Chapter 112 The Truth about Osmanthus Poisoning
Old Mrs. Shen was carried out by her youngest son and placed on a chair in the main room.
The village chief asked the Wan brothers to carry Shen into the yard. The second Shen wanted to stop them, but was glared at by the village chief and dared not move.
The village chief was carried by Jinniu into the main hall of the Shen family, and Shen Laosan quickly moved a chair for the village chief to sit on.
Old Mrs. Shen already knew that Shen was carried back by the Wan family. She was cursing in her heart, saying that the Wan family was really meddling in other people's business, when she saw the village chief come in.
"Brother Village Chief, it's so late, why haven't you rested yet?"
The village chief had a gloomy face and snorted coldly, "Rest? Do you want me to rest? Shen, I'm not saying anything bad about you, but go around the village and ask around, is there any mother-in-law like you? Even Zhang, the most powerful chatterbox in the south of the village, doesn't torture his daughter-in-law like you do. You've been paralyzed in bed for so many years. If it weren't for Shen's hard work to take care of you, would you be alive today?"
"Are you still planning to torture Shen to death and then count on your daughters-in-law? Do you think they are reliable people?"
"You say that the Shen family is a jinx every day. Ask yourself, how did your eldest brother die? How did your legs become paralyzed? You don't want to put the blame on your own son, but you can't push the Shen family to death, right? I don't want to talk about these little things in your family. Just tell me straight today, what are you going to do?"
Old Mrs. Shen was irritated by the words of the village chief, and her face was not very good. She had deliberately kept this matter in her heart for all these years, and pushed all the faults onto Shen. Even though she knew that Shen was innocent and everything was the fault of her fourth son, she could feel calm inside when torturing Shen.
Besides, Old Lady Shen had already calculated everything. Since Shen had become a widow, it didn't matter if she was kept for free. If she didn't torture her, would she torture her own son?
Today, her scars were revealed in front of her by the village chief, making her originally calm face become hideous.
Her fourth child had been eaten alive by wolves. This was the retribution for their family. When she woke up in the middle of the night, Old Mrs. Shen was also reflecting on herself. Was all this destined?
Back then, Shen Lao Si escaped the disaster, but the Shen family had to bear the infamy for him for so many years. Even God couldn't stand it anymore and let the couple die and one of them was half-dead?
"Village chief, are you here today just to expose my scars? Was your little daughter's accident really an accident? Wasn't it because of you..."
Old Mrs. Shen suddenly stopped talking in the middle of her words, lowered her head and said nothing.
The village chief stared at Old Lady Shen and slowly stood up from the chair. Jinniu hurried forward to support her.
"What did you just say? What did you know back then?"
The village chief had never expected that Old Lady Shen actually knew the truth about his youngest daughter's murder and had hidden it for so many years. If he hadn't revealed the other party's scars today and angered Old Lady Shen, he would probably never have known until his death that the Shen family actually knew the truth but concealed it.
When the village chief saw Old Lady Shen lowering her head and keeping silent, he was so furious that he didn't care about etiquette. He limped forward, grabbed Old Lady Shen by the collar, and dragged her off the chair to the ground.
The three sons of the Shen family did not expect the village chief to suddenly take action. When they rushed forward to stop him, it was too late. Old Mrs. Shen had already fallen heavily from her chair to the ground.
And the village chief didn't let go at all. He bent his skinny waist and roared at Old Lady Shen like a lion on the verge of going crazy.
"You damned old woman, tell me quickly, what did you know back then? Who killed my daughter?"
The village chief's eyes were red and he was hysterical. He shook Old Lady Shen hard, almost shaking her apart.
Shen Lao Er and Shen Lao San quickly pulled the village chief away, and Shen Lao Wu immediately picked up Old Lady Shen and moved away from the village chief.
Jinniu also helped the village chief up, half-carrying and half-dragging him to sit down on the chair.
