Zhang Shan'an, male, 34 years old, good at riding and shooting, originally a native of Yicheng, moved to Baitu Village during the Kaihuang period, participated in the battle of Pingchen, the merit is not obvious, and there is no real position or meritorious award, only 20 acres of land.

In the first year of Yuanshou, he married his wife, his wife Su, and the husband and wife lived in harmony, and in the second year of Yuanshou, his wife, who was pregnant for six months, lost her trace after Zhang Shan'an returned from the county.

spent all his wealth looking for someone, but so far he has found nothing.

This is the information that Pingdong wrote in the booklet, of course, the deeper things were already known from Zhang Tong that day.

Led by Pingdong, avoiding the people in the village, Chen Ping and the two went to Zhang Shan'an's house and knocked on the door.

"Come to Pingdong, you are ......" Hearing the knock on the door, Zhang Shan'an opened the door, recognized Lai Pingdong outside, and then looked at Chen Ping, but his brows were furrowed, and his face was not good, "Chen Jialang of Baitu Village, what are you looking for me?" ”

"There are a lot of people outside, it's inconvenient, can we go in and talk?" Chen Ping glanced at Zhang Shan'an's hand on the door wall, "About your wife and children." ”

At the age of thirty-four, he is in the prime of life, but Zhang Shan'an's face is not good, there are already wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, and when he heard this, his eyes immediately widened: "You know? Where is she now? ”

Chen Ping didn't speak, just looked at Zhang Shan'an, after so many years, Zhang Shanxin may have already guessed, but hearing Chen Ping say this, the first thought that rose in his mind was that his wife and children were still alive.

"Hmph, if you dare to lie to me, I will never spare you." Zhang Shan'an lowered his arm, "Come in." ”

Chen Ping smiled, and the two of them stepped into the door with Lai Pingdong, and closed the door tightly.

There was only one room, and there was no courtyard, but on the rammed earth wall to the north, there was a simple window propped up, and the light came in through the one-foot-wide window, and a few grasses fell on the potholed ground in the middle of the room.

"Can you say it now? Tell me, where my wife is now. Suddenly, with the news of his wife, Zhang Shan'an's deep expectations rose again, and he couldn't wait.

Zhang Shan'an and Su have a very good relationship, Su is beautiful, virtuous, with the 20 acres of land granted, and the silver money obtained in the battle of Pingchen, the husband and wife live very happily in Baitu Village.

After Su became pregnant, Zhang Shanan loved his wife even more, and did not let Su handle all the heavy work at home. After returning from the county that day, I found that Su was missing.

This search is seven years. To live to see people, to die to see corpses, Zhang Shanan is unwilling. But over the years, the family's twenty acres of land have been exchanged for silver, and they have asked someone to find it, and even asked the metropolitan governor to find someone in the county, and let the county lieutenant Bai Zhi help search it.

I can't see it, I can't hear from it, and a living person is missing like that.

"For all these years, you have not been able to find a wife. You have a very close relationship with your wife, so the Su family should not leave you alone and leave home. Chen Ping's voice was low, and he said slowly, "You should know what happened." ”

Zhang Shan'an's expression was stunned, the light in his eyes dimmed, and he stared at Chen Ping: "You said her, she has ......"

"Yes." Chen Ping nodded.

After being silent for a moment, Zhang Shanan covered his face with his hands and kept saying: "I know, I know that she will not leave home, there must be an accident, but ......"

Talking to himself, sad in his heart, Zhang Shan'an suddenly took a few steps forward, grabbed Chen Ping's robe, and looked hideous: "How do you know?" Isn't it you? ”

Stretched out his hand to signal that Pingdong on the side was fine, Chen Ping looked at Zhang Shan'an calmly: "I can understand your feelings, the reason why I came to talk to you is because after listening to you from other people's mouths, I was very shocked and sympathetic, so I found it, the lights went out, I think your wife knows about it, and it is also gratifying to know that you miss her like this." ”

"Who?" Zhang Shan'an had a lot of strength in his hands, and he gritted his teeth.

