The wife of two taels of silver

The morning after the rain was very cool. Lin Haitang pulled the lounge chair into the yard and sat on it, breathing in the fresh air.

Because of the baby in her belly, Lin Haitang wakes up very early every day, woken up by the urge to urinate.

Xiaobai also got up and went crazy around Lin Haitang's recliner, jumping back and forth like a bouncy ball, shaking his head and making a humming sound in his throat. Lin Haitang couldn't bear to look at it. The more she looked at it, the more excited it became, and the more it jumped.

Lin Haitang laughed at it: "Xiaobai, you are so stupid."

"Woo~" Xiaobai shook his head and cried out in dissatisfaction.

"Why are you up so early?" Liu Sanyou came out of the house, took a small stool and sat next to Lin Haitang.

Lin Haitang glanced at him, closed her eyes again, and said, "I couldn't sleep, so I got up. Why did you get up so early?"

Liu Sanyou gritted his teeth: "I'm worried that you'll be killed. Who knows if that damn assassin is still around?"

Liu Sanyou woke up when he heard Lin Haitang's movement, but he was so sleepy that he forced himself to stay awake.

Lin Haitang was quite open-minded and said, "Sanyou, there's no need to be so nervous. If I die, it's my fate. It's nothing."

Lin Haitang looked back at him and said, "If I really die, I will leave all my money and pills to you. The four of you have to help me take good care of Momolanlan and Xiaobai. I have a lot of money."

Liu Sanyou was silent for a moment, then said, "You are quite open-minded."

"You can only be happy if you can be open-minded. Besides, after I die, maybe I can go back and see my original world." Lin Haitang said casually.

Liu Sanyou said: "Give up on this idea. You won't die as long as I'm here."

While the two people were talking, Xiaobai kept jumping, and while jumping, he made mistakes.

It had just rained heavily and the ground was slippery. Xiaobai was too confident in his skills and accidentally stepped on the moss on the edge of the stone slab. His front paws did not stand firmly and he fell directly.

Xiaobai landed hard on his mouth.

"Ah! Ahhh~ Ahhh~" Xiaobai held his mouth with his front paws and rolled on the ground, howling.

Lin Haitang and Liu Sanyou were shocked.

"Let me see quickly, is there bleeding?" Lin Haitang felt distressed and wanted to laugh. She squatted down and opened Xiaobai's mouth.

Liu Sanyou picked up a tooth from the ground and said, "Look, my tooth fell off."

Xiaobai's gums were bleeding, and the blood was dripping onto the stone slab.

Lin Haitang couldn't laugh anymore: "How painful this must be."

Xiaobai kept rubbing against Lin Haitang's palm.

"Wait, mom will cure you." Lin Haitang stood up and planned to go back to the house to get the elixir from the space.

As a result, Xiaobai's shouting woke everyone up and they all came out of the house nervously, saying, "What's wrong? What's wrong? Why is Xiaobai screaming so miserably?"

Lin Haitang had no choice but to stop and put the tooth that Xiaobai had dropped in the palm of her hand to show it, saying, "It knocked out its own tooth."

Zhao Xiangjun and Liu Wanwan were heartbroken and went over to check its injury: "Ouch, how could it have knocked out a tooth? How painful must that be?"

When Xiaobai saw so many people feeling sorry for him, he stretched his neck and cried even more miserably.

While everyone's attention was on Xiaobai, Lin Haitang walked into the room, then quickly entered the space and scooped half a bucket of water from the spiritual spring.

She can't carry too much water.

Lin Haitang placed the bucket in front of Xiaobai and said, "Hurry, drink some water, your mouth is full of blood."

Xiaobai buried his head and gulped down the drink. After he finished drinking, the pain went away and Xiaobai became obedient, no longer crying miserably.

But Zhao Xiangjun was heartbroken and said, "Let's eat something soft today. I'll make you a bowl of minced meat and egg custard."

Xiaobai happily followed Zhao Xiangjun to the kitchen.

Lin Haitang plans to feed it another pill in a few days. By then, when the teeth grow out, it can be barely said that they are Xiaobai's new teeth.

In Xu Village, Xu Qiang's family announced that his wife Cao Xiuying had committed suicide by hanging last night and began to arrange the funeral.

The news spread quickly and spread throughout the village before the afternoon.

The women who were enjoying the coolness under the big tree were saying to each other: "Huh, I think Xiuying is relieved after she died. She had such a man."

"She has a miserable life. She has been beaten for so many years. I never see any good flesh on her body every day."

"That scoundrel Xu Qiang beat her every day. I used to be afraid that he would beat her to death."

"It's a relief to die like this. I hope I can be reborn into a good family in my next life."

The women's faces were filled with indignation and they were talking with saliva flying.

The barefoot doctor who passed by here trembled like a sieve, as if he had seen something terrible.

