The next day, the idiot
Lin Chaoying instructed Jiang Chuangu to take good care of the elderly, and then she and Qian Fei ran out of the room in a flash.
The old woman asked, "What's wrong?"
Jiangchuan Valley reassured them, "They have some personal matters to attend to."
They circled the courtyard but saw no one. The compass needle kept shaking and then pointed behind the two of them. Strangely, behind them was a main road with no one in sight.
Qian Fei asked in disbelief, "Is this some kind of ghost? Is the compass broken?"
Lin Chaoying closed her eyes, and her ears were instantly filled with noise. She kept concentrating, filtering out all possible noises, and searching for different sounds around her... Slowly... very light footsteps walked further and further away from her.
No! She opened her eyes, but there was no one in front of her!
She asked, "Would the superpower be invisibility?!"
Qian Fei cried out in alarm, "How are we supposed to find this?!"
Lin Chaoying stared at the road ahead, holding her breath as she searched for the footsteps that shouldn't be there. Suddenly, the footsteps, accompanied by the sound of wind, grew farther and farther away! She grabbed Qian Fei's hand and followed the faint running sound, running towards the back mountain.
The woods were filled with birdsong, insect chirps, and rustling leaves—a cacophony of sounds that Lin Chaoying could barely make out. Then, a soft "crack"—she quickly caught it, pointing to the approximate location with Qian Fei.
Without saying a word, Qian Fei used his telekinesis to control the leaves on the tree, trying to surround the air behind the tree. The leaves gathered into a circle, slowly converging into a point. Lin Chaoying heard the soft rustling sound of footsteps moving on the grass, realizing that the other party had already dodged away.
Looks like speed is the only way!
She ran behind the tree, forcing the other person to move and change positions. As expected, a series of noises proved that he had moved to a distant location. Lin Chaoying had already prepared the hidden arrow that Jiang Chuan Gu had given her on her wrist. She raised her arm, closed her eyes, and followed the sound she heard, as if she could see the form of that invisible figure.
"Bang—" She shot towards the humanoid gust of wind, and heard a scream of "Ah—" as the male form was revealed, lying on the ground clutching his arm.
Upon seeing the man, Qian Fei instantly used countless tree branches to embed them into the ground, firmly pinning him in place and rendering him unable to move.
As they got closer, they realized it was a face they recognized.
Wangyu.
Qian Fei exclaimed in shock, "The Wang family has people with supernatural abilities?"
Wang Yu lay on the ground, saying resentfully, "This is a gift from the river god!"
Lin Chaoying crouched down, scrutinized him, and asked, "River God? Who told you that invisibility was a gift from the River God?"
Wang Yu: "Of course, it's the river god himself who came."
Qian Fei looked at him like he was an idiot, picked up a stick and tapped his wound, "Okay, so what did the river god tell you?"
"Ah-!" Wang Yu cried out in pain, and honestly said, "Brother! It's my brother! I knelt at the River God Temple for three days and suddenly discovered that I could become invisible. My brother told me that!"
Qian Fei, acting like a scoundrel, asked, "Oh? Which brother of yours?"
Wang Yu: "Village Chief Wang Shao."
Lin Chaoying laughed and said, "This village chief is really interesting. He explains the phenomena in the village to us with science, but he also frantically tells the villagers about the existence of the river god?"
Wang Yu said angrily, "You are not allowed to insult the River God!"
Qian Fei: "Behave yourself!"
Lin Chaoying tilted her head, too lazy to argue with the brainwashed madwoman, and asked, "Did you kill Wang Gao?"
"He offended the river god!" Wang Yu shouted, his eyes wide. "My uncle was friends with the river god! How dare he dig up my uncle's grave!"
The uncle he mentioned must be the old village chief, Shen Lin. Lin Chaoying deliberately asked, "Did you really kill him?"
Wang Yu snapped, "Bullshit! He committed suicide!"
