It was getting dark outside, and the house was lit up with lights, and four people were sitting around.

The three of them were frightened by Gui Chongyang's words, "bullying orphans and widows" can understand it, what does "seeking money and killing people" mean?

Mei Shi said in a trembling voice: "Chongyang, what do you mean by this?" ”

Gui Chongyang hurriedly said: "Auntie, don't be afraid, I'll just say that." ”

But Gui Chongyang's appearance seems to be said casually.

Mei Shi looked at Mei Duo, then at Gui Chun, and stopped talking.

Mei Duo's face faded with blood: "You just mentioned my mother, you didn't threaten them, did you really suspect that my mother had an accident?" ”

In rural people, quarrels are common, and lawsuits are rare, not to mention murders, which are all legendary stories. Now the first thought of it happening to my loved ones is unbelievable.

Gui Chongyang was silent for a while, and said, "The matter of my cousin's remarriage is indeed strange. It is common for women to remarry, but it is difficult to give up. Even if it was inconvenient at first, after all these years, I should have thought about asking for the news of Cousin Mei, and it was indeed unusual that there was no news at all. ”

Where are there so many unusual, the reason why it is difficult to contact is not only the long distance, but also the possibility, that is, there is no face to contact. When a widow marries for the second time, the family she can choose and the dowry she can receive are limited, but the number of people that can be bought and sold is different. However, "selling good for cheap" is reasonable to put in ordinary poor people, and it is a scandal in the "scholarly door". A woman who marries for the second time is not as good as a girl, and there is only one place to go if she wants to marry at a high price, and that is a brothel or a secret door.

Mei's family was quite wealthy before, the family's land was rented out, and the young daughter-in-law did not need to go to the ground, and the eighteen- or nine-year-old young woman was the age when she was tender and tender.

Mujia Village is in Tongzhou, only a dozen miles away from the wharf in the town, Gui Chongyang guessed that Mei Duo and her mother were most likely sold to prostitutes on the boat, and if they were sold to the brothel in the town, they would not hide a trace of news.

I'm afraid that Mei's father and son don't know where Mei Duo's mother was taken, which has become a loophole. Mei's father and son can't say it clearly, and the suspicion of "murder for money" is "unclear"; If they take out the "deed" of selling people, then "remarriage" will become a lie, and "selling good for cheap" is enough for their father and son to drink a pot.

Now Gui Chongyang is just making an opportunity to intimidate the Mei family's father and son, waiting for the follow-up; But if you want to deceive Mei's father and son, you have to make Mei and others believe it.

Although it was a little unbearable to scare them like this, in order for Mei Duo to have no future troubles, Gui Chongyang could only hide everyone. Otherwise, the rights of the elders of the folk clan can really decide Mei Duo's future marriage.

Mei Duo has never seen her biological mother since she can remember, and she didn't complain in her heart before, even if she was told by her aunt that her mother was forcibly remarried, she also wondered and complained about why there was no news all these years; Now Gui Chongyang's words are exactly Mei Duo's doubts over the years, so he naturally believes it to be true, and immediately tears rained down: "Mother's ......"

Mei's eyes were red, and there was resentment in them: "They are not people, they occupy all the houses and fields, and they don't give people a way to live...... Killing people to pay for their lives, debts to pay back, I will not spare them......"

Gui Chun was already stupid when he heard it: "Do you really want to go to court?" But there were no witnesses, and there was no physical evidence. ”

Gui Chun is not afraid of the Mei family, but as a small citizen, he is afraid of the government.

"Let's see how they react, if they don't give the money, they can hand it over." Gui Chongyang knocked on the table and said.

As for what does it matter with "human evidence" and "physical evidence", it is to "fight a lawsuit" rather than "win a lawsuit", and to deal with scoundrels like Mei's father and son, it is natural to have more means than them.

If the Mei family was still thirteen years ago, Mei Xiucai did not have Zhong Xiucai, Gui Chongyang's methods might be useless; Since they changed the lintel and became a "scholarly door", the lawsuit was won.

Here Gui Chongyang has made all kinds of preparations, and the gossip about the Mei family over there has spread all over the villages.

What is Kaneko? The people in the village have never seen it, and they have heard of it, that it is a person who has two houses and wants to marry two mothers-in-law. Mei Xiu is the first talent in the village, she is only in her thirties this year, and she is in the prime of life, and everyone who has a daughter in the family is beginning to worry; Even if there is no girl at home, a widowed sister-in-law, cousin or something can pull a line. There was a relationship with the village chief Du before, and no one dared to worry about his son-in-law; Now that he wants to "do both", he can't say that he can be Mei Xiucai's cheap old man.

