"Take so much luggage to check the fart, junior sister, let's go to the inn first and settle the luggage." Jiang Yun was not interested in investigating the case in detail, and beckoned Su Rong to leave.

"Okay, Senior Brother is here for you, Second Senior Brother and I will go to place your luggage, so that you don't have difficulty moving, and by the way, prepare a table of banquets and wait for you to come back." Su Rong obediently agreed, took the bags from everyone with Jiang Yun, and left first.

"Senior brother, I can't help at all in the investigation of the case, why don't you leave it to the junior brother, I'm hungry, I'm going to eat first." Cheng Pu smiled embarrassedly at Zixuan.

"You... Go ahead. Zixuan knew Cheng Pu's ability and knew that he really couldn't help, so he could only reluctantly agree.

"It can't really be Old Man Li's doing, right?"

"No, it's all from the villagers."

"Do you say it's possible, it's Aunt Liu who shouted to catch the thief and hid her own children to frame Old Man Li, but I've heard that the two of them have always been at odds."

"No, it's just a quarrel in the neighborhood, as for making trouble with your own son? What's more, his man died, and there was such a lone seedling in the family, usually very precious, I think the child is really lost. ”

"I'll tell you, I passed by here at a moment, but I saw a figure running away with a child, and the speed was too fast, and I only saw a back and didn't know who it was."

"Huh? I was at the entrance of the village today, and I saw the restaurant's little second Shen Shi at two o'clock, holding a big package, and left the village in a hurry, Shen Shi ran back in a panic, the package was gone, could it be that he stole the child. ”

Lin Fan and Zixuan Lingsha stood in the crowd and quietly listened to the discussions of the people around them, and after a while, there was no useful information, and slowly walked out of the crowd, came to Aunt Liu, and said with relief: "Auntie, don't cry first, crying can't solve the problem, you tell me how the child was lost, how can you suspect that it is Old Man Li?" As he spoke, he found that Aunt Liu had a faint trace of blood in her fingernails.

Aunt Liu heard Lin Fan's question, stopped crying, and saw that Lin Fan was dressed as a chivalrous man, and sobbed and said: "Young man doesn't know, yesterday my children were playful, climbed the wall and smashed the water tank of Old Man Li's house with stones, he actually wanted to be rough with a child, he was just a child, I found out and argued with him, he put down his cruel words, and said that sooner or later he would throw my child into the well." I thought he was just talking angrily, I never thought that when I was washing clothes in the house today, I heard my child exclaim outside the door, I came out to see that the child was gone, it must have been done by the old man Li! ”

Lin Fan turned to look at the old man Li next to him, who was disheveled, with many scratches on his face and body, and the whole person was drunk and seemed to have drunk a lot of wine, and asked, "What Auntie said is true?" ”

"Fuck the stinking fart! You shrew spews blood, I just get angry and scold him, how can I really kidnap your baby. Old man Li gasped angrily and said.

"Lizheng is here! If you come late, you're going to hit a dog's head! I don't know who shouted in the crowd, and slowly the crowd dispersed a road, and an old man with white hair walked over, who seemed to be the head of the village.

After the village chief figured out what was going on, he stroked his beard and said, "Old Li, you let them search your house, and there is nothing valuable in your house, so if they can't find it, they won't suspect you." ”

"Okay, you can search as you like, I said it wasn't me who did it!" Old man Li said angrily, opened the door of his house as he spoke, and walked in drunken and staggering, and was unstable and almost fell, but fortunately, a ragged beggar next to him reached out to help him.

The village chief led people to search the house and found nothing, but found Aunt Liu's child's clothes in the yard, but they seemed to be torn, and there was a child's straw doll.

"What else do you have to say, you old immortal? Where did you get my child! After Aunt Liu looked at the witnesses, she pounced on Old Man Li and bit them indiscriminately.

Old man Li was in a hurry, pushed down Aunt Liu, and retorted: "How do I know how things came from, I just came back from going out for a drink, swaying, and the road is unstable, but fortunately I met this kind beggar who accompanied me back, and before I entered the house, I was dragged to the street by your crazy woman, where do I have time to steal your child!" ”

Lingsha stepped forward to help Aunt Liu, and asked Old Man Li, "You said you went to drink and just came back, when did you go?" The child was lost at the moment of Shen Shi, where are you at the moment of Shen Shi? ”

"I went to the field this morning, came back at noon to rest for a while, and then went to the wine shop to drink, and only came back when you were young, I was in the wine shop when Shen was here, how could I come and kidnap the child! The shopkeeper of the liquor store can testify for me. Old man Li argued.

"Those two boys of the Zhang family! Go and get the shopkeeper of the liquor store. The village chief spoke.

