Yang Qiuchi was overjoyed, hurriedly turned around and came back, and asked, "Old man, please speak!" ”

"I heard that during that time, Peng Si had been pestering the mother of the water seed, and there was a dispute with their mother and son. Mother and son lived on the hillside above the sweet water well. ”

Yang Qiuchi asked curiously, "Who is this water custard?" ”

"Shui Jizi is the house slave on the village of Mrs. Peng, and his mother washes clothes for others to make a living."

Song Yun'er suddenly interjected: "I remember, brother, this water scumbag should be the one I mentioned to you last time, the one who specializes in accompanying the cub...... The boy who played with the little young master Peng Jiafu was the boy who was put around his neck by Peng Jiafu with a rope to tie the cow and let him crawl on the ground. He's the Wei family—didn't they go to Pipa Rock to see the fairies? ”

Li Zheng behind him said: "The fairy meeting ended yesterday, and they should have rushed back last night." ”

Yang Qiuchi also remembered that Song Yun'er had told herself about it, and it turned out that the suspect was actually next to her. The mother and daughter had an argument with Peng Si, and they lived near where Peng Si was stoned, is there a connection between the two? Yang Qiuchi decided to check it out.

After thanking Lao Langzhong, Yang Qiuchi asked Li Zheng to take them to the alley that Peng Lao Langzhong said first. Indeed, this place is relatively secluded, and it is convenient to attack in any corner and covertly, and there is no better place to sneak attack. It seems that judging from the choice of this position alone, it was premeditated.

Walking down this alley, there is a field of low wooden houses in the distance, which is clearly a slum compared to the bustling Qingshui Street and Huilong Street in Enyang Town. This made Yang Qiuchi involuntarily think of the poor home he followed Yang's mother and Feng Xiaoxue back to when he crossed over.

It's been almost a year since I left my mother and Xiaoxue, and it's time to go home and have a look. Yang Qiuchi thought in his heart that it was almost time for Zhihui and Ruobing's child to be born. Thinking of the child he was about to come to this world, infinite tenderness rose in Yang Qiuchi's heart.

Li was leading them through the potholed dirt roads, around the winding alleys with all kinds of strange smells, and finally came to a small courtyard. The yard was surrounded by a half-man-high hedge made of thorns, which was not large, but very neat.

Li Zheng bowed his waist and said to Yang Qiuchi: "Master, we have arrived, this is the home of the mother and son of the water man." Standing at the door of the thorns, he shouted, "Hey! Anybody home? The big man is here! ”

No one in the room answered. Li Zheng pushed the courtyard door and walked in, only to find that the door was locked.

Li Zheng came out with a smile and said: "Master, their mother and son are not here, the water is definitely in Pengjiazhuang, and his mother may go out to do the laundry." ”

Yang Qiuchi nodded and said, "Let's go, go back to Pengjiazhuang directly to find a water cue to understand the situation." ”

The group returned to Pengjiazhuang. This water slab was originally a playmate who accompanied Peng Jiafu, but now that Peng Jiafu is missing, he is also unemployed, but the Peng family has become a mess, and he is still blindly looking for the little young master everywhere, and no one assigns new things to this water slab, so he will follow everyone to look for it.

Yang Qiuchi told Peng Hexi that he would send someone to retrieve the water cusp and bring it to his residence.

Not long after, the water slab was brought. Kneel down and kowtow.

Yang Qiuchi looked at Song Yun'er, saw that she nodded, and confirmed that it was the water stubble who was kicked and beaten by Peng Jiafu, and after careful inspection, he saw that he was about fifteen or sixteen years old, half a head taller than children of the same age, and he was also very strong and tough, and a little rough beard stubble grew at the corners of his mouth, which already looked like an adult man.

Yang Qiuchi's gaze fell on the feet of the water grub, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and he nodded slightly.

"What's your name?" Yang Qiuchi asked kindly.

"Back to the adult, the little one is called 'Shui Guzi'" The child is not timid at all, and he is not flustered when he speaks.

"Do you know Peng Si?"

Shui Zizi's body shook slightly, and then he said, "Know." ”

Shui Qiuzi's reaction Yang Qiuchi's eyes had gradually become clear in his heart, and he asked, "Has he ever been to your house?" ”

The water scumbag shook his head.

Yang Qiuchi sighed: "But I've heard that he often comes to your house and has disturbed your mother, right?" Don't be afraid, Master Ben knows that this Peng Si is not a good thing, you have to tell the truth, Master Ben will deal with it according to the situation. ”

Shui Jizi thought about it, but still shook his head and didn't speak.

Yang Qiuchi's voice became a little stiff and cold: "It's wrong for you to do this." Master Ben has already found out that this Peng Si has indeed come to your house, and more than once, why don't you admit it? ”

Shui Qiuzi raised his head slightly, glanced at Yang Qiuchi, and quickly lowered his head, still not speaking.

