Chapter 207 Business
While Tang Dafu was sending Tang Caiyun to the county government office, Qin Huiyin and Xia Ruwan handed over their work.
The store had been doing very well in the few days she was away. She looked at the sales and it was pretty close to what she had estimated.
It is a good season to eat hot pot now that it is cold. The reason why she did not open a hot pot restaurant is that she thinks it is more complicated to run a hot pot restaurant, and skewers are easier.
In addition, this is a county town, and the living standards of the people are not as good as those in wealthy cities. If she wants to make food that people all over the world can eat, she has to consider the cost-effectiveness.
After a few days, the business of the store was going more and more smoothly, and the Tang family members began to return to the village to rest every now and then.
The construction of the new house is nearing completion, and they need to go back frequently to discuss the final work with the craftsmen. If there is anything they are not satisfied with, they can make changes in time.
The new house has a kang, so they don't have to worry about freezing during the Chinese New Year next month. In addition, after the new house is built, they will start buying many things.
Fortunately, the Zhang family recently hired two old carpenters, who can free up their hands to make furniture for the Tang family.
When everyone's life was getting better and better, a new incident happened in the village. The servants of the Xia family brought back a body, and that body was none other than Tang Jizu.
As soon as Tang Jizu's body was returned, the old lady of the Tang family went mad. She cursed Li Erniu for driving Liu away and even Liu's son disappeared, which implicated Tang Jizu.
Last time Tang Mingxiu abducted an unmarried girl from the village, Tang Mingxiu and Tang Mingkui were arrested and sentenced to beheading by the county government. As for whether the county government continued to investigate, the people did not know. The follow-up now is that Liu took her son to Tang Mingxiu, but after the incident, they were not seen.
Tang Jizu died, and Mrs. Tang blamed all the mistakes on Li Erniu. Li Erniu sat in front of Tang Jizu's body like a fool, letting Mrs. Tang beat and scold her.
The villagers didn't like this family. They sighed and comforted them, and some of them even helped arrange Tang Jizu's funeral.
“Ahhh…something happened…something happened…”
A villager ran out of Li Erniu's house.
"What's wrong?" asked Qian, who was fetching water.
"The old lady of the Tang family is dead. She was murdered. Li Erniu is missing, and Tang Baoyu is also missing."
Another murder occurred in the village, and the whole village rushed to Li Erniu's house. Before entering the yard, they smelled a strong smell of blood as soon as they arrived at the gate.
The village chief rushed over after hearing the news.
At this time, the village chief's face was as black as the bottom of a pot.
Too many things have happened in the village recently. When he heard that someone had died again, he felt very disappointed. Their village is now ridiculed by people from other villages, who call it a vicious village.
Now that another murder has occurred, I am afraid their reputation will be even worse. Which girl will dare to marry into their village in the future? What about the boys in their village?
"Village Chief, this..."
When the men in the village saw the crime scene, they quickly dispersed the women and children who were about to come in.
The village chief held his breath and went out, and said to the man next to him: "Go and see if there is anything missing from Li Erniu's room."
"Village chief, there's no need to look for it. Li Erniu's clothes are missing. I don't know how Tang Baoyu disappeared, but his clothes are still there."
"I've seen Li Erniu," a woman said. "I saw her walking out of the village and thought she was going back to her parents' home. I called her and she walked even faster."
"Her husband hasn't been buried yet, how could she return to her parents' home at this time? Li Erniu usually keeps quiet, how could she kill someone without saying anything? This is too scary!"
"She had a quarrel with Grandma Tang last night. I didn't hear clearly what they were arguing about."
"We heard it very clearly. Grandma Tang asked Li Erniu to go out and find a job to earn some money, even if she had to sell her body. If she didn't obey, she would sell her to someone else to give birth to a son, saying that her belly was the only thing she had any use for. Li Erniu resisted, saying that her husband was dead and she was a widow, and she wanted to leave this home. The two quarreled more and more fiercely, and then there was a fight and quarrel, and then there was no sound, and we didn't take it seriously. Li Erniu has been beaten by Grandma Tang in recent months, and she never dared to fight back. She fainted during the beating."
“I’m afraid by then the murder has already been committed.”
"You think Tang Baoyu was also killed by Li Erniu?"
"Tang Baoyu is her lifeblood, that shouldn't be the case, right?"
"If it was before, she definitely wouldn't do that. But in the past few months, Tang Baoyu has taken all his anger out on Li Erniu, just like Grandma Tang. Li Erniu gets beaten by him every day. If Li Erniu still treats him as her treasure, she must have gone crazy."
"This matter cannot be spread outside," the village chief issued an order. "You should have heard about the reputation our village has become. If you don't want the girls in the village to be unable to marry and the men to be unable to find wives, these scandals must not be spread."
"What about Li Erniu?"
"She killed someone and is now in a hurry to escape. We don't know where she went, so we can only pretend we don't know. As for the funerals of Grandma Tang and Tang Jizu, the villagers helped to handle them together."
When Qin Huiyin and others came back in the evening, Pang and Zhou came to visit, and the news reached their ears.
Li Taohua frowned and said, "This woman is cruel enough."
"She really ran away, didn't she?" Tang Luwu said worriedly, "She's gone mad now. What if she comes to settle old scores with us?"
"Be careful recently and don't go out alone." Tang Dafu said worriedly, "If she didn't escape but hid nearby, my wife is the most dangerous."
Tang Luwu nodded repeatedly.
"It's better to live a miserable life than to die. If she wanted to die, she wouldn't have endured it for so long. She should be hiding somewhere now, and she will escape from here when the storm is over." Li Taohua said, "But you still have to be careful about everything. She is now in a desperate situation and she can do anything."
In the evening, the village chief held a meeting and brought up the funeral issues of Tang Jizu and Grandma Tang.
Although these two people were very hateful when they were alive, they didn't care about this matter, which made the village chief embarrassed. When a person dies, it's like a light goes out. No matter how much resentment there is, it will turn to ashes. Let's deal with it together!
Li Taohua said that they could pay, but their family would not send anyone.
The village chief understood, and they were not short of people, but money. Li Taohua was willing to pay, which solved their big problem.
On the way back, Qin Huiyin said, "Mom, I thought you wouldn't cooperate."
"The man is dead, and I'm going to fight him, and then offend the villagers. Wouldn't that make me stupid?" Li Taohua said, "I'm selling this honor to the village chief."
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