Cao Pozi's younger brother is very favored and is the eldest baby of the family, but when he comes out in his life, he is open-mouthed, with dark skin and squinted eyes, in short, he is very ugly.

When Mrs. Cao was young, even she didn't know what it was, but when she grew up, she was domesticated by her parents to be servile, and she took care of her brother's life and daily life, worrying from head to toe.

Her younger brother is in his twenties, and he still wants her to feed the food and pee the shit, which is also sick in that kind of sick place.

She still has some ability, and she worked hard to raise her brother, and until her father died, she still did not starve her brother to death.

Originally, the life of the Cao family was a little weird, and it was ordinary in the village, but no matter how powerful Mrs. Cao was, she was also stumped by one thing.

When her brother grew up, he had to marry and have children.

How could a good girl be willing to marry such a person?

There are many singles in the village, and they are poor, and most of the girls born are drowned, and the men are not born well, and there are many problems.

Nowadays, there are more men and fewer women, and rich and powerful men still marry a bunch of concubines and raise a lot of maids, and it is difficult for ordinary people to marry a daughter-in-law.

Cao Pozi then fell into a big predicament.

She was taught by her parents with a whip since she was a child that she must take care of her younger brother, in fact, who wants to live such a life without freedom? She was raised badly, and her brain went wrong. But it was naturally impossible for her not to resist in her heart.

In her consciousness, waiting for her younger brother to start a family and have a wife, the responsibility of taking care of her younger brother will naturally be transferred to his wife, then she will be liberated, but one day when her brother does not marry a wife, she will always be bound.

As a girl, she is not bad-looking, and it is easy to marry out of the family.

Mrs. Cao knows it in her heart. She wanted to leave the village. Go outside and marry an outside man......

This thought has been thought about for years and years, but one day her brother will not be able to start a family. She couldn't get rid of it for a day.

That's when her father and mother grew up. A spell locked on her. She didn't want to disobey, even thinking about her unhappiness, her whole body was in severe pain. Don't dare to think about it.

Unlike other girls, she is a daring to think and do, racking her brains to come up with an idea.

Isn't it because the girl refuses to marry into their family because the family is poor?

Can she find a way to make the woman feel that her family is not poor, and she will be able to do it soon?

After packing up some of the family's food, Mrs. Cao left the village alone, saying that she wanted to ask her brother for a daughter-in-law to come back.

When a lone woman goes on the road, she will definitely encounter all kinds of dangers, and I don't know if this person's life is hard enough, she didn't encounter any trouble, but she encountered some small messes, and let her avoid it herself.

When she went outside, she went around saying that her village was very rich, and the men could eat white flour buns when they lay down all day, and there were maids to serve Yunyun.

What she said at the beginning couldn't deceive people at all, and people took her as a joke, but Mrs. Cao is a learner and her brain is indeed very smart.

However, in two months, she took on some laundry and other tasks, observed and summarized at the same time, and finally learned to make up lies in a fluctuating voice, and the more she made it up, the more it looked like it.

Finally, for the first time, she successfully abducted an older orphan girl to go back, but unfortunately, she was recognized halfway through, and the woman also ran away.

After that, she changed places, failed several times, and finally succeeded.

Mrs. Cao kidnapped a daughter-in-law for her younger brother.

The objects she chooses are all the maids who are released, third-class prostitutes and women who want to be good, or orphan girls whose families are ruined, anyway, those poor people who are in a hurry to change the status quo, and the one she successfully brought back is a widow who was tortured and stolen away by her in-laws.

No one in the village was unhappy to marry a widow.

Mrs. Cao was very happy, she could finally get rid of the hellish life, but she didn't expect that the widow was not stupid, let alone a weak woman, she didn't look good, she was docile and considerate on the surface, and her brother was stunned, and she turned her head and secretly swept up the little money and food left in her family and fled.

At this moment, it almost made her dizzy.

Mrs. Cao was decadent for two days, and plucked up the courage again, and once again wanted to lie to her brother and daughter-in-law, she ran all the way, tired and hungry, this day in a temple to rest, there happened to be a very beautiful girl came to her to ask for directions, saying that she was going to incense with her mother, but she didn't expect to get separated, and wanted to ask how to go down the mountain.

There was only one person, and there was no man around.

The beautiful girl was also very cautious, and asked for directions to a lone woman named Mrs. Cao.

In an instant, she moved her heart and took her head by surprise, picked up the brick hidden in the burden, and smashed the girl unconscious with one brick.

Mrs. Cao did a lot of farm work, and her strength was not small at all than that of ordinary men, so she was stunned, carried the girl down the mountain, and relied on the little knowledge of medicinal herbs she learned in the village, and made a mess of drugs to pour down.

