What caught his eye was a fair, round face with curved eyelashes and big eyes, almost touching his face, staring directly at him.
You can even clearly feel the hot breath blowing from the girl's nose.
"Oh, you scared me to death."
Seeing Li Nanke wake up, Meng Xiaotu patted the big cantaloupe and let out a sigh of relief. "I thought something had happened. If I had known, I would have used a firecracker to knock you back first."
The little girl Qinqin next to her has not yet woken up, but she no longer has nightmares.
"Where's Master Leng?"
Li Nanke asked subconsciously.
Meng Xiaotu pursed her lips towards the corner. "I woke up and saw her there. I don't know what happened, but I seemed to be in a bad mood. Maybe it was because the internal injuries were too serious, so I couldn't fall asleep smoothly, and I felt very upset."
Li Nanke turned and looked at the woman in the corner.
The girl sat quietly on a low round stool, with her eyes lowered, staring blankly at the ground without realizing it. Her slender and charming figure imprinted a lonely outline on the wall with the dim light.
It wasn't until the man came to her side that she became alert.
I looked up and found it was Li Nanke, with a faint smile on his slightly pale face. "Are you okay?"
Li Nanke sat beside him. "I should ask you this."
Leng Xinnan shook her head and said in a self-deprecating tone: "I'm fine, but I made you laugh. I promised to protect you, but I couldn't do it."
"Heal your injuries first, don't force yourself."
Obviously, Li Nanke also thought that the other party was frustrated because he was unable to enter the red rain dream due to internal injuries.
Leng Xinnan didn't want to explain. Faced with the man's concern, a warm current flowed through her heart. She stood up and said, "Since the nightmare has been safely eliminated, let's go back first."
"Although the nightmare has been eliminated, the secret of this girl has not yet been solved."
There was a sparkle in Li Nanke's eyes. "What exactly did I see in the valley that night? Also, was she accidentally lost, or was she deliberately thrown there?"
"Do you think there's something wrong with this family?" Leng Xinnan heard the problem.
Li Nanke nodded and walked out of the room.
In the courtyard, Butcher Zheng, Mrs. Zheng and Old Mrs. Zheng were waiting anxiously.
Seeing Li Nanke coming out, Mrs. Zheng hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Master, how is my granddaughter doing? Is she going to be okay?"
Old Mrs. Zheng even cried with joy. She took her daughter-in-law and knelt on the ground together, kowtowing to Leng Xinnan and the others to thank her.
Leng Xinnan helped them up and said calmly: "This is what we should do, but you should also take good care of your children on weekdays. How can you just leave them outside?"
"Yes, yes, it's all our fault for being careless." Mrs. Zheng wiped her tears and scolded her son. "You are not allowed to take Qinqin to hunt in the mountains anymore! If my granddaughter has a problem, you little brat, let me know
Go die outside!"
Butcher Zheng nodded repeatedly in assurance.
Mrs. Zheng lowered her cheeks and didn't know what she was thinking.
After the three of them thanked each other, they went into the house to visit, but were stopped by Li Nanke.
"Wait a minute, I have something to ask you."
Mrs. Zheng forced a smile. "My lord, what do you want to ask?"
Li Nanke walked up to Butcher Zheng and asked, "Tell me about the specific situation six days ago. How did your daughter get lost?"
Butcher Zheng's bronze face was full of self-blame, and he said slowly: "That day, as usual, I took her hunting in the mountains. I planned to go back as the afternoon approached, but I happened to find a young deer.
The deer fell into the trap I set and escaped in a hurry. So I asked Qinqin to wait where he was, and I chased after him. But when I came back, I found that Qinqin was gone."
Li Nanke asked again: "Did you often take Qinqin hunting in the past?"
"That's right, this girl is like me, more outgoing and lively, and likes hunting." Butcher Zheng said about his daughter, with a bit of doting on his face. "Sometimes I will teach her some hunting skills."
Li Nanke raised his eyebrows. "So, when you were chasing prey in the past, you often asked Qin Qin to wait where you were."
Butcher Zheng nodded. "This girl is very obedient, and the places I take her hunting are all relatively familiar areas. No matter how deep the forest is, it is easy to get lost, so I don't dare to take her there."
This time maybe Qinqin saw the hare she liked and chased it out of curiosity, but unexpectedly got into the deep forest and got lost."
At the end of the sentence, Butcher Zheng couldn't help but slap himself hard.
It can be seen that he really blames himself in his heart.
Li Nanke thought for a while and asked, "Have you ever been to the deep forest for hunting?"
