farmer's little girl

Chapter 74
The Erfang people and the Mei family were waiting in the county with great anxiety.

If it wasn't for them not knowing where the Li family was, they would probably have gone to the door by now.

"Why hasn't your sister come back yet?" Lu Minghai asked.

Lu Guangzhi glanced anxiously at the intersection, and said, "Maybe there is some delay..." Just as he was speaking, he saw a familiar carriage appearing at the intersection, and said pleasantly, "The elder sister is back. "

When Lu Jiaoyue got out of the carriage, she was surrounded by her family.

"How is it?" Lu Minghai asked anxiously.

Lu Jiaoyue's face was full of smiles, and her expression was full of relaxation.

"I told my brother-in-law Jinzi about the matter, and he went to the county government. The family was not blackmailed. Someone in the family did die, and it was indeed the result of drinking 'Lujia Soymilk' It's just because the old man came out to buy the soy milk by himself at that time, so the family members didn't know where they bought it, they only knew that it was from Lu's house in the south of the city, and the soy milk was sold by a woman."

"And then?" Mei Dahu asked: "Can anyone prove that the dead person didn't buy soy milk from your stall?"

Lu Jiaoyue shook her head, "But Uncle Jinzi's brother-in-law said, leave this matter to him, and he has a way to make the culprit confess himself."

"But how can we get Mrs. Hu to plead guilty?" Apparently, Lu Minghai didn't understand the means of the "torture room" in the third class and six rooms.Now Li Shuicheng is at a time when the tide is rising, and if he wants to do something in the county government, it is just a matter of one sentence.

"I don't know either, but Uncle Jin's brother-in-law said he has a way." Lu Jiaoyue kept the idea from Li Shuicheng telling her.As far as she is now, she hates the Hu family, and even Dafang's group of people. As long as she can save her mother, she doesn't care about the means.

"Then can we go and see your mother?" Lu Minghai asked Xiji.

"I came back in a hurry to talk about this. Uncle Jinzi's brother-in-law told the county government that we can go and see my mother. But because the case has not yet been cleared, my mother can't come out yet, but Jinzi Uncle's brother-in-law said that he will order someone to take care of mother inside."

"That's good, that's good." Old man Mei said repeatedly.

"Then let's go and see Mo Lan quickly, and tell her about the matter, so that she won't suffer in it."

There was not much to say, and a group of people went to the county government.

But this time it was much easier to go than the last time. After reporting their names, someone took the initiative to lead them to the cell.

The prison in this county government really lived up to the theory of cannibalism. It was built underground, gloomy and humid, and there was a hint of bloody and musty smell in the air, which made people feel very uncomfortable.

"Don't walk around, go straight ahead, the innermost cell is there." After leaving this sentence, the yamen guard guarding the cell left.

Walking along the corridor, there are low prison cells on both sides, and there are some people with disheveled hair and ragged clothes sitting there, or sitting there dumbfounded, or screaming, or hey hey Smiling smirkingly, some raised their heads and stared straight at Lu Jiaoyue and the group, their eyes were indescribable, but they were very penetrating anyway.

No one dared to look at these people, and walked quickly to their destination.

Walking all the way to the back end of the corridor, those strange voices were finally far away from everyone's ears.When I came to the innermost cell, I saw a person sitting with his back facing the outside.

It was Mei Shi.

"mother……"

"Cymbidium……"

"Little sister..."

The figure moved a bit, then got off the stone bed in surprise, and rushed towards it.

"Father, Big Brother, Second Brother, Ming Hai, why are you here?"

Mei Dahu briefly explained the matter, and Mei's appearance was exactly as I expected, and said: "No wonder why they changed my cell, then I really have to feel like my brother's brother-in-law."

Lu Minghai nodded: "Yes, thanks to this relationship, otherwise we wouldn't even be able to enter the cell door. Mo Lan, don't be afraid to stay here, the brother-in-law of Brother Jin has already said that he will help us. You will be able to come out when the case is cleared." As he spoke, his lips trembled, and he dared not look directly at Mrs. Mei: "I'm sorry, if it wasn't because of Dafang, you wouldn't have suffered such a crime."

"What do you say, I'm fine." Mei smiled: "Actually, I'm not afraid at all, maybe it's too late. I was changed to a cell not long after I came in. I'm the only one in this cell. The straws on the bed are all newly replaced, and someone came to bring me food just now, but it’s just for a few days, so you don’t have to worry about me.”

