"Third Brother, I don't know either. Xiao Hua said he saw it. He went into the water, but I didn't," Gu Xiliang answered honestly.
Just then, Gu Wenxi rode his bicycle past them.
"Brother Wenxi, where are you going so fast?" Gu Xiliang called out.
"Go to the police station to report this." Gu Wenxi left these words and quickly rode away on his bicycle.
Gu Xilan was stunned, completely dumbfounded: "Really, really someone is dead?"
"Hmph—now you believe me, right?" Jiang Jinhua said arrogantly, and walked straight into the Gu family's house.
He also wanted to know what other skills Xiao Hei had.
...
On the riverbank, a sturdy villager stood soaking wet in the crowd.
Everyone surrounded him, asking him all sorts of questions.
Are there really dead people down there?
Do you know that person?
"Damn it, who is so cruel as to sink someone to the bottom of the river?"
"..."
Everyone asked questions at once.
That's when everyone realized that there really was a dead person down there, and it was a woman.
Such a thing has never happened in their village.
This is big news.
Just as it was time to finish work, everyone lost interest in continuing and started chatting.
Nobody wanted to go home or anything.
Everyone was having a very lively conversation.
Apart from the villager who went down to investigate, no one else went into the river.
After all, contact with dead people is not a good thing.
The village chief also forbade anyone else from going down.
We'll talk about everything when the police arrive.
Time is passing.
The sun is slowly setting.
The sunset painted the entire sky, and the wind was a bit chilly.
Gu Wenxi arrived in a hurry with several police officers.
Huang Tao was among them.
The police officers exuded a powerful aura, and the villagers watching instinctively fell silent.
Silence fell instantly.
These days, who isn't afraid of the police?
After understanding the situation, two police officers who were good swimmers went into the river, dived to the bottom, and pulled the victim out of the water.
The victim was unrecognizable.
The body has even begun to rot, showing signs of being eaten away.
It is clear that the victim had been victimized for some time.
The timid villagers all turned their faces away, not daring to look any longer.
Huang Tao was taking notes: "Who discovered it first?"
"It was Jiang Jinhua, an educated youth, who discovered it first. He went swimming today, and after diving down, he came up and told me," the village chief answered truthfully.
Where are the others?
"He went back. You can go to the Gu family to find him."
Upon hearing that it was an acquaintance, Huang Tao went straight to the Gu family's house. As soon as he arrived at the door, he saw several people playing with cats and dogs at the entrance.
Jiang Jinhua was among them.
"Jiang Jinhua," Huang Tao called out.
Jiang Jinhua was teasing Chengzi with a foxtail grass in his hand when he heard someone call him. He slowly turned around and was surprised to see Huang Tao in a police uniform: "Brother Tao, what brings you here?"
Huang Tao looked Jiang Jinhua up and down. This kid's face had recovered, and he even looked quite handsome: "How are you doing, kid? How come you were the one who found the dead body at the bottom of the river?"
"Yeah, that's really unlucky. I just wanted to take a shower, and I ran into a dead person. Can you believe how unlucky I am?"
As he spoke, he moved closer to Huang Tao, gesturing wildly as he described the scene to him.
Huang Tao asked him several more questions.
Jiang Jinhua answered them one by one.
In front of the older brother who saved and helped him, Jiang Jinhua was as obedient as could be.
Finally, he asked Huang Tao to wait for him so he could go back and return the clothes he had lent him.
He is currently wearing Gu Xiliang's clothes.
The two were about the same age and height, and their clothes were the perfect length.
Jiang Jinhua and Gu Xichen came out when they heard Huang Tao's voice.
"Taozi, what brings you here?"
It was Gu Xichen who spoke.
"Why are you back?" Huang Tao was also a little surprised when he saw Gu Xichen.
The two chatted for a few more minutes, and then Huang Tao took the clothes and left because he still had a mission to complete.
...
The rest of the Gu family had all returned from work.
When I got home, everyone knew about it, and the topic inevitably came up again.
"Third sister-in-law, have you heard? There's a dead body in the river, tied to a rock. It's just like the ancient practice of drowning people. I wonder where they came from."
"They shouldn't be from our village," Yang Dongmei said with a sigh.
That's terrifying.
Fortunately, it was downstream river water; if it were upstream, some people in their village would be drinking the river water directly.
It's terrifying to even think about.
"I trust the police; they will find out," Gu Xichen said firmly, looking at everyone.
After saying that, he went to the kitchen.
Jiang Jinxiu originally wanted to be in charge of cooking, but Gu Xichen refused to agree.
He claimed that since he was there, he would do it, and she didn't need to do anything; she just needed to eat.
Seeing his attitude, Jiang Jinhua felt a little better.
She's a good cook, but we can't always let her sister cook.
Jiang Jinxiu watched his departing figure, her heart filled with a sweet feeling, as if she had eaten honey.
She couldn't help but go into the kitchen as well.
Watching the man's busy figure, I felt a sweet warmth in my heart.
The man didn't cook often, but he was quite skilled at it.
When the man was about to add water to stew the pheasant, she handed him a spoonful of water mixed with spiritual spring water.
The man looked at the water handed to him, paused for a moment, and then poured it in without saying a word.
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