The three of them walked along the Merlin stream to the ferry, and sure enough, there were many people selling fish there.

Shuying held the fishing net bag containing the jade in her hand and played with it, swaggering, while strolling around the fish market to see if anyone would look abnormal when they saw this piece of jade.

No one looked out of the ordinary.

The Divine Bird Boy walked behind Xiuyun and whispered, "Look at that person's clothes—"

Looking up, it was a middle-aged fisherman, dressed in rags, with many large patches on his clothes, and the thread used was very conspicuous, the same thread as the bag containing jade.

The three of them went up and asked him about the fish, and there was a hint of joy in his expression.

When he saw the jade in Xiuyun's hand, he didn't have any abnormal reaction.

The man in red started a routine with the old man and asked him if he had sons and grandchildren at home.

The old man was very enthusiastic and invited them to his house.

It was in the arms of the three of them.

The fisherman said: "I have a son named Xiao Yu'er, who is 20 years old this year, and has been fishing in this neighborhood since he was a child. His mother left him when he was five years old, and he was bullied a lot since his mother ran away. But he was very sensible, and he hid it from me when he was injured. I also feel content with such a son, but I don't have the ability to send him to school. ”

The house was made of adobe, and a large piece of earth had fallen from the entrance, revealing a gap.

The house was destitute, with only a few fishing nets hanging from wooden stakes on the walls and a pyre for boiling water.

The ashes from the pyres were surrounded by yellow adobe bricks, and several black clay pots with glazed upper halves.

Perhaps for fear of being gnawed by rats, the clay pot was hung on a beam with a thread.

The eyes of the three of them converged on the bright white line tied to the jar at the same time-

I invariably thought of the guqin of Ruan Gongzi's house, and there were no strings!

These threads should be the physical evidence of strangulation of Ruan Gongzi!

"What have you been busy with lately?"

"I'm not busy, it's the off-season for fishing recently, so he doesn't go fishing every day, and he spends all the money at home. Recently, I seem to be in a bad mood, I was still wondering if he was deceived into gambling, I asked him, he said no, this child will not tell me if there is something, two days ago he came back in a hurry and took away the only two taels of silver in the family", the father had a sad face.

"And where is he now?"

"I don't know where he's gone, but he'll be back before the sun goes down. ”

As soon as the three of them got out of the fence, a lost man came back, knowing that he must be a little fish.

The three of them began to reason about the story word by word:

"Once upon a time there was a young boy who fell in love with a girl and spent all his money for her, and later he found out that he had other good feelings for this girl. ”

"Rumor has it that the two of them used to be together, but they were separated because the scholar's parents did not approve of him marrying a playman. ”

"A month ago, the girl had been in contact with the scholar again, and the boy was angry and sad, and planned to kill the dog man and woman. But he forgot that when he first met the girl, he lied that he was the son of a rich merchant, and that the girl did not know that he had spent all his money, nor that the boy loved not herself, but her chastity, and that the pure love he thought was nothing but a pure body. ”

And the son of this so-called rich merchant is nothing more than a third party to this lovers, a superfluous person who has been living in deception. ”

The man listened to the three of them singing and talking in harmony.

Hearing this, he angrily questioned loudly: "Who do you say is the third party? We are pure love!"

"Who does she love, that's her freedom, what right do you have to take their lives?"

"If the woman you love is contaminated by another man, can you feel at ease?"

"Then how did you kill Ruan Gongzi?"

"I went to his house and found him in the bath, and as soon as I thought of the picture of them together, I took a knife from the next room and cut off the strings and strangled him from behind. ”

"And how did you know where he lived?"

"I heard from the people in the troupe. ”

"What about Ziyun, how did you kill her?"

"I didn't kill her. ”

"Then why did she hold the jade you gave him before she died? Isn't it just to tell everyone that you are the one who killed him?"

He smiled weakly: "Recently, she has become more and more cold to me, I know that she is with that scholar again, so I gave her two taels of silver, and tricked him into going to the temple where we first met, I begged her to be with me, don't go to that scholar in the future, but she refused, and said that she and that scholar are really in love, so I don't want to go to him again in the future, and finally said that being with me is just a fancy for my money." She had no remorse for being unclean with others, so I tied her up. ”

Then, he laughed maniacally: "So I told her that I was going to kill her Ruan Gongzi." She began to beg me again, saying that she was willing to give me her body, as compensation, she would do such a shameless thing for other men, who would want such a second-hand thing like her. So I tortured her and told her how I was going to kill the man. ”

"Then have you ever thought about what do you think she will do if Ruan Gongzi forces her to commit to him, or she will kill you?"

The little fish stopped laughing.

gradually turned into a bitter smile, shaking her head: "She must have taken a fancy to their family as a scholarly family, and wanted to get rid of her identity, who knows if other people's parents disagree." ”

"Then why did you stay with her until the middle of the night, why did you wait so long when you had already decided to kill?"

"I didn't kill her, I was going to torture her, and the more she suffered, the happier I became, and the thought of her smiling so happily with that person, he had never laughed so much with me. ”

"If you hate him so much, why do you want to set off fireworks at the end?"

"How do you know, as if you're watching from the sidelines. ”

"Because you have burns on your hands from fireworks. ”

Xiao Yu'er said: "Yes, she is so beautiful in the fireworks, I told her not to leave me, I really like you, she smiled and asked me, if she was not a virgin, would I still like her." ”

"Then do you still like her?" Xiuyun asked curiously.

"I don't know. She said that before she met me, she had a good relationship with the surname Ruan, but his parents couldn't accept her, thinking that she was born in an opera and would disgrace their family, and the surname Ruan said that he would marry her, but his promise could not be fulfilled, so he left, but now the surname Ruan has left his parents and is independent of himself. She said she was grateful that I comforted her when I was most frustrated, but didn't love me, just because she was hurt at the time, and just felt that money could bring her a little comfort, and being with me was just for money".