After all, the old lady of the Li family married Xiucai, and she had a lot of enviable good lives in her early years, and she had a wider range of knowledge.

She accepted Zhuang Rou's silver, and her attitude was naturally much better, thinking that if she cried again and was poor, maybe she could ask for some silver to live.

After all, it is Xiucai's family, everyone is a scholar, so they should take care of each other, and Mrs. Li is going to start talking about business.

Obviously, he hated the government so much that he wanted to drive people out with a stick, but now he grabbed the corners of his washed white clothes, wiped the corners of his eyes that had no tears at all, and sighed, "The official is here to ask about my family's Lao Jiu case, right?" I think my nine sons are strong and strong, and they carry bags on the dock to feed most of the family. ”

"It's gone now, leaving us orphans and widows, how will we live this life in the future!"

Zhuang Rou's eyes glanced to the side, there are at least five men in this family who can work, not counting the third child who went out to exchange copper coins, and the half-old young man.

However, six people raise more than 30 people, even if the women help weave cloth and sew clothes, I am afraid that they will barely eat enough food and clothing, and they will not die of hunger.

Besides, where did they get so much laundry......

Her gaze stopped at a few children who were eating fingers, "Who are the children of the Wu family?" With so many people living in the same courtyard, how can no one know about it, call me over and ask. ”

At the mention of this, Mrs. Li suddenly became excited, "Official, you don't know, this Wu family is a hen that doesn't lay eggs, if it weren't for her good birth, she wouldn't have married her back." I didn't even have a dowry, and when I came, I was dressed in the same clothes, but my family gave me half a bag of rice and two catties of meat. ”

"I didn't expect to marry for half a year, and I didn't see my pregnancy, what's the use of marrying here, I have one more mouth to eat!"

Zhuang Rou grinned and said, "Your family is so much, are you still alive?" ”

"Of course, one more person is more than one worker. As long as one of these grandchildren is a prodigy, the whole family can make money to support him in his studies, and when the time comes, he will be admitted to the show and become the champion again, and our old Li family will have a bright future. Mrs. Li patted her thigh and said, what matters, of course, is a promising grandson!

At this time, Zhuang Rou already knew that there was nothing to say to this kind of old lady, even if she had a promising grandson, she would have to be dragged to death by this big family.

She calmly took out the book, took out the charcoal strip wrapped in the oilcloth, and quickly handled the case outside, it was impossible to carry pen, ink, paper and inkstone all day long, so she usually used charcoal strips instead.

Putting the book on his lap, Zhuang Rou asked, "Tell me the name of your ninth son, when did you find that you couldn't see it?" ”

"My ninth son's name is Li Jiu, he is in his early Chinese New Year's Eve, and half a month ago, he suddenly stopped carrying his bag at the dock. I was so angry that I beat him with a few sticks, and I refused to listen to any scolding. ”

"No one disappeared the next day, but the third daughter-in-law saw Wu enter the kitchen in the middle of the night, and sneakily ran out after lighting a fire." Old Mrs. Li glanced at the woman next to her who looked a little mean, and said angrily.

She said with certainty: "Official, when I saw that morning, there were two eggs missing, and she must have stolen them in the middle of the night and gave them to the adulterer." After my son found out, he was beaten to death outside and thrown into the river! ”

When Zhuang Rou heard that there were no clues and evidence, she said that there were some witnesses and physical evidence, and the human evidence was that the third daughter-in-law saw Wu enter the kitchen late at night, she frowned and asked: "Then your family said that there is physical evidence, but they refuse to take it out, what is it, the murder weapon?" ”

"It's a tael of silver." Mrs. Li subconsciously whispered.

"What?" Zhuang Rou looked at her inexplicably, one or two

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What kind of physical evidence is silver?

Seeing that her face was full of puzzlement, Mrs. Li patted her thigh and said, "Official, the Wu family is so poor, and there is still a tael of silver hidden in the house, it must have been given to her by the adulterer!" ”

Zhuang Rou finally knew that although she was Xiucai's wife, she was completely unreasonable, only cared about giving birth to children, and tossed all her good belongings. It's so stupid to treat her daughter-in-law, she just breaks it when she opens her mouth, where is there a little bit of reading.

She said coldly: "The Wu family did boil two eggs at night, but they were boiled for Li Jiu to take out to eat. Li Jiu quit his job at the dock because he had found a better job, and the one or two pieces of silver were the wages paid by the other party in advance. ”

"Wu said that the reason why Li Jiu didn't tell you was because he wanted to leave the one or two pieces of silver to Wu to buy some food, so that he could make up for his body and conceive a child, so that you would not scold her all day long for being a hen that does not lay eggs."

"This white-eyed wolf, I finally pulled him up, and I actually hid silver for my daughter-in-law! I really married a daughter-in-law and forgot my mother, and I was so angry! Mrs. Li scolded, she didn't expect that her son would hide silver for her daughter-in-law.

Zhuang Rou originally came over to talk to each other to see if what Wu said was true, but now he really has this tael of silver.

It is simply unreal that the work that can be paid in advance for money to fall on such a poor family. It's really hard to think of, except to do unsightly things, where there is such a job for people to do.

Zhuang Rou asked some other things, and called all the daughters-in-law with broken mouths, and after asking all of them, there was no clue at all.

The only thing she knew was that Li Jiu took two boiled eggs, only said hello to his wife Wu, and then went out without anyone knowing. Since then, he has not been heard from for most of the month, which is very different from his way of acting.

Everyone in the Li family knows that Li Jiu is very rare to marry a wife who has never stayed overnight and never returned. And according to Wu, he only said that he would be able to come back once he went to the sky, but he didn't say that he wouldn't come for half a month.

As for where Li Jiu went and what kind of work he was doing, Wu didn't know anything. She also asked, but Li Jiu said that the employer didn't let him say it, and only said that it was a serious matter, not killing people and setting fire to be a bandit, just let her put a hundred hearts, take care of her body and wait for him to come back.

Neither the Li family nor the Wu family could ask anything, it was just an ordinary disappearance. The Li family suspected that it was the Wu family who killed her, so it was too unusual to use family methods to kill her alive, so you have to find your son first, right?

Zhuang Rou stared at Old Madam Li and asked, "From your confession, we can know that Li Jiu just went out to work. Maybe it's a long way, or he wants to make more money to bring back and have a good New Year. ”

"There are no corpses, there is nothing, why do you suspect that the Wu family killed your son?"

Mrs. Li said unconvinced: "I found the blind half-immortal to calculate, but it's accurate, and even my son's nickname is known." He said that he was killed by my son's daughter-in-law, and that his body was thrown into the river and washed away, and he could not come back. ”

"That blind man is the truth, he is simply a living half-immortal, can I still believe him?"

This is simply ridiculous, relying on a fortune teller to solve the case?

Zhuang Rou said angrily: "Nonsense, if the fortune teller is so powerful, what use do you want us!" ”

She stood up angrily, and when she looked up, she suddenly saw a person quickly shrinking from the wall of the Li family, and someone was lying on the wall just now looking at them.

"Who? Come out! Or I'll kill you on the spot! She shouted, this terrible frightened everyone in the Li family, and everyone looked at her gaze.