Chapter 204: Chapter 201: The Puppeteer Behind Two Birds with One Stone

Ermao: “Jiang Family’s Xiao Mingyue… No, female knight! We really haven’t gone to bother them again. Honestly.”

San Gou: “What Ermao said is true. We haven’t gone to the place where the educated youths stay, nor have we caused any trouble for your two friends. As for Mr. Yang, we don’t know what’s going on either; we haven’t seen him for half a month.”

Jiang Mingyue furrowed her brows: “Really?”

Ermao was about to cry; this young lady really didn’t play by the rules.

“It’s true. Mr. Shen was gone first, then it was Mr. Yang’s turn to be absent. You can go check; for these days, the village has been arranging people to take turns guarding those cows.”

“Alright, I’ll trust you for now. Keep it up, I’ll come again in some time. If you…”

“We won’t, we won’t. We promise to behave honestly and not to do bad things to your friends again.”

Jiang Mingyue: “…Okay, I’m leaving.”

In light of the fact that you testified, I’ll let you off for now.

So that’s how it is!

With that in mind, Liu Yinghe indeed deserved death.

But this was just what she saw in Ermao and San Gou’s sea of consciousness; Jiang Mingyue felt it necessary to meet Liu Siyuan, the one who benefited behind the scenes.

What a capable person! He doesn’t even get his hands dirty, yet he can win battles from afar and kill two birds with one stone; why doesn’t he ascend to the heavens?

And coincidentally, Liu Siyuan was also from Liu Village.

Jiang Mingyue released her spiritual power, and finally found him in an empty mountain cave.

What surprised her was that he was much better-looking than what she had seen in other’s sea of consciousness, perhaps due to the field of view.

Because of her fifty-meter principle, Jiang Mingyue didn’t need to see him in person; she only needed to see within fifty meters.

The sea of consciousness roughly matched what Ermao and San Gou said, except the events experienced by this person were even more tragic.

Liu Siyuan joined the military for a year, when his family informed him that his parents had died unexpectedly; it was indeed an accident, standing under a tree to shelter from the rain during a thunderstorm, both the husband and wife were struck and charred. Upon learning the news, Liu Siyuan hurried and took leave to return home, but this return made him unable to go back.

Qingshan Village’s Jiang Beihua was Liu Siyuan’s middle school classmate at Nanxi No.1 Middle School. Beishi Commune was quite backward; it didn’t have a middle school, only an elementary school with just one grade one class.

The two had a great relationship, like brothers.

After hearing about the significant change in Liu Siyuan’s family, Jiang Beihua immediately went to assist with the arrangements; Liu Siyuan appreciated this brother greatly after returning home.

The split occurred one evening in Nanxi City.

After arranging everything, Liu Siyuan specifically went to thank the brother who had been helping him, and coincidentally wanted to entrust his sister to Jiang Beihua for care, though it wasn’t exactly care; it was more like asking Jiang Beihua to look out for Liu Sixia if she came to him, as Liu Siyuan would be inconvenient being in the military.

That night, the two of them decided to drink to their fill, with good food and wine.

At that time, Jiang Beihua had just joined the machinery factory, thanks to his uncle’s help. Jiang Beihua was disgusted by the work; being a workshop worker in a machinery factory was filthy and stinky, yet he temporarily had no other option but to endure.

Originally, temporary workers also had dormitories, large dormitry rooms with twenty-something people. Jiang Beihua couldn’t stand it after staying one night, and decided to find a small courtyard outside, after all, it didn’t cost him anything.

The small courtyard hadn’t been occupied for a long time; Wu Cuilan cleaned it up for it to barely be habitable. But after living there, he was constantly harassed by mice.

A few days ago, Jiang Beihua returned from buying some rodenticide, a small red bottle with no production address.

He went home and mixed leftover rice with it, placed it in the room, and three days later found three dead mice.

