It's a beautiful day today with bright sunshine, which makes people feel better unconsciously.
Song Yuehua separated out one hang of cured meat and one hang of braised meat and sent them to Grandma Wang's house.
When Granny Wang saw her holding the meat, she said, "You gave me too much!"
According to the way Song Yuehua just divided it, she would have at most 3 jin of meat, but this single hanging of meat weighs more than 3 jin.
Song Yuehua smiled and said, "Let's divide the remaining meat among ourselves. Why bother making so much fuss?"
Granny Wang was stunned for a moment, then she laughed.
At this moment, many people hurriedly ran towards the end of the village.
Song Yuehua was surprised. After handing the meat to Granny Wang, she pulled a young wife from the Su family and asked, "What happened?"
The Su family's wife was a little impatient at first, but when she saw it was Song Yuehua, she replied, "Old Man Li's second daughter-in-law jumped into the pond. All the villagers have gone there, so I'll go take a look too."
As soon as Song Yuehua let go, the Su family's daughter-in-law hurried away.
Old man Li’s second daughter-in-law? Song Yuehua had attended her wedding last year, so why did she jump into the river?
She also ran towards the crowd.
There is a pond on the west side of the village, but because of the accumulation of silt over the years and the lack of drainage, the water in it has become black and smelly.
You can smell a fishy odor when you pass by.
Most villagers don't come here, except for the children who like to catch frogs by the pond.
The body of Li Er's wife was discovered by several children.
The woman had snow-white skin and was wearing a bright red wedding dress. She floated on her back above the black pool, like a red flame that burned out at the last moment.
The pond was dark and smelly, and no one wanted to go in. Only a few men in the village tried to poke the body back to the shore with a bamboo pole.
Someone nearby complained, "Why jump into the big pond in front instead of jumping into this place? Aren't you trying to annoy me?"
The woman at the side scolded, "What nonsense are you talking about? Are the Li family members here?"
The man pointed in a direction with his chin and said, "Look, he's been squatting there for a long time."
Li Laoer looked at the woman in the pond numbly. He couldn't understand why she jumped into the pond when she was living a good life.
Obviously life was pretty good...
When Song Yuehua came over, Zhou Lizheng also arrived and yelled at the man holding the bamboo pole, "Liu Shanpao, try to poke me again, and I'll chop off your hand!"
Liu Shanpao shuddered with fright, and the bamboo pole in his hand fell down. He looked at Zhou Lizheng with a wronged face and said, "Lizheng, I am helping to retrieve the body!"
Zhou Lizheng glared at him, then asked Li Er, "Why don't you get your wife back, and just watch others desecrate her body like this?"
Li Er came to his senses and muttered, "Everyone is dead... Besides, the pool is so dirty..."
Song Yuehua, "..."
"That's your wife!" Zhou Lizheng cursed, "It's not some random cat or dog. Where is old man Li?"
Li Er lowered his head and spoke even more quietly, "Dad, I'm at home..."
Zhou Lizheng sighed, turned around, and prepared to ask his two sons to go down and retrieve the body.
Song Yuehua suddenly shouted, "Whoever goes down and fishes it out, I'll give him 5 taels of silver!"
The crowd suddenly became agitated, and several people were eager to try. At this moment, Li Er suddenly raised his head and asked, "Can I go too?"
"Of course!" Song Yuehua smiled sarcastically.
Liu Shanpao was in front. He suddenly rushed in front of Song Yuehua and asked, "Daya, I'll go too."
Song Yuehua just smiled and said nothing.
At this moment, someone suddenly jumped down. Liu Shanpao spat and jumped down as well.
After much hesitation, Li Er also went into the water.
When the villagers saw this, they all jumped down, fearing that they would be a step late to others.
The dark and dirty pond was like dumplings being poured into it, with everyone jumping in and scrambling to swim to the middle.
Song Yuehua looked on expressionlessly.
At this time, the young wife of the Su family came over and said to Song Yuehua, "Daya, you are kind-hearted. If I could swim, I would go too."
Song Yuehua didn't want to pay attention, but then she remembered something and asked, "What's the name of this woman?"
The young wife of the Su family thought for a moment and said, "Shouldn't we just call her Li Er's wife?"
After the person was fished out, Wang Heidan said to Song Yuehua, "Everyone, please watch, I was the one who fished him out!"
"How come you got it!" Liu Shanpao on the side said unhappily, "If I hadn't held my legs, would you have been able to get it out?"
"Then I'm still holding my head up!"
"The skirt is so heavy, thanks to me!"
Song Yuehua squatted down and looked at the girl's tender face. She seemed to be just sleeping. Her red wedding dress was soaked in black water and became smelly and dirty.
At this moment, someone asked Song Yuehua directly, "Daya, just tell me who this silver belongs to!"
Zhou Lizheng cursed, "What a bunch of crazy people, is money all they care about?"
"Hey, village head, that's not what you say. Song Daya said she would give the money. If she didn't say so, why would we, who have no relatives or friends with her, retrieve her body?" Wang Heidan looked arrogant.
Zhou Ergui also spoke up, "What is the relationship between Daya and the Li family? Why should she give you money?"
Wang Heidan spat the foul water in his mouth and glared at Zhou Ergui with a fierce look, as if he was about to fight with him in the next second.
"Of course I will give the money," Song Yuehua said, "but I really don't know who to give it to, so..."
Song Yuehua took out a silver coin weighing 5 taels, walked up to Li Er, and said to everyone, "I will give this silver to the deceased's relatives, and they will make the final decision."
After putting the silver in Li Er's hands, Song Yuehua left the crowd.
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