"Today we went to investigate A Dong's ancestral graves. There should be something buried in that area. The villagers won't let us go over and dig it up, but now we can secretly go over and dig it up to see what's going on," Qi Guze said, gesturing for Pei Xuan and the others to follow him.
Then the group climbed over the courtyard wall and headed to A-Dong's ancestral graves.
After being taken there once before, they noted down the surrounding landmarks along the way and quickly arrived at their destination without incident.
They brought some grave-digging tools and immediately found a place with a particularly strong smell, and got to work.
"This is it. The smell here is particularly strong. There must be something strange underground." Xu Yuehuai found the most pungent spot.
Then all the people around gathered at this spot, and together they dug it open.
After digging it up, they discovered that a large area of charcoal was buried underground.
When they dug up the charcoal, they immediately felt that what was buried underneath must be something extraordinary.
"There's definitely something down there, everyone keep digging!"
Xu Yuehuai also worked particularly hard, taking a hoe he had secretly borrowed from a villager and immediately digging up the charcoal.
The others around also quickly started digging, and everyone worked together to dig.
After a while, they indeed dug something out from under the charcoal.
Those are the carcasses of livestock!
"I never imagined that this Ah Dong was actually the murderer who killed all these villagers and so many livestock!"
"I never imagined that he would bury all these livestock in his own ancestral graveyard to hide his guilt."
"He's really too insidious!"
As Xu Yuehuai spoke, looking at the bloody scene, she felt it was too gruesome to bear.
The livestock, including chickens, ducks, geese, and dogs... numbering nearly a hundred, were now mangled and bloody, reduced to a pile of flesh, buried underground, with many insects crawling on their corpses.
Half of those corpses were decomposed and emitted a strong stench.
However, because Ah Dong used a very good method to hide the smell, he was able to completely conceal the putrid stench.
However, if time passes and someone passes by this area, they will definitely smell the putrid odor emanating from under the ancestral graves.
It's not time yet, which is why the other villagers haven't noticed anything unusual.
Fortunately, Xu Yuehuai and his group were particularly sensitive and immediately detected the peculiar stench of decay, leading them to the place where A Dong had buried the livestock.
After Qi Guze and his men found the location, they immediately took out a signal flare to attract the attention of their own people.
The people he had arranged to go find the village chief as soon as they saw the signal flare.
The village chief came out wearing a coat, looking sleepy.
"What's going on? Why are you suddenly looking for me in the middle of the night?"
Qi Guze's men said, "Village chief, come with me quickly, I've found a clue!"
The village chief was incredulous when he heard this. How could they have found the clues so quickly?
Moreover, these people weren't followed by anyone from their own village, so how did they get here to find them?
Did they just knock out the villagers who were guarding them?
Or perhaps they want to hurt him now?
The village chief's eyes darted around, and he made many guesses in his mind.
Qi Guze's men were worried that if things were delayed, something unusual might happen later. They didn't bother to explain to the village chief any further, so they picked him up and carried him to A Dong's ancestral graves.
The others gathered the other villagers and led them to A Dong's ancestral graves.
Ah Dong was among those people, and at first he didn't know what had happened.
But the further they walked, the stranger it seemed to A-Dong became. Why were these people leading them to his family's ancestral graves?
When A-Dong learned about this, he immediately felt that something was very wrong.
Are those people really going to take me to their family's ancestral graves?
Qi Guze's men kept a close eye on A Dong's situation, deliberately positioning themselves to surround him.
If anything unusual happens to Ah Dong, they will definitely capture him.
But Ah Dong seemed unchanged, looking perfectly ordinary, as if he were really normal.
A short while later, everyone arrived at Ah Dong's ancestral graves.
At this moment, the village chief was already standing there. He saw the animal carcasses buried under A Dong's ancestral grave. No matter how hard he couldn't believe it, he had to accept that A Dong might have done it.
When the village chief saw A-Dong approaching, he immediately turned around, glared at A-Dong, and said, "You have quite the nerve. Have we done anything to wrong you?"
"Over the years, since all your relatives passed away, even though you didn't like to associate with the people in the village, we still secretly helped you and forgot many things about you."
How could you repay kindness with enmity?
"You actually killed all the livestock in the village and buried them here. Why did you do this?"
After hearing what the village chief said, A-Dong felt extremely innocent and immediately waved his hand and shook his head.
"I'm innocent! I didn't do it, I really didn't do it! I don't know why these things are in my family's ancestral graves!"
"You must believe me! I'm innocent!"
When the village chief and the others heard this, they couldn't believe what he was saying.
"Now that the evidence is right here, what other excuses are you going to make?"
"All these livestock are buried here, this is your family's ancestral graveyard, don't you have anything else to say?"
The village chief was extremely disappointed in Ah Dong, and just looking at him made him feel short of breath and his chest tighten.
Ah Dong was still shaking his head, "I don't know what happened either, I didn't do it at all."
"They must have hidden these livestock here! It must have been them!"
Seeing that A Dong still wanted to slander them, Qi Guze then addressed everyone.
“Look at the state of decay of these livestock; they must have died several days ago.”
“We only arrived last night; we didn’t have time to commit the crime.”
The villagers around weren't fools either. Seeing that some of the livestock carcasses were almost reduced to bones, they realized the key point of the matter.
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