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[Chapter 500 Mother-in-law]

The world twenty years ago.

Shao Qingge and Ye Qi looked at the vines hanging down the cliff, and hesitated whether to follow them. Ye Qi said in his mind: “This Ren Yuan takes us up the cliff. What if he is a murderer and wants to kill us?”

Shao Qingge thought for a moment, and said, “Let’s pretend to climb up first. I will put a Taohuayuan entrance nearby. If the situation is not right, we will retreat immediately. It is not so easy for him to kill us.”

“Okay, I block his sight, you call Tao Yuanming as soon as possible.” Ye Qi raised his head and said towards Ren Yuan: “Big Brother Ren, wait for us, I will come up.”

Ye Qi followed the vines and slowly climbed up. Shao Qingge summoned Tao Yuanming in the dark and opened the Taohuayuan-fortunately, Xiao Lou gave him two Tao Yuanming cards. The first card is cooling down, and the second one comes in handy. For the next three hours, he and Ye Qi could return to Taohuayuan for refuge at any time, even if they encounter a murderer, don’t worry.

After Shao Qingge arranged the Peach Blossom Spring, he followed Ye Qi and climbed up.

This vine is woven from weeds. It has grown-up arms and is very strong. There must be people climbing frequently on this cliff. Many recessed pits have been artificially stepped on the cliff, which can be used as a foothold.

Ren Yuan climbed very fast, and within a moment, the three of them came to the top of the mountain.

The top of the mountain 20 years ago was not a mass grave. The bright moon hung in the sky, as close as it was within reach. The wind on the top of the mountain was very cold, and the dry trees around were rustled by the cold winter wind. Ren Yuan stuffed his red-frozen hands into his sleeves, and walked forward quickly, and said in a deep voice, “Two, hurry up.”

Ye Qi and Shao Qingge followed behind him.

After walking a few steps, Ye Qi almost tripped over a corpse. He hurriedly supported the tree trunk next to him, pretending to be frightened and said: “Which, are these corpses?”

Ren Yuan made a “hush” gesture on his lips and said in a low voice: “It’s the bandits. They robbed the town of gold and silver treasures and ran to the mountain to take the mountain as the king. As a result, because of the uneven distribution of the spoils, a lot of internal strife. People were killed.”

Ye Qi had guessed the identities of these corpses a long time ago, and asked Ren Yuan to inquire, just for confirmation.

Shao Qingge quickly scanned the surroundings, leaning over and inspecting the nearby corpses. Although he is not a forensic doctor, he has also learned a lot about autopsy under the influence of Xiao Lou’s eyes. Most of the corpses had obvious stab wounds on the chest and abdomen, and blood stains on the ground. Obviously, these people were killed in the fight, and the weapon used by the opponent should be a sharp knife.

Ye Qi still wanted to take a closer look, but Ren Yuan urged: “Hurry up.”

The two had to keep up with him.

After walking a distance along the winding road, a simple wooden house appeared in front of him. The location of the wooden house is very hidden, behind a few big trees, it is easy to be overlooked if you don’t look closely.

Ye Qi said in his heart: “I remember, there is no such wooden house in the mass graves twenty years later, right?”

Shao Qingge said: “Yes. Twenty years later, there are graves everywhere on the top of the mountain. But now, there are no more than ten corpses on the top of the mountain. Those who died of starvation have not been discarded here in large numbers. The corpses are in the small town. Throw it everywhere.”

Ye Qi nodded and said, “There should be very important people living in the wooden house. We will pay attention to it later.”

The two of them communicated with each other in a spiritual channel, and Ren Yuan suddenly said: “The two of you wait for me here, and I will come as soon as I go.”

He stepped forward alone, knocked gently on the door of the wooden house, and whispered: “Mother-in-law, it’s me.”

After a while, the door opened with a “creak” from the inside, and a wrinkled old lady came out with a hoarse voice: “Ren Yuan? You came up to the mountain to find me in the middle of the night, what’s the matter?”

Ren Yuan said, “I want to get some food back.”

The mother-in-law nodded and said, “Okay, follow me.”

The two walked into the wooden house one after another. Shao Qingge and Ye Qi looked at each other. Ye Qi quickly threw a bug into the house, and there was a sound of footsteps from the terminal of the bug—it should be two. The individual stepped on the wooden steps and went downstairs, followed by a conversation. The conversation reverberated obviously, possibly in a closed secret room.

Ye Qi pricked up his ears, only letting Ren Yuan whisper: “Mother-in-law, two people suddenly broke into my house today and found my cellar. The two looked very face-to-face, saying that they had fled to Qingfeng Town from a foreign country. The robbers here robbed me of all my luggage. They caught me, but didn’t hurt me, they just asked me for some food. I don’t think they look like bad guys, so I temporarily left them.”

