Tian Chu saw that Xue'er didn't speak, and looked very cautious, so he said: People, it's not easy for our yamen to do errands like you. ”

Xue'er immediately said: "Master Meng, my father didn't say it, it's because Uncle Zhuzi is actually..."

"Don't talk nonsense!" Ye Chu interrupted Xue'er's words with a loud roar, and said to Meng Tianchu: "Master Meng, the pillar and Yulan are innocent, I don't know what the person who told you this has intentions, but I dare to pack the ticket, the pillar will not kill Yulan." ”

Meng Tianchu said: "I didn't say that this pillar killed Yulan, I just want to know who he is." ”

Li Zheng sighed, thought about it, and said: "Okay, then let me tell you, Zhuzi and Yulan grew up together since childhood, and they can be regarded as childhood sweethearts, but later Yulan's poor family married her to Ye Hu, in order to use the bride price money to treat Yulan's grandfather, Zhuzi left the village in a fit of anger, and he left for ten years, and he has been killing pigs in the village since he came back." ”

Meng Tianchu said: "Kill pigs? ”

Rizheng nodded.

Meng Tianchu remembered something, pondered for a while, and then said: "It's been two days since the Yulan accident, where did her child go, why is her mother gone, and the child is not looking for her own mother?" ”

When Li Zheng heard this, he also felt strange, so he said: "That's true, then I'll take Meng Ye to Yulan's house to have a look." ”

Ye Chu took Meng Tianchu and his party through the entire village and came to a house in Dongtou.

Meng Tianchu saw that the walls of this house were extremely high, and he couldn't see what was inside at all. The door was also closed, with a frame on it and a bright axe on the shelf.

Li Zheng said: "This is the Magnolia family." ”

Some of the surrounding villagers saw that a lot of people suddenly came, and even Lizheng came, so they came out to see the excitement.

Meng Tianchu said: "What are you doing with this wall being built so high?" ”

A villager who watched the excitement said: "That's because Yulan was worried that some hooligans in the village would climb over the wall at night, so she deliberately built it up." ”

Meng Tianchu pointed to the axe on the door again and said, "Why is this?" ”

Another villager said, "I just want to tell those scoundrels not to provoke Magnolia, and to be careful of cutting them with an axe." ”

Meng Tianchu understood. In front of me, you can see a shabby-dressed but rather beautiful woman standing in front of the door. Holding this bright axe, like Liu Hulan, he glared at those men with the same faces.

Meng Tianchu pondered for a moment. took the little macaque Wan'er from Zhu Hao's shoulder, stroked its smooth golden hair, and pointed to the high wall: "Wan'er, go up and help me take a look, is there anything strange in it." ”

After saying that, Meng Tianchu threw the little macaque to the axe shelf on the door, and the little macaque was as light as the wind and grabbed the shelf. He didn't stop, rubbed a few times, climbed the eaves on the door, and climbed onto the top of the wall.

Meng Tianchu said: "Wan'er, do you see anything?" ”

The monkey pointed to the wall, looking very anxious.

Meng Tianchu immediately said: "Knock the door open for me!" ”

"Don't bump!" A middle-aged woman next to her shouted, took out a key from her bosom and walked over, saying, "Don't bump into it." Don't bump. You broke it, and Magnolia didn't have the money to repair it. ”

Meng Tianchu was stunned and said, "How do you have the key to the Yulan family?" Judging by the tone of the middle-aged woman's voice. She didn't seem to know that Magnolia was dead.

The middle-aged woman said, "I am her neighbor, and this key was given to me by Yulan, and sometimes she has to go to work in the fields in the west, so she is worried that the rain will wet the things drying in the yard of the house, so she asks me to help collect them." The woman went up and opened the door with the key.

Meng Tianchu asked, "Yulan hasn't been home for a few days?" ”

The middle-aged woman said: "Besides, it's been two days today, and her tiger is still in our house." ”

Meng Tianchu felt that why rural people were so simple, and when someone came to the yamen to knock on the door, he didn't ask if something had happened to Yulan.

