Chapter Fifty: The Wooden Wife, Night of the Broken Temple

  "What are you doing?"

  Mu Li hastily rushed to his own door and loudly asked.

  As the person in charge, he was used to being versatile and the uncles inside the government office were always polite, but thinking of his wife who had been pregnant for nine months and was about to give birth, Mu Li didn't care about anything else.

  If it weren't for the two bailiffs retreating quickly, he might have had to use his arm to block the iron ruler.

  "Is it a wooden tube?"

  One of the two bailiffs, who looked a bit older, raised his hand to stop the younger bailiff from asking further questions and said in a gentle voice: "My surname is Xu, I am the head of the city's bailiffs, I have come to ask Mu Guang about some matters."

  Mu's chest was heaving violently, and he had just been frightened enough. He hastily saluted Captain Xu and rushed to open the door first.

  Before he took out the key, "creak" sounded, and the door opened.

  The moment the door opened, Ning Feng's gaze suddenly froze.

  Two women walked out of the gate, the older one was Mrs. Li, and she was supporting another woman who was Mrs. Mu.

  Mrs. Ji De Mu held her heavily pregnant belly, her plain face still looked elegant and lovely, with a warm smile on her face, as if she had come to welcome her husband home.

  "This is a monster?"

  Shu Bailin blurted out directly, and Ning Feng's mind also emerged with these three words.

  Mrs. Mu's appearance was elegant and refined, her temperament as clean as a lotus flower, with a quiet smile that seemed to carry a soothing quality, gently stroking her belly as if caressing a sleeping child.

  This kind of woman who at a glance can make people feel calm and peaceful, with a sense of security and harbor, would she be a demon?

  At that moment, Mu Li saw his wife come out and took a step forward to support her. He looked up and down as if checking if she was okay. Only when he couldn't see anything unusual did he let out a long sigh of relief.

  Madam Mu looked at the two catchers with a hint of fear and said, "I've been sleeping a lot lately, I just heard the noise and thought it was my husband coming back, so I came out to greet him. Who are they?"

  "It's nothing."

  Mu Li comforted his wife and then turned to face Captain Xu and the others, forcing a smile on his face as he politely asked: "Gentlemen, is there something I can help you with?"

  "Or would you like to come in and have some tea first?"

  After confirming that his wife was not frightened, Mu Li's business management instincts immediately took over, and his attitude changed completely.

  "There's no need for tea."

  Xu caught a glimpse of Mu's wife, after all, he was an old catcher, had seen all kinds of evil, his eyes were like knives, and instantly saw Mu's wife shrink back, shrinking to the back.

  She was just supported by her husband and naturally retreated inside with Old Lady Li.

  She couldn't see Ning Feng and Shu Baili approaching from her angle, but they were not far away, listening to the conversation outside the wooden house very clearly.

  "We've actually come because there's a murder case and we need to ask you some questions... Mrs. Zun."

  Xu caught the head and said in the second half of the sentence, the tone turned, his eyes like arrows, pointing directly to the key point.

  "Murder case?"

  Mu Li was startled at first, and ordinary people who heard of the murder case were not afraid. Immediately afterwards, his face changed greatly, and he shouted: "Xu Captains, you mustn't believe in rumors, my wife is weak and gentle, how could she have killed someone?"

  He swallowed his saliva, mustered up the courage to face Captain Xu's cold and stern gaze. The young catcher's face was filled with anger, and he said in a somewhat weak tone: "I have some connections with Li Siyi from your prison, don't think about catching someone to take the fall for me, Li...Li Siyi will help me out."

  How could Mu Li deceive Xu Baozhen, an old and experienced detective, with his sharp eyes? As soon as he heard it, he knew that Mu Li and Li Siyi were just acquaintances who had eaten together a few times, and the other party couldn't even remember if there was such a person.

  However, he didn't come to catch a scapegoat, no one would catch such a delicate young woman to take the fall for a murder case, even if he dared to do so, someone had to believe it first.

  Xu caught the head again and stopped the impulsive young catcher, shaking his head: "Mu Guang misunderstood, Xu didn't say that the respected madam was the murderer."

