Concubine

Chapter 178 Song Yuner's Master
"So, this carriage should be pulled by two horses!" Master Jin also participated in this guessing game.

"No, it should be four horses!" Yang Qiuchi said, "If there are two horse-drawn carts, in order to exert force at the same time and to control them, they should generally be side by side instead of one behind the other. In that case, the other horse is stepping on Not up to the child's chest."

Master Jin and the others nodded in agreement.Yang Qiuchi has already drawn a rough outline for them, but it is still not clear.

Yang Qiuchi continued to describe: "With a four-horse carriage, what kind of carriage would it be?"

Now it is not in the Han Dynasty. The era of using the number of horses in a carriage to indicate one's identity is gone forever, replaced by sedan chair or horseback riding.A carriage is generally a two-wheeled carriage drawn by a horse.

After all, the strength of a horse is enough to pull one or two people.There are very few people who use two horses, and there are very few people who use four horses. Generally, only the carriages used to pull goods are used, and they are very heavy objects.

Therefore, Master Jin first guessed: "It's a carriage for pulling goods!"

"That's right!" Yang Qiuchi said, "And it's already full of goods. If I'm right, it should be pulling timber."

Song Yuner asked: "Brother, how did you guess this?"

"It's not guessing," Yang Qiuchi said, "Didn't I just say that any crime will leave traces." Yang Qiuchi turned around and pointed to the short piece of wood that Gongxiong was still holding in his arms: "This is a case where there are horseshoes. The one found beside the official road in India should have fallen from the carriage, and it didn't take long."

Bai Sumei also asked curiously, "Why?"

"Miss Bai, think about it. In the twelfth lunar month, such a short piece of wood is enough to keep warm for several days. If you stay here for a long time, the common people will see it and take it back. You were born in an official, and you don't know how poor people are. Bitter."

Bai Sumei blushed, then lowered her head: "I'm not even talking about officials..."

Seeing that Miss Bai was feeling sad, Song Yuner quickly changed the topic: "Brother, what do you mean to say, this piece of wood probably fell from that carriage? So, the carriage should be full of such similar things." wood."

"Smart!" Yang Qiuchi praised, "So, the carriage that killed the child should be a four-wheeled cart filled with short logs pulled by four horses!"

"Huh?" Song Yuner asked again, "How do you know there are four wheels? There is only one wheel mark on the child's leg."

"There is only one wheel on the child's leg, but didn't you notice the row of ruts just now? There are two ruts of the same width and depth on the same side. It should be four wheels. Besides, the carriage that pulls goods , Four horses are used, which means that the cargo must be heavy, so the cargo box should be relatively long. The two wheels are not stable, so it should be a carriage with four wheels."

"Understood!" Song Yun'er suddenly realized, and then thought: "I don't know how long this carriage has left, can we still catch up?"

"It won't take more than half an hour to leave, and it's a heavy vehicle, so we should be able to catch up."

Just now Yang Qiuchi twisted the mandible of the child's corpse. Generally speaking, this is the first part of the corpse where rigor rigor appears. It feels that the mandible is only slightly jerky, which means that rigor mortis has only just begun to appear, and the body spots have not yet appeared. Based on this, the time of death was estimated to be only over an hour.

"Then let's chase after him!" Song Yun'er said.

"Don't worry!" Yang Qiuchi waved his hand: "This carriage can't run away, it's in the nearby charcoal kiln."

Song Yuner and the others were stunned, how could Yang Qiuchi be so sure?
Yang Qiuchi saw their doubts: "It's very simple. Judging from the piece of wood that fell, it was just an ordinary elm. It was sawn so short and split with an axe, so it was probably used for burning fire." Yes. This carriage is pulling so much wood for fire, and this kind of wood is usually not pulled very far, so it should be nearby."

The basis for Yang Qiuchi's judgment is that the Ming Dynasty did not deforestation indiscriminately, and this timber is everywhere, and it is not as tight as it is now.Therefore, this kind of wood for fire will not be trafficked long distances, and the money sold in that case is not enough to cover the freight.

Yang Qiuchi continued: "Ordinary people have no money, so they don't spend money to buy this kind of wood for heating. They go to the mountains to cut firewood for burning. And rich families don't buy wood directly for burning, because the smoke is too dusty, not only It is choking, and it will also smoke the furniture of the house. So the big families buy charcoal for burning. Therefore, the short logs in this cart will not be directly used for heating the fire, but..."

Song Yun'er's eyes sparkled, she accepted the words, and said pleasantly, "It was transported to a nearby charcoal kiln for burning charcoal!"

"Smart!" Yang Qiuchi laughed.Turning around, he asked the old man and the others: "Walk along this official road, is there any charcoal kiln for burning charcoal?"

The old man said: "Yes, there is a large charcoal kiln more than 20 miles ahead, and the charcoal is often sold to Taiping Mansion in front. Even Chizhou has people who come to buy this charcoal."

