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Everyone was stunned, all four pairs of eyes stared at Xi Ling, wondering why he suddenly said this.

"Brother Wu, why, don't you dare to admit it?" Xi Ling raised one corner of his mouth, trying to smile or not, ignoring the other three pairs of eyes that looked over, and just looked closely at Wu Jing.

"Lawyer Xi, you, don't misunderstand a good man." Wu Jing still maintained a panicked expression, his eyes were full of bewilderment and helplessness, Chang Qin saw it, and secretly smiled, thinking that this grandson can really pretend.Although he and Xi Ling are not close friends, at most they have only been friends since traveling together for more than half a month, but he believes in Xi Ling's judgment, since he dared to expose Wu Jing in public, he must have full confidence.

So he stepped forward, and it happened that Xi Ling looked away from Wu Jing and looked at him. At that moment, he suddenly caught the determination and unquestionable look in the other party's eyes, and immediately understood, looked at Wu Jing, and smiled lightly. He said: "Brother Ang, I would like to ask, why is your mother's tablet in your living room burned?"

Wu Jing pulled a helpless smile, the previous good-natured and lustful was gone, he looked at Chang Qin like a fool, and looked too lazy to explain to you: "Didn't I just talk about it that day, I accidentally lit it. newspaper……"

"Light a few newspapers and burn them for several hours, whether you burn them during the day or at night, whether you burn them from the bottom up or from the bottom up, you have to think clearly about these, Brother Ang." After Qin finished speaking in one breath, the corner of his mouth twitched, "Don't forget, I am a student of architecture. You can name any number, and I can calculate the degree of burnt tablet based on this number."

What Chang Qin said is obviously a fantasy. No matter how powerful he is, he can't judge when and how long it has been burned based on a blackened tablet. It's ruthless enough, and it's not hard to bluff the other party. After all, life is like a play, and it all depends on acting skills. At present, it's a question of who can win the best actor.

Sure enough, when these few words were thrown out, Wu Jing was so frightened that he didn't say a word for a long time, but Chang Qin was good at acting, and he was not far behind. At a loss to hide it, looking at Chang Qin's sharp eyes, he scratched his head for a long time before slowly saying, "It's been so long, how can I remember?"

But Xi Ling ignored his sophistry, and said to himself: "That day at your house, I saw the date on the memorial tablet, your mother's death, it was these days, right? That's why you lit incense that day, presumably you deliberately Came back from the city, paid homage to your mother first, and then came to see Uncle Zhu, and as far as we know, the biggest fire in this village happened on the day your mother died. In fact, the burnt board was not at all Not a tablet, but a tombstone, right?"

Wu Jing couldn't help laughing, and looked at Xi Ling: "Lawyer Xi won't think that I burned the whole rice field in memory of my mother."

When the rest of the people heard his retort, they also thought it was ridiculous, but they heard Xi Ling calmly replied: "It's almost the same."

The atmosphere froze immediately, and Wu Jing looked at him meaningfully with eyes full of banter: "Then I want to hear how Lawyer Xi will explain."

"It's just that you didn't do it on purpose, but by mistake." Xi Ling continued unhurriedly, "Your mother's cemetery was originally on the edge of the rice field. We once found a grave without a tombstone behind the hill. It is your mother's tomb. The summer wind is very dry here. If the burning yellow paper is accidentally blown into the rice field, it will easily lead to a fire all over the sky. Originally, fire sources are prohibited in this season, but you miss your mother and care about it. It's not dangerous, but it's still a big mistake." Xi Ling looked at him calmly, but the latter didn't say anything, but still looked curious, raised his chin, and signaled him to continue.

Xi Ling didn't care about his provocation, and continued: "After the incident, you were worried that the villagers would trouble you, so you dug up your mother's tombstone and replaced the tablet that was originally placed at home. The cemetery is hidden behind a hill. They were busy planting rice and harvesting wheat, so they probably wouldn't have noticed that there was a cemetery behind the rock, let alone understand the cause of the fire. In addition, there had been several small fires before, so everyone would naturally think that this It was a natural disaster rather than a man-made disaster, and the rumors that the holy lady punished the villagers because of her loneliness spread like wildfire."

"Lawyer Xi, do you read too many detective novels and like to make up stories?" Wu Jing looked at him sideways.

