Phoenix Nine Heavens

Chapter 24: A Surprising Case in a Noodle Shop

"My lord, I've brought you here!" Catcher Lu brought the beggar boy in front of Su Xuan himself, made him kneel in front of Su Xuan, and said to Su Xuan, "It's just that this boy is a lunatic. The preamble is inconsistent, the logic is not clear, it seems that we can't get any clues from him."

When bringing this kid here, Lu Feng had already communicated tentatively with the other party, but the result he got was not satisfactory, so he told Su Xuan the result immediately.

"What's your name? How did you get the clothes on you?" After hearing this, Su Xuan asked the beggar directly as if she was a dead horse.

She knew that it was impossible for a beggar to have this kind of clothes. After all, this is the official robe of the Gongmen, and those who do not eat Gongmen are not allowed to have it. Naturally, the little beggar in front of him should not have this thing, so She had to ask where it came from.

"Dinner, get dressed, grandma is telling Xiaobao to go home!" The other party answered irrelevantly, as if talking about a nursery rhyme, completely ignoring Su Xuan's question. the ability to communicate.

"My lord, is this little beggar an idiot?" The little mirror said to Su Xuan after looking at the little beggar.

Su Xuan rolled her eyes at the small mirror, but didn't say anything. Although she didn't like to hear the word fool, she felt that she couldn't escape this judgment for everything in front of her.

"He kept saying these few words just now, over and over again, and he didn't know what they meant!" Catcher Lu continued to add, knowing that Su Xuan wanted to know about the Gongmen clothes from this little beggar. It's simply impossible.

"Forget it, let him go!" Su Xuan was very helpless, she knew that keeping this little beggar was useless at all, so she could only think of other ways.

"Yes!" Catcher Lu responded immediately, and then ordered his men to release the little beggar.

But the little beggar didn't rush away. Twenty circled around, running around, as if he didn't know whether he was free or not.

"Arrange two people to follow him!" Su Xuan followed up and said to Butou Lu, as if she still didn't give up on this little beggar, she must get some clues from him.

"My lord, is it necessary for us to follow a crazy little beggar?" Lu Butou didn't understand at all. It stands to reason that since they want to find out the origin of the clothes, they should find a way to find out as soon as possible. It is really unwise to waste time.

"Although this little beggar lives on the street, his mind is not light, and he has no way to communicate with others, but the official robe he is wearing is clean and not sloppy, so this official concludes that he should have a foothold, and someone takes him in. , if we follow him, we will definitely be able to find this person, and maybe we can find some clues by then!" Su Xuan immediately explained.

"Yes! This subordinate will arrange it now and let the brother keep an eye on him!" Hearing this, Catcher Lu immediately understood Su Xuan's meaning, so he immediately responded and made the arrangement as soon as possible.

"Let's go, let's find a place to eat first!" Su Xuan saw that everything had been arranged, so she said to Lu Butou and the little mirror.

At this time, they are starving and starving. They need to find a place to eat and replenish their energy. Only when they are full can they do better.

After Su Xuan finished speaking, everyone followed Su Xuan into a noodle restaurant called Lao Zhang, found a seat near the window and sat down.

Catcher Lu immediately called Xiao Er and ordered a bowl of Lao Zhang's signature noodles for everyone.

When the steaming hot noodles were brought to the table, and everyone was wolfing down halfway, someone screamed in the backyard of the noodle shop, and then a handyman ran out from the backyard and shouted to the shopkeeper: "Dead, dead!"

"What's going on?" The shopkeeper immediately asked, his face full of fear and disbelief.

"The guys repaired the house, opened the cover on the well, but saw...a corpse..." The guy was terrified, and immediately said these words intermittently.

"Hurry up and report to the official!" The shopkeeper was still in shock, and it took him a long time to call for someone to report to the official in the Yamen.This is fatal, and his business can't be done. At this moment, he is an ant on a hot pot, and he doesn't know what to do.

The guys didn't dare to waste time, so they went out to the yamen immediately. When the guests in the noodle restaurant heard about the death, some fled in fear, and some squeezed in towards the backyard out of curiosity to watch the excitement.

Su Xuan, He Lu, and the others also came to the backyard at this moment, heading towards the crime scene.

When Su Xuan came to the backyard, she found that the well in the backyard was already full of people.

"Everyone spread out!" Catcher Lu and Catcher Fang immediately moved away from those who were blocking Su Xuan's path, leaving a path for Su Xuan and Xiao Jing.

Su Xuan came to the well and the accident site smoothly.

Su Xuan took a closer look at the situation in the well, and then looked at the two stone manhole covers that had been removed, and found that there was a hole left by a hard object on the edge of the manhole cover and the wellhead.

However, there was no tool around to break the stone, which made Su Xuan very puzzled.

After inspecting the wellhead, Su Xuan said to the head catcher, "Salvage the corpse!"

"Yes!" Catcher Lu responded immediately, and then asked Catcher Fang to find a rope quickly so that they could go down the well to salvage the corpse.

But at this moment, the shopkeeper stopped their actions: "Wait a minute, this matter has been reported to the government, and the body must be moved after the people from the yamen arrive. If you destroy the scene like this, it will affect the government's handling of the case!"

It seems that the shopkeeper still knows some government procedures for handling cases, so Su Xuan and the others are not allowed to move the corpse without authorization, and try to protect the scene as much as possible.

"This is our magistrate of Jinshan County. We are the people of the government. Hurry up and get out of the way so as not to delay the handling of the case!" Lu Butou immediately said something to the shopkeeper, and then directly said to the shopkeeper.

When the shopkeeper heard this, he naturally didn't dare to stop him. After all, he couldn't afford to delay the crime of blocking the government's handling of the case.

Captain Fang quickly found two ropes, and tied one of them to his body. Catcher Lu led him into the well, and tied the other rope to the corpse. After Captain Fang was pulled out, he worked together The corpse was dragged out of the well and placed on the ground.

Su Xuan asked people to disperse, and told the little mirror to open the umbrella, then came to the corpse, squatted down and began to examine the corpse.

This is a female corpse, about fifteen or sixteen years old. She wears a white jade hairpin and a jade bracelet. The clothes on her body are luxurious and made of silk. It looks like she should be from a wealthy family.

The corpse had no obvious trauma, but due to the long soaking time, the cortex was loose and swollen, and it was difficult to judge who it was from the appearance.

Su Xuan put away the jade bracelet on the wrist of the deceased and the earrings on the earlobe, wrapped them up and handed them to the small mirror, Su Xuan began to press the stomach of the deceased twice, wanting to know whether the deceased drowned or was let go after death. Pushing her into the water, if she died by drowning, there must be accumulated water in her abdomen, and when she squeezed the corner of her mouth, water would naturally gush out.

But her squeeze made her discover even more strangely, and an expression of doubt and disbelief instantly appeared on her face.

(End of this chapter)