So what if I traveled through time? I'll continue to roll in another place

When Ji Shu heard this, he immediately walked away from the pile of bones and walked towards Ma Laosan. "My fellow villager, are you serious? Did Li Liu and his family really move here last year?"

Seeing that the senior official took his words seriously, Ma Lao San immediately became proud and said, "Master, I, Ma Lao San, am very reliable. Li Lao Liu and his family moved here last summer! All the neighbors saw it!"

He looked around and picked out a person from the crowd: "Chen Bing, isn't that right? You were inviting me to drink the day they moved in! We asked Li San to join us, but he ignored us."

"Yes, I remember now. It was the Dragon Boat Festival. My wife made rice dumplings and shared them with your little five and little six. Your little six ate too much and got a stomachache. Your wife insisted that I pay half a dollar to hire a doctor!" Ma Laosan looked as if to say, "If you don't tell me, I'm going to smash your head."

Chen Bing couldn't hide it, so he answered respectfully: "In reply to the master, my family makes wine. On the Dragon Boat Festival, we took realgar wine and ate it with Ma San. The Li family moved to Yonghe Lane on that day."

Ji Shu didn't care about the little conflicts between neighbors. "Then do you know who the previous owner of this house was?"

"The family in the past was surnamed You, and they sold pancakes. The old woman was called Xiu Gu and the young wife was called Yan Niang. They made pancakes all day long and never went out. They didn't like to talk to the neighbors. The men in their family just picked the pancakes and went to sell, and they were very taciturn." said Ma Lao San.

"Did you see them move away?" Ji Shu asked.

"How could I not see them? They left a few days before the Dragon Boat Festival. Old Youtou said a few more words that day. He said that the Dragon Boat Festival is a good day with strong yang energy, and they should go to their son before the Dragon Boat Festival. Their son will take them to enjoy happiness.

He didn't want any of the furniture or utensils in his house, and asked Lao Cui, who collects junk from the east, to pick them up. He only packed up some of his personal belongings. Lao You hired a bullock cart at the entrance of the alley, and I helped him move the things!"

As Ma Laosan was talking, he suddenly became confused again, "Master, the bones in the wall could be Old Youtou's family, right?"

His speculation scared himself, "No, no, I saw them leave with my own eyes!"

"Brother Ma, do you take everything you say seriously?" Ji Shu asked.

"Master, I cannot tell lies. I will say the same thing even in front of the Jade Emperor." Ma Laosan seemed honest and straightforward.

When asked, the previous family did not have the surname Deng, and the time they left did not match, but Ji Shu had always thought that this was Deng Wenkai's family. However, the investigation could not be influenced by his own assumptions, he still needed evidence, impeccable evidence.

After collecting clues about the bones at the scene, Ji Shu ordered his men to take them back to the Dali Temple, and the villagers who had come to watch the fun all dispersed.

He was focused on solving the case, so he went to find Huang Fu, the ox cart driver at the entrance of the alley mentioned by Ma Laosan, and Lao Cui, the junk collector. He also went to several neighboring households to ask one by one to confirm the information about the You family.

After returning from the scene, Ji Shu went back to the government office and asked Zhou Yao to send Xiao Yueshan home.

As soon as Zhou Yao got on the carriage, Xiao Yueshan pulled him aside and asked, "How is it going? What clues did you find?"

Although Zhou Yao was not afraid of corpses, he had no idea about solving cases, and he just followed Ji Shu. Now that he was asked about it, he didn't know what to say, so he could only add the part that Xiao Yueshan didn't hear because he was far away.

"This is strange!" She said firmly, "If Li Laoliu's family killed the person themselves, they could just bury it under the pigsty, or even mix it with pork and sell it like Ma Laosan said. Their family sells meat, so no one would suspect them if they just chopped and chopped it.

Why go to the trouble of building it into the wall? The inside of the wall is not like being buried in the ground. The decomposition of the corpse will release a lot of stench, which cannot be covered by the ordinary smell of pig manure and fish.

This wall must be very powerful to be able to block the stench of corpses in such a densely populated area."

After Xiao Yueshan's advice, Zhou Yao immediately remembered that the stone wall he touched during the investigation was indeed a bit strange. The small vendors in this area were not rich. The houses of the surrounding people were mainly made of rammed earth and bricks and wood, and the walls were mostly thin, not to mention the kitchens and pigpens where no one lived, which were all built casually with scraps.

The stone wall of Li Laoliu's pigpen was not very thick, but it felt very solid. The outside was coated with loess mixed with straw. At first glance, it looked exactly the same as the walls of other houses in Yonghe Lane and was inconspicuous.

If the foundation had not been loose and Ma Laosan had not pushed it down and smashed it, the only way to see the corpse inside was to smash the stone wall.

Xiao Yueshan is right. Why bother building a stone wall to bury the body?

Fortunately, Ji Shu had not set off yet. He hurriedly got off the car to report to his great uncle and wanted to go and take another look at the stone wall.

Obviously Ji Shu had thought of this a long time ago. He was surprised that Xiao Yueshan, a woman in the harem, was not afraid of murder cases, but was so concerned about these things. So he asked Zhou Yao and his wife to go to the Dali Temple together to discuss it.

Shou Junwu was unwilling to miss the opportunity to solve this major case, and he also insisted on going to the Dali Temple.

Back at the Dali Temple, the coroners continued to sort the bodies. Ji Shu, Shou Junwu, Zhou Yao and Xiao Yueshan met in the inner room.

Ji Shu took out a piece of wall soil and said, "The little girl from the Xiao family is much more perceptive than my good disciple and grandson. This wall soil is indeed special.

It is a mixture of lime, pottery powder and gravel, with plenty of egg white, glutinous rice soup and brown sugar added. The mud is very smooth and is poured in many layers. If you take a bite, the wall is sweet. "

Uh... then let's not use it...

"Isn't cement used to build tombs?" Xiao Yueshan asked. No wonder there was no smell at all. "Then the suspicion of Li Laoliu's family has been reduced a lot. The people living in Yonghe Lane are not rich and can't afford such pure materials."

"That's right, I think so too." Ji Shu responded, "And this craftsman has good skills. The casting is fine, dense and even. He is a bricklayer master that middle-class families in the court would hire. Ordinary bricklayers don't have such good skills."

"Oh, by the way, my uncle went to ask Huang Fu, the oxcart driver, and Lao Cui, the junk collector, if they still remember the situation of the You family?" Xiao Yueshan asked. "Especially Huang Fu, did he tell me where the You family was going by car?"

"Yes, he did ask. Huang Fu said they were going to Huaizhen Lane. Halfway there they met Old Man You's son who drove to pick them up. Huang Fu was happy to make half the trip and earn the money, so he didn't care where they were going." Ji Shu replied. Yao'er, his daughter-in-law, was smart.

Xiao Yueshan and Ji Shu were discussing the case, Zhou Yao silently poured tea for them and looked at his wife with admiration. Ji Shu seemed to see familiar people in his grandson and his wife.

"Oh, the clue is broken..." Xiao Yueshan was a little frustrated.

Zhou Yao interrupted at this time, "My uncle must have sent people to protect the people of Yonghe Lane. Now that the bones in the wall have been exposed to the sun, I'm afraid he will kill people again to silence them!"