After Lin Xi finished speaking, she tilted her head to look at Chu Muqing from time to time.
Chu Muqing's breathing was a little unsteady, and her face was pale, but her brows were still cold and calm, her noble and elegant posture seemed to be not walking on a country road, and her pretty figure showed a mature temperament every step of the way.
Lin Xi felt that no matter how long it took, Chu Muqing gave off an amazing feeling.
Especially in the face of the crazy out-of-control crowd just now, she negotiated with those people rationally and calmly, and her calm appearance was too charming and attractive.
At that moment, she even thought how could this person have such an aura, the aura was so strong that she couldn't help being attracted and she couldn't stop moving because of her.
There was a small puddle in front. The puddle was full of dirt, mixed with some washed vegetable leaves and a few plastic bags floating on the water. Lin Xi released her slender fingers and turned to gently wrap her waist.
Sensing the stunned flash in Chu Muqing's eyes, Lin Xi reminded her with a smile, "Be careful."
Chu Muqing followed Lin Xi's line of sight and looked at the small puddle, the corners of her lips moved but she didn't say anything.
In fact, it's fine to go around, there's no need to hold her on purpose.
However, Lin Xi carefully wrapped her waist with one hand and supported her arm with the other. The cautious look made her feel that she was cherished and cared for.
However, in front of the old village chief and this big brother Guan Hanchuan, it was a bit embarrassing to have such a grand intimacy.
At this moment, Guan Hanchuan, who was walking in front, suddenly tilted his head and asked, "Is there a happy event going on in this village? Or is it a funeral?"
He asked the old village chief, and also looked at the old village chief and said this.
However, the moment he turned his head, Chu Muqing immediately released Lin Xi's hand, and quickly patted the back of the other's hand wrapped around her waist.
Being suddenly "beaten" Lin Xi's face was a little confused.
She glanced at Chu Muqing dissatisfied, and pretended to be aggrieved: "It hurts."
Chu Muqing:...
Looking at the other party's deliberately weak expression, Chu Muqing was helpless and could only reach out and rub the back of her hand soothingly.
The original grievance in Lin Xi's eyes disappeared in an instant, a pair of bright eyes were shining like stars, and the corners of her lips also turned up, and then she turned her wrist directly and grabbed her hand.
Chu Muqing could see the smug look in her eyes, and it seemed that she had finally succeeded.
The old village chief suddenly coughed violently, and he has been coughing since just now.
Guan Hanchuan thought he didn't listen, and when he finished coughing, he asked again: "Village Chief, what kind of music is this playing?"
The loud suona sound was not far from them but it seemed to come from the sky, sometimes high-pitched and loud, sometimes low-pitched and hoarse and mixed with the sound of gongs, whistling and beating and it was very lively.
The old village chief narrowed his eyes and glanced to the left.
Although the brick house was not tall, it was much taller than the rickety old village chief. He couldn't see anything, and withdrew his gaze and said to Guan Hanchuan, "It's a happy event."
Guan Hanchuan frowned.
"A happy event?" Lin Xi said suspiciously, "Why is a happy event so quiet?"
If there is no accident, the sound of the suona comes from the alley next door. If it is a happy event, according to the general tradition of the village, it should also be the guests of the banquet, so that the guests are not so quiet that they do not say a word.
"Why are you asking this?" The old village chief turned around immediately, his face was not good-looking: "Our village is happy to hold a happy event, so how can there be so much spare money to make fun."
Lin Xi frowned and was about to speak.
Noticing that Chu Muqing gently pulled her wrist, she smiled politely at the old village chief: "So that's the case, no offense, don't take to heart."
Although she said so, she always felt that the village was full of inexplicable strangeness.
It was as if she had been completely separated from the world in the previous city since she entered this village. To be precise, it was not only separated from the capital but also from Dongguan County.
However, she came here for Chu Muyun's case. If she thinks too much, her mind will become more confused. If it is not necessary for the case, she should not occupy too much of her mind.
The old village chief may have also reacted. He had a bad attitude towards Lin Xi, a seemingly very rich city dweller. Seeing that Lin Xi was looking at the brick houses on both sides, he took the initiative to introduce them to Lin Xi. .
