Chapter 136 I asked my brother to marry her
Chapter 136 I asked my brother to marry her
Hearing Dr. Sun's shocking words, Shen Wen looked at him and guessed in her heart that he had probably done such reckless things in his own thatched cottage. She smiled at the old man.
Seeing through her, the old man glared back impatiently and said, "Why are you looking at me? I mean, this incident was recorded in ancient books, and the man survived, living ten years longer, but with a deep scar on his face. Not only did he not become prettier, but he became uglier. He can only cover his face with a black veil all day long."
Lao Qiu had also heard about it. He said, "I have heard about this, but I just thought it was a rumor before. Today, after listening to Dr. Sun's detailed explanation, I am now convinced that this is true."
Shen Wen did not try to expose the old man's weaknesses. Instead, she re-examined the man's head.
Shen Wen touched the corpse's ear and felt the scar. Then he said to Dr. Sun, "Take a look. Touch it with your hand. The scar is almost invisible. It shows how meticulous and skilled the person who did the plastic surgery was."
Doctor Sun looked at the place carefully, touched it once, and touched it again in disbelief. He seemed to have made some important discovery, and actually bent his head to make it easier to check. He shone the candle on the scar and said to Xiao Meng and Lao Qiu happily: "See? The skin is really opened here, the bone is taken out, and then the skin and flesh are closed again with the natural coincidence. When the scar grows to a certain size, he will use the best scar removal medicine to heal the wound to the point where it is almost invisible."
People like Lao Qiu looked at Doctor Sun and Shen Wen as if they were madmen. These two people had a perverted resemblance.
Shen Wen asked Lao Qiu again what he had found when he cut open the man's stomach. Lao Qiu's face showed the same tangled expression as before, and he said that he had found the bones of a baby in the man's stomach, with skin and flesh.
Ji Zichu saw Shen Wen was stunned after hearing what he heard, so he said, "Maybe some bad doctor hid the pregnant woman's child inside the man's body after he died. I remember reading in some idle book that those evil cultists would do such things in order to ensure longevity."
When he saw Shen Wen looking at him, he said to her, "You've been here for too long. It might be hard to cope with it when you go home. I think I should go back with you."
Shen Wen asked Lao Qiu: "When will the family of this man's body come to claim the body? I'm afraid it will be in the next two days?"
Lao Qiu said, "Yes, they were originally here today. I asked Xiao Meng to negotiate with the family and they will come back tomorrow or the day after tomorrow to collect the body."
After Shen Wen heard what he said, he quietly picked up the knife he had prepared and cut the scar on the corpse's belly. When he opened the belly, he saw that it was already rotten beyond recognition. The stench was so strong that Xiao Meng and Doctor Sun complained, "It's already so rotten, why bother messing with it? I don't think there's any need to check it again."
Shen Wen paused for a moment, turned her head and let out a breath, then turned back and continued to explore her stomach.
After a while, she found a piece of intestine-like thing in her stomach, put it on the tray, and asked Xiao Meng to hand her a candle. With the light of the candle, Shen Wen looked at it carefully.
Lao Qiu also came over to carefully identify it. He suddenly said, "Young Master, this is a section of small intestine...but this intestine...why are there scars and stitches on this end?"
Shen Wen frowned and ignored him, and used tweezers to search the man's stomach...
She found pieces of sausage casings from the man's stomach, large and small, in bits and pieces, about thirty in total.
Lao Qiu asked doubtfully, "Eh? That's not right! This person's small intestine is not that long. These casings are all from the small intestine. I can tell that a person does not have such a long small intestine, not to mention the rotten ones... and there are two intestinal heads in the same position..."
When Lao Qiu recalled the scene of digging out the baby's bones from the man's corpse, his face turned pale with horror.
Seeing him like this, Shen Wen said, "Remember something? Do you think you are very smart for doing such evil things?"
Lao Qiu sighed and said, "I have lived for sixty-six years, and this is the first time I have seen what a demon is like in the world through a corpse."
Shen Wen put down the tweezers in her hand. She no longer had the mood to chat. She washed her hands in silence and left the morgue with Zichu.
Ji Zichu didn't quite understand what had just happened, but seeing Shen Wen's gloomy expression, he didn't dare to talk to her about this matter. They just walked side by side in silence to the gate of the government office.
Doctor Sun, who was following behind, was also heavy-hearted. He really wanted to stand in front of Shen Wen and ask more questions, but because of the presence of the Third Master Ji, he had to bear it.
When he was about to reach the threshold of the government office, he heard a commotion outside the office. It sounded like an official was lecturing, "Hey! Hey! Hey... This is the Yingtian government office, not a vegetable market. If you have any grievances, you can beat the drum to report them. If not, leave immediately. Otherwise, you will be arrested and beaten with a stick for disturbing the important area of the court."
As soon as he finished speaking, Shen Wen and Ji Zichu stepped out of the mansion and saw the situation outside.
But there were two burly yamen runners standing side by side on the steps, looking down at several civilian men below. There were five of them, four of them were wearing black clothes, and the young man in front was wearing brocade.
It turned out that it was a young master from a certain family who brought four servants with him.
The young master politely bowed to the two yamen runners and said, "My Lords, I am not here to cause trouble. I am here to meet Tian Liu'er, who has been guarding the yamen gate, and I am here to look for her."
The bailiff said, "So what if we have an engagement? Does that mean you can bully her? I just saw you humiliating her and even beating her."
The young master said: "That's not the case. It's Tian Liu'er's fault. She really went too far!"
The yamen runners went in and out of the yamen, and every day they saw Tian Liu'er guarding the yamen gate for her brother's affairs. Everyone had long been familiar with and loved this little girl, and naturally knew that she was very loyal, kind and dutiful. How could she be like what this rascal said? So the yamen runner said, "Nonsense, she is a girl and you are a group of big and strong men. You actually said that she was bullying others too much. I think it is clearly you who are bullying others too much."
The yamen runner turned around and asked Tian Liu'er beside him: "How is the Tian family girl? How did they bully you? Just tell us the truth. We will never let them bