After rebirth, Bai Yueguang's abandoned wife is soft and unstoppable

Chapter 61 The Mysterious Old Woman
It took three days to drive from the capital to Mengqiao Station, and they were delayed for almost an hour because of the horse.

Unavoidable changes along the way, Lu Fang suggested traveling day and night, stopping and resting only when necessary.

Unexpectedly, when it was about to arrive, a messenger came to report that the body had been burned.

"How could this be? Could it be that your Dali Temple leaked the news?"

Lu Fang couldn't explain Qianru's doubts, so he hurriedly took a few people on horseback to investigate the corpse site alone.

Shangguanyuan and Qianru boarded together with the rest of the people at Mengqiao Station.

In the simple post station, flickering candles look like ghosts.

It always feels like something is going to happen.

Qianru saw Antai as soon as she closed her eyes, she fell asleep in a trance until dawn, and it was already afternoon when she woke up.

At this time, Shangguan Yuan and Lu Fang were discussing the case outside.

Mengqiao Station was originally just a post station, but it became a small town because of more businessmen coming and going.

But there are only two catchers in the town.

Therefore, three civilian husbands were temporarily recruited from nearby villages to guard the corpse.

The case happened two days ago, because the civilian husband had to report to the town first, and then from the town to the county, and then to the county. This kind of notification was delayed, so that they were almost at Mengqiao Station before they met the messenger.

Although the body was burned, some villagers saw a strange old woman wandering around the grass shed where the body was kept several times.

Therefore, for the case, it can be regarded as a new breakthrough.

Now the officials are searching for the old woman who agrees to the conditions based on the clues provided by the witnesses.

Although Mengqiao Station is not big, it didn't take a while to search it.

"We only searched now, and people don't know where to flee." Qianru came out angrily, "The three civilian husbands have not been attacked, how can they not even look at a dead body?"

"It's the time when the farming is busy. I sneaked home during the day to do farm work, and only kept watch at night, so I was taken advantage of."

"Since we can't recognize the corpse, Lord Laolu will find a car for us to take us back to the capital."

Lu Fang smiled slightly, straightened his clothes, bowed to Qianru, and then to Shangguanyuan.

"Bringing the two of you here with great fanfare, how could you just recognize a dead bone?"

If Shangguan Yuan has realized something, he has long heard that Lu Sizhi of Dali Temple is a bold man, and it is better to solve the case by surprise.

This time, it was probably a mystery.

Sure enough, after Lu Fang invited the couple into the room, he dipped in water and wrote eight words on the table: wait for the opportunity to see the aftermath.

Seeing that Lu Fang looked confident, Qianru didn't know what to do, but she couldn't ask further questions.

With the mentality of taking one step at a time and seeing one step at a time, she and Shangguan Yuan followed Lu Fang to the scene of the corpse to be inspected.

The burnt straw hut was located in a grove surrounded by fields.

It was getting dark, and there were still farmers plowing.

That being the case, when an old woman came over and was seen by others, why was no one stopping her or chasing after her?
The guard said, the old woman was dressed like ordinary village women, but she walked like flying when she fled.

It had just rained in the morning when the crime happened, and the thatched grass in the thatched shed hadn't been burned. It was the old woman's clothes soaked in wine that wrapped the bones and burned them.

Because they found it in time, the bones were not turned into ashes, but burned black.

The corpse had already been turned into white bones and had been burned again. The forensics at Dali Temple could not find anything, except that a little finger was missing from the left hand.

Qianru looked at the black skeleton, but couldn't recognize anything, so she asked the accompanying folks to bury her with money.

At this time, a guard came trotting, saying that a passing merchant recognized the murderer from the notice posted at the entrance of the town.

(End of this chapter)