Hongyan was so angry that he cursed: "What nonsense are you talking about! My wife helped you and got revenge, didn't she?
The nobles outside are begging my wife to buy the cold melon seedlings worth ten gold, but my wife still has to consider it. But in order to take care of her relatives, my wife didn't even frown, and she didn't charge a penny for the credit.
For you guys.
Now it's come back to bite us! Could it be that you feel uncomfortable staying at the bottom of the mountain and want to go up the mountain and become a wolf in the middle of the mountain? If not for greed..."
"Hongyan, stop talking." Lin Wanwan shouted to stop Hongyan. If he continued talking, it would be bad. Death is the most important thing. It would be unlucky to arrange the deceased in the mourning hall.
Lin Lu, who cried so much that she fainted and woke up again, swayed with runny nose and tears. With the help of an unknown relative or friend, she came over and threw a ball of burned black matter at Lin Wanwan's feet, howling.
He cried bitterly: "What an injustice, what an injustice! We shouldn't be greedy for this windfall, we can't make it! Wan Niang, you have done a big bad thing with good intentions!"
While talking, he stepped on the black ash.
Lin Qin quickly stood in front of Lin Wanwan and said to Lin Lu: "Aunt, you, you can't say that! This has nothing to do with Wanwan and has nothing to do with her at all!"
Mrs. Lin Lu didn't listen to what she said at all. She turned around and stretched out her hand to pounce on Lin Mengyi's body lying on the door panel in the mourning hall: "Yi'er, you were killed at a young age. Why don't you leave this body behind?"
How can we, a group of orphans and old mothers, survive? How can we survive?"
Mrs. Lin Sun also grabbed her youngest son and rushed towards him, wailing.
The child was still at an ignorant age and did not understand what he had lost. He was frightened and cried by the crazy way his mother dragged him around. He hugged his mother and cried out for a hug.
Suddenly, there were miserable cries inside and outside the mourning hall.
This scene was really miserable and pitiful. Even some members of the Lin clan complained about the unreasonable logic of the Lin and Lu family's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and were temporarily speechless. Several women even wiped away tears.
Someone nearby muttered: "Now there is one less strong laborer to earn money, and I am left with a wife with two sons and a daughter. What should I do?"
"Oh, it's so pitiful, so pitiful, the house is gone, the people are gone, alas!"
"Meng Zhong, you are the eldest in the family. Your parents are getting old and confused. Why don't you try to persuade them? What's the point of putting such a precious thing like cold melon in your house to attract attention? If you can sell it, just follow the others.
We sold it together, look, it’s really going to cause a big trouble now.”
Originally, when there were cold melons in more than a dozen households in the village, the militiamen were particularly alert and patrolled all night. Every household had people sleeping outside to guard the cold melons, so they were not afraid of trouble.
But then everyone else sold, leaving only two households unsold, so the village's defenses naturally relaxed. Even Lin Guofu's own family was not particularly alert, so someone took advantage of it.
Lin Wanwan silently stepped forward, offered Lin Mengyi a stick of incense, and left with Hongyan.
After walking out of the mourning hall, Lin Wanwan understood the reason why Lin Qin was so anxious to chase her just now.
These words of blaming her must have been said all the time, so Lin Qin wanted to stop her and prevent her from hearing them.
If Lin Wanwan was a moral saint, she might really be manipulated by Lin Sun's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law at this time, but she is not.
Although Lin Wanwan did want to know about not taking the cold melon seedlings the moment she learned about the murder, but that was only a momentary thought.
She didn't feel that she had done anything wrong by paying for her people. If she was wrong, it was just that the Lin Guofu family was too greedy. Why did they have to compete with the traders for this profit?
Farmers sell to merchants, and merchants sell to nobles. There must be a lot of price difference in between. What's wrong with it? You have to find the buyer yourself, and you have to look around, and the door is penetrated by others.
Lin Wanwan had some sympathy for Lin Mengyi who died unexpectedly, but she would never blame herself for the mistake.
If Lin Guofu and his family thought they could kidnap her morally, they would be totally wrong.
If their family begged her for help in tears, maybe she would relent and help, but if they wanted to blackmail people by accusing her of a crime, that was a no-brainer.
She, Lin Wanwan, is either a person who is willing to be angered or someone who is willing to take the easy way rather than the hard way.
On the way back, Hongyan was even angrier than Lin Wanwan. The master humiliated the slave and died. She was very angry because she couldn't show off her power in front of Lin Guofu's family today!
"Madam, you are still supporting the education and food of his children in the school. They dare to accuse you like this. I am really angry. Madam, aren't you angry?"
Lin Wanwan turned her head and looked at the angry young girl, and said calmly: "Didn't you help me scold me? I'm not angry anymore."
"Hey, madam, I really can't understand this family." Hongyan let out a long sigh.
However, she also knew that their family was a little different from other families in Linjiazhuang. After all, they had the closest blood relationship with the family's young lady, Lin Qingyu.
Lin Wanwan was originally thinking about taking Xiao Qingyu to pay homage to her brother-in-law after school. After the incident just now, she completely gave up her thoughts.
Forget it, Xiao Qingyu is my daughter now. They are just distant cousins. Why bother to pay homage? It is enough that she just offered incense.
Lin Wanwan doesn't even plan to go to tomorrow's funeral ceremony.
At three quarters to noon, the mute girls A Li and A Jing returned to the village with a group of young adults from Linjiazhuang and a man who was sluggish and had a black nose and swollen eyes.
Naturally, A-Li and A-Jing went home immediately. Because they were mute, they could not send back any information. Others dragged the man to the mourning hall, and Patriarch Lin, who had received the news, also rushed over.
Lin Wanwan did not go, but signaled Sun Cheyao with her eyes to listen to the scene and report in time.
Sun Che Yao is the most astute among all Lin Wanwan's servants. He can listen to the news without fear of errors or omissions.
Not long after, Sun Chueyao came to report: "Madam, it turns out that the murderer last night was Madam Lin Mengyi's cousin. Mrs. Sun was so arrogant when she returned to her parents' house a few days ago that she gave people pink eye."
Lin Wanwan said in surprise: "If I remember correctly, the Sun family was prohibited from returning to her parents' home to visit relatives by the clan leader. How come she can move around again?"
"That was all seven or eight months ago. Why would Chief Lin keep focusing on such a trivial matter? As long as their head didn't object, who could really stop her from returning to her parents' home? What's more, Dafeng Village is far away from the Lin Family Village. It's not as difficult as other people in the village to return to their parents' home."
Lin Wanwan understood and asked again: "What about this murderer?"
Sun Che Yao replied: "Then one life must be paid for one life. Tonight, at midnight, he will be disemboweled and his heart, liver and lungs will be sacrificed to Lord Mengyi."
Lin Wanwan was silent after hearing this. In the countryside of the Tang Dynasty, what was important was such a simple blood for blood.
If the imperial power does not go to the countryside, even if the clan leader and Li Zheng agree to it, the official will not pursue it. Which rural clan does not have lynchings?
I'm afraid Lin Sun's life will be even more miserable in the future. She already had no husband to rely on, and now her husband's family has found out that the person who killed her husband was her cousin.
Her cousin will soon be executed by the Lin Family Village, and her family will naturally hate her. In short, she will probably have to survive in the cracks in the future.