Chapter 74: Disease? Bamboo is thin and the snake is poisonous.
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Liu Guangzhi was stunned for a while before he came to his senses. He was still shouting and screaming, his face flushed, and his veins bulging more than those of a swollen corpse.
He shouted directly: "I didn't do it, why would I hurt her! What good would it do me?! Besides, I don't have the time. You are wronging me. You are in cahoots..."
He shouted, but unfortunately no one paid any attention.
At this moment, it was as if an arrow had penetrated through the crack in time, and then shot out from another crack, hitting him right between the eyebrows.
——From the moment they rushed out of the crowd, cursing and pulling Chen Xu in front of Li Yu and the others in front of the Dali Temple's Drum Gate, a prejudice and resentment was formed.
Li Yu and his companions were dissatisfied with this man from the beginning and did not have any extra patience. Moreover, if he really had been wronged, the suspicion at hand was enough to take him back to the Dali Temple for a thorough investigation.
This shows that - don't offend the investigators for no reason. Everyone has temper and prejudice. How can you be sure that everyone you meet is as fair and impartial as Bao Qingtian?
This world is inherently unfair.
When they harbored a condescending prejudice against Chen Xu, they had never thought that if they fell into an unfavorable situation one day, the Dali Temple disciples would be able to use their power to be extremely cruel and make him experience what it means to have no one to turn to.
Especially Li Yu, as an investigator, she holds the title of Sizhi at a young age, and she is a woman. She must be better than ordinary men to break through secular prejudices and official shackles, and have her own investigative ability.
She had experienced several times the casualness and contempt of these Liu family members towards her. They were completely different from other male disciples who made her feel wary. This was very subtle, and sometimes very obvious, and she noticed it.
It's nothing.
But once he falls into her hands, something will happen.
"Lock him up."
"Go back and investigate carefully."
Li Yu said this calmly, and the other disciples pulled Liu Guangzhi up.
Officials are polite to their superiors and obey the strong, but it is impossible to ask them to be more amiable to their subordinates. After all, they are in charge of investigating complicated murders, and they cannot control the situation if they are too kind.
When she has no temper?
This time, even the hot-headed Liu Guangzhi sensed the other party's resentment and authority, because when the other disciples pressed him down, they used a lot of force and angrily shouted at them to quiet down.
In turn, he was oppressed.
Yan Siqing didn't even look at it. She lowered her head and adjusted her sleeves. Her eyes and eyebrows were as bright as peonies, and had some medicinal properties.
As long as it is a medicine, it will be effective for mortals.
Like Li Yu, she also has people she can bully.
"Don't touch me, don't, I'm not....This woman clearly committed suicide!"
She was not clean, she was infected with a disease, this bitch... She committed suicide because she was too ashamed to live. She...
“Wuwuwu…”
The roar above could not be uttered because Yan Siqing raised his eyes, put his index finger across his lips, and Xiaoyun understood immediately. He walked forward and stuffed a piece of cloth into the man's mouth to block it.
This prevents the man from yelling and shouting, and his voice from reaching the ears of the villagers outside the burial pit.
Yan Siqing then looked at Chen Xu, who was so angry that his face turned red, and he was whimpering and cursing Liu Guangzhi, and he didn't even have time to make gestures with his hands.
She has been stubborn all her life, but a disability is a disability. When she needed to prove her sister's innocence the most, she couldn't speak. She wanted to explain in sign language, but most people couldn't understand it and didn't have the patience to understand it.
He also thinks she is troublesome.
At this time, she felt extremely lonely and helpless.
It is far worse than the pain of life being cut short after becoming disabled at a young age.
It was as if her sister's body was trapped in the dark ancient well.
But she looked at Yan Siqing with tears streaming down her face.
She still saw the light because her eyes were good. There are also good people in the world.
Liu Guangzhi was speechless, just like her.
very nice.
Chen Xu looked at Yan Siqing and wanted to speak, so he also changed to sign language.
Thank you, no, my sister is not...
Yan Siqing didn't make her work too hard, and just said gently: "I know."
"From the beginning, I knew you had clues proving your sister had absolutely no reason to commit suicide. That's why you dared to go to the Dali Temple and beat the drum to complain. And why didn't you just tell us the truth several times?"
