Personally returned to the hall, Cai Zhao took a drink of Longjing, and said: It's really old, it seems that I am used to relying on you, I can't say it, but..."

Meng Tianchu laughed and said, "Look at you, it's still like that, since I promised you, you can come at any time." ”

Cai Zhao nodded reassuringly, and then said to Wang Yi: "Okay, then you tell Tianchu, I can't say it, I just think about it... I couldn't help it. ”

When Wang Yi heard this, how dare he say no, stabilized his emotions, and then said: "That is, what your second lady said, remind me and the eldest master, and it was also yesterday, a few brothers in the yamen..."

Speaking of this, Wang Yi had another disgusting expression.

Meng Tianchu looked at Wang Yi's appearance, and it was not easy to make any jokes, and said solemnly: "Okay, what is going on, tell me, I'll listen to it." ”

Cai Zhao said depressedly: "It's just that some people in the market are just spreading falsehoods, but it's my favorite Zheng Baozi." ”

Meng Tianchu smiled: "Why did you have anything to do with that Zheng Baozi again, I really thought of the Zheng Baozi you like when I talked about the buns, but since you said that it was a false rumor, what do you believe him do?" ”

Wang Yi: "We don't believe it either, but if the person who said it did, it was inevitable that there would be some..."

Meng Tianchu: "I can't help but believe it?" ”

Cai Zhao smiled, but it was a wry smile.

Wang Yi swallowed his saliva with some difficulty, and then said, "Master Meng, do you remember the Zheng Baozi in the west of the city where we went last time?" ”

Meng Tianchu nodded and said, "Remember." How? Did I see Zheng Baozi in the morning? ”

Cai Zhao was stunned and said, "Where is it?" ”

Meng Tianchu: "Gluttonous fasting"

Cai Zhao suddenly said: "He sent his bun to that place to buy it?" ”

Meng Tianchu nodded: "Yes, what's wrong?" ”

Cai Zhao said: "It's really a coincidence, yesterday Wang Yi received a report from a common person, saying that he sent his daughter to Zheng Baozi's house to help, but it was less than a month, but the girl couldn't find it, so he went to Zheng Baozi to ask for it, but Zheng Baozi said that his daughter quit." It's gone, he believed it at the time, and later undoubtedly found an embroidered shoe worn by his daughter in the back alley of Zheng Baozi's house, and there was blood on it. So he hurriedly brought the embroidered shoes to the yamen to report the case,"

Meng Tianchu also felt a little strange when he heard it, there was no case of the seven-year-old child last time, why did he have an extra embroidered shoe with blood?

Meng Tianchu: "So you and Dong Weng believe in those rumors?" ”

Wang Yi and Cai Zhao laughed a little embarrassedly.

Meng Tianchu stood up. said: "Instead of us speculating here, it's better to go to Zheng Baozi in person." ”

Wang Yi pointed to Meng Tianchu's injury, and was about to speak, Meng Tianchu said, "It's not in the way." It's already a lot better, let's go, let's go to Zheng Baozi first. Then find the child who was stuck in the throat with a bone last time and the person who reported the crime to find the daughter. ”

Cai Zhao: "But your injury? ”

Meng Tianchu stood up. "Out of the way." Didn't I go out just now? I'll take the firewood with me. ”

Cai Zhao saw that Meng Tianchu was so insistent, so he agreed.

The four of them drove to the child's house with a bone stuck in his throat.

After sitting down. Meng Tianchu called the child, looked at the child's injury, it was almost healed, and the child's mother couldn't help but feel sad when she mentioned the child's throat when she saw that it was someone from the yamen.

"Alas, it's all my fault, I shouldn't have given the child that three pennies, and if I didn't have those three cents, I wouldn't have bought any messy things to eat."

