In Xiaohe Village, a small river passes through the village. The water is not frozen, and it rushes away with joy.
Bai Yue looked around on the horse: "Mo Yi, have you been here before?"
"I once passed by while working on a case and didn't stop." Jian Yu slowed down his horse and said, "But according to what they said, it's easy to find the place where Green Lady lives this week. When you enter the village, you'll see a huge weeping willow heading north, passing through the bamboo forest.
There is a small house with a fenced yard on the right..."
"It's a strange place to live in." Bai Yue said, "Be careful."
Jian Yu responded, turning his head to Liang Meng and saying, "We are going in to find someone."
Seeing that Jian Yu finally remembered him, Liang Meng nodded quickly: "Yeah, yeah, who are you looking for?"
"A woman, her apparent identity is an embroiderer from the Mi family, named Zhou Lvniang."
We just went to Mi Mansion. Although Liang Meng also went there, he couldn't go to Mi Zixin's boudoir, so he didn't go to the embroidery room with him, so he didn't know anything about Zhou Lv Niang.
"What about the actual situation?" Liang Meng had been in Jian Mansion for a while and had never seen Bai Yue pinch a needle before. He didn't seem to be interested in the embroiderer.
"I actually don't know." Jian Yu said seriously: "But he may be a very dangerous person. I don't know whether he has martial arts skills. I only know that he has killers and dead men under his command."
Liang Meng was shocked: "It's so dangerous, Master, only a few of us can go there?"
"It's okay. Even if she raises a killer, she won't be here." Bai Yue reassured: "This place is so close to the capital, and the village is not remote and isolated. Is she crazy? She raises a killer here."
It's okay to appear occasionally. It's impossible not to be discovered if you come and go frequently. A person who is so careless will not show clues in these years.
A small courtyard surrounded by bamboo fences is located in a bamboo forest. Although the flowers and plants have withered this season, it still looks dreamy.
Inside the bamboo fence, there are various furnishings in an orderly manner, including bonsais, stone tables and chairs, swings, vegetable gardens... all the way to the two rooms inside. Although they are simple, they are beautiful and elegant, and they are absolutely different from ordinary farmyards.
This is simply a hermit's paradise, a dream place.
Everyone was alert, but Jian Yu did not dismount and stopped at the entrance of the courtyard to let Liang Meng shout.
There was a small bell hanging on the fence door. Liang Meng shook it and shouted with the crisp sound of the bell: "Excuse me, is anyone at home? Miss Zhou, is she at home?"
It was quiet inside and no one answered.
"Come in." Bai Yue said neatly. Jian Yu got off his horse and went to push the door open. He quickly followed behind.
"It seems no one is home." Liang Meng pulled out his knife and walked in carefully. There was no movement at all, and there was no living thing inside.
"Be careful, don't touch the things around you." Bai Yue reminded.
The two wooden houses are side by side. The first one is open, with a large table in the middle, with fabrics and threads piled on it, and several screens around it, with embroidered and unembroidered materials hanging on them, which is where the work is done.
The second bedroom was the resting bedroom. Liang Meng had no objection to breaking into a girl's boudoir privately. He listened carefully but there was no movement at all, then he reached out and pushed the door open and walked in.
The room was in a mess, a celadon vase rolled at my feet, the cabinet doors were open, the clothes inside were pulled out, and things were scattered everywhere.
Jian Yu followed behind and was turning to talk to Bai Yue when suddenly Liang Meng let out an ah yo sound and turned around to walk back, almost bumping into him.
Liang Meng followed him through life and death, and was considered a fierce general.
He charged forward, even if there were fierce beasts rushing towards him, they couldn't make him retreat. Moreover, Jian Yu was right behind him, so he turned around and ran away when he was in danger, leaving the danger to his master. This was simply worse than a deserter.
Before Jian Yu had time to be surprised, he heard Liang Meng's face not white, but red, hesitating and saying: "That, that, that girl is on the bed..."
Bai Yue and Jian Yu were both speechless, seeing how carefree and crazy he was on weekdays, yet Liang Meng was so innocent for a long time.
He pressed Liang Meng behind with an iron fist, and Jian Yu and Bai Yue walked over quickly.
Sure enough, the bed curtain was half-covered, and there was a woman lying inside. She could vaguely see her graceful figure, but she didn't know if she was asleep. They called the door from outside, and there was no small movement when they came in, so they didn't notice it at all.
The window was open, and the wind blew in, blowing the paper with various patterns on the table to the floor, making a rustling sound.
Bai Yue suddenly felt something in his heart, and an idea came to his mind. He quickly stepped forward and opened the bed curtain.
A young woman was lying quietly on the bed. Her appearance was exactly the same as that described by the embroiderers. She was none other than Zhou Lvniang.
Bai Yue stretched out his hand to feel her breath, then stretched out his hand to touch the side of her neck, and said in a deep voice: "Dead."
When he heard that Liang Meng was dead, he was not afraid and approached him again.
"Master, is this the person you are looking for?"
"I don't know if it's a little bell, but she must be the embroiderer." Bai Yue rolled up the corpse's sleeves, took out a pair of gloves from his pocket, put them on, and pressed the corpse's arms twice.
"How?" Jian Yu had been half-believing her when he told her that he knew how to perform autopsies on corpses, but Bai Yue's attitude and method when he saw the corpse made it sound like that was the case.
Bai Yue said: "The corpse is soft. After a person dies, the corpse becomes rigid for six hours, softens for twelve hours, and returns to its original shape for thirty-five hours. But considering that it is winter and the temperature is low with the windows open, this kind of
The phenomenon will be delayed.”
"So I think she was killed not long after she came out of Mi Mansion and returned to the house, which was the day before the Wanshouyuan Jockey Club."
Jian Yu asked: "How did she die?"
"She was strangled to death with her hands." Bai Yue lifted Zhou Lvniang's chin and looked at her limbs: "There were obvious strangulation marks on her neck, and she died of suffocation. Judging from the fingerprints left on her neck,
The murderer is a man, tall, strong, and very strong."
As he said that, Bai Yue glanced at Liang Meng, who was horrified: "I'm not tall, and I'm not strong either."
"That's not what I mean." Bai Yue explained: "Help me turn her over."
Liang Meng didn't dare touch the living girl, but he wasn't afraid of the dead one, so he came over to help immediately.
Bai Yue turned her around, opened her clothes and took a look: "She didn't die here, she was moved here after her death."
Liang Meng asked curiously: "How can you tell?"
Bai Yue turned the person over again: "If a person lies on his back on the bed after death, the body spots should be on his back. If the body spots are found on the front of the body, it means that the body has been moved."
Although he had been dead for more than ten hours, the murderer had to crawl and had climbed far away now, but Jian Yu still said: "Liang Meng, take them around to see if there are any clues."
Liang Meng responded and hurriedly took two attendants to check, but Bai Yue turned away in the room.
"The room is in such a mess, but there are no traces of fighting." Bai Yue collected the blown manuscript papers one by one and read: "Look at the handwriting, this person is undoubtedly Xiao Ling Dang, but what a coincidence, we
When I came to look for her, she was killed, and the murderer turned the house upside down like this. What was he looking for?"