Restarting life by going to the countryside to support medical work

Chapter 323 A Mess

"Why don't you go outside? It's cooler outside than in the yard."

After dinner, Luo Min and Xing Lihua cleaned up the dishes together. Ningning ran to find Yue Dashan as Li Yancheng had instructed.

Jin Zhihai took a small stool and was about to go out to the gate to enjoy the cool air, but he found his good brother sitting motionless under the eaves, so he asked curiously.

"I asked Ningning to help me find Yue Dashan. Just wait for him in the yard."

"Looking for Yue Dashan?" Upon hearing this, Jin Zhihai came over with a stool and sat down at the foot of the stairs.

"What do you want to do with Yue Dashan?"

"Zhenghui asked me to find out about Xiaowu on Saturday. Do you still remember him?"

"I remember. Oh, yes, Xiao Wu is the one who hangs out with Da Shan. But Zheng Hui should have asked Da Shan, right?"

"I didn't go to him to inquire about Xiao Wu's whereabouts. I have already found him. I went to him to inquire about some of Xiao Wu's past events."

"Has Xiao Wu been found?" Jin Zhihai was stunned for a moment: "Could it be...something happened?"

"You guessed it right. Xiao Wu's body was also found at the place where the explosives were found today."

"Bang..."

Li Yancheng and Jin Zhihai were talking here, while Luo Min and Xing Lihua were talking at the sink while washing dishes, but the two women's minds were obviously on their men.

There were both explosives and corpses in the air, and Luo Min's hands trembled and she dropped the bowl into the sink.

Li Yancheng glanced at the sink and then turned his gaze back here. There was no way. As his wife, she would have to get used to this sooner or later.

On the other side, Xing Lihua sighed and patted Luo Min's hand.

"You get used to it slowly. Zhihai sometimes tells me stories about murder cases at home."

"Aren't you afraid?" Luo Min was immediately distracted by Xing Lihua's words.

"Once you're used to it, let me tell you about Xiao Min..."

Jin Zhihai had recovered from his surprise and asked with a frown.

"Could it be that Xiao Wu has something to do with those lurkers?"

"It's hard to say now." Li Yancheng shook his head.

"It is also possible that he was killed because he discovered the secret of the lurker. I went to Yue Dashan to find out if Xiao Wu said anything strange when he was with him."

"Oh, I see!" Jin Zhihai sighed, stood up and picked up the stool under his butt.

"I'll go sit outside for a while, and you two can chat when Yue Dashan comes."

"Row"

……

Twenty minutes later, Yue Dashan came running over, sweating profusely.

"Brother Dacheng, are you looking for me?"

"Sit down and rest for a while." Li Yancheng pointed to the stool that had been prepared long ago and motioned Yue Dashan to sit down. He stood up and went into the house to pour him a glass of boiled water.

"Here, drink some water. You're sweating so much from running."

"Hey, I just went to a friend's house to play, and Ningning was delayed for a while when she came to look for me."

"It's okay, come and have a cigarette."

"Thank you, Dacheng."

"Dashan, I came here to ask you something."

"You ask"

"Did you know that Xiao Wu is missing?"

"I know. I've been looking for him these past two days. Brother Zhenghui even asked me on Saturday whether Xiaowu would return to his hometown in Beihe. I thought he wouldn't, but I found a note from him at Xiaowu's house. It's hard to say for sure."

"Why do you think Xiao Wu won't go back to his hometown?"

"Xiao Wu just told me last Saturday night, which was the 14th, that his godfather wanted him to help with something. How could he suddenly go back to his hometown on the 15th?"

The date written on the note found in Xiaowu's house was June 15th.

"Did he tell you what his godfather wanted him to do?"

"This was not mentioned, but..." At this point Yue Dashan raised his hand and scratched his head hesitantly.

"But what's the big mountain? If you have something to say, just say it."

"Brother Dacheng, I'm just guessing. I can't guarantee whether what I said is right or not."

"It's okay, just tell me your guess."

“I just felt that when Xiao Wu told me that his godfather wanted him to do something, his mood seemed a little off.

Two or three hours later, he started asking me if I would be sentenced if I was caught stealing.

At first I didn’t take it seriously and told him that he should ask Brother Zhenghui. I had never stolen anything and had never been caught.

After a while, he asked me again, still looking absent-minded. I felt like something was wrong, so I asked him why he asked this for no reason.

He told me that someone he knew was caught for stealing, so he just asked casually.

