Chapter 317 Encounter
Listening to Tang Wei's confession, Marquis Wuning's eyes turned red. If he had a knife in his hand, he would have chopped this rebellious girl who brought shame to the Marquis's mansion into pieces.
But the yamen runners stopped him, and he could do nothing but feel angry and depressed.
"What is the identity of the first victim?"
Tang Wei said confidently: "How could I know him?"
Liu Tuiguan shuddered, thinking that the madman was truly unreasonable. He patiently asked, "What about their heads? Where did you hide them?"
"Hide?" Tang Wei raised an eyebrow, as if she found the question ridiculous. "Why hide a scratched thing? I had the maid throw it into the lake."
"In the lake?"
Tang Wei tilted her head and thought for a moment: "Oh, that release lake."
When the government sent people to Tianyuan Temple's release lake to salvage the animals, there was a huge crowd outside the temple.
Lin took Lin Hao and stood in the shade of the trees by the lake, watching many yamen runners go into the water to salvage under the scorching sun.
"Mom, you have always been afraid of heat. Why don't we go to the guest room to rest first? This lake for releasing fish is not small, and we don't know when we can fish it out. It will be troublesome if you get a heat stroke." Lin Hao advised.
Lin shook her fan and refused: "Let's wait and see, what if it is fished out just as we leave."
Lin Hao's mouth twitched slightly: "Then let's go out again."
Lin not only didn't listen, but took a step forward and said, "Mother wants to see it with her own eyes."
Lin Hao was silent.
No one can match a mother's curiosity.
Lin sighed softly, "It was mother who found these two poor girls. I want to see them see the light of day again."
Lin Hao reached out to support Lin, feeling a little ashamed.
It turned out that she had misunderstood.
"Of course, I'm also a little curious."
The mother and daughter didn't know how long they stood under the tree before they heard a commotion by the lake.
“Found it, found it!”
Lin rushed forward.
The person who went into the water came to the shore holding something in both hands. The white object was a bit dazzling under the strong sunlight.
As soon as he placed the object on the oilcloth that had been laid out earlier, the coroner who was waiting nearby came over.
The one who was faster than the coroner was Yan'er's mother.
"Yan'er, Yan'er!"
Some relatives and neighbors who had accompanied her pulled her back, and the lake was filled with the heart-wrenching cries of a mother who had lost her daughter.
Lin's heart ached. She couldn't help but hold Lin Hao's hand tightly and asked in a low voice, "Why don't you see the child's father?"
Lin Hao looked at the skull that had been salvaged and whispered, "Her family runs a store. Yan'er's father left the capital to buy goods and hasn't returned yet."
Lin sighed sympathetically.
The coroner quickly came to a conclusion: "Judging from the condition of the bones, he must have been dead for at least six months."
In other words, the skull salvaged was not Yan'er's.
When Yan'er's mother heard this, it was as if someone had suddenly strangled her throat. Her crying stopped, and was followed by even more shrill crying.
It was not until the afternoon that the second skull was finally salvaged.
Yan'er's mother rushed over and fell down after just one look. The yamen runners formed a human wall, and the onlookers, including Lin Hao, did not see the skull.
Qi Shuo walked over through the crowd and said, "Ah Hao, you go back with your mother-in-law first."
Lin Hao pursed his lips and asked, "Is it Yan'er?"
"It should be." Qi Shuo thought of the appearance of the skull. Even though he was used to seeing mountains of corpses and seas of blood on the battlefield, he still showed a complicated expression. He was also glad that Lin Hao and the others did not see it with their own eyes.
Lin Hao could easily imagine what a head thrown into the lake for a few days would look like. He nodded and said, "Then we'll go back first. You shouldn't go back too late."
Now that the truth of the case has come to light, Qi Shuo no longer needs to intervene in some of the final steps.
After the mother and daughter walked out of the Tianyuan Temple gate, Lin let out a long breath, "Ah Hao, you know Yan'er's family. Send someone to give Yan'er's mother some money later."
Money cannot buy back my daughter, but others can only use money to express their feelings.
"That girl from last year, is it possible to find out her identity?"
After watching the body recovery for most of the day, Lin Hao's mood was not cheerful anymore. "It's very difficult to find out. There was no one who met the requirements to report the case last year, and the victim is just a skeleton."
"Then let's donate some money so that she can have a place to rest in peace."
"Um."
Seeing Lin Hao's gloomy face, Mrs. Lin raised her hand and pinched her daughter's face. "Don't frown so often at such a young age, or you'll get wrinkles early. Come on, I'll take you to eat roast duck. There's a new restaurant on the front street that makes excellent roast duck."
Lin Hao was at a loss whether to laugh or cry.
Her mother was more worried than she was just now, but now she is in the mood to eat roast duck.
As if guessing what Lin Hao was thinking, Lin said, "We've done our best, that's enough. We should always live a good life. After we finish eating roast duck and the weather is not so hot, we can go to the silver shop and have a look."
"Okay." Lin Hao smiled.
The roast duck in the newly opened restaurant is indeed excellent. The duck skin is crispy and the duck meat is tender. It is rolled together with cucumber and green onion shreds in a pancake as thin as a cicada's wing. It is fragrant but not greasy.
After a full meal, the mother and daughter were on their way to the silver shop when they were attracted by a team entering the city.
"Ah Hao, look, there's a person with yellow hair!" Lin pulled Lin Hao's sleeve.
"Oh, that one has blue eyes!" There were many people like Lin who were staring intently, and the excited and surprised discussions were buzzing like countless flying bees.
Those people were wearing strange clothes, and their hair color and eyes were completely different from the black-haired and black-eyed people of the Great Zhou. They caused a sensation when they walked on the streets of the capital.
Lin Hao had heard something, and pulling Lin who was trying to move closer, he said, "I heard from Ah Shuo that the imperial court is going to open up maritime trade. These foreigners might have heard the news and come to investigate."
"It turns out that foreigners overseas are really like yellow-haired monsters..." Lin murmured, not knowing what he was thinking about, and his eyes changed a little.
Lin Hao chuckled and pointed at someone in the team: "Not really, Mom, look at that person, he seems to be about the same as us."
Lin looked in the direction Lin Hao pointed, her mouth slightly open, forgetting to blink.
Seeing his mother staring at the black-haired, black-eyed man among the foreigners, Lin Hao pulled her and asked, "Mom?"
"Okay, pinch me."
"Mom, what's wrong with you?"
Lin Hao looked at the handsome middle-aged man walking in the team, listened to Lin's nonsense, and had an astonishing guess: Could it be that his mother fell in love with this foreigner at first sight?
Just as this guess arose, Lin raised his hand and threw something at the man.
Lin Haohan saw clearly the oil-paper bag thrown away by his mother, and his eyes went dark.
She didn't object to her mother finding another lover, but dear mother, if you want to attract people's attention, you can throw a sachet, how can you throw a roast duck?
As the oil-paper bag flew towards the man, there was a moment of commotion among the team and the onlookers, and then the oil-paper bag was easily caught by the man.
The pair of black eyes, which looked no different from those of the Great Zhou people but seemed out of place in the team, looked in the direction where the "hidden weapon" came from and saw Lin, who was stunned.
Lin Hao had the urge to pull her "guilty" mother and run away, but she saw the man with a look of surprise on his face, striding towards her.
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