Chapter 284: Torment
The leader jumped on the stone platform, confronted the villagers, and began to agitate them.
"I seriously suspect now that Yao Ligang's family is harboring the murderer, do you have anyone in the know? If we know the whereabouts of Xiaozhu's mother and daughter and that Ah Gui, we will reward ten gold baht!"
How have the people in the village ever heard of a one-time reward of ten gold baht, what is the concept of ten gold baht? The richest people here only have one or two gold baht.
If you get 10 gold baht, you will immediately become the richest man in the mountain village and live a prosperous life!
Some people's eyes are shining, and they are eager to try.
However, although they were impulsive, they still unconsciously went to see the old village chief at first sight, and without the old village chief's instructions, no one came out to report.
"Why, don't you think you have a lot of money?" the leader pouted and said, "Fifteen gold baht!"
"Wow"
Inevitably, the villagers began to stir up.
But the old village chief just glared at them fiercely, and then they all calmed down. Anyway, Xiaozhu and Xiaozhu's mother, and even Agui are all from their mountain village, and they are indeed unkind to sell their own people for a dozen gold baht.
The leader's face is getting worse and worse, for their Liang family, money is not a problem, the key is to find the murderer, otherwise it will be difficult to explain to the Sima family.
There is also one of the most tricky things, the Spirit King Hong Tianqiu has been assisting the Liang family to find the murderer around Mingcheng, but yesterday there was news from Yancheng that he had rushed back to Yancheng overnight.
Someone from the Sima family was sitting here, and it was okay to say that the murderer was searched, but when they returned to Yancheng, they almost gave an ultimatum to the Liang family.
If this matter drags on, it will become more and more unfavorable to the Liang family.
If one day the Sima family in Yancheng comes again, it is possible that they will turn against the Liang family!
In fact, the Liang family is not to blame for this matter, but compared with the Sima family, the Liang family can't twist their arms and thighs, and they are the weaker side, they take the opportunity to make things difficult for the Liang family, and the Liang family can only pinch their noses and admit it.
Therefore, the withdrawal of the Sima family made the Liang family aware of the existence of a crisis.
The leader looked around the field and gradually lost patience.
"Thirty gold baht!" the leader once again greatly increased the amount of the bounty.
The villagers were in a commotion again, and even more people were hot and ready to move. However, they were still vigilant, and no one came forward.
"Forty gold baht!" the leader then took the initiative to increase the price.
In his opinion, money can buy people's hearts.
The expression on the old village chief's face became more and more helpless, he knew that if the leader added money and offered a reward like this, there would definitely be a big mess, and maybe their mountain village would bring disaster.
"Fifty gold baht!"
When the leader raised the price again, the old village chief trembled suddenly, and his heart was half cold, the villagers were simple and kind, but under the trend of interests, they would also be blinded.
Sure enough, before the old village chief could stop the villagers, a woman in her thirties who was slightly fat broke free from her husband and broke out.
"My lord, I know, I know!"
Her husband had already caught her, because he knew his wife Mo Ruofu, and the two had lived together for one or two decades, and they knew each other, and he knew that his wife had the problem of being greedy and cheap.
But if you don't pay attention, you still let this woman succeed.
"Paralyzed, what do you know, get back for me!" the husband scolded.
"I just know!" The woman stared at her round little eyes, and in the face of her husband's accusation, she said vividly: "Fifty gold baht, enough for us to leave this poor ravine where birds don't, we can go to Mingcheng to buy a house and do business, am I wrong?"
"Slap" The husband unceremoniously slapped the woman's face, and five bright red palm prints immediately appeared on the woman's fat face.
"Woooooooooo......oo You, you dare to hit me!"
"I'm going to beat you to death! Why did you raise you idiot! Go, come back with me!"
"I'm not going back, I've had enough of you here, I'm leaving here for Mingcheng!" the woman said hysterically.
The husband flew up and kicked the woman to the ground, but before he could rush forward before he could do anything, he was blocked by two big men standing next to him, and he reached out and grabbed the husband.
"Take him down!" commanded the leader.
The husband was taken away by two big men, and although the husband was still scolding his daughter-in-law, he couldn't control the woman anymore.
The middle-aged woman was brought to the stone platform.
Although she was quite scared in her heart, the temptation of fifty gold baht made her muster up the courage to point out the situation of Xiaozhu and their secret escape, as well as the escape route.
After speaking, the woman stretched out her fat hand and asked for a reward.
The leader's face sank, and he said coldly: "The money will be given to you sooner or later, but you have to lead the way so that we can catch them!"
"Didn't ......you say that you would give you money when you told the truth? "This woman originally wanted to take the reward and leave directly, but she told the secret, and she also knew that she had no good end, and wanted to leave this place of right and wrong as soon as possible.
However, she thought too simply, how could there be such an easy thing in the world, she is now the target of the leader, and it is impossible to take this step back again.
There is no regret medicine in the world, because you can't buy it at all!
The woman stood on the stage, glanced at the crowd below, and found that the villagers were scolding her and glaring at her viciously.
Although she couldn't hear it clearly, she knew that she was scolding her stinky mother-in-law by looking at her mouth, and it was estimated that even her ancestors were scolded for eighteen generations.
She regretted it.
"How can we not keep our word when we take the money?" The leader waved his hand, and someone under his command came up with a money bag, and showed the money in the money bag in front of everyone, and it turned out to be a gold baht!
Fifty pieces, one is not less!
The middle-aged woman was moved again, gritted her teeth and said, "My lord, I'll take you there!"
......
This woman did see Xiaozhu, Xiaozhu's mother and Jiang Feng leaving the scene, because the three of them walked past her, if there were only Xiaozhu's mother and daughter, it would not be so obvious, Jiang Feng was in a wheelchair, and it occupied a very large area.
In fact, not only did this woman see the three of them secretly leaving, they squeezed out of the crowd, and at least a dozen or twenty people paid attention to them along the way.
However, no one would say that even if the leader of the Liang family offered a temptation of dozens of gold baht, it would be nothing more than dung to them, what kind of thing was money, could it be exchanged for friendship and trust?
People in mountain villages live without money, but they lose the trust of their neighbors, and it is difficult for them to live here.
To be precise, they are a big family that helps each other.
It was only the middle-aged woman who saw the money and wanted to leave the mountain village after getting the reward and go to Mingcheng to live a rich life, so she desperately told the chief.
She made this step, which is to make enemies of the entire mountain village, and if she wants to stay in the mountain village in the future, it will be absolutely impossible!