"Brother Ma, why don't I understand it the more I think about it?"

Gu Yibao lowered his head and bent over, holding a dead branch in his hand, and aimlessly turned over the dead leaves on the ground in a small forest in Wulipo.

"When Li Jinnian saw that the old woman lying in the coffin was not his mother, why did he insist that his mother was still alive, instead of suspecting that his mother's body had been dropped?"

Seeing that Ma Yi didn't say anything, Gu must have never cared if he listened or not, and continued to grind on the side,

"Thinking about Li Jinnian's old thing slapping the table yesterday and asking you to save his mother alive, I really wanted to go up and beat him, but he didn't agree with us to test the authenticity of the body of the fake old lady Li. No, let's ask that little girl named Tang Mo for help, and then the true face of the fake old lady Li was revealed, but this old boy is an official anyway, how can he still turn his face and talk nonsense without blushing and panting? It's really shameless, invincible in the world. ”

"yes!"

Ma Yi replied with some frustration.

Yesterday, he was forced to receive his order in Shangshu Mansion, and then he couldn't find any clues in the mourning hall that was burned to ruins, and Ma Yi's mood has been depressed. After leaving Shangshu Mansion, he didn't even return to the yamen, and returned home directly with Gu Yibao.

As soon as he entered the house, Ma Yi hid in his room. I didn't come out for lunch or dinner. Gu Yibao was afraid that he would be hungry and brought the food to the door of his room, and when the food was cold, he didn't see Ma Yi come out and bring the food in.

Gu Yibao sighed, didn't bother him, and put the rest of the meal into his stomach.

When he got up this morning, Gu Yibao went into the house to look at Ma Yi, and found that he was still sighing under the quilt, and he really couldn't stand it, not to mention that one day had passed since Li Jinnian gave the seven-day period, and in the remaining six days, let alone catching that group of mountain bandits, it was a question of whether Li Jinnian and his living mother could be found.

Therefore, Gu Yibao didn't care about thirty-seven twenty-one, and insisted on risking being scolded by Ma Yi to pull him to Wulipo. According to Li Jinnian, his mother took this official road back to the capital at that time. But who would have expected that when he walked to this grove, the mountain bandits who were lying in ambush in the forest suddenly rushed out and kidnapped his mother. Finally, when he arrived, the old lady had been killed by the bandits.

"Who is he, he is a cunning old fox who can't be more cunning."

Ma Yi followed behind Gu Yibao and looked ahead, and said with a gloomy face,

"Didn't you hear him say that yesterday? Because the mountain bandit was too cunning, not only did he turn the old woman's face into his mother's face, but he was also afraid that if the people in his Shangshu Mansion saw the flaw, they would cut her face with a knife. As for Li Jinnian, he himself couldn't bear to look at it carefully because he was too sad, and mistakenly thought that it was his mother, so he hurriedly carried it back to Shangshu Mansion.

But who knew that when he was sorting out the old lady's body before burying him yesterday, his wife found out that the old lady turned out to be a fake. Since the mountain bandit gave him a dead fake mother-in-law, then all this shows that the old lady was not killed by the mountain bandits at all, otherwise what is the use of the mountain bandits holding the old lady's body. ”

Ma Yi said this, put his hands behind his back, walked a few steps forward, and said,

"Blame me for not thinking it through. Originally, I thought that when Li Jinnian found out that the person in the coffin was not his mother, he would quietly choose to bury him, and then we would give him a private cutoff, and take him, who obviously found out that it was a fake Mrs. Li, but secretly announced that he would be armed, and at that time, even if he couldn't force him to tell the truth, at least he could make him a rat trap, but now it seems that I underestimated him. ”

Ma Yi's words made Gu Yibao seem to understand a little, but there is one thing he understands.

"Hey, so we're cocooning ourselves?"

Gu Yibao thought of the seven-day deadline set by Li Jinnian for Ma Yi, if Ma Yi couldn't find Li Jinnian's mother, he would have to go back to his hometown to farm, so would he have to follow him to be a farmer?

Ma Yipi glanced at Gu Yibao with a smile, and said quietly:

"Yibao, you're really right, we're now in our own trap."

"But, Brother Ma, how did you find out that the dead Old Lady Li is a fake?"

Gu Yibao wondered if Ma Yi had other sources of information? Otherwise, how could he be so persistent in asking Tang Mo to help him uncover the true face of the fake Old Madam Li after Li Jinnian didn't let him examine Old Madam Li's corpse?

Ma Yi picked up a dead leaf from the ground and played with it in his hand for a long time before saying:

"A few days ago, Li Jinnian held a birthday banquet, and Mrs. Li said that she was worshiping Buddha in Daxiang Temple, but she didn't rush back. And this time the third lady got married, but Mrs. Li said that she was going back, I investigated, Mrs. Li didn't like this third lady very much, and the third lady was sent to the ancestral hall in the countryside back then. And when Mrs. Li rushed back this time, the carriage she was riding was not luxurious but could be said to be extremely simple, and there was only one official road to the capital, and Wulipo could be said to be very close to the capital.

As the saying goes, 'rabbits don't eat the grass next to the nest', if you are a mountain bandit, will you choose to rob in such a conspicuous place on this official road and almost at the city gate? Not to mention, it was another inconspicuous carriage that was robbed, and the car was still sitting on an old lady who was more than half a year old, who wanted to be colorless and had no money, and these bandits would take such a big risk to do this completely unprofitable loss-making transaction without asking about anything, do you think it is possible? ”

"Then to put it this way, it could be that this gang of mountain bandits is simply under the banner of robbing money, and the purpose is for Mrs. Li. That's why you think that this old lady Li will definitely not die so easily? ”

Gu Yibao seemed to understand a little.

Ma Yi nodded,

"Another thing, isn't there a rumor circulating in and out of the city recently? It's a coincidence that it all came together. ”

"Could it be that you're talking about 'red fish'?"

Gu Yibao suddenly realized.

"Now everyone on the rivers and lakes knows that the 'Red Fish' is in the hands of Mrs. Li, think about it, since even you and I can know this news, how can Li Jinnian not know, but why would he let Mrs. Li go back to her house by herself? Shouldn't someone as utilitarian and greedy as him send more people to bring the old lady back? ”

From Ma Yi's words, Gu Yibao seemed to suddenly think of something, opened his mouth and exclaimed in surprise:

"Brother Ma, do you want to say that the scene of the mountain bandits robbing and killing the old lady was all directed by Li Jinnian, right? Tsk, if this old fox doesn't win the Oscar for Best Director, I'm really sorry for his high IQ. ”

Ma Yi frowned imperceptibly when he heard Gu Yibao's words, why did this Gu Yibao say so many words that people couldn't understand when they heard it? It seems that when Li Jinnian's matter is over, he will have to find out where the place of Dongtu Datang is, and what kind of person is Gu Yibao? And the little girl named Tang Mo, how could it be so coincidental, but at this time, she accompanied the third lady back into the Shangshu Mansion as a maid? These two people are not spies sent by those small countries, otherwise I will not be able to explain to the master.

Ma Yi thought about it for a while and put aside the suspicion of Gu Yibao for the time being, and then touched his chin and said,

"Thinking about it, Li Jinnian should know that the fake old lady was revealed, and I did it. That's why he got angry and asked me to not only arrest that gang of bandits within seven days, but also find his living mother, which was obviously to stab me. ”

Ma Yi sighed after speaking, and then said to himself,

"It's not difficult to catch that group of mountain bandits, just find a few people to deal with it, but where should I really find Old Madam Li?"