Chapter 193
Lost
Looking at the newly formed pile of earth in front of him, Xiaoliu's face turned pale, but his eyes were red.
It was just a blink of an eye, and suddenly it became like this.
The doctor said that she was kicked hard in the heart and then fell to the ground, with the back of her head hitting a rock. The mother died almost immediately.
Even a great god is powerless to save the situation!
There were so many people there just now, and he saw with his own eyes that his eldest brother and sister-in-law took his mother away, so it must be them who killed his mother.
How can a person be so cruel?
He knew without thinking too much that it must be his eldest brother and his wife who forced their mother to ask whether she had hidden the money and where the money was. However, the money was simply made up by his father. Where could his mother get the money?
"Xiao Liu, what are your plans for the future?"
Seeing his sad and disbelieving expression, Shu Yun walked up to him and asked him softly.
Tears welled up in Xiaoliu's red eyes again. He looked at the two graves under the dim light not far away and said in pain.
"I have no idea."
In fact, among the six children.
The mother loves the eldest daughters the most. No matter what delicious or useful things they have, they are always close to them. The mother always says that the eldest daughters must feel bad because they don’t have children, so she treats them nicely.
But the eldest brother's family is so heartless that they can even kill their own relatives.
"Report to the police?"
Killing someone means paying with your life, that's how it is. If we let them go, they will become even worse in the future.
Listening to Shu Yun's questions, Xiao Liu didn't speak for a long time.
Jiang Zhaoying took out twenty taels of silver from her bosom and handed it to him.
"We should probably leave now. Please take good care of yourself from now on."
If they hadn't been exposed, they might have stayed one more night, but they could tell from the looks of the eldest brother and his wife that they were not good people, so they had to leave just in case.
"Xiao Liu, you shouldn't indulge them like this."
Shen Liuguang said in a deep voice that as an elder, one should be strict, and as a brother, one is one and two is two. This way, the other party will be afraid of him and he can be protected.
Xiaoliu held his head and didn't move for a long time. Everyone just stayed with him and didn't speak for a long time.
The sky gradually brightened, the rain stopped, and the blue sky gradually turned blue.
"let's go."
Cheng Ting'an turned around and looked around. Everything that needed to be cleaned up had been cleaned up, so everyone got up.
"I want to report to the police."
Xiaoliu suddenly raised his head, his sad face was filled with endless anger, his fists were clenched tightly, and he became excited.
"I have to report to the police. They usually take advantage of me. I can ignore my mother's preference for them, but I can't let them do it anymore. They made my father die."
Speaking of.
Xiaoliu changed into plain linen clothes and was about to go outside.
As a result, they had only walked a few feet away when they saw movement coming from the small path in the branches at the foot of the mountain, and then a long team ran towards them.
Leading the group were the eldest brother and his wife, followed by a middle-aged man dressed as a constable, and behind them were all yamen runners.
Xiaoliu hesitated all night and did not report to the police, but the eldest brother did it first and even brought the police over.
The eldest brother rushed over and looked left and right. When he saw the new pile of soil, his eyes lit up with joy.
"Did they bury the person? Did they clean up all the traces? We could clearly see blood on the slope we came to just now."
They were already very nervous when they reported to the police and brought people here. But now the two of them looked at each other quickly and suddenly became happy.
It’s better to bury it.
Once it's buried, there will be no trace left, so they can say whatever they want.
The eldest son’s wife burst into tears when she heard this.
"Mother, mother, why are you so miserable? Xiaoliu knew you wanted to come back to town to live with us, so he forced you to give him the money. That would have been fine, but he actually killed you. Mother, you died so unjustly."
In just a few words, the cause of the old woman's death was clearly stated.
For a while.
The officers and soldiers who came looked at Xiaoliu with contempt, surrounded them together and pointed at Xiaoliu.
"Everyone leave, take Cheng Liu away."
The bailiff stepped forward and grabbed Cheng Liu. Cheng Liu struggled, glared at his elder brother and sister-in-law with bloodshot eyes and yelled.
"How could you do this? How could you do this?"
"That was your mother who gave birth to you, raised you, and treated you the best. How could you have the heart to do that to her? It was you who killed your mother. It was you."
Speaking of.
Cheng Liu turned his head and looked at the constable, baring his teeth and speaking anxiously.
"My eldest brother and his wife took my mother away. Half an hour later, I went up the mountain to look for her and saw her lying in a pool of blood. There were shoe prints on her body and the back of her head had hit a big rock. They killed my mother."
"Nonsense, we saw you arguing with mother. You didn't want her to live in town with us. You also said that all the money mother saved must be left to you. You also said that you have been with her for so long and have been filial to her for so long, so the money should have been yours."
