Early the next morning, as soon as Lao Zhixian pushed open the side door of the county ya, he saw Xu Niangzi standing in front of the county yamen, holding a drumstick, ready to beat the drum.

"Grandma, don't knock." Lao Zhixian ran up, grabbed the drumstick with one hand, and pulled the into the county government with the other.

"My aunt, those two boys bullied you yesterday?" No, according to the temper of the, if Feng Gongzi annoyed her, she would have to fight it at that time, and she didn't have to wait until the morning to report to the official.

"What boys?" didn't know that the two boys knew Lao Zhixian, so they didn't react for a while.

"It's the two maple boys who went to you last night." Lao Zhixian hurriedly calmed down the matter, "Auntie, let's go into the house and say." ”

Lao Zhixian didn't want to shield the son of the Feng family, this made a lot of noise every time, for the sake of the Feng family's great efforts, this joke couldn't be looked at by others.

Pulling the into the lobby, the old magistrate breathed a sigh of relief.

", I'm not biased towards Feng Gongzi, you also know that the Feng family has made great efforts in this disaster relief, let's deal with something privately, okay?"

"I want to see Chincha-sama." said.

Is Kaede playing so big? My county is useless, do you have to send a horse out?

A certain Feng Gongzi who is still asleep: It's none of my business, don't come and disturb me to sleep.

", you speak slowly, don't worry." Stabilize first.

The took out a piece of paper from her sleeve and handed it to Lao Zhixian.

Lao Zhixian opened the form, looked at it twice, and put his mind at ease, it turned out that he had misunderstood, and the lady was not suing Feng Gongzi.

I can't be blamed for this, who made her report every time because of the guest.

Lao Zhixian wiped a handful of non-existent sweat on his forehead.

However, looking at it, he really sweated.

I didn't finish reading the form, so I returned it to the and left in a hurry.

Leaving the confused and at a loss.

Soon, a rush of footsteps sounded, and Lao Zhixian came back with two people, one in an official uniform and a month-long white robe.

This should be Chincha-sama.

Seeing Lord Qincha sitting down behind the table, knelt down in a proper manner and held her head high: "Please Lord Qincha be the master of the people's wife." ”

Lao Zhixian took the form, handed it to Zhuo Yunfan, and then made a note on the side.

"If you have any grievances, tell me slowly."

Xu Niangzi, whose real name is Xu Wan'er, is the daughter of a small teacher in a small town in Anyang County, Jiangning Prefecture.

The wife of the teacher died early, and he had only this daughter under his knees, and he was raised until he was eighteen years old, and he married Zhao Xian, the son of Zhao Carpenter next door.

Zhao Xian's name was still given by a teacher.

The Zhao family has a lot of help with teaching craftsmen on weekdays, and the two children are also childhood sweethearts, and the two have no guesses.

Two years later, Xu Wan'er gave birth to a chubby son, and she lived a happy life.

The protégé of the teacher came to congratulate him, but he lacked the best one in learning.

After inquiring around, I learned that the scholar went to visit relatives in the town by Yishui, and was swept away by the flood in order to save a child.

The most proud protégé suffered this misfortune, and the teacher was depressed and could not afford to fall ill.

At this time, the county posted a notice to recruit people to repair the embankment.

In order to give his father-in-law a little comfort, Zhao Xian signed up to repair the embankment.

It's just that he went and never came back.

It wasn't until after the embankment was built that the county magistrate came to Zhao's house with a stranger and gave twenty taels of silver, saying that Zhao Xian had an accident while repairing the embankment and died.

And the man was buried by the embankment.

The county sent a carriage to take a family of five to the embankment, sweep the graves, and sacrifice wine.

If the matter ends here, Xu Wan'er will admit it.

Back home, the family was always worried about letting Zhao Xian stay alone in a foreign place, so they thought about finding an auspicious day for Zhao Xian to move Zhao Xian's grave.

On the day of the grave move, it happened that the little baby was sick, and Xu Wan'er stayed at home to take care of her father and child.

The old couple of the Zhao family drove the carriage to pick up Zhao Xian home.

It's just that Zhao Xian didn't take it back, but the second elder of the Zhao family was carried back in a dying state.

When Xu Wan'er heard the news, she almost threw the child in her arms to the ground.

Separated by a wall from her husband's mother's house, Xu Wan'er walked back, as if she had finished her life.

The two elderly men were parked in the courtyard, their clothes torn to pieces, and the scars crisscrossed under the torn clothes, which was terrible.

The person who sent the second elder back said that he had encountered a wild beast in the mountains.

Xu Wan'er endured great grief, washed her mother-in-law's body, and changed into a shroud.

Zhou Heng, the son of the county yazuo, is a protégé of a teacher, and when he heard the news, he came to help and changed Zhao's father's life clothes.

The two old men stopped for three days, and Zhou Heng kept vigil every night.

Zhou Heng was busy, the funeral was quite thoughtful, and the two elders went to the ground for peace.

It's just that Zhou Heng couldn't be at ease in his heart, and looked at his senior sister Xu Wan'er several times and stopped talking.

The family suffered from this catastrophe and lost three of her closest relatives one after another, Xu Wan'er visibly lost weight with the naked eye, and even lost weight with her little baby.

