Chapter 140 Mrs. Gao is dead
Lu Chengjing shook his head: "No, they won't come back again."
Chu Xu knew that those assassins were dead men and would not give up until they achieved their goals. The scholar surnamed Lu was so sure that the assassins would not come again. There was only one possibility: all the assassins were dead.
His little head was spinning very fast. When he contacted the question Lu Chengjing asked him just now, he suddenly said in surprise: "Do you suspect that the assassin was sent by my family?"
Without waiting for Lu Chengjing to reply, he shook his head vigorously, touched the wound on his back, and let out a slight "hiss".
He took a breath and said: "Absolutely impossible, there is no way my family can harm me!"
Lu Chengjing was noncommittal and asked him, "Who knows about your return to Beijing?"
Chu Xu muttered: "My father sent a letter home in advance. My grandmother and mother must know it. My father and brother also know it. I don't know about the others."
My family has a simple population, and they get along very well. He is the youngest child, and everyone loves and protects him. How could they harm him?
Lu Chengjing said: "Even if he is not your family, he should still have some relationship with your family."
Chu Xu frowned and lay on the pillow, trying to remember the people who had problems with him since childhood and the families who had enmity with his family.
With things in his mind, he didn't care to sigh.
Lu Chengjing achieved his goal and went back to continue the rehabilitation training on his right hand.
He moved his fingers while thinking about Chu Xu.
Since he had sent a letter home in advance, if Chu Xu did not return home for a long time, Duke Dingguo's mansion would definitely send someone to look for him, and maybe the military camp would also send someone to look for him.
So there was no need for them to send Chu Xu back to Beijing. They just had to wait for the people looking for Chu Xu to arrive. Those people will naturally take Chu Xu away by then.
In fact, the faster way is to send a letter directly to the border and ask the Chu family and his son to send someone to pick up Chu Xu.
But this method has too many variables and is prone to side effects.
The safest thing is to wait until Chu Xu recovers from his injuries before making any plans.
Just as he was thinking, there was a sudden noise outside.
"What are you talking about outside?" Chu Xu had a restless temper and stretched out his little head to watch the excitement.
Lu Chengjing put down the two round stones in his hands and walked out to take a look.
The reason for the commotion is: Mrs. Gao is dead.
Xiaohuan said: "It should have been two days since he died."
"Two days?" Shang Wan was a little surprised. After two days, the body would smell, right?
Lu Chengjing asked: "Where is Gao Qi?"
"No one was found." Xiaohuan said while hanging clothes. "Someone said that they saw Gao Qi at the entrance of the village yesterday afternoon. He was crazy and crazy with disheveled hair, as if he was sick, his face was as pale as a ghost, and he was completely thin and out of shape. , even the voice has changed."
From a normal man to a father-in-law, the voice may indeed change.
"Now people in the village are looking for him everywhere."
Shang Wan thought for a moment and said, "Let's help look for him too."
After searching, I found it at night, and I didn't even see Gao Qi's shadow.
It's not a big deal for Mrs. Gao's body to be left there. It has to be buried. The villagers gathered at Gao's house to discuss what to do about the funeral.
Mrs. Gao hanged herself from the beam and was still dangling from the beam when she was found.
Shang Wan saw the strangulation marks on her neck. They were in the middle of her neck and around her neck. They were of the same depth and degree. It was clear that she had been strangled and then hung on a beam.
As for who the murderer is, it is most likely the missing Gao Qi. But no one in the village seemed to think that Mrs. Gao was murdered, and they all thought she hanged herself.
After all, accidents happened one after another in the family. First, it was discovered that the daughter-in-law had cuckolded her son, then the grandson became a eunuch, then the daughter-in-law was killed, and the grandson went crazy again. The old lady was old and couldn't bear it. It's possible to commit suicide if you don't think about it.
Many people lamented that Old Mrs. Gao was pitiful. She had to be strong all her life, but at the end of the day, there was not even one person who could throw herself into the pot and die.
Shang Wan did not stay to discuss the funeral with everyone and went home directly.
"Strangled?" After listening to Shang Wan's words, Lu Chengjing frowned, wondering why Gao Qi strangled Mrs. Gao to death.
Shang Wan held his chin with one hand and guessed: "Maybe it was because he was so stimulated by becoming a father-in-law that his spirit collapsed day by day, leading to passion and killing."
Lu Chengjing asked: "What is passion killing?"
Shang Wan simply explained, "There was no planning in advance, and the sudden idea occurred to me when my emotions got to the point where I killed someone."
Lu Cheng nodded, feeling that this statement was quite appropriate.
Shitou looked at the two of them, "Since Mrs. Gao was killed, should we report it to the official?"
"Of course we have to report it to the official." Shang Wan smiled and tapped the table gently with his finger, "How can we let the murderer go free?"
Xiaohuan inexplicably sensed a hint of malicious intent in her sister's smile. Her sister was talking about reporting to the police, not killing people, right?
Shitou's heart was so big that he didn't feel it at all, and said: "Then I will hitch a bullock cart and go to the city to report to the official tomorrow."
"No, don't go. Tell the village chief about this and let him go." Lu Chengjing picked up the cup and took a sip of water, his long eyelashes lowered to cover the dark light under his eyes.
Near noon the next day, the Dongning County Government received a report that an old woman in Yushu Village was strangled to death at home. The whereabouts of the murderer are unknown.
Shan Dajun stood at the entrance of Yushu Village and sighed. A woman died in this village just a few days ago. How come another person died?
He raised his hand and waved forward, "Let's go into the village."
Mrs. Gao's body was not buried and was still parked at Gao's house.
After inspecting the body, Wu Zuo said to Shan Dajun: "The deceased was indeed strangled to death first and then hung on a beam, pretending to hang himself."
Shan Dajun sighed softly. This old lady is so old and can't live for more than two years. Why did the murderer attack her?
He summoned Village Chief Lin to ask how he found the body.
Village Chief Lin has said it countless times, and now he speaks it very smoothly.
Since the death of Mr. Gui, Gao Qi has not been doing anything. The villagers thought that the old lady was getting older, and out of friendship with fellow villagers, they would come over every few days to pay a visit and help the old lady fetch water and chop firewood. Do some strenuous work.
Yesterday Luo Da passed by and happened to catch two fish. He wanted to give the old lady the little one to make soup, so he knocked on the door of Gao's house.
The door is unlocked and opens when you knock.
People often forget to lock the door in the village, but Luo Da doesn't take it seriously. He calls out to Mrs. Gao twice and goes in.
I didn't see the old lady at home, so I thought she had gone for a walk in the village, so I put the fish in the small water tank in the kitchen.
Although he didn't want to see Gao Qi, he thought that Gao Qi was a man without the two ounces of flesh on his crotch, and he felt sympathy in his heart. Since he was already here, he went to see Gao Qi.
No one answered the knock on the door, and the door opened as soon as it was pushed. The room was in a mess, as if someone had ransacked it, and Gao Qi was not there either.
Although Luo Da was puzzled, no one in the Gao family was at home, and it would not be good for him to stay as an outsider for too long.
Just as he was about to leave, several mice suddenly ran out of the house where Mrs. Gao lived. The door was slightly open, and a strange smell wafted out.
(End of chapter)