Liu Xiangzheng panicked and blurted out: "No! My sister-in-law hanged herself, and Jin Laosan committed suicide by jumping into the Liaohe River from the broken-mouth cliff. It has nothing to do with me..."

"Broken Mouth Cliff? Scarlet River?"

Xiao Jiading knew that there was a river called Laohe under Huangyan Village, which was a tributary of Jinjiang River in Yizhou. This river was more than 30 miles from the village to the mouth of the river. Daisy said that the body of Jin Laosan was found in Jinjiang three days later. It was not in Laohe at all. No one had seen him jumping down from there. Xiao Jiading immediately felt keenly that this place might be where Liu Xiang was killing people to silence him!

Liu Xiang was just saying this when he realized something was wrong and immediately changed his words: "I was wrong. It was Jinjiang. He jumped into Jinjiang and died by himself."

Xiao Jiading sneered: "Why are you panic? I didn't say you were wrong."

Liu Xiangzheng was indeed a little panicked. After the affair was caught on the spot, he was paraded by people and was so ashamed that he was ashamed. In addition, the fact that he had bribed officials to bribe the official to relieve Zhao's crime was exposed, he was even more panicked and suddenly said something. He lowered his head, and no matter what Xiao Jiading asked, he would not say a word.

Xiao Jiading ordered him to be taken down, called Luocunzheng in, and asked, "Is there a place called Dunzui Cliff outside our Huangyan Village?"

"Yes, just go out of the village and go to Yizhou along the Liao River, about five or six miles away."

"I want to go there and have a look. Can you take a look?"

"Okay!" Luo Cunzheng didn't ask much about why he had to go there so late.

Xiao Jiading, with Captain Dai and a few Zaoli, followed Luocunzheng and others to the bottom of the village. There was a small path leading there. Because the terrain was rugged, there was basically no one living here. When we were about to arrive, we saw a slightly flat place where a house was lonely on the side of the road. Walking through the house and moving forward, there was no one else. It was all rugged paths, all the way to the river.

When they arrived by the river, they were already at a place about two meters above the water. They stretched forward a cliff, and when they reached the end, they suddenly broke freely. It was as if an eagle's mouth suddenly broke from the interruption, so the cliff had a name called the Broken Mouth Cliff.

The cliff has stretched to the center of the river. If you jump from here, it will fall directly into the middle of the river. If you want to kill someone, this is a good place.

Xiao Jiading held up a lantern and looked at the top of the cliff, but found nothing unusual. He looked around and there was no one else. He frowned and said, "Go back!"

Luo Cunzheng and others didn't know what he was doing when he came here in the middle of the night and went back. However, he didn't ask much, so he had to follow him back.

When he arrived at the family on the side of the road, Xiao Jiading stopped and said to Luocunzheng: "I'm tired of walking, go knock on the door. Let's go in and sit and ask for a glass of water. Have a rest."

Luo Cunzheng was going to say he would rest again, but Xiao Jiading had already gone to the first one. He quickly stepped forward and slapped the door and shouted: "Wang Dalang! Get up! Open the door, there is something to do!"

This owner is also called Dalang? However, there is nothing strange about this, because the Tang Dynasty popularly calls men as Ranking plus Lang, and women as Ranking plus a certain girl, similar to modern third and fourth brothers.

The door opened quickly. A middle-aged man came out, looked at them, recognized Luo Cunzheng, and hurriedly bowed and said, "Luo Cunzheng, is there anything wrong?"

"Of course there is something wrong with you. This is Xiao Zhiyi, who is beside the county magistrate, came down to investigate the case. Didn't you hear the gongs and drums just now?"

"No, I fell asleep, what happened?"

It was still a distance from the village, and it was normal for him to not hear it. Luo Village was looking at Xiao Jiading, not knowing whether he should have said that.

Xiao Jiading said: "Liu Xiang is having an affair with the Zhao family in your village and was caught on the spot."

This kind of thing is most likely to arouse people's interest, especially in ancient times when entertainment projects are extremely lacking, such romantic news naturally makes them more excited. Wang Dalang immediately became happy: "Yes? I think that Zhao is not a good thing. It would be strange if her husband is at home. She can endure it! How about it!"

Xiao Jiading interrupted him: "We knocked on your door, not to tell you about this. We passed by here, and when we were tired of walking, we wanted to take a rest and ask for a drink, okay?"

There were a few people from the yamen who were carrying knives behind him. Did Wang Dalang say no? He quickly brought them into the house and greeted his wife and children, and he was greeting the guests.

A few soap lions helped to make fire and boil water. Wang Dalang's wife and children came out. His daughter was about twelve or thirteen years old and his son was only seven or eight years old. When he saw a roomful of people, he was also a knives in the yamen. He was a little nervous and stood there at a loss and smiled foolishly.