But it was too difficult for her to bring the girl home alone, and it was a big project to prevent the girl from running away after waking up, and she was afraid of embarrassment after starting again, she gritted her teeth, remembering what she had heard when she was working, a beautiful woman sold to people teeth, or sold directly to Heiqinglou, which was at least worth more than one or two silver.

A tael of silver!

Save more, and she will be able to buy a daughter-in-law for her brother!

Ping'an's desire to buy a daughter-in-law for his younger brother became stronger and stronger, and Mrs. Cao was so angry that she calmed down, dressed up in disguise, pretended to be a gang of bandits, and sold the woman.

She pretended to be quite like, and in order to do business for a long time, they also gave a very high price - two taels, two taels of silver.

The main thing is that the little girl she sells is fourteen or fifteen years old, with fine skin and tender meat, not a peasant girl on an ordinary farm, and it can be worth a lot of money if she is trained well!

Mrs. Cao tasted the sweetness. With once, there is a second time.

But this is a very risky job, Cao Pozi also failed a few times, almost caught, and she is alone, and the women she can get are not good enough, but she seems to have been born to do this business, the better she is, the better she gets, she earns a lot of money, and buys her brother a woman who can be a concubine for a rich and noble family as a daughter-in-law. Also buy a house and land.

"Man's greed knows no bounds."

Hongchen sighed.

Others sighed too.

If this Cao Pozi stops from now on. Although she still committed a great crime, and the crime deserved death, the harm caused was less.

But this kind of thing is endless.

Mrs. Cao's money is easy to come by. She's spending fast. Her brother is even more generous. Eat the best, have meat every day, and wear the best clothes. One daughter-in-law is not enough, it needs more......

The money was quickly spent, and Cao Pozi suddenly thought that her strength alone was limited, so why not recruit someone to do it with her?

Women like her can always find their own kind, and there are many women in their sick village who are in a similar situation to her, and there are so many men, Cao Pozi soon found a partner and began to officially start this dirty business.

It took more than five years for her to pull out a gang of more than 100 people to specialize in this kind of business, and even had a resounding reputation in the underworld.

How unbelievable that an ordinary woman from a poor village could do this!

Cao Pozi relied on the money she earned, pretending to be a rich girl whose parents died, and she also married in the capital, married a son and brother from a scholarly family, and was rich and noble all her life, with both children and daughters, and even grandchildren.

It's just that she still can't stop after all, and the person next to her accidentally discovered her secret, and let her be deceived into the barren mountains and mountains, so that people can kill them, and there are no bones left.

At that time, Mrs. Cao and her husband had been married for ten years and gave birth to a son and a daughter, but in her heart, her husband was nothing!

"My grandson is innocent, he's a good boy!"

Cao Pozi couldn't cry, and barely suppressed her voice, "I'll help you arrest people, do whatever you want, let my grandson go!" ”

She didn't have any feelings for her husband, but she loved her children very much, and when her children died, she began to eat fasting and chant Buddha, and she also took money to send her grandson to a blessed family, and went to the temple every year to donate a large amount of money.

Most of the money she earns is for her grandson to study, or she will buy an industry for her grandson, she doesn't spend much herself, she only buys a dilapidated house, and lives an ordinary life in the capital, and even the already huge kidnapping gang she has at hand gives up, just as an informant or the like, to do some information, or provide trivial things about hiding places.

Hongchen was silent for a long time, glanced at Mrs. Cao, and sneered: "It's really ridiculous, ridiculous!" Do you believe in retribution? ”

Mrs. Cao lowered her head.

If she didn't believe it, she wouldn't even dare to recognize her grandson and give her grandson to others as soon as possible, and if she didn't believe it, she wouldn't spend money every year to pray to God and Buddha, and ask the gods to bless her grandson to be safe and sound.

On the Yamen side, as soon as I found out Cao Pozi, I investigated, this person has been in the past ten years, just the sesame oil money added to the temple and the donation to the Taoist temple, adding up to more than 3,000 taels of silver.

It's hard to say how many merchants who do business or do a lot of business, and whether they can make so much money in ten years.

It's not easy for these kidnappers to get money, it's just a business.

Xiao Yan snuggled in Luo Niang's arms and asked coldly, "What happened to the people you kidnapped?" ”

Mrs. Cao didn't want to say it, but as soon as she saw Hongchen's cold gaze, she became weak. A person like her is harder than a stone when it is hard, but once it collapses, it will no longer be able to organize any line of defense.

"They...... They...... Some are sold, and sometimes the wind is tight, so they will be sold to others together. ”

"At first, as long as the girls were needed, and later the boys were easy to sell, as long as they were convenient, they wanted it." ”

Xiao Yan sneered: "If you can't sell it, you will discount their legs, blind their eyes, and even lock people in urns, and only when they grow up will they break the urn, so that they will pay for you in a deformed manner......"

"No, no, it's not me, it's all someone else."

Cao Pozi hurriedly waved her hand, revealing a look of fear.

