When the book-traveling little detective meets the two-faced prince

As soon as he finished speaking, the government officials surrounded all the villagers present.

Li Weisheng turned around, and the three of them could see his face clearly.

Li Weisheng smiled faintly, tidied up his hair, and saluted Lin Lezhi and the other two. He behaved gracefully and stood upright.

Even though he was wearing tattered clothes, his hair was disheveled and his face was covered in dirt, one could still sense his gentle and elegant temperament.

"The situation is urgent. I have no choice but to meet you all like this. I am really embarrassed."

Lin Lezhi and the other two also responded with courtesy.

Lin Lezhi smiled carelessly and said, "A real man should not be fussy about trivial matters. Fortunately, you are here, Brother Li. No, I should call you Lord Li."

"Brother Jiang, there's no need to be so polite. Just call me Brother Li."

As he was speaking, Lin Lezhi looked at the wound on Li Weisheng's wrist, then touched his nose and said a little embarrassedly: "I have to apologize to you too. I accidentally hurt you last night."

Li Weisheng raised his left hand and said with a smile: "Brother Jiang, that's what I'm talking about. It's nothing serious, just some bruises, it will heal in a few days."

The situation was urgent just now and Lin Lezhi didn't have time to take a closer look.

Not only the wrist bone, but also the palm was injured.

The red string on Li Weisheng's hand had become a little untied, and the color of the red beans was not as bright as the fresh ones, and had even turned a little black.

Li Weisheng noticed Lin Lezhi's gaze, turned his palm towards himself, his eyes showed a hint of tenderness and sadness, and the smile at the corner of his mouth also carried a slight sadness.

"Yuqing brought this for me, but I failed to fulfill the promise I made to her."

Ah, I touched upon someone else's sad story.

Lin Lezhi knew that he had offended someone, so he quickly apologized, "I'm sorry for reminding you of something sad."

Li Weisheng just shook his head and said with a smile: "It's okay, I always carry it with me, and I always feel like Yuqing is still with me."

Lin Lezhi accidentally saw Xiao Xu's scrutiny and felt the naked doubt.

Lin Lezhi looked at himself and then at Li Weisheng. He couldn't blame himself for being disliked by Xiao Xu.

Xiao Xu not only has a severe mysophobia, but also can't stand the way he does things. He even threatened to marry him, creating a grudge against him.

But... they both appeared in rags and dishevelled hair, but how come they looked so elegant and gentle while I looked disheveled and shabby?

It's really sad to see the world-famous sly detective Jiang Lian'an in such a miserable state.

Lin Lezhi looked a little embarrassed and asked, "Why does Brother Li look like this?"

Thinking that he had not yet explained his purpose, Li Weisheng bowed again and said, "I am so disheveled just to investigate the case of Yuqing's disappearance."

"Brother Li, do you also think there is something wrong with what happened back then?"

"Exactly."

Li Weisheng walked to the desolate grave, his expression showing a hint of sadness. "When I returned home twelve years ago, the case had already been closed. I was so grief-stricken that I couldn't sleep at night. I wanted to stay with Miss Yuqing for a while longer, but the court had a need and ordered me to take up the post immediately."

"In order to live up to the trust of the court, I will take up the post immediately and go far away. I can only come back for a few days on the anniversary of Yu Qing's death."

Li Weisheng looked at the red beans on his wrist and said, "I have been away from here for ten years, but I still can't forget Yuqing. I have requested to be transferred back to my hometown many times. Finally, I was transferred back to Changluan County a month ago. I want to thoroughly investigate this matter again, but it is an old case. Without sufficient evidence, it cannot be overturned."

"Brother Li, since you are the magistrate of this county, why don't you reveal your identity?"

Li Weisheng looked at Lin Lezhi and said, "I returned to Yulong Village a month ago. Although twelve years have passed, I still remember every detail of the He family. However, I found that all the furniture in the house had been replaced. I wanted to ask someone, but..." Li Weisheng looked at the villagers kneeling on the ground and continued, "The villagers said they knew nothing about what happened back then and avoided me as soon as they saw me."

The villagers who were already kneeling on the ground lowered their heads even lower after hearing this. Even in the darkness, one could see that their bodies were shaking constantly.

"I had no choice but to hide my identity and investigate the matter secretly, but I discovered something even more serious."

Lin Lezhi's eyes darkened, "River God Festival."

"That's right. I didn't want to see the tragedy of that year happen again, so I hid in the river and waited for the opportunity to save the bride. But I happened to see Brother Jiang coming out of the river and walking into Yuqing's house. I thought he might be someone who knew the inside story, so I followed him. It's all my fault that I didn't tell Brother Jiang where I came from and frightened him."

This made Lin Lezhi even more embarrassed, and he quickly waved his hands and said, "No, no, it's not true. I'm making a fuss."

Xiao Xu suddenly interrupted and joked, "I remember someone said that he didn't arrest anyone because he was worried about accidentally hurting the villagers."

Lin Lezhi glared at Xiao Xu, then laughed awkwardly a few times, and said quickly: "Brother Li, please continue talking. Don't pay attention to what those irrelevant people say."

"Afterwards, I saw Brother Jiang rescue the bride and knew that her life would not be in danger, so I did not show up and continued to hide in the dark. Although I don't know why Brother Jiang came to this unknown place tonight, I think what Brother Jiang did must have your reasons, so I immediately dispatched the yamen runners hidden in the neighboring village to come here."

"I see." Lin Lezhi looked at the grave that had just been broken a little and said, "This is not some unknown place. I suspect that the remains of He Yuqing's parents are buried underneath."

"What?" Li Weisheng was shocked. "Didn't He Yuqing's parents leave here? Why are their bodies here?"

Li Weisheng staggered back a few steps and almost fell.

Lin Lezhi quickly supported Li Weisheng. He looked at the villagers kneeling on the ground and said, "We need to ask them why they wanted to kill He Yuqing's parents."

Village Chief Ji raised his head, his face pale with fear, and he threw the crutches aside and crawled over using his hands and feet and said, "It really wasn't us who did it, Magistrate Li, Master Jiang, please investigate!"

After saying that, Village Chief Ji kowtowed several times on the ground, and he didn’t stop even when his forehead was covered with mud.

"Brother Jiang, what did you intend to do when you came here?"

"I originally wanted to open the grave and do an autopsy, but..."

Lin Lezhi looked at Li Weisheng, worried that Li Weisheng would be hurt again because of this incident.

Li Weisheng's eyelashes trembled slightly, he sighed softly, lowered his eyes and said: "I still find it hard to accept it for the time being. I am not as good as Brother Jiang in solving cases. This matter... I will leave it to Brother Jiang to handle."

After saying that, Li Weisheng called a few yamen runners to come and help Lin Lezhi dig the grave, and placed the bones in the grave outside one by one.

The corpse was placed in front of everyone. After twelve years, the corpse had become just a pile of bones. The villagers were so scared that they screamed and wanted to leave the scene, but were stopped by the yamen runners guarding nearby.