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"I suspect that the murderer is the wife of the deceased, but she is the least likely to be her." County magistrate Zhen was so happy that he poured out everything, "Once the deceased is dead, depending on the attitude of the old couple towards her, She will most likely be sent back to her natal family."

"Maybe she doesn't want to live anymore." Saburo asked.

Zhen Qingming shook his head, "Impossible. If she didn't want to live, she would hang herself or hit her head to death this morning, and she wouldn't wait until the government came to arrest her."

"You said just now that her mother-in-law scolded her as an unclean person? What did you find out?" Saburo really wanted to see the deceased's wife.

"Not yet." Zhen Qingming picked up a piece of white stuff, "Is this a squid?"

"Yes, have you ever eaten?" He laughed suddenly, "Forgot, there is nothing in this world that you haven't eaten."

"I've eaten it once, and it didn't taste very good, so I remember it clearly." Zhen Qingming said, "This sweet and sour fish dish is delicious, and the fish bones are all fried by you. Don't worry about getting stuck, it's too—"

"What's wrong?" Saburo was stunned when he saw him suddenly, "Isn't it really stuck?"

"No. It suddenly occurred to me that the deceased might have been stuck by a dumpling, but it was impossible." Zhen Qingming shook his head as he spoke.

"You are really stunned by the case. How could the dumplings be stuck to death?" Sanlang said while looking around, waiting for him to eat, but the wife of the deceased never came out. He didn't wait long.

Not long after Saburo left, the doctor from the county arrived, and after a detailed examination, "My lord, the deceased did not die of a disease."

Really suffocated?Zhen Qingming was not sure, thinking of the bowl that was collected by Donglai immediately, "Take this bowl of unfinished dumplings away, I will check in detail." He glanced at the three members of the Han family, "Carry the body to Yizhuang first, The three of you are not allowed to leave Han Dazhuang while this officer is solving the case."

"Yes, my lord!" The three of them had no objection.

Immediately, Zhen Qingming returned to Taoyuan County with a group of yamen servants. When he arrived at the county yamen, he asked the yamen servants to inquire about the deceased's visit to Hualou.And he walked to the next door with the bowl used by the dead.

Sanlang Huohaomian was stewing meat. Seeing him coming, he opened his mouth and asked, "Are you hungry again?"

"I'm not a pig." Zhen Qingming rubbed Xiao Wu's head, which came out to meet him, and walked up to the pot, letting Mrs. Sun out. He sat down on the small bench, "Do you want to light a fire?"

"Just add two branches." Seeing him bowing his head and looking thoughtful, Saburo couldn't help asking, "Is this case difficult?"

"It's not difficult to say. Only the wife of the deceased had a motive to kill. She would certainly do it if she arrested and beat him up. But you also know that I would never use torture if I didn't meet someone like Ding Dazhuang who is inhumane." Zhen Qingming said, "The crux of the matter is that I haven't figured out the cause of death yet."

Saburo thought to himself, if it weren't for fear of your suspicion, I would have gone to the deceased's wife a long time ago.Seeing that he was not worried, he simply said, "Why don't you tell me, one person counts the short, and two count the long."

Zhen Qingming thought for a moment, "That's right, it's clear to the bystanders. What do you want to hear?"

"Why does Xiao Han insist that her husband was killed by her mother-in-law?" Sanlang had a general understanding of the case, so he asked himself what he didn't understand first.

Zhen Qingming repeated what Xiao Han said to him, "However, I think it's not normal for the deceased to be so unmotivated and his mother not to scold him, so I suspect that the other party intends to mislead me."

"Do you know why she misled you?" Saburo asked with a smile.

"Isn't it the notice I wrote 'Parents and elders are not allowed to abuse the younger generation for no reason'? Half a month after the notice was posted, the mother of the deceased was still nagging and cursing her son. The other party probably wanted me to arrest her mother-in-law first."

"The reality is that not only did you not catch her, but you even suspected her. I guess that woman never thought of it in her dreams." San Lang said, "She treats you like a slut who doesn't eat fireworks. Don't even think about it, since you can write That notice, of course, has some understanding of the lives of the people.

"Rural people educate their children and believe that a filial son is born with a stick. The deceased is in his 20s and still has no business. If it were my son, I would have beaten him to pieces."

"Fortunately, Xiao Wu is not your son." Zhen Qingming looked at him gnashing his teeth, extremely amused, "Anything else?"

"Yes." Saburo said, "You didn't find out that the woman had an affair with others, so did you find out that she has a childhood sweetheart?"

"Childhood sweetheart?" County magistrate Zhen, who was devoted to her career, was taken aback, "You mean you want me to send someone to her mother's house to check?"

"That's right." Sanlang nodded, "She is often subjected to domestic violence, but the villagers say she is virtuous and has a good temper. If this is the case, the deceased can tolerate his mother's abuse, so why would he beat the person next to him from time to time? Mile."

"That's right." The ruthless magistrate Zhen never thought about it that way. As soon as Saburo said it, he connected everything together. "In the case of Xiaohan's natal family, if only because the deceased lingered in the flowers, she would not only He will not quarrel with the deceased, and will turn a blind eye to ensure that he will not go to court.

In this way, the deceased did not lose his temper at her, and combined with the impression of her from the neighbors, the deceased had no reason to beat her all over her body, and there was no good place for her. "

"Yes. Also, if the deceased is unhappy, he can go to Hualou to find his lover. Anyway, the deceased's parents have nothing to do with their son, and let him eat the old man."

