When Zhuang Youjie didn't react, Liang Yuanque grabbed his hand and dragged him to the boat.
The boat suddenly bore the weight of an adult and immediately swayed on the water. Zhuang Youjie was so frightened that he couldn't help but scream.
The boatman's boating skills were still very good. After the stern of the boat shook a few times, it quickly returned to stability.
Liang Yuanque gave a little bit to the boatman's uncle, who immediately held up the oatmeal and the boat sailed to the other side of the river.
Zhuang Youjie sat next to Liang Yuanque and took several deep breaths to calm down, but he still had to control himself not to look at the water.
Because once he saw the fine ripples on the water surface so close to him, Zhuang Youjie's calves couldn't help but twitch.
Liang Yuanque looked at his frightened look and smiled, "Master Fang, your hometown is also a water town, why are you afraid of water?"
Zhuang Youjie didn't want to repeat the origin of this, so he could only pretend to explain, "People are always afraid of things. It's just because they see it every day that they become more afraid."
Unexpectedly, Liang Yuanque directly exposed his psychology, "You have suffered a loss in this regard, and you were severely punished by the elders in the family, right?"
Seeing Zhuang Youjie's face not tense for a moment, showing surprise and affection, Liang Yuanque knew that he had guessed correctly.
It is true that Zhuang Youjie was strictly prohibited from going near the water by his family elders since he was a child. The only water he came into contact with when he was a child, apart from the wash water in the basin, was the man-made pond that his father spent a lot of money to dig out in the yard.
But on the surface, he is an elegant and cowardly person, but he is actually full of rebellious elements in his heart. He loves to go against his father. When he was eleven years old, he ran away from home and went to the largest school in the suburbs of Liucheng with other children on the street. He Ti, but because he couldn't swim and was brave, he almost drowned.
In the end, the housekeeper who followed him after discovering that he was missing arrived in time and saved his life.
His father asked a doctor to check him carefully from head to toe. After making sure that he was fine, he sneered and said to him, "You are going to be in trouble now."
Zhuang Youjie was beaten so hard that the feeling of almost drowning and having a swollen butt was deeply engraved in his mind.
Zhuang Youjie was a little unhappy that Liang Yuanque had revealed his childhood scars so directly, and said in a sour tone, "Is this the detective's reasoning ability?"
Liang Yuanque didn't take it seriously, as if he didn't see the confused expression on his face, he smiled happily and didn't answer him anything.
The boat swayed on the river for a while, gradually approaching the other bank, and the buildings standing on the opposite bank slowly took off their veils.
As Liang Yuanque said just now, there is a village on the other side of the river, which seems to maintain completely different living habits from Luo Chuanshui Town on the other side of the river.
Zhuang Youjie no longer talked about his childhood psychological shadow with Liang Yuanquebai, but pointed to the water village getting closer and asked, "Is this another town?"
Liang Yuanque thought for a while, but seemed to be unable to find a suitable answer.
"How can I agree with you? The village does not belong to Luo Chuanshui Town, but the other side is not completely another town."
Zhuang Youjie was completely confused by him, "No, what are you talking about?"
"Oh, forget it, you'll understand when you get to the shore."
As he spoke, the boatman pushed the boat to the shore. He pressed the oar against the shore and controlled the boat to stop. "You two, we're here."
Liang Yuanque stood up, took a big step, and landed neatly on the shore.
Seeing that he was walking so easily, Zhuang Youjie gritted his teeth and stood up slowly. However, he could not stabilize his balance on the boat and stood up unsteadily. The boat immediately staggered on his feet, which frightened him and grabbed the boatman beside him. Don't dare to move.
Seeing his appearance, Liang Yuanque squatted down on the bank, clapped his hands and spread his arms toward him, "Want to hug him?"
"That's not good..." Zhuang Youjie was just about to refuse when he saw the ripples of water under the boat. The courage he had just summoned instantly disappeared, so he changed his mind and said, "Then help me."
Liang Yuanque pulled him and carefully helped him ashore. The moment Master Zhuang stepped on land, he let out a long sigh of relief. It had been a long time since he had been so greedy for the down-to-earth feeling.
The distribution of buildings on the shore here is very strange. The village hidden in the water vapor has now revealed its complete appearance in front of them. It is larger than what Zhuang Youjie saw and imagined. The small wooden buildings are arranged intricately. They are closely adjacent to each other, and there are many low-rise buildings with new attics added on top, thus forming such a huge wooden village.
Deep in the wooden building, they could hardly see the end with their naked eyes. They could imagine that there would be more wooden buildings inside.
This simply formed a city, a city made of wood.
There is a deep white line about three meters in front of the walled city. The large ground on the other side of the white line is empty except for an elderly man who is pushing a wonton cart and cooking wontons.
It's really strange. The buildings in this city are so densely packed that they almost reach the sky. Why don't they build buildings in the open space in front?
After the boatman sent them ashore, he propped up his oars and prepared to leave. Before leaving, he told Liang Yuanque,
"Remember, you must not enter the stockade in front of you."
Liang Yuanque nodded, showing an innocent smile, "Don't worry, I look like a troublemaker!"
After the boatman left, Liang Yuanque pulled Zhuang Youjie to sit down in front of the wonton stall, and asked the uncle for two bowls of wontons.
Zhuang Youjie was very curious, "You said you wanted to go to the other side to investigate the case, but we didn't enter the village, so what should we investigate?"
Then he looked at the old man who was staring at the wonton pot, and lowered his voice, "Are you going to check on this old man who bought wontons?"
Anyway, he didn't see a second person besides them outside the village.
"Of course I want to check the stockade. How can you believe someone who fooled the boatman?" Liang Yuanque said, taking the wonton bowl handed over by the uncle, "Not long ago, a young man from out of town came to this stockade. Then he died mysteriously, and his family was unwilling to accept his mysterious death, so they entrusted me to investigate."
Dead? So this time it's a murder case.
Zhuang Youjie asked him, "How did the deceased die? Was he killed?"
"Drown in the water," Liang Yuanque said while eating wontons. "It was the river we just crossed. We haven't yet determined whether it was suicide or murder."
After hearing what he said, Zhuang Youjie looked up and glanced at the river he had just crossed. The water surface was still very calm, with only a small ripple caused by the evening breeze.
Liang Yuanque put down the spoon in his hand, took out a photo from his backpack, and threw it to Zhuang Youjie beside him.
"Here, this is the deceased."
Zhuang Youjie was unprepared, so he picked it up and looked at it. The black and white photo in the middle showed a soaked corpse lying on the stone road on the shore. The entire face was swollen and white, and the eye sockets were rotten into balls.
This was the first time he faced a dead body. Although it was a photo, the appearance of the dead body was so disgusting that he was so frightened that he immediately threw the photo away.
"Hey, what are you doing!" Liang Yuanque quickly picked up the photo that floated to the ground, "I bought this with money, please take care of it!"
