Zhou Zhimo looked away and looked at the thing in Xiao Qin's hand: "Where did it come from?"
Xiao Qin picked up the rag in his hand: "This piece of cloth was found by Li Erwa from the sheep just now."
"Very few people come to this barren mountain and wilderness. How can there be clothes and fabrics?"
"Li Erwa said it was Huang Juhua. Could it be that the victim was Huang Juhua?"
As the sun emerged again, and with Li Erwa's naughty fuss just now, everyone felt that the air was less oppressive.
This sudden problem weighed down everyone's minds again.
Zhou Zhimo looked at the village at the foot of the mountain and didn't have much idea for a while: "Let's go and have a look in the village."
"In this case, Liang Yinuo, Xiao Qin, I, and I will stay in the village to see if there are any clues."
"The others will go back to their units first."
"Xiaofeng, take the skeleton back and check it carefully to see if there are any other clues."
Everyone walked down the mountain and started to separate. Xiaofeng and others drove away.
Zhou Zhimo took Liang Yinuo and Xiao Qin to the canteen at the entrance of the village: "Boss, bring me a pack of cigarettes."
"Two more bottles of water."
The boss is a middle-aged man with thinning hair: "What cigarette do you want?"
Zhou Zhimo looked at the scattered cigarettes on the shelves: "Just the ones that people in that village like to smoke the most."
The boss turned around and took out a pack of cigarettes and handed them to him, then took two bottles of water and put them into the bag: "Ten dollars."
Zhou Zhimo took out a fifty yuan note from his pocket and handed it to him.
The boss was looking for change in the drawer: "There are only thirty yuan, and the remaining ten yuan can be changed to one yuan for you, okay?"
Zhou Zhimo said hurriedly: "Well, don't look for it anymore. You can see what you can buy for ten yuan and just put it on."
The boss happily handed him the thirty yuan in his hand: "Okay, let me pack some food for you."
"You fill your stomachs."
Zhou Zhimo nodded: "Okay."
While the boss was loading things, Zhou Zhimo asked casually: "Are there many people in the village?"
The boss looked up at him and shook his head: "How many people are there?"
"Look at how deserted my place is. If there are too many people, how can I even get ten or twenty yuan?"
Zhou Zhimo smiled: "Then where have these people gone? Have they gone out to work?"
The boss said: "The policy has changed, the epidemic has been relaxed, and young and physically fit people have all run out."
"You can't make money by growing crops at home, but it's easy and profitable to go out. Of course, I don't want to stay at home anymore."
Zhou Zhimo nodded and said in agreement: "You are right, it is indeed the truth."
"Has anyone in the village been out recently?"
The boss thought for a while: "I don't think I've heard of it."
After saying that, he turned around and asked the people in the back room: "Baby, has anyone in the village gone out to work recently?"
A middle-aged woman came out, wearing a maroon sweater with frizzy hair.
Seeing the three people outside, he glanced at his husband again: "You always say whatever they ask, do you want to give others your money?"
"Look, they are not from the village. They are just asking around."
She scolded her husband: "There are so many liars these days, who knows who they are?"
The boss smiled awkwardly at Zhou Zhimo and the others: "She has a short temper."
Then he said to the woman: "I'm buying something, so I'm just asking, why are you so irritable?"
The woman rolled her eyes at him: "It's not like I'm giving you money when I buy something. Are you still grateful?"
Seeing that the two of them were about to curse, Zhou Zhimo quickly explained with a smile: "We are the police and want to know some information from you."
The woman looked at them: "There are a lot of fake police officers these days."
Zhou Zhimo smiled and took out his ID to show them: "This is my ID. Take a look."
The boss took it and the woman came over. They looked at it carefully, head to head: "It seems to be real, steel seal."
The boss returned the ID to Zhou Zhimo: "Take it."
The woman still looked at them warily: "I didn't hear anything happened, what are you doing here?"
Zhou Zhimo told them: "I have a case and I came here for a walk. I ran out of cigarettes in my pocket. I saw your place was open, so I came in."
"By the way, I want to ask you about it."
"The people who can open shops in this village are people who have good connections and are recognized by everyone."
"With people coming and going, you will naturally know more, and your words will have more weight."
After hearing this, the woman relaxed her vigilance a little: "That's exactly what you said."
"Regardless of what is being sold, most people really can't drive it."
Liang Yinuo, who was behind Zhou Zhimo, lowered his head and smiled secretly.
The woman was happy and started chatting: "What did you ask just now? Someone in the village went out recently, right?"
Zhou Zhimo smiled and nodded: "Yes."
The woman started to say: "Recently, someone really went out."
"Generally, in winter, people don't go out much."
"However, some people are different."
Liang Yinuo discovered that when the chat box was opened, it kept ringing.
The woman continued: "Li Laosan went out, saying he was going to earn money for the New Year."
"Oh, that yellow chrysanthemum is out too."
She recalled: "The two of them went out at about the same time."
Zhou Zhimo asked her: "Is this from the same family?"
The woman curled her lips disdainfully: "What nonsense are you talking about? How can they be a family?"
The boss quietly tugged on her sleeve, but the woman didn't notice and continued: "Huang Juhua is just a broken shoe."
"She hooks up with every man she meets in the village."
After saying that, she turned to look at her husband and looked at him with wide eyes: "Why did you drag me just now? Can't I talk about her?"
She asked her husband: "Is that a good thing? Did I wrong her?"
The husband could only beg for mercy and smiled apologetically at Zhou Zhimo.
Zhou Zhimo knew that the boss was because of the woman's "nonsense words", so he responded with a smile: "It's not a problem."
He asked the woman: "Go on, what does the yellow chrysanthemum look like?"
The woman then stopped blaming her husband: "She is a widow, and she has no shortage of men at her door."
"A man is sad when someone else dies, but she is very happy."
"I'm afraid I wish that if the man died, no one would get in the way."
"He got involved with the men in the village from time to time, and the other one followed him."
"These men are even more worthless."
The woman gritted her teeth: "You actually got jealous and even got into a fight over such a thing."
"Do you think it's funny or not?"
Her expression made Liang Yinuo almost suffer from internal injuries.
Zhou Zhimo responded to her: "Is there still this thing? Who are they?"
The woman started talking loudly: "Li Laosan, Zhao Hongshan, and Lao Fangtou got into a fight."
"Anyway, the three of them went to Huang Juhua's place one after another, bumped into each other, and started getting jealous and fighting."
