After Madam Li and her group left in disgrace, the onlookers who had been there to join in the fun and gossip now retreated silently with embarrassed faces, lest they too be resented by Gu Yu and subsequently lectured.
They had seen how merciless Gu Yu was even towards Yang Cao’s mother. Who knew what unpleasant things he would say when it was their turn?
What was more, Gu Yu hadn’t uttered a single swear word, yet the words he strung together made everyone feel uncomfortable.
“Alright, alright. Since you’re here to help, stay around and watch! Gu family girl, you shouldn’t follow. Don’t get scared.”
“It’s fine, my wife is brave. Shall we go in and take a look?”
Gu Yu’s mood immediately lifted after this remark. Seeing this, the village chief quickly stepped in to smooth things over, preventing Gu Yu from saying more and frightening Madam Yang Cao.
The village chief wondered what kind of medicine Gu Yu had taken recently. He used to be a silent person, but now his tongue was so nimble. If it weren’t for the exact same appearance, the village chief would have suspected a substitution.
Yang Cao’s mother, who had been emotionally agitated, calmed down considerably after being barraged with Gu Yu’s words and didn’t dare to say anything further.
She merely stood to the side, glaring at Gu Yu with resentful eyes. Gu Yu rolled his eyes impatiently, finding this middle-aged woman truly unreasonable.
However, it was useless to say anything now. The more important matter was to examine Yang Cao’s corpse.
“Qingheng, you stay outside.”
“Okay… Brother-in-law, I’ll wait here obediently. You must come out quickly!”
Before entering the house to see Yang Cao’s corpse, Gu Yu glanced at the curious Gu Qingheng beside him. Without a second thought, he immediately rejected Gu Qingheng’s intention to go in.
When Gu Yu was browsing the internet in modern times, he knew that badly mutilated corpses were terrifying. Gu Qingheng was only eight years old, and he didn’t want him to develop psychological trauma from being scared.
Actually, even Gu Mengyao shouldn’t have gone in. However, after Gu Yu considered Gu Qing’s situation, he ultimately decided to let Gu Mengyao experience more things to prevent her from suffering in the future.
Just like the scene with Yang Cao’s mother causing trouble earlier, if Gu Yu hadn’t come, Gu Mengyao would have definitely suffered… Gu Mengyao was only a bit strong, and with her somewhat soft nature, she was no match for those ruffians.
Therefore, she needed to experience more things, at least so she could learn from them and not suffer too much injustice in the future.
Although Gu Yu felt that his actions were not entirely smooth, it was enough to solve the problem for now.
“Yang Cao’s corpse is here. When I arrived, the neighbors had already helped to take Yang Cao down from the ceiling beam. But it was too late, the body was already cold.”
“Wuwuwu, my poor Cao’er!”
As they entered the house, some elderly villagers also followed, preparing to see the situation.
Then, when the village chief pointed to a place covered by a straw mat, he said to Gu Yu, indicating that Yang Cao’s corpse was placed there.
Gu Yu raised his eyebrows and made no move. Instead, he waited for the village chief to lift the mat. He had almost been injured by scissors for just offering to help, and if he dared to lift the mat now, seeing the predatory gaze of Yang Cao’s mother beside him, his life might be in danger.
Gu Yu’s tendency to hold grudges and his petty nature were hard to eliminate.
The village chief didn’t wait for Gu Yu to speak and stepped forward to lift the straw mat, revealing Yang Cao’s blue and purple face, which looked as if she were asleep due to her closed eyes.
However, looking at her pale skin and bruised face was enough to tell that it was a corpse.
Gu Yu first looked at his wife with concern. Seeing that Gu Mengyao didn’t scream incessantly or faint like ordinary women, he felt relieved and took a few steps forward, stopping before Yang Cao’s corpse.
Then, as he crouched down, Gu Yu looked at the corpse for a while, then looked up at the rope on the ceiling beam, and couldn’t help but chuckle.
After all, Gu Yu was a modern person who had watched “Detective Conan”.
Even after transmigrating to ancient times, his memories wouldn’t be erased. Thus, upon seeing the unnatural state of Yang Cao’s corpse, Gu Yu immediately knew that she had been murdered.
A hanged body had distinct characteristics, such as a damaged jawbone, with only the jaw area showing ligatures from strangulation.
However, Yang Cao’s corpse had clear ligature marks in a complete circle around her neck, and more than one such mark.
It was obvious that she had been strangled to death first and then made to look like a suicide by hanging, intending to deceive everyone.
Based on the scene, it was a very meticulous arrangement, but unfortunately, they met Gu Yu…
“Village Chief, no need to look further. Yang Cao was murdered.”
“What? Murdered? Gou Dan, don’t talk nonsense! This is a matter of life and death, you can’t lie.”
When Gu Yu stated that Yang Cao was murdered, the village chief was startled. However, his subsequent words made Gu Yu’s mouth twitch in helplessness, thinking, was he the type to speak casually?
He had evidence!
“Village Chief, if you don’t believe me, you can untie the rope from the ceiling beam and compare it with the ligature marks on Yang Cao’s neck to see if they are the same… or, you can look at Yang Cao’s neck now and see if there are two ligature marks.”
Gu Yu spoke lazily with his hands in his sleeves. His words immediately startled everyone present. The village chief had already crouched down before Yang Cao’s corpse, carefully examining whether there were two ligature marks.
