Li De naturally didn't have time to think about what Xiang Zhehua was thinking. After he arrived in Sai'an Village, he began to ask the villagers about Jiang Yuesheng's past.
Hearing that Jiang Yuesheng came to check, the seven aunts and eight aunts in the village immediately gathered at the entrance of the village
"Jiang Yuesheng... is a very good person... but his personality is too impulsive..."
"Generally speaking, people are not bad, and their temper is almost there. Everyone can bear it..."
"I heard that his son is quite dissatisfied with the lord, and often complains in the village that Nan Chu is unfair to his family..."
"It is said that he once watched widows in the village take a bath..."
Li De pretended to record, Xiang Zhehua followed behind him, his eyes were full of indifference. Even though she has no experience in investigating cases, she can tell that these comments are not nutritious. But Lide didn't seem to dislike it very much. He always gave people a good-tempered feeling, listened very patiently, and would express a few thoughts from time to time, chatting all afternoon in a blink of an eye.
In the evening, the villagers invited Lide to eat at home, and Lide also went there happily, taking Xiang Zhehua to the banquet calmly. The dishes here are much better than expected, but there is still a big gap with what Xiang Zhehua usually eats. Xiang Zhehua forced herself to eat half full out of politeness, and then it was completely difficult to swallow. Li De, on the other hand, ate everything on the table like a storm, drank some wine with the villagers, and then stopped asking about Jiang Yuesheng, and started asking about the family who was killed.
"The family that was killed, the head of the family is Yuanye, we are a little famous nobleman. He often does some good deeds, and he will build a porridge shed in winter... he is a conscientious person."
"I went to the brothel a lot, and several oirans are related to him..."
"In my impression, there is no such thing as bullying men and women, but nobles, there are no good people..."
Lied listened silently and continued to record. When it was late at night, Li De got up to say goodbye, looked around the yard, and left with Xiang Zhehua.
When there are only two people, ask Zhehua to Lide:
"Have you heard any news?"
Lide shook his head, smiled at Xiang Zhehua and said:
"I'll take you somewhere."
Xiang Zhehua was puzzled, but still followed Li De. The two of them walked along a deserted dirt road, Xiang Zhehua looked at the stars in the sky and wondered what he was thinking. After a while, she heard a low sigh from beside her:
"Sure enough..."
Looking forward to Zhehua, he found that Lide took her to the paddy field at some point. All kinds of crops are planted here, but almost all of them have withered due to no one taking care of them for a long time. It is rainy in the south, and the crops in the field can live for a long time even if no one takes care of them, but under the overgrown weeds, the life of each crop is not very satisfactory.
Xiang Zhehua looked at Lide, Lide turned his head and smiled, and said:
"Don't you think the people in the village are weird today? We eat so much of them, but they don't feel bad about them. In fact, they are dead, but they haven't been buried. After all, some people died when they were eight years old. Buried at the age of ten."
Xiang Zhehua felt a sudden wind blowing behind her, and her shirt was instantly drenched in cold sweat.
All kinds of legends instantly recalled in her mind. Witch Gu is prevalent in Lingnan, and it is said that it can control the dead. Li De's words made Xiang Zhehua think of many things that he couldn't think about. Her mood was as if a group of people were invited to eat when they passed by the cemetery. Everyone in the same seat ate happily, but only she suddenly realized that the food in front of her was actually mice, eyeballs and wriggling maggots...
Lied patted the dust on his legs and laughed:
"Just kidding. But this group of people in the village are indeed not born and bred here. It seems that Xiang Linglong was very vigilant and changed the people of Sai'an Village in advance. The new group of people pretended to be villagers of Sai'an Village, but They are not aborigines here, and they don’t spend special time taking care of the flowers and plants in the aborigines’ homes, and they don’t come to continue farming.”
Xiang Zhehua frowned and said:
"Then the clue here is not..."
Lied nodded and said:
"Yeah, it broke again."
Xiang Zhehua has mixed feelings. She vaguely felt that she was relieved in her heart, and felt a little ashamed for her relief; at the same time, she also realized that Lide was smarter than she imagined, and she didn't find any flaws in the whole process, but Lide just talked to the village After chatting a few words with people, I have a rough guess.
If he was allowed to continue to investigate, maybe he would find out something.
Xiang Zhehua was hiding something in her heart, and she who was originally taciturn was even more unwilling to speak, and followed Li De with her head down.
Li De followed Xiang Zhehua back to Fairview City and found a hotel to stay.
That night, Lide combed through the bloody clothes case in the house by lighting candles. Judging from the current description, the bloody clothes case itself is not complicated. It is probably that Jiang Yuesheng saw someone robbing the civilian girl and stopped it. Thirty-two people were wrongly killed and imprisoned. And in this case, the thirty-two members of Yuanye's family died cleanly, the prostitute pretending to be a civilian girl also crashed into the wall and died, and the villagers who had been with Jiang Yuesheng for many years were completely replaced, and all the witnesses and evidences have disappeared. .
The difficult cases in this world are not necessarily complicated, because the more complicated the case is, the easier it is to make mistakes in a certain link. Looking at the bloody clothes case, it is not difficult to see that the so-called robbing of civilian girls was a set up by Yuan Ye and a prostitute to give birth to Jiang Yue. To be honest, there is no possibility of overturning the case at all.
Lide sat at the table with a calm expression, and it was difficult for others to see what he was thinking.
In the hotel, Xiang Zhehua lives next door to Lide. What she wants to do most now is to go to the city lord's mansion and ask if Xiang Linglong's matter was done by the lord peace faction. If it is, she will find a way to hold Lide, if not, she will wholeheartedly follow Lide to investigate the case. No matter which one it is, it is better than the current situation of no ups and downs.
But she dared not go, because Lide had forbidden the members of the investigation team to act alone in private from the first day.
Xiang Zhehua thought until midnight, gritted her teeth for the last time, and began to dress up in front of the mirror.
At the same time, in the Jinxiu City Mansion, Xiang Linglong blew away the tea in the teacup, took a sip, and looked at the distant night sky. One of his arms was fixed with a splint, and he couldn't move, but there was no pain or anxiety on his face, and he still smiled:
"How much do you think the investigation team can investigate this time?"
The chief guard did not answer directly, but whispered:
"Xiang Zhehua's identity..."
Xiang Linglong replied flatly:
"It's just a niece, it's not that important. What we're going to do this time is to solve the internal and external problems in one go..."
The head guard looked at Xiang Linglong quietly. Looking away from Linglong, she muttered to herself:
"This is an unworldly achievement. An unworldly achievement..."