"This piece and the piece opposite will be demolished soon and then the building will be built."
The old village chief looked smiling, with a smile on his dark and thin face, revealing a mouth of black and yellow teeth.
He's not very daring to provoke people in the city, especially those who can be brought by Guan Hanchuan himself and Guan Hanchuan is so polite to this girl, obviously not an ordinary person.
He know that Guan Hanchuan is the big boss who runs a security company in the county town. What kind of person can he be treated so politely by the big boss.
He still knows this.
Lin Xi responded lightly, "That's it."
The old village chief hesitated for a while and then looked at Lin Xi and continued to laugh, somewhat ingratiatingly: "Yes, in this way, a family should be divided into at least five buildings."
Even if Lin Xi didn't want to talk to him more, she couldn't help but startled: "Five sets?"
As she spoke, she turned her head to look at Chu Muqing again and also saw a bit of confusion in the other's eyes.
She had been looking left and right in order to remember the road just now. At present, every family here is still a big yard. Although it looks big, it always means that she will change five buildings as soon as she comes up.
"What's wrong with five sets? We want five sets and they have to give them, otherwise, wouldn't they just bully the villagers?" The old village chief asked Lin Xi again, "Don't you think so?"
"..."
Lin Xi couldn't speak.
Even when she usually talks about business with people, when she gets along with people on a daily basis, she's always laughing and talking.
At this moment, she was inevitably silent.
"The main reason is that the developers and the above won't give it. We can't let them touch the things left by the ancestors. Think about it, those buildings are so high and they are piled up one floor after another. How old is the village, there are only so many people in the village, can they live here?" The old village chief said, "There are so many buildings, we can live by ourselves, the developers will let outsiders in and the village is still us"
Lin Xi took a deep breath: "The land belongs to the country".
"You people in the city must know this principle. This house is made more and more expensive by those outsiders. The roots of the ancestors are here. How can outsiders come in?"
When Lin Xi was speechless, she couldn't help but wonder how this person became the village head but judging from his age, it is estimated that he had been in this position for many years.
"You are from the city and you have a lot of knowledge..." The old village chief grinned: "Can you tell me, can the developer be happy and promise to give us five sets for one family?"
He said this to Lin Xi. Before Lin Xi could answer, Guan Hanchuan couldn't help laughing.
He finds it interesting.
This old man can stun Miss Lin and she can't say a word. It's so fucking interesting.
"Why are you laughing?" The old village chief knew that he was smiling maliciously and stared at him with a bad face.
Guan Hanchuan laughed for a while, nodded to the old village chief and said sternly: "I think you have a lot of knowledge, really, big brother, you have to get people to fight with the developers, and you fight for five suites! Don't get five suites per household! Now, I think your situation is too small."
The old village chief couldn't figure out what he meant: "What?"
Guan Hanchuan slapped his hand: "It's counted according to the head! One head needs five sets and then the family wants twenty sets. What's the matter, each family will be divided into one building!"
The old village chief hesitated: "In this case, is it a bit..."
He was stunned for a while and when he noticed the indifference on Lin Xi's face, he suddenly understood, his face turned red and white and looked at Guan Hanchuan angrily: "How can you fool me?"
"I didn't fool you?" Guan Hanchuan said hurriedly: "why would I fool you, even if one household is divided into five sets, there will still be foreigners coming in in the end, do you think this is the truth?"
The old village chief stopped talking.
He pondered for a while, and then asked Guan Hanchuan: "But I asked people to check, and there are no houses that can be divided into 20 sets."
"Cause!" Guan Hanchuan continued: "You make people make trouble! You can always get there!"
The old village chief babbled again.
Lin Xi finally couldn't listen anymore and asked, "are we not here yet?"
"We're almost there, it's just ahead."
The old village chief replied, he was still thinking about the demolition of the house and wanted to ask Lin Xi if he was reliable.
However, before he opened his mouth, the door of a family house was suddenly opened.
A tall and thin young man suddenly rushed out, accompanied by a middle-aged woman scolding behind him: "Dog boy! Don't run around!"
