Early in the morning on the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the Laba porridge at Mei Pei’s house was not yet cooked, and Mei Pei was still struggling in bed.

Suddenly, the commotion outside woke up Mayberry.

Before she could get dressed, the cries, curses and scoldings of the guards outside had already merged into one, which shocked everyone around her and gathered at the door of Mei You's house.

Meiberry hurriedly put on all her clothes, pulled on her slippers and went out.

Standing in the yard of his house, Mei Berry saw a group of official servants standing next door through the short wall.

Behind the official, there were three people standing, crying with grief and indignation on their faces.

In their excitement, they even crossed the official line and treated Meiyou's family of three who were standing in the yard very unkindly.

"What are you doing?! What's wrong with you if I haven't spoken to you yet?!"

Mei Youqian, who heard the commotion and rushed to Mei You's house first, saw that these people were pretending to be powerful and standing behind the officials, so he was so angry that he stood up and rebuked them loudly.

As a result, as soon as Mei Youqian finished speaking, the guards also spoke, but instead of questioning the people behind them, they first scolded Mei Youqian for making such a noise and wanted to kick him.

If Mei You hadn't pulled Mei Youqian in advance, he might have been kicked by the opponent.

This time, Mei Youqian's eyes held a trace of solemnity.

"Xing Captou! You see! These people in their family are so arrogant. They beat my wife to death just for stealing a fish! You must make the decision for us!"

"Who died?"

While everyone was watching, Mei Bei looked carefully and then remembered that the crying middle-aged man was Aunt Ba's husband Ba Ying, wasn't he?

"I didn't kill anyone." Mei You frowned, obviously feeling that things seemed a little tricky.

She looked at Baying and the pair of children behind him and asked, "Aunt Ba is dead?"

"You, what are you pretending to be? You were obviously the one who hit my mother to death with frozen fish! It was because you and my mother had an argument at the market a few days ago, and my mother was so angry that she wanted to teach you a lesson, so you beat her to death.

Got it!"

The eyes of the two boys and girls were swollen from crying, and their eyes looking at Mei You were full of hatred. Obviously, the words they said did not seem to be deliberately framed in terms of tone or expression.

"I didn't kill anyone, but your mother did commit such a despicable act as stealing fish."

"You! I will fight with you!"

Excited by Mei You's words, Ba Xiong and Ba Yue were so angry that they rushed forward to fight Mei You.

Finally, several government officials stopped him.

These cadres don't have the patience to watch them bicker, or watch them perform full-scale martial arts.

After the three members of the Ba family stopped drinking, they took out the shackles and tried to cuff Mei You and take her away.

"Hey, hey, hey, no, no, no, sir. My niece has been slandered. Why don't you just shackle her and watch her from the outside?"

After Mei Youqian said that, he held down the shackled policeman and stuffed his purse without warning.

Feeling the solid feel of the heavy silver, the policeman, who had a stern look on his face just now, now became slightly lighter.

He glanced at Mei You and said, "I'm sorry you can't do anything as a little lady, so come with us."

Mei You narrowed her eyes and said nothing, but followed the police officers and them away.

When Miao saw this, she started crying so hard that she wanted to follow him. Mei You then helped Miao to go out.

Wei Meili was standing outside the crowd just now without squeezing in, but at this moment she grabbed Miao.

She looked at Mei Youqian and Mei Youcai and said, "You go to Jiubaoxuan first, tell me what happened this morning and ask for help. I will help my younger siblings to go to the county government office."

When Wei Meili reminded them, the three of them also divided into two groups as if they were waking up from a dream.

Pay attention to the development of the situation and look for reinforcements at the same time.

Mayberry just stood in her yard and witnessed everything.

When the incident was over, she turned around and saw Tian Qi also lying on the small fence.

Before Tian Qi could say anything, Mei Bei opened her mouth and said: "Uncle Xiao Qi, please stop stepping on the stool. If Grandpa Xue sees you, you will be beaten again."

