"How is that possible?" Ye Caitang didn't believe it: "The old man who lives right in front, what's his name... he's skinny, he's so tall..."

Ye Caitang continued to make random gestures. The old man was so tall. In this era of poor nutrition, he was quite thin.

Jiao Chunhua answered the question by herself: "You mean Lao Liutou?"

"I don't know, maybe." Ye Caitang said: "But he said she was the wife of a tofu seller here, and she put potted flowers at the door. Isn't that your house?"

Selling tofu is not a popular job. If there are too many people selling it, it won't be able to sell it. Among these several villages, their family is the only one selling tofu.

Jiao Chunhua's bad temper immediately made her angry.

"What nonsense is Old Liu talking about? Who takes advantage of this and refuses to exchange what he picked up?"

Ye Caitang was a little scared, not pretending to be scared, but really scared.

If she encounters danger, such as bandits or the like, Xia Yue, who is hiding in the dark, will bravely rush out to protect her and become a hero to save the beauty.

But now facing an aunt selling tofu, Xia Yue was probably too embarrassed to rush out because of her love for face, leaving her to face a bleak life alone.

She said cautiously: "Well, where were you the afternoon before yesterday? Have you really never been to the entrance of the village?"

"No." Jiao Chunhua shouted impatiently: "Sister-in-law Zhang, Sister-in-law Zhang..."

Following the shouting, a woman who was a few years older than Jiao Chunhua came out diagonally.

Jiao Chunhua said: "Sister-in-law, testify for me. This girl insists on saying that I picked up her clothes from the big poplar tree at the entrance of the village the afternoon before yesterday. It is simply inexplicable. Old Liu Tou is also inexplicable. I was with you the entire afternoon the day before yesterday.

Where have you ever done needlework?"

Ye Caitang said sorry to Old Liu Tou in her heart, but she didn't know who the old man she had wronged was.

When the aunt next door heard this, she nodded repeatedly: "That's what happened, yes. Little girl, let me tell you, Old Liu's eyesight is not good, he must have seen it wrong."

Ye Caitang was doubtful: "Ah?"

The aunt patted her chest and said, "I can testify that the day before yesterday, after lunch, we were doing needlework in the yard while basking in the sun. We didn't move away all afternoon. We separated only after the sun went down."

The aunt nodded as she spoke, very confident.

"Oh, the children were playing there too, running around. You can all testify to that."

As she spoke, the aunt shouted twice more.

Two children of seven or eight years old rushed out of the yard.

When I asked, the two children talked the same as the aunt, but they talked gibberish. After nodding, they started talking about how they fell down while playing on the swing in the yard yesterday afternoon and caught some strange little bugs that crackled.

, until Ye Caitang took a pack of snacks from his pocket and gave them to them, then he gave up.

Ye Caitang's heart was bleeding, she wasn't rich either.

However, a pack of snacks calmed the anger of the two women. Ye Caitang quickly said: "I don't know if he is the old Liu Tou you are talking about, but he is quite old. I may have seen it wrong. I will look for it again.

"

Jiao Chunhua was originally angry and wanted to scold her, but the child opened the paper package and stuffed a candy in her mouth.

She couldn't curse anymore.

Although her family is better off than those who just farm, they are still poor. They are not willing to buy such a bag of sweets for their children before the Chinese New Year. Why do you have the nerve to scold someone for being soft-spoken?

"I'm so sorry." Ye Caitang had a particularly good attitude: "Sorry to bother you."

Then Ye Caitang fled in despair.

Jiao Chunhua opened her mouth and stopped chasing after her.

Smash it with your mouth, the candy is quite sweet, and said to yourself, this girl seems to be anxious, and she doesn’t know who has been deceived.

Ye Caitang fled quickly, and sure enough, he saw Xia Yue and his party hiding far away.

Seeing Ye Caitang retreat completely, Xia Yue and the others came over to greet him.

Xia Yue was smiling, as if welcoming a victorious warrior, but Ye Caitang just wanted to roll his eyes.

"Sir." Ye Caitang said dissatisfied: "You promised to protect me, but you are hiding so far away. If she tries to hit me and calls for help, you won't be able to hear her."

"How is it possible?" Xia Yue said without hesitation: "Although I am far away, my heart is always with you. If you have any trouble, I will know it. I will not let you face the murderer alone."

…

The detectives were about to vomit.

Ye Caitang also felt a little uncomfortable in his stomach. He didn't expect that Xia Yue was such a boss. He would say anything in order to shirk responsibility and cover up his cowardice.

Forget it, who calls him the boss?

"But my candy is gone." Ye Caitang said, "Sir, you have to reimburse me."

"Report, report, report." Xia Yue said continuously: "I will buy you two packs when I go back, no, five packs."

Xia Yue had lost four packages of snacks from Ye Caitang before. Every day, he signed unequal treaties that were humiliating and humiliating the country.

A good deal!

Only then did Ye Caitang feel satisfied.

Xia Yue breathed a sigh of relief and said seriously: "How is it? Have you asked clearly?"

"Let's ask clearly." Ye Caitang said: "I didn't go out the day before yesterday afternoon, so he shouldn't be the murderer. And I don't think Jiao Chunhua's bluffing personality seems like the murderer."

How could the murderer be found so quickly? They had made long-term plans early in the morning.

Xu Xiangyu followed them for a long time and said with emotion: "It's not easy to be a catcher. It's such a endless search. How long will it take to find him?"

It was obvious that he was quite disillusioned.

At first, I felt that the people from the six gates of the capital were so majestic and domineering.

After running around for a day, it was monotonous and boring, and not as domineering as I imagined.

There is no such thing as kicking open the suspect's yard door, pulling out a sword, and then holding up his collar to ask questions.

Xia Yue is a tall and tall man, but he also speaks softly and softly. When he meets the old, weak, women and children, he also lets Ye Caitang act cute, which completely subverts the three views.

After dinner, the two agents were allowed to rest. Xia Yue and Ye Caitang sat down across from each other and sorted out the day's information.

To be the boss among the six gates, you really need to be both civil and military.

The recorded information was spread out on a table. The first batch of fifty or so people on the list that had been excerpted from the Ministry of Revenue have all been questioned. So far, none of them seem suspicious.

They all have evidence of alibi. Moreover, Wang Xi died in Qingquan Town. It cannot be done in one or two hours from Nanshan to Qingquan Town. It takes at least two days to go back and forth, so many people have no need to doubt.

"Hey..." Ye Caitang pulled the information here and there: "I always feel like something is wrong."

They asked nearly thirty people that day. It was easy to ask, but with the time spent going back and forth, it was quite a lot.

"This won't work." Xia Yue frowned and nodded: "Either add more people, or find a simpler way."

If you go around Nanshan and ask questions like this, it will take too long and it will be easy to make omissions.

We must find a way to shorten the scope of suspects.

The two of them faced each other and thought, and for a moment, no one spoke.

Boom, boom, boom!

Someone knocked on the door, it was Xu Xiangyu.

Xu Xiangyu was probably exhausted from running around all day today, so he came to ask for instructions: "Sir, how many more days are you going to stay here? I will go to town with the cart tomorrow to buy more vegetables, meat, etc. Is there anything I want to bring?

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Chapter completed!