old scheming

"Master, what's wrong with you? Is the chicken soup not good?" Su Guyao couldn't help asking when he saw Su Mu holding a spoon in a daze.

"No, it's delicious." Su Mu didn't want to help Xiao Guyao, so he hurriedly picked up a spoon and took a few sips.He beckoned again, asking Wang Qingping and the two to come over and sit down, "Rong Rong, please spare your big brother."

"Big brother, are you feeling better?"

"It's much better." Su Mu said with a smile, "Miss Rongrong is a little different today than in the past."

"What's the difference?"

"It's even more beautiful." Su Mu's tone was very sincere. Seeing how complacent she was being coaxed, she continued, "Especially the pair of earrings, like the cinnabar mole on the Buddha's head, the finishing touch."

"Brother, you are wrong, my pair of pendants are fake."

After what he said, Su Mu took a closer look at the pendant she was wearing. It was indeed not a high-quality jade, at least it was far worse than the one he picked up in the black pine forest.

"Brother Su doesn't know, everyone in the mountain village, whether it's a girl or a woman, has such an earring." Wang Qingping said: "Today I saw my mother wearing it."

Su Mu nodded slightly, feeling exhausted, the system would really give him problems.

"Speaking of my mother, I can't help but think of Brother Su's painting of Guan Gong, the town house. It's really lifelike."

"Oh?" Su Mu swallowed the chicken soup and asked in confusion, "I don't know who Lingtang is?"

Wang Qingping slapped his forehead, "I forgot to say, Hou'er and I are neighbors, we live next door."

"Oh, it turns out that the king is your father." Su Mu thought: "If you can wear jade, and the quality is good, the family must be rich in food and clothing. In addition to the king, there are several big families in this village, and Wang Qingping returned it just now." Said Mrs. Yuanwai is wearing that jade."

Su Mu knew that he had wronged Mrs. Wang, but then he thought again, what happened to Wang Yuanwai, and wanted to test it out again.

"When I delivered the painting that day, I saw that the old man's complexion was not very good. I don't know how it is now?"

Unexpectedly, when Wang Qingping heard this, he said with a sad face, "Oh! Brother Su, don't mention this matter soon."

"Oh?" Su Mu pretended to be curious, and pretended that he was a high-achieving student in a certain drama academy, "What do you mean? Could it be that some other intractable disease has occurred outside the staff, and even a master like you can't solve it?"

Wang Qingping sighed a few more times before explaining the matter.

It turned out that half a month ago, one night, Yuan Wai woke up from his sleep and heard strange noises on the roof. He thought it was a little wild cat or something, so he closed his eyes and fell asleep again. The next day, he heard that Old Chen One of the twins in the family disappeared. Of course, the staff at that time didn't feel anything but sorry for the baby. In short, what could the strange noise have to do with the disappearance of the baby.

Another night when he heard a strange sound, he still fell asleep like this, and the rest of the old Chen family's children disappeared the next day.The old man couldn't help feeling suspicious, and the eldest son went shopping again, so he asked someone to draw Guan Gong, the town house, for peace of mind.

After hearing the sound for the third time, it was Li Dalian's child, and the last sound was Liu Dawan's daughter.

This time twice is a coincidence, is it also a coincidence three times and four times?

Up to now, Yuanwai and Yuanwai's wife can't sleep peacefully every night, and often wake up in the middle of the night, suspicious, and all trees and trees are like soldiers.

Wang Qingping also followed suit, "It's not easy to talk about this matter, it will definitely attract unnecessary suspicion."

After hearing this, Su Mu asked again: "Then, does my brother have any clues about the case of the missing baby?"

He shook his head, and then said: "That's why Master plans to conduct a public autopsy today." After he finished speaking, he looked outside, estimated the time, and said, "I think Master is preparing for the autopsy in the medicine hut, so it's time for me to help. I see Brother Su seems to be in good health, why don't we go together."

"This time I'm a foreigner, and secondly, my family has no infants, and I don't look like a famous person outside the staff. I'm afraid it's not good for me to go?" Su Mu said so, and he couldn't wait in his heart, wishing to know the result immediately. .