Xi Ling didn't take it seriously, and continued, "In order to substantiate the rumors, you purposely found a so-called magic stick in the city, and lied that the holy aunt needs a companion of a similar age to accompany her in the temple, and used extremely naive means to convince everyone that it was true. Send their old people to the temple one after another, so that no one will ever suspect that the fire started because of you."

Wu Jing applauded and said with a smile: "The story is very exciting, but why did I harm the old people in the village? I have no grievances or enmity with them. Uncle Zhu also said that as long as I am free, I will go to the temple to see them. Sending them food, since I want to harm them, why should I care about them, wouldn't it be enough to feed them." After speaking, he looked at Uncle Zhu, as if he wanted to seek help from him.

"Yes, yes, yes." Uncle Zhu hurriedly said good things for him, "Xiao Wu is usually very enthusiastic, as long as there is food and clothing, he will send us. He can't harm us, Lawyer Xi, Director Chang, I respect you all For my help, but if you want to wrong a good boy, I will never obey." As he spoke, a big golden saber stood in front of Wu Jing, and the meaning of protection was obvious.

"Master." Chang Qin patted him on the shoulder, signaling him to relax, "After listening to Xi Ling, it's not too late to protect Angkor."

Xi Ling glanced at him gratefully, then looked at Wu Jing, and said coldly, "It's because of your grandma."

Seeing Wu Jing's obvious thud, his face turned pale in an instant. Seeing this, Xi Ling curled his lips proudly: "You hate your grandma, because of your grandma, so you also hate the old people in the whole village, right? ?”

Wu Jing didn't answer, but turned his face away and looked at the mottled tree shadows in the distance.

"When you were very young, your grandma always beat you and scolded you. You hated her and hoped for her to die every day. That's why you only have your mother's tablet in your house, but not your grandma's. What's more, why You only offer incense to your mother, but you don’t even want to mention the reason for your grandma.”

Xi Ling looked at Wu Jing fiercely, like a sharp sword, no matter how tough the opponent was, the tip of the sword would not be able to pierce through the disguise, piercing the heart fatally, Wu Jing was stared at by him for a long time, and finally After being defeated, he sat slumped on the ground, two lines of tears slipped from the corners of his eyes.

"Since I was young, I only have quarrels in my memory, the quarrel between father and mother, the quarrel between grandma and father, the quarrel between grandma and mother, endless, all day and all night. Grandma always blames father for being useless, It’s okay if you don’t know how to make money, and married a prodigal woman. My father has always been in poor health. He suffered from tuberculosis when he was young. My mother married him for joy. After a year, the expenses are very high. Almost all the money earned by the family from farming is used to buy medicine for my father. The old man can’t see his son getting sick, but his temper is extremely bad. She was only willing to hand over money to release people after being scolded. My mother is stupid and doesn't know how to quarrel, so she always endured it.

One winter when I was a child, it was very cold, the heating at home was broken, and I was reluctant to spend money to repair it. The whole family could only sit around the stove, and my father finally couldn’t survive that winter. He left the three of us and left. , there are no men in the family to do heavy work, I am still young, I can't support the family, the family's finances are getting more and more difficult, and my grandmother's temper is getting worse and worse. At first, she just talked about it, but later she started to do it. She not only beats her mother, but also Hit me, when I go crazy, I often hit me with the wooden stick, no matter whether it hurts or not, I will chop on people with all my strength, and my mother dare not resist, because the house we live in and all our belongings are under the name of grandma. Now, if she fights with her hands, every villager can drown her with a mouthful of saliva.

Later, my mother was not at home, and I was afraid to stay with my grandma, because as long as she saw me, she couldn't help beating me, and it was useless to scold me while beating, just like scolding my father back then. She is an eyesore, and I don't know why my grandma's temper is so hot. Maybe she was born like this, or maybe she was stimulated by something. I heard that my grandpa was mad at me to death.

At that time, I was young, and I didn’t understand why my mother was always away, but every time she came back, she would bring me a lot of delicious and fun things, and she would give some money to grandma. At first, I was very proud. She was elated and happy, but grandma just spit on her mother's face when she received the money, scolding her for being shameless, humiliating herself, and calling her a whore and a bitch.I don't understand why grandma scolds people like this. My mother is not a bitch. My mother goes out to make money so that the whole family can have enough food and clothing. Grandma not only doesn't appreciate it, but also spits on her. I hate grandma, I hate this Heartless old woman.

