Chapter 44: Don't Catch a Thief
Before Feng'er understood what was going on, seven or eight descendants rushed up, pushed Feng'er to the ground, and tied it tightly.
"Little Huazi, she has become bold, and she dares to do murder and arson. ”
The familiar voice just now was talking again.
Feng'er argued, "I'm fighting fires!"
"Fight the fire? Don't shout to catch the thief! Set the fire and come to the rescue, I want to deceive everyone's sympathy, I will give you a lot of food, isn't it?
Feng'er fixed her eyes and finally saw who this familiar voice came from. I know, this person is the Niu Er who beat the little Taoist priest during the day.
Feng'er saw that it was Niu Er and said:
"Brother Niu doesn't know me anymore, I'm the little Hanako you met in the morning. ”
Niu Er rolled his eyes arrogantly and said:
"Recognize. How do you know that you can set fire to it if you don't know it? You just give that little miscellaneous hair a gang, and it makes sense to live by stealing. ”
Feng'er was slandered by him, and he was angry in his heart, and said:
"Brother Niu said that I stole it, what evidence do you have?"
Niu Er sneered and said, "Not now, but soon!"
As he spoke, he waved his hand and said to the descendants:
"Beat him to death!
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When several descendants heard Niu Er's command, they all surrounded them and punched and kicked the wind fiercely.
Feng'er's arms are tied, and her legs and feet can still move, so there is no problem at all in letting go of these afterlife. Breaking out of the village is not a problem. But he didn't want to be misunderstood, and he didn't want to be convicted of arson. Now it's hard to argue, Feng'er believes that there will always be a moment when the truth of the matter will come out.
Feng'er gritted her teeth, and the later generations did not take it seriously, bleeding from the mouth and nose, blue nose and swollen face? I hope readers and friends can describe the tragic situation at this moment for me, and I can't find a better adjective to express this scene.
"Stop it!"
The sound was not loud, but it was like thunder on the ground.
A few of the juniors stopped their fists and feet, and looked back at the man who was speaking.
The man who spoke was an old man with a white beard, dressed in a robe, skinny, and his face was not angry and arrogant.
"Ninth Master, it's this little named Hanako who set the fire, why can't you beat him?" Niu Er asked.
The old man said: "I think this flower son is also a poor man, he has no grudges and no hatred, why should he set fire? If you continue to fight, I am afraid that people will die." ”
The crowd of onlookers echoed:
"Yes, Grandpa Patriarch is right!"
Niu Er did not give up and shouted:
"Arson is the same crime as murder! Can't be so cheap, this little guy called Hanako, call me again! There are people above us, my second cousin is on an errand in the county office, it's okay to kill him!"
The old man sneered:
"Your cousin is on an errand in the county government, but he is not in charge of the royal law, and he will not care about taking people's lives to the government. Besides, the matter has not been figured out yet, and it is not known whether it was a fire set by a little Hanako, so how can it be rashly added to the sin, and it will be laughed at by outsiders. ”
Niu Er said: "Ninth Master, you are so confused! Folks in the big hometown, Niu Jiaying has almost no surname, even if everyone usually has a little quarrel, they will not commit this crime of arson." You said it wasn't a little Hanako, who else could it be?"
The old man pondered for a moment and said:
"Without evidence, it's hard to make inferences. This matter needs to be studied slowly and carefully. ”
Niu Er said: "What else do you want to study? Do we still want to offer this little flower son as an ancestor for a few years, and when he is happy, he will say that he put the fire? ”
The Ninth Master couldn't make up his mind, and said in a deep voice:
"This ......"
Niu Er said: "What else is the ninth master, you can't only have the heart of a bodhisattva, you have to have butcher means." Blindly accommodating the bad guys, I don't know how you and I will be burned to death tomorrow. Don't do anything about this Hanako now, don't expect him to admit to setting fire. ”
The Ninth Master said: "It's okay to scare and scare, don't beat him hard." You see that he is so thin, if he dies, you and I will not be able to get rid of it. ”
Niu Er said: "Ninth Master, rest assured, everyone has a plan, and it won't hurt his life." ”
Niu Er turned around and secretly gave a few offspring a look:
"The Ninth Master said, just scare and scare him!"
The younger generations were punching and kicking again, and the old man didn't stop no matter how he drank.
Suddenly, a man came running from a distance and shouted:
Lan'er, the daughter of Niu Zhengxing, the head of the east of the village, was killed by flower thieves, and Lan'er hanged herself. Let's go over and have a look, everyone!"
Everyone was shocked, and they didn't care about the wind, and the two descendants walked towards the east of the village together.
Niu Zhengxing was sitting on the floor of the hall, crying so darkly that Lan'er's body was lying on a rotten straw mat on the side.
The Ninth Master went over and asked, "Zhengxing, what's going on?"
Niu Zhengxing stopped crying bitterly and said:
"Ninth master, when the fire in the west of the village was on fire, I heard someone shouting for fire, so I hurriedly rushed with a bucket, and after the fire went down, I was worried that Lan'er would be at home alone, so I returned early. When I came back, I saw Lan'er's door wide open, and when I went in, I saw Lan'er lying naked on the bed, and there was a smell of incense in the room. I woke Lan'er to hide and let her get dressed, I didn't want her to hang herself by hanging herself. This flower thief, Lan'er is only sixteen years old......"
After Niu Zhengxing finished speaking, he howled and cried again.
Niu Zhengxing has this one daughter, his wife died early, and the father and daughter depend on each other. He treats his daughter as a treasure, and he is reluctant to let him take a step at the door, almost raising him in the deep boudoir.
The ninth master said: "If this kind of thing happens, you can't hold your face when you say it." Buy a coffin and bury Lan'er when it's dawn. Even if it's to report to the governor's mansion, where are they going to find the flower thief?"
Niu Zhengxing only cared about crying, where to answer this.
"That's right!"
Niu Er screamed again.
"This is called Hanako and his accomplices, a total of six or seven people, it must be this little Hanako who set fire to the west of the village, and his accomplices moved in the east of the village. ”
Everyone looked at each other.
Feng'er heard that Niu Er was framing herself again, endured the pain in her body, and said:
"Brother Niu, we have no grudges in the past life, and no enemies in this life, why do you have to put Xiaohuazi to death? I just kindly put out the fire, how could I do such a hurtful thing?"
Niu Er snorted and said:
"You don't have to be hard-mouthed! Tell me where your accomplices are?"
Feng'er said: "What accomplices, they are in the Taoist Temple of Bronze Mountain, if you don't believe it, you can call them here and ask." ”
Niu Er said: "Okay! It's a nest today, let's see if Niu Er Ye is powerful, or you are amazing!"
Then he waved his hand to the juniors.
"Dragged him out and tied him to the tree in front of the ancestral hall, went to the Taoist temple to arrest his accomplices, and killed them at dawn to bury Lan'er. ”
The ninth master said: "The matter must be asked in detail, and you can't wronged the good people, and let people say that our Niu family camp is unreasonable." ”
Niu Er said: "Ninth Master, you don't have to worry about it! There are people above us, and this is the public court." When those few flowers are caught, the trial will be started together. ”
Turning around, he shouted to the crowd: "What are you all doing in a daze? The soldiers are divided into two ways, one group goes to the ancestral hall, and the other group is taken by Niu Yun to the Bronze Mountain Taoist Temple." ”
A few descendants couldn't help but say, and pushed and shoved the wind out. The rest of the people touched the guy, prepared the rope, and walked towards the bronze mountain.