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After lunch, Zhui Ming took Pei Rui to the former Lei family's house.

Mr. Lei was previously the county magistrate of Weiluo Town. He allowed his two sons to run rampant in the village, which was an unforgivable crime.

When Zhui Ming sought justice for Xiao Tou, he had already become a small constable.

He fought against the thirty-seven masters of the Lei family alone.

In the end, he broke the spine of the eldest master Lei, broke the nose bone, tibia, and three ribs of the second master Lei, and dragged the two of them to the county government like dead dogs, and formally detained them.

Mr. Lei could no longer protect his sons, and he could no longer protect himself.

The Lei family lost those masters and retainers, and the two sons were useless. They lost everything almost overnight.

Mr. Lei hanged himself in despair.

Too many people died in the Lei family's yard, and no one dared to live there. The original servants also left. No one lived there for a long time, and it had become a deserted house.

Zhui Ming pointed to the distance and said, "It was here that I first met Xiao Tou."

Pei Rui tilted his ear slightly.

Zhui Ming: "There is a well here, and she was drawing water from the well. I will never forget that scene..."

He suddenly stopped.

Pei Rui: "What's wrong?"

Zhui Ming stared at him quietly, silent.

System: [What's wrong with him? ]

Xue Chen: [The moment he saw Xiao Mian, he mixed up Xiao Tou and Xiao Mian. No matter what he said, he will never forget it, and he probably has forgotten it a long time ago. It was useless for him to look at Xiao Mian. The more he looked at Xiao Mian, the less he could remember what Xiao Tou looked like. 】

System: [How pitiful, Zhui Ming. From now on, his white moonlight will all look like you. 】

Xue Chen: [He has more than just Xiao Tou as his white moonlight. 】

System: [That's true. In addition to Xiao Tou, there are Shu Dongren and Wu Lili, and Yu Tianliang, whose true or false is unknown. But Xiao Tou must have had the greatest influence on him. Those women combined are not as good as you! 】

Xue Chen: [...Don't fight for the top in strange places. 】

Zhui Ming missed his old friend for a while by the well, and suddenly said to Pei Rui: "The north is where Xiao Tou committed suicide."

Pei Rui: "Why did she commit suicide?" Zhui

Ming felt uncomfortable every time he thought about it.

He rarely mentioned this to anyone, but the young man in front of him was most likely Xiao Tou's only relative, and he was qualified to know what his sister had been through.

Regardless of whether he was Xiao Tou's relative or not, Pei Rui would know the truth when they went to verify it with those old friends.

Zhui Ming took a deep breath and said in a calm tone: "Lei Dong, the second son of the Lei family, forced her to marry him, and then married seven or eight other women. He no longer needed Xiao Tou, so he gave Xiao Tou to Lei Chong, the eldest son of the Lei family. Later, Lei Chong threw Xiao Tou to his subordinates."

Pei Rui clenched his fists.

Zhui Ming: "Xiao Tou couldn't bear the humiliation and committed suicide. The Lei family was afraid that the truth would be exposed, so they slandered Xiao Tou for having an affair... In fact, before Xiao Tou died, she had a few words with a handyman in the yard, and it turned out to be her evidence of guilt...

"She didn't commit suicide, but was tortured to death by someone who found an excuse. The rope was wrapped around her neck many times, all with marks of strangulation, for fear that she would die too easily. Unfortunately, the handyman who had a few words with her in the yard and killed her was named Cui."

Zhui Ming's real name is Cui Liaoshang.

Zhui Ming smiled lightly: "Sometimes I wonder, if I hadn't come to the Lei family to work because of my secret love for Xiao Tou, would she not have died. But those beasts in the Lei family wanted her dead, and they had no shortage of excuses. I only regret that I came too late and didn't really help her. "

System: [Xiao Tou is so miserable.]

Xue Chen: [She is the person who has the greatest influence on Zhui Ming.]

System: [Whoever wants to be the person can be the person! Woo woo Xiao Tou...] Xue

Chen: [I advise you not to be too sentimental.]

System: [How can you be so cold-blooded?]

Xue Chen: [After all, this author... Haha. If everyone is sad, can you bear the pain?]

The system fell silent.

Pei Rui relaxed and clenched his fists several times, and said slowly: "This is her fate."

Zhui Ming: "Yes."

He could only use "fate" to comfort himself.

He walked past the deserted house and came to a residence not far away.

Zhui Ming knocked on the door according to his previous memory.

"Who is it?" A middle-aged woman opened the door.

"Is Grandma Rong at home? "Zhui Ming asked.

"Grandma passed away a long time ago. You...you are Xiao Cui, right?" The woman looked at Zhui Ming and asked uncertainly.

Granny Rong was the one who collected Xiao Tou's body.

She always treated Xiao Tou as her own daughter and loved this well-behaved girl very much. After Xiao Tou's death, others were very wary of the Lei family and did not dare to tell the truth. Granny Rong was already 81 years old at that time. She was not used to the Lei family's behavior, but she did not care about anything and told Zhui Ming the truth about Xiao Tou's death.

After so many years, it was expected that Granny Rong would no longer be in the world.

Zhui Ming still felt sad, and he replied, "It's me."

The woman said, "Come in quickly. Granny often mentioned what you did when she was alive. If you hadn't crippled the two brothers of the Lei family, maybe they would still be domineering now. How could we have a good life? "

Zhui Ming: "I came back this time because I have something to clarify, so I won't go in and sit. Big sister, do you still remember Xiao Tou back then?"

