NOVEL NEXT Chapter 45 Green Mushroom
"Sister, sister..." Ajiao carried a basket of wild mushrooms and shouted to Mao Xi as she ran home.
Mao Xi and Xiaodouzi had just returned from digging bamboo shoots in the mountains, and were about to go to Aunt Shen's house next door to find Ajiao, but they didn't expect that she ran back by herself.
The little baby ran fast and fell a few times on the way. His knees were broken and bleeding. Ajiao was strong and did not cry.
It is common for little children in rural areas to have their knees injured and bleed when climbing trees and catching fish. Ajiao was as naughty as Xiaodouzi when they were young.
Mao Xi helped her little sister clean the wound and said warmly: "You are no longer allowed to go to the back mountain to pick mushrooms in the future. Tell me slowly, what's wrong!"
"Sister, the bones, the bones of the hand, were in the ruined temple in the back mountain. I dug them up while picking up mushrooms."
"Bone? Broken temple!" Mao Xi took Amei's basket and saw that there were mixed mushrooms, green pleated mushrooms, and a Ganoderma-shaped Tai Sui inside.
"Sister, some of these mushrooms are inedible!" Xiaodouzi looked at the basket and took it to empty it.
Hearing that there were bones, Ma Xi suddenly felt bad: "Ajiao, can you see clearly, are they animal bones or hands?"
"It was from my hand. I took one look at it and ran home."
Worried that her little sister was too frightened, Mao Xi asked Xiaodouzi to comfort Ajiao at home. She took Yuanbao to the ruined temple in the back mountain and saw that there were indeed bones buried here in the grass, so she returned to Liujiacun and informed Li Zheng.
"Li Zheng, let me go to the county government to report the case!"
After Mao Xi finished speaking, he drove his donkey cart and sent his younger brother and sister back to Liuxiang Snacks in Lihua Town. He called Lou Lan'er and prepared to go to Kaitang County to find Captain Zhang together.
"Lou Lan'er, bones were dug up from the ruined temple in the back of the village. Please accompany me to the Yamen."
Lou Lan'er was surprised and said, "How could something like this happen in the back mountain?"
"Maybe it's an old case, or it could be an accident. Li Zheng said that the area is deserted and the clan has never set up a grave."
The two left Lihua Town and had not gone far when they met Agent Zhang, his colleagues and Wang Xiucai.
"Captain Zhang, I was about to go to the county government to report to the official. You came just in time. The bones were dug up by the ruined temple in the back of my village. Captor, please go check it out quickly."
Captain Zhang quickly asked his colleagues to go back to Kaitang County to summon the widowers. Wang Xiucai went back to Lihua Town first, and the others came to the Huangshan Temple in the back mountain together.
Agent Zhang squatted beside the grass and looked at the half hand bones exposed in the soil, confirming that they were human bones. He walked around the temple and squatted down to check, and there were mushrooms everywhere.
Different from ordinary edible mushrooms, the mushrooms beside the ruined temple are like small snow-white umbrellas held up from hell. When the sun shines, they glow green and ghostly, like a mysterious killer.
"Captain Zhang, these are green pleated mushrooms that are poisonous. Could it be that someone accidentally ate them and got poisoned?" Shui Xi reminded, bravely walking to the side of the bones and wanting to get some grass to cover them first, "Captain Zhang, hurry up. Do you want to cover it first?”
"There's no rush, we'll talk about it later when Wu Zuo comes. Miss Ah Shu, aren't you afraid?"
"I'm not afraid." In his previous life, Mao Xi often watched TV series about reasoning and solving crimes. In ancient times, it was quite exciting to be able to visit the scene in person.
Lou Lan'er squatted down near the burial site and saw the remnants of Tai Sui. She said to Shu Xi, "Ajiao dug Tai Sui here. It will take at least several decades for Tai Sui to grow."
Yuan Bao, who followed, barked at Lou Lan'er twice, and it began to dig the soil near a mushroom near the temple.
Agent Zhang quickly took a piece of wood and dug down where the Yuan Bao was dug. Another man's hand appeared. It seemed that it had only been buried a short time ago.
