Chapter 183: The Miss’s “Nonsense”

“Use a wooden hairpin as a weapon ? That’s easy. Arrest everyone who wore a wooden hairpin at the restaurant that day!”

Li Guang, hearing Guo Jia’s explanation, was about to shout out to order the arrests on impulse, but he suddenly realized something was wrong as he spoke the last few words and swallowed the rest of them.

Arrest everyone with a wooden hairpin?

How many would that be?

This thing is way too common!

“You can’t just arrest people randomly. You need to find the wooden hairpin used as the weapon first,” Mo Xiaobai said, shaking his head as he stopped paying attention to the dim-witted Li Guang.

Just as he was about to say something else to Guo Jia, he saw Dong Zhen frowning with a look of discomfort.

Oh, he was so focused on asking questions that he forgot a Miss was standing right there.

It seemed she was disgusted.

“If you feel unwell, Jun Xin, I will send you to rest for a while. You don’t need to treat anyone in this situation,” Mo Xiaobai said, patting his forehead.

“Yes.”

Dong Zhen was indeed very disgusted. After all, she was a doctor who saved lives, not a forensic pathologist who dealt with corpses.

After sending Dong Zhen to the back hall to rest, Mo Xiaobai didn’t waste any time. Since there were no clues outside, he would find information inside the County Government Office.

He called the county clerks one by one and began questioning them.

He dug deep into when Zhou Yi arrived as County Magistrate, what he did during his term, who he offended by those actions, leaving no stone unturned.

By the time Mo Xiaobai finished questioning from morning until just before lunch, the conclusion was simple.

Zhou Yi had indeed done too many shameful things, and the County Government Office couldn’t hide that fact. People just dared not speak about it in the past. However, as for who he offended, he had offended the hardworking people under Ziwu County the most.

This bastard deserved to die miserably. He had used the authority of the Imperial Court to create fake excuses and squandered a huge amount of money!

Even stranger, Mo Xiaobai hadn’t found much money or silk in Zhou Yi’s room. After searching everywhere, he only found some scattered copper coins.

“Where did the money go?”

The more information Mo Xiaobai knew, the more confused his mind became.

The cause of death was still unknown, and now a pile of money was missing!

Guo Jia had been following Mo Xiaobai side by side. Seeing that there had been little progress after a morning of busy work, he finally spoke up: “My Lord, the servants have sent over the food. Why don’t we eat first?”

“Yes, Fengxiao, please eat too,” Mo Xiaobai nodded slightly. After asking questions all morning, he felt dry-throated and hungry.

After a light lunch, Mo Xiaobai continued questioning in the afternoon. He questioned everyone in the County Government Office once again and then went to the Restaurant to check on site the possibility of someone climbing in through a window from the back to kill the victim.

As Li Guang said, to climb from the back window to the third floor without alerting anyone on the first or second floor, he would need a long ladder long enough to reach the third floor, which would allow him to climb up in the blink of an eye.

Without a ladder, climbing was possible, but it would easily alert the people on the first and second floors.

Unable to find the murder method or the weapon, Mo Xiaobai felt that trying to figure out the cause of death was like a fantasy. With no choice, he returned to the County Government Office, only to find that Guo Yuan and Li Ji had returned.

Naturally, the two men had come back to report something. Mo Xiaobai waved his hand and said, “Don’t stand there. You must be tired after a whole day. Come sit down and talk while we eat.”

Mo Xiaobai asked someone to bring Dong Zhen from the back yard to join them for dinner. Since he had no leads himself, he pinned his hopes on Guo Yuan and Li Ji.

“My Lord, this morning I carefully checked the household registration of this county. I don’t know the situation in the countryside outside the county, but there were quite a few idlers within the county who had committed theft and were punished by the County Government Office,” Guo Yuan spoke after eating only a few bites. “However, those people were not likely to have such a deep hatred with the County Magistrate, nor did they have a reason to kill Zhou Yi. Also, when I checked the county accounts this afternoon, I found many suspicious points. This County Government Office seems poor on the surface, but there is more to it inside.”

After Guo Yuan finished speaking, Li Ji also spoke up: “My Lord, I recruited 150 new soldiers in the city today. They are currently staying at the Drill Ground inside the county. During the recruitment, I talked in detail with them. According to the people in this county, they have never seen bandits themselves. Every time news of bandits stopping on the road to rob came out, it was all spread by the County Government Office.”

The reports from the civil and military subordinates seemed unrelated at first glance.

But after Mo Xiaobai frowned and thought deeply, he found a great commonality between the two.

The most obvious common point was the County Government Office!

The County Government Office was not clean in its money accounts and deliberately spread rumors to create panic.

How could this be a normal County Government Office?

It was more like a bandit’s den!

“If the County Government Office is a bandit’s den, hehe, then the County Magistrate would be the biggest bandit leader,” Mo Xiaobai clicked his tongue twice, feeling that he had grasped something.

With just a little more hint, the entire chess game of Ziwu County would be completely alive!

However, unfortunately, after Li Ji and Guo Yuan finished their reports, they had nothing else to say. Guo Jia and Li Guang had always been right by his side, so naturally, they had nothing to report either.

Dong Zhen, sitting at the end, kept staring blankly at the chopsticks in her hand. It looked like she was wondering how such a thing could stab dozens of holes in the body.

No one could give any more hints, so Mo Xiaobai didn’t dare to urge her. After all, it was only the first day, and finding some clues was already good enough. He couldn’t ask for too much.

The night passed without a word. When the second day’s light broke,

The countdown had already passed nearly one-fifth.

Mo Xiaobai finished washing up and was just about to ask the County Government Office if they served breakfast when he saw Dong Zhen walking toward his room holding a pair of chopsticks.

“Are you coming to eat breakfast? Why do you only bring chopsticks and not bowls?”

Mo Xiaobai joked casually, but Dong Zhen just glanced at him and raised the chopsticks: “I’m not here to eat breakfast. I’m here to tell you that sometimes it’s not just living people who eat. The dead can eat too.”

What?

The dead can eat?

Mo Xiaobai’s brows twitched, and he immediately asked: “Jun Xin, did you find a clue? Quickly, quickly, tell me about it.”

“I don’t have a clue, but I know a method to make the dead eat,” Dong Zhen said, shaking the chopsticks again. She added, “But the method might be hard to accept. Are you sure you want to hear it now?”

“Who cares about accepting it or not. I have no clues right now. Just say it straight out. I can handle anything, no matter how disgusting.”

“Then okay, you asked for it yourself.”

Dong Zhen’s beautiful eyes curved as she used the chopsticks to mimic the motion of picking up a rice ball. “Although I like to use a spoon to eat, wooden chopsticks can hold a rice ball.”

My Miss, your nonsense really sounds good!

I know that in ancient times, people used chopsticks for vegetables and spoons for rice. But on Water Blue Star’s Huaxia, using chopsticks to eat rice was something even five-year-old kids could do.

Chopsticks can hold rice, and I don’t really need you to tell me this!

Mo Xiaobai felt speechless. However, just as he showed a look of disappointment, Dong Zhen’s next sentence made him feel a chilling sensation.

“Look closely. If you put the wooden chopsticks like this into your mouth and keep the posture I have now, as long as the chopsticks are long enough, they can be fed straight from the mouth into the internal organs.”

After Dong Zhen finished speaking, she tilted her head up slightly. Using her chin, she pushed the chopsticks straight down from top to bottom into her mouth.

The whole pair of chopsticks was soon swallowed into her throat!