Since returning home last night, the barefoot doctor has been hiding in his bed, trembling all over. Whenever he closes his eyes, he would recall Cao Xiuying's head in his mind.

Xu Qiang chopped the neck many times, but the cut surface was not complete. The cut on the front of the neck was close to the chin, and the cut surface was tilted towards the back.

The back of the neck was not completely cut off, and there was still a little flesh attached to the back of the neck.

The barefoot doctor sewed up Cao Xiuying's head and neck stitch by stitch with black thread.

The barefoot doctor stayed awake all night and kept his eyes open until dawn, with bloodshot eyes. If someone hadn't gone to his house to ask him to treat a child, he would still not have dared to get out of bed.

Hearing the women in the village talking about Cao Xiuying, the barefoot doctor recalled the horrific scene of last night.

"Doctor Hu, why are you shaking so badly? Do you have a fever?" A woman noticed that something was wrong with the barefoot doctor.

The barefoot doctor swallowed hard, rubbed the strap of the medicine box nervously with his hands, and walked over.

The women all looked at him strangely. Why did this doctor look like he was possessed by an evil spirit?

The barefoot doctor thought to himself, I have to tell it out. If I don’t, I’ll go crazy.

"Big sister, were you talking about Cao Xiuying just now?" The barefoot doctor looked at both sides of his body with a strange expression while speaking.

His expression was so strange that it made the women feel uneasy.

"What, what happened?" the woman asked the barefoot doctor.

The barefoot doctor opened his bloodshot eyes, which seemed about to burst out of their sockets. His voice was like sand falling on sandpaper. He said, "Cao Xiuying didn't commit suicide. She was beheaded by Xu Qiang!"

When people hear something scary, they don't scream at first. Instead, they feel the hairs on their body stand up, their hearts get cold, their whole body becomes cold, and their eyes become dull.

"Ah!" Several women screamed and said in disbelief, "Doctor Hu, don't talk nonsense!"

Although Xu Qiang kept beating and scolding Cao Xiuying, he couldn't just chop off someone's head!

The barefoot doctor's breath came fast. He said, "I, I didn't lie. Last night, his son came to me and asked me to sew up his head. He paid me three coins for each stitch. In the end, I sewed a total of 264 stitches and received 792 coins."

The barefoot doctor suddenly thought of something and quickly opened the wooden box he was carrying across his body. He said, "The money is still in the box."

When the barefoot doctor got home last night, he was so scared that he didn't even think of taking out the money.

The barefoot doctor took out a gray-blue purse full of copper coins.

The barefoot doctor's mother was seriously ill and had to pay for her medicine on credit every month. This was something that everyone in the village knew, so he could never come up with so much money.

The women screamed and retreated, looking at the barefoot doctor as if they had seen a ghost. In a moment, they scattered and ran away at an extremely fast speed.

The barefoot doctor's legs went limp and he sat on the ground, gasping for breath.

Seeing the shade of the tree falling on him, the barefoot doctor crawled into the sunlight. Even though his clothes were getting hot from drying, he refused to move to the shade.

According to the custom in the village, the body of the deceased should be kept for three days and buried on the third day. During these three days, mourning should be cried every day, once in the morning and once in the evening.

The three days of keeping the body for a long time are divided into three big days and three small days. The new day begins at midnight. For example, Cao Xiuying died at 2:15 on July 18th. Even though it was less than an hour before July 19th, Cao Xiuying's funeral was still held and buried on July 20th. This is called the small three days.

The three big days are, for example, if a person dies at midnight on the first day of the lunar month, then the first day of the lunar month is the first day after the death of the deceased, and the burial must be done on the third day of the lunar month. This is called the three big days.

The spread of strange things was very fast. By July 20th, everyone in the surrounding area knew about it.

On the afternoon of July 20th, Cao Xiuying's funeral was about to take place. The route was crowded with people. Almost everyone who was at home in the surrounding area came. It could be said that the streets were deserted.

Shang'anhe Village is adjacent to Xu Village, so it's no surprise that every household went there, except for Lin Haitang's family who were unfamiliar with the world in Hua'an County.

Lin Haitang and the others hadn't even heard of this. These past two days they were busy cleaning up the two-courtyard house they had just bought in the county town. The whole family went out, staying in Wanke Building at night and cleaning the house during the day. They bought all the things needed for the house, big and small.

Even Gu Mo and Gu Zhilan asked them to go to school and stay in the county town with them.

Cleaning and decorating the house is really tiring. Lin Haitang now gets a headache whenever she enters the yard.

On July 22, Lin Haitang and his friends returned to Shang'anhe Village.

There were so many people in the family that it was too crowded for them all to sit in one carriage, so Lin Haitang simply bought another horse and rode back and forth herself.

Lin Haitang likes riding horses very much. She can walk side by side with the carriages and chat with them.