Everyone knew that Mei's words were a little false. How could a woman not be afraid of being locked up in such a place, but no one tried to expose her.To put it bluntly, Mei Shi just didn't want the big guys to worry about her.

"Sister, don't worry, this brother Qiu will definitely avenge you!" Mei Dahu said while clenching his fists.Facing Lu Minghai again, he looked at him threateningly, "You probably won't be able to say good things for that side this time."

Lu Minghai smiled wryly and said, "Brother, I know what's good or bad. Mo Lan is my wife, since the big house dares to harm Mo Lan like this, the two families will break their friendship in the future."

Mei Dahu nodded in satisfaction: "Just remember what you said."

Several people talked with Mrs. Mei for a while, Lu Jiaoyue said that she would go home and pack the clothes and bedding, and they would send them over tomorrow, so everyone left here.

Although they were all very reluctant, they were even more worried. After all, things turned around and Han Jin's brother-in-law was in the relationship. Everyone's long-hanging hearts were finally let go.

Dafang and his wife returned home in a state of embarrassment. Seeing them like this, the Lu family couldn't help asking what happened.

At such a time, Lu Mingchuan didn't dare to hide anything, so he told the story.

After finishing speaking, everyone looked at Hu in disbelief.

"This matter has nothing to do with our family. What they are looking for is Lu's soymilk, it's Lu's soymilk!" Hu repeated and shouted, on the contrary, he looked very wronged.

"But don't forget that these two days you are always risking your reputation as the second child." Lu Mingchuan muttered.

Mrs. Hu jumped up all of a sudden: "Lu Mingchuan, if you don't say this, I still can't remember it. How dare you hit me! If it wasn't for you, for this family, why would I go to talk about Mrs. Mei? You know, that's an accident. Do you want our family to shoulder the important matter of human life for the Erfang family?! They have made a lot of black-hearted money, and they finally met a ghost after walking at night. Let me tell you again, this matter has nothing to do with our family!"

Red mouth and white teeth, open eyes and talking nonsense, nothing more than Hu Shi.

"Can……"

Old man Lu stood up: "Okay, okay, the eldest daughter-in-law is right, and in that case, she is right to drag out the second daughter-in-law. After all, it is a major event of life, and you and Mrs. Hu can't replace her Carry it. I just don’t know what’s going on with the second child’s family…” As he spoke, Old Man Lu sighed, “I don’t know if the second child knows about this.”

Cui Shi also had a sad face, and asked: "Have you gone to the second child's side? Have you talked to him about it?"

Inexplicably, Lu Mingchuan felt a little guilty.

Thinking about what his niece scolded him before, he felt guilty for a while and said shortly: "Jiaoyue has probably gone home and talked about it."

Old man Lu said: "You are the eldest brother, you should care about this matter, especially this is your daughter-in-law..." He paused, glanced at Mrs. Hu, shook his head, and sighed.

What he wanted to say was why it was Mrs. Hu who bit the second daughter-in-law out, but Mrs. Hu didn't bite the second daughter-in-law out. Could it be that he let the eldest son carry it for him?Thinking of this, he naturally couldn't continue.

"Father, I know." After saying something hastily, Lu Mingchuan dragged Mrs. Hu into the east room.

After closing the door, Lu Mingchuan looked at Mrs. Hu viciously: "Are you sure that has nothing to do with our family."

Hu felt guilty and short of breath, and said firmly: "It must not be us, we have only been there for a few days."

Lu Mingchuan thought about it too, he shouldn't have doubted himself just because of a few words from that girl Yue'er.

The soy milk in his family has always been made and sold on the spot, but sometimes the steamed stuffed buns will stay overnight if they are not sold out, but now that the weather is not hot, the steamed stuffed buns will not go bad, and the family has eaten it and it is fine, so naturally it is impossible to cause death.It seems that the reason why Yue'er said those few words is probably because she was too flustered.

Lu Mingchuan could still understand a little girl from every family, because she was so flustered that she couldn't choose what to say.

"That's good, that's good, I just said it can't be our family, this is really a disaster." He sighed again and again, and then asked Hu: "Then will our family still have a stall tomorrow?"

Hu forced a smile: "Such things have happened, what kind of stalls have happened, and people have been killed. I am afraid that the business there will not be good during this period of time. Especially this kind of misunderstanding has occurred. It’s better to change the location if you go out.”

