When Mu Hibiscus came to the village chief's house, he happened to meet someone who had cooked porridge, and the village chief saw her arrival and quickly gave up his seat, which made Mu Hibiscus seem to have come to his house to eat with a special meal.

She didn't sleep last night, she was hungry for a long time, and since she had reached this point, she couldn't help but be polite, so she drank a bowl of porridge and said to the village chief: "Uncle Li, I have something I want to ask you." ”

Li Zhishun, the village head, said with a smile: "If there is anything you can ask, don't be polite." ”

Mu Hibiscus said: "I want to ask about Feng Niang." ”

Hearing this name, Li Zhishun seemed to be startled, his face turned pale, and he looked at Mu Hibiscus with panicked eyes and said, "You...... What does this do, you ask? ”

Mu Hibiscus asked rhetorically, "Is this woman from your village?" ”

Li Zhishun said: "Yes! ”

Mu Hibiscus said: "Did she die unjustly?" ”

Li Zhishun didn't answer immediately, as if there was something unspeakable, but his expression softened, and he sighed and said, "This matter was originally an inhumane thing in this village, but I don't know how you knew about it?" ”

Hibiscus lied: "I don't believe what she told me in a dream last night, so I came to you to ask you to determine if there is such a thing." ”

Li Zhishun said: "What did she tell you in her dream?" ”

Mu Hibiscus rolled her eyes and said, "I didn't say anything, just said that she died with a grudge, and hoped that I would help her avenge her grievances." ”

Li Zhishun squinted his eyes and pondered for a while, and said: "Since she entrusted her dream to you like this, then she must have been a little wronged, but she ......" and stopped talking.

Hibiscus asked, "But what?" ”

Li Zhishun said mysteriously: "It's just that it's hard to say about this matter." His tone became very quiet, and he looked very cautious, afraid that someone else would hear the conversation between them.

Seeing him like this, Mu Hibiscus became more curious about this hidden story, and wanted to find out the ins and outs.

She said: "The reason for this, please ask Uncle Li to tell me in detail." ”

Li Zhishun paused for a while and said: "I'm afraid this matter has to start from a few years ago, Feng Niang is not from our village, she married to our village." It is said that she is from Yunnan, but it is unknown where she is in Yunnan. That day she came to our village alone, it happened that many people in the village suffered from epidemic diseases, this disease no one can solve, seeing that the whole village is going to suffer from the poisonous hands of this disease, fortunately at this time Feng Niang came to our village, it took a lot of trouble to eradicate our disease, and we learned afterwards that she was a wizard with superb medical skills. We were grateful to her, and she happened to have no permanent home, so we built a house in the village for her to live in. She is a very good person, and she is very tolerant and generous, so she gets along very well with the people in the village, although she is a young woman, she is very personable, and there are any conflicts between the neighbors in the village, as long as she goes to persuade her, everything is resolved, and there will be no objection from both sides. After living in the village for a long time, she inevitably came into contact with some young men who were not yet married, including a young man named Li Mingcheng, and the house you live in now is his ancestral home. ”

Hibiscus was slightly surprised, and couldn't help but let out an "oh".

Li Zhishun took out a pack of tobacco, rolled a cigarette, lit it with firewood, took a puff, and continued: "This young man is also very pitiful, his father was killed by a falling boulder on the mountain when he was ten years old, and his mother left him the next year and ran away with other men. He is very strong, does not cry or make trouble, and lives silently alone. He was only eleven years old at the time, and the people of the village looked at him pitifully and sometimes helped him. When he is in his twenties, he is very grateful, honest and upright, diligent and diligent, and does his duty, since Feng Niang came, I don't know how the two of them get along, Li Mingcheng often gives good things to Feng Niang, so that after a long time, the two will get better. Feng Niang and Li Mingcheng are indeed a good match, and I also went to drink wedding wine on the day they got married, and I saw that the two of them were full of red faces, a group of festives, they were really a natural pair. ”

He took two puffs of cigarette hard, and then continued: "But for some reason, the two of them have been married for several years but have not had a child, some people say that Feng Niang can't give birth, and some people say that they don't want to give birth, and no one can say why." Until a few years ago, Feng Niang went back to her hometown, and this time, she went for almost three months before she came back, and I don't know what she went back for. The couple lived together for almost two more years, until last spring, when his husband died suddenly. ”

Mu Hibiscus exclaimed: "Passed away? How did he die? ”

Li Zhishun shook his head and said, "I don't know." The expression on his face became a little sad, as if he was very sorry for Li Mingcheng's death, he continued: "According to the people in the village who helped him to bury him, they saw Li Mingcheng's body shriveled like a dry corpse, which was particularly scary, and they didn't dare to ask more, so this matter spread in the village, some people said that Li Mingcheng recruited dirty things, and was killed by the unjust soul sucking the essence blood, and some people said that Li Mingcheng had a strange disease, and even Feng Niang couldn't cure it, and some people speculated that Feng Niang actually killed her husband. They said that Feng Niang went back to her parents' house and learned a set of evil arts for practicing witchcraft, so she sucked Li Mingcheng's essence blood dry and used it to sacrifice evil arts. ”

Mu Hibiscus said: "If she wants to use human essence blood to sacrifice evil arts, why doesn't she hurt other people, use other people's essence blood to sacrifice, and harm her own husband?" Besides, the two of them are so affectionate, and the people in the village don't know it. ”

Li Zhishun patted his thigh and said: "Yes, I thought so at the time, Feng Niang is such a good woman, she loves her husband so much, how can she bear to kill her husband." ”

Hibiscus frowned and pondered, "That's strange. ”

Li Zhishun said: "And at that time, some people said that when Feng Niang found his husband's body, it was in a forest in the north outside the village. ”

Mu Hibiscus said movingly: "So, it is very likely that her husband was killed?" ”

Li Zhishun said: "But here is a hundred miles away, there is only our village, Li Mingcheng has a good relationship with the people in the village, who will harm him?" If the murderer is not from the village, then who else will come to harm him? He has no other friends, and he is kind and honest, and he will not offend others! ”

Hibiscus looked confused, which was a hard thing to figure out.

After a long time, she asked the village chief, "How did Feng Niang die later?" ”

Speaking of this, the village chief Li Zhishun's expression became sad again, and he said slowly: "This matter is related to the reputation of the village, and it should not be mentioned to outsiders, but this matter has been thought about so far, and for some reason, it makes me a little uneasy." ”

He paused, and then said: "After Feng Niang's husband died last year, another wizard came to the village, and it was also a woman, about the same age as Feng Niang. As soon as she came here, she told the villagers that Feng Niang was the real murderer of Li Mingcheng, and we didn't believe it at first, but after she showed her origin to the villagers, we believed it. ”

Hibiscus couldn't help but ask, "Who is she?" ”