Zhang Xi glanced at the witnesses, and there were not too many fluctuations in his eyes.

He didn't know the witnesses, and thought that he was just like himself, who was called over by the official family for routine questioning.

The witnesses also looked at Zhang Xi, and he looked extremely seriously, first at his eyes and nose bone, then at his figure, and finally at his hand. After looking around, he turned slightly sideways and winked at Xing Ruyi twice.

It's a super funny soul wrapped under the plain exterior.

Xing Ruyi nodded back, indicating that he was clear, and then made a gesture of invitation. The witnesses, without saying anything more, went straight out. At the door, there was a man with an oil-paper umbrella, and the surface of the umbrella was painted black. Look at the age of the umbrella man, should be the father of the witness. After the witness walked out of the door, the man hurriedly stepped forward with an umbrella and asked in a very low voice: "Are you done?" ”

"That's it, everything that needs to be said has been said."

"Alas, you kid, why is there so much going on?" The father sighed: "If you don't say it, no one will know." People like us, more things are better than less. ”

"How can you not say it? Human life is a matter of heaven. Although we can't help much, we can tell what we know, so that we can feel at ease. ”

"You say yes, you have the right idea to beat you up, and no one between me and your mother can control you. I'm not afraid of anything else, I'm afraid you'll get yourself in trouble. What am I afraid of, your mother and I have survived to this age, and it is not an exaggeration to say that I have stepped into the loess. You're still young, you haven't married a daughter-in-law yet, and you haven't left a queen for our family. ”

The father chattered, but the son just took the black umbrella and accompanied his father away while answering his father's words. Xing Ruyi stared at the father and son for a long time, and the more he looked at it, the more he felt that this was a family that believed in love.

Since the witnesses left the room, Zhang Xi has moved his eyes to Chang Tai. He was thinking and looking, and after a moment of silence, he spoke: "Shall I say it first?" Or did this poor master ask first? ”

"Both."

"Then I'll say it myself, I'm a person who doesn't like to be chased and asked, and I don't like to be forced to ask." Zhang Xi pointed to the stool on the side: "Can I sit and say?" I don't have a good leg and can't stand for long. ”

"You may be seated."

"Thank you." After Zhang Xi sat down, he said to me: "I killed people." ”

"Which one did you kill?" Chang Tai asked.

"Both, or to be more accurate, one of them was an accident." Zhang Xi explained, and there was no trace of remorse on his face: "I didn't want to kill Shen Mingyue, she bumped into her by herself, I just didn't save her in time." ”

"What is the relationship between you and Shen Mingyue? Why does it appear in the Zhang Family Ancestral Hall? ”

"I followed the man in." The person in Zhang Xi's mouth refers to his adoptive mother, who is also the oldest ancestor of the Zhang family.

"When do you have to start with this?" Zhang Xi looked very entangled. "Let's start with the last time I came back. I've been at odds with that guy for a long time, and even when I come back, one lives in the front yard and the other in the backyard. Although I didn't like her, and even hated her a little in my heart, but after all, she took care of me, and I had a conscience, and I couldn't leave her alone, but I never expected that she would do such a thing. ”

"What kind of thing?"

"Do you know why my legs are bad?" Zhang Xi suddenly asked a question that was completely unrelated to what Chang Tai asked before: "My biological father and mother died when I was very young. After they left, I became an orphan without a father and a mother, eating at the east house today and sleeping at the west house tomorrow. To be honest, most of them weren't very nice to me. I ate an extra bite, as if I had made a big mistake, and even if I slept in the shed where the donkeys were raised, they would think that I was a big liar, and that they had given me a great favor. Because of that bite of food, because of that palm-sized place, I have to work for them without regrets, be bullied by them, and say thank you to them with a smile, because they didn't let me starve to death, didn't let me freeze to death. This leg of mine was broken by Zhang Cheng's parents. The injury is healed, and he can walk normally, but in this bone, it hurts from time to time, and when it hurts, it is the kind that will kill people. ”

Zhang Xi's tone of voice when he recounted these things was very calm, but there was too much shocking pain hidden in this calm.

Xing Ruyi's childhood was not as miserable as his, and she had become a housemaid, she didn't dare to imagine what Zhang Xi would be like if all these things she experienced when she was a child.

Chang Tai's expression is also a little complicated.

His family background is probably the most chaotic in this Tang Dynasty, but no matter how chaotic he is, he doesn't worry about food and clothing, and the bullying he suffers is also invisible.

"I originally ignored that person's affairs, but that day, Zhang Cheng's mother came, and it was the sneaky kind. Maybe it was because of those bad memories when I was a child, or maybe it was because my leg was aching when she came, and I followed them to the backyard and heard their conversation. ”

"Is it about Shen Mingyue?"