But...Brother Dacheng, I felt that Xiaowu wasn't asking casually. He gave me the impression that he was very worried.

Especially when we were going home later, I arrived at his house first. I asked him to go back and rest and was about to leave. I saw him go into the yard, but after he had taken a few steps, this guy came out again and stopped me.

But after calling me, he hesitated and said nothing. I was also very sleepy at that time, so I didn't think much about it. I just gave him a cigarette and left.

From that day on, I was busy at work and had to work overtime every day for the next three days. I really didn't have the energy to go to the ghost market again, so I didn't look for Xiao Wu for those three days.

When I went to see Xiao Wu again on Wednesday, the 18th, his neighbor told me that Xiao Wu had not returned for several days.

Brother Dacheng, I swear, I looked through the window of Xiaowu's house that day, and I didn't see any note on the table. I also told Brother Zhenghui about it on Saturday, but Brother Zhenghui didn't seem to believe what I said.

Brother Dacheng, Xiaowu...did something happen to Xiaowu?"

Yue Dashan's concern for Xiao Wu didn't seem fake, and the anxious look on his face was not pretended.

Li Yancheng did not answer this question, but asked: "Dashan, have you told Zhenghui what you just said to me?"

"No." Yue Dashan shook his head. "I told Brother Zhenghui that I didn't find any note on Xiaowu's table when I went there on Wednesday. He didn't believe me and thought I didn't pay attention. I didn't say anything else after that."

call……

Li Yancheng exhaled the cigarette he had just inhaled.

If Dashan is not mistaken, it means that the note Duan Zhenghui found in Xiaowu's house was added later. Who added it?

His intuition told him that it should be Zhao Guangrun.

The forensic doctor made a preliminary assessment at the scene this afternoon and concluded that Zhao Guangrun had been dead for no more than 48 hours, but more than 24 hours, which means he had not died earlier than Saturday, which was noon on the 21st. According to the on-site visit, he went to the hospital to deliver food to He Juling on Saturday afternoon, and at nine o'clock that evening, neighbors in the alley saw him coming back from outside pushing his bicycle.

That means Zhao Guangrun died between 9 p.m. on Saturday and 12 noon on Sunday.

Xiao Wu, who was dug out of the soil, had been dead for more than three days. He died before noon on Friday.

A more specific time will have to be determined after the forensic autopsy, but with the current level of our skills, we can only give an approximate time, which is definitely not very specific.

Seeing that Li Yancheng lowered his head and said nothing, although Yue Dashan was anxious to know Xiao Wu's situation, he still endured and waited patiently.

After a while, he raised his head and said slowly: "Dashan, Xiaowu is... dead."

Yue Dashan stood up in a flash.

"Da... Dacheng brother, what... what did you say?"

"Xiao Wu is dead. We found his body at noon today. He has been dead for several days."

"How...how could it be...how could this happen?" Yue Dashan stood there looking at Li Yancheng in a daze, with two lines of tears streaming down his face.

"Brother Dacheng, Xiao Wu... who killed Xiao Wu?"

"It's under investigation. I came here today to ask you about Xiao Wu."

"Zheng...Brother Dacheng, why is it your unit that is investigating?"

Yue Dashan suddenly felt something was wrong. Shouldn't the murder case be investigated by the public security department? How did it become an investigation by the social affairs bureau?
"I can't tell you the specific reason for now. I hope you can tell me everything about Xiao Wu."

Li Yancheng's words shocked Yue Dashan. He raised his hand to wipe the tears from his face and nodded hurriedly.

"Brother Dacheng, just ask me whatever you want to know. I will tell you everything I know."

"Okay!" Li Yancheng took out a cigarette and threw another one to Yue Dashan.

"Dashan, has Xiaowu ever mentioned his godfather to you?"

"Godfather?" Yue Dashan thought for a while before saying this after using the butt of a previous cigarette to touch this cigarette.

“I mentioned it, but not much. Because of his family situation, Xiao Wu values ​​friendship more. He remembers clearly who treats him well.

His godfather saved him when he was young, and after knowing the family situation, he took care of him and subsidized him from time to time. He was also completely devoted to his godfather. "

"I heard that Xiao Wu's godfather once found a job for Xiao Wu. Since he was so obedient, why didn't he work hard and let the factory fire him? Wouldn't it be good to have a stable job and occasionally follow you to the ghost market at night to sell some things and make more money?"

"Don't you want to work properly?" Yue Dashan was stunned when he heard that.

