Liu Laoer and Zhao Xiaoqi were in the same tent.

At this moment, a woman's gentle voice suddenly sounded outside the tent.

"Brother Liu, are you asleep?"

Did Xia Ping'er come to see him?

Liu Laoer smiled. Yesterday, that little bitch had been pestering him for most of the hour. She was a woman who was very good at dealing with men.

"Brother Liu, I'm going to go out for a while."

Zhao Xiaoqi is a man of few words. The three of them are not in the same group as Zhou Fuan. As old escorts who often take this exile route, the three of them have always been together and live in the same tent. Since Wang Laoba left, only Zhao Xiaoqi and Liu Laoer have lived together.

"This woman is so disobedient. I told her not to come to my place in front of everyone. But she just wouldn't listen. I'm really annoyed."

Liu Laoer spit on the ground, "Just stay here. Let her in."

Zhao Xiaoqi chuckled. He and Liu Laoer had been walking this path for several years. It was normal for female prisoners among the exiles to enter their tent.

Although Brother Liu was ruthless, he was very particular as a brother. Whether it was money or women, he never ate alone.

This is also the reason why he and Wang Laoba are determined to follow Liu Laoer.

"Come in."

As soon as Liu Laoer finished speaking, a young woman walked in from outside. There was a torch lit in the tent, reflecting on the woman's face.

Young and beautiful, but not Xia Ping'er.

Liu Laoer's eyes suddenly fell on the woman's belly.

The belly is slightly bulging, and looks like it's four or five months pregnant.

"I am a villager of Da Liuzhuang. My last name is Lu, and everyone calls me Widow Lu. I am here to look for Wang Lao Ba."

Da Liuzhuang, Widow Lu, and Old Bastard Wang.

These words instantly made Liu Laoer feel something was wrong. He turned his head and his eyes met Zhao Xiaoqi's. They both saw something ominous in each other's eyes.

"Myna's lover in Da Liu Village is called Widow Lu."

Zhao Xiaoqi said this to Liu Laoer, then turned to look at Widow Lu in confusion, "Why did you come here by yourself? We just finished our work. I was thinking about going out to your camp to look for the starling."

"You came to our village to look for Wang Lao Ba, but he didn't go to our village?"

Widow Lu looked at the two of them in confusion.

"We were in the woods today. When I ran into you guys, I looked around, but there were too many people. I didn't see Wang Lao Ba. So I came to look for him in the dark."

Liu Laoer's heart suddenly sank. "You said that you haven't been with Wang Laoba these days?"

"He is an official. He has official duties. How can he accompany me every day? Besides, I am a widow and I cannot keep a man from another family at home. If the villagers see me, they will spit on me and drown me."

At this point, Widow Lu's face turned grim.

"When I was in Murakami, I was afraid that others would notice it, so I didn't dare to go out. Suddenly, something happened. I had no choice but to go out. You can see that my belly is showing, and I can't hide it at all."

When Widow Lu said this, tears started to flow.

"That damned Wang Lao Ba only cares about pooping and not wiping. If it weren't for the earth dragon turning over and everyone being too busy to take care of themselves, I would have been put into a pig cage by the villagers. But he disappeared as soon as he left."

Widow Lu: Wang Laoba gave me the money, and I had planned to go to Hulin Town at dawn, but a sudden earthquake disrupted everything.

Liu Laoer asked in a deep voice.

"That night when you escorted the prisoners to live in our village, he came to my house, gave me money, and left me a note, asking me to go to Hulin Town the next morning to visit his sister. Since then, I haven't seen him again. I saw you set up camp, so I came all the way here to find you."

Liu Laoer and Zhao Xiaoqi looked at each other and immediately understood one thing.

Wang Laoba is gone. He died that night in Daluozhuang. It happened quietly. He was killed just like that.

Who would kill Wang Lao Ba? "Wang Lao Ba is dead. He died right after he left your house."

Liu Lao Er looked at Widow Lu.

Wang Laoba is dead, and this woman is pregnant with Wang Laoba's child. Wang Laoba has no wife, so this woman is Wang Laoba's wife.

The two old men of Liu are very bad, but he is very generous to those who follow him wholeheartedly.

"Dead? How did he die? Who killed him?"

Widow Lu's legs went weak and she sat down on the ground.

Why is her life so miserable?

After her parents died, she was only thirteen years old when her grandmother sold her to Lu Dayou, an outsider in Da Liu Village. As a result, she was beaten and scolded every day for three years after her marriage, until Lu Dayou and his bad mother died. She, a sixteen-year-old orphan, became the widow of Lu. The men in the village wanted to take advantage of her, and the women scolded her for looking like a foxy woman who only seduced men from good families.

Speaking of which, she met Wang Lao Ba because Wang Lao Ba forced her...

Later, she got together with Wang Lao Ba. Because of Wang Lao Ba's protection, she found that people in the village no longer dared to bully her, and were even a little afraid of her.

Because she had offended her, the next time when Wang Laoba escorted prisoners past Da Liuzhuang, she only had to complain to Wang Laoba, and that family would be in trouble.

Although Wang Laoba may seem rude, he is extremely good to her.

After a few interactions, Widow Lu followed Wang Laoba wholeheartedly.

Now she has Wang Lao Ba's child. Wang Lao Ba has only an old mother at home, who lives with Hu Linzhen's sister. He married a wife in his early years, but she died early.

Now, Wang Laoba is gone too.

Widow Lu cried and then she started to laugh.

No wonder my grandmother and mother-in-law both scolded her for having a hard life and said she was unlucky.

"Don't cry. Tell me first. That night, after Wang Laoba left your house, did anything suspicious happen to you? Do you think it was done by someone from Da Liuzhuang?"

Zhao Xiaoqi was very careful. "Tell Brother Liu who killed the Eighth Brother. Brother Liu will definitely avenge Old Eighth Brother. Don't cry. Don't worry, since you are pregnant with the Eighth Brother's child, Brother Liu and I will not ignore it."

"No, I don't think it was done by the people of Da Liuzhuang."

Widow Lu stopped crying and carefully recalled the details of the past few days.

"The people of Da Liu Zhuang hated Wang Lao Ba because they not only robbed the people of Da Liu Zhuang of their property, but also harmed their women. However, these days, the people of Da Liu Zhuang saw my bulging belly. They all knew that the baby in my belly was the official's. But the people of Da Liu Zhuang, including the village chief and the elders, did not want to punish me. This shows that they were afraid of offending me and angering the official to take revenge on them. This shows that they did not know that Wang Lao Ba was dead."

"It wasn't someone from Da Liu Zhuang who did it. Who else was there in Da Liu Zhuang that night who would have killed Wang Lao Ba?"

Liu Laoer's face was gloomy. Zhao Xiaoqi recalled what happened that day and his expression suddenly changed.

"Brother Liu, I remember now. Myna and I were selling steamed buns together that day. Myna made advances towards the second lady of the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion who came to buy steamed buns. The second lady looked very strange at that time, as if she wanted to kill myna. Could it be that the second lady sneaked out that night and killed myna?"