The result was, of course, yes. If Gu Yu hadn’t discovered it, he wouldn’t have said that Yang Cao was murdered.
“My heavens, Cao’er was actually murdered!”
“The murderer is too inhumane. Yang Cao was so young, how could they do this?”
“Alas, if it weren’t for Gou Dan, in our confusion, we might have let the murderer escape.”
“That’s right! Gou Dan is so young, yet he’s so amazing. The Gu family has really found a treasure.”
“You all should stop calling him Gou Dan. He’s changed his name to Gu Yu now. From now on, just call him Gu Yu.”
“What should we do about this situation now? We originally thought Yang Cao hanged herself because she couldn’t bear it, but now we find out… she was actually murdered. Should we report it to the authorities?”
“Of course, we must report it! Otherwise, Cao’er’s death would be too unjust.”
Before the village chief could even speak, seeing his increasingly grim expression, everyone present could guess the outcome.
What Gu Yu said was true! Yang Cao was indeed murdered and then disguised as a suicide by hanging.
Such atrocious acts had never happened in Yang Family Village. Now that Village Chief Yang Hong had witnessed it firsthand, it was unclear whether it was fortunate or unfortunate.
However, according to the village chief’s personal thoughts, he probably wanted to curse them out.
What were all these troublesome things happening recently? They wouldn’t even give him some peace. Moreover, with so many people standing in the room, it was impossible to suppress this matter. In the end, they could only report it to the authorities.
Village Chief Yang Hong could imagine that after the yamen arrived to investigate, the news would surely spread to the surrounding villages the next day.
At that time, the old men from other villages would surely mock him… No! Although they had to report it to the authorities, the murderer must be found quickly, and they couldn’t wait for the officials to investigate.
“Madam Yang Cao, have there been any suspicious people visiting your house recently?”
“Wuwuwu, my poor Cao’er! Who has killed you, you scoundrel! Mother doesn’t want to live anymore either, I’ll go with you! Wuwuwu…”
The village chief had planned well, but when Madam Yang Cao learned that her daughter had been strangled to death by someone else, she immediately burst into tears, only caring about mourning beside Yang Cao and completely ignoring the village chief’s questions.
This made the village chief’s expression even worse. After being depressed for a while, he remained unconvinced and turned his gaze to Gu Yu.
Gu Yu, having nothing to do at the moment, held his wife’s hand. He found it soft and pleasant, and playfully ** caressed it.
This made Gu Mengyao blush, but she dared not resist too fiercely, fearing that others might notice them. However, she shot Gu Yu many glares, which only made Gu Yu chuckle wickedly, shamelessly continuing his actions.
Touching his wife was not a crime!
His purpose for coming here was just to prevent himself from getting into trouble. Now that Yang Cao’s cause of death had been determined to be murder, it was no longer his concern. After all, there were officials from the yamen coming to investigate, so he didn’t need to interfere further.
Gu Yu was too lazy to rack his brain for matters that didn’t involve him.
Besides, it wasn’t like he was indispensable. The yamen officials weren’t just sitting around waiting to be paid.
With this time, he might as well ponder how to make more money.
If it weren’t for the fact that leaving now would be inappropriate, Gu Yu would have already taken his wife and left, saving himself from boredom here.
However, as the village chief looked at him with hopeful eyes, Gu Yu began to regret why he hadn’t left directly.
Looking at the village chief, it was clear that he was placing all his hopes on him!
“That Gou… Cough cough, Gu Yu, Yang Cao didn’t hang herself. The murderer might not have left the village yet. Can you guess who the murderer is?”
Just as Gu Yu pretended not to see the village chief’s gaze and looked up at the ceiling beam, the village chief wouldn’t let Gu Yu evade him and directly stated it in front of everyone. Gu Yu sighed internally, realizing he couldn’t escape.
As soon as the village chief looked at him, Gu Yu had already let go of Gu Mengyao’s hand. When everyone looked over following the village chief’s words, they only saw Gu Yu with his hands in his sleeves, a troubled expression on his face, appearing very distressed.
However, having witnessed Gu Yu prove that Yang Cao was not a suicide with just a few words, everyone present was filled with anticipation, wondering if this beautiful and intelligent young man from their village could find the murderer today!
Amidst everyone’s anticipation, Gu Yu couldn’t refuse this time.
After all, it was just about finding the murderer. Although this killer was somewhat clever, they were still no match for Gu Yu, who came from the modern era. Therefore, the small clues they had inadvertently revealed were enough to be fatal.
“Since you want me to speculate, I’ll say a few words! Firstly, the person who killed Yang Cao was not a suspicious individual. Because they were able to strangle Yang Cao, hang her on the ceiling beam, and even patiently erase some traces in the house, it shows that the murderer was not very afraid and had ample time… We can tentatively speculate that there were two murderers, one killing and one keeping watch outside the door.”
As Gu Yu voiced his conjectures, his eyes were closely fixed on Yang Cao’s mother’s face. Upon seeing a momentary pause in her crying, he formed a new hypothesis.
Perhaps there weren’t two murderers, but someone very familiar to Yang Cao’s family. So familiar that when the murderer entered the house, Yang Cao’s mother didn’t suspect anything.
If that were the case, who was the murderer?
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Hehe, there is only one truth (request for monthly ticket~)
