Chapter 717: Headless Corpse
Guan Erye Guan Yu's mansion is very large, at least bigger than Hua Lang and Bao Zheng imagined.
When they came to Guangfu with Wei Huai, the prefect of Jinling, there was already a lot of crying in the mansion, and the most miserable ones were two men and a young woman.
The two men were white and beardless, the other was bearded, Hua Lang and Bao Zheng only glanced at each other, and they could almost guess who this person was, they heard the shopkeeper say in the only inn, Guan Erye Guan Yu has a big brother and a third brother, the eldest brother is called Liu Bei, and the third brother is called Zhang Fei, thinking that these two men are Liu Bei and Zhang Fei.
Because Guan Yu was murdered, his body is still in the study, but because it is summer now, it is not easy for the body to be put for a long time, so according to Liu Bei's instructions, the subordinates of the Guan Mansion have set up a mourning hall in the living room, and the coffin has been bought in the morning.
After Hua Lang and the others entered the courtyard, Liu Bei and Zhang Fei hurriedly greeted them, and after Wei Huai introduced Bao Zheng and Hua Lang to Liu Bei and Zhang Fei, he immediately ordered: "Uncle Liu, Zhang Sanye, take us to the scene of the murder to have a look." ”
Liu Bei and Zhang Fei are quite qualified in Jinling, so Wei Huai spoke to them very politely, and at this time, although Liu Bei and Zhang Fei were very sad, they had to nod their heads in agreement.
After a group of people came to the study, they saw a headless corpse lying on the table, and there was nothing above the neck of the corpse, so at a glance, they saw red blood, which was very scary, and because it was summer, the blood attracted a lot of flies, and the corpse crawling with flies gave people a feeling of wanting to retch.
That Wei Huai seemed to rarely see this kind of scene, so when he saw it, he immediately turned around and rushed out, he vomited outside for a long time, and felt that he was no longer so disgusting, so he entered the study, and when he entered the study, Hua Lang had already begun to examine the body.
Hua Lang found that the wound on the neck of the corpse was very unstable, as if he had been cut off with a sharp weapon after killing someone, but it was certain that the person who cut off the head was not an expert, otherwise the wound would not have been unstable.
After an examination of the body, Hwarang was certain that the deceased should have been killed after midnight last night, that there were no signs of poisoning on the top and bottom of the body, and that there were no other external wounds on the only remaining corpse, so the wound should be on the missing head.
After such an inspection, Hua Lang informed everyone of the results, and Bao Zheng listened to it and said, "It's really strange, why did the murderer take away the head after killing someone!" ”
At this time, Gongsun Ce looked at the corpse and said: "This corpse has no head, who can be sure that this must be Guan Yu, the second master of Guan Yu, could it be that Guan Yu is not dead, and this corpse is just a fake?" ”
This kind of thing Hualang has not encountered before, for example, Hualang They handled a case of Murong Tong to avenge his mother, he made himself a dead person first for a certain purpose, this method Murong Tong can think of, then others must also be able to expect it, not to mention that when Hualang saw Guan Erye Guan Yu in a single inn that day, his expression was indeed very flustered, did he meet some enemy, and in order to avoid the enemy, he had to find a corpse to pretend to be dead?
After Gongsun Ce finished speaking, everyone couldn't help but look at Guan Yu, the second master of Guan, although they couldn't see the head of the deceased now, but the figure was not much different from what they saw in the only inn that day, and the slightly bulging abdomen was the same as what they had seen before.
And when everyone looked at the corpse carefully, Liu Bei and Zhang Fei, who were standing on the side, hurriedly glanced at each other, and then Liu Bei hurriedly said: "This is the body of my second brother, there is no doubt that the three of us are brothers, can't we even distinguish the corpse of our second brother?" ”
After Liu Bei finished speaking, Zhang Fei also echoed: "That's right, my second brother likes food very much, and his stomach is the most powerful proof of this." ”
Many times, some performances really can't deceive the closest people, Hua Lang looked at the corpse for a long time, and then bowed slightly, turned to look at Liu Bei and the others, and asked, "Who first found Guan Yu's body?" ”
As soon as Hua Lang finished asking, the young woman who had been standing aside walked out, she looked sad, and first gave everyone a blessing, and then said: "It's me, I am the master's concubine slender waist, last night the master said that there was something to go to the study, so let me go to sleep alone, but I woke up after dawn today, and I didn't see the master go back to the bedroom to rest, I was a little worried, so I came to the study to check, but I just opened the door, and I saw the body of the master, and ...... And there was no head, I was very scared, so I hurriedly asked people to call the uncle and the third master, and then sent someone to the government to report the case. ”
After the thin waist finished speaking, Liu Bei and Zhang Fei hurriedly nodded to prove that this was indeed the case.
Hua Lang frowned slightly, looked at his thin waist and asked, "After you saw the corpse for the first time, you thought it was your master Guan Yu?" ”
Slender waist nodded: "The master only has a concubine like me, and I don't know the most about his body shape and habits." ”
Hua Lang pondered for a moment, and then asked, "Guan Yu came to the study last night, did he say what he was going to do?" ”
Slender waist shook his head: "This old man didn't say it, and his study never lets people in at ordinary times, even if I come in, I have to ask his permission." ”
"Did any guests visit the house last night?"
Slender waist hesitated slightly, then shook his head and said, "No! ”
"Has anyone touched anything in the room since the body was found?"
"No, because the master's head is missing, so I'm very worried, and after sending someone to call the uncle and the third master, I ordered someone to block the scene."
Hua Lang seemed to be very satisfied with this point of the thin waist, and after he nodded slightly, he observed the furnishings in the study, and saw that on the table and chair in the study, there was a pot of wine, a wine glass, the wine glass had been poured at this time, but the inside was dry, and the wine pot could still smell the aroma of wine, and at the mouth of the wine jug, there was a fly, which seemed to be not afraid of people, buzzing.
The study room is slightly messy, many of the books on the shelves on the wall are thrown to the ground, Hualang picked up a few books to see, and found that it is a very popular book such as "Zuo Chuan" and "Spring and Autumn", of course, there is also a collection of words from the late Tang Dynasty to the Five Dynasties of the Huajian School, which has recorded the words made by famous lyricists in this period, such as Wen Tingyun's Bodhisattva Man, of course, the words of Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty, must also be a lot, but the words of Li Yu recorded in this collection are mostly the words before the Southern Tang Dynasty broke the country, Most of these words are written in a glamorous and leisurely manner, and their literary value is not very high, but they are extremely helpful for studying the trivial matters of Li Yu's life when he was emperor.