Cha Dongqing's home lives in Xingxiang Lane in the south of the outer city.

When Chen Mu entered the yard, he saw Du Juan's body had been put into the coffin, and other relatives and friends were busy setting up mourning halls.

The scholar Cha Dongqing, who was crying and swollen eyes, knelt on the straw mat, his eyes were dull.

Like a puppet without a soul.

Everyone was surprised to see Chen Mu in public uniform. A thin middle-aged man hurriedly stepped forward and saluted: "Two officials are..."

"Let's come here and take a look." Chen Mu smiled.

Just take a look?

The middle-aged man frowned slightly, as if he understood something, and quietly slipped out of his sleeve and handed it to Chen Mu, with a bright smile:

"The two officials took this little tea and water money first, and you have worked hard to handle the case early this morning."

Obviously, the middle-aged man misunderstood and thought Chen Mu was here to collect fees.

Generally, when yamen runners go on business trips, they can get fees or bribes.

When handling cases, the parties will be charged some car fares, shoes, socks, meals, tea and so on, and these prefectures and counties are all default.

Some wealthy families secretly gave some bribes after they had a case.

Especially in bustling areas like Beijing, there are many expenses, and there are even thousands of taels of silver in a year.

In general, it's full of oil and water.

Of course, the more you get, the greater the risk, especially the murder case, so most yamen operators are not too greedy and can stop at the right time.

"The money for tea is exempted, we are here to handle the case."

Chen Mu pushed off the broken silver.

Handling a case?

Seeing that Chen Mu didn't want to be joking, the man put away the money in disappointment and said in confusion: "Official, isn't the case over?"

"You go and do your business, we can just take a walk."

Chen Mu didn't want to say much.

Seeing this, the man was not asking anything, so he had to step down.

Cha Dongqing's yard is very small and clean. There are flowers and plants planted in a corner of the yard, which is quite lush. It can be seen that the cuckoos are taking good care of them on weekdays.

There are only four rooms in the house.

Master bedroom, side room, kitchen and a utility room.

Before pushing open the bedroom door, Chen Mu paid close attention to the door bolt. There were traces of iron wire scraping on it. It should have been opened from outside with a hooking device.

The courtyard gate was normal, with remaining footprints beside the low wall, and the three servants climbed over the wall.

There were signs of damage to the window paper outside the house. The case mentioned that they used a cigarette to unconscious women and then carried them out of the house.

Judging from the damage marks, the smoke pipe is used.

The layout of the house is very simple. Although there are no valuable items, some simple decorations are placed in a comfortable place.

It can be seen that women used to have a good tutoring.

The tables and chairs were well organized, with quilts piled on the bed in the corner of the wall, and there was a pink satin-soled flower embroidered shoe under the table, and the other shoe was attached to a corner of the bed.

It was probably the three servants who accidentally kicked the embroidered shoes while carrying the woman.

Chen Mu looked around carefully and found nothing else.

If we look at it from the surface, it is completely consistent with the description of the case, and there are even some small details that are not wrong.

It can be seen that the case handling ability of the government office and Liushemen is still very good.

If Chen Mu hadn't discovered the algae in the woman's nasal cavity, the case would have been closed now.

Unfortunately, he discovered it.

That means there is still something wrong with the case.

"Sir, just now... you did it on purpose." Wang Fafa, who was following behind, couldn't help asking.

"What was intentional."

Chen Mu picked up the thin quilt on the bed and put it on the tip of his nose and smelled it.

Similar to jasmine fragrance.

This fragrance should be specially smoked by picking some herbs.

Wang Fafa said slowly: "My lord's approach in front of the yamen is a bit too radical. After all, you officially took office on the first day. Even if the new official takes office three times, it would be too impatient to burn it now."

It can be seen that Wang Fafa was kind to remind him.

Chen Mu smiled faintly: "Do you think I'm demonstrating?"

Wang Fafa frowned.

Chen Mu walked to the table, picked up the teapot and sniffed it, and said lightly: "Sometimes the demonstrations also express weakness on behalf of others, demonstrating against the subordinates, and showing weakness on the superiors. In fact, Lord Leng is the happiest way I do in front of the yamen."

"I see."

Wang Fafa looked suddenly, "Mr. Leng doesn't like people who are too cunning. It's not bad if he is reckless."

"No, he just needs me to express his opinion."

"Show your opinion?"

"Boss Wang, don't pretend to be stupid, just let's understand it in our hearts."

Chen Mu smiled and patted the other person's chest.

After Chen Mu saw through his thoughts, Wang Fafa smiled awkwardly and changed the topic: "Does adults think there is something wrong with this case?"

“There is a problem.”

Chen Mu took a deep breath and handed the teapot to the other party, "Smell it, what kind of tea is this?"

Wang Fafa was not sure, so he took the teapot and came closer to smell it, frowned and said, "It seems to be ordinary rough tea, but it has a bit of herbal flavor. However, it is normal to add herbs to the tea. Many people will do this, nourishing the body or something."

"Yes, it's normal."

“…”

Wang Fafa was speechless. Since it was normal, what would you let me smell?

Chen Mu reached into the teapot, took out a brown medicine similar to winter, spring and summer grass, and asked, "What kind of medicine is this?"

"Is this...Cassia Lotus Seed Grass?"

After Wang Fafa carefully identified it, he murmured. "This herb is usually used for women to induce pregnancy, that is to say..."

He widened his eyes: "Dujuan may be pregnant!"

Chen Mu put the herbs into the notebook and said lightly: "Maybe I am pregnant, maybe I am preparing to get pregnant, and it will be confirmed unless the autopsy is done."

Wang Fafa looked heavy.

If Du Juan becomes pregnant, the case will be even more serious, which means one corpse and two lives will be killed.

Chen Mu searched carefully in the house and found some longans, peanuts, red dates, etc., which were all auspicious things that represent the birth of children.

"Boss Wang, there should be friends in this yard who accompanied Cha Dongqing to drink last night. Please help me make a record..."

Chen Mu tore off a piece of paper, wrote a few questions on it with a charcoal pen, and handed them to Wang Fafa, "You must ask separately, don't let them go together. Try to stagger the questions when asking, or you can ask in a different way."

"Okay, I get it."

Although he was puzzled by Chen Mu's purpose of doing this, Wang Fafa still took the paper out.

While the other party was taking a record, Chen Mu went to the kitchen for a walk. The kitchen was also cleaned up, and Chen Mu also found some herbs used to induce pregnancy.

On the surface of all signs, the couple is preparing to have a child.

After checking the kitchen, Chen Mu came to the room where the miscellaneous items were placed, which were filled with old books, waste paper, clothes, etc.

There is also a small wooden table next to it, which is considered a temporary study room.

Chen Mu rolled up his sleeves and started rummaging and searching.

He didn't know what he was looking for, but he had a intuition that he felt that there must be a big secret in this case.

After about half an hour, Chen Mu had no gains. Wang Fafa shouts sounded outside. Chen Mu opened the door and greeted him in: "Have you finished the transcript?"

"I've finished it, I asked separately."

Wang Fafa said with a smile.

Chen Mu took the transcript and read it carefully, and came to a conclusion from the confessions of the two friends:

Cha Dongqing has a good relationship with them and will drink some wine every now and then. Yesterday, Cha Dongqing took the initiative to drink, around 8 o'clock in the evening.

Unlike usual, this time he was drunk.

In addition, according to the confession of the two, Cha Dongqing was a little depressed yesterday, and they didn't know why he was depressed.
To be continued...