"Why? Because she looked down on me, in her eyes, I was not even as good as Zhang Cheng's wretched cousin. Zhang Xi suddenly had an angry expression on his face.

"After Shen Mingyue hit the offering table, I didn't have any other thoughts, and after looking at her a few times, I left the ancestral hall and went home. I watched that person open the door of the ancestral hall and lead Shen Mingyue in, and I know even what she said to Shen Mingyue. She said that she hoped that Shen Mingyue would be able to make sacrifices for the Zhang family.

Sacrifice, take a girl's innocence to sacrifice for the Zhang family, how can this Zhang family be? Who is Zhang Cheng, who is his father and mother, and are they worth it? They don't deserve it.

What made me even more annoyed was that she knew how my leg injury came about, but she could still help Zhang Cheng as if nothing had happened. What does she mean? ”

Xing Ruyi watched Zhang Xi's expression get more and more out of control, and he actually had some bad associations. Isn't there a relationship between this Zhang Xi and the ancestor of the Zhang family that cannot be known by outsiders?

"I went straight to the man's room in the backyard, there was only one light in the room, and she was sitting at the dresser and lighting rouge." Zhang Xi said, and let out some sneers.

"What's wrong with Rouge? What are you laughing at? Do you think the act of ordering rouge is ridiculous, or do you think that you don't need rouge when you are old? ”

Zhang Xi did not answer Xing Ruyi's question, but snorted coldly again and continued: "She saw me coming, but she never looked back, and still pointed her rouge in the mirror. I asked her, who are you going to meet, is it Zhang Youfu? She said I couldn't do anything. I laughed at her pitiful, just because Zhang Youfu said a joking thing to her back then, she had been waiting for so many years. What about Zhang Youfu? He had a wife and children, and when he saw her, he ran away. What do you think she's trying to do? ”

Zhang Xi continued to sneer: "I asked her again, why do you want to help Zhang Cheng?" She glanced at me through the bronze mirror. I was angry and asked her again, I didn't have a wife, why did she let Zhang Cheng's cowardly cousin go to Shen Mingyue to do good things with Shen Mingyue, and didn't consider me. She scolded me, scolded me for being a brute, and shouldn't think about such dirty things. Ridiculous, right? They don't feel dirty when they do things themselves, but they call me a brute and dislike me for being dirty. I looked at her and suddenly wanted her to die. I thought to myself, and so did my hand. Her neck was more slender and softer than I had imagined. It didn't seem to take much effort for me to strangle her to death. ”

"Why did you move her to the ancestral hall when she was strangled?"

"Why? yes, why? Zhang Xi looked up at the roof: "I don't know why." After she died, I sat there and watched her for a while, and all that came back to my mind was when she took me by the hand and led me back to the yard. Although she hated me, she didn't bully me like the rest of the village did. She wouldn't ask me to do heavy lifting, she just wouldn't let me be idle. Oh, by the way, she also sent me to private school, and even found me a master, wanting me to learn a trade. I knew in my heart that she was doing this for my good. But when I was young, I didn't think so, I thought she was trying to kick me out, so I didn't learn this, I didn't do that, and now, I regret it a little. ”

"You actually love her a little bit in your heart, don't you?" Xing Ruyi abruptly used the word "love".

"Love?" Zhang Xi was stunned for a moment, and there was light in his eyes, and there was a light in his eyes: "What is love?" If you ask me how I felt when she took care of me when I was sick, I would probably admit that I loved her. But whether I think of her as a mother or something else, I don't know. I thought about it, and I asked myself, but I didn't think about it, and I didn't ask it clearly. Now that she's dead, I'm going to die too, so I don't have to worry about it anymore. Oh, by the way, you just asked me why I moved her to the ancestral hall, right? Because I want you to find out, because I find out that after she's dead, I continue to live, and it doesn't seem to be interesting anymore. Murder pays for life, I understand this, and I am willing to pay for my life. ”

The ancestral hall murder case in Nanwang Village was so inexplicably solved. The murderer, Zhang Xi, was brought back to Yamen, and after a public trial, the verdict will be announced. Kill two people in a row, and the best result is to be beheaded.

The murder case is over, but the peace of Nanwang Village has disappeared. The day after Zhang Xi was taken away, a mysterious team of soldiers entered Nanwang Village. They stayed in the village for seven or eight days, and when they left, they took Zhang Youfu, Zhang Cheng and others with them, and those people, since they left, never returned.

Leave Nanwang Village and return to the second night of Ruyi Rouge Shop. Xing Ruyi, who was just about to fall asleep, heard a knock on the door. The knock on the door was faint, as if it was tapping lightly with a hand. She pulled the door open from the inside, confused, only to be scared to death by the man standing outside the door. If the fox hadn't happened to change into a human form and wrapped around her waist from behind, she wouldn't have been scared to death, and would have screamed in fright on the spot.

