Chapter 206: Concealment
The river flows down the mountain and winds its way downward.
"Do you all drink the water from the river?" Fang Xile suddenly asked.
"No, we have our own well, so we don't have to go so far. Wangzi replied subconsciously.
"Then why did they go to the river?" Fang Xile looked directly into Wangzi's eyes.
Wangzi was flustered for a moment, and then smiled reluctantly: "Maybe come to wash clothes, or take a bath!"
"Come to take a bath in the middle of the night?" Fang Xile asked rhetorically, "Aren't you villagers going to bed early at night?"
"This," Wangzi's tone became impatient: "How do I know why they came in the middle of the night!"
Fang Xile narrowed his eyes, and the air was silent for a moment.
Wangzi remembered that the two in front of him were martial artists, his body stiffened, and his tone became respectful again: "I really don't know, don't be embarrassed for me, if it's okay, I'll go back first, there is a lot of work waiting for me to do at home!"
Fang Xile nodded: "Go!"
Wangzi's figure disappeared into the distance, and Cheng Jiangyan frowned: "My lord, he didn't tell the truth, they must know something, but they didn't tell us." ”
"Hmm!" Fang Xile touched his chin: "But he has revealed enough information." ”
"What do you mean?"
"He just brought us over, did he make any turns along the way?"
"No," Cheng Jiangyan replied honestly, and suddenly reacted: "Ah! You mean, the destination of several of them is the river." ”
The two brothers died directly by the river, while the old man and his wife died on the way back.
"Yes, so the cause of their death has to do with the river. Fang Xile affirmed.
A yin qi talisman appeared in Cheng Jiangyan's hand, the true qi brushed over, the yin qi talisman burned, and the gray yin qi slowly rose and slowly dispersed.
"There's nothing here!"
Fang Xile nodded: "There is indeed no problem with the river, so the problem is not the river, but what they did when they went to the river." ”
"What did you do?" Cheng Jiangyan asked immediately.
"I don't know," Fang Xile spread his hands: "Let's go back to the village and ask, there should be any people left in the deceased's family." ”
The two walked on the way back to the village, there was no open land in the mountains, so the villagers opened a ring on the mountain, surrounding the terraced fields of the mountain, at this time the green seedlings were growing strongly, and the whole mountain was green and lush, which was exceptionally beautiful.
In the fields, the villagers bend over and toil, and these seedlings are their food ration for a year and must be taken seriously.
Some of the boys were running barefoot through the mountains when they saw them stop.
One of the older children smirked.
"See if I can throw it right!"
He grinned and bent down to pick up a stone, aimed at Fang Xile's head, and threw it hard.
The stone crossed the arc, and the boy smiled even more and looked smug as he saw that it was about to hit the target.
"Bump!"
The boy's smile froze, and when the stone was still a fist away from Fang Xile, it suddenly stopped, as if it had smashed against an invisible wall.
What's going on?
Fang Xile glanced at him coldly, the boy's intuition was not good, and he just wanted to run away, when he saw the stone return the same way and smashed on his head with a bang.
The boy's head was smashed, and blood immediately flowed down the wound.
He was stunned for a moment, then burst into tears.
"What's going on?" said one of the villagers, apparently the father of the child, as they gathered around him.
With dependence, the child cried even louder: "They, they stoned me!"
The man was immediately furious: "How do you stone the child!"
Cheng Jiangyan was laughed angrily, it was really the wicked who sued first: "What is your own child, you don't know, he smashed us first!"
"Xingzi is still young, what do you care about children!"
Phew, what kind of children are there, what kind of parents are there, just allow your children to smash us, and don't allow us to fight back?
Cheng Jiangyan pulled out the whip and threw it on the ground, making a crisp sound that broke through the air: "Okay, then I don't care about the child, I care about you!"
The man took a step back, his face turned pale, and when he saw that there were villagers around him, he had the courage to say, "As a woman, you are so arrogant!"
Cheng Jiang Yanqi said: "What does this have to do with women?"
"Women should be ......"
"Ahem!"
Before the man finished speaking, the village chief coughed a few times and interrupted the man: "Don't apologize to the guests, they are warriors!"
The word warrior accentuated the tone.
The man's face was red and white, as if he was doing something embarrassing, and he fell hard and turned away.
"The villagers don't know how to count etiquette, don't care about the two of you!"
Fang Xile shook his head and said that it was okay, and suddenly felt a little awkward.
What's awkward?
Fang Xile thought about it carefully, but didn't come up with it.
At this moment, she noticed that someone was watching her, Fang Xile followed her gaze, it was the woman from last night, she was holding a basket in her hand, and it seemed that she had come to bring food to her man.
Seeing that Fang Xile found her, she immediately lowered her head and walked away.
Fang Xile and Cheng Jiangyan walked to the village together, and the rest of the village at this time were old people and women.
They quickly inquired about the family of the first deceased.
At this time, there was only one woman in the house, and she had a sallow face and a thin body.
Fang Xile asked straight to the point: "What is your mother-in-law doing by the river?"
The woman raised her head in horror for a moment, then quickly lowered her head and whispered, "I don't know." ”
Fang Xile took a step closer: "You know!"
The woman's feet were weak, she staggered a few steps, and kept shaking her head with her hand on the stone wall: "I really don't know, I don't know, I don't know anything!"
Fang Xile frowned and wanted to say more, so the woman quickly ran back into the cave, shrunk in the cave, in the shadow where the sun could not shine, and kept muttering something in her mouth.
"She doesn't seem to be in her right mind. Cheng Jiangyan said.
Fang Xile shook his head: "Forget it, let's go to the next one!"
There was only one old couple left in the brothers' family, the elder brother originally had a wife, but then he fell ill and died, and then the brothers also died, and there were only two old people left in the family.
They sat side by side on a pile of stones in the shade of the trees, staring at the two of them with expressionless faces, like two bodies that had been dead for a long time.
No matter how much he tried, he couldn't knock words out of their mouths, so Fang Xile had to give up.
The third deceased has no relatives.
After working for most of the day, the two didn't ask anything.
"They must be hiding something!" Cheng Jiangyan pinched her waist with both hands: "If you don't wait for the evening, I will arrest them and hang them up and torture them!"
yes, what are they hiding?
And why hide it?
At this moment, a woman's head suddenly appeared behind the tree!
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