"Don't tell me that you came here for the safety of the people on this side, didn't you say you were going to Taikang last night?" Zhao Zimai had already figured out the temperament of the two, and asked with a smile with his arms crossed.

"Childe is saying that we can't afford to be early?" Mu Xiaowu sneered, and then grinned again, "But you're not wrong, there is indeed a business waiting for us here, and the old man and I will go over and take a look." ”

***

Half a month after Gu Yuyin's younger brother Gu Yuming disappeared in Dongchangli, his body was found by villagers in the Yuhe River. However, he was not drowned, but burned.

According to the villagers who found Gu Yuming, he didn't recognize it as a corpse at first, and thought it was a piece of charred wood that had been struck by lightning, but when he got closer, he found that there were two red eyes staring at him on the "wood" entangled in the aquatic weeds, which frightened him so much that he almost wet his pants on the spot.

After discovering his brother's body, Gu Yuyin hurriedly reported to the official, but after Qingzhou County ordered Li Hai to take his men to Dongchang to inspect the scene, he still did not find any clues. Gu Yuming soaked in the river for more than half a month, and burned it into this appearance, and there will never be any traces of the murderer left on the corpse. According to his mother-in-law Yu, Gu Yuming did not come back after going out during the day that day, and when she saw that he had not returned overnight, she quickly found Gu Yuyin and asked him to help find his brother.

Gu Yuyin took more than a dozen villagers in Dongchang to look for half a month, but he didn't find his younger brother, if it wasn't for a heavy rain later, the water of the Yuhe River rose and washed the body out of the cracks in the stones at the bottom of the river, maybe Gu Yuming would have to lie at the bottom of the river forever.

"Coincidentally, the girl is here for this case." A servant had just finished picking between his teeth and smashed his mouth, and said with a smile at Mu Xiaowu.

"The government is at a loss, we have a loophole, Gu Yuyin can't find the murderer, so he wants to summon his brother's soul and let the dead speak, but I didn't think about it, it was just the two of us who met."

Mu Xiaowu's words made the servant's face red, but then his eyes rolled, he scratched his head and said to Mu Xiaowu, "Girl, have you ever thought that this Gu Zhengming was killed by thunder, the night he disappeared, there was lightning and thunder in the sky and rain all night, Dongchang is deserted, and I don't know if the thunder is bad." ”

"Bah, bah," Mu lame stretched out his hand and waved a few times in front of him, "You can just say this in front of us, but don't say it in front of people, you were killed by thunder, how much sin do you have to do before you are killed by thunder?" Beware of being beaten up by other people's families. ”

"To tell you the truth, you still believe this," the official muttered, and continued, "Although this Dongchang is poor, the neighbors are all friendly, Gu Yuyin has been doing it for many years, and his prestige is extremely high, and the brothers have no enemies at all." Tell me, if it's not for money, and there is no grudge, why would the murderer kill someone? ”

Mu Cripple shook his head again and again, "Children are still young, so they like to tell the truth, but they don't know that this big truth is often easy to hurt people." In short, if you listen to me, even if he Gu Yuming was killed by thunder, don't say it, save yourself trouble, remember. If you have to say it, you just say that there is a lack of immortal position in this sky, and Grandpa Lei saw that Gu Yuming was a good person, so he accepted him, do you remember it clearly. ”

Everyone was amused by his words, only Zhao Zimai was contemplating and thinking about something, and after a while, he walked to Mu Xiaowu, who was following others silly, leaned down and said, "Where will you live in a while?" ”

"Gu Yuming's family." Mu Xiaowu couldn't figure out what he meant by this for a while.

"Can you stuff three more people in?"

***

Gu Yuming's body had been put into the coffin, and it was parked under the green plum tree in the courtyard, which had just bloomed now, and the white flowers were small and delicate, adorned with branches, like mourning the man who had died tragically.

"Ome." Saying these two words, Zhao Zimai glanced back at Susan, and there was a deep meaning in his eyes.

"Green plum trees, every family in Dongchang will plant them, but you didn't come at the right time, and it's not the season to bear fruit, so you can't eat candied fruit or drink green plum wine."

Gu Yuming's mother, Yu, was dressed in plain clothes, holding a female doll less than half a year old in one hand and a seven or eight-year-old boy in the other, and slowly walked towards them. Her facial features are peugeot, her figure is slender, her unpowdered face is embedded with a pair of big smart eyes, and her skin is fair and translucent, but the few slender wrinkles that creep up prematurely at the corners of her eyes are showing several people the heavy burden that poverty has brought to this good-looking woman.

This can also be seen from the thin coffin under the tree.

"You are a few high-ranking people from Qingzhou, the eldest brother has already told me, but he said that there are two of them, how can you ......" Yu Shi glanced behind him, and his eyes fell on Susan and Amy, two strangely dressed people.

Amy shrank behind Susan, reached out and grabbed the hem of Susan's skirt, and called out to Mommy timidly.

"Lady, these three are our friends, we met occasionally on the road, so we came over together, I wonder if you can make it convenient here?" Mu Xiaowu had already made up a set of excuses and took the lead in welcoming him.

"Your friend?" Yu's gaze was still on Amy's face, "They? ”

"They ......" Mu Xiaowu was stunned for a moment, and then said in a tone of affirmation, "Yes, it's them." ”

Yu Shi withdrew her gaze, because the female doll in her arms had just turned back from a half-asleep state, and now began to desperately pull her hair with a few fingers that were not yet flexible. She kissed the child on the cheek and handed her to the boy beside her, "Shen'er, take my sister back to the house and feed her some rice soup." ”

After instructing her son, she turned her face and said lightly to Mu Xiaowu, "There is also a side room and a firewood room at home, if you don't dislike ......"

"Don't dislike it, let their mother and daughter live in a partial room, and a few of us can make do with it." Mu Xiaowu quickly picked it up.

***

Nights in the countryside are long, especially for Susan, who is used to seeing the lights and bustle of the city. After tossing and turning on the simple wooden bed for more than an hour, Susan finally turned over and sat up, and after turning her head to look at the sleeping Amy, she looked out the window at the shadow of the green plum tree, and sighed softly: Mike did not doubt her, he had little to say all the way, and he looked preoccupied.

However, she could not tell the truth anyway, for even she could not understand what had happened to Amy that night: although Amy fell to the ground and fell back into a coma after saying "welcome" to her, she remembered clearly her cold expression and the few shocking words she had said.