The couple said a few more words, and Hu went out on the pretext of cooking.

After going to the kitchen, Mrs. Hu saw the wooden barrel in the corner, which still contained the unsold soybean milk from the day before yesterday.She originally planned to mix it up in the past two days, but now she seemed to see some ghosts and ghosts.

After thinking for a while, she carried the barrel out of the kitchen door.I originally wanted to pour these things to the pigs to eat, but I thought it would kill someone, and I was afraid that my pigs would cause problems if they ate them.He also wanted to use it to water vegetables, but he was afraid that the vegetables that grew would eat people to death... At this moment, the Hu family has reached the point where the grass and trees are all soldiers.

"mother……"

A small voice sounded from behind, making Hu tremble in fright.

Seeing it was Xiao Hu, she immediately scolded: "You sneaky, what are you trying to do?!"

Xiao Hu looked at her complicatedly, and said, "Mother, what are you going to do with the soy milk? Could it be that that person... really ate our soy milk to death..."

The last sentence, Xiao Hu said with a pinched throat.

Don't look at the other people in the big house who don't know, but the little Hu who helps Hu's every day knows it very clearly.In front of her father-in-law and others, her mother-in-law said that the soy milk that could not be sold every day was poured out to pigs, but in fact everything was kept and mixed into the fresh soy milk made the next day.

I am afraid that the mixture will be too obvious, so I always add some in a day. When the soy milk was boiled yesterday, Xiao Hu personally mixed the soy milk in the wooden barrel into the fresh soy milk. Because yesterday's soy milk was sold out, I added it It was the day before yesterday.

Thinking of this, Xiao Hu's face turned pale, and it was almost certain that his own soy milk had killed someone.

"Mom, what can I do, what can I do?"

Mrs. Hu put down the wooden barrel in her hand, and went to cover Mrs. Hu's mouth.She suppressed her voice and said sharply: "If you don't want to die, you should swallow this matter in your stomach and no one will talk about it!" She looked into Xiao Hu's eyes and asked again: "Do you understand?"

She didn't let go of her hand until Mrs. Hu nodded repeatedly.

"What to do now, just pretend that this has never happened. By the way, find a place to dispose of this soy milk. Don't pour it out for pigs, and don't pour it out at home for people to see." After she finished speaking, she left go.

Xiao Hu looked at the wooden barrel with trembling hands, and scolded the old godly woman in her heart for making trouble for herself, and she didn't dare to destroy the corpse, so she pushed it on her.

The whole afternoon, Mrs. Hu looked out of his mind.

When it finally got dark, she finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Mrs. Mei has been arrested in the county office for almost half a day, and there has been no movement until now. It seems that Mrs. Mei has probably not realized what is going on, or maybe she was beaten by someone when she entered, and she didn't care at all. have to speak.

No matter what happened, Mrs. Hu sincerely wished that it would be best for Mrs. Mei to be beaten to death directly. Although she had already made preparations for how she would refute if Mrs. Mei said that she had framed her, there was one thing less is one thing.

She tossed and turned all night like this. At night, Hu always dreamed, and the dreams were very short. It was all about her lies being found out in various ways, and she was arrested and beaten with a board and beheaded.

When she woke up the next day, she found that her eyes were completely dark. She took a mirror and looked at it. She hadn't put on makeup for many years, and she took out the box of makeup that had been placed for an unknown number of years, and quietly painted it on her face. up a layer.

The big house didn't open the stall today, and the whole house was extremely quiet.

Now that everyone knows what happened, the others didn't think much about it, but they were afraid that the second-bedroom family would come to find fault with them, so they all hid in their rooms and did not go out.

Qiu Cuihe told Lu Guangren that your mother doesn't think about things, and she doesn't know how the second uncle's family will hate us.

Lu Guangren asked her to say a few words, and she couldn't even mention it in front of his mother.

All morning, Mrs. Hu kept looking over to Sanfang, but it was a pity that Mrs. Qiao and Lu Mingshan came in and out several times and ignored her, but there was nothing unusual about it.

Seeing this, Mrs. Hu was more relieved, Mrs. Qiao was not a calm person.The third room has always been close to the second room, if there is any movement from the second room, the third room will not be so quiet, probably the second room will not care about themselves for the time being.

