Judging from the traces, it was left behind by a pair of cloth shoes with vulcanized soles.
Someone walked up this steep path, but because it rained twice yesterday, the dirt path on the entire mountain was very slippery, so this person rubbed the mud on the soles of his shoes here, leaving this Two footprints.
Liang Yuanque squatted down and touched the inside of the footprints. Where the patterns were left, the soil was still soft and wet.
In other words, these two footprints have not been exposed to sunlight and have not dried at the edges.
It can only be left after the rain last night, because the sun has not yet shined today.
And this style of shoes...
Liang Yuanque frowned and looked at Xiao Linzi who was working hard to dig a hole.
On his feet were cloth shoes of this style.
There was mud on Xiao Linzi's shoes, but that didn't mean anything because the shoes of each of them were dirty along the way.
Xiao Linzi didn't seem to notice Liang Yuanque's actions, so Liang Yuanque quietly stood up and walked to him,
"Come on, let me take your place for a moment."
"No, no, no!" Xiao Linzi held on to the shovel tightly, "Please don't shovel the second master's coffin board to pieces again. I really won't be able to explain to the old lady at that time."
"Don't worry, I know what's going on this time and there will definitely be no problems."
Liang Yuanque also grabbed the shovel and started pulling with him.
In the process of pulling, Liang Yuanque deliberately stepped on his foot with quite a lot of force. Xiao Linzi let out an "ouch" when he stepped on it.
Liang Yuanque quickly squatted down to check, "Oh, I'm so sorry. Are you okay?"
"It's okay, it's okay, don't worry." Xiao Linzi quickly waved his hand, as long as the old man's family wouldn't be stepped on.
Liang Yuanque pretended to have just noticed his shoes and said in surprise,
"Hey, your shoes are quite good. They are convenient for working and walking, right? Did you buy them from the town?"
Xiao Linzi shook his head, "I don't know where to buy them. They are all distributed by the master's family. All the servants of the Lin family wear these shoes."
Yes, is it?
Liang Yuanque was stunned for a moment. After thinking about it carefully, it seemed that it was true that many servants were wearing the same shoes.
Judging from the length of the feet, the owner of these two footprints is quite tall, but there are many servants of this height in the Lin family.
Ah, the scope of this character has become wider.
Assuming that the person who came to the cemetery last night was a servant of the Lin family, what was his purpose?
Knowing that they were going to open the coffin and conduct an autopsy today, they came to destroy the evidence in advance?
This is possible.
Liang Yuanque thought about it. When he asked the old lady to open the coffin yesterday, there seemed to be no servants around him.
Then it is possible that this person was appointed by someone present.
The people present yesterday were the third young lady, the eldest uncle, and the old lady.
Sure enough, the problem still lies within the Lin family, and it cannot be traced away from these three people.
Liang Yuanque no longer competed with Xiao Linzi for the shovel, and his face still looked calm and relaxed.
"Then you can dig it. I'll do the backfilling in a while."
After saying that, he pulled Zhuang Youjie up and quietly stepped aside.
Although I haven't figured out what the owner of the footprints is doing here, it is still very suspicious.
Therefore, everyone in the Lin family is currently suspected, and Xiao Linzi is not excluded.
Zhuang Youjie was confused by his actions, but Xiao Linzi's hearing was very good, and Liang Yuanque didn't even dare to explain to Zhuang Youjie in a low voice.
Fortunately, Zhuang Youjie has one good thing. When he can't control the situation, he will choose to obey and shut up.
Because he knew that Liang Yuanque's every action had his inevitable intention.
Although Xiao Linzi was slow at work at first, he gradually got started. After digging to a certain extent, he felt something, so he stopped and started to dig up the soil with his hands.
When Liang Yuanque saw this, he stepped forward to help.
Only at this moment did he realize that he had just touched the old man's coffin board. It was not because he was not careful, but because the coffins of the Lin family were buried very shallowly.
When he was poor, he helped people pay funerals during the day and robbed tombs at night. He still had a certain understanding of the funeral culture and generals in various places.
So he just used the shovel according to the feeling he used to dig a grave. He didn't expect the old man to be buried so shallowly.
As for the Second Master, the burial was even shallower.
Why is this, for the sake of convenience, can they still crawl out for a walk at night?
"Did you participate when they were buried?" Liang Yuanque asked Xiao Linzi.
Xiao Linzi nodded, "It was a few of us brothers who dug the hole. I have participated in digging the hole for all the deceased since the old man."
"Then do you know why the pit is dug so shallow?"
"Qian?" Xiao Linzi was visibly confused, "No, isn't that how they are dug?"
Liang Yuanque couldn't tell for a moment whether he was pretending to be stupid or if he really didn't know, so he shrugged and said,
"Oh, maybe it's just popular in your area."
After smoothing away the floating soil on the coffin, the appearance of the coffin was revealed. Liang Yuanque followed the previous process and pried open the coffin lid.
The second master is much easier to accept than the old master. Although there is a rotten and disgusting smell coming out, the smell is much lighter in comparison.
As soon as the coffin lid was opened, Xiao Linzi was the first to shout,
"Oh my god, why did the body become like this!"
The coffin of the second master was obviously much rougher than that of the old master, so the sealing was not very good. Therefore, the body was rotten more seriously and its appearance was no longer visible.
But the most disgusting thing is that the abdomen of the corpse was completely cut open, and the internal organs inside were all messed up.
At first glance, it looks like a pot of offal that has been gathering dust for many years.
Zhuang Youjie came over curiously and happened to see this scene. The strange smell rushed straight into his nose. He couldn't help it anymore and started retching.
Liang Yuanque's stomach was churning, and he suppressed his nausea and asked Xiao Linzi,
"What do you mean? It wasn't like this before."
According to other people's accounts, the second prince was disemboweled when he was killed, but no one has ever heard of a specific description.
Hearing Xiao Linzi's sigh, he was surprised by the "honor" of the corpse now?
"That's right," Xiao Linzi said, "Second Master was laid out before he was buried. Although his belly was not sewn up, his internal organs were stuffed back. Moreover, and..."
The more Xiao Linzi talked, the paler his face became. He retched with a loud sound, and his eyes turned red.
"Say something quickly!" Liang Yuanque glared at him.
"Besides, the second master's intestines just leaked out. It's definitely not like it is now. It seems to have been messed up."
Xiao Linzi was right. The Second Master looked like someone was rummaging through his internal organs.
What would someone look for in a body?
Liang Yuanque thought of the past story told by the old lady. Before Miss Mo Er died, her toes were swallowed by the Second Master!
