Xie Beichen and Gu Tianqi checked the scene and did not disturb Wenxuan and the others from continuing their investigation. They just said hello and left.

On the way back, Gu Tianqi drove.

I don’t know if it was fate, but I met Du Qingshan who was walking back halfway.

However, Du Qingshan’s current condition doesn’t seem to be suitable for getting in the car.

He was carrying two hens that looked like they had just been slaughtered, and the backpack on his back was also stuffed full of household items that looked like they had just been bought from the supply and marketing cooperative.

Gu Tianqi slowed down the car and slid closer to Du Qingshan.

"Hey, Comrade Du, get in the car, I'll give you a ride!"

Du Qingshan was not surprised to see Gu Tianqi and Xie Beichen again. He stopped, turned around and looked at the two people in the car with a polite smile, and then said, "Let's not do it."

As he spoke, Du Qingshan raised the two chickens in his hands and shook them, and then continued: "It's bloody, it's not good to dirty your car."

"It's okay. We actually bought three live chickens today just like you did. We just didn't kill them yet! Just put them in the trunk."

Gu Tianqi's enthusiasm made Du Qingshan completely overwhelmed.

He didn't even have time to resist again before Gu Tianqi got out of the car, took the two live chickens from his hands and put them in the trunk.

Du Qingshan was helpless upon seeing this, and finally he could only obediently take off the backpack on his back and put it in the trunk. Then, he calmly sat in the back seat of the car, just like when he came to the county town.

"By the way, where did Comrade Du buy the live chicken? It looks pretty good. He even took care of the butchering."

While starting the car, Gu Tianqi casually asked Du Qingshan behind him.

"I went to the black market. My mother was sick and needed to eat something nutritious." Du Qingshan answered very calmly. His explanation for the trip was very orderly and there was nothing wrong with it.

"Then why did you kill both?" Gu Tianqi was puzzled and asked casually, "In this weather, if you kill both and take them back, they won't stay there and will go bad easily. That would be such a waste."

"It wasn't explained clearly at the time, so they just killed everyone who helped."

Du Qingshan was slightly stunned, obviously not expecting Gu Tianqi to ask such tricky and endless questions.

So when he answered, it was obviously a little slower than the previous one.

Fortunately, Gu Tianqi didn't say much, but kept nagging and admonishing: "Do you have a well at home? If not, wash it clean, put it in a basket and hang it in the well!

The temperature there is lower, so it is less likely to go bad.”

"Thank you. I didn't expect Comrade Gu to know so much."

Du Qingshan has never been the kind of person who would sit and wait for death.

So after finding an opportunity, counterattack becomes an instinctive reflex.

"Hey, that's nothing. It's just that the more places I go, the more things I know." Gu Tianqi didn't think there was anything wrong with this reminder, and he still chatted with Du Qingshan with a smile.

At this point, he suddenly changed the subject and turned his head to glance at Du Qingshan through the rearview mirror: "By the way, did you hear any news in the county town just now?"

"information?"

Du Qingshan blinked, looked at Gu Tianqi in the rearview mirror, and was silent for a while before speaking: "I heard that something happened, but I don't know the details.

Looks like someone died?"

"The entire family of seven of Ma Desheng from the Revolutionary Committee was wiped out." This time it was Xie Beichen who spoke. He turned back and glanced at Du Qingshan. As he expected, there was no sign of panic or shock on Du Qingshan's face.

He smiled and continued, "Comrade Du doesn't seem surprised or shocked?"

"To be honest, most people who have served in the military are indifferent to these things." Du Qingshan raised his eyes, looked at Xie Beichen and replied calmly: "There are more people who died on the battlefield than this."

"But this is not a battlefield. In less than half a month, two cases of family annihilation have occurred in Hongqi County."

Xie Beichen's eyes were always on Du Qingshan's face, so he did not ignore even the slightest change on his face.

His words were not fast, but they carried a sense of oppression that could not be ignored: "Comrade Du, do you have any opinions?"

"I can't say anything about this."

Du Qingshan smiled and rejected the topic without even thinking about it: "After all, I haven't been to the scene, nor have I learned about the relevant information of the incident.

It is too careless to speak casually. "

"Well, there's nothing else to do in the car anyway, so let's chat."

Gu Tianqi seemed to be very open-minded, and his timely interruption extinguished the increasingly stagnant atmosphere in the car.

"There's a phrase called, brainstorming!"

"I think there may be some connection between these two cases." Du Qingshan seemed to realize that he could not escape this time, so he followed suit and analyzed a few sentences.

Actually, there is not much difference between saying this and not saying it.

"Comrade Du just said that he had been to the battlefield when he was in the army?" Xie Beichen turned around, glanced at Du Qingshan sitting in the back seat of the car, and changed the subject again.

This was not the first time Du Qingshan had dealt with Xie Beichen and the others, so he was already accustomed to their way of chatting and did not refuse to answer this question.

"Well, our military region participated in the battle in the south where the third brother was taught a lesson."

Looking at Xie Beichen, Du Qingshan answered very easily: "I was a scout at the front line, so after seeing many scenes, I have long been numb to such things.

However, in such a short period of time and in such a small area, two cases of family murders occurred.

It’s really tricky.”

"Were those two chickens at the back killed for you by someone else?" Xie Beichen flipped a page of the information in his hand without raising his head, but the topic did not end.

It's just that the jump is a bit too big, and most people may not be able to catch it.

"Yeah." Du Qingshan nodded and did not deny it, but he did not forget to add: "But the other party might have been a little nervous at the time. After all, it's a black market transaction, and you should know about it.

So when we were fighting, a chicken ran away and I had to catch it and finish it off."

He could roughly guess what Xie Beichen was going to ask. He raised his hand and sniffed his sleeve in a serious manner. Then he looked up at Xie Beichen helplessly and smiled bitterly: "It smells very bloody. Sorry."

"Comrade Du has been to the battlefield. Do you think there is a big difference between the taste of human blood and chicken blood?" Xie Beichen stuffed the information in his hand back into the file bag and turned to look at Du Qingshan again.

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