harleyscars Chapter 783 The Note from the Wooden Hairpin
Chapter 783 The Note from the Wooden Hairpin
"Please spare my life, sir. Please spare my life. I won't tell anyone. Please let me go!" The people guarding the village were crying. What had he done to offend anyone?
What did these people's conspiracy have to do with him? How could it involve an old man like him?
"Shut up! I'll kill you if you say another word." Jiang Youzhen snorted coldly.
Eh? The village guard suddenly felt that the voices were different. It seemed that they were not those two people just now? Could it be another group of people?
"If you want to see the bodies of Xu Zhanrong and his concubine, they are over there. I know nothing and I didn't see anything." The farm guard closed his eyes and turned his head away after saying this. He couldn't beat them anyway, so as long as they didn't kill him, he could let them do whatever they wanted to him.
"Give me the autopsy results of Xu Zhanrong's family! I know you have them."
Jiang Youzhen didn’t know whether the old man was a coroner or not, but whenever a body was sent to the charity cemetery, the cause of death would be clearly stated.
"Yes, yes, yes. There is the official death certificate and the record I made when I buried the body. If you want to see it, it's in my room."
"Wait!" Jiang Youzhen said as he grabbed the man guarding the farm, put the sword on his neck, and asked him to follow him to the female corpse.
The man had no choice but to do as he was told. Who told him to run into these living devils? Having the man turn his back to him, Jiang Youzhen observed the female corpse again.
The man had already searched it and found nothing. Jiang Youzhen looked at the clothes from inside to outside again and found nothing unusual.
The man guarding the village only heard some rustling sounds behind him, and had no idea what the man was doing to the female corpse.
It seemed that those people were all coming for the pair of corpses. I heard that the corpse was an official appointed by the imperial court.
His eyes fell on the wooden hairpin again. It was a very ordinary willow hairpin, not worth much silver, and the carving was also very simple. It could be bought for five cents at a stall.
Eh? No! Seeing that this woman is well-dressed, how could she be interested in a hairpin that costs only five cents?
He pulled out the hairpin with a handkerchief, held it in his hand and examined it, but found nothing unusual.
Her eyes fell on a auspicious cloud carved on the head of the hairpin. She fiddled with it gently with her hand, and suddenly a crack appeared along the shape of the auspicious cloud.
A surprise? No wonder the man just pulled at the hairpin but it didn't move at all. It turns out there is a mechanism inside and brute force can't be used, just like Lu Ban's magic.
I poured the contents into my palm and found a tiny note. I opened it and saw, "The third house from the willow tree on the west side of Yu Lane. The key is under the willow tree."
This is an address, but it doesn't say what it is used for. According to Jiang Youzhen's understanding of this dynasty, people like to keep important things in hidden places.
The two people just now might have been here for this, so the note was particularly important. She stuffed the note into her bosom, then restored the hairpin and put it back on the woman's head.
If this was an important thing, why was it in Xu Zhanrong's concubine's hairpin? This is totally inexplicable.
"Is this woman Xu Zhanrong's concubine? Is there any proof?"
The village guard immediately shook his head and said, "Why do we need to prove this? The identities are all given by the government. If the government says yes, then that's it."
The identity of this woman is questionable! If Xu Zhanrong really went on a secret visit, then the most important thing right now is to solve this case. How could he bring a concubine with him in such a dangerous situation?
After restoring the female corpse's clothes, Jiang Youzhen secretly apologized.
"Take me the autopsy records."
Before Jiang Youzhen left, he released the two guards again. When the man guarding the village heard the noise, he didn't dare to look back and just kept walking forward.
"Please show mercy, sir! My apprentice is sleeping in there and he doesn't know anything. As long as you don't wake him up, you don't have to do anything and he can save his life." The village guard suddenly said as he reached the door.
"Stop talking nonsense. As long as you don't play tricks, I won't kill you."
This village guard is really good to his apprentice! He even pleaded for his apprentice in such a dangerous situation.
The caretaker went in and touched one or two files.
"Let's go to the next room. It's easy to wake up my apprentice here."
Jiang Youzhen followed him to the next room, and the other party automatically turned to the page about Xu Zhanrong without waiting for Jiang Youzhen to ask.
"This is the result of the autopsy by the government. I can only record it, but I can't see their detailed files. This is the record I made. Actually, I learned a little about autopsy when I was a child, and I completed the details myself."
Jiang Youzhen went forward and read it quickly, and found that it was exactly as she had inferred. When she saw that the wound on the left side of Xu Zhanrong's neck was deeper, it confirmed her idea.
Generally, if you cut someone's throat while facing each other, the wound on the right side of their neck will be deeper because the force is different.
But Xu Zhanrong's wounds were just the opposite, which meant that Xu Zhanrong was attacked from behind.
Why did they attack from behind? If the other party sent someone to kill him, they shouldn't have left him alive. How much evidence did Xu Zhanrong find? Did he send it to the capital?
It was so clean and neat, either they had already obtained the evidence, or they knew that Xu Zhanrong had not found out anything.
But the man just now had searched this concubine carefully. It seemed that the concubine was more important than Xu Zhanrong? Could it be that this concubine was also involved and had a lot of evidence?
It seems that I have to go to the address written on the note as soon as possible to check, otherwise I will be in vain and have no clue.
"Have you noticed anything unusual?" Jiang Youzhen asked in a low voice.
"There is one!" The village keeper thought for a moment, then said, "The government paid special attention to the female corpse. They first asked the coroner to dissect the body, but after sending it here, they were still not satisfied and asked me to open it up again for an examination. Of course, they found nothing."
It seems that there is no answer here, but there is an unexpected gain on this trip, so it is not in vain.
"Don't tell anyone that I was here, for your own sake."
"Yes, yes, yes! I will never tell anyone. I still want to live!"
After he said that, he waited for a moment and found that there was no movement behind him.
"Hero?" After waiting for a moment, he felt his heart beating like a drum.
"Hero?" He called out again, but received no response.
He looked back cautiously and found that there was no one there. The person behind him had already left.
He collapsed to the ground again, and hurriedly closed the door, fearing that someone would break in again. Just as he was about to pour himself a cup of tea to calm his nerves, he found two ingots of ten taels of silver on the table.
This? Compared to the first two, he found that the person behind was pretty good!
Jiang Youzhen returned to the agreed Yunsheng Inn, where she had booked three medium-sized rooms.
After knocking on the doors on both sides, she found that Fang Zhongyi and Li Dongsheng had not returned yet, so she went back to her room and planned to sort out the details.
There were many things to be clarified, one was the identity of the woman; two was whether the crime was committed by an acquaintance, since there was no resistance or struggle; and three was whether the prefect Zhou Qing had colluded with the Salt Gang?