"No, you can't leave!" Fang Wu grabbed Zhang Xuan who was about to rush out the door.
"I don't agree to use the word suicide to end the case."
Fang Wu put his hand on the door frame and frowned.
In the thirty-second year of Renhe, in the village of Xuetao Village, among the houses in the village.
The room was very clean, with only a faint sound of crying. Except for the mess at the corner of the table, there were no traces of dust anywhere else.
Instead, there was a corpse lying there with a rope wrapped around its neck, which gave people a very inconsistent feeling.
The corpse was shriveled, wearing messy clothes, and the hands were so dark that their original color could not be seen, making it impossible to accept that the owner of these hands was a woman.
"Get out of the way." Zhang Xuan said angrily: "If you don't agree, just provide evidence. If you don't have the ability, don't delay my work."
Fang Wu didn't move.
She had made up her mind that she would never let this man leave until he let go.
This was her first time handling a case alone, and she couldn't produce any conclusive evidence at the moment, but she couldn't let him close the case hastily like this.
Zhang Xuan took a step forward and said: "I am not your master and I will spoil you. If you don't get out of the way, I won't be polite."
"I won't let you. If you want to go out today, you must either change your conclusion, or... just step over my body." Fang Wu said sternly.
No one noticed that Fang Wu's hand on the door frame was shaking. She was just bluffing.
She was completely unprepared to face Zhang Xuan today. Whenever she faced him alone, she could not help but want to retreat.
"You're not very capable, but you're not very bad-tempered? Do you think your life is worth anything? It's just a few taels of silver, but it's not enough for me to drink." Zhang Xuan leaned against the door frame and said nonchalantly.
That way, he looked like a spectator, and didn't care at all about his hunched body, which was only a hair's breadth away from Fang Wu's hand.
"You are the one who wants to die." Fang Wu retorted, this man changed his concept.
"You asked me to step on your body. How could I step on it until you die?" Zhang Xuan scratched his head, looking puzzled.
"I don't care, anyway, you can't just conclude that it's suicide." Fang Wu said fiercely.
"Why are you meddling in other people's business..." Just when Zhang Xuan asked back, he suddenly heard clear cries.
The two of them looked over at the sound of crying. The people standing on the sidelines were already talking about it, and the children in the crowd kept crying.
Zhang Xuan shook his legs and whistled like a street gangster: "Trouble."
That appearance gave Fang Wu an angry headache, and he punched Zhang Xuan.
"What are you doing?" Zhang Xuan took a step back, bumped into the door frame, and yelled.
For a while, the two faced each other and the situation became stalemate.
"Brothers and sisters, please stop arguing. Just try to be nice. My mother will not commit suicide." The child who initially reported the crime rushed to the middle of the two of them and said.
Fang Wu picked up the child and said, "Good boy, let's stop arguing. Can you go sit over there and tell those government officials what you know?"
Fang Wu rubbed the child's head and pointed to the yamen table with the portrait at the door.
The child responded and slid off Fang Wu.
"Zhang Qizhi, Mr. Zhang, can you stop making trouble and do something to help? Or, how can I help you take care of this case? How about you give me a few taels of silver and you won't do it." Fang Wu hesitated, and she also
No money.
However, she also knew this person well, that is, he was a person who didn't see money and didn't do anything.
Zhang Xuan whistled and joked: "Now you have learned how to bribe Shangguan'er? It's true that there are just as many apprentices as there are masters."
Fang Wu leaned on the other side of the door frame, his hand on the door frame strengthened, and he looked into the room with his eyes.
Just spend it, she's not in a hurry anyway.
Fang Wu looked at the body and then looked around the room again. There was a simple kang, and it looked like the charcoal fire had not been burning for some time.
There were some simple clothes neatly stacked on the kang. There was a bamboo basket on the clothes, and there were only dots of needlework inside. Nothing else could be seen, because the kitchen inside was blocked by the wall of the corridor.
Zhang Xuan couldn't walk away, so he tried to rush out of the door several times, but failed.
It was the first time he discovered that this girl had such great strength and such a cruel heart.
"They say you don't have much money if you sell yourself." Zhang Xuan whistled and said bluntly.
Fang Wu was extremely upset when he heard this. The house was not in a mess, and there were no traces of rummaging. It must not have been for money.
Is that a vendetta? But what fatal hatred can a city woman have?
And even if it is a vendetta, why should anyone be left alive? Could it be that this enemy is willing to die? We are still waiting for the government to find out.
"You... give me a little more time." Fang Wu turned around and frowned.
Ask her to think again and see if she has missed any key evidence.
"Don't waste my time."
The sun was shining brightly now, and some of the people watching the excitement in the village dispersed to go to work.
It was at this time that a person came in through the door.
Full of laziness, he stretched and yawned constantly, standing in front of Fang Wu and saying, "You have nothing to do on weekdays, what else is there to waste?"
"Master, you are finally here!" The familiar voice made Fang Wu feel that he had finally found his heart.
She burst into laughter, but quickly suppressed her laughter. She raised her little head and pouted her mouth to look at Zhang Xuan, who looked like a villain who had succeeded.
Zhang Xuan snorted and not only did not refute, but also let Ji Xuan into the room. He just sat there without saying anything.
"Master, let's take a look at the body first. I'll go take a look at other places in the house." Fang Wu said sweetly. Although it was an affirmative sentence, it was in a questioning tone.
Ji Xuan was an official in the yamen, and sometimes she also did things like being a coward.
"Stop." Ji Xuan refused, spit out two words, and slowly squatted down.
He did not touch the body directly. Instead, he held the sleeves with his hands, opened his mouth, and looked at it for a while before saying: "It was not a suicide. He was unconscious and then tied to a beam and suffocated to death."
After saying that, he stood up again, flattened his sleeves back, and rolled the part that had touched the body into his clothes so that it would not touch his own skin. Then he looked at Zhang Xuan, who was still sitting there looking indifferent.
"As the saying goes, if the tongue sticks out of the mouth, it is suicide. You and I both know that this is wrong. But in this case, the rope is not pressed above the throat and the tongue is not out, so it is not suicide. You can't tell the difference from this little thing.
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After Ji Xuan finished speaking, Fang Wu felt ashamed and whispered back: "I forgot about it in my hurry..."
"You're stupid and don't know it." Zhang Xuan snorted and raised his feet to go out.
Ji Xuan stopped Zhang Xuanda with a kick and said: "As a yamenei, you disregard human life and want to close the case hastily. It seems you don't want your job anymore?"
"I...isn't it because your young apprentice can't provide key evidence, so I have no choice but to close the case like this?" Zhang Xuan chuckled.
Fang Wu even lowered his head.
Ji Xuan glared at Zhang Xuan and still blocked the road, refusing to let him go.
Zhang Xuan was impatient: "What are you doing? You think I'm bullying your little apprentice, I'm telling the truth."
"Help me go back to the Yamen to get the toolbox." Ji Xuan said coldly.
"Do you think I'm your official? Take it yourself."
"If the case ends successfully, I'll treat you to a drink. If it doesn't go well, your salary will be deducted. What do you think?" Ji Xuan said calmly.
"Master, how about I go?"
"You're here to learn, not to run errands." Ji Xuan immediately changed her face and said angrily to Fang Wu.
"I'm just here to run errands for you?"
"If you are idle, you are idle. Besides, this is not just a detour."
"Sure, I did it for the sake of the drink money!" Zhang Xuan snorted and threw out his sleeves.