One touch and one silence

"This……"

"But this is what the pregnant woman who died pointed out personally before she died. How could this be wrong?"

"Yes! Yes! Many people were present at the time and heard it, how could it be wrong? It's impossible! Taoist priest, did you calculate wrong?" Zhao Sanchang retorted with a hint of ill intent.

Don’t think Nanzhi can’t hear it.

"I don't know if I'm wrong or not, but I know you like to peek at Widow Liu in your village taking a bath!"

Zhao Sanchang's face flushed instantly. Only his father knew about this matter. How did this person know about it? Could this person really be capable?

He shrank his neck in fear and hid his body behind his eldest brother, trying to reduce his presence.

His mother glared at him fiercely.

When Zhao Genting heard this, he became even more convinced that Nanzhi was a powerful Taoist priest.

"Master, is there anything wrong with this? Did we really wrongly accuse that child?"

Zhao Genting began to feel a little shaken and fell into self-doubt.

"Why not? What you see with your own eyes may not be true, let alone what you hear with your own ears?"

"Besides, how do you know that what that woman said is true?" Nanzhi said in a profound tone. She has said this much, and all you have to do is think about the rest and you will understand what she means.

"This... this... can't be possible!" Zhao Genting suddenly felt unsure.

Nanzhi sighed and continued to deceive, "You have wronged that child. Do you think his mother will let you go? This year's incident is just an appetizer. Just wait and see. Three more people will die in your village soon. This is her punishment for you."

Three elderly people did die in the village, two old men and one old woman, because the winter was too cold and they couldn't survive.

"When her son dies, your village will be in for a catastrophe!"

Zhao Genting was so frightened that he immediately knelt down, his eyes bloodshot, and begged anxiously, "Master, please save our village."

"Master, please save me!" Other people in the room also knelt down and begged Nanzhi for help.

Nanzhi pretended to think for a moment before saying, "What you need to do now is to find evidence. Was there anyone present when the woman fell into the water? It would be best if you can find a strong witness, otherwise his mother will not let it go."

Zhao Genting was a little embarrassed when he heard Nanzhi's words, "It's been so long since the Taoist priest's incident happened, I'm afraid it will be difficult to find him!"

"It's hard to find, or you didn't look for it? Or do you want to wait for the people in your village to perish?"

Zhao Genting was so scared that he quickly waved his hands, "No, Taoist priest, we checked it at that time, but we really couldn't find anything. It was lunch time that day, how could anyone come out?"

"Then why have you never suspected that a pregnant woman with a ten-year-old child came to the river at lunch time?"

"Why are they going to the river? Aren't they going to have lunch?"

Nanzhi's words stumped Zhao Genting's family. They had never thought about this question before.

Nanzhi saw that the time was almost up and continued to fool people.

"I have a plan to help the village head!"

When Zhao Genting heard Nanzhi's words, he was immediately overjoyed, "Is what the Taoist priest said true?"

"This Taoist priest never speaks nonsense." Nanzhi glanced at Zhao Genting lightly.

"Please speak, Taoist Priest!" Zhao Genting's tone was filled with impatience.

"Master, can you gather all the people in your village together? I will look at them one by one and help you find evidence. But for this price, maybe..."

Nanzhi certainly didn't do it for money. If she said it was free, these people would probably be wondering if she had any other purpose.

The simple purpose of taking out the money is money, not anything else, so it is easy to accept it.

Zhao Genting gritted his teeth and said, "Master, rest assured. I will give you a generous reward when the time comes."

Nanzhi nodded in satisfaction. "In that case, the village head should start notifying them to come over now! One family at a time, remember not to leave anyone behind."

"Don't worry, Taoist priest!"

Zhao Genting turned to his three sons and ordered, "Go out now and start shouting from the east. Move quickly."

Nanzhi looked at their actions and expressed great satisfaction. It seemed that there would be results today.

She didn't care about those people. No matter what happened if she called them out in the cold weather, what she wanted to do was to overturn the case for that boy.

By the way, let’s see if those three old people can be saved.

After a while, there were intermittent sounds coming from outside the yard.

In about half an incense stick of time, the yard inside and outside the village headman's house was full of people.

Nanzhi looked around and saw that there were quite a few people in this small village. There were almost a hundred people.

"Please ask them to stretch out a hand. I will look over there so they won't get cold if they stand outside for too long. Children and the elderly should stand in front, women and children should stand in the back, and the young ones should stand at the end."

Zhao Genting didn't know what Nanzhi meant, but he did as she said.

"Fellow villagers, we have called you here today because our harvest this year is not good. The Taoist priest said that the feng shui of our village is not very good. For the sake of our village's future, please stand in a row, with the elderly and children in front and the young in the back, so that the children and the elderly will not be frozen if you stand for too long."

Zhao Genting still has a lot of prestige in the village, so these people are still willing to listen to what he says.

Although some people were dissatisfied, they did not dare to question in public in front of so many people.

Besides, didn't the head of the village say that it was for the good of their village in the future, and it was also for the good of everyone, so even if there were dissatisfaction, they still did it.

Nanzhi saw that everyone stretched out their hands, so she walked over and touched everyone one by one.

The third old man is the one who will die tomorrow. Nanzhi couldn’t help but look at him again.

"Old man, please go in and warm yourself by the fire first!" Nanzhi said and glanced at the head of the village. Although the head of the village didn't understand, he still invited the old man in.

Among these twenty-three old men, Nanzhi finally understood why these three died.

Because these three people are all lonely elderly people. One of them had a son who died many years ago, and his wife also died at the beginning of this year.

The second one was a widow. She originally had a daughter, but her daughter got married and was tortured to death by her in-laws. Now she is an elderly widower with no labor force. She lives on wild vegetables like everyone else. Now the weather is cold and there is no firewood. She is afraid that she cannot hold on for much longer. The wild vegetables stored in her house are almost gone.

In previous years, there was that little guy who would chop firewood for them, but now...

As for the third one, Nanzhi remained silent. When this old man was young, he was a gangster, a thief, and a well-known bully in the village. He was not a good person, and he was still like that when he got old. Now he regretted it a little.

But this man was a witness of that day, so he must not be allowed to die now.