The ugly daughter-in-law of the farm gate: the sweet wife of the husband in the mountains

Chapter 250 Mud Footprints

"Even if Ma Wenshan knows who the culprit is, but he still refuses to tell, there is nothing he can do about it." Zhou Jingqing frowned.

Both he and the county magistrate knew that if they wanted to make progress, they had to start with Ma Wenshan.

But after interrogation, he refused to speak no matter what, so he was short of torture to extract a confession.

"Leave him alone for the time being, as long as he is alive. Let's go on the road tomorrow and see if we can find any clues." Ye Xi carefully put away a stack of papers, "By the way, Ye Ziyan's body has been examined by the author. Right? What are the gains?"

"I only know that Ye Ziyan was strangled to death with a rope, and she must have struggled before she died, and there are still fine pieces of flesh and blood in her nails. The culprit must have been scratched by her. But the culprit doesn't know where she scratched her , and how serious it is, it is still impossible to find out."

"We'd better find the place where she was killed in the first place, maybe we can find nothing."

The two of them went back to the small courtyard while talking, Zhou Jingqing went to sleep in the same room with Zhou Rui, and let Ye Xi live in his room.

Early the next morning, after breakfast, Zhou Rui went out to the academy.

And Zhou Jingqing went to the yamen first, and then came back to pick Ye Xi out of the city.

They rode all the way, and first went to the place where Ma Wenshan said they met the robbers.

Ye Xi looked around, and found that the place was well chosen, and there were no houses around, so it was convenient for him to do it.

As for the time of the accident, it was close to noon, and there should not be many people on the road at this time.

This is a road, so naturally there are no traces to be found.

Afterwards, the two turned around, instead of continuing to walk on the main road, they walked to this remote place.

There are many rocks on the nearby mountains, so there are no fields and no homes in these places, which seems quite remote.

This is not the season for chopping firewood or collecting fungus. Usually, there should be few people passing by in these mountains.

Zhou Jingqing used to hunt a lot before going out on the expedition, so he always seemed quite familiar with the mountains.They searched for a while, but suddenly found a secluded cave.

The outside of the cave is covered by vegetation, so it is very hidden.After entering the cave, it suddenly opened up.

"Someone has been to this cave recently." Ye Xi looked down on the ground with his head down.

There are muddy footprints on the ground. It has been raining in autumn recently, and there will be a rain from time to time, so walking in the mountains is always a bit muddy.

Even as they walked all the way, there was a lot of mud on their shoes.

Ye Xi carefully rubbed the mud footprints on the ground. Because of the difference in size, it can be concluded that there are two people.

Continuing to walk into the cave, Zhou Jingqing also paid close attention to the situation in the cave.

Suddenly his eyes fell on a small piece of fabric in the corner.The fabric was just a tiny bit, not obvious, so he picked it up and looked at it carefully.

"This should be women's clothing." Zhou Jingqing showed it to Ye Xi.

Ye Xi gritted his teeth, this is not only the woman's clothing material, it is very likely to be Ye Ziyan's.It was quite pretty bright yellow fabric, she remembered the last time she met Ye Ziyan in Fucheng, Ye Ziyan was also wearing clothes of this kind of fabric.

Went to see Ma Wenshan yesterday, Ma Wenshan also said that Ye Ziyan was wearing clothes of this color that day.

"I'm afraid that the bandit brought Ye Ziyan here after he took Ye Ziyan away."

The two searched carefully, but found a few traces on the stone wall of the cave, which looked like they were pulled out by ropes.

(End of this chapter)