Chapter 58 Wild Woman
Situ Ce said: "You explained why you called Luo Ren to the house to accompany you overnight. We can understand it. We are very glad that you stopped the horse in time and did not ask Luo Ren to kill you. However, these still cannot help us find the real murderer. I need your help to recall it now. What else did you hear that night? Can we help us discover clues about the murderer?"
Gao lowered his head and thought for a long time, and said, "That night, I was confused and heard a vague sound. I was half-dream and half-awake, as if I dreamed of several village women washing clothes by the river, hitting clothes with laundry sticks, and having sex."
Situ Ce's heart was terrified. This should be the sound of the murderer hitting his body when the murderer was committing an attack! Gao continued: "I was so confused at that time that I thought it was a dream, so I didn't pay attention."
Situ Ce said: "Luo Ren said that night he heard a plop, as if something had fallen to the ground, which woke him up and heard footsteps again, but he didn't notice whether it was a man or a woman. Have you heard these sounds?"
Gao slowly shook his head, then supported his forehead with his fingers, frowned and thought, and after a long time, he suddenly said, "I didn't notice whether it was a fall, but it seemed like there was such a sound, but I couldn't remember it. However, when I heard the sound of slap before, I heard another sound, as if it was made when I tried hard, and the sound was a woman."
"The voice of a woman?" Situ Cexi said, "That's it! Didn't you say before that you seemed to dream of several peasant women washing clothes by the river and beating their clothes? You must have heard this sound, so you dreamed of this scene!"
"Woman?" He Lanbing frowned and said, "Is the murderer a woman? Judging from the cruel means of committing the crime, women can't do such a cruel thing, right?"
Situ Ce smiled and said, "Women are not worse than men when they are cruel!" He asked Gao again, "Think about it, who will it be?"
Gao shook his head: "I really don't know. If I had known, I would have told you a long time ago. And I wouldn't be sure that I really heard this sound, or was it an illusion in my dream."
Situ Ce was thinking in circles in the interrogation room with his hands behind his back. Suddenly, he stopped, turned around and said to Gao: "Luo Ren confessed earlier that a woman was pregnant with Mi Er's child and was seriously ill, so he asked Mi Er for money to treat the disease. Who is this woman?"
Gao was stunned: "It can't be her, right?"
"Why?"
"She is thin and afraid she can't even kill a chicken, and she can still kill people?"
"I didn't say that the murderer was her, I just looked for more clues. What happened to her?"
"She is the wild woman Mi Er is looking for outside! She is also shameless and comes to the door. I see her pitiful. Anyway, he will find another woman if he doesn't look for this woman. Instead of doing this, it's better to take her home. Anyway, she already has a child from the Mi family. Moreover, if one more woman is guarding her, maybe he will take care of the family more. So I advised him to take this woman home, but he didn't listen and said he didn't want me to care. He even beat me. Luo Rencai was angry."
"Do you know where she lives?"
Gao shook his head: "It's the wild woman Mi Er raised outside. How do I know where to live? Maybe it's a woman from a kiln! - But it doesn't look like her, she doesn't look like that kind of broken shoes."
"What does she look like? Can you tell me?"
"I am very petite and look careless, I am just young, probably less than twenty years old, and men like to chew tender grass!"
"I'll ask the yamen painter to come and draw the portrait as you said to find her, okay?"
"Yes, but she is really unlikely to be the murderer! She is too young to beat Mi Er at all - wait! By the way, I forgot one thing. That day, the day Mi Er was killed, I was going to ask Luo Ren to help me kill him, so I added the medicine that Dr. Xue prescribed to me and cooked a pot of medicinal chicken soup. I told him it was nourishing and was going to give him dinner, but he didn't come back, so I didn't eat it. However, when I went to the kitchen to cook that day, I found that most of the chicken soup had been drunk. It was probably because they brought it to drink it at night."
"Oh?" Situ Ce and He Lanbing were both surprised and happy, "So, Mi Er ate the chicken soup that calmed down and calmed the spirit in the middle of the night, and fell asleep?"
"It should be so."
"If this is the case, that weak woman could kill an adult man in a sudden attack! - Luo Ren said that when this woman came to your house to find Mi Er, he begged him to use silver to save the child, but Mi Er refused. In despair, the woman once said that if the child had any shortcomings, she would not let Mi Er go if she was a ghost. Is there any such thing?"
"Well, it was the day I advised Mi Erna to go home. She said that. Mi Er hit her and even hit me."
"So, this woman hates Mi Er very much!"
Helanbing said: "Do you suspect it was this woman?"
"Everything is possible!"
Situ Ce raised a finger and smiled, "This woman was abandoned by Mi Er at the beginning and ended up being abandoned. Mi Er did not care about her child. She must have hatred in her heart. Moreover, they both confirmed that this woman had threatened to be a ghost and would not let Mi Er go. This shows that at least she had a motive for murder! So, we must find her!"
"Okay, I'll send someone to find a painter right away!" Helan Bing said.
Soon, the painter of the yamen arrived and according to Gao's description, he drew the woman's appearance and body shape. After Gao's view, it was similar. At that moment, the painter drew a few more paintings, and Helanbing handed the paintings to the constables and asked them to go to Lifang in various streets to find this person immediately.
Gao had planned to kill someone and took premeditated actions for this purpose. He had violated the king's law and constituted a crime and was punished, so he was imprisoned and continued to be detained. Although Luo Ren was probably not the murderer, his criminal suspect had not been washed away before finding the real murderer, so he continued to be detained.
Two days passed, and on the third day, the head of the investigation Shi Meng, who was in charge of the investigation, finally brought good news and found the "wild woman" of Mi Eryang, named "Sister Yao Qi". He lived in the North City, but it was not convenient for them to bring them, so he had to ask the two masters to go to visit them in person. He Lanbing was very surprised that there was anything inconvenient for him to bring them, but the constables stammered and didn't say anything.
Helanbing and Situ Ce rode a horse and followed the constable to Beicheng. In a remote street, it was the woman's home.
This is a small courtyard, very exquisite. At the door were Xiao Mo Zi and several other constables and guards, and Min Zhuang was guarding him. When he saw Situ Ce and the others coming, he hurriedly bowed.
Helanbing said: "Where is that woman?"
Xiao Mouse said: "It's in the main room of the yard."
Helanbing and Situ Ce stepped into the yard and came to the main house. Yin Yadan, who was guarding the door, smiled and said, "Two masters, it's best to be careful when you go in."
"Be careful? What does it mean?" Situ Ceqi said.
"Hehe, you'll know after a while. Be careful anyway!"
He Lanbing waved the golden fan in his hand, picked up the curtain, and got into it. There was a lobby inside, with a square table, two chairs on both sides, and a mountain and water hall hanging in the middle. There were two wing rooms on the left.
Chapter completed!