As Sheriff Zhang’s words fell, the crowd looked at Qi Ying in unison.
Qi Ying’s lips twitched violently, and before his mouth opened, tears fell like broken beads.
Song San Xiao looked distressed and stepped forward to protect him behind him, “Sheriff Zhang, what do you mean?”
“Third Master Song ……”
Sheriff Zhang spoke politely and honestly, “The distance from the door to the hearse is not short, an average person would need half a quarter of an hour to walk back and forth, yet the person who came carried Madam Qi’s body out of the coffin and carried it away, that means he knows martial arts, if not an enemy, who would have nothing better to do than to steal Madam Qi’s body?”
“Also, maybe it was ……”
Song San Xiao tried to find a reason, but he simply couldn’t.
Sheriff Zhang glanced at Song Wangyue, who was standing behind several people, and said to Song Sanxiao, “If you want to retrieve Madam Qi’s body, you still have to ask Miss Qi to tell the truth, otherwise we can’t do anything about it.”
“I, I don’t know ……”
Qi Ying’s grief-stricken voice came out from behind Song Sanxiao, and after finishing this sentence, it seemed that she could not bear this huge blow, and her person limply collapsed on Song Sanxiao’s body.
“Miss Qi!”
Song Sanxiao was shocked and turned to hold her up, seeing that she had fainted, he hurriedly bent down to pick her up and ran quickly towards Qi Ying’s house, shouting as he ran, “Yue’er, come and help Miss Qi.”
Song Wan Yue nodded towards Sheriff Zhang and followed her over.
Sheriff Zhang hesitated slightly before lifting his feet and following too, with the two magistrates following close behind.
Once they had gone, Grandma Song held Liu Cui Lan by her side, bracing herself to keep from falling to the ground, and shaking her voice.
“Old, old man ……”
Master Song’s legs were also a little weak, last night only the old man was with Qi Ying, if the other party hadn’t come to steal the body ……
Song San Xiao put Qi Ying on the bed, turned back, and eagerly said, “Yue’er, hurry up!”
Song Wan Yue walked over and put her finger on Qi Ying’s pulse, the person had indeed fainted, she let go of her hand, “Third Uncle doesn’t need to be anxious, sister Qi is overly sad, she will wake up soon.”
Song San Xiao was still unsure, “Check her pulse again carefully.”
Song Wangyue ignored him and turned to walk outside, “Third Uncle, come out with me!”
Song Sanxiao helped Qi Ying take off her shoes, pulled the thin blanket off to one side and covered her with it, and carefully tucked the corners of the blanket for her before coming out.
Sheriff Zhang was standing in the courtyard with two magistrates.
Song Wan Yue asked, “Sheriff Zhang, are you sure that someone with martial arts skills stole the body?”
Sheriff Zhang nodded in the affirmative.
Song Wan Yue turned to ask Song San Xiao, “Third Uncle, did you hear that?”
“What, what do you mean? ”
“What I mean is that if the people last night hadn’t come to steal the corpse, but to kill it, you would be a corpse now.”
Song San Xiao’s face instantly went white.
“Miss Song is right ……”, Sheriff Zhang echoed, “I checked the surroundings, the person who came should be very high in martial arts, fortunately, Master Song San was not in front of the hearth at that time, otherwise… …”
Song San Xiao’s face turned even whiter.
“So, when Miss Qi wakes up later, please ask Third Master Song to help us ask properly, so we can also retrieve Madam Qi’s corpse as soon as possible.”
Song Sanxiao’s brain buzzed, his lips moved a few times, wanting to say something, but in the end, not a single word came out. Turning around, he mechanically walked towards the house.
Seeing that he had entered the house, Sheriff Zhang lowered his voice, “Miss Song, can you speak further?”
Song Wangyue followed him to the outside of the courtyard.
“His Excellency asked me to ask Miss Song how he was dealt with from above?”
Ever since Song Wangyue went to the capital to sue the imperial court, the county magistrate had been having trouble sleeping and eating, waiting every day in fear for what would be done to him, but so many days had passed, the emperor had punished the third prince and ordered him to pay Song Wangyue one million taels of silver, and Song Wangyue and Song Si had sent back word of all these silver donations to the Ministry of War, but there had never been a decree for him, the county magistrate was so worried that he couldn’t even drink water, and he was losing weight as far as the eye could see He was so worried that he couldn’t even drink the water, and he was losing weight.
Just now he heard Song Shu go to report the case and learned that Song Wan Yue had returned, and immediately sent Sheriff Zhang over, instructing him to find an opportunity to ask about it, no matter what the disposition was he suffered, don’t hang on so much, he was about to collapse.
Song Wan Yue raised her eyebrows, “Sheriff Zhang, you shouldn’t be asking me that, right?”
Zhang bowed, “Miss Song, I’m not going to lie to you, not to mention your Excellency, me and my brothers are on tenterhooks every day, so just give us some news, whether it’s good or bad, as long as there’s an outcome.”
“I really don’t know.”
Sheriff Zhang was disappointed to the core.
“But ……”
At once, Sheriff Zhang scorched his eyes at her again and
“Since there is no decree, that is a good thing.”
Sheriff Zhang did not understand.
However, one of the magistrates behind him reacted and quietly tugged at his clothes.
Sheriff Zhang he
“Head, Miss Song means we’re all fine.”
Sheriff Zhang froze and instantly turned his head to look at Song Wangyue, stammering with excitement, “Song, Miss Song, is that, is that what you mean?”
“What do you say?”
The stone that had been weighing on his heart for the past few days was lifted, and he felt relieved and powerless as he once again bowed to Song Wangyue, “Thank you, Miss Song, thank you, Miss Song.”
The three of them were in constant fear of losing their heads, but now they don’t have to lose theirs.
He instructed one of the magistrates, “Quickly, go and tell His Excellency the good news.”
The magistrate ran quickly towards the door.
Inside the house.
Song Sanxiao sat on the edge of the bed, trembling as he reached out to caress Qi Ying’s face.
He was lucky to have sent Qi Ying back last night, otherwise ……
He didn’t dare to think about it, the aftermath was terrifying.
Qi Ying’s eyelashes fluttered.
Song Sanxiao felt it and withdrew his hand, looking at her eagerly.
Qi Ying slowly opened her eyes and her lips moved, but no sound came out.
“Listen to me ……”, Song Sanxiao squatted down and grabbed her hand, trying desperately to steady her voice, “If you know who the enemy is, tell me, the people who sent Yue’er back are from the capital’s Ding Guo Gong House, they are martial highly skilled, we can ask them to ……”
Qi Ying sat up violently and shook off his hand, “What enemies? Where are the enemies? Why do you refuse to believe my words?”
“It’s not ……”, Song Sanxiao eagerly tried to explain, but Qi Ying didn’t give him a chance, lifting the covers and getting out of bed, pushing him away, without even putting on his shoes, and running out like crazy.
Song Sanxiao was pushed to the ground by her and scrambled to get up and chase him out
Qi Ying ran up to Sheriff Zhang and pushed him out like a madman, “Go, you all go, I don’t need you, I’ll go find my mother’s body myself.”
“Miss Qi!”
Song San trotted over and hugged her.
Qi Ying lowered her head and bit down on his hand.
Song San snacked on the pain and his hand loosened, Qi Ying broke away from him, crossed the hearth and ran to the door, chasing away the people watching, “Go, all of you go!”