Wu Gang and Wu Mingzhi, the little overlords who estimated that the old man had fallen asleep at night, quietly slipped into the yard, Wu Gang kicked the big black dog that pounced more than a foot away, fell to the ground and no longer made a sound, mistakenly thought that the big black dog was dead, so he pried open the door and killed the old man who was awakened by the barking of the big black dog, and the two carried the body overnight and hid it in the deep mountains behind the village.

Without the slightest delay, he left the small mountain village in the dark, and went to other places to pretend to wander around for a few days, and returned to Wujiabao on the evening of the 28th of the lunar month for the New Year.

Little Overlord Wu Gang and Wu Mingzhi never thought that they were kicked to the ground, and the big black dog that was silent at that time did not die, and after waking up in the morning, while barking wildly, they followed the breath of the old man and quickly found the body hidden by the two in the mountains.

In the evening, the old man's body had been carried back to the village by the villagers, knowing that the old man was killed, but he couldn't find the murderer for a while, and it was the end of the year, and the villagers were afraid of the government, so they didn't choose to report to the official.

Just when the funeral was held under the auspices of the old man's son, Liu Xianli of Liulin Fort happened to find here.

There was no need to inquire carefully, just from the small talk of the villagers, Liu Xianli felt that things were far from that simple.

A thought popped into my head:

"Could it be Wu Zheng who did it?"

Although he thought that the old man was very likely to be killed, he said that he would never think that it was the Wu family disciple of Wu Jiabao who did it, so he first thought of Wu Zheng.

Even if he had doubts in his heart and suspected why Wu Zheng was still wandering around here after more than four months, Liu Xianli still carefully inquired about the villagers, and saw that no one saw a stranger appear, especially a half-grown child, Liu Xianli immediately led someone to quickly launch a search nearby.

When the little overlord Wu Gang and Wu Mingzhi returned to Wujiabao, they immediately went to the patriarch Wu Youren to report to the patriarch Wu Youren about the process of going to Shannan to find Wu Zheng.

In addition, Wu Gan in the private school proposed that he would go out again after the next year and would no longer go to the private school to teach, so Wu Youren's mind was mostly on looking for a new teacher, after all, there are dozens of children in the clan who are studying, and it is related to the future of the Wu family in Wujiabao, and Wu Youren certainly does not dare to slack off.

But he commanded them, saying,

"After the fifteenth and sixteenth morning, we will gather in the clan. ”

didn't ask too much about the little overlord Wu Gang and Wu Mingzhi, and sent the two away.

Regarding Wu Gan's sudden proposal to go on a long trip after the New Year, not only Wu Youren did not expect it, but no one in the clan thought of it, including Wu Jizong and Wu Jixue.

Wu Gan is Wu Jiabao that Wu Lipeng returned to the winter before he returned with Wu Zheng's mother. Since his twenty-two-year-old son Wu Lijun left home when he was three years old, he has been away alone for 18 years. In the spring of the second year after returning, he was invited by the clan to be a private school teacher, and it has been 14 years since then.

However, there are two points that the Wu family still has some doubts. The first is what Wu Gan has done in the eighteen years he has been away. Different from the experience of other martial arts children of the Wu family, Wu Gan has never studied martial arts in Wujiabao, and he was sent to a private school by his family since he was a child. So most of the clansmen thought that Wu Gan was going out to study. However, after coming back, Wu Gan was very secretive about the eighteen years of being away and never mentioned it to anyone. Even his wife and children don't know it.

In addition, after coming back, Wu Gan has made great progress in his ability to learn, which is by no means comparable to when he traveled away from home, but he has never heard him say that he wants to participate in the county examination again to get a show, let alone participate in the township examination to get a lifter.

Occasionally, Wu Youren, the patriarch of the same generation, also tested Wu Gan:

"Why don't you try it, sir, on talent and learning, sir. will be able to go to high school." ”

"The patriarch has lifted me up. Let's not talk about learning or not, Wu Gan is already forty or fifty years old, even if he wins, what can he do? Therefore, I don't have that idea for a long time. ”

Naturally, this time, when Wu Gan proposed to go on a long trip after the next year, Wu Youren also persuaded him.

"Sir, too, is fifty-five, why do you have to go out through the wind and rain and suffer that sin?"

"Patriarch, since I came back, this stay has been fourteen years. How many fourteen years can there be in life? So I thought to myself, while my legs and feet are still good, if I don't go out for a walk, where will I have a chance in the future?"

Wu Gan is also telling the truth.

"What about the sister-in-law and children at home, don't worry, sir?"

"What's not to worry about? The child is still filial and sensible, and the grandson is not small, as long as he can't delay coming back to attend the wedding of the eldest grandson, he has no regrets in this life. ”

Since Wu Gan has made up his mind, Wu Youren is not easy to persuade again, so the top priority is to quickly find a teacher who can replace Wu Gan.

Although on the night of August 15, the ancestral ancestral hall was burned down by a fire led by Liu Chaofeng, but with the financial resources of the Wu family, it took less than two months to build it on the original site as it was.

On the day of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, as usual, the leading figures of the clan gather in the ancestral hall to worship the ancestors and accompany them to observe the new year in front of the ancestral tablets.

Therefore, Wu Jizong, Wu Jixue, Wu Youren, Wu Liwei, Wu Chun, and Wu Lishan got together again.

"How's Tomohito's injury?"

