Chapter 25: Questions

"This old man has lived so much that he has worked in our family for most of his life. Why don't he even understand this 'rule'? If it is spread out to make those 'casters' laugh. Zuo Qianhu of Fusi in Nanzhen said to Wu Zheng.

I don't know if this Li Gui is always confused. Wu Zheng's subsequent visits have paid attention to observing what is wrong with his family, and even let him discover Li Gui's "rich" history. Take a closer look, Li Gui seems to have brought back a large amount of money after returning to Beijing, and he used it to buy houses and land. But it's all limited to this, but Li Gui seems to suddenly become rich every half a year. Wu Zheng once sent someone to monitor Li's house. He once saw a person arrive at Li's house on the eighth day of March of each year. Instead of going through the main gate, he quietly entered through the side door. At that time, Wu Zheng was silent. If Li Gui had made a lot of money in the south and brought it back to Beijing, and he didn't want his superiors to know, he should have brought all the money back to Beijing at the beginning, and then hid it well. It is easy to make mistakes after many shipments like this. Wu Zheng immediately thought that this should not be such a simple problem as making money. It seems that Lao Li still has an unspeakable secret.

At the September 9th Double Ninth Festival this year, this one visited again six months ago, which confirmed Wu Zheng's previous conjecture.

Next, Wu Zheng intends to start with this semi-annual "half-year salary" to check the use of these money. After many visits, he knocked around, hoping that Li Gui was old and confused and could show some words for a while. After several times, Li Gui was really confused. His brain was obviously not as good as before. As long as he exerted more effort and spent money on the impression of the topic, Li Gui would be hooked. Wu Zheng said it with this without worrying about revealing flaws. Unexpectedly, there was always something to interrupt the conversation between myself and Li Gui. Many times, Li Gui himself looked for this and continued to say this. Seeing the topic of how to feed his family after returning to Beijing from the south of the Yangtze River, Li Shun, an official of the Li family, appeared at the right time, bringing some trivial matters of his parents for the master to deal with.

Many times down, Wu Zheng looked at this pair of hanging eyes, and the eight-character bearded housekeeper was particularly disgusted, but on second thought, this should be Li Gui's instruction. He inevitably lost his words and let this guy act according to the opportunity.

Wu Zheng reported this matter to Shangguan. As a result, his transfer to the south was also postponed. Of course, he is not disappointed at all. If Li Gui's problem is really missing, he will be a great achievement, and his promotion is more promising than the south transfer. Although I am old with Li Gui, what is this in order to get promoted and get rich? As a gentleman, the ideological struggle only existed in this head for a moment and then disappeared. This box is planning to invite him directly to Fusi, North Town for tea when he comes back in March of the New Year! Even if they can wait, the colleagues in the pacifier can't wait. Now there are not enough prisoners in the prison, and the servants are idle to create birds.

But I didn't expect that before March and the money delivery came, Li Gui died first.

At the moment when Wu Zheng was thinking, Cao Muwen and the others finally dug open the grave. With a thump, the sound was obviously different from the sound of the hoe wedge into the earth. Cao Muwen suddenly dug and pulled open the soil, revealing a reddish-brown coffin. The rest of the busy work finally eradicated all the soil on the top of the coffin. Just wait to open the coffin board.

Cao Muwen and the three of them stared at Wu Zheng breathlessly. It was not only Cao Muwen, but also the two were now scolding him. We are working hard to do this here. You XX actually sit and watch. Of course, no one made a sound.

Wu Zheng stood up and walked to the planed coffin. Well, no matter how you die. Now it's time for me to understand."

After opening the coffin board, the two quickly flashed aside, far away from Cao Muwen, because he was standing on the edge of the coffin. Although there is nothing wrong with his face, Cao Muwen can guess that these two little brothers are also worried about this.

Cao Muwen's psychological quality is much better than theirs in this regard. Cao Muwen has a very appropriate view of these people. I dare not kill myself, but there is no psychological burden to have close contact with the dead; but these ancients are different. For example, this brocade guard has also done some angry and resentful things, and some people have been killed, but it is taboo for them to see the dead bodies at close to close. Is there any taboo when killing people? Or are you only afraid of the dead bodies you killed? Cao Muwen thought about it, but he was puzzled by this kind of person.

Cao Muwen leaned down and stared at the old man who was calmly in the coffin, although he had seen him more than ten days ago. At that time, he was basically no different from now. Now it is a cold winter, and there are some anti-corrosion treatment after Li Gui's death, plus the coffin is good, the grave is sealed and careful. So far, the body is only stiff and a little bit of corpse spots.

