Uncle Detective Di Renjie, I build a crime-solving team

Di Renjie walked in with a big belly and said quickly:

"Yuan Fang, help him out quickly!"

Li Yuanfang held the chain knife in his backhand, ready to go forward and help the person out.

The considerate Hu Jinghui was afraid that Li Yuanfang might accidentally hurt the woman, so he stepped forward and helped the woman out first.

The woman was still in shock and trembling as she looked at the three big men.

Di Renjie looked solemn, standing in front of the woman, and said:

"Sister-in-law, listen to me, don't be afraid, we are not government troops."

Of course it’s not the government troops!

Di Renjie was the prime minister, Hu Jinghui was the General of the Guards, and Li Yuanfang was a servant.

The three of them together can't even make up half a government army!

"Aren't you military officers?" The woman's expression finally softened a little, but there was still caution in her eyes.

"We are passing through."

Li Yuanfang hid the chain knife behind his back, pretending that he was not the one who drew the knife just now, and responded: "Yes, we are just passing by."

"Old man, why did you come here?"

Di Renjie took a look at Li Yuanfang's right hand behind his back and said, "Well... I got lost, so I came here."

When the woman saw that the old man had a kind smile, she felt relieved and called out her daughter who was hiding.

The dirty girl looked malnourished and no one knew how long she had been hiding.

Di Renjie showed his standard kind smile and asked, "Are you hungry?"

The girl nodded timidly. How could she not be hungry? She hadn't eaten for two or three days.

After the villagers of Daliushu Village rioted two days ago, the government troops of Youzhou immediately came to the village to arrest people.

Since they couldn’t catch any men, they could only capture the elderly, women, and children, and steal livestock and poultry such as pigs, sheep, chickens, ducks, and geese.

Damn the government troops, they didn’t leave them any food at all!

"Sister-in-law, how many people are there in this village?" Di Renjie asked again.

"Oh, I don't know either." The woman shook her head. "The men in the village all rebelled and fled into the mountains, leaving behind us old people, women and children who can't run."

"When will the government troops come to arrest people?"

"The day before yesterday at noon, the government troops suddenly came to the village and arrested whoever they saw. My mother and I hid in the kang hole to avoid being captured by the government troops."

"That you……"

"Our food, poultry and livestock were all taken away. Those damned government troops didn't leave us anything. We starved to death! We had no other choice today, so we came out to look for food. Before we found anything, you came."

Di Renjie narrowed his eyes, secretly cursing Fang Qian as a good-for-nothing, and then turned to the woman.

"Sister-in-law, how about this? Go to each household and ask how many people are left in the village, and call them all here."

The woman worriedly asked, "What if the government troops send people again?"

"Don't worry, I'm here."

"What use can an old man like you be? When the government troops come, you will feel the pain of the knife. You will have to lie down even if the knife goes in and comes out red."

The sister-in-law naturally didn't believe it.

She would rather continue hiding with the woman.

Nor would he pin his hopes and those of the rest of the village on this old man.

Di Renjie recalled the "ghost and god law enforcement" that Li Cunxi had used when he was solving a case alone in Pengze County more than a year ago. He simply raised his head with a condescending expression.

"Don't worry, sister-in-law. I am the land of this place, and I am here to save you!"

Di Renjie also experienced the feeling of being a god. He stroked his beard and said with his head raised.

"If the government troops come, I will use my two or three divine winds to blow them to death!"

"Even if I don't take action, I, the Earth Lord, still have two ghost generals under my command. These two, General Yue Hu who moved mountains to defend against the enemy, and General Li who divided water and opened the way, can defeat thousands of horses and soldiers alone."

"Let alone thousands of government troops, even if a large group of Youzhou troops came together, as soon as I stood there, they would not dare to move and would kneel down and beg for mercy!"

Di Renjie pretended to be so cool that he managed to scare the woman.

She took the girl and knelt down and kowtowed to the God of Land.

"Hurry up, hurry up, and bring the people here."

Di Renjie helped the woman and the girl up and spoke again.

"Hey, Lord Land, I'll go right away."

The woman ran out with the girl, shouting "The God of Land has appeared" along the way.

Seeing this scene, Di Renjie sighed with a serious expression.

"More than a year ago, Cunxi and I were in Pengze County, Jiangzhou, and a strange case occurred. I knew who the murderer was, but I had no way to bring him to justice!"

He talked to himself, with a look of loneliness.

Hu Jinghui and Li Yuanfang looked at each other and asked in confusion:

"My Lord, is there another murderer whom you cannot arrest?"

Di Renjie nodded bitterly and said:

"It was a case of a woman having an affair with a scholar. In order to be with the scholar, the woman killed her husband. My mother-in-law reported the case to me. I investigated it for three days and finally solved the case. But when it came to court, the woman denied it in the face of my ironclad evidence!"

"That day, she desperately denied it, and accused me of killing her because I was attracted to her body and forced her to do it, but she refused."

Hu Jinghui was so angry that his teeth itched and he said angrily:

"This kind of woman has no sense of shame, she really should be killed with a knife!"

Di Renjie frowned and said:

"Of course I was angry, but I couldn't lose my mind and yell at her in court, so I just denied it and asked her if she would confess despite the overwhelming evidence."

"Although that woman is fickle, she has a sharp tongue. Not only did she not confess, she even insulted me in court."

"She knew that I would not torture her, but she actually said that I would torture her into confessing."

Thinking of that day, Di Renjie's face was full of anger.

However, this case is not brought up to say anything about that woman.

He stroked his beard and continued:

"Later, Cunxi stood up and said to me, 'Uncle Wuyou, let's see Cunxi file a complaint with the King of Hell tonight and have a night trial of the adulteress.'"

"I went to the court and put the woman in jail. That night, I followed Cunxi's plan and ordered two yamen runners to dress up as the Black and White Impermanence. I also had people dress up the court as the underworld, with the runners as little ghosts, Di Chun as the judge, Cunxi as the recorder, and I as the King of Hell. I came to the underworld to try the case."

"The whore was frightened out of her wits, and only then did they learn about her crime. They made her sign the confession willingly, and the next day the case was tried in court, and the confession was produced, and the whore was sentenced to death."

"Today's events remind me of that day!"

Di Renjie walked out of the kitchen, came outside, and breathed in the fresh morning air.

Li Yuanfang and Hu Jinghui followed closely behind.

"What is wrong with this world? I have good intentions to save people, but no one believes I have the ability to do so."

“But when I said it was a deity descending to earth, they were willing to believe it.”

"Cunxi once said that gods are a kind of belief. Only when people can no longer survive and are extremely frightened, will they believe in gods wholeheartedly."

“Now I finally see it.”

"In Youzhou, the only one who can save the people is a god who has descended to earth!"

"Then I am willing to pretend to be a god and give them hope!"