Soon they dug out a box from Xue Liangyin's room. Xue Liangyu didn't recognize this box, but everyone looked familiar.
This is the famous pastry shop in Beijing, the box containing pastries in Maixiang Village.
Their products are more expensive, and not only are their pastries more exquisite than other places, but the boxes are also exquisite, with the words "Maixiang Village" written on them, with an embossed effect, making it very easy to identify them.
"This is the snack of Maixiang Village, the sweet-scented osmanthus cake." Jian Yu looked at it and had the right to speak. Both Mr. Jian and Mrs. Jian liked to eat it, so he often bought it back to pay tribute: "Ask Xue Liangyu to take a look and see if you see it at home.
Pass this box of pastries."
Xue Liangyu looked at it, shook his head and said: "I have never seen it before, but I think it is so exquisitely packaged, it must be very expensive."
The snacks in Maixiang Village are indeed not cheap. For Jian Yu, they can buy them casually. But for people in the mountains, the price of a box of snacks is worth two months' income. Unless there are some special reasons, otherwise they will not
Willing to buy it.
"Is it because they think their brother can finally get a wife?" Xue Liangyu guessed: "And it doesn't cost anything, so they are very happy?"
"No." Bai Yue interrupted: "This box of snacks came from something wrong."
Shen Ye asked curiously: "How can you see it?"
Bai Yue said: "Did you pay attention to Mother Xue's body? Although she went up the mountain to look for her in the middle of the night, she was wearing a hairpin, a necklace, and even a metal bracelet."
Everyone was stunned and didn't notice this. In other words, although they noticed this, because the jewelry on Xue's mother was very cheap, in the eyes of them who were used to seeing good things, it was not considered jewelry at all.
Unable to catch the eye.
Bai Yue added: "I just looked at the wardrobe in their room. The clothes she wore are obviously the better among her own clothes. The rest of the clothes in the wardrobe are more shabby."
My daughter was lost, and she went out looking for someone in the dark. She even had to dress up. Everyone found it difficult to understand.
Xue Liangyu, on the other hand, knows her mother well: "My mother is like this. She always looks glamorous outside. Even if she goes out for three steps, she has to change into neat clothes."
"More than that." Bai Yue said: "Looking at the furnishings in this room, the contrast between the main room and the bedroom is very obvious. A few slightly better things are placed in the most obvious places in the main room. I am afraid that visitors will not be able to see them at a glance."
Xue Liangyu only felt inexplicable shame and lowered his head.
"So she is a person who likes to show off, because she usually doesn't have it, so as long as there is a chance, she hopes to be envied and praised by others to satisfy her vanity. This feeling of being envied will be more satisfying than enjoying the good things themselves.
She is satisfied."
Xue Liangyu nodded and had to admit that her mother was really such a person. Even if she had a meal of meat at home, she would want to make a noise so that the whole village knew about it and make everyone envious.
Liang Meng benefited a lot: "I understand, so this snack is a very expensive thing for the villagers and is very face-saving. According to Xue's mother's character, the whole village should know about it, and the box should be put away after eating
Put it in the most visible place, not hide it.”
"right."
After saying this, everyone thought it made sense.
But how did this box of snacks come out? Xue Liangyu didn't know. It was hidden so secretly that no one in the village had ever seen it. So Xue Mao was the only one left in the family.
Liang Meng said: "Otherwise, let's take the snack box back to Taohua Temple and ask Xue Mao."
Bai Yue shook his head: "If the problem lies in this box of snacks, then Xue Mao is not dead, which means he didn't eat it. If he didn't eat it, it must be because he didn't know. If he knew, he wouldn't not eat it."
Shen Ye couldn't help but said: "Xue Mao is a grown man. It's a rare box of snacks. It's normal that he didn't eat it."
Bai Yue smiled contemptuously: "It is of course a very normal idea to leave good things to your wife and children. But it's not that we haven't seen Xue Mao's virtue. It's not that one family does not enter the house. Just like him, if we meet I got a good thing, and I must have hidden it secretly to enjoy it, no one would have guessed it."
On weekdays, she knew that her parents' behavior was inappropriate, but now that Bai Yue said it, Xue Liangyu wanted to cry again when she thought about it. What kind of family is this?
While everyone was talking, Qin Jiu followed suit and picked up the snack box to look at it. He even picked some up and smelled them. Bai Yue glanced at her and she blinked without saying anything.
No one paid attention to this small detail, and all the people Liang Meng sent out to the village to inquire door to door came back.
The small mountain village is closed, and being closed has the advantage of being closed. People who come and go are neighbors and acquaintances, and they don't look up to see each other. As long as an outsider appears, he will be recognized.
My subordinates brought back a middle-aged man.
"Sir, this man's name is Liu Hu. He said he saw a stranger in the village two days ago."
The person who was brought back was an honest man in his thirties, with the vicissitudes of life left by the weather.
The man has lived in Poxia Village all his life and goes out to the market several times a year. He has never seen such a scene and is a little nervous.
Jian Yu said kindly: "Your name is Liu Hu, right?"
The man nodded.
"Don't be afraid, I'm just asking you a few words." Jian Yu said, "Just say whatever you see. If you say it well, you will be rewarded. If you say it wrong, it doesn't matter."
Liu Hu became less nervous and nodded again.
Jian Yu said: "You said you met a stranger in the village two days ago. Please tell us in detail what time and place it was and what the person you met looked like."
Liu Hu recalled: "It was the day before yesterday. I don't know the exact time, but shortly after dawn in the morning, I was about to go into the forest to collect some firewood. Then I ran into the man head-on."
"Our village is small, there are few people, and it's snowing now, so no outsiders will come in, so when I saw the strange man, I took a few more glances."
Bai Yue said hurriedly: "Have you seen his appearance clearly?"
"You see clearly." Liu Hu said: "You are very young, about twenty-one or two, and your face... your face is a bit square, but here it is flat..."
With a Chinese character face, Bai Yue continued: "Think about it carefully and think about all the five senses clearly."
Liu Hu fell into deep recollection: "The man's eyes were very small. He should have opened them wide when walking in the snow, but I felt like he was squinting. His nose was quite high, but it didn't look good, and his nostrils were quite straight. The big one is because his eyes are small and his nostrils are very obvious. There is no flesh on his cheeks and they are sunken... But it's not because he is hungry. I think that although his clothes are not very good, they are much better than those in our village..."
Liu Hu probably hadn't said that many words this year. Under Bai Yue's questioning, he carefully and repeatedly described the man's appearance several times.
Bai Yue refused to let him go: "Brother, I'll give you some money. Don't do your own work today. Follow me to Peach Blossom Temple and help me identify someone, okay?"