peasant young lady

Chapter 253
"Ah, ghost!" Gu Shi screamed when he opened the door and saw a person flashing out of the room, and ran into the yard in a hurry.

Cheng Xia grabbed Gu Shi, pulled her directly into the door, quickly locked the door from the inside, and shut the door behind Cheng Lao and Cheng Zuo.

Looking at the person in white clothes with messy hair covering her eyes, Gu immediately thought she had seen a ghost. Seeing that she couldn't get out, she ran directly into her room, and she entered her room, but was beaten hard by someone. dragged out.

Gu's hands kept waving, "Go away, pester others if you want, don't pester me, it has nothing to do with me."

Cheng Xia looked at Gu Shi who was crouching in the corner with her head in her arms, and sneered, with a rough voice, "You killed me. If I don't look for you, who else can I go to?"

"No, it's not me, it's not me," Gu groaned, wanting to look up, but just as soon as he looked up, he saw black hair covering the sky, Gu yelled, "I, I didn't mean to hurt you!" You are the one who killed you because you were disobedient, and you could get 100 taels of silver if you sold Cheng You, why didn't you agree."

"Sell my son, and I still have to promise?" Cheng Xia said condensedly, "Even the most conscientious person can't say such a thing."

Father Cheng's knocking on the door kept ringing. When Gu Shi heard it, she hurried to the door. Cheng Xia suddenly pulled her back and threw her aside fiercely, "I want you to come and accompany me underground, what do you think?" ?”

"Don't, don't," Gu waved his hands again and again, and tears burst out instantly, "What did I do wrong, didn't I think about this family? The poor in the family can't marry a wife, how can you inherit the incense of your family?" Go on, don't you want to think about it?"

Cheng Xia sneered, "Then you killed me, and then took the money from selling my son and went to the town with your youngest son to enjoy life?"

Gu was taken aback, turned her head in disbelief, quickly looked away after just one glance, and asked in a trembling voice, "How do you know?"

"I'm a ghost. I'm floating around. I don't know anything." Cheng Xia leaned a little closer to Gu Shi through the faint light in the gaps in her hair, "When I was unconscious, you still Forcing me to eat castor beans, you just want to put me to death, right?"

"No," Gu Shi kept shrinking, "What castor beans, I don't know what you're talking about."

"Still pretending to be garlic!" Cheng Xia slapped Gu Shi vigorously, "Listen outside, can you still hear a little movement? Is there still a knock on the door? There is nothing, why, because black and white impermanence caught them all Go, now it's just you."

"Ahhh, don't, don't catch me." Gu cried out hoarsely, retreating a little bit, trying to get further away.

Cheng Xia smiled ferociously, "If you tell the truth, I feel more at ease, and I might consider letting you go."

"Okay, I'll say it, I'll say it," Gu quickly said, "I made you drink water mixed with castor bean powder to kill you, but that was also because you were always against me. Elder, why do you contradict me, you asked for it yourself."

"Hehe," Cheng Xia took two steps forward, "How do you know that castor beans are poisonous? Who told you?"

Gu's eyes dodged, "No, no one, I know it myself."

Cheng Xia shook the long hair covering his face in a leisurely manner, "If you tell me, I can let the ghost messenger take that person away, if you don't tell me, then I can only take you away. "

Gu's expression changed instantly, "I, I'll tell you right now, it was Wang who told me."

It really is the second aunt!Cheng Xia's face turned cold, "Why did she tell you this?"

"Because, because she also hates your mother, she knew that I had this idea, so she told me." Gu said with a groan.

"Did Grandpa Zheng also be poisoned by castor beans?" Cheng Xia violently threw her hair behind her, and stepped forward to pick up Gu Shi who was shivering on the ground.

Upon hearing this address, Mrs. Gu felt that it was wrong, so she boldly took another look, and seeing that it was Cheng Xia, she was so angry that she wanted to do something.Cheng Xia stretched out his hand to hold the fist she swung, and dragged her hard to walk into Mrs. Zhang's room.

An oil lamp was lit in Mrs. Zhang's room, and the light was very faint. In addition, the window in Mrs. Zhang's room was covered by Mrs. Gu and had not been opened, which made the whole room look dark and terrifying.

In particular, Mrs. Zhang was still lying on the bed. Under the background of the dim butter lamp, her whole face was extremely cold, just like the lonely soul and wild ghost in hell described in the play. When Mrs. Gu saw it, she immediately yelled ahhh, panicked. Just run outside.

Cheng Xia pulled her hair and threw her to Zhang's side, "Didn't you say that my mother asked for all of this, then what are you afraid of?"

"You, you." Seeing Zhang's face, Gu fell to the ground in fright, "I'm your grandma, how dare you treat me like this."

Cheng Xia slowly walked up to Mrs. Gu and knelt down, and asked in a cold voice, "If it weren't for you being my grandma, I would have dragged you to the bamboo forest and killed you. Now, you are really serious in front of my mother." Say, Grandpa Lizheng, how did he die?"

Uncle and Aunt Tian who had been standing in the yard listening to the movement clenched their fists.

Gu Shi narrowed her eyes and shook her head, "I don't know."

