Li Mao dragged back home tired, Qin Niang jumped over like a clever bird and asked: "I heard that you were humiliated by Zhao Erzhuo on the street, is it true or false?" Li Mao stretched out his finger and flicked it on her forehead, and said dissatisfiedly: "I am humiliated, is it beautiful in your heart?" Qin Niang grinned, rubbed her head and said, "No, I'm very sad." Li Mao said: "I don't know who Zhao Erniang is, I only know that there is a woman who went to the street to sell vegetables and let the beggar steal the money, and she didn't dare to go home and sit on the street and cry, I kindly gave her ten money, but I offended her somewhere, and let the family throw the money at my feet, as if I owed her something in my last life." Could it be that she is the Zhao Erniang you said. ”

Qin Niang said: "People said that they don't take your stinky money, do you know why?" Li Mao said: "It's not because of Sister-in-law Wu's business, this world is really a good person can't do it." Qin Niang said: "Such a deep misunderstanding, how can you make people forget it so easily?" A brother of Mrs. came to Chengwu County next month, he saw that he was a secretary in Luzhou, five years ago there was no mother, a person in his thirties, only a daughter under his knees, and he was looking for a virtuous woman who could do housekeeping to fill the house, what do you have to say about this family business? ”

Li Mao said with a smile: "The door is right, if you can meet the eyes, it is also a good marriage." Qin Niang sighed and said, "It's a pity that the sister-in-law of the Wu family is not happy and insists on keeping the festival for her husband for three years." Li Mao said: "This is good. Qin Niang said: "Nothing is bad, the youth of the woman's family is not visible, she will be twenty-seven years old in three years, how can she get married?" Li Mao grinned and didn't say anything.

Qin Niang saw that Li Mao didn't want to talk more, so she closed her mouth with interest, served Li Mao to wash, and called warm water to soak his feet. In summer, the days are very hot, but the nights are very cool, and the heavy duvet has long been removed, leaving only a thin quilt on the cool bed.

In the middle of the night, the two were wrapped in a quilt, and it was inevitable that they would go on a blind date, although they both felt a little embarrassed, but no one proposed to add another quilt.

Early in the morning of the second day, Qin Niang woke up from a deep sleep, covered with a thin quilt, but Li Mao was nowhere to be found, after making tea and dinner, Qin Niang went to the temporary practice ground in the backyard to find Li Mao, the swords, guns, swords and sticks were neatly arranged, and no one moved. Qin Niang pursed her mouth and scolded lightly: "This dead ghost has slipped out and stolen his mouth again." ”

Li Mao found a very good porridge restaurant in the west of Chengwu County, and went over to try it at two ends in three days, and he got up early this day to see Qinniang sleeping sweetly, and couldn't bear to wake up, and was too lazy to cook by himself, so he went to Chengxi to buy porridge with cooking utensils, and not long after going out, he bumped into Qin Si who was in a hurry, Qin Si rode a donkey to the crossroads with a box of wooden bones and skin.

Seeing that it was Li Mao, Qin Si hurriedly got off the donkey and saluted, was dragged by Li Mao, and asked with a smile: "Where are you going so hot?" Qin Si said: "There was a murder in the camp of the Moqi people at the crossroads, and a woman died, someone reported to the official this morning, and Feng Tou called me over to check." Li Mao's heart was excited, and he asked urgently: "Who is the person who died, is it not a woman named Da Yuehua?" Qin Si shook his head and said, "Feng Tou didn't say it, I don't know who it is." ”

Li Mao got out of the way, let Qin Si go over, went to the county government stable to get the horse, rode straight to the heart of the cross street, he had a hunch that the woman who died was Da Yuehua.

The deceased was indeed Da Yuehua, lying naked and prone in the stinky ditch, his body was scarred and unusually white due to blood loss, and he seemed to be tortured before he died.

This ditch is located in the south of the crossroads, which is the junction of the Moqi and the beggars, and when Li Mao arrived, the north and south streets were full of people, and the walls were tightly divided into two factions. The Chengwu County Ya almost poured out, and even the native soldiers guarding the barracks outside the city were also transferred, but Cui Li and Feng Bu were nowhere to be seen, thinking that they were being taken advantage of in front of the county Ya.

Li Mao summoned Qingmo and asked him to remind Feng Bu to control the two heads, the snake can't do without a head, and if you control the leaders, you basically control the situation, after reminding, Li Mao stepped aside, his current identity is very sensitive, and it is really not appropriate to participate too much.

