Exile at the beginning: I rule the world by drawing cards

Chapter 30 The Floating Corpse
After the market was over, it was almost gone. Qin Mengshang and Ji took the ox cart back together. Before leaving the town, they bought four more chickens.

As soon as the oxcart arrived at the entrance of the village, they saw a group of people surrounding the old locust tree, pointing and talking.

Ji's curiosity was aroused: "What happened?"

"I don't know, go and have a look."

Qin Mengshang climbed out of the car and was about to unload his things when a hand suddenly stretched out from beside him.

"How did you come?"

Zhou Lingqi was wearing a bamboo hat, and the sunlight fell through the gaps on his eyebrows. His skin was white and his eyes were clear.He took the things from Qin Mengshang's hands naturally and said, "It happens to be here."

happen?

Qin Mengshang looked behind him, through the crowd, and caught a glimpse of the swollen and rotten face under the white cloth, and his heart skipped a beat.

Before she could ask who it was, Zhu's hair fell down and she rushed towards him crying loudly: "My son——"

The onlookers immediately stopped her, and Li Zheng said "sorrows" heartbrokenly, and asked a few strong women to pull Zhu away, so as not to damage the body before the officials arrived.

Mrs. Ji was so frightened that she couldn't even speak: "Meng Meng, is everyone really dead?"

Qin Mengshang nodded stiffly. Although he had seen mutilated corpses before, it was still a little inferior to the current scene.

Zhou Lingqi was holding a bag of courgettes, half of his face was hidden in the shadows, and his voice was very low: "The body was found on the river embankment. It may have been soaked in the water for a long time. When it was picked up, it was beyond recognition. Judging from his body It’s the clothes that confirm the identity.”

"Isn't the river bank closed today? Who discovered it?"

"It was discovered by the workers who went to inspect the windlass."

Zhou Lingqi didn't tell her that the body had actually been pressed under the rocks on the river embankment. It was Chen Ergou's clothes that floated up that attracted the workers' attention.

It was obviously summer, but Qin Mengshang felt a chill on his back.Listening to Mrs. Zhu crying one after another, she felt as if she was too light to touch the ground.

Mrs. Ji was also afraid. Just smelling the rotten smell in the air made her stomach churn: "I heard people say this morning that you can't see the dead or alive, and the corpses are floating up as soon as you come back..."

Qin Mengshang pursed his lips and said nothing.

Mrs. Zhu over there was crying so hard that several soft-hearted women also secretly wiped away their tears.It’s not easy to raise a child, and my life is lost for nothing, and my mother’s heart is broken.

The men looked solemn, secretly guessing who the murderer was, and some said that Chen Ergou had followed the same path as his father.Both the Chen family and his son were drowned. Everyone knew it, but it was a bit heartless to say it at this time.

Someone was about to reprimand, when suddenly there was a rapid sound of horse hooves in the distance. Several government servants in black clothes and swords came on horseback, approached the crowd, and quickly reined in their horses and stopped.

When the villagers saw people coming from the government, they retreated one after another.

Qin Mengshang and Zhou Lingqi stood far away and could only see the top of their heads.

The leading man had a square face and thick eyebrows, was tall and dark, and sat upright on his horse. His eyes scanned everyone sharply, and finally landed on the corpse: "Who reported the crime?"

Li Zheng restrained his weak legs and stood up: "Back to the official, it was the villain who reported the case."

Before she finished speaking, Mrs. Zhu somehow broke free from her restraints and threw herself in front of the official: "Please make the decision for my son! Someone harmed him. He was pushed into the river!"

Mrs. Zhu kept crying and shouting, making people flustered and upset.

The leading official frowned impatiently. The boundaries of the Xunjiang River were already chaotic, and with the recent frequent appearance of water bandits, the entire county government was extremely busy.If it weren't for Xu Captou's sake, he wouldn't bother to care about these villagers. "This matter will be decided by the Yamen. We will take the body away first. If there are any clues, I will send someone to pass it on."

Regardless of whether Zhu agreed or not, two discerning government officials immediately stepped forward to carry Chen Ergou's body away, and a group of people rode away on horseback.

Her son died an unexpected death, and the body was still being taken away by the government. Zhu didn't even lift it up, rolled his eyes, and fainted on the spot.

The women hurriedly carried Zhu back, and the others also left.

Qin Mengshang returned home with a heavy heart, and Zhou Lingqi followed him silently. Neither of them spoke a word along the way.

When they got home, Qin Mengshang placed the little chickens he bought and seriously taught the two little guys not to bite the chickens, otherwise they would have nothing to eat.

Zhou Lingqi watched speechlessly as three species with different languages ​​communicated. It would be amazing if they could understand each other.

Qin Mengshang didn't care whether the two children could understand or not, he still had to teach what should be taught.These chickens are raised to lay eggs. They are considered the most important assets of the family now, so of course there can be no accidents.

She tidied up briefly, took out the courgettes and eggplants, and told Zhou Lingqi that she planned to set up a stall in the town to sell food.

Zhou Lingqi frowned subconsciously: "Are you sure you want to go?"

Since ancient times, in agriculture, industry and commerce, businessmen have had a low status and have been disliked, and women who appear in public doing business are even more likely to be poked in the back.

But having been reduced to this situation, Zhou Lingqi didn't care about those rules and regulations, he just hesitated whether it was safe for her to go alone. After all, this face was too eye-catching.

Qin Mengshang knew that he would not agree easily, so he simply said to him openly: "I want to buy land and exchange for a house, but I can't do it with the salary from the river embankment."

Zhou Lingqi: "."

Why does this sound like he is useless?
Qin Mengshang left him alone to think about it slowly. Anyway, he had already bought the ingredients, so he had to do this business even if he didn't want to do it.

She got up and carried the courgette and eggplant into the kitchen. She washed the courgette and eggplant seeds and dried them before planting them in the ground.Cut the remaining courgette into cubes and mix it with various seasonings to make it sour and crispy.

It's hot today, so eating this is the best way to cool down the heat, but if you want cold food to taste good, you need to add more seasonings.

In addition to the courgette, Qin Mengshang chopped garlic to make minced garlic, preparing to make garlic eggplant.

Zhou Lingqi heard the sound of chopping vegetables, and inexplicably remembered the scene when she used a kitchen knife to scare Mrs. Xu.He rubbed his brows, thought about it, and walked into the kitchen.

Qin Mengshang was so busy studying cooking that he didn't even notice that there was someone behind him.Just as she was about to take the meat, she turned around and bumped into someone. The key point was that this person was quite hard, and it hurt the bridge of her nose.

"Zhou Lingqi, why are you standing behind me!" The bridge of her nose was about to collapse!

Zhou Lingqi was very surprised when he heard his name from her mouth for the first time. The last time he was called by his first and last name was in the previous life.

Qin Mengshang rubbed his nose and walked around him, saying in a loud voice: "If you have nothing to do, go to the mountain and chop two loads of firewood and come back. Don't stand here."

Zhou Lingqi didn't move, stared at her for a while, and asked, "When do you plan to go to town?"

Qin Mengshang raised his eyebrows and thought, are you agreeing now?Then he announced the date very calmly.

Zhou Lingqi was calmer than her. He said "hmm" gently and took the hatchet and went out.

"..." For the sake of his serious work, I didn't care about him.

(End of this chapter)