However, the family of the two children whom Widow Xu and her husband risked their lives to save were still conscientious and did not sit idly by. They always reached out to help Widow Xu and the two children.
But Widow Xu and her husband's brothers have long been blinded by money, so how could they be willing to give up the houses and land that were so easily available to them.
But as long as Widow Xu is still there, those things will not be in their hands. These brothers came up with a bad idea.
They encouraged their parents to marry off Widow Xu. As for the two children, they were of their family's blood, so naturally they could not marry Widow Xu.
They raised the two children, so naturally the house and the land were left under their temporary care.
As for the time of temporary supervision, this has nothing to do with outsiders.
Widow Xu had a good relationship with her deceased husband, and she knew well in her heart that if a pair of children stayed, based on the virtue of the family, the two children would be considered to have fallen into a wolf's den, and whether they could grow up alive or not was a question.
So she couldn't bear it!
They tried a lot of tricks there, but Widow Xu never took the bait, and over time, she seemed to have given up.
But since then, there have been a lot of rumors about Widow Xu in the brigade.
Those who know Widow Xu as a person will naturally not believe it, but some things will always arouse people's speculation if they are spread too much.
Widow Xu has been holding on for the sake of her two children.
Until one day, without knowing what happened, Widow Xu hanged herself with a rope in front of her husband's parents' house.
Later, there was a rumor in the village that Widow Xu had been bullied, and it was her husband's brothers who had targeted her.
Some people believe this and some don't, but it is true that Widow Xu was injured at that time. This was reported by two women who changed Widow Xu's clothes.
But no matter what, there was no evidence, and Widow Xu was already dead, so in the end the matter passed in confusion.
Although his family had already begun to take root in his hometown at that time, the news from the capital city from time to time made him sure that the gang had not let go of the Xie family.
During that time, he and his sons wished that their attention would be weaker and it would be better if no one paid attention to them.
The women in the family rarely go out.
They have too much time to take care of themselves, so they don't have the energy to get involved in other people's affairs.
Xie Zhiying shook his head: "What I mean is that Widow Xu may not have hanged herself. She should have been strangled to death first and then hanged.
The day before Widow Xu's accident, I saw her talking to Boss Feng in the woods. The two seemed to be quarreling at the time. I didn't hear clearly what they were arguing about, but the quarrel was quite intense."
Speaking of this, Xie Zhiying couldn't help but frowned: "I don't know if I saw it wrong, but I always felt that Widow Xu's attitude towards Boss Feng was a bit strange. Although the two were quarreling, their behavior seemed a bit intimate, so
It's like we've known each other for a long time.
But at that time, the Feng family had just escaped from the disaster, and they didn’t know anyone here at all. I later asked someone about it, and found that the Feng family had no relatives here at all, and had no other relationship with Widow Xu’s natal family.
And I don’t think the other members of the Feng family act like they know Widow Xu.”
Xie Zhiyuan frowned, as if he had thought of something.
After a long while, he slowly spoke: "Your sister-in-law seems to have mentioned this matter to me.
Speaking of which, Widow Xu is not her parents’ biological child. She also escaped with her family back then. It’s just that she was unlucky and managed to escape here. Her mother died of cold in two days after arriving here.
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Widow Xu was only seven or eight years old at the time, and those who escaped with her had no biological relationship with him. In addition, given the circumstances at the time, her own children could not even afford to raise them, let alone other people's families.
No one wants to raise a seven- or eight-year-old baby that is so hungry that it can no longer crawl.
When Widow Xu's adoptive parents passed by that area, they saw her lying on the ground and couldn't bear it, so they took her home.
At first, I wanted to take her back to be a child bride for my son, but the two children really couldn't get enough of her.
In addition, after raising her for such a long time, I have some feelings for her, so I directly recognized her as my daughter, and then gave her a dowry and married her off."
As soon as these words came out, Xie Zhiying was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized: "You mean, is it possible that Widow Xu knew Boss Feng before she fled?"
"It's just possible." If his brother hadn't said it, Xie Zhiyuan would have never known that Widow Xu and Boss Feng, two unrelated people, would get together.
Xie Zhiying rubbed his chin and said with a sense of loss: "Brother, if you say that, I have figured out something."
"Brother, I am very sure that Boss Feng is absolutely inseparable from the death of Widow Xu."
The three people looked at Xie Zhiying in unison.
