More and more villagers gathered, having heard that five skeletons had been dug out from the hill behind Xie Erzhu's home. They had all left their farm work behind and ran over to watch the excitement. When they saw the five skeletons neatly laid out on the ground, even though the sun was shining brightly overhead, everyone still felt a chill on the back of their necks.
"How did we dig up so many dead bodies? What happened?"
"Could it be Xie Erzhu who killed him?"
"How could a fool like him kill someone?"
"Humph, a fool still wants a wife, but he locked up a city girl in a cellar and tortured her like a nobody."
The villagers were talking about it and guessing that it was the idiot Xie Erzhu who was responsible. The whole family was tied up. Xie Erzhu was howling with a ferocious look on his face. Erzhu's mother and the lame old man looked very panicked.
"What happened to these five people? Who did it?"
The village chief kicked the lame old man hard and questioned him angrily, "Five lives are lost. Even if he wanted to hide it, he couldn't. It's already difficult to find a wife in their village. After such a big case, who would dare to marry into the village?"
"It's not me, it's Erzhu..."
The lame old man couldn't stand the pain and confessed his stupid son. Erzhu's mother glared at him fiercely and cursed with gnashing teeth: "Which one didn't you sleep? Erzhu didn't sleep as much as you did. You are more slutty than a donkey. You killed them all!"
"What are you talking about, bitch? I slept, but I didn't hurt anyone. Those people were killed by Erzhu. He didn't know the severity of the situation and lost his temper. He killed people with just three punches and two kicks..."
"That's because they don't prohibit it. Tofu is stronger than them. My son died after just a few taps. They are useless."
Erzhu Niang seemed to hate the victims so much that she even scolded them for being incompetent. Not to mention the rescue team, even the villagers got angry when they heard it and blamed her.
"You are the ones who killed my mother? It's you, right?"
Xie Yongzhi suddenly rushed up, grabbed the lame old man by the collar with one hand and held up the pair of red plastic sandals with the other hand. Wen Jing's face became ferocious and her eyes were filled with tears.
"No, who knows where your mother and that wild man ran off to."
The lame old man looked flustered. He turned his head away, not daring to look at Xie Yongzhi, and denied it flatly.
"Didn't Yongzhi's mother run away with a man?"
"This kid is crazy, even rabbits don't eat grass near their burrows!"
The villagers all thought it was unlikely. Even if Xie Erzhu's family was completely bad, they firmly believed that this family would not harm the villagers. Didn't they see that those who were kidnapped were all city dwellers?
"These are my mother's shoes. They were the shoes she wore on the day she disappeared. You killed my mother. Don't think you can get away with it if you don't admit it. These bones can be identified. You can't get away with it!"
Xie Yongzhi raised his red sandals and cried loudly, saying that even though he was very angry and sad, he still tried to calm himself down. He was determined to send this beastly family to jail and avenge his mother.
"Dad, you bought this pair of sandals for Mom when our family went to the market. She liked them very much and wore them every day. Do you remember?"
Xie Yongzhi looked at his father. He was only six years old at the time, but he remembered it all very clearly. His father must have remembered it.
Father Xie stared at the sandals that were no longer bright, and the past came vividly to his mind. His wife stood in front of the sandal stall for a long time, and kept looking back when she left. He took out money to buy the shoes for two dollars. He remembered it very clearly. His wife was very happy and changed into them as soon as she got home. She also said that it was the first time she wore such beautiful shoes.
He will never forget the happy and beautiful smile on his wife's face at that time, but in the past fifteen years, he has deliberately kept these past events behind and doesn't want to recall them again.
Sometimes he thought that it was better for his wife to leave the village. Life in the village was too hard, and he was incompetent and could not give his wife a good life. But he felt sorry for his son. He lost his mother at such a young age. Wouldn’t his wife feel sorry for the child? Father Xie wiped away the tears from his eyes, strode over, picked up the lame old man, and swung his fist at him without saying a word. He had been doing farm work for many years and was much stronger than his son. The lame old man was soon beaten like a rotten worm, and he collapsed on the ground in disgust and begged for mercy.
"Stop hitting me, it was Erzhu who did it, it really wasn't me..."
The villagers were in an uproar and their expressions became angry. They actually ate grass in their own backyard. They were worse than animals!
"Beat this unscrupulous beast to death! Yongzhi is such a good man, but he was ruined by these beasts!"
"You dare to attack a village where people live. Are you still human?"
"I remember now. It was Erzhu's mother who said that Yongzhi's mother ran away with a strange man. She also said that she saw it with her own eyes."
"The thief cried thief, beat them to death, poor Yongzhi's mother, she died unjustly!"
The angry villagers rushed forward and beat up the beasts, and the village chief even took part in the beating himself.
Xie Erzhu's family was beaten beyond recognition. If the village chief hadn't stopped them, they would not have even survived. The three beasts collapsed on the ground, dying, and some villagers spat at them.
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Erzhu's mother and the lame old man confessed the crime. The first victim was Xie Yongzhi's mother. Fifteen years ago, Xie Yongzhi's mother was collecting grass for pigs in the mountains, and Erzhu's mother took Xie Erzhu to collect firewood in the mountains.
"I collected firewood and went to find Erzhu. I saw him holding Yongzhi's mother... He had already done it. Then I knew Erzhu also wanted a wife. I was afraid that Yongzhi's mother would tell others, so I knocked her out, tied her up, and took her home after dark. I locked her in the cellar and made her Erzhu's wife. Unfortunately, she was useless and died within two months."
Erzhu Niang's tone was somewhat complaining. If that woman had been more motivated, she wouldn't have to bother looking for other people. She was so nervous doing these things and couldn't sleep well at night.
"I'm going to kill you!"
Xie Yongzhi pounced on Erzhu Niang and grabbed her neck like a mad beast.
"Yongzhi, let go quickly. It's not worth dying for this beast. You are a college student, let go!"
Everyone was pulling and persuading him, but Xie Yongzhi wouldn't listen, his eyes were wide open. Xie's father punched his son on the back of the neck, and Xie Yongzhi fainted. Erzhu's mother was gasping for breath, her face ashen.
Xie's father was lying on the ground holding his son, looking at Xie Erzhu's family with hatred. After his wife disappeared, he and the villagers went to the mountain to look for her. Erzhu's mother said that she saw his wife running away with a man with her own eyes, and her story was so convincing that rumors were flying all over the village, but he actually believed it and never looked for his wife again.
Whenever he thought about the two months when his wife suffered in the dark cellar of Xie Erzhu's home, Xie's father felt pain in his heart worse than a knife, and he wished he could kill the whole family.
It was getting dark when the police arrived. Five deaths and a kidnapping made it a major case. Xie Erzhu's family was detained for interrogation, and there were still four corpses that needed to be identified.
Xiaoqi returned to Shanghai with her parents. She had many injuries on her body and was seriously traumatized both mentally and physically. It would take a long time for her to get out of the shadow. Fortunately, she still had parents who loved her. Jiang Hanyan believed that she would be able to get over it.