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Chapter 59 Who Should Wear This Green Hat?

Hu Xiucai took a long breath and coughed several times, then stopped and stroked his chest and said,
"This matter... I didn't want to talk to others, but I haven't been able to sleep for the past few days, and I have been suffering all night..."

It turns out that Hu Xiucai knew from the very beginning that his wife and Lai Dongsheng were entangled together. Hu Xiucai was sick in bed, his old lady was old, and the family only relied on Qiao Niang to sell tea outside. She hooked up with Lai Dongsheng. After arriving at one place, Lai Dongsheng often helped her with money and food, and Qiao Niang took all of it home, and the Hu family's life became easier. Therefore, Hu Xiucai knew that his wife was stealing, but because of life, he could only humiliate. Bear the humiliation, wear this cuckold, and become this turtle bastard...

After hearing this, the three asked him again,

"You still said that you didn't kill Qiao Niang. Once you know this, you must feel humiliated in your heart. First, Qiao Niang took money and food to go home and you can bear it. Later, she simply ran away with Lai Dongsheng, so you killed her with a grudge. !"

Hu Xiucai shook his head,
"It's not like this... Although Qiao Niang left home, but... she would sneak back home while Lai Dongsheng was not at home, sending money and food..."

The three of them were speechless for a while, and after a long silence they asked again,
"and after?"

Hu Xiucai replied,
"Later... I couldn't worry about her after all, so I forced myself to go out to find her that day, thinking... I wanted to see how she was doing... I only got there... and when I entered the yard, I saw Qiao Niang lying on the bed. In the house..."

Hu Xiucai actually entered the door with Lai Dongsheng. He entered the room with his front foot. Standing in front of the bed, he could see clearly that Qiao Niang's eyes were wide open and her stomach had been cut open. The table in front of him gasped for breath, and he regained some strength after staying there. He leaned over and touched Qiao Niang's hand, and found that there was still a tinge of warmth. It was not long after he died.

"At that time, I thought, Qiao Niang had just died, and the murderer might still be here..."

It just so happened that when Lai Dongsheng came back from the outside, the sound of footsteps startled Hu Xiucai. Hu Xiucai panted and moved to the door, watching Lai Dongsheng standing in the yard for a while, the expression on his face changed from bewildered to uncertain. He became terrified, and saw him rushing into the stove again, and came out holding a sharp knife with a bull's ear. Hu Xiucai was shocked. He knew that with his weak body, meeting Lai Dongsheng would be a dead end, so he took advantage of it Lai Dongsheng broke into the room, and when the light was dim and he couldn't see things for a moment, he used all his strength to knock him to the ground, and ran out desperately.

Hu Xiucai smiled wryly,

"I knew in my heart that even if I ran as hard as I could, I would not be able to run away from him, so I made a clever trick. After rushing out of the house, I just slammed the courtyard door with a loud bang, but in fact I didn't go out at all. I hid in the Behind the gate..."

At that time, Lai Dongsheng thought he had run away, so he chased him out holding a knife. Seeing that Lai Dongsheng was covered in blood, he rushed out screaming, and then came out from behind the door and slipped away from the other side... …

One of the three asked again,

"Even if it's true as you said, Qiao Niang will be dead by then, but that doesn't mean that Lai Dongsheng is not the murderer. Qiao Niang died after being disembowelled. Although the wound was huge and bleeding was profuse, she must It didn't kill her instantly, so maybe after Lai Dongsheng killed her, he went out of the house, you went in and met her again, and then he turned back..."

Hu Xiucai sighed and said,
"This is the reason why I don't want to go to the Yamen to report to the officials. Firstly, I don't want to publicize the scandal in my family, especially..."

Especially the scandal of him relying on his wife to commit herself to a man old enough to be her father, asking for money and food in exchange for food and clothing for the whole family!
"...Secondly, I didn't think about the chaotic situation at the time. I thought about it afterwards. The yard of Lai's house is at the end of Xinghua Hutong. If you walk from the front, you have to go through a long alley to get to his house. I For the sake of convenience, I took a shortcut at the back of the alley, there is a small river outside Xinghua alley, I took a carriage to the small river, crossed the bridge and walked to Lai’s house..."

And Lai Dongsheng's family drove a carriage, and he had to take the wide road in front of him to go home, so he must drive the carriage home slowly from the other end. In fact, Lai Dongsheng entered the alley before Hu Xiucai, just a small path Arrived first, arrived after a rush...

The three people in front of me listened, but one didn't understand.
"It's just that one drives a car and the other walks. How does this prove that he is not the one who killed Qiao Niang?"

Before Hu Xiucai could answer, one of them replied,
"I still don't understand. I said earlier that Qiao Niang had just died when he entered, so maybe she had just passed away. Although such a big wound didn't kill her instantly, it wouldn't last a long time..."

Hu Xiucai nodded in response,
"When I went in, I even saw Qiao Niang's feet twitch a few times... When I entered, Lai Dongsheng was driving a car in the alley. How could he kill Qiao Niang?"

