Quick Transmigration: Finding a Successor for a Sect in JX3

After getting the information from Wang Gouzi's house, Hongfei and Hua Manlou headed towards Wang Tiechui's house.

Upon arriving at Wang Tiechui's house, Hongfei knocked on the door and called out, "Is anyone home?"

Hongfei heard the sound of running footsteps, and then the door opened. A little girl stood there and asked Hongfei, "Who are you? Who are you looking for?"

Hongfei asked the little girl, "We are constables from the government. Are your parents at home?"

"They're not here! They've all gone to work in the fields," the little girl replied.

"Then can you take us to find them?" Hong Fei asked.

The little girl nodded and said, "Okay."

Hongfei and Huamanlou followed the little girl to the fields and found Wang Tiechui's family.

Hongfei asked Wang Tiechui himself, "We are investigating the case of Wang Xiaoer's dog being killed. Where did you get the dog meat that day?"

Wang Tiechui replied, "Officer, I bought that dog meat from Wang Si'er in the village."

"Are you sure you bought it from Wang Si'er?" Hong Fei pressed.

"I bought it from Wang Si'er," Wang Tiechui replied confidently.

Hongfei thought about the clues she got from Wang Gou'er and Wang Tiechui's families. Wang Gou'er's family said they bought it from Liu San'er, while Wang Tiechui's family said they bought it from Wang Si'er. The two families didn't buy it from the same person.

Hongfei then asked Wang Tiechui, "How much dog meat did you buy?"

Wang Tiechui replied, "I didn't see much dog meat, so I bought it all."

"Not many, how many?" Hong Fei continued to ask.

Wang Tiechui said to Hong Fei, "Officer, I didn't see much meat on that dog at the time, so I bought the whole dog as well."

Hongfei looked at Hua Manlou and said, "Wang Tiechui bought a dog's meat, so where did Wang Gou'er's dog meat come from? Wang Xiao'er's family lost a dog."

Hua Manlou said, "I don't know, but we can go ask Liu San'er and Wang Si'er."

Hongfei then asked the little girl from Wang Tiechui's family to lead them to Liu San'er and Wang Si'er.

The little girl brought Hongfei and Huamanlou to Liu San'er's house, where Liu San'er happened to be home.

Hongfei asked Liu San, "Where did the dog meat you sold to Wang Gouzi's family that day come from?"

Liu San replied to Hong Fei, "I found this dog meat on the mountain. It was hanging on a tree without its skin. I looked around and saw no one, so I picked it up. Then I ran into Wang Gouzi, and he wanted to buy some, so I sold some to him."

"You picked up the dog meat, didn't you kill it?" Hongfei asked.

Liu San'er waved his hands repeatedly and said, "No, no, I really picked it up. I've never killed a dog."

Hong Fei scrutinized Liu San'er and asked, "Are you sure you didn't kill him?"

Liu San'er shouted loudly, "Officer, I really didn't kill the dog, I just picked it up."

Hongfei didn't make a hasty decision. Instead, she went to find Wang Si'er and asked him, "Where did the dog meat that Wang Tiechui bought from you come from?"

Wang Si'er calmly said to Hong Fei, "Officer, I killed that dog, but it wasn't Wang Xiao'er's dog. I killed a stray dog. If you don't believe me, I still have the dog skin." As he spoke, Wang Si'er went into the house and took out the dog skin.

Hongfei noticed that the fur on the dog skin was patchy and bald, clearly belonging to a stray dog. If this really was the dog skin from the one Wang Si'er killed, then it wasn't from Wang Xiao'er's dog.

The clues have stalled here. Who killed Wang Xiaoer's dog?

Hongfei scratched her head and looked at Hua Manlou, asking, "Hua Manlou, who do you think killed Wang Xiaoer's dog?"

Hua Manlou thought for a moment. He said to Hong Fei, "Well, we can't jump to conclusions yet. Let's go check out the place Liu San'er said he found dog meat."

