Chapter 52 Caught and brought to justice
Qin Zhi said to the yamen runner, "Brother officer, they caused my sister to jump off the cliff, and now her life or death is unknown. They have confessed that it was my uncle Qin Wen's wife Liu Xiuying who instigated it. I suspect my uncle was also involved. After all, his wife has never even met us. I beg the officer to arrest the culprit."
The police officer handled the case impartially, so he naturally agreed, and the group quickly went to Shitou Village.
Liu Xiuying was snuggling in Qin Wen's arms with tenderness and love, "Husband, when Fatty sells that bitch, he will give us half of the money, and then we can build a small yard of our own. I don't want to eat in secret, we are spending our own money." Liu Xiuying talked to him coquettishly about the future.
Qin Wen was very pleased with these spoiled words. "Find a chance to sell Erya as well. That girl is sharp-tongued and has ruined my plans several times. You asked them to capture Daya today. You didn't leave any evidence behind, did you?"
"Of course not, I didn't meet anyone on the road." Liu Xiuying said.
"Bang," Qin Zhi kicked down the door of the old Qin's house.
Liu came over after hearing the noise and saw that it was Qin Zhi who kicked down the door again. She was immediately furious and cursed fiercely: "You little bitch, you broke my door three times. If you don't pay me ten taels of silver this time, I will never let you go."
Qin Zhi glanced at her and asked, "Where is the horse-faced woman?"
Liu was stunned for a moment and didn't react. "Who is the horse-faced woman?"
Qin Zhi didn't answer her question, but ran straight to Qin Wen's room and kicked Qin Wen's door again.
The sound startled the two disheveled people inside.
Qin Zhi rushed over, grabbed the horse-faced woman by the collar and slapped her left and right. Liu Xiuying screamed in pain but couldn't break free.
Qin Wen reacted and rushed over to pull Qin Zhi away, but Qin Zhi kicked him off the bed, leaving him with a bruised face.
Liu, who had followed, saw her youngest son fall to the ground and hurried over to help him up.
"Erya, what are you doing? How did your aunt offend you? Why are you going crazy here?" The voice of Qin Zhi's cheap grandfather came over.
"Humph," Qin Zhi sneered, "You will soon find out what evil things your beloved youngest son and his wife have done."
Qin Zhi was still not satisfied, so he grabbed the horse-faced woman by the collar and dragged her out.
The horse-faced Liu Xiuying felt pain and cursed, "You little bitch, you shall not die well."
Qin Zhi pulled her outside the Qin family's gate, threw her to the ground, stepped hard on her chest, and said condescendingly: "I don't know if I will die a miserable death, but I know for sure that you will die a miserable death."
At this time, the bailiffs brought the two bruised and battered criminals to the Qin family's door, where many villagers gathered to watch the fun.
"You horse-faced woman, what grudge do you have against my sister? You teamed up with the two of them to capture my sister. My sister fell off a cliff while trying to escape, and now her life or death is unknown. I wish I could kill you, pull out your tendons, and peel off your skin."
As Qin Zhi spoke, he was filled with anger and had no place to vent it, so he kicked Qin Wen who followed him out hard.
"You are the most hateful one. My sister is your niece, and you actually teamed up with your horse-faced wife to sell her out. You are a scholar. No wonder the old saying goes that those who are righteous are usually butchers, and those who are unfaithful are usually scholars. You have read so much that your books have gone into the dog's stomach."
"It's not me. I didn't know anything about this. It was my wife who did it," Qin Wen dodged his eyes and didn't dare to look at Liu Xiuying.
"Liu Xiuying doesn't even know my sister," Qin Zhi despised this kind of man who dared to do things but not to take responsibility. He kicked him hard again, and the pain made him want to jump up.
The onlookers pointed and talked at the Qin family.
"You know how many troubles his family has had, and it never stops day after day."
"Yes, first Mei almost beat Erya to death, then Qin Wen wanted to sell his niece because of gambling debts, and then Qin Wen almost beat Shen to death."
"Also, didn't Qin Hu harm Dahua and was later beheaded?"
"Yes, it caused the Dahua family to be destroyed. Tsk tsk, three lives were lost."
"That's right. This time they've set their sights on the eldest girl. The poor child's life or death is unknown. We must not let them go, or we don't know who will suffer next time. No, we have to go and tell the head of the village to drive the Qin family out of Shitou Village."
Everyone agreed, and Old Man Qin's face turned as black as charcoal.
The village head also came over after hearing the news, and all the young men he sent out came back, and none of them had found Qin Zhen.
The village head was furious. He led everyone to look for the person everywhere. He himself missed a step and fell while looking for the person. He still walks with a limp. He didn't expect that it was someone from his own village who did the evil.
"Qin Laosan, I think you want to be expelled from Shitou Village. Take a look at whether your family is still doing humane things?" the head of the village shouted angrily.
"Hey, head of the village, we didn't know about this either. I will definitely discipline them when I go back." said old man Qin.
"You'd better talk to the county magistrate," a chief of the yamen runners stepped forward and ordered his men to take Qin Wen and Liu Xiuying away.
Qin Wen shouted that he was innocent and asked his father to save him. When his father did not respond, he shouted to Qin Dahai who was standing behind the door: "Brother, save me, or I will tell everyone what happened during last year's Mid-Autumn Festival." As soon as he finished speaking, the yamen runners blocked his mouth with an old cloth.
"Hey, Shen, wake up. Erya, look, your mother has fainted," someone in the crowd shouted.
Oh no! Mom must know what happened to my sister.
Qin Zhi rushed over and saw her mother lying on the ground, her face pale. Qin Zhi pinched her philtrum and Shen slowly woke up.
"Xiao Zhi, did your sister really fall off the cliff?" Shen hoped so much that this was just a dream and everything would be fine once she woke up.
Although Qin Zhi was reluctant to admit it, the incident had already happened and he could not just keep hiding it. Qin Zhi nodded, tears silently flowing down his cheeks.
Song Rou and Liu Qian persuaded them for a while and then sent the mother and daughter back home.
Song Rou was worried about the mother and daughter, so she decided to stay with them and let Liu Qian go back with the yamen runners.
Uncle and Auntie didn't know what happened. They were old, so they kept it secret from them. Ah Si was pregnant, so they couldn't tell anyone. They just said that Qin Zhi and Madam Song went back to get some things, and no one suspected anything.
In the middle of the night, Qin Zhi left a letter for Song Rou and left. The letter clearly read: Twin sisters, we are in tune with each other, please help take care of my mother.
Qin Zhi changed into a windbreaker suitable for night climbing, put on a headlamp and quickly came to the place where Qin Zhen fell off the cliff.
Qin Zhigang spent a huge amount of money to buy a drone with night vision function from the space. She controlled the drone to circle around the bottom of the mountain. The terrain at the bottom of the mountain was complicated, and she didn't find anything suspicious. Instead, she almost hit the stone wall.