Chapter 409: Husband and wife work together to solve the case 1 Sister, where is your lover? How...
Yao Zhizhi and Qi Changxiao caught a cold.
The two of them walked in the heavy rain for so long. Now the rain stopped. After a brief coolness, the heat slowly came back. The clothes on their bodies became a torture, wet and hot, making people feel uncomfortable all over.
By the time their clothes were almost dried by their body temperature, their immunity had completely collapsed.
Unable to hold it back, both of them sneezed. Although they covered their mouths with their hands to avoid making too much noise, Yao Zhizhi still keenly noticed that there was someone in the yard, so she had to quickly drag Qi Changxiao to take shelter at the door of the next door.
Just in case, she asked Yiyi to turn into a little snake and go back to the yard to guard it.
Soon, Yiyi came running over to complain that she had been discovered, and that the group of tomb robbers were actually hiding the stolen treasures and seemed like they might run away.
Yao Zhizhi pondered for a moment and prepared to go to Liu's house to ask for help.
In the past two years, Liu Hongwei's career has been going smoothly. He has moved to Yicheng with Yao Mengmeng and their children. Seeing their son's success, the Liu family naturally became proud and looked down on Yao Mengmeng in words and deeds. However, they did not expect that Yao Taotao was so rich that she actually gave Yao Mengmeng a house, allowing Liu Hongwei's family of five to have their own residence and completely take root in the city.
As a result, the Liu family naturally could not say anything arrogantly anymore, but instead treated Yao Mengmeng politely.
Yao Zhizhi and Yao Mengmeng have been getting along pretty well over the years, and since Yao Zhizhi still has her parents' face, it's quite easy for her to ask the Liu family to come and help block the enemy.
But what excuse should she give? Just tomb robbing?
Which tomb did they rob? It should be nearby. It seems that there was a prince in Yicheng in the past.
Unfortunately, Yao Zhizhi really couldn't remember what happened before she jumped into the river, so she could only remain confused. Anyway, the Liu family would definitely give her this face.
Just as she was about to turn around, the courtyard gate opened from the inside. A female comrade's cry for help stopped her in her tracks. She subconsciously turned around, and in the flickering candlelight in the main room, she could see a staggering young woman limping out from behind the door.
Almost instinctively, Yao Zhizhi reached out to support the woman. Suddenly, there was a woman's hand on Yao Zhizhi's wrist, squeezing her tightly, trembling slightly.
Yao Zhizhi asked suspiciously, "Hello, comrade, what's wrong with you?"
"I was cutting watermelon and accidentally hurt my leg, my leg..." Zhang Mingli knew that the best choice at this time was to keep silent, so how could she keep silent naturally?
Without a doubt, just faint.
So she fell on Yao Zhizhi's shoulder halfway through her words and pretended to be dead.
However, Yao Zhizhi was not so easily fooled. Just imagine, there were so many people in the room. Seeing a young woman injured, why was no one willing to lend a helping hand?
Whenever someone helped Zhang Mingli out, Yao Zhizhi would not become suspicious immediately.
She quickly used her other hand to push Qi Changxiao. Qi Changxiao understood and immediately called Yiyi, turning around and saying, "Wife, help her to the village entrance and wait for me. I'll borrow a car and take this comrade to the clinic."
After saying that, Qi Changxiao led Yiyi away. The man and the snake went around the back and stared at the back door of the house.
Sure enough, it was not an easy task for more than a dozen people to evacuate. Even though he delayed two or three minutes by going around from the side, he still caught up with the time when the last person left.
The man closed the door, carrying bags of gold and silver jewelry, and ran forward.
Qi Changxiao quickly called Yiyi to follow. As for Yao Zhizhi, he believed that she could fool Zhang Mingli.
What he needed to consider more right now was how to follow them at a close distance without alerting these tomb robbers.
Soon, he followed the group to the canal.
The waterways in Yicheng are crisscrossed and the water network is dense. Every commune has fish ponds and crab ponds, and the canal is an indispensable transportation route.
So if it were daytime, getting on a boat would be a piece of cake. However, it was now past two in the morning and the boatmen had already gone to bed. Even those who lived on the boat did not want their sweet dreams disturbed in the middle of the night.
So, when this group of people jumped into the water, Qi Changxiao deliberately picked up a handful of stones and threw them onto the black-sailed boat where people were living, and curses immediately rang out from the boat.
He even threatened to come out and beat someone up.
This provided Qi Changxiao with good cover. He quietly stepped into the water from the shore and followed in with Yiyi.
The night is the best disguise. When the dwarf looked back, he vaguely noticed that there seemed to be one more person in the team, but the dwarf quickly convinced himself that it must be the fisherman living on the boat who came to settle accounts with them.
Stop talking nonsense and swim faster.
So he paddled his short limbs desperately, racing against time.
Just like that, a group of people swam in front, and a man and a snake were chasing behind. When the dwarf and others got ashore at the dock about five kilometers downstream, they looked back and found that the people chasing them seemed to have disappeared.
The dwarf looked suspiciously at the miserable-looking woman in the group and asked, "Sister Hua, where are the people chasing us? Are they tired and don't want to chase us anymore?"
Mrs. Hua was wringing the water out of her shirt. Upon hearing this, she looked back and said worriedly, "There's no one chasing us. Maybe we've provoked a water ghost. Hurry up and find a place to stay. We've been exhausted tonight."
The dwarf said "oh" and quickly took Li Zhiqiang's hand, saying, "Boss, let's go and hide in Cuicui's house for a while. She's the only one left at home anyway, and no one will take care of her."
