The Xiang family's house consists of five large rooms, which are spacious and bright. It was once prosperous and bustling with people coming and going, but now it is dirty and messy.

Zhang Jianguo and two militiamen searched every corner of the house but found no one. Zhang Jianguo was puzzled and looked around the house with a frown.

Ji Qinglan stared at the two pig pens on the right side of the Xiang family in a daze. In her previous life, she was locked in a pig pen against the wall for five years. She curled up in a pile of firewood, suffered humiliation, and died there.

The jujube tree in the yard was full of fragrant flowers, which fell in the wind. In her previous life, her new sword was buried under the tree.

Now that Captain Xiang is in jail, Xiang's mother has been taken away by Xiang Guo. The piglets originally raised in the pigsty are no longer there. The pigsty is now empty, emitting a lingering smell, and the wall is still piled with dry firewood.

Zhang Jianguo also discovered the pigpen and walked over to search, but found nothing.

Xiang Qiang punched Zhang Jianguo in the face, but Zhang Jianguo dodged nimbly and punched him back, knocking him to the ground.

When it comes to fighting, Zhang Jianguo has never lost.

Xiang Qiang swung his fist on the ground. Everyone thought he was going to resist again, but he just sat on the ground like a weak shrimp and started crying.

Secretary Zhang's face darkened little by little, and he acted as if Xiang Qiang, the coward, had been bullied by them.

Without that thing, is he not a man?

Oh! Neither.

He deserves it! So many people were working together, but he was the only one who was slacking off. Who can he blame for being bitten by a snake?

"Xiang Qiang, tell me the truth, where is Li Xiaoya?"

"You still ask me, she is a promiscuous womanizer and has hooked up with strange men. She has already run away with the adulterer. Go and catch her! Why bother me? She is cheating on me. I will beat her to death if I catch her." Xiang Qiang has lost all his image and it is hard to feel pity for him.

Secretary Zhang and Captain Li both frowned fiercely.

Captain Li asked unhappily, "Who is that man?"

"It's Li Ergou." Xiang Qiang reported a name.

Everyone has heard of this person, and vaguely heard that he was Li Xiaoya's former lover.

Seeing that they couldn't get anything out of them here, everyone had to leave the Xiang family. On the way, Ji Qinglan kept thinking about the matter and walked very slowly. Liu Yumei held her arm and walked with her.

"Qinglan, do you believe this?" she asked in a low voice.

Ji Qinglan shook her head slowly. She had just carefully observed Xiang Qiang’s expression and found that he started to look panicked, his eyes were evasive, and then he kept his head down, pretending to cry and act pitifully to get away with it.

There is weirdness.

She pulled Liu Yumei and whispered a few words in her ear, and Liu Yumei nodded repeatedly.

Earlier, Captain Li and Secretary Zhang discussed letting Zhang Jianguo take people to Li Ergou's house to take a look. Li Xiaoya's matter also needed to be dealt with. If they really couldn't live together anymore, they could divorce, and they couldn't act recklessly like they were doing now.

Captain Li wanted to send Li Xiaoya to jail for having promiscuous relationships with both men and women, destroying the atmosphere of the Honghe Brigade. Such a fickle woman must not be kept.

When Ji Qinglan arrived at Zhang's house, he declined Niu Guixiang's invitation to dinner and took his son back home.

Niu Guixiang kept the rice warm on the stove and waited for her son to come back for dinner. Not long after Ji Qinglan left, Zhang Jianguo came back with a flashlight.

"No one is there. Li Ergou is at home. Li Ergou also said that Li Xiaoya didn't go to his house."

Secretary Zhang frowned and said, Xiang Qiang is lying.

Liu Yumei thought of what Ji Qinglan had told her, and pulled Zhang Jianguo aside to tell him the whole story. Zhang Jianguo nodded and agreed without any hesitation, as if his wife's words were an imperial decree.

Niu Guixiang really couldn't bear to see that she raised her son with great difficulty, but in the end, he got married and forgot about his mother.