The man didn't look very old. He was wearing a red sweater with patches on his upper body and a pair of shabby knee-length pants underneath. He was ridiculously thin, giving him a stunned look of only bones.
He rushed out of the door, made a flying gesture and circled around Lin Xi and the others, making the sound of "Wahu Wahu" in his mouth.
It should not be normal for an adult man to be able to do this kind of behavior.
Several people stopped, Lin Xi subconsciously protected Chu Muqing in her arms.
Only then did she realize that the man seemed to have a serious injury to his right leg, and his left leg had been exerting force all the time. He seemed to be limping but he ran fast.
The old village chief scolded: "Dog boy! Go back to your house!"
The man was still running back and forth as if he couldn't hear him.
Guan Hanchuan frowned and asked, "What's going on?"
"Oh... he's a dog boy, he is a fool." The old village chief pointed to Guan Hanchuan's forehead.
The old village chief was about to arrest him.
"Wahu! Wahu!" the man shouted and suddenly jumped in front of Chu Muqing.
Lin Xi dodged and directly protected the person behind her.
The man looked at Chu Muqing blankly as if he could not see her warning gaze, his dull eyes seemed to have brilliance in an instant.
He grinned and smirked at Chu Muqing.
As he laughed, the saliva from his mouth also flowed down, dripping onto his red tattered sweater.
He smirked and tilted his head, shouting to Chu Muqing, "wife...hehe...wife..."
Lin Xi suppressed the urge to curse and looked at him coldly.
She really can't afford to compete with such a person.
The old village chief hurriedly smoothed things out. He pushed the man away and scolded, "Dog boy, don't bark!"
He was staggered by the old village chief, took a few steps back and almost fell but his eyes stayed on Chu Muqing from beginning to end.
Even though Lin Xi had someone behind her, she still stretched her head and tried to take a look at her.
The old village chief grabbed the man's arm again, pushed him and escorted him all the way into the house, slammed the door shut again and then came back and explained to a few people: "His brain is bad, he calls everyone wife when he sees them."
After hearing this, several people were in a bad mood.
Lin Xi shook Chu Muqing's hand soothingly.
Guan Hanchuan said impatiently, "When will we arrive?"
"There is a mountain in front of you, cross the mountain and then cross the river, that's all."
The old village chief pointed to the distance with his wrinkled index finger, the nails were full of dirt, Guan Hanchuan took a look and immediately retracted his gaze.
"Isn't it very far? Don't you have to walk up to that mountain for thirty minutes?"
"Where do you need to go so far, you can get close from below."
Guan Hanchuan was puzzled: "What is below? Underworld?"
The old village chief said quickly: "I don't want to offend Lord Yama, it won't take that long to walk through the tunnel and five minutes will pass."
Guan Hanchuan took a deep breath: "Whatever."
They followed the old village chief all the way into the tunnel. It was very dark when they first went down. The old village chief was prepared and took out a flashlight.
When the light came on, Lin Xi carefully helped Chu Muqing down the steps.
The tunnel is very long, and it is not difficult to see that it was artificially excavated for combat during wartime by taking advantage of the weak light from the flashlight.
It took less than five minutes to pass through. Although there was a musty sour smell inside, it was much easier than climbing that low mountain in the cold winter.
After leaving the tunnel, the air outside finally smelled better.
Lin Xi looked up at the gloomy sky and then looked at Chu Muqing, who had been silent.
Across the bridge ahead is the house where Chu Muyun was burned to death.
The entire Tongshao Village had never been demolished. After Chu Muyun's death, the burnt down house had been preserved and no one had ever entered.
Before coming, Guan Hanchuan and the old village chief talked on the phone. The old village chief said that the villagers in that house were unlucky and no one usually went in.
After Chu Muyun died, she was carried to a nearby cremation site by the people in the village, and she originally wanted to be cremated directly.
Later they didn't know who called the police but was stopped halfway by the local police station and then sent to the funeral home. After the local forensic examination, it was finally determined as suicide. After the identity was identified, the Chu family was notified. .
