Chapter 089 Jing Tao
Feng Aoqing waited for the raw calcined stone and Atractylodes lancea brought back by Wei Ze.
She scattered the raw calcined stone on the place where the corpse was previously stored, and burned Atractylodes lancea to fumigate the entire Shengqiu Street. Only then did she feel relieved and rest.
The next morning, the clerk was still guarding outside the south gate, so Feng Aoqing went to find him and told him how to dispose of the corpse and disinfect it.
"Madam, I can't do anything about this." The clerk said timidly.
"I've bought everything for you. You just need to do as I say. What? Do you want me to go find Master Han and have him give you instructions?"
"No, no!"
"Besides, guess why you're the only one from your government office who's out of town on business?"
"this......"
"You are the only one who can read and write documents?"
"this......"
"Your life isn't as valuable as theirs, you know that?!"
The clerk thought, "That's right! No wonder they wouldn't let him go home and he had to live in a makeshift camp outside the gate. If there was an epidemic in Shengqiu Street, he would definitely be the first to catch it."
"I understand. Thank you, ma'am!" The clerk came over to pay his respects.
Everyone was packing for the trip, but Feng Aoqing didn't see Jing Tao.
"Where are Xingbao, Yuebao, and Jingtao?" she asked the two children.
The two Baoers shook their heads.
"I didn't see her when I got up early. I dressed Xingbao and Yuebao." Yan Xiuxiu thought for a moment and answered.
"Didn't you see it when you got up early?" Feng Aoqing asked Xingbao and Yuebao again.
The two Baoers still shook their heads.
Feng Aoqing was a little confused and recalled what happened when she got up early, but she was so busy looking for the clerk that she had no recollection of it.
But last night, she, Mo Beiyuan, and Mo Nanzhou were the last to go to bed. When they came back after fumigating the entire street, everyone in the Mo family had gone to bed, and Jingtao slept next to the two Baoers.
She is not the kind of person who would leave things unexplained.
"Let's go look for her. She might have fallen somewhere. We can't hear her cry for help because her voice is like a kitten." Third Aunt Zhou Xiuyun suggested.
Mo Beiyuan explained the situation to Jiang Yi and went to find someone.
Feng Aoqing handed the two children to An Jinge and went to look for them.
It's just for washing up and going to the bathroom. She is so timid that it is impossible for her to stay too far away from everyone.
It was precisely because of this that Feng Aoqing's heart began to panic.
Everyone quickly returned to the house where the Mo family lived. They searched the houses on both sides of the main street but couldn't find it.
"Could he have run away?" Qiao Yuegui said in a low voice.
"If you wanted to run away, you should have run away a long time ago. Why wait until today?" Grandma scolded. She knew Jingtao's character. Her two children were more important to her than her life. There was no way she could abandon her children and go alone.
Qiao Yuegui bit her lip and realized that she was no longer a member of the Mo family. She stepped back timidly and packed up her things silently.
"No, Jingtao is not that kind of person." Mo Beiyuan shook his head and frowned.
He didn't know who else on this street would dare to attack the Mo family.
It can only be those unidentified people, but Jing Tao should not be in the eyes of those people.
"Expand the range and search again! She won't go too far." Feng Aoqing frowned.
"There are some unfinished houses at the back of the alley. Maybe they are there?" Chen Yilan said flatteringly, holding her son's sleeve.
No matter whether he is there or not, I will go and see him to feel at ease.
So everyone went over to take a look, and in addition to the unfinished houses, there were also a lot of bricks, stones and wood used for building houses piled up randomly.
Everyone dispersed and searched piece by piece.
"Sister-in-law!" It was Mo Mingyuan's voice.
It had to be him. While others were looking up, he lowered his head to look for it. He soon found some incomplete footprints. Following the footprints, he saw drag marks and felt something was wrong.
Where the drag mark ended, he saw Jingtao lying on the ground.
Hearing the cry, Feng Aoqing's heart tightened and he hurried over there.
Mo Mingyuan stopped everyone from moving forward.
"People..." Mo Mingyuan hesitated to speak.
Jing Tao was lying on the ground with a huge bloody hole on her head. Blood covered half of her face and flowed down her face to the ground, forming a large pool.
Her beautiful eyes were wide open, their brilliance gone.
She stretched her hands forward, her fingers digging into the ground. It was obvious that she wanted to escape, or to see her beloved child before she died.
Even though Feng Aoqing was a doctor, it was the first time she saw someone so close to her die in front of her, and it was someone she loved very much, so her tears flowed uncontrollably.
"Jingtao!" She held her trembling right hand with her left hand, took a few deep breaths, and knelt beside Jingtao to make the final confirmation.
"Go away! I want to perform an autopsy." Feng Aoqing couldn't let her die in vain, she wanted to find the murderer.
Seeing that no one had reacted, Feng Aoqing yelled again, "Everyone leave! No one is allowed to say anything in front of the children, or I will poison him to death!"
Everyone left quietly, only Mo Beiyuan remained.
He was cold-hearted, and nothing seemed unusual on the surface; he just clenched his fists tightly behind his back.
Han Lang, who came to see him off, heard people at the street corner talking about this, so he came over too.
Mo Beiyuan stopped him because Feng Aoqing had already turned Jingtao over and was carefully checking her clothes to see if there were any other injuries.
"It's inconvenient for you to be with my female relatives."
"The murder weapon." Mo Beiyuan's voice was cold, and Han Lang's voice was even colder.
As everyone gathered around the body, he picked up a stone from outside the wood.
Mo Beiyuan took a look and saw blood stains on it.
"The blood underground took about the same amount of time to dry as the blood on this stone."
"It's a depressed skull fracture. The murderer is a man with strong upper limbs. It would take no more than three hits and the skull would be..." Feng Aoqing choked.
"Ao Qing, I'm going to pull him out right now and make him pay for Jing Tao's life." Mo Beiyuan stopped her from saying anything further.
Feng Aoqing tied her clothes for her. Apart from the wound on her head, there were no other fatal injuries on her body, nor were there any signs of violation that Feng Aoqing was most worried and afraid of.
"She wanted to resist and held up her silver hairpin, but she was too weak..."
She spread out Jingtao's hands and saw a long scar on the palm of her right hand, which was the result of her desperately holding the fork in resistance.
She had taught Jingtao that stabbing a certain spot could quickly make the opponent lose their ability to attack. She also wanted to use it, but the opponent was too strong.
Feng Aoqing held her neck with one hand and raised the other hand high as if holding a hairpin.
"Men." Mo Beiyuan and Han Lang said at the same time when they saw the purple finger marks on her neck.
"The scope has been narrowed down. Let me go check it out! It will be more convenient for me." Han Lang walked away without waiting for the two to answer.
"Bury him! We can't let the children see him in this state anymore." Mo Beiyuan said softly.
Not far away, there was a small hillside where the two men planned to bury her.
Feng Aoqing picked out a purple brocade dress from the space for Jingtao to wear.
"She likes this color the most, but because Feng Aoqing also liked it, she has never worn a dress of this color. One day, she quietly asked me if she could wear this color dress to greet and see off Xingbao and Yuebao on their wedding day, and just stand at a distance. I agreed."
She combed Jingtao's hair again and put on pearl flowers, earrings and a pearl necklace.
"She loves pearls the most. She said you once gave her a pearl necklace, but she never wore it. This is it."
Mo Beiyuan remembered.
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