At noon, Mrs. Hu was cooking in the kitchen when she heard a noise from the courtyard door.

She put down the spatula to see what was going on, and saw a few officials walking in, followed by many villagers.

"Who are Lu Mingchuan and Hu Guihua?"

At that time, Hu's legs went limp and he sat down on the ground.

"Someone reported that they saw an old man with gray hair go to your small stall to buy soybean milk the day before yesterday, and described his appearance as similar to the deceased. Now it is reported that you and your wife are going to the county government."

Few outsiders knew about Mei's being arrested and taken to the county government.

It wasn't until the couple of Lu's family were also arrested that everyone knew what happened.

It turned out that it was Lu's soy milk that killed someone!As for which one of the Lu family's soy milk killed the person, everyone still doesn't know for the time being, but the two of them both have the surname Lu, and they are still brothers.But everyone still tends to be the big house of the Lu family. After all, the old man Lu's family has been selling soy milk in the county for not a day or two, and there has never been an accident before.

The fact that Boss Lu robbed his younger brother's business and robbed someone else's door was finally exposed.Afterwards, everyone talked about it endlessly, and everyone would say something right here!

After Dafang and his wife were taken away, the rest of the Lu family felt as if the sky had fallen, especially Old Man Lu and Mrs. Cui.

Crying is crying, trouble is trouble, things still have to be resolved.

Old man Lu took out the little silver that was left on hand, and asked his grandson to take out all the silver from the big house, and asked him to go to the county to do some sorting, to see if he could figure out what was going on.

Lu Guangren left in the afternoon and didn't come back until the next day.After he came back, he shook his head to old man Lu, saying that he had spent a lot of money, but he didn't even enter the gate of the county government.

Old man Lu thought a lot, thought about all the people around him who could be used, but a countryman who has been farming all his life, how can he know anyone who is capable.He couldn't help but think of the second family, and also thought that the brother-in-law named Han Jin was the head catcher in the county, so he said to Lu Guangren, "Go and invite your second uncle, and say that I sent him here."

After a while, Lu Guangren came back with a black face and a bruise at the corner of his mouth.

"Master, if the second uncle didn't come, I got punched by Lu Guangyi."

"What a sin!"

Old man Lu stomped his feet and went out with his hands behind his back, obviously planning to make a trip himself.

The door was knocked open, revealing Lu Guangyi's face.

The old man Lu laughed together: "Boy Yi, I have something to do with your father."

Lu Guangyi glanced at him indifferently, and called back, but he didn't let Old Man Lu in.

Soon, Lu Minghai came out.

Looking at his father, Lu Minghai had a complicated expression.

"Why are you here?"

The old man Lu ignored the uncomfortable feeling in his heart because he was not invited in, and forced a smile: "I came to ask your wife..."

Under the cold and unfamiliar eyes of his son, old man Lu suddenly felt unable to speak.

Yeah, what is he here for?Although the eldest room and the second room did not tear their skins openly, they are no different from tearing their skins. First, the big room snatched the business from the second family, and this time the Hu family stalked the Mei family.Although he is the father of the second child, from the beginning he agreed with the eldest son to grab the business of the second family. After all, the eldest will provide for him in the future, but he never expected that so many things would happen afterwards.

Thinking of this, he felt a sense of depression in his heart, and crouched down with his head in his arms.

"It's because of my father's incompetence that made your brothers and two families make trouble like this."

"Since Dad, you understand, that's good, let's not say more, I will close the door first."

Lu Minghai barely left old man Lu room to speak, so he turned around and went in to close the courtyard door.

Old man Lu stretched out his hand and pushed the door shut, looking at his son with a begging look in his eyes: "Ming Hai, that is your elder brother after all..."

Lu Minghai sneered and said, "I won't go any further. When he robbed my business and moved the stall next to my house, why didn't he say that I was his brother? When his wife was grabbing mine, why did he just Don’t know that Mo Lan is his younger brother and sister? It’s just like what Yue’er said to them back then, people are doing what the heavens are watching, who can be spared by the heavens. If you haven’t done anything wrong, what are you afraid of?!”

After speaking, he closed the door.

The old man Lu was depressed, and he seemed to be decades old in an instant.

The case closed faster than everyone expected.

Mrs. Mei was released soon, and Dafang and his wife were also recruited.