Meng Tianchu interrupted the woman's words and asked the child what he had eaten that day, and the child whispered, "Lotus root flour and steamed buns." ”

Meng Tianchu couldn't help but feel excited when he heard the word buns, and hurriedly asked, "Where are the buns sold?" ”

The child shook his head and said, "The buns are not to buy land, the lotus root noodles are to be bought, the buns were given to me by the second girl at the street entrance, and her mother made the land herself." ”

The woman said: "It won't be a problem with the bun, the relationship between the second girl and my family has always been very good, besides, there may be something wrong with the bun." ”

Meng Tianchu thought for a while, and then asked, "Did you eat anything other than lotus root noodles and Erya and your buns that day?" ”

The child thought for a moment, then pointed to his mother and said, "And the bone broth that my mother stewed for me." ”

The woman quickly explained, "It can't be bone broth, right?" He was able to eat his own bones when he was three years old, how could he still let the bones get stuck when he was seven or eight years old? ”

Meng Tianchu: "When the child's throat was stuck, it was after he ate something. ”

The woman thought for a while and said, "He took four buns from Erya and brought them home, at that time, there were only two people at home, me and the child, and his father was not at home, so I said, no need to cook, two buns per person, and eat some bone broth, so we will eat buns and drink bone broth, sir, you said this..."

Wang Yi: "It's probably because the child is in a hurry, and the broken bones in your bone broth are stuck in the child's throat." ”

When the woman heard this, she also felt justified, and said with some shame: "If this is the case, it is still wrong for me to be a mother." ”

Meng Tianchu comforted: "You still have to pay attention to it in the future." ”

Woman: "The women remember." ”

Meng Tianchu and the four of them then asked Wang Yi to take them to a very simple inn, and found the man who went to the yamen to report the crime, this man was about the same age as Wang Yi, probably in his thirties, with a dignified and honest appearance, probably working under the sun for many years, his skin was dark and rough, and his eyes were cloudy, but he was only in his thirties, and his back was already a little tired.

Several people sat in the room, and the man looked a little nervous and cramped, and kept rubbing his hands back and forth, because there were not enough stools in the room, so he asked for a long bench for Xiao'er. I found a small bench to sit on in the corner, looking at Meng Tianchu and the four of them nervously.

Wang Yi said: "Wang Wu, today our eldest master and the Yamen Di Meng Shi

Ask your daughter, and tell us everything you see

Wang Wu: "I... I... I'm all... All... Give the king a head catch... Talked about... Yes! ”

Meng Tianchu smiled and said, "Don't be nervous, we just ask you about the situation, you tell me, when did you find out that your daughter is missing?" ”

Wang Wu glanced at Meng Tianchu, quickly lowered his head, and said, "Four days ago... Former. discovered. Because last time Zheng Baozi said that he would pay my daughter on the third day of the first month of every month, so... So, four days ago was... It's the third year of junior high school. ”

Meng Tianchu: "You continue to talk about the situation after you met Zheng Baozi." ”

Wang Wu looked at Meng Tianchu blankly, and Wang Yi said on the side: "Our Master Meng just asked you to talk about it." What did he say to you after you met Zheng Baozi, and where did you see your daughter's bamboo shoes. ”

Wang Wu sighed and said, "My family before yesterday... There is no time for the harvest at home. Yesterday morning, I went to Zheng... Zheng Baozi asked for wages, and he said that my daughter didn't do it with him, and he couldn't pay me, and I heard it. Just ask... Ask him what he wants for my... My daughter, he said he... No, I don't know. Then I... I'm not going to do it. ”

Meng Tianchu didn't know if Wang Wu was nervous or if he was already stammering. When speaking, I can't always say a sentence completely. The people on the side also listened a little hard.

Meng Tianchu: "Wang Wu, how many children do you have. How old is your daughter, how old is she this year? ”

Wang Wu: "I have six children, Xiaolian is my third child, today... He is fourteen years old. ”

When Meng Tianchu heard this, he couldn't help but be a little surprised, and said, "How old did you get married?" How many sons and daughters? ”

Wang Wu: "Married at the age of fifteen, five daughters and one son, the son is the youngest in the family. ”

Meng Tianchu thought to himself that this Wang Wu had probably been working hard to give birth to that son, and it was not easy to think about it.

