Chapter 231: Rong Niang's tragic death
"Isn't this Rong Niang going to run away?"
Jin Xi picked up the padlock and took a look at it, then looked inside through the crack in the door and saw a dead body in the yard, which meant that Rong Niang's man was still there.
"Jin Xi, you and Jin Zhu, climb over the wall and go in to see if there is anything missing from the room?"
Jinniu suddenly thought of the rumors in the village that men were often seen coming in and out of Rong Niang's house, and maybe Rong Niang already had a lover.
Jin Xi and Wan Laoer joined forces and entered Rong Niang's yard.
At this time, a cold wind blew, and Jin Xi could not help but shivering. She looked at the corpse parked in the yard with some fear. The head was covered with straw paper, and the body was still in the clothes he wore when he died. This Rong Niang didn't even give her man a change of clothes.
Jin Xi quickly bowed three times to the corpse, muttered to himself for a while, and then followed Wan Laoer into the house.
As soon as they entered, they were shocked by the scene in front of them. They screamed and ran out.
Jinniu heard the noise outside and became very anxious. He quickly slapped the door and shouted, "What's going on? What's going on inside?"
"Village Chief, Rong Niang is dead."
The two men crawled out and tried to open the door and run out, only to then they remembered that the door was locked from the outside.
When Jinniu saw the frightened expressions on the two men's faces, he knew that someone must have been murdered. In addition, the noise they had just made attracted a lot of neighbors.
Jinniu made a prompt decision and immediately found two men, "Hurry up and break the lock."
The man didn't understand and was a little afraid. "Village chief, this is someone's private residence. It's not right for us to do this. And we can't mess with Rong Niang. She can kill you with a knife."
"Don't worry, I'll take responsibility for all the consequences. Hurry up and don't waste time."
The man then went home and got an axe, and the two of them smashed the lock with a few blows.
As soon as the gate opened, everyone saw Jin Xi and Wan Laoer, with a look of surprise on their faces.
"Village chief, please go in and take a look. It looks like Rong Niang was raped and murdered. She has no clothes on and her death is really ugly."
Jin Xi was so frightened that he could not speak, but Wan Laoer was relatively calm. After all, he had seen more than Jin Xi during his exile.
When the villagers heard that Rong Niang was dead, they all followed the village chief and rushed into Rong Niang's small hut.
Wan Laoer and Jin Xi did not go in again. The scene was really scary.
As soon as Jinniu entered the house, he saw that the main room was in a mess. The tables, chairs, benches and other things were all pushed to the ground, but there were no signs of a fight. It seemed as if someone had deliberately overturned them while rummaging around for something.
Jinniu walked towards the inner room again, which was the bedroom of Rong Niang and her husband.
At this time, Rong Niang's body was seen lying on the kang, naked with her legs apart. What made people's scalp tingling was not this, but that Rong Niang's head had been cut off and placed between her legs, staring at her lower body. This... was too weird and too perverted.
Taurus took a look and turned his head away, then walked out of the house.
The brave woman took a closer look and saw that Rong Niang's body was covered with bruises. It seemed that she had been tortured severely before. Moreover, Rong Niang's eyes had been gouged out. There were two bloody holes on her head, which looked extremely horrifying. The woman screamed in fear and fainted.
There was a commotion in the room and everyone retreated in fear.
Only after walking into the yard did Jinniu slowly exhale, but his back was already soaked with cold sweat.
"Jin Xi, go inform the elders to come to my house. Jin Zhu, come back with me. We need to have a good meeting."
Wan Laoer and Jin Xi nodded and left. Jin Xi went to inform the elders, while Wan Laoer went back to tell Grandma Wan.
Jinniu then said to the villagers who were watching: "You women usually love to gossip, but now it comes in handy. You all know who saw Rong Niang secretly communicating with other men. Go and inform her to come to my house for a meeting."
