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Chapter 18 Deep House (4)
Just when everyone in the house was busy, a lazy shout sounded from outside the door inappropriately: "Second brother——who are these people in the house! Let people... let people sleep wellAlready!"
There was no yamen servant at the door of the house, and the servants were terrified of this ignorant fourth son, so they immediately gave way.
Hong Yichen had a night of drinking the day before, and now he was so dazed that he didn't know where he was, so he pushed aside a few people and walked in, and saw that after standing on Hong Siqi, almost his whole body was hung on Hong Siqi's body, turning to the side, Lu Lingjue asked viciously: "Who are you all! Why... how casual... hiccup, broke into big brother's study."
Lu Lingjue was sprayed with alcohol on his face by the other party, and he almost couldn't restrain his urge to punch this drunk twice.
He said silently several times in his heart: If you can't be beaten, you can't be beaten, if you beat the adults, you will beat me.
Then he looked at Hong Yichen with a pleasing expression and said word by word: "Because your elder brother is dead."
The words were so straightforward that even Hong Siqi's face changed three points, and Hong Yichen, who was still confused, finally regained a little bit of sanity.
"What did you say?" He stared at Lu Lingjue, "Who did you say died?"
Lu Lingjue casually pointed to the corpse covered with a white cloth on the ground: "Master Hong was found dead in the study this morning. We are here to investigate the case. Do you have any questions?"
This time Hong Yichen finally woke up. After he was stunned for two seconds, he suddenly rushed forward and lifted the white cloth on Hong Chengyu's body. The moment he saw his elder brother's horrific death, he lay on Hong Chengyu's body and cried loudly.stand up.
All this happened so quickly, Su Mu standing next to the corpse almost subconsciously wanted to pull Hong Yichen away. Although he had preliminarily checked the signs of the corpse, he didn't have enough time, and he couldn't be sure that he had already seen it.Be careful, and beware of someone who deliberately destroys the evidence left on the corpse.
Unexpectedly, Hong Yichen was so strong after drinking that Su Mu couldn't drag him away from the corpse even after pulling him twice.At this moment, a hand with well-defined joints touched Hong Yichen's shoulder from the other side. Before Hong Yichen could react, a sharp soreness came from his shoulder, which directly made half of his body go limp. Su MuHe also took the opportunity to drag the person away from the corpse.
Taking advantage of Hong Yichen still unable to stand up, Su Mu went back to the spot and quickly looked at the condition of the corpse. He was slightly relieved when he found that there was no obvious change. Then he recalled the hand that was on Hong Yichen's shoulder just now. When he raised his head, heThen I saw Liu Xiaoran standing in the position just now and rubbing her wrist slightly, her expression was indifferent and stern, her aura was much stronger than usual, which made Su Mu feel a little surprised.
He just squeezed it just now, and Hong Yichen almost collapsed to the ground. This Liu Shaoqing is really more capable than he imagined.
Liu Xiaoran didn't seem to have much patience with Hong Yichen, she frowned and said to the county magistrate who had no sense of presence, "Take him down to sober up."
County Magistrate Wu stood tremblingly inside the house for several hours this morning, barely daring to say anything to Liu Xiaoran's cold face, wishing he could get out of the house sooner, so naturally he obsessively agreed,Then he asked the two yamen servants under his command to escort Hong Yichen out to sober up.
The moment Wu Qing saw the sky when he walked out the door, Wu Qing felt a little dazed. Who would have thought that as soon as this high-ranking Shaoqing of Dali Temple came, the Hong Mansion would start to have problems, and he didn't know it was himToo much Mercury retrograde, or this Hong Mansion has suffered a long time of misfortune, the former one has not been buried yet, and the latter one came next to each other.
"Oh, bad luck, bad luck." He sighed, turned around and scolded the bewildered yamen servant, "what are you waiting for? Go to the nearest pharmacy and buy some ready-made hangover medicine, annoyed the adult inside, we will all be finished!"
The inspection of the corpse and the scene has basically been completed. The inside of the house looks like the scene of hanging himself, and a thick stack of debts was found pressed on the desk. It seems that the Hong family has long been a strong outsider, and the family property has been almost destroyed by Hong Chengyu.There was only an empty shell left, and it made people feel that he chose to hang himself because of guilt.
Even so, Liu Xiaoran ordered someone to bring Hong Chengyu's body back to the county government first.Due to the majesty of Dali Temple, even though Ding Ziping seemed to disagree, she still failed to stop them from taking the corpse away.
Afterwards, Liu Xiaoran leaned over to Lu Lingjue's ear and whispered a few words.
Facing Lu Lingjue's somewhat puzzled expression, he didn't intend to explain it clearly here, so he nodded and planned to leave Hong Mansion.Before leaving, he subconsciously glanced at Su Mu who was standing on the other side. He wanted to ask Su Mu if he wanted to go back to the county office with him, but he felt that this was very awkward, so he didn't say anything in the end.
Su Mu naturally understood what Liu Xiaoran wanted to ask, and replied docilely: "I think the changes in this corpse will not be obvious for a while, so I might as well stay here and help Lu Sizhi."
After receiving the answer, Liu Xiaoran didn't nod her head in approval, but she didn't stop her either. After taking another look at Su Mu, she took the body back to the county office.
As he walked out the door, he began to think secretly.
Maybe it's because Su Mu's autopsy method is really exquisite, and he is not afraid of mess at all as a marquis, so that I have often forgotten his identity in the past two days, and unconsciously regard him as my colleagueup.
He sighed and rubbed his forehead.
It seems that after staying with Lu Lingjue for a long time in the past few days, he also became a little stupid.
At this time, Lu Lingjue was very interested. He thought that he would stay alone at the mansion, but he didn't expect Su Mu to stay, so when he met Hong Yichen who was sober, he became more interested.
"Come, come, tell me where you went drinking last night." He smiled and stared at Hong Yichen who was sitting on the chair with straight eyes, "Your second sister-in-law hasn't been buried yet, so you go out to drink,I'm not afraid that your second sister-in-law will come looking for you in the middle of the night."
Hong Yichen rolled his eyes, his lips trembled twice, and finally turned into a sentence: "Second sister-in-law won't come to me, and I didn't harm her."
The words were interesting, Su Mu became alert, and asked, "Didn't Mrs. Liang commit suicide by falling into the water and passed away? No matter what you say, it makes people think that she was killed by someone?"
Hong Yichen started to tremble again when he heard this, and he didn't speak for a long time. Just when Lu Lingjue wanted to take advantage of his boss's absence, he said, "Second sister-in-law is pregnant, if it wasn't for something wrong,How could he commit suicide for no reason?" He raised his head, stared at Su Mu and Lu Lingjue and said in a low voice, "I think the death of elder brother is very strange."
Su Mu became even more curious. Except for the three of them, no one who was present just now would think that there was anything strange about this matter. Most people would think that Hong Chengyu hanged himself because of some trivial matters in life. Could it be that Hong Yichen knewWhat is it that makes you feel that your eldest brother's death is strange?
"If you want me to say, it's the second sister-in-law, it's the second sister-in-law who came back and took the elder brother away!"
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Say it with me!Feudal superstition is bad!