Although the farmhouse food is not as delicate as in the city, it tastes quite good, and Sophie is not the kind of squeamish person, she eats non-stop with a bowl, and she doesn't look like a lady at all, she is really hungry after running for a day.

Tang Tao didn't have much appetite, so he kept looking around.

During the banquet, the villagers almost talked about the Zhou family, Zhou Jiabao is also a poor man, his wife died when he was very young, and he never married again, and he raised two children by himself.

Zhou Jiabao is an honest farmer, who has been farming all his life, open-minded, has no enemies, and is recognized by everyone as a good person.

And the two sons of the Zhou family, Zhou Zili and Zhou Ziqiang, are also very honest, although Zhou Ziqiang is disabled, he has learned a lot of skills, not only can weave baskets but also is a carpenter, and even a stonemason, and his stone monuments are famous far and wide.

It's just that a few years ago, his peers threatened to give up this craft.

Sitting at the table next to Tang Tao were a few aunts, muttering with their heads down, and pointing from time to time.

Especially the short-haired aunt with a scarf is very talkative, she is wearing a red coat, her face is smeared with a thick layer of powder, her ears are studed, and she has a gold necklace around her neck, and she looks like a rich person.

The aunt said that last month, Zhou Ziqiang took his wife Lan Xiaocao to the city hospital and found the aunt's son, the deputy director of a certain department of the hospital.

"Algae, where are you my daughter?"

There was a sudden commotion at the back of the crowd, and I saw a middle-aged woman stumbling out of the side room, and just a few steps out of the house, she fell to the ground, she opened her mouth wide and cried loudly.

Everyone stepped forward to help her up, the woman's eyes were closed, she pushed her away and continued to run forward, but was stopped again.

"Son, my son......"

The woman's mournful cries kept echoing in the courtyard, and there was no doubt that she was Zhou Shuzao's mother, Lan Xiaocao, the last poor person among all who knew that her daughter was missing.

Everyone pushed Lan Xiaocao back to the side room and closed the door.

Sophie wiped her mouth and walked over, she wanted to push the door in to take a look but found that the door had been locked, so she went around to the back of the house, and saw several people around the house through the window, and the big guys were persuading Lan Xiaocao not to cry, most of the children were greedy for fun and ran away, maybe they would come back in a while.

Vaguely, Sophie heard something strange, as if someone was carving something, and she turned around to find that there was a thatched hut dozens of meters behind the house, and the light was on inside, and the sound came from the thatched hut.

Sophie walked over quickly, and found that it was a middle-aged man carving a monument, this person was sitting on a small stool, his head was draped with a white cloth, holding a chisel in one hand and a hammer in the other, and he was carving words one by one, and his body was covered with dust.

There was also a pair of crutches on the side.

is both a filial son and a lame man, and he will also engrave a monument, and I am afraid that only Zhou Ziqiang can meet this condition in Xiaolianzi Village.

Zhou Ziqiang's hearing doesn't seem to be good, Sophie didn't notice it when he got behind him, he still held the hammer and hammered the inscription, his words were indeed very beautiful, square, clean and neat, just like a machine carved it.

In the middle of the inscription is the name of Zhou Jiabao, the owner of the tombstone, and there is his epitaph on the side.

Under the light, it was completely dark outside, and the cold wind gusted that the son was away from the hustle and bustle to carve a monument to his father, with bursts of sadness in his ears, and his father's life and sophistication in front of him.

This is the first time that Zhou Ziqiang has engraved his father's name on the tombstone, and it is also the last time, so he is very careful and careful with every stroke, Sophie did not dare to speak for fear of disturbing Zhou Ziqiang.

A gust of wind swept by, and Zhou Ziqiang seemed to smell the perfume on Sophie's body, and couldn't help but stop what he was doing and turn his head.

It was a face that had been through the vicissitudes of life, the skin was very dark, the forehead had long been wrinkled, the eyes were bloodshot, the expression was haggard and tired, and it seemed that it was about to fall down at any moment.

Seeing this, Sophie hurriedly greeted: "Hello master, I'm sorry to disturb you, you ...... Why can't you afford to eat? ”

Zhou Ziqiang shook his head and continued to engrave the monument, saying, "I've eaten it." ”

After eating, it is obviously fake, Sophie has always been paying attention to the Zhou brothers, and has never seen Zhou Ziqiang, so it can be seen that he has not eaten at all.

Approaching Zhou Ziqiang, Sophie found that Zhou Ziqiang had cried, there were tear stains on his face, and there was a stone tablet covered with straw beside him, Sophie couldn't help but pull the straw away curiously.

"What are you doing?"

Zhou Ziqiang grabbed the straw and covered up the stele again, and in this short moment, Sophie had already seen the words on the stele clearly.

"Beloved Girl Zhou Tree Algae!"

This is actually the tombstone of Zhou Shuzao.

