Tan Xuan and Xiao Di returned to normal after a moment of surprise. Fortunately, Er Lingzi was so silent in her own emotions that she didn't hear their quiet exclamations clearly.
"It turns out that the eldest sister's mother-in-law's family name is Gu. After the eldest brother left, was the eldest sister the only one left in the family?" Tan Xuan asked deliberately.
Erlingzi let out a long sigh, "How can I live alone? In the past, my mother and I depended on each other. Last year, my mother also passed away, so I was the only one left inside and outside."
"This person is busy with many things. It is difficult for ordinary women to support a family, but I didn't expect that you are a strong person."
Er Lingzi snorted and took out a pack of cigarettes from her pocket. She lit it up and took a puff without letting Tan Xuan and Xiao Di pass. "How can I deal with it if I'm not strong? I'll just survive."
Tan Xuan laughed and said, "Only when you are alive can you have hope. If you die, you will be completely dead."
After chatting for a few more words, Erlingzi turned the topic to what happened last night.
"Leader sister, you said you saw that face last night. Do you still remember what that face looks like?"
Xiao Di nodded and then shook his head, "I was scared at the time. I just remember that there was a big mole on that face."
"Then if you see him again, can you recognize him?" Erlingzi asked tentatively.
Xiao Di nodded, "That's no problem. Let me say that I don't know how to describe that face, but if I see him, I will definitely recognize him."
"Then wait a minute." Erlingzi got off the edge of the kang and took back a few photos after leaving the west room.
Er Lingzi put the photo on the edge of the kang and asked Xiao Di, "Sister, do you think it's him?"
"Ah! It's him." Xiao Di screamed when he saw the face in the photo, as if he had seen something terrible.
Er Lingzi stood on the ground and patted the edge of the kang hard, crying: "I didn't expect it was really this damn ghost. Why didn't he come to me when he came back? Why did he lean on the window and look into the house? Gu Dayong, you damn ghost,
Since you're back, why don't you come to me directly? You cruel bastard..."
Er Lingzi was cursing and crying, and sat down on the ground while holding the edge of the kang. She was crying miserably. It was not so much a curse on her dead man as it was to talk about the difficulty of her life.
"this……"
Tan Xuan and Xiao Di looked at each other, both confused. They were both a little confused by Er Lingzi's actions. They couldn't tell what kind of style she was having. They didn't try to persuade her, and they didn't know how to persuade her.
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After crying for a while, she didn't know whether it was because she was tired from the pain or because the crying made her feel better. Erlingzi wiped the tears on her face and stood up, her expression completely different from the crying one just now.
"I felt uncomfortable letting the two leaders see the joke. I didn't dare to say it in front of the villagers, so I could only talk about it to you two unfamiliar people. Now I feel more comfortable crying. Didn't I scare you?
"
"hehe……"
Tan Xuan and Xiao Di laughed awkwardly, not knowing how to answer the question.
Er Lingzi sighed, sat on the edge of the kang, lit another cigarette and took two puffs, "I know you found out about me last night, and you may look down on me because of it, but I have no guilt. The devil is still alive.
I didn't feel sorry for him at that time, and I had no choice but to do that after he died. In the countryside, I was a widow and unemployed, working from spring to autumn, how difficult it was. You city people can't understand it at all. Without a man,
As a helper, some jobs are impossible to do. Last night, the girl’s boss said that she saw that dead ghost. I was very scared at first, but when it got daybreak, I wasn’t scared at all. I wished that that dead ghost would appear in front of me right away. I wanted to
Ask him face to face why he left me alone. Does he know how I came here in the past two years? Ah..."
Speaking of her sadness, Erlingzi cried again.
Tan Xuan and Xiao Di looked at each other and asked softly: "Sister, how did your husband die? Can you tell us?"
"He died from drinking pesticide."
"Oh! Did he commit suicide?" Tan Xuan was stunned for a moment and asked, "Why did he commit suicide?"
Some anger rose on Erlingzi's face, and she said harshly: "He was sorry for my daughter and felt guilty, so he committed suicide by drinking pesticide the spring before last."
"He's sorry for your daughter. What's going on? Do you have a daughter?"
"Haha..." Er Lingzi smiled bitterly and said, "How can a person of my age not have a son and a half daughter?"
Mentioning her daughter, Er Lingzi's expression instantly dropped, she looked at Xiao Di and said, "If my little Pan is still alive, he would probably be about the same age as you."
"..."
Xiao Di was stunned. Now everything was correct. The person in front of her was indeed Gu Xiaopan's mother, but she still had her own confusion in her heart.
"Your daughter is about the same age as me, but you don't seem that old."
"Haha..." Er Lingzi shook her head and smiled bitterly, "Don't lie to me. People in rural areas look old because of the weather. In fact, I am just forty this year. The countryside is not like you in the city, where people get married early.