Secretary Zhang did not notice his son and daughter-in-law's little action. He knocked out the ash from his pipe and said, "Eat first, then go."

That night, Zhang Jianguo brought two militiamen and squatted near Xiang Qiang's house, paying attention to every move inside. They guarded for a whole night and fed the mosquitoes, but Xiang Qiang did not make any unusual movements.

The next day, Ji Qinglan received the news, but he was confused, wondering if he had guessed wrong.

However, Li Xiaoya was neither at Xiang's house nor at her lover Li Ergou's house. She was as if she had disappeared from the world. Xiang Qiang only said that she had run away with Li Ergou. Li Ergou, of course, denied it. Both of them had their own reasons, and the villagers fought against them when they were not convinced. The two of them fought several times for this.

Captain Li called the police, and the Public Security Bureau sent people to investigate. They searched Xiang's and Li Ergou's homes inside and out, and interrogated both of them, but found no trace of Li Xiaoya.

Li Xiaoya was listed as a missing person.

From then on, Xiang Qiang became well-behaved, stopped drinking, became very silent, and even carried a hoe to work every day. He accepted his current life situation and even turned a blind eye to everyone's ridicule.

Ji Qinglan felt uneasy, there was something wrong with Xiang Qiang.

She was imprisoned for five years in her previous life and knew Xiang Qiang very well. It was impossible for him to just go away like that.

However, Zhang Jianguo watched him for five days in a row and found nothing unusual in the mission, so he finally gave up.

Ji Qinglan filtered out the honey he had harvested, which weighed a total of 15 kilograms. He put the honey into glass bottles that he had specially bought from the supply and marketing cooperative, with each bottle containing one kilogram.

I sent two bottles back to Uncle Peng and Grandpa Qiao respectively, and gave one bottle to the Zhang family, one bottle to the Luo family, and two bottles to Han Yuanjun and several old men in the cowshed. The rest were saved to be consumed slowly.

Honey tastes sweet and is neutral in nature. Regular consumption of honey can relieve fatigue, eliminate food accumulation, improve blood circulation, replenish qi and benefit the lungs, moisten the lungs and relieve coughs.

The black geese fly high at night and the village falls into silence.

The door of the Xiang family slowly opened, and Xiang Qiang walked out holding an axe. He went straight to Li Ergou's house at the entrance of the village. When he arrived at the backyard of Li Ergou's house, he climbed over the wall and entered the house. Soon, muffled groans and low chopping sounds were heard from Li Ergou's room.

When Xiang Qiang came out again, he was covered in blood under the dim moonlight, with blood stains running down his cheeks. Drops of blood from the axe were dripping down, spreading all the way to the village entrance.

He did not go home, but turned towards the educated youth point at the east end of the village.

Ji Qinglan suddenly woke up with a start. He heard footsteps outside the window behind the house, which was the sound of dry branches being broken by being stepped on.

someone!

She quickly got out of bed, touched the axe placed in the corner, and waited quietly. Xiao Hei surrounded her feet and gently soothed her with his furry tail, as if to convey courage.

Sure enough, there was a sound as small as the sound of mosquitoes and flies coming from the window. Someone was knocking on the window with a knife. Windows these days were all made of wood, and the middle was covered with cardboard. Supplies were in short supply. When she built the house the year before last, she wanted to get some steel or glass but had no way to do so. Two pieces of glazed tiles cost a lot of money.

Soon, a hole was torn in the paper window paper from the outside, and a bloody hand reached in, trying to pull out the bolt, but was greeted by Ji Qinglan's cold hatchet.

"Ah!" The scream pierced the sky and echoed through the darkness.

The injured hand retreated like a startled bird, and then the axe began to chop at the window frame by frame.

Now that I’ve been discovered, I won’t pretend anymore.

"I'm going to kill you, you vicious woman." Outside the window, Xiang Qiang was shouting and cursing madly.

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