The patriarch was silent for a long time, and finally sighed, "If someone else asks, it's fine, but if the benefactor asks, I don't dare to hide it, this matter is a long story, and it will start from two years ago." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Song Yanzhao's heart couldn't help beating a beat, and he inexplicably remembered the barren villages outside.

The patriarch wiped his face and slowly began to reminisce, "The benefactor sees that our village is quite big now, there are about three surnames, surnamed Zhang, surnamed Li, and surnamed Wang, in fact, we are not originally from the same village. ”

Isn't it from a village? Song Yanzhao raised his eyebrows and looked at the patriarch.

The patriarch smiled bitterly, "The benefactor came from outside, and after entering this mountain, there are several deserted villages on the periphery, so the benefactor must have seen it." ”

Song Yanzhao nodded, the mountain where they are now is not a famous mountain in Jiangning, and almost no one will come on weekdays, if someone does not lead the way this time, it is impossible for him to know that this mountain is actually two-layered, the mountain surrounds the mountain, and the original barren villages were at the foot of the outer mountain, but at the moment he is at the foot of the inner enclosed mountain.

"Those deserted villages are our original residences, and we don't know how many generations have lived where our ancestors have lived, so the ancestral graves were naturally built in the nearby woods. The patriarch explained.

Although Song Yanzhao already had a secret guess in his heart, he couldn't help but be surprised.

"Then why did you move the family here?" Song Yanzhao was silent and asked.

The elderly are the ones who attach the most importance to the concept of family, and no one is willing to relocate unless there is something important.

The old patriarch was silent for a longer time this time, and the third uncle next to him sighed, "Big brother, what else can't you say to your benefactor, since it's already started, let me talk about it." ”

The patriarch nodded silently.

"Speaking of this, it takes longer to go back in time," the third uncle frowned and thought about it, "About four years ago, my second brother came back from outside, his face was full of excitement, saying that he had found a good errand, and he also recognized a good relative, saying that Zhang Wenbo, the commander of Jiangning County, turned out to be a relative of the Zhang family!"

Jiangning County Commander Zhang Wenbo Song Yanzhao's face changed slightly, and he couldn't help but sit up straight.

Unexpectedly, such a village hidden in the mountains was actually related to Zhang Wenbo, the commander of Jiangning County.

The second brother of the patriarch, that is, the second uncle of Yougen, works in Jiangning County on weekdays to subsidize the family, and goes home once every ten days and half a month.

About four years ago, the second uncle came back once and said with great interest that Zhang Wenbo of Jiangning County was a distant relative of their Zhang family, and the old patriarch was startled.

Later, Zhang Wenbo came in person, reported to the family, and the patriarch checked the genealogy and found that it was indeed a distant relative of the Zhang family, so he recognized the clan.

Zhang County ordered the second uncle Yougen to be responsible for sending firewood to the Zhang family, and the money was also very sufficient, and he would arrange people to send a lot of good things to the village during the New Year's holidays, and the people in the village were very grateful to him.

Because of receiving the errand of the Zhang family, the life of the second uncle Yougen's family became better and better, and finally the whole family simply moved to the county.

Later, one day, the second uncle came back and said that he could arrange for the idle little lady and daughter-in-law in the village or nearby villages to work in the city and earn some money to subsidize the family.

The croppers rely on the sky for food all year round, and it is rare to have such a way, and they are all overjoyed, and people from two or three nearby villages have heard this, and they have all come to compete for registration.

In the end, the Zhang family sent a housekeeper, saying that they were going to the rich and noble people to do things, and they wanted to look thoughtful, so they picked and took a dozen little ladies and daughters-in-law away.

In the beginning, those who were taken away to work came back once a month, and the money they brought back was enough, but they were very mysterious about where to work, only saying that the rules were strict, and they were brought in blindfolded when they entered, and they were not allowed to come out casually after entering, and they were only brought out once a month.

Later, there were fewer and fewer people who came back, and occasionally three or five people came back and asked them why the others did not come back, and they all shook their heads and said that they did not know, saying that they were separated from each other to serve in different places.

"The family also went to look for it, and asked the second brother to go to Zhang County's house to inquire, and the Zhang family said that it was to ask, but they didn't inquire for a long time, and then the second brother went, and he couldn't even enter the door of Zhang's house. The third uncle said that the anger on his face became heavier and heavier.

The little lady and daughter-in-law who went out did not return for a long time, and the family was in a hurry, so the second uncle took the family members to the county to ask for someone.

The third uncle said, his body couldn't help but tremble, "A group of more than a dozen people didn't come back for more than half a month, until one day they finally came back, but they said that Zhang Xianling's family was killed by Manmen." ”

The third uncle said with a touch of shock on his face, as if he had returned to a few years ago when he heard that the Zhang family had been destroyed, "Everyone who went came back, but my second brother didn't come back, I went to the city to look for it, and found that the second brother's family was gone." ”

"Didn't the villagers who followed the county seat say what happened?" Song Yanzhao asked with a frown.

The third uncle shook his head, "They went to the county seat, they didn't even go into Zhang's house, and no one answered after shouting at the door for a long time, and then someone climbed over the wall to get in, but found that the Zhang family was killed, and they were locked up as suspects for more than ten days and released, only to find that my second brother was gone." ”

The patriarch, who had been silent, sighed, took over the conversation and said, "Since then, there have always been strangers hanging around our villages, and they are looking for people to test whether we know about the Zhang family's case. ”

The old patriarch was frightened, for fear of being dragged into the case of the Zhang family, and for fear of being implicated for no reason.

"I pondered for a few days, and then discussed with the patriarch surnamed Li and Wang, and then quietly moved here, where I accidentally found it while hunting, and the place was also very hidden, so we settled here. ”

They are just ordinary people, and they are really afraid of the government, and they are even more afraid that the whole family will be involved and lose their lives.

"Then haven't you seen the second uncle's family again?" Song Yanzhao was silent and asked.

The patriarch shook his head, his face full of grief, "The second brother's family is completely gone, I'm afraid that it will be more than lucky." ”

Song Yanzhao didn't speak, and he was really shocked in his heart.

He didn't expect it, he just went to help Mu Jin pick a medicine, and inexplicably met a group of villagers, and by mistake, he found people in the barren village outside, and what he didn't expect was that these villagers were inextricably linked to the bloody case of Zhang Wenbo's family in Jiangning County.

If he guessed correctly, the second uncle with roots should be the old man who sent firewood he searched in the mountains for the past two days.

What is this? There is nowhere to find the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it?

But despite some information, there is a bigger mystery in front of him.

Song Yanzhao frowned, carefully combing through the information he had obtained about the Zhang family's bloody case so far.

Where did the missing little lady and daughter-in-law go in Zhangjia Village? What role did Zhang Wenbo and Uncle Yougen play in it?

Song Yanzhao felt that the Zhang family's bloody case was far from being as simple as he guessed at the beginning!