In the evening, Liangshan Village finally arrived.

After such a long and fast journey, even the team members who were refining qi and cultivating were a little unbearable.

Seeing that Liangshan Village was in front of him, Liu Yao suddenly stopped.

"Everyone, pay attention, the village will be here soon, you just have to recuperate, and leave the negotiation to Han Xun."

"Be careful not to disturb the people when you enter the village, don't clash with anyone, and remember, we are part of the Whitewater Township Patrol Division."

"If you have a public office, you must have self-cultivation."

After speaking, he waved his hand and led the team into the village.

Liangshan Village is a small village nestled in the mountains and forests.

There are not many people, only a hundred.

The conditions and facilities here are much more backward than those in Whitewater.

But even so, every villager here is full of energy, ruddy complexion, and in good health.

It is much stronger than the poor villages that Wang Mu saw in his previous life, living in the deep mountains and with inconvenient transportation from the outside world.

The village chief warmly received the group.

When I learned that there was no demon beast appearing, but a smart monkey.

Everyone in Liangshan Village breathed a sigh of relief.

Subsequently, the village chief happily arranged for everyone to stay at his house, and set up a table of "sumptuous" dinner for everyone.

The team members were tired all day, and the meal was very enjoyable.

However, during the banquet, Wang Mu continued to pay attention to Liu Yao.

only to find that the other party calmed down after entering the village, and was no longer so nervous.

Suppressing the doubts in their hearts, after dinner, Wang Mu and Wang Shi went out for a walk together.

Even though it was completely dark.

However, for the two of them, the day was not much different from that in the afternoon and evening.

At this time, there were not many passers-by wandering around the village, and most of the villagers had gone home.

"Huh?"

At this moment, Wang Mu, who was walking on the road, suddenly let out a doubt.

Wang Shi on the side looked in the direction that Wang Mu's eyes were paying attention to, and saw a small figure kneeling in front of a dimly lit courtyard.

Seems to be a small child.

The child's body is dressed in plain white clothes, which is very conspicuous in the night.

A white cloth is tied around his head.

There was a brazier in front of him.

"This ...... Someone is dead in the house, right? ”

Wang Shi wondered.

"But how is this family just such a child, and there is no one else?"

Before he could finish speaking, Wang Mu had already walked towards the child.

"Let's take a look, and ask about the situation by the way." It's just nothing, Wang Mu thought so.

Wang Shi didn't think much about it, and the two walked towards the child side by side.

When I got closer, I realized that it was a little girl with pigtails.

The little girl had tears on her face, and she knelt in front of the brazier, muttering something in her mouth.

Hearing the footsteps of Wang Mu and Wang Shi, the little girl raised her head and glanced at the two of them in some horror.

After discovering that the two were strangers, he stood up even more nervously.

Seeing her clenching her small fists, Wang Mu suddenly felt that something was wrong.

"Little girl, who in your family has died?"

"Can you tell Big Brother? The big brother also wanted to burn some paper for him. ”

After thinking about it, Wang Mu squatted down.

At the same time, he dragged Wang Shi to squat down together to lower the vigilance of the little girl.

Seeing that the two of them didn't seem to have malicious intent, the little girl thought about it and handed the yellow paper in her hand to Wang Mu, but she didn't say anything.

Seeing this, Wang Mu was also stunned.

Then he took the yellow paper, burned two sheets with a serious expression, and handed them to Wang Shi.

Wang Shi didn't want to burn any paper, but when he saw that Wang Mu was also burned, he symbolized burning two.

Putting down the remaining yellow paper, Wang Mu then asked, "What's your name?" ”

"Beanie." Seeing that Wang Mu and Wang Shi burned the paper, the little girl seemed to let down her guard against the two of them and whispered.

"Doudou, who are you burning paper for?" Seeing that the little girl was cute, Wang Shi couldn't help but burn two more, and asked softly in his mouth at the same time.

The little girl lowered her head, squatted in front of the brazier, looked at the fire and said blankly, "Dad." ”

Wang Mu and Wang Shi glanced at each other, and they both saw the look of surprise in each other's eyes.

"What about your mother?" Wang Mu asked.

Doudou shook his head: "I haven't seen it." ”

In other words, the child has not seen his mother since he first remembered.

Single parent families?

"And is there anyone else in your family? Why are you out there alone? ”

Wang Shi frowned and looked at the courtyard of the black hole behind the little girl and asked.

Doudou shook his head.

Wang Mu got up and looked at the dark courtyard, there seemed to be no one.

Thinking of this, he simply walked directly into the courtyard.

However, Wang Mu did not enter the house, but walked out after walking around the courtyard.

With a brief observation, he was able to determine that there was no one else in the courtyard.

In other words, this little girl is the only one in this entire courtyard?!

"There's no one, she's the only one at home." Wang Mu walked out of the courtyard and said to Wang Shi.

Wang Shi was suddenly angry: "This is just nonsense, let such a little girl stay at home alone, what does the village chief of Liangshan Village eat!" ”

"Wait, I'll call someone."

With that, he got up and walked towards the village chief's house.

Only Wang Mu was left alone and the little girl squatting in front of the brazier, burning yellow paper one by one.

