Chapter 265: Telling a lie requires countless lies to cover it up
Lu Yanshi's face turned even uglier.
Once a bad thing starts, it will get worse and worse if no one stops it.
How many elderly people will die along the way?
【Alas, it’s still a step too late. 】
Lu Li sighed deeply in her heart.
[Yesterday, two elderly people died of hunger...]
Hearing this, Lu Yanshi and Lu Qi's hearts sank at the same time.
Lu Li secretly glanced at her father.
Lu Yanshi reacted very quickly and looked away immediately.
Seeing that he didn't look at her, Lu Li closed her eyes. She couldn't bear to see the two old men die, nor did she want Song Shuisheng to be deceived, so she pretended to fall asleep.
She counted to ten in her heart, then rubbed herself in Lu Yanshi's arms, stretched, yawned, and pretended to have just woken up.
"Daddy, I had a dream again." She tugged at Lu Yanshi's sleeve.
"Oh? What did Xiaojiu dream about again?" Lu Yanshi asked cooperatively.
"I dreamed about this uncle's parents. They died of hunger in a cave by the river." Lu Li told the news he got from the melon-eating system.
"Nonsense, how is that possible!" Song Shuisheng became excited when he heard this.
My parents clearly followed my eldest brother to Fuso Island.
"Your elder brother doesn't want them, he just wants money." Lu Li told the truth.
Song Shuisheng stood there in a daze, as if struck by lightning.
Before he could react, his daughter-in-law Yao started cursing.
"I knew they had bad intentions. My parents are almost 60 years old, but they traveled thousands of miles to take them to Fuso Island to retire. It turns out they were planning to get compensation."
"If one person dies, I'll give them five taels of silver. If both parents die, that's ten taels of silver. These two black-hearted people!"
"Don't talk nonsense, the matter has not been concluded yet. Big brother is not that kind of person." Song Shuisheng also thought of this possibility.
My eldest brother wouldn't be so heartbroken. He wouldn't send our parents to a death kiln just for ten taels of silver.
He shook his head.
"Whether it is true or not, we will know after I send someone to investigate." Lu Yanshi said calmly.
Song Shuisheng couldn't say anything to object.
Lu Yanshi ordered Meng Shanchuan to investigate the matter, and they found an empty house in the village to live in.
Fortunately, they brought guards and servants with them, and they quickly prepared three clean rooms.
Rested for a night.
The next morning, Meng Shanchuan hadn't come back yet, so Lu Li had nothing better to do so she went to look at other melons.
[Oh, Miss Wang has reported it to the police! ]
[With the help of the official, she left the Wang family with her dowry.]
[Not bad, not bad, Miss Wang, your good fortune is still to come.]
Lu Qi was worried about Wang Youwei and heard Lu Li say that she had left the Wang family.
Lu Qi couldn't help but smile.
She was happy for Wang Youwei.
After eating Wang Youwei's melon, Lu Li couldn't sit still and went to see what happened to the Chu family.
【Chu Ruipeng was sentenced to be beheaded.】
[A life for a life, this is what he deserves. 】
[The two old couples of the Chu family were not convicted of harboring a criminal. ]
[Well, they refused to admit that they knew anything about it, saying that losing their son was tragic enough and the government couldn’t do anything about it.]
Lu Li felt a little regretful when she saw this.
[I wonder if Chu Ruilin is satisfied with this punishment? ]
[Will I continue to enter the Second Princess's dream to look for her? 】
Thinking of this, she looked up at Lu Qi.
"Second sister, did the eldest brother of the Chu family come to you in your dream?"
Lu Qi: …
Once you tell a lie, you will have to tell countless lies to cover it up.
Who comes to rescue her!!!
She forced a stiff smile and said, "No, he didn't come to see me again."
Lu Li nodded after hearing her answer: "Maybe he is very satisfied with the result and has been reborn."
"What do you want to eat, Xiaojiu? I heard that the sour soup hotpot here is delicious." Lu Qi changed the subject.
Hearing that there was something delicious to eat, Lu Li immediately forgot about the Chu family's affairs and started discussing it with her with great interest.
After they finished eating the sour soup pot, Meng Shanchuan finally came back.
He also brought back more than a dozen corpses, all of which were elderly people abandoned in the kiln.
Song Shuisheng and his wife were brought over to identify the bodies, and he saw his parents at a glance.
Their thin bodies were curled up into a ball, and their faces had lost all their life, leaving only skinny cheeks and deep eye sockets.
He stood there stiffly, and would not have been able to react if his daughter-in-law had not pushed him.
He walked tremblingly to the bodies of his parents and heard his wife crying, "Dad and Mom, you died such a tragic death."
Then he reacted.
Oh, he is now an orphan.
His lips trembled, and after a moment he finally opened his mouth: "Dad! Mom!"
Apart from these two words, he could not utter anything else.
His tears fell silently.
After waiting for a while, Qu Fufeng came forward and handed him a handkerchief, then asked, "Village Chief Song, do you know the other people? Can you help us identify the bodies and see which families they belong to?"
Song Shuisheng politely declined his handkerchief.
He couldn't afford to pay for such a good thing.
He wiped away his tears sloppily with the back of his hand and nodded.
"This one belongs to Song Tiezhu's family, this one belongs to Niu Wang's family..." He recognized them one by one.
The relatives, friends and neighbors that I used to be familiar with have now turned into dry, cold corpses.
"Well, thank you for your hard work." Qu Fufeng wrote down all these names and reported them to Lu Yanshi.
As the weather got warmer, the bodies began to smell strange.
In order to prevent the outbreak of an epidemic, Lu Yanshi notified the county magistrate and asked him to come and burn all the bodies.
He also sent people to track down the families who had abandoned the elderly, ordering them to return to their hometowns and canceling all their benefits on Fuso Island.
[It's no use punishing those people. These old people will never live again. 】
Lu Li thought angrily.
Lu Yanshi felt heavy in his heart.
Why do people abandon "useless old people"? Besides greed, another reason is that they are poor and can no longer afford to support them.
A penny can make a hero fail.
It seems that the plan to promote common prosperity in Daxia must be implemented as soon as possible.
But now several other countries have already established connections with Daxia, and all the money they make is still their own money.
We still have to find those foreigners quickly and make money from them.
Thinking of these major issues concerning people's livelihood, Lu Yanshi's desire to travel and enjoy the scenery was greatly reduced.
He had to go to the next place quickly to see if there were any cases of cheating in the college entrance examination or using backdoors, or if there were any evil habits like the Lianping Village where the elderly were sent to die.
These customs should all be banned.
After resolving this matter, they set off again.
This time, their destination was Sanxiang County.
There are many mountain roads between Zangke County and Sanxiang County.
Lu Li was quite happy at first to see so many mountains and trees, but later she started to feel sleepy after seeing too many. She no longer wanted to get off the bus to play, but instead lay down in the bus and fell asleep.
She was half asleep when she heard the beeping of the melon-eating system.
She was so sleepy that she could hardly open her eyes.
The next second, he saw clearly the melon given by the melon-eating system and shouted out loud.
"Father, there's an assassin!"