"This matter is so serious, do you want me to tell my adoptive father?"

Tian Qi was lying on the wall without any intention of coming down after listening to Mei Bei's words. He tilted his head and said, "This thing looks so difficult to handle~"

"Yes, it is indeed difficult to handle. Then you can tell Grandpa Xue later and ask him not to worry yet. Help us think of any solutions.

I'll go to the Yamen first and have a look."

Meiberry went back to the house and changed again, putting on a thick cloak to protect her from the wind, and a veil. Finally, Meiberry inserted a razor blade into her waistband by some mysterious means.

This was made by the blacksmith in Meiyutuo County after she met the "pervert" in Yunzhou Fucheng, and was kept for her self-defense.

This case is full of doubts.

Everyone in the neighborhood knew that Aunt Ba had a grudge with them, and Mei Bei reminded Mei You to be on guard against Aunt Ba's mischief.

As a result, the other party did something wrong.

Stealing fish is something the other party can do.

After all, her sister bought nine big fish last time, and she would definitely be able to eat them all in the next few days.

It was freezing outside and it was a natural refrigerator. It was possible that her sister had put the fish outside to freeze.

Even Mei Berry was surprised that Mei You had the intention of fishing, deliberately stimulating the opponent to make a mistake, and then trampling the person to death again.

But Mei Berry never expected that this man would die after stealing the fish.

Mei Berry's eyes darkened.

Someone is trying to use their grudge to kill Aunt Ba and frame it on her sister!

Realizing this, Meiberry hurried to the county government office.

It was probably because there had not been a murder case like this in the county for a long time, and many people surrounded the county government office to watch the fun.

Meiberry also squeezed her way to the first row, and her mother and third aunt were also blocked in the first row. As soon as Meiberry squeezed in, she heard several insults about Meiyou coming from beside her.

Meiberry glanced around and saw brothers and sisters Ba Xiong and Ba Yue.

Thinking of the behavior of the brother and sister who repeatedly accused her sister and then gently exposed Aunt Ba for stealing fish, Mei Berry was disgusted to death by these two brothers.

Taking advantage of the crowd's confusion, Meiberry raised her leg and kicked them, causing the brother and sister to fall on their backs.

Without the curses, the noise in Mayberry's ears became much quieter, and finally she focused all her attention on the courtroom.

At this moment, there were only her sister, Ba Ying and a body covered by a white cloth.

The county magistrate is a middle-aged man about forty years old, surnamed Yang.

He pinched his neatly trimmed beard and listened to the arguments from both sides.

Baying means that there was a quarrel between neighbors, and then the conflict further intensified, and his mother-in-law was beaten to death by the other party for stealing fish.

The murder weapon was the frozen fish found next to his mother-in-law's body when she died. The fish head was still covered in blood.

That frozen fish came from Mei You’s family.

It sounds quite logical. There are "human witnesses" and "physical evidence", but Mei You only asks if she beat someone to death with a frozen fish, why did she throw the frozen fish weapon on the ground?

Isn't this suspicious?

When she asked this question, Ba Ying's face changed slightly, and he yelled hastily: "Maybe you were nervous and scared because you killed someone, so you left the frozen fish where you were and ran away?"

"Does what you say prove that I was scared and left the evidence of the frozen fish where I was and ran away? I also said that there's no telling if Aunt Ba stole the fish and was targeted by someone."

The Meiyou family said they were neighbors across the wall from the Baying family, but in fact there was a small road between them.

Who knows what happened to Aunt Ba after she stole the fish and died?

After Mei You finished speaking, she didn't care whether Ba Ying had anything to say after that. She turned around and lifted up the white cloth and looked at Aunt Ba's unblinking expression.

His eyes, which had long since lost their luster, were open, with a look of fear and surprise on his face.

Maybe she didn't understand why she was killed until she died...

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