Wang Mu could understand Wang Shi's unusually angry mood at the moment.

Because he and this little girl can be said to be in the same disease.

"Doudou, why did your father die?" Wang Mu looked at the little girl's big eyes shining under the reflection of the flames, and asked sympathetically.

"Uncle the village chief said that my father committed suicide." Doudou couldn't help but wipe his tears.

"Doudou has been sick, and Daddy must have stopped wanting me because he disliked me."

"I don't want my dad to die, I don't want to be alone."

The little girl sobbed in a low voice while wiping her tears.

Wang Mu couldn't help but have a sour nose, and gently rubbed the little girl's head.

He couldn't help but glance into the dark courtyard again.

Is this little girl going to live here alone in the future?

Wang Mu was a little unbearable, and at the same time he was puzzled.

It stands to reason that if there is such an orphan in the village, the villagers will take care of it.

Especially as a village head, I have the obligation to take care of these children.

But when he looked at the gate of the courtyard, he didn't find many footprints.

In other words, at least for the past few days, there have been few people coming to this small courtyard.

Just as he was thinking this, there was a sound of footsteps not far away.

I saw the captain Liu Yao, the village chief of Liangshan Village, as well as Wang Shi and others walking towards here together.

It's just that the face of the village chief of Liangshan Village on the side is not very good-looking.

At the same time, Wang Mu also noticed.

As everyone walked towards this place, villagers began to come out of the door one after another to look at this place, with different expressions on their faces.

Wang Mu got up and looked at Liu Yao: "Captain." ”

Liu Yao waved his hand: "I know everything." ”

Liu Yao nodded at him, glanced at the little girl, leaned down and rubbed her head, and also stepped forward to burn a few pieces of yellow paper to show respect.

The members of the patrol team stepped forward to burn the paper.

The little girl stood beside her at a loss for a while, watching these unfamiliar faces burning paper for her father.

Hurriedly remembered his father's teachings, and politely bent down one by one to bow and thank him.

This scene made everyone a little unbearable.

Similarly, after entering the courtyard and taking a turn, Liu Yao frowned and looked at Liang Bo, the head of Liangshan Village: "What is the situation of this family?" ”

Liang Bo hurriedly said: "My lord doesn't know, there are only two people in this family, Liang Yuan's father and daughter. ”

"Yesterday, Liang Yuan committed suicide at home, and we have helped him collect the body and prepare for burial, and we didn't care about this little girl for a while."

"But don't worry, I have instructed the villagers to take care of her daily life and three meals a day, but she may have run out by herself after dinner today."

Liang Bo smiled: "If it doesn't work, I will take her to the house to raise her, and I will never let her become a street child." ”

"Suicide?" Wang Mu raised his eyebrows, "How can you tell if he committed suicide?" ”

Hearing Wang Mu's inquiry, Liang Bo hurriedly hugged his fists and said, "This adult, this little girl came to me this morning and said that her father was out of breath." ”

"I hurried here, and when I looked at it, I found that Liang Yuan, who was lying on the bed, had long since lost his breath."

"I guess I died last night."

"I was sleeping when I died, so I didn't have any injuries on my body."

"We didn't find any killers either."

"He has never had a grudge against anyone, and he has always been very withdrawn."

"Besides, in our small mountain village, no one will kill a man who lives alone with a child."

"What is it that is not suicide?"

After speaking, he looked at Doudou again and again.

The village chief looked at everyone: "There are some things that are not easy to say here, I will explain them to you in detail when I go back." ”

As he spoke, he stepped forward to grab Doudou's hand: "Doudou, will you go home with the village chief's uncle?" ”

However, to the village chief's surprise, Doudou dodged his hand and stubbornly looked at the brazier in front of him.

"Doudou is going to burn paper for Daddy for the vigil."

Seeing this, Liang Bo glanced at everyone with some embarrassment.

When he was about to say something more, Wang Shi suddenly said: "Okay, you go back first, I'll accompany her here, and I'll take her back in a while." ”

Liu Yao and the others didn't say anything.

Everyone knows Wang Shi's background, so they also understand the reason why he did this.

Seeing that Liu Yao and the others turned their heads and walked back, the village chief didn't want to say anything more, and hurriedly kept up with Liu Yao's pace.

Wang Shi glanced at Wang Mu and whispered in his ear: "You can also go back and rest, I'll accompany her for a while, you go and listen to what the old man said, I think he doesn't seem to have finished speaking." ”

Wang Mu nodded and followed the team.

After staying away from Liangyuan's house, Liu Yao said, "Did the village chief say something just now?" ”

Liang Bo sighed and said, "In front of that little girl, I don't want to say much." ”

"Actually, the child has always been sick, and Liang Yuan has to go up the mountain to collect medicine every day for her, rain or shine."

"Their family conditions are not good, and we mountain people rely on mountains and water, but if you don't farm and hunt, where will you get food and food?"

"He can't be distracted if he has to take care of Doudou, the grain harvest is not good, and he relies on hunting in the mountains to make a living.

"But I heard that the child was terminally ill and could not be cured."

"So we all guessed that Liang Yuan must have felt that there was no hope, and he didn't want to face his daughter's death, so he broke himself."