Zhou Zhi was surrounded by the villagers, surrounded by chattering inquiries and increasingly outrageous speculations, and he couldn't help but feel a little anxious because he didn't hear any useful information.

Just as his patience was about to run out, and he was about to break out of the encirclement and change his mind, a weak female voice shuttled out of the crowd.

"Yesterday evening, I seem to have seen him near Chen An's house."

"Chen An?"

Zhou Zhi quickly locked on to the woman who was talking in the crowd, and then dismissed the villagers who were still chattering, leaving the woman alone.

The woman glanced up at Zhou Zhi, as if she was a little scared, and then lowered her head again, her fingers wringing around her cuffs in a cramped manner.

Zhou Zhi saw her uneasiness, and tried his best to keep his voice low and soft, but the experience of Lord Catcher was really pitiful, and he still had a serious face after a long time: "You said you saw Gao Yiqiu last night, are you sure?" ”

"I was passing by and didn't pay much attention...... Probably his. ”

The woman kept her head down when she spoke, although the catch in front of her looked good, but she just didn't dare to meet this face, she was very panicked in her heart, afraid that she would be involved in some strange case, and even more afraid that she would eat a prison meal inexplicably.

After all, in the mouths of the common people, catching fast is not a good stubble.

Zhou Zhi didn't realize that the image in the woman's heart in front of him had moved closer to the demons and monsters, and he wondered why he was still so uncooperative when he had already behaved very gently.

Xie Jianmian originally just wanted to watch from the sidelines and make a quiet background board, but when he saw Zhou Zhi's expression, "I don't know why you're afraid that I'm just routine", he finally couldn't stand it.

He stepped forward slowly, stretched out his hand and pulled Zhou Zhi, Zhou Zhi was caught off guard and really took two steps back, and was interrupted by Xie Jianmian before he could ask questions.

"Let's come on, don't be difficult for us to catch the master."

…… When did it become "yours"?

Xie Jianmian originally thought that Zhou Zhi would refuse, at least he had to mock him, but it wasn't until Xie Jianmian walked up to the woman and showed a beautiful smile, and he didn't see Zhou Zhi do anything to stop him, which made him a little surprised.

"Girl, don't be afraid, what was the situation when you saw Gao Yiqiu? Gao Yiqiu and Chen An have a lot of interactions on weekdays? Tell me what you know, and no one will embarrass you. ”

Xie Jianmian's voice was soft, and there was a kind of power that could soothe people's hearts, and the woman was really no longer afraid, she secretly glanced at it, her face was slightly red, and she opened her mouth after a while: "You look so good...... Better looking than the most beautiful girl in our village......"

"Poof......" Zhou Zhi couldn't hold back, and bent down with a smile on the side.

Xie Jianmian: "......"

The woman also seemed to realize that she had accidentally said her inner thoughts that she shouldn't have said, and stamped her feet, her face turned even redder: "...... I went to see my aunt yesterday, I didn't see him for a long time and stayed a little longer, in the evening I rushed to cook for my family, I walked in a hurry on the way back, I glanced at it when I passed by Chen An's house, and I happened to see Gao Yiqiu near there, so I took a look, and I really don't know the rest. ”

Xie Jianmian looked at Zhou Zhi and asked him with his eyes if this information was enough.

"Thank you, girl." Zhou Zhi nodded, and raised his sharp eyebrows at Xie Jianmian, "Let's go, go to Chen An's house to have a look." ”

It wasn't until Xie Jianmian caught up and the footsteps sounded again that Zhou Zhi reacted, why did he let this little thief follow him?

What a hell of a thing.

"Hey, I said." Zhou Zhi maintained a casual appearance, trying to restrain his eyes from looking to the side, "What are you always doing with me?" ”

"Didn't you ask me to go with you to Chen An's house?"

Zhou Zhi: "...... Don't interrupt. ”

"Okay." Xie Jianmian turned his head to look at Zhou Zhi and thought for a moment, "Just when I'm bored?" Or make a friend? ”

Zhou Zhi didn't expect to get such an answer, he turned his head in some surprise, and faced the narrow eyes, at this time, those eyes put away the previous banter and scruples, and they became innocent in black and white.

"Want to be friends?" Zhou Zhi snorted, leaned into Xie Jianmian's ear and whispered, "Little thief, return the belt to me first." ”

"Catch my brother so much." Xie Jianmian also smiled, his eyes were bent, and he looked a little well-behaved, "It's so stingy to pay you back." ”

Xie Jianmian handed the belt to Zhou Zhi, Zhou Zhi took the belt, glanced at Xie Jianmian, and then quickly turned his head. The atmosphere was a little embarrassingly quiet, Zhou Zhi coughed lightly, and decided to let this little thief go.

The further we walked into the village, the more houses grew, and it was almost noon, and most of the houses were rising in gray-white smoke from their chimneys, which were scattered in a zigzag manner when the wind blew.

Zhou Zhi and Xie Jianmian were walking towards Chen An's house, along the road were lush weeds, and occasionally some sparsely blooming flowers, although there was no fragrance, but it was quite pleasing to the eye.

However, this pleasing to the eye only lasted for a moment, and was interrupted by the sound of hurried footsteps.