After a cup of tea, Cui Li and Feng Bu Pegasus arrived, Qingmo rushed up and said Li Mao's words in Feng Bu's ear, Feng Bu turned around and nodded to Li Mao who was standing in the crowd, and immediately ordered the heads of the two families to be called for questioning. Seeing this, Li Mao quietly retreated, walked out of the way, turned around and looked again, his mood was suddenly very depressed, and an intuition told him that around the death of Da Yuehua, a storm was about to be set off in Chengwu County, a big storm that was enough to destroy everything.

When she got home, Qin Niang had already left, and there were gruel, pickles and two oil cakes on the table, which were buttoned with a bamboo cover, Qin Niang could write a few words, but she didn't leave a message to Li Mao, but just used white rice grains to put a figure on the dining table - a smirking pig's head.

Xue Rong is a pig, and if Webster is dissatisfied with him on weekdays, he will use rice noodles to put a pig's head on the table, thinking that he is ridiculing. Qin Niang has learned from her, and she often uses this to ridicule Li Mao.

Li Mao smiled faintly, added two horns to the pig's head with rice grains, and then sat down to eat. After dinner, Li Mao went to the west of the city to find Chen Shu. Chen Shu is just a weak scholar, he can escape from the camp of the Moqi people with Da Yuehua, presumably there is an inside line in the camp, facing the camp of the Moqi tribe that can't be inserted with a needle and the water can't be splashed, Li Mao needs this inside help now, he wants to figure out what happened last night.

Chen Shu's family is in Jialin Fang in the west of the city, walking along a gravel paved street to the end, is Chen Shu's home, with tile houses and brick walls, bamboo forests, deep and quiet. Although the house is dilapidated, the former glory is still vaguely judged.

Chen Shu's parents died, and there was only one Cangtou in the family to serve, Cangtou opened the door in a corner, and looked Li Mao up and down with cloudy eyes, judging that it was a person he couldn't afford to provoke, so he politely let him in.

Chen Shu was dressed in coarse linen clothes, holding a book in his hand, the wound on his face had been coated with plaster, but his cheeks were still bruised and swollen, and although he was holding a book in his hand, his eyes were blank. He still remembered Li Mao, and with a wave of his hand, he let him sit down in the main hall.

After all, the Chen family is too wide, and the cangtou knows how to treat guests, so he withdrew with interest after adding tea.

Li Mao didn't make a detour, expressed his intentions directly, and asked Chen Shu to help find out the cause of Da Yuehua's death. Hearing that Da Yuehua was dead, Chen Shu was stunned for a while, and then it was difficult to control it, he covered his face and sobbed, and after crying bitterly, he wiped his tears, got up, and said to Li Mao through gritted teeth: "Da Yuehua must be harmed by people, and Moqi people will become a big trouble." If this evil is not removed, Chengwu will never have peace. As I said, he looked directly at Li Mao, his eyes were blood-red, like an aggressive wolf.

Li Mao got up and said, "Your judgment is consistent with mine, but this matter is very important, and there must be evidence." ”

Chen Shu didn't ask much, and said in a deep voice: "What do you want me to do, I'll go to the soup." ”

In the afternoon, Li Mao carried two fresh fish to the county government, which happened to be Wei Shi looking at flowers in the courtyard, and was taken aback when he saw Li Mao, and asked: "Qin Niang said that you went back to Gushan, why didn't you leave." ”

Li Mao lifted the live fish in his hand and said with a smile: "I saw someone selling fish on the road, and I saw that it was fresh, so I brought it over." ”

Webster praised: "Maohua is good, and I still remember that your brother loves to eat fish." While instructing Zhan Po to take it, she beckoned Li Mao to sit down, but she didn't sit herself, and a pair of wonderful eyes wandered around Li Mao, and then she said: "He is in the study, there was a case in the morning, and he is upset." ”

In front of the astute Wei, Li Mao didn't want to be fake, so he answered and went directly to Xue Rong's study. Xue Rong was pacing anxiously with his hands behind his back, and when he saw Li Mao, he said, "Didn't you say that you went back to Lonely Mountain?" He beckoned Li Mao to sit. Li Mao said: "I was about to leave, and I came back after passing the intersection." Xue Rong sighed and said, "You don't have to get involved in this matter. After saying that, he punched the case and said angrily: "Deceive people too much, deceive people too much!" ”