Lu Qing, who lives next to him, said that after halfway through Haishi, he heard the movement of him opening the door, as if Li Yuchang went out, but when he came out to see, he did not I didn’t see anyone. If Li Yuchang went to the terrace at the time, he really couldn’t see anyone. Because Li Yuchang’s house was very close to the west terrace, he would be there soon. But it was too late, unless he really drank. When I got to the point of unconsciousness, I walked around randomly to the terrace, climbed up along the debris, and then stepped out and fell into the river."

Bo Ruoyou frowned, "It's not that I've never heard that some people get drunk and lose their minds and then kill themselves." After saying this, she looked down at Li Yuchang's corpse, and was a little uncertain for a while. idea.

When Huo Weilou saw this, he said: "If there is no doubtful evidence, he will be treated as if he fell into the river."

Bo Ruoyou nodded, although it is a bit weird, but it is not a dead person is a homicide. I have seen people who fell into the river and died when they were drunk, and they were not harmed by others."

Huo Weilou narrowed his eyes, "The corpses of the refugees who died of illness and freezing?"

Bo Ruo faintly stunned, "Not many. It's just that during the famine, some people will find it hard to make a living. Those with better health may be able to survive for a few days. Those who are already in pain will have difficulty passing through. Qingshan County is already poor and weak. It's not uncommon to have it by chance."

Huo Weilou frowned, "The south of the Yangtze River is familiar with the world. If there are still refugees in the south of the Yangtze River, the world will be in chaos."

Bo Ruoyou hurriedly said, "Don't worry, Lord Hou, it's not common."

Huo Weilou said no more, Bo Ruoyou cleaned up the wound on the corpse and covered it before she stood up. She squatted for a long time, her legs and feet were a little numb, and she shook her body before she stood still. , His eyes became darker again.

At this time, Lu Ke said outside: "Master Hou, all the inquiries have been completed. Last night, the Yuchun class members and the tenants were almost all witnesses. Only a few lived alone and never left the room. The witnesses are missing, but they and Boss Yu have no grievances, and the subordinates have asked several times, but they have not found anything unusual."

"Is the person named Lu Qing also unlicensed?" Huo Weilou asked.

Lu Ke nodded, "Dan Jiao'er and Jiao'er live in a single place. Many of them are undocumented, but the subordinates asked them about it, and they didn't hear anything unusual, and most of them slept halfway through the hour. NS."

Li Yuchang died before and after his son, if other people fell asleep halfway through when he died, it would be hard to hear when he died, even if there were movements and other people, there are still omissions in the testimony here, but the post-mortem did not find any harm. No clues were found on the terrace, and it was impossible to forcibly associate Li Yuchang's death with these people.

"No suspicion has been found yet. Most of Li Yuchang fell downstairs to his death. Later, he asked the Yuchun class to collect his belongings and called Shen Yalai."

Lu Ke went, and Shen Ya soon arrived. When Huo Weilou said that Li Yuchang had fallen into the river and died, he was relieved. Wu Zhaohou has decided on this case, and then he has nothing to do with the Shen family. In the meantime, no one has ordered a lawsuit. It is best to deal with, Shen Ya said, "Thank you, Lord Hou, I will go to discuss with the people in the Yuchun class and see how to deal with the funeral of Boss Yu."

Huo Weilou naturally ignored these and nodded in response.

When Shen Ya left, Huo Weilou turned her head and saw Bo Ruoyou squatting on the ground again. She looked at Li Yuchang's corpse and didn't know what she was thinking, "What? But found something unusual?"

Bo Ruoyou shook his head, "No, the girl just thought it was a bit weird. Boss Yu was very interested in the church for the past two days. Later, the church went smoothly, and he was quite happy. When he was happiest, he suddenly fell into the river. Death is really impermanent in the world."

"There are unexpected events in the sky, and there are indeed a lot of great joys and great sorrows."

Bo Ruoyou got up and went to clean her hands. This time, there was a handguard given by Huo Weilou, but it saved her from being stained with blood from the corpse. When the handguard was cleaned, she wiped it clean and put it in her sleeve before coming out. At that time, I saw that the Yuchun squad headed by Liu Huiniang had gathered outside the door, because they knew that Li Yuchang had fallen into the river and died, and everyone had come to collect the body for him.

Shen Ya also accompanied him. Seeing Huo Weilou and his party came out, Shen Ya said: "Boss Jade is dead. They think boss Jade’s funeral matters are more important. They will disembark at Changfeng Ferry in the next day. The corpse is sent back to Jiangnan for burial, so the church can only give up first."

The Southern Opera is weak in the north. This opportunity to go to the Beijing Houfu singing hall is very precious to the Yuchun troupe. If you cherish such an opportunity, you can only send a few people to bury the jade boss, but they did not expect them to even sing the hall. All the opportunities were given up.

Bo Ruoyou was moved when she heard it, Huo Weilou was not commenting on this and took them away from here.

