Chapter 42 Conspiracy
Under the coercion and lure of the third child of the Zhou family, Xiaofeng returned to the county seat.No one knew how she did it. In just two months, she brought back more than 4 yuan. With the money earned before, the Zhou family got through all the difficulties.

Xiaofeng is still getting money back from the Zhou family, but within two years, the Zhou family has renovated and built a concrete house.

The Zhou family brothers even bought a truck and started a transportation business.

The people in the village saw it with both envy and contempt. On the surface, they said that the third child of the Zhou family would marry a wife, but turned around and said behind their backs that the third child of the Zhou family was a waste who relied on his wife's body for food.

When the shipping business of the third son of the Zhou family was gradually stabilizing, Xiaofeng returned to the village, and the Zhou family said that they wanted her to come back to help the third son with housework.

A year later, Zhou Zhen was born. The brothers of the Zhou family had taken over the freight business of Jintai Village and several nearby villages and towns, and the third child of the Zhou family became a local celebrity.

Looking at Xiaofeng again, since returning to the village, her whole body has become haggard and weak at a speed visible to the naked eye.

After giving birth to Xiaofeng, she was even weaker than a sick child, coughing and sometimes falling down on the spot.

When Zhou Zhen was three years old, Zhou's father brought back a woman with a big belly. During that time, Zhou's family was in a hurry every day. It could be said that it was a joke for the whole village.

Despite the arguing and fighting, the woman with a big belly finally gave birth to a fat boy, who was Zhou Ming that Xuan Minghua knew later.

I don't know if it's because I'm tired from making a fuss, or seeing that the other party's child is a son, and knowing that the situation is over, Xiaofeng has become quieter, and sometimes even offered to help take care of Zhou Ming. It was rumored that the third son of the Zhou family had two daughters-in-law. After traveling all over the country, I was envious of the same sex.

But no one expected that Xiaofeng would die on the day Zhou Ming hosted the birthday party.

Drank pesticides and left.

The Zhou family was furious, saying that she chose that day on purpose, in order to make Zhou Ming feel bad, so they refused to hold a funeral for her, but just found the cheapest coffin and buried it in the most remote place.

Xiaofeng's death seems to have really broken Zhou Ming's fate as Zhou's family said. Since Zhou Ming was one year old, he became prone to sickness and crying, and his overall development was obviously delayed. Can't say.After a long time, Grandma Zhou, who was already dissatisfied with Zhou Zhen, regarded her as a catastrophe, and transferred all her resentment towards Xiaofeng to her.

On a sweltering summer night, because she accidentally dropped soap on the floor while helping her brother take a bath, causing her brother to slip and fall, Zhou Zhen was beaten again by Grandma Zhou.

In the middle of the night, Grandma Zhou got up to go to the toilet. She saw Zhou Zhen not sleeping but hiding by the stairs crying. She thought that this dead girl was deliberately crying to ruin the luck of the Zhou family, so she went up to beat her again. She hid and cried even louder.

Because it was already late at night, and afraid that it would affect the sleep of the neighbors, Grandma Zhou had no choice but to go back to the room angrily. Before going to bed, she told Grandpa Zhou that she was getting more and more angry at that dead girl Zhou Zhen.

'If you don't want to raise it, then don't raise it, that kind of funeral star shouldn't be kept. ' I don't know if it's really sleepy, or it's a dream, Grandpa Zhou, who has always been reticent, said this sentence quietly.

Whether the speaker was intentional or not is unknown now, but the listener really listened to it, and even took root and sprouted, and finally became a vine in the heart, entwining all of Grandma Zhou's reason and humanity.

When the cock crowed for the second time, Grandma Zhou got up and woke up the third child of Zhou's family and Zhou Ming's mother, and said firmly that she didn't want to see Zhou Zhen in this house again.

After a while of silence, Grandma Zhou said that she remembered hearing her mother say when she was young that when those rich landlady women in the town didn’t want to keep a maid, they would make people put a nail in the other’s head , and then lied to the outside world that he fell to his death by accident. Unless it is written in the storybook that he met a person like Bao Qingtian or Hai Rui, he usually died after falling to his death. No one would doubt it, let alone a thorough investigation up.

After the three of them looked at each other for a few minutes, the third child of the Zhou family got up and went out.

Not long after, he brought a hammer, a nylon hemp rope, and a ten-centimeter-long iron and steel nail (used to fix beams or gateposts in rural wooden houses in the past.)
The three have a clear division of labor and work together at the same time.

Except for the person involved, no one knew what a tragic scene it was, let alone imagine how cruel and heartless it was.

After a while, Grandma Zhou let out a panicked cry.

The neighbors were awakened and rushed over one after another.

With the twilight of dawn, people saw the little girl Zhou Zhen fell headlong at the bottom of the stairs, motionless, with puddles of blood scattered on the ground.

Grandma Zhou said with slight tears in her eyes, that this big girl who is so big can step on the steps even when she got up in the middle of the night and went down the stairs to pee, and rolled directly from the second floor, hitting her head on the ground.

Grandpa Zhou, who got up, scolded Zhou Zhen angrily for not worrying, and asked the neighbors to help with cooking.

At that time, Jintai Village was still a small village with a backward economy, the folk customs were simpler and honest than now, and everyone’s knowledge was also short. Usually, nothing happened, it was gossip about the love of the east and the west, but seeing Zhou Zhen’s head and what she said When there was indeed a lot of blood on the ground lying on the ground, no one thought much about it. They all listened to the words of Zhou's family at the first time. This silly girl would fall herself to death even going down the stairs.

Zhou's family spent a lot of money to hire a well-known Taoist priest in the local area, and asked him to "extend the practice" of Zhou Zhen.After reading Zhou Zhen's date of birth and asking about the cause of death, the Taoist priest's expression turned serious, and he said that this little girl was originally a broom star, and now that she died so aggrieved, she would definitely feel resentment in her heart, and she might end up dying. Involve the neighbors.

The Zhou family was 'surprised' and hurriedly asked for a solution.

The Taoist priest counted and said that there is only one way to break it, and that is to suppress evil with filth.

It means that to deal with evil things like Zhou Zhen, one must find a filthy place to contain his bones.

Under the enquiry of the Zhou family and all the neighbors, the Taoist priest pointed to the pigsty in the backyard of the Zhou family, and said that only by burying Zhou Zhen's bones under the pigsty could she be suppressed, thus Keep her soul from doing evil in the country.

People at that time were both kind and selfish. After looking at each other for a few times, no one stood up to object.

After a long time, some people even urged the Zhou family.

Finally, under the urging of all the villagers, the Zhou family buried Zhou Zhen in the pigsty in the backyard with tears in their eyes, and never saw the light of day...

In this way, borrowing people's trust in the Taoist priest and people's fear of evil spirits, a murder that devoid of humanity became a righteous act against evil spirits.

(End of this chapter)

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