When Ye Xuan and Mu Ru Yue returned at noon, the servant girl hurriedly asked about the matter. She didn't explain it clearly and only said that the yamen would send people to investigate again.
The villagers were all regretful. This Second Brother Wang also had a bitter life. It wasn't easy for him to have a wife who was like a flower and jade to finally have a root. With a stomp of his legs, he belched. He didn't know which wild man would benefit from such a large family fortune.
The nanny felt this matter was very strange. No matter how she looked at it, it seemed strange. However, the result from the yamen was that Second Brother Wang had accidentally fallen into the water and drowned.
The result was so confusing that no one knew when Second Brother Wang drowned. There were so many people fishing the other day, how could anyone have seen it? If he didn't go when it was time to fish, then why would Old Wang go to the lake alone?
And the bag of gold the search party found in the lake the other day, who threw it in?
The whole thing seemed odd and odd, but the moment the yamen said it, everyone believed it. Even Second Brother Wang's wife accepted it with tears in her eyes. That gold was naturally Second Brother Wang's inheritance, and everyone was happy when it returned to her hands.
She hastily cooperated with the sand experiment, and the results were out of her expectations. Unfortunately, the amount of limestone Ye Xuan brought back from the mountain was too little and he couldn't do too much, but at least he knew what the limestone looked like, and he also knew how to burn it, so it wouldn't be difficult for him to bring the limestone back from the mountain.
At noon that day, the lady used a basket of limestone that Ye Xuan had carried back from the mountain to make half a bag of lime. She mixed it with sand and scattered the rest of the useless stones on the ground of the mill.
It was at this moment that Cui Lian appeared at the home of the little girl. It was unknown what she had experienced in the past few days. Her face was haggard and her face didn't change, and she was holding onto the clothes that the little girl had ordered Iron Egg to throw to her that day.
Without saying a word, she held the clothes in front of her, as if she didn't want to say a word of thanks, but the lady didn't know what to say to her, so she silently took the clothes and put them to the side. She then continued to wipe the cement clean, but she didn't expect that Cui Lian didn't have any intention of leaving and still stood on the side.
"What's the matter?" The little girl asked patiently.
Cui Lian looked at her a few times, but didn't say anything. In fact, Cui Lian had some pride. She had a oval face, and when she was jealous, she looked mean and mean. But as long as she didn't say anything, she looked like she was living a peaceful life. It was no wonder that the other girls in the village would be jealous of her.
"You … "Do you really not like Lin Yang?" Cui Lian finally asked.
The tender lady was speechless, "Not everything you like is something others like. I have no interest in snatching it from you. If you like it, then go chase it. But if he doesn't like it, then you can't blame me, right?"
Everyone felt that the person they liked was unique and unparalleled, habitually thinking of other women as their enemies. It seemed like Lin Cuilian was truly pitiful, she was only concerned with fighting against her imaginary enemies to the death, yet she didn't know what Lin Yang wanted.
"I won't like him anymore," Cui Lian said with a wry smile. "Who else would marry a woman like me?"
The cute girl didn't know what to say. Compared to Cui Lian's dead heart, she liked her proud and domineering look more. She could only comfort her: "Look at me, didn't I also get wrongly accused of soaking in pigs? Aren't I still alive and well? "At least it's better than a lot of innocent people."
Cui Lian was a little surprised that the little girl would say such words. However, when she thought about it, although the villagers despised the little girl, who would actually dare to criticize her? At least the girl was not living her own life.
She pursed her lips and smiled. "Indeed."
Today, Cui Lian was so obedient, the lady in red was too embarrassed to say anything harsh to her, so she tried to persuade her, "So don't you feel anything, it's just that you fell into the river once, and you're not missing a piece of meat, the people who truly like you will not mind this, the people who do mind this are not really like you, why are you sad about this?"
Cui Lian nodded as if she had understood something. After hearing what the girl had to say, she turned around to take a look. Then she crouched down beside the girl and whispered, "Old Second didn't drown himself in the water."
