Chapter 22: The Corpse in the Lotus Pond

Xi Niang's voice was soft and glutinous, although there was dust on her face, but it was difficult to hide her sweetness, Situ Yimo looked at such an innocent face, and liked her in his heart.

Hearing her sad and lost voice, Situ Yimo felt uncomfortable in her heart, the corners of her eyebrows were slightly lowered, the corners of her mouth were raised, and a bitter smile was revealed.

"Sister, I haven't seen my dad for a long time."

I miss my father in her previous life, and I miss my father who she has never met in this life.

Xi Niang was stunned, her smart eyes flashed with tears, she saw Situ Yimo showing sadness, paused, walked to her side, held her hand with her dirty hand, the corners of her eyebrows were curved, showing her front teeth, comforting her.

"Sister, don't be sad, Xi Niang will be able to see her father soon, and my sister can too."

Situ Yimo's nose was sour, squatting down to look at the innocent and lovely Xi Niang, and couldn't help but reach out to hug her, the corners of his eyes were moist, and his voice was a little hoarse.

"Sister, I'll never see my dad again."

"Sister......

Xi Niang patted Situ Yimo's back with her immature little hands, and every time her grandmother was uncomfortable, she did just that.

"Rustle--"

Suddenly there was a voice at the door, Situ Yimo was stunned, and quickly wiped his tears, knowing that he was out of control, so he let go of Xi Niang and walked towards the door, and saw Su Hanyu holding a big wild boar and a few rabbits in.

Xi Niang saw such a big wild boar, black as grapes' eyes lit up, blinked, a little surprised, her grandfather used to hunt, but never hunted back such a big wild boar, how long does it take to eat!

"Wow! Big brother is amazing!"

Xi Niang also went up the mountain with her grandfather to hunt in the past, so she was not afraid of wild boars at all, but when she saw the two little rabbits behind, she reached out to hold them and looked at Su Hanyu, her young and lovely face was very unbearable, and her tone was pleading.

"Big brother won't want to eat them, will he? They're so cute. ”

"Xi Niang likes them?"

"Hmm."

"I'll leave it to you, be a playmate. The bride should take good care of them. ”

"Really?"

"Well, these were meant for you."

"Xi Niang must take good care of them! From now on, they will be friends with the bride!"

The bride was happy, touched their ears, saw that they were docile and lovely, couldn't put them down, and was reluctant to look away.

Situ Yimo saw the childlike smile on the face of the bride, and his heart was warm, and the sad mood just now dissipated at once. Suddenly sensing Su Hanyu's gentle gaze, she was slightly stunned, and then smiled lightly.

"I didn't expect that Brother Su is not only brilliant in literature, but also talented in literary and opera, and now I look at it, I have Hou Yi's bravery."

Su Hanyu put down his bow and arrow, and when he heard Situ Yimo's praise, he smiled with his eyebrows, took the warm water she handed over, and hooked his lips and smiled warmly.

"Oh? It seems that in the eyes of my sister in the future, I will really be as stunning as an immortal. ”

"Hehehe, my brother is like a fairy descending to earth, take a closer look, my brother really has a bit of Erlang God's fairy appearance." Situ Yimo quipped.

"Hey, I'm a Wenqu star again, and Hou Yi again, and now I'm a Erlang God." The corners of Su Hanyu's mouth rose, and he looked at Situ Yimo, full of gentle smiles.

Suddenly, he thought of something, and said with a smile, "If you want to talk about Wenqu Xing, Sister Situ's writing is also outstanding." ”

Seeing Situ Yimo frowning and showing doubts on his face, Su Hanyu smiled, "Shanglian: The twin towers are stable, seven-level, four-sided, and octagonal." Downlink: Lone palm shake, five fingers, three long, two short!

Situ Yimo was stunned, it sounded a little familiar, and suddenly remembered that when he was looking for Schisandra in Qinghe County, he helped Erhuzi couplet, but why did Su Hanyu know?

"Brother Su was there at the time? You also went to Qinghe County? ”

"Exactly, I'm not just here, those two couplets are exactly what I came from."

"Huh? It turned out to be a couplet made by Brother Su. Situ Yimo was slightly surprised, "That superb blue crystal is also Big Brother Su's?" No wonder Brother Su said that his family has a lot of money, it seems that this is indeed the case! ”

"Hehehe--I just have some spare money in my hand." Su Hanyu shook his head and smiled, "It's Sister Situ, who can say the next link according to that person's actions, Sister Situ's talent, I really admire it, I wanted to see you at that time, but I was afraid of abrupt you, I didn't expect that we would meet in the Land Temple." ”

"Since it is the fate of the two of us, otherwise, you and I would not be brothers and sisters now, maybe, we were brothers and sisters in our previous lives." Situ Yimo saw Su Hanyu's free and elegant personality, so he joked with him.

Su Hanyu was slightly stunned, the corners of his eyebrows trembled slightly, and when he saw Situ Yimo smiling happily, he couldn't help but feel soothed, as if there was a warm current flowing through his heart.

It's just, why brother and sister? And what about couples? Perhaps, we were husband and wife in our previous lives?

"Xi Niang, it's not good, it's not good!" Suddenly, there was an anxious voice at the door, and I saw an eight or nine-year-old boy running out of breath and running in a panic.