After saying this, Jinniu left Rong Niang's house. Because such a strange murder happened in Rong Niang's family, no one dared to stay there and went home one after another. For a while, no one was seen at the door of Rong Niang's house.
Soon everyone gathered at Taurus's house.
"Dear elders, I asked you all to come here because in addition to the villagers who were killed by the Beiliang people last night, another murder case has just occurred. Rong Niang was raped and killed. Considering that Rong Niang is usually not decent, I decided not to report the case first. Let's talk about how to deal with this matter first?"
Jin Chenghou just listened to his eldest son's account of the whole story.
"Village Chief, has Rong Niang's house been robbed?"
Jinniu nodded, "There is nothing left at home. I went to check. Apart from some tattered clothes and broken benches, all the valuable food was gone."
"Jin Xi said that when he went to search, he saw Rong Niang alive, which means that Rong Niang's death happened within half an hour. Then is this person from our village or from outside? This must be checked clearly. Everyone was at the entrance of the village during that half an hour. There were not many people in the village, so it was easy to succeed."
Jin Chenghou's words made everyone fall into deep thought.
At this time, a woman said, "Village leader, Chief Jin, I have something to say."
They both looked at the woman and nodded.
"One night when I got up to go to the bathroom, I saw Rong Niang sneaking out of the village. I followed her and saw a man waiting outside the village. When they met, they hugged each other and went into the cornfield outside the village. I quietly approached and saw the sound that was so embarrassing. This Rong Niang must have been cheating on a man."
The woman was Rong Niang's neighbor, Bai.
"Then did you see clearly who that man is?" Taurus felt that as long as he found that man, he might be able to solve the case.
"It was pitch dark, and the moon was dim that night. I was following from a distance, so how could I see clearly? But I am sure that the man was not from our village, because after the incident, the man did not enter the village."
Jin Niu and Jin Chenghou, uncle and nephew, looked at each other. Actually, Jin Niu didn't want to cause trouble. If Rong Niang was really not decent and had an affair with another man, she deserved to be thrown into a pig cage. Her sudden death was her own fault. It was just a pity that the Wan family's more than 200 kilograms of grain would not be recovered.
After hearing this, Jinniu looked at the other elders and asked, "Do the elders have any opinions?"
One of them said, "We just discussed it. For the sake of our village's reputation, we should not make this matter public. Besides, Rong Niang was originally exiled. There were only her and her husband in her family. Now her husband is dead, and she also lost her life because of her own misconduct. We think we should not make it complicated. It happens that the Beiliang people came to the village and killed many people. Then we can just report Rong Niang's name and say that the Beiliang people killed her."
Jinniu asked everyone present again, and everyone agreed that the matter was settled. However, the two bodies of Rong's mother's family needed to be buried with money from the village public fund. The money from the sale of land in the village was in the hands of the village chief, so the funeral expenses would be paid directly by the village chief.
"However, there is one more thing. Since everyone is here, I will tell you all about it. I have counted the harvest of this autumn. This is the result. I will give you a general idea."
As soon as Jinniu mentioned this, smiles appeared on everyone's faces. Those sitting there were all elders of the village, all of whom were wealthy families. Even during droughts in previous years, no one had starved to death, not to mention that this year the weather was good and the harvests were good, so the granaries were full of grain.
Everyone was waiting for Taurus to continue speaking.
"According to my statistics, everyone's harvest is 20% higher than in previous years, and this is also thanks to God. The most fertile land in our village has finally produced more than 300 kilograms per mu this year, but we used 50 kilograms of seeds, which means that the net income is only more than 200 kilograms. Of course, what I said is the general situation in our village, but this year there is an exception, that is the Wan family, their per mu yield reached more than 400 kilograms!"
The words of the village chief were like thunder in a clear sky, shocking the several elders who had just looked satisfied to the point that their jaws almost dropped to the ground.
At the same time, everyone's eyes turned to Wan Laoer.
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