Chapter 7: Zhang Xiaolan's Mysterious Death

  Seeing Liu Renqing being bitten by the dog, Li Tianzhen didn't have the energy to scold him anymore. After all, the top priority now was to stop Liu Renqing's bleeding first and then send him to the hospital.

  The hospital is in a town several miles away, and Liu Renqing has now fainted from the pain, so he definitely can't walk. Although Liu Renqing is relatively thin, he's about 1.7 meters tall, so he weighs around 120-130 kilograms. Therefore, Li Tianzhen alone cannot move Liu Renqing, she needs to find someone to help her.

  Now, Li Tianzhen needs to clean Liu Renqing's wound, so she can't leave to find someone. And as for Zhang Xiaolan, Li Tianzhen now hates her to death and won't ask her to go find someone.

  Although Liu Da-kui is an idiot, it should be no problem for him to find a few people.

  So Li Tianzhen first dragged Liu Renqing into her own room, then pushed open the door and entered Liu Daogui's room. She had to go wake up Liu Daogui, who was sleeping like a dead pig, and have him find someone.

  As she pushed open the door, Li Tianzhen was stunned, because she saw that her own son was also tied up with hemp rope. Li Tianzhen quickly untied the ropes on Liu Daogui's body and then woke him up.

  After waking up Liu Da-kui, Li Tian-zhen checked him all over his body. Only after confirming that Liu Da-kui was not injured did Li Tian-zhen breathe a sigh of relief.

  To avoid frightening Liu Da-kui, Li Tian-zhen didn't tell him what had happened and only asked him to go find Li Shu and Zhang Bo. Although Li Shu and Zhang Bo were not relatives of the Liu family, they were closer than relatives. These two men had a good relationship with Liu Ren-qing, which is why Li Tian-zhen asked Liu Da-kui to find them.

  After all, it's not good for this kind of thing to spread out, only people who can be trusted can keep secrets.

  Liu Da-kui has left, and Zhang Xiao-lan is now hiding in a corner of the main room, trembling with fear. Li Tian-zhen, who needs to hurry up and help Liu Ren-qing clean his wounds, doesn't bother to look for Zhang Xiao-lan to settle accounts, but instead gives her a cold glance.

  Zhang Xiaolan was probably afraid and didn't dare to look at Li Tianzhen, so she hid in the corner of the wall, trembling with fear and crying softly. Although Zhang Xiaolan had been through the ups and downs of life, this kind of thing had never happened to her before, and now that it had, she couldn't help but feel some fear.

  Li Tianzhen is now too busy to bother with Zhang Xiaolan, she took a bottle of white wine and a cotton swab, then went into the house.

  After entering the house, Li Tianzhen used a cotton swab dipped in white wine to carefully clean off the yellowish, foul-smelling filth from Liu Renqing's thing.

  After cleaning up, Liu Da-kui returned, followed by Uncle Li and Zhang Bo.

  Li Tianzhen heard Liu Daogui's voice and immediately took the quilt from the bed, covered Liu Renqing with it, then went out to the main room.

  Li Tianzhen didn't want Liu Daqi to know about these things, because he was a fool and wouldn't be able to help even if he knew. On the contrary, it would only add chaos. Therefore, Li Tianzhen sent Liu Daqi away.

  Liu Da-kui had long wanted to go out and play, after getting Li Tian-zhen's permission, he immediately jumped up and down, dancing with joy and ran out.

  Seeing Liu Da-kui like this, Li Tian-zhen shook her head slightly in disappointment and sighed. Li Tian-zhen was very clear that if her son had made a bit of effort, the family would not be in its current state.

  Liu Da-kui is a fool and can't see what's going on, but Li Shu and Zhang Bo aren't fools. Although they also don't know the specifics of what happened, from Li Tian-zhen's expression and that shrinking figure in the corner, Zhang Xiao-lan, they roughly guessed some things. First, this matter is very serious; second, this matter has something to do with Zhang Xiao-lan.

  Liu Renqing is what kind of person, Li Shu and Zhang Bo are clearer than anyone else. Therefore, before Li Tianzhen even opened her mouth, they had already guessed that this matter was likely related to crawling ash.

  Li Tianzhen took Li Shu and Zhang Bo into the inner room. Originally, she wanted to replace Liu Renqing to block them, not telling Li Shu and others what was going on, just saying that Liu Renqing was injured and had to go to the hospital. But Li Tianzhen knew that this matter could not be hidden from Li Shu and Zhang Bo, and now every time she saw Liu Renqing, she felt angry and couldn't bear it.

