The woman's in-laws died early, and the husband was taken care of by the third aunt who was separated by a wall, and even the third aunt helped to marry. It's not that mother and child are better than mother and child.

The third aunt is good at everything, but she is unforgiving with that mouth, no matter what the woman does, she has to be picky again and again, and she has repeatedly instigated her husband to divorce his wife in front of the woman. If it weren't for her husband's pity for her, she would have been swept out of the house by the third aunt.

The woman entered the door for five years, and was pressed by the third aunt for five years, and even kept the door for the third aunt to sleep at night, and if she was negligent, she would point her nose and scold.

There are many mutes in the village, and according to the old people in the village, those mutes have their tongues plucked out by the imps of Lord Yama. If you want Lord Yama to make a move, you must go to the Hades Hall outside the village at midnight to kneel and kowtow.

Because she couldn't stand the mouth of the third aunt, the woman mustered up the courage to go to the Taoist temple outside the village.

The hall of Hades at night was full of ghosts, and the woman's legs were weak, and when she pushed open the door of the hell where her tongue was pulled, she only felt a chill hit, and then she didn't know who was going to do it. I woke up in my own home, the child was sitting at the head of the bed babbling, and the husband was cleaning in the yard. Looking at the whiteness of the fish belly that lit up in the east, the woman only felt that she had a nightmare.

It wasn't until the third aunt's son came to the door that she knew that the third aunt's tongue was gone, and it was forcibly pulled out.

The woman cursed and swore that all this was done by the imp and had nothing to do with her husband. If the government insists on pursuing it, then it will be better to take her to prison.

The man was silent until the woman brought the child into her arms, and he came back to his senses and muttered, "I did it!" ”

Qin Ye was stunned, he originally wanted to ask the man to inquire about the situation in the dumb village, but he didn't think that he would solve a case in a daze, and when the family of three was taken away by a catcher disguised as a diner, he still felt his head buzzing.

"How do you know he's a murderer?"

"Guess." Liu Hanshan pointed to his waist card: "Although you are wearing civilian clothes, this sign on your waist is too conspicuous, just one glance, you can know that you are from the yamen." The people are afraid of officials, but they are also full of curiosity about the people in the government, if you are an ordinary person, it is normal to look at you twice, but you will not be sneaky. ”

"You mean, sir, he peeked at me?"

"He's been staring at you since we went upstairs, and he's been dodging and slightly nervous." Liu Hanshan said: "Do you look at those oil stains on the table? ”

"What's wrong with the grease stains?" Qin Ye wiped it with his hand in confusion.

"It was dropped when he was picking up vegetables." Liu Hanshan stared at the table: "Since we sat down here, he has become more and more nervous. Even though he pretended to be good, his hand betrayed him. With such a large piece of pig tongue, he can actually clip it off once. ”

"He's so nervous, we're not here for him. If he hadn't taken the initiative to mention his third aunt, we wouldn't have known that there was such a thing as his third aunt. Qin Ye said, lifted his robe and sat down: "I finally know what it means to be a thief's heart, and what it means to have a good night's net." He, eighty percent of us are immortals, thinking that we can predict the prophet, and he is coming for him. ”

The two words he asked his lady were temptations. Liu Hanshan picked up the wine glass and shook it twice: "First, he wants to confirm whether his wife knows what he did." Second, he wanted to confirm whether the two of us were here because of the case of his third aunt. When you get up, he looks more and more nervous. I think he was ready to confess his sins back then. This cutting off a person's tongue is a bit worse, but it is not a great sin that kills people. ”

"But there's one thing I can't figure out." Qin Ye stuffed a chopstick pig tongue into his mouth, and only after swallowing those pig tongues did he speak: "Why did he do it himself?" This mother and son are going to hell with their tongues, he just waits at home as a father-in-law, why bother to involve himself. ”

"Two explanations." Liu Hanshan drew two vertical lines on the table: "First, the dumb people in the dumb village are not pulled out by the little ghosts. Second, his lady fainted in the tongue pulling hell because she was cowardly, and she couldn't ask Yan Jun for help. In order to help his wife but wish, and ease the relationship between the lady and the third aunt, he cleverly replaced the little ghost and pulled out his tongue. ”

"You're talking about the story of the Dumb Village, right?" The shopkeeper came to deliver the food, and just heard this paragraph: "I have a legend about the dumb village here, I don't know if the two guest officers are interested in hearing it." ”

"Tell me about it." Qin Ye sandwiched a piece of boiled pork tongue: "This pig's tongue is drenched on the bar?" ”

"It's drizzled with wine, soaked in green onion and ginger, and it can be fishy." The shopkeeper smiled.

This mute village is made up of two groups of villagers, one of whom is mute who is born unable to speak, and the other part is a refugee who fled here in his early years. The part that is born unable to speak, also known as the mute people, does not grow food or eat, and lives by preying on snakes and insects for three meals a day. Originally, there was no conflict between this mute tribe and the refugees, you catch your snakes, insects, rats and ants, and I will grow my rice and grain. The two branches lived peacefully for nearly a hundred years, until the son of the leader of the difficult ethnic group fell in love with the daughter of the leader of the mute ethnic group.

This mute tribe doesn't matter, they are free by nature, they think that their daughter can marry whoever they want, as long as the other party can accept their living habits, they feel that all this is fine. But the patriarch of the Nan nation disagreed, and he resolutely opposed his son being with a mute, and that mute still ate snakes, insects, rats and ants.

He couldn't imagine that while the family was sitting down to eat together, his daughter-in-law shoved a live snake into her mouth in front of him. Although the mute woman said that she would not eat raw snakes, the patriarch did not allow her to be with his son.

"Then what happened to the patriarch's son and the mute girl?" Qin Ye asked, putting down his chopsticks.

"What else can I do, eloped." The shopkeeper poured wine for them, and a strong peach blossom fragrance overflowed from the wine.

The patriarch's son pretended to compromise, first agreed to his father, married a girl in the clan, and then took the opportunity to slip away and elope with the mute girl. The patriarch was furious, and took half of the people of the village to the mute tribe to ask for a son. But the patriarch of the mute tribe was not willing to deal with him at all, and when he saw him making trouble, he released the snakes and insects raised in the clan to scare him.

The patriarch was not convinced, and took advantage of the dark night and high wind to kill a horse pistol and set fire to the house of the mute tribe. It is said that the whining cries of the mutes echoed only halfway up the mountain for seven days and seven nights.

It was also from that day that the mute village seemed to be cursed, and every once in a while, the tongues of the villagers would be plucked out in their sleep, and the village would not be peaceful until seven were plucked.

"According to what you say, it should be the mute tribesmen who pulled out the tongues of the villagers, what does this have to do with that tongue-pulling hell?"

"It doesn't matter." Shopkeeper said: "That Taoist temple is to fool people, in order to appease the people and make those villagers believe that those people who have their tongues pulled out are evil and have evil retribution." ”