Qi Fei waved his hand and ran towards Zhou Zhi, his expression was so serious that it was in great contrast with the past, Zhou Zhi's heart sank, and the idea that he had always avoided became true.

"Boss, villager Zhao Wu found a corpse, it is Gao Yiqiu."

The reason why Duhe Village is called Duhe Village is because there is a river in the center of the village, and the water source in the village depends on it except for the well water, and this river is called Duhe, which is the only living water in the village, and it has a sense of existence, so the village is named after Duhe.

The river meanders through and divides the village into east and west, and because it is located on the boundary between east and west, there are not many people who come.

But at this moment, a group of people surrounded the silent flowing river.

"Trouble let's go."

Zhou Zhi stretched out his arm to push a path away from the onlookers who had gambled on a wall, and only retracted his arm after Xie Jianmian and Qi Fei had passed.

A swollen soaked corpse lay on the muddy ground by the river, apparently fished out of the water.

But anyone can see that the deceased did not drown, because the corpse had many wounds, large and small, the clothes at the wounds were tattered, almost difficult to cover the body, and the large blood stains soaked the clothes so that it was difficult to distinguish the original color, and the amount of blood was so large that even after being rinsed in the water for a long time, it still showed red, not the red of fresh blood, but dark red, but still dazzling.

Zhou Zhi stopped very close to the corpse, squatted down and looked at the deceased, so close to the distance, the smell of blood had nowhere to hide, and the pungent breath filled Zhou Zhizhou's body, but he didn't seem to smell anything, and his brows didn't wrinkle.

"What's going on?"

"That's him." Qi Fei brought over a middle-aged man in his forties, the man had a mediocre appearance and no features, the only thing that caught the eye was probably his dark skin, "This is Zhao Wu, the body was found by him." ”

Zhao Wu was obviously frightened, his body trembled like chaff, his lips were slightly open, his small eyes were not bright, and there was great horror hidden in the depths of his eyes.

Zhou Zhi got up and looked at Zhao Wu, his brows furrowed habitually, and that serious businesslike atmosphere returned to him.

"You fished the body out of the water?"

Zhao Wu nodded tremblingly.

"When? How to fish? Let's be specific. Xu was afraid of scaring Zhao Wu again, so Zhou Zhi added a rare sentence, "You relax a little first." ”

"Master Catcher...... I didn't kill anyone! I didn't kill Gao Yiqiu! I...... I...... I didn't kill anyone......"

Zhao Wu's emotions suddenly became excited, he shouted incoherently, and in the end, his voice lowered again, and seemed to calm down a little, he stared at Zhou Zhi unrelentingly, and did not answer anything.

Zhou Zhi thought of something, and said again: "Don't worry, as long as you tell us what you know and clear your suspicions, we will naturally find the murderer and bring him to justice." ”

Zhao Wu took a deep breath and rubbed his cheeks vigorously, barely suppressing the panic in his heart, but his voice still trembled irrepressibly: "Fish...... I love fish, I come to touch fish when I have nothing to do, and if I am lucky to catch it, I can add a meal, and today I wanted to do the same, but I didn't expect it...... The fish didn't catch, and the ...... was fished out."

An hour ago, Zhao Wu came to the stream as usual, he walked around a few times, rested for a while, and then took off his shirt and jumped into the water.

As the weather gets warmer, the fish in the water become active, as if disturbed by the sudden intrusion of the behemoth, and the fish that had gathered together are scattered in all directions.

Zhao Wu has excellent water characteristics, in order to stabilize the frightened fish, he dived into the water to wait for the waves to subside, and his eyes locked on a dark carp more than a foot long.

The carp was not aware of the danger behind him at all, and swam forward on its own, turning around when it encountered a reef, Zhao Wu followed behind, and when he avoided the reef, he saw a swollen and white human face......

Zhou Zhi looked away from the corpse and patted Qi Fei's shoulder beside him.

"Old Qi, go back to the mansion and ask Xu Jia to come over for an autopsy."

As soon as Qi Fei left, before Zhou Zhi could disperse the onlookers, he heard a heart-rending cry coming-

"Old Gao!"

It's Li Niang.

Li Niang stumbled through the crowd and rushed to the bloody and muddy corpse by the river.

The rest of the catchers wanted to stop Li Niang, but Zhou Zhi glanced at the woman who was crying, waved his hand to the others, and let Li Niang in.

When I saw Liniang in the morning, although she was worried and haggard, she was still bright, not very beautiful, but she was full of vitality, and there was still light in her eyes, but at this time the light was extinguished, and there was only a dead silence.

Zhou Zhi's heart tightened, afraid that she would be stimulated too much for a while, so he muttered for a moment and said softly: "Li Niang...... You mourn. ”

Hearing Zhou Zhi's voice, Li Niang glanced back at him, her eyes were still faint, making Zhou Zhi wonder if she saw herself.

"Master Catcher...... My boss Gao was killed, right? ”

The answer was obvious, but Zhou Zhi couldn't answer, he didn't know anything about this murder, and it was easy to say yes, but he couldn't explain the reason behind it.

And what Li Niang wanted was obviously more than just a nod or shake of his head.