Mysteries of the Great Zhou Dynasty

Chapter 100 Slap it
Yan Mingzhang tore off the white cloth, revealing pairs of human leather boots. A-Wu, agitated, was held down by Changfeng and Moyun, preventing him from rushing towards Yan Mingzhang: "Why are you taking my boots? They're mine!"

"Yours? You made all these leather boots?" Yan Mingzhang retorted.

Ignoring Yan Mingzhang's question, A-Wu just muttered, "Give it back to me! Give it back to me!"

Yan Mingzhang and Changfeng Moyun exchanged a glance, signaling them to restrain A Wu. Yan Mingzhang tore off the second piece of white cloth, and A Wu suddenly went berserk. Although Changfeng and Moyun had anticipated this, A Wu possessed superhuman strength. He charged with all his might, and Changfeng and Moyun couldn't stop him at all. Just as he was about to crash into Rong Wanyin, who was standing to the side, Yan Mingzhang reacted quickly and pulled Rong Wanyin away. The two of them took a few steps back.

A-Wu wasn't after Rong Wanyin at all. He pressed his forehead against A-Yu's and said gently, "A-Yu, don't be afraid, A-Yu, don't be afraid. I'll take you home in a bit. I'll kill all these bad people! Kill them all!"

Changfeng and Moyun struggled to pull Awu away and tied him up tightly before finally letting go.

"What is your relationship with Ayu?" Yan Mingzhang asked.

But A-Wu seemed possessed, staring intently at A-Yu, muttering to himself. At this rate, he wouldn't get anything out of her.

Rong Wanyin pulled a dagger from her boot and said to Ayu's corpse, "Now I'll ask you a question, and you'll answer it. If you don't answer, I'll cut off one of Ayu's fingers. How about that?"

As if suddenly realizing something, A-Wu cried out, "No! No! I'll tell you everything, just don't hurt A-Yu!"

Rong Wanyin and Yan Mingzhang exchanged a glance; something was going to happen!

Yan Mingzhang patiently asked again, "What is your relationship with Ayu? How did you two meet?"

Awu cried out in a daze, "Ayu is mine! Those bad people want to kill her! They want to kill her!"

Yan Mingzhang pressed on, "Them? Who are they? Are they villagers from Niujia Village, or are they a bunch of deserters?"

A-Wu muttered to himself, trying desperately to remember, looking completely deranged: "Who are they? Who are they? Ah! Ah! Yes, it's those villagers from Niujia Village! It's them, it's them who wanted to kill A-Yu and drown her in a pig cage! They're all bad people!"

"You're saying they killed Ayu?" Yan Mingzhang pressed. "Did you know she was pregnant?"

"Of course I know. If it weren't for this bastard, why would they want to drown Ayu in a pig cage? If it weren't for this bastard, Ayu wouldn't have been drowned in a pig cage! So I took a knife and tried to dig him out! Good thing he was dug out!" Awu was crazy and incoherent, but the truth could still be pieced together from his words.

"You tried to dig the fetus out with a knife?" Rong Wanyin could hardly believe her ears. "Do you know you would kill her?! Are you insane?"

"Yes, I've gone mad. Who told that slut to get pregnant with that man's child? But it doesn't matter. I pushed that man off the cliff and he died. Hahaha, kill all those villagers, dig out that bastard, and Ayu will be mine. We can be together forever." Awu laughed wildly as if possessed.

"That man? You mean Ayu's husband?" Yan Mingzhang pressed.

A-Wu roared, "She's mine! I'm the one who loves her the most! How could that man be worthy of being A-Yu's husband!" Yan Mingzhang then asked, "Why did you kill everyone in the village?"

A-Wu sneered, "The fire started, everyone died, hahaha!"

After saying this, A-Wu kept muttering to himself, ignoring everyone else, "Good kill! Good kill! That was satisfying!"

Helpless, Yan Mingzhang had no choice but to have Changfeng replace the interrogator again. This went on for a day and a night before the interrogation of more than 100 people was finally completed, and the whole story was pieced together.

The story goes something like this: Ten years ago, a group of refugees fled to Niujia Village and settled there. The village gradually prospered. Five years ago, Sister Abao married into the village and lived in the house at the entrance of the village.

Three years ago, 103 Liao soldiers who had deserted arrived at Niujia Village. Disguised as soldiers of the Great Zhou Kingdom, they gained the villagers' trust. Sister Abao persuaded the villagers to allow the deserters to live in a cave near the village. At the same time, the villagers gave them their own food to help them through their difficulties. However, as the saying goes, "a little kindness turns to resentment," and the deserters, seeing the villagers' prosperous lives, gradually became resentful.

A-Wu fell in love with A-Yu and killed A-Yu's husband. Because A-Yu was pregnant with her husband's child, the villagers saw that A-Yu was pregnant but her husband had disappeared. They all said that she was carrying the child of a wild man and wanted to drown her in a pig cage.

As it happened, these deserters, envious of the villagers' wealth, repaid kindness with enmity. That very night, their leader led his soldiers to slaughter the rest of the village. A-Wu skinned the corpses and made human leather boots… The group then hid all the bodies in a cave, while they seized the villagers' houses and farmland. The village chief bribed the county magistrate, Wen, with a large sum of money, using leprosy as a pretext to ensure he ignored Niujia Village.

A-Wu rescued A-Yu, but then tried to dig up the child. A-Yu naturally refused and was stabbed to death in her own cellar. Later, so that he could see A-Yu every day, A-Wu buried her under a banyan tree. A-Wu then used some unknown method to make the deserters regard her as a tree spirit.

Su Zhan shuddered, a chill running down his spine: "How can people be so wicked?"

Yan Mingzhang sighed: "Everything is driven by profit. When people are blinded by greed, they are capable of anything."

Ah Bao stood silently by, tears streaming down his face, without uttering a word.

Seeing this, everyone silently left the room, leaving only Rong Wanyin, who was usually closest to him.

Abao wiped away her tears and smiled at Rong Wanyin, saying, "Sister Rong, don't worry about me. I actually guessed the outcome long ago. I'm already very grateful that the truth has been uncovered and the murderer has been brought to justice. I..."

Ah Bao choked up, unable to speak, and tried his best to control himself and not cry.

Rong Wanyin bent down, looked directly into A Bao's eyes, and said softly, "A Bao, if you want to cry, just cry. It's okay. But after you're done crying, we still have to live on."

Upon hearing this, Abao burst into tears, her voice trembling as she took out the wooden hairpin: "Sister, such a kind person, how could such a thing happen to you? Why?"

Rong Wanyin was speechless. In such chaotic times, where was justice, where was clarity? "Abao, there is never love without a reason in this world, but there is a lot of hatred without a reason. If you think the world is unfair, then let's work together to create a fair world and fight for justice for ourselves! If the world treats you badly, then let's rise up and slap it in the face!"