Agent Zhang's colleagues came with Wu Zuo and two government officials, and finally dug up the body from the soil.
One has been boned and the other has just been buried.
"Captain Zhang, this ossified corpse is more than 30 years old, and the other body was buried just in the past half month. The cause of death was a heavy blow to the back of the head." Wu Zuo reported the inspection results to Detective Zhang.
Detective Zhang checked another corpse, dressed as a scholar, and found a piece of jute paper on his body, which contained fragments of policy and discussion.
Captain Zhang quickly put the jute paper away and handed it to the Yamen servant: "Take it back first and check the handwriting. This matter is important. Report to County Magistrate Zhou immediately."
"Jute paper! Wang Xiucai also has it." Lou Lan'er shouted, "Could this be related to the fox demon case?"
Mao Xi secretly called Lou Lan'er aside and whispered, "Lou Lan'er, I suspect that when Wang Xiucai returned to Lihua Town, it was Agent Zhang who arranged to catch the murderer of the Fox Demon case."
"That's true." Lou Lan'er nodded hurriedly.
Mao Xi: "Go back to Lihua Town and see if Wang Xiucai returns to the inn. Act accordingly and protect him."
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"Wang Xiucai, you are back." Li Xiucai saw that Wang Xiucai had moved back to the west building of the inn, came to the room, and gently closed the door, "Brother, where did the police officer take you yesterday?"
"It's okay, I just went to the county government office to make a record." Wang Xiucai replied calmly.
"By the way, you were really drugged? The news has spread throughout the inn."
"No, I won't worry about Miss Cai Die when I come back."
Lou Lan'er followed Mao Xi's instructions and came to the inn to observe secretly. Agent Zhang and the government officials were lying in wait.
That night, Wang Xiucai held a candle and read at night as usual. In the dead of night, a woman appeared beside the scholar. After pouring him water, she hesitated and was about to leave.
Wang Xiucai grabbed the woman's hand and took a closer look, noting that it was Miss Cai Die.
"Die'er! Why didn't you take any medicine?" The fifty-year-old man rushed out and wanted to attack the scholar.
Lou Lan'er and the government officials stepped forward together, subdued the old man and knelt on the ground.
The colorful butterfly fluttered in front of the old man and cried bitterly.
Captain Zhang quickly lit the oil lamp and entered the house, and said to Cai Die: "Miss Cai Die, should I call you 'Fox Demon'?"
Cai Die cried slightly, pulled out the phoenix hairpin on her head, and said to the old man: "Daddy, I'm sorry for you." After saying that, she held the phoenix hairpin to her neck and tried to commit suicide.
Lou Lan'er moved quickly and knocked the phoenix hairpin out of Cai Die's hand.
This phoenix hairpin had three tails. Captain Zhang quickly picked up the phoenix hairpin and compared it to Wang Xiucai's neck. The marks matched.
Detective Zhang analyzed: "Old man, you let the woman commit the murder, do you still admit it?"
"There is no evidence, so stop talking nonsense!" The fifty-year-old man struggled.
"You want evidence, this is the Phoenix Hairpin and the oil lamp! You mixed the drug into the West Tower oil lamp in advance to stun Wang Xiucai, and then asked Cai Die to put green mushroom powder into the water he drank to cause him to hallucinate. He heard the cry. He also put a red-hot phoenix hairpin on his neck, shaped like a fox tail, to confuse the audience with rumors of a fox demon."
"Alas..." The fifty-year-old man sighed.
"Seeing that your deeds have been exposed, you have repeated your old plan today. You originally wanted to take Wang Xiucai's life, but you never thought that Miss Cai Die would show mercy. You did not poison Wang Xiucai's water today."
"How did you know this?" The old man lowered his head and showed no regrets.
"The sky net is vast and sparse! There is a scholar's bones buried next to the ruined temple in the back hill of Liujia Village. We didn't recruit them from the truth!" Captain Zhang said sternly.
"Everything was done by me alone and has nothing to do with Cai Die." The old man spat out the last words and was about to bite his tongue to commit suicide, but the officer pinched his mouth and stopped him.
"Old man, don't you want to hear what Miss Cai Die has to say?"