Li Zhiqiang did not take immediate action. He sighed silently, not knowing how serious his daughter's injury was.
This child is so filial. It's worth it for him to work hard just to leave some money for her to rely on.
Not knowing when they would see each other again after this separation, Li Zhiqiang turned around dejectedly, looking at the canal behind him with his empty eyes, feeling reluctant to leave.
But time waits for no one. The sky in midsummer always gets bright early. If they delay any longer, their whereabouts will easily be exposed.
He had to chase away the melancholy in his heart and ordered, "Everyone, go separately so as not to be too obvious. Meet near the tomb of King Wei in Weicheng at the end of the month. Remember, you must wait for me to arrive before going down to the tomb."
Everyone responded and then separated into groups of three or four at the dock.
Li Zhiqiang went with the dwarf to the home of a girl named Cuicui.
Cuicui is twenty-three years old this year. She is the niece of the dwarf. Her parents starved to death during the difficult times, so the child has been raised by the dwarf since she was a child.
Five years ago, a matchmaker arranged for Cuicui to marry a young man from the same village. Unexpectedly, the following year, the young man drowned while fishing. It was said that he was haunted by a water ghost, but no one knew whether it was true or not.
The young man's parents lost their son in their old age and were so traumatized that they almost couldn't survive. Fortunately, Cuicui was pregnant, so the old couple begged Cuicui to give birth to the child and leave a descendant for her husband.
Cuicui agreed, and the child was born safely. Unfortunately, the child died of a fever before he was one year old. The old couple completely lost hope, and they both passed away within less than half a year.
Now Cuicui really became a lonely person and a notorious jinx in the surrounding area.
Not only did no one dare to act as a matchmaker for her, but no one even dared to take advantage of the land her family farmed.
This is a very rare thing in rural areas. After all, many people of the older generation are tired of living a hard life, and they will definitely not hesitate to take advantage of others if they can.
For example, when farming, they would deliberately plant an extra row of corn in their neighbor's field. Or, during the harvest, they would secretly move the dog milk plant that separated the two fields by a foot or half a foot to the neighbor's field.
But this is not the case with Cuicui's land. The villagers would rather walk around her, for fear of being contaminated by her bad luck.
Li Zhiqiang and the dwarf went to her house to hide, and there was absolutely no one coming to disturb them.
When it was almost dawn, Cui Cui heard a knock on the door. She yawned and came to open the door. Seeing that it was her uncle and Uncle Qiang, she was very happy. She quickly invited them to the yard and went to the kitchen to prepare noodles.
She didn't ask what her uncle and Uncle Qiang were doing. She was a well-informed and interesting person.
When she finished cooking the noodles and came out of the kitchen with the bowl of rice, she was frightened by the white snake hanging upside down at the kitchen door. She screamed and even dropped the bowl in her hand.
The dwarf heard the noise and hurried out to take a look.
But Cuicui fell to the ground, motionless, as if she had fainted from fear of something.
In the middle of summer, apart from snakes, the most frightening poisonous creatures are centipedes, spiders, scorpions and other poisonous creatures. The dwarf did not think too much about it. He quickly helped his niece into the house, pinched her Ren Zhong point, and fed her sugar water, which finally woke her up.
He quickly asked, "Cui Cui, what's wrong?"
"Uncle, a snake, a snow-white snake!" Cuicui sat up crying and stretched out her hand to gesture the size of the snake.
The dwarf breathed a sigh of relief. It was indeed a snake. It was really no big deal. He quickly comforted Cui Cui and told her to have a good rest while he went to make breakfast.
Outside the courtyard, Qi Changxiao looked at Yiyi who had returned from swimming and quickly ordered, "Go back and ask your mother to come and help. I'll wait for you here."
Yiyi didn't move, just stood there, staring straight at Qi Changxiao.
The look in his eyes seemed to be saying: You stand out too much, you are in danger here, why don’t you go get some help and I will follow you.
Qi Changxiao hesitated for a moment, but still followed suit and turned away.
*
At the commune clinic, Yao Zhizhi had already helped Zhang Mingli, whose wound had been treated, to the ward.
Zhang Mingli looked at her curiously and asked, "Sister, where is your lover? Why hasn't he come yet?"
Yao Zhizhi was actually quite worried about Qi Changxiao, but with Yiyi around, nothing unexpected should happen, so she tried to remain calm and waited patiently to see what tricks this woman was trying to play.
She sneezed and laughed, "I guess I was tripped by the kids at home. There's nothing I can do. My two kids are both very clingy."
Zhang Mingli felt uneasy and didn't dare to ask them why they were hanging around in front of someone else's house so late at night. She just avoided the topic and asked, "Sister, what's your name? Are you from Yaowang Village?"
"I guess so." Yao Zhizhi said with a smile, "My name is Yao Ruzhen, just call me Sister Zhen."
Yao Ruzhen? I've never heard of this name, but Yaowangzhuang does have a lot of people with the last name Yao.
Zhang Mingli didn't think much about it.
She then asked, "Sister, are you familiar with the people in Lijiazhuang?"
Yao Zhizhi had a slight fever. She touched her forehead and said in a hoarse voice, "Lijiazhuang, some of my classmates are there. What's going on?"
Zhang Mingli thought for a moment and asked, "What's your classmate's name? Maybe I know him."
That's really possible.
Yao Zhizhi smiled and asked, "Do you know Li Jin? I was his deskmate for half a semester."
Huh? Zhang Mingli blinked and suddenly smiled. "Yeah, I know him. He used to come to my house often. But I heard he went to jail and died there. I don't know what sin he committed to die at such a young age."
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