"It's not just that, it's something else." Zhang Xi hooked the corners of his lips: "If you want to talk about Shen Mingyue, you have to start with Zhang Cheng's injury." Do you know why Zhang Cheng was injured? ”

"Dog bitten." Xing Ruyi continued.

"Then do you know why Zhang Cheng was bitten by a dog? Because it was designed by someone. Zhang Xi suddenly laughed: "The most ridiculous thing is that Zhang Cheng and his parents both knew who designed it, but they could only grit their teeth and swallow their teeth in their stomachs." Oh, by the way, I want to ask you again, do you know why this Nanwang Village suddenly became rich? ”

"Sell medicine."

"That's right, selling medicine, but selling medicine is just a front, what really makes Nanwang Village rich is a mine found here, and it's a whole mountain range. Zhang Youfu, the head of Nanwang Village, made a deal with some people in the court. Those people came forward to hire people to mine in the mountains, and the villagers of Nanwang Village covered up by planting and selling medicinal herbs. Those that were sent to the city were ostensibly medicinal herbs, but in fact they were all excavated ores. There is a rule in the imperial court that no trace of ore, regardless of size, is allowed to be mined privately, which is a major crime of killing the head. But the greater the sin, the higher the hidden benefits behind it. It is not surprising that people die for money. ”

Zhang Xi sighed, and after a little relief, he continued: "Although most of the villagers in Nanwang Village are surnamed Zhang, Zhang is different from Zhang, even if they worship the same ancestor and enter the same ancestral hall, there are differences between the main branch and the branch. Zhang Cheng and village chief Zhang Youfu belong to relatives on the side branch of the Zhang family, and Zhang Cheng is Zhang Youfu's confidant.

As the village head of Nanwang Village, Zhang Youfu is mainly responsible for taking care of the ore exchanges, trying not to let others discover the secrets hidden in this Nanwang Village as much as possible, and also keeping the secrets of the ore veins. Zhang Cheng, as Zhang Youfu's confidant, is mainly responsible for contacting those merchants in the city and those who are hiding behind the scenes. But no matter how confidant he is, Zhang Cheng also has his own little plans, he tries to intercept some ores, trade them privately, and then carry the transaction into his arms. ”

"The people of the DPRK who can stop this entire mountain range, I'm afraid the background is not simple, right? Zhang Cheng is not looking for death by doing this? ”

He thought he could hide from the world, and he knew that people didn't know, but he didn't know that he had already been targeted. This girl is right, the background of the people in the DPRK who can stop this entire mountain range is extremely not simple. I know who he is, but I won't tell you, because telling him will only add to your troubles. Mo said that it was the poor master in front of him, that is, the official behind him, and he couldn't help the man in the court.

Let's talk about Zhang Cheng. What Zhang Cheng did in private was known by the one in the court. They didn't kill him, but they secretly sprinkled something on him, and arranged some wild dogs on his way home. Those wild dogs, smelling his scent, immediately went crazy. If he hadn't happened to be discovered by a passerby, he would have been bitten to death long ago.

His life was saved, but his face was ruined, and he suffered a lot of injuries, and the most serious thing was that he couldn't have children. It's also retribution, who told them that their family is not kind.

If Zhang Cheng is good, there will naturally be no matter of affirming Mingyue later. Because Zhang Cheng was injured, Shen Mingyue couldn't breastfeed the heirs, Zhang Cheng's mother was a particularly face-saving person, so she came up with a bad trick like borrowing the womb to give birth to a child, trying to use the method of hiding from the world and crossing the sea to leave a descendant for their family Zhang Cheng. I wasn't surprised that she could come up with such a solution, but what I didn't expect was that the person would agree to help her.

They chose Zhang Cheng's cousin, who has a cowardly personality and is afraid of provoking right and wrong, even if he has something to do with Shen Mingyue, he will not take the initiative to say it. Moreover, between the cousins, their appearances are already somewhat similar, even if Shen Mingyue gives birth to a child, no one will suspect that this child is not Zhang Cheng's. Take a step back, even if someone suspects, they can't come up with any ironclad evidence, and the days will be confused.

Last night was the time they agreed, I just wanted to go over and take a look and leave some handle on Zhang Cheng's family, but I didn't expect that Zhang Cheng's cowardly cousin didn't come at all. I looked at Shen Mingyue standing alone in the ancestral hall, and I also felt that she was quite pitiful, so I wanted to help her. Unexpectedly, after she saw that it was me, she refused to obey, and in the process of shirking, her head hit the offering table, and the person died. It doesn't matter if she dies, according to her temperament, it is also a crime to continue to stay in Zhang Cheng's house. ”

"Then you, why did you kill the ancestor of the Zhang family?"