The Tian family was too tired yesterday, so when they got up the next morning, they didn't have much energy.

Ah Cai has taken over the responsibility of Zhao and the others, and will go to make breakfast for everyone when he gets up in the morning. When she passed by Tian Laosi's house, she found that the window was wide open.

I wanted to go over to see what was going on, and as soon as I got close to the window, I smelled a strong smell of blood. When she saw the situation inside, she couldn't help but scream.

This mournful shout broke the dull atmosphere of the Tian family.

"What's wrong?" "What happened?" The Tian family came out one after another, screaming loudly.

Jiang Wanbai had already gotten up, and when she heard this sound, the corners of her eyes jumped twice unconsciously. Hurriedly walked outside Tian Laosi's house, looked through the window, and looked inside.

Tian Laosi was lying on his back on the kang, his neck and body were covered with blood, his face was pale, and he looked like something was wrong. As for the widow Lu, she was nowhere to be seen.

"Open the door." Jiang Wanbai exhaled several times, and then she made a sound smoothly.

Tian Lao Er had tears in his eyes, opened the door with trembling hands, walked to Tian Lao Si's side, tested his breathing with his hands, and then said with some panic: "It's dead." ”

died, the Tian family cried, not knowing what to do.

Although Jiang Wanbai had already guessed that this was the result, it was really confirmed, and her body still shook twice, shook twice, and almost didn't fall down.

Clenching her fists with her hands, her nails almost embedded in the flesh, she said coldly, "Don't cry in a hurry.

Lu Cuirong, see if she's not there. Also, see if everyone else is okay. ”

The people of the Tian family said that there was not much, but there was a lot less, and everyone quickly dispersed, looking for Widow Lu to find Widow Lu, looking for other people to look at others.

After a while, they returned. The rest of the Tian family is nothing, but the widow Lu is gone, and the box of gold that was put together with the salute is gone.

There were a little blood stains from Tian Laosi's window to the west wall, proving that the killer had fled the scene.

"That box of gold is enough for a thousand taels, one person can't take it away at all, there must be accomplices." Jiang Wanbai said, scared.

The Tian family was also a little apprehensive and didn't know what to do.

"Lu Cuirong is gone, this matter must have something to do with her. The fourth daughter-in-law, you take the carrier to her house to see if there is anything abnormal.

Remember, just watch, don't startle the snake.

Second, if there is a homicide, you still have to tell the government, you go and report the case.

The second daughter-in-law, you, you go to the longevity shop to buy another coffin. It's better, the fourth usually loves these, he didn't enjoy them when he was alive, and when he died, he had to be made more beautiful.

The rest of the people, go to the village of the men who had an affair with Lu Cuirong that I said yesterday, inquire about it, and see what these men were doing yesterday morning and evening. Jiang Wanbai said clearly.

The Tian family had something to do, but they settled down a lot, and they scattered to do what Jiang Wanbai explained to themselves.

As for Jiang Wanbai, she has a more important thing to do.

Those gangsters robbed so much gold, one situation is where to hide, temporarily avoid the limelight, and wait for the limelight to pass before coming out. If that's the case, then it's okay to say, just wait for her to find out the villain.

The other is that they will run away and run to somewhere they don't know them. If that's the case, it will be difficult to catch them in the future. Jiang Wanbai would never allow this to happen.

didn't bother to eat, so she walked through the streets and alleys and came to Yuan Huzi's house.

At this time, it was still early, and Yuan Huzi hadn't gotten up yet, but as soon as he heard that Jiang Wanbai was looking for him, he got up from the bed with a "pout".

There was no way, in his heart, Jiang Wanbai was far more frightened than Tang Shaozheng. If Tang Shaozheng is an opponent that he admires, then Jiang Wanbai is the fog that makes him unable to see clearly, and there is a kind of mountain looking up.

"Old lady, is there anything you need me to help with?" Yancheng is too small, and the Tian family is too popular, Yuan Huzi heard about Tian Liu yesterday, so he guessed that Jiang Wanbai came this time, and he definitely went to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing.

He was so straight to the point, Jiang Wanbai was not polite, "There is something I want to ask you for help." ”

Jiang Wanbai is like this, and Yuan Huzi is quite happy. Haha smiled, he said, "Say what please, if there is anything, just say it." ”

Jiang Wanbai was really anxious, and hurriedly told her what happened this morning, and then said her worries, and finally said, "I want to ask you to send people to guard the various intersections, and once you find Lu Cuirong, you must leave them behind." ”

Yuan Huzi listened, and really admired Jiang Wanbai, his son could still be so calm when he died, thinking of this. "Okay, I'll send someone right away. However, it must have happened last night. If they really wanted to run, they should have run a long way away.

