After being reborn with Sister Zha, I was stunned!

"So, you know?" Mu Beiyan looked at the bearded runner.

A gleam of light also flashed in Shen Qingyin's eyes.

"If it was the little girl named Su, I do know something. On that day, I even went to help rescue her." The bearded man continued.

"Tell me the details of this case." A heavy sense of oppression was revealed in Mu Beiyan's simple words.

The bearded yamen runner looked at the county magistrate.

He was a little confused about the identity of the person in front of him.

How dare you give orders in front of the county magistrate?

The county magistrate saw what he meant and said, "This is someone from the general's mansion. Tell me what you know."

Upon hearing that it was someone from the General's Mansion, the bearded runner straightened his expression and finally told the whole story.

About two and a half years ago, a businessman named Su passed by here with his wife and daughter, and somehow they were targeted by kidnappers.

The couple was not paying attention and the little girl was kidnapped.

The kidnappers left a letter asking him to prepare three thousand taels of silver in exchange for his daughter.

In order to save his daughter, the businessman named Su quickly prepared the money and sent it to the place designated by the kidnappers, but the next day the kidnappers did not send her back.

In desperation, the businessman surnamed Su reported the matter to the authorities. Just as the government was about to send people to look for her, someone on the other side found the girl's body on the lake.

"What happened next?" Shen Qingyin was terrified after hearing this.

"Later, the merchant surnamed Su and the officials rushed to the lake. After recognizing his daughter, they took her body back to their hometown that same day and hurried back to bury her..." said the bearded man.

"You went back that same day?" Shen Qingyin asked in surprise.

"That's right. How can we not go back and bury her? The little girl fell into the water and died. Her body has been soaked to the point of being unrecognizable... Most importantly, it's summer now. We can't wait even a day..."

"But before he left, he said that he would come back to seek justice after burying his daughter... I don't know what happened after that."

The bearded man told everything he knew.

"Since the body has been soaked so badly that its original appearance cannot be recognized, how can he be sure that it is his daughter?" Shen Qingyin asked the question that was in his mind.

"Although he couldn't quite recognize her appearance, he and his wife recognized the clothes the little girl was wearing at a glance, and they also recognized the silver locket hanging on her chest. Besides, apart from his daughter, no other family had reported losing a child, and the age matched, so it must be their daughter..."

The bearded yamen runner spoke with great certainty, but Shen Qingyin already had doubts in his heart.

Let alone anything else, the silver lock alone is very suspicious.

The kidnappers took the trouble to kidnap someone just for money, so why would they leave a silver lock on the little girl's body?

If it was to prove the identity of the little girl, it seemed more like...

Also, according to the bearded man, the kidnappers who kidnapped the little girl are very likely to be from the same group of people as the kidnappers in several other child kidnapping cases.

Then, why did the kidnappers only kidnap people for money before and after, without killing them, but chose to take this girl's life?

She couldn't help but glance at Mu Beiyan, who looked solemn.

"Since the matter was reported to the authorities, why is there no record of it in the file?" Mu Beiyan asked, pointing at the file.

The bearded yamen runner laughed, "Sir, you are joking. This case originally happened in Yuhu County, and the police were also notified in Yuhu County. How could it be in the Changshan County file?"

Shen Qingyin's face changed and he stood up in surprise: "You mean, the case happened in Yuhu County?"

The bearded man nodded and said, "Yes, it was in Yuhu County. Although the body of the little girl was found by the lake bordering Changshan County, the incident happened in Yuhu County, and the police were notified in Yuhu County."

"Then why do you know it so clearly?" Shen Qingyin asked puzzledly.

"The reason I was there was because my wife's family lived in that area. I happened to run into this incident when I went to pick her up that day, so I stepped forward to help... I gradually understood what was said above while I was helping..."

Upon hearing this, Mu Beiyan immediately decided: "We will return to Yuhu County tomorrow."

Shen Qingyin nodded in agreement.

Unexpectedly, this matter went around in circles and ended up back at Yuhu County.

It's really too weird...

Early the next morning, Mu Beiyan and Shen Qingyin took a horse carriage to Yuhu County.

In addition to the old village chief of Baijia Village, there was also a bearded man who knew the situation.

After arriving in Yuhu County, they immediately went to the county government office to find out the situation.

However, when they asked about the kidnapping and murder case of that year, Yuhu County Magistrate Wu Cheng behaved very strangely.

He actually said that it had been so long that he could no longer remember the incident.

Mu Beiyan simply revealed his identity and asked him to bring the file.

Upon learning that the general had arrived, Wu Cheng was so frightened that he trembled and fell to his knees.

I asked someone to bring the file over, but there was no record on it.

"This is really strange and impossible. I clearly saw several policemen dressed in yamen runners' uniforms present that day... I even heard one of them whispering to the merchant named Su to quickly take the body back and bury it, to prevent it from getting smelly..." The bearded man looked as if he had seen a ghost.

When he learned that it was the general himself who brought him here, the bearded man's voice became noticeably louder.

Mu Beiyan looked at Wu Cheng again, and Wu Cheng kowtowed hurriedly: "General, please understand. On weekdays, the county has many affairs to deal with, and most of the time, it is the county magistrate who helps to deal with them. This matter, I really don’t know…"

Shen Qingyin's heart was pounding.

County magistrate?

Wasn’t the previous county magistrate Shen Zhinian?

This matter finally came back to Shen Zhinian.

Things seem to have revealed clues...

"Two years ago, the county magistrate here was Shen Zhinian?" Mu Beiyan asked directly.

"Yes, that's right, it's Shen Zhinian..." Wu Cheng wiped the sweat from his head with his sleeve.

Mu Beiyan gave an order: "Call all the officials in the county government office to come here."

Soon, all the officers in the county government were called over.

Mu Beiyan looked around at everyone and said in a deep voice, "Does anyone still remember the kidnapping and drowning of a little girl two years ago?"

The runners looked at each other and shook their heads in silence.

At this moment, the bearded man suddenly pointed at one of the lean men and said, "I recognize you. You were there when the body was salvaged!"

The officer's face turned pale in an instant, and his body began to tremble.

"Tell me, what's going on?" Mu Beiyan pressed.

The yamen runner knelt down hurriedly and kowtowed: "I don't know, I really don't know..."

Mu Beiyan's eyes turned cold: "Since you are so stubborn and not afraid of death, then this general will give you a chance. Come, take this man away and give him fifty lashes. If he is still alive, drag him over here."

Upon hearing this, the yamen runner collapsed to the ground and kowtowed, begging for mercy: "General, please spare my life. I have only acted according to the orders of the county magistrate. I really don't know anything else...