The bailiffs listened to the brothers' quarrel. For a moment, you looked at me and I looked at you, not knowing who was telling the truth.
The constable's brows suddenly turned cold. He looked up and saw the prince and Jiang Zhaoying. These two people had extraordinary temperaments and were obviously outstanding people. Why were there so many people in this room?
"Who are you?"
The constable pointed his knife at the prince and Jiang Zhaoying, and Shu Yun stepped forward and said.
"We went to stay with relatives and originally wanted to take a shortcut, but it rained heavily, so we rested here with the old woman. The old woman charged me 20 cents per person, and I paid her all."
"No, I didn't take any money, I don't even know you."
The eldest son's wife heard this and waved her hands hurriedly, and Jiang Zhaoying's eyes were slightly cold.
"She should still have unspent copper coins on her body. My Lord, you can find them by searching. The copper coins in the capital have special marks, which you should be able to see."
The constable was frightened when he heard this, and looked fiercely at His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Jiang Zhaoying, his heart beating fast. Daye has its own rules: the government's money has the government's stamp, and the people's money has the people's stamp.
But this matter is generally not talked about, and many ordinary people don’t even know the difference.
But she actually pointed directly at the mark, which meant that they came from the capital and used government money.
"search."
A loud shout.
The eldest brother's wife turned around and was about to run, but two yamen runners put their knives on the eldest brother's neck and said coldly.
"Either we search it, or you take it yourself."
The eldest son's wife's face suddenly turned pale. She glared at the two yamen runners. The runners smiled evilly, and the eldest son's wife was so frightened that she quickly threw out a purse.
The bailiff picked it up, poured out the money and looked at it. Just as he was about to speak, Jiang Zhaoying stepped forward, reached into her sleeve pocket, took out another coin bag and threw it into the bailiff's hand.
Pour it out and take a look.
really.
"That's not it, that's not it, that's the money I earned from working, it's my own money, it has nothing to do with them.
The bailiff ignored her and counted the money and the heads at the same time. When he found that they all matched, the constable's face turned gloomy.
Shen Liuguang raised his eyebrows.
"Actually, if you want to know who the murderer is, I have a way."
"you say."
The constable's tone suddenly became much more polite and cautious.
"There are footprints on the old woman's body. We just need to take out the soles of the two brothers' shoes and compare them, and we will know who kicked her."
When the boss heard this, he was immediately horrified and pointed at the grave.
"The person has already been buried, so there is no sign of shoe prints. Digging them up would be a great disrespect to filial piety, and a grave sin."
Shen Liuguang looked at Xiaoliu.
Xiaoliu was so angry that he was shaking all over. He glared at his elder brother hatefully, his eyes filled with disappointment and coldness.
"Sixth Brother, you can't kill someone and deny it. You killed both my father and my mother. You were afraid of being discovered, so you stayed in this damn place. Don't think I don't know."
"So what if we dig it out? The murderer is still you. Since you want to dig it out so much, I will do it."
The eldest brother rushed over, squatted down and pretended to dig the soil hard, crying as he did so.
Xiaoliu roared angrily as he looked at the fist-sized piece of soil that his elder brother had dug out after a long time.
"Stop pretending, brother. Mother is not buried at all."
"Who are you trying to fool? I saw you bury it with my own eyes."
The boss turned around and yelled. As soon as he finished speaking, a chill suddenly ran through his body and all eyes fell on him.
His face changed drastically, and Xiaoliu pointed inside the house.
"Mother's body is in there. Go and see how she died."
The buried one was a scarecrow, wearing the mother's clothes.
They originally planned to bury the old woman for real, but they said that the eldest brother and his wife had not left at all, and were hiding not far away and watching them, so they dug a hole and buried the fake old woman. Later, Jiang Zhaoying gave him silver, and the eldest brother and his wife became greedy again, which attracted the soldiers.
And this.
Just what they wanted.
The constable waved.
The bailiffs turned around and went in, and indeed saw the old woman's body. After a careful inspection, they found a shoe print on the old woman's chest, and a shoe-shaped purple-red color appeared on her heart skin.
The boss's legs suddenly began to tremble when he saw the scene in front of him. He wanted to escape as his eyes rolled back. However, he didn't dare to walk as there were cold knives all around him.
The yamen runners first compared the prints with Xiaoliu's shoes, but Xiaoliu's shoes were much bigger than the prints, so they then captured the boss for comparison.
It won't take a moment.
The results are clear at a glance.
The constable raised his hand and slapped the boss in the face, saying angrily.
