A female coroner arrived at the Jingzhao Prefecture.

Chapter 231 Headless Female Corpse (19)

These words chilled everyone to the bone.

After racking up a lot of effort and waiting for many days, it all came to nothing!
"What should we do?" Bai Zhizhi asked quietly.

Mu Qingcheng was also filled with disappointment. In the case of the hanging corpse at the broken temple gate, although there were many clues and one corpse after another, the identities of the deceased were clear and there was at least a direction for investigation.

Now, faced with the case of a headless female corpse, the inability to identify the body leaves us at a complete loss!

"Sir, you are..." An Si'er, a man who had lived at the bottom of society, was very good at reading people. He suddenly realized something and exclaimed, "Are you investigating the headless female corpse mentioned in the notice?"

Mu Qingcheng nodded. "That's right."

An Si'er relaxed. "Alas, then it has nothing to do with me. I really did take the jewelry from the dead in the mass grave. This shouldn't be considered theft, right?"

"That's just sophistry! Was the jewelry a gift from the deceased? Did the deceased's relatives consent to it? Even though the deceased has no grave or coffin, this still constitutes grave robbing!" Mu Qingcheng raised an eyebrow and ordered, "Take him back to the yamen for punishment!"

Wang Tianzhu cupped his hands in greeting: "Yes!"

As soon as the ropes binding An Si'er were untied, he hurriedly knelt on the ground, kowtowing and begging for mercy: "Sir, I know I was wrong. I didn't know the law and thought that picking up unwanted things wasn't illegal. I just wanted to exchange them for some money to eat. Please forgive me this time, sir. I will never dare to do it again!"

"Enough talk, let's go!"

Wang Tianzhu grabbed An Si'er, and Li Daguo twisted An Si'er's arm; the two of them escorted her out together.

"Wait!"

Mu Qingcheng's brow suddenly twitched, and she stopped An Si'er, asking, "On what day did you find the jewelry?"

An Si'er thought there was hope of being forgiven, so she quickly and obediently replied, "It happened more than ten days ago." "Which day exactly?"

"Well, it's probably... around the winter solstice. We people live one day at a time and don't really pay attention to the days."

"Think about it carefully!" Mu Qingcheng walked up to An Si'er, his tone softening. "If you behave well, I can decide to give you a lighter sentence."

An Si'er's eyes lit up. "Really? Okay, I'll think about it now, think it over carefully!"

Mu Qingcheng guided him, "Was it during the day or at night? Before or after the winter solstice? When you went to the mass grave, did anything special happen that left a deep impression on you?"

"I went at night. I was afraid of being discovered during the day and being robbed or beaten. As for the time, I asked for a bowl of mutton on the winter solstice, but it was stolen by the Beggars' Sect. In a fit of anger, I thought of pawning my jewelry to buy mutton... Yes, it was the day before the winter solstice, I'm sure of it!"

The night before the winter solstice?

"Correct!"

Mu Qingcheng was slightly pleased and continued to ask, "When you were taking the jewelry, did you make a clear look at the deceased's age, whether there were any external injuries, and what clothes they were wearing?"

An Si'er recalled: "Uh, the deceased was a young woman. It seemed that she had been beaten to death. There was blood on her body, and her clothes were not very clear because the body was put in a sack. After she was pulled out, the hemp thread was stuck to the blood on the body's clothes."

"Sister Mu, the time of death, cause of death, gender, age, and sack all match!" Bai Zhizhi exclaimed excitedly.

Wang Tianzhu and Li Daguo nodded frantically, "Master Mu, we've finally seen the light at the end of the tunnel!"

Mu Qingcheng let out a soft breath, her confidence returning to her eyes, "Then what are we waiting for? Let's go to the mass grave!"

(End of this chapter)