Chapter seven hundred and seventh fraudulent corpse
The death of some people is worthy of sadness and emotion, while the death of some people will only make people applaud.
In Li Xiuyuan's opinion, Fang Shengyu was the latter.
However, he did die a little too soon. I remember that during the Lantern Festival, he met Master Fang by the Longyin Lake. At that time, Fang Shengyu was very high-spirited and very proud of himself.
Just a few days later, Fang Shengyu was already in the coffin.
"My lord, on the day of my master's great mourning, could you please not come into the house and disturb me? I also ask you, for the sake of the deceased, to leave some purity in the house. After the funeral of the master is completed, my lord.
It’s not too late, and no matter what the adults want to do, the villain will cooperate with the adults one by one.”
At this time, an old housekeeper saw that Li Xiuyuan and others were acting unkindly and hurriedly greeted them. He saluted respectfully, and then begged Li Xiuyuan and others in a tactful manner not to enter the house.
"Oh, do you know what I am doing here?" Li Xiuyuan asked.
The old housekeeper replied: "No one in the capital knows Mr. Cui from the Six Gates. Your Excellency must be the new prefect, and he is here to investigate the case. But the master is already dead, so it is no matter how urgent the case is."
Sir, please be more relaxed."
"What you said is right. Your family is having a funeral. It is indeed inappropriate for someone like me to come to investigate the case. But then again, Sheng Yu's funeral has not been long, and there are still some clues in this case. If time passes,
It has been delayed for a long time and the clues have disappeared. The officer cannot guarantee that this case will be solved.
If you can break it, if you, old butler, really want to do it for your master, please let me go and investigate."
"The sooner the murderer is uncovered, the sooner Fang Shengyu will be vindicated, right?" Li Xiuyuan said calmly.
"But today the house is full of friends and relatives of the master who were alive and paying homage. It is inevitable that there will be some disturbance when your Excellency is investigating the case at the moment. Can you please come back in three days?" said the old housekeeper.
Li Xiuyuan said: "In terms of human feelings, I should indeed stay away for a few days to let you finish the funeral. But having said that, Fang Shengyu is dead. What does the funeral today have to do with me? I am here to investigate the case, and the official family
They didn’t say that investigations were not allowed during the days of Fang Sheng and Yu’s funeral, so I asked you to get out of the way, and Fang Sheng
Yu died in the government office and was assassinated. According to imperial law, the corpse must be returned to his family only after an autopsy is completed."
"Fang Shengyu died on the night of the 4th. You brought the body back early on the 3rd day. It didn't stay in the yamen for a whole day. There was no time for autopsy. This is unreasonable and unreasonable."
"If someone breaks the rules first, don't blame me for not showing mercy."
After saying that, he ignored the old housekeeper and strode into the house with his men.
This time he is here to be a villain, so why bother with so much.
"My lord, my lord." The steward of the Fang Mansion hurriedly followed behind, trying to stop him but was unable to do so.
When Li Xiuyuan arrived at the mourning hall, he saw Fang Shengyu's wife, concubines, maids, and young son kneeling in front of the memorial tablet, crying sadly. From time to time, people came to pay homage to express their condolences. In addition, there were monks chanting sutras.
Transcendence, what Taoist priests do is just that they have no real ability, they just do this
Just a group of craftsmen.
At this moment, his eyes moved slightly as he looked at the coffin in the mourning hall.
Needless to say, the body lying inside was Fang Shengyu.
"Sir, what should we do?" Cui Wei asked in a low voice.
"Autopsy." Li Xiuyuan said.
Cui Wei looked around and replied: "The people who come here to worship are all dignitaries from the capital. I'm afraid it would be inappropriate to open the coffin and conduct an autopsy today."
"What are you doing here without doing an autopsy? Could it be that you are offering incense to Fang Shengyu? My relationship with him is not that good yet." Li Xiuyuan said.
"Autopsy? Who dares to open the coffin and conduct an autopsy? Don't say, Li Xiuyuan, that you are just a prefect now. Even if you return to Yangzhou to become the governor, I will definitely not allow you to do so. Is there anyone in the world who can investigate cases like you? Fang
Brother, you just restrained yourself in the coffin. Today you are going to open the coffin for an autopsy. You are really so evil-hearted.
Poison, don’t you have any compassion at all?”
A scholar who came to express condolences heard Li Xiuyuan's words and immediately stood up and shouted loudly.
Li Xiuyuan took one look and immediately recognized the scholar. Isn't this the civil servant who fought with Fu Tianchou at the court meeting yesterday?
At this moment, the civil servant's voice immediately attracted the attention of others.
After a while, relatives and friends from the house gathered one after another.
"What? Someone wants to open the coffin and conduct an autopsy."
"Who, who is so vicious? If anyone dares to open the coffin and conduct an autopsy, I will fight with him."
"Damn dog officer, won't you even let the dead go?"
These relatives and friends of Fang Shengyu were filled with indignation, and some were even furious, as if they wanted to fight Li Xiuyuan and others.
The Song Dynasty governed the country with filial piety, and it was indeed an outrage to open a coffin and conduct an autopsy in front of relatives.
Li Xiuyuan knew something was wrong, but he felt that it would be even more inappropriate if he waited until Fang Shengyu was buried before digging up.
"Since this gentleman doesn't allow me to open the coffin for autopsy, then I won't open it." Suddenly, he looked at the official and said.