Seeing his appearance and noticing a piece of yellow paper lying on the ground, Lin Chaoying asked Qian Fei, "Could you knock him out? I want to take him back to get information out of Wang Shao."
Wang Yu: "Hey! You're all doing this in front of me..."
Qian Fei grabbed his collar, raised his hand and chopped at his neck, knocking Wang Yu unconscious.
Recalling the River God Festival last night, when Qian Fei's compass also pointed in the direction of the bride, Lin Chaoying had a bold guess: "When the compass pointed forward last night, we all thought it was because Wang Sui had superpowers. Do you think it might be because Wang Shao has superpowers? After all, we were both in front of him at the time!"
Qian Fei dragged Wang Yu out, pulling him by the hand and scraping his lower body against the ground, like dragging a dead fish, and pulled him back. "Maybe." She looked back and asked, "Shall we go straight to the village chief's house like this?"
"Okay." Lin Chaoying texted Jiang Chuangu, asking him to find an excuse to leave and wait for them at the village chief's door.
When Qin Ming saw Qian Fei dragging people in, he was so frightened that he was numb. He exclaimed in horror, "I sent you to get information, not to commit violence!"
Qian Fei pushed him away and threw Wang Yu into the yard. The villagers in the village chief's house had all left, leaving only Wang Shao and Wang Fei tidying up the yard.
When Wang Shao saw that there was blood on Wang Yu, he immediately exclaimed in alarm, "What! What's going on here!"
Lin Chaoying deliberately made a bitter face and said, "We couldn't find Wang Ge, so we said we were going to the back mountain to clear our heads. We didn't expect to see this guy digging up someone else's grave! We thought he was a bad guy, so we knocked him out and brought him back. Village Chief, please take a look and see if he's in cahoots with Wang Gao!"
Qian Fei covered his mouth and asked, "There are graves on the back hill? I didn't see any?"
Lin Chaoying covered her mouth and said casually, "I guessed because I saw yellow paper."
Qin Ming pointed at the person on the ground and asked, "Where is our clinic? Should I take him there to have a look?"
"Okay, okay!" Wang Shao pointed to the road outside and said, "Just walk to the end."
With his back to Wang Shao, Jiang Chuan Gu secretly said to Lin Chao Ying, "He doesn't care about his younger brother either. He even had an outsider remind him to see a doctor when he was injured?"
Wang Shao looked as if he had aged ten years, and said bitterly, "That's my cousin. He was probably digging up the grave to find the Book of Immortality."
Lin Chaoying said considerately, "Village Chief, I shouldn't comment too much on this matter, but as Wang Ge's friend and uncle, I'm just being straightforward and have no other intentions. If the Book of Immortality is really in your father's grave, you should take it out sooner rather than later and tell the villagers. Otherwise, people will be digging up the grave every few days, which will be a real bother to your uncle!"
Wang Shao didn't react much, only saying, "No, let me think about it..."
“Interesting.” Lin Chaoying whispered to the two of them, “I suspect that the Book of Immortality is not actually in the old village chief’s grave. It might just be a smokescreen.”
Qian Fei: "Where else could it be? Could it really be on Wang Ge?"
Jiang Chuan Gu: "Wang Ge hasn't shown up yet?"
Kong Yue walked over, pretending to hand them a few brooms, and said, "There's another possibility: the grave isn't on the back hill."
The three were surprised: "Huh?"
Kong Yue said, "When I came back to help them pack, I heard Wang Fei ask Wang Shao whether Mom was buried in the back hill or with her uncle's family..."
Lin Chaoying suddenly realized, "No wonder he didn't react when I said he was at the back mountain, and he didn't have any objections to Wang Yu either."
Qian Fei seized the opportunity to say, "That Wang Yu is a superhuman; he can become invisible. We suspect Wang Shao is also extraordinary..."
Kong Yue complained, "What kind of village is this?"
