When Chu Qingruo heard this, he quickly rushed to the Zhong family with people. As soon as I walked to the entrance of the village, I saw from a distance that the sister-in-law of the Zhong family had been surrounded by an angry crowd.

I saw "she" protecting the child with one hand, holding a piece of firewood in the other, and kept waving it to prevent the villagers from getting close to "her" and the crying child.

"Wow wow...... Mother, I'm afraid of ......" three-year-old child, slurred speech, but very well aware of what is happening now, and grabs "her" by the neck.

"Zhong Xiuyu" tightened him into his arms, and comforted him softly with a weird and sharp voice: "Xiaobao, don't be afraid, my mother is here." Then he turned his face, and suddenly changed to a fierce face, and looked at the villagers besieging him viciously, which smelled of killing.

Suddenly, a middle-aged man suddenly attacked him from behind, and an arm-thick stick hit her head, and immediately "her" blood flowed from her head. "Quick, this demon of the Demon God Sect is injured, everyone hurry up and kill him together!"

"Zhong Xiuyu" saw that the people besieging him were eager to surround him, suddenly let out an angry roar, flew up and kicked a person closest to him, and raised his hand to smash "her" on the head with the firewood in his hand, but was stopped by Chu Qingruo's shout, everyone was stunned there, and turned their faces to look at her.

"Stop!" Chu Qingruo waved his hand, Gao Bo immediately led the officers and soldiers of the brigade to control the crowd, and walked in front of "Zhong Xiuyu", she shouted fiercely: "Do you want to continue to pretend to be a ghost like this?" ”

"Zhong Xiuyu" lowered her head, returned to her normal male voice, and said calmly and ashamedly: "My lord, I am aware of everything, and the villain actually has a hard time. ”

When he arrived at the mansion, "Zhong Xiuyu" knelt on the ground and slowly explained the reason for the whole thing to Chu Qingruo.

"My lord, my name is Lou Xiong, I am a merchant, three years ago I came here to do business and contracted a vicious disease, and passed out at the door of Zhong's house. At that time, the sister-in-law of the Zhong family was already a patient herself, but she still took out the last money of the family without hesitation and sent me to the hospital for treatment.

It took me a year to get better. After I got better, I made money and wanted to come back to repay Sister-in-law Zhong, but when I came, she was already sick and dead.

Thinking that she was a chaste martyr who was praised by the village, I could not take care of her children in such a rash manner, for fear of attracting criticism and ruining her reputation. I had to sneak into her house in the middle of the night and try to take the child away.

Who knew that this child kept crying, I was afraid of arousing the suspicion of others, so I kept coaxing him in the house, but at the head of the bed, next to the body of Sister-in-law Zhong, I found a suicide note. ”

As he spoke, he took out a yellowed letter from his arms and handed it to Chu Qingruo.

Chu Qingruo took the letter, and looked at the envelope, which was already slightly yellowed, and the handwriting on it looked like a man's handwriting, thinking that it was the real sister-in-law Zhong who didn't know how to read, so she asked someone to write it down on her behalf very early.

The letter said that if he kept his promise to return for his kindness, he would ask him to take care of her son for himself. Then she also wrote down the child's living habits in the letter, because the child was still young, she was worried that the child would recognize life, so she wrote down some of her own living habits.

"Then why do you pretend to be a man and a woman, and pretend to be Sister-in-law Zhong? And what do you have to do with the Demon God Cult? Why do those villagers call you a demon of the Demon God Cult? After reading the letter, Chu Qingruo asked again.

Lou Xiong scratched his head embarrassedly; "What teaches? The villain has never heard of it, and it can't be a demon of any religion. Adult, I don't want to pretend to be a woman, but the child was crying so much that I was really helpless, so I took out his mother's clothes and let him smell the familiar smell, so I stopped crying.

It's dawn in the blink of an eye, and I don't wait to leave while it's dawn. In the following days, he was always taken by the village chief. I thought it would be okay to have someone take care of this child, and it was time for me to leave.

Who knows, I heard the village chief talking to his wife that day, bring the child back, and then his house will be owned by their family. After the transfer of the house was completed, the child was sold to a family in a foreign country who did not have a son to inherit the incense lamp, and never suffered any trouble. ”

"Is that so?" Chu Qingruo was furious, and his eyes were like knives looking at the village chief behind Lou Xiong.

The village chief shrunk his neck: "Adult Mingjian, the villain is just greedy for a while, and there is no malice!" The family I was looking for for this child was also a gentle and kind person, and I don't believe that adults can inquire about it! As for saying that he is a demon, you don't know, my lord, now everyone is spreading it, saying that the people of the Demon God Sect have unique techniques and methods, and they have vast magical powers and are omnipotent. When we saw that he was weird, we thought that he had cast some kind of witchcraft, so we naturally thought of the demons of the Demon God Sect! ”

Chu Qingruo retracted his eyes and continued to ask Lou Xiong: "Then on the seventh day of the first day, you put on Sister-in-law Zhong's clothes, pretended to borrow the corpse to return the soul, and rightfully lived in the Zhong family to take care of this child?" ”

Lou Xiong lowered his head: "Exactly." If they weren't thieves, how could they believe such a ridiculous thing. So I just pushed the boat down the river, and this care was a whole year. ”

"Daddy! It's your son who blames you! After Lou Dong heard the truth of the whole matter, he squeezed in from the crowd crying, knelt in front of Lou Xiong and sincerely repented.

Lou Xiong stroked his head ashamedly: "Child, I don't blame you. It's my father who is not good, I am sorry for my parents, and I owe you my mother and son. ”

Chu Qingruo smiled: "Now that the truth is revealed, you can be regarded as a righteous act, and you should be praised." ”

Lou Xiong waved his hand again and again, saying that he would not praise it, but only hope that the adult would change the house to the name of the child, and then allow him to raise the child in his hometown.