"It's not that Xiao Wu didn't work hard, it's that his godfather often asked him to go out to do things, and he just couldn't work hard, so the factory fired him.

When he first started working, Xiao Wu told me that he would work hard, learn the craft from his master, and strive to get a permanent job. He said that if he had a house and a formal job, he would definitely be able to find a wife in the future even if he didn’t have parents.”

Li Yancheng raised his eyebrows. According to Dashan, Zhao Guangrun lied in three places.

"What does Xiao Wu's godfather want Xiao Wu to do for him? Take a private job cooking for others and ask him to help?"

"I don't know what they did specifically, but it was definitely not cooking for Xiao Wu to help. Xiao Wu told me that he actually wanted to learn cooking from his godfather and become a chef, but for some reason, his godfather was unwilling to teach him how to cook.

As for what you said about taking private jobs to cook for others, I only remember hearing Xiao Wu mention it once. It seemed to be during the National Day holiday last year. His godfather went to Wuxuan to cook for others and asked him to go over to help. I never heard him mention it again."

Last year's National Day? Wuxuan? Cooking?

Hearing this, Li Yancheng's heart beat violently twice.

"Did Xiao Wu tell me where he cooked that time in Wu Xuan?"

"He didn't say that." Yue Dashan shook his head. "He just said that the family was looking for a wife for their son and asked his godfather to come over and cook three tables of food. It was after he came back from that time that Xiaowu told me that he would work hard and strive to get a permanent job so that he could get married."

Li Yancheng took a deep breath to calm his slightly excited mood.

He felt that he seemed to have discovered something extraordinary. That Zhao Guangrun might be the superior of the Guan family mother and son.

He clearly remembered that Liu Jiaquan was the owner of the small courtyard in Wuxuan District. His old classmate Wang Ligong got his son married during the National Day holiday last year, and three tables were set up at that time.

If the person who cooked in the past was Zhao Guangrun, then it should be his uncle whom Liang Qiutao introduced to Wang Ligong.

In other words, it is very likely that Zhao Guangrun knew about the empty yard.

But how can we verify whether he has any connection with the mother and son of the Guan family? Now that the person is dead, if we want to find out the truth about this matter, unless we can find other people who are directly related, it is basically impossible to get any clear results, and we will have to rely on inference in the end.

If Zhao Guangrun is indeed the superior of the Guan family mother and son, then why did He Hua want to kill him? Is it a conflict of interest?

Another point is, could it be that Liang Qiutao and Zhao Guangrun, uncle and nephew, are really not on the same side?

Then who killed Liang Qiutao and the other two?

On the line of Zhao Guangrun?

So Lotus killed him out of revenge?

More and more questions came to his mind, and Li Yancheng felt that he was becoming more and more confused.

"Dashan, how much do you know about Xiaowu's godfather?"

"I don't know anything else. Xiao Wu doesn't often mention his godfather."

Yue Dashan was a little confused. He couldn't understand why Li Yancheng kept asking about Xiao Wu's godfather. Could it be that...

No way!
"Dashan, don't tell anyone what we just talked about when you get out of here."

"Don't worry, Dacheng. I won't say anything nonsense."

"Okay, I'll take you out."

Li Yancheng felt that his mind was a little too confused at the moment, and continuing to talk with Yue Dashan would not have any good effect.

Let's just end this conversation. If I want to know something about Xiao Wu later, I'll find him again.

……

Yue Dashan left with a sad face.

Xiao Wu had been with him for three years, and now he is suddenly gone. To make an inappropriate analogy, even if a beloved toy that has been played with for three years suddenly breaks, the toy owner will be sad for a while.

Not to mention a living person.

Besides, Dashan and Xiaowu have always had a good relationship and get along like brothers.

Looking at his distraught figure, Li Yancheng felt a little uncomfortable.

How to say it, Xiao Wu is from the same neighborhood as them after all. Although they are not familiar with each other, they see each other often. His life experience is pitiful. Now that he is gone, even as an ordinary neighbor, they will feel sad.

"Dacheng"

"Hmm? Masaaki."

Duan Zhenghui had come here a long time ago. He just wanted to find Li Yancheng to ask him if he had found out anything today. However, he was stopped by Jin Zhihai at the gate of the courtyard and was not allowed to enter.

Now that people have come out, it's Yue Dashan who's sending them away. Looking at the expressions of the two, he already feels something is wrong.

(End of this chapter)