Uncle Sun picked up a load of loess from the outside, went to the reeds to cut a lot of reeds, and got busy.

Qin Liusu was naturally not idle, helping Uncle Sun and the yellow mud, and chopping these reeds and mixing them in, but it took a lot of effort.

Uncle Sun was busy repairing the kang, so naturally he couldn't care about who came.

"Harvest the film, collect the film."

Qin Liusu looked at a young man wearing a brown coarse cloth outside, holding a gong to beat it, and Aunt Sun hurriedly ran out of the kitchen and stopped the man.

"Yes, yes, I finally look forward to you."

Aunt Sun opened the small door of the courtyard and let her in.

"You sit down first, I'll go to the room and take out the slices."

The merchant nodded, looking around at the courtyard, Qin Liusu saw that something was not quite right with this person, but he couldn't tell what was wrong, so he had to think that he was suspicious.

Aunt Sun took out a lot of slices from the house, and the merchant counted them and gave the money very generously.

"It's a total of 100 coins, which is ten copper coins, you think?"

Aunt Sun nodded hurriedly and took it carefully.

"Old man, I'm going to other places to collect some slices, old man, you are waiting here, don't send it, if I return it next time, you will also make more slices."

Aunt Sun responded, Qin Liusu looked at the merchant and felt more and more that something was wrong, the merchant obviously saw Qin Liusu's eyes, a little cramped, and quickly went out.

Aunt Sun looked at Qin Liusu and stared at the door, and she couldn't help but feel a little unhappy in her heart.

"How? Lost your soul? ”

Looking at Aunt Sun's somewhat unhappy face, Qin Liusu said more, "It's nothing, but doesn't Auntie think that merchant is so strange?" He used to collect this? ”

"Not really,"

Aunt Sun shook her head and raced the copper coin back to her waist, "It's not that I have arrived, and I have only recently come to change people, saying that there was an accident in the original person's family, and this merchant is all going from south to north, and often he is not at home for ten days and half a month." ”

Qin Liusu heard the general situation, and became more and more suspicious in his heart.

This one, Niu Niu took her younger siblings to work, and the two children sat on the threshold and played slices, chewing the licorice root dug out by their sister from the mountain, but they were also very happy, and this Niu Niu, although she was sitting on the loom, was also a little restless, and almost broke the thread several times.

"Kid, do you have any slices in your house?"

"Yes, yes."

Listening to her younger brother's immature child's voice, Niu Niu was flustered for a while, and when she went out, she saw the merchant standing in her courtyard with a smile.

"Sister-in-law, I'm here to collect the slices."

Niu Niu came back to her senses and sent the slices made in the past half a month to the end.

The two children stared intently at the merchant and counted the slices.

"It's a total of three hundred Wenlai, and there are thirty copper coins here, take it."

Niu Niu took the heavy money bag in her hand, and was a little happy in her heart, finally in the past half a month, she has not done it in vain.

The merchant took the slices, continued to beat the gong, shouted, and collected a lot one after another.

After Ling Muhan and his party went through a bumpy ride, they finally came to Fenggu Village, looking at how similar these scattered families were to the village where they had been a child, Ling Muhan's heart was somewhat touched.

"My lord, after crossing this mountain, you will be there."

Ling Muhan was originally going to take the carriage, but County Lieutenant Zhang said no, for no other reason, the mountain in this place is quite steep, and the carriage is also difficult to move forward.

Standing at the foot of the mountain, Ling Muhan asked out loud.

"That's all there are in this place?"

Niu Da led the ox cart and wiped his sweat, "Lord Hui, yes, there are only about ten families, all of whom live at the foot of this mountain, and there are originally people who live on the top of this mountain and halfway up the mountainside, but then something happened to the mountain, and these people have moved down one after another." ”

"But this case of the ghost of the old man?"

"Exactly."

The group continued to walk, and finally arrived at the entrance of the village, Aunt Sun was cooking at this time, and Qin Liusu and Uncle Sun were busy repairing the house, and they were not available.

I saw County Lieutenant Zhang from a distance, and Aunt Sun ran out enthusiastically and beckoned County Lieutenant Zhang to come over for lunch.

"County Lieutenant Zhang, is he quite loved by the people?"

County Lieutenant Zhang looked at Boss Ling beside him and smiled awkwardly.

Aunt Sun looked at the handsome man in front of her in a green mountain coat, this was not the one she saw yesterday, and she was a little confused in her heart.

"Isn't this Mo the new county magistrate?"

"Exactly down there."

Ling Muhan opened the fan, shook it a few times, a pair of autumn water swirled in his eyes, and the corners of his mouth were like a smile, which made this woman who nested in this small village all day long dazzled, and couldn't help but praise sincerely: "The adult is really a person who is an immortal!" ”

Ling Muhan laughed, and the Ni clan on the side was in a hurry.

"My lord, my family ......"

Only then did Ling Muhan put away his thoughts and went to the Ni family's house.

Entering this small courtyard, Ling Muhan smelled a smell of blood, Ling Muhan's nose was originally different from ordinary people, and he could tell what it was by distinguishing it a little.

Seeing Ling Muhan frowning, County Lieutenant Zhang naturally asked, but what did he find?

Ling Muhan remained silent, first went to take a look, said that he had entered the thief's room, and looked at the mess all over the place, with clothes everywhere, Ling Muhan couldn't help but be a little suspicious, this village woman didn't have any treasures in her family, and it stands to reason that she didn't lose any valuable chickens and ducks, so why did she lose a few clothes?