Meng Tianchu said: "Do you know where she went?" ”

The middle-aged woman said: "When she left, she said that she was going to the mountains to pick herbs, and this season the herbs on the mountains began to increase, and she picked some of them and came back to sell them for money, and the life of magnolia was really not easy." ”

Meng Tianchu realized that everyone thought that Yulan had gone up the mountain to pick herbs, so where did the few people at the city gate live yesterday, why didn't anyone know that Yulan had an accident.

At this time, a little boy came out of the crowd and saw that he was wearing a red belly pocket, and he looked very cute, a little like the red child in "Journey to the West".

When the middle-aged woman saw the child coming, she immediately smiled and pulled her into her arms, saying, "This is Yulan's child, Huzi." ”

Murong Zhenxue saw the child's smiling appearance, and he didn't know that his mother had been thrown everywhere by the people, and his heart was sour, and tears couldn't help but burst out of his eyes. Hurriedly turned his head away and quickly wiped away his tears.

When the middle-aged woman saw Murong Zhenxue's appearance, she felt that something was wrong, seeing that so many people from the yamen had come, even Li Zheng was here, and she was going to bang on the door of Yulan's house, as soon as she thought of this, the middle-aged woman immediately looked at Meng Tianchu nervously and said, "Yulan... What's wrong? ”

Li Zheng sighed and said, "You take the child home first." ”

The child was very alert, and when he saw everyone's faces, he immediately said, "I'm not leaving, what about my mother?" ”

Li Zheng stepped forward and touched the child's head, and said heavily: "Yesterday, a dead person was found at the west end of the village. ”

These words immediately caused an uproar, and everyone immediately started to discuss, only to see the tiger staring at the big round eyes, and said loudly to Li Zheng: "You deceive people, my mother went up the mountain to pick herbs, you deceive people." As he spoke, tears were already dripping down in large quantities.

Meng Tianchu sighed, pushed open the courtyard door, and looked inside, only to see a big black dog lying in the courtyard of Yulan's house, which seemed to have been stiff and had been dead for a long time.

Meng Tianchu looked around first and saw that there was nothing else unusual. Only then did he step forward to take a closer look, only to see that the black dog's eyes were bulging, the corners of his mouth were bloodshot, and there was some vomit next to him, which should have been poisoned.

Zhu Hao beckoned the little macaque to come down.

Huzi also saw it at this time

The big black dog immediately rushed forward. Get on your knees. Pick up the black dog "Kuroko." I thought my mother took you up the mountain with me, why did you die here? ”

The middle-aged woman sighed as she walked in and pulled the tiger, but the tiger didn't get up.

Meng Tianchu said: "Did this dog take it with him every time Magnolia went up the mountain to pick herbs in the past?" ”

Huzi nodded and said, "Every time my mother goes to pick leaves, she will bring sunspots, which can strengthen my mother's courage and scare away jackals and tigers on the mountain." ”

Meng Tianchu squatted down and touched the black dog's body temperature and checked the stiffness. It is preliminarily judged that the black dog has been dead for more than a day, could it be that the murderer poisoned the black dog to death first in order to achieve the purpose of killing?

Meng Tianchu looked at the yard, this yard was very small and very simple, it seemed that this family was really poor and difficult, and there were some grass and peppers in the yard.

Meng Tianchu walked through the courtyard, came to the front of the house, and pushed the door. The door opened. When the probe looked inside, the room was neat and there were no signs of fighting. It doesn't look like the first scene of a killing. In addition to a few rudimentary stoves, there was a bed, and in front of the window there was a dilapidated table with a broken bowl of water and a wooden hairpin, and there was dust on the table.

There was a quilt stacked on top of the bed, and there were patches all over it, and there was a wooden box next to the bed, which was unlocked.

Meng Tianchu walked over and opened the box, most of the huge box was empty, and there were only a few clothes inside, most of which were children's. He sighed, and was about to close the box, when suddenly he let out a sigh and stared at something in the corner of the box.

After the inspection, Meng Tianchu walked out of the door and saw that the courtyard was already full of people, and everyone looked at him, their eyes full of sadness. It seems that Magnolia still has a very high status in everyone's minds.

