The dead-fish-eyed Ghost nodded.
Little Taotie silently added in her heart: "Artistic conception" just ans no taste!
Before, she thought sugar paintings were the best thing ever. She’d never eaten one herself and could only watch the twins eat them.
Now, she felt sugar paintings were way too sweet, not tasty at all, and they stuck to your teeth.
Little Taotie stared at the broccoli-shaped Candy in her hand, suddenly not sure whether she should open her mouth and eat it.
In fact, she thought: This could be ergency rations.
So, the little girl didn’t eat it. She quietly tossed it into her pocket instead.
In her little head she was thinking: Rather than keep it as rations, maybe I can trade it with Hua Jinyan for so chocolate.
"Big brother, what else can you rember? Can you rember who hurt you?"
The dead-fish-eyed Ghost shook his head, those dead-fish eyes empty and confused. "I was called out to the river... suddenly there was a sharp pain on my head, and I fell into the water. I vaguely saw a reflection on the water’s surface, a tall, burly figure, a man, but I couldn’t see his face clearly, and he wasn’t anyone I was usually familiar with."
"Not anyone you know? So does that an we can rule out your uncle and your relatives and friends?"
Actually, Little Taotie had first suspected that it was big brother’s uncle or aunt who killed him, since they didn’t like him.
But now it seed it wasn’t a familiar face who’d done it.
Though you couldn’t rule out a familiar face hiring soone to do the job.
"It probably wasn’t them. Actually... I didn’t tell many people. At the ti, I told Old Granny, and my cousin overheard. Later, my cousin told my uncle and aunt. They asked for the lottery ticket, and I didn’t give it to them, but I promised that once I got the money from the ticket, I’d give half to Grandma. If Grandma chose to give them so, that was her business; I’d follow Grandma’s arrangents. My uncle and aunt were very happy with that. They didn’t get greedy and demand more just because it was only half."
"What about your cousin?"
"My cousin said he wanted to buy a car, build a house, pay a big, generous bride price, and marry the prettiest Village Belle in the village. Actually, the bride price wasn’t that much, only eighty-eight thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight. Building his own house would cost at most three to four hundred thousand, and buying a car wouldn’t cost that much either."
Hearing this, Little Taotie fell into thought.
From the sound of it, even though those relatives didn’t like him and thought he was a walking jinx, they weren’t so insatiably greedy that they were beyond saving.
After all, he’d been raised at Old Granny’s place. Old Granny was too old to work the fields, and all the crops at ho were taken care of by his uncle’s family. Strictly speaking, he’d been brought up by his uncle. They might have disliked him, but they hadn’t actually let him starve to death. Giving them a little sothing in return wasn’t unreasonable.
Looked at this way, that family had no reason to want him dead.
With Old Granny as the link, they’d get so money one way or another. No need to resort to murder.
"Big brother, besides your own family, how many other people did you tell?"
"I didn’t go around telling people. It was my cousin’s big mouth that spread it. Da Lei and Xiao Shan, who grew up with him, both knew. And the girl he likes, the prettiest Village Belle in the village, she knew too."
"Da Lei, Xiao Shan, Village Belle." Little Taotie took out a small notebook and jotted the nas down.
No one knew exactly when, but the little girl already had a Pipe Lollipop dangling from her mouth.
Standing off to the side, Lou Lan, who’d been quietly watching the little girl handle the case on her own, twitched the corner of her mouth. She didn’t know when the child’s hobby of playing Sherlock Hols would ever change.
At her current age, it looked very cute, but if she kept a Pipe Lollipop in her mouth when she got older, it would look a bit off, like she was so lazy good-for-nothing.
Little Taotie tapped her pen on the two characters for "Da Lei" and asked, "Is this Da Lei tall and burly?"
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