Chapter 19 Murder
Lu Qingqing laughed.
It seems that Dad never knew that Mom liked him.
Unfortunately, my mother passed away too early.
"Lu Qingqing! Come out here!"
The familiar clucking of a hen came from outside.
Dingxiang has strong breath control, large lung capacity, and an exceptionally penetrating voice.
It's so annoying to hear.
Lu Qingqing stood up.
Hearing the commotion, Old Man Lu came out of the room again.
Why does this girl always bother you?
Although he didn't get along with Ding Hongshi, it was difficult for Old Man Lu to interfere in matters concerning the children.
Especially for girls, men should not interfere.
"Dad, don't worry about it, I'll go out and take a look."
How could Old Man Lu not be worried? He followed Lu Qingqing out together.
As soon as the door opened, Dingxiang craned her neck and launched into a barrage of questions: "Lu Qingqing, did your brother beat up Ning Xiuwen?"
"Ning Xiuwen got beaten up? Who was so awesome? He deserves a chicken leg as a reward."
"Lu Qingqing!"
Lu Qingqing's words immediately made people furious.
"What's wrong, Scholar's wife? Are you worried about your husband?"
"Who is my husband? Don't talk nonsense!" Dingxiang still knew how to blush, her eyes darting around, afraid of being overheard.
"Oh, I won't call you 'Scholar's Wife,' I'll call you 'Giggle,' 'Ding Chou,' those are the three, you can choose one!"
Dingxiang felt a pain in her chest from anger, and she realized that she couldn't win an argument with Lu Qingqing.
We can't beat them either.
"Lu Qingqing, I know it was your family that did this. You even sent Chen Cuihua to ask for money, just to disrupt Xiuwen's studies and prevent him from passing the imperial examination!"
Lu Qingqing, stop dreaming! Xiuwen's tutor has already said he's guaranteed to pass the exam this time! Your family has offended the scholar and now you've offended my family too, just wait and see what happens!
Chen went to ask for the money, but nothing came of it, which is not right.
Lu Qingqing raised an eyebrow and asked, "You didn't pay off Ning Xiuwen's debts again, did you?"
"Yes! Now you know! His family already owes my family twenty taels of silver. He can only marry me if he passes the imperial examination and becomes a scholar! If you dare to hit him again, I won't be polite to you!"
"Oh dear, let me tell you in good faith, that mother and son are very wicked and greedy. What's twenty taels? Believe me or not, they'll ask you for thirty or fifty taels..."
Just like with her, they started by asking for food, then for a penny, and finally instigated her to borrow money at exorbitant interest rates.
Lu Qingqing kindly reminded Dingxiang, who was about the same age as her.
Ding Hongshi only has this one daughter, so the mother and son might be planning to exploit her for their own gain.
For a moment, Dingxiang's eyes looked unnatural.
This morning, Ning's mother did indeed bring up the matter of borrowing more money again.
Moreover, she said her stomach problems had flared up again these past few days, and she felt uncomfortable whenever she was hungry. She even asked me for a bowl of rice.
It's really annoying.
But when I think about Ning Xiuwen taking the exam soon, and if he really passes and becomes a Xiucai, then it will all be worth it!
"Stop stirring things up, Lu Qingqing. Just stop causing trouble! Otherwise, your whole family can forget about ever seeing my father again!"
LOL.
A half-baked medical skill.
Who cares?
"They're fighting! They're fighting..."
With the "thump-thump" sound of the wooden stick, Granny Liu's hunched figure appeared.
With a rosy complexion, she ran madly eastward with her tiny feet moving at lightning speed.
"They've started fighting! I heard they're fighting over a piece of pork!"
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"Pork?" Old Man Lu exclaimed in surprise, "Your eldest and second brothers are over there!"
Dingxiang seemed to have thought of something, her eyes lit up, and she looked at Lu Qingqing with schadenfreude.
"I bet Lu Yun got into a fight with someone!"
It must be because of you again. He's beaten people a lot in the past.
Tsk tsk, Lu Qingqing, now everyone in the village is saying you're a slut, and he heard it—"
"Slap!" Lu Qingqing slapped him hard across the face.
