While Chen Mengsheng and the others were looking at Zang Jiu's body with missing parts in a daze, the shouts of Lihua and Yao Rengui, who had not come out, came from the house. Chen Mengsheng didn't know what happened in the front room, but he felt vaguely.
It seemed that he had been fooled, and had fallen into someone else's trap unknowingly. Zang Jiu's head fell to the side with his mouth raised to the sky, as if he was laughing at how Chen Mengsheng should face the hundreds of people in Hulu Town.
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Xiang Xiaotian roared: "Brother, I didn't expect this old boy to play tricks with us. At worst, we will kill him. I don't believe anyone can stop our brothers."
Chen Mengsheng shook his head and said: "Zang Jiu didn't even think that he would die before, otherwise he wouldn't have come here to help us identify people. I think there must be something fishy about this matter. If we want to kill him, maybe
It just played into the hands of the person who set up the trap."
Shangguan Yanran asked curiously: "Senior brother, how do you know that someone is setting up a trap?"
"I don't know either. It was the strange behavior of Zang Jiu before his death and after he left the soul, which made me know that we have been secretly controlled by others. Now the three people involved in the Zang family's ancestral treasure have all died. Zang Jiu's
The golden beans that my sister rejected as a gift also died in an iron cage with his soul scattered. The person who knows this may be the person behind the entire Calabash Town tragedy."
Qi Ying weakly said in a weak voice: "This... what can we do? It's easy to hide from open guns and hard to prevent hidden arrows. I think it's better to leave. The black ringworm on our faces now is really hard to see."
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Xiang Xiaotian blurted out: "What are you afraid of? As long as you don't dislike me, a big boss, I will marry you!" Xiang Xiaotian's words made Qi Ying blush with embarrassment, and she lowered her head and did not dare to look at them again.
Shangguan Yanran came to the rescue and said: "What time has it been? You are still enjoying your leisure time? Senior brother, go and see what happened to the pear blossom girls in the house."
Chen Mengchang let out a sigh of relief and said: "There are not many blessings, but disasters cannot be avoided. Since everyone has come to the door, maybe we can find some clues to the strange changes in Zangjiu..."
In the front room, Lihua Yao Rengui and several little girls were trapped in the center of the house by more than 20 people from Hulu Town. The people from the town were Zang Da who lived by the river. Zang Da saw Chen Mengsheng and the others entering.
The house pointed loudly at Xiang Xiaotian and shouted: "This is the big man who dragged Uncle Jiu to my door. Hand over Uncle Jiu to me quickly, no one dares to run wild on the ground of Zang's house."
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Xiang Xiaotian glared angrily and said: "What are you yelling at? I brought Zang Jiu here. What do you want? Do you want to beat me up or something? I can tell you that you kicked me out during the day."
I haven't come to you yet, but you still dare to come to me. Believe it or not, I won't beat you in front of your people until they don't even recognize you. I will take your son's surname!" Xiang Xiaotian said as he spoke.
He rolled up his sleeves and walked towards Zangda step by step. The townspeople in Hulu Town had seen this big man fighting for the blind woman by the river. The two brothers of the Zang family were like monkeys in his hands.
There was no way to fight back, and the people in the town stepped aside to make way for Xiang Xiaotian.
Seeing Xiang Xiaotian approaching, Zang Da lost most of his confidence and said bravely: "You... don't mess around, there are many of us. As long as you hand over Uncle Jiu, we will forget about it, you guys
You have to think clearly yourself."
"I miss your grandma's mouth. I'm telling you. You kid, please prick up your ears and listen. That old man is dead!"
"Ah...Zangjiu is dead...Uncle Zangjiu was harmed by these outsiders..."
"We young and old men of the Zang family are not dead yet. Let's kill these outsiders to avenge Uncle Zang Jiu..." There were bursts of screams from the townspeople who followed.
Zangda yelled wildly: "They foreigners killed Uncle Jiu and killed our clan leader in Hulu Town! Kill them to avenge Uncle Jiu..."
Incited by Zang Da, the townspeople roared and rushed toward Xiang Xiaotian. Xiang Xiaotian clenched his fists and lifted up Zang Da in the crowd with one hand. Zang Da kicked his feet in mid-air.
, his face was even more frightened and pale. Since he had taken action, the twenty or so townspeople were enraged, punching and kicking Xiang Xiaotian. The room was suddenly filled with beatings, curses, and shouts...
"Stop, stop it..." Chen Mengsheng's hand suddenly lit up with fire and flew out towards everyone. The fireball hit the river and stirred up several feet of water column, shocking everyone.
Chen Mengsheng glanced at the people coming one by one with a sharp eye and said: "Listen, citizens of Hulu Town, I, Chen Mengsheng, passed by this place and had nothing to do with you. Why did I kill your clan leader?"
Zang Da struggled to get off the ground and rubbed his chest that was scratched by Xiang Xiaotian and said: "I saw with my own eyes that you dragged Uncle Jiu Zang here, and within a short time, Uncle Jiu died. You think we are
Is it a three-year-old child? Who else could you have killed? Let me go in and search the old and young men in the town. I want to see people dead or corpses..."