The harassment seemed to stop, which comforted Jiang Beihua. But outside the courtyard, a group of kids ceased playing in front of his door, playing on the streets instead, annoying him!

That day, his brother came over.

In the evening, he saw no one around when opening the courtyard gate to look around, and successfully placed the leftover red rice outside the gate.

That night, Jiang Beihua and his good brother both got drunk.

However, early next morning, something major happened; urgent knocks came in successive waves until a bleary-eyed Liu Siyuan opened the door.

And upon opening the door, he became the target of all accusations.

Jiang Beihua hadn’t lived here long, usually didn’t interact with neighbors, who only knew a young person lived opposite, without knowing his appearance.

Upon Liu Siyuan opening the door and appearing, neighbors assumed he was the new renter; some kids pointed directly at him.

“It’s him, it’s him who placed the rice at the door. He’s the one who killed Qiangqiang.”

Liu Siyuan suddenly woke up, looking at his good brother’s jacket on himself.

Turns out, the night before, a bunch of child mess around outside again, including an unsociable kid among them. Qiangqiang was one, not fond of talking, unable to play with others, but it didn’t stop him from yearning for smiles on their faces.

Qiangqiang had a stepmother at home, often not getting enough to eat. So when he saw edible rice, though not understanding the color, he’d eaten moldy pancakes before, he instinctively grabbed it to eat, being extremely hungry.

Only upon returning home did Qiangqiang collapse immediately in the yard.

His stepmother disliked him, but this was still a life. After being sent to the hospital and failing rescue, it was discovered as poisoning.

Qiangqiang’s father rushed back, harshly beat his wife; yet pondering afterward he realized something was amiss, quickly reporting the case.

This wasn’t hard to investigate, upon asking the kids, they immediately found physical evidence, tested it, confirming it was the cause of death.

Thus, the results came early in the morning.

And having been unanimously identified by kids, Liu Siyuan hadn’t even figured it out yet; his good brother Jiang Beihua also came out and added fuel to the fire, almost like conviction: “Siyuan, how could you place this thing outside? So many kids, do you want to poison them?”

Being accused by kids was bewildering, being falsely accused by his good brother was shocking, and when taken away he reacted, roaring explanations, but no one listened.

Both physical and testimonial evidence were complete, he couldn’t argue.

Fortunately, the case had another interpretation: the red rice had been used to poison mice days before, their dead bodies were under the tree over there, taking it outside was just for mice outside, unexpectedly eaten by a child.

But even so, he ended up incarcerated for four years, his reputation and future shattered overnight.

However, an old saying goes: when it rains, it pours.

His sister Liu Sixia met a tragic demise outside.

His other brothers came to visit, he asked them to check on his sister, but it’s still too late.

Liu Sixia, fifteen years old, was best friends with Lotus from Lotus Village. How did children from two villages end up playing together? Because Li Xiaocui was from Liu Village, each year she’d return to her maternal home with kids, all neighbors, after a few meetings they played together.

The incident occurred in Liu Village.

First losing parents, then brother getting into trouble, Liu Sixia almost cried her eyes blind.

Lotus came to the village to bring food to her grandmother on behalf of her mother, upon learning of Liu Sixia’s plight she specifically went to accompany her.

Three days later, Liu Sixia was feeling better, Lotus suggested buying something to visit Liu Siyuan.

Hearing about scarcity inside, Liu Siyuan deeply missed and cared about her brother, and Lotus, knowing her thoughts, took the only money, prepared to leave with Lotus.

However, Lotus was too striking, also liked hanging out with disreputable people.

Liu Sixia, unsuspecting of human malice, thought her village of safety would have such a shady group, unexpectedly acquaintances of Lotus. Liu Sixia, although uncomfortable, believed in Lotus.

Only Lotus got into an inexplicable argument with those people, who shifted from quasi-friendly to attacking Lotus suddenly.

Liu Sixia was frightened, but she was kind; in her chaos, she picked up a brick to rescue.

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