“Of course I’ve been there.”
Butcher Zheng didn’t hide anything. “I am quite familiar with the deep mountains and forests in this place. The reason why I hunt is because my father taught me how to hunt when I was a child.
At that time, he often took me hunting in the mountains and forests, and sometimes my mother would go with him to pick some game ingredients. When I didn't take Qinqin with me, I would go to the deep forests, and my mother would sometimes go with her, but she was a bit
I’m such a roadie, I almost got lost several times.”
Road crazy?
Li Nanke glanced at Mrs. Zheng, thoughtfully.
He asked Leng Xinnan to continue the cross-examination while he slowly wandered around the courtyard and other rooms.
His intuition told him that there must be something inside.
There are some hunting tools, animal skins and smoked meat placed in the courtyard. Except for a tree, there are no other flowers and plants.
Li Nanke entered the house and checked in sequence.
I found a statue of a god enshrined directly opposite the door of the main house, and there were some strange talismans and seals painted on the pillars on both sides.
Entering Mrs. Zheng's house, there are also large and small statues of gods enshrined inside.
It can be seen that this old lady has great faith.
After wandering around for a while, when Li Nanke walked to the side room, his eyes were suddenly attracted by a few pairs of shoes ready to be cleaned in a bamboo basket.
The shoes are a little dirty, both for children and adults.
It looked like they were the shoes they had changed into after they went to the mountains to find Qinqin six days ago.
Maybe I'm too busy and haven't had time to clean it yet.
Li Nanke picked up the shoes one by one and observed them. Gradually, the corners of his lips curved into a sneer: "There is indeed a problem."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Li Nanke returned to Butcher Zheng and his family, and happened to hear Leng Xinnan questioning Mrs. Zheng.
"I heard that your child died two months after giving birth?"
Mrs. Zheng was stunned for a moment, with a sad look on her face, and nodded lightly. "Yes."
"what reason?"
"I had a cold, and I saw the doctor. He said he had a lung infection. Even though he was prescribed medicine, it didn't get better. Then..." Mrs. Zheng shed tears.
"Cold by the wind?"
Li Nanke was shocked and became suspicious. "Are you sure you died from the cold? Can you tell me about the situation at that time?"
Mrs. Zheng choked and said: "My mother-in-law and husband were not around that day, so I took care of the child at home alone and gave him fever-reducing medicine. While the child was asleep, I thought about going to a nearby pharmacy to grab some more medicine to avoid unnecessary pain.
My husband and the others came back late, and the drug store was closed again.
After I came back from taking the medicine, I saw that the child was still asleep, so I didn't pay attention and went to the kitchen to cook. Unexpectedly, after a while, when I went to check again, I found that the child was no longer breathing."
"Who else is in the family after you leave?"
"Qinqin was alone. She was asleep in another room at that time."
"Do you remember what happened when your child died?"
Originally this was just a casual question from Li Nanke. After all, it has been so long and it is difficult for anyone to remember.
But Mrs. Zheng said sadly with tears in her eyes: "Of course I remember. Even now, I can occasionally dream about what my child looked like when he died."
Li Nanke's eyes narrowed. "Can you describe it in detail?"
Mrs. Zheng tried hard to recall and said: "At that time, when I picked up the child, his body was very cold, his fists were clenched tightly, and his abdomen looked a little swollen. Moreover, the child's face and body looked a little red, and his mouth was soft.
There is blood flowing out of the nose, it is sticky..."
"This is obviously death from drowning! How could it be that he died from a lung infection caused by wind and cold? Didn't you report it to the government for inspection at that time?"
After hearing the woman's story, Li Nanke's face turned cold and he asked sharply.
Drowning?
Butcher Zheng and his family were stunned.
Judging from the reaction, it is clear that the family did not report the incident to the authorities at that time.
"Master, how could it be possible that my son drowned? He has been lying on the bed. Where did the water come from on the bed!"
Butcher Zheng blushed and didn't understand.
After all this time, he always thought that his son died from the cold, but now it turned out to be drowning.
How to make him accept it.
Li Nanke asked Mrs. Zheng: "Let me ask you, did the baby have any other injuries on his body at that time?"
"Except for a little bruise on the ankle, there are no other injuries."
Mrs. Zheng said.
After hearing this, Li Nanke already made a judgment.
He walked to the kitchen, patted an old large water tank standing at the door, and said calmly: "The baby was poured into the water and finally drowned. And judging from the time, it was definitely not an outsider's crime. That is,
explain--"
Li Nanke stared at Mrs. Zheng. "It's someone from your family!"