A villager suddenly rushed in through the door, shouting anxiously, "Village chief—something's happened—"
This village is always getting into trouble! Lin Chaoying is getting PTSD from all this!
Qian Fei was equally startled. "Has someone died again?!"
Kong Yue covered her mouth and said, "Ptooey, ptooey, ptooey!"
The group followed the village chief at a jog and arrived at the entrance of the river god temple, where they were all instantly dumbfounded. A man was kneeling on the ground, his limbs bound, and a large rag stuffed in his mouth.
Lin Chaoying recognized him and said, "Isn't this the tavern owner? The one who sold her a bottle for a thousand yuan."
Standing beside him was Wang Bo, who was holding a megaphone and a stick in his other hand. He shouted, "Wang Ge! Get out here! Your wife hanged herself in the river back then because she committed the cardinal sin of betrayal and was punished by the river god! If you're a man and want revenge, go find Qiu Chen! Why did you kill an innocent person! Everyone in the village knew that your wife seduced the outsider! If you have a grudge, take it out on him! Why did you hurt your own family!"
Wang Shao shouted, "Wang Bo! What are you doing! Get down here!"
"Who dares to come up here!" Wang Bo smacked Qiu Chen on the head with a blunt object. "Get the hell away from me! Wang Shao, you're a coward too! You know Wang Ge is back for revenge! You still dare to protect him! You don't care about your wife's life or death! Zhuang Huan only saw Wang Ge's girlfriend cheating by accident back then! If that woman hadn't cheated! If she had been more discreet! There wouldn't have been so much trouble! Zhuang Huan wouldn't be dead!"
Qian Fei was so angry that he was about to rush forward, shouting, "I'm going to fucking kill this Wang Bo! I can't stand the way he talks!"
"I don't feel comfortable listening to this either," Kong Yue advised her, "but maybe it really will lure Wang Ge out!"
"Qiu Chen—" the woman cried as she ran over, "Wang Bo! What are you doing! Let him go!"
Seeing the woman approach, Wang Bo struck Qiu Chen again with his stick, causing Qiu Chen to collapse to the ground, trembling in pain. Wang Bo shouted, "Your man couldn't control his lust! He's going to kill the whole village! I'm acting on behalf of Heaven!"
"Go to hell with your 'righteous indignation'!" Lin Chaoying was furious and stepped forward, cursing, "Wang Bo! Are you out of your mind? Do you think you're so righteous now? How ridiculous! I don't care what your relationship issues are! I'm asking you, did the police examine Zhuang Huan's body? Did they investigate the killer and reach a conclusion?! Nothing! You just use your pig-like brain to assume it was Wang Ge who did it, fine! Since that's the case! Go find Wang Ge and take revenge! Why are you beating around the bush and openly dragging women into this! Why are you cursing women! Don't you think she'll fight back if she's dead?!"
As she drew closer, Wang Bo tried to scare her away by tapping Qiu Chen again.
Having no relation to him, Lin Zhao ignored him completely. "Go ahead and hit him! You'd better kill him!" She shook off Kong Yue's hand that was trying to stop her, and pointed at him, cursing, "Your mouth is so filthy! Fine! I'll say you're shameless too! You were trying to seduce me by my bedside last night! I told you to get lost because you're ugly and old!"
Wang Bo, enraged and embarrassed, retorted, "What nonsense are you spouting!"
Lin Chaoying: "I'm telling you, you're so old! Seducing women! You're so shameless!"
The woman cried out, "Xiao Mei and my husband are innocent!"
Lin Chaoying: "Did you hear that! She said Xiao..." Realizing she had heard the name, it was as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over her. She suddenly calmed down and turned to meet Jiang Chuangu's gaze.
Both of them were taken aback!
She repeated the name: "Xiao Mei!"
"I remember hearing that name before." Jiang Chuangu instantly realized, "Wang Ge! He was Xiao Mei's boyfriend back then!"
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