"You want to know this person." Chen Ping said, "Zhang Tong." ”

"Is that him?" Zhang Shan'an's voice was a little quieter, Zhang Shan'an knew him, "He disappeared a few months ago, how could you get news from him?" ”

Zhang Shan'an had no property in Baitu Village, and lived in Chen Shirun's house in the past, but more than three months ago, he found that Zhang Tong was missing, and Chen Shirun also asked Zhang Shan'an and others to go to the mountains to search.

"He told me before he disappeared." Chen Pingdao.

"You're talking nonsense, that Zhang Tong originally planned to go to that brick kiln, why would he be with you?" Zhang Shan'an used a little more force in his hand, and sneered, "You probably still don't know that your brick kiln is something that people are looking at." It's also a shame that Zhang Shan'an has been missing for a while, otherwise the brick kiln would have been someone else's, how can you have anything to do with the Chen family who came out of Baitu Village. ”

It turned out that there was such a thing, it seemed that Zhang Shan'an was missing, which made Chen Shirun frightened for a while before he thought about restraining himself.

"Think about it, did anything strange happen to your wife the day she disappeared?" Chen Ping said in a low voice, "As for what you said about someone plotting against the brick kiln in my house, Zhang Tong has already told me. ”

"Told you?" Zhang Tong muttered, suddenly thought of a possibility, and looked shocked, "Zhang Shan'an's disappearance has something to do with you?" You bought him? ”

"Sort of." Extorting a confession is not much different from bribery, Chen Ping did not explain, "He told me everything about Chen Shirun, including your wife." ”

"The Grand Duke?" Zhang Shan'an wondered what this had to do with the Metropolitan Governor.

But after a moment of effort, Zhang Shanan seemed to have thought of something, and his face immediately changed.

On the day of his wife Su's disappearance, Zhang Shan'an was at home and was preparing to cook, but the governor of the meeting sent Zhang Cheng, saying that he was going to the county to buy goods and needed Zhang Shan'an to accompany him.

In the past, the Metropolitan Governor would go to the county to buy goods, and it looked like he was half a decade apart, but on that day, Zhang Shan'an remembered very clearly, it was only about five days, and he asked strangely. Zhang Tong said that the wine was used quickly, and he needed to buy some more.

Because he was quite familiar with Zhang Tong, Zhang Shanan didn't think much about it, said to his wife, and went to the county to buy wine.

When he arrived in the county, Zhang Shanan wanted to go straight to the wine shop, but Zhang Tong said that the wine shop he went to in the past was not to taste, so he had to change it.

Looking in the county like this, I changed five wine shops in a row, went for an hour, and finally Zhang Shan'an couldn't help urging to buy wine, and it was the first time I looked for it.

When he came back, Ju Shi made a mistake again, and the ox cart carrying the goods was actually missing.

Later, when Zhang Shan'an returned home, the sun was already setting in the west. The wife of the family is gone, and there is no one in front of the house and behind the house, even the neighbors on weekdays are not seen.

Zhang Tong, who went together, couldn't help but apologize, and even helped search in the mountains. Although he blamed Zhang Tong for wasting time, Zhang Shanan didn't think about it deeply, and only thought it was an accident. Now that Chen Ping mentioned it, Zhang Shanan thought about it carefully, and felt that what happened that day was too strange.

"That's right, it's Chen Shirun. On that day, Zhang Shan'an invited you to buy wine, which was ordered by Chen Shirun, so that you could be sent away, and he would do anything wrong to your wife again. Chen Ping nodded, these are all said by Zhang Tong, as if he saw it with his own eyes, "But my sister-in-law was very fierce, desperately resisted, and finally moved the fetus, one corpse and two lives." ”

"What did you say?!" Hearing this, Zhang Shan'an shouted, extremely sad and indignant, "The Metropolitan Governor will not treat me like this, when I was in peace, I also saved his life, how could he have such an intention for my wife." ”

"What Chen Shirun has done on weekdays, what he has done over the years, and why he went to work and returned to the village, you know better than me." Chen Ping put aside Zhang Shan'an's hand and said coldly, "My wife died at the hands of Chen Shirun, and you are still arguing for him in vain, and my sister-in-law and nephew will probably also complain about you in the Yellow Springs." (To be continued.) )