Lu Jinping said: "I am investigating this case now. Don't leave the village in the past two days, you are on call. If you run away, I think you are guilty and absconded with the guilt. Have you heard of it?"

Donggua Tou muttered, "I have a few businesses in Tongzhou that need to be managed. I'm going to run away. This business cannot be delayed. Xin·" As soon as she said this, the village next to him kicked him in the butt and said, "You dare to contradict you if you say sir? You don't want to live anymore."

"No. How dare I talk back to the Lord's words? I'll just say that. No matter how big the business is, it's not as great as the Lord's instructions. I will listen to whatever the Lord's words say. I will definitely not leave."

Lu Jinping then stood up and left Donggua Tou's house.

When he arrived at the village entrance street, Lu Jinping said to Tong County Magistrate and County Magistrate: "My sister and I live in Old Man Su's house, so you can live in the village or other places."

The magistrate of Tong County and the county magistrate wished Lu Jinping to have this sentence. They didn't want to live on the kangs of ordinary people. They didn't know whether there was a quilt cover in the cold winter. What's more, there were the most terrible lice, which were bitten and couldn't wear all their clothes when they got home, and they were all burned. Now Lu Jinping said this, of course he was overjoyed, but his face looked apologetic, saying, "I guess the old man can't live in so many of us. Then we won't bother you, follow the arrangements of the Lord's orders and live somewhere else. If the Lord's orders are there any orders."

Lu Jinping said: "Don't just eat and drink, send people to the village to learn about it, and see if anyone saw the son of Old Man Su that day, where did he see him? You must explain the details clearly, and report to me as soon as possible if there is any news."

The magistrate of Tong County and the county magistrate quickly agreed and ordered his constables to go door to door to investigate and visit.

So Lu Jinping took Ye Qingqing to their house with Old Man Su and Su Sanmei. The Su family was indeed very simple, with three simple wooden houses surrounded by a fence. After entering, the house was deserted. After all, the two of them were not at home for many days.

Old Man Su didn't expect that the Lord Tang would live in his house, so he didn't have any preparations. When he arrived home, he was busy making fires and boiling water.

When Su Sanmei quickly scooped two bowls of brown rice from a rice jar and was squatting at the door to wash rice, Lu Jinping smelled a familiar smell, which was the moldy smell emitted by aged brown rice. Lu Jinping had been traveling over for more than half a year and had eaten this kind of rice with Ye Qingqing. However, after becoming an official, he never ate it again. Now, do you have to remember the bitterness and sweetness again?

Ye Qingqing leaned into Lu Jinping's ear and whispered: "I'll go and tell the people from the county government that they can bring some white rice?"

Lu Jinping quickly shook his head and glanced at Ye Qingqing reproachfully. Ye Qingqing's pretty face turned slightly red, and he lowered his head and stopped talking.

After Su Sanmei washed the old brown rice, she put it in a cauldron, added water, and started cooking. Then she ran to the vegetable garden behind the house to pull up a pot of vegetables and came back.

Ye Qingqing hurriedly stepped forward to help, but Su Sanmei blushed and shook her head and said no, and then squatted in the yard to clean a bucket of water carried in the well and washed it carefully.

Old Man Su had already boiled the hot water, and there was no tea at home. He could only use a mud bowl to serve two bowls of boiling water, put it on the small square table in the middle of the house, and asked Lu Jinping and the others to drink water.

Lu Jinping looked around and sighed, "Your family is not living a good life."

Old Man Su nodded and sighed and said, "All family is prosperous. We are just at home. I got seriously ill more than ten years ago and my health has been bad. I can't go to the ground. I can only help with some light work. The family's vitality depends entirely on my son. But after my son married my daughter-in-law, the two of them fought and quarreled all day long. My daughter-in-law was so angry that she didn't fight a place. She didn't have the heart to cook farm work. Planting crops is like serving people. If you don't serve it well, he won't give you a good face. People can make 300 kilograms of rice per acre, but our family can't even get 200 kilograms of rice. In addition, my daughter-in-law takes the things from her mother-in-law from time to time to go to her parents' home. Every time my son has to argue with him, how can such a family be good? It's good to live a life without going to begging on the street."

"Is the village where your daughter-in-law lives far away from here?"

"It's not far. You can get there after crossing the mountain, only ten miles away."

"Can you work hard to call her? I have something to ask her."

Lu Jinping felt that if he stopped doing something this night, he would not make Old Man Su think that he was helping him investigate the case with all his best efforts. So although he did not expect to obtain useful information from Old Man Su's daughter-in-law and find out any problems, he felt that doing so would comfort the poor old man and said that he was working hard to investigate the case.

Old Man Su was a little hesitant. He really didn't want to see his daughter-in-law. In fact, he scolded her because of the fact that his daughter-in-law left their house, but now he asked him to invite her daughter-in-law back. This is really a bit indifferent.

