Chapter 352: Hard work pays off
"I really can't remember what you guys say. But the stunned man in the east of the village is not the descendant of Sanlai at the beginning? An old man pointed to the east end of the village, the stunned man's home.
"Don't say it, it's really possible, stunned? Baby, you go to the east of the village and ask your uncle to come, and say that the patriarch and grandfather have something to look for him. The patriarch beckoned to a child who was playing.
"Yes, patriarch grandpa, brothers, the target is uncle's family, rush!" The leading child took the branch in his hand and pointed forward, and several children followed in a hurry, and disappeared as soon as the smoke slipped away.
"Seniors, are there no others? I remember what you just said, why is there only one descendant? Li Sui looked at the old men in front of him.
"Actually, there were indeed a lot of descendants left behind at that time, but as I told you just now, the ones left behind are basically frail and sick, and not many can survive, not to mention that there are many changes in the past three hundred years, and it is inevitable that they will ......," the patriarch replied.
"That means, wait a minute, I want to ask, where is the source of the Xijiang River?" Li Sui suddenly thought.
"The source of the Xijiang River is the snow-capped mountain you see over there, but very few people go there," said the patriarch, looking at the snow-capped mountain over there.
"Is it possible that someone lives there?" Li Sui then asked.
"This is impossible, the altitude of that snow-capped mountain is very high, and the climate is very cold, although it doesn't seem very dangerous, but in fact, there are all kinds of wild beasts on it, and people can't get out if they go in, let alone live, even hunters who hunt don't dare to go over." The patriarch said.
"Okay, that.... Another day, I'd like to ask Brother Agen to take us over, okay? ”
"That's fine, but you can only go to the bottom of the mountain, whether it's halfway up the mountain or at the top of the mountain, it's too dangerous, you just have to walk around, don't go in."
A few people were talking, and the children who had gone to call the stunned people just now had returned.
"Patriarch Grandpa, we have called Uncle Zi's door for a long time, but Uncle Zizi has never opened the door for us. The door of his house seemed to be locked from the inside. The child in the lead said.
"How can this be, aren't the stunned people generally at home, why don't you open the door at home?"
"Patriarch, why don't we go over and take a look, we don't know what's going on at home alone," said an old man next to the group leader.
"Okay, let's take a look."
A group of people walked towards the stunned man's house.
When I arrived at the stunned man's house, sure enough, the door was locked from the inside.
The patriarch stepped forward and knocked on the door several times and called a few times. But no one opened the door, which made everyone feel very wrong.
"Patriarch, let's slam the door open, what if something happens inside?" Miao Po said nervously.
"Let me come!"
Li Sui took a step forward, poured internal force into his right foot, and smashed the door with one kick.
The crowd rushed in.
I saw that in the wide open door of the house, the stunned man was lying on the ground, and the patriarch hurriedly ran over, only to see a pool of bright red blood under the stunned man, and the body was already cold.
He turned the corpse over, stuck a dagger in his throat, and his eyes widened with horror. Apparently he killed.
"How can this be, who would attack such a good person?" The patriarch said incredulously. The stunned son is alone on weekdays, and the patriarch is also alone. When the patriarch is old, he often asks the stunned son to help with the work in the fields. This person is also honest, and he helps hard every time, and he is willing to reach out to help if there is someone in the village who has something to do.
"There was no sign of a fight in this room, but the door was wide open, and he was lying on his stomach in the doorway, proving that he wanted to open the door and run out, and the back window was open, which proved that the murderer probably came in from the back window. The two of them should have said something, and then when the murderer took out the dagger, he felt that something was wrong, so he turned around and tried to run out, but the murderer followed closely and ended it all with a dagger stuck in his throat. Li Sui looked around and speculated. Love Book House
"That.... Who wants to kill such a good person? "Miao Po has a good relationship with the stunned man on weekdays, and it should be said that the old people in the village have accepted the help of the stunned child.
"There were no signs of the room being turned over, which proves that this person is not here for money. Killing with a knife proves that the person who came has martial arts, at least he can kill a strong man quietly in the room, and this person's martial arts are not low. But you are an ordinary small village, do you think about such a high level of martial arts, and have some hatred with the stunned? Li Sui looked at the furnishings in the house again, the simple wooden furniture, rough and bad, obviously made by the stunned himself. This is not like being rich, since it is not killing people for money, it can only be a grudge and personal vendetta.
"There are basically no people in the village who know martial arts, and we all have some three-legged cat kung fu here, which is not considered serious martial arts. If you say that there is no grudge, there is really no ....." Before the patriarch could finish his words, he was interrupted by a person who suddenly broke in, and everyone looked at it, and the sharp-beaked monkey's gills were not the dog's tail.
"There are no people in our village who know martial arts, but their group can do martial arts, and when they didn't come, they were stunned, but as soon as they came, they died, and they were killed by people who knew martial arts, and they must have done it." The tail of the sharp-beaked monkey pointed at Li Sui and said as if he was very angry.
