bookrandom Chapter 177 Murder and Arson
Chapter 177 Murder and Arson
Soon Si Chengxu came over, he was extremely handsome and had an extraordinary bearing. He looked at the people in the room and was still as cold and distant as usual.
Seeing the demeanor around him, Li Zheng instinctively knew that it was not him who did it. How could someone with such a demeanor do such a mean thing? Afraid that Zhang would make a fuss again, he spoke first: "Mr. Si, we came here to verify one thing with you. Is Li Dazhuang's beating related to you?"
"It's irrelevant." Si Chengxu spoke without even thinking.
"You're talking nonsense. It's you." Zhang loved her son dearly. She was a nice person at ordinary times, but as long as it was related to her son, it must be someone else's fault. In her eyes, her son was perfect. She pointed at him and said angrily.
"Take your hand away." Si Chengxu looked at the fingers in front of him, a hint of murderous intent flashed in his eyes, and his words were extremely cold.
When Zhang saw his look, she was so scared that she withdrew her finger in embarrassment.
Li Quanfu also saw the murderous intent in his eyes. It was indeed murderous intent. He went up the mountain to hunt all year round. Whenever he encountered a large wild beast, the beast would reveal this murderous intent in its eyes when fighting to the death. His intuition told him to stay away from this person, as he must have killed someone.
"You, you..." Zhang was so scared that she took two steps back.
"Come in." Si Chengxu said suddenly.
Before Zhang could figure out what was going on, she saw three beggars tied up and brought to her by two young men.
"Tell me, tell me clearly what happened the day before yesterday afternoon." A young man in a navy blue robe scolded.
"Okay, let's talk." One of the beggars was not very old, probably in his thirties. His clothes were dirty and his face was covered in mud, so it was difficult to see what he looked like.
"The day before yesterday afternoon, a young man came to us and said he would give us 100 coins to beat him up. At first I thought he was joking, but I didn't expect it to be serious. He took out 100 coins and told us to beat him hard, the harder the better."
"But this person." A man in a dark gray robe took out a piece of paper from his arms. On it was a portrait of Li Dazhuang, and showed it to the three of them.
"It's him, that's him." The three said in unison. It had only been a day since they saw each other, so of course they recognized him.
Li Quanfu and Zhang were shocked. They had thought of many possibilities, but they never expected it to be like this. If what they said was true, then Li Dazhuang would not hesitate to hurt himself in order to frame Si Chengxu.
Even the village head was shocked. He thought there was some misunderstanding, but he didn't expect that Li Dazhuang was using his own body to frame Si Chengxu.
"No, it won't happen. You must have paid them to tell lies. My son is not that kind of person." Zhang seemed to understand in her heart why Li Dazhuang didn't say anything after he was injured, and had to wait until Li Dahai passed away before telling him. It was obvious that he was telling Li Dahai to hear it.
But she still couldn't believe how her son could do such a thing, so she ran out shouting, and Li Quanfu hurriedly followed her out.
"I'm sorry to have wronged you." The village head looked at Si Chengxu. Fortunately, he had a witness, otherwise it would be hard to say.
"I'm not wronged, village head grandfather." Si Chengxu slowed down his voice.
When he heard the name of the village head, he was stunned for a moment, but quickly reacted and burst into laughter.
Li Xiaoxiao packed the tofu that had been agreed upon and handed it to the village head.
"You are the cleverest girl, so I won't be polite with you. Just accept it." The head of the village looked around their tofu shop, feeling full of emotion. He thought that their family didn't even have a place to live in the past, and it was not easy for them to buy a shop now.
"It was originally left for you. You have to give it up." Li Xiaoxiao smiled.
I don’t know how Zhang asked Li Dazhuang when she returned, but Li Dazhuang never came again after that.
After Li Dazhuang recovered from his injury, Li Quanfu continued to arrange marriage for him, but no girl from any family would do. Li Quanfu had no choice but to wait and take him to the mountains to hunt when he had nothing to do.
This day, Li Dazhuang was taken up the mountain. His archery skills were better than before. It was another fruitful day. Li Quanfu was in a good mood and said that he wanted to have a drink with Li Dazhuang when he got back. Li Dazhuang looked listless and had no interest in anything. He lazily replied, "Okay."
The two were walking down the mountain when suddenly an arrow shot from somewhere and went straight into Li Dazhuang's thigh. The pain was so severe that he dropped the prey in his hand and fell backwards. It happened that they were now on a slope.
Li Quanfu was walking in front of him. By the time he reacted, it was too late to catch him. He could only watch Li Dazhuang rolling down the slope.
When he put down the prey, he went to look for Li Dazhuang, but he couldn't find him anywhere. His son disappeared right under his nose.
Li Quanfu ran back to the village like crazy and called on the villagers to look for him together, but still couldn't find him. It was as if he had suddenly evaporated.
Zhang cried heart-wrenchingly and searched day and night. After two days of searching, she finally found him, far away from where Li Dazhuang had fallen.
The man was in a coma. Because the wound on his leg was not treated in time and became festered and inflamed, he could not save his leg. He would walk with a limp from now on and could not go up the mountain to hunt. Li Dazhuang's words came true and his leg really became lame.
After a long time, Li Dazhuang got married. He married a short and fat woman. She was gentle and lovely before marriage, but after marriage she was simply the incarnation of a tigress. If she was not satisfied with something, she would scold every member of the Li family, from the old scholar Li to Li Dazhuang, no one could escape. Why did he divorce her? Because she gave birth to twins, both boys.
Upon learning that Li Dazhuang had not done the job well, Li Jiaojiao was so angry that she almost bit her teeth off. What a useless guy! If there was really no other way, she could only do it herself. Everything was going wrong at home and outside as well. She was almost mad to death.
Thinking of Si Chengxu's face that made her heart flutter, and of being with Li Xiaoxiao all day long, Li Jiaojiao became jealous to the point of going crazy. Since she couldn't get him, she would destroy him completely, and a vicious light flashed in her eyes.
One night, a stealthy figure drove a horse-drawn carriage slowly towards us from one end of the street. The horse's hooves were tied with thick cotton cloth, so even in the dead of night, the horse made no sound when it walked.
He arrived outside Li Xiaoxiao's tofu shop and took down bundles of hay mixed with oil from the carriage. He evenly arranged them around the shop, and when he made sure there was nothing left out, he slowly took out a tinder from his arms and tried to light the hay.
"Hey, buddy, what are you doing?" Suddenly a teasing voice came.
"Can't you see me lighting the fire?" He couldn't see the man's face in the dark, and he didn't even look at who was asking him, and replied impatiently.
"Why are you lighting the fire?" The teasing voice came again.