Lu Jinping thought, since that's the case, helping others to the end, let this poor little girl follow her and be a little maid by her side rather than being froze and hungry in this remote countryside.: 6d, she should be able to train her.

So Lu Jinping turned his head and looked at Ye Qingqing. Before he could speak, Ye Qingqing had already begged: "Sir, why don't you take her away and take care of you with me. Our inner house is short of staff."

Lu Jinping nodded and said, "Since that's the case, you can follow me."

When the old man heard this, a stone in his heart finally fell to the ground. He couldn't help but feel happy and sad, and couldn't help but burst into tears.

Lu Jinping asked, "Your son is dead, and you gave me your granddaughter again. What should you do if you are alone?"

Old Man Su wiped his tears and said, "Even if the third sister stays by my side, she will have to get married in a few years. She can't stay with me for the rest of her life. Our family is poor and cannot recruit son-in-laws, so it is her blessing to follow the Lord. I have a cousin who has several sons. Last time I discussed with me that no one will inherit my son after my son dies. I still have a few acres of thin land. It's okay to support two or three people, but I lack labor. At that time, my cousin will adopt a son as his heir and will support me in my old age and send him the rest. So there is no need to worry. I have told the third sister all these words, so she will follow you with confidence."

Lu Jinping nodded. Judging from the previous investigation, what Mr. Su said was the truth. Their family had land and land, but they were short of labor. His son had not had good farming after he became ill, so he was not doing well. If he really adopted a capable son, farmed seriously and supported them, he would not have to worry.

Lu Jinping said goodbye immediately and took Ye Qingqing and Su Sanmei to the village chief's house. After meeting with Tong County Magistrate and the others, he set off to return to Tongguan City.

The head of the winter melon was finally executed. Old Man Su happily paid tribute to his son's grave and fulfilled this wish. The adopted son of his cousin was also very diligent and filial. After Su Sanmei followed Lu Jinping, she had a lot of monthly money every month. After saving it, she bought some things for her grandfather from time to time to give her filial piety. Old Man Su felt very comforted and lived a peaceful and healthy life from then on.

Lu Jinping and the magistrate Tong County arrived at Tongguan. Then the county magistrate took the constable and escorted Donggua Tou and Lu Jinping to Tongzhou to excavate the bodies of Gao Laoer and the coachman. Sure enough, under the old locust tree by the Tongzhou River at the foot of Yunya Mountain, under the guidance of Donggua Tou, two corpses were dug out, both of which were fatal injuries.

These two corpses were buried directly in the soil. It was the cold winter month again. So the level of time was not high. One of the two corpses should be dressed as the coachman, with many knife wounds on his body. The other chariot was dressed in gorgeous clothes, probably Gao Lao Er. There was only one knife on the neck, which was consistent with what the winter melon head said.

After carefully identifying the corpse, Lu Jinping found that the corpse's face was slightly purple and its lips were cyanotic. There was a very thin mark that was faintly visible on the neck that had begun to decay. Because the body was buried directly in the soil, the neck was full of soil. In addition to the rotten muscle layer, only professional forensic doctors like Lu Jinping who had experienced countless autopsies could recognize that it was a mark.

When interrogating Donggua Head, Donggua Head only said that it stabbed Gao Lao Er's neck with a sharp knives, and did not say that it would strangle him with a rope. Since Donggua Head had admitted to killing people, he would not conceal his methods of killing people. From this, it can be judged that this mark should not have been implemented by Donggua Head.

Lu Jinping needed to find further evidence. So, he asked Tong County Magistrate and others to leave far away. He wanted to dissect the body himself.

Lu Jinping was Shangguan, so he certainly did not dare to disobey his words. Although the case was from Tongguan, he avoided it from afar. Lu Jinping dismantled the body at the scene.

After the decomposition, several evidence of mechanical asphyxiation was found from the internal organs of the body, and after dissecting the wound on the neck, it was found that there was no life response. It was finally proved that the mark on Gao Lao Er's neck was a fatal injury. He died of mechanical asphyxiation, not the knife of the winter melon head. In other words, the deceased had died before the winter melon head stabbed into his throat with a cow-eared knife.

Who killed Gao Laoer? Why did he kill him?

Lu Jinping had almost no difficulty thinking about this question and got an obvious answer, killing people to silence them.

Judging from what Donggua Tou said before, Gao Laoer said that he had found this errand. It seems that the person hiding in the house entrusted Gao Laoer to deliver the body. Gao Laoer happened to meet Donggua Tou and asked him to help him, but neither of them expected that the person who entrusted them had no intention of letting them survive from the beginning, so they were ready to silence them, so they committed murder and silence them after they completed the task.

