The fat peasant girl wants to counterattack

Chapter 5 The Truth About Suicide
Yue Mingzhu understands that people really can't think too much under the impact of sadness.

Moreover, the village has been peaceful for almost all generations, and all of them are honest farmers. It is difficult to think of murder.

People in the village said she committed suicide, so where did this rumor start? This needs to be investigated carefully.

Da Gao felt that his little aunt was different. If it were to be put aside in the past, his little aunt would have been crying and looking for grandma for a long time. How could she be as calm as she is now.

The aunt and nephew walked to the well. At this time, the well was lined with people lining up to fetch water.

Yes, this is the only well with water in the village. The villagers get up early in the morning to bring home the water they need for the day.

However, everyone knew in their hearts that they could not drill more, lest the well would also dry up.

"Mingzhu, please stay away from the well. Don't fall in again. If you really drown in it, how can we get water? That would be unlucky." An aunt said with a look of disdain.

Yue Mingzhu wanted to step forward and take a good look at the well, but suddenly she heard someone say this and had to stop.

She wanted to say that Yue Mingzhu had drowned to begin with.

She knew that there must be a lot of gossip about her in the village. It was difficult not to care about what others thought. Even if she didn't care, her family would definitely care.

So he said, "I'm really causing trouble to everyone. Mingzhu didn't jump by himself that day. Even if I want to seek death, I can't choose to do so in a place where people come and go. I was pushed down that day. I didn't want to." I said it, but that person can push me down, and if I can't guarantee it, he can push someone else down another day. I said it, just to make everyone be careful." After saying this, I bowed to everyone with difficulty to express my apology.

The villagers are all ordinary people who like to follow others' opinions. Yue Mingzhu understands that if she insists on arguing or even scolding this aunt, she will only get darker and darker, and she will probably think that she is just looking for an excuse to save face.

She really didn't want to tell the truth, fearing to alert the murderer and make the murderer take precautions, but it was unnecessary to think about it. She was not dead and the murderer must be afraid. It would be better to tell the truth and let the murderer reveal his flaws.

Hearing what Yue Mingzhu said, the villagers were shocked. There was someone in the village who was so vicious and wanted to kill people at every turn. How could a girl like Yue Mingzhu, who didn't go out very often, offend someone and actually commit such a murder.

The scolding aunt was a little embarrassed. Look at how polite the little girl was. She spoke so harshly and she was still talking nice to me. I was really getting better and better. Why bother with a little girl? I thought. sidewalk:

"Mingzhu, don't be afraid. We will definitely help you find this murderer. This black-hearted man, I curse him to get sores on his head, pus on his soles, and be struck by lightning when he goes out." The aunt crackled.

Yue Mingzhu couldn't help but sigh in her heart, everyone in this village is extremely talented in fighting, and they are all good at scolding.

But when it comes to swearing, my own mother-in-law, Mrs. Wang, is the best. She is second best, and no one dares to be first. She is recognized as the number one shrew in Moon Shadow Village.

It's still the kind of person who can drive No. 2 far away and out of sight.

Alas, that's a long way to go, we still need to look at the well.

Yue Mingzhu walked to the well and looked at the well carefully.

This kind of well is a well dug by hand, unlike modern wells which are dug by machines, so the well is very thick, and the well head is built with bluestone to prevent the well edge from slipping into the well.

Fortunately, the well mouth is thick, otherwise with the size of the Yue Mingzhu, it would get stuck if it fell in, and it would be impossible to fish it out.

Because of the severe drought, the water level in the well was very low, and a long rope was needed to get water. If the well had not been dug so deep, it would have dried up long ago.

Yue Mingzhu got engaged last year to a young man from the same village, named Yue Pengfei. He is one of the few scholars in the village, and he is the best at studying. He has passed the Tongsheng test this year, and he is the same as his third brother. The only two children in the village.

According to Mrs. Wang's love for her daughter, she must choose the best husband.Although Yue Pengfei is a good scholar, his family is poor, and his biological father died young, leaving him with only a widowed mother to depend on.

His family originally had a lot of fields, but they had no labor force and could not cultivate them. In addition, the cost of going to school was high. Since his father's death, the family has been unable to make ends meet, and the fields have been sold for a fortune.

Seeing that he could no longer read the book, his mother Zhang was an extremely strong-willed person and could not bear her son to give up halfway, so she spread the word that she wanted to marry her son in the hope of finding a rich wife.

But it is not so easy to find a rich Yue family. Last year, Yue Pengfei was not even a boy, his future was uncertain, and he had a widowed mother who was not easy to get along with. Who would dare to marry his family rashly.

There is no shortage of fools in this world, and Yue Mingzhu is that fool.

Without waiting for others to release the bait, he was hooked and hooked.

Yue Pengfei looks elegant and handsome, and is neatly dressed. He has been different from the brats in the village since he was a child, and he is good at reading.

In the eyes of the innocent little girl Yue Mingzhu, this is the best young man in the village.

In fact, not only Yue Mingzhu thinks so, but also many little girls in the village think so. After all, which girl doesn't have a child, but they are not as stupid as Yue Mingzhu.

Being good-looking is eye-catching, but eye-catching cannot be eaten as food.

It is said that Yue Pengfei is good at studying, but the imperial examination is like a carp leaping over the dragon's gate. Some people will not be able to pass the examination as a child. If this is the case, it is better to marry an ordinary farmer, at least not to starve.

Yue Mingzhu is stupid, but Mrs. Wang is not stupid.

Mrs. Wang didn't agree at first. She didn't look down on Yue Pengfei's mother Zhang at all. She was afraid that her daughter would be punished by her mother-in-law after she got married. Widow mothers are the most difficult to deal with. She would never consider getting married to a family like this.

But I can't stand a daughter who is holding me back. My daughter is obsessed with Yue Pengfei. It doesn't make sense. What can a mother do, especially a mother who loves her daughter very much? In the end, she can only fulfill her daughter's wish.

Children are debts. Now that she has decided to marry his family, Mrs. Wang can only try her best to be considerate for her daughter.

I just hope that Yue Pengfei can really fly high, at least be able to pass the examination as a child student, and no matter what happens in the future, he can be a teacher in the village, so that he will not starve to death with his shoulders unable to bear his weight and his hands unable to lift.

Studying requires money, repairs, pens, ink, paper and inkstones, and traveling expenses for scientific examinations.

The widowed mother Zhang couldn't afford this money, otherwise Zhang wouldn't be able to think about getting married.

What should we do? Yue Mingzhu’s family can only provide money for Yue Pengfei’s education. Since the engagement, apart from the repairs, Mrs. Wang will give a copy to Yue Pengfei as long as it is owned by Yue Mingxuan. Really He was raised as his own son.

Although my family has a small output, it is a little better than ordinary farmers. I am not a wealthy landlord. Besides, my family already supports a scholar. There has been a severe drought in the past two years, and the output from the fields is not much. I rely entirely on the money I saved in previous years. Only the family's financial resources can last until now.

In the spring of this year, Yue Pengfei was going to the county town to take the child examination. Mrs. Zhang came to the door with a sullen face. She was obviously coming to borrow money, but she didn't even have a smile on her face. She looked like a debt collector.

Mrs. Wang was angry, but for the sake of her daughter, she endured the anger and gave Mrs. Zhang a full ten taels of silver.

You know, her third son also has to take the Tongsheng Examination. There are so many things, which add up to two taels of silver reserved for her son. Mrs. Zhang is like a lion.

(End of this chapter)