"Got it, mother."

Cai Hongxia turned her head, smiled sweetly at her mother-in-law, and smiled out of two pear vortices, which were very good-looking.

Qiu Chuandong also raised the shovel in his hand towards his mother, signaling to reassure his mother.

Qiu's mother smiled kindly and followed them to the front of the courtyard.

Originally, in the countryside, after the courtyard door was opened in the morning, it would not be closed until the evening.

But because in the past few years, there have always been villagers who have disappeared for no reason, and people in various villages are afraid. Whether it's day or night, the gate of the courtyard will be bolted to death.

Qiu Chuandong pulled the latch open and opened the courtyard door again.

As soon as they walked out and Qiu's mother was about to reclose the door, she saw a black and thin, sturdy, but short man coming over to greet them.

"May I ask if this is Cai Hongxia's home?" The man asked.

Cai Hongxia nodded when she heard this, and asked suspiciously: "What are you looking for me to do?" ”

"Oh, you're Cai Hongxia? There's a baggage for you. I am the postman who is responsible for delivering letters and burdens in villages, towns and counties. You press a mudra, and I'll go back. ”

As he spoke, he stuffed a small burden to Cai Hongxia, then took out a box of ink clay and a piece of paper full of words, and asked Cai Hongxia to press her handprint.

Cai Hongxia pressed it. By the way, he asked, "This big brother, can I ask where this burden came from and mailed it to me?" ”

When the man heard this, he pointed to a small note posted on the small baggage, and replied: "It is written on it, and it was sent by Cai Daquan of Jinshi Village." ”

With that, the man put away the note, turned and left.

Watching him walk away, Qiu Chuandong muttered a little strangely: "How did this postman walk with his feet?" ”

Cai Hongxia, who received the burden from her father, said nonchalantly: "Maybe the horses are tired?" Or sick? Whatever. Come, see what my father has sent me? ”

Cai Hongxia was also born in Pengze County, but she married from Jinshi Village to Yanghua Village, which are these two counties, and the distance between these two villages is a bit far.

The two families don't move around very often unless they have to.

Sometimes, I ask the villagers to help me bring something to each other, but this is the first time I have sent a burden. Because the cost is too expensive.

Cai Hongxia was very curious about what made her father willing to spend "unjust money" to find a postman.

The burden is not big, and it is tied very tightly and tightly.

Cai Hongxia couldn't solve it with a lot of effort, and in the end it was Qiu Chuandong who helped.

Qiu Chuandong laughed at her for being squeamish, and at the same time untied the burden.

There was only one pair of shoes in the baggage.

No, to be precise: there is only one shoe that is made, and the other, which is only half done, and the needle and thread are still attached to it.

Dust fell on both shoes.

Cai Hongxia patted it, picked up the unfinished shoe, thought about it and thought about it, but didn't understand what was going on.

"San Lang, do you think this is what my father wants me to do? But what about my aunt? This is obviously my mother's stitches, look at this size, and it is also my father's shoes, why is it only half made? ”

Qiu Chuandong also felt strange.

He scratched his head, shook his head, and asked his mother.

"A-Niang, do you know what this means?"

But Qiu's mother was holding on to the door frame and was distracted.

Hearing her third son call her, Qiu's mother came back to her senses. But his face was very ugly.

She replied with some difficulty: "Hongxia, don't worry. You listen to your mother-in-law tell you. The shoe is dusty, and one shoe is only half made, which means that your mother is sick. ”

"Huh?"

When Cai Hongxia heard this, she immediately panicked: "How, why did you get sick?" What disease? Does it matter? ”

"Don't panic yet,"

Qiu's mother stepped forward, held her arms, and advised, "Go back to the house first to pack some things, and then bring some money, and let Chuandong accompany you back to have a look." ”

"Uh-huh."

Cai Hongxia, who was frightened by this news, responded one after another and ran back to the house.

He didn't take anything, but he found the two hundred copper coins he had saved, put them in the baggage of his two shoes, and ran out again.

This burden is to be brought back according to common sense. When my mother recovers from her illness, she will continue to finish the shoes, so that there will be a good meaning.

Hongxia, who was in a hurry, was pulled by her mother-in-law.

Qiu Mu gave her half a penny and broken silver, and then told her to slow down on the road. asked Chuandong to catch the only old hen in the family that could lay eggs, and then let the two leave.

The young couple hurried to Jinshi Village.

In order to be fast, I didn't take the official road, so I took the mountain road.

On rainy days, the road was slippery and the mountain road was rugged, and even the two of them who were used to walking the mountain road had to slow down a little.

There is a gap between the two mountains ahead.

He went down from one side of the mountain and climbed up from the other.

With such a deep V-shape, the mountain road is even steeper.

Qiu Chuandong went down first, and then held the old hen in one hand and his daughter-in-law in the other. Slowly step on the foot pit dug out of the mountain road, and slide to the next foot pit.

The distance between the two pits is nearly a meter away.

At this time, when the anxious Cai Hongxia was in the slippery pit, her feet in the pit did not stand firmly, and the whole person slipped down, and by the way, Qiu Chuandong was knocked down.

Both slid to the bottom of the V-shape.

It's okay, not too high.

But both of them suddenly felt a little dizzy.

I slipped down and didn't hit anything hard, so why did I get dizzy?

Cai Hongxia shook her head violently, and then hugged Qiu Chuandong's head, wanting to see how he was.

Suddenly.

Cai Hongxia's eyes widened suddenly, and a figure appeared behind Qiu Chuandong.

The man was still holding something high in his hand, and he smashed it towards Qiu Chuandong's head......

"Ahh

The terrible screams pierced the silence of the mountain crevices, and gradually disappeared into the rustling sound of rain.

……

And Di Ying, who was searching for the body by the river, was stopping to look at the river.

When the murderer severed the head of the deceased from his body, did he cut off only the head, or did the whole body have been dismembered?

The separation marks on the neck are very messy, indicating that the murderer does not know how to decompose. It's just hard and nonsense.

It is very likely, then, that it is only necessary to cut off the head of the deceased.

Because of what?

Because the corpse is too heavy to take away?

Because if the head of the dead is destroyed, no one will find out who the dead are. Can the corpse be disposed of at will?

Then, there is a high probability that the corpse was not thrown into the river.

According to the scarf, it can basically be judged that there is only one murderer.

And a person who has a hatred for the dead. Otherwise, the deceased's face will not be smashed with a blunt object.

However, there is another possibility: it is possible that the murderer was really using some 'head lowering technique', but failed, and simply separated the head and body of the deceased by himself.

Di Ying could only speculate a little.

There are no bodies, and there are too few clues.

He beckoned to the guards: "Go to the towns and villages and find out who knows witchcraft, or witch doctors, or who are engaged in gods and ghosts."

Ask them if they know what the hell is going on with the 'head down'? but whoever knows, bring it back. ”