This was also what Li Yu and the others were suspicious about, and they even suspected that Chen Xu was fooling them.
However, since Yan Siqing didn't ask, Li Yu didn't ask either.
"At the time, I thought you thought you could have a private conversation during the interrogation, like telling Li Sizhi the inside story. But you didn't expect the Dali Temple to directly handle the case in Liujia Village. With so many people at the scene and so many different opinions, you didn't dare to speak out."
"Because it insulted your sister's reputation, she's already dead. What you want is the truth, to redress her injustice and seek revenge, not to make things worse for your sister - you know how scary people's words can be."
Only those who love the deceased and truly care about her will carefully consider and take every step with difficulty, even if reputation is an empty thing.
Just like Yan Siqing herself, for the sake of Xu Junrong and Zhao Zhao, she also has to plan all year round and be cautious at every step.
Chen Xu was trying to hold back, but tears were still flowing. He just didn't make a sound. He nodded repeatedly with his lips pursed.
Jiang Hui understood at this moment and looked at the thick trousers.
Is....sick?
So that's why. No wonder he always felt something was wrong.
But he was a man after all, so he was embarrassed to think in that direction. He just thought Chen Yue was a weird person.
Now I know that Chen Yue needs to wear such thick pants to cover up because she has a physical illness and is afraid of being discovered and insulted by the world.
The insults Liu Guangzhi just used must have been very harsh, as they involved the woman's innocence.
Some even accused Chen Yuehong of having an affair and infecting Yunyun with a serious disease, or said that she was so desperate and miserable after contracting the disease that she committed suicide.
These were his arguments.
But Yan Siqing didn't want to listen, nor did he want others to listen. Then, when talking about the case, regardless of the truth of the deceased's death, he would insult them wantonly.
This is the human heart.
So she took away his right to argue.
He didn't need to say it, she knew how to make him not have to.
"There are thousands of illnesses in this world, and everyone suffers from them. Major and minor illnesses are commonplace. Some illnesses are carried without developing until they are aggravated by contact. Other illnesses are contracted by some people themselves and then spread to others."
"You are the one who really loves to visit brothels and gamble there, and you are also the one who got sick."
"You don't think that your half-human, half-ghost appearance is because you are born ugly, do you?"
Yan Siqing gave Li Yu a look, and Li Yu came to his senses. He immediately asked other colleagues to take precautions and quickly took the pills prepared by the Dali Temple to protect his body so as not to be infected. Then he looked at Liu Guangzhi, and the look in his eyes became even more wrong.
Is he sick?!
Liu Guangzhi heard it and was angry, but he couldn't speak and could only roar.
No one cares about him.
Li Yu suddenly thought of something, "Ah, Miss Yan, when you saw him, you knew that he was sick and something was wrong, and that he might have caused Chen Yu's death, so you got involved in this case?"
Yan Siqing: "Almost."
Yan Siqing is not a doctor, but her skills are higher than those of the Imperial Hospital, and she saw Liu Guangzhi at first sight.
Observe, listen, ask and feel.
She looked at the other person's complexion and smelled the scent hidden under the odor of dirty sweat.
"He doesn't like cleanliness and doesn't change his clothes for a long time. There are gambling stains on his fingernails, and there are smudges of powder on his shoulders. I think it was stained by a woman leaning on him and putting her arm around his shoulder."
"When gambling, women would lean on you to cheer you up, leading you to forget yourself and lose all your money. This is a common tactic used by brothels and gambling houses."
Combining all these, she knew that this man was most likely not only a gambler, but also a useless person who frequented brothels, did not take care of himself, and was infected with dirty diseases.
But looking at the way other members of the Liu family approached him, it seemed that they didn't know. Otherwise, how could they get close to him when everyone was so jealous of him?
Of course, this kind of disease is most likely to be contracted during sexual intercourse between men and women.
But...it's hard to say.
If men have oral sex and other intimacy and eat together, it is also possible.
Yan Siqing vaguely felt that there was something wrong with this case at the time, and was worried that this person would infect others unscrupulously, increasing the number of patients, which would also be extremely bad. That's why he decided to get involved in this case.
There are other observations in between.