Just a few steps away, Bo Ruoyou faintly heard Liu Huiniang’s cry. Her voice was clear and graceful, and she was especially soft and nice when she cried. Even a woman of her sounded sad and moving. She looked back and looked back. , But seeing Yueniang following at the end, the sadness on the faces of others, her expression was a bit cold.

Bo Ruoyou thought of the indifferent look after Ye Yueniang collided with her, her heart jumped suddenly, and she hurriedly waved out the thought that had come out of her mind. At that moment, she actually killed Li Yuchang and Yueyue. Mother is connected.

As soon as they got up, they were busy. The Huowei Building and his party hadn't had breakfast yet. They went to the tea shop and used breakfast before going upstairs. When they got up to the second floor, they saw people coming and going in the corridor. It was from the Yuchun class. Some were packing up Li Yuchang's relics, and some were preparing to make a set of mourning clothes for Li Yuchang and put the body in a shroud.

Just when the Huowei Building and his party went upstairs without stopping, they suddenly heard someone cursing in the corridor.

"Who stole it?! You dare to steal things from the master? Do you think that the master is gone, you will be lawless one by one? I tell you, you all signed the contract and returned to the Jiangnan old mansion. Some of them are People rule you."

"That fan is the master's favorite jade-bone fan. You'd better return things honestly. If I catch you, see if I don't tear your skin, Chunqin, is it you? Just now, the master's death was reported. Come on, it's the latest you have been dingy, did you come and steal the master's fan?!"

The abuser was a man. When Huo Weilou heard the word "Chunqin" and felt familiar, he stopped and walked towards the corridor. As soon as he turned the corner, he saw a person sticking in his waist and cursing several little girls.

The little girl named Chunqin was the one who was in the same room with Yueniang. Huo Weilou's phoenix eyes were narrow, and she stopped here inexplicably.

The cursing man turned his back to Huo Weilou and did not notice their arrival. Seeing Chunqin biting the corner of his lips and making no sound, he went forward to grab Chunqin's ears, "What do you want to say, do you mean?"

"The money steward, it's not me, it's really not me, I overslept, not that I came to steal things..."

Chunqin's painful tears fell straight. At this moment, he saw Huo Weilou at a glance, and hurriedly called out: "Farewell to Master Hou—"

Everyone on the boat knew the identity of Huo Weilou. She shouted like this and shocked the housekeeper Qian. Turning around, facing the cold phoenix eyes of Huo Weilou, his face changed slightly and he quickly bowed.

Huo Wei came upstairs, "What did Li Yuchang lose?"

Steward Qian didn't dare to be presumptuous, so he hurriedly laughed and said, "If you return to Master Hou, the master lost one of his favorite folding fans during his lifetime."

Folding fans... When Huo Weilou remembered that when he came up in the morning, he only saw two folding fans on the table, so he said: "When Benhou came to search the house in the morning, I saw two folding fans."

Steward Qian hurriedly said: "Knowing Lord Hou, the Lord has three folding fans. One of the favorites is a white jade as a bone. On the fan, there is a picture of Manshu Shahua and a beautiful woman. This is the one. The folding fan is gone..."

Steward Qian gave Chunqin a sideways look, and still seemed to think that the fan was stolen by Chunqin.

Huo Weilou frowned slightly, "Is he missing something else?"

But Steward Qian shook his head, "Nothing, only this thing."

Huo Weilou said: "He has three folding fans. The one you said is his favorite. If someone wants to steal a fan, why didn't the other two fans steal it together? In addition, there are a lot of valuables in his room. If it’s for money, why not steal it all at once?"

Steward Qian's face changed slightly, "This this..."

Chunqin sniffed, and immediately looked at Huo Weilou with gratitude. But Steward Qian didn't dare to argue, and then said: "It's the villain who is stupid, maybe...maybe the master took it away by himself."

Huo Wei Building no longer said much, just watching that many of Li Yuchang's personal belongings in the room with the door opened had been put away, but on the book case, the few words of the book were still thrown there alone.

Huo Weilou suddenly asked, "What do you master use that fan for?"

Steward Qian hurriedly said, "It's used to sing, the fan was specially made by the master for "Resurrection"..."

""Resurrection"? Is it your master's script for Liu Huiniang?"

Steward Qian nodded immediately, "Yes, our master is very knowledgeable and wrote a lot of scripts. This "Resurrection of Souls" was made specifically for everyone in Liu. The master is a play idiot. He writes himself, and he writes and composes himself. Singing, so when the playbook came out, the first person who could sing was the master, and the masters were all instructed by the master. This "Resurrection of the Soul" was specially made for Liu Huiniang. Hey, I thought the team would rely on this drama. One handful."

Steward Qian looked regretful, "Master's "Resurrection" has not been finished yet, but now people are gone."

As he said that, the steward Qian's eyes were also red, and it seemed that the grief was true.

Huo Weilou nodded and stopped asking. He turned to go upstairs and waited until the third floor to say: "Liu Huiniang said that after the big show last night, she and Li Yuchang ate and talked about the drama in the room. He was talking about this "Resurrection of the Soul". Later, she sent Li Yuchang back to her room, and she practiced singing by herself, but Li Yuchang died and the folding fan disappeared. I am afraid that Li Yuchang was also drunk and then went to the terrace to sing and performed with the folding fan in her hand."