"Dog tail, shut up for me! Do you think everyone is like you, and besides, if these little friends kill the stunned people, will it do them any good? The patriarch slapped the dog's tail to the side.
"Patriarch, you can't be biased towards outsiders, how many benefits they have given you, how many silver taels, you are so partial to them, you don't even believe in your own people, and Brother Quan will not let you go!"
"Someone! Pull this madman down for me! On weekdays, it's just a matter of letting him mess around, but now that the stunned man is dead, he still has the leisure to talk nonsense here, lock him up in a hut in the back mountain, and let him reflect on it. The patriarch was so angry that he took two steps back and almost fell, but Li Sui hurriedly stepped forward and hurriedly held on.
"The patriarch can't be angry with such a person, and the top priority now is to find the murderer of the stunned man as soon as possible." Li Sui already knew it in his heart.
"Okay, let's deal with the aftermath of the stunned first, let's disperse first, it's not too early now, tomorrow notify you to gather at my house with the village steward, this stunned treats us well, and we can't just let the stunned disappear without knowing it." The patriarch saw that it was almost late at night, and it was really not suitable to disturb the villagers.
One after another, the people went back to their homes, leaving only the village steward to stay at the stunned house.
Li Sui also went back.
Ye Jinyu was standing in the courtyard, she hadn't gone out since she came back in the afternoon, and she didn't participate in tonight's party, she has never been good at communicating with others, and it is normal not to participate.
"Did something happen, I heard a lot of noise outside." Ye Jinyu looked at Li Sui who came in from outside.
"There was a murder in the village, a man named stunned died, as for the murderer, the people in the village have no clue, but the interesting thing is that this stunned man is the only seedling left by the family whose house was damaged by the flood, and I just learned that the people in the village told me the news, and then the stunned man died, judging from the appearance of the corpse, it should have been dead for three hours, I suspect that this matter must be closely related to the treasure we are looking for." Li Sui sat on the stone bench in the courtyard and looked at Ye Jinyu, today's incident made him have some bad premonitions.
"Huh? What does it matter? Ye Jinyu sat next to Li Sui and looked at him, she was not at the scene of this matter, so she naturally didn't know the details.
"It's simple, it's this stunned man, who knows some unknown things, this matter, and the treasure has a certain relationship, but some people don't want us to know about this matter, so this kills people and kills people, believe it or not, the stunned man knows the murderer." Li Sui turned the two tea bowls upside down and placed them on the table, then moved the two tea bowls.
"Look, these two people, who originally knew each other, are chatting now, and then, what this person said, made this person start to feel scared and wanted to escape, but when he fled to the door, he just opened the door, at this moment, the person behind chased after him and killed him with a knife, when I checked the body, the overall muscle tension of the corpse was different, which proved that the deceased was in a relaxed state, suddenly nervous, but a part of the muscles had not yet entered the state, resulting in a different degree of muscle contraction." Li Sui put the two bowls back and looked at Ye Jinyu, who was already thinking.
"So the treasure is really around here?"
Li Sui really didn't know where Ye Jinyu came to his conclusion, what is the relationship between the two?
"Don't look at me like that, isn't that? The stunned man is from this village, and he knows the clue to the treasure, isn't the treasure here? Ye Jinyu felt that there was nothing wrong with his reasoning.
"Forget it, you are a crooked reason, by the way, tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, let's go to the snow-capped mountains over there, and then see if there are any clues." Li Sui always felt that there were always some secrets in the snowy mountains.
"Why?" It's good, in winter, what snow mountains do you go to? Ye Jinyu is getting lazier and lazier now.
"I support the old people in the village said that the Snow Mountain is the source of the Xijiang River, as the birthplace, the Snow Mountain, there may be something unusual, and the mountain is covered with snow, and now the weather is so cold, the Xijiang River is not frozen, isn't it strange?" Li Sui had already had the intention of going to find out.
"It's really strange, then let's go and see, but if we don't know the place, we can't act rashly." Ye Jinyu naturally knew what Li Sui meant.
"Tomorrow, you, me, and Qin Haimo, just the three of us, by the way, I forgot to ask, where is the embankment built back then, will it be a snow mountain?" Li Sui's face was a little solemn, this matter, if everything is according to his guess, it means that this trip to the snow mountain, it is very likely to meet those few people, and then whatever happens, it will become unpredictable, which is really a headache.
"By the way, how come I have never seen the treasure map you made in the first place?" Ye Jinyu only remembered now that she didn't know where Li Sui got the treasure map.
"What my father gave me, now is not the time to talk about this, the top priority now is to put this matter in order, and what the treasure map indicates, this is the end. We have to find the next road by ourselves, and we will know when we go to the snowy mountains tomorrow. Li Sui looked at Ye Jinyu, in fact, he didn't want to tell Ye Jinyu about this matter, because Emperor Jing was in this matter, and Li Sui couldn't be sure what role he played.