"Wait, by the way, let's call the second little boy of the restaurant as well." Lin Fan interjected, and then informed the village chief of what he had just heard.

"Well, let's call them all together." Saying that, the village chief looked at Lin Fan suspiciously and asked, "Anyway, who are you, young man?" ”

Zi Xuan bowed to the village chief and said: "We are disciples of Xiaoyao Valley, this trip is to help Ling Yan catch his head and investigate a large number of child abduction and trafficking cases. ”

"Runaway? I haven't heard of it, but I have heard about the Hangzhou incident you said, and I have heard that there has been a lot of uproar, but this kind of thing has never happened in our village, we have no outsiders living here for a long time, and the only one who lived in the village later was the beggar, but it has been many years. ”

"Oh? So why did this beggar brother appear here so coincidentally? Lin Fan asked casually.

The beggar was stunned when he saw the question, and then walked over with a limp on crutches, as if his legs were not very convenient, and he walked near Lin Fan and said with a smile: "Shaoxia, is this suspicious of the old beggar?" I slept in the Chenghuang Temple at the entrance of the village all day today, reduced activities to save physical strength, and just woke up at four o'clock in the afternoon, I felt hungry, so I got up and prepared to go to the village wine shop and restaurant to beg for some food, I arrived at the wine shop at six o'clock, begged for some food, was squatting at the door to eat, you saw the old man Li staggering out, I saw him drink a lot, afraid that he would fall on the side of the road, so I accompanied him over. ”

"You're really old-fashioned." Lin Fan nodded and said.

Zi Xuan walked over, patted Lin Fan's shoulder, and then pointed to the snake-shaped tattoo on the bare part of the beggar's foot and said, "Senior brother, generally beggars with this kind of tattoo on their bodies are all disciples of the Beggar Gang, and I think this one is also a member of the Beggar Gang." He arched his hand at the beggar.

"Haha, the young man has good eyesight, the old beggar is a disciple of the beggar gang, the kidnapper of the child is simply out of conscience, if there is anything you need me or the beggar gang to help, you can just command. It's a pity that I have bad legs and feet, and I don't know kung fu, so I can't go to Hangzhou with you to investigate the case and catch the thieves who kidnapped the children together. The beggar said complimentingly.

Suddenly, there was a commotion in the crowd, Lin Fan looked up, it turned out to be the shopkeeper of the wine store, and the shopkeeper of the restaurant had arrived.

"I've heard about everything, Lao Li Tou is drinking with me today, but I don't remember when he came, the beggar came at six o'clock in the Shen hour, probably helping Lao Li Tou to walk with him in the unitary time, because it just happened, so I still have an impression." The shopkeeper said straight to the point.

"I went to your place for a drink before the end, how could you not be impressed?" Old man Li asked anxiously.

"It's... I have people coming and going, how can I remember it so clearly, Lao Li Tou forgive me for not being able to testify for you. The shopkeeper said apologetically.

"How so?" Old man Li sat on the ground in despair.

"What about you? Some people say what did they do when they saw you running out of the village in a hurry and running back in a panic? Lin Fan questioned the shopkeeper.

"I... A friend of mine came to the village today to look for me, saying that he was in some trouble, and I took advantage of the shopkeeper's absence, stole some food and wine from the store, wrapped them in a package, and ran out of the village to give them to my friend, and he got them and left. Then I ran all the way back to the store, when I ran back, I saw a beggar sleeping in the Chenghuang Temple at the entrance of the village, Shen saw Aunt Liu looking for a child at the fourth hour, I saw Old Man Li drinking in the wine shop at the fifth hour, I had returned to the restaurant at the sixth quarter of Shen, I didn't know anything else, please don't tell my shopkeeper that I stole something, I really stole this time, and I will make up for it when I pay my salary, please. The shopkeeper said everything he knew, and then begged for mercy with a sad face.

"Lao Li Tou, in this way, only you are the most suspicious, they are all from the villagers, if you really did it, you should tell the whereabouts of the child as soon as possible, as long as the child is fine, we will not embarrass you, you think it is okay if this incident has not happened?" The village chief pointed the finger at Old Man Li and said inducingly.

"Oh, I really didn't do it, you believe me!" Old man Li was speechless at this time, and he woke up with a sweat and wine, and said with great annoyance.

"In that case, everyone is dispersed, Lao Li, you also go home first, I will leave someone to guard the door, and we will report to the official tomorrow, and the result will be known at that time." The village chief shook his head and turned to disperse the crowd of onlookers.

It stands to reason that the matter can be closed now, but Lin Fan always feels that things are not so simple, if Old Man Li has time to hide the child, how can he carelessly leave the child's clothes? I'm afraid that someone planted the blame. And after listening to everyone's testimony, Lin Fan always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't figure it out for a while.