"Grandma," Cheng Xia raised her chin and forced her to look at herself, "There are no outsiders here now, you can tell me as much as you want. You also know that I am very ruthless now, since no one is watching, then I will be slaughtered." Even if you are killed, you can also say that you strangled yourself to death. So you have no chance to lie now, tell me the truth quickly, and don't let me really do it. "

Seeing Cheng Xia's frightening face, the broken hair on her forehead trembled with her trembling face. Cheng Xia looked at her timid look and sneered, "Have you decided to tell me?"

"I said, you, stay away from me." Mrs. Gu couldn't help pushing Cheng Xia back, and swallowed hard before speaking, "It's Cheng Qiu, Cheng Qiu poisoned Lizheng to death. Cheng Qiu I told your second aunt that castor beans are poisonous, and your second aunt told me again."

Cheng Xia glanced back at the closet, smiled immediately, got up and opened the closet door, letting Zheng Guan and Cheng You come out.

Seeing that there were still people inside, Gu's face turned extremely cold. She angrily reprimanded Cheng Xia, "Who is he? You actually hide a wild man at home."

Cheng Xia laughed suddenly, and said lightly, "Grandma, you may not know him, let me introduce you, he is the magistrate of Chong'an County."

"What, what?" Mrs. Gu just got up, when she heard this, her feet softened, and she knelt down on the ground directly, "The county magistrate?"

"Mr. Gu, you are so courageous!" Zheng Guan yelled angrily, "Within the scope of my jurisdiction, you dare to disregard human life. It's really audacious. Are you guilty?"

Gu Shi was scared out of her wits immediately, she knew Cheng Xia was not lying when she saw Zheng Guan's aura, but if she admitted it, she would be finished, Gu Shi couldn't help shaking her head, "I was just joking with this girl just now. Yes, I said it casually."

"Bold!" Zheng Guan slammed the table, "The life and death of others is like a joke to you, and you are simply unforgivable."

Suddenly, Mrs. Gu stood up while supporting the edge of the kang, she forced herself to think calmly, and suddenly smiled, "I don't know if you are really the magistrate, but," Mrs. Gu stared at Zheng Guan suspiciously, " Even if you are the magistrate, so what, you have no evidence, what I just said is true, but how can you prove it, you will punish me if you hear it, who knows if you have conspired with her long ago , you can’t catch me with this.”

"Really?" Cheng Xia listened coldly to Gu's words, then turned around and took away the thing covering the window, the room suddenly lit up, and the light was so dazzling that Gu could not help but raise his hand to cover it, and waited a little longer. After getting used to it, she raised her head to look out, and was immediately stunned in place.

The courtyard was full of people, and some held torches in their hands, almost lighting up the Cheng family as if it were daytime.

Gu Shi suddenly became depressed, she pointed at Cheng Xia tremblingly, "You, you."

"How about me?" Cheng Xia carefully watched Gu's recalcitrance from being stubborn to loveless, "Didn't you say that the county magistrate is useless to hear it by himself, so many people outside have heard it?"

Cheng Xia opened the door and stood at the door looking at the people invited by Aunt Tian, ​​"You all heard clearly what Mrs. Gu just said, are you willing to testify for my mother?"

"Yes!" Uncle Tian and Aunt Tian shouted out first, and soon everyone agreed, and Cheng Xia was moved to tears.

Mrs. Gu had already collapsed into a puddle of muddy water. She looked at Father Cheng and Cheng Zuo standing at the front of the crowd, and waved with her last hope, "Are you leaving me alone?"

Cheng Xia sneered, "What are you thinking, you should count on your youngest son, not the people here. But you are going to be disappointed after all, as soon as something happened on your side, my uncle should run away without a trace .”

Gu's eyes flickered, and he fainted immediately.

Yamen servants also gathered behind the crowd, Zheng Guan asked them to take Gu Shi away, and went to Tian's house to arrest Cheng Qiu and bring them with him. Killing people for their lives is not legally acceptable, and he will not let anyone who should be punished be punished.

Cheng Xia made an agreement with Aunt Tian, ​​and asked Aunt Tian to come to Cheng's house at the right time, and told Mrs. Gu that she saw Uncle in the bamboo forest, and asked her to go and have a look.When Mrs. Gu returned to Cheng's house again and Cheng Xia closed the door, Aunt Tian Shu and Tian went to the village to bring the people over to watch a good show, and to be a witness by the way, so all this happened now.

Cheng Xia was grateful to Uncle Tian and Aunt Tian, ​​and Aunt Tian held Cheng Xia's hand and wept uncontrollably, "Girl Xia, I have to thank you, otherwise we would never be able to avenge my father-in-law."

Cheng Xia choked with sobs and nodded, then turned to look at Zheng Guan, who was righteous and dignified, "Grandfather of the county, I wonder if the town's affairs have been dealt with?"

"Everyone who needs to be arrested has been arrested, and they will be promoted to the court for trial tomorrow." Zheng Guan knew Cheng Xia's concerns, "Don't worry, no bad guy will escape punishment. The matter is temporarily over, and I'll go first .”

"Hey," Cheng Xia suddenly remembered something, and quickly stopped Zheng Guan, "I have one more thing to say."

(End of this chapter)