roccoschili Chapter 126 Where to hide the face?
Chapter 126 Where to hide the face?
When everyone looked in the direction of the voice, they saw the two people pointing at the head on the ground, terrified.
Cheng Su signaled to the soldiers beside him to bring the two civilians over for questioning. When they came in front of Cheng Su, the two civilians lowered their heads and dared not speak.
Cheng Su looked at the two men with dignity and asked, "Do you know him?"
"No...I don't know him..." The commoner who collapsed to the ground first lowered his head and shook his head.
The two of them were talking at odds, and Cheng Su frowned and asked, "I don't know him, so what evidence do you have to prove that this person is Wu Sanshan?"
"I..." Hearing the displeasure in Cheng Su's tone, the commoner raised his head to look at the corpse, then immediately lowered his head. He dared not speak, and kept shaking beside him.
Seeing this, another man who looked older raised his head and said with fear, "General... General, my brother was still young at that time and didn't know much. Let me tell you, Wu Sanshan had a black spot on his face, covering half of his face. The people of Pinghai Town can testify to this."
"How can the name of an old fishmonger spread out of town? Besides... can you identify a person just by a black spot?" Cheng Su obviously didn't believe what they said, and a hint of doubt appeared in his eyes.
"It's true. Not only people in Pinghai Town, but also people in Qujiang County know something about this. We have seen him before, but we are not familiar with him, so we said we didn't know him!"
Realizing that what he said was too one-sided, the man quickly added: "Most people in our Pinghai Town make a living by fishing. There are countless people selling fish at the market every day. Logically, we wouldn't care too much about what others look like, but Wu Sanshan is different."
"How is it different?" Cheng Su asked.
"Every time he went to the market to sell fish, he always hid his face with a veil and was quiet. He was the strangest of all the fishmongers. Word spread in the village that he was ugly, so people speculated that he didn't show his true face because he was afraid of scaring away customers. As time went by, everyone became curious about how ugly his face was under that hat."
"Some naughty kids took off his hat and made fun of him, but he didn't get angry. He just covered his face with his hands and buried it in the fish basket, as if he was afraid of being exposed to the light. He didn't care even though the fish was stolen. It was not until late at night when there were few people in the market that he raised his head, picked up his hat and put it on."
"After that incident, Wu Sanshan never came to the market again for a long time. He always asked the villagers to sell on his behalf. The villagers were willing to do so because they could make some money from it. Wu Sanshan never asked about the money he deducted from them."
Cheng Su lowered his eyes and asked, "If that's the case, how did you know there were black spots on his face?"
The man raised his head and said, "It's Qiao Ying!"
"Qiao Ying?"
"Yes!" The man nodded hurriedly and said, "One day my brother went out to the town to buy groceries. When he came back, he was carrying a fish and ran back in a hurry. He said that Old Man Wu was out selling fish again, and there was a stupid child with him."
"I didn't believe it at first, so I went to see it."
The man paused and continued, "Since he brought Qiao Ying to the town to sell fish, he seemed to have become a different person. He no longer wore a veil since then. Everyone went to see him because of their curiosity. Because the mole on his face was too conspicuous, even if they were not from this town, they could not help but look at him."
"General, I am telling the truth. If you don't believe me, you can call the people from Haibei Village and ask them. They must know more."
After saying that, the man put his head on the ground and pressed A-di's head down as well, begging Cheng Su to show mercy and let them leave.
Cheng Su looked at the corpses behind the two brothers, took a deep breath, and waved his hand to let them leave.
The two brothers immediately thanked Cheng Su, turned around, lifted up their father's body and left. As they left, the young man limped.
When leaving, the young man secretly glanced in the direction of Wu Sanshan again, with regret in his eyes.
The young man was carrying his father's body, and because of his inconvenient legs, he could only walk slowly in front.
As the two brothers moved further away, the young man's back became more and more bent.
Lin Lezhi looked at the two brothers who were getting farther away, a hint of suspicion rising in his eyes. Looking at the young man's expression, it didn't look like he didn't know Wu Sanshan.
After the two brothers left, Cheng Su remembered the man who was shouting about natural disasters and had a strange look on his face. The man's gaze was not only on the severed hand.
He must know something.
Cheng Su looked at the man. With Qingchuan's comfort and bandaging, the man's emotions had stabilized a lot.
Although he no longer muttered about natural disasters, he turned his back to Wu Sanshan's body, held his head with both hands, and stared at the ground with his eyes wide open. His body was trembling slightly, not sure whether it was because of pain or fear.
Cheng Su picked up the bell beside him, walked to the man and shook it.
Because it had been burned by the fire, the small metal beads inside the bell had melted a little, and even merged with the bell, so it could no longer make a crisp sound.
But just the bell shaking in front of the man was enough to make him confused. He quickly hugged his head and shook it like a rattle to deny: "I don't know, I don't know, don't ask me, I don't know..."
Cheng Su's eyes darkened, and he said with a sharp gaze, "I haven't asked yet, how do you know I'm going to ask you if you recognize this thing?"
When the man heard Cheng Su's words, his body trembled even more violently. Beads of sweat dripped from his forehead. He just kept repeating, "I don't know, I don't know..."
Jiang Lian'an stepped forward and helped the man, saying, "General, I think he must have been frightened by what happened just now. If he wants to know about Wu Sanshan, I think there is someone who is more suitable than him."
"Who?"
Just as they were talking, a figure jumping along the lakeshore came into everyone's sight, as if looking for something on the lakeshore.
It’s Qiao Ying.
After seeing Jiang Lian'an, Qiao Ying's expression became happier and her steps became faster.
However, before reaching Jiang Lian'an, he stopped in advance.
Qiao Ying found the mentally ill man, and with an expression that seemed to have been seriously considered, Qiao Ying squatted down in front of the man, then smiled and comforted him: "Don't be sad, don't be sad, I'm just sad Feifei~"
Hearing this voice, the man raised his head and punched Qiao Ying in the face, then pushed Qiao Ying to the ground, pinched Qiao Ying's neck, cursed, and said viciously: "It's all your fault, you damned ominous person, you did evil in your last life, why did you come to harm us, why——!"
"Now Wu Sanshan has also been killed by you, are you happy now?"