Chapter 119 Red Rope [Please vote for me]
"Mine." Lin Jianshan responded.
Lu Chengjing looked at him quite unexpectedly.
The blue coat looks new. How many new sets of clothes can the villagers make in a year?
Clothes that cover the dead will definitely not be worn by the living again, but Lin Jianshan is willing to cover the dead with new clothes.
Lin Jianshan said: "Everyone is dead, let's leave some dignity to others."
Lu Chengjing was noncommittal about this and turned to suggest that Village Chief Lin report it to the government as soon as possible so that the government could send someone to investigate the case and conduct an autopsy to catch the murderer.
Village Chief Lin said: "We have already sent someone."
In this way, besides protecting the scene, there is not much that everyone can do.
After some discussion, Village Chief Lin and others sent a few young men to surround the area to protect the crime scene to prevent the body from being eaten by some wild beast.
Everyone else should go back to their homes, don't stay here and cause trouble.
When Ma Jieyong and three others came, the villagers dispersed, and they could only ask Shitou for some details.
Lu Chengjing and others were discussing the closure of the village.
Until the murderer is found, the village is only allowed in and out to prevent the murderer from escaping.
Although the murder has happened for so long, the murderer may have escaped, but what if the murderer was lucky enough to escape because no one saw him?
Yuan Musheng checked the body and found that Gui had been dead for about two hours.
Lu Chengjing suggested: "You can organize people to go door to door to check where everyone was when the murder occurred, and write down all the people who have no alibi."
Village Chief Lin immediately organized people to handle it.
Lu Chengjing was inconvenient in a wheelchair, so he did not join the questioning team.
The group returned home.
Shang Wan opened his palms, and a red rope appeared in front of everyone.
There are two small round ceramic pendants hanging on the red rope. The color is darker in some places. If you smell it closely, you can still smell a slight smell of blood.
"Sister, where did this red rope come from?"
"It was hidden under the hair of the corpse." Shang Wan said, "I thought it might have something to do with the murderer, so I took it back."
Xiaohuan:?
When had her sister ever been near a corpse? Why didn't she see it?
Lu Chengjing took the red rope and looked at it carefully. The more he looked at the two small ceramic pendants, the more familiar they seemed. He seemed to have seen similar ones somewhere.
He frowned in thought.
"Huh?" Gao Yan stared at the pendant on the red rope, "Isn't this the red rope used to seek marriage in Yuelao Temple?"
"Have you seen it?" Everyone looked at him.
Gao Yan nodded, "I have another one, waiting for me to get it."
He ran to the shed to search for his luggage, found his red rope, and showed it to everyone.
"Look, even the pendants above are exactly the same. One has a golden boy and the other a jade girl."
Lu Chengjing placed the red rope in his hand next to Gao Yan's red rope. Everyone compared it left and right. The length, thickness, and pendants were all exactly the same.
Compared to the one in Gao Yan, the one Shang Wan found looked a bit newer, as if it had just been requested.
"So, the murderer recently went to Yuelao Temple to seek marriage." Shang Wan murmured, "Could it be that the murderer is a single dog?"
Everyone: How can you become a loser if you are single?
Lu Chengjing said: "This may be a clue. When the officials arrive, we can hand it over to them for investigation."
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The official message came very quickly.
When he learned that a murder had occurred in the village, the newly appointed county magistrate did not waste a moment and quickly sent people to investigate.
The leader was still Shan Dajun, accompanied by four yamen servants, and the remaining one carrying the wooden box was Gu Zuo. Shan Dajun breathed a sigh of relief after learning that the village had protected the crime scene and the body had not been damaged.
He was most afraid that the villagers would tamper with the body, and then all the clues would become gone.
The group of people didn't even drink any water and headed straight to the reed marsh.
While they were conducting an autopsy, Shan Dajun took the other four government officials to look around to see if there were any clues.
The condition of the body indicated that it was homicide. After examination, they found that the body had passed through Dunlon with someone before death, so the possibility of love murder could not be ruled out.
Village Chief Lin has been accompanying him all the time. After hearing Zuo Zuo's conclusion, he hurriedly informed Gui of his affair.
"Can you find out who the adulterer is?"
Village Chief Lin shook his head, "She refused to say anything. I was going to arrest her and send her to the official, but she ran away. I never thought that she would die here just a few days ago."
Shan Dajun frowned and asked, "Where are the family members of the deceased?"
"Still at home."
"You two, carry the body under the old elm tree first. Could you please Mr. Xu to check it carefully." Shan Dajun began to order people to give instructions, "You two, inform the villagers to gather under the old elm tree."
The government officials responded in unison, and Xu Wuzuo helped the government officials carry the body.
Shan Dajun then looked at Village Chief Lin and said, "Lead the way to Gao's house."
The Gao family closed its doors, and Village Chief Lin stepped forward and knocked on the door.
The wooden door opened with a creak, but was not closed.
The two looked at each other, Shan Dajun stepped forward, stretched out his hand to open the wooden door and walked in.
"Oh oh oh~" A big rooster with golden feathers flapped its wings and ran across the yard, leaving behind a pile of fresh chicken droppings.
Village Chief Lin raised his voice and shouted in: "Mrs. Gao! Gao Qi! Someone from the government is coming! Come out quickly!"
After waiting for a few breaths, there was no response and no one came out.
There was a sound of heavy objects falling to the ground in a room. Shan Dajun strode over, opened the door and saw an old lady lying on the ground, making a weak moan from her mouth, as if she had fallen off the kang.
"Ouch, why did you fall down?" Village Chief Lin stepped forward to help the person, but he could only use one hand, and Old Mrs. Gao couldn't use the strength. In the end, Shan Dajun helped help Old Mrs. Gao back to the kang. .
Mrs. Gao's eyes were tightly closed, and her wrinkled old face showed a grayish look. She gasped and gasped, and occasionally let out a few weak groans of pain.
Shan Dajun filled the pot with water and brought it over to the old lady to drink.
Village Chief Lin explained the purpose of their visit and wanted to know through Gui's family who Gui was usually close to in the village.
Mrs. Gao breathed easily, opened her eyes tiredly, stared at the two of them for a long time, snorted heavily from her nose, and said in a hoarse voice: "I have divorced her for my son, she is no longer mine. Gao family."
Village Chief Lin thought to himself, "Who is talking to you about this?" He repeated the question, "Who does the Gui family interact with most on weekdays?"
"You." Mrs. Gao looked at him sideways.
Shan Dajun's suspicious eyes immediately glanced over. Village Chief Lin's face immediately turned green and he quickly explained.
"No, I thought that their orphans and widowed mothers were living a difficult life, so I asked my family to take care of them more. I definitely didn't have any other thoughts."
Seeing that Mrs. Gao didn't refute, Shan Dajun believed Village Chief Lin's words for the time being.
The old lady was in low spirits and unable to speak, so he chose to change the subject of questioning.
Gao Qi lay on his back on the bed, staring blankly at the roof, letting Village Chief Lin chatter beside him without any reaction.
Shan Dajun also found out on the way here that the young man on the bed had become a father-in-law because of the wild boar, and he couldn't help but sympathize with him.
He looked around the entire room and found that in the dusty room, there was only a touch of color in the corner.
He walked over quickly and picked things up.
(End of chapter)