It was a small yard with not many rooms and some chickens and ducks, no different from an ordinary family's.

Shen Qingxu and the others put on gloves and began to search the yard.

The patched clothes, the leftovers, the small vegetable garden at home, and the records in the account books all proved that this county magistrate was indeed a good and honest official.

Why would anyone want to kill such a good official?

And cutting off the head is so cruel?

"Look, there are footprints here." Suddenly, Gongsun Jiayan's voice sounded from the back window of the bedroom.

The three people who were still searching heard the sound and hurried over.

Sure enough, there was a not very obvious half footprint on the wall behind the window.

It should be that the person used the force when he climbed through the window to keep it there.

Several people entered the county magistrate's house and saw traces of fighting and blood on the ground.

It can be inferred that the county magistrate was most likely killed while resting at home.

The murderer was too arrogant. He killed an official appointed by the imperial court and did not even clean up the mess. He just climbed out the window and walked away in a swagger!

"Shall we go and ask the butler some questions?"

If the county magistrate was killed here last night, there should have been some movement last night.

Because Gongsun Jiayan discovered that Xu Xingyi and others searched the room and found signs of a violent struggle on the county magistrate's bed.

There was no blood on the bed, only on the bedposts whose paint had peeled off. In addition to the blood, there were also signs of being hit by a heavy object. It seemed that the murderer had repeatedly hit the county magistrate's head against the bedpost.

"I don't know why I felt very sleepy yesterday, and then I slept very deeply. This morning I got up and worked two quarters of an hour later than usual, so I really don't know what the noise was last night."

The housekeeper was in his room, telling what he had done last night.

Although Shen Qingxu and the others didn't understand medical knowledge, they could still smell the scent of the incense.

It seems that the murderer was well prepared and even prepared the incense.

First, he used a drug to knock out the housekeeper and the servants, and then sneaked into the county magistrate's house to kill him.

But why did they use the knockout incense on the housekeeper instead of using the same incense to kill the county magistrate?

Do you want the county magistrate to suffer great pain before his death?

"Does the county magistrate have any enemies?" Mu Yunzhou asked.

"No, the county magistrate is a good official known to everyone in Wuming County. How could he make enemies with others?"

"Yes, the county magistrate loves the people like his own children and is deeply loved by the people of Baishui County..." the people who were accompanying the investigation said.

Mu Yunzhou was puzzled, that was strange...

Everyone was still lamenting that it was a pity that the Baishui County Magistrate died and that the murderer was cruel.

"Good official? But why did I hear that he recently defiled the innocence of a girl?" An emotionless voice came into everyone's ears from outside the door, and everyone was shocked and suspicious!

Upon hearing this, everyone looked towards the direction where the voice came from, and a few dissatisfied constables glared at the newcomers.

"What do you mean? Don't talk nonsense. Our county magistrate is a clean man and has never been involved in prostitution. How could he have done anything to tarnish the innocence of a woman?" The speaker was a woman.

Shen Qingxu looked up, and a hint of doubt flashed in her clear eyes.

The woman was dirty and in tattered clothes. She had been at the crime scene and no one had driven her away.

"Haha, why are you arguing for him again?" The man sneered and stared at the woman.

The woman was stared at so intensely that she raised her eyes and glared back: "Look, what are you looking at? I said the county magistrate didn't have it, and that's it."

Qingfang put her hand on her waist and prepared to take out the knife, but Shen Qingxu raised her hand to stop her. Then Shen Qingxu said, "Sister, we haven't confirmed the case yet, why are you in such a hurry?"

The woman did not flinch at all. She pointed at the young man and said, "The county magistrate has always been a clean man and would never do something as dirty as he said. On the contrary, he just came out of a brothel not long ago and was beaten out by a few pimps because he slept with a girl but had no money to pay."

The man's face suddenly turned red, and he flew into a rage: "You, you, you are so disgraceful, how could I be so... so vulgar..."

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