Liang Yuanque took advantage of Zhuang Youjie's failure to react, grabbed his hand and dragged him to the boat.

The boat suddenly took on the weight of an adult, and immediately swayed on the water, which frightened Zhuang Youjie so much that he couldn't help but exclaim.

The boatman's boating skills were still very high, and after a few shakes of the stern of the boat, it quickly returned to stability.

Liang Yuanque gave the boatman an order, and the uncle immediately propped up the thin pulp, and the boat sailed to the other side of the river.

Zhuang Youjie sat next to Liang Yuanque and took several deep breaths to calm down, but he still had to control himself from looking at the water.

Because once he saw the fine ripples on the water surface so close to him, Zhuang Youjie's legs couldn't help but twitch.

Liang Yuanque looked at him with a frightened look and smiled, "Pretend to be a young master, your hometown is also a water city, how can you be afraid of water?" ”

Zhuang Youjie didn't want to repeat the origin, so he could only pretend to explain, "People always have something to fear, and it's because they can see it every day, so they are even more afraid." ”

Unexpectedly, Liang Yuanque directly exposed his psychology, "You have suffered in this regard, and you have been severely punished by the elders in the family, right?" ”

Seeing that Zhuang Youjie's face was not tense for a moment, revealing a surprised affection, Liang Yuanque knew that he had guessed correctly.

Zhuang Youjie was indeed strictly forbidden to go near the water by the elders of the family since he was a child, and the only water surface he touched when he was a child, except for the washing water in the basin, was only the man-made pond that his father spent a lot of money to dig in the yard.

But he was an elegant and cowardly man on the surface, but he was actually full of rebellious factors in his bones, and he loved to work against his father, and when he was eleven years old, he ran out of the house and went to the largest river on the outskirts of Liucheng with other children on the street, but because he couldn't swim and was reckless, he almost drowned.

In the end, the housekeeper who came out after discovering that he was missing came in time and saved his life.

His father asked the doctor to help him carefully check him from head to toe, and after making sure that he was okay, he sneered and said to him, "You are going to have something to do now."

Zhuang Youjie was beaten by the fat hammer, and since then, the feeling of almost drowning and swollen butt has been deeply engraved in his mind.

Zhuang Youjie was a little unhappy with Liang Yuanque's direct uncovering of his childhood scars, and said in a sour tone, "Is this the detective's reasoning ability?" ”

Liang Yuanque didn't care, as if he didn't see the expression on his face, smiled happily, and didn't answer him anything.

The boat swayed on the river for a while, gradually approaching the opposite bank, and the buildings standing on the opposite bank slowly shed their veils.

As Liang Yuanque just said, there is a stockade on the opposite bank, which seems to maintain a completely different living habit from Luochuan Water Town on this side of the river.

Zhuang Youjie no longer talked about the psychological shadow of his childhood with Liang Yuanque, but pointed to the water village that was getting closer and closer and asked, "Is this another town?" ”

Liang Yuanque thought about it, and it seemed that he couldn't find a suitable answer,

"How can I tell you, the village does not belong to Luochuanshui Town, but the other side is not exactly another town."

Zhuang Youjie was completely confused by him, "No, what are you talking about?" ”

"Well, forget it, you'll understand when you get to the shore."

As he spoke, the boatman propped up the boat to the shore, and he pressed his oars against the shore and controlled the boat to stop, "Two, it's here." ”

Liang Yuanque stood up, took a big stride, and went ashore neatly.

Zhuang Youjie saw that he was walking so easily, and he gritted his teeth and stood up slowly, but he would not stabilize his balance on the boat, he staggered to his feet, and immediately stepped on the boat, which frightened him and grabbed the boatman next to him and didn't dare to move.

Seeing him like this, Liang Yuanque squatted down on the shore, clapped his hands and stretched out his arms at him, "Do you want to hug him?" ”

"That's not good...... Zhuang Youjie just wanted to refuse, but he saw a circle of water ripples under the boat, and the courage he had just mustered disappeared in an instant, so he changed his words, "Then help me." ”

Liang Yuanque grabbed him and carefully helped him ashore, Young Master Zhuang breathed a long sigh of relief the moment he stepped on the land, it had been a long time since he was so greedy for the feeling of being down-to-earth.

The distribution of buildings on this side of the shore is very strange, the stockade hidden in the water vapor has now revealed its complete face in front of them, it is even bigger than what Zhuang Youjie saw and thought, the wooden buildings are intricately arranged, close to each other, and there are many low small buildings with new attics, so as to form such a huge wooden building.

In the depths of the wooden building, they could hardly see the end with the naked eye, and they could imagine that there would be more wooden buildings inside.

It was a city, a city made of wood.

About three meters away in front of the walled city, there is a deep white line, and the large ground on this side of the white line is empty, and there is only an elderly uncle, pushing a wonton cart to cook wontons.

It's really strange, the buildings in this walled city are densely packed and want to be built to the sky, why don't you build a building on the open space in front of you?

After the boatman sent them ashore, he propped up the pulp and prepared to leave, and before leaving, he also instructed Liang Yuanque,

"You remember, you must not enter the stockade in front of you."

Liang Yuanque nodded, revealing a pure smile, "Don't worry, I look like a troublemaker!" ”

After the boatman left, Liang Yuanque pulled Zhuang Youjie to sit down in front of the wonton stall, and opened his mouth to ask the uncle for two bowls of wontons.

Zhuang Youjie was very curious, "You said you were going to the other side to investigate the case, but we didn't enter the village, so what should we investigate?" ”

After that, he looked at the uncle who was staring intently at the wonton pot, and lowered his voice, "Do you want to check this uncle who bought wontons?" ”

Anyway, outside the stockade, he didn't see a second person besides them.

"Of course I want to check the stockade, how can you believe it if you fool the boatman?" Liang Yuanque said as he took the wonton bowl handed over by the uncle, "Not long ago, a young man from other places came to this village, and then he died mysteriously, and his family was unwilling to let him die so inexplicably, so they entrusted me to investigate it." ”

Dead? This time it's a homicide.

Zhuang Youjie asked him, "How did the deceased die?" Killed? ”

"Drowning in the water," Liang Yuanque said the cause of death as he ate the wonton, "It's the river we just crossed, and we haven't decided whether it was suicide or murder yet." ”

Zhuang Youjie listened to his words and looked up at the river he had just crossed, the water was still very calm, and only when the evening breeze blew through would it bring a small ripple.

Liang Yuanque put down the spoon in his hand, took out a photo from his backpack, and threw it to Zhuang Youjie on the side.

"Well, this is the dead."

Zhuang Youjie was defenseless, picked it up and looked at it, and the black-and-white photo between them showed a soaked corpse, placed on the stone road on the shore, the whole face was swollen and white, and the inside of the eye sockets had rotted into a mess.

This was the first time he had faced a dead body, and although it was a photo, the dead appearance of the corpse was so disgusting that he immediately threw the photo out.

"Hey, what are you doing!" Liang Yuanque hurriedly picked up the photo that floated to the ground, "I bought this with money, you cherish it!" ”