"Am I?" The old man stopped, looked at Qin Yu, and asked doubtfully.
"Uncle, let me ask you something." Qin Yu asked with a smile: "Uncle, where was the river beach at the back of your village?"
"Isn't a river beach just a river beach? It was used to plant mulberries in the past." The old man replied.
"Then what did you do before planting mulberries?" Qin Yu continued to ask, because he did not get an answer that satisfied him.
"Before the mulberries were planted, the place that was flooded by the river was the river." The old man looked at Qin Yu with strange eyes. What the young man asked was really strange.
"Okay." Qin Yu showed a helpless smile on his face. After a while, he continued to ask: "Uncle, can you tell me how the apricot trees on the river beach appeared? It can't be out of thin air.
It grew out, right?"
"You're talking about the apricot tree. This one was planted by people. How could the apricot tree grow on the riverbank by itself?" The old man almost looked at Qin Yu as if he were an idiot, but in his heart he was wondering, this young man
The person looks quite normal, why are you asking some mentally retarded questions? Is there something wrong with your brain?
Although Qin Yu had no way of knowing what the old man was thinking at the moment, the old man's expression made him extremely depressed. He felt that he was despised in his heart.
"Uncle, can you tell me who planted the apricot tree?"
"It was planted by Wang Laoer a few years ago. When it was first planted, it was no longer an apricot sapling. It bore fruit the second year after it was planted. In the summer, the villagers passed there while working in the fields and enjoyed the shade under the apricot tree.
A few apricots and a wash in the river water will quench your thirst more than anything else. Wang Laoer is doing good things for the village."
"Sure enough, it is man-made." Qin Yu's eyes flashed, and he said: "It seems that this matter is definitely related to Wang Laoer."
"Uncle, where is Mr. Wang's house?"
"Hey, it's just over there, turn a corner, and that's the three-story building of the first house."
"Thank you, uncle."
After getting the answer he wanted, Qin Yu pulled Meng Yao, said goodbye to the uncle, and walked forward.
"Qin Yu, are you suspicious of this second child?"
From the weirdness of the apricot tree he saw before, and then hearing the conversation between Qin Yu and the old man, Meng Yao's lovely eyes flashed with wisdom and she asked.
"Yes." Qin Yu nodded. He was not doubting Wang Lao Er, and he was certain that Wang Lao Er had absolutely impure intentions in planting these apricot trees.
After turning the corner, Qin Yu and Meng Yao came to the first three-story building. However, to their surprise, the door of the house was closed. Qin Yu stepped forward and knocked a few times.
No one responded.
"Maybe he's not at home right now," Meng Yao said.
"I won't be home." Qin Yu showed a meaningful smile on his face. He raised his head and looked at the window on the second floor. The window was closed and even the curtains were drawn.
"Most people, especially those here, don't draw the curtains very much when they go out. At most, they close the windows. This is because leaving the curtains open allows sunlight to come in. There is a lot of humidity on the mountain side, so the moisture can be removed."
"That means, is there someone in this house?" Meng Yao frowned slightly. Since there was someone, the door was closed, and even the knock on the door was not answered, something was wrong.
"From the rooftop of the top floor of this house, you can see the situation on the river beach." Qin Yu suddenly smiled at Meng Yao and said meaningfully.
"Qin Yu, what you mean is that Wang Lao Er saw us at home before, so now he deliberately didn't open the door just to avoid seeing us." Meng Yao said with a light in his eyes.
"Xiaojiu." Qin Yu chuckled, but looked at Xiaojiu. When Xiaojiu saw Qin Yu's smile, he waved his paw angrily, but when he saw Qin Yu's eyes glanced at Niu Niu aside
When I saw him, I still reluctantly came forward.
Walking to the door, Xiao Jiu jumped up and went directly to the balcony on the second floor. Then, he entered the house along the balcony. Meng Yao saw Xiao Jiu's skillful movements and said with some annoyance: "Xiao Jiu has changed so fast."
It becomes your free labor.”
"Hehe, if you don't want Xiaojiu to become free labor, you have to convince Niu Niu." Qin Yu pointed at Niu Niu who was strolling leisurely on the ground and said to Meng Yao.
"Oh, it turns out you are using Niu Niu to drive Xiao Jiu. I wonder why Xiao Jiu listens to you so much." Meng Yao showed a look of realization on her face, but then she smiled and said: "If Niu Niu knew about it, she would definitely attack her."
Come and tickle you."
"Didn't you help me block this?" Qin Yu laughed loudly and said, "You are willing to let me be tickled by Niuniu."
"Why can't I give up? I want Niu Niu to scratch her cruel spot." Meng Yao said in a feigned manner.
