Chapter 261 The Corpse in the Sophora japonica Tree
Su Nuobai shook his head: "Not really. Tell me where you cut down the locust tree yesterday. I'll go take a look when I have time."
"It's right by the river outside our village." Diao Liangji said and quickly reported the address of their village.
"It's nothing. If it were an evil spirit, it would have caused trouble for you a long time ago." Su Nuobai calmed him down.
After Diao Liangji bought buns for Su Nuobai, he carried firewood to sell.
Uncle Jia and the others came over curiously: "Master Su, is this a demon he's talking about?"
"No, I just want to know the specific situation. I plan to go and take a look, and then let Xiao Jiang tell you." Su Nuobai was not sure what the situation was.
Since there are no guests now, she plans to go check it out first: "I'll go check it out now. If there are guests later, ask them to wait for me."
"You're back!" Uncle Jia blinked.
"Come back." Su Nuobai smiled and left with a few people.
The locust tree that Diao Liangji mentioned is still there, but it is now surrounded by many villagers who are watching the fun.
"What's going on with this tree?"
"Who knows? Why don't we ask a master to take a look?" someone in the village suggested.
"I heard that Diao Liangji went to Shengjing City to look for Master Su today. Let's wait for him to come back and ask about the situation. We should not get close to him for now."
Everyone in the village nodded in agreement and turned around to see Su Nuobai and his companions.
"Master Su, was it Diao Liangji who asked you to come?" Everyone in the village had been to Shengjing City, so she was not unfamiliar with it.
"Yeah, what are you all doing here?" Su Nuobai saw many people standing here watching.
"We just came here out of curiosity." The villagers smiled awkwardly.
"Don't even think about joining in the fun if you come across these things in the future. If you really come across something dirty, you won't be able to escape even if you want to." Su Nuobai knows the villagers too well. They will go wherever there is fun.
"Ah! Then let's go now." The villagers were so scared that they ran away.
But in just a moment, they were the only ones left on the once bustling riverside.
Xiao Jiang twitched his nose: "It smells like human blood, but it's very smelly."
"There is still yin energy." Mo Bao narrowed his beautiful eyes.
Su Nuobai walked to the side of the locust tree. The tree had no intelligence, so it was not a monster.
She walked around the tree and found that it was very thick. It was so thick that it took at least two adults to hug it.
Feng Zhi noticed with his sharp eyes that there was a long crack a little above the tree trunk.
He looked along the gap and saw that it was very regular, like a rectangle.
He raised his hand and knocked on the trunk, only to find it was empty. “Why is this trunk empty?”
Su Nuobai looked at Feng Zhi: "Use the sword to cut along the cracks in the tree trunk. Be careful not to go too deep."
Feng Zhi nodded, took out his sword and cut along the gap little by little. As soon as a small gap appeared, a stench of corpse wafted out.
Several people quickly turned off their sense of smell, and waited until the entire trunk was split open, revealing the entire contents inside.
The woman inside had turned into a skeleton, but her clothes showed that she came from a poor family.
"Why is there a corpse in this tree trunk?" Xiao Jiang was full of questions.
Su Nuobai contacted Lu Heyu: "Lord Lu, please bring the Dali Temple, Lord Wei, and the coroner with you."
"What case?" Lu Heyu had just come out of the palace and pulled several officials into his carriage.
She asked as she walked towards the location she mentioned.
"The body is hidden under the locust tree." Su Nuobai said, looking at the corpse in front of him.
All the officials in the carriage were filled with questions.
But he didn't ask any more questions. He just went to pick up the coroner and rushed to the scene of the incident.
Su Nuobai set up a barrier here to avoid scaring the villagers coming in and out.
"It seems that this woman's soul has entered the underworld." Feng Zhi looked around and saw that there were no wandering souls.
"So we can only ask a coroner to perform an autopsy. This is beyond my scope, but we can find out who she belongs to." Su Nuobai said facing the bones in the locust tree.
"I think you should just work part-time as a constable in the future and catch someone or something." Xiao Jiang looked at her and said.
"This is a good idea. Let me ask if there is money to arrest this person." Su Nuobai agreed.
A few of them chatted while waiting for Lu Heyu and others to arrive.
When Lu Heyu and the others arrived, they searched for a long time but couldn't find the place she mentioned.
Su Nuobai saw a head sticking out from the barrier, and it almost scared everyone except Lu Heyu out of their wits.
Anyone who sees a person with only a head but no body would be scared to death!
"Sorry, sorry, I set up a barrier to avoid scaring the villagers, but I didn't expect to scare you gentlemen instead."
Wei Lixian covered his chest and said, "Master Su, please don't be so scary next time. I'm afraid I'll die before I can catch my breath."
"I haven't even seen my child get married yet. If I die like this, won't you be burdened with karma?"
Su Nuobai looked at him and said, "Master Wei, I have calculated that you have done a lot of good deeds. You can live to be eighty-eight in this life, not to mention seeing your children get married."
"I wouldn't have any problem even watching your great-grandson get married."
Lu Heyu looked at them and said, "Get to work first."
Su Nuobai opened the barrier for them and let them in.
The coroner also felt a headache when he saw the body in the locust tree. He spread a white cloth on the ground and said, "Can you please help me, gentlemen? I need to take her out."
Su Nuobai simply waved his hand lightly, wrapping up the woman's body and letting her fall onto the white cloth.
The coroner began to examine the woman's body and saw a large hole at the back of her head, which looked like a fatal wound before her death.
Lu Heyu looked at her: "How did you find out?"
Su Nuobai pointed to the knot on the locust tree and said, "Today a woodcutter said that he accidentally hit the knot with his axe yesterday and found a black liquid oozing out of the knot. It was smelly and fishy. He suspected it was a demon."
"When I came to see it, Feng Zhi discovered that the locust tree had been hollowed out. When he opened it, he saw the woman's body."
"The locust tree absorbed the woman's flesh and blood, turning into a tumor. If the woodcutter hadn't accidentally chopped it down, I'm afraid we wouldn't have known there was a body hidden inside."
Lu Heyu looked at Xinggui and said, "Go check if there are any women in the village who are missing or have falsely claimed to have divorced."
"Madam, this woman gave birth before she died." The coroner added.
Xinggui nodded and immediately turned around and left the barrier to do it.
Su Nuobai looked at Lu Heyu and asked, "Do you need help?"
"No need. If we ask you to help with everything, it will make our Ministry of Justice and Dali Temple seem useless." Lu Heyu said with a smile.
Su Nuobai removed the barrier: "In that case, I'll leave."
But as soon as she came out of the barrier and looked in the direction of the village, she was stunned.
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