What I mean by this is that the guards must be guarded, but they must also send people to chase along these roads. It's good to be able to catch up with nature, but if you can't catch it, you can have peace of mind. ”

"Thank you very much." Jiang Wan's white eyes were a little red, and she calculated Yuan Huzi by herself, and now he is still helping herself like this, this person also has a side that can be crossed.

"Say thank you. These people dare to do such a thing on my turf, they just don't take me seriously.

It's been a long time since I've moved my muscles, and today, I'm going to see for myself who is so bold. So saying, he stood up suddenly, and as he beckoned to everyone, he flew on a large white horse.

"Old lady, if you have news, I'll let someone sue you." Leaving such a sentence, he went out with a group of people who had just gathered together in a panic.

Jiang Wanbai watched their backs disappear, and then turned around and went home. There is still a mess at home that is inseparable from people.

I bought a set of coffins yesterday, and I went to buy them again today, and the people who sold the coffins were surprised. But with yesterday's events, it's much easier to do today's things. When Jiang Wanbai went home, there was another coffin in the mourning hall, a person wearing a shroud.

The Wang family was still looking around, bringing Jiang Wanbai back, and wanted to ask a few questions, but found that her face was not good, so he suppressed the words and continued to do things.

Jiang Wanbai walked straight to the mourning hall, glanced at Tian Chengyu and Tian Chengan, who were kneeling in front of the coffin, and sat on the chair next to him without speaking, as if waiting for something.

Tian Chengan was not sensible, and remembered to be coquettish with Jiang Wanbai as usual, but was held down by Tian Chengyu, and the two of them continued to kneel there and burn paper for Tian Liu and Tian Laosi.

After a while, Tian Lao Er came back with an angry face.

"How?" Jiang Wanbai asked him.

"I went to report the murder and told me about the murder, but the catchers ignored me and told me to go home and wait, as if there was no such thing." Tian Lao Er said indignantly.

Jiang Wanbai had expected this situation a long time ago, not to mention that Dong Xianling had a grudge against them, but there was no grudge, and it was better to count on the government to solve the case, than to count on the hope of pie falling from the sky.

"It's good to report the case, so as not to be involved in the future." Tian Lao Er nodded and sat aside.

"Mother, the fourth child and Liu Er, do you want to be buried here?" Tian Lao Er's face was dejected, looking at the two coffins in the room, his voice was a little ethereal.

Tian Laosi and Tian Liu are both people who died horizontally, and people who died unnaturally can't enter the ancestral grave regardless of the old and middle-aged.

Because everyone thinks it's very unlucky. Those who die unexpectedly, first, have insufficient life expectancy and no blessings. The second is to go against the will of God, which is the greatest sin and will damage the feng shui of the ancestors. If the third is not the end of life, it will not be a good death, which is the misfortune of the family.

Liu Er is just a girl, and she couldn't have entered, but Tian Laosi is different. If you can't enter the ancestral tomb, it is equivalent to being a lonely ghost and a wild ghost, and there is no part of him in the clan worship or anything every year.

In a few decades, when these people return to dust, dust and dust, and whether they remember him or not is a question, it has to make people feel sad.

"So what do you think you should do?" Jiang Wanbai asked Tian Er.

Tian Lao Er didn't know what to do, "I listen to my mother." ”

Jiang Wanbai was silent. She knew that the ancients paid attention to returning to their roots, but it was thousands of miles away from Yancheng to her home, and there was no means of transportation in ancient times, so it would take at least half a month to walk this way.

It's summer now, and on just one day, Tian Liu's body is about to start swelling, which is terrifying to think about if it is transported to the house.

In fact, the best way is to cremate the bodies of two people into ashes and take them back, which can not only allow them to go home, but also save the problem of corpse decomposition. But are Tian Laosan and the others willing?

In their opinion, burning the corpse is to crush their bones and scatter ashes, no one will do this without a sea of blood and hatred, as their grandmother and mother, where can she do these things.

There was no way, Jiang Wanbai pondered the sentence and said: "The weather is hot, the road is far away, and they can't enter the ancestral grave when they go home, so it's better to bury them here, guarding this Zizhi sauce factory and guarding the foundation of our Tian family."

After the burial, a tiled house was built next to them and dedicated to them. In the future, as long as this Zizhi sauce factory does not fall, their incense will continue. ”

This was a good idea, and Tian Lao Er finally breathed a sigh of relief.

One thing was settled, and at this time, the people who had gone to the nearby village to check the traces of those men also came back one after another. Based on what they had gotten, there should be no suspicion of those people.

Now, it's on Zhao's side.