Later, she discovered several times that this person had a bad temper and was easily agitated. Every time he was in high spirits, he dared to lose his temper at will towards the people in the Dali Temple and his words were foul.
The other Liu family members around him were occasionally wary and pulled him a few times, but he shook them off, just venting his anger and unable to help but scratching his body.
Being physical.
This is because of the unbearable itching on the body.
He is definitely sick, but we don't know how serious it is. However, it has not spread to the surface of the skin, which means it is not too bad. However, it will harm others in the future.
Especially the female relatives.
"She and you are married, so it's inevitable that she will be infected by you. Moreover, women's bodies are different from men's. If a man is not careful, the woman will suffer. You have implicated her, but she can't make it public. She may even think that this is her own problem because of her ignorance and lack of understanding. She may even have suicidal tendencies at times..."
Chen Xu was about to explain when Yan Siqing added, "But she changed her mind later, right?"
Chen Xu nodded and gestured again.
This time Li Yu understood. "Ah, she found a doctor for treatment, and it was effective?"
Chen Xu nodded with a bitter smile.
—My sister told me that I went with her and she's gotten much better now, and can work. We agreed that she'd come help out in my shop. Before, she was afraid Liu Guangzhi would get involved in my shop and covet my money, but this time, she wants a divorce. She'll give him all her money, and she wants a divorce too...
For an ordinary woman who has made such a great decision and has a reliable sister to accompany and rely on, there is really no need for her to commit suicide.
Yan Siqing: "Your shop should be acquired. You will soon receive a large sum of money to expand the business. You will also have a background to rely on. You will be the boss in the future and will not be easily bullied. You can support her. Even if she divorces you in the future, you two sisters can live happily by running your own chain restaurant."
Chen Xu was shocked. She had never thought that Yan Siqing even knew about this.
Is she a fairy?
"So, although Chen Yue still had some symptoms and had to wear thick pants, she felt much better and was able to go out to the fields to do farm work. She even mended the holes in her pants."
There are indeed patches on the pants, but they are patched very finely and the fabric used is of similar color, so you can't see them without looking closely.
What a good girl she must be?
There are so many good girls like this in this world.
It's not easy for many people.
But they no longer have the chance to live a good life.
"This is something you would do if you want to live a good life, plan for the future, and have a bright future."
"But this is completely against Liu Guangzhi's interests."
Yan Siqing looked at Liu Guangzhi and said, "This season is the perfect time to raise fish properly so that they can be sold and make money. Being able to stir up the silt in the pond means we don't have to worry about the fish below."
"Either they've all been sold out. Or the fish ponds are almost abandoned."
"The former is impossible, because there are many fish ponds in the village, and other people's fish ponds still have live fish jumping around. When I came here, I saw fish jumping out of the water from a distance, and they looked very fresh. This means that other families in the village haven't sold all their fish yet. It doesn't make sense for someone with your temperament to be able to do business well. You must be busy gambling and drinking in brothels, and have abandoned the fish ponds. So you naturally have no money, and even need a lot of money."
"She wanted a divorce, which directly angered you, so you planned to kill her."
Liu Guangzhi was stunned, still sobbing, but much weaker.
He didn't know how to refute it?
His face looked awful, as if his condition had worsened. This kind of bastard!
Pooh!
Anyway, Li Yu and the others didn't care about his testimony. They put on gloves first. The male Sizhi put on his clothes and mask, and carefully lifted the hem of the man's clothes.
Jiang Hui had been watching all the time, and did not delay Yan Siqing's reasoning and explanation. It was the same before.
Xiaoyun noticed that when his prince watched his wife reasoning, his eyes were straight and full of brilliance.
Admiration, love, and even worship.
He did not step down from the noble throne to seek love among the people.
But chasing the sun and the moon.
To Chen Xu and others, she is the sun, and to him, she is both the sun and the moon.
Even so, Jiang Hui was always concerned about his safety. He disliked Liu Guangzhi very much and was afraid that he would be infected by his dirty disease, so he stood in front to block one side, so as not to delay Yan Siqing from observing the progress of the case and the people involved, and to stop him when there was danger.
The disciple examined Liu Guangzhi's body and then asked the coroner to take a look as well.
The coroner's expression was a little complicated.
