In the book, I was fed by my sister

South of the city, South Lane.

The moon had risen, but Zhang Gaopeng had not returned yet. In Zhang's house, Zhang's mother looked out the door anxiously, worried about her son. She looked at Yunniang beside her and said with concern: "Go back to your room and rest. You are still in confinement and can't stand being tired."

Yunniang felt warm in her heart as she listened to her mother-in-law's instructions, but she still couldn't help but stick her head out and look at the entrance of the alley.

At this moment, a familiar figure appeared at the entrance of the alley.

"Mother, look! That figure looks like an official." Yunniang said happily.

Zhang Gaopeng dragged his tired body. After patrolling East City today, he was planning to go to the city center to buy bean paste cakes. But just as he was about to leave, he was called to the east city.

"Gao Peng, why are you so late today?"

Zhang Gaopeng looked at his lovely wife and his caring mother, and his tired mood was relieved. He smiled and said, "Your son, I encountered a particularly bizarre and big case today, so I was delayed a little."

Yunniang had been bored in her room all day, and when she heard something new, she immediately became interested. She asked curiously, "Why is it so strange? Tell me more about it."

Zhang's mother felt relieved when she heard her son's relaxed tone. She joked, "Why do you like to hear such horrifying things? I'll go cook a bowl of noodles for Gao Peng. He must be starving. Ah Yun, do you want to eat something too?"

Yunniang looked at her mother-in-law gratefully and shook her head gently: "Mother, I don't want to eat anymore."

Zhang Gaopeng took off his hat and sword and sat down at the table: "I was notified to go there today at short notice. This is the first time I have seen such a horrible and strange death." He paused, as if recalling the scene.

Yunniang handed over a glass of water. After Zhang Gaopeng drank it, he continued, "Both were strangled to death, but the force points were strange. Didn't I tell you before? The rope marks from hanging and the marks from strangulation from behind are different. There is a circle of strangulation marks around his neck, and the force is very even, as if... it was caused by a force that was pulling inwards."

Yunniang was stunned: "That's still really strange."

"What's even stranger is that there are marks of strangulation on all his limbs."

"He didn't struggle? Didn't he scream? The murderer must have gone to so much trouble and made quite a noise."

"You must also find it strange. Several families living next door said that it was very quiet last night, except for a few moments when they heard their own dog barking a few times."

"Were the two of them knocked unconscious?"

"The coroner hasn't come up with a result yet, but I don't think it's true. If he was knocked unconscious, would you have to go through so much trouble to tie him up and strangle him? Just use a knife, it would be faster."

"Tsk tsk, I guess it was done by several big men. One person can't handle it without the help of two men. They strangled the man to death, probably to vent their anger. I guess there are a lot of suspicious points at the scene, such as the footprints of multiple men?"

"Hey, my lady, I told you this case is weird. There are no signs of climbing over the wall, only three strange things."

"what?"

"Rotten mushrooms, withered vines, and a child's footprint on the windowsill."

"Child's footprints?" Yun Niang touched her cold arm, "It's a bit mysterious."

At this time, Zhang's mother came in with a bowl of hot noodles. "You, don't scare Yun Niang. The noodles are ready, eat them quickly."

At night, after Grandma Gu fell into a deep sleep, Song Li searched the village, but still could not find Li Erwan and his companions. She decided to look for Li Dongya again.

Wu Dongmei's funeral was very simple, but her family had some objections. In the end, they all compromised and demanded that the three-day vigil must be completed.

Li Dongya sent her younger brothers and sisters to sleep, and she stayed alone in the mourning hall. The candlelight in front of the mourning hall flickered, and suddenly a figure appeared.

"You..." Li Dongya quickly covered his mouth.

"Where are the three men?" Song Li's childish and cold voice rang out in front of the mourning hall, adding a hint of coolness to the hot night.

Three men? Li Dongya immediately thought that they must be his uncles. What did Song Li want to do with them? Was he planning to... Li Dongya couldn't help but feel terrified when he thought of this. How much hatred did this kid have for them that he was so cruel as to want to kill them all one by one.

"Is it because of your sister?"

"you know?"

"I... I just heard a little bit from the side." Li Dongya quickly removed himself, "You can't kill people again, at least not with the same method."

"Oh?"

"People in this village believe in ghosts and gods. If this happens one after another, they might call a fortune teller, and then you will be discovered. You want you and your sister to live a peaceful life, right?" Li Dongya was testing. Could it be that this child was possessed by a monster from the mountains?

But instead of living a life of wealth and glory, he stayed as an ordinary person in the countryside. Is it like what the picture book says, "Don't think about wealth and glory, just stay in the mortal world?"

Song Li was silent. She was still unfamiliar with the world. What was a ghost? What was a witch? Her secret being exposed would indeed disturb her sister's current life. She was even more worried that her sister would be afraid of her.

Seeing that the person was silent, Li Dongya continued: "I will help you kill, I will be your knife." She could guess that Song Li wanted to kill her. If she was very powerful but her secret was discovered, the first thought would definitely be to silence her, so she might as well give it her all and fight for a way out.

Song Li looked at Li Dongya, whose eyes were full of piety and fear.

After a while, Song Li said, "You are very smart."

I know that only by exchanging bigger secrets can I give the other party a chance to breathe.

"But you are weak." Song Li could see new and old wounds on her exposed arms, from being whipped with a cane. There were even round burns on the back of her hands, like the dry tobacco smoked by the men.

Someone who couldn't even escape from being beaten now wants to kill someone.

"I will use the same method they used to frame your sister."

Hearing this, Song Li became interested. She actually liked the tit-for-tat approach.

"I'll give you this opportunity, but I don't like to wait too long."

"And I have more than one way to kill people." There are so many plants that can help her kill people, such as the inconspicuous purple-flowered myrtle among the weeds in the field.

When Song Li returned home covered in dew, Grandma Gu was still sleeping. She took off her coat and prepared to find a new one, but found that she had no clean clothes to change into, so she hung her clothes on the head of the bed and got into bed.

When Li Wanshu opened the door early in the morning, he saw Li Dongya kneeling at the door of his house, with a group of Wu Dongmei's family members standing behind him.

It turned out that Li Dongya had told his uncle early in the morning that his mother's death was suspicious. After his father's death, his father went to the county town to attend the market. It was definitely not the death of love as his uncles and aunts said.

Wu Guangda listened to what his niece said and agreed with her. His sister was weak and timid, and who would believe a peasant woman in her forties who abandoned her children to commit suicide for love like the officials and young ladies in the storybooks? But when they were notified and rushed to Lihua Village, his sister had already been sealed in the coffin and buried.

The niece also said that the money collected at her father's funeral was locked in a cabinet by Wu Dongmei, and now it is empty. This further confirmed Wu Guangda's idea: Li Erwan was using money to kill people.

"I heard my uncle say that he would give the money to the people in the city, saying that if things were done well, there would be more money to share."

Li Dongya spoke vaguely, but Li Wanshu understood it clearly. Isn't that how Song Ran was put in?

With someone coming forward to report the incident, Li Wanshu had a reason to take action. He called on a few young people working in the village and Li Dongya and others to go and capture Li Erwan and his two companions.

Li Erwan and his two companions went to the city to look for Yang Wen early in the morning, but they got the news that Yang Wen had died, and the lawyer refused to see them. Now, all the money they invested was wasted. Thinking that Wu Dongmei's family had not left yet, the three hurried back, at least to get back the money for Wu Dongmei's coffin.

The two groups met halfway.

Before Li Erwan could open his mouth, he heard the village chief Li Wanshu say, "Catch all three of them and tie them up at the hall."