Cao Muwen now wears a mask on his mouth and nose - an ancient mask, and is carefully observing Li Gui's facial expression. Raise your hand and poke your cheek with a sharp knife. The muscles on the face were slightly sunken, and Cao Muwen saw the unnaturalness of the cheeks. Or are the muscles stiff?!" This is by no means dead. The corpse stiffness is full of limbs and joints, and there is a possibility that the face is stiff! Next, the body should be lifted out first. The subsequent examination will be similar to that of modern forensic medicine. I can't open it in such a small space as the coffin.

"Alas~~, could you please help me?" Cao Muwen turned around and said, "Help carry out the body. I can't test it here."

Without waiting for their reply, he went straight to the wooden box and pulled out a large white cloth from it to spread flat on a flat stone ground. He motioned them to carry the body here and put it down.

Now, it's Cao Muwen's turn to be scolded. Even he can feel it himself. Those two little brothers did a lot of work tonight, which is even worse than Cao Muwen's little work. If nothing is found, I guess I will have to kill them. Cao Muwen thought of it.

The body is now flat on the white cloth list, and even Wu Zheng has leaned on it. It seems that he is very "interested" in meeting with his old friends under such circumstances.

Cao Muwen put on double-layer densely woven gloves and turned his hand to unbutton Li Gui's shirt. After looking at it from top to bottom, I didn't find any abnormality in my arms from my clothes and chest, and I should look at them one by one from hair to nails. However, according to Cao Muwen, after Li Gui's death, his family asked someone to clean himself. Now his hair and nails are clean, and he can't find any useful clues. Is this Wu Zheng too suspicious or crazy to be promoted? He can even dig other people's graves. It is not known that Li Gui died normally.

upside down, upside down. Although Cao Muwen was in this cold night, he still left a cold sweat. Now he is very hopeful that Li Gui will die.

There was no problem with his body, so he turned the body over and let it climb flat on the white cloth sheet to see the problem on his back. Most of the body structure of this person is that many organs are in the front of the body. This is because there are eyes in front of the body, and important organs are included in the line of sight of the eyes. Once there is a sudden situation, they can move with the limbs to protect the body. This is also the result of thousands of years of natural evolution of human beings. It is true that the human body is an extremely sophisticated machine. But because of this, people's backs do have flaws compared with their predecessors. After death, all the organs in the body stop working, and many symptoms will appear from the back. It is said that after the onset of heart disease, if it is not treated, there is no abnormality at first, but after a day or two, there will be a large area of swelling in the heart, and the penetration of necrotic blood from the back heart is more obvious than the symptoms of the front chest. Under this swelling is ulceration. When you touch it lightly, you will feel like touching the water bag. These are all learned from the many books left by Cao Muwen. At first glance, although it was just words, I felt a little disgusted, and over time, I have gotten used to it.

Now, he turned Li Gui's body over and pulled down the half-faded underworld clothes. The purpose is a lump of swelling. Cao Muwen was happy at first, but when he thought about it, there was a trace of worry in his heart. This joy is that the state of the body is unexpected. However, this swelling is not as large as usual. It should be carefully handled by the Li family and sealed the cemetery environment after death. But Li Gui died normally. Then these brocade men are busy in vain. What if they are angry and use themselves as a punching bag?

At the moment, he didn't say anything and looked down carefully. This lump is slightly the size of three fists, and the color is dark red. Cao Muwen leaned down and touched here with a sharp stick.

With a gentle touch, the skin under the tip of the stick actually changed. The original dark red faded slightly, but revealed a different color. It seems to be a mixture of green and purple.

This is shocking Cao Muwen. This situation is really unusual.

Wu Zheng, who was watching from the side, also seemed to notice the change in Cao Muwen's face and came forward to see. At a glance, I also understood a little. With a look of surprise, he quickly asked Cao Muwen:

"What's going on? Is it poison?"

Cao Muwen knew this and quickly said, "Your Excellency, the original color of this skin recedes, revealing this purple-green color. There must be no doubt that it is poisoned." There is also a joy in the tone.

Even the two brocade guards next to me were happy to hear it. It seems that I didn't do it for nothing tonight.

Seeing this Wu Zheng, he was also overjoyed. Cao Muwen knew that he could not be sure that Li Gui would have died "death". At present, he wanted to please this "shangguan", so he said slowly:

"Your Excellency, look. This dark red swelling should have been a normal condition after the death of people's heart disease. But the green and purple under this is very strange.