"What happened?"
"The sound is coming from the stream. Let's hurry and go see."
A few of the bolder members of the commune, on tenterhooks, went over to investigate.
Before we even reached the stream, we saw two women tumbling and crawling up from the ditch.
"Lian Shun's mom, what's wrong? What's wrong?"
"Yes, it's Aunt Xiao, it's Aunt Xiao."
Summoning his courage, Song Zaizhao took two steps closer to Lian Shun's mother's direction.
By the stream, Aunt Xiao lay on her side in the ditch, her eyes wide open.
What was terrifying was that, like a swallow suffocating, a line of bright red blood flowed from each of her seven orifices.
Ah~
Song Zaizhao let out a scream, her whole body went limp like a noodle, and she knelt on the ground.
The police arrived quickly.
They were taking pictures and examining the corpse.
The conclusion was quickly reached that Xiao Sanying had drowned.
Because there was no sign of her resistance on her body.
It's like someone running into a stream and drowning.
No one in the Xiao family believed this claim.
"Impossible! My mom was perfectly fine, how could she suddenly come here and drown herself?"
"Besides, look at this stream, it's barely ankle-deep, how could such a big person drown?"
Police officers visited the village and learned about the conflicts within the Xiao family from various sources. They quickly turned their suspicions to Shen Chuntao.
But Chen Chuntao spent the whole afternoon weeding with the commune members, and didn't even go to the toilet in the middle of the day.
There is a complete alibi; there was simply no time to commit the crime.
After checking everyone in the vicinity, the police determined that Xiao Sanying went to wash her hands by the stream, accidentally fell in, and fainted.
He just lay there in the river and drowned.
Regardless of the Xiao family's many doubts, the case was thus closed and concluded.
Those who had witnessed Yan Yan's death secretly began to discuss it amongst themselves.
"Have you noticed, Lian Shun's family?"
"Back then, Xiao Sanying and Yan Yan looked exactly alike."
"They both had blood coming from their eyes, nose, and mouth, and even the marks were the same."
"Yes, do you believe that Xiao Sanying went to drown herself?"
"I don't believe it anyway."
"Who knows? Maybe he's getting his comeuppance for doing too many bad things."
"I've heard that Shen Chuntao was only able to get in because her family used tricks to ruin her reputation."
"As a result, they bullied someone from out of town and didn't treat her like a human being at all."
"If it weren't for the brigade leader seeing that Shen Chuntao couldn't even stand up in the field at the beginning of the year, and speaking to Xiao Quangui in front of everyone, telling him to stay at home, she might have been working in the field until she gave birth."
"yes!"
"Do you remember the last time, when Shen Chuntao fell while carrying firewood and had a difficult childbirth?"
"There was blood all over the place, and everyone was urging us to take it to the health center."
"Xiao Sanying just wouldn't agree, afraid of spending money."
"In the end, it was Song Zaizhao who brought the veterinarian Gou Bo, and that saved his life."
“His life is saved. Uncle Gou is still here, and he's already cursing her, saying he doesn't like that she had a girl.”
"I still have to give Uncle Gou two eggs; I'm still angry inside."
"Yan Yan had no milk to drink, so Chun Tao got up by herself and made rice porridge."
"What about Xiao Hu? Doesn't Xiao Hu care?"
"Oh, Xiao Hu, he listens to his mother in everything, how can you control him? He'd believe anything his mother said about how good shit is."
"Now that you mention it, I envy Xiao Sanying. I wonder how she raised herself."
"I want a son like that too."
"Hey, hey, let's not get off topic."
"Go on, go on."
"Get to the point, and stop rambling on."
"The key point is, do you think Yan Yan is unwilling to give up and has come back to find me?"
"Ugh, this is making me cringe."
"Don't talk nonsense like that, or you'll be arrested and locked up if someone hears you."
"If the three of us don't tell anyone, who will know?"
"Hey, let's all go, let's all go. This is impossible, it's giving me the creeps."
The three left one after another, and no one noticed that a bright red cloth shoe was peeking out from behind the big tree.
Although there is widespread propaganda about breaking down feudalism, people in the countryside can still hold funerals and mourning halls when someone dies.
No one would risk their own safety by reporting these things; everyone has elderly relatives at home.
If someone were to report this, not only would the host family be affected, but even his own father would break his legs first.
At this time, cremation was being promoted in the city, wreaths were being displayed, relatives were wearing black armbands, and funerals were being kept simple.
In the countryside, traditional burial is still the norm, and the most basic requirement is to wear mourning clothes and wail.
Shen Chuntao made no attempt to hide the joy in her eyes.
Kneeling in the mourning hall, they shouted more enthusiastically than anyone else.
The crying made Xiao Hu's head buzz.
"Me~ my~ poor~ husband~~"
"Xiao Hu~ um~"
Brigade members: !!!
They had never seen a mother-in-law cry so bitterly for her deceased husband.
Xiao Hu looked even uglier, and rolled up his sleeves as if he was about to hit someone.
Before he could even make a move, Shen Chuntao, who was crying so hard she could barely breathe, started to turn around.
"Damn it~ ugh~"
Xiao Quangui, who was about to scold his daughter-in-law, was speechless and looked disgusted.
The person crying was: My poor, wretched head of the household, Xiao Hu's mother.
That doesn't seem wrong.
Unexpectedly, Shen Chuntao brought him up in the next sentence.
"My poor father-in-law... *spits out sound*"
"That's it... that's all..."
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