—Yesterday they went to Liu’s house, next door to Li’s house, to search for clues and asked three questions:
1. How did Li Qianggui die
2. Why did the village close its doors at night after the death of the Li family
3. Why does Li have no children
Old man Liu answered all these questions one by one, and answered them in great detail, which Shen Mo remembered very clearly.
But what did Mrs. Liu say at that time
It seems to have said a few words...
Bai Youwei narrowed her eyes and said slowly: "When we first met, the old woman said that the village was too poor, and all who could walk left, and the only ones left were the old people who couldn't walk, and the old bachelor who couldn't marry a wife.
Since all the girls in the village are married to other villages, the old bachelors in the village can only buy wives. What about the old bachelors who have no money? Later, the old man also mentioned this point, saying that Li Leizi was too poor to marry a daughter-in-law. In fact, this was implying to us that there was something wrong with the origin of the Li family.
Later, we asked how Li Haozi died, and the old man answered a lot. Do you remember what the old woman said? She said, Mrs. Li is a poor person.
The person who died was Li Leizi, but she said that Li was pitiful, which showed that Li had suffered a lot from Li Leizi.
And one last question, the most interesting.
We asked why Mrs. Li had no children. The old man said Mrs. Li was young and having a child hurt her body, but what the old woman said at the time was… Mrs. Li, she was too delicate. "
"Delicate..." Shen Mo thought thoughtfully, "The daughter of an ordinary peasant family would not be described as delicate."
Bai Youwei nodded lightly: "Following this line, people in the village laughed at Li Haozi for not being able to marry a wife, and he abducted a little girl from outside in a fit of anger. I guess Li's original family would not be a high-ranking dignitary, that kind of It's not easy to start with a maid and old lady, but it should be a small rich family, and he has not suffered much since he was a child, and his personality is innocent and simple."
"You're young, your body doesn't grow well, and forcibly giving birth to a child will damage your body. It makes sense." Shen Mo thought for a while, and then said, "It's also possible that Mr. Li didn't want to give birth and deliberately damaged his body, but this way As a result, she must have suffered a lot in the Li family."
"Since it's so bitter, why don't you go home?" Bai Youwei couldn't figure it out, "Even if you lose your chastity, you won't try it once, right?"
Shen Mo said: "Perhaps her family attaches great importance to rules and fame."
Bai Youwei shook her head: "In ancient times, only the upper class paid attention to this. If ordinary people followed this set of rules, they would not be able to live. In fact, even in the most conservative dynasties, it was common for a bereaved husband to remarry and divorce his wife. ."
For example, the whole world knows that Arab women are conservative, covering their whole bodies and showing only one pair of eyes, but in fact, if you have been to a poorer local village, you will find that the women in the village need to work in the fields, and there is absolutely no way to wear them like that. To think about how to live, there is no time to pay attention to those rules.
Bai Youwei slipped forward slowly in the wheelchair, thinking carefully.
"I can stop it for a while, but I can't stop it for a lifetime... Something must have happened that caused Mr. Li to give up the idea of going home... "
She looked at the old scholar's house in the distance, stopped suddenly, and slowly opened her eyes.
"I see... why can't she go back... "
Shen Mo also stopped and looked at the ancient house in the distance.
I didn't realize it before, but now I look at it from a distance, the terrain of the ancient house is much lower than that of the village, and there is a huge natural rock standing in front of the main entrance, which makes the house look like a tomb.
"What if..." Bai Youwei said softly, "She has an older brother, or a younger brother, who is a senior high school official?"