Inside the carriage, Wang Dani looked at the things that had been loaded onto the carriage that day and felt that something was missing.
"Miss, isn't this a bit short? I remember there was a huge pile yesterday!"
"Oh, some of them were too in the way, so I didn't take them." Liu Sisi didn't expect that she would still be discovered even though she only accepted small items.
She quickly changed the subject, and pulled out the topographical map of Xisuo Snow Mountain from her sleeve.
"Let me see where my route is, and where I should start to separate from you."
When Liu Sisi opened the map, she found that it was also heading towards Jinshan County, but there was still a long way to go after Jinshan County.
"Then I'll go home with you first to see my parents and brothers, and then we'll set off again."
"Great!" Wang Dani was very happy to hear that Liu Sisi could also go back with her.
She was actually a little scared. If the young lady didn't go back and they went back on their own, the master and mistress would definitely be very angry. Now she was finally relieved.
The carriage was traveling on the road to Jinshan County.
On the other side.
In Tianshan Village, Yang had been hiding at the home of an old bachelor in Lishu Village for several days. She had already heard from the old bachelor that his two sons had been arrested.
Now the officials are searching for him everywhere, and she dares not go home during the day.
So she secretly ran back to Li Ergou's house when night fell.
The old bachelor didn't care; after all, there was no affection between them, and it was just a casual fling.
It wasn't that Yang was homesick; she was eyeing Li Ergou's land deeds and house deeds, and wanted to get them into her own hands.
As soon as he entered the house, he smelled a stench of feces and urine.
Li Ergou was lying on the bed, barely alive. He was paralyzed, had no one to take care of him, and couldn't cook for himself. He had been surviving on just drinking water for the past few days!
He was so hungry that he was dizzy and couldn't see who it was, so he just shouted out on instinct.
"Get me some food, I'm about to die."
Li Ergou truly felt that he was about to die; he seemed to see his daughter, who was betrothed to a ghost, looking at him with a sinister gaze.
"It's me, sir. I've come to bring you food," said Madam Yang, who still didn't know where the land deeds and house deeds were and wanted Li Ergou to tell her before she died.
So she took a cornbread from her pocket and stuffed it into Li Ergou's mouth; it was given to her by the old bachelor.
Li Ergou felt something in his mouth, took a big bite, and chewed it vigorously.
"Husband, where did you put the land deeds and house deeds?" Madam Yang asked.
Li Ergou was chewing something dry in his mouth! He wanted some water, but accidentally the cornbread got stuck in his throat and he couldn't make a sound. He pounded his chest with his hand.
Seeing that something was wrong, Yang wanted to help him get it out, but she didn't know how. She tried to get it out by gagging her mouth and pressing on her stomach, and several minutes passed.
Li Ergou's eyes were wide open, and he was no longer breathing; he had been choked to death.
When Yang saw Li Ergou like that, she was so frightened that she sat down on the ground.
She had thought about killing Li Ergou and running away with the child, but that was just a thought.
But now that her child is in jail and Li Ergou is dead, she suddenly doesn't know where to go from here.
After a while, she got up and rummaged through the house, finally finding the land deeds and house deeds in a dilapidated wooden box.
Without a moment's hesitation, she took the two items, intending to go back and continue living with the old bachelor.
They didn't even bother with Li Ergou's corpse.
On a dark and windy night, she ran towards Lishu Village in the dark, afraid of being discovered.
He was running very fast, but he slipped and tripped over a stone, falling down the hillside. His head hit a big tree hard, and blood gushed from his head. He stopped breathing soon after.
At this time, Li Guifu and Li Guiquan were bullied by the inmates as soon as they entered the prison. They were often hungry and beaten.
Knowing that no one had visited their home, the jailer turned a blind eye. Before long, the two men couldn't endure life in prison and both died.
A few days later, villagers passing by Li Ergou's house smelled a foul odor and called for help, only to find that Li Ergou's body had already decomposed.
At the same time, villagers also discovered Yang's body at the foot of the hillside.
Since they were from the same village, and Zhou Lizheng was kind-hearted, he joined the other villagers in digging a pit and burying the couple.
They even erected a wooden tombstone, hoping that the Li Guifu brothers could come back to pay their respects to their parents. However, the government notified the village that the Li Guifu brothers had also passed away and asked the family to come and collect their bodies.
Zhou, wanting to be a good Samaritan to the end, brought Li Guifu and the other man back to be buried with them.
From then on, Li Ergou's family line was completely wiped out. Zhou Lizheng looked at the few graves he had personally buried and shook his head. "Sigh, I hope I can do more good deeds in my next life!"
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