"Brother Su, why bother to see outsiders, I know that you come here to settle down, and this courtyard will definitely be the Su family's residence in the future, so there is nothing wrong with taking this opportunity to get acquainted with everyone."

In fact, Su Mu knew in his heart that the village head must have asked every household to send a representative to wait for the autopsy results, and what Su Mu hesitated was whether Su Guyao would let himself replace him.When Wang Qingping said so, Su Mu took a look at Su Guyao.

"Master is inconvenient, let me help you go." Su Guyao's eyes lit up, and he came to help him without hesitation.Wang Qingping actually saw a kind of showing off in his eyes.

On the way to the medicine house, Su Mu and the others met many acquaintances, exchanged greetings, and walked towards the medicine house together.

Su Guyao was very excited. Some older people greeted him with kindness and called him a dirty monkey. He pulled Su Mu to correct him, "The younger generation's surname is Su's name is Guyao, and he studied under Mr. Su Muzhe." He saluted. There is also a bit of Su Mu's shadow in it, which makes Su Mu feel quite embarrassed.

The wooden plaque is simply engraved with the word "medicine house". The large yard is very spacious, and the rows of dried herbs give off bursts of medicinal fragrance. Everyone feels that the fragrance is very refreshing.Of course, for a master like Su Mu who has eaten all the traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine, it is a shame to not spit it out after smelling the smell.

Even though Wang Qingping was timid in front of Rong Rong, he was very respected among the half-grown children running around in the yard, and every one of them would salute and call him senior brother when they saw him.He is also very good at taking this air, and responded with a gentle smile.

He led a group of people around the lobby, raised a lamp, and explained to everyone: "The morgue is underground, and it is darker. If you are afraid, you can stop here. There will be a doorman to guide you." Everyone go to have tea." After speaking, Fang led Su Mu to the cellar, and a group of women stopped in place.

The cellar was dark and cold, with a few sticks of oil wax on the walls.On the mortuary bed lay the corpse of a baby that had been sorted out from the black pine forest that day, and there were some men and women standing beside him, among them was Liu Dawan, whose wife was leaning against him and crying as if she was about to die.Although the other Su Mu didn't know each other, he guessed that it was Lao Chen and Li Dalian, both of whom had expressions of grief and indignation.

The head of Hua Village looked solemn, and when he saw everyone, he started to play with the corpse without saying a word.

"Uncle village chief, why don't you wait for me?"

After the conversation, a group of people went up and down the cellar. The leading man seemed to be about the same age as Uncle Zhou, with a big belly and a beautiful woman with fireworks and willows in his arms.

"This is Xiong Younian, the son of rich man Xiong, and next to him is his new concubine Jiu." Uncle Zhou introduced Su Mu in a low voice.

Su Mu couldn't help but look familiar at him, and asked, "Who is Big Bear?"

"Big Xiong is the son of Xiong Younian, the one who let go to open the mountain, by the way, he is also the second apprentice of Chief Huacun."

If it is true that like father like son, then look at that nine concubine, the whole body is inlaid with gold and jade, her head, neck, fingers, and where it can leak are all covered with gold ornaments.

Everyone naturally gave way to the rich and powerful Mr. Xiong, and when he rushed to the front, the Ninth Aunt saw the dead body and yelled, "Oh! What the hell is this? It scared me to death!"

"Baby, it's okay." Xiong Younian comforted, making everyone vomit.

"Humph!"

Aunt Jiu was so frightened that she lost her voice at the village head's sonorous "hum".

But she still couldn't control herself, and after a while, she pointed to an uncle with a sad face in front of the corpse, and whispered, "Master, isn't that the jade craftsman Li Dalian? He lost one of my earrings, so what?" Jade is a good thing, let him pay it to others." Although the voice was low, it was just enough for Su Mu who was standing next to them to hear it.