"You are the thief crying thief, you think we are fools? I have been a detective for nearly ten years, I have solved hundreds of cases, if not thousands. Do you think I am so easy to fool?"
When the eldest brother's wife saw that the matter was exposed and she knew she couldn't escape, she hurriedly pointed at the eldest brother and shouted.
"It was him. He was the one who did it. He said the old woman must have hidden a lot of money and he must find a way to make her give it up. But the old woman said she had nothing. He was so angry that he slapped her and kicked her. That's how it turned out."
When the boss saw this, he was so angry that veins on his forehead popped.
"Didn't you say all that? It was you who said that mother had saved a lot of money privately. It was you who said that everything that belonged to mother should belong to you. It was you who instigated me to do all that. You forced me to do it."
"When did I force you?" The eldest daughter-in-law bared her teeth and shouted, "I have always been filial to my mother and treated her well, otherwise she would not have given me her bracelet."
As she spoke, the eldest son's wife raised her hand, revealing a bracelet of very beautiful water color.
The moment Jiang Zhaoying saw the bracelet, she took a few steps forward, grabbed her hand, and stared at the bracelet. The eldest daughter-in-law struggled anxiously.
"This is my property, you can't take it away. Let me go."
Seeing this, Xiaoliu rushed forward with a cold face and snatched the bracelet away.
"What did your mother give you? You stole it, you shameless thief. You stole my mother's things."
"Okay, I don't have time to watch you quarrel here. The facts are set. Take the couple away. As for you, Cheng Liu, bury your mother properly."
"Thank you, sir."
Xiaoliu bowed and when he turned around, tears couldn't help but flow out.
Outside, the eldest brother and his wife screamed hysterically. Xiaoliu held his mother's cold hand tightly and began to cry softly.
Jiang Zhaoying walked in holding the bracelet and asked him.
"Xiao Liu, this is not something that ordinary people have. Is this really your mother's?"
She always felt that she had seen this thing somewhere, but it had been so long that she could hardly remember where.
"Yes, these are my mother's things. She hid two more things and said she would give them to her after I got married."
Xiaoliu hurriedly got up, opened the small cabinet, then touched the secret chamber. After opening it, he took out a small cloth bag from it. After opening it, he saw a hairpin and a small jade pendant.
Jiang Zhaoying took it, looked at it carefully, and then a look of astonishment flashed in her eyes.
"I remember your mother said that she also ran away from marriage."
"yes."
Jiang Zhaoying handed the jade pendant to the prince.
"There is a mark of Danyang Palace on this jade pendant. Could it be that Xiaoliu's mother is from Danyang Palace?"
“It should be.”
Xiaoliu seemed to recall for a while, then nodded heavily.
"When I was young, my mother mentioned the King of Danyang once, and then I never heard her mention him again. But I know that my mother and father are not cousins. They said they were escaping from marriage, but it was more like escaping for their lives."
It was precisely because they wanted to escape that they came to this remote valley and lived there for decades, not daring to leave the mountain.
Jiang Zhaoying raised her eyes to look at His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and an idea quickly formed in her mind.
If I'm not mistaken.
His mother should be the nanny or wet nurse of Princess Danyang, but it is unknown why she escaped with others and became their husband and wife.
"Xiao Liu, did the old woman tell you who she worked for when she was young and why she left?"
Xiaoliu shook his head.
"No, my mother kept her mouth shut about the past. Even when she talked about it with my father, she kept it from a distance. I couldn't hear it at all. But my father seemed to have kept something until now."
Xiaoliu said this and stood up and walked towards his father's grave outside the door. He dug up the stone in front of the grave and took something out of it.
"It's a talisman."
"This seems to be the mark of the Danyang King's guards."
Shen Liuguang knew all the talismans of the entire royal family by heart, and could tell at a glance that this was something from the Danyang Palace. Then everyone looked at Xiao Liu in a daze, not knowing what to say for a moment.
Xiaoliu silently got up to bury his mother. Jiang Zhaoying stood at the door and sighed softly.
"I could have saved her."
If she asked the mountain god for help, she could extend the old woman's life for a year or two, but this would come at a price.
"It's right not to save her. Everyone has their own destiny. Even if she is saved, how long can she last at her age? Since she escaped, she must have lived in fear for these years. It may not be a bad thing to be able to reunite with her husband after she leaves."
Jiang Zhaoying nodded and walked towards Xiaoliu who was filling the grave.
"There are some issues with your mother and father's origins. Xiaoliu, are you willing to come with us?"
Princess Danyang's son and daughter have been missing for so many years. Maybe the old woman and her husband took them away and they just got separated.
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