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The next day, the three of them were just sitting together for breakfast, when there was a slamming of the door outside.

Jiang Futing and the father and son of the Cheng family glanced at each other, and Cheng Ming was about to get up to open the door, but saw the door of the house diagonally opposite, and the old woman trembled and went to open the door.

Although the three of them did not go out, they all pricked up their ears.

The door opened with a bang, and several footsteps came, followed by a fierce voice, "Aunt Lin, something has been lost in the village, where are the few outsiders who live in your house?" ”

"Ahem, in~"

"Aunt Lin, I'm sorry to disturb!" A series of footsteps came, and Jiang Futing, who heard such a loud movement, got up and walked out of the courtyard, and saw a young man with a cold and vicious face leading seven or eight villagers to break in from the door.

Jiang Futing and Cheng Da took a look and shouted, they are still acquaintances, isn't this the same Brother Lin last night?

But the baby-faced young man was nowhere to be seen......

Lin Sheng looked at the three of them, looked at the momentum of their bodies, and vaguely felt that the identities of these three people were not simple, turned to the foul mouth on the side of his mouth, and swallowed back, "Cough, who are you?" ”

Cheng Da stepped forward and introduced: "Oh, we used to be in the fur business, but because we lost money year after year, we couldn't continue our business, and we wanted to go back to our hometown, but we recruited robbers halfway, and the money was robbed. ”

As he spoke, he patted Jiang Futing on the shoulder, Jiang Futing understood, put his hand to his lips and coughed a few times, his face turned white, and he was forced to look a little weak.

Cheng Da saw Lin Sheng's eyes rolling on his son, and hurriedly patted his son on the shoulder, and said with a big grin: "This is my son, Ah Ming!" ”

Cheng Ming looked at a few people and nodded, Jiang Futing always looked light, pretending to be a patient and coughing a few times, Cheng Ming was very good at supporting Jiang Futing.

"What were you going to do last night?" Lin Shengdao.

Cheng Da answered with a smile when he heard this, "We were in this house last night and didn't go anywhere." ”

Soon, Jiang Futing found that Lin Sheng's eyes were communicating with Aunt Lin from time to time, the corners of his mouth were slightly hooked, and he didn't speak.

Lin Sheng interrogated a few more words in detail, such as the three of them were together last night? When did you sleep?

Cheng Da and the others answered one by one, looking calm, Lin Sheng asked a few more words, and when he saw that he couldn't ask anything, he left with the villagers unwillingly.

When those people left, Aunt Lin's eyes were lifeless, and her cloudy and somewhat gray eyes glanced at the three of them, and warned: "Don't go out recently!" ”

After speaking, Aunt Lin locked the door and turned around and walked towards her house.

Jiang Futing and the Cheng family's father and son glanced at each other, and they also went back to the house.

The three of them were faintly aware that it seemed that those villagers did not come to the door because they had lost something in the village.

Could it be that they were found out about their visit to the ancestral grave last night?

Jiang Futing and Cheng Da glanced at each other, and each saw a trace of worry in each other's eyes.

Back in the house, the three of them lost their appetite and hurriedly cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks.

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There was no movement for two days, and Jiang Futing and the others thought that the matter was over, but at this moment, there was a knock on the door.

Cheng Ming turned around and went out, and after a while, he brought back a piece of news that the thief had been found, and he was going to be publicly sentenced in front of the ancestral temple at noon today, and asked them to watch the punishment together.

Hearing this, the three fell silent. After a while, Cheng Da couldn't help but ask, "Then shall we go?" ”

Jiang Futing glanced at him, hooked his lips and said, "Go, why don't you go?" ”

He wanted to see what tricks this group of people wanted to play?

Soon, the three of them packed up and went to the ancestral temple in a hurry.

The ancestral temple of Boudoir Village is built at the end of the village, the solemn and magnificent ancestral temple is built in a particularly magnificent manner, the blue bricks and tiles, the dark gate, the roof ridge also has the auspicious beast and the fierce beast at the door, lifelike, carved extremely exquisitely.

In front of the door was a bluestone paved square, and when Jiang Futing and the others arrived, there were already many people in the square.

The Cheng family father and son were slightly surprised. This was the first time they had seen so many villagers in Boudomen Village.

But when the villagers saw them, their faces were not good, and they quickly looked away, or walked away.

Jiang Futing touched his nose, the xenophobia in this village is not ordinarily serious, and it is the first time that it has been disliked by so many people.

Soon no villagers noticed them, however, and at this moment a shirtless man was escorted up.

"Folks, please come and testify today, our boudoir village has gone through a hundred years, the heirs are prosperous, and the people are simple, but now there are such unfilial and unrighteous people, today, I will deal with him with the family rules of the Lin family!"

"Good, good!"

The person standing on the steps of the ancestral temple and talking, sixty or seventy years old, with a long white beard and a wrinkled face, but he looked red and in good spirits.

As soon as he said this, the people around him waved their arms and cheered vigorously.

Jiang Futing listened to a few words casually, and only then did he know that this person was the village chief of the village.

It wasn't long before the shirtless man was brought to his knees, and a familiar figure in the crowd came out with a whip.

It's Lin Sheng!

"Hmm, hmm!" The man was gagged with a cloth and his arm was rigidly restrained by two villagers, and he struggled to get to his feet, when a fierce whip fell.