"Baby, baby, he's lost his life, so don't take it for now." Xiong Younian was about to get angry when he saw the beauty, and said repeatedly: "Tomorrow, let's exchange another ten or eight jade pendants. We won't miss that pendant."

When Jin Xiangyu heard that there were ten or eight, he was immediately happy, "Okay, then I have to go to that big place in the capital to change it."

Su Mu didn't bother to listen anymore, he suddenly thought of something, touched the jade pendant in his hand, there was no impurities at all, presumably it was worn by a nouveau riche like him.The whole matter may not be as complicated as I thought, and the jade pendant has nothing to do with it.

Mrs. Jiu asked Li Dalian to repair the jade pendant, and a jade pendant fell into his youngest son's swaddle due to artificial reasons. The gangster took the pendant away without knowing it, and threw it away together when throwing the body .

Su Mu breathed a sigh of relief and sighed again, thinking that the key clue was broken again.

Seeing his frown, Su Guyao thought it was because he had been standing for too long, and asked concerned, "Master, does your back hurt?"

"It's okay." Su Mu touched his head, trying to take the hand he was holding out, but he didn't follow him, and he just held onto his arm tightly without raising his head.The two seemed to be the Empress Dowager Cixi and Li Lianying, and Su Mu let him hold on, amused and helpless.

Su Guyao didn't let go until the village chief announced the autopsy results and when he returned home.

"Okay, it's not that I have a broken leg and can't walk, let go, Yao'er."

Su Guyao still didn't move, his expression was even a little stunned, Su Mu asked him again: "What's the matter with you? Haha, Teacher Wei is a little thirsty, go and pour a glass of water for Teacher Wei, Yao'er. "

"Yes! Disciple... Yao'er will go down now."

As soon as he let go of Su Mu, he shook the stiff arm pinched by him, and a smile could not help but appear on his face, which was actually very rewarding in his heart.

After drinking a few sips of water, Su Mu began to ponder the results of the autopsy.

Although the four corpses had been devoured beyond recognition by eagles and maggots, the village chief roughly stitched them together.The four babies were all skinned alive, and then their hearts were taken out.

Although there was a hole in the corpse's chest, the village chief was sure that it was pecked open by eagles after throwing the corpse away, so even he was not sure what the method of cutting out the heart without cutting the belly open was.

"Could it be a monster?" Someone doubted at the time.

The head of Huacun was pale, and he didn't know what he was thinking. At this time, another white-haired old man said: "About 50 years ago, this happened in our mountain village, but all the missing people were young women."

The oldest person present here was Uncle Zhou and Wang Yuanwai, who were five or sixty years old, so the old man turned his attention to the village chief, in order to confirm that what he said was true.Everyone saw Chief Huacun nodded solemnly.

Everyone was in an uproar, and Uncle Zhou also suddenly said, "I remembered, I was six or seven years old, and there was an elder sister who was about to get married in my family, and she was killed by such cruel methods." Maybe his family Because there is still a baby, his voice trembled with anger, "Whether it is man-made or a demon, I will let his intestines be gutted, and then I will kill him with fire!"

"Put it with fire! Punish it with fire! Punish it with fire..." Uncle Zhou has been cutting cloth and clothes for people all the year round, and he is also quite prestigious among the villagers. His words resonated with everyone.

A series of angry faces flashed through Su Mu's mind. After thinking about it, he found another suspicious point.

In the past, I used God's perspective. No matter how suspicious Liu Xinyi was holding the piece of leather, Su Mu felt that her calm tone was due to Chang Ge's bug. But after thinking about it carefully, Xiong Younian's Aunt Jiu was too scared. Are you shocked?There is also Hua Xiangrong, she can look normal, it must be the habit of following her grandfather and senior brothers to disembowel her all the year round.

So, after much deliberation, Liu Xinyi was still the most suspected of the baby's disappearance in the past half month.

"Yao'er, do you know what kind of weird noises in Qingping's house in the middle of the night?"

"Hearing from him, it sounds like the sound of us chewing when eating, gurgling."

"How long has Miss Liu lived in Yuanwai's Mansion?"

"Uh... twenty days or so!"