It is impossible to punish adults

Chapter 534

Mu Liuyun was full of preoccupations. He was sitting in the mountain temple, but he was a little out of his mind. He didn't know how long it took. Finally, the county government arrived with Wu Zuo and a group of government servants panting, probably to report the letter. The villagers mentioned that there was an adult from the Criminal Division, and those yamen servants, as well as the leading bookkeepers and foremen, seemed particularly sincere and frightened, and saluted in a hurry as soon as they entered the door.

Yuan Mu was not in the mood to waste time with them, so he asked Mu Liuyun's intentions, and ordered the government officials to go out to prepare a carriage, and prepared to take Li Yuan's body back to the mortuary of the county government office, and then conduct an examination .

If the person who died was someone else, maybe they lived in the villages in this area, and maybe the places where they were killed were all in this area, then of course they can find a mortuary nearby for an autopsy. First, it is more convenient for the family members of the deceased to claim the body back, and second, it is easier to find the place where the murder occurred around.

But now it is Li Yuan who is dead, all these are meaningless. He was obviously kidnapped and murdered by others. In the final analysis, where and how he was kidnapped is not the most important thing. The most important thing is who is behind the scenes? Who, and why would they go to such lengths to do such an unreasonable act against a clean and virtuous county magistrate.

In addition, Mu Liuyun also felt that, as an official of the imperial court, Li Yuan's being kidnapped and murdered was already unacceptable. Difficult to accept.

She wanted to do the autopsy herself, and she wanted to give Li Yuan the last face.

The yamen servants and others from the county government naturally did not dare to have any objection to Yuan Mu's orders, and immediately got busy, Mu Liuyun also pulled himself together, and directed several young and strong county government officials, They found straw mats, wrapped up Li Yuan's body carefully, and when the carriage was ready, they carefully carried it onto the carriage.

While busy with these things, there was another commotion outside, Yuan Yi came in from the outside with a few yamen who were prosecuted for punishment, and brought back two people, one with a gray beard and the other with a white beard. The two men in their prime, the old one was full of sorrow, the young one was full of anger, their necks were stuck, and they were very unconvinced.

"Master! Push the officer!" Yuan Yi came in first, cupped his fists in front of Yuan Mu and Mu Liuyun, and saluted, "The master and apprentice who made clay sculptures were brought back by us! I think they were sent by the county government outside." People? Then shall we interrogate here, or take them away together?"

Yuan Mu shook his head: "There's no need for an interrogation, just ask a few questions and call them back later."

Yuan Yi was taken aback, then looked at Mu Liuyun next to him, his face was extremely ugly, he couldn't help feeling a little surprised, at this time Li Yuan's body was wrapped tightly in a straw mat and loaded into the carriage, he couldn't see it naturally, so I can't figure it out even more, I don't know what happened here when the few of them hurried to catch people.

"It was Li Yuan Li County Magistrate who died." Yuan Mu said to him.

Yuan Yi was taken aback, and immediately understood why his master and the Tuiguan had such ugly faces, as if the rain was about to come.

"It has been more than two months since the mountain temple was built for people to burn incense and worship. Logically speaking, it would take at least three months for the statue to be molded," Mu Liuyun said to Yuan Yi. It only took about [-] days for the adult to be taken into captivity.

If this clay statue is really the one that was originally enshrined in the mountain temple when it was built, it cannot be that after someone killed Mr. Li, he dug a hole in the original good statue and stuffed people into it Filled with mud again. "

Yuan Yi understood, and nodded again and again: "Someone stole the beam and changed the post, and switched the clay statue!"

"Bring those two craftsmen here. We have a few questions that we need to ask them clearly. After asking them, let them come back." Yuan Mu signaled Yuan Yi to bring them over to talk.

Yuan Yi took the order, went over to signal the Yacha to let go of the two people, politely bowed his hands to them and apologized: "Two masters, I have offended you so much just now, it is really helpless, I hope you will be more considerate.

The god statue in this mountain temple was originally made by the wealthy households in the village. I didn’t expect that the statue is now cracked and a corpse is hidden in it. The matter is so important that we don’t allow us to think about it. . "

Seeing Yuan Yi speaking politely to them, the middle-aged craftsman thought he was putting on a show, and he snorted coldly in resentment, but after listening to the rest of the words, his face turned into astonishment.

"How is this possible!" He immediately said, "I have been making clay statues with my master for many years, and my master has also been doing it for decades with his master! We don't say that this is doing good deeds, at least it is impossible to do such a thing. What an evil deed!"

"That's exactly the case, so I need the two of you to come and identify it." The matter has come to this point, and Yuan Yi's suspicions about this group of craftsmen before will naturally not mention a word, "It was an emergency, and I was in a hurry just now. , I don’t have time to explain, please forgive me.”

Although the middle-aged craftsman said that he was still a little bit angry, but he was not easy to get angry when people talked to this level.

In contrast, his master's thoughts are completely different from his. Just now, the old man thought that he had gotten into some serious trouble, and he was trembling, very nervous and afraid. Now he heard Yuan Yi talk about the situation here, but he was not afraid. Yes, but angry!

"W-what kind of person! How could he do such a thing!" He trembled with anger, "Isn't this ruining our reputation! If this matter gets out, people will think that we killed people, And hide the corpse in the mud, who will dare to ask us to buy statues in the future! This is really a crime!"

"Then invite Master to go in, our lord has something to ask you two." Yuan Yi said to them.

The gray-bearded old craftsman nodded quickly, not caring about his nervousness and fear, and rushed into the second together with his apprentice.

As soon as they entered, the two of them could smell the stench of corpses. They were all clay sculpture craftsmen. Where had they encountered such a stench of corpses? Although to Mu Liuyun, the stench inside the temple was very light , For the two craftsmen, it was almost time to vomit.

The middle-aged craftsman's face was filled with pain from the stench of the corpse, but his master didn't have the heart to express the unpleasantness of the stench of the corpse. When he came in, he even just glanced at Yuan Mu and Mu Liuyun, and his attention was absorbed by the broken statue on the ground. The fragments were attracted to them, and they didn't care about many of them at all. They went straight to those fragments, squatted on the ground, and carefully picked up a piece of the face of a god to examine it.

(End of this chapter)