☆ Chapter 250 The most vicious devil appears in the most beautiful form
The fishing village was small with a small population. To make it easier for everyone to look after each other, the houses were mostly built close together. The village head walked quickly and with a menacing air, and soon arrived at Granny Tu's house.
Pushing open the courtyard gate, an old woman with a full head of white hair sat on a bamboo chair, a kitten lying at her feet, and next to her was a cradle with a baby inside. The old woman rocked the cradle while singing a Yuezhou folk song, and the baby clenched his fists and slept soundly.
No matter how you look at it, it's a picture of peaceful and idyllic life.
The village head lowered his voice and said to Zhou Mujiao, "This is the great-grandson of Asheng next door. Asheng became a great-grandfather at the age of fifty. He was the first great-grandfather in our village. This child is only three months old. Grandma Tu lives next door to Zeng Sheng's house. She always hears the child crying, so she takes the initiative to bring the child to her house. Strangely enough, as soon as the child is with her, he becomes quiet. He eats and sleeps, and when he wakes up, he eats again. When he goes back to sleep with his mother at night, he only wakes up once in the middle of the night to drink milk. Everyone says that Grandma Tu is the reincarnation of the Bedside Granny. All the children love her."
He paused, then added, "They might have added some medicine to the rice water to make the child feel dizzy and drowsy!"
“Village head, you can’t just make things up; you have to have evidence to back it up.”
As the two were talking, Granny Tu looked over.
Despite being nearly eighty years old, her eyes were surprisingly dark, bright, and clear, even more beautiful than those of a young girl, which surprised Zhou Mujiao.
"Is this Lady Zhao, the wife of Scholar Zhao?" Granny Tu stood up, her body hunched over. "My brother's mother said Lady Zhao was like a fairy. I didn't believe it at first, but now that I've seen her, she's not just like a fairy, she's a fairy descended to earth. I just don't know how she came to be in our family."
This person speaks in a refined and scholarly manner; they must have received some education in their youth.
Zhou Mujiao smiled and said, "My husband and I have just arrived in this small fishing village, so we came here to pay our respects. I am five months pregnant, and I have heard that Granny Tu is very experienced in delivering babies, so I am relieved. I hope Granny Tu will take good care of me when the time comes."
Grandma Tu's gaze was fixed on Zhou Mujiao's stomach. When Zhou Mujiao came out of the village head's house, she grabbed a towel, rolled it up, and stuffed it into her stomach. At this moment, her lower abdomen looked slightly protruding. She was slender and tall, so it was normal for her stomach to be smaller than that of a typical pregnant woman.
A gleam appeared in Grandma Tu's eyes, showing that she was genuinely happy.
Zhao Yunjing pointed to the cradle: "Is this a boy? Ajiao, go and hold him, and share in the joy."
Zhou Mujiao went straight over. When she picked up the child, Granny Tu grabbed her hand, clearly trying to check her pulse. Zhao Yunjing was faster than her, grabbing Zhou Mujiao's hand first and using her body to block Granny Tu's hand.
With a stern face, Zhao Yunjing quickly carried Zhou Mujiao outside. With the baby safe, the village head did not hesitate any longer and rushed over with the other villagers to grab Granny Tu.
The village headman questioned, "I ask you, why did you harm the children in the village?! You are also from this small fishing village. After your husband died, no one in our village looked down on you or bullied you because you were a widow! On the contrary, we took good care of you and helped you through your difficulties, but you repaid kindness with enmity and harmed our children! Tu Li, you are not human!"
Tu Li's original name was Li Xian'er. Her family was from Xianniu Village, which was fifty miles away from the small fishing village. Xianniu Village was only ten miles away from the county town. Li Xian'er was as beautiful as a flower. Her family background was respectable, and her two older brothers were scholars. Even if she couldn't become an official's wife, she could still marry into a good family in the city. So no one understood why she would marry into the small fishing village, and the man she married was Tu Long, who was known as the village bully at the time. Apart from his face being somewhat pleasing to the eye, Tu Long really had nothing to offer.