The mother-in-law sighed lightly and said: “In this world, we are all hard to protect ourselves. You still have a leisurely heart to save people… Don’t save the two white-eyed wolves. When the time comes, you will take away your things and harm you.”

Ren Yuan smiled and said: “I don’t think they look like fierce people. I can’t make up my mind, so I asked my mother-in-law to make the decision.”

The mother-in-law was silent for a moment, and said, “We don’t have much food in the first place, and so many children can’t get enough of it. How can there be food for the outsiders? It’s not the time to be kind. It’s better to take them in the middle of the night. Dazed, thrown out of Qingfeng Town. Life and death is a fate, whether you can survive depends on their good fortune, we don’t owe them.”

Ren Yuan hesitated for a while, gritted his teeth and nodded: “Okay, just do what the mother-in-law said. Later I will call them into the house, give them a full meal, and then faint them and throw them down the mountain. It can be considered as benevolent and righteous.”

Shao Qingge and Ye Qi listened to the conversation coming from the bug and glanced at each other, not crying or laughing.

Although the mother-in-law and Ren Yuan’s approach is not very kind, but in troubled times, it is difficult to protect themselves. Food is limited. One more mouth will make more relatives starve. No one is obliged to save two strangers. The decision can be considered a normal response. If Ren Yuan really left them behind and gave them food, it would be too virgin.

Ye Qi said in his mind: “This mother-in-law’s voice sounds familiar, isn’t it the one we saw in town during the day?”

Shao Qingge said: “It should be her, her hoarse voice is highly recognizable, maybe because of a bad throat and mild asthma.”

Ye Qi said, “What should I do next?”

Shao Qingge smiled helplessly and said: “We can only count on the tricks. They want to stun us, we simply pretend to be dizzy, lower their guard, and wait until late at night to go up the mountain to investigate.”

Ye Qi also agreed with this approach: “They may poison the food. Be careful later.”

As soon as we talked about the communication of the spiritual world, the door of the wooden house opened again, and Ren Yuan walked up to the two of them and said with a smile: “Two, mother-in-law invites you in.”

Shao Qingge and Ye Qi followed obediently, and Ye Qi asked curiously, “Who is this mother-in-law?”

Ren Yuan said: “Mother-in-law is a very good person. She has adopted many orphans in the small town. I was also brought up by her. By the way, my mother-in-law taught me the craft of rattles.”

orphan? Rattle?

These two key messages inspired Shao Qingge and Ye Qi.

It turned out that the source of making rattles was not this Ren Yuan, but the “mother-in-law” 20 years ago.

Since the mother-in-law is the master at making rattles, it is very likely that the children she raised all have a rattle she gave away. Perhaps this is because the murderer had a deep obsession with rattles and even left the rattle at the scene of the crime. reason?

Shao Ye and the two entered the wooden house with doubts.

The area inside the house is much larger than expected, with three floors on the second floor, first floor and basement.

The two were taken to the table on the first floor by Ren Yuan. This was a long table enough to sit eight people at the same time. After Shao Qingge and Ye Qi sat down, the mother-in-law took the initiative to pour two glasses of water and took one. A plate of dried buns, said: “Let Ren Yuan say, the two are his friends? I don’t have much to entertain guests here, please feel free to pad your stomachs.”

Shao Qingge glanced at the water in the cup—it should have been drugged.

Ye Qi also knew that the water was definitely not clean. He pretended to take two sips from the cup, and smiled: “Thank you mother-in-law, we just ate at Brother Ren’s and we were not hungry. By the way, how could mother-in-law live on the mountain?”

The mother-in-law sighed lightly and said: “We are poor people who don’t have land deeds in our hands. We can’t build houses in the town. We can only build a house with wood in the wilderness and shelter from the wind and rain.”

Ye Qi said sympathetically, “It turns out that this is the case… Let Brother Ren say, he was also raised by you?”

The mother-in-law smiled, looked at the two of them, and did not answer.

Ye Qi guessed that the drug was about to take effect, so he pretended to fall on the table in a daze. Shao Qingge was also lying on the table. Ren Yuan came over and patted Shao Qingge’s shoulder gently: “Brother Shao? Wake up.”

Shao Qingge continued to pretend to be dizzy.

The mother-in-law stood up and said: “My drug is effective quickly, you can move them out.” She shouted upstairs: “A Feng, A Ran, come down and help Uncle Ren.”

