Chapter 72 The Truth Comes Out

"Well, there is one more thing to confirm."

Xuguo spoke slowly. Xu Miaomiao looked at Xuguo who had been thinking silently and couldn't help but sigh, this child is too smart.

"Hey, why did you call me over, Xiao Guozi?" Song Weiwei looked at the boy in the yard, who called her over mysteriously but did not say anything.

"Don't call me Xiao Guozi!" The boy argued with Song Weiwei dissatisfiedly.

"Okay, okay." Song Weiwei waved her hands dissatisfiedly: "Since there is nothing else, I'm leaving."

"Wait." Xuguo's cheeks turned red, and after a long while, she spoke: "Help me find out something."

"What's the matter?" Song Weiwei looked at the little boy in front of her: "Why should I help you?"

"Anyway, we are helping Xu Miaomiao solve the case. If you don't want to, forget it." Xu Guo muttered and left. He didn't know why, but every time he got close to Song Weiwei, his heart beat very fast and he was so excited that he couldn't speak. Could it be that this woman knew witchcraft?

When she heard that it was about helping Xu Miaomiao, Song Weiwei also stopped and looked at Xu Guo and asked, "How can I help? Tell me."

As she spoke, Song Weiwei took a step closer to Xuguo.

The scent of Song Weiwei came into Xuguo's nose through the air, which made him startled. After a while, he whispered in Song Weiwei's ear.

"Hey, where's Weiwei?" Xu Miaomiao smelled curiously.

Everyone gathered together for dinner, but Song Weiwei was the only one missing.

Before Xuguo could answer, a figure suddenly appeared: "Hey, I'm so tired."

Song Weiwei took a deep breath, drank the teacup on the table, picked up a piece of meat from the plate and put it in her mouth, then sat comfortably on the stool. She hurried and luckily did not miss dinner time.

"Oh, what have you been doing? You're sweating all over." As she said that, Gu Yuanniang took out a handkerchief and wiped Song Weiwei's forehead.

"Weiwei, where are you going?" Xu Miaomiao also asked.

"How is the thing I asked you to ask about going?" Xu Guo said to Song Weiwei.

Xu Miaomiao looked at the two of them in confusion. Why did she feel that these two people were weird?

"I asked Aunt Li at the entrance of the village, but to no avail, I went to Aunt Wang to ask. After searching for a long time, I finally got some clues."

Song Weiwei took another sip of water to slow down, then she spoke: "This Dong Qi is a gambler. When he was young, he tricked Xie Ziqi into marrying him. Luckily, nothing happened at first, but after a few days, Dong Qi went out to gamble. When he ran out of money, he took Xie Ziqi's dowry, and ended up owing a lot of debt. Xie Ziqi gave birth to a girl at this time, but died before she could name her, so she married her to the dead child of the Wan family."

"He's not even one year old yet, and he's already had a ghost marriage?" Xu Miaomiao said with some surprise. She really couldn't understand the thinking of this era.

"Yes." Song Weiwei took a deep breath and responded, "The Wan family gave their family a huge sum of money. Dong Chong used the money for his daughter's coffin to gamble again and was scolded badly."

Xu Guo's eyes darkened, and he thought carefully about Song Weiwei's words: "Are there any rumors recently?"

"By the way, there are rumors that Dong Qi killed their child for money." Song Weiwei shuddered as she spoke, "It's scary to think about it. This father is such a piece of shit."

"Did Xuguo ask you to find out all this?" Xu Miaomiao asked.

Song Weiwei nodded and said puzzledly: "I don't know why he asked me to ask these questions. I really don't understand."

Xu Guo lowered his head and said nothing, and Xu Miaomiao also fell silent.

If this child was killed by Dong Qi, then can we say that he was also the one who killed Xie Ziqi, Xu Miaomiao thought secretly in her heart.

At night, Xu Miaomiao was cleaning up the dishes when she saw Xuguo walk in: "Why, are you hungry again?"

Xu Miaomiao spoke gently, but the boy shook his head: "We are going to find the child's body today."

"Midnight?" Xu Miaomiao was a little shocked. Although she didn't believe in ghosts or gods, it was scary enough in the middle of the night.

"Yes, it might not be convenient during the day." Xuguo responded.

Seeing that he was simple, Xu Miaomiao didn't say much and prepared to leave with her things.

Xu Miaomiao followed Xuguo all the way to a cemetery and was frightened by the sudden cold air.

"Here."

Xuguo opened his mouth slowly, calling Xu Miaomiao. The two of them dug up the soil, revealing two small coffins. Xu Miaomiao silently felt sorry for the child, while opening the coffin containing the girl.

"We just need to find out how he died." Xuguo responded from the side.

Xu Miaomiao nodded and immediately started tinkering with the medicine box.

As the sky was about to brighten, Xu Miaomiao finally started to think: "He didn't die of illness."

Xuguo's eyes lit up: "Sure enough, what was the cause of death?"

"It was suffocation." Xu Miaomiao said slowly: "Look, it's obvious that someone pinched her neck and strangled her to death."

Xu Miaomiao sighed. She never thought that Dong Qi was so cruel that he strangled his own child to death for a few hundred taels of silver.

"What's next?" Xu Miaomiao spoke slowly. She seemed to have gotten used to it these days. Everything was going smoothly.

"Go to court!" Xuguo said firmly.

A beam of light hit the back of his head. From Xu Miaomiao's direction, his face looked very dark. The serious expression made Xu Miaomiao stunned. Bao, Justice Bao?

When they came to their senses, they were already standing in the court.

"Xu Miaomiao, you are in a hurry to try the case, but have you found anything?"

"Yes." Xuguo said from the side: "Xie Ziqi committed suicide."

"Haha." Dong Qi, who was standing by, heard a sneer and thought he had found out something, but he didn't expect it to be suicide. It seemed that Xu Miaomiao was just that bad. Dong Qi changed his face and squeezed out two tears: "You are talking nonsense! She was obviously killed by you, my poor wife."

"Haha." Xuguo was not in a hurry and took out the wooden stick and handkerchief found in his house: "Dong Qi, do you still recognize what this is!"

Dong Qi was stunned when he saw the stick, and then he went forward angrily to catch Xu Guo: "Okay, you sneaked into our house, what do you want to do!"

"General, stop him." The county magistrate on the stage was listening attentively and immediately ordered his men to control him.

"Go on."

Xuguo bowed and looked at the man and continued, "Dong Qi has been beating his wife, and the neighbors can prove it."

"And this is the weapon used to beat her." Xuguo came out with a stick, "And he was addicted to gambling, and when he was short of money, he brutally killed his own children and gave them to others as ghost marriages."

"You're talking nonsense!" Dong Qi struggled to speak: "Who would kill their own child?"

"You will." Xuguo said, "We have verified that the girl was strangled to death, and Xie Ziqi committed suicide because she couldn't bear it. This is what she used to commit suicide."

As she spoke, Xuguo presented a packet of rat poison, which was found in Dong Qi's home.

(End of this chapter)