Chapter 23: Seed of Doubt

“Ah Wu!” A hurried figure come with a bolt accompanied by a sorrowful roar come from the distance. Everyone quickly get out from his path. Yi dangjiade saw with his own eyes, his son, lying on the ground, covered with a pool of blood, and his face is gray with no life. He hug Ah Wu in his arm, his eyes stunned and shouted “who is it? Who is it that dare to kill Ah Wu?” This sound roar, shocked the birds in the woods and have them flying away. Do not say the birds, even people become scared of it. All the people around this circle cannot help but take a few step back. They didn’t doubt, if the murderer appear in front of him, he will not hesitate to kill him right away. In front of this father and son love drama, Su Su saw Yi Hu who have stand behind his father have a look of happiness for a second, although soon dissipate after watching this brutal scene. When she look back at Sang Nian, she found that she has been the same as yesterday. From before, she has retreat from the crowd and her body is half lean against the tree. Sang Leng also has stand beside her. Both have a look like an outsider. Yi Hu who standing on the side, did not speak. Su Su feel that yesterday, when he saw that Wu Mu being killed, he was upset but now, when the one who die is his brother, he has a pair of indifferent look to this matter. It seems Yi dangjiade has a few children but they are not close. Yi dangjiade sit around his son body and refused to let go. Finally Xiang Erye come to persuade him. “Master, you can be in grief, but now is not the time to be angry. The most important thing is to find the murderer. You said, it might be Liao Yue people have been mixed into the island. First, they sent one to assassinate, and when the fog cleared, they will attack in one swoop. Listening to Xiang Erye words, Yi dangjiade looks change and he secretly sight. Finally he put down his son’s body and replied:” what do you think?”. Xiang Erye looked behind Yi Hu, where Ye Lie stood and at Su Su who stood beside Mo Yuan. He carefully said: "In my opinion, in this two months, among new people in this island, the one who is more suspicious… is Xiao Shu and Ye Lie. This 2 people. They are not like ordinary people. These days, only them can walk around this island freely.” Xiang Erye paused and look at Yi dangjiade face who secretly speculated the meaning of his words. Then he continue to say:” Now who know who the murderer is. The most important thing is to prevent any other murder. First, we just need to lock them up and when we found out the murderer, we can release them later.” Having finished these things, Xiang Erye is still afraid of Mo Yuan, and quickly make up the sentence, "Mo Shaozu, rest assured that we do this just in case. We will not make it difficult to Xiao Shu. Xiang Erye, this time mentioned Ye Lie, Yi Hu's heart is not happy, but when he see the face of Yi dangjiade, he did not dare to refute. Let Xiang Erye continue and see Mo Yuan's reaction. Yesterday, Mo Yuan make it clear that Xiao Shu is under his wing, at this moment, when he heard what Xiang Erye has said, he did just didn’t say anything. Actually he look s interested on Xiang Yier words and keep staring at the person who still hold the body. What Xiang Yier had said, Su Su have heard it word by word. With Mo Yuan in this indifferent attitude toward this matter and looks just like watching a show, Su Su fel certain that she does not want to be locked up. According to her guess, the murderer will certainly continue to kill and she has some clues about this. "I can help you find the murderer, but you have to give me some time," she said. "You can find the murderer?" Yi dandjia stare at this little boy. His face hidden under the copper mask, but gives a certain sense of certainty. Yi dangjia pair of tigers eyes stare straight at her, Su Su stare back at him, frankly, for a while, to veryone surprise, he unexpectedly said: "Well, I give you three days, three days if you cannot find the murderer, you will stay in prison.” When she get the reply that she want, she turn her body towards the body. Like yesterday, she began to touch the corpse and scrutinized it. Finally she squat next to the body and staring at the foot. She did not say anything. Yi Hu become impatient to see her pretending to be smart and scolded:” What can you see, he die with a same way as Wu Mu.” Su Su shook his head, "there is something different." “what is the difference?” Pointing to the pair of bare feet, Su Su replied: "He did not wear shoes. Yi Hu disdainly grunted, "May be in the middle of the night, to escape the murderer, he hurriedly ran out, too late to wear shoes. Su Su got up, step back for two steps, and replied: "He escape from the killer and ran in panic into this dense forest I do not know, I only know that he broke this piece of before finally lie down this time. He definitely wearing a shoe. " "how do you know?" Su Su shrugged, very natural to say: "naturally, I see it." See, see? Everybody looked at her in horror. Su Su eyes under the mask twitched, very silent, what these man used their eyes for? Only for display? Su Su once again pointed to the feet and said: "You look at his feet carefully, two days before, it was raining heavily, with this piece of wood, its moisture is still very heavy. Look at their feet. All of their shoes have some dirt stuck on it. Now look at his feet, there are some mud on it but there is none under his nails and toes. There are a lot of sticks and sharp stone along the road and the distance is quiet far, how can there’s no scratch on it. Everyone looked carefully, indeed, as Su Su said, Yi Wu's feet covered with dirt, but the toes and nail is clean. His foot condition also smooth and intact. There’s no trace of wounds. People find it difficult to refute her argument. "Look at this." Su Su went to the right rear of the body. She stand outside of the pool of blood and squat her body, pointing to the middle of the large beach where there some print on it: " "And Wu Mu home have a stone floor which is not the same. Where the blood has seep into the soil, so you should be able to see that this slight print, obviously not footprints, but shoe print. They look at the direction of Su Su pointing fingers and realize there are a slight print at the large area which have blood on it. It is too shallow so, if Su Su not pointed it out, it is difficult to notice its existence. At this point, the matter that Yi Wu wearing shoes, no one has an objection. Now, all the people could not help, to discuss, "You think, why the killer need to take away his shoes?”. "I guess ... ..." Su Su only manage to said that when the other suspect Ye Lie suddenly come to Su Su side, said: "The shoes should have some clues and will expose the murderer. The murderer feel that it is too late to deal with shoes, so just simply take it away.” Su Su glanced at Ye Lie, he even blinked at her with a "I’m good" look, someone have said what she wanted to say, Su Su didn’t take it to heart, nodded her head. Yi dangjia, when he heard Ye Lie words, he immediately headed toward the crowd of people and began to shout, "Quick, send someone to search at each room." Yesterday, when Wu Mu died, he was only gloomy, and now, he pour a lot of anguish. We can see that Yi dangjia to be quite like his little son. Su Su stopped the people who are about to go back, said: "I think, lets split into two group. Let some people go to search at various huts and other places on this island while other group stay at this place to find it here. "You mean, the shoes are still here?" Yi Hu face reveal an unbelieving look. "His body is not yet stiff, dead time should be less than an hour, when the day has been bright. If the murderer go walk alone to dispose it, it become inconspicuous, if bring a pair of muddy shoes, it will be noticeable, so I guess, he may have buried the shoes on the ground. " "Everyone go and search here first. Turn around the woods all over, we must find the shoes! Who successfully found it will be rewarded with 120 gold." "And many more!" They is really a bandits. When hearing the bounty of 120 gold, those eyes immediately stare like a hungry wolf anxiously want to search for the shoes, Su Su quickly and loudly said: "When you look for it, you need to carefully examine the ground weeds and stones. If there is traces you must not touch it. If you find suspicious places, you need to gently open it. If it’s really is the shoes, immediately shout out, do not just dig it out, do not destroy the surrounding things. Understand? " "Understood" Retorted the crowd. There are about a hundred people who immediately flee to the surrounding woods because fearing others found it first and it will be too late to claim the bounty of 120 gold. Half an hour later, from about thirty feet or more from the body, there comes a few cries: "Here, here! I found it! I found it!"