Chapter 173: The Three Tribes
The patriarch and Li Zheng took Ye Yuran to see the body of Mrs. Mei.
Because of the rain yesterday evening, Mrs. Mei's whole body was drenched, and she looked a little terrible.
But according to the analysis, it can be seen that Mrs. Mei's original condition may not be very good, such as her skinny body, fingers like old branches, uncoiled hair, and the particularly scary hole on the top of her head......
Ye Yuran only glanced at it, and felt that she might have a "nightmare" at night, but she endured this fear and forced herself to finish reading Mrs. Mei from beginning to end.
"Do you see anything?" said Lee, standing next to him, asking with concern.
Ye Yuran held a small stick in his hand, pointed to some places and said: "The wound on this head should be a fatal wound, and it was bleeding again yesterday, maybe it was killed on the spot, or it may have died from excessive bleeding...... But the wound is washed so cleanly, and the time of death should be before and after the rainstorm, and it will not deviate too much. ”
Li Zheng and the patriarch nodded.
"I haven't seen Mrs. Mei before, I don't know if she was so thin before, but her condition doesn't look good, like she is hungry. Ye Yuran paused and said, "But if I remember correctly, Mrs. Mei also produced a pig in order to pawn the stomach of my third daughter-in-law." ”
The patriarch saw that there seemed to be no embarrassment on Ye Yuran's face, and he looked like he was doing business, so he also said: "I inquired about the pig, Mrs. Mei should have given it, after the girl of the Zhang family ran away, the Mei family begged for it, but the Zhang family refused to return it, not to say that the girl of the Zhang family was handed over by them, and the money and goods were cleared, and it had nothing to do with them." ”
"Well, I've heard that before. But it is also possible that the conditions of Mrs. Mei's family were not very good, and her son died at that time, and she was not hungry, so she lost a lot of weight after the autumn harvest......"
Ye Yuran didn't finish speaking, and the patriarch shook his head: "Not only that, after Mrs. Mei's son died, she was locked up by the Mei family. ”
"Locked up?" Ye Yuran picked out some places again and let them see, "No wonder there are some strange bruises here, I thought she hit it herself." You see that her feet, neck, and wrists are all bound up...... These were scratches, and although they had been soaked in water, they still looked clear, and these should be the marks left by her fight with people yesterday. ”
As she was talking, Ye Yuran saw a string of familiar bracelets under Mrs. Mei.
She was shocked, and hurriedly changed the topic, and stepped on her feet while they weren't paying attention-because she remembered that Zhang Yan had asked Zhu Bamei for it.
Thinking of Zhang Yan, who didn't return last night, she seemed to have an answer deep in her heart.
It's just that she can't appear by Mrs. Mei's side on this bracelet, otherwise she won't be able to explain to everyone - why does Zhang Yan, who was abandoned by the Zhu family, have Zhu Bamei's bracelet?
In this way, people will definitely think of where Zhang Yan lived during the period when she disappeared.
If she lives in the Zhu family, then the child in her belly ......
This time is completely enough for Zhang Yan to give birth to the child in the Zhu family.
Ye Yuran can't let people associate this matter with the three treasures or the four treasures, which is too terrible for the child.
"Then I have a question, since Mrs. Mei has been locked up by the Mei family, why did she appear in Zhujia Village?" Ye Yuran asked, "Did she escape or was she released?" Everyone knows that the girl of the Zhang family was given a leave of absence by our Zhu family, but she still appeared in Zhujia Village...... This has to make me wonder, did someone tell her that the girl of the Zhang family is here?"
In order not to expose herself, Ye Yuran also took the initiative to mention "Zhang Yan", and by the way, once again emphasized that Zhang Yan was not in Zhujia Village.
Li Zheng and the patriarch naturally also had some associations.
At that time, the girl of the Zhang family was lost from Mrs. Mei's house, and after Mrs. Mei's son died, the patriarch of the Mei clan and the patriarch of the Zhang clan did not come to look for them, but they sent them away.
They think: The Mei family and the Zhang family themselves don't have the courage to come to trouble the old pious woman, so they are embarrassed to let their Li Zheng and the patriarch come out?
Even if the old goddess does something wrong, don't forget that it is they who "owe" a daughter-in-law of the Zhu family, not the Zhu family who "owes" them.
Li Zheng and the patriarch no longer like the old Qianpo, she is also from Zhujia Village, and when she should "protect", she still has to protect.
"Have you ever thought about why they locked up Mrs. Mei?" Ye Yuran further guided, "What did Mrs. Mei do to make them so intolerant of Mrs. Mei?"
"I heard she seemed crazy. With some hesitation, Li Zheng told the rumor that he heard from his wife's mouth, "I often shout in the yard, scolding the Mei family for not being a person, harming her man, harming her son, and harming her for a lifetime, and now I don't even want my grandson to give her, I want her family's two acres of land and her family's house......"
The patriarch was silent for a moment and said, "The people of the Mei family have always had a bad style, and their patriarch can't control it. This atmosphere has not been bad for a year or two. ”
"Will the Mei family come looking for trouble?" Ye Yuran asked.
"It will definitely come," the patriarch sighed, and said, "Their family can even do the things of pawning wives and borrowing seeds, and what can't they do? Otherwise, do you think that everyone is so poor, why are people just unwilling to marry their daughters to their family? It's not that their family has gone too far, it's too shameless, and there are only a few people who don't know the truth, or who are forced to do nothing, are willing to marry the Mei family." ”
If the Mei family is poor, there must be those who are poorer than the Mei family.
It's just that the Mei family's reputation is the most smelly, which has led to the fact that the men in their family are a lot older, and they can't get a daughter-in-law for a long time, so they have to "pawn their wives" and "pawn their stomachs".
Ye Yuran frowned, looking like he didn't want to be too embarrassed by Li Zheng and the patriarch, and said: "If you think it's too troublesome, then you will push it on my head, I won't believe it, renting my old god's reputation, they dare to trouble the Zhu family." People are doing it, the sky is watching, either my Zhu family did it or it wasn't my Zhu family, is it possible, they still want to press my Zhu family's head and let our Zhu family recognize Mei Pozi as our Zhu family's hand?"
"It's really not your family's hand?" Li Zheng didn't forget that he and the patriarch had suspected the matter of the old goddess before.
"Why did you kill the old pious woman if you had nothing to do?" Ye Yuran said suspiciously, "You don't really doubt it like that, right? Impossible, yesterday my sons went up the mountain, and when they came home, they were all wet...... Oh, by the way, and my old man, he is staying in the vegetable field, and my vegetable field is next to that house, you can go to his house and ask if you have seen my old man, which is also a witness. ”
counted the circles, indicating that everyone in their family had "witnesses", and the alibi was very sufficient.
If Li Zheng and the patriarch really want to be suspicious, as she said, ask and verify one by one, and see who has the time to commit the crime at this point in time.