Episode 21 recap: The village chief met a tragic end.
Jiang Li found Li Canglang and pretended to want to learn some self-defense skills. She asked him to teach her how to wield a big knife. While practicing with the knife, she intentionally let Li Canglang hold her waist and get close to her body, hoping to provoke Shen Xiuning. Shen Xiuning stood by indifferently, but Rui Xue couldn't stand it and couldn't help whispering to Shen Xiuning, calling Jiang Li a despicable woman.
To prove that he was not lying, the village chief told Jiang Li and Shen Xiuning about how he killed Xiao Yong. He took advantage of Xiao Yong's guard being down and used an axe to strike him on the head, instantly killing him. After killing Xiao Yong, he heard a woman's voice saying to Gao Zongguan, "Since you want the pearls, come and get them quickly." As soon as the woman finished speaking, Gao Zongguan fell into the river.
At this point, the village chief also harshly said that Gao Zongguan forced the villagers to dive into the water to retrieve pearls, otherwise, the entire Jiujiang Village would be burned down. He did want Gao Zongguan dead to prevent a tragedy like fifteen years ago from happening again, but Gao Zongguan's death was indeed the work of the water ghost. When Jiang Li heard the village chief mentioning the events from fifteen years ago, she felt somewhat strange. Shen Xiuning explained to her that fifteen years ago, there was an incident where people were injured by the water ghost, and his parents drowned while trying to save him.
Coming out of the village chief's house, Shen Xiuning and Jiang Li saw Feng Nian sitting in a wheelchair, chopping firewood with an axe. Shen Xiuning felt uncomfortable in his heart. After returning home, he insisted on untying the red thread. Jiang Li, feeling sad, used scissors to cut the red thread. Li Canglang had someone keep an eye on the village chief and planned to take him back to the county office the next day. Shen Xiuning and Jiang Li went to find the village chief to learn more about the situation but discovered that the village chief was missing. When they finally found him, they realized that the village chief had met a tragic end.
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