"It's indeed that kind of disease, not serious yet, but it's easy for his wife and other women he's close to to spread it. Judging from his behavior, he's also not very disciplined. If he doesn't seek medical advice, take medicine, and control his behavior, the disease will become more serious in a while. It might even spread to everyone he eats with, further spreading the source of the disease."
"First, tie him up and cover his mouth and nose with a cloth to prevent him from harming others."
"Take him back and investigate the case in detail? Then make a conclusion?"
The coroner asked Li Yu.
Li Yu's disgust towards Liu Guangzhi has reached its peak, and he thinks that if this man is not the real murderer, then who is?
But she still looked at Yan Siqing.
Yan Siqing: "We still have to be more cautious. Before, we didn't have a case filed, so it was not easy to search people's houses casually. Now that we have so many suspects, we can file a case and then we can enter the house."
She was a very contradictory person. She could use her disgust for Liu Guangzhi to torture him and make him suffer for the previous things in order to retaliate for the previous offense against her.
But when it comes to major issues, she still maintains her principles.
The case must be handled with ironclad force.
If he is, then he is; if he is not, then he is not.
It all depends on the evidence.
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There is not much change here.
When leaving, Li Yu considered whether he should escort the people away from the small path first to prevent the people from Liujia Village from causing trouble.
She had seen many cases where some large villages with the same surname joined forces to intercept them from investigating the case in order to uphold the selfish tradition of "family disgrace should not be made public", and they also relied on the principle that the law does not punish the masses.
Unfortunately, the Dali Temple has been in a bad mood and very violent recently, and will not buy into this. But she is concerned about Yan Siqing's safety and does not want to implicate her.
Yan Siqing lifted the note from the grass and wood on the roadside and said calmly, "It's okay. If people know something unusual is going on, they'll naturally come and ask about it. When they do, tell them about Liu Guangzhi contracting a disease in the brothel. Be polite, but also serious. Tell them that they can also be infected by eating the same food. This will scare them, but don't spread the news to others. They'll just go home and clean themselves up."
"It's not easy for them either. If this gets out, it will be bad for the whole village."
Um?
ah.
Doesn't this mean that the whole village will be asked to check themselves, and if anyone is infected, they will only blame Liu Guangzhi for the source?
Although this is indeed the case, if the Dali Temple expresses its position first, others will definitely not mention Chen Yue again. No matter what happens to Chen Yue in the future, these people know where the source of the trouble is - Liu Guangzhi.
Prejudice is hard to change.
Only when there is a real threat to their own interests will these people lose their prejudice and the leisure to be picky about women.
Regardless of gender, everyone hates it.
Liu Guangzhi's pupils dilated behind him.
But there was no way to explain it, he was gagged.
Li Yu was stunned at first, but then he understood, "I know, I'll arrange it right away."
The light in Chen Xu's eyes was almost burning, and he tried hard to hold back his laughter.
Later, Jiang Hui couldn't help laughing.
A low voice.
"So this is what happens when my sister hates someone."
Although he smiled, he didn't act sarcastic or mean to others, as if his mouth was covered with arsenic.
When he whispered to her at a moderate distance, the smell of medicine drifted towards her like the cool mint breeze in the spring and summer world.
When she called her sister, her eyebrows were raised and her red lips were slightly raised, giving her a somewhat elegant and unrestrained charm.
Yan Siqing glanced at it subconsciously, paused slightly, and looked away.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has been unmarried for many years, and the Emperor is worried. It may not only be because he cares about his eldest grandson, but also because he makes it difficult for his cousins among the royal family to let go and find good partners.
"I don't hate it, I just find it an eyesore."
It's the kind of thing where you feel like the other person is an eyesore and doesn't need to exist in this world.
“I don’t have anyone I really dislike.”
Isn't there?
Don’t you hate the hidden jade?
Zhou Li had been rude to her before, and Jian Wuliang was even more so.
She doesn't hate it either?
It seemed that he treated them very politely later on, and they could chat and laugh calmly when they occasionally mentioned the case.
Jiang Hui didn't ask. He thought of Chen Cangyu. He hated this person and was too lazy to mention him, nor did he want to mention him in front of Yan Siqing.
I wanted to gossip and ask her if she hated me.