The lady's heart skipped a beat. What did Cui Lian mean by that?
"Don't look at me, just treat it as if we were chatting normally." Cui Lian said without raising her head as she put the stone head on the ground.
The little girl's curiosity was piqued by the way she acted, so she could only lower her head and asked, "What do you mean by that?"
"I saw it the other day before I fell into the river. Someone was standing behind Second Brother Wang, and not long after, Second Brother Wang fell into the water. That person seemed to have seen me too. I was scared and wanted to leave, but I didn't notice that someone else fell into the river." "These two days, my mother found a dead rat outside my house. I think that that person knew I saw it so he was testing me, and I'm extremely scared, but I don't dare to tell my mother that I wanted to go hang myself by the river after returning the clothes, but I want to ask you now, do you have any way of helping me?"
There were tears in her eyes, and they fell on the concrete floor and she looked helpless.
Cui Lian's words meant that Old Second didn't accidentally fall into the water and drown, but rather was pushed into the water. If a normal person was pushed into the water, they might even be able to scream twice, but Second Brother Wang didn't even scream, what did this mean? Second Elder Wang might have died before he even fell into the water, so he might have already fainted …
After she understood all of this, the little girl felt goosebumps all over her body. She had not expected that there would be a murder case in this isolated little village. However, the most important thing right now was to pacify Cui Lian. If she found a dead mouse outside the door, it definitely wasn't an accident. The murderer was testing Cui Lian to see her reaction.
"Did you go out these few days?"
"No, I don't dare. But this morning, there was another dead mouse at the door. I was afraid that they would harm my parents, so I wanted to return the clothes and go and die …" Cui Lian's body shook violently. She first experienced the loss of her innocence, then was threatened by death in secret. This girl, who was usually proud and arrogant, couldn't help but cry in front of her little sister.
"Don't cry first," the lady said calmly. "Right now, the killer isn't sure if he saw it or not, so don't expose yourself. I will help you find the killer, but first you have to act along with me …"
Not long after, everyone in the village knew that Cui Lian was crying and begging the lady to give Lin Yang to him, saying that she had nowhere else to go. If no one married her, she would go up the mountain and become a nun.
The villagers didn't know what to say, with how Cui Lian was, even a good family like Lin Yang wasn't willing to marry her, not to mention that she fell into the water in front of everyone's eyes, losing her innocence. Lin Yang's family had finally made a name for themselves, how could they marry a girl like this, it was no wonder that his wife beat her up.
"You should be relieved now, right? That Lin Cuilian did not even see that I pushed the old thing. " The man leaned close to the woman, "I've already endured for so long, you should have let me …"
The woman smiled coquettishly, "Don't take this as a joke. If it is done, we will be able to stay together. If we can't do it …"
"If that doesn't work, we'll treat it like a pair of dead lovebirds. I'll go wherever you go, and I'll also be quite carefree and happy. My good treasure, quickly touch me. I've been thinking too much about you here."
The woman was slightly disdainful, but she still smiled coquettishly, "Good brother, don't worry, I'll listen to you."
A fat kid in the bamboo basket was crying his heart out, but no one paid any attention to him.
According to what the little girl said, the dead mice outside the door would be gone the next day. However, Cui Lian still urged her mother on, shouting and cursing at the door for a long time, until she vented out all the frustration she had for the past few days.
That afternoon, Tsuilan's parents went off to work, leaving Tsuilan to be a beauty at home. Someone was knocking on the door.
After hesitating for a long time, Cui Lian still opened the door. She saw Lin Yang standing outside, saying to her, "It's not that I don't like you, but it's because I've treated you as my little sister since you were young, so can you stop causing trouble for me?"
Cui Lian looked him up and down a few times. Her heart had been pounding the moment she saw him. She didn't know if she had been scared to the point that she didn't dare to jump at all these days. She even wanted to curse a bit. At this time, she was at home worrying about her life, Lin Yang still couldn't figure out what was going on.
At last, after holding back a word of 'lunatic', she closed the door.