Naturally, someone does this kind of thing, but the goods are always in their hands. The risk is big, and the money comes back slowly, she ...... Back then, I was used to making quick money and had little risk.

Xiao Yan's eyes were cold, and the old memories revived little by little.

She also had friends around her back then, a girl who was arrested together, thin and weak, from a farmer's family, not good-looking, but very gentle and kind. Even if it's only half a steamed bun. She also left more than half of it for Xiao Yan to eat, for fear that she would not be able to eat enough and be uncomfortable.

Just because she didn't look good and couldn't sell it, she was picked up and poked in one eye. Chopped off a hand.

It was chopped up in front of their captured children. Blood flowed ...... How could she forget?

Xiao Yan's eyes were red. Yes, the days of darkness go on day by day, and I want to live. You have to learn to forget.

She is the one who is the most reluctant to forget, but also forgets a lot.

Mrs. Cao was so shocked by the bitter hatred in Xiao Yan's eyes that she was sweating profusely.

Xiao Yan lowered his head and stopped looking at her, as if this woman was just a bedbug at her feet, and there was no need to pay attention to it.

Xiaohe didn't speak, carefully looked at the picture drawn by Mrs. Cao on the table, turned over, and went out directly through the window.

The official was startled and whispered: "Don't alarm them, we have too few people, although we may not be able to fight, in the end, it is a trouble, or wait for the people of the government to arrive, it is safer to catch them all." ”

Hongchen smiled: "It's okay, if others see him, maybe they will be ghosts, anyway, there will be no shortage of ghosts in their village!" ”

"Ghost, ghost! Ghosts! ”

Everyone: "......"

"Look...... The yin qi in the village is so heavy, I don't know how many people have died, and it is not uncommon for there to be ghosts. ”

Hongchen sighed.

A group of servants don't see dead people on weekdays, but they can't help but feel creepy at this time, so they quickly stood up and took Cao Pozi out to have a look.

Hongchen and Luo Niang also pretended to be cowardly in a low-key manner and quietly followed.

Widow Liu's third girl ran out at some point, running around, dancing with her hands, her face was blue: "Ghost, ghost, it's none of my business, it's not me who killed you, why don't you go to find someone else, go find someone else, woo woo, crazy woman, you crazy woman, you are originally a madman, you can't find the right person when you die, woo woo woo." ”

"Hmph, shut up."

On the recliner next to him, a villager with a scar on his face was sleeping, which woke Sanya up, sat up suddenly, and picked up the shovel beside him.

Sanya was smashed on the back and fell to the ground, her whole face buried in the grass, whimpering and crying.

The villager sneered: "That crazy woman is an animal in our village, and no one looks down on her, but when she first came, she showed mercy and saved your life, what about you?" You killed her for a man, and now you still say that you didn't hurt her? You look good all day long, why don't you want to save that crazy woman's life! ”

Sanya cried: "I, I ......"

"Tell you, Lao Tzu is a bad person, I said it here, I am a wicked person, evil is in the clear, with whom, I have never pretended to be a good person, I don't look down on you like this, I put a charitable face on weekdays, coax those abducted women to dig out their hearts and lungs, put all their hopes on you, you are good, I will sell them all in a turn, if I am the women who died because of this, I don't hate the people who killed me, and I won't let you go!"

"Ahh

Sanya foamed at the mouth as if she had epilepsy.

Several villagers rolled their eyes: "Daddy Zhao, what are you scaring her for, it's really scary, be careful that Widow Liu is making trouble for you." ”

"I'm going to be afraid of her?"

Hongchen watched this farce from afar, and she didn't know what to say for a while, did she still want to praise - 'Oh, this person is really a villain'?

She was relaxed, but a group of officials felt the gust of wind above their heads for a moment, and they got closer to Hongchen, and asked in a low voice: "County Lord Niangniang, do you see if there is anything unclean in this place?" ”

Mrs. Cao also pricked up her ears in an instant.

Hongchen deliberately straightened his face and let out a long sigh: "When has this place been clean?" I think that as early as decades ago, this place was a sacred place for ghosts, and from beginning to end, there was no place that was not black, and it was all food for ghosts. ”

Mrs. Cao's body softened - sure enough......

She knew that she had such suspicions at the beginning, she settled in the capital, not only for her grandson, but also for herself, and wanted to get a touch of royal dragon energy, so as to suppress those lonely souls and wild ghosts.

The so-called don't do bad things. Don't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door, people like her who have done bad things all her life, the older she gets, the more afraid she is of these!

The atmosphere of the Great Zhou Dynasty was originally to believe in ghosts and gods, and of course they didn't dare to disbelieve it.

Not long after that, Widow Liu came over and dragged her daughter Sanya back, although there was a sixteen or seventeen eldest girl, but this Widow Liu still had charm. Walking is also graceful.

