Chapter 49.

The chill came and went quickly.

If not for the fact that Yu Hang did feel it and shivered, he would have thought it was just an illusion.

The other constables had the same feeling, but they didn’t take it seriously, only Yu Hang took it to heart.

He had experienced it!

Especially after watching a former schoolteacher with his own eyes, turn into a gray rat beast, that feeling he would never forget in his life.

When the gloom and cold came, Yu Hang made a point of keeping his eyes peeled and his grip on the handle of the knife tightened.

Village Chief Wang was still walking inside, introducing the village as he went.

Yu Hang listened to a generalization.

Although Qingliu Village looked small, it was actually not poor.

On the contrary, both the harvest and other things inside this village were better than the surrounding villages.

The land here was fertile, and there were baskets upon baskets of food grown here.

The mountains are good, the water is good, and the livestock are all big.

Just by looking at the houses built by the villagers around here, you can tell that there is something strange going on.

This place is quite fat.

Yu Hang thought that any random person here would be higher than the salary he received every month.

“Everyone spread out and carefully interrogate one house at a time.”

After hearing this, Sheriff Sun also began to follow the usual practice.

Inventory was the most basic and one of the main steps.

When constables arrived at a place and had to deal with the cases here, the first thing they had to do was definitely to understand the situation.

One cannot listen to the word of others.

One must go and collect it on one’s own.

There was nothing wrong with this step.

The crowd also spread out, each person going to find a few villagers to talk to.

After dispersing, Yu Hang found a house by himself.

There were faint cries inside the house.

Yu Hang could see that the door of the house was open and it was slightly dark with no lights inside.

Luckily, it wasn’t nighttime and he was able to see clearly.

There were two people who were wiping their tears.

One was a middle-aged man with a short and stout figure, while the other was a middle-aged woman with a slightly chubby figure.

One didn’t need to look to know that these two people should be husband and wife and had lost their child, which was why they were so sad.

When the villagers inside heard Yu Hang’s footsteps, they immediately stopped their crying and wiped their tears.

Especially the middle-aged woman, who had run out in a hurry.

Before Yu Hang could speak, the middle-aged woman snapped and knelt in front of Yu Hang.

Yu Hang had also investigated many cases, but it was the first time he had encountered such a situation, and he panicked and reached out, wanting to lift the middle-aged woman up.

But before he could do so, the middle-aged woman snapped and kowtowed three times, her cries shaking the sky.

“My lord, you have finally come, please, save my son!”

“We two have gotten such a child at such an old age, and now that he’s missing, if we can’t find him, how can we both live!”

Yu Hang heard the woman’s wailing and sighed, and could only help the woman up, persuading her while walking into the house.

Compared to the woman, the middle-aged man was much calmer.

The middle-aged man hurriedly reprimanded the woman twice before he choked and said, “My lord, do you have the results of the investigation?”

Losing a son in middle age.

And it was still a middle-aged man who had gained a child and then lost it, this feeling was certainly not good for them.

Although they didn’t know if the child was still alive, at this age, even if he was alive, he was still suffering from a hundred sins.

Yu Hang said, “We’ve just arrived, so we’ll ask you about your situation, and you can rest assured that we’ll do our best to bring the case to a close.”

In this regard, Yu Hang can only go to persuade.

Doing his best to bring the case down was the biggest relief for these people.

The middle-aged man nodded and hurriedly told the story.

What he said was no different from what Village Chief Wang said.

There were only a few differences in details, and those details were not important.

The general idea was that at night, everyone had fallen asleep.

One of the villagers got up to go to the toilet and realized that the child had disappeared, and immediately cried out.

The cries alarmed the whole village, and immediately afterward, all the villagers who had children realized that their children had all disappeared.

They searched for the whole night and found nothing, which was why they reported it to the police.

“So that’s how it is.”

Yu Hang also roughly understood, he planned to go to the next household and continue to ask.

The middle-aged woman next to him stopped crying and coldly said, “It’s all your fault, this year, the worship of the river god was late, the river god lord must have been unhappy, so he grabbed children to be sacrificed.”

The middle-aged man hurriedly glared, “What nonsense? The River God has always protected Qingliu Village with abundant crops, how can you blame it on this?”

River God?

Yu Hang was slightly stunned, then realized.

Great Chu had only been established for ten years, and a country before that was called a fragmented one.

After the establishment of the Great Chu, in just ten years, it had developed very quickly, but there were also many shortcomings.

Let’s say, the culture and customs of each place.

The culture and customs of each place were different, and there was no unification.

As for unifying these things, it was not the right time yet.

“What is the River God?” Yu Hang stopped and asked.

The middle-aged man also knew that his mother-in-law was talking nonsense and could only explain.

“My lord, this is the custom of our Qingliu Village throughout the ages, because Qingliu Village is near the Qingliu River, that’s why it got this name, and every year, we will worship the River God.”

While speaking, the middle-aged man roughly depicted it.

Yu Hang also roughly understood, but he didn’t ask more questions on it, and with things in his heart, he left the room and headed to another house.

The village wasn’t big, but it took quite a bit of time to interrogate one house at a time.

It was only after about half an hour that the constables gathered in the center of the open space and reported the things they had interrogated one by one.

There wasn’t much to report, but everyone was in agreement, and it didn’t differ from what Village Chief Wang had said.

When Sheriff Sun heard this, he was in a difficult position.

He always felt that he was really unlucky after receiving this position.

Originally, he just wanted to get more salary, but he didn’t expect that only a few days ago, not only did he get the board, but he also got into this mess.

If you really report this situation back, the county magistrate will be furious.

“I told you to check something, what the hell are you checking?” Sun sheriff already with a bit of fire: “You who have ideas, hurry to say, then I will report your credit up, then not to receive the reward money?”

None of the constables are willing to say, all put their heads down.

If you say it well, you will be rich, but if you say it poorly, you will receive the crime.

Yu Hang looked left and right, then raised his right hand, “I have!”

He felt that if this went on, there wasn’t a bit of progress.

But he already had a bit of a thought here.

Sheriff Sun’s eyes lit up.

This Yu Hang was a scholar, surely he was better than these roughnecks like them.

“Speak quickly!”

“The matter should be related to the River God.” Yu Hang explained the matter of the River God and added one last sentence.

“We should go to the Qingliu River and take a look.”