  Mu Li felt slightly relieved, but also somewhat skeptical, looking at Xu Captor with a suspicious gaze.

  Xu caught a glimpse of Mu's gaze passing over Wood Leave, and directly stared at Mrs. Wood, saying in a deep voice: "In fact, the murderer surrendered to the government office yesterday."

  "Hmm..."

  Mu Li couldn't see any hint of joking in Xu's expression, and he became even more suspicious. The murderer had already surrendered, so what else was there to ask? Just draw up the warrant, and after autumn, execute him, isn't that the end of it?

  Not to mention him, even Ning Feng and Shu Bailin, who were listening seriously on the side, looked at each other in confusion, unable to understand what kind of medicine Xu Captor was selling.

  Xu caught the head, without thinking, knew Mu Li's mind, still disregarding etiquette, staring at Mrs. Mu, her mouth unstoppable, telling the story of what the culprit said after surrendering...

  ……

  Eight months ago, on an afternoon, in a village just a few steps away from the county town, the wind and rain were like a dark curtain, with thunderclaps ringing out, and before long, bean-sized raindrops came pouring down, cutting through the sky and earth.

  A hooligan was wandering around nearby and suddenly saw a young woman taking shelter from the rain in an old temple outside the city.

  "What a great opportunity."

  The rascal thought that since there was no one around to avoid getting caught in the rain, he suddenly had a lustful heart. "This must be heaven's way of seeing that I'm feeling itchy down there and specially sending her over for me to have some fun?"

  With a sly smile, the rogue slipped into the ruined temple.

  Because of the sky, he didn't see the young woman's face clearly, but vaguely remembered that the young woman had a slender figure and was wearing a light yellow dress.

  Outside the wind and rain are gloomy, cold winds come in waves, but inside my body there seems to be a ball of fire, immediately rushing up to hug and call out to brother and sister, entwining them.

  "Don't... don't... I have a child now, please, for the sake of the child, spare me."

  The young woman struggled desperately, refusing to give in, and kept begging for mercy, all for the sake of her child.

  The hooligan didn't care about anything, and with a "tear" sound, he tore open the young woman's clothes and was about to pounce on her. His mouth was still shouting: "It's even better if there's a baby, come on, let me in, so that the kid can get close to his stepfather."

  He spoke nonsense, rushed up, and accidentally had his hairpin pulled out by a young woman, hastily tied it back, but mistakenly tied it to a certain place that was harmful.

  "Ah ah ah~"

  The hooligan let out a loud shout and saw the young woman calling for help, his courage rising to the surface. He pulled out the butcher knife he was carrying with him and swiftly slashed at her several times.

  Those few knives cut in what position, because of the sky color and urgent anger attacking the heart, not even a clear view of the ground, only saw the young woman crying out and falling to the ground motionless, the ground quickly spreading out a pool of blood.

  "It's murder... It's murder..."

  The hooligan was so shocked that he forgot his pain, turned around and ran, rushing into the wind and rain, and rushed all the way back home.

  He's just a hoodlum, who has done things like knocking on doors, fighting and extorting money, let alone dare to think about killing someone?

  After the hooligan rushed out, a thunderbolt tore through the sky, as if heaven itself was enraged...

  ……

  "What's next?"

  Xu caught his breath and stopped, Mu Li couldn't help but ask in pursuit.

  When mentioning the day of the incident, his expression was somewhat off. When mentioning the yellow goose clothes, Mu Li's face changed, and finally when mentioning the hairpin, his lips began to tremble.

  Mu Li almost held back from turning around to look at his wife and instead asked Captain Xu.

  "Huh?"

  Ning Feng's expression suddenly changed, and he didn't bother to listen carefully to what Xu the captain was saying. His gaze was like a sharp knife, falling directly on Mu Li and the stiffly smiling Mrs. Mu behind him.

  There, out of sight of Xu Zuo and the others, in a place where only Ning Feng and Shu Baili could see, Mrs. Li suddenly covered her mouth with both hands, stumbled backward two steps, and almost fell to the ground if not for something behind her that she grabbed onto.

  "What did she see?"