The townspeople in the house swarmed into the house of Zang Laosan, and the screams of the townspeople came from the backyard. In the rush of footsteps, people carried the two bodies of Zang Jiu and Zang Laosan inside.
After entering the room, everyone's face showed grief and anger with gnashing of teeth.
"Ah..." Everyone in the room looked horrified when they saw the two corpses. Only Chuni, the girl, was surprisingly calm. Looking at Zang Jiu, whose head was missing, Chunni looked at her as if she were a stranger.
There is nothing but indifference!
Zangda covered his nose with his hand and said: "What have you done? Killing Uncle Jiu doesn't count. You also dug up Zangji who was buried in the ground and smashed his head to pieces. I...
...I...will fight with you!" Zang Da saw Zang Ji's swollen corpse with a broken head, and his years of brotherly love made him furious.
Zang Gui hurriedly grabbed Zang Da and said, "Brother, don't be impulsive. They are not easy to mess with."
Chen Mengsheng snorted coldly: "If we want to kill people in this town, do you think it is necessary for us to bring them here to kill them and let you catch them?"
"Sophistry, you obviously brought a living person here, and now his head is gone, of course it's you who did it!"
"Yes, they did it!" The sound of condemnation from the crowd drowned out Chen Mengsheng's defense.
Xiang Xiaotian pointed to the loudest person in the crowd and said: "Is it you? Is it you? Or did you see us killing this old man? My brother is to break the curse in your town and save you from misfortune. No.
Thinking of you still falsely accusing us of killing people, can any of you prove that we killed the person?" Stimulated by the two dead bodies placed on the ground, the grumpy townspeople glared at Xiang Xiaotian, completely tit for tat at Mai Mang.
Don't let anyone in. The house is already on the verge of breaking out.
Zangda glanced at Chunni and said: "Girl, you are from our Hulu Town. We believe what you say. Come over and tell the uncles and uncles present how you died every night among these foreigners."
In my hand." Dozens of pairs of eyes stared at Chuni, and the noisy fighting suddenly became silent.
"I...I...I..." Chunni seemed a little embarrassed when facing the gazes of so many people. She hesitated for a long time without seeing her speak.
Zangda was about to get angry but was stopped by his brother. Zanggui smiled and said, "Miss Chunni, you don't have to be afraid. There are so many people here to protect you. Just say it with confidence, our brothers are
I can't help but think that these foreigners dragged Uncle Jiu here. What do they think of the people in our town? Miss Chunni, tell everyone everything you saw, we will risk our lives.
We must seek justice from these foreigners."
Chuni was embarrassed and said: "My grandfather...he was not killed by these outsiders, he committed suicide..."
In the house, the people in Hulu Town were in a state of shock when Chuni said this. Zangda shouted in disbelief: "What nonsense are you talking about, you girl? How could Uncle Jiu commit suicide as the head of the clan?"
, you girl must have been influenced by their foreigners’ evil ways to talk like crazy here.”
"Uncle Da, I'm not crazy! Everything I said is the truth." Chunni was so anxious that she almost cried.
Zanggui held down the furious Zangda and said to Chunni: "Miss Chunni, please explain to all of us how the outsiders brought you here."
"After noon today, my grandpa was paying homage to my blind grandma in the hall. They came to see my grandpa. I heard someone talking about gold nearby, and grandpa lost his temper and went back to the inner room. They asked me where in our town
Is there something about gold? I...I told them the legend passed down from our ancestors. Unexpectedly, grandpa came in and cursed me. The black-faced man didn't know what he said to grandpa. Grandpa...grandpa, he just said yes.
They got a piece of gold from Zang Laosan and smelted it in Uncle Kui's blacksmith shop. So they brought us here, saying they wanted grandpa to identify the body..." Chunni said this and started in the crowd.
There were commotions, people yelling, and people talking in confusion and disbelief.
Chen Mengsheng walked to the townspeople and said: "We accidentally discovered gold stuck in the pottery tripod in the blacksmith shop. We wanted to ask Zang Jiu for details, but he was evasive. I was not surprised when I saw the gold.
I guessed that he should have known about the gold in Hulu Town. After questioning, Zang Jiu told us that he got the gold from Zang Laosan. The three of them smelted the gold in Zang Kui's blacksmith shop to avoid being caught by the people in the town.
I recognized the imprint of the Zang family on Jin Ruyi. That night, Zang Kui's family was mysteriously hanged from a beam in their home. I thought Zang Kui's death might have something to do with gold. Zang Kui's body was burned to ashes and laid there.
We also checked this in the ancestral hall. However, we only heard that Zang Laosan’s dead body was buried here, so we brought Zang Jiu here to identify the body. As for Zang Jiu, he later lost his mind and used an iron rake.
He smashed Zang Laosan’s head and then committed suicide, which I don’t understand the reason for.”
Chen Mengsheng's words made everyone in the room understand. Zang Gui thought for a while and said: "The person lying on the ground is indeed Zang Laosan. He is the only one in our town with a white lotus tattoo on his chest."
Zang Da still harbored hatred towards Chen Mengsheng and the others, and shouted: "This is your one-sided statement. ### Go and inform all the people in Hulu Town. From now on, lock them in the house until we investigate."