"Not long after I was born, my parents sold me to them. At the Li family, I had to get up before dawn to work. I did all the housework, big and small. I also had to work in the fields to earn work points. When I had nothing to do, I had to go up the mountain to dig wild vegetables."
"I tried every possible way to make some money, but it wasn't enough for Li Yaozu to go out and play cards. They kept abusing me. If I didn't trick Erniu over, they would beat me to death."
"Erniu and I are both money-losing goods. It's the same no matter where we live. She's not having a good life at home either. Since we're both having a bad life, why can't you save me? If she jumps into the fire pit, I can be free."
Tu Ya's expression became more and more ferocious.
Xia Weian couldn't control his emotions and slapped Tu Ya hard in the face.
No one stopped her, not even the two militiamen standing next to Tu Ya.
This is so infuriating. Erniu is a good girl, but Tuya wants to drag her into the quagmire for his own selfish desires. Who wouldn't be angry?
"You, you are worse than a beast!" Xia Weian cursed fiercely.
Tu Ya laughed out loud, "I am worse than an animal, I am a beast, so what? Wasn't I forced to do this? If they hadn't abused me, would I be like this?"
"I was forced into everything I did. Now they're all dead. Erniu killed them. I'm also a victim. What do you want? I'm a victim. What can you do to me?"
Tuya laughed wildly.
Now everyone is even more convinced that she is mentally ill.
Everyone looked at Wang Yousheng and Huang Dewang. It was completely useless to reason with a madman.
"Lock her up in the brigade headquarters first, find a few people to watch her, and send her to the commune early tomorrow morning." Wang Yousheng said in a deep voice.
The militia responded and pulled Tu Ya away.
Tuya shouted as she walked, "Why are you arresting me? It's obviously Erniu, why are you arresting me? Why?"
After Tuya shouted twice, she suddenly realized something, "No, Erniu didn't move?"
Why does she have the memory of Erniu moving, and why did Erniu change her name to Xia Zhiyao?
No, why is it different from what she remembers?
Tuya pulled her hair frantically.
"No, no, something is wrong. I've finally survived, I can't die. It's not me, it really wasn't me who set the fire." Tu Ya was incoherent.
When several militiamen saw Tu Ya pulling and tugging at them, they screamed wildly and beat their chests and stamped their feet.
They were afraid that Tu Ya might kill herself, so they found a bundle of ropes, tied Tu Ya up tightly, and threw her into an empty room in the brigade headquarters.
Two people were guarding the door, and two were guarding inside the house.
Tuya kept muttering to herself, sounding mysterious and creepy.
Two hours later, two public security comrades came to the village to investigate. Three people had died, which was a big deal.
The police did not dare to delay for a moment and came immediately after receiving the report from Qingshan Village. This incident also alarmed Secretary Duan. Arson and murder is a big deal.
As soon as the police arrived at the scene, they conducted a simple investigation. The villagers had all come to put out the fire, and the footprints at the scene were in a mess, with basically no traces to refer to.
The lighter and empty oil barrel in Tuya's hand became physical evidence, along with the villagers' confessions and Tuya's own reaction at the scene.
The police initially determined that Tu Ya was mentally ill and burned her adoptive parents and brother to death.
And because they had wanted to plot against someone else's daughter before, she became mentally disturbed and for a moment could not tell whether it was her imagination or reality.
Xia Weian followed the whole process and was sure that this matter had nothing to do with their Zhiyao. Zhiyao was just a poor victim, a little girl who was being cared about by others.
Xia Weian followed until the next morning, when several more police officers from the Public Security Bureau came and took Tu Ya away directly.
Tuya was still muttering before getting on the car.
"You are reborn." She pointed at Xia Weian and said loudly.
"If you hadn't been reborn, why would you have moved out of the Xia family? You clearly didn't move away." Tu Ya shouted.
But no one believed what she said, everyone thought she was talking nonsense.
What rebirth?
Can anyone be reborn?
No one understands or asks what it means, because no one believes it.
Tuya screamed hysterically, and finally she was too noisy, so the militia who helped escort her found a piece of cloth and stuffed it into Tuya's mouth, and Tuya could no longer speak.
After she arrived at the Public Security Bureau, she was immediately interrogated by several police officers.
Tu Ya simply said that it was not him who set the fire, but Erniu who did it, and said that Erniu's parents must have been reborn and they lived another life.
That's why they left the Xia family, and why they gave Erniu a name, and so on. No one believed what she said.
Faced with a madman, the police were helpless and could only send Tu Ya to a mental hospital.
The management of mental hospitals in this era was very rough. Tu Ya was beaten all over his body within a few days of entering. The doctors and nurses only had to make sure that he didn't die.
From that day on, Tuya stayed in the mental hospital until her death.
She lived for another twenty years, and every day was torture. In the end, she really could not distinguish between reality and illusion.
In Qingshan Village, after a busy night last night, the village party secretary and the team leader were both quite old and extremely tired, so neither of them went to supervise the work in the morning.
The captain asked the villagers who helped put out the fire to rest for half a day before going back to work, after all, such a big thing happened in the village.
No matter what Li's parents were like, they are already dead and there is nothing more to say.
In the end, the Li family members helped dig a pit and bury the three people, and the matter was over.
The Li family's house had been burned to ruins. The team leader ordered people to clear that area. Someone had just died there, and no one dared to live there, so it was just left empty.
When Xia Weian returned home in the morning, Uncle Lao Gen had already arrived with the people who were building the house.
Seeing Xia Weian, Uncle Lao Gen stepped forward and said, "Weian, if you are tired, go to bed first. I heard about what happened last night."
"I know you have been busy with the team leader and the others. The Li family has gotten their comeuppance. Leave the work here to me," said Uncle Lao Gen.
"Okay, uncle, I'll follow you to circle out the area and then go to sleep in the front yard." Xia Weian responded.
Uncle Lao Gen patted Xia Weian's shoulder and said, "Shuanzi will have a day off tomorrow. He will come over tomorrow too."
"Okay." Xia Weian responded and called over several men to help with the work. When they arrived at the backyard where the house was to be built, he briefly explained the structure of the house to everyone.
Everyone thinks that Xia Weian’s house is very cleverly designed.
They are all good workers, and the house is not big, so the requirements are not too high. There is a door, a window, and a kang, and there is a kang in the middle that is open.
Everyone started working quickly.
Xia Weian followed along for a while, then felt a little sleepy, so he said hello to Uncle Lao Gen and went to sleep in the front yard...
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