When my grandma is free, she likes to stand at the entrance of the village and chat with a bunch of gossip women, publicly scolding my mother and calling her an unruly woman. Later, as long as my mother returns to the village, she will be accused by those old women whenever she walks on the road. Pointing, my mother can only lower her head to dodge, the old women see my mother is so bullying, and vent their anger for grandma by throwing things at her, sometimes rotten apples and tomatoes, sometimes small stones, in a variety of ways. "Wu Jing said, sneering a few times.

"When I was older, I finally understood why they called my mother a whore. At that time, my mother no longer went out all the time, but secretly brought strange men home while my grandma was asleep. My room was right next to her. The sound insulation of the old house next door is not good. For several nights, I would be woken up by the sound of the foot of the bed rubbing against the floor. I was in adolescence at that time, and there were always male students in the class who secretly bought pornographic books and watched pornographic movies. I was dragged to follow I watched it a few times, and I will always remember the first time I sat in a dark projection hall and saw the woman on the screen take off her clothes one by one, and then took the initiative to lie down on the man to serve him, I was on the spot I broke down, and I rushed out of the screening room, lying on a big tree by the side of the road and vomited in the dark. I didn't see the woman's appearance clearly, but in my mind, my mother's face overlapped with hers. Yes, I finally understand what the noise is that keeps me from sleeping peacefully every night, and I finally know what my mother will do when she brings a strange man home. I feel disgusting and contradictory at the same time. , Unknowingly, I became the same person as my grandma, disgusting her just as much, and thinking she was dissolute, but I ignored my food, clothing, housing and transportation. The daily expenses of our family are all my mother Dirty in exchange for their own.

Every day when my mother "works", I suffer from insomnia and can't sleep all night. I cover my ears tightly and think of a hundred ways to kill my grandma. Every time I make up my mind and swear to wait As soon as the sun comes out, I will strike, but every time I wait until dawn, I will be cowardly again. I hate myself for being cowardly, not like a man. I have already bought rat poison and hid it in the cabinet, but I dare not pour a drop into the old woman's teacup. I am afraid of going to jail, I am afraid of spending those dark days in a cell, because I have survived such darkness since I was a child, and I don’t want to suffer this kind of suffering when I grow up.

One day when I came home from school, I heard my grandma and a group of old women talking badly about my mother in the village. I pretended not to hear, but when I entered the room, I found my mother sitting on the sofa with her face buried in her hands and her shoulders resting. Trembling, I guess she was crying, so I dropped my schoolbag and walked over, she raised her head when she heard the movement, the wrinkled face was unconsciously covered with tears, she saw me, wanted to I stretched out my hand to pull me, but my first reaction was to avoid it. I was ashamed of my own behavior, and I couldn't bear to admit my mistake. My mother froze for a moment. She froze for a few seconds and forced a smile. What I wanted to say It was also changed to asking me how my day at school was going. I thought there was nothing to say about it, so I dealt with it casually and went upstairs.

I later found out that that day, my mother learned that she was suffering from... You know, that kind of disease requires money to see a doctor, and it is still a lot of expenses. She does not want to repeat the same mistakes as her father, although she is no longer I need to get money from grandma again, but she still doesn’t want to go to the hospital, just buy some medicine occasionally and take it secretly. Finally one day, grandma found the pills she hid. Grandma didn’t know what medicine it was, so she ran to ask the village doctor Barefoot doctor, the doctor told her that it is specialized in treating venereal diseases. Although grandma has a low level of education, she has heard of venereal diseases to some extent. She was so frightened that she dropped the pills and beat and kicked my mother when she came home. I admire her, she is an old bone in her 60s, and her strength in beating people is still the same as before. I just stood aside and watched, and I didn't step forward to hold my grandma, and I didn't pick up the stick at my feet and beat her hard on the head. Go on——Although I wanted to do it, I didn't. I planned it for so many years, but after all, I didn't have the courage to do it.

Maybe it was the old woman who got what she did, and before I could do anything, she was so angry that she had a myocardial infarction. We didn't have time to call an ambulance, or we didn't want to call an ambulance at all. We just watched her fall to the ground and died of respiratory failure. die.

After my grandma passed away, the elders in the village criticized my mother more severely, and even said that my mother was the murderer who killed my grandma. Only then did I realize that just killing the old bone alone is not enough. If you want to seal Yoyo's mouth, you must kill all the poisonous women in this village, but I said, I don't want to go to jail, how can I kill these people without breaking the law? Questions to ponder.Just when I couldn't figure it out, my mother also died of illness. It is a miracle that she survived for so many years after suffering from that disease. I didn't expect that after her death, she brought me another miracle. The fire in the rice field was an accident, but It was also the way my mother guided me to kill people. I had an idea on the spot, dug out my mother’s tombstone and brought it home, then went to the city to find a great fairy, gave him some money, and taught him how to tell the villagers that when the great fairy saw the money I was dizzy with joy, and immediately agreed.