It is very likely that the killer was about to continue killing the Donggua Head after killing Gao Lao Er. Unexpectedly, the Donggua Head was not in the house. The killer could not have seen Donggua Head go to Gao Lao Er, and transported the body away and buried it, and then fled back to his hometown overnight. The killer could not find Donggua Head, nor did he know where the Donggua Head's hometown was. In ancient times when information was underdeveloped, it was very difficult to find someone, which made Donggua Head lucky to escape from the murder and silence him.

From this point of view, the person who entrusted Gao Laoer and Donggua Tou to transport the body in the house that day was the one he was looking for.

Who is this person?

Of course, these are just Lu Jinping's speculations.

The only clue now is that Gao Lao Er is dead. The person who Gao Lao Er pulled from had never seen that person. Lu Jinping decided to go to the yard at that time to see the situation.

Lu Jinping ordered the constable to inform Boss Gao to identify the body, and in addition, he visited the coachman's family and asked them to collect the body. At the same time, Lu Jinping took someone to escort Donggua Head and asked him to guide him to the courtyard where they transported the body at that time.

When they got there, Lu Jinping and Ye Qingqing looked at each other. As Lu Jinping expected, this place was not far from the hunting wilderness where they encountered a man in black.

From this, they further confirmed that the person who entrusted Gao Laoer and Donggua Tou to transport the corpses must be in the same group as the man in black who ambushed him. They found the bodies of two men in black buried by Lu Jinping and transported them back to the capital.

Since they transported the bodies back to the capital, does that mean that these people are from the capital?

Lu Jinping's heart skipped a beat, but don't have anything to do with the high-ranking officials in the capital.

Lu Jinping looked at the locked courtyard gate and ordered Captain Xiong to climb over the wall to see if there were anyone inside. As a result, after entering, he found that the door inside was also locked. Looking through the crack of the window, there was no one inside, or even no furniture, and it looked like an abandoned house.

Lu Jinping ordered to unblock the lock, open the door and check it in. At the same time, he asked the constable to go around to search for nearby families. Finally, he found an old man who lived not far away. The old man laughed and told Lu Jinping that the family had moved away a year ago, and the house was empty and there was no one.

When Donggua Tou heard this, she was stunned and said, "When I came, there were people here, but I didn't care about this at that time, so I saw a carriage parked in the yard. After discussing with them, I drove the carriage away. I didn't pay attention to whether there were people in the house or whether there were furniture.

Lu Jinping stepped in and found that there was nothing in the main hall. There was a bedroom next to it. He picked up the door curtain and went in. There was a wooden bed inside, without a bed cover, only a bed frame. There was a couch next to the window. There was a scarlet cushion on the couch. Some dust had fallen.

The whole room was just one place where someone had lived. But for some reason, the cushion was not taken away.

Lu Jinping was as if he had found a treasure, so he immediately observed the cushion carefully. Suddenly, he found a long black hair on the cushion.

Lu Jinping was overjoyed. He carefully picked up the long hair and looked carefully in the sun. There were hair follicles on the hair. This means that this hair can be identified.

Lu Jinping was very excited. At least he could get an important clue from this. Who was the person who explained the matter to Gao Laoer in the house? He could find out some clues from the identification results.

Continue searching, no suspicious traces were found.

After finishing the work, Lu Jinping didn't even go home, so he directly ordered to go to the capital. He wanted to find the clue earlier, so he kept escorting the criminal Donggua Tou to the capital, identifying the Yunlai Inn where he handed over the body at that time. Now, this is his greatest hope, and he hopes to track down this clue, so he can't delay a minute.

The Dong County Magistrate and the others did not expect that the case would involve the capital, and they couldn't help but feel a little panic. However, with Lu Jinping standing in front of him, they could only grit their teeth and follow them into the capital.

It was the first time for Lu Jinping to enter the capital. Although Tongzhou is not far from the capital, he has not been to the capital for so long in Tongzhou.

The capital of Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, was the world's economic and cultural center at that time. There were people from all over the world who came to worship and study abroad. It was one of the most prosperous cities in the world. There are so many famous sayings and sentences in Tang poetry that praise this beautiful city. Today, I can finally go and find out because of business.

They could have been traveling day and night, and finally arrived outside Chang'an City.

Chang'an City is indeed extraordinary. The city walls are tall and majestic, and there are endless streams of entry and exit. Moreover, the inspection is very strict. However, after Lu Jinping and his friends showed their official documents and waist signs, the officers and soldiers guarding the city politely let them in.
Chapter completed!