"Smile? I'm not used to your sudden expression." Wen Liang's hand turned to rub He Nian's hair, and he grinned at He Nian as if demonstrating.

"Don't worry, if you feel embarrassed, I don't ask, the truth is more interesting if you investigate it by yourself, isn't it?"

He Nian didn't express his opinion. He was like a child who did something wrong. He wanted to admit that he was afraid of something, but in the end he didn't express anything, acquiescing to Wen Liang's words.

"It's getting late, don't you want to go back to sleep?" Seeing that He Nian still had no intention of going down, Wen Liang stuffed the jug into his coat pocket, patted his legs and stood up from the eaves, "I still want to sleep." Stay here for a while, and send you down first."

"Can you let me stay here for a while?" He Nian shook his head and gestured, and the expression on his face returned to that neutral look again, "I won't disturb you, but I just want to sit here longer For a while, okay?"

"...Of course, this place does not belong to me, but I am the outsider." Wen Liang glanced at He Nian, and he sat down again, in the same position as before, "The temperature difference between day and night in the mountains is huge, are you cold?" cold?"

He was wearing an assault jacket anyway, and the special high-density material could not allow the cold wind to penetrate the clothes and pierce the skin, but He Nian was only wearing a thin spare single jacket brought by Xie Jin. Whenever the wind blew past his thin body, his whole body People seem to be inflated, and they feel cold when they look at it.

He Nian just shook his head, he sat down next to Wen Liang, wrapped his arms around his knees and surrounded himself, just like the one-sided promise he had just made, without saying a word.

In the early morning of the next day, Ji Duan, who did not see the two of them, was checking the house next to him, when he suddenly heard a slight noise coming from the main hall of the old house.

Ji Duan hurriedly picked up the folding trekking pole and ran towards the place where the sound came from, but happened to see Wen Liang walking into the house, and it wasn't just himself.

There is another person in Wen Liang's arms, it is He Nian who disappeared with him last night, if you read correctly, He Nian is still wearing Wen Liang's jacket.

Seeing the person coming clearly, Ji Duan struggled to hold back the swinging movement that he had already swung. His eyebrows were subconsciously blended together, and he smashed the alpenstock on the ground. Ji Duan asked, "What's the situation? What did you do to him yesterday?" ?”

"What can I do to him? Please put away your nasty thoughts about Xie Jin, he is still a child." Wen Liang passed by Ji Duan flutteringly, and walked towards the room where they slept, "Old Ji, I'm not you."

Ji Duan was full of doubts. After a short reaction, he picked up his trekking pole and chased after Wen Liang, cursing while chasing: "What? What do you call me dirty, because He Nian is still a child, but you brought him Go to an unknown corner and talk all night?? Da Lao Wen, stop for me, speak clearly before slipping away!"

The noise in the courtyard of the empty hall became more and more noisy. The sound of the two chasing each other woke up Xie Jin who was still asleep. As soon as he stepped out of the house, he saw a very absurd scene:

Wen Liang hugged He Nian who was still sleeping soundly for some reason, followed by Ji Duan who was relentlessly chasing after him, who was copying trekking poles in his hand.

Anyone who wakes up early in the morning and sees this picture will have their brains buzzing. Xie Jin hurriedly chased him and hugged Ji Duan's waist, fearing that his subordinates would accidentally kill someone, "What's going on? Ji Duan, why did you run after Wen Liang so early in the morning?"

"You...you ask him yourself." Seeing Xie Jin come out, Ji Duan put away the alpenstock in his hand, and when the man turned his head and was about to ask Wen Liang, he suddenly thought of something, and suddenly pulled Xie Jin's arm, "It's nothing , Uncle Xie."

His face blushed for no reason, and his eyes still drifted to Wen Liang's face from time to time, Ji Duan swallowed the words that came to his mouth, "I, I was just joking with Wen Liang, nothing happened."

Obviously something is wrong.

Xie Jin looked suspiciously at He Nian who was sleeping soundly in Wen Liang's arms. Even with such a big commotion, the child was still immersed in his sleep and did not wake up. "Is there really nothing wrong? Then what's wrong with A Nian?"

"Just fell asleep." Wen Liang pulled up the jacket that was draped over He Nian, "Last night I went to the roof to enjoy the cool air, but this little guy followed me up. I fell asleep in the morning."

"He fell asleep early in the morning, why did you send him down now? Did you really not do anything to him?" Ji Duan looked at Wen Liang with a vague disgust for the ugly side of adults, "Let's be so big Your child will accompany you to blow the cold wind on it, which is quite like your style?"

"I can't help it, I'm getting old." Wen Liang went downhill, and made up things based on Ji Duan's words, "It's not like you two don't know me, He Nian is an adult anyway, it's not wrong to take him up and down It's not easy, anyway, I gave him my clothes, and he didn't catch a cold from the wind, isn't this the best of both worlds?"

Wen Liang's speech was half-truth and half-false, and Xie Jin was a little confused when he heard it. He grabbed Wen Liang's sleepy hair and pushed Wen Liang to let him enter the room quickly: "Wen Liang is not the kind of person who comes around casually, let him in first Come on, Ji Duan, is A Nian still sleeping?"