It worked out very well, and I felt that my idea was flawless and flawless, if it hadn't been for..."

"If you hadn't been reluctant to hide your mother's tombstone and blatantly enshrined it in the hall, we wouldn't have discovered this detail, and traced it to you. The instigator of all this was you." Before Wu Jing could say the second half of the sentence Xi Ling then coldly answered.

"Even if you know, so what? I didn't kill anyone, and I didn't do anything outrageous. I just want to clear my mother's name and tell those old bones to shut up!" Wu Jing argued angrily. .

Xi Ling sighed, and said slowly: "You just want to shut up the gossiper, but not all the old people participated in the slander back then, like Uncle Zhu, who was thrown into the temple for no reason without knowing anything, etc. Death, don't you think you are going too far?"

"So I've been atoning all this time, and I've cared and helped them as much as I can, just to..."

"In order to see them die one by one with my own eyes!" Xi Ling gave him a contemptuous sideways glance, and said sharply, "You are a beast at heart. You go to the temple to visit those old people again and again. On the surface, it is to give warmth, but in fact Just enjoying, you not only hate your grandma, you also hate everyone who is about the same age as your grandma, you even hate your own mother!"

"You're talking nonsense!" Wu Jing raised his head suddenly, his eyes were flushed red, his expression was distorted and ferocious. After a while, he burst out laughing again, his whole body trembling from the laughter, and everyone's hairs stood on end. After laughing enough, he saw Xiang Xiling said in despair, "I really hate her, I hate her for giving birth to me, I hate her for being unruly, raising me in that way, making me unable to hold my head up in front of my classmates, and causing me to be raped by the whole village. It's a shame, but I hate myself even more, I hate that I didn't dare to do it, and I didn't kill the old woman earlier. If I could kill her earlier, everyone wouldn't make a scene about what my mother did. Lawyer Xi, you That’s right, it’s really a kind of enjoyment for me to go to the temple to visit those old people again and again. It’s refreshing to see them starving and freezing, and seeing them complaining. Just one more day of torture!"

With a sound of "slap", Uncle Zhu who was standing by the side gave Wu Jing a slap with all his strength. The latter staggered from the beating and fell to the ground. Uncle Zhu, who was trembling with anger, took a few steps forward and raised his arms. He was about to kick, but Chang Qin and Xi Ling hurriedly pulled him back.

"Lawyer Xi, don't stop me, let me kick this bastard to death!" Uncle Zhu shouted loudly, trying to break free from their restraints.

But the two of them didn't let go at all, and let him struggle desperately. Finally, they were so noisy that they stopped their movements and put their hands on their knees to breathe heavily.

"Uncle Zhu." Xi Ling looked down at him, tried his best to suppress the resentment in his heart, and said softly, "If you want to kill this scum, why risk your own life? He thought that everything he did was lingering Outside the law, but he did not understand that his behavior has already violated the Law on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of the Elderly. The state stipulates that the elderly who have reached the age of [-] have the obligation to support the elderly according to law. The obligation of caring and spiritual comfort, taking care of the special needs of the elderly. Although he has no obligation to support you, I believe that even when his mother and grandma were alive, he did not fulfill his responsibilities as a child, although the person concerned has After his death, it is very difficult to sue him for imprisonment, but one crime of abetting is enough for him to reflect on it for several years in prison."

A flash of lightning suddenly flashed across the sky, and raindrops the size of beans suddenly fell from the originally clear sky. The rainwater hit the leaves and made a rustling sound. In front of the Holy Aunt Temple, the villagers kneeling all over the ground were still repenting. They raised their heads to the sky, put their hands together, and sincerely prayed for God’s forgiveness. The sparse light rain soon turned into a torrential downpour, but everyone Everyone was indifferent, including Wu Jing who was still lying on the ground, and Uncle Zhu who stood aside and finally no longer wanted to kick him to death. Chang Qin, Xi Ling, and Bai Yulan surrounded them, watching silently.

At this moment, although the heavy rain blurred the vision, it allowed everyone to see themselves clearly.

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This is the end of the in-depth swim, and I can go home and fall in love later (huh?)