Chapter 17: The Truth Falls Out (Part II)
Meng Yuyun cautiously pinched the hairpin and put it in his hand to observe, this hairpin was carved with the style of acacia flowers, which should be the one lost by the shopkeeper of the rice shop.
"Aunt Mei, come and have a look!" Meng Yuyun wasn't sure if it was or not, so she could only ask Aunt Mei to come over and take a look.
Liu Xinmei was originally a little inexplicably restless in her heart, but as soon as she turned her head, her eyes were suffocated when her eyes fell on the hairpin.
She walked over in a daze, step by step, her legs as if they had been filled with heavy lead water. The uneasiness in my heart all turned into a feeling of longing. Liu Xinmei took the hairpin with red eyes.
"Isn't this the hairpin my cousin gave me? How did it end up here? Liu Xinmei caressed the hairpin like a treasure, and her gentle movements were like treating her beloved.
Meng Yuyun narrowed her eyes, Aunt Mei's reaction just confirmed that her guess was correct, this hairpin should have been obtained by Zhang Sheng after killing someone, for fear that Aunt Mei would be suspicious, so she put it in the mahogany box that Aunt Mei never used.
It's just that Zhang Sheng didn't do a good job of follow-up work, and this layer of newly accumulated dust is in stark contrast to the heavy dust on the side.
Liu Xinmei couldn't tell what kind of feeling she felt in her heart, she was holding the hairpin in a daze, and the past memories in her mind alternated repeatedly with Zhang Shengyin's face.
Meng Yuyun licked her dry lips, looking at Aunt Mei's dazed appearance, she felt a little unbearable. Just as he was about to tell her the truth, there was a slight sound of footsteps outside the door.
In a panic, the two looked at each other.
Liu Xinmei was the first to react, she held Meng Yuyun's hand, her eyes were firm: "Hide well!"
Meng Yuyun was a child after all, small and light, she was forced under the bed by Liu Xinmei, and only made a faint sound during the period.
She didn't know what Aunt Mei was going to do, and she faintly felt that something was wrong in her heart.
There was a tingling sensation on his arm, and Meng Yuyun glanced at it, and his skin was worn by the ground.
The door rubbed against the ground and creaked, and Meng Yuyun stared at the shoes that stepped in almost suffocatingly.
"I still found out, Xinmei!" Zhang Sheng had a smile on his lips, and his gloomy gaze fell on the hairpin in Liu Xinmei's hand. The pain in his heart was numb, and he lowered his head, a trace of injury flashing in his eyes.
"Cousin, what did you do to him?" Liu Xinmei's eyes were complicated, and for some reason, she was more disappointed than painful in her heart.
Zhang Sheng laughed sullenly, he didn't reply, but bent down and picked up the letter that was thrown away by Liu Xinmei in a panic on the ground, he opened it, took out the letter paper and read it quietly.
There is no mania, no madness, such Zhang Sheng makes Liu Xinmei a little flustered.
"After many years, I miss it so much? Liu Xinmei, are you blind? Is it worth it for someone like him? Zhang Sheng's hands trembled a little, he tried his best to hold the smile on his face, and looked up at the woman he had loved for half his life.
At this point, Liu Xinmei became calm. Her eyes fell on the face of the gloomy owl opposite, and there were countless words of condemnation and viciousness, but she seemed to be choked with something in her throat, and her lips moved, and she couldn't make a sound.
Meng Yuyun, who was lying under the bed, picked her palm tightly, she couldn't rush out, a moment of recklessness might kill two people, hitting a stone with an egg has never been her style.
There was a strange atmosphere in the air, Liu Xinmei bit her lip and raised her head, and the cold hairpin in her palm reminded her at all times.
Zhang Sheng's silence made her unable to stand it anymore, her spirit was on the verge of collapse, two tears fell from her round eyes, Liu Xinmei hoarsely screamed at the man: "Zhang Sheng! You tell me, cousin, he ......"
Zhang Sheng was silent and pressed step by step, he stubbornly twisted the woman's beautiful eyebrows with his eyes, and forced the woman into a corner, to the point where there was no place to hide.
He pinched the woman's chin, looked at each other, and whispered, "I killed him, Liu Xinmei, the man you have been thinking about and remembering!" He's dead! ”
He's dead! These three words were ringing in Liu Xinmei's ears like magic sounds, and she weakly clasped the hairpin in her palm, she didn't want anything now, her mind was empty.
The young man's generous face in her memory gradually blurred in the long river of years, and it was replaced by the man in front of her who ruined her life. Liu Xinmei really figured out what was going on with her previous uneasiness at this moment.
"Why did you kill him...... Liu Xinmei asked softly, she looked directly into Zhang Sheng's eyes, as if she wanted to see this man's mind clearly.
"Why?" Zhang Sheng sneered, "Liu Xinmei, have I been sorry for you all these years?" But day and night, you remember that man in your heart! ”
The cousin's tenderness to her was still vivid, Liu Xinmei's heart was dead, she gritted her teeth, and the hand holding the hairpin poked into Zhang Sheng's heart.
The sharp object cut through the clothes and poked straight into the flesh, the blood stained her hand, but the victim still had a smile on his face, Zhang Sheng lowered his head and looked at it, the blood that kept flowing out looked really scary.
Liu Xinmei looked coldly at the blood soaking the man's clothes, the dull pain in her heart made her frown, and she tried hard to say in a cold voice: "This is what you owe to your cousin."
"Yes, I owe him." Zhang Sheng leaned against the wall and slowly slid down, he trembled and took out a white jade plum hairpin from his arms, the workmanship was meticulous, and it was a good thing at a glance.
"This was originally the year you were married, and I was going to give it to you, but I didn't let you see it until now." Zhang Sheng had a hint of hope in his eyes, and seemed to be looking forward to Liu Xinmei wearing it.
The snow-white hairpin entered Liu Xinmei's eyes, she licked her lips and pretended to be calm: "I don't want it!"
Zhang Sheng gasped for a faint breath, the appearance of the woman in front of him became more and more blurred, and he could clearly feel that something was rapidly flowing in his body.
He closed his eyes and remembered the first time he saw Liu Xinmei, she was still a clean and white young lady.
"Will you come home with me?" This was the first thing Liu Xinmei said to him, and he always remembered it.
Liu Xinmei stood for a long time, she watched the man die, and then squatted down and took the hairpin from the man's palm, and her fingers trembled a little and held the hairpin gently through the black hair.
She looked at the dim bronze mirror and muttered, "It's beautiful."
Everything that happened outside entered Meng Yuyun's eyes, and there was no trace of it. Shock filled her heart, and her thin palm covered her mouth to prevent herself from making a sound. Aunt Mei, killed someone......