Chapter 31 on grievances

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"Old lady, there is one more thing to ask, what kind of guy did you use, hit the village secretary for the second time? That wound wasn't made by your cigarette pouch pot. Yun Ximing began to set the old lady's words.

The old lady glanced at the bookcase in the bedroom, "Young man, do you see the bookcase, there was originally a roll of rice paper next to it, all of which were old paper before liberation, and there was no nature at all, and beating him was cheaper." ”

"And where is this bundle of paper now?" Yun Ximing asked again.

"Look at what you said, do you still have a reason to keep the guy after I beat someone, burned, just like last night's fire, burned." The old lady did not hesitate in the slightest when he said this, obviously this was a set of rhetoric that had been made up for a long time.

"Old lady, you gave this reason well, but there are three points. First, you don't have any old paper before liberation, I looked at the paper on your bookcase, most of them are new paper, but this new paper is also very good, it can be seen that you are still very particular about the paper used for calligraphy, if there is old paper before liberation, you will never leave it until now. Second, not to mention whether it is a strange thing that you went out in the middle of the night to carry a large bundle of paper, even if you did carry a bundle of paper, we only found the grass residue with laughing grass at the scene of the crime, but there was no trace of the rice paper being burned. Thirdly, if you look at your smoking gun, you haven't even disposed of it, so you are not the kind of person who is willing to destroy the evidence, so I probably don't believe you to burn that bundle of paper. Yun Ximing said in an orderly manner, he looked at the old lady, "Old lady, just tell the truth, who is that person?" ”

The old lady didn't speak, just smoked a cigarette hard.

"Okay, master, if you should ask, we're almost done, you don't want to say, we're not from the criminal investigation team, let's go to the police station and take a trip." Yun Ximing made a gesture of please, and the old lady hesitated slightly and stood up. We made a gesture to leave, and suddenly a man came in the yard.

"Wait."

It was a village woman in her forties, dressed very plainly, very thoughtful, especially a pair of eyes, very clear, looking a bit like a girl in her early twenties, not like a village woman over forty years old. Her hair had turned a lot whiter, but it was combed back in a ponytail. Yun Xi and I had a good look, and we actually knew the village woman who came -- the wife of the village secretary!

"I killed people, if you want to arrest me, you can arrest me, and it has nothing to do with my uncle."

"It's none of Xianqing's business, I did it alone, you take me away." The old lady was also anxious, stood up and walked outside.

The wife of the village secretary stopped in front of the old lady, "I killed the person, it has nothing to do with others, the murder weapon you are looking for is here." As she spoke, she threw something on the table with a clatter, and when we looked down, it was a prosthetic leg, and her left trouser leg was empty.

"What's going on?" I asked.

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We helped the old lady and Xianqing to sit down, and Xianqing began to tell us the ins and outs of the whole thing.

The village secretary's wife is called Jia Xianqing, the niece of the old lady, the times have changed, the dynasty has changed, and now the descendants of the Jia family pawnshop are only the old lady and Jia Xianqing. It stands to reason that Jia Xianqing should be the head of the Jia family's generation, and all the Jia family's property should belong to Jia Xianqing, but things never go the way you expect.

Ever since the Jia family took in the craftsmen who had built the tombs and rebuilt the village, things began to get weird. The Jia family, who were married to the descendants of the craftsmen, inexplicably began to die early, and gradually the power of the Jia family was greatly weakened, and on the eve of liberation, the descendants of the Jia family could not control these foreign relatives, and they began to frantically divide the property of the Jia family.

During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, the society was in turmoil and chaos, and many foreign relatives hid in other places with valuable belongings.

More than ten years ago, Jia Xianqing's parents died one after another, and the Jia family was left with these two uncles and nephews, the new village secretary was a two-faced one, in the early years, he came to the village alone, relying on a clever mouth, and successfully married Jia Xianqing, who knew that he was a bad gambler, and owed a lot of debts outside, Jia Xianqing's leg was broken by the debt collector at that time.

Later, the city cracked down hard, and the gang of loan sharks was wiped out, and he became a fish that slipped through the net, because of his meritorious report, he turned into a village secretary. On the one hand, he presented himself as a responsible parent official in the city and town, and on the other hand, he built projects in the village on a large scale to create achievements for himself. That farmhouse has never really made a profit, and this time he took the initiative to build the road in the village to his superiors, because the superiors had expressed their intention to transfer him to the city to work, so he began to play the idea of the old grave of the Jia family. The tomb had been looted of all its valuables, and he thought of archaeology and monuments, and if he could contribute a tomb of research value to the country, his promotion would be a certainty.

He took advantage of the rain to ask a few cronies in the village to help loosen the tomb, causing the appearance of collapse, and the discovery of the entire ancient tomb was reported, which was a play directed and acted by himself. Who would have thought that Captain Chen and they had an accident inside, the country probably wanted to bury the ancient tomb as invalid, in order to further pave the way for himself, he spread the news again, and with the help of migrant workers, let us discover the second tomb.

Yun Ximing and I listened quietly, feeling that our work had always been a conspiracy of the village secretary, and there was a feeling that we had been teased. At the same time, I also feel sorry for the Jia family, a thousand miles of embankment, collapsed in an anthill. The long-term encroachment of these outsiders has finally made the Jia family, a wealthy family, now an empty shell.

"But the old lady doesn't care about that ancestral tomb, does he, why do you want to kill him?" I asked cautiously.

"Because of me." Jia Xianqing stood up, she began to undress expressionlessly, completely ignoring Yun Ximing, who looked embarrassed, she took off her top one by one, only a bra remained, only seeing that her body was full of scars, some new and some old, extremely hideous.

"It's ...... Did he hit it? "I put on a coat for her, and she burst into tears.

"He will never be satisfied, since you brought out a flower pot from the second tomb, he firmly believes that our Jia family still has valuable belongings, he forced me to tell me what good things are in the house, where do I know, he will beat me, he also threatened the uncle, if the uncle does not say, he will beat me to death, and then throw me into the grave. All the people in the village took a lot of benefits from him, and no one cared about our life or death, so my uncle and I lied to him yesterday evening that there were treasures in the remaining two burial chambers, and then we killed him. When Jia Xianqing said this, his eyes were red and full of hatred.

Yun Ximing and I were silent, maybe it was really like what the old lady said, this was the last revenge of the Jia family. Xianqing got dressed, helped the old lady, and the two of them were about to go to the comrades of the task force to turn themselves in, I looked at their backs and suddenly remembered something.

"Wait, old lady, I want to ask you, did you close the stone door in the middle of the tomb when we went down to the tomb?"

The old lady paused for a moment, "The dying man is also kind in his words, girl, I won't tell you, I have long since lost the face to see the ancestors of our Jia family, so neither I nor Xianqing have entered that ancient tomb." ”

The old lady turned around and walked out, Yun Ximing and I were stunned, isn't it the old lady? Who would that be?