My father-in-law said, "My daughter-in-law is a good person, and she is the most filial. She has been filial and widowed for so many years. Unexpectedly, she will be killed by someone. This is what we are reliable in the future? Who will support us in the old age and see us off? Master, you want to avenge my daughter-in-law."

Lu Jinping nodded and said, "I am sad and follow the changes. I want to ask you some questions now, and you must answer them truthfully."

The two of them then closed their tears, stood up, stood with their hands hanging down, waiting for Lu Jinping to ask.

Lu Jinping said: "What do you call me?"

The old man said, "The old man's surname is Han. If the Lord is proud of his face, he can call the old man a "Master's Outsider."

Lu Jinping took a look and saw that he was wearing a coarse cloth shirt, a bun, and a headscarf. His clothes were very simple, not like a rich man.

The old man seemed to see Lu Jinping's doubts and hurriedly said with a smile: "The old man was also rich in his early years. However, my son was not good at doing well and lost all his property. He died of illness himself. That's why my family is like this. When I was young, I used to be a village official in our village. Later, because of the decline of the family..., alas, I won't talk anymore."

The village on the side quickly testified, "Yes, yes, Han Zhang's wealth was amazing in the past. It's all his fault for giving birth to an unfilial son. This is all fate. The people in our village still respect Han Zhang. They still call him a minister's wife until now."

Lu Jinping nodded and said, "Since that's the case, Mr. Han, let's talk about how you discovered your daughter-in-law's body?"

When Jin Yuanwai saw this, tears rolled down again. He sobbed and wiped his tears, saying, "This morning, my daughter-in-law said that he was going to Jia Jiangui's house to borrow some rice, because Jia Feng, the son of Jia, has always coveted our daughter-in-law. He once came to the door to spend money to marry him. I said that she had to decide on this and my daughter-in-law would not do it. She insisted on being a widow for my son for life. Although my daughter-in-law refused his proposal, Jia Feng never gave up and often came to find my daughter-in-law."

"Our Jia family has a devastating family and cannot continue their life. My wife and I are both older, and the farm work in the field depends on my daughter-in-law alone. How can we be busy? The family has not much land, so it is very tight to support our three. In addition, the harvest is not good and the green and yellow are not allowed to take care of us. My daughter-in-law also feels sorry for our old couple and wants to deal with him and borrow some money and food from him to live."

"Today, the rice jar was empty again. My daughter-in-law was filial, so she offered to go find Jia Feng and borrow some rice. After autumn, she returned it to him. I had no way to support the family and the young, so I could only watch my daughter-in-law be wronged and smiled. Unexpectedly, my daughter-in-law went out for a long time, but after noon, we couldn't sit still, so we went out to find her and went to Jiangui Jia's house. Jiangui Jia and his son denied that my daughter-in-law had come to find them. He said he had never seen her before. Then we were anxious and searched everywhere. After finding this toilet, we found that my daughter-in-law was raped by someone taking off her skirt and tragically died in this toilet. Master, my daughter-in-law is a good wife in the sky and nowhere to be killed. She died so miserably. Master, you have to make the decision for my family."

Lu Jinping nodded and looked at the crying woman, saying, "Mrs. Han, is that happening at that time?"

Mrs. Han nodded and said, "Yes, my daughter-in-law went out early in the morning and said she was going to Jia Yuanwai's house to find his son, with the purpose of borrowing some money. My master and I were waiting at home. After noon, he didn't come back, so I rushed to find him. When I arrived at Jiangui Jia's house, he said he didn't see him. Finally, we found the daughter-in-law's body in this toilet, with her naked legs and her skirts leaning against her ankles. It's so pitiful, my son." Speaking of this, the old woman burst into tears, heart-wrenching.

Lu Jinping looked around and asked the village, "Whose vegetable field belongs to this vegetable field?"

Before the village could answer, a thin middle-aged man standing next to the cottage, who had been bent down with his head hanging down and bent over, hurriedly walked up a few steps, saying, "Report to the master, this vegetable field belongs to a villain. The villain's surname is Cai, and his ancestors all made a living by growing vegetables for three generations. This large piece of vegetable field is a villain."

Lu Jinping glanced at him and saw his sharp-mouthed cheeks, his two horoscopes drooping eyebrows, and his appearance was a bit vulgar. On a hot day, he held his sleeves, as if he was very nervous.

Lu Jinping asked: "Where are you here this day?"

The villain has been resting in the shack. Who dares to come out on such a hot day? The sun is so hot? It would be strange if you don’t lose a layer of skin."

"Where is your home?"

The vegetable farmer turned around and pointed to a shack at the other end of the vegetable field. The shack was supported by four pillars, hanging in the air, and a ladder climbed up. It was surrounded by bamboo mats, but the wind was on the top. It seemed that it was the place where you lived in summer when you watched vegetables.

