"Go back to the yamen, and then check the other two cases you suspect?" Zhao Yi looked at her.

"Lord Wang, you are definitely a keen Zhao Zhutou now." Song Ning said.

Zhao Yi suddenly stopped and stretched out his hand at Song Ning.

"What's wrong?" Song Ning looked at him strangely.

The tips of Zhao Yi's ears turned red, and his eyes flickered: "You hold me." ”

"Huh?" Song Ning blurted out and asked, "Why?" ”

"I'm afraid!"

"Are you afraid?"

"Hmm." This sound came from the tip of his nose, muffled and very shy.

Song Ning picked up a long stick and handed it to Zhao Yi.

"What for?" Zhao Yi looked at her with a calm face.

Song Ning replied: "Hold it for you, don't be afraid that I will protect you behind you." ”

woman. Zhao Yi grinded his teeth, ignored her and jumped down in three or two steps, as light as a swallow.

Song Ning: "......"

Their prince is now more and more unfathomable.

Zhao Yi ignored her and walked in front angrily.

Song Ning smacked his lips and trotted after Zhao Yi to follow: "Lord Wang, don't be annoyed, don't be annoyed, we have something to say." ”

Zhao Yi stopped and glared at her.

Song Ning also looked at him, thinking that he looked like a pufferfish, especially cute, she couldn't help but laugh very inappropriately, and hurriedly covered her mouth again.

Zhao Yi stared at her coldly.

"I was wrong, wrong." Song Ning made a gesture and coaxed him with a smile, "Lord Wang, you pouted like this, like a beautiful little girl." ”

Zhao Yi's face darkened, and he pointed at her and said, "You just don't want to be good." ”

"Weichen thinks about it, please forgive me."

Zhao Yi said angrily: "Hippie smile." ”

"Gone, gone." Song Ning made a gesture of please, "Say as you walk." ”

Zhao Yi's anger disappeared again.

The two walked away, and Mao Mengshi saw them off on the mountainside, and returned to the house after a while, holding a wooden basin and Mao Bingjun said: "I'll go wash the clothes, and after washing, I'll go home and cook directly, and I'll bring you lunch later." ”

"Ah, okay." Mao Bingjun said, "Be careful on the road." ”

Mao Mengshi smiled and said, "Uncle Bing, why don't I weigh a pound of meat and make dumplings for you to eat." ”

"Today is a great event."

Mao Bingjun was reluctant to let the two of them work too hard: "I just have a steamed bun to eat, and people like me will close their eyes when they die." ”

"It's too much trouble for you."

Mao Mengshi shook his head and said: "When I first got married, the two of us had such a hard time, if it weren't for you and my aunt to help, I might have died of illness now." ”

"This is a life-saving grace, I have told Honglang that I want to give you a pension and serve you for the rest of your life."

Mao Bingjun's nose was sour, and he hung his head and wiped his tears.

"I went." Mao Mengshi went down the mountain with a basin, they washed their clothes in the river, and after she went down the mountain, she happened to see Song Ning and Zhao Yi leading the horses from the side of Guozizhuang to Shangguan Dao, she opened her mouth and wanted to shout, thought about it and held back, and said to herself, "If it's useless, don't delay the adult's time, don't delay." ”

"Hurry up and do your laundry, go home and cook."

"The kids were hungry for a while."

She was about to squat down to wash her clothes, when she suddenly saw Song Ning and them coming back, she stood up and looked at them in surprise: "My lord, why did you two come back?" ”

"Can you take us to Mao Runqing's house?"

Mao Mengshi nodded: "Okay, okay." ”

She soaked the basin in water and led Song Ning and them to the village, Song Ning asked, "How old are you today, and how many years have you been married?" ”

"I'm Chinese New Year's Eve four, and I'm married at the age of nineteen." Mao Mengshi smiled and said, "Do adults think I'm old?" ”

Song Ning shook his head: "No, you and the young." ”

"How can I be, when I go out, people think I'm forty. I've seen the good ladies in the city, in their forties, like little girls in their twenties. ”

Mao Mengshi didn't get a response from Song Ning, and looked at her a little restrainedly, and his face turned red: "My lord, I, I'm talking too much, I'm sorry." ”

"No, it won't. I'm wondering how to answer you. In fact, I think that women have beauty at every age. Song Ning said with a smile, "As for women, they are the most beautiful existence in the world." ”

Mao Mengshi looked at her in surprise.

It seemed that he couldn't understand her words, and even Zhao Yi was surprised.

"They are beautiful, capable, gentle, kind, resilient...... You say, are they the most beautiful beings in the world? ”

"Great, what the adults said is so nice." Mao Mengshi blushed and nodded, "It's the first time I've heard someone say that, it's really, really good." ”

She grabbed the placket of her clothes and looked at Song Ning restraining and shyly.

Song Ning smiled at her.

Mao Meng's eyes turned red, and he wiped them quickly, and said, "My lord, here, here, you see, it's that tiled house." ”

"My aunt has had a good life in the past few years, her three daughters and son-in-law are very filial to her, and the house has been newly repaired." Mao Mengshi said.

Song Ning bowed his head and thanked Mao Meng.

