Meng San used to be an idle and unproductive gangster, who had been wandering outside for many years, and his face was wider than everyone else in the village.

About half a year ago, Meng San had seen these homeless people killing people and stealing food in the next county, so when he hit the idea of Meng Qingze's family's industries, he immediately thought of asking these homeless people for help.

These homeless people were also distressed by their own poverty, and the two groups of them hit it off, and the homeless people soon decided to do this last vote.

At that time, they never dreamed that it was their "last vote" that made them all usher in death.

Meng Zhen took advantage of the night to go into the house one by one, and cut the throats of the homeless people who were either eating with round stomachs or getting drunk.

It is also thanks to the fact that these displaced people are already preparing to settle down, and they have all chosen their own attractive houses to live alone.

Even if a few people get together, there can only be a maximum of three or five people in a room.

With Meng Hao's skills, they are awake, and Meng Hao can win if there are only three or five, not to mention that they are all asleep at this time, it will be easier for Meng Hao to kill them.

Of the forty-five homeless people who participated in the plan to kill their family for money, except for the three who immediately went to the county seat to find a woman as soon as they got the money, the remaining forty-two people were all wiped by Meng Zhen.

Due to the lack of numbers, Meng Zhen also specially left two homeless people to be tried first and then killed, so as to ensure that none of these homeless people with blood on their hands slipped through the net.

She recorded the appearance, characteristics, height and body shape of the three people who were not present as confessed by the two people, and then took advantage of the night to start the aftermath work.

Fearing that their corpses would decompose and cause an epidemic that would plague other villages around the village, Meng Hao collected some firewood and put it in an abandoned dung pit in the middle of the village that had not been used for a long time.

The dung pit was half a man high, and Meng Hao threw the bodies of the homeless people into the pit, poured lamp oil and wine, and soon the corpses of the forty-two people were burned to bones and black ashes.

Meng Hao didn't stay by all the time, although it was night at this time, and according to common sense, no one should notice whether there was a fire in other villages, but Meng Hao was still very cautious to hide himself first.

She was in the land temple halfway up the mountain, and she stayed up until the sky turned white, and the fire in the village below the mountain was finally completely extinguished.

Meng Zhen turned to leave.

She first found a stream, washed her face and mouth, and washed her bloodstained clothes by the way.

Next, she was going to find the three homeless people who had slipped through the net, and the king's shopkeeper who was in cahoots with the Meng patriarch's family, all of whom were staying in the county seat, and she could not wear bloody clothes into the city to arouse suspicion.

Washing her coat and boots, while waiting for her coat to dry, Meng Zhen wore sheepskin boots with a damp surface and a dry inside, and found a few wild eggs, a few wild melons, and a bag of wild plums in the mountains.

The flesh of the wild melon is delicate, the taste is sweet, the wild plum is green and red on the outside, sweet and sour, Meng Zhen washed it and ate it directly, and the wild eggs were not cooked and eaten because there was no fire fold, so Meng Zhen simply washed and ate it.

The raw wild eggs had a less obvious eggy smell, and after Meng Zhen drank the egg liquid, she hurriedly picked more than a dozen ripe wild cherries and stuffed them into her mouth.

Although this little thing is not hungry, it tastes excellent.

Meng Hao, who hadn't eaten seriously for several days, and had been running back and forth, lurking and killing, had a rare meal in the empty mountains and forests at this time.

By the time the outer layer of her coat and boots had been dried by the mountain wind, Meng Hao had already prepared the things she wanted to take with her—the gold and silver that she had scavenged from the homeless people's houses when carrying the corpses, the bag of melons and plums she had picked up on the mountain, and the dagger and sword she had always carried with her.

Stepping on the barren grass and going down the mountain, Meng Zhen followed the dirt road between the abandoned village and the county seat of Ninghai County, one foot deep and one foot shallow, in the direction of the county seat.

She walked from morning to noon, stopping on the way to bury the gold and silver she had brought with her.

After entering the city, Meng Hao immediately went to a special street in the county that she had never set foot in before.

There are more than a dozen Qinlou Chu Pavilions on this street, and Meng Hao didn't know where the three homeless people went, so he could only stand at the corner of the street, waiting for them to take the lead themselves.

She rented a room in a small inn just in time to see the street, and then began to watch the window for passers-by.

The hard work paid off, and on the morning of her third day at the inn, she finally waited for her target.

Meng Hao went downstairs to settle the bill, followed the three out of the city, and then killed them one by one after they rushed back to the village.

After killing people, Meng Zhen also sent the corpses of these three people to the pit where the corpses were burned, so that they could stay with their accomplices for a long time after they died.

"There's one last one left." Wiping off a drop of blood accidentally splashed on his face, Meng Hao set off overnight and returned to the county seat.

At this time, her body was very tired, but her spirit was very high.

Walking in the dark in the silent night when the moonlight has gradually turned to darkness, Meng Zhen's mind is full of her gentle and elegant but shrewd father, and her mother, who looks dignified and actually naughty.

During the eight years she spent in the Meng family, Meng Qingze and the Wu family treated her like a jewel.

She loves to practice martial arts, so Meng Qingze searched all over Ninghai County and found a martial arts master with real skills for her.

She wanted to learn to do business, but she didn't have the talent for it, but Wu Shi still taught her patiently for several years.

She loves to eat home-made sauerkraut, pickled vegetables, tofu, and pig-killing vegetables, and Wu Shi leads her family to make these foods for her every year.

She doesn't like soft brushes and doesn't like to write traditional characters, so Meng Qingze coaxes her every day, using all kinds of things she wants as "bait" to lead her to read and practice calligraphy every day.

She wanted to learn the piano on a whim, and after studying for two months, she liked the new and hated the old and wanted to learn Go, so Meng Qingze and Wu Shi went to find a Go master for her.

Such warm little things, Meng Hao can recall a lot of them casually.

Not to mention how much effort her father has spent, how much money she has paid, how many people she has compromised, and how many hardships and humiliations she has endured in order to protect her family in the previous troubled times, so that she can grow from a yellow-haired girl to a half-grown girl in peace and joy.

Such a good father and mother are hard to find in the world, she wants to be able to accompany them and guard them all the time, but there are so many people in this world who always want to build their glory and wealth on the blood and lives of others.