When she arrived at Shang'anhe Village, Lin Haitang saw the women of the village gathered together. From their expressions, it could be seen that they were all despising something and were extremely angry.

As I got closer, I could hear them saying, "That guy deserves a horrible death! Damn it!"

They were so excited and engrossed in their conversation that they didn't notice there was a horse and a carriage on the road.

Gossip is human nature.

Lin Haitang's curiosity was also piqued. She saw Lin Qiaoxia in the crowd and shouted, "Sister, what are you talking about?"

Lin Qiaoxia suddenly turned around and saw Lin Haitang, who was sitting on the horse and trying to dismount. She said, "Oh my God, why are you riding a horse with such a big belly? What if you fall down?"

Lin Qiaoxia hurried over to help.

Lin Haitang smiled and climbed onto her hand, saying, "It's okay, I'm not riding fast."

"Sister, what are you talking about? You sound so excited." Lin Haitang asked.

Zhao Xiangjun and Liu Wanwan also heard it in the carriage, got out and looked at Lin Qiaoxia curiously.

Another aunt said to Lin Haitang, "Haitang, it's a good thing you haven't been at home these days, otherwise you would be pregnant and what would happen if you were hit by bad luck!" She said it quite sincerely, and she was really worried about Lin Haitang.

Ever since the last gift-giving incident, the villagers have been very enthusiastic when they see Lin Haitang's family.

Lin Haitang asked, "Auntie, Sister Qiaoxia, what happened?"

Lin Qiaoxia sighed and said, "In the next village, Xu Village, a man chopped off his wife's head."

Lin Haitang and the others were startled. Lin Haitang turned around first and said to Zhang Ben and Liu Sanyou, "Brother Zhang, Sanyou, you two should take Momo and Lanlan home first."

Lin Haitang didn't want the two children to hear such things, no matter whether they were true or false.

Zhang Ben drove the children back home. Liu Sanyou did not leave. He did not dare to leave Lin Haitang.

"Sister, is this true? How did you know?" Lin Haitang asked Lin Qiaoxia.

The others also gathered around and began to talk about what had happened.

"Xu Qiang from Xu Village always beats his wife. There's not a single good spot on her body."

"On the night of the heavy rain a few days ago, Xu Qiang chopped off his wife's head!"

"It was the barefoot doctor in their village who said that. He went to sew up my head!"

"They said a stitch costs three cents, but they did over 200 stitches!"

"Oh, that guy deserves to die!"

"Everyone in the surrounding area is scolding him. Now he doesn't even dare to go out!"

All sorts of noises surrounded Lin Haitang's ears, and she felt dizzy. She found her voice again, trembling a little, and asked, "Then, what about her family? Didn't they report it to the police?"

Liu Wanwan immediately noticed that something was wrong with Lin Haitang and quickly supported her.

Lin Qiaoxia shook her head with a bitter look on her face and said, "Cao Xiuying had a miserable life. Her parents died before she got married. Her brother and sister-in-law watched her get married. Her brother also had a miserable life. He died of coughing due to tuberculosis a few years ago."

"Her sister-in-law is lying in bed and can't move. She has a nephew who is almost 30 years old. He is a coward and has a dull mind."

"Her nephew did report the case yesterday. Oh, Cao Xiuying was buried the day before yesterday. When the official came to inquire about it, Cao Xiuying's damn son said that his mother committed suicide!"

"Xu Qiang had a relative who worked at the county government office, so he suppressed the matter."

"Xu Qiang and his son will never have a good death!"

Lin Haitang's tears fell instantly. She pushed through the crowd and started vomiting while holding onto a tree trunk.

Everyone was shocked, fearing that she was too shocked and something might happen to the baby in her belly.

"Ouch Haitang! Are you okay?"

Everyone rushed over again, but they didn't dare to get too close to her for fear of crowding her. Only Lin Qiaoxia, Zhao Xiangjun and Liu Wanwan went over.

Lin Haitang retched a few times but didn't spit out anything.

"As for me, I couldn't sleep at night when I first heard about it." An aunt in the crowd said with red eyes.

"Yeah, yeah, I felt the same way after hearing it. I couldn't even eat my meal." Many people echoed.

Lin Qiaoxia comforted Lin Haitang and said, "Haitang, don't listen to these things anymore. Go home quickly and have a good sleep."

Liu Wanwan's eyes were red, obviously she had been crying. She said, "Sister, let's go home."

Zhao Xiangjun looked at Lin Haitang worriedly. She wanted to comfort her, but she felt like there was a stone stuck in her throat and she couldn't speak.

"Wanwan, Sister Qiaoxia, I'm not going home. I'm going to the county government office to seek justice for Cao Xiuying."

Lin Haitang's eyes were full of pain.

Why let her encounter such a thing again?

Lin Haitang couldn't just let it go.