She was so perceptive that she blocked it directly.
Oh well.
Jiang Hui silently moved away a step to avoid scratching him again, but as he moved away, he still muttered like a child.
"Being disliked isn't so bad. At least you have to be willing to pay attention to people before you can scold them."
She didn't scold Chen Cangyu and the others because she didn't care.
That's great.
But she didn't scold me anymore.
That's not good.
Jiang Hui felt depressed and suffocated again, his eyes were gloomy, and he began to pick the weeds and flowers on the roadside.
Yan Siqing: “….”
The people in the Dali Temple interrogated prisoners and suspects on a daily basis, and they had seen countless lies and pretense, so they mentioned it in a few words in front of the people in Liujia Village, half-truthfully, but then stopped themselves from speaking.
Sick, hard to say, contagious? I didn't say that, but you guys should be careful and check yourselves. Those who have been to brothels... those who have eaten with Liu Guangzhi? I didn't say that either, but you guys, I didn't say that, so be careful...
Originally, when they saw Liu Guangzhi being "arrested", the people of Liujia Village were making a fuss. They did not want someone with the same surname in their village to be involved in a murder scandal. This had nothing to do with the truth. They just felt that it was damaging the interests of their own clan and fellow villagers, and they were afraid of being ostracized by people from other villages. They were planning to surround and make a fuss, forcing the Dali Temple to admit that it was biased towards Chen Xu and making some fabricated story. However, before they could make any move, they learned about the illness and immediately ignored everything else.
Noisy, anxious, angry, resentful.....the guilty ones were even worse, so they hurried home, or secretly asked the Dali Temple disciples about the specific symptoms of the illness...
Now it was their turn to ask the Dali Temple for help.
The Dali Temple disciples laughed secretly and pretended to be powerful. Once again, they seemed to be hesitant to speak and found it difficult to open their mouths.
The bad guys in the village who loved to visit brothels were even more anxious and kept muttering.
"It's just a minor illness. My Lord, you don't have to worry about it. Can you tell me about it?"
"Minor illnesses need to be treated. I'm not talking about me... You should talk, sir..."
"Is there any hope for me, sir?"
It’s just practice that makes perfect.
Before the villagers bothered to stop them, Yan Siqing and his group had already arrived in the village, passing by some fish ponds, and specifically went to Liu Guangzhi's house to take a look.
It is indeed deserted.
The water was murky, but had begun to settle a bit, apparently from the past few days.
Li Yu and others carefully surveyed the surrounding footprints - if they dug swamp mud to go up the mountain, it would be difficult to clean their shoes, and shoe prints would be left here.
Very strange.
No shoe prints were found.
However, no traces were seen - the edge of the fish pond was clean, obviously having been cleaned.
Jiang Hui and Li Yu were actually a little confused.
Liu Guangzhi.
Could he be so cautious? And have so much time?
Jiang Hui glanced at Liu Guangzhi's clothes and shoes.
This person's shoes were worn out, and he probably hadn't changed his socks for a long time. He had a strong odor, but his shoes were still clean.
This was because he had not worked for a long time, but had been enjoying himself, frequenting brothels, which were places of extreme pleasure, and where dirt and filth would not offend the eyes of the nobles, so even though he was dirty, his shoes were still fine.
But it could also be that he planned to clean up and change his shoes later.
Jiang Hui was just suspicious, knowing that the Dali Temple officials would definitely go to the brothel to inquire about this person's recent whereabouts to see if he met the conditions for murder and throw Chen Yue into the well.
Yan Siqing probably had the same concern. He carefully observed his surroundings, looked at the edge of the fish pond, and asked other fish pond owners in the village. He learned that they looked after the fish pond during the day and had never seen Liu Guangzhi messing with the swamp mud here.
"Where can you find him? He hasn't been around for ten days or half a month. It's all his family and wife who are messing around with him. He's so happy and comfortable, like a rich man. He used to eat so much every day, but now he's gambling and has become so poor that he looks so skinny."
"It's not about eating well, being poor, or being sick..."
“Hey, don’t say that…”
The villagers started to slander Liu Guangzhi and were not in a good mood.
Yan Siqing glanced at the breeding tools, shovels, dustpans and other items placed at the corner of the wooden house next to him.