Chu Qingruo readily agreed, and sighed in his heart, who is careless and repays Sanchunhui? The late Zhong Xiuyu can be regarded as taking great pains for her children.

After the case of "Zhong Xiuyu" was broken, Chu Qingruo embarked on the road of patrolling the heavens on the second day, and the group came all the way to Jinyang Mansion.

Jinyang Mansion is the place where King Jinyang was in that year. After the failure of King Jinyang's rebellion, this place was taken back by the imperial court and became Jinyang Mansion, and the former palace was also changed to Jinyang Mansion. Today's Jinyang Mansion Taishou is Chu Qingruo's old acquaintance, Chen Jingzhi.

Seeing Chu Qingruo's arrival, Chen Jingzhi was overjoyed, and hurriedly invited her into the mansion, ordered someone to prepare wine and food, and invited Li Zhutou to accompany him.

Chu Qingruo was also very happy, she didn't expect Uncle Li to follow Lord Chen to do things, who knew that after Chen Jingzhi's mouth Li Zhutou came, she couldn't help laughing, this Li Zhutou was not Li Zhutou, it turned out to be Ah Mao's second brother, Li Wei.

The old people saw each other very cordially, and when they were pushing the cup and changing the lamp, and reminiscing about the old words and whether they were happy or not, the drum of grievances was suddenly sounded.

When a group of people went up to the hall, they saw an old man in ragged clothes kneeling under the hall, with a little grandson about ten years old. Chu Qingruo was in a trance for a while, as if she had seen the pair of grandchildren who surprised her carriage in Ping'an Town again.

That pair of grandchildren has always been a regret in her heart, if she could be as strong as she is now, then the pair of grandchildren may not have to die.

Chen Jingzhi sat under her hand, and looked at the pair of grandchildren in a daze, knowing that she remembered the old past, so she coughed loudly, interrupting her memories.

Chu Qingruo, who came back to his senses, knocked on the wood: "Who is in the hall, what grievances are there." ”

The old man in the hall looked sad, and arched his hand: "My lord, the villain's name is Yang Zhong, and he is the chief of Huoludun Village. I want to sue Chen Jingzhi, the Taishou of Jinyang Mansion! ”

Everyone in the hall, especially Chu Qingruo, was taken aback. Chen Jingzhi was even more puzzled and puzzled. Li Wei stepped forward and angrily reprimanded: "Bold! How dare you slander the officials of the imperial court? ”

Chu Qingruo knocked on the shocked wood, Li Wei knew that this move was inappropriate, and retreated.

"Old man, could you please tell me more about it?" Chu Qingruo asked.

"Yes, the villain wants to sue Chen Jingzhi for ignoring human life, corrupting the law, letting go of the murderer, and forcing my son to death." Yang Zhong cried with tears in his eyes.

Chen Jingzhi became more and more confused, and looked at Chu Qingruo with a puzzled face: "Old man, you said that I was careless of people's lives and forced your son to death, then you should tell me, whose life I careless, and what is the name of your son?" ”

Yang Zhong hugged his grandson and looked at Chen Jingzhi through gritted teeth: "Lord Chen is really a noble person who forgets things, do you remember the village woman Ma Xiaohua who was hit by a carriage on the streets of Jinyang last year?" ”

Chen Jingzhi was surprised: "Is it her?" ”

Chu Qing thoughtfully: "Lord Chen knows Ma Xiaohua and his person? ”

Chen Jingzhi hurriedly stood up and arched his hand: "Yes, my lord, Ma Xiaohua is the deceased in a case that Xia Guan broke last year. Last year's Lantern Festival, the second son of the richest man in Jinyang drove a horse-drawn carriage on the street after drinking, and injured many people, the most serious of which was Ma Xiaohua, who died of his injuries and died that night. ”

"Oh? How did Lord Chen break it at that time? Chu Qingruo asked.

Chen Jingzhi didn't dare to conceal it: "At that time, we stopped the carriage and immediately arrested the second son, and found that he was delirious and not like drunk, so he asked the doctor to diagnose his pulse, and found that he was poisoned by the mandala flower, so he was delirious." And the same poison was also found on the mad horse that was killed, so the lower officials concluded that the second son was also plotted by someone to cause such a catastrophe. So the second son was acquitted. However, Ma Xiaohua was always killed, but the responsibility for this mistake was unshirkable, and Xiaguan sentenced the second son to compensate Ma Xiaohua with 300 taels of silver, and closed the case. ”

Chu Qingruo listened to it and thought about it, and felt that there was nothing wrong with being reasonable, and he was very fair: "Then why do you say that you are forcing people to die?" ”

Chen Jingzhi smiled bitterly: "Ma Xiaohua's husband, that is, the son of this old man, for some reason, felt that the lower officials had shielded the second son, and insisted that the second son kill people to pay for his life, and came to the government many times to beat the drum and voice the grievances. Xia Guan had no choice but to hit him a few boards and blast him out. Who knew that he would go back that night...... Just ......"

"Killed yourself, didn't you?" Chu Qing was clear.

When Yang Zhong heard this, he hugged his grandson on the side and cried. "My lord, when my son came back that night, he hugged Xiaohua's tablet to borrow wine to kill his sorrows, saying that the world is as black as a crow, and this Lord Chen is also an official and protects each other, and there is no difference between the previous King of Jinyang. The next morning I went to wake him up and found him ...... Hanged himself! Woo woo, my lord, this is not Chen Jingzhi forcing my son to death, what is it? ”