The civil servant was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect Li Xiuyuan to give him face like this. He immediately smiled smugly and said, "Yes, I'm a teachable kid. He's much better than your father-in-law Fu Tianchou."
But before he finished speaking, Li Xiuyuan said again: "Then let Fang Shengyu come out of the coffin by himself."
"What, what?" The civil servant immediately became surprised and confused.
Before he could react, Li Xiuyuan shouted to the coffin in the mourning hall: "Fang Shengyu, Fang Shengyu"
His voice seemed to contain some kind of special power. Immediately after it came out, it echoed around three times before disappearing. As he kept chanting Fang Shengyu's name, the entire mourning hall seemed to be under his influence.
Shrouded in sound.
The sound instantly drowned out the monks chanting sutras and transcending, and also drowned out the crying family members.
People nearby couldn't help but cover their ears for a while, but they found that covering their ears could not block the sound.
"This is a spell." Cui Wei on the side immediately realized something was wrong.
It's just that he has limited knowledge and doesn't know what kind of spell this is.
As Li Xiuyuan kept calling Fang Shengyu's name.
The next moment, something unexpected happened. The thick coffin in the mourning hall was shaking violently, as if the person lying inside suddenly came to life and was struggling violently, trying to push the coffin away.
It's like Gai jumped out of it.
This scene shocked everyone in the mourning hall.
"It's a scam, it's a scam."
I don't know who shouted something, and all the people who were watching turned around and ran away in fear. Even the monks who were chanting sutras and the Taoist priests who were performing rituals also lost their wooden fish and whisks, and left the mourning hall in fear.
But the civil servant who scolded Li Xiuyuan before was even more timid. His legs were so frightened that he didn't even have the strength to run away.
"Fang Shengyu can't get up yet." Li Xiuyuan's voice suddenly became stern, with a hint of command.
"Bang~!"
Immediately the coffin lid flipped over and fell to the ground. Fang Shengyu's body suddenly sat up and half of his body was exposed outside the coffin.
"Ah~!"
When the civil servant saw this scene, he screamed in fright and rolled his eyelids and fainted on the spot.
"That's how much courage you have?" Li Xiuyuan shook his head slightly.
He saw that all the relatives and friends who were offering condolences were scared away. It was the time for the autopsy, so he immediately walked over and inspected Fang Shengyu's body.
But Fang Shengyu had an angry look on his face, his eyes wide open, his gray and silent eyes staring blankly in front of him, with a look of death, but there was blood seeping out of his stomach, which should be the fatal wound where he was killed.
.
"Has Mr. Cui discovered anything?" Li Xiuyuan asked.
Cui Wei immediately looked at it and wanted to step forward to investigate carefully, but was stopped by Li Xiuyuan: "The coffin is open, and the body will not move. If there are clues, you can see it with your eyes."
"Yes, sir." Cui Wei nodded and gave up examining the body. "Judging from the wounds, I can tell that the murderer must not be a martial artist. If a martial artist wants to kill someone, he will draw his sword at the chest or neck."
, it cannot be on the stomach, because if you stab the stomach with a sword, it may not be able to
Killing people is not in line with the methods of an assassin."
"And there are no other wounds or bruises on Mr. Fang's body, which means there was no struggle before his death."
"It was neither an assassination nor a murder by an enemy. I can only judge that Mr. Fang died at the hands of those around him." Cui Wei cupped his fists and said, "Everyone in the government office is suspect."
Li Xiuyuan said: "It's not that complicated. I am also a martial arts practitioner. A wound in this position can be seen at a glance by a novice who is not proficient in swords, and she is also a woman."
"How can my lord see you?"
"Only a woman's height can stab the sword to the stomach, and the wound is slanted upward, which means the sword was stabbed from bottom to top." Li Xiuyuan waved his hand and said: "Put the body back and cover the coffin, the murderer
I have a pretty good idea of who it is."
Cui Wei immediately ordered two arresters to put the body back and cover the coffin.
"Such a simple case has not been solved by anyone in the yamen. I really don't know what kind of trash the imperial court has raised. They are so fierce in their struggle for power. If they really want to do something for the country and the people, they all become dumb.
That's it." Li Xiuyuan thought secretly in his heart.
No wonder the country's fortunes are in the doldrums and evildoers are rampant.
This court's luck is still there, but the time it can maintain is obviously running out.
"Where is Fang Shengyu's wife now? I have something to ask her." Li Xiuyuan walked out of the mourning hall and asked the old housekeeper.
The old housekeeper was also a little scared at this time. After all, they saw Fang Shengyu's corpse lying with their own eyes. At this moment, he pointed to the side room tremblingly.
"Thank you."
When Li Xiuyuan led people to the side room.
Ms. Fang, who was hiding inside, had a frightened face. She was panicked and at a loss. She wanted to run away but didn't know where to run.
Until there was a loud bang and the door was forced open.
"Mrs. Fang, we said goodbye to each other in Xiangguo Temple that day and we meet again today. Don't you want to talk about Mr. Fang's death?" Li Xiuyuan said.
"Sir, what do you mean by this?" Fang's voice was trembling and her expression was flustered.
Li Xiuyuan said: "Nothing else, I just want to know where Madam has hidden the murderer, or do you mean that Master Fang's death has something to do with Madam?"