In this case, Zhou Heng really couldn't bear to make it worse.

It's just that Zhou Heng's momentary unbearability and carelessness made his teacher lose his life.

When Zhou Heng changed his life clothes for Zhao's father, he checked the wound, which looked like the claw marks of a beast, and it was very strange when you looked closely.

Zhou Heng's father was a man, and he also learned some autopsy skills from his father.

The scratches on Father Zhao's body were much deeper than those of the beasts, and in each place, the interval between the five blood marks was exactly the same, without the slightest difference.

When a beast grabs a person, there are always times when the claws are different in terms of expansion and contraction, how can it be exactly the same everywhere?

Zhou Heng followed the road to the embankment cemetery, looked all the way, and found the traces of the fight, but did not find the footprints of half a beast at the scene, not even a single hair.

Zhou Heng felt more and more that something was wrong, and hurried back to the town, and saw the fire in the distance, which was the direction of Xu Wan'er's house.

At the entrance of the town, I met Xu Wan'er, who came back from seeing a doctor with her child.

Zhou Heng grabbed Xu Wan'er and hid her in his home.

When Zhou Heng arrived at Xu Wan'er's house, the two houses had been burned to ruins, and the bedridden teacher was buried in the fire.

Zhou Heng hated himself for failing to perceive the danger, and he could not escape the blame for the death of his teacher.

That night, Zhou Heng told his father and Xu Wan'er about the doubts in his heart.

The old father immediately made a decision and asked Zhou Heng to leave overnight with his mother and Xu Wan'er.

Zhou Heng was unwilling to be killed by Xu Wan'er's family, so he took his mother and Xu Wan'er to the vicinity of the embankment.

Walking down the embankment, you can still see the victims one after another, three people holding a sick and unhealed baby, mixed in the victims.

It's just that there is no place to take in and resettle the victims, only the common people barely get a little bit of food.

It wasn't until I went to Leyang County that I met a county that loved the people like a son.

Zhou Heng used the only little silver tael in his hand to buy a courtyard for his mother and Xu Wan'er to live in. I went to the streets to wander and beg, one to avoid suspicion, and the other to hide people's eyes.

As expected, it didn't take long for Anyang County Linghe to pass away due to illness one after another.

Hearing the news of his father's death, Zhou Heng stood on the Yishui embankment all night.

In my ears was the roar of Yi Shui rushing forward, and in front of me was the darkness that I couldn't see my fingers.

Xu Wan'er's son, because he couldn't be treated properly at that time, fell ill and died at the age of five.

Having lost her only relative, Xu Wan'er was like ashes, she knew that her family had died unjustly, but she was a woman, and it was not easy to take revenge, and she didn't even know who the enemy was and where she was.

Xu Wan'er held her son's cold corpse and stood on the Yishui embankment, wanting to jump, but was dragged back by Zhou Heng, who was in a hurry to find him.

The two of them sat on the embankment, cried for a night, and talked for a night.

Zhou Heng has more or less found some things in the past few years, they are all people who died tragically while repairing embankments, and their families have suddenly changed.

The next night, two people went to dig Zhao Xian's grave, digging three feet into the ground, but not half of the bones were found.

If other graves are dug up, they will all be empty graves as well.

This thing is much bigger and more terrifying than they imagined.

In the dark night, Zhou Heng knelt between an empty grave and begged Xu Wan'er to live.

She is alive, he still has a place in his heart, she is dead, he doesn't know if he still has the courage to investigate.

For them, the truth is as slim as a small boat in the ocean, which can be overturned by the wind and waves at any time.

However, if you don't work hard for it, and live like a walking corpse, it is better to jump into the easy water to be clean and happy.

The next day, Xu Wan'er went to the county government and asked the magistrate for a piece of paperwork.

Since then, begging for a life in the dust is just to listen to a few clues from a man after drinking.

And Zhou Heng, who pretended to be crazy and begged during the day, became more and more crazy, reciting unknown 1, 2, and 3 in his mouth all day long......

Now I've read it to my thirties.

Zhou Heng's mother died of illness a few years ago, and now only these two people are left to rely on each other.

took out a thick notebook from their sleeves, and the pages on it were the clues they had searched for in the past 20 years.

The names of more than 30 people recorded above and the list in Zhuo Yunfan's hand are all matched one by one.

Zhuo Yunfan got up from behind the table and personally helped Xu Wan'er up.

Facing Xu Wan'er, Zhuo Yunfan didn't know what to say.

Repentance? For the incompetence of the government.

But who can guarantee that there is no government involvement in this wicked man?

Thanks? For the persistence of the weak people, it provides such an important clue for the case.

In front of Xu Wan'er and Zhou Heng's lost relatives and youth, in front of the eighty-three wisps of unjust souls, these are ashamed and ashamed.

Zhuo Yunfan helped Xu Wan'er to the side of the chair and sat down.

He gave Xu Wan'er a deep look.

"Zhuo Yunfan vowed to find out the truth, comfort the souls of the deceased, and give the people justice."

Xu Wan'er stood up in fear, wanting to reach out to help Lord Qincha, but she was afraid that she would stain Lord Qincha's clothes.

Just as he was embarrassed, a voice sounded outside the door: "Sister Xu, are you here to send me peanuts?" ”