Xie Zhiying glanced at the door, lowered his voice, and said in a low voice: "I was far away at the time, so I didn't hear clearly what the two of them were arguing about. I just vaguely heard words such as "Let go...Dad...Japan...Contact..."
.The most important thing is that Boss Feng looked very bad at that time, as if he wanted to kill Widow Xu.
And it was only two or three days after Widow Xu died. Anyway, I thought it was too hot at that time, so I ran to the river to take a bath. Then when I went there, I happened to bump into Boss Feng taking a bath there. I accidentally
I saw that Boss Feng seemed to have been bitten by someone on his arm. The bite was particularly deep, but if it were any harder, the piece of meat would be bitten off."
As soon as these words came out, the three of them could not help but think about it.
Zhang Yu and Xie Zhiying looked at each other and made some guesses about some things, but they just didn't know whether the result would be what they guessed.
In the end, it was Grandpa Xie who interrupted everyone's speculation. He tapped the table with one finger. After a moment, he said: "Second brother, Xiaoyu, please don't get involved in this matter."
Then he raised his head and looked at Xie Zhiyuan: "Boss, after you finish your meal, see if you can go find the captain and tell him about this matter so that she can pay more attention to it recently."
Xie Zhiyuan nodded: "Dad, don't worry, just leave this matter to me. I will go to the commune tomorrow, contact a friend, and ask him to check the details of the Feng family."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Grandpa Xie didn’t say much, he just asked: “Are people reliable?”
Xie Zhiyuan nodded: "I have a life-long friendship with her, and the most important thing is that he is my brother-in-law's comrade-in-arms, and he also came down from the battlefield."
Grandpa Xie nodded and said nothing.
And just when Xie Zhiying was about to invite her, Zhou Huizhen walked in with a large plate of dumplings.
"It's time to eat!"
Seeing her sister-in-law coming in, Xie Zhiying took back what she wanted to say.
"It smells so good! It's been a long time since I've eaten dumplings. I'm so greedy. No, no, no, no, no, I have to take a bite!"
Zhou Huizhen said with a smile: "I have a lot of packages today, so I have enough care."
After that, he urged everyone to eat quickly.
"Eat it quickly, it will get cold in a while."
Just as he was talking, Grandma Xie and the others also walked in carrying dumplings.
Zhang Yu hurriedly got off the kang and reached out to take the plate from his grandma.
"Grandma, I'll serve it!"
Grandma Xie moved her arm to avoid her grandson's outstretched hand.
"I'll just come. The plate is hot and I'll burn you later."
Zhang Yu was not disappointed when he didn't receive the plate. He turned around and asked directly: "Is there anything else in the kitchen? I'll get it."
However, this time she was rejected by Zhou Huizhen.
"Xiaoyu, stop fussing and get on the kang to eat dumplings. Go eat!"
After the dumplings were put on the table, just as everyone was preparing to eat, Grandma Xie suddenly slapped her thigh: "Ouch, I forgot about the main thing!"
Zhou Huizhen put down the chopsticks in her hands and quickly asked: "What's wrong, mother?"
Grandma Xie sighed: "I can't do it anymore as I get older. Look at my memory now. Someone gave me the big leaf chinensis. When I was choosing vegetables just now, I told Xiaoyu to wait for the dumplings to be wrapped and go to deliver them. This
I forgot about it after a while, tell me about this..."
"Mom, don't worry, there is still a curtain left in the kitchen.
Our family has an early meal today. We will wait until the meal is over and put down the curtain of dumplings. It won’t be too late to send them away.”
"Okay, that's all." Grandma Xie sighed, her memory was getting worse and worse.
Because they are pretentious, even if the dumplings are very fragrant, I rarely have much appetite.
Xie Zhiyuan thought more. He filled his stomach randomly and put down his chopsticks: "Mom, I have something to go out and I'll be back later."
After that, without waiting for the family to ask what happened, he quickly ran away.
Grandma Xie looked at her eldest son with some worry, but said nothing.
There is no such thing as a mother who knows her children well. She raised the eldest and second child with her own hands. She knows very well the virtues of the two children.
Not to mention the old man, after living together for so many years, not to mention the roundworms in his stomach, it's not much different.
She could guess what the old man was hiding in the blink of an eye.
After Xiaoyu came back today, the old man's situation started to look a little strange.
But since the masters wanted to hide it from her, she didn't ask further.
She knew that these men didn't want her to worry, but they were all a family, so there was nothing worth hiding.