The man staggered forward, only to see a blood stain on his back, red and swollen at a speed visible to the naked eye, and a vague scream came out of his mouth, "Ah! ”

After several lashes, the man couldn't get up, and his back was full of bloodstains, dripping with blood, and he looked terrible.

"Ahh At this moment, a scream louder than the man's scream sounded, and a woman rushed into the crowd and wanted to run to the man's side, but was immediately restrained, "Village... Chief, please spare him! ”

The woman quickly knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing, shouting words begging for mercy.

"He Niangzi, it's not that we don't spare him, it's that he stole something, and whoever steals something will be punished with twenty lashes, this is the ancestral family law!" The village chief's face was dark.

"Ah Hu, he didn't steal, please spare him!" The woman pleaded bitterly and wept in despair.

None of the surrounding villagers stepped forward to intercede, and they watched indifferently until the execution was over, and the man was beaten and fainted.

The woman was let go and threw herself in front of the man, crying in grief, and the villagers scattered around her.

Jiang Futing and the others clearly saw that the beaten man had a gray face and fainted, and the back injury was even more miserable.

The village chief left with the people, and the villagers all dispersed, but no one was willing to come forward to help.

The woman looked sad and tried to help the man up, but she couldn't help at all, and cried in despair for a while.

Jiang Futing and the three of them glanced at each other, walked over, and Cheng Da asked, "Do you need help?" ”

The woman seemed to be taken aback, and then came back to her senses, kowtowed busily, and said tremblingly: "To~"

The father and son of the Cheng family helped the man up, and when Jiang Futing also helped, he pressed the man's pulse and found that the man was dying.

He didn't speak, and his fingers used some divine power to save the man's life.

The woman's house was on the west side of the village, a small yard, and it didn't look wealthy.

They helped the man into the house and put him in bed, and now the most important problem was to stop the bleeding and swelling of the man.

Although Jiang Futing has saved his life, if he wants to get better, he must take medicine.

Asked the woman, the woman shook her head, there were no herbs. Fortunately, when Jiang Futing was wandering around the village, he found a few things and asked Cheng Ming to pick them.

Cheng Ming nodded when he heard this, and hurried away.

The woman poured water for the two of them, and then hurriedly got a cloth towel to wipe the face of the man on the bed.

Jiang Futing and Cheng Da glanced at each other, and when they first came in, they also noticed that although the courtyard was not big, it was clean, and the house was also neat.

Look at how much Mrs. He cared about her husband, and when they came in, they saw the meat hanging on the eaves......

Jiang Futing and Cheng Da were suspicious, although the He family was a small family, but looking at the neatness of the courtyard and the virtuous woman, how could her husband still steal things?

Before the two of them could think about it, Cheng Ming brought back the herbs, and after a simple treatment, they were all applied to the man's wounds.

After a while, the woman saw that the man's breath gradually stabilized, so she breathed a sigh of relief, touched her face, and knelt down for Jiang Futing and the three of them with a plop, and choked up: "Xie... Thank you, really thank you~"

Cheng Da hurriedly helped the woman up and comforted: "We didn't do anything, you get up quickly~"

The woman thanked her for a while, and after Jiang Futing and the three of them settled down, they got up to leave.

The woman sent the three of them to the door, there were still tears on her pale face, she looked hesitant, sent the three of them out of the door, and suddenly said with a firm gaze: "You... You're all good people! If you want to live, get out of here! ”

After the woman finished speaking, regardless of the reaction of the three people, she hurriedly closed the door.

Jiang Futing and the Cheng family's father and son were stunned, and wanted to ask again, but saw that the door had been bolted.

Cheng Da looked at Jiang Futing in surprise, and saw Jiang Futing shake his head, and said in a low voice: "Go back and talk about it~"

The three of them said no more, turned around and left.

When I returned to Mrs. Lin's house, I saw Mrs. Lin's face staring at the three of them indifferently for a moment, and saw that the Cheng family's father and son had goosebumps, and finally let them in.

Back in the house, Cheng Da watched Aunt Lin go back to the house, only then rubbed the goosebumps all over his body, and said in a low voice: "What's the matter with these people?" Why don't you say something mysterious one by one, but even say something inexplicable~"

Jiang Futing was silent and didn't speak, but Cheng Ming said: "I think he was wronged~"

"What do you think? What do you think? Cheng Da glared at Cheng Ming with his glasses.

Cheng Ming closed his mouth and stopped talking.

Jiang Futing spoke, "This matter really needs to be investigated, see if you can find out some news~"

When his voice fell, he saw Cheng Da frowning, and said: "Most of the people in this village are surnamed Lin, and it must not be easy to get news from their mouths~"

When Jiang Futing heard this, he pondered for a moment and said, "I also noticed, why don't you inquire from He Niangzi~"

When the Cheng family father and son heard this, they nodded and agreed.

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However, the next day, something happened again in the village, and someone died.

Jiang Futing and the Cheng family's father and son originally wanted to go and see, but they were blocked by Aunt Lin, her cloudy eyes stared at the three of them, "You can't go out, otherwise you will leave the village today!" ”

Her tone was firm, and Cheng Da said good things, and she didn't let go at all.

The three of them reluctantly went back to the house, but after a while, someone knocked on the door.

Aunt Lin went to open the door, and she didn't know what she said, and several people almost quarreled.