Shen Jiaze couldn't help but be stunned: "How do you know these things?"

Li Yutong knew that he was smart and would definitely ask this question, so she had already thought of an excuse in advance: "I guessed it myself, because the old man is the most suspicious."

Shen Jiaze's expression also became serious: "Then what are you going to do?"

"Lure the snake out of its hole." She said, "In a few days, there will be a temple fair at our market. Every year, the temple fair invites a troupe of actors to perform. The last show will last until 8:30 p.m."

"When the show ends at 8:30, people from the nearby villages will go home in groups, but there are often people who are alone and go home to smear themselves. The old man will definitely wait for such people. After the smear is committed, the victim will not care about it because it is a shameful thing and has not seen the man's face clearly."

The old man got into trouble. In his previous life, it was more than ten years later that he was caught because of a murder case. During the interrogation, he confessed that he would take advantage of the activities held in the village to commit smear attacks at night almost every year.

This time at the temple fair, Lao Laizi will definitely not miss this opportunity.

Shen Jiaze looked at Li Yutong and suddenly thought: "Are you planning to be the bait yourself?"

Li Yutong was stunned for a moment.

Shen Jiaze suddenly felt angry: "No!"

She couldn't let that kind of person touch her. If that person had a knife in his hand, she would definitely get hurt.

Li Yutong waved her hands and said hurriedly: "How is it possible? I have thin arms and legs. People would catch me like a chick. What I mean is, find a short man..."

After listening to her plan, Shen Jiaze realized that he had been impulsive.

"Okay, I understand. I'll go back and discuss the plan with them now. Don't tell anyone about this, and don't go and check on the old man yourself, lest he get suspicious and do something bad to you again."

Li Yutong is not a child anymore. She knows the danger and nodded: "I know, don't worry."

Shen Jiaze then went back to discuss the matter with the person he had found.

The big guy is quite strange.

When they were about to take a look at the files, they thought that this was just a kid sent by the higher-ups to play with this. They knew that this boy had a special identity and that the authority of the elders in his family was higher than theirs.

If he wanted to see it, I let him see it. Unexpectedly, he uncovered a criminal case.

A meeting was held immediately to discuss the details such as how to investigate, how to ambush, how to arrest, which colleague to choose as bait, etc., and a perfect plan was summed up immediately.

Time flies and it is time for the Xujia Village temple fair.

Shen Jiaze has a special status. Sometimes when the teacher is absent due to some matters, he can still stand and teach two classes.

Therefore, when he asked for three days off, the teacher did not think that it would affect his learning progress, and the head teacher approved it immediately.

Shen Jiaze wanted to "take risks", and his cousin couldn't persuade him. He could only ask the police captain Huang Shichang to pay attention to his safety and send seven or eight good men to protect him.

The temple fair was really lively. The stage was packed with common people watching the opera. The huge speakers could broadcast the opera from one village to another. There were especially many old men and women, and many children running back and forth with laughter.

Both sides of the road were filled with food vendors from all over the place, people driving tricycles to sell fruits, clothes, hardware and groceries, and all kinds of other things. The market was more than five times larger than the usual market in Xujia Village, and the flow of people was so crowded that people were shoulder to shoulder.

Li Yutong followed Shen Jiaze for a few steps and found that too many people were looking at them, and the main person they were looking at was Shen Jiaze.

His clean and refined bookish air made him stand out from the frugal villagers around him.

"My mother is setting up a stall, so I'm going to help." Li Yutong slipped away.

Liu Lanxiang took this opportunity to set up the stall. She had already learned how to make such sesame cakes from her mother-in-law Chen Xiaoying. She also asked her second brother's sister-in-law Wang Xiaoqin to help. Wang Xiaoqin's mother came over to help light the fire. The three of them were actually busy enough.

Li Yutong said she was going to help greet people, but it was actually just an excuse to avoid Shen Jiaze.

There were quite a few people from her village at the market. If they saw her visiting the temple fair with a young man, they would definitely say something unpleasant.

Shen Jiaze had no choice but to follow his "brother" around the market, and before he knew it, it was dark.

It was only after dark that the main show began. It was a bustling market. Except for those stalls in the side yards that could not sell things because of the lack of electricity, after those stalls were removed, there was no sign of people dispersing around the stage at this end.

Huang Shichang was a local, from Huangjia Village, two villages away. Everyone knew him. He hid in the dark and followed Shen Jiaze, a man named Zhao Zhenwei, and quietly gestured to him to look at a person in the crowd.

"That's it."

After the opera singing sound was amplified by the loudspeaker, it was difficult to hear what most people were saying. Shen Jiaze followed his gaze and saw a person.

A short man of short stature, with a shaved head that had just grown some hair, a thumb-sized black mole on the corner of his forehead, and droopy triangular eyes. He looked around at the people with a greasy look on his face. While others were watching the show, he was sizing up the young women around him.

There was a flash of disgust in Shen Jiaze's eyes. He stared at her again with cold eyes before hiding in the crowd.

The old man was looking around greedily when he suddenly sensed a cold murderous aura. He subconsciously looked over and found that there was no one there and everything was normal.

The opera finally ended. By this time, Liu Lanxiang had already packed up her stall and followed the villagers.

"Xiao Yu, hurry up and don't walk alone after dark."

Li Yutong nodded: "Mom, I know, I will go with Xiaojuan and the others."

Xiaojuan is a girl of the same age as her in the village. She is still in school, but her classmates have stopped going and are planning to go out to work after the New Year.

Most girls in the village are like this. Unless they are very good at studying, their families are willing to support them. Otherwise, generally speaking, their families choose to support their brothers to study.

Liu Lanxiang was open-minded and didn't think too much about it, so she just let Li Yutong do what she wanted.

Li Yutong, however, told Xiaojuan that she was going to chase her mother and would not go with them.

Xiaojuan and the others didn't care.

There were fields all the way between Xujia Village and Lijia Village. At this time, most of the villages were still planted with fruit trees. The fields were pitch black, and the branches were so dense that you couldn't see anything clearly.

Li Yutong has already reunited with Shen Jiaze.

Shen Jiaze was a little angry, but he didn't say anything in front of the people around him. He just grabbed her hand.

Li Yutong was stunned for a moment.

"The path that the old lier takes."

"Let's go that way."

They had set up an ambush. The narrow path here could lead to Lijia Village. On one side was a person-high earthen wall, and on the other side was a fruit forest. If Lao Laizi took advantage of people's unpreparedness and dragged people from here into the depths of the fruit forest, no one would find them at all.

When everyone was ready to ambush, they found that the old man, who had been being followed, was lying at the bottom of a steep slope, hiding in a grass nest.

A long-haired woman walked slowly towards me from the other end of the dark path in the night. She seemed a little scared. When she hurriedly turned the corner and prepared to go downhill, a man suddenly appeared beside her, covered her mouth skillfully, and dragged her into the depths of the orchard.