"Of course, two girls are always welcome to come and sit here." Wu Zhong got up to see us off.

After leaving the Wu family, Cai Yu and I didn't go back to Aunt You directly, but went around and picked some people to go in to drink a cup of tea and rub some snacks, until dusk, Cai Yu and I walked back leisurely.

"Wu Zhong is not so stingy as he looks." I shook the Su Ji dim sum in my hand, and my eyes lit up.

"Just a few snacks, and he bought you?" Cai Yu glanced at me with disgust.

I nodded calmly, "Su Ji dim sum, famous all over the world, who doesn't love it?" He is willing to spend this money to buy me, I should appreciate it. ”

"You are the only one who can talk about gluttony so high-soundingly." Cai Yu looked at the dim sum in my hand, and for a moment wanted to take advantage of it and grab one to taste.

"Don't be so blunt, who doesn't have a little hobby?" I saw through Cai Yu's thoughts, and immediately grabbed the Su Ji dim sum in my hand a few points.

Cai Yu saw my defensive movements, raised his eyebrows, but didn't really grab it.

"No one can prove Aunt You's whereabouts." Cai Yu said suddenly, "Liu Xingwang and Concubine Liu Wen both died late at night three days ago, Aunt You is a single person, even though we temporarily live in Aunt You's house, we have never been with her from time to time, especially when we are asleep in the middle of the night." ”

I paused for a moment, and walked my way in silence, without speaking.

"I have already asked, Aunt You also had a happy family a year ago, with a husband who accompanies her, and a filial son and daughter-in-law, and her daughter-in-law is pregnant.

"It's just that one day, Aunt You's daughter-in-law suddenly hanged herself, and his son was sad because he was weak and sick since he was a child, and he was suddenly sick, and Aunt You's husband couldn't afford to be sick under several blows, and he died of illness not long after."

"I heard others say that Aunt You once went to Liu's house to make trouble, but as for what the trouble was, not many people know."

When Cai Yu said these words, his eyes kept staring at me, as if he could guess my thoughts as long as my expression changed slightly.

But even if he guessed my thoughts, what could he do? No one is powerless to change the established facts.

"Green Branches." Walking to the bridge, Cai Yu stopped, and he asked me, "Do you think Aunt You will be the murderer behind the scenes?" ”

"It's your business to investigate the case." I stood behind the railing of the bridge with my hands in my hands, quietly looking at the flowing water in front of me, "Don't ask me. ”

When Cai Yu heard this, he fell silent.

"Aunt Xu, when are we going?"

Lowering my eyes slightly, I said, "Now, it's better to choose a day than to hit the day." ”

"Is it too late?" Cai Yu suddenly asked me thoughtlessly.

"The moment the snow drifted away." I sighed.

The cold wind swept through with the dry fallen leaves, the long sleeves agitated, the headband flew, and the cold chill was like the sunset at this moment.

Outside the distant mountains, the frost at the bridgehead, the branches on both sides of the bank tremble, and the remnants of the leaves.

"Let's go." After seeing all the mountains and rivers, it's time to get down to business.

Seeing my indifferent appearance, Cai Yu paused slightly and followed me.

Aunt Xu's home is in the first household in the southwest of the bridge, compared to others, her house seems to be much simpler, except for the melon field in the front yard, there are only a few mulberry trees behind the house.

The mulberry tree is not large, but the melon field in the front yard is full of all kinds of melons and fruits, the most eye-catching of which is the large pumpkin on the side of the yard railing. Not only is the pumpkin much bigger than you can see, but even the ripening season is different from usual.

It's winter season now, and it stands to reason that this pumpkin should have ripened long ago, or even disappeared, but the pumpkin here is plump, large and round.

Isn't that counterintuitive?

"Because there are mountains on all sides, the temperature in the village is different from the outside, so this pumpkin ripens later, and with my unique secret recipe, my pumpkin is just ripe at this time." The wooden door creaked open, and a person staggered out of the door, patiently explaining the mystery to us.

"Aunt Xu?" I was surprised.

How does Aunt Xu feel different today from when we first met?

"Does the girl know me?" Aunt Xu was even more surprised than me, but she quickly understood, and said with a wry smile, "It seems that I was going crazy again to make the two girls unhappy." ”

"This ......," I was embarrassed to say at a loss of what to say.

"You guys wait here." Aunt Xu suddenly said this, and hurriedly returned to the house, Cai Yu and I looked at each other, and when I didn't know whether to wait or wait, Aunt Xu hurriedly walked out and forced a bag of hot things into my hand.

"This is a shortbread I made with this pumpkin, it's delicious, you can take it back and eat it." Aunt Xu said with a smile.

"What's so embarrassing about that? We can't take it. I hurriedly excused myself, but Aunt Xu didn't know why, her eyes suddenly kept coming, muttering something in her mouth, ignoring people, staggering back to the house, and locked the door with a "bang". Love books

The cold wind blew from the face, Cai Yu and I were stunned, and Fang realized that she was sick.