"Hey, don't hit my face..." Old Man Lu whispered a reminder from behind.
"Lu Qingqing...you hit me again!"
"Who told you to be so shameless as to come up to me like that!"
Lu Qingqing raised her hand again, startling Dingxiang so much that she ran away.
"It's Lu Yun, it must be Lu Yun! I hope he gets his ribs broken and his head smashed! Waaah... Even if your whole family dies of illness, don't come to my house for treatment!"
"Pah! I'd say it was your dad who ruined someone's health and got beaten up! Don't worry! Even if your family dies of illness and stinks, our whole family won't get sick!"
After Lu Qingqing finished scolding, she and her father, still worried, followed her to the east of the village.
"Murder!"
"Murder!"
"Someone's been stabbed to death!"
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A series of sharp howls echoed from afar.
Lu Qingqing and her father were terrified; their hearts were pounding so hard they felt like they were going to jump out of their chests.
“Dad, it couldn’t be my eldest brother or second brother,” Lu Qingqing comforted her father.
"No, that can't be it. Even if the second brother gets into a fight, he knows what he's doing."
But the two of them quickened their pace.
If a fight breaks out, a person can really lose their mind, especially when they're slaughtering a pig and they have a knife in their hand...
Lu Qingqing had never felt so panicked before.
Until they heard the heart-wrenching, desperate pleas.
"Dr. Ding, please, please, save my brother, save my brother! I'll make you pay! I was wrong, I was wrong, I was wrong..."
In the crowd, the girl kowtowed repeatedly, sparing no effort.
The pig's blood flowing on the ground stained her forehead, and with the terrifying black spots, she looked like a lonely ghost crawling out of a swamp.
A young man was forced to kneel to one side, his eyes blank, completely terrified.
On the ground lay a person covered in blood.
He is Lin Zhuang.
Lin Zhuang was not strong at all; on the contrary, he was dark-skinned and thin, and his back was hunched at a young age, a result of the heavy burden of suffering.
Just two days ago, he got into a fight with Lu Yun in a fit of anger.
Today, he lies there, half-dead.
Misfortune struck again, giving him the cruelest sneer.
He was like an ant, utterly powerless to resist.
"The bleeding won't stop; the person will be dead in less than half an hour!"
The man was clearly dying, and Ding Hongshi, having a conscience, decided not to take advantage of the poor siblings.
"It's not that I don't want to treat it, it's just that I really don't have the ability. Don't go to the town either, they can't cure it there. If you go to Shanshitang in the county to find Doctor Pang, there might be some hope, but it's too late!"
The donkey cart jolted along, causing the blood to flow even faster! He bled to death before even reaching the halfway point!
The acupuncture and the medicine applied to Ding Hongshi were ineffective; the knife had gone too deep and there was no hope.
"Brother—" Lin Ye cried out and threw herself onto Lin Zhuang.
Lin Zhuang was speechless, his face was pale, his lips trembled as he looked at his sister, large tears rolling down his cheeks.
His biggest worry was his younger sister.
He's dead, leaving her all alone. How is she supposed to live?
Many of the villagers watching were already wiping away tears.
Several people punched and kicked the young man who was kneeling on the ground.
"You're so foul-mouthed! I'll teach you to spout those insulting nonsense!"
"Alright, you've killed someone. Now you can wait to be beheaded!"
The young man on the ground suddenly awoke and struggled frantically.
He doesn't want to go to jail, he doesn't want to be beheaded, he wants to escape!
But the villagers held him down tightly; there was no way he could escape.
"I was wrong, I was wrong! Lin Zhuang, I didn't mean to stab you, it's just that your blows hurt my ribs so much..."
The incident started because this person used foul language and said some filthy things about Lin Ye.
Lin Zhuang was naturally furious, and the two started fighting, which escalated.
This ultimately led to a tragedy.
Neither of them fared well; one was about to die, and the other was about to be beheaded.
"Get out of the way! Get out of the way now!"
Lu Feng and Lu Yun rushed in carrying a door panel.
Behind him followed the village head and more than a dozen strong young men.
"Lift the person onto the door panel and take turns carrying them to the county town!" the village headman shouted.
"no!"
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