"What are you doing!" Old Lady Wu looked at her great-grandson and felt very distressed, "Yi'er is too pitiful today, he fell into the water and was injured, and he will get sick if he continues like this!

"Your great-grandson is just a little oily. Zhang Ziang sneered, "My wife and daughter lost their lives! That's three lives!"

Mrs. Wu was so frightened by him that she hiccuped. Zhou Dahu dragged her and Mrs. Wu away one by one. "Okay, listen to the county order and the village!"

Mrs. Wu looked at her grandson and was silent.

Everyone retreated, letting Zhou Xianyi roll in the middle alone. He became more and more frightened, and cried out loud.

Zhang Xianling snorted: "I want to see how long he can cry." "If this were an adult man, he would have been named a suspect and dragged down and beaten half to death. But it was a five or six-year-old child, and it was unpopular to go directly to the punishment.

So there was such a strange scene by the stream under the moon:

The adults all gathered in a circle and watched coldly at the boy in the middle crying.

Zhou Xianyi cried while stretching out his hand to Mrs. Wu: "Great-grandmother!"

Mrs. Wu was so heartbroken that he cried, but Zhou Dahu stopped her and didn't allow her to come forward.

Zhou Xianyi had to turn to Mrs. Wu again and call "grandma", but to no avail.

After crying for a few dozen breaths, he was tired.

He is still young, his lung capacity is insufficient, and today he is overboard and injured, and after crying for a long time, he will inevitably be dizzy, his face will be full of tears, and his eyes will be swollen like rabbits.

It wasn't until he changed to a quiet sobbing that Zhang Xianling leaned down and stared at him and said, "Is it enough to cry? If it's not enough, you can continue to cry, we'll wait." ”

His voice was so quiet that it was almost cold, Zhou Xianyi shrunk, but he couldn't cry anymore, so he got up and ran to his grandmother.

He can only feel safe when he is around his family.

Zhang Ziang grabbed his shoulder: "Don't move." ”

Zhou Xianyi picked his fingers hard, but he couldn't open them, so he had to shout: "Great-grandmother, great-grandmother!" Seeing that his great-grandmother was blocked by his grandfather, he shouted again, "Grandma!

Mrs. Wu looked at him and wept.

In Zhou Xianyi's opinion, the madman-like man approached him and said word by word: "Tell me where the bracelet came from, otherwise, you won't be able to walk away from Jushitan today!"

Only by letting this kid know that no one can protect him today, can he tell the truth!

Mrs. Wu couldn't stand it anymore, and said loudly: "The bracelet was picked up by Xian Yi from the stream! The big water can wash people into the river, and it can also wash the bracelet out......

Zhang Xianling turned his head to look at her, and his face was full of solemnity: "You saw it with your own eyes?"

"Ah......" Mrs. Wu clenched her cane, "Yes, I saw it with my own eyes, and the chain was ...... by my great-grandson from the river."

Before the word "pick" could be spoken, Zhang County's order had already asked: "When did you pick it, where did you pick it, did you find it, did anyone else see it, and can anyone testify to you?"

Mrs. Wu opened her mouth, a little confused, and was about to answer, but Zhang County's order took the lead again: "Think clearly before you speak, perjury is a serious crime, and you must be detained in the county and put in a dungeon, and you will be tried separately!" As long as there is a bluff, most of them will die down.

Sure enough, Mrs. Wu's words were blocked back, and she couldn't say anything for a long time. On the contrary, Zhou Dahu coughed and said: "Actually, what my mother said is also reasonable, the bracelet may indeed be washed off the hands of the deceased, and finally picked up by my grandson." ”

Zhang Xianling asked reluctantly: "When was that?" He leaned over, his gaze level with Zhou Xianyi, "When will you get the bracelet?"

Zhou Xianyi's eyes rolled around, looking straight to the sky, until he was asked again, and then reluctantly replied: "When the moon is full." ”

"How many days ago was that?"

Zhou Xianyi looked at him blankly, obviously unable to answer. The flash flood broke out more than two months ago, and it has been more than 70 days since now, and he only knows how to add or subtract within 20, and he has no concept of "70", so he cannot answer the question of Zhang County's order.

At this moment, Chitose suddenly approached Jin Niangzi and talked in a low voice.

They were at the back, and the attention of the villagers was in front again, and no one noticed Jin Niangzi's surprised expression.

"I'm going to listen too!" only Ah Mei was interested.

"Shhhh ”

The county magistrate was asking the boy, "How did you get it?"

"From, out of the river. Zhou Xianyi answered fluently this time, and pointed downstream, "It's in the section of the Tiger Leaping Stream." ”

From here, there is a short and narrow section of the river, and some people have seen a tiger leaping from there, so it is called a tiger jumping stream.

Zhang Ziang didn't believe it and asked him: "Is it really chosen?"

Zhou Xianyi nodded like pounding garlic: "Really!"

Mrs. Wu sighed: "He's just a child, what can he do?"

Zhang Xianling glanced at her before saying, "I didn't say that he hurt people." He asked Zhou Xianyi again, "You haven't seen anything else?"

This time the boy shook his head desperately.

Zhang Xianling's gaze swept over the village and the villagers, and he was a little embarrassed. He can detect Zhou Xianyi's perfunctory, if he is in Huaxi County, he can use some means to ensure that the child tells the truth, but is it here......

Hongmo Village is self-contained, and the villagers do not obey discipline, and if he insists on taking the boy without a valid reason, I am afraid that conflict will arise again. The combat effectiveness of these villagers is not bad, and the county soldiers have already learned the lessons in the past few days, and they have finally calmed things down, and he really doesn't want to provoke any more disputes.

But at this time, a loud voice came from the crowd: "He lied!"

Everyone was stunned, and turned their heads to look.

Jin Niangzi.

actually spoke out again with the most disagreeable Jin Niangzi of the Zhou family.

She seemed to be afraid that everyone wouldn't hear clearly, so she strengthened her circle again: "Zhou Xianyi, he lied!"

Mrs. Wu was so angry that she wanted to roll up her sleeves and beat people: "What are you talking about! You vicious mother-in-law, you still want to frame my family!"

Mrs. Wu was also full of displeasure: "Mrs. Jin, this matter has nothing to do with you." ”

"Yes, it doesn't matter. Jin Niangzi crossed her waist, "I just can't get used to your coy behavior, I just sympathize with the tragic death of the Zhang family's daughter-in-law!"

She turned around and pointed at Zhou Xianyi: "This kid just said that he only picked up the bracelet when the moon was full, which is obviously a lie!"

She "lied" one by one, and Zhou Dahu also felt very harsh: "What about the evidence?"

"Do you still remember the day when Wen Niangzi's mother and daughter were killed?" Jin Niangzi just had to mention Chitose, and at this time, she had Cheng Zhu in her chest, and asked everyone in a hurry, "The boy of the Zhou family can't count, and he can't say the specific time, but I remember that day was the first day of the seventh month!"

Many villagers thought about it and nodded.

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