The two children ran down from the second floor, and together with Ren Yuan, dragged Shao Qingge and Ye Qi to the bottom of the mountain.

Being dragged all the way like a “corpse”, Ye Qi pretended to be dizzy on the surface, but actually seized the opportunity to stick a bug on the soles of the three people’s feet. The three of them threw Shao Ye at the foot of the mountain and turned away. Ye Qi opened his eyes and asked Shao Qingge in his heart, “Shall we go back and check now? Or wait for zero?”

Shao Qingge said: “Go now, if you are teleported back to the original world after zero o’clock, we won’t have a chance to investigate.”

Ye Qi nodded, and together with Shao Qingge used the teleport card to quickly come to the wooden house on the top of the mountain.

Ren Yuan has gone down the mountain.

Through the window on the second floor, you can see that there are four beds on the upper floor with bunk beds. Four children are sleeping on the bed, with only one head exposed. Judging from the hairstyle, it should be two boys and two girls.

Ye Qi said, “These four children are all orphans adopted by their mother-in-law?”

Shao Qingge said: “Well. Is it possible that the murderer twenty years later is still a child?”

It is impossible for her mother-in-law to commit a crime. She looks more than 60 years old now, and the oldest person in Qingfeng Town 20 years later is less than 70 years old; then, is the murderer Ren Yuan or these children? Or are these people just characters in the plot related to the case?

Ye Qi analyzed: “The mother-in-law raised four children. Just now, the mother-in-law called them two names when she called them downstairs to help. Will it be Qin Feng twenty years later?”

The mother-in-law called the children by their nicknames.

Will A Feng be Qin Feng?

If so, then the other three children who grew up with Qin Feng are very suspicious. Obviously, Qin Feng is related to the murder case of Li Guisuo. He wrote a roster with red crosses on the names. Most of those people have disappeared, and a few are still alive. He must know something.

Shao Qingge said: “Xiao Lou said that Qin Feng was suspected at the time, but he was not necessarily the murderer. The evidence on Qin Feng was too obvious and too simple. Therefore, he probably knew who the murderer was. He grew up with him. We have to focus on these three older children.”

Ye Qi said: “It’s a pity that they are all asleep. I didn’t expect that Ren Yuan and her mother-in-law would stun us and throw them down the mountain together. We can’t continue to ask Ren Yuan for help. Let’s think of a solution.”

Shao Qingge suddenly curled his lips: “I have an idea.”

Ye Qi said anxiously, “Say it quickly.”

Shao Qingge said: “We have copied Brother Jiu’s [Mask] card before, and that card is now in my hand. I can pretend to be Ren Yuan, go into the house and chat with my mother-in-law, and figure out these four. The identity of the child.”

Ye Qi’s eyes lit up: “Good idea!”

Shao Qingge pretended to be Ren Yuan, and went up again to knock on the door, while Ye Qi lay on the roof and used a wiretap to eavesdrop.

The mother-in-law opened the door and saw “Ren Yuan” who had gone and returned. She couldn’t help but wonder: “Why are you back again?”

Shao Qingge said: “I’m worried about a few children. Afeng, are they asleep?”

The mother-in-law said: “I’m all asleep.”

Shao Qingge said: “Just now, you asked A Feng and A Ran to help me and throw the two outsiders down the mountain. I don’t think A Ran’s face is very good. Has he been sick recently?”

The mother-in-law said helplessly: “When Qi Ran went to dig weeds in the woods below the mountain yesterday, she caught the wind and cold. However, he is in good health. I showed him this morning. It should not be serious.”

Shao Qingge’s pretense suddenly realized: “The weather is cold recently, and the children have to be careful. In case of contracting the disease, leaving the root of the disease can be troublesome, especially for the two girls.

The mother-in-law smiled and said: “Ningshuang and Xiaoyun don’t have to worry, they have been by my side, and these two children are smarter than each other. Don’t worry about going back to town. Don’t walk around recently to avoid getting caught. The sweet potatoes we brought today are enough for us to eat for several days. I thank you for the children.”

It turned out that Ren Yuan went up the mountain, in addition to discussing with her mother-in-law what to do with the two foreigners, he also secretly brought her mother-in-law to eat.

Shao Qingge said: “Yes. Then I’ll go back first, mother-in-law take care.”

He turned and left the wooden house, and said to Ye Qi in his mind: “Qin Feng, Qi Ran, Ningshuang, Xiaoyun, four children, two men and two women, are orphans who depend on their mother-in-law. Ren Yuan has been helping them and giving They send sweet potatoes.”

Among these people, who was the murderer who killed the two families of Zhao and Chen more than ten years later?

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The 500 chapter is an integer, okay!

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