"This is too time-consuming, so let's divide the soldiers into two ways, you go to Aunt Xu's neighbor's house next door to sit down, and I will go to Dr. Chen's medicine hall to get some medicinal materials, how about it?" I thought about it for a while and proposed to Cai Yu.

"Okay." Cai Yu nodded.

Without further ado, I immediately left for Dr. Chen's medicine hall, and Cai Yu also turned around and went to the next door neighbor's house.

After greeting Dr. Chen, I stretched out my wrist and asked him to check his pulse.

"Dr. Chen, can you help me see if I'm cured?"

Dr. Chen naturally nodded in agreement.

"Dr. Chen, I heard that there is a medicinal herb that is particularly good for the body, cures all diseases, and can also prolong life, it seems to be called ...... It's called Xiangchun Cao, do you sell any of them here? I asked him.

Dr. Chen smiled, shook his head and said, "How can there be anything in this world that can cure all diseases?" The girl laughed, as for the spring grass...... I'm shallow for being shallow, I've never heard of this thing. ”

"Is that so?" I was disappointed.

"The girl's body is fine, just pay attention to rest in the future." Seeing that I was so disappointed, Dr. Chen had nothing to comfort me, so he could only say this.

"Oh, okay, thank you Dr. Chen."

After leaving the medicine hall, I looked up at the darkening sky and decided to go home.

Coincidentally, when I returned to Aunt You's house, Cai Yu also came back, we looked at each other, and sat down to have dinner.

Cai Yu and I went up to the roof at night, but Gu Yuancheng was still bored in the house alone and couldn't come out, and I don't know why he suddenly changed his temper.

Cai Yu and I discussed the case for a long time, and then we went down together and prepared to go into the house to rest, but I didn't expect to bump into Aunt You who was burning her dress in the corner in the backyard.

"Auntie, what are you ......?" I wondered.

Aunt You threw the last dress in her hand into the brazier, stood up, and turned her head to look at me with red eyes.

"This is my daughter-in-law's clothes...... "Aunt You choked up, "Now that she's gone, I really can't look at her things every day and read her, as well as my son and wife's, they are all burned together, and they fall clean." ”

"People can't be resurrected after death, but those who are alive still have to live well." I reassured.

Aunt You wiped her tears and nodded.

"Go back to your house and go to sleep, and I'll go to sleep in a while."

Sad things have never been swallowed by themselves, and others can't intervene, so I comforted Aunt You for a while, and then went back to the house with Cai Yu.

At dawn the next day, Cai Yu and I went out without even eating breakfast, of course, Gu Yuancheng still didn't join us, he seemed to be very busy recently, but this is not something I can manage.

In the evening, Cai Yu and I came back tiredly, Aunt You saw this, and hurriedly went to make dinner for us to eat, I gave Cai Yu a look, and went back to the house alone.

"Aunt You, let's talk, shall we?" Cai Yu called Aunt You, who was walking towards the kitchen.

"Talk about it...... What does the girl want to talk to me about? Aunt You seemed to have some premonition, although she still had a kind smile on her face, she couldn't help but stiffen a little.

"Talk about how you killed so many people in the Liu family." Cai Yu bent down and brushed the dust on the bench, stepped out of the way and asked Aunt You to sit down, "This matter is quite cumbersome, so Auntie should sit down first." ”

"I didn't expect me to entertain the girl for so long, but what did you say about me...... Homicide? Okay, I'll listen to you and see how you come up with a flower. Aunt You's face changed, and she slapped the table angrily and sat down.

Cai Yu was not surprised by Aunt You's reaction, and reached out to pour a cup of warm tea for Aunt You.

"At the end of last month, you heard the news that Zhao Lan, the daughter-in-law of the Liu family, was going to worship at the Posa Temple alone, so you ambushed there first, because it was dark, you took advantage of Zhao Lan to worship the Posa Jun and secretly came behind her and strangled her with a rope, and then dragged her to the low recess of the back slope of the Posa Temple, am I right?"

"Nonsense, why do you say that?"

"Paper money." Cai Yu took out a paper money that was still stained with mud from his sleeve and put it on the table in front of Aunt You, "When Zhao Lan died, her body was covered with such paper money. ”

Aunt You's eyes lit up and she didn't open her eyes.

"What are you doing here with such a thing?"

"Posa Village is not big, there are almost all weddings and funerals that everyone knows, I have inquired, except for the paper money in the Caifu store used when sacrificing Posa Jun last month, only a year ago your family used a lot of paper money."

"A year ago, your relatives passed away one after another, you had to, and you couldn't go to the Caifu store to buy these things, and when your husband finally left you, you began to plan to take revenge on the Liu family, because the news of Po Sa Village spread quickly, so no one will suspect you if you buy more paper money."