  So Li Tianzhen didn't want to cover up for Liu Renqing anymore. This despicable thing was done by Liu Renqing himself, and he deserved to bear the infamous name.

  Li Tianzhen was well aware that although Liu Renqing was thin, he had a lot of strength and could easily lift over 100 catties with one hand. Therefore, if he hadn't done it voluntarily, Zhang Xiaolan would not have been able to tie him up.

  And when Li Tianzhen entered the house, she saw Liu Renqing's ethereal expression. Therefore, she thought that Liu Renqing knew it was the dog licking him, and so she felt disgusted just thinking about it.

  "He had an itch on his butt, asked a dog to lick it, and ended up getting bitten." Li Tianzhen lifted Liu Renqing's quilt and said viciously.

  This sentence was intentionally said by Li Tianzhen for Li Shu and Zhang Bo to hear. In Li Tianzhen's view, Li Shu and Zhang Bo were not good things either, and they had often gone out with Liu Renqing to cause trouble. At this time, she said this because she was angry in her heart, and also to warn Li Shu and Zhang Bo that they should be careful themselves, otherwise Liu Renqing's today would be their tomorrow.

  Li Tianzhen's words implied that Li Shu and Zhang Bo had understood, so after Li Tianzhen finished speaking, the two of them blushed and fell silent.

  However, at this time, Li Shu and Zhang Bo were more concerned about Liu Renqing's thing, they wanted to see clearly what Liu Renqing's thing was bitten into.

  Actually, after Li Tianzhen finished saying that, both Uncle Li and Zhang Bo thought the dog Li Tianzhen was talking about was Zhang Xiaolan. No matter how they listened to it, it sounded like a scolding, so they didn't associate this with the real dog.

  However, after taking a closer look at Liu Renqing's wound, both Li Shu and Zhang Bo were stunned. Because judging from the wound on Liu Renqing, it was absolutely not bitten by a human, but by a dog.

  From this wound, it seems that what Li Tianzhen said is true. However, Uncle Li and Zhang Bo still can't accept it. This Liu Renqing is really disgusting, even if he was starving, he shouldn't have done it with a dog! How revolting is that?

  Of course, constrained by their feelings, Li Shu and Zhang Bo just thought about it in their hearts and didn't say these words out loud.

  At this time, saying anything is superfluous, what's most important is that Liu Renqing must be sent to the hospital first.

  Li Shu and Zhang Bo went to find a chair, lifted Liu Renqing onto it, then found two bamboo poles and tied them to the sides of the chair. In this way, a simple stretcher was made.

  After getting ready, under Li Tianzhen's leadership, Zhang Bo and Li Shu lifted the unconscious Liu Renqing to town one after another.

  Li Tianzhen and others left, no one took care of Zhang Xiaolan, she slipped away quietly. Zhang Xiaolan is not a fool, she knows that she can't stay in Shimavillage anymore, so she wants to leave once and for all.

  Zhang Xiaolan's escape, Li Tianzhen was unaware of it because she was taking care of Liu Renqing in the town hospital. However, on the second day after Zhang Xiaolan's escape, a villager from a neighboring village named Zuo Sanwa found a **female corpse** on the shore of the big fish pond.

  The female corpse was indeed Zhang Xiaolan. What's strange is that there was a rolling pin inserted into Zhang Xiaolan's lower body, and it's said that the rolling pin was the very one Zhang Xiaolan used at the Liu's house.

  As for Zhang Xiaolan's bizarre death, the villagers had all sorts of theories. Some said she was raped and murdered, while others claimed that Li Tianzhen was responsible for her demise...

  In short, there are all sorts of rumors.

  However, it's up to the police to sort out what exactly happened. Since someone has died, reporting to the police is a must.

  The police from the town came and examined Zhang Xiaolan's body, then shook their heads in dismay. This case was a tough one for them to crack.

  From the autopsy results, Zhang Xiaolan's body had no external injuries and no signs of poisoning. Therefore, Zhang Xiaolan should have died from accidental drowning.

  But she shouldn't be naked, and what about the rolling pin inserted into Zhang Xiaolan's lower body?

  The police in the town, the most they had to deal with were cases of theft and petty crimes. A murder case was unprecedented, and this first one was so bizarre that it left the local police completely stumped, not knowing where to start investigating, and it was quite a headache.