Our family already had a baby when I was eighteen."
"Ah!" Xiao Di's eyes widened in surprise. He didn't expect that the country's call for late marriage and late childbirth for so many years has not been implemented at all here.
"Then your daughter..."
Tan Xuan seemed hesitant and embarrassed to ask directly.
Er Lingzi shook her head and patted her thigh hard twice, "Dead is a short-lived thing. If she hadn't died, I would have been a grandma by now."
"Are you suffering from some serious illness?" Tan Xuan continued to ask pretentiously.
Er Lingzi took two long puffs of cigarette and spat on the ground, "She couldn't get over her serious illness, so she hanged herself in the next room."
"ah!"
Both Tan Xuan and Xiao Di opened their mouths, extremely shocked by the news. Tan Xuan was obviously pretending, but Xiao Di was really surprised. She glanced at the middle room with her peripheral vision. She only knew
Gu Xiaopan hanged herself, but she didn't expect that she hanged herself, and the place where she hanged herself was only separated by a wall from where she was now.
"Then why did she hang herself at such a young age?" Tan Xuan asked, staring into Er Lingzi's eyes. Unexpectedly, he came here to investigate this matter and didn't know where to start. As a result, the answer was announced directly here.
, Tan Xuan felt a little uneasy for a while.
"It's not like her useless father killed his own daughter after drinking some urine soup."
As if she was very angry at the thought of that, Er Lingzi threw the cigarette in her hand to the ground. When her hand was empty, she seemed a little uncomfortable, so she lit another one and held it in her mouth.
After taking two puffs of cigarette, Er Lingzi sighed to herself, "Oh, let's not talk anymore. I haven't cried so easily in so many years. I also used some wine to make you laugh. Sister leader, you
Have a good rest, if that dead ghost dares to harass you again, I will skin him for you. He was a coward when he was alive, but he still scares people when he is dead. It’s true that he hasn’t had a roof over his head for three days."
Erlingzi returned to the east room with a cigarette in her mouth. Although there was a smile on her face, there was no smile on her face, especially the tears that had not yet fallen down on her face, making her look particularly pitiful.
Hearing the door of the east room being slammed shut, Xiao Di's mood became extremely low. He hugged Tan Xuan's arm and said, "Tan Xuan, this eldest sister is really pitiful. My daughter is dead, my husband is dead, and there is nothing left at home."
She is the only one left."
Tan Xuan looked at the door, snorted and said, "She may be pitiful, but there are many pitiful people in the world. Can you sympathize with her?"
Xiao Di moved up and down Tan Xuan's arm and whispered angrily: "Why are you so unsympathetic?"
Tan Xuan snorted coldly, "It's not that I have no sympathy, it's just that I rarely have too much sympathy."
With that said, Tan Xuan went down and closed the door of the west room, returned to the kang and said seriously to Xiao Di: "Don't you think that she just took advantage of the drunkenness to pour out her bitterness to us two outsiders and talk about her inner anguish?
?”
Xiao Di shook his head, "I also think this is a bit too coincidental. Let's find out who spread the gossip and made Gu Xiaopan commit suicide. I didn't expect that we would live directly in Gu Xiaopan's house. I
Now we all wonder if the room we are in now is the room where Gu Xiaopan lived before his death. This is such a coincidence. I can’t believe it is true. And we are here to find out who Gu Xiaopan was raped by.
She committed suicide after spreading gossip, and now based on what her mother just said, it seems that the culprit who caused Gu Xiaopan to commit suicide was her father. This is such a coincidence, it seems like it was achieved without any effort."
Tan Xuan shook his head and interrupted Xiao Di, "I haven't considered the issue of coincidence yet. I just think that too many coincidences are abnormal. And there are some places that I still can't figure out. Look, there are no
When we talked about what happened last night, the woman who claimed to be Gu Xiaopan's mother actually admitted to us that she had an affair with another man. This is not a glorious thing, and her honesty was too straightforward."
"Maybe she just thought we found out about her and deliberately helped her cover it up in front of the village director in the morning, so she confessed to us." Xiao Di said with a wink.
Tan Xuan bit his lip and continued to shake his head, "That's not right. This kind of thing is something that you have to refuse to admit even if it is discovered. How could you not bring it upon yourself? And it's so strange for her to say these things to us today.
Well, it makes me feel strangely that she is here just to answer our questions, I suspect she must have other reasons."
"What's the reason for that? Is she trying to cover up something?" Xiao Di asked in confusion, and then shook his head, "I don't think so. Maybe she just drank too much and wanted to tell us.
The grievances you feel are because you think too complicatedly."
Tan Xuan chuckled and said, "I hope I'm over-concerned. Let's take it one step at a time. Let's join in the fun tonight and then check it out slowly. I want to see if she is confessing or concealing something."
