Seeing the crime scene flashbacks made me the darling of the police station.

Did she mention Tian Min in Chapter 306?

After speaking with Zhuang Yanzheng on the phone, Lu Zhishen drew a portrait, while Su Miaoyi and Chu Xingrou went for a walk around the village.

"Sister Miaomiao, where are we going?" Chu Xingrou asked while keeping an eye on her surroundings.

“Go check on Wan Shuang’s neighbor,” Su Miaoyi said. “Go ask them a few more questions.”

"That aunt's house?" Chu Xingrou remembered that on the night they arrived, when they asked about Wan Shuang, they asked that aunt a lot of questions.

"Ah."

Chu Xingrou looked around again.

Su Miaoyi looked at her: "What did Zhuang Yanzheng say to you?"

Chu Xingrou leaned close to her and whispered, "Captain Zhuang said we should be careful that someone might suddenly jump out and put a sack over our heads and beat us, or sell us both."

Su Miaoyi looked at her.

Chu Xingrou continued in a low voice, "Captain Zhuang said that when he first started working, he went to a mountainous area to rescue people who had been trafficked. He almost got himself sacked and sold. He said that people would suddenly jump out, and there was nowhere they couldn't hide. They would suddenly strike someone with a blunt object and take them away."

“In the first few years after he started working, he never left Jinghai City to handle cases in other places,” Su Miaoyi said.

"Huh?" Chu Xingrou was stunned for a moment and said, "Captain Zhuang said that at that time, he was tall and strong, handsome and dashing, and young and good-looking, so he was immediately targeted."

Su Miaoyi's lips twitched: "He said that to you?"

"Mmm-hmm." Chu Xingrou nodded.

Su Miaoyi chuckled: "He still knows that he was young and handsome back then."

"Captain Zhuang is quite handsome now," Chu Xingrou said, then wrinkled her nose and added, "He's just a bit rough around the edges when he's at work. But when he's off work, he looks like a rich man."

Su Miaoyi laughed again: "He's just fooling you. He makes up stories as soon as he opens his mouth."

"Oh."

"But it's still better to be careful," Su Miaoyi said. "After all, we're in another city, and we're not exactly well-received right now. What if there are some irrational people around?"

"it is good."

Since Tian Ming's accident yesterday, people in the village have been staying home during the day unless they have something to do.

When they went to Wan Shuang's neighbor's house, Su Miaoyi and Chu Xingrou were not kicked out; on the contrary, they entered his house without any trouble.

"Sit down, sit down." The woman gestured for them to sit down. "Tian Liu isn't here, the shop is closed, and there's not much fruit left at home. Just make do with this."

"Okay, thank you." Su Miaoyi sat down in the chair.

"Here you go." The woman handed Chu Xingrou an apple.

Chu Xingrou held it in her hands.

The woman sat in a chair rubbing her hands, while the man stood by the door.

Su Miaoyi said, "I've come here again because there's something I'd like to ask you."

"Okay, ask away, I'll tell you everything I know," the woman said. "Let's catch this murderer as soon as possible. The harvest is almost here, and it's not good to stay indoors all day. If we can't catch him, my heart will be pounding every day, and I can't stay at peace at all."

"You haven't done anything wrong, what are you afraid of?" the man said.

"What if the murderer gets desperate and starts killing anyone he sees? Who can stay indoors all the time?" the woman yelled at the man.

The man fell silent. The woman looked at Su Miaoyi and gave her a dry laugh: "We've been like this at home for half our lives."

Su Miaoyi nodded: "I'd still like to ask you about Wan Shuang."

Okay. Go ahead and ask.

Chu Xingrou put down the apple and took notes.

Su Miaoyi asked, "You said last time that Wan Shuang has a sharp tongue but a soft heart, and likes to nag people. Did she mention Gao Hui's matter?"

"I did say that." The woman seemed eager to provide useful clues so they could solve the case quickly. "She said Tian De's family deserved it. They were always cursing and swearing, cursing Tian De, his son, and his dog. She said it would be better if people like Tian De's family died sooner rather than later, so they wouldn't have to see her every time they saw her."

"Actually, Gao Hui also likes to talk about people. The two of them get along very well and often talk about this and that together."

"Doesn't she worry about herself when she talks about Gao Hui like that?" Su Miaoyi asked.

“People always see the faults in others but not in themselves,” the woman said. “Wan Shuang never thinks she offends anyone. She is indeed much better than Tian De’s family. She often helps other people with chores, helping this family and that family. So she doesn’t think her words offend anyone. She just thinks she is kind-hearted and that many people like her.”

"Wu An? Have you ever mentioned Wu An? He's Wu the Cripple," Su Miaoyi asked again.

“I did,” the woman said. “She especially loved to joke with Wu Guaizi. Wu Guaizi didn’t like to talk, and he wouldn’t respond when I tried to talk to him, so I stopped talking to him. But Wan Shuang was different; the less Wu Guaizi liked to talk, the more he liked to tease her.”

As the woman spoke, she thought to herself, "I often tell Wu An that I want to find him a wife. Today I'll suggest the simple-minded girl from the next village, tomorrow I'll suggest a widow from some other village. Sometimes I say really harsh things, like he's not a real man if he can't sleep with a woman in his life."

The woman's voice became increasingly indistinct, and she could barely speak at all.

Chu Xingrou frowned.

Su Miaoyi continued, "Did she mention Tian Min?"

The woman suddenly fell silent.

Su Miaoyi looked at her.

“I have said it,” the woman said. “I’ve heard it more than once or twice.”

"What did you say?" Su Miaoyi asked.

The woman fell silent again: "Tian Min was only a child then, what could she understand? Not long after that incident, Tian Dajiang lost 10,000 yuan. Wan Shuang and I were chatting together, and Wan Shuang said that Tian Ming wanted to sell his daughter to pay off his gambling debts, and that he wanted Xiao Min to seduce Tian Dajiang."

"Did Wan Shuang say that?" Su Miaoyi asked.

"Anyway, that's what I heard from her," the woman said. "She said Tian Ming made Xiao Min do it, and Tian Dajiang is just a bastard. She even called Xiao Min a little slut, shameless, and said she's so young and already knows how to seduce people, what will she be like when she grows up?"

"Anyway, Wan Shuang secretly talked about Xiao Min to many people behind her back. Sometimes when she saw Xiao Min, after Xiao Min had walked away, she would say things like, 'You can tell from the way she walks that she's been slept with.' She would even gossip about her."

She paused suddenly, speaking with some difficulty.

Su Miaoyi and Chu Xingrou were both looking at her.

"They also said that Xiaomin clearly hasn't been slept with just once; she must have slept with many people and made money from it. They told everyone to keep a close eye on their men and not let her seduce anyone. They even said that there are three men in her family, and who knows what they might be doing at home."

Su Miaoyi and Chu Xingrou were both shocked.

Is this something a person can say?
The two fell silent, and suddenly neither of them spoke.

“I heard Wan Shuang say this when we were together. She must have said it at other times too,” the woman said. “Every time I heard it, I told her to stop. She’s just a young girl, and she’s already upset about being bullied. Besides, Xiao Min is a good girl, she would never do such a thing. They just get together and make up stories when they’re free.”

(End of this chapter)