The person standing outside the door was none other than Shen Mingyue, who died in the Zhang family ancestral hall before.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you." Shen Mingyue took two steps back, and looked at Xing Ruyi with some guilt: "I just have some unfulfilled wishes, and I want to ask the girl to help me." ”

"Help? How do you know I can help you? ”

"It was the ghost brother who came to take me away who told me." Shen Mingyue whispered: "My case is over, and the grievances are all over the place, except for this incident, I have nothing to be nostalgic for in the world." The eldest brother of the ghost sent knew that my wish was not fulfilled, so he showed me the way and asked me to come here to find you Ruyi girl, saying that the girl could help me. ”

Since it is a ghost to show the way, Xingruyi always has to give people a little face. If she is offended, she is afraid that she will not have a good time in the future.

"Meeting is fate, besides, you and I are both women, I will definitely do my best to help you, but the ugly words are ahead, if the things you ask me to help are too difficult to do, I may not be able to help. When the time comes, don't blame me, come back to me or something. ”

"Miss Ruyi, rest assured, no matter whether the girl can help or not, Mingyue is grateful in her heart." Shen Mingyue lightly blessed her, and when she raised her head, she also smiled lightly at Xing Ruyi. "Mingyue is not asking the girl for help, but there is something that she wants to ask the girl to return to someone."

"What's that?" As soon as Xing Ruyi finished asking, he saw Shen Mingyue take out a small thing that looked like a Buddha's hand.

When I got it in my hand, I realized that it was a chayote carved from a piece of jade. Jade, is miscellaneous jade, not the previous kind, the carving technique is also rough, but it can be seen that the carver is very attentive.

"Before Nanwang Village didn't rely on selling medicine and hygiene, only our Shen family planted this thing. One autumn, my mother took me to work in the fields, and when I was resting, I saw a cloth bag falling in the grass on the field. When I opened it, I found that it contained pen, ink, paper, and inkstone. This thing is of little use to those of us who are illiterate, but it is very valuable to those who read. In addition to being indispensable, it is also because it is expensive to buy these things.

The cloth bag is very finely made, and at first glance it looks like something that is cherished. My mother knew that this was unintentionally dropped by others, and if she couldn't find it, the host would definitely be in a hurry. So, while we were busy in the fields, we looked at the fields, for fear of missing the man who had come back to look for something. Just as we were about to finish our work, a man in a blue robe hurriedly ran over, stretched out his hand, and asked us in a very anxious tone, had you seen a bag containing pen, ink, paper, and inkstone?

Not only could he tell what the bag looked like, but he could also tell what was wrong with the stitches on it. My mother and I immediately confirmed that the lost thing was his. Before leaving, he was very grateful, and said that his name was Zhang Donglin and he was from Nanwang Village. ”

"Zhang Donglin?"

"Yes, that's him." Shen Mingyue nodded lightly: "Not long after, he came to the field to find us again. At that time, it was just in time for my mother to fall ill, and I was alone in the field. He gave me one thing, the Buddha's hand carved out of jade that I just gave to Miss Ruyi. After that day, he said, he deliberately inquired. Knowing that my name is Mingyue, I also know that my family is a Buddha's hand. He always wanted to thank us, but didn't know what to send. This jade, which was given to his mother by his father when he was young, is not precious, but it has been hidden for many years. He had taught himself some carving skills, and he originally helped his husband carve seals in a private school, and later used this craft to carve such a gadget for me. I was pleased. ”

"Do you like Zhang Donglin?" Xing Ruyi asked tentatively.

"When I was young, I liked it." Shen Mingyue did not shy away from admitting: "After that time, he often went to the fields. We don't talk much, either. I was busy in the fields, and he sat in the fields and read. He doesn't understand the things in the field, and he can't do it, and he is very clumsy. I don't recognize the words in the book, and I occasionally ask one or two, and I always make jokes. At that time, I didn't think that I would marry him or anything in the future, but I also didn't think that I would marry someone else. ”

"You're married to Zhang Cheng."

"Hmm." Shen Mingyue nodded: "My father and mother only have one daughter, although she has not been pampered since she was a child, she is still held in the palm of her hand." I always felt that I was still young, and I never thought about getting married. Until...... It wasn't until someone came to my house to propose marriage that I realized that I was not young anymore, and it was time for me to leave the cabinet and get married. ”

"Who do you want to marry?"

"Don't be afraid of Ruyi girl, you jokes, at that time, I was thinking of Zhang Donglin. I asked someone to send him a message, I thought he would come to my house to propose, I thought he would want to marry me. But I couldn't wait for him. Later, my father and mother chose Zhang Cheng for me, and I married according to my father's wishes. After marrying into Nanwang Village, I learned that something had happened to Zhang Donglin. ”