Chapter 7: The Culprit Lies Down

You know, Meng San did something to send his daughter-in-law to the casino to ruin others, at that time he lost money in gambling, but he didn't want to go home to sell his house and land to raise money, in order not to be cut off by the casino, he sent his daughter-in-law out without blinking.

His daughter-in-law stayed in the casino for three months before being sent back to the Meng family, and when she came back, she was full of life, if it wasn't for the reluctance to have children, the Meng patriarch doubted whether his daughter-in-law could continue to live.

And when the horse thieves ransacked their Mengjiazhuang, Meng San also left his parents, wife and children, and Ma Yu'er ran away alone and fled to hide in the crops.

Such a person, if someone said that he would pretend to be a homeless person to arrest Meng Da and Meng Er, and then ask for a ransom from Patriarch Meng, who was an uncle, Patriarch Meng would not be surprised at all.

The reason why Meng San was not regarded as the first suspect was because Patriarch Meng felt that Meng San should not have the ability to arrange everything in such a short period of time.

From the perspective of strength, Patriarch Meng felt that those homeless people were more suspicious.

What he didn't know was that while he was thinking about how to save his son from those homeless people, his younger brother Meng Xitang was already dead in the wilderness.

Meng Hao killed someone, and then quietly retreated into the forest.

After she had been hiding for about a quarter of an hour, the Meng patriarch led more than two dozen young men from the village into the forest.

Meng Hao did not immediately follow the Meng Patriarch, because the Meng Patriarch was very desperate and kept hiding in the middle of the crowd.

Meng Zhen is just a twelve-year-old girl who knows a little about martial arts and knows a little about assassination, and she can't kill people quietly in the crowd.

She wants revenge, but she doesn't want to take her own ride, and she has to go back to the county with all her beards and tails to see her beautiful master and baby brother.

The Meng clansmen, who had been patiently waiting for someone to go into the forest to find people, all returned to the village, and when the patriarch also dragged his tired body back to the house, Meng Hao slipped into the patriarch's house by night.

The Meng patriarch's face turned blue, and the rest of the Meng family had not slept for most of the night, and they all looked listless and extremely anxious.

"Let's go back to sleep first, even mountain bandits won't kill people for no reason these days, boss, they don't see anyone, eight times out of ten. Nine were taken away by people and wanted to threaten our family with their lives. ”

As soon as Patriarch Meng said this, his mother-in-law immediately cried, "Oh, my poor Da Lang and Erlang..."

"What?! Don't think your home is messy enough? Patriarch Meng slapped his palm on the kang table, "If you can't help, just stay honest with me!" ”

As the second person in the family to speak, the Meng patriarch became angry, and everyone in the Meng family suddenly shrank their necks and pretended to be quails.

Patriarch Meng rubbed his eyebrows, "Since they have what they want, then Da Lang and they will be fine for a while, you don't have to worry too much, someone should come to send us news at the latest." ”

None of these women and children in the house understood Patriarch Meng's complicated feelings at this time.

The reason why he and his younger brothers, sons, and nephews chose this time to take action against Meng Qingze's family was to catch up with the situation when the situation was not as chaotic as before, but the officials sent by the new dynasty to take over Ninghai County had not yet arrived and made a windfall.

Their wishful thinking crackled.

At this time, the reactionary forces such as mountain bandits and rogue bandits had been wiped out by the army of the new dynasty, and the remaining bandits and remnants had also taken refuge in the deep mountains and forests.

Only in this way can Patriarch Meng have the confidence to keep the possessions in his hands.

But now it is a special period of chaotic government and vacancies, they find a group of homeless people pretending to be mountain bandits, breaking into Meng Qingze's house to seek money and kill people, as long as they do things carefully enough, and then check and fill in the gaps for possible flaws afterwards, then they will definitely not get into trouble with officials.

By the time the newly appointed county magistrate arrived in Ninghai County, the incident of Meng Qingze's family had already become a thing of the past, and the county magistrate would not spare his hands to help Meng Qingze's family find out the truth and catch the real culprit.

You must know that in the years before the establishment of the new dynasty, there were many cases of burglary and murder in this kind of house, and the county magistrate had cultivated the art of doppelganger, and he had absolutely no way to find out all such cases.

In addition, the government handles cases, and many times adheres to the negative attitude of "the people do not raise the officials and do not hold the officials accountable", so after the Meng patriarch made up his mind to kill the whole family, he acted more and more fearlessly.

However, what made the Meng people grow up depressed was that they saw this blank period, but others were like them, planning to use this blank period to do some shady things that violated the law and discipline and did not see the light.

At this time, the Meng patriarch didn't know that his son's disappearance was actually Meng Hao's handiwork - he didn't even have the slightest suspicion of Meng Hao's sister and brother.

Because Wu Shi has insisted on letting Meng Zhen Jiao for many years. The identity of the young lady is revealed, so the Meng clan people don't know that Meng Hao has actually studied martial arts all year round, and she also has a lot of strength and skills.

Patriarch Meng was preoccupied and drove away the rest of the Meng family, including his mother-in-law, and Patriarch Meng sat alone on the kang and meditated.

He had to think about how he could get his two sons back with minimal losses.

At this time, the Meng patriarch didn't know that his two sons had already paid the price of their lives for their crimes, and he didn't know that he wishfully thought that there was something to delay, so Meng Xitang and Meng San, who didn't go home, had actually returned to the underworld.

Even himself, because he was finally left alone, was soon sent by Meng Hao to Huangquan Road, chasing his son, brother, and nephew.

As for the rest of the Meng family, through two eavesdropping, Meng Hao had already determined that they did not participate in the murder of Meng Qingze's family, so Meng Hao did not kill them to pay for his father's life.

But they seized the property that belonged to her family, and Meng Zhen was bound to get them back one by one in the future.

Taking a nap in the woods outside Mengjiazhuang, Meng Zhen took the booklet she had written based on Meng San's confession and went overnight to the abandoned village where the displaced people had settled.

There were a total of 45 displaced people who murdered their family with Meng San, and all of them lived in another village more than ten miles away from Mengjiazhuang.

There were no more natives in that village, who had either died in famine, war, or had gone elsewhere to find a way to make a living.

After wandering through an unknown number of places, the displaced people who had been trying to survive in groups finally decided to settle down in this village.

They also saw that the new dynasty was about to send officials over, so they planned to wash their hands and find a place where no one knew them to start a new life.

However, after they moved into this village, Meng San approached them to seek "cooperation".