Early the next morning, we came to Liujiapu Village again, and today's task is to carry out a large-scale and large-scale investigation of the case of Tao Yunshu's family of three.

Liujiapu Village is one of the six villages under the jurisdiction of Zichuan County, the area is not very large, the registered resident population is about 1,000 people, but the pace of modern life is relatively fast, the number of migrant workers is relatively large, and the actual resident population of Liujiapu Village is only 3 or 400 people.

Even though the number of people has been reduced by half, it is still a very time-consuming and laborious task for us who need to conduct surveys.

The first one at the entrance of Liujiapu Village is a house with a shop sign.

In general, in every village, there will be one or several shops, and the villagers are commonly known as "commissaries".

And this commissary, which is equivalent to the tavern teahouse in ancient times, is a gathering place for information, and is an intelligence center. The parents in the village are short and trivial, and they can all be known here.

Therefore, I decided to start today's survey with the commissary in this village.

Walking into the commissary, the house was not very large, just like most of the houses in the village.

There are two rows of counters in the living room, and behind the counters are shelves, where there is a wide variety of goods. As long as the villagers usually need things in their daily lives, they can be bought here.

A man is sitting in a chair, with Jiro's legs crossed, watching TV.

He was wearing a blue tracksuit, a forward hat on his head, and kept chewing melon seeds, and the melon seed skin was thrown to the ground.

"What are you two buying?" The man spits out the melon seeds stuck to his tongue, casually greets us, and when he talks to us, his eyes never take off the TV.

"Two bottles of mineral water." I said lightly.

The man slowly stood up and walked sideways towards the counter, his eyes still glued to the TV.

"This man is really not a thing." He pursed his mouth and cursed the characters in the TV series fiercely.

The man then walked into the counter and placed two bottles of mineral water on the counter.

At this moment, he finally looked at us: "A total of two dollars." ”

I took a five-dollar slip out of my pocket and handed it to him for change.

During the change, the man kept looking us up and down with a strange gaze, and asked slowly, "Are you here to find someone in the village?" ”

I smiled and didn't answer his question.

The man handed me three one-dollar bills, and suddenly said to us in a low voice, "Do you know that there are dead people in the village?" ”

I was stunned when I heard his words, and I didn't understand why this man would suddenly tell us this, because we didn't identify him as a police officer.

"I heard." Li Meng pretended not to care and said lightly.

The man shook his head, smacked his lips, and muttered, "Oops...... A family of three, I don't know who to provoke, tsk. ”

"What? This family of three has enemies? I put my elbows on the counter, unscrewed the mineral water, took a sip, and asked casually.

The man sighed and pouted: "You are outsiders, so don't inquire about this." By the way, whose relatives are you? ”

I paused and casually responded: "We are relatives of the old Hao family in the west of the village. ”

"Old Hao's family? Hao Zhiqiang? The man frowned and looked at us in a daze.

"yes." Li Meng smiled slightly, changed his words, and asked, "Boss, what do you call it?" ”

"Me? My surname is Xiao, you can call me Lao Xiao. The man smiled and introduced himself.

"There are dead people in the village, what do you think about this?" I took out a pack of Panda brand cigarettes from my pocket and handed him one.

Lao Xiao took the cigarette, took out the lighter from his pocket, lit one for me first, and then lit the cigarette in his mouth.

"Lao Tao's family, tsk, it's too miserable." Lao Xiao sighed meaningfully, as if he had some important clues.

"Have there been any outsiders in the village lately? Their family can't be a feud outside, right? I slowed my tone, as naturally as if discussing gossip with him.

"No, there haven't been any outsiders in the village except you recently." Lao Xiao frowned, and analyzed it himself.

"You mean, their family was killed by the people of the village?" Li Meng suddenly asked.

Lao Xiao wanted to speak and stopped, and said quietly: "I don't know, the police came the night before yesterday, and the police also came yesterday, and it is said that the police were invited from the city, it seems that this is a big deal." ”

"There are dead people in the village, and the murderer is likely to be from the village, aren't you afraid?" Li Meng smiled and asked him.

Lao Xiao also smiled, and said indifferently: "What am I afraid of, I don't do bad things, I'm not afraid of ghosts knocking on the door, and I don't owe emotional debts." ”

Lao Xiao's casual words shocked me and Li Meng.

Li Meng immediately asked, "Emotional debt? You mean the Tao family owes emotional debts outside?! ”

Lao Xiao pouted, nodded, and then looked at the main road in the village through the window behind me, and then immediately lowered his voice and said to us: "Don't go out and talk nonsense, I am most annoyed by the kind of person who has nothing to chew his tongue behind people's backs and pull his wife's tongue." ”

Chewing the root of the tongue and pulling the wife's tongue belong to dialects, which are rural vernaculars, to the effect that they pay attention to someone behind his back and pass on the other party's gossip. Or talk about some people's private affairs behind people's backs, and spy on other people's lives.

If there must be a reference, it can be understood as an illegitimate meal, paparazzi.

Although there is nothing wrong with Lao Xiao's words, what is more interesting is that Lao Xiao's current behavior is to chew his tongue behind people's backs and pull his wife's tongue.

"I suspect that Lao Tao's daughter-in-law has a leg with her brother-in-law." Lao Xiao lowered his voice, as if it was a spy war period, conveying intelligence to us.

After listening to him, Li Meng and I looked at each other and felt very puzzled.

Because according to our investigation, whether it is Tao Yunshu or Chen Xuechun, there is no lover outside.

It is impossible that only Lao Xiao knows about this matter, and the other villagers don't know.

Because judging from Lao Xiao's current state, if he knows, it means that the whole village knows, and even the next village knows.

"Really?!" I asked him seriously.

"Of course that's true, my nickname is 'Newswire', and nothing in the village can be hidden from my eyes." Seeing that we didn't believe us, Lao Xiao tried his best to defend it, and at the same time showed off his nickname to us.

"So, you think it's a love killing?" Li Meng continued to ask.