It didn't take long for Zhao to come back. She didn't have time to take a sip of water, so she hurriedly said, "Mother, Widow Lu didn't come home." However, I asked that He Wu, who was good with her, had not returned home since last night. disappeared with him, along with three scoundrels who usually gambled with him. ”

It should be this He Wu, Jiang Wan stood up in vain, her eyebrows upside down.

At the same time, on an official road seventy or eighty miles away from Yancheng, Yuan Huzi was riding a horse, and seven or eight people were closely chasing a carriage.

In the carriage, He Wu, Widow Lu, and the three men looked at Yuan Huzi, who was getting closer and closer, and scratched their ears and cheeks anxiously.

"Brother Wu, if you continue like this, sooner or later you will be caught up by Yuan Huzi." A humane.

"Yuan Huzi is not a soft-hearted person." The other hugged his shoulders in fear.

"Of course I know, but what can I do!" He Wu looked back at the distance between the two from time to time, and said irritably.

"It's all because our carriage is too heavy, otherwise they wouldn't have been able to catch up." The rest of the person who didn't speak, I don't know whether it was intentional or not, complaining.

This sentence woke everyone up. There were three men, a woman, and a box of gold in the car, and it was no wonder that they could run fast.

"What if...... Not only can you attract the attention of those behind you, but you can also run faster. A man muttered.

Although he didn't say it clearly, everyone understood what he meant, looked at each other, and set their eyes on Widow Lu.

Widow Lu was about to cry, "He Wu, I have your child in my belly, even if you don't care about me, you can't care about your unborn child!" ”

He Wu twitched the corners of his mouth, suppressed the fierce light on his face, and said to Widow Lu, "Come here, come to my side." ”

Widow Lu shook her head in fear.

"Come to my side, and I'll see who dares to hurt you. Whoever wants to beat your mind will step over my corpse. He Wu said ruthlessly.

Widow Lu almost cried with joy and hurriedly climbed to He Wu's side.

He Wu was relatively far away, and Widow Lu was on the edge of the carriage.

Before she could sit down, she felt a strong force from her waist, pushing her out of the carriage.

"Ah......h

"Go ahead, I'll remember you." It was the last thing she heard. Immediately, she rolled under the carriage.

In fact, if Widow Lu didn't catch the wheels, she might just roll to the ground and suffer a little injury. But when she grabbed it, she didn't catch it, and she rolled under the carriage and was run over by the wheels.

With a "poof", like a watermelon bursting, Widow Lu's eyes widened, and time was frozen at this moment.

Widow Lu was pushed down, and the four men in the car not only did not breathe a sigh of relief, but each picked up his own weapons and guarded each other. Their old running children dare to kill, they don't believe that they will have any preferential treatment.

He Wu also noticed this situation, and said with a smile: "Women are more children, as long as they have this gold, it's not about how much they want." ”

"Yes, yes, what Brother Wu said." Everyone agreed, but they didn't mean to relax their guard at all.

He Wu's eyes sank, and after a while, he said: "If we go on like this, we will still be chased." I have an idea now that you can listen to. ”

The other three all looked at him.

"We're in this together, the goal is too big. So we will now divide the gold and go separately. If anyone is caught, he can only blame his bad luck, and if he is not caught, the gold he shares will be enough for the rest of his life. ”

When everyone heard it, they all thought it was a good idea, but no one moved.

"Then I'll take it first." He Wu said, spread out a baggage, opened the box of gold, and began to put gold in the baggage skin.

Logically speaking, he could get two hundred and fifty taels for four people, but he didn't take that much, only took more than a hundred taels, then wrapped the baggage, put it on his back and tried it, and then said, "I'll go first." ”

With that, he jumped out of the car and ran towards the bushes on the side.

With his precedent, it would have been easy for others, but there was a little controversy over who wanted the carriage. In the end, one of the big men, by virtue of his strong physique, won the carriage, and the other two got out of the carriage with the gold on their backs and fled.

When the carriage left, He Wu looked at the background of the carriage and sneered. Now this carriage is the target of the public, and a fool will want it. However, it is good to have them to attract enemies for yourself.

With a hard snort, he carried the gold on his back and headed in the direction of the road from which he had come. The most dangerous place is the safest, he knows that.

Yuan Huzi and the others chased after them for a while, and finally came to the place where Widow Lu got off the car. Looking at Widow Lu's tragic situation, even their group of people who licked blood with knives felt disgusted.

"Damn, you gave up your own women and children, scum." Yuan Huzi spurned fiercely, "Chase me, you must catch up with him." After catching up, Lao Tzu wanted to beat him up hard to let him know what it meant to hurt. ”

"Yes." The group agreed, and chased after them.