After a pause,

"There is someone else who wants to kill Qiao Niang. This is my second choice. These are just my guesses. If I prove Lai Dongsheng's innocence, how can I prove my innocence? When I went in, Qiao Niang was just now. Die, maybe the official will say that I killed Qiao Niang!"

Then he smiled wryly again,

"The third...is that he committed adultery with my wife, and I, the husband, exonerated the adulterer...Although I am also a person who is familiar with sage books, but...but I don't have such a big heart..."

The three of them were silent for a while, and one of them suddenly asked,
"You go to see Qiao Niang...I'm afraid you don't want to see how she is doing, do you?"

Hu Xiucai looked up at him in a daze, but still couldn't see anything clearly. He bowed his head in silence, and the man continued to ask,

"Who does the child in Mother Qiao's womb belong to?"

Hu Xiucai remained silent, but the man said again,

"Lai Dongsheng said that he and Qiao Niang have only been married for two months. After the autopsy, the fetus in his stomach was said to be three months old. It was not Lai Dongsheng's. If it wasn't yours...then... Even Qiao Niang has another adulterer!"

Hu Xiucai was startled, and it took him a while to answer,
"That child... is... mine..."

Speaking of this, his shoulders shrugged, and he stretched out his hand to cover his face and shed tears. The three of them silently watched him cry. Hu Xiucai cried a few times, but he started panting and coughing for a while, and then he said in a hoarse voice,

"Although I'm sick, I can still have sex..."

In fact, Qiao Niang had already realized that she was pregnant. She had asked the doctor to feel her pulse. She said it was a light month, but most likely it was a happy pulse. Qiao Niang went home and told Hu Xiucai about the matter. There was only time to be happy for a while, and then I felt sad again.

"This is the situation in this family now. If I conceive again and have a child, I'm afraid that if the child is not born, the whole family will starve to death at home!"

Hu Xiucai has been ill for a long time, and the family has already been emptied. The family often eats the last meal and does not eat the next meal. Qiao Niang often gets up in the middle of the night to drink cold water when she is hungry. In such a family situation, it is also a hardship for a child to be born. Qiao Niang said,
"Just apply the medicine and beat the child!"

How could Hu Xiucai agree? He cried and begged his wife,

"It's my incompetence that caused you to suffer, but this child is innocent and is the only blood of my Hu family. Even if I die, I don't want this child to die. I will find a place to die tomorrow. You just need to raise him up." to make!"

Qiao Niang burst into tears when she heard this, and the couple hugged each other and cried. On the second day, Qiao Niang cheered up and went out to sell tea. After a short while, she hooked up with Lai Dongsheng. After Hu Xiucai finished speaking, the three people on the opposite side I was speechless again,
"So... Did Lai Dongsheng give you a cuckold, or did you let Lai Dongsheng take advantage of you?"

I'm afraid this is the real reason why Hu Xiucai didn't want to go to the Yamen to meet officials!

It's too embarrassing to say it!
Hu Xiucai was silent for a long time before saying,
"I was really worried about Qiao Niang and the child in her womb, so I wanted to visit her, but unexpectedly..."

Unexpectedly, I saw the dead body of my wife and the child who had been cut out of the stomach!
"So... do you really think that Lai Dongsheng didn't kill Qiao Niang?"

Hu Xiucai nodded,
"That's true. He didn't kill Qiao Niang, but even if I went to the Yamen, the official would not believe me..."

If it's not Lai Dongsheng, who is it if it's not yourself?
After hearing this, the three were silent for a while, and the man in the middle suddenly raised his hand and hit him hard. Hu Xiucai received a fist on the forehead, and there was a buzzing in his head, and his eyes were dark...

Mou Biao turned to Mou Hu and said,

"Bring the person back!"

Mou Hu nodded, he put Hu Xiucai back on the bed, walked a few steps quietly, suddenly turned his head and saw Hu's mother who was unconsciously sleeping by the window, turned back again, and took out the The ingot of silver was thrown beside Hu Xiucai's head,

"This is for your old mother's sake..."

He silently read a sentence, turned around and left the room, and disappeared into the darkness without a sound...

After Mou Biao waited until Mou Hu came back, the three rushed back to Lai's courtyard.
"Master, why are you coming back in the middle of the night?"

Mou Hu didn't enter this yard before, but now he came in the back room and saw the scene of the murder, seeing the dried and blackened blood on the bed, he couldn't help feeling a little chilly in his heart,

"Haven't you seen it during the day?"

Mou Biao turned his head and gave him a white look,
"Are you afraid? If you are afraid, go outside and wait..."

Where did Mou Hu admit it? He hurriedly puffed out his chest,
"Nonsense... How can the young one be afraid, the young one is bold, the young master has known it since he was a child!"

Behind him, Mou Long dismantled his brother's platform, looked around while bowing his head and replied,
"How dare you, the previous summer, a snake entered the house, and the young master asked you to catch it to scare Bipo who was beside the young master. Running, bumping into the pillar under the porch, bleeding... or I carried you to see the doctor..."

Mou Hu was exposed by his brother, so angry he bared his teeth,
"Nonsense...I didn't...I just walked and didn't see the bumps on the road..."

"Walking and bumping into each other, can you knock out two front teeth?"

(End of this chapter)