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Chapter 63 Chapter One

The bureaucracy is terrible!It makes sense and cannot be refuted.Follow the official talk, you will make you have no reason, no temper, no brains. As I mentioned last time, after Wu Song left Yanggu County on a business trip, Pan Jinlian and Ximen Qing colluded with each other under the help of Wang Po.In order to be a husband and wife and avoid Wu Song's punishment, under the advice of Wang Po, Wu Da was poisoned to death with arsenic and cremated to ashes, trying to do things cleanly, without showing any traces, and cross the sea. As the saying goes: "Extreme joy begets sorrow, but not great happiness." Time flies, and two months have passed in the blink of an eye.Wu Song is back.

The neighbors on both sides were surprised when they saw Wu Song return.Everyone was sweating, and said secretly: "This is a disaster for Xiao Qiang! This Tai Sui is back, how can you give up! Something will happen!" Wu Song has been worried about his brother.After returning to Yanggu County, he hurried to his brother's house after explaining his business affairs. However, when he entered the door, he did not see his elder brother, but only a funeral coffin, on which was written: "The position of the late husband Wu Dalang"! Wu Song was stunned at the moment!For his loyal and foolish elder brother, he may have thought of many kinds of results, but he never thought that it would be like this!

He left Chai Jin, left Brother Song Jiang, and rushed back to his hometown wholeheartedly, just for this brother, and now he is gone! How much he cared about him back then, how much he couldn't let go, just to protect this brother.The only relative in this world is gone now! He turned against his sister-in-law Pan Jinlian just to warn her not to do anything to hurt her brother, but now it has completely failed! When I left home, there were two people I saw: my brother and my sister-in-law.When I came back, there was no brother to meet, only a sister-in-law who pretended to cry.Wu Song was confused for a moment, and said: "Sister-in-law, stop crying. When did my brother die? What symptoms did he have? Whose medicine did he take?"

He asked three questions in one breath.The first two questions are generally required to be asked, which is human nature. The latter question is a bit peculiar.Why special? Because this question shows Wu Song's suspicion! Whose medicine do you take? ——A key question was asked right away.Wu Song has extraordinary intuition. Whose medicine do you take?Take Ximen Qing's medicine! The woman cried and said at the same time: "Your elder brother has been very anxious and distressed since you turned your back for ten or twenty days; he was sick for eight or nine days, and he asked God for divination. He died without taking any medicine. I am so miserable!"

What medicine did not take.Good answer - I even ate arsenic. Moreover, Pan Jinlian's answers were all vague. One or twenty days, eight or nine days, the time is blurred. Anxious and distressed, the symptoms are vague. I have taken all kinds of medicines, but the medicine is blurred. Wu Song was full of suspicion.Back at the county government office, I changed into plain white clothes, bought some joss sticks and candles, and kept a vigil for my brother that night. It is worth our attention that there is an extra sharp knife beside him. The author of "Water Margin" made a special description of this sharp knife: it has a pointed long handle, a short back, a thick blade and a thin blade.

Because, the protagonist below is this sharp knife. Now, Wu Song doesn't need to worry about anything anymore. In this world, he has no worries that he can't let go of. A little bit of love has been stifled, and a little bit of love has been cut off. Now, there is only hatred left.The protector transformed into a god of vengeance. Wu Song lit candles and spread wine and food in front of the coffin.Said: "Brother's ghost is not far away! You were weak when you were alive, but after you die today, you will not be able to see clearly! If you are wronged and killed by others, entrust me with your dream, and brother will take revenge for you!" Using paper money, weeping loudly, weeping so that the neighbors on both sides are all terrified.

Obviously, Wu Song didn't believe Pan Jinlian's words, and he had great doubts about his brother's death. Early the next morning, Wu Song asked Pan Jinlian again: "Sister-in-law, what did my brother die of?" The woman said, "Uncle, why did you forget? Ye Lai already told Uncle that he died of a heartache." Wu Song said: "But whose medicine is redeemed?" The woman said, "I see that there is a medicine post here." Wu Song said, "But who bought the coffin?" The woman said, "Go buy it with Wang Ganniang next door." Who will carry it out?" The woman said, "It's Uncle He Jiu, the head of the regiment. He's the one who insists on going out."

Wu Song's criminal police captain didn't work for a long time, excluding the two months of helping the county magistrate with personal affairs, that is, about fifty days, but he seemed born to investigate cases.You can see that the questions he asked Pan Jinlian were very professional.What's more interesting is that among the many information Pan Jinlian provided him, he quickly identified which ones were useful and which ones were useless false information.The questions he asked were as follows: 1. What disease did he have?Second, what medicine to take.3. Who will buy the coffin.4. Who will be buried?

Wu Song quickly judged that the first three items were useless information, so he let it go as soon as he heard it.When he heard the fourth question, He Jiushu, the leader of the regiment, Wu Song stopped immediately. Wu Songdao: "It turns out that this is the place. Let's go to the county to draw Mao but come here." Why did he go to the county to paint his hair? He said this to stabilize Pan Jinlian.He took the sharp knife and went straight to He Jiushu. Uncle He Jiu had been waiting for this day, Wu Song, ever since he was cremated at Wuhan University.
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