"I'll beat you to death, you evil girl!"
Zhou Yuniang was already a little crazy. She took off the soles of her shoes and started beating Zhou Sanniang on the head.
"Hey! Mother and daughter should talk it out nicely!"
"That's right, this is an ancestral hall, aren't you afraid of disturbing our ancestors?"
"Stop watching the fun, hurry up and pull them out!"
For a while, there was chaos in front of the ancestral hall, and everyone was arguing. Yueyue was so scared that she burrowed into her brother's arms again. Those aunts were so scary.
“That’s enough!”
The village chief shouted angrily, which put the chaotic scene on pause.
"Hong'er, pull him away!"
Wen Jiahong did as she was told. At this time, Zhou Yuniang's face had turned blue with anger, and Zhou Sanniang's face and body were covered with shoe marks, and her hair was messed up, but she still protected Wen Sandi.
I don’t know if Zhou Sandi was moved or scared, but he was crying with tears and snot, looking so miserable.
After the scene calmed down, the village chief spoke:
"Mother Zhou Yu, your family is an outsider. We have never excluded your Zhou family. We even let you worship your ancestors in the ancestral hall of Wenjia Village. I think I am doing a good job as the village chief."
After hearing this, Zhou Yuniang put away her shoes, smoothed her hair, and said carefully:
"Village Chief, I'm not upset with you for what you said. It's my blessing that I can settle down in Wenjia Village."
"You are blessed, but Zhou Sanniang is not, and the man he married is not blessed."
The village chief said calmly.
“.”
Zhou Yuniang was stuck for a moment, not knowing how to respond, and then she whispered:
"Village chief, the old saying is true, as long as the mother and father are alive, the family will not be divided. We are all living well, so why should we divide the family?"
"Since you are not going to split up the family, you should treat everyone equally. As for who you favor in private, we have no right to interfere. But it is wrong for you to squeeze other families to support your beloved ones."
The village chief's words were very direct.
"I don't!"
Zhou Yuniang denied it directly.
If she admitted this, how would she live in the village in the future?
"Okay, I don't want to get involved in your family's affairs. Now let's talk about how to deal with Third Brother Wen."
The village chief was too lazy to argue with her and spoke directly.
Zhou Yuniang immediately fell silent and stopped talking, fearing that she would get into trouble again.
"Ming Ge, what do you mean?"
The village chief asked.
"Village Chief, for the sake of my sister and I's future, please sign the severance agreement and keep him away from us!"
Wen Zhaoming said lightly.
Since Zhou Sanniang has already spoken out, he will help the two of them and see what kind of good life Third Brother Wen can live with such a reputation.
"Besides these?"
"Yueyue got sick from the shock, you have to give us the money for the treatment!"
Wen Zhaoming continued.
"Well, you are right. The money must be paid. I will make the decision that Third Brother Wen will compensate the two siblings with one or two taels of silver."
The village chief made the decision immediately.
After hearing what the village chief said, the villagers below were whispering. One or two dollars is not a small amount. Thinking about what Third Brother Wen had done, everyone felt that he deserved it.
Zhou Sanniang glanced at Mingger and said nothing in the end, which was considered as her agreement. As for where the money came from, it was not her concern.
Finally, in the presence of the village chief and all the villagers, Mingger signed a letter of severance with Wen Sandi, and the Zhou family also paid the compensation. Zhou Sanniang said that it was a loan from her, and promised to earn the money back by doing odd jobs in the county.
Zhou Yuniang didn't want the matter of her harsh treatment of the third brother to become a big deal, so she had no choice but to keep quiet and lent out the one or two taels of silver with a painful heart.
The matter was settled, and Third Brother Wen was taken back, and the farce ended.
Ming Ge'er got rid of his anger and had some silver in his hand. After getting the meat, he prepared some gifts and sent them to the families who helped find Yueyue. The gifts were not much, but they were a token of his love. Everyone accepted them and praised Wen Zhaoming for being sensible.
Wen Zhaoming also prepared a portion for Lianyi, planning to take his sister with him to express his gratitude in a few days.
As a result, two days later, something big happened in Wenjia Village again.
The door of Zhou Yu's mother's house was closed all day, and no one came out to collect firewood. They thought they were being lazy, so they didn't pay much attention. But the door was still not opened the next day, so they became a little worried. They went to knock on the door, but no one answered. Then the neighbor pushed the door open directly.
"Ah!!! Someone's dead!!!"
A scream broke the silence of the village.
When the village chief was called over, he discovered that except for Sanniang's family, all the others in Zhou Yuniang's family, including the old couple, were dead, with purple lips and foam at the mouth.
The village chief was so frightened that he sat down on the ground. As the village chief, he could not handle this matter, so he could only ask his eldest daughter to drive a ox cart to the county to ask for the constable.
Fortunately, the village chief had some knowledge. He drove away all the onlookers and left people to guard the door of Zhou's house. He also forbade anyone to move the body inside. Finally, he asked the villagers to look for Zhou Sanniang and her family of five.
However, after searching the entire village, Zhou Sanniang's family was not found. Only a few children playing at the entrance of the village said that they seemed to have seen Zhou Sanniang's three children the day before yesterday. They were carrying baskets and said they were going to the market in a nearby village to sell things. As for whether they came back, no one saw them.
This caused an uproar in Wenjia Village, with all kinds of speculations, but most people guessed that Zhou Sanniang had a falling out with her family, and the failure to divide the family ended up killing her entire family.
At one time, several families with more than 20 people in the village divided their property, and the division was relatively fair. Of course, this is a story for later.
Back to the present, because the weather had turned cold, the corpse decomposed more slowly. And because the case was reported in time, the county constables rode horses to Wenjia Village two days later.
The leading constable was named Zhou, a 40-year-old woman who was very powerful and domineering. The first thing the coroner she brought with her did when he arrived was to perform an autopsy, and then she began to question people.
Wen Zhaoming was naturally also the subject of questioning, and it could even be said that he was the subject of suspicion.
Although Wen Zhaoming was a little nervous, he still answered Captain Zhou's questions clearly and logically, and concluded:
"I hate Third Brother Wen, not the Zhou family. Besides, we are no longer related, and I have received compensation. He will not be able to interfere in our family affairs in the future. I have no reason to do this."
"We will investigate what you said. Don't leave the village recently."
"Okay, my sister and I are not going anywhere."
Wen Zhaoming nodded in agreement. In fact, he already had a guess in his mind, but he didn't want to say it.
Captain Zhou stayed here for three days. After examining the bodies, he asked the village chief to temporarily place the bodies of the whole family in the village's charity cemetery and bury them after the case was concluded.
The charity cemetery in the village was actually an earthen house that was about to collapse, and this time it was filled with the corpses of the Zhou family.
No one in the village dared to walk past Zhou Yu's mother's house as it was so eerie and scary. Neighbors nearby said they could hear babies crying at night. For a while, no one in Wenjia Village went out after sunset.
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