Chapter 1246 Ashore...
The three siblings of the Yun family originally wanted to go back to their grandfather's house and then return to the capital, but they picked up an injured person on the way. Out of compassion, they rescued the person and then met him again. Yunxiang Huihe, who came to pick them up, stayed temporarily in Xijin County again.
At first, the Yun family members thought that they could stay for only three to five days at most, but just Yun Chu and Yunmi's trip to Heishui Village and back and forth lasted three days, and then many unplanned things happened. , such as Rong Leng's condition getting worse and agreeing to see Li Yu'er...
As a result, the four siblings of the Yun family would be unable to escape.
There was no rush to return to the capital, so Yun Xi ordered Yun Xiang to write a letter back home, explaining the truth and explaining that they would stay in Xijin County for a while.
There is no definite number on how long this period lasted, but in short, half a month passed like this.
During this half month, Xiao Li, Li Yu'er, and Xiao Ye stayed at the county inn.
The murderer of the murder case was not caught, and people in the county and surrounding villages were panicked. Xiao Li was also busy and had to go to the county government office almost every day to follow the development of the case.
In fact, all possible clues have been found, but the case has hit a bottleneck.
Although the investigation revealed the subtle triangular relationship between Huang Erbao, Sun Jian, and Gao Zhu, as well as the enemies of the three before their lives, and who they had business dealings and relationships with, these had nothing to do with the murder case.
There is no progress in the case, and the biggest headache is Magistrate Song.
When Magistrate Song was having a hard time, he would pester the little soul boy, which made Xiao Li also have a hard time.
Xiaoye woke up early and stayed late at night. This time he truly understood his mother's daily suffering. Every time he went back to the inn at night, he was so tired that he didn't even have the strength to hug his sister.
Xiaoye was not easy to take care of either. I thought that a child who could stay in a leopard's den would be very strong-skinned, and at least there wouldn't be any problems with milk picking.
But Xiaoye still picked the breast.
The nannies that Yun wanted to hire were all women who were well-known in the county for good milk quality, but Xiaoye was picky and refused to eat it, and even cried when she was in a hurry.
In the end, they still relied on the ewe brought back by Xiao Li to provide food and clothing.
I am willing to drink goat milk, but I am not willing to drink too much.
It's been half a month, and we have never seen the little baby girl eat a full meal. Every time, she stopped after eating half full. Later, she had to try her best to feed her rice cereal.
In fact, even such a big child can be weaned. Generally, in poorer villages, the mother has a weak body and no milk, so the child has to be forced to wean in one or two months.
Now Xiaoye refuses to drink milk, so she can't go hungry, so she has to feed her rice cereal with goat's milk.
But weaning a child is a cruel thing. In addition, Xiaoye was half-starved before. Now she didn't drink enough goat milk and was forced to eat rice cereal. She was even more hungry.
Xiao Li felt uncomfortable seeing this.
In fact, when he discovered that Xiaoye had lost a lot of weight after following him back, Xiaoli panicked, discussed it with Uncle Rong, and hurried back to Huaishan.
But this time he couldn't find the female leopard no matter how hard he searched. He even went to Hongjia Village, but was told that Grandpa Bai had left the village again.
Xiao Li was anxious. If he had known that his sister would have to endure hardship when she came back, he might as well have left her with the mother leopard.
Of course it's too late to say anything now.
Xiaoye used to drink breast milk and was fed by her mother. She had never been hungry since she was born. Later, she fell into the water and was rescued by the white wolf. But before that, the white wolf also took her floating in the water for a day and a night. Although she was lucky not to get sick, the child was really hungry all day long. After meeting the female leopard, Xiaoye was already overly hungry. No matter what kind of milk it was, she couldn't finish it once she ate it. By the time she got used to the leopard milk, now Suddenly she changed her taste, and she couldn't do anything anymore.
In fact, if I starve her for another two or three days, something goes wrong and I feed her again, no matter what I feed her, she will definitely eat it all without raising her head. But who can be so cruel?
Xiao Li, the elder brother, would burst into tears when he saw his sister missing two bites in one meal.
What's more, although Rong Leng didn't say anything on the surface, he guarded his daughter every day for fear that she would get bumped.
The four Yun brothers and sisters are outsiders and usually help out, but the children belong to other people's families, so they don't dare to make any random ideas. Moreover, they are all young men and women who are not married and have no wives. Who knows how to take care of children?
So I kept going back and forth like this. Half a month has passed now. Although Xiaoye is still panting, no matter who comes to see it, they can see that the child is malnourished. It does not need to be a serious illness. A small case of typhoid fever can probably cure half of it. Damn it, your physique is too poor.
Because of this, Xiao Ye is now even more inseparable. Basically, when Xiao Li goes out, Xiao Ye will be put in Rong Leng's room.
But we can't live like this, this is an inn, not our own home.
The Yun family siblings helped them with good intentions, but they did not deserve their share. The money they owed now would have to be repaid in the future.
Although the Yun siblings said no, Xiao Li still carefully recorded every debt he, Uncle Rong, Xiao Ye, and Li Yu'er used, and waited to pay them back when they had money in the future.
At this time, Xiao Li desperately hopes that he can make money.
He began to bargain with Magistrate Song. He said that he would definitely catch the murderer, but in return, the Yamen must give him a reward.
You can’t give verbal praise, you have to give money!
Magistrate Song thought about it and felt that if the case could be solved, money would be nothing at all, so he agreed. As long as the case was solved, he would be given a bonus of one hundred taels immediately!
Of course, these one hundred taels were not only from the Yamen, but most of them were sponsored by the Sun family. When it came to rushing to solve the case, Magistrate Song was the first, and the Sun family was the second.
With the one hundred taels of golden carrots, Xiao Li started to go out early and come back late every day, getting up early and working late at night, just to get the money into his pocket quickly.
But no matter how the case is solved, it always goes in circles. After being stuck in the endless loop for a few rounds, the excitement begins.
Another fatality.
And this time, the person who died this time was none other than Sun Tong, the eldest son of the Sun family who took his wife and children back to the county to visit his parents after hearing that his second brother was dead.
On the day Sun Tong's body was discovered, an ordinary, inconspicuous-looking gray-roofed ship docked at the dock heading east from Xijin County.
The first person to get off the boat was a fair-skinned man wearing a dark purple gown. The man had a handsome appearance, red lips and white teeth, especially his eyes, which were extremely black.
Behind the man is another young man, who is also very good-looking, polite, but a little thin, and looks like a scholar.
The person who came after him was a middle-aged man. The man was cleanly dressed, but his appearance was ordinary, but he was in high spirits. He laughed as soon as he got off the boat: "We're ashore now, mother, I never want to take a boat again!"