The words have come to this point, Ji Duan can't stop it any more, he stares at the back of Wen Liang's head, watching this guy who is full of lies bump into the house, his expression is indescribably weird.

The sky has just dawned, and the fog still fills the large area of ​​the sky. According to the situation, the sun will not fully come out until at least nine o'clock. The early morning mountain wind makes people shiver. Even the climate in this weird mountain village is so abnormal. So they didn't choose to eat canned food that was so cold that it blew their teeth, but for the first time they set up the small pot that looked a bit redundant, and cooked six bags of instant noodles at a time.

The scent of instant noodles quickly attracted Wen Liang who had gone back to the house to catch up on sleep. He Nian, who was obviously sleepy, followed behind him. With his face down, the cold air in his body seemed to be expelled from his body.

At nearly seven o'clock, noisy voices came from the main entrance of the old house. The voices were menacing, and the number of people was at least several times higher than that of Zhao Guangsheng's five people.

There was no sign of polite knock on the door, the gate of the old house was violently kicked open from the outside, and with a loud bang, it crashed into the brick walls overgrown with weeds on both sides, and the leader was still the one who brought them here. Five people, but there are more young and strong men who have never met behind them, who should be from the village.

The two burly young men caught in the center each carried something wrapped in straw mats, each of them had anger on their faces, and the source of their anger seemed to be Xie Jin and his group .

The long thing wrapped in a straw mat was thrown on the ground just one step away from the dining table of several people. If you look at the imprint, the thing happened to be thrown in the same place where the coffin had been placed.

"I just let you enter the village overnight, and something happened!" Gao Quan bent over and pulled away the straw mat, and a face that was not unfamiliar to them appeared in sight. It was the one who greeted them at the ancestral hall yesterday. A skinny old man who splashed dog blood.

The old man's skinny face had a terrified expression, his eyes were staring at the sky with anger, his pupils were already cloudy, he raised his hands to cover his chest, his fingers and claws were all facing the center of his chest, it was obvious that his body was Dead body.

"...The person who was fine yesterday, what's going on?" Xie Jin subconsciously used his body to block He Nian's sight, except for Wen Liang, he is the oldest here, he can't let He Nian see these too terrifying things screen.

"Are you still ashamed to ask us what's going on?" Gao Quan raised his voice, his voice high-pitched like a crow trying to cheer up everyone's arrogance, "The old man also had contact with you yesterday, and was found dead at home today. If you can guess who did it, let everyone say yes!"

Before the sun was fully out in the morning, he was hit by a murder case. Xie Jin frowned, and looked at the group of people in front of him without deliberately maintaining caution, "What do you mean by that? , Are you suspecting us as the murderer?"

"Are you calling yourself up?" Gao Quan snorted coldly, and hooked his fingers to the group of young and strong men behind him. Immediately, someone came out to approach Xie Jin. Ji Duan stood up immediately, blocking Xie Jin with a cold face In front of him, he looked at several masked youths approaching with expressions.

The two parties confronted each other, and the atmosphere fell into a stalemate for a while. Just when Ji Duan was ready to defend, there was a sound of sucking noodles from behind.

"Chiliu, Chiliu." The abrupt voice successfully attracted everyone's attention when it was on the verge of firing. Wen Liang drank the noodle soup in the aluminum bowl contentedly, then walked around the masked young man standing in front of the table, walked to the old man's corpse, and touched his neck artery.

"Well... People are really cold, but what does it have to do with us." Wen Liang tried to prove his innocence as soon as he opened his mouth, and he even slapped himself in full view, " Don't everyone here think we are murderers just because of that innocuous episode yesterday?"

His voice fell for a long time, but still no one answered, Wen Liang could only shrug his shoulders in a self-defeating manner. Walking back to the wooden table, he patted the two masked youths who were still standing there with the two walls.

"You two might as well go back first, you can't bring the old man back to life by staring at him here, right?"

He intentionally bites the words back to life very heavily, and deliberately raises his voice towards the back of the crowd, "After all, we are just a few foreigners, we are not familiar with each other, and even we will not understand it because of some things that we don't even understand. Personal conflicts carry the murder case for no reason."

"You mean we framed you?" Gao Quan snorted coldly, "Among all the people here, you are the only one who has had a feud with the old man, otherwise why would he pour blood on you, and you hold a grudge because of this, so He was killed on the first night of entering the village, otherwise he lived honestly and alone for most of his life, how could he be murdered by fellow villagers."

A good one is honest, a good one is a matter of course.

Xie Jin's rationality was telling him to handle this tricky murder case rationally, but he was a little annoyed by these people's judgmental attitude whether it was ignorance or intentionality.

The old man's death would definitely not be done by any one of them, and now there are nothing more than two possibilities.

First of all, this was an accident, but judging from the way the old man died, it was obviously unlikely.

Second, the death of the old man was deliberately designed by someone present. Someone wanted to take the opportunity to deliberately frame the murder case, and even killed the old man at any risk, but the purpose of doing so was unknown. That person might use this reason to keep them forever it's here.