GBP Chapter 368: Being Driven Out of the Village
Chapter 368: Being Driven Out of the Village
"Master Liang, please give me a token. I want to go and take a look at the scene."
Qin Miaoxi came out of the warehouse and went straight to Liang Hongkai, handed him the booklet she had found and said.
Liang Hongkai looked at her in surprise, "You want to handle this case?"
Qin Miaoxi nodded firmly, with a hint of amusement on her face, "A murder case where even the murder weapon cannot be found is quite challenging."
Liang Hongkai held his forehead and pondered, "There are quite a few oddities in this case. Besides, a year has passed, and the scene has probably been destroyed. Don't get your hopes up."
Qin Miaoxi responded, "I understand. I've always been lucky. Maybe I can find clues that the government hasn't discovered."
Liang Hongkai couldn't help but laugh when he heard this, "I hope so."
As he spoke, he handed her the Dali Temple's official plaque and said, "I'll send someone else to accompany you so that you can have someone to look after you."
"No need."
Qin Miaoxi refused without hesitation. She planned to go to the village for a secret investigation as an ordinary citizen. If there were too many people, she would be restricted and it would be inconvenient to carry out her investigation.
Seeing that she insisted, Liang Hongkai didn't say anything else. With her abilities, nothing serious would happen.
Before leaving, I couldn't help but remind him, "Be careful!"
Before leaving, Qin Miaoxi changed into a worn linen outfit and smeared a layer of gray powder on her skin, making her look like a dusty refugee.
She walked all the way to the village entrance and could see from afar several middle-aged men pushing carts selling things. When they saw a young woman, they all looked up.
Qin Miaoxi lowered her head pretending to be shy, and quietly glanced at the villagers nearby.
After everyone's attention shifted away from herself, she slowly walked towards the village.
Unexpectedly, after just a few steps, she was stopped by an old lady. She looked at her with scrutinizing eyes and asked, "Girl, who are you looking for in the village?"
"Looking for Uncle Li in the village. I'm his distant niece."
Qin Miaoxi spoke nonsense and looked at the old lady with a distressed look, "I am from another village. I left my hometown when I was young. My father found out about him these years and asked me to come and see him."
The old lady looked puzzled. "Li? There's no one with the surname Li in our village."
Qin Miaoxi: "..."
Isn't Li a famous surname? I should have called him Uncle Wang.
"What? Did the master secretly change his last name?"
Qin Miaoxi exclaimed in disbelief, then lowered her head in despair, muttering to herself, "Uncle left home after a quarrel with Grandpa and hasn't come back in all these years. Now Grandpa is seriously ill in bed, and his only wish is for Uncle to come home and see him."
Seeing her heartbroken look, the old lady didn't doubt her and comforted her softly: "Don't be sad, girl. Maybe your uncle really changed his name. There are a few outsiders in our village. I will take you to find them."
Qin Miaoxi's mouth stiffened slightly, and she couldn't say no. Just as she was about to nod in gratitude, she heard a chaotic sound of footsteps behind her.
"Grandma, did you buy Tiantian?"
A child ran up from behind and rushed into the old lady's arms like a small cannon.
The old lady laughed and said, "You naughty boy, I'm going to buy it for you, aren't I?"
Having said that, she smiled awkwardly at Qin Miaoxi. She had just promised to accompany her to find someone, but now she was going to break her promise.
Qin Miaoxi was delighted. "Auntie, you're busy. I'm here now. I'll just take my time looking for it."
"Girl, keep going along this road. At the end is the village chief's house. You can go and ask him."
"Thank you, ma'am."
After watching the two of them leave, she walked quickly towards the village, trying her best to avoid the villagers and take the deserted paths.
By noon, every household in the village was filled with the smell of life, and the young men who had been working in the fields came back carrying their hoes.
Qin Miaoxi took a few more glances and quickly went deeper into the village.
Soon she came to a long river, which was also where the body was found because the river had dried up long ago due to the drought.
She walked down the rocks on both sides. The rocks were covered with moss, and even when she held on to the rocks, she still slipped.
According to records, the body was found in the middle of the river. When the villagers went to the back mountain, they accidentally found something floating in the river. When they took a boat over, they found that it was a body.
To her left were two wooden boats stranded in the mud, and she could smell a pungent stench before she even got close.