Many men stared at her waist. Widow Liu didn't care, and rolled her eyes: "You slept with the old lady, Sanya is your cheap girl, take good care of me." Don't make a fuss! ”

The surrounding villagers burst into laughter.

Several of the officials frowned. I looked at the red dust. Eager to plug the county lord's ears with their hands, they said that the county lord's mother should not be allowed to come to such a place. If they pollute the ears of the nobles, they will have to be beaten when they go back.

At this point, I had to endure it and sneak back into the house.

As soon as he entered the house, Xiaohe poked in the middle, and there were three girls on the ground.

The official was startled, and hurriedly went over to take a look, and found that they were still breathing, and there was no major problem, so he breathed a sigh of relief.

Xiaohe walked to Hongchen's side and frowned: "I always cry, my ears are uncomfortable, and I knocked them out." ”

"It's to faint, it's too noisy to alarm others, and we are more passive." Hongchen blinked and pulled Xiaohe's arm, "Have you cleaned up the traces?" ”

Xiaohe nodded.

Hongchen smiled: "Okay, you call a few officials, first transport the three of them out secretly and send them to Yucheng County, don't go to the county towns in the east." ”

The county magistrate of Yucheng County is a distant relative of the Xia family, and he has also studied in the Xia family, Hongchen is not very interested in those people above the Xia family, but he trusts the education level of the family and the ethics of the disciples.

The Xia family has been able to inherit for many years, not only because of the smart and capable patriarch, but more importantly, because of a group of loyal talents.

Since he is a member of the Xia family, the county seat under his rule will not be hooked up with those kidnappers, this Shangping Village is located in a remote area, in the mountains and forests, the villagers' news is not well-informed, as long as people go out, they should be safe.

Xiao Heluo hesitated, but still responded.

"I'll bring it myself, I can bring it."

So saying, he grabbed one from under his arm, and with one in his hand, stood up and jumped out of the window, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Hongchen: "......"

Thinking about it immediately, it was up to Xiaohe to go, presumably leaving so quietly, even if it was him, it was a little difficult.

In such a situation in the village, although Mrs. Cao said that the villagers were not kidnappers, they obviously knew about it, and it was not a family that bought a daughter-in-law, and those daughters-in-law could be obedient? It's strange not to run.

In order to prevent the purchased women from escaping, the village had to be heavily guarded.

The group of officials were also very relieved of Xiaohe, and hurriedly said: "County lord Niangniang, this person has been rescued, how about we go back to Beijing quickly?" ”

Hongchen blinked thoughtfully: "Then what about this village?" ”

Several officials were stunned.

Hongchen shook his head: "What can't be done, the villagers don't have anything to buy people, and they don't blame the public, can they all be killed?" At most, a reprimand is enough. ”

If you really want to massacre the villagers, do you want the emperor's reputation?

The crowd was silent.

"At least Mrs. Cao will definitely die, and all the kidnappers will be killed."

When the officials saw this kind of thing, they also saw a lot, and they were a little emotional, and they didn't take it too seriously.

"The county lord wants to open some."

At this moment, there was a burst of laughter outside.

"Ouch, ouch, this is not Hanako, what's the matter, go up the mountain again to pick wild vegetables and mushrooms? It's winter, are there still wild vegetables? ”

Someone in the courtyard lazily shouted, "What's the matter, you miss a woman again?" Bring two pounds of wine, and take them back for the night. ”

"As far as the virtue of Hanako is worth two catties? It's good to give you half a pound. ”

"This old pick, half a catty is half a catty, hurry up and bring it."

Xiao Yan slammed open the window and saw the woman standing stiffly in the dark corner, her eyes breathing fire and sneering.

"Who could have thought of it?"

Hongchen smiled very gently, and said in a low voice: "I can think about it, God has been punishing them for a long time, and sometimes it is worse to live than to die." ”

Several of the officials were chilled.

Mrs. Cao sneered: "Wait a little longer and it will be time to bring food to the cellar, I am afraid that if the three girls escape, they should be discovered." ”

Hongchen nodded: "You go out, I won't stop you if you want to ventilate and report the news, anyway, those bastards don't have the ability to hurt us in the slightest, it's just a pity for your little grandson with fine skin and tender meat." ”

Mrs. Cao bit her lip, and when she saw that she seemed to be smiling, the slightest thought of resistance in her heart was gone, and she left honestly.

Seeing her out, Xiao Yan clenched his fists violently: "This woman is dead in the end, and she also has thoughts, but what about those who were abducted by her?" I'm not reconciled! ”

Hongchen took Xiao Yan's hand: "Since we Xiao Yan want to end all this, we have to let you be willing." ”

She sighed: "I learn all kinds of mystical arts, the first lesson is one thing, be cautious in the use of magic, those who harm others will suffer misfortune, this time, I am saving people, not harming people." (To be continued.) )