"You said today that there is still a place in your house that you haven't turned over, so you should go and see it first."

Ling Muhan turned back to Ni Shi, who was a little frightened, Ni Shi nodded, walked to the corner of the courtyard, uncovered the bricks, found that there was nothing inside, and immediately fell to the ground.

"This thief, it doesn't matter if he steals his clothes, the money he has worked so hard to save for most of his life is gone......"

Ni sat on the ground and wailed, no matter how much the other people tried to persuade him, he fell to the ground.

The crowd gradually gathered at the door of Ni's house, and even Aunt Sun put down the work in her hand to join in the fun, not to mention Niu Niu, who also brought her younger siblings over and stood outside the door watching, but no one went in.

They searched the entire house, but found no other signs.

Ling Muhan squatted down and asked Ni Clan.

"You alone know where you hide your money? Whose is your lost garment? ”

"The slave family and her husband know about the lost money, and as for the clothes, they are also the slave husband's ......."

"This money is only known to the two of you, and there is no one else, right?"

Ni Shi cried and nodded, and Ling Muhan was relieved.

took a closer look at the tools that Ni's husband used to do the work, turned around, and whispered something to County Lieutenant Zhang, who got the order and quickly took the official out to look for it.

A servant was left behind, blasting the onlookers at the villagers.

"It's all scattered, there's nothing to see!"

Niu Niu took the child back home, and Niu Da also followed.

"Big brother, what the hell is going on?"

Niu Da sighed, "What else can it be, Brother Ni next door has already been killed...... Now, the age is very uneven, you have to take care of your younger siblings at home, don't have an accident, otherwise, we will be sorry for these parents who are underground! ”

After Niu Da finished speaking, he went out to help, leaving Niu Niu sitting on the chair alone, distracted.

County Lieutenant Zhang came with people and walked around the house, but he didn't find anything.

"My lord, what do you see that?!"

A servant suddenly pointed in a direction and saw a package under the cliff behind the house.

Zhang County Lieutenant ran down in a hurry, but accidentally fell into the mud, Zhang County Lieutenant stood up, looked at the package on the ground, lifted it, and climbed up.

"Bang bang bang."

Something dripped on Zhang Countywei's face, Zhang Countywei reached out and wiped it, but found that it was bloodstains, and when he looked up, he found that the body of Ni's husband was hanging on the tree, and the surrounding leaves were dense, if it weren't for this blood bead, I am afraid it would not be found.

The servant hurriedly ran in.

"But you found it?"

The official nodded, "My lord, I found it, and it hangs on the top of the tree." ”

As soon as Ni Shi, who had fallen to the ground, heard the news, he immediately fainted, unconscious, and was so frightened that Niu Da pinched the person.

Although Ling Muhan was wearing loose clothes, he ran very fast, and went to the place where the body was found early, and a group of people were pulling the body down at this time.

When the corpse was pulled down, everyone couldn't help but feel sick.

"This prisoner is really merciless, this intestine has been poked out, and this head can't see the original appearance, how much hatred and resentment there is!"

County Lieutenant Zhang couldn't help muttering in his heart, Ling Muhan picked up the handkerchief and carefully examined the corpse.

"Then Ni Shi is still awake? If she wakes up, let her identify the body. ”

At this time, Ni slowly woke up, crying and swaying over to check the corpse.

"That's my cruel husband, yes, these clothes were all the clothes he wore when he left the other day, woo woo woo...... Why did you leave me, you bad guy...... What the hell did you do, you yo......"

Ni fell to the corpse crying, and everyone sighed and carried the corpse onto the ox-sized ox cart.

"We're going to take this body back for inspection, and if we find anything, we'll let you know as soon as possible."

County Lieutenant Zhang took the corpse and the servants to take a step ahead, and Ling Muhan was here to check the scene of the crime.

Aunt Sun also cooked the meal, and instructed Qin Liusu to call the officials, Qin Liusu knew in his heart that this county order was the local soil emperor, and he couldn't afford to offend a cadre of officials, so he washed his hands and called Ling Muhan and them.

When I arrived at the door of the Ni family's house, I didn't see anyone coming, so I pulled an old man over casually, "Uncle, have you seen the officials from the government who came to handle the case?" ”

"Why didn't you see it? When the officials went to the back of the house, the body of the Ni family brother was found and hung on a tree, which scared people to death. ”

Qin Liusu settled down, went to the back of the house, and went to find Ling Muhan.

Ling Muhan squatted on the ground and examined carefully, but he didn't find any useful clues, the only thing that might be useful was that there were traces of grinding on this tree.

"Why don't you have a clue?"

Ling Muhan muttered to himself.

"It would not be unusual if such a thoughtful man had done it."

Hearing the female voice that suddenly came out from behind, Ling Muhan, who was concentrating, was half dead.

"It turned out to be this sister-in-law, who hadn't seen her for a few days, and she became more and more rounded."

Just as Ling Muhan wanted to scold someone, as soon as he turned around, he saw this Qin Liusu standing behind him with a smile.

"This sister-in-law lives here?"

Qin Liusu owes himself, "Exactly, I live in Uncle Sun's house at the head of the village." ”

"It's also fate, I didn't expect me to fall in love with my sister-in-law so much."

Qin Liusu ignored Ling Muhan and said to himself, "My aunt asked me to ask you to eat, and I have been tired for a long time, I am afraid that I will also starve when I return to the city this time, if the official does not dislike the coarse tea and light rice of the farmer's family, it is better to come here to eat a light meal." ”

Speaking of eating, this Ling Muhan's stomach was also hungry a few times.