Transmigrating into a Man's Wife: I Share the Pain with the Male Protagonist

"Let's go, let's go downstream to pick up lanterns!" a man said excitedly, and the man with him quickly followed.

The man's words quickly attracted many people, who were all going to pick up the lanterns and try to pick out a blind date lantern from among the lanterns.

"Let's go back." Lu Mingyun turned around and asked.

Li Mofu looked at the river surface and nodded, saying with a smile, "Someone's lantern just flipped over. Hahahaha, that's a bit funny."

"You've encountered an undercurrent." Lu Mingyun said.

"It's possible. The light went out in an instant." Li Mofu said.

Because there was nothing left to play with or eat, Li Mofu and his companions returned to the yard.

The crowd on the Xiao River side dispersed around 11:45 PM. After the bustling crowd left, only the river lanterns caught in nets were left at the lower reaches of the river.

The next day at dawn, at the hour of Mao, four boatmen drove their boats to retrieve the river lanterns, and people went to clean the river and the bridge.

"These lights are really useless, but people buy them every year during the holidays. I'll fish them out later and see what's written on them!" said a bearded man.

Another man said with a shrewd glint in his eyes, "Buy a few of those without writing on them. Maybe we can sell them next year."

"Stop talking nonsense! It's time to close the net! You'll be in trouble if you fall down!" the leading man said fiercely.

"Enough of that, work harder," the big man who spoke first patted the smart big man next to him, "it's still cold this morning, you'll get sick if you fall."

So the four men began to work seriously, but as they were pulling the net in...

"Isn't this too heavy?" wondered the big man who had been silent all this time.

The astute man laughed, "Is this your first time collecting the net? There must be fish in this net!"

"Is this true?" The big man who spoke first laughed, "How can such a casually cast net catch fish?"

"Look, the weight is wrong!" said the shrewd man.

So the four of them worked harder, and soon the net was pulled up, revealing a pile of river lanterns. The sky was hazy and they couldn't see clearly what was inside.

"Look, is this bulging? There should be fish underneath! Do you have a torch? Light it up and take a look!" said the shrewd man.

The taciturn man handed the net to the first man who spoke and went into the boat to light the torch.

"Hurry up! I can't hold on anymore!" shouted the big man who spoke first.

The big man, who rarely spoke, walked over quickly with a torch in his hand and used it to illuminate the things that had been fished out.

As a result, the firelight revealed a strand of hair.

"...What is this?" The astute man was stunned for a moment. "Is it, is it water grass?"

"It's hair!" the big man in the lead yelled, scaring himself and the people around him as well.

The first big man who spoke couldn't pull the net and was afraid of those ghosts and monsters, so after hearing the words of the leading big man, his legs went weak and he fell down unexpectedly.

“Third brother!!”

The taciturn big man quickly grabbed him, preventing him from falling into the river with the net.

"Hurry, hurry, third brother, climb up!" The leading man was a little panicked, but the third brother was like a fish caught in a net and could not be pulled up no matter what.

After a flurry of activity, the taciturn big man took the third brother's net, and the third brother had to climb up by himself.

"Ah!" The third brother stepped on something without paying attention and fell down again.

The fall directly hit the protrusion that had been fished out, knocking the protruding river lantern off and revealing the female corpse underneath.

"It's dead!!!"

A scream was heard and many people who came to clean the river heard it. They stopped what they were doing and gathered around to discuss it.

This morning, while Lu Mingyun was on his way to the county government office, he heard people on the roadside talking, including passers-by and vendors.

However, it was not until he arrived at the county government office and heard his subordinates report that he found out what was going on.

"Someone died? When we were releasing river lanterns yesterday?" Lu Mingyun was surprised. He was also at the scene yesterday. How could he not know if someone really committed a crime?

"Your Excellency... the time is still unclear, but the body was discovered by a boatman who was fishing for river lanterns. The deceased was a woman and had no valuables on her. She must have been washed down from upstream, then entangled in a net, and finally fished out by the boatman." said the clerk.

Lu Mingyun sighed, "Have the yamen runners gone?"

"Your Excellency, the bailiffs have gone to check it out," said the clerk.

"Where is the coroner?" Lu Mingyun asked again.

"Your Excellency, it will take some time for the coroner to reach a conclusion," the clerk added.

About an hour later, the clerk came to report again.

The woman's name was Huang Liyao. She was from Huangjia Village in the county. She was married and had two children, a boy and a girl.

Huang Liyao's husband is an ordinary farmer who works in the fields. Huang Liyao is skilled in embroidery and sells her work in the county every month to supplement her family income.

After visiting, we learned that Huang Liyao looks kind on the surface, but often speaks ill of the villagers in private. However, she does not have any deep hatred or big quarrels with the villagers. At most, she is disliked for being too talkative.

She died around noon yesterday. Her body was later thrown into the river and carried downstream where it was caught in a net.

Huang Liyao's death was also very simple. She was first knocked unconscious by a heavy object, and then her throat was cut. It is worth mentioning that Huang Liyao's throat was cut to bleed out, and after the blood was drained, she was thrown into the river at night.

Because the deceased's relationship was not complicated, although the way of death was somewhat puzzling, it was not surprising. So Lu Mingyun simply ordered his subordinates to investigate the case as soon as possible and went about their business.

At that time, he thought that this incident was just some personal grudge and would be solved soon.

Unexpectedly, before they could solve the case, a new victim appeared a month later...