Bo Ruo faintly said, "That's it, this can also explain why he went to the terrace in the middle of the night. After he fell into the river, when he was found in the morning, his shoes were gone, and the folding fan was naturally lost."

The Lancang River is flat and wide, not to mention folding fans, even if people fall into the river, they are also very likely to be washed away, but the place where Li Yuchang fell is close to the rope of the anchor, which is hooked, otherwise I am afraid that the person will disappear. Everyone didn't know where he was going.

It’s probably impossible for Chunqin to steal things, but this Yuchun squad has other weird things. Huo Weilou thought of the sound he heard outside the door that night, and felt a little doubtful in his heart, but Yuchun squad was a family squad. These young actors and actresses are often in the same place, and it is not impossible to have some personal affair, and if it has nothing to do with Li Yuchang's death, he does not need to expose these one by one.

He shook his head, but didn't mention the matter at all.

Wu Yu, who had been following at this time, sighed: "They all say that the actors are ruthless, but they didn't even go to the Beijing church. They weren't really ruthless. It's just that they didn't have the class leader. I don't know what luck will be after this Yuchun class."

Wu Yu wanted to wait to go to the capital to listen to the church, but this time all the Yuchun class returned, which surprised him.

Fu Gong justified: "Listening to the housekeeper's words, the Li family seems to have other patrons, and the actors and actresses have their own personalities in their hands. If there are people who can take on the role of the troupe, this troupe will definitely not It's gone."

The Yuchun class is quite famous in Jiangnan. Such cash cows, as long as they have some brains, will not easily go away.

Suddenly, although he didn’t know Li Yuchang, a big living person suddenly died, which still casts a shadow on his heart. That is, Huo Qinghong was stunned by the frost, and everyone in the Yuchun class was stunned. To disembark the next day, the journey of the next few days must be dull and boring.

There was a lot of movement in the morning, and Cheng Yunzhi naturally heard it, but he did not go downstairs. Only then did he hear Bo Ruoyou talk about it. After listening to the autopsy results, Cheng Yunzhi said in a convenient way: "It is not surprising that there are still people who stumble and die in the blue sky and white sun. What's more, if you are drunk and at night, it’s just that the terrace on the second floor has to be cleaned up. For adults, it’s very dangerous if there are children to climb."

Hearing this, Bo Ruoyou didn't know whether the terrace on the second floor had been cleaned up, so he thought to go to the terrace on the second floor together, and when he arrived at the terrace, he heard Shen Ya scold the boatman.

"Although there are few people here, they have to be cleaned frequently. Wouldn't it be disappointing if there are distinguished guests?"

The boatmen answered, and Shen Ya walked out angrily. As soon as he stepped out of the small door, he saw Bo Ruoyou outside, with a smile on his face, "Why is the girl here—"

Bo Ruoyou said: "I heard Lord Hou said that there is a place here that can be climbed over the fence without any effort, so I wanted to come and see it."

Shen Ya sighed and said: "It's all due to negligence, but it will be closed soon."

Bo Ruoyou relaxed, and when he heard the boatman tidying up on the terrace, he turned and turned back again.

The boat was busy all day long. Although there were no funeral objects, Shen Ya was afraid of unlucky people when he died, so he found a candlestick for incense and lighting to light it, and set up a temporary mourning hall. , Liu Huiniang took a few people to guard in the mourning hall, but she respected the class master very much, and at night, she changed people to guard the spirit.

While fearing the dead, Shen Ya felt that setting up a mourning hall on the ship was rather unsightly. Since the mourning hall was set up, the ship passengers had never walked downstairs in the room for a whole day, and the wine shop and tea shop were also vacant. He asked the boatman to lift the ship. Sailing came, I just wished to get to Changfeng Ferry as soon as possible, so that Boss Yu could disembark as soon as possible.

However, the boat went for a day and a night, but still did not arrive at the Changfeng Ferry. According to the itinerary, it was the third day at the earliest. Dangerous buildings and entourage rarely disembark. On the evening of the second day, Bo Ruoyou heard the movement downstairs stopped, and then went downstairs to fetch boiling water for Cheng Yunzhi.

As night fell, the boat's speed slowed down a lot. Bo Ruoyou descended the stairs and reached the corridor on the second floor. There was no one in it, and there was a sense of loneliness, dead. Now no matter day or night, No one came out to walk around.

She didn't care, and turned to the first floor, but when she was about to go down the stairs, she suddenly heard a noise from the terrace at the end of the second floor, and her brows jumped, and she subconsciously turned her direction.

The terrace is the place where Li Yuchang fell to his death. Who will be here?

The small door from the corridor leading to the terrace was half-hidden. With the soft "squeaky" noise from the river breeze, Bo Ruoyou slowed down and approached. Before reaching the door, her figure suddenly stopped.

She saw that in the crack of the half-covered door, there was a blue ghost fire beating for no reason on the empty terrace.