Lu Jinping asked: "Did you squat in the vegetable shed all day and didn't come out?"

"It's true that the sun is too spicy. I just slept in the store. Here, I can see the vegetable field even with the door open, so even if someone comes to steal vegetables, I can see it."

"Then have you seen Mr. Jin's daughter-in-law pass by here?"

The vegetable farmer tilted his head and thought for a moment, saying, "I really can't remember it, because the sun was too spicy during the day, and I was drowsy and I woke up after sleeping. I really didn't notice it. Did he pass by here? I leaned on the way out of the village next to the vegetable field. If she went to the parents' house from here, she would definitely pass this road, but I really didn't notice it. I just said, I might have passed by when I was asleep, right?"

If not, you ask: "Is that shopkeeper's house outside the village?"

The village next to him was hurriedly saying, "No, no, just the other way around, the storekeeper Jia's family is in the village. Han Yuanwai and his wife live outside the village. Their old house has been sold and they have built a simple house outside the village. Because the land in the village cannot be afforded, they built a shed on the hillside outside the village, which is two miles away, right next to their family's thin land."

Lu Jinping was a little sympathetic. He glanced at Han Yuanwai. It seemed that this Yuanwai was really pitiful. He was even worse than before. Although his family was in a bad state, he still had an old house. He even sold the house and could only move out of the village to build a small wooden house by the field. He lived so poorly this day, but he still liked face and insisted on putting gold on his face. If someone called him, he would really suffer if he wanted to live with face.

Lu Jinping looked at the toilet where the body was found. It was made of adobe house, made of adobe, and covered with flat plates. There was only one wooden door. The wooden door was open, and a stench floated out of the toilet and rushed straight into his nose. When he looked in, he saw a large pit dug in the toilet, which had accumulated more than half of the feces and urine, and two wide boards were built on it, which was considered a squat pit.

Lu Jinping turned around and said to the vegetable farmer: "Who repaired this toilet?"

"I repaired it, and it was newly repaired this year."

"Your shack is on the other side of the vegetable field, why did you repair the toilet here?"

"It smells so bad when I get close. In recent years, my vegetable business has been booming. I have made some money. I relied on feces and urine to make fertilizers. So I built a toilet here, which was built on the side of the road. It is convenient for passers-by to enter the toilet. At the same time, I also gave me some fertilizer to accumulate. The vegetable field can also be used, which seems to be a one-stop kill. Hehe."

The vegetable farmer was quite proud of his scheming. He grinned and showed his yellow teeth and smiled dryly, but when he saw Lu Jinping staring at him with no smile, he still hurriedly stopped his smile in embarrassment.

Lu Jinping looked back at the toilet and said, "You don't have a window? It smells so bad, who would like to go in to use the toilet?"

"We rural people don't care about this, because my cesspool is very large, and it is far from enough to rely on people from the past to scatter and pee. I have to go to various villages to collect scatter and pee, and then pour it into it to stock up. The vegetable garden is too big and requires too much fertilizer. Only in this way can it be enough for the vegetable field. In order to save money, I repaired it myself. I originally wanted to repair a window, but I don't know how to repair the windows, so I just built it with adobe, cover it. Anyway, it's a toilet, so I don't have to pay attention to it."

Lu Jinping nodded, thinking that this is the truth.

He then walked to the corpse, squatted down, carefully uncovered the straw mat, and saw a corpse lying underneath. The skirt was pulled up to cover his lower body. He asked, "How was the corpse discovered?"

The village on the side was laughing and said, "Sir, after they found that their daughter-in-law died in the toilet, one stayed there and cried and robbed the sky and the other ran to the village to call me. I followed him and saw his daughter-in-law lying naked on the wooden board of the squatting pit in the toilet, with her legs apart. I asked her mother-in-law to pull her skirt up and cover the body. The toilet was too smelly. The body was placed on the grass, and I went to find a vegetable farmer to pull a straw mat to cover the body. When I found it, she was naked. It was not like this now."

Lu Jinping nodded and said nothing, because his eyes were attracted by the cyanotic color of the body and face, especially the lips. This is a typical characteristic of suffocation and death!

His eyes fell on the nails of the deceased's hands again, and the nails were cyanotic. This further proved that the deceased died of suffocation.

However, in addition to the death caused by mechanical asphyxiation, which can cause cyanosis of the corpse's lips, hands, fingers and nails, there are other reasons that can also lead to this phenomenon. Therefore, Lu Jinping must further verify his speculation, that is, to dissect the corpse.

The Tang Dynasty government did not need to ask the consent of the deceased's family to dissect the body, but Lu Jinping still asked Han Yuanwai and his wife, telling them that they would dissect their daughter-in-law to find out the real cause of death and find clues of the murder so that the murderer could finally be brought to justice. Hearing Lu Jinping's explanation, the old couple looked at each other, pondered for a moment, and then nodded slowly.
Chapter completed!