Although the old lady is old, she is not the kind of person who doesn't take things lightly.
If something really happens, they may not be as good as her.
Grandma Xie snorted coldly in her heart, thinking that when this matter is over, she must let her two sons know that their mother is not a fool, and if she dares to hide anything from her again, humph...
Xie Zhiyuan, who had almost reached the door of the captain's house, had no idea that his mother had guessed that they were hiding something from the family.
And I am already thinking about how to take care of them after the incident is over?
But these are all things later.
Xie Zhiyuan walked to the door of the brigade leader's house and knocked on the door.
"Who is it?" The captain's wife was eating in the house when she suddenly heard a knock on the door.
Opening the door, when he saw it was Xie Zhiyuan, he grinned: "It's Zhiyuan, have you eaten? Why don't we eat something together?"
Xie Zhiyuan shook his head hastily: "No, no, sister-in-law, I have eaten. Is the captain at home? I have something urgent to do with him."
"At home, at home, come in!"
The brigade captain's wife invited Xie Zhiyuan in and shouted in the direction of the toilet: "Old man, have you finished going to the toilet? It took a long time to go to the toilet and you will be stained with ink."
"Come on, come on! If you hurry, hurry, you know how to hurry. Really, even if you go to the toilet, you should hurry." The captain couldn't help mumbling as he tied his pants and walked out of the toilet.
As soon as I fastened my belt, I looked up and saw Xie Zhiyuan at the door. I was stunned for a moment and my face turned a little red.
He looked at his wife with some complaints: "Brother Xie is here, why don't you remind me?"
The captain's wife rolled her eyes: "Why didn't you say there was something wrong with your ears? Why didn't you hear the loud sound just now?"
After that, he didn't bother to pay any more attention to his man. He turned around and greeted Xie Zhiyuan warmly: "Brother Zhiyuan, please ignore him and go inside for a drink of water."
The captain casually put down the waistband of his trousers, as if nothing had happened, and invited Xie Zhiyuan into the room for tea.
"Let's go, brother Zhiyuan, come in and drink tea."
After entering the room, Xie Zhiyuan glanced around: "Captain, I came to see you today for something very important."
Seeing that he was so vigilant, the captain's wife knew that something big must be going on, and it would be hard for her to stay with him here.
He picked up the hot water bottle in his hand and said very considerately: "Brother Zhiyuan, you two are talking, the hot water bottle is out of water, I will go to the kitchen to pour some water."
With that said, he walked out of the room carrying the hot water bottle.
When the captain saw Xie Zhiyuan's reaction, he didn't care that he had lost face just now.
He said with a serious face: "Brother Zhiyuan, what happened?"
Xie Zhiyuan told what happened to Boss Feng. Of course, he knew very well what could and could not be said.
He didn't mention a word about his nephew's discovery of the treasure.
After hearing Xie Zhiyuan's words, the captain grinned for a long time.
He gritted his teeth and felt his teeth hurt.
"Is that really Boss Feng?"
It's not that the captain doesn't believe in Xie Zhiyuan's work, it's just that based on Boss Feng's usual behavior, he doesn't think he can do such a thing.
Xie Zhiwu understood the captain's thoughts.
If his eldest nephew hadn't witnessed this with his own eyes, he wouldn't have believed that such a simple, honest, hardworking and hard-working person could actually be a spy.
"It's confirmed."
"Hiss!" The captain felt his tooth hurt, and he rubbed his wrinkled forehead: "Let me think about it, let me think about it again!"
After a long time, the captain finally accepted the matter.
He looked like Xie Zhiyuan, with an extremely serious face: "How do you want me to cooperate?"
Xie Zhiyuan didn't say anything more and simply stated the purpose of his coming here.
"When I came here today, I wanted you to be mentally prepared, captain. Secondly, I also wanted you to restrain the villagers recently. It's best not to go up the mountain. If you go up the mountain, don't wander around."
Thinking of the cave full of explosives, Xie Zhiyuan warned again: "The most important thing is to hold off Boss Feng and don't let him have time to go up the mountain. As for the rest, let's see what the higher-ups are planning to do."
"Okay, leave this matter to me. It just so happens that there are still a lot of marginal fields in the village that have not been watered. I will organize all the men in the village to water the fields tomorrow."
As he spoke, he seemed to have made up his mind: "I'll let the elders in the village watch and see who dares to be lazy?"