The two countrymen who had never seen the world just threw them into the prison. Before the board was boarded, the Hu family recruited everything.But Mrs. Hu had a trick in mind, and didn't say that she deliberately picked up Mrs. Mei. At most, she shouldn't risk the reputation of Lu's soybean milk.And her family name is indeed Lu, and she also sells soy milk, so there is nothing wrong with that.He also said that his own soy milk has always been like this. The country people love things very much, and they will not dump the unsold things, and they have never seen a dead person being eaten.

She would never admit that her own soy milk ate dead people.

But all of this has nothing to do with Mei Shi. Since Hu Shi admitted to selling soybean milk overnight, this matter has nothing to do with her.

On the day Mei was released, Erfang's family and Mei's family were all present.

Looking at her daughter who had lost a lot of weight, Liu's tears flowed down her face.

"Mom, I'm fine. I'm fed and clothed inside, and I haven't suffered much."

Clutching her daughter's hand, Liu Shi said, "How could it be possible that she didn't suffer? This conscientious big house of the Lu family deserves to be killed a thousand times." Liu Shi has always been gentle, and being able to say such words shows that she already hates Very much the big family of the Lu family, including Lu Mingchuan, including Old Man Lu and Cui Shi.

"Go, go home. Mother will go home with you, this time I have to talk to Old Man Lu carefully."

Not much to say, this group of people hired two ox carts separately and went to Daxi Village.When they arrived at Daxi Village, they didn't even bother to take a sip of water, so the old man Mei and his wife took their son and daughter-in-law to Lu's house.

After he left, Old Man Mei ignored Old Man Lu's smiling face, and took his family to stand in the yard. On the other side, he asked Lu Minghai to invite Lizheng over, and asked Lu Guangyi to bring Old Man Lu's elder brother and third brother to him. Both families are invited to come.

Not long after, Lizheng arrived.

What do you not understand when you see this scene?

Old man Lu's elder brother and third younger brother also arrived.

The old man Mei cupped his hands, and said that it was not inconvenient for his family, and I hope everyone will not be offended.The old man Lu invited everyone to sit down, but the old man Mei ignored him and just stood in the yard and started talking.

There was a group of people around the yard, probably the whole village.

"It stands to reason that I, the father-in-law, shouldn't be in charge of this matter. I always turned a blind eye to how his Lu family was making trouble in the past. After all, my daughter is from another family when she gets married. We are worried about the child but we can't. Yuezu will do it for me. But this time I really can't sit idly by, because my daughter has been greatly wronged."

"I don't want to mention how eccentric the Lu family was before. This big house of the Lu family has repeatedly tripped up my son-in-law's family. In the past, she was a big aunt who plotted against my granddaughter, but later she failed to plot against me. Water, trying to tarnish the reputation of my granddaughter. Everyone must know these things, so I won’t go into details. A while ago, my daughter was imprisoned. Why? Stealing the business from my son-in-law's house, it stands to reason that I would say hello in advance, and my son-in-law is not a person who can't be tolerated. It's a pity that he didn't have one. Not only did he move the stall to the street where my son-in-law's house is, but he even set up a stall under a false name to grab business .”

"Let's not talk about these things, but we never expected that they would sell broken things, kill a person, and put the crime on my daughter. Thinking of my poor daughter, she will be innocent all her life , Now the son and daughter are about to get married, but they are in prison."

Mei Shi stood aside and couldn't stop wiping away tears, Liu Shi held her daughter's hand, and tears flowed down her cheeks, Lu Jiaoyue stood beside her mother, her eyes were full of mist.

The crowd of onlookers talked a lot, Li Zheng and Lu's elder brother and third younger brother shook their heads and sighed again and again.

As for Old Man Lu, he was so ashamed that he didn't know what to do. He wished he could find a crack in the ground and get in there.

"Thanks to Master Qingtian Mingjian, who found out the truth of the matter and let my daughter out. Otherwise, it would be a small child. But it's all like this. A few days ago, my in-laws even went to the gate of his second son's house. This son-in-law is interceding for his eldest son. To be honest, I really don't know how he can open his mouth."

The old man Lu muttered: "Dear family, I..."

The old man Mei ignored him, and looked at Lu Minghai: "Let Minghai tell you the rest."

Lu Minghai stood up and said, "I have nothing to say. Everyone knows what is right and what is wrong in this matter. I just want to say one thing. From now on, my family will break up with Da Fang."

(End of this chapter)