Chapter 737： The real cause of death was found

Chapter 737 The real cause of death is found

Li Laosi ignored him, jumped out of the car and called a veteran guarding the village entrance, and ordered: "Ring the bell and let everyone gather together."

The veteran hurriedly ran to ring the bell, ringing it three times in a row. In addition to people in necessary positions, men, women, and children from the new village and the second village, and even many people from Xiaowangzhuang not far away, came over.

It is true that what happened last time when the bell was ringing was so big that even if everyone was not anxious when listening to the bell, they did not dare to take it lightly for fear that one of their own would suffer a loss.

Soon, hundreds of people gathered under the archway.

Although it is already the end of the first lunar month and the sun is so high, the snow on the sunny side of some hillsides has melted.

But the north wind was blowing and it was still very cold, so everyone was wrapped in cotton-padded jackets and wearing hats.

Now you can easily see the comparison between the good and bad life in several villages.

The people in Xincun were born in the desert, but now they are the best.

Village residents receive work points every day they work, rations are distributed uniformly by the village, and dividends are distributed at the end of the year.

Men, women, old and young all wore thick muslin jackets, their heads and faces were washed and neatly arranged, their backs were straight, they were full of energy and confidence.

Even the women have silver hairpins on their heads, and some have silver bracelets on their wrists.

The second one is the people from the second village. The wounded soldiers get wages and dividends from the workshops.

The women work on their own, and the men in the family are still the marquis' personal guards, and receive military pay and silver rewards.

Even Lao Hei and others had made a lot of money a year ago and were about to set out again.

Therefore, they are all well-dressed. Almost all men wear a wolfskin coat, and the worst is sheepskin.

The women also wore coats and skirts that were used all winter long, and their bodies were round and their faces were red.

Finally, there are people from other villages such as Xiaowangzhuang. Although they also shared the money for growing melons last year, they are not as rich as Xincun and No. 2 Village.

The coats and trousers they wore were patched by many of them.

This is why they are determined to follow in the footsteps of the Li family.

The support of the common people is actually easy to gain. Whoever keeps them well fed and clothed for the winter is the one they want to follow...

Li Laoer, accompanied by the village chief uncle and several other old men, arrived in a carriage.

When they jumped out of the carriage, only Mrs. Li, leading Jiayin and Tao Hongying, were left in the carriage.

Jiayin stuffed a handful of melon seeds for each of my mother and grandma, and then occupied a window, watching the excitement and eating melon seeds.

At this time, several more carriages came rushing down the official road. They were the Chen family who had received the news.

Sure enough, when we got closer, the three ladies of the Chen family and even their natal families came with a lot of people, a dozen or so people.

Almost as soon as she got out of the car, Mrs. Chen Chuan started crying and ran directly to Chen Chuan.

She felt sorry for her husband’s dirty clothes, and she felt even more sorry for his thin cheeks and calluses on his hands…

Mrs. Chen also had a bad look on her face. She stood beside Mr. Chen, counting the beads in her hand crazily and chanting, "What a sin, what a sin!"

Mr. Chen has been suffering for so long. When he suddenly saw his wife, he thought she would bring some food. But instead of chanting Buddha's name, he was so angry that he didn't want to say a word.

Mrs. Chen Er, on the other hand, stretched her neck and looked for her husband in the crowd, but couldn't find her husband for a long time. Then she turned around and muttered to her brother, not knowing what she said...

Li Laosi was born with supernatural powers, and now he has joined the Northern Expeditionary Army. His style of doing things is, don't make a fuss if you can do it.

Therefore, he decided to leave the matter to his second brother decisively after having to deal with it with the Chen family today.

Li Laoer asked a few questions carefully, then looked at the personal and material evidence brought back by the Marquis, and then turned to everyone.

He glanced at everyone in the Chen family and said loudly: "That day, you Chen family came to Suijintan carrying a coffin, and you kept saying that Chen He was killed by the fourth son of my family, and that you wanted to bury Chen He in Suijintan." The Li family thought that you had lost your son and your mother, so they raised their hand and exempted you from the crime of being buried alive and left to do hard labor outside the village.

“Everyone in us at Suijintan is hard-working. In fact, there is no shortage of you people to dig ditches. I just keep you here for the day when the truth comes out.

“Previously in the court, the emperor and all the civil and military officials had spoken about the dangers of hibiscus paste. Chen He died from drinking too much hibiscus paste and was drained of his essence and blood.

“It was precisely because of Chen He’s death that the court and the emperor paid attention to it and secretly investigated the hibiscus ointment.

“Presumably, your Chen family also knows about this, right?”

No one in the Chen family nodded, but they looked a little guilty.

At first they wanted to bury Chen He in Suijintan because they were shouting that Chen He died in the hands of Li Laosi.

Now that the real cause of Chen He's death has been found, everything they did and the hard labor they are doing now seems even more ridiculous and stupid...

Li Laoer ignored them and said, "You may say that our Li family has done some tricks to attribute Chen He's death to hibiscus ointment to avoid culpability.

"Then let's take a closer look today and see how Chen He died? Who gave him the hibiscus ointment? Who even killed your old lady!"

Old lady? !

Mr. Chen and Chen Chuan were both surprised. They raised their heads suddenly and wondered what else was strange about my mother's death. !

Li Laoer signaled two villagers to open the carriage that Li Laosi had rushed back, and pulled off a woman and a long attendant.

Both of them had been locked up for a long time. Their clothes were dirty and dirty. There was a lot of rotten straw rolled on their heads. Their faces were pale and their lips were chapped. They were very embarrassed.

Li Laoer pointed at them and asked the Chen family, "You should know these two people, right?"

 Chen Chuan tried his best to hold back his shock and doubts, and responded: "My mother-in-law is the one who serves my mother, and the chief attendant is my second brother's errand boy!"

Li Laoer said with a smile: "This is easy to handle!"

He took out two confessions and threw them to Chen Chuan. Chen Chuan glanced at them quickly, his face turned livid, and he didn't want to believe them at all.

“Impossible, this is absolutely impossible!”

Mr. Chen was impatient. He snatched the confession and read it again. He was speechless and didn't know what to say.

Li Laoer continued to explain to everyone, "Chen He had already taken hibiscus ointment before he went to the Northern Expedition, but the addiction was not that big. Logically speaking, he should be able to quit and become a pillar of the family and the country.

“But his second uncle, the second master of your Chen family, tried every means to send hibiscus ointment into the military camp, so that Chen He took more and more, making it difficult to leave.

“Finally, the military camp was under martial law, and Chen He died suddenly on the school grounds without the hibiscus ointment.

"And this long follower is responsible for helping Chen Laoer deliver hibiscus ointment to Chen He."

After saying that, he pulled off the straw ball that was stuck in Chang Sui's mouth.

Chang Sui was locked in prison and had not seen the light of day for almost two months. Now he finally saw an outsider. He was extremely excited and wanted to avenge himself more and more.

He almost cried and threw himself at Chen Chuan's feet.

“Third Master, wuwu, it’s not the servant who wants to harm the young master! The servant doesn’t know what’s in the jade box. The second master asked the servant to give it to the young master, so the servant gave it to him.

“Ugh, the management in the military camp is very strict. I spent a lot of time and bribed a lot of people to send things in. I even lost my monthly salary.

“Fortunately, the military camp asked my family to send me something at the end of the month, so I put the jade box directly into the package.

“But then, the second master suddenly stopped sending it, and the servant didn’t know what was going on, let alone that it would kill the young master!”

(End of this chapter)