Seeing him stammering, Lu Jinping guessed what he was thinking. He said immediately: "I will send two constables to come with you, you just need to lead the way. When the constables arrive, they will bring her. Now it is the yamen to investigate the case, and she must come and listen to the questioning."

When Old Man Su heard Lu Jinping say this, he could only agree, not to mention that now there is a yamen constable summoning her, not begging her. He was just leading the way, so he nodded and agreed. He stood up and told his granddaughter to take good care of the Lord, and then followed Lu Jinping out of the door.

There were two constables at the door, which were arranged by Magistrate Tong to wait for the orders of Master Lu at any time at the door. After Lu Jinping told them, the two constables quickly agreed and took the old man away.

After the old man Su left, Su Sanmei seemed a little at a loss. At this time, the rice was not ready, so she sat on the threshold, hugged her knees and stared at Wu Se in a daze, and she didn't come to talk and greet Lu Jinping.

Soon, the house was filled with the fragrance of rice. At night in the mountains and villages, the fragrance was particularly attractive.

Ye Qingqing walked to Su Sanmei, sat side by side with her on the threshold, turned her head and looked at her and said, "Do you have any worries? You never talk to me when you see you."

Su Sanmei showed a reluctant smile on her lips. The smile disappeared in an instant, and became cool and lonely again. She looked down at the straw sandals under her feet, and her toes were exposed, constantly shrinking in, as if she was afraid of others' ridicule.

Ye Qingqing hugged her shoulder with distress and said, "You don't change your clothes, aren't you cold?"

Su Sanmei smiled slightly, and half of her neat and white front teeth could be seen from the gaps in her lips.

Lu Jinping also walked out, sat under the eaves of the door with a small stool, beside them, looking at the distant mountains and dusk mist, as if talking to the two, and seemed to be talking to themselves: "The family is harmonious and everything is prosperous. This sentence is really true. If a person respects his parents, couples depend on each other, and cares for his children, such a family will surely flourish. But if he fights all day long, then such a family cannot work together, what can be done? People's hearts are together, and mountains are like this, in the country, and in the small family."

Upon hearing this, Su Sanmei lowered her head and almost buried it in her arms.

Ye Qingqing, who was hugging her shoulders, felt her body trembling gently, and seemed to hear a faint sob. She was about to comfort her, but suddenly, she saw scars from the back of her neck, which was lowered. She was shocked and looked up at Lu Jinping with a wink.

Lu Jinping leaned over and looked at it, and couldn't help but exclaim, with thick eyebrows locked, and said to Su Sanmei: "What's wrong with your neck injury? It seems that someone was pinching."

Su Sanmei was startled and quickly covered her with her hands, pulled her hair to block it, and said nothing, but just headed towards Lu Jinping.

Lu Jinping said: "Don't be afraid, I am the official, I will make the decision for you. No matter who bullies you, I will bring him to justice. Who cuts off your neck? Tell me, don't be afraid."

Su Sanmei kept shook her head, stood up in panic, and walked into the house. She walked to the stove, picked up the cracked pot lid, looked at the cooked rice inside, but it was almost done, so she quickly put the vegetables she had just washed in the pot to start cooking.

Ye Qingqing walked to her and said, "San Sister, you must tell the Lord that someone pinched your neck is not a joke. What's going on? The Lord came to investigate the case of your father's tragic death. If this matter is related to your father's case, it may be able to help your father's tragedy. Do you understand?"

"Why should I help him?" Su Sanmei's words were sad and angry. Although her voice was very light, it was enough for Ye Qingqing to hear it. She couldn't help but look at Lu Jinping who was following him again.

Lu Jinping didn't say anything because at this time he would probably call back what Su Sanmei had already said.

Ye Qingqing guessed something from Su Sanmei's expression and asked: "Why are you unwilling to help your father avenge? Could it be that the wound on the back of your neck... was your father pinched it?"

Su Sanmei nodded slowly, supported her hands on the stove, and tears fell on the stove one by one.

"Why did he pinch you so obediently and sensible? Why did he pinch you? Why?"

Su Sanmei sobbed and finally spoke: "I don't know, I really don't know! No matter what I do, my father is not satisfied. He always gets angry for no reason, grabs my hair and beats me to death, kneels on my back with his knees, and pinches my neck. My mother comes to save me, and he hits my mother, pinches my mother's neck, and he also pinches her to death. She rolls her eyes and can't breathe before letting go. My mother and I have been careful to accommodate him, and dare not offend him in anything, but we still have to be bullied like this..."

Su Sanmei choked and wiped her tears while talking.

Ye Qingqing's eyes turned red when she heard this. She hugged her in her arms. Su Sanmei felt as if she had a backer, hugging Ye Qingqing's waist and cried. (To be continued.)
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