He glanced at the officers and soldiers who were questioning others, and cautiously returned home.
He took the dagger from under the pillow and hid it in the corner of the wall under the eaves.
Then, without making a sound, he walked into the crowd.
"What were you found?"
Jiang Yu and Jiang Ming arrived at the village, which was a very small village with only a dozen or so households.
They have searched nine households and asked the villagers, but none of them have seen any strangers.
But this is the only small village within a ten-mile radius, so any strangers would definitely pass through it.
As Jiang Yu led his men to search other households, he asked the villagers, "Has anyone from the village been to that mountain in the past few days? Or has anything unusual happened in your village?"
The villagers shook their heads.
but……
A woman looked at Jiang Yu and said, "Shizhu's family went up the mountain yesterday."
The woman in her twenties whom she mentioned looked at her with displeasure. "What do you mean I went? Many people went. Why are you talking about me and not others?"
"If you ask me, it's the Zhou family that's up to something. They're always sneaking around, I don't know what they're up to. Just now I saw two people acting suspiciously, I don't know what they were discussing."
As Jiang Yu listened, it seemed that these villagers were all extremely dishonest.
"Who else has been there?"
Jiang Yu's voice was slightly cold. He stared into the woman's eyes, which startled her.
He whispered, "The villagers in our village usually go up that mountain to cut firewood and start fires, but everyone is afraid of getting into trouble, so they say they don't."
"But the villagers are all very timid, and no one dares to do anything bad."
Jiang Yu didn't comment on what he said afterward, but everyone went.
Jiang Yu looked at the crowd with a cold gaze, "Anyone else who has been there, step forward."
Jiang Ming drew his sword. "I'm just asking you a few questions. If there's anything you're hiding..."
He brandished the knife in his hand.
Several people in the crowd looked at each other and then stepped forward.
Jiang Ming showed Qi Nuan's portrait to these people one by one for identification.
Jiang Yu watched their expressions from the side.
The old woman naturally recognized the person in the portrait as the little girl from yesterday. She glanced at the old man in the crowd and quickly looked away.
Turning his head, he saw the portrait shoved in front of him and panicked. "I don't know, I don't know anything. I gathered firewood and went home yesterday. I've never seen this girl before."
Her lying skills are really not very good.
Without Jiang Yu saying anything more, Jiang Ming subdued the man on the ground.
When did you see this person? Where is he now?
"I don't know, old man, old man, please save me!"
The old man had already been subdued, and the others quickly distanced themselves from them.
"I knew they had something going on," the woman whispered to the others. The old couple were known for their petty theft and other shady dealings, and the villagers didn't really like them.
"Sir, we really don't know anything! We're innocent! We're people who wouldn't even kill a chicken, how could we dare to kill someone..."
Before he could finish speaking, Jiang Yu grabbed his neck tightly.
"What did you say, murder?"
Seeing Jiang Yu's fierce and menacing appearance, the old woman repeatedly cried out, "We didn't kill her! She was already dead when we saw her, really, she's dead. We didn't kill her..."
"What did you say? She's dead? How could she be dead?"
Ahua rushed up, her eyes bloodshot, and yelled at the woman.
Jiang Yu felt a lump in her throat and looked at Jiang Yu.
Jiang Yu, expressionless, asked, "Where is he?"
"I...I...I'm already dead."
The old man swallowed hard, revealing a smile that looked more like a grimace.
Jiang Yu took the yamen runner's knife and plunged it into the old man's heart.
He turned to look at the old woman, "Where is she?"
The old woman screamed, "Ah, old man, old man..." She tried to struggle over, but Jiang Ming held her firmly in place.
"Waaah... I'll tell you, I'll tell you. We threw her into the river, but we really didn't kill her. She was already dead when we threw her in."
The old woman led them to the place where they had thrown the people away.
Looking at the rushing river.
Jiang Yu stared for a long time, then closed his eyes. When he opened them again, there was nothing in them. He casually snapped the old woman's neck and threw her into the river.
"Send people to search; we must find them dead or alive."
"Young master, this was found in the old woman's house." The constable presented the dagger that the hunting dog had found in the corner of the wall and the loose silver that the old woman had hidden.
Jiang Yu took the dagger and the silver pieces.
He gently rubbed the dagger with his hand, but his eyes were fixed on the pieces of silver.
She never carries any money with her; she keeps it all in her spatial storage.
So who put these loose silver coins on her?
Perhaps he soon found out, his gaze falling on the heartbroken Ahua.
"Back to the city."
...
Qi Nuan, who had been carried away by the current, was pulled out of the water.
"Boss, there's someone here, still alive."
"He's incredibly lucky to be alive after suffering such severe injuries." Bai Jiao stepped forward to examine the man.
However, he probably won't live much longer.
He looked at the boy who had been staring at him and said, "If you can't save him, just throw him down."
"He's not dead yet."
The boy ignored him and held him in his arms. Bai Jiao ignored him and looked at the calm water.
Soon, the boat reached the shore, the white sail was raised, and someone emerged from the reeds. Xu Erniang said, "Eldest brother, what brings you here?"
"I came out for some fresh air."
Bai Jiao took the sack and said casually.
The man behind Xu Erniang complained, "It's getting harder and harder to buy food down the mountain. We've been down for over ten days and have only managed to buy a little over 500 jin of rice."
"It's alright, it'll be enough to last a while."
The three men loaded the grain onto the boat, only to discover that the boy was carrying someone in his arms.
"Ji Jin, what's that in your arms?"
The boy's voice was simple and honest: "She's a person, not a thing."
Bai Jiao recounted what had happened, and Xu Erniang went over and said, "You can't keep holding her like that. Give her to me, I'll take her to change her clothes."
After thinking for a while, the boy handed the person over to Xu Erniang.
Xu Erniang took off the wet clothes from the girl's body. When she saw the wounds on her body, she was a little shocked. Who was so cruel as to not even spare such a young girl? She changed her clothes, applied medicine, bandaged the wounds, and then went out.
"Boss, where's your medicine? The person is quite badly injured."
"They're all going to die anyway, why waste medicine?"
"Boss, save her," the boy said from the side.
"Never mind," Bai Jiao glanced at the two of them, took out a medicine bottle from his pocket, and tossed it into Xu Erniang's arms.
Xu Erniang took the medicine and fed Qi Nuan two pills, then gave her some water. She still hadn't woken up.
The boy watched from the side.
Xu Erniang smiled, "It's rare that you have something you like so much."
The boy retorted, "She is a person, not an object."
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