"If you don't cooperate, Master Ben won't be able to help you." Yang Qiuchi said, and instructed Li Zheng to immediately send someone to find Shui Guzi's mother home, and he wanted to search Shui Qiuzi's house.

In ancient times, the official lord had this benefit, if you want to search someone's house, just say it, you don't need a search warrant, as long as the other party has no political background and no background don't have to worry about poking the hornet's nest.

Holding the muffled water dump without speaking, he came to the house of the water dump in the slum above the sweet water well. The mother of the water custard, Wei, has been found by Li Zheng and is waiting at the door of the house.

I saw a large group of catchers coming with water chests, and there was a young official in an official robe in the middle. Wei Shi hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down: "Master, my son is still young and doesn't understand anything, don't embarrass him, you can ask me if you have anything." ”

"Mother~!" Shui Guzi stepped forward and knelt beside Wei. Wei Shi put his arms around the neck of the water squirt, and his words were a little choked.

Yang Qiuchi looked at this Wei Shi carefully, and couldn't help but be slightly stunned, seeing that she was in her thirties, although her face was full of hard work, she was quite beautiful, and her body was plump and strong, and in layman's terms, she was very fleshy. No wonder the dead ghost Peng Si coveted her and bothered her several times.

Yang Qiuchi ignored them, went directly into the room, looked around, and there were two simple cabins, the furnishings were very simple. There are two beds inside and outside, and the outer room is obviously lived by the water scumbag.

He crouched down and looked under the bed, but there were no shoes. He came out and said, "Shui Guzi, do you have any other shoes besides the shoes on your feet?" ”

Mizuko shook his head. It seems that the mother and son are really poor enough, except for the clothes, shoes and socks on their bodies, they don't even have a change of clothes.

Yang Qiuchi said: "You take off your shoes." ”

Shui Qiuzi didn't know what Yang Qiuchi wanted him to do with his shoes, but the eldest master had orders, how could he not obey them.

The water slab took off his shoes, and the smell of sweat rushed straight up, and he felt sick when he smelled it. One quickly pinched his nose and hooked his shoes with two fingers and sent them to Yang Qiuchi. Yang Qiuchi smiled, this stink was nothing to him. I reached out and took it, looked back and forth, and my eyes lit up.

The traces of these shoes were too obvious, and he could know without comparing them that the suspicious footprints found next to Peng Si's body at the dock were left by these shoes.

Yang Qiuchi said to Shui Guzi: "On the night Peng Si died, you went to Peng Si's corpse, right? ”

Shui Qiuzi's face was pale, and he shook his head desperately, looking at Yang Qiuchi in fear, as if he was a devil who could see through people's hearts.

The Wei clan screamed in horror, hugged his son tightly, looked at Yang Qiuchi and said, "Master, my son didn't, she hasn't been there." ”

Yang Qiuchi raised the pair of broken shoes in his hand: "People can lie, but evidence can't lie." The footprints of your son's shoes are exactly the same as those of the child found next to Peng Si's body. ”

"People's footprints are the same, how can they be different?" Wei Shi hugged the water stub tightly and said.

"Of course not." Yang Qiuchi didn't answer his question directly, but said: "You are very good to your son, and you try to make him full, so his nutrition can still keep up, and he grows quickly, although he is only fifteen or sixteen years old, he is already taller than you." ”

Wei Shi listened to Yang Qiuchi praise his son, a happy smile appeared on his face, stretched out his hand and involuntarily pinched his son's strong shoulder, feeling that his son was indeed very healthy, and his eyes were full of love.

"Because he is taller, the unstable center of gravity will create a bias on the shoe, so over time, the outside of the shoe will wear out faster than the inside. This is evident in your son's shoes. Yang Qiuchi turned the sole of the shoe upside down, pointed to the outside of the front of the shoe that had been rubbed thinly, and showed it to their mother and son.

The face of the water squirt turned whiter. Wei Shi looked at it carefully, but he still didn't understand: "Then a child as old as him is like this." ”

"It's different." Yang Qiuchi is very patient, "The friction marks on each child's shoe prints cannot be exactly the same, especially your handmade shoes, the pattern of the sole itself is different, and this unique friction mark with a unique surname is even more revealing." ”

Yang Qiuchi had explained to her in layman's language as much as possible, but he still unknowingly used special terms for physical evidence identification such as traces and unique surnames.

Wei Shi seemed to have a premonition of the coming crisis, she hugged her child tightly, like a vigilant white goose, stared at Yang Qiuchi, and asked, "So what?" ”

Li Zheng shouted: "Bold and unruly, more and more presumptuous, why do you talk to the master so much!" You don't want to die? ”

(To be continued)