"How do you know she's dead?" Sophie was a little excited, "Did you already know she was?" How do you know? ”

Zhou Ziqiang was not angry, stopped the movements in his hand and replied lightly: "Can you still come back after being missing for so long?" ”

At first glance, it sounds like this, but Zhou Ziqiang is Zhou Shuzao's uncle, they are close relatives, and his niece's whereabouts are unknown, so he can't say that he has prepared the monument, right?

It's not calm, it's cold-blooded.

Sophie is a police officer, and her first consideration is whether it is reasonable or not to break the law.

Zhou Shuzao has only been missing for a few days, but Zhou Ziqiang, who is a close relative, has already prepared a tombstone for his niece in such a short period of time, which is too weird, in Sophie's opinion, Zhou Ziqiang must have known that Zhou Shuzao had been killed, so the tombstone was carved.

"No, how do you know she's not coming back? Has her body been found now? She's dead a long time ago, isn't she? ”

As soon as Sophie's words came out, Zhou Ziqiang was obviously trembling with fright, his eyes flickered, and the hand holding the chisel was obviously trembling.

"It seems that what I said is true, Zhou Shuzao has died a long time ago, why are you lying, she is not an accident, but a murder, it was your father who killed her with his own hands! Isn't it? Sophie bit the bullet and continued to ask.

"No, he...... He ......" Zhou Ziqiang stuttered as soon as he was nervous, his eyes widened, his lips trembled, and he forcibly swallowed the words behind him.

After a long time, Zhou Ziqiang said: "She accidentally fell into the river." ”

"How do you know? Your dad called the police and said she was missing, but you said she fell into the river, how did you know? Sophie asked again, her tone was eager, her eyes were looking directly at Zhou Ziqiang, and she didn't give him a chance to react at all.

This oppressive interrogation method is also the most commonly used interrogation method for Sophie, and high-frequency questioning often breaks the rhythm of the suspect, as long as there is a flaw, it will naturally come out.

Zhou Ziqiang is just an honest farmer, where to parry Sophie's offensive, he said that he also guessed, Sophie asked him if he knew where Zhoujiabao went, he said that he went to the city but couldn't say the specific location, the cold sweat on his forehead broke out, and the whole person had almost collapsed.

Although it is not clear what the specific situation is, Sophie can be sure that Zhou Shuzao's death was not an accident, and it is very likely that it was a murder.

Sophie sighed and softened her tone a little and said, "The reason why you are crying is not only for your father, but also for Zhou Shuzao, this kind of thing is the last thing you want to see, you have a hard time, and you have to do it as a last resort, right?" People are dead, what's the point of you hiding it? ”

"I don't know anything, so don't ask me."

After speaking, Zhou Ziqiang took the crutches and stood up, limping away, Sophie looked at his back and basically knew the score.

There was just one question she couldn't understand, why did Zhou Jiabao poison his granddaughter?

Was it an accident or a murder?

"Why don't you chase it?" Tang Tao suddenly emerged from the darkness.

"You've been here a long time ago, why don't you come out?" Sophie glanced at Tang Tao.

"I just want to see what you'll do with it."

"The result?"

"The result is good, now everything is just your inference, we don't have any evidence, pushing too quickly may backfire, he is already very panicked, let him calm down first, we just need to be patient."

Sophie nodded in agreement with Tang Tao's statement.

"Why do you think Zhou Jiabao wants to attack his granddaughter? It doesn't make sense. ”

"This is also something I don't understand, I have asked Lao Guo to verify some things, I believe it will not be long before there will be results."

Said Cao Cao, Cao Cao arrived.

As soon as Tang Tao's words fell, Lao Guo ran over out of breath.

"I found out, I called the People's Hospital, Lan Xiaocao did go to the hospital for a checkup, she suffered from breast cancer, and she is already three months pregnant."

Lao Guo took out the medical record and handed the mobile phone to Tang Tao.

The two of them took a look, and the medical records were true, but even if Lan Xiaocao was sick, there was no need to kill Zhou Shuzao, it really didn't make sense.

"There is another thing, Zhang Wenqiang is also missing, that is, the rich second-generation Brother Zhang you said, his real identity is Zhang Wenqiang, his father is a 4S shop, and the family does have money, but no one has seen him since he went out the day before yesterday, and he has been contacted a few times through WeChat in the middle, he told his friends that he went out to play, and he has lost contact since today, the phone can't get through, and WeChat doesn't reply, and now the family has called the police."

"Could it be that he has absconded in fear of crime?" Sophie's first thought was to escape, but she immediately vetoed this view, judging from Zhou Ziqiang's performance, Zhou Shuzao should not have fallen into Zhang Wenqiang's hands.

Where did Zhang Wenqiang go?

Will it fall into the hands of the guy who beat Mao Dahua?

This possibility is very high, the murderer is very concerned about Zhou Shuzao's whereabouts, and people like the rich second-generation Brother Zhang are well-known suspects, the murderer kidnapped Mao Dahua in order to find out Zhou Shuzao's whereabouts, so he may also kidnap Zhang Wenqiang at this time.