The woman sighed, "Of course I remember. Xiao Tou was a poor person who had no parents to rely on. I had just married at that time, and I often saw grandma helping her. At first I was very dissatisfied, thinking that grandma was so partial to an outsider, but I didn't expect... Alas."

Zhui Ming roughly figured out her identity.

She should be the granddaughter-in-law of Grandma Rong. When she married, Xiao Tou had been separated from her brother.

Zhui Ming didn't hold out hope, but still asked a few questions. She really didn't know Xiao Tou's life experience, so Zhui Ming said goodbye and took Pei Rui to the others.

The former servants of the Lei family had long since died or escaped, and there were not many people left in the local area.

Zhui Ming finally found a woman named Feng Qin'er. She used to be a maid of the Lei family. She was ordinary in appearance and was far inferior to Xiao Tou. Later, she was redeemed by her successful brother and married a few years ago. Now she lives a happy life and is no longer miserable.

Zhui Ming secretly sought the truth and asked Feng Qin'er about the cause of Xiao Tou's death. It was Feng Qin'er who told him that Xiao Tou was framed for having an affair.

She and Xiao Tou were both maids and had a good relationship.

After seeing Pei Rui, Feng Qin'er exclaimed: "Xiao Tou?"

Pei Rui raised his eyebrows: "I look a lot like her?"

Feng Qin'er said in a trance: "Your facial features are not alike when viewed separately, but when you put them together, I don't know why, I think of her the first time I see her. I haven't seen her for a long time, and I almost forgot what she looks like. When I think about it carefully, she should look like you, but her appearance is softer and her aura is not that strong."

Xue Chen: [Why does it feel like the world consciousness is constantly correcting their memories and patching them up behind them?]

System: [It does look alike.]

Xue Chen: [Aren't you the system? You should have some understanding of world consciousness, right? Why do you still look like you know nothing?]

The system said righteously: [I just don't know. 】

Zhui Ming: "Does Xiao Tou have any brothers or sisters?"

Feng Qin'er: "She has two younger brothers. The younger one is called Xiao Mian. He was kidnapped by a beggar when he was four or five years old and has never appeared since. The older brother is called Xiao Duan. He fell seriously ill when he was ten years old. In order to get his brother treated, Xiao Tou sold herself to the Lei family. However, her brother could not be saved and died not long after."

Zhui Ming: "Do you know where Xiao Tou's previous home was?"

Feng Qin'er: "It was in Qigu Lane. After Xiao Tou's parents died, the house was occupied by someone. I don't know whose house it is now. I'm afraid you won't be able to find it if you go back to look for it."

Zhui Ming: "Thank you."

Feng Qin'er told everything she knew. Zhui Ming said goodbye and left, taking Pei Rui to Xiao Tou's former home.

Now it has become a mill, with a donkey pulling a millstone, slowly grinding beans. It is no longer possible to tell that anyone has ever lived there.

Pei Rui couldn't see it at all, and even when he revisited the place, he didn't feel anything at all.

He seemed to have not yet accepted his life experience, with a cold expression and a sense of being out of touch with the world.

Zhui Ming held his hand: "I'll take you to see your sister."

Pei Rui: "Sister... Such a strange word."

Zhui Ming felt a little sympathetic towards him.

He had been looking for his family for so many years, and on the day he found out about his life experience, he also learned that all his relatives had passed away, and they passed away very miserably. How did he feel in his heart?

The two went to buy candles and paper money in silence. Zhui Ming also bought a pot of wine and some fresh fruits, and brought them to Xiao Tou's grave to pay tribute to her.

Pei Rui burned paper quietly.

There was no wind at this time, and the ashes of the paper flew into the sky under the push of the flame.

Zhui Ming raised the wine glass, poured the wine on the ground, and toasted it to Xiao Tou, saying to the tombstone: "Xiao Mian is back."

Pei Rui whispered: "Sister, I came to see you."

Before speaking, he was very foresighted and sent a warning to the system five seconds in advance, and then locked it in the small dark room.

Zhui Ming didn't say anything else. He got up and cleared the weeds around the grave.

Xiao Tou's grave was the only one he would worship, because he would come every few months, and the grave was relatively clean, so it didn't take much effort to clean it up.

Zhui Ming sat on the ground and looked into the distance: "In spring, this place will be full of small white flowers, connected into a piece, very beautiful. But you can't see it in this season."

Pei Rui: "I can't see it in spring either."

Zhui Ming looked at him: "Xiao Tou has seen it for you."

Pei Rui: "I don't like to be so sad. There are ghosts in this world. My sister has been watching you. You'd better not do anything strange in front of her grave."

Zhui Ming smiled: "What kind of thing is strange?"

Pei Rui pondered for a moment: "Reciting poems." Zhui

Ming: "..."

Pei Rui: "Carving words." Zhui Ming

: "..."

Xue Chen released the system from the small dark room: [See, people who are sad about the passing of time are prone to chuunibyou, and they will be embarrassed when they are chuunibyou. When they think about it in the future, they will all be embarrassing memories. ] System

: [Why do I feel that he was not embarrassed before you pointed it out? 】

Xue Chen: 【Because he is still in middle school.】Zhui

Ming did not recite poetry, but he said many times in front of Xiao Tou's grave, "If I get it, I am lucky; if I lose it, it is my fate; so it is——", and he also carved it on the tree next to the grave with a knife.

Although I can understand Zhui Ming's pain, but thinking about it carefully, it is really embarrassing.

Pei Rui raised his hand and touched the bark next to him, and said meaningfully: "Don't make it difficult for my sister."