Finally, the two old men were separated. Shen Laoer and Shen Laosan did not dare to look directly at the village chief.
The village chief also reacted at this time, his eyes widened like two copper bells as he looked at Shen Lao Er and Shen Lao San.
"Your mother was paralyzed at the time and couldn't have gone out. Even if I knew the truth from you, tell me, did you see something? If you don't tell the truth today, I will immediately expel your family from the village, and you will be left to fend for yourself."
Generally, people who are expelled from the village either join a sect or wander outside. No village is willing to accept villagers who have been expelled from the village. This is the rule of the border. If a person is expelled from the village, then his character must be bad, and no village will cause trouble for its own village.
The village chief's threat obviously worked. The people in the Shen family were a little at a loss, and several of them huddled together and whispered.
The village chief’s patience was limited. After all, the person who knew the truth was right in front of him, but he was still hesitating whether to tell it.
"What are you mumbling about? The house is so small. Even if I'm deaf, my son isn't. Hurry up and don't dawdle. Solve this matter. There's still one thing that hasn't been solved."
The village chief glanced at Shen in the yard. After all this trouble, Shen's breathing became even weaker.
Finally, it was Old Lady Shen who spoke up: "Old Five, put me on the chair."
Old Mrs. Shen was dragged off the chair by the village chief just now, and her back fell to the ground. She fell quite hard, and her back still hurts.
She forced herself to sit upright in the chair.
"Village Chief, it's not that we don't want to talk about this, but we don't have any evidence. We just happened to see someone throw a candy on the road, and your daughter picked it up. We don't know if the other party did it on purpose, so we dare not say anything. Now that you asked, there is nothing we can't say, but you must not sell our house."
After saying this, Old Lady Shen looked at the village chief pleadingly.
"Okay, tell me. I promise I won't tell anyone else that it was you who said it." The village chief agreed without hesitation. He really wanted to know whether the man back then was that bastard Mai Sui.
Old Lady Shen glanced at Old Second Shen and said, "Old Second, go ahead and tell the village chief everything that happened back then. As for whether that person is the murderer, let the village chief make his own judgment. We just need to tell you what we saw and don't exaggerate."
Shen Lao Er stood up awkwardly, and under the murderous gaze of the village chief, he finally told the whole process that he had witnessed that year.
"Village chief, I was taking a shit in the woods outside the village. It was a summer afternoon, and everyone was taking a nap at home. There were not many people on the road. I had just finished taking a shit and was about to pull up my pants when I saw Mai Sui passing by the small road beside the woods. He ran over, hopping and skipping, and a candy fell from him. I was about to pull up my pants and pick it up. I was thinking that Mai Sui's family was so poor that they had to starve to death. How could they have the money to buy candy?"
"At that time, your little daughter Guihua happened to pass by, picked up the candy, and immediately peeled it and ate it. I was about to snatch it away, but I didn't expect the little girl to run so fast. She ran into the village in the blink of an eye." Shen Lao Er said with a blush. It was still a bit shameful for him to say in front of so many people that he wanted to snatch a little girl's candy.
"Later, we heard that Guihua was poisoned, so I told my mother about it. She wouldn't let me make it public, because there was no evidence to prove that the candy was poisoned. We forgot about it later. If my mother hadn't mentioned it, we wouldn't have remembered it."
After Shen Lao Er finished speaking, he glanced at the village chief. He saw that the village chief seemed to be listening, but also seemed not to be listening, and seemed to be in a daze.
Jinniu clenched his hands hanging at his side into fists that made crackling sounds. His father had already mentioned the matter of Mai Sui buying land tonight. Now that the two things were connected together, apart from that bastard, no one else had the motive to harm others.
"Village chief? Are you okay?" Shen Laoer bent down and glanced at the village chief.
The village chief finally came to his senses, but he no longer had the energy he had just now, as if all his energy had been sucked out of him in an instant.
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