At noon, Jiang Wanbai, who got the news, had already rushed to the place where Widow Lu got off the car with Tian Laoer.

Widow Lu's body was covered with a broken straw mat, on which flies were already flying.

"I caught these three people, that He Wu, I don't know where I ran to." Yuan Huzi felt a little embarrassed, and said to Jiang Wanbai stupidly.

"Thank you!" Jiang Wanbai said, and after speaking, she turned her gaze to the three men kneeling on the ground.

The three men had obviously been subjected to a violent storm, their faces were swollen like pigs' heads, red and purple, and there were blood stains in some places.

"This matter has nothing to do with us, we just listened to He Wu's words and went to steal things." One of the men saw Jiang Wanbai looking at him and hurriedly begged for mercy.

As soon as he said this, the others also hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, it's all He Wu, and it has nothing to do with us." ”

"Nothing to do with you? Then this woman's death has nothing to do with you? Jiang Wanbai pointed to the widow Lu under the straw mat.

The three of them were a little speechless, it was not that they didn't think about leaving Widow Lu, but they were just preempted by He Wu. But they wouldn't admit it, and begged: "She was also pushed down by He Wu."

Please, go around me. I still have a 60-year-old lady at home, and my child is still nursing......"

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Jiang Wanbai, "When you do bad things, why don't you think about your mother and your children?" Now that I've been caught, I remember them. Death is too good for him. ”

"This ......," the man didn't know how to explain.

"What about He Wu?" Jiang Wanbai asked what she was most concerned about.

"He got out of the car and ran away not far ahead, and we don't know exactly where he went."

Then, Jiang Wanbai asked a few more questions, and finally figured out what had happened these days.

Widow Lu had an adulterous affair with He Wu and was pregnant with his child. But Widow Lu didn't want to marry He Wu.

He Wu's family is not rich in the first place, and he himself doesn't do serious things all day long, mingles with a group of indiscriminate people, drinks and gambles for money, and it is strange that he can have a good life if he marries him.

But she was already pregnant, and He Wu kept urging her, and Widow Lu was also a little helpless. And at this moment, Tian Laosi, the big wrongdoer, appeared.

At first, Widow Lu just saw that he was wearing good clothes and tested him, but she didn't expect that he was from the Tian family.

Thinking of the Tian family's property, as well as the vigorous betting incident a while ago, Widow Lu almost immediately decided to seize Tian Laosi, and there was a follow-up.

He Wu was cuckolded for nothing, so he was naturally not very happy. But when he knew that it was Tian Laosi who cuckolded him, that feeling changed again.

He has been unlucky lately and has been losing money, and Widow Lu leaned on the Tian family, so doesn't he have a money jar.

Because of this kind of thinking, he did not object to Widow Lu and Tian Laosi, and also took the initiative to avoid Widow Lu, for fear that Tian Laosi would find something.

Originally, he just wanted to rely on Widow Lu to get some money to spend, but the box of gold given by Ling Changwei at the wedding made him change his mind.

Stretching out his hand to ask for money, where is it better than making all the money his own, with this box of gold, what else does he want the widow Lu to do.

As Widow Lu guessed, He Wu came to Widow Lu yesterday morning, not simply to ask for money, but to take the opportunity to step on the spot, observe the people of the Tian family, if only he could find out where the gold was put by the way.

And then there's the rest. was broken by Tian Liu, and had no choice but to kill Tian Liu, afraid that the night would be long and dreamy, so he took someone into Tian's house that night, killed Tian Laosi, and stole gold.

After listening, Jiang Wanbai let out a sigh of relief, this matter can't be blamed on Tian Laosi for luring the wolf into the room. If it weren't for Ling Changwei's gold, there would be no such things.

However, it seems that Ling Changwei can't be blamed. It can only be said that time is also life.

Tian Liu died innocently, Tian Laosi lost his life for his obsession with having a son, and Widow Lu also had two lives, and now, it is up to He Wu.

"Is there a map of the neighborhood? He Wu had so much gold with him, and he didn't have horses yet, so he must not have been able to run far. Jiang Wanbai asked Yuan Huzi.

Maps are a rare thing in ancient times, and generally only the government has such a copy, and it is usually regarded as a treasure, and it is not revealed. So Jiang Wanbai said, Yuan Huzi was a little embarrassed.

"There is no map, but Xiao Jiu turned out to be a hunter in this vicinity, and he is very familiar with this place, if you want to know anything, you can ask him." Yuan Huzi said, pulling over a sturdy young man.

"Tell me about the terrain and the distribution of the villages." Jiang Wanbai said to the young man named Xiao Jiu.

Xiao Jiu nodded, squatted on the ground, holding a branch, and drew Jiang Wanbai as he spoke.