It was a little dirty, but I didn't have time to clean it.
But what's the point of cleaning this? Even if there are detailed fingerprints, there is no way to compare them.
Li Yu followed Yan Siqing's observation, then looked inside the wooden house and frowned slightly.
There were ashes in the stove and half a pile of firewood. There were two broken bowls on the ground, filled with water and scattered dirty food. The quilt on the wooden bed was dirty, and there were spider webs everywhere in the room.
Yan Siqing wanted to go in and take a look, but was stopped by Jiang Hui.
We don’t know how long Liu Guangzhi has lived there and how much dirt he has left behind. It would be bad if he contracts some serious disease.
But they would not let him in. The people from the Dali Temple did not dare to do so. They quickly dressed fully and went in to check him out.
Li Yu did not delay and was the first to go in.
After searching everywhere, I found a chopstick cage and other things, just a pair of bowls and chopsticks.
A couple?
One pair is moldy, and the other pair is still clean and I used it often before.
"This guy really thinks he's destined to be rich and powerful. He lets Chen Yue do everything."
The coroner was old, and because of his profession, it was extremely difficult for him to find a wife. He had lived in poverty for half his life, and the more he looked at Liu Guangzhi, the more he disliked him.
But looking at this room, he felt something was not right, so he looked at Chen Xu.
"Isn't your sister busy with not only farm work, but also this fish pond?"
Chen Xu didn't quite understand, so he thought about it and gestured.
——She used to work all the time, but recently, I don’t know, she was in poor health and felt uncomfortable, and all the money was spent by Liu Guangzhi. She was reluctant to buy medicine. I hadn’t seen her for a long time, and she didn’t come to see me, so I came to the village... I saw that something was wrong with her, so I bought medicine and found a doctor. She had no money... But at that time, she didn’t come to work in the fish pond.
Yan Siqing helped her translate and asked, "How long ago did you come?"
——Ten days ago.
Yan Siqing didn't go in, his eyes lingering on the quilt and some spider webs in the room, "Lift up the stove."
She said.
Upon hearing this, the disciples from the Dali Temple inside rushed forward to lift the lid of the pot.
Li Yu took a quick step and opened it with one hand.
"There's a lot of spider silk, it's all webbed up. There's dirty water at the bottom of the pot, and it's all rusted... I guess no one has used this stove for a long time."
"Strange, chopsticks are used by people."
"The rusty water hasn't dried yet. It must have happened in the past few days, not ten days ago."
After observing, she looked at Yan Siqing and said, "Miss Yan, if Li Yue was here to look after the fish pond, not to mention that she was unwell, judging from this, she is not a woman who would do things perfunctorily."
"Is Liu Guangzhi resting here?"
"at night."
"Because I came back at night with packed food from out of town, I used a pair of chopsticks and didn't need to light a fire to cook, so the stove was useless and it was boiling. There were spider webs in many places in the room, but there was no quilt, so it was obvious that someone had slept there."
It can't be Chen Yue, who else could it be?
They turned to look at Liu Guangzhi and asked him, but he denied it and said he had never been back.
"I always spend the night at Fanhualou in town. I've never been back. The villagers said that bitch...she was dead, so I came back! I really didn't kill her, so don't accuse me..."
After the cloth was removed from Liu Guangzhi, he denied it hastily, and then was blocked again. Xiaoyun looked at Li Yu, Yan Siqing and others.
So is it him? If it is him, he will definitely not admit it.
This kind of inquiry is just a procedure and has no meaning.
Li Yu didn't care much.
Yan Siqing: "It's definitely not Li Yue. She doesn't have that kind of habit."
But I asked the village chief.
"How are Liu Guangzhi's family members?"
The village chief mentioned that Liu Guangzhi's mother died early due to exhaustion from knitting, sewing day and night, and working in the fields. His father worked as a helper in the county theater and had not been home for a long time.
The whole family supports it.
Jiang Hui suddenly muttered, "He looks more like the crown prince of this dynasty."
His father didn't become the crown prince, but this dirty guy became him.
Everyone: “…”
No one dared to respond.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince can sometimes be mean and vicious, like a bamboo leaf viper.
The bamboo is thin and the snake is poisonous.
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