This is the superficial information that Lin Xi knew about that year.
"Let's go." Chu Muqing took the initiative to speak.
Lin Xi frowned, then turned to look at the mountain that blocked the road and asked the old village chief, "Do you walk through the tunnel?"
The old village chief said triumphantly: "Yes, all the people in our village will take shortcuts. If you come again in the future, I will take you over here but the outsiders will climb the mountain."
However, as soon as the old village chief finished speaking, a figure appeared at the entrance of the tunnel.
The man put his palm on the ground and jump up.
The old village chief was stunned.
A strong man with eyes, not a native.
The man looked at Lin Xi's position and looked at each other. Lin Xi politely smiled at him: "Officer Luo."
Luo Yanyu ignored her but bent down, stretched out a hand to the entrance of the tunnel and pulled the woman and the long-haired woman was pulled up by him.
After the woman landed, she tidied up her clothes and patted the soil on her body. Her movements were extraordinarily elegant.
Then, her eyes fell on Lin Xi, and she said with a smile on her lips: "Miss Lin Xi, I just said we will see you soon."
She said, walking towards Lin Xi's direction.
When she got closer, she looked at Chu Muqing, then took the initiative to reach out, winked at Lin Xi, and said with a smile, "It's really a coincidence."
Lin Xi reached out and shook hands with her, smiling lightly: "It's a coincidence."
Luo Yanyu then came over and looked at Lin Xi's face.
When Professor Luo and Lin Xi shook hands, Chu Muqing couldn't help but look at the woman in front of her. The other person should be no more than 30 years old with fair skin and a smile on her face. She smiled like a spring breeze and she have a nice feeling of getting along.
"My name is Luo Fei." After releasing Lin Xi's hand, Professor Luo took the initiative to extend her hand to Chu Muqing: "Hello."
Chu Muqing politely shook hands with her: "Hello, Chu Muqing."
After a brief chat, Luo Yanyu had already taken out his credentials and said to the old village chief, "I'm Luo Yanyu, the head of the serious crime team, here to investigate Chu Muyun's case."
The old village chief was stunned for a while, and then said in astonishment, "But didn't you say that you will only be here tomorrow? Why are you here now?"
Luo Yanyu glared at Lin Xi, originally they were going to come tomorrow but because of Lin Xi.
But Professor Luo analyzed that if Lin Xi was also here for Chu Muyun's case, she would have come here first and she would have come here earlier.
Lin Xi looked at him with cold eyes and was suddenly a little baffled.
Luo Yanyu turned to the old village chief and said, "lead the way."
"Okay then, why do we all rush together..."
The old village chief muttered but still led the way obediently ahead.
Walking with Luo Yanyu and this professor named Luo Fei, they walked in front, while Lin Xi deliberately slowed down and followed behind with Chu Muqing.
Crossing the bridge, the old village chief took the initiative to point to an independent yard in front of Luo Yanyu and said, "It's there, comrade police officer, that's where people died at that time."
Hearing him say such words, Lin Xi clearly noticed that Chu Muqing's body trembled slightly but Lin Xi didn't speak but clenched her hand.
"How did Chu Muyun come to your village at that time?" Luo Yanyu asked.
"How do I know this, it's been so many years."
While leading the way, the old village chief said to Luo Yanyu.
Lin Xi took the initiative to speak: "Can the train ticket records at that time be found?"
Luo Yanyu didn't speak. It was inconvenient for outsiders to be present when the police were handling the case. If Lin Xi wasn't Rong Lao's granddaughter, he would definitely clear them out.
Professor Luo thought for a moment and replied to Lin Xi's words: "There's no record. If there is a record, it will not even know when she came to Dongguan County."
"Well, thank you." Lin Xi gave her a grateful look.
Professor Luo smiled and shook her head.
Luo Yanyu looked at Professor Luo dissatisfied, and his eyes reminded her to stop talking.
Professor Luo shrugged helplessly.
Lin Xi thought of something, and asked the doubts in her heart: "Village Chief, I want to know why an outsider died with you, and the people from your village at that time took it directly to continue cremation, shouldn't you call the police first? "
The old village chief was stunned for a while, and immediately looked at Luo Yanyu subconsciously.
