"Li Ge, why aren't you resting yet?"
At midnight, Hua's father Ye Maochun got up to go to the toilet. Seeing that the light in Mu Lige's room in the west wing was still on, he came over to check.
"I'm going to sleep right away, Dad. I just want to see if Qingqing is back."
"It's so late, I guess she was delayed at the store and stayed here tonight. No need to wait for her, go to bed first."
"Okay, Dad."
After Hua's father left, Mu Lige extinguished the candle. However, lying in bed, Mu Lige tossed and turned, unable to sleep, wondering if his young wife had encountered any trouble.
Early in the morning on July 22, Hua Qingcheng was awakened by bursts of noise outside the yard. It was only about 4:15 in the morning.
“So noisy!”
Hua Qingcheng, who had only slept for an hour and a half, was disturbed from her sweet dream. When her anger level skyrocketed, Yu Xiaotian and Situ Ye, who were on her left and right, had each stretched out a hand to cover one of her ears.
Hua Qingcheng held their hands, feeling both amused and helpless, and kissed them on the lips.
"I can't fall asleep after being woken up. I'll go out and take a look. I'll take care of the store today. You three should rest here and get up after you've had enough sleep."
Hua Qingcheng put on her coat, tied her hair into a high ponytail, washed up quickly, and left the backyard.
After opening the shop, they saw the street outside was packed with people, with huge crowds of people standing on both sides of the road. The sound of people talking and discussing was so noisy that it was even more lively than a vegetable market.
"What happened? Why are there so many people?"
Seeing a middle-aged woman holding a broom and a dustpan, standing outside the crowd and watching with interest, Hua Qingcheng, who was very curious, went up to her and asked her.
"You don't know yet, right? The authorities caught a psychopathic murderer last night!
"They're waiting to see the psychopathic murderer paraded through the streets! If they don't see it today, they'll have to wait until the autumn execution!"
The middle-aged woman came over and spoke to Hua Qingcheng mysteriously.
"A perverted murderer?"
Situ Ye, who had come out a few steps from Manhua Qingcheng, had a guess in his mind after hearing this. If his guess was correct, she was probably talking about the crazy woman he had seen last night and the one Lianxing had encountered earlier.
"Yes, auntie, what's going on?"
Not only Situ Ye, but Han Yichen and Yu Xiaotian also came out. Yu Xiaotian was confused when he heard this.
"My cousin's wife's aunt's daughter works in the government office's kitchen. She told me that in recent times, there have been twelve cases of young men being murdered and then raped in Yunshui Town."
"And after they died, their feet were chopped off and paste was fed into their mouths. It was so horrifying! Last night, another one fainted and was raped. The murderer was caught before they could kill him."
The middle-aged woman skipped over Situ Ye, who had questioned her last time, and looked at Han Yichen and Yu Xiaotian and said:
"Luckily, that perverted killer has been caught. Otherwise, handsome young men like you wouldn't be able to walk around in peace!"
Hua Qingcheng frowned slightly when she heard this. It was really perverted! Fortunately, the criminal had been caught, otherwise, wouldn't it be very dangerous for her husbands to live here?
“Who says it’s not?”
A middle-aged man squeezed in from the crowd, his eyes gleaming with a desire to share gossip.
"Guess who that psychopathic murderer is? It's Tian Shi from the paper-making shop! You never thought, right? He looks so honest, but he's actually a murderer. How terrifying!"
"You don't know this, do you?"
The middle-aged woman said excitedly, "I heard from my cousin's wife's aunt's daughter that last night our county magistrate, Lord Xiao, along with that... Seven Gates or Eight Gates, some superb detective, conducted an overnight investigation."
"It turns out that since Tian Shi married into the Cen family, she has always been well behaved, filial to her parents-in-law and serving her husband. But Cen Ning always thinks Tian Shi is useless and often finds fault with her. Insults and beatings are commonplace! But every time Tian Shi is bullied, she dares not even say a word!"
"Paper-making shop? Tian Shi? Beating and scolding..."
Yu Xiaotian couldn't help but think of the woman he met at the door of the paper-making shop when he and Hua Qingcheng went to buy a carriage for Xiangyunma. She was about twenty years old and looked honest and loyal. She was beaten and scolded by her husband, but she didn't dare to say a word.
"You really can't judge a person by his appearance!"
Yu Xiaotian sighed slightly.
The middle-aged man continued gossiping, "I heard that Cen Ning often likes to wear blue clothes and indigo shoes, so Tian Shi specifically targets men who wear blue clothes and indigo shoes."
"You're only half right!"
The middle-aged woman simply put the broom and dustpan aside and concentrated on gossiping.
"Beating and scolding are just small matters!"
"The truth is, Cen Ning often likes to go out on rainy nights, wearing a blue dress and indigo embroidered shoes, to meet his cousin secretly. Sometimes he even... sometimes he even flirts with his cousin in the store right in front of Tian Shi!
"That's why Tian Shi held a grudge against her and killed any man who wore the same clothes and shoes as her! She mistook all the men wearing blue clothes and indigo shoes on rainy nights for Cen Ning. She chopped off his feet after his death to prevent him from hooking up with other women, and fed him paste to seal his mouth so he couldn't curse anymore."
"What a sin~"
"Luckily, the perverted murderer Tian Shi has been apprehended, otherwise you would be in danger, young master!"
The middle-aged woman glanced at Yu Xiaotian's blue robe and the indigo shoes on his feet, looking worried about him and teasing him gossipingly.
Upon hearing this, Yu Xiaotian quickly moved his feet back and tucked the exposed indigo toe of his shoe into his hem.
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