"Chizhou?" Yang Qiuchi remembered that the clay doll Song Qing's father used to be an official in Chizhou.I don't know how Song Qing is doing now, but Yang Qiuchi's heart aches when he thinks of the clay doll.Asked: "How far is it from Chizhou?"

"If you don't hurry, there are still two days to go."

"Are there any other charcoal kilns around here?"

"No more," said the old man.

"What's the name of that charcoal kiln?"

"It's called Dongmenao."

Yang Qiuchi said: "You send two people to take us to the charcoal kiln and catch the man who hit someone with a car."

The old man nodded: "Yes! Thank you, Master, for making decisions for us!"

The old man brought another young man with him, who was the old man's nephew.Yang Qiuchi asked Nan Gongxiong to send two horses to the old man and the young man, and asked the three of them to go forward lightly and go to the charcoal kiln to catch the wagon that caused the accident.His own convoy followed.

Nan Gongxiong and the other three rode away quickly, while Yang Qiuchi and the others returned to the carriage and continued on their way.Seeing the tragic death of the child, several of them were not in the mood to continue reciting couplets of ancient poems, but they still had to drink this wine.While drinking wine, they talked about what happened just now.

Bai Sumei admired Yang Qiuchi sincerely: "This kind of case with no clue, only took a while, and Mr. Yang discovered the real culprit of this case. It is not an exaggeration to describe it as a god in solving the case."

Before Yang Qiuchi could be modest, Song Yuner had already said: "Of course, this case is a piece of cake. My brother can solve it with just a little finger. There are serial cases like the bone case, and the last time I went back to my hometown to confess my relatives by dripping blood." That kind of case is the real problem. My father and I are in the dark, but my brother can sort out the clues clearly, and that's amazing!"

Yang Qiuchi was a little embarrassed: "I'm good? I think you are the best!"

"Why am I so good?" Song Yuner asked curiously.

"Just now we were on the galloping carriage, and we were so far apart. I only saw a group of people there, but you could clearly see the posture of the old man holding the child in the crowd. It's not amazing. ?”

"It's nothing." Song Yun'er was a little proud, "The ancients walked around to see the stele and saw the flock of sheep, that's called amazing."

"Look at the sheep, I think you are almost the same."

The allusion of this stele on horseback is that Su Qin, a counselor during the Warring States Period, had extremely fast eyesight. Once he rode a fast horse passing by a stone stele, and he memorized all the big and small characters on the stone stele with just a squint glance.Visually watching the flock means that you can know how many sheep there are in a flock of sheep at a glance.

Song Yun'er giggled: "To be honest, if the number is not large, I can see it clearly at a glance. Back then, my master took me as an apprentice because of my ability."

oh?Yang Qiuchi has never heard her talk about her master, this matter is related to her privacy, and Yang Qiuchi is not easy to ask.Now she took the initiative to mention it, and asked along with her topic: "Yun'er, why did your master accept you as a disciple? Can you tell me."

Song Yuner smiled and said: "Okay, when I was five years old, I remember that it was almost Chinese New Year, one day my mother and nanny took me to a temple fair, and I wanted to buy a sugar figurine. While waiting to be a sugar figurine, I saw a person I went to buy steamed buns at the steamed stuffed bun stand next to me, took out a handful of copper coins, took a look at them, and threw them directly into the money box selling steamed buns, saying that I gave ten Wen, but after the bun seller counted the money in the money box, he said Only nine texts were given."

"The two were arguing and going to fight. In fact, the moment the man who bought the buns threw the copper coins into the money box, I could see clearly that what he threw in was indeed only nine coins. It was the scammer who bought the buns." people."

Yang Qiuchi asked curiously: "Yun'er, did you learn to know numbers at the age of five?"

"Of course!" Song Yun'er was a little annoyed at Yang Qiuchi's underestimation of herself, "I started my enlightenment when I was three years old. My father said, it's a pity that I'm a girl, otherwise, I'm afraid I will win the number one prize in the future and give our Song family glory. !"

"Admiration, admiration!" Yang Qiuchi clasped his fists together, "I still wet the bed when I was five years old."

Bai Sumei and the others all laughed.Song Yuner said: "However, brother, you are so powerful now..."

"Stop!" Yang Qiuchi waved his hand, "Stop praising me, let's continue talking about your advanced deeds when you were five years old."

Song Yun'er continued: "Of course the steamed bun seller is very happy to hear me speak for him, but the steamed stuffed bun seller is very rude. Seeing my mother and the three women scolding us, he wants to beat us, but his hand hasn't come down yet. Suddenly grabbing that hand, jumping around in place and screaming in pain."

"It was only later that I found out that my later master hit his acupuncture point with a hidden weapon. The master also said that the man's hand had been disabled by her. Who told him to bully women, he deserved it!"

Yang Qiuchi was a little startled, Song Yuner's master used to cripple people's arms at every turn, and his shots were indeed very ruthless. He couldn't help thinking that Song Yuner's previous ruthless shots were probably largely influenced by this master.

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