Meng Tianchu was thinking about it, and Wang Wu said, "Master, you hurry... Help me get my daughter's wages back, I... I'm good to go back, this... A bunch of people in this house are waiting for me to eat. Besides, that... Zheng Baozi killed my daughter, do you want to give me more money? Home... One less laborer, and one less dowry money, I raised Xiaolian so big, but she... But he died, which is really not cost-effective. ”

Wang Wu is really amazing, if you don't say it, everyone was stunned, what is not cost-effective, he is waiting here to ask for money, it seems that as long as you can get the money, it doesn't matter how the woman died, this rural patriarchal thinking is really dead.

Meng Tianchu: "How do you know that your daughter was killed by Zheng Baozi?" ”

Wang Wu was anxious and said, "My daughter's embroidered shoes were found in the back alley of his house. ”

Finally there is a complete sentence.

Meng Tianchu: "That doesn't mean that Zheng Baozi killed your daughter, besides, where did you know that Zheng Baozi would give you more money if he killed your daughter?" ”

Wang Wuyi's expression suddenly became nervous when he heard this, and he lowered his head and stopped talking.

Meng Tianchu looked at Wang Wu, thought for a while, and suddenly asked, "What's going on on the ground in your hands?" ”

Wang Wuyi looked at the wound on his left wrist, subconsciously covered it with his right hand, and said, "In... Let the sickle give when harvesting at home... Give the cut ground. ”

Meng Tianchu looked at Wang Wu, Wang Wu kept his head down, Meng Tianchu said: "Our yamen has to find out the truth of the matter before we can give you an explanation, you also have to spend money to live in this inn, or you go back first, and come back in a few days, or if there is any news, we will find someone to tell you." ”

Wang Wuyi was very surprised when he heard this, and said, "What? Can't give me money yet? Didn't my daughter work for nothing at Zheng Baozi for a month? I... I don't do it, I don't get the money, my Wang Wu will never go home, my son is still counting on that... What about the wages to study at a private school in the village? ”

Meng Tianchu didn't expect that a man with such a feudal mind would think of letting his children go to school, so he said, "What? I thought you would keep your only son by your side, because you are so short of labor in the countryside, he only needs one, and he will not have the opportunity to help you farm in the future. ”

Wang Wu: "I... I have the strength, I don't need my son to help me work in the fields, he just needs to study for me, to... In the future, when we become officials or something, we won't look at the faces of the people in the city. ”

Meng Tianchu smiled, stood up, and said, "Wang Wu, we still need to investigate Zheng Baozi's matter to know if he killed your daughter." ”

Wang Wu hurriedly said, "Isn't it... He didn't care about the one he killed, let him give me my daughter's salary first, and then say, if... If he really killed him, let him compensate me again... Bride price money for the girl. ”

Wang Yi laughed when he heard it, and said: "Your daughter is not married to Zheng Baozi, why did you give you the bride price?" ”

Wang Wu said angrily: "Of course you have to... I have to give it, if it weren't for him, I would be going to marry Xiaolian to the second dog in the neighboring village next year, and now Xiao... Xiaolian is dead, and this bride price money naturally wants him Zheng Baozi to come out! ”

Meng Tianchu: "In this way, you take us to the back alley of Zheng Baozi's house and point us to the location where you found the bamboo shoes at that time." ”

Wang Wuyi heard this and said, "I have given the embroidered shoes... The king catches the head, the embroidered shoes are not in that position, how can I point it to you? ”

Cai Zhao said: "It's not like carving a boat to ask for a sword, it's really troublesome!" Let's go, let's take a look. ”

Wang Wu saw that the eldest master was unhappy and didn't dare to speak, so he quickly stood up, followed Meng Tianchu out of the inn behind their buttocks, and took Meng Tianchu and their carriage to the back alley of Zheng Baozi's shop.

Because there is a street of shops at this time, the back alley is full of garbage, bamboo baskets and embroidery baskets piled up by shopkeepers, and some discarded lazy dishes and rotten dishes, and the whole back alley exudes a foul smell that makes people want to vomit.

Cai Zhao frowned, and when Meng Tianchu saw this, he said, "Chai Meng and I can take Wang Wu in to have a look, Dong Weng and Wang Yi are waiting for us at the entrance of the alley." ”