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Chapter 153: The Truth

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  "Mm," the man nodded, "The ty police statio someone over, and they specifically asked to see this file."

  "When was that?"

  "About an ho," the man looked at the file in Jiang g's hand with a strange expression, "It was just getting light, and I was still sleeping. The kno the door woke me up."

  "Then they came in and asked to see the file for this case. I had no idea about a case from so long ago, so I had to search through old archive materials to find it."

  "Then, just after I put it back, you all arrived," the man awkwardly scratched his nose, and then whispered, "If I'd known, I wouldn't have put it back."

  "What did the person look like?" Xiaomeng asked.

  The man blinked, seemingly not uanding the question, and vaguely said, "They were from the ty police station, wearing their uniforms and carrying a cloth bag."

  "I mean, what did that person look like?" Xiaomeng seemed to realize something, her emotions untrolble, her voice raised, "Was it a man or a woman?"

  "A woman," the man quickly replied.

  A strange look fshed in Jiang g and Xiaomeng's eyes at the same time.

  "One woman or two women?"

  The man seemed fused about why the ty leaders would be ied in the people from the ty police station, but he vaguely felt that it was reted to something very important, so he stopped thinking further and recalled, "Only one woman came in to check the materials. As for whether anyone else was outside, I’m not sure."

  "Do you remember what the woman looked like?"

  The maated, "She was wearing a wide-brimmed hat. I... I was too busy finding materials for her, and it was dark at the time, so I didn't pay attention."

  At this time, Jiang g’s expression grew more meaningful as he recalled the woman who came aloo Anping Town’s local archive to inquire about the 20-year-old child traffig case in Xia Shijian Vilge.

  He immediately thought of the missing Yu Man and Li Lu.

  Although the person wore a poliiform, Jiang g felt that for him, getting su outfit wouldn’t be difficult.

  Xiaomeng clearly realized this as well, and quickly asked, "Do you remember which dire she went after leaving?"

  "I know that," the man swallowed, pointing to the door, "She turned right after she went out."

  Xiaomeng immediately stood up and walked towards the door.

  "Wait," Jiang g called out to her and then gave the man a careful look. The man immediately got goosebumps.

  "Did she do anything else while she was here?" Jiang g asked seriously.

  "She also borrowed the vilge record for Xia Shijian Vilge," the man replied cautiously, afraid of actally offending the ty leaders.

  Upon hearing this, Xiaomeng suddenly stopped.

  "And the vilge record?" Jiang g lightly tapped the table with his finger, his eyes narrowing slightly.

  The man quickly went to fetch it. Less than a mier, the record book of Xia Shijian Vilge appeared in Jiang g’s hands.

  He began to flip through it.

  But after half a minute, Jiang g’s pupils suddenly tracted. He found a familiar name: Liu yi.

  In the position for job title, it said "Vilge Head."

  He was the current vilge head of Xia Shijian Vilge and the one who had invited Jiang g and the others to the vilge.

  But what truly caught Jiang g's attention was the note in parentheses o Liu yi's name: "Qian Jianguo."

  Seeing this, Xiaomeng’s expression immediately darkened. She recalled the three tablets found in the ruins of the Qian family aral hall: Qian Jianguo, Qian Jianhe, Qian Jianxiu.

  It turned out that the current vilge head of Xia Shijian Vilge was the son of the te vilge head Qian, Qian Jianguo, who had ged his o Liu yi in order to escape the pursuit of ghosts.

  No wonder.

  Now his aade sense.

  As for Su Ying, who burned down the Qian family aral hall but left the tablets for Qian Jianguo, Qian Jianhe, and Qian Jianxiu, it seemed like she wao hint that these three had faked their deaths and were still alive.

  The vilge record showed that the Qian family had five children. The eldest and sed had both died under unclear circumstances, while Qian Jianguo was the third, who, after ging his name, became the vilge head of Xia Shijian Vilge.

  Qian Jianhe was the fourth. Jiang g flipped ane, but suddenly found that the page with Qian Jianhe's information was missing. The bottom of the page had jagged tear marks.

  It was clear that someone had secretly torn it out.

  "Damn it," Xiaomeng cursed quietly.

  Jiang g wasn’t shy about the man’s presend took out a photo found in the ruins of the Qian family’s building. After paring some physical features, Jiang g firmed that the man with a hunting rifle was the eldest son of the hunters, Qian Jiahe man holding an abacus was the sed son, Qian Jianshe, and the man holding a book was the third son, Qian Jianguo, who had now ged his o Liu yi and was serving as the vilge head of Xiao Shijian.

  The remaining person, wearing a light blue apron, was likely the fourth son, Qian Jianhe.

  "That’s the owner of the Anping Inn," Xiaomeng whispered.

  She remembered that the innkeeper also had the surname Liu and spent most of his time i wearing an apron, with quite impressive cooking skills.

  He was responsible for managing the inn in town and taking care of his disfigured sister, Qian Jianxiu.

  At the same time, he also had to guide the "experts" attracted by generous rewards. His earlier dispute with the vilge head was just a show performed by the two brothers to gairust of Jiang g and his group.

  Jiang g took a deep breath and slowly exhaled.

  This should be the whole case.

  After that, they stopped talking to the man and immediately left.

  The man, having been visited by two groups of "important people," sighed in relief and silently prayed not to lose his job because of it.

  "But it's strahe man muttered as he ed up the chairs and tables, "Their ats sounded odd. Could they be from out of town?"

  He shook his head and tinued wiping the tables until they shoh a reflective gloss.

  After leaving the town archive, Jiang g and Xiaomeng quied their pad headed towards the Anping Inn.

  They had inally thought that Li Lu and Yu Marapped in Xiao Shijian Vilge, perhaps even in danger.

  But the reality showed them they had overestimated things.

  One, or maybe both of them, had already left Xiao Shijian Vilge before them, and the feeling of being suppressed from all sides was something Xiaomeng hadn’t felt in a long time, making her feel very frustrated.

  There were plenty of people who pyed the "pig to eat the tiger" game, and this time they had misjudged.

  "Who do you think it is?" Xiaomeng asked coldly, "Or do you think they worked together?"

  Jiang g also stopped joking and became serious. "It should be one person. Two people would make the target too obvious," he said as he walked, "Do you think that if no oayed behind in the vilge, we could have left so easily?"

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