Chapter 37: The Rhythm of Blame
The place where the old man Qingmi and Ji Xiaoyan were 'caught' by the villagers was indeed not too far from the nearby village, which was very much in line with the situation that 'there were people nearby' predicted by the villagers! Therefore, the village chief of that village rushed to the scene with several villagers in a very fast time.
Then, the old man Qingmi and Ji Xiaoyan saw that the villagers who had been staying where they had been staying to 'monitor' them, and they were afraid that they would flee rushed to the front of the village chief, and they were a little angry and 'accused' the old man Qingmi of their bad behavior of wanting to destroy the corpse after killing people
The old man looked coldly at the villagers and pointed at them and said to the village elder for a long time, and then he asked in a loud voice to the village elder who was obviously looking at them with different eyes than when they first came: "I said, have you finished speaking?
'You say we're ignoring the facts?' As soon as one of the villagers heard the old man's words, he immediately retorted unhappily: 'Where have we disregarded the facts? Who else is there here besides you? Who killed that person was not killed by you? Can you still say that he fell from the cliff and fell to his death? Or did he encounter some monster and was killed? See for yourselves what kind of place this is?'
The villager looked at the old man with a mocking expression and continued, "The landscape here is flat, and if you want to talk about the cliffs, you have to walk a long way to the east to reach our part of the area where monsters or beasts are concerned, but I have never seen a beast that can hurt people like this."
"So this is the reason why this man died here?" the old man tugged at the corners of his mouth, admiring the villager's imagination a little!
'That's the case!' said the villager, looking at the old man with a look of course. Then he turned to their village chief and asked, 'What do you think, village chief?'
"Well, what you said naturally has some truth!" The village elder silently praised his villagers without hesitation, and then seriously looked at the old man Qingmi and Ji Xiaoyan and their party, and asked lightly: "Do you foreigners have anything else you want to say? As the village chief, the old man naturally needs to solve the matter satisfactorily, and since you have some complaints, the village chief will give you a little time to explain! However, if the matter is not clear, you should not blame us for dealing with you according to the village rules. This murder needs to be paid for, and you don't think that this matter can be uncovered lightly."
"I said, do the people in your village have this habit of accusing people of messing with each other when they catch something?" As soon as the old man heard the words of the village elder, he immediately said with some annoyance, "Lao Tzu has said it many times! You TMD have not seen the process of our murder, how can it be said that we killed someone? Lao Tzu has finally done something good for so many years, and when he meets a guy in the wilderness of a violent corpse, he is going to collect a corpse for him and bury it properly, so he will become a murderer in your mouth?" Look at you like this. Now I wonder if that person is the bait that you have left here to trap people."
'What do you mean by that?' the village elder heard the old man's words. He immediately frowned. Looking at him, he was very unhappy and said, "Are you saying that our village deliberately killed people and put them here just to wronged you?"
'Isn't that the case now?' said the old man who looked at the village chief with disdain, 'Have you taken a closer look at the cause of that man's death?' Have you taken a closer look at the signs of a fight around you? How can a man with no long body deserve a group of us strangers to come all the way to kill him, what kind of big man is he, and it is worth our so much trouble?'
The village elder listened to the words of the old man. Then he seemed to react, then turned his head to look at his villagers and asked, 'Have you checked it?'
The villagers collectively shook their heads, and then said: 'People are in their hands, and we watched them prepare to bury the corpses, so we quickly informed the village elder of the specific situation, we haven't looked at it carefully'
When the village elder heard this, his face instantly became a little unpleasant! Why are these villagers of his own family so unreliable? Under such circumstances, how can they take a closer look at the situation and then sue him, the village chief! Look at the current situation, how embarrassing!
'Ahem' The village elder cleared his throat with an embarrassed expression, and then said, "Since you haven't checked it carefully, why don't you go over and take a look!?" After speaking, the village chief directly pushed a villager closest to him, and then said to the old man Qingmi: "You stay where honestly and don't move, what is the truth, we haven't said what you say after we have checked it."
"That's naturally going to be made clear!" The old man clasped his hands on his chest, looked at the village elder and said, "Otherwise, if anyone throws a corpse out and says that we are murderers, then we will not live in the future?"
When the village elder heard this, he didn't answer, but just turned his eyes to the villager who went to check the body.
After half a salary, the villager had the results of the inspection, and quickly ran back to the village chief.
The village elder tried to lift his chin to make himself look more confident, and after glancing at the old man Qingmi, he looked at the villager who had not replied, and asked impatiently, 'What's the matter?' Why didn't you speak?
The villager's face was a little unpleasant, and he took a closer look at the village chief and said, 'The situation doesn't seem to be good.'
When the village chief heard this, he immediately chuckled in his heart, and then instantly had some scores! It seems that the current situation is indeed different from what they have just accused others, so his own villagers will say this and prepare themselves for it.
The village elder secretly glanced at the old man Qingmi and Ji Xiaoyan, and after being prepared, he continued to say to the villager in his own house: "What should be is what it is, we must respect the facts."
The villager nodded, then straightened up and said to the village chief, 'That man's wounds look like he fell off a cliff, and then he died because of his injuries, and he didn't have anything to eat or drink in time.'
"Then you mean, a few outsiders over there are not murderers?" The village elder frowned, looked at his own villager and asked, and after seeing him nod, he took a deep breath, pulled a smile and said, "So, this time it is really wrong in our village, and we have accidentally wronged others."
The villager nodded, and didn't answer for a while!
If the man was not killed, but was wounded and hung up, then what the villagers saw now was indeed what the outsiders said, that they were doing good deeds
That is to say, they failed to catch the bad guys, wronged the good guys, and invisibly smeared a handful of black in their own village?
When the village chief thought of this, he was in a bad mood!
'What's going on?' The old man looked a little bit like a villain, and he looked at the village elder and asked, "This is all clear, right? Are we still murderers? Are we still destroying corpses?"
The village elder glanced at the old man Qingmi with some bitterness on the corner of his mouth, and then he laughed a few times, and said to the old man Qingmi in a sincere voice: "The matter is clear! The matter is indeed not what our villagers see, and several of them are doing good deeds" Speaking of this, the village chief suddenly thought of something, looked at the villager who had gone to check the corpse in his own house and asked, "By the way, do you see who the person is? Which family is from the village? Hurry up and let his family come over"
"Village Chief, I don't know!" The villager shook his head when he heard the village chief's words, and then said with some confusion: "The nearest village to our village is also going to walk for two or three days, and this man doesn't seem to be from our village."
'Not from our village?' the village chief was a little surprised when he heard this, 'why did someone from our village die near our village?
'Village Chief, I have been to see the place where the strangers said, and there is no trace of crawling where the man died,' the villager thought for a moment and said matter-of-factly, 'I see who may have put that man out of our village'
As soon as these words came out, the village chief's face changed in an instant! A man who was not from their village was inexplicably abandoned outside their village after he died, and then he was discovered by a group of strangers
'Hehe, how does this sound like the village chief, the trouble in your village is not too small?' When the old man Qingmi heard the words of the villager, he immediately gloated and said, "If this person is not a villager of your village, and he dies outside your village, how can he look like he is going to set up a blame?"