She walked over subconsciously and saw a large stain on the deck. Her eyes narrowed and it was corpse oil.
More than a year has passed, but the pungent smell still lingers, which is a bit strange.
You have to know that the wooden boat is soaked in water most of the time, and is exposed to wind and sun, so the smell cannot last for so long.
In an instant, the dagger fell into his palm and cut towards the place soaked in corpse oil, penetrating three inches into the wood until it penetrated the bottom of the boat, and the wooden board was completely soaked.
Qin Miaoxi blinked in confusion. According to the records, the wooden boat only brought the body back to the shore, so how could it have seeped so deep?
I continued walking towards the river with doubts in my heart. The soil under the river had been dried into cracked mud blocks. Tenacious little green seedlings were growing in the cracks, and a little vitality was revealed in the dead silence.
The ground in the middle of the river was a bit muddy, and her shoes were instantly stained with mud. She herself couldn't explain why she came to the river. Even if the body was found here, there would be no clues left now that the river was dry.
She stood in the river for a long time, lost in thought, her thoughts drifting away.
"Who are you? What are you doing?"
She was startled awake by a loud shout from a distance, and saw a solemn old man standing on the shore with a cane, staring at her with sharp eyes.
Qin Miaoxi didn't stop, but wiped the corners of her eyes with the back of her hand until the corners of her eyes turned slightly red, then she walked back.
"Uncle, I'm here to look for someone."
Seeing that her eyes were red and she looked like she had been crying, the old man not only did not show any sympathy, but his voice became even harsher.
"Who are you looking for?"
"Looking for my uncle, his last name is Li."
"There's no family with the surname Li in the village. You've come to the wrong place. Let's go!"
The old man was about to drive her away with just a few words. Qin Miaoxi's eyes flickered and a flash of suspicion passed through her eyes.
"Uncle, are you the village chief?"
"So what?"
Qin Miaoxi's eyes sparkled with surprise, and she pleaded hesitantly, "My uncle did come here, but he might have changed his name. My grandfather wanted to see you before he died. Please help me!"
"Tell me in detail."
As she expected, the old man was the village chief, and he immediately repeated his previous words.
The village chief thought for a moment and then said, "A few outsiders came to the village more than a decade ago, but they all brought their families with them, not the lonely ones you say."
Qin Miaoxi said anxiously, "Village Chief, can you let me meet them? I look like my father, so I must be somewhat similar to the old man."
The village chief tapped his cane thoughtfully, turned around and said, "Follow me!"
"Thank you!"
Qin Miaoxi followed closely behind. She was not afraid of not finding anyone at all. What she wanted was to not be able to find anyone, otherwise how would she have a reason to stay.
The old man was not tall, but he walked very fast and arrived at the first house in a blink of an eye.
"Ballad, open the door!"
The wooden door opened and a dark, skinny man walked out. He looked at the two of them strangely.
"Village chief, what's the matter?"
The village chief said straight to the point: "Your niece is here."
"Niece? I'm the only one left in my family, where would a niece come from?"
The village chief said "Oh" coldly and walked away, leaving Qin Miaoxi stunned. He was really decisive.
After visiting the remaining few, there was no doubt that no one was.
The village chief said in a cold and expressionless voice: "There is nothing you are looking for, you can leave now."
The tears in Qin Miaoxi's eyes fell, and she knelt on the ground and sobbed.
"Grandpa, I'm sorry..."
The whimpering was soft, but it was as annoying as the buzzing of a mosquito, so the village chief interrupted her impatiently.
"What else do you want?"
"My uncle must be in the village. I'm going to look for him one by one."
"Then you won't be able to finish looking for it today."
"If one day doesn't work, then two, three days. Whichever way we find it, we'll see."
village head:"……"
"You are making a fuss."
He snorted coldly and walked away angrily.
Just when Qin Miaoxi thought she could stay, seven or eight big men holding wooden sticks rushed out.
"Nizi, don't be ungrateful. We won't care if we hurt you."
The village chief's cold voice made Qin Miaoxi understand that she could not stay openly.
She took a few steps back in fear, bit her lip, glanced at everyone with grievance, and ran away without looking back.
"Village Chief, that person is..."
The village chief looked into the distance deeply and said meaningfully, "An insignificant person."