"you……"
Just as Qin Yu was about to continue speaking, there was suddenly a loud sound of objects falling to the ground in the room, and then, an "ouch" sound came from the front, with a crisp "humming" sound mixed in between.
After hearing these voices, Qin Yu and Meng Yao looked at each other, and then they quickly walked towards the back of the house, only to see a scene that made them dumbfounded.
Behind the house, a fat middle-aged man was holding his hands on the wall. He seemed to be about to climb over the wall, but only his upper body was exposed, and his lower body seemed to be held by something.
Then, the man just struggled to hold on, his face turned red from holding it in. The funniest thing was that the man's figure was already very fat, and this posture gave people the impression that he was pushing against the wall.
"Xiaojiu!"
Qin Yu called out, and a white figure jumped up from behind the fat man instantly, stepped on the fat man's head, and then jumped out of the wall and came to Qin Yu's side.
"Wang Er, open the door." Qin Yu looked at the obese man. There was no Xiaojiu dragging him inside. At this time, the obese man was free again. However, when the obese man saw Qin Yu and Meng Yao outside the wall, he was surprised again.
Jumped directly.
Qin Yu's voice fell, and after a while, there was finally a response from within the wall.
"Who are you? I don't know you?"
"You don't know us, but you planted the apricot tree on the river beach. If you don't open the door, then I can only tell Ge Dahai's family that Ge Dahai will commit suicide, but he is inseparable from the apricot tree.
Also, something happened to a child of one of your families under the apricot tree. If I tell this family again, do you think it will be useful for you to hide at home when the two families come to find you?"
After Qin Yu finished speaking, a few minutes later, he finally responded, "You guys come in through the front door."
After hearing this, Qin Yu's expression did not change, but Meng Yao's face showed joy, because since the other party chose to see them after Qin Yu said this, it meant that the other party really had something wrong in his heart.
When Qin Yu and Meng Yao walked back to the front door, the front door was already open. The fat man's eyes were a little wandering, and he did not dare to look at Qin Yu and Meng Yao.
"Wang Laoer, tell me, why do you want to plant these apricot trees?" Qin Yu said straight to the point.
"Aren't I doing this for the benefit of the villagers? We have to work hard in the fields in the summer, so we can go to the apricot trees to enjoy the shade and eat some apricots." Wang Laoer replied.
"You need to use an evil-nurturing formation to plant apricot trees, and it's a double-evil formation. Wang Laoer, you really don't show your face."
When Qin Yu said this, his eyes were always fixed on Wang Laoer, but he found that when he said this, Wang Laoer had a confused and confused expression on his face.
Qin Yu believes that Wang Laoer's expression is not fake, because people's subconscious reactions reveal their truest reactions. Moreover, Qin Yu also has this confidence. If Wang Laoer is faking, it is impossible
Escape from your own eyes.
"What is the evil-nurturing formation? Didn't I just plant a few apricot trees?" Wang Laoer said in confusion.
"Wang Lao'er, who asked you to plant this apricot tree?" Qin Yu suddenly understood that maybe Wang Lao'er was being used as a weapon, and even he himself was kept in the dark.
"This is what I want to plant myself." Wang Laoer was still dishonest.
"Wang Laoer, if you don't say anything, then I can only ask Ge Dahai's family to come find you."
"I was not the cause of Ge Dahai's suicide. Why do his family want me?"
"Since it wasn't you who caused the harm, why did you close the door just now? Do you think your explanation will be useful then?" Qin Yu looked at Wang Laoer with a smile, "If it wasn't for a guilty conscience, why did you run away from the wall? If it wasn't for a guilty conscience,
Why do you wilt when I mention Ge Dahai’s family?”
Qin Yu's words made Dege Dahai's expression change constantly. Finally, he sat down on the chair dejectedly and said, "I really didn't expect these apricot trees to bring disaster."
Hearing Wang Laoer's words, Qin Yu's face showed joy, and he pulled Meng Yao to sit on the chair opposite Wang Laoer. The moment Wang Laoer said these words, it meant that he had given up resistance.
"Actually, after Ge Dahai committed suicide, I had already noticed that something was wrong. Others thought that Ge Dahai committed suicide in anger because his wife ran away with someone else. But I am the only one who knows that Ge Dahai would not do it at all.
Because of this..."
Wang Laoer had obviously been holding these words in his heart for a long time. As soon as he said them, he poured them all out like soybeans in a bamboo tube.
It turned out that on the day Ge Dahai committed suicide, he had visited Wang Laoer. Because the two had a good relationship, Ge Dahai had dinner with Wang Laoer at noon that day.
At the dinner table, Ge Dahai looked normal and did not look like he wanted to commit suicide at all, because Ge Dahai, like Wang Laoer, was a gambler. It was precisely because of this that Ge Dahai's wife was like others.