The village chief began to tell what had happened, and the two were immediately attracted to it and listened attentively.

The village chief took a sip of tea and began to say: "Almost half a month ago, it was the beginning of the month, and there was a strong wind in the sky, and that night, a family in our village lost a chicken!"

After hearing this, Su Du was a little disappointed, so he said, "It's just that I lost a chicken, and it's not a strange thing." ”

The village chief said excitedly: "You don't know, there has never been a theft in our Xinghua Village, and I have investigated it for a long time that day, but I can't find out why." ”

Liu Rushi said: "Could it be that some wild beast will take it? such as a weasel or an eagle." ”

"Our village has always been peaceful, and there are no wild beasts," the chief continued, "but this is not the end of it, for after that day, a few days later, another family lost a sheep!"

"Lost sheep?" Su Du was a little puzzled, "It should be the same prisoner, right?"

"I don't know this, I didn't find any traces, the fence was fine, and the sheep disappeared out of thin air. The village chief said angrily.

After hearing this, Liu Rushi then asked: "If this development continues, won't you lose the cow next?"

The village chief replied, "This girl and we have thought of a place, and after losing the sheep, we will take good care of all the cattle, after all, there are few cattle in the village, and we have not lost them when we have them together." ”

"Isn't that the matter settled?" asked Su Dui after taking a sip of tea.

"The cow is not lost," the village chief also took a sip of tea, and then said slowly, "The man has lost ......"

"Uh...... Shame?" Su Duan was a little puzzled for a moment, "I don't know if the shame that the village chief said is because of these things that he has lost face as the village chief, or is someone really missing?"

"Alas, what did you young man say, how could I care about what others thought of me when I was so old!" The village chief was about to say something, and after looking at Xiao Xing playing in the yard, he looked a little worried, so he said to Xiao Xing, "Xiao Xingzi, go and find your mother, it's not too early, don't work, there is a guest at home, hurry up and call her back to cook!"

After Xiao Xing answered, she led the little yellow dog and jumped away. Seeing that Xiao Xing was gone, the village chief continued: "What I said is embarrassing, it is really that someone is missing. Just a few days ago, the young man in the village disappeared for some reason, and now there are three fewer people, one of them is Xiao Xing's father, that is, my son-in-law, I am afraid that Xiao Xing will cry after knowing it, so I lied to her that her father was out and had something to do, and he would come back in a few days, and it was the third day now. ”

After hearing this, Liu Rushi asked, "Then these people who disappeared have no warning and no clues?"

"Yes! With us mountain villagers, we can't find out why, and even the government won't care about a poor country like us. The village chief complained again and again.

But Su Dui's attention was not here, he asked, "Since you say it's your son-in-law, then Xiaoxing is your grandson?"

"My son-in-law is from a wealthy family, and his surname has been changed, so of course Xiaoxing should be counted as my own granddaughter!" explained the village chief.

"Oh, that's it......" Su Du couldn't help but be a little curious when he heard about his son-in-law for the first time, but curiosity is curiosity, and now he should find out a series of disappearances as soon as possible.

Su Du thought for a moment and said, "So many cases, have you found anything special or commonal?"

Liu Rushi also continued: "For example, if the date of the case occurred, what is so special?"

"Let me think about it......" The village chief put down his teacup and fell into deep thought, and suddenly a flash of inspiration seemed to have found something, "Hey!

As if he had discovered something, the village chief said loudly: "I have really discovered something unusual when you remind me like this! Every time before and after the crime, there is an interval of three days!"

"What!" Liu Rushi was a little surprised when she heard this, "Village Chief, you just said that Xiao Xing's father has been missing for three days, so that means ......"

"That's right!" Su Du also said, "I will definitely be embarrassed tonight! Maybe it's more than just people ...... lost."

When the village chief heard the analysis of the two, he was immediately shocked: "My God! I have to quickly inform the people in the village and let them take more precautions!"

After saying that, the village chief got up and ran outside the house, Su Du grabbed him and said, "Village chief, you wait first!"

"Ouch, what are you waiting for, it's going to be dark in a while!" said the village chief, his face very anxious.

"Now is a good opportunity to catch that thief, if you tell everyone now, wouldn't it be the same as telling that thief?!" Su Du hurriedly explained to the village chief.

The village chief thought about it for a while, and felt that it was reasonable, so he said: "Young man, you are right, we can't always let him steal it, and we can't hide from the fifteenth year of the first year, so we might as well take this opportunity to catch that villain......!"

Su Du pulled the village chief back to the table, sat down and said, "The missing people in the past few days are all young and strong young men, you just need to call them, we are ambushed in the village together tonight, the thief is coming, we will definitely take him down!"

In fact, to ambush and arrest people, Su Dui is enough alone, he only needs to turn into an owl and squat in the treetops, and if there are too many people, it will attract attention. The date of the case was so regular, the thief must have had to do it, so he will do it tonight.

But in fact, Su Dui didn't think that it was a burglar from outside the village at the beginning, and it was impossible for the old and young women and children in the village to kidnap the young and middle-aged, so Su Dui suspected that it was the young and strong young men in the village who committed the crime from the beginning. Su Du planned to keep an eye on them from the beginning, and if there was suddenly no one missing, then he would be a thief.

Su Du thought for a while and said, "Let's not rush first, let's talk about it after dinner, if the notice is early, I'm afraid that the thief will be on guard, not to mention that losing things always happens in the middle of the night, and the sun hasn't set yet." ”

The village chief thought for a moment and said with a smile: "Hey, I'm an old fool, I haven't even eaten a bite of food when the guests come, but I'm only busy with myself." Not to mention, let's invite the two of you to have a good meal tonight, the apricot blossom wine in our village is also famous for its deliciousness. ”

After hearing this, Liu Rushi remembered Su Duan's amount of wine, so she hurriedly shook her hand and said, "Village Chief, I don't think this wine is necessary, we have to catch the thief tonight." ”

"Hey, don't get in the way, our apricot blossom wine is sweet wine, it's not intoxicating to drink!" said the village chief, mentioning his village's specialties, the village chief looked a little proud.

"Then we'll thank the village chief!" Su Du said, feeling hungry in his stomach at this time, even if he had to work, he had to eat first.