However, Tu Li not only married, but also found true love with Tu Long. After Tu Long died, she did not remarry and remained chaste. Every day, she would go to Tu Long's grave to burn incense and stay there for half an hour. Everyone could see Tu Li's deep affection. Her later kindness and protection of the people in the small fishing village were also genuine.
But who could have imagined that it was all a lie, and that she had harmed so many people!
When questioned by the village head, Tu Li's face darkened: "Xiao Li, over the decades I've helped your family so much, both openly and secretly. Your wife had a difficult childbirth, your daughter-in-law had a difficult childbirth, and if it weren't for me, they would have died long ago. I won't mention this matter or claim to be your family's savior, but that doesn't mean you can forget my kindness!"
A huge accusation was slapped on his head, and the village head was momentarily confused, but the thought of Xiao Bao cleared his mind again: "Tu Li Shi! Stop making excuses! All the children in the village who were delivered by you, or those you took in or brought home, have developed eye diseases! What did you do to them? Even if we have wronged you, you can deal with us, what does it have to do with the children? You're not human!"
Tu Li stared intently at the village head, then looked at the faces of the villagers one by one. Seeing that the villagers all looked angry and confused, she suddenly smiled.
"Yes, you are the ones who have wronged me. What does this have to do with a child? But my fiancé did nothing wrong. He was just passing through your village. What did he do wrong that you want to kill him?!"
Long-forgotten memories flooded back, and Tu Li's eyes turned bloodshot: "He was just going to take the imperial examination! He was just going to take the imperial examination! It was the people from your village who forcibly dragged him to the village and then took his life in the middle of the night!"
A scholar who came to the village on his way to take the imperial examination?
The village head remembered that he was only a little over ten years old at the time, and his favorite place to go was Tu Long's house because Tu Long's house had a lot of things to play with. One day, a scholar did come to the village, and Tu Long brought him back. However, before dawn the next day, he saw the scholar leave the village with his own eyes, and he even watched him go for a while!
Tu Lishi is talking nonsense.
Madam Tu burst into laughter, tears streaming down her face: "That was Tu Long! Tu Long pretended to be sworn brothers with Brother Gan, but later, jealous of his good grades and status as a scholar, and also because he was engaged to me, he killed Brother Gan. Then he dressed in Brother Gan's clothes and impersonated him, deliberately letting you see him so everyone would think Brother Gan had gone to the capital..."
After killing Gan Ping, Tu Long buried him under the tree behind his house. To prevent the village dogs from smelling the stench and digging it up, Tu Long remained well-behaved for half a year until he could no longer smell anything. Only then did he take Gan Ping's jade pendant to Li Xian'er, saying that Gan Ping had failed the imperial examination and was ashamed to go back to see his parents and relatives, and that he wanted to say goodbye to her.
Li Xian'er was deeply in love with Gan Ping and decided to elope with him. However, when she followed Tu Long to the dilapidated temple, she did not see Gan Ping. Instead, Tu Long took advantage of her and claimed that she wanted to elope with him voluntarily. The Li family considered her a disgrace and married her off to Tu Long. On their wedding night, Li Xian'er got Tu Long drunk and only then learned that Gan Ping had already been killed.
A few days later, she lured the village's wolfhounds to tear Tu Long apart. After burying Tu Long, she dug up Gan Ping's remains and buried them in Tu Long's grave. As for Tu Long's body, she had already thrown it away. From then on, she stayed in the small fishing village to guard Gan Ping's grave and went there to offer incense every day.
As for why she targeted the children in the village, it was because Li Xian'er believed that Gan Ping's death was inextricably linked to the people of the small fishing village. However, she was well-versed in Confucian classics and knew that killing Tu Long was already her limit. She couldn't bring herself to kill others, but she was unwilling to do nothing. So, she thought of injuring the children's eyes.
“I could have crushed them when they were born, but I only injured their eyes. Compared to you, I was too kind, but kindness never ends well.”
When Li Xian'er said this, she had a smile on her face. Her neatly combed silver hair gave her an ethereal air.
It turns out that the most vicious demons often appear in the most beautiful guise, ultimately destroying the spirit and the body...
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