Hongfei and Huamanlou went to Liu San'er's place again and investigated the spot where they had found the dog meat. They discovered dog blood and black dog fur. The fur was quite shiny, clearly the same color as the dog that Wang Xiaoer's family had lost. The dog meat that Liu San'er was selling was from the dog that Wang Xiaoer's family had lost.

But remembering Liu San'er's insistence that he had found the dog meat, Hong Fei and Hua Manlou carefully examined the area around the tree. They found two different sets of footprints. One set came from down the mountain, paused for a while, and then continued downhill. The other set of footprints came from down the mountain and was deeper, indicating someone was carrying something. There were more footprints there than the one from the person coming down the mountain, and then the footprints moved to the side.

Hongfei and Huamanlou followed the footprints along the side and arrived at the back door of a house.

Hongfei and Huamanlou exchanged a glance, then asked the people around them for information.

The family Hongfei and her friends found consisted of only one elderly man living alone, a man in his fifties named Wang Facai. Because he lived alone, he wasn't home. Hongfei jumped over the courtyard wall and saw a black dog pelt drying in the yard. The pelt was clearly the same color as the dog that Wang Xiaoer's family had lost.

Hongfei jumped down from the wall and said to Hua Manlou, "There's a dog skin inside, and it looks like it was just skinned. The color of the fur is the same as the dog that Wang Xiaoer lost. I'm afraid this Wang Facai is the one who killed Wang Xiaoer's dog."

Hongfei and Huamanlou took the answers to the village chief and asked him to bring over Wang Xiaoer's family, Wang Gouzi's family, Wang Tiecun's family, Liu San'er, Wang Si'er, and Wang Facai. The case was heard under the big tree at the village entrance.

After the families arrived, the whole village gathered around to watch, all wanting to know who had killed Wang Xiaoer's dog. Everyone was talking at once, with different people saying who had killed it.

Hongfei stood under the big tree and recounted the results of her investigation.

"Ahem, ahem! Who killed Wang Xiaoer's dog? That matter has been investigated. But why kill the dog? We still need to ask the parties involved."

Hong Fei looked at Wang Facai and asked, "Wang Facai, why did you kill Wang Xiaoer's dog?"

Seeing that his plan had been exposed, Wang Facai obediently confessed: "Originally, I didn't intend to kill their dog, but their dog was too awful, and they didn't even care about it. Last month, I passed by their house, and their dog rushed out and bit me. I only hit it with a stick, but Wang Xiaoer's mother started cursing at me, and I argued with her too."

Wang Facai became angrier and angrier as he spoke, and after taking a few deep breaths, he said, "We had already argued, so I let it go. But I never expected that this damn dog would start barking at me and trying to bite me whenever it sees me."

Wang Facai glared fiercely at Wang Xiaoer and his family and said, "I told them that this dog was going to bite me, but they didn't do anything about it. That day, the dog tried to attack me again, and I got so angry that I beat it to death. After killing it, I hung it on a tree on the back hill to skin it. After I skinned it, I took the skin to the pond next to it to wash it, and when I came back, I found that the dog meat I had dropped on the tree was gone. Since I had killed the dog, I was afraid that Wang Xiaoer and his family would cause me trouble, so I didn't make a fuss. You all know what happened after that."

After listening to Wang Facai's account, Hong Fei didn't know how to handle the matter, so she handed it over to the village chief. After all, it was just a dog, a neighborhood dispute, and wouldn't escalate to the authorities. Hong Fei and her group had thus passed their test in the secret realm.

Hong Fei and Hua Manlou emerged from the secret realm, where Hong Fei was rewarded with two taels of silver. Holding the silver, Hong Fei looked at Hua Manlou and said, "I didn't expect such a simple secret realm to give me two taels of silver. Not bad!"

Hua Manlou looked at Hong Fei and asked, "Would you like to try other secret realms?"

Hong Fei shook her head repeatedly and said, "No need, no need. I find even this simple secret realm troublesome. Let alone the complicated ones, I simply can't handle them. Let Lu Xiaofeng and you smart people play with them. I'm stupid!"