Meng Tianchu cleared his throat and said: "I know that Yulan is a very good woman in everyone's hearts, she is unfortunately killed now, everyone also hopes that the yamen will find the murderer as soon as possible to avenge Yulan, we will definitely try our best to find the murderer, if the villagers know any clues, I hope to contact our yamen in time." ”

One of the villagers in the crowd whispered, "A few days ago, the pillar was still at the door saying that he was going to kill Yulan, you should go and ask him." ”

It's this guy called the pillar again!

Another person in the crowd said to the person who spoke just now: "Hu San'er, I think you still have some virtue, Yulan is dead, what strange things do you say, if you want to kill Yulan, I think in addition to the pillar, you seem to have said this before, why don't you talk about yourself?" ”

The people on the side also nodded their heads and blamed the person who spoke just now, and the person was indistinguishable, so he hurriedly squeezed out of the crowd and left in a hurry.

Meng Tianchu said to Li Zheng: "Take me to meet this person called Zhuzi." ”

At this time, someone in the crowd said: "The pillar is not there, he went to the city the day before yesterday, saying that the pig in the family is sick and went to the county seat to get it." ”

Such a coincidence? It was also not there the day before yesterday, judging from the situation of the autopsy site, that magnolia was also the place where people killed the night before yesterday, it wouldn't be such a coincidence.

Meng Tianchu said: "Then there is no one else in his family?" ”

The man said: "There is still an old lady, and there is no one else." ”

Meng Tianchu said: "Didn't that pillar have a family?" ”

"The pillar man is honest and diligent, it's not easy to find a woman to marry, but he is very sad about women, so he has been away for ten years, and he has been living like this since he came back."

Oh, it looks like he's still a love saint, Meng Tianchu thought to himself, and said, "Let's go to his house and take a look." Where is his home? ”

"It's not far away, it's right next to the big willow tree in front of me."

Meng Tianchu walked outside the courtyard gate and looked up, and sure enough, there was a big weeping willow not far away, and there was a family below.

Meng Tianchu turned around and said to Wang Yi: "Wang Zhutou, you ordered someone to bring this dog back, and I will examine it in detail." "Say, go straight to the weeping willow.

A few children who were watching the excitement had already rushed over, skillfully opened the firewood door, ran in, and shouted as they ran: "Granny Zhang, someone from the yamen has come to find Uncle Zhuzi." ”

Hearing the sound, a woman in her fifties came out, looking kind-eyed, fair-skinned, and dressed cleanly, not like a rural person, and her body was still very healthy.

The old woman walked out of the door and was taken aback when she saw many people at the door, as well as the housekeepers.

Meng Tianchu stepped forward with a smile and said, "Old man, I am the famous master of the county government, is your pillar at home?" ”

Before the old woman could speak, one of the children had already taken the old woman's hand and said, "The people in the yamen said that Aunt Yulan was dead, so they came to find Uncle Zhuzi!" ”

It's really a child's words, Meng Tianchu smiled bitterly in his heart.

When the old woman heard that Magnolia was dead, her body shook as if she had been electrocuted.

Murong Zhenxue hurriedly stepped forward to support her, but the old woman pushed Murong Zhenxue away, glanced at Meng Tianchu coldly, and said, "Yulan is dead, what are you Yamen looking for my son?" ”

Li Zheng's face sank: "Master Meng was ordered by the county master to investigate the case, you must not be rude!" ”

The old woman snorted and said, "Investigate the case? Why did you come to me? You don't think it was my pillar that killed Magnolia, right? ”

Meng Tianchu said tepidly: "I heard from the people in the village that a few days before the accident, Yulan's pillar threatened to kill Yulan, right?" ”

The old woman looked at Meng Tianchu with a very strange look, and said indignantly, "When did Yulan die?" How did he die? My pillar is not at home these days, how can he kill Yulan? When you hear others say this, you think that my pillar killed Yulan, then let me tell you, when Yulan was born, her mother said that she would marry her to my pillar as a daughter-in-law, but did she marry? Do you have to do it? Master, my pillar has not married a daughter-in-law for Yulan until now, you look at the old woman in our village who is the same age as me and now has great-grandchildren, but I don't have a grandson yet, but you say that my pillar killed Yulan, are you still unreasonable? ”

The more the old woman spoke, the more excited she became, her hands fluttering in the air, and the spittle stars were also flying everywhere, Meng Tianchu couldn't help but take a few steps back.