And the little widow of the Mei family who "remarried", did she really remarry, or was she killed by Mei's father and son? Why hasn't he come out all these years, was it hidden by the father and son? All of a sudden, all sorts of speculations came out.

Mei's father and son didn't know that they had become the protagonists of "gossip", and they were discussing how to deal with Gui Chongyang behind closed doors.

"That little Wang Ba Lamb, with sharp teeth and sharp mouth, I don't know which one to follow? If you can't say it, it's not the Gui family's seed, I don't know where the little mongrel came from. "There are no outsiders, and Mei Tongsheng does not have the virtue of a literati, and his mouth is not dry or clean.

Mei Xiucai frowned and said: "It's just a yellow-mouthed child, after reading a book for a few days, he plays a cautious trick, I don't know if there is anyone behind it." ”

"It's not that a person has come back, if there were adults with him, he would have shown up a long time ago." Mei Tongsheng disagreed.

Smart people are afraid to think too much, Mei Xiucai remembered the dozen or so boxes in the courtyard of the Gui family, shook her head and said, "There must be someone, otherwise how can a small child bring so many things back?" As he spoke, he was a little uneasy: "What does it mean that there are adults following and not showing up?" ”

"It can't be that Gui Yuan's kid is not dead and pretending to be a ghost, right?" Mei Tongsheng guessed.

"It's not Gui Yuan, if Gui Yuan is still here, Gui Er's family won't stop like this!" Mei Xiucai said.

Gui Yuan not only owes a few lives to the village, but also a few lives to the Gui family; If he was still alive, the Gui family would not be so easy to accept Gui Chongyang.

Who was the person who sent Gui Chongyang back?

"It doesn't matter who he is, Mei Duo belongs to the Mei family, I have told Master Hong, hire sixty taels of silver, and tell Duo to fill the house for his son." Mei Tongsheng said: "You can't delay, there is no such shop in this village." ”

Mei Xiucai disagreed: "Why is it his family?" It's not a good reputation. ”

"Ming Media is getting married, what's not to hear? If you really want to marry that girl to a mud leg, can you exchange a few taels of silver for a dowry? Mei Tongsheng crossed his legs and said: "Next year is the year of the township test, and you and Sheng'er will both end up." The emperor moved the capital to Beijing, which is a good thing and a bad thing, and it will be more and more difficult to try in the countryside in the future. Take advantage of these two subjects, and you can still give it a try. ”

Mei Xiucai frowned and said, "But the reputation of the Hong family is also a little ugly. ”

Mr. Hong is a wealthy family in Xiji Town, his family runs a pawnshop, and he also puts usury in private, I don't know if he is too lacking in virtue to get retribution, only one single seedling is a heavenly eunuch, and his mother-in-law is a tigress who does not dare to take concubines openly. In the past few years, I have married two daughters-in-law, one hanged herself the next day after getting married, and the other lasted for half a year, and was beaten to death by my mother-in-law with a big belly. The jokes of the Hong family have spread all over Xiji Town, and now their family wants to marry a "daughter-in-law", but no one dares to marry a daughter.

No wonder he offered a high price of sixty taels of silver to find someone in the countryside, and it turned out to be such a family.

Mei Tongsheng said: "If it weren't for this, how could I be willing to pay so many dowries to marry a country girl." The reputation stinks better, and I don't know how to do it in the future, it's not a bad thing to have such a relative. Master Hong is over half a hundred years old, even if he gives birth to a 'grandson', it will take more than ten years to cultivate, and when the time comes, we will be serious uncles, and we will help each other. ”

The Hong family has a bad reputation, but they can't stand a lot of silver, and they have no cousins in a few lifetimes, and when Mei Duo gives birth to a son and a half daughter, their Mei family has room to speak. I can't say that everyone in the Hong family can change their surname to Mei.

Mei Xiucai thought about it carefully, this relative is indeed a back road, but the Gui family's side is difficult, so she said: "I don't know the bottom line of that little child, it makes people feel uneasy." Now that our family is in a hurry with him, there is really no need, and wait for the Du family. The father-in-law is not big-eyed, and even because his mother-in-law has married the Gui family, he can't allow the Gui family to rise up again......"