"Third uncle, uncle, don't worry, it's no big deal. ”

"Speaking of which, this battle with the Liu family is lost by our Wu family. ”

"The third grandfather doesn't say that, it's just that he didn't burn down the ancestral hall of the Liu family, if you talk about the injured disciples, the Liu family has three or five more than us. ”

Wu Chun was a little proud.

"What do you know, can a dozen or so more of them withstand the shame of the ancestral hall being burned?"

Wu Chun, who was choked back by Wu Jixue's words, didn't speak again for a long time.

"Where did the little wild seed hide, why did so many people turn over the hundreds of miles in a radius and didn't find the slightest trace?"

Now that Wu Lishan has married Xie Miaoying home, he can be regarded as a big man in the family, but he still speaks in that tone.

After Wu Lishan finished speaking, he saw Wu Jizong tapping the table with his right index finger at will, and said in a deep voice:

According to the news from Liulinbao, on the evening of the 26th day of the lunar month, Liu Xianli encountered a strange thing in a village with only a few dozen families in Shannan. ”

Wu Jizong's words immediately made everyone's ears pricked up.

It is said that when Liu Xianli arrived, the people in the small village were doing funerals. The deceased was an elderly man of nearly 70 years old, and his home was at the mouth of the village by the river, which went down from Nanshan. Moreover, the deceased did not die of natural causes, but were clearly killed. After being killed, the body was hidden in the mountains behind the village. If it weren't for the big black dog in the family who woke up again, I'm afraid it wouldn't have been discovered so quickly. ”

After Wu Jizong finished speaking, everyone in the room was silent for a while, and Wu Jixue asked lightly:

"What does the third brother mean that someone wants to kill someone?"

"Yes, Liu Xianli analyzed it like this, so he led people to search around the small village for several days. Still, nothing was found. ”

I thought that Wu Jizong would have nothing to do here, but Wu Lishan was just about to interject:

"Third grandfather,......。 ”

I saw Wu Jizong wave his hand and continued:

"Until the day before yesterday, when Liu Xianli searched all the way to Xiangyang Town, he overheard from the mouths of several women that in mid-August, the Sui family in Xiangyang Town invited a scholar from the north, and he happened to be thirteen years old. ”

"What's your name?"

Wu Chun almost blurted out when he heard this.

Wu Chun, who consciously lost his words, was just about to apologize, but he didn't want Wu Jizong to blame him, but went on to explain:

"Outsiders don't know, and the Sui family moved the family to Linshan Mansion, and the second son of the Sui family celebrated the New Year, so Liu Xianli didn't inquire clearly. ”

"Third uncle, why didn't Liu Xianli chase him to Linshan City and continue to search?"

Wu Jizong looked at Wu Youren and shook his head, meaning that he didn't know either.

The room fell silent again, and after a long time, Wu Jixue said:

"If the scholar invited by the Sui family in Xiangyang Town is really Wu Zheng, the time and age are also right. It's just that what does it have to do with the killing of the old man in the small mountain village just now?"

"Has the boss forgotten that Wu Chun was disturbed when he went to Houpo Village to arrest Wu Zheng?"

"The third brother is saying that there are really traitors in the clan?"

"I can't be wrong, last time I suspected that it was the children of the clan, but I couldn't think of anyone with such good skills for a while. Next, he was busy competing with the Liu family, searching for Wu Zheng, and gradually put down the matter. Now it seems necessary to find out the traitor first. ”

"Third grandfather, grandfather, uncle, how to find it? If you can trust me, leave it to me. ”

Wu Liwei, who had not interjected, was the first to speak.

"If there was a way, wouldn't it have been found sooner? ”

Wu Jizong's eyes stayed on Wu Youren and looked at him thoughtfully for a while.

"What does the third uncle mean is that the traitor appeared among the disciples near the small mountain village on the twenty-fifth and sixth days of the lunar month?"

Wu Jizong nodded, then picked up the wine glass on the table and tilted his head down.

At this point, Wu Lishan asked later:

"In other words, it was the traitor who first learned Wu Zheng's whereabouts from the old man who was killed?"

No one paid attention to Wu Lishan, Wu Youren turned his head and asked Wu Chun:

"You should know best. ”

Wu Chun lowered his head and thought for a while, and said to everyone:

"That small village should be called Gushantun, and there are less than 40 families in total. At that time, there should have been three groups, a total of seven people were sent to the vicinity of the backing mountain. ”

"Who are they?"

"One is Wu Youcong and Wu Meng, one is Wu Youguang, Wu Fan, Wu Yi, and then Wu Gang and Wu Mingzhi. ”

Hearing this, everyone went through the seven names that Wu Chun had just read out in their minds.

"Wu Youcong is unlikely. ”

Wu Youren first excluded Wu Youcong, and Wu Jizong and Wu Jixue also nodded in agreement.

"Well, without alarming them, let's check all seven of them quietly. Especially Wu Gang, Wu Meng, Wu Fan and Wu Yi. ”

Wu Jizong's final decision, others naturally understand the truth.

However, there were also doubts, so Wu Chun thought about it and asked:

"Third grandfather, we all know that Wu Zheng Youen and Wu Gang are all four. It's just that if the person who appeared in Houpo Village was the same person who killed people in Gushantun, then he must not be one of Wu Gang's four. ”

"Nobody said it, it had to be the same person. ”

After hearing Wu Jixue's faint voice, Wu Chun closed his mouth.