Xiao Jiading asked them to sit down. Wang Dalang had already told his wife and children about the incident that Zhao and Liu Xiangzheng had been caught on the spot. His wife and children immediately became energetic and kept asking Luo Cunzheng for details. Luo Cunzheng saw that Xiao Jiading did not speak, so he dared not say much, so he just said that he would boil water quickly.

They couldn't find out the details and felt itchy, so they began to imagine that such things were the easiest thing for people to talk. They immediately began to talk about the past, and they heard Xiao Jiading listen with interest, and they became more excited and said more happily. Speaking of Naluo Village, there was a very powerful guardian guard, named Hongshan, who could kill a cow with one punch. Usually, he wanted to hit someone, but this Hongshan took action. He was beaten and could not get up at all for less than ten days and half a month.

When Xiao Jiading heard this, he remembered the day when he had a drink at Luocun Zheng’s house. Liu Xiangzheng came uninvited, and a tall man was next to him. It was probably this one named Hongshan.

As the saying goes, the wall is falling and everyone pushes it. When they hear that Liu Xiang is being arrested, these villagers will naturally not have any scruples and vent their previous dissatisfaction with him. They said a lot of bad things that Liu Xiang is doing with his thug Hong Shan.

The water was boiling, and Xiao Jiading asked while holding the earthen bowl to drink water, "How is this New Year?"

Wang Dalang smiled bitterly and pointed to the simple house: "What else can you do? Those who farm can't even eat meat during the Chinese New Year."

"Aren't you near the river? Why don't you fish?"

"Fishing?" Wang Dalang glanced at Luo Cun next to him, "I can't pay the fish tax..."

"This is also taxed?" Xiao Jiading also glanced at Luo Cunzheng, but did not continue the topic. He did not come this time to understand the people's sentiment. Asked: "You just said that Liu Xiang was bullying people everywhere. Has he bullied you?"

"No, I am a poor family, only a few dry land, and my family is not beautiful, and nothing can make him look at."

His wife hit him and said, "I don't have one. Our daughter is getting older. I saw him staring at our daughter several times. That day they passed by our doorstep, weren't you scared to death?"

When Xiao Jiading heard this, he hurriedly asked, "Which day?"

"It was just one night after the New Year, which scared me so much that I thought he was going to hit our daughter!"

"How do you know it's them?"

"Then Hongshan's broken throat sounds were known at the first time." Wang Dalang's wife said, "We had already fallen asleep that day. When we heard a few people coming from afar outside, we heard Hongshan's broken throat sounds say, 'Go away'! I was frightened because there was no one around our house, and there was a broken-mouth cliff in front of us, and there was no road ahead, so we almost came here to find my house. We got up quickly and didn't know what to do for a moment. Fortunately, they didn't stop and went straight away."

After receiving this important news, Xiao Jiading was delighted and asked: "Apart from this Hongshan, do you see that there are others?"

"See? How dare we go and see it? We were so scared that we were so scared. Fortunately, we didn't come to our house."

Wang Dalang also smiled and said, "Yes, we didn't go out to see it. After hearing that they were over, I felt relieved if I knew they were not from our house."

"Have he passed by here when he comes back?"

"Yes, there is only one road, I must pass."

"How long does it take to come back?"

"Soon! There shouldn't be a meal."

From here to the Broken Mouth Cliff, it took only one meal. It seemed that they had not stayed at Broken Mouth Cliff for long. Xiao Jiading asked: "Do you know what they are doing?"

Wang Dalang shook his head: "As long as I don't come to our house, I will be grateful, no matter what he is doing."

"How many footsteps do you hear?"

Wang Dalang and his wife recalled and said, "There are not many people, so there are probably only three or four."

"Can you be sure?"

"It should be true, because our residence is right on the side of the road, and someone passes by, and I can hear it clearly."

"Which day is it? Can you remember it?"

Wang Dalang hesitated for a moment and said, "It's the eighteenth day of the first lunar month!"

"Why are you so sure?"

"Because of the 21st day of the first lunar month, Jin Laosan's body was found in Jinjiang. A few days ago, I heard that Jin Laosan had an affair with Liu Xiangzheng's sister-in-law and was arrested. Liu Xiangzheng was very angry and arrested them to parade in the streets. Later, somehow, Jin Laosan died. It was said that Liu Xiangzheng killed him. Jin Laosan's family also went to the yamen to complain, but there was no result. Because the two things were next to each other, I remember it more accurately."

Xiao Jiading drank a bowl of water, thanked him, said goodbye and took everyone back. Luo Cunzheng and others saw him bowing their heads and walking forward, but they didn't dare to ask more questions.

When he returned to the door of Luocunzheng's house in the village, he saw many people kneeling and crying at the door. I don’t know who it was, Xiao Jiading looked at Luocunzheng.

Luocun was about to go up, took a look, and said, "What are you doing on your knees here?"
Chapter completed!