Luo Yanyu frowned and said, "don't look at me and answer her."
"It's our rule here. It's not a good death. Whether it's our local or not, it must be buried in the ground. The resentment of the province is heavy, and it will turn into a ghost and come back to harm others."
Whether Luo Yanyu believes it or not, Lin Xi absolutely does not believe this explanation.
"A reporter came to interview today, what is it for?" Lin Xi asked.
The old village chief hesitated: "It's nothing..."
In front of Luo Yanyu, Lin Xi wondered, "if its nothing why do you still want to kill the reporters and photographers of the TV station?"
Luo Yanyu frowned and looked at the old village chief coldly: "Is there such thing?"
The old village chief panicked and quickly said: "Nothing, Comrade Police Officer, they're just playing with the reporter... How dare they really kill people."
Luo Yanyu didn't understand what kind of medicine Lin Xi said about the reporter was sold in the gourd, but Professor Luo glanced at Lin Xi with the corners of her lips, pretending to be curious, "Why did the radio station come to interview? "
Seeing that the old village chief could not hide it, he could only tell the truth: "It was a child in the village who died and fell into the river and drowned. His father was going to marry him with a girl from the next village and it was also for the sake of inheriting the family... You city People may not understand."
Professor Luo smiled but her eyes were cold: "I don't quite understand."
"That's why the radio station is coming to interview. Of course, the big guy is not happy, so there's a conflict."
Professor Luo asked, "Is that child sent to the crematorium?"
"What?" The old village chief was stunned for a moment before he said, "Not yet, the marriage has not been decided yet. I am afraid that he will go down and no one will take care of him. Naturally, it will be settled before he can enter the soil."
Lin Xi was immediately surprised and said, "How can this work? According to your custom here, it's not a good death to drown in a river, right? afraid of becoming a ghost if you don't cremate it?"
"You-I..." The old village chief was speechless for a while, and added, "He's an honest boy, how could he be a ghost."
He only felt that these city people were ghosts, and the two women seemed to be acting as double reeds, and they were partnering to trick him.
Chu Muqing, who had been silent for a long time, looked at him and said calmly, "Then why did you rush to cremate Chu Muyun in the first place? Could it be that you did it?"
"Ah..." The old village chief was stunned by the question at this time,and his hands subconsciously went to his pockets, but he didn't have time to bring out the dry smoke, so he could only have a bitter face and explained to Luo Yanyu: "Nothing, Even if you're the police, you can't wrongly accuse us. Who knows what happened to that breeder, she was burned like that at that time, the big guy was afraid and wanted to send this wife to the ground as soon as possible. What's wrong..."
Chu Muqing frowned, looking at him with a cold gaze, her breathing tightened: "breeder?"
"What's wrong with breeder?"
Seeing Chu Muqing's face turning pale, Lin Xi immediately looked at the old village chief and reminded in a deep voice, "What else do you know?"
"It's nothing, that's all..."
The old village chief was confused, what's wrong with wife?
They have always called it that, the one who gives birth is the breeder, what's wrong?
Luo Yanyu gave Chu Muqing a warning look.
He wanted to say something but because of Lin Xi's presence, he didn't say anything, and strode forward.
"Officer, officer!"
The old village chief quickly followed behind, roaring anxiously while trotting, for fear that the police officer would suspect him.
"You can't wrong people. We didn't kill that breeder. If we did, we would be struck to death by a thunderbolt by God! Not a single child in the village can go to college!"
In Lin Xi and Chu Muqing's point of view, words like breeder were a contemptuous title especially for someone who had been dead for many years and that person was still Chu Muqing's sister.
Knowing that she was in a bad mood, Lin Xi said warmly, "Don't have the same knowledge as him."
"Lin Xi..."
Chu Muqing grabbed her hand tightly, her voice was a little choked but she couldn't say a word again.
At this moment, a young man's shout suddenly came from a distance.
"village head-"
The old village chief turned around when he heard the movement: "Hey!"
"The pig of Guanzao's house is running! That pig just ran away!"