Chapter 515
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Without fear, Ning Shu met everyone's astonished eyes and said, "If you still have doubts, just check the list of people who recently bought white wax in the town."
The townspeople were shocked by her outrageous speculation. They looked at each other in disbelief. Although they were ignorant, they still understood human language. This girl clearly didn't experience the things that happened in their Baijia Town in the past three years, but she was able to speculate without a single mistake. Could it be that the murderer was really the mayor? But he was the mayor! He was the leader of the Bai Family, the backbone of the entire Baijia Town, and also the living rule of the Baijia Town in the eyes of thousands of townspeople. How could it be!
The mayor's expression was about to crack, but he forcefully glued it back together. He refused to admit defeat easily, as if he was betting on his god-like status in the townspeople's hearts!
Suddenly, a weak voice came from the crowd and said timidly, "Mayor, the mayor did come to my shop to buy white wax five days ago …"
The day when the taut string finally broke, the mask on the mayor's face completely broke into pieces. He suddenly looked back and panted violently. "I bought the white wax to pay tribute to my dead descendants! They died on this very day! Can't I buy two white wax to mourn them?! Don't fall into the trap of outsiders. They are the executioners sent by the imperial court to destroy us! "
This was a tug-of-war, and it had reached the most critical moment. He was still struggling, but Ning Shu didn't intend to stop. "Let's put the white wax matter aside for now. Let's talk about the wooden ladder in the Mystic Goddess Temple. That statue is thirty feet tall. If you want to do something to the statue's eyeballs, you won't be able to reach that high unless you're an expert. So, the only way is to make a tall wooden ladder in advance. "
The skin on the mayor's cheeks twitched, and his face turned a deathly pale. He moved his lips and was about to say something to make up for it when the townsfolk, who already knew what was going on, beat him to it. "Ah! Half a month ago, the mayor did order a wooden ladder from me, and the higher the better! You should know that the taller the ladder was, the more unstable the base would be, and the more difficult it would be to make it. So, I asked the mayor why he wanted such a tall wooden ladder. At that time, the mayor said that the temple of the Mystic Fairy Empress had been in disrepair for a long time, and the eaves were damaged. He ordered me to build it carefully and not make any mistakes. When I heard that it was an important matter, I didn't sleep for a few days. So, I rushed out the wooden ladder and moved to Xuan Nu Peak with the mayor … "
There was no need to say anything else. The truth of the matter had come to light. Then, more clues came out naturally, and every one of them was aimed at the mayor.
"Ah, three years ago, not long after the death of the mayor's son, the mayor came to my medicine shop and bought a lot of cinnabar and arsenic. I asked the mayor why he wanted these things. The mayor said that after the death of the young master, his soul was restless, and he often told him in his dreams that he was haunted by evil spirits. So, he bought those things and drew a few talismans and pasted them in front of the young master's tomb to protect him in his death. Could it be that … those things killed Bai Laosan and his family?! "
"Last year, those fur traders came to do business here, and they stayed in my inn. They didn't plan to stay until the Mystic Goddess Festival. Somehow, when the mayor passed by, he greeted them and talked to them, and they suddenly changed their minds and stayed. After that, I don't know what happened, but the three of them suddenly died on the same day. Even my family's inn mysteriously caught fire and burned to the ground. Fortunately, I ran away quickly, otherwise I would have met the King of Hell! "
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