"Well, I'm going to do the laundry." Mao Mengshi took two steps, and suddenly thought of something, "My lord, my house is the one, the black tile house, and there are children running at the door." ”

"If you don't dislike it, you can go to my house for dinner at noon."

Song Ning bowed his head: "I probably don't need to eat, but after I finish talking here, I'll go to your house to see your child." ”

Mao Mengshi was very happy and nodded: "Okay, then I'll go wash my clothes and wait for you first." ”

She said, trotting to the river.

Song Ning walked in front, and Zhao Yi suddenly said, "You're right. ”

"What's right?" Song Ning was puzzled and looked at him.

Zhao Yi looked at her, looked at the details of her eyebrows, and said softly: "You said that women are the most beautiful existence, I agree with you." ”

Like you.

Song Ning laughed and patted Zhao Yi on the shoulder: "Lord Wang, you have enlightened." ”

Zhao Yi's face darkened.

"Gone, gone."

The two went to the door of Mao Runqing's house.

The door of the hall was open, and a thin woman in her forties was sitting by the door, with the soles of her shoes snuggled up, and in front of her was a basket of cloth and scissors.

"Lao Jia, are you Mao Liu?" Song Ning stepped forward and asked with a smile.

"Yes, I'm Mao Liu." Mao Liu stood up and looked at Song Ning in surprise, "You, who are the two of you?" ”

Song Ning introduced herself, and to her surprise, Zhao Yi also followed closely and introduced herself: "I am Zhao Zhutou." ”

She looked back at him with a smile of surprise in her eyes.

His order and thinking are improving every day, every case, and even every time he chats with the client.

He is really doing Zhao Catching Heads, not what he said at the beginning, in order to pursue her, he came to demonstrate that it is a matter of catching heads during the day and being a prince at night.

He was already able to sit on the black bamboo bench of Mao Bingjun's house.

He was already able to walk on such a muddy path, and he made himself so dirty that even she felt uncomfortable, and he didn't mention it once.

Now he can also introduce himself to ordinary women in a calm tone.

Song Ning gave him an encouraging look.

Zhao Yi ignored her.

Song Ning was stunned, and said to Mao Liu: "We don't mean anything else, just talk to you about the case back then, so that we won't delay you much time, and we won't add any other trouble." ”

"Lord Song, you're polite, you just have something to order." As he spoke, he put his miscellaneous things aside, set up a chair at the table, and made tea for them.

The three of them sat down, and Song Ning asked straight to the point: "I heard that Mao Runqing often beat you and the child before he died?" ”

"How do you know?" Mao Liu was taken aback, and then nodded again, "Fight!" His father and my son were both killed by him. ”

Song Ning frowned, and Zhao Yi asked, "Don't care about the village chief?" ”

"I can't help it." Mao Liu said in a low voice, "It's not a one-time killing. My father-in-law was beaten to the bone, so he ...... That's it. ”

She said, pointing to her ribs: "The doctor said that there is somewhere to tie it, and it can only be raised slowly." ”

"I coughed all day long, coughed for more than a month, and began to cough up blood, and then the person was gone."

After a pause, he said, "My son...... When my son was two years old, he and he once said that he would take him out to play, and on the way the child made a fuss and said that he couldn't walk, so he picked up the child and threw him into the river. ”

"I went to fish for the children, and it took a day to catch them."

Mao Liu said very calmly, but his hands were shaking. For so many years, every time she mentioned her son's death, she was in pain.

"I'm sorry to remind you of something unpleasant."

Mao Liu shook his head and wiped his tears with the corner of his clothes: "It's also his blessing to die early, and it's good to be reincarnated in another family, otherwise I will suffer for so many years, grow up with nothing, and I will be too tired to live a lifetime." ”

"Why did you ask about this?"

Song Ning said: "There is a case, which is a bit similar to your case, let me ask." ”

"Then you ask, sir."

"Did you go when you found his body in the mountains?"

Mao Liu nodded and recalled the situation at the time: "It was discovered by the hunter on the other side of the mountain, and he said that he smelled a stench." ”

"Come to our village and call people."

"When I went, the chief and the people in the village had already gone a lot, and they recognized it as my child's father, so they came to call me. When I arrived, he was lying on the ground, his face swollen and foul-smelling, almost unrecognizable. ”

"Lying in the grass?"

Mao Liu said: "Wasn't it the middle of August, there were already a lot of dead grass and dead leaves in the mountains, and there were a lot of piles on him. ”

"Then the hunter still brushed these things away, only to see that it was his."

Song Ning asked, "You mean that the leaves buried his whole person, like a tomb?" ”

"Yes." Mao Liu said, "Like a grave." At that time, the lieutenant also said that it was the murderer who wanted to bury him and hide it from anyone to find out. ”

Song Ning nodded.

Zhao Yi asked, "Do you have a grudge against Mao Bingjun?" ”

"He has enmity with everyone, and he is not convinced when he sees anyone who is better off than him." Mao Liu said, "If you don't say something inappropriate, if killing people is not illegal, he doesn't know how many times he has been killed." ”

Zhao Yi raised his eyebrows: "You didn't want to kill him?" ”

"Zhao Zhutou, how dare I." Mao Liu said, "When he is ruthless, he can beat even his own father to death, and I, I can't beat him." ”

Thinking of the years when Mao Runqing was alive, she was frightened day and night, like a nightmare.