Zhen Qingming rubbed his chin, "I think, if there is no support behind Xiao Han, once her husband dies, she will be sent back to her natal family, and then sold by her mother, maybe the people she meets will be worse than the deceased."

"Yes, women tend to get dizzy when they encounter love." She raised her eyebrows, "It seems that you will solve the case in a few days."

"It's early." Seeing him serving the meat, Zhen Qingming picked up a piece of meat with his chopsticks, and sucked his mouth hot, "By the way, you are so good at cooking, let's see what's different about this bowl of dumplings?"

"Isn't the deceased showing no signs of poisoning?" Saburo wondered.

Zhen Qingming nodded his head, "I know. The dumplings are not poisonous, the doctor has already checked them. However, the deceased died while eating the dumplings. If I don't break the dumplings and check them one by one, I don't feel relieved."

"This family is really serious. It doesn't take too much trouble to eat dumplings early in the morning." Sanlang muttered and took the bowl.

"Wait! I just remembered. On the Han family's dining table, only the deceased had dumplings in front of him. What does that mean?"

"It means that the deceased is just as his mother said, picky, lazy, and loses his temper when he doesn't like it. He wants to eat dumplings early in the morning, so his mother can only make him." Sanlang said, smashing the remaining three dumplings.Suddenly, he paused, "No!"

"What's the matter?" Zhen Qingming raised his feet and walked around him, looking like Sanlang leaning on his arms from the side.

"Stay away from me." The hot breath sprayed on Saburo's ears, and Saburo was very uncomfortable.

"They're all men, and they're afraid that I'll take advantage of you." He deliberately blew into his ear, and saw that Sanlang's ears turned red instantly, as if he had discovered a shocking secret, "Hahaha, you're so funny, it's embarrassing .” As she spoke, she reached out and touched his ear.

His body trembled, and Saburo's scalp went numb, "Let go!"

"Not loose." Zhen Qingming flicked his earlobe again with his hand disabled, immediately annoyed Saburo, "Isn't it childish? Boring or not? Do you still want to know what I found?"

"Say it." It was the first time Zhen Qingming found out that Sanlang was so playful, so he simply lay on his back, put his arms on his shoulders, played with his ears from time to time with his paws, and pointed to the bowl with one finger, "meat, dough, other than these What else?"

Saburo took a deep breath, and suppressed the urge to kick him away, "There is a dumpling skin that seems to have glutinous rice flour mixed in it."

Zhen Qingming asked: "And then?"

"Get up." Saburo said.

Zhen Qingming saw that his reaction was fun and teased him, and he was more serious than Saburo when he talked about business, so he stood up straight and took a step back.

Saburo was satisfied, and remembered what they discussed at noon, "Go find a cat, I want to do an experiment."

After he finished speaking, Donglai brought a three-colored cat within a short while.Saburo put three relatively complete dumpling stuffings on the ground, and the kitten bit the rightmost stuffing first with a "baa".

"What's going on here? Shouldn't we eat the one closest to it first?" Zhen Qingming asked with wide-eyed eyes.

"Because this stuffing has a fishy smell." Saburo said affirmatively.

"What do you mean?" The county magistrate Zhen, who has cracked hundreds of cases and has read poetry and books, is very puzzled.

Saburo thought about it, "If, I mean, if I'm not wrong, there should be a dumpling deep in the deceased's throat that he didn't swallow. And this dumpling skin is mixed with half of glutinous rice flour, and there is a fishbone in the glutinous rice skin ?”

"When the deceased was stuck by the fishbone, he wanted to spit out the dumplings, but the glutinous rice skin stuck to his throat, so he choked to death?"

"Yes, as you said earlier, dumplings can also choke people to death." Saburo nodded, "But this is just my guess, it may not be true."

"It must be true!" Zhen Qingming raised his hand and slapped him on the shoulder, "Nice job!" After speaking, he lifted his leg and walked out.

"Wait a minute." Saburo hurriedly stopped him, "What's for dinner?"

"Dumplings." Turning around, "I saw two catfish in the basin, I want to eat catfish dumplings!"

"Get out!" Sanlang raised his hand and threw the bowl out. With a "click", Zhen Qingming jumped up and shouted eagerly, "This is evidence, this is evidence!"

Saburo didn't care about his evidence, after frying the vegetables, he took the meat and vegetables and was ready to start making pancakes.

Zhen Qingming went back and arranged for someone to check Xiaohan's bamboo horse, and then returned to Sanlang's side.

San Lang rolled his eyes at him, "If you don't want to catch the real culprit, what are you doing here?"

At this time, no one came to buy cakes, so Zhen Qingming pulled a stool and sat beside him, obviously thinking about the case, but said, "Help me out."

"I dare not use you." Saburo said angrily.

Zhen Qingming grinned and said, "I was joking with you just now, I am afraid that I will be caught by a fishbone. And once it is confirmed that the Xiaohan family really has a bamboo horse, and the yamen finds any clues from the flower building, it will not be long before I go to Han Dazhuang Captured."

"Just let Cao Yamen take someone there."

"No way. If the Han family doesn't have glutinous rice and hasn't eaten fish recently, the previous speculation will have to be overthrown and restarted."

"No way?" Saburo and Noodle stopped, "How about I go with you?"

"What are you going to do?" His kindness was appreciated by the county magistrate, "Don't worry, there is no case that can stump me so far."

Saburo thought to himself, no matter how good you are, you are not as good at reading minds as I am, so he said, "If you let me follow, we will eat fish dumplings at night."