Rebirth of the beauty of the peasant girl

Chapter 679 Inquiry
Li Zheng was a little panicked, and quickly explained: "Your Excellency, calm down, in fact, I ordered you to go on like this, but...the Liu family disagrees. I can't forcefully stop me..."

"Why can't we stop it?" Qingluo said seriously, "Now this case is handled by the Yamen, how can they have the final say!"

Li Zheng felt a little ashamed: "Then what should we do now?"

"Huang Baotou, you wait here first, don't let anyone touch this place." After Qingluo instructed, she said, "Mr. Hu, come with me."

"Okay." Hu Sandao came with her to the Liu family's old house with a bag on his back.

At this time, many people surrounded the old house, most of them looked unhappy and talked a lot.Seeing Qingluo approaching, he hurriedly stepped aside, his eyes followed her.

When Qingluo walked into the courtyard of the Liu family's old house, she saw that Liu Heping's family was also there.

When they saw Qingluo, they all showed surprise, but held back their steps and did not come over.

"Lord magistrate, you have to be the master of our family!" Mr. Liu rushed over directly, but fortunately he was stopped by Li Zheng, and almost got hanged by Qing Luo.

A few yamen servants who followed Qing Luo hurriedly stepped forward, held up Mr. Liu, and shouted: "The ignorant and unruly people dare to offend the magistrate, step down!"

Qingluo waved them back, and said: "I will investigate this case thoroughly, so please be patient. Where is the body now? Let me test it."

Liu Heping hurriedly said: "It's parked in the west wing, I'll take you there."

Now that there is no one in the second room, and the fourth family is not up to the task, at the critical moment, Liu Heping has to come over to preside over the overall situation.

Grandpa Liu looked at the thick back of his eldest son, feeling inexplicably regretful in his heart.

Speaking of which, the eldest son has always been the pillar of the family, filial and loyal.

If, if they hadn't kicked out their family back then, would everything be different now?
Looking around the house, seeing the dilapidated look, the old man sighed deeply, as if he had aged a lot in an instant.Perhaps Chen's death gave him enlightenment.

Death is like a lamp going out.

The competitive mentality in the old man's heart suddenly faded a lot.

"Old man, you went to the county government office with Mrs. Chen yesterday, didn't you?" Qing Luo came over and asked him.

Old man Liu nodded, and said with a sense of loss of interest: "That's right, yesterday we were beaten a few times by the yamen servants, and we left."

There is no resentment in the words.

Qing Luo glanced at him and continued to ask: "You two came back together? Did anything special happen on the way?"

"We were still together when we were in the county." The old man thought about it again, and said, "Oh, yes, I met a man on the road, and he talked about the rattan harvesting in the yamen, and the second child came back in a hurry. I haven't seen her since then, and I didn't know she was dead until I came back at night. "

"Oh..." Qing Luo frowned, then turned her head and asked Li Zheng, "Who was the first to discover the corpse?"

Li was busy returning: "It's Erya Niang, they all returned to the village around the same time."

"them?"

"That's right. People in the village heard that the yamen harvests rattan. Anyway, there is nothing to serve in the field, so they all ran out to cut rattan."

"A lot of people went?"

"Almost all of them have gone, and there should be only a few children and elderly people with bad legs left." Li Zheng thought for a while, "And Liu Siping and his wife didn't go either."

Mrs. Zhang is pregnant, if it is left to ordinary people, it is nothing to be pregnant, and she still has to do housework, and even some people go to work in the fields.

But Mrs. Zhang took so many years to conceive, so she was extremely careful, she didn't even go out of the courtyard door, and Liu Siping never left her side to protect her.

Not to mention the vines worth a penny and ten catties, even if there is money in the sky, I'm afraid they won't go out to pick it up.

"Oh, and Wen Quan's clothes are also at home."

Ji Yuehong?
She also has a body, so naturally it is impossible to beat Chen Shi.And she has no motive.

Qingluo nodded knowingly: "Uncle Lizheng, let all the people who didn't go out yesterday come here. Except for a few able-bodied people, everyone, whether old or young."

Li Zheng promised, called two young men, and went door to door to inquire.

Naturally, the villagers did not dare to disobey the government's order, and even the men who were anxious to make money did not go out, and gathered together to wait for the news.

Fortunately, the village is small, with a hundred or so families, and soon Lizheng came over with people who didn't go out yesterday.

Qing Luo took a glance, there were not many people, except for the elderly and children, there were only a few tender-faced women who didn't want to go out and lazy men who always had nothing to do.

They were in front of Qingluo, looking at the county magistrate and a group of government servants, all of them looked a little panicked.

This is the rhythm of being interrogated as a suspect...

For them who have never been out of Pingyang County in their entire lives, it is already a big deal.

"Niu Niu, we didn't do anything..." An old lady leaned on a cane and said tremblingly, "We just stayed at home and didn't know anything..."

The old man next to her pulled her: "What are you talking about! That's the magistrate, and you can call the magistrate's nickname?"

The old lady suddenly looked terrified, and waved her hands again and again: "Forget, forget... People are useless when they are old, don't blame the county magistrate..."

Qing Luo smiled and said: "Don't worry, you two, I just asked you a few words, it's all right."

The old lady hurriedly said: "Oh, then you can ask, we will tell you everything we know. Alas, no one has said a few words to us all day long. We are old...it's too long-winded..."

Others pulled her clothes: "Don't say those things are useless, it's the same in front of the county magistrate..."

Qing Luo laughed: "Okay then, I'll keep talking to you first, okay?"

"Hey, you can ask!"

"What did you do all day yesterday? Did you go out for a walk?"

"Yesterday, let me think about it..." The old lady thought for a long time, but couldn't remember what she did yesterday, and turned around in a hurry.

Qingluo comforted her softly: "Don't worry, think slowly, what did you have for breakfast?"

"Morning... oh, yes, I remembered," the old lady said happily, "I drank half a bowl of sticky paste and half a piece of pickle lumps yesterday morning."

"What did you have for lunch then?"

"I ate a steamed bun at noon, and I ate half of the leftover pickles from the morning!" The old lady's thoughts gradually became clear.

Qingluo praised: "You have a good mouth!"

"No, last year, I could eat two wotou in one sitting..." The old lady was still modest.

It made everyone laugh.

The atmosphere inside and outside the yard became more relaxed.

"...after lunch, I went out for a walk, but there was no one in the village, so I walked around and went back to the house to take a rest..." The old lady took the initiative to say.

Qingluo let out an ooh and asked, "Then did you see anything interesting?"

"It's okay, I saw a few children fighting, and I tried to persuade them." The old lady babbled, "These dolls are getting skinnier now... At that time, children of this age had to go to the ground. After working, how can I still hang around at the age of eight or nine..."

(End of this chapter)