Xi Niang was startled, hugged the little rabbit to greet him, and saw him sweating profusely, how panicked, and couldn't help but be surprised, "Brother Shi, what's wrong with you?" What happened? ”

"Yes, it's Second Uncle Li who has an accident!"

"Something happened to the little uncle?" Xi Niang was taken aback, with a puzzled face, "How come?" Uncle Xiao came back the day before yesterday, how could something happen? ”

The little boy who called the stone gasped and said, "It's true, Grandma Li was called over by the village chief's grandfather, I was at the village chief's house with Xiao Songzi, and I heard the village chief say that Second Uncle Li was caught by the people of the government, saying that he killed someone, and Grandma Li was by the lotus pond at this time!" ”

"What!, kill, kill!" Xi Niang's face was horrified, "Murder? ”

Situ Yimo was also slightly surprised, and Su Hanyu suddenly glanced at him, then walked over and patted Xi Niang's shoulder to reassure her not to be afraid.

Although Xi Niang was scared, she was very worried about her grandmother, so she immediately put down the little rabbit and wanted to see her grandmother. Situ Yimo was worried that it would be difficult for her to face murder as a child, so she and Su Hanyu accompanied her to take a look.

The lotus pond in the village gathered at this time, and everyone gathered around one after another, looking at the corpse lying on the ground, a little regretful, a little happy, and some panicked.

The people of the government have surrounded the scene, and the autopsy has already begun, and it can be judged that he died of suffocation. One of them grabbed a young man with patched clothes, lifted him to the corpse, and said to the shop.

"Boss, I caught a suspicious person, this Zhao Er's money bag is on him, it must be him who robbed money and killed people!"

"No, I, I didn't kill him, don't ......" When the young man saw Zhao Er's body, he was already trembling with fright, and he couldn't speak clearly.

He is Xi Niang's uncle, Li Jinbang.

"If it's not you, then how can his money bag be on you?" The catcher snorted coldly.

"I, I picked it up at the entrance of my village, I, it's not me, it's not..." Li Jinbang hurriedly explained, but when he saw the corpse next to him, his tongue was knotted, and his words were not clear.

"Hmph, is it you, when you return to the yamen, you will know the trial." Catch said impatiently.

"It's not me, it's not the person I killed, you can't arrest me......" When Li Jinbang heard that he was going to close the yamen, he was so frightened that his legs were weak and he couldn't stand up.

"Wait, Master Official, my son is not a murderer!" When the old woman Li saw her son being grabbed by the official, she was so frightened that she hurriedly ran over, grabbed her son's hand and pleaded with the catcher.

"Where is the woman, hurry away, don't delay our case!" Catcher scolded.

"Mother, I didn't kill anyone! Mother, help me! ”

"Son!"

"Master Guan, although my son is confused, he won't kill!"

"Whether he killed or not, it is up to our county master to judge the case! It's not your turn yet!" The catcher quickly kicked the old woman Li away impatiently.

"Take it away!"

"Oh, my son!"

"Mother!"

As soon as Xi Niang ran over, she saw that her grandmother was kicked to the ground, and hurriedly ran over to help her, "Grandma, are you okay?" ”

"Hello Niang! Your second uncle,... My son! ”

"Grandma!"

The catcher saw the old woman Li crying, entangled, irritated and let people tear her away, those catchers kicked her away, saw that the bride wanted to stop, he was about to hit someone, he heard someone shout "stop!", he looked up, only to see a pretty woman in a wedding dress coming, he was really stunned for a moment, and then scolded.

"Who do you say? If you dare to stop my uncle, I will arrest someone!"

"The government arrested people, and the little woman didn't dare to stop them, but you started beating people, isn't that right?" Situ Yimo walked over, glanced at the corpse slightly, the corners of his eyebrows trembled slightly, and then smiled, but this smile was very cold, which made the head catcher feel a little chill in his back.

"The law of Nanning clearly states that people in the government are not allowed to oppress women and children at will, and you, as the head of the shop, actually punched and kicked an old woman, I don't know, where do you put this law?"

Zheng Pengxian, the head catcher, looked at Situ Yimo, although he was dressed plainly, but his bearing was extraordinary, he had been a catcher for more than ten years, and he was still very accurate in seeing people, he felt that the woman in red in front of him was not an ordinary person, and her temperament alone was not what an ordinary woman should have.

Therefore, his tone was also a little more relaxed, "They blocked the government from arresting people, and I just took last resort measures." ”

Situ Yimo frowned slightly, and didn't plan to worry about this with him, but looked at Li Jinbang, and saw that he was extremely thin, his clothes were also patched, his eyes were black and swollen, and he looked like he had not slept all night.

"Then do you have any proof to arrest people? I think the man looked like he had drowned, and the smell of alcohol on his body was still there, so why wasn't he drunk and lost water? But was he murdered? ”

The shopkeeper had already seen that Situ Yimo's identity was not ordinary, so he suppressed his temper and asked him to come over and talk to her.

"Based on the villain's preliminary conclusion, this Zhao Er was suffocated to death before being pushed into the water, if ......"

"That's true."

"Generally speaking, after death, there is little water in the abdomen, and the drowning is full of water."

Situ Yimo didn't wait for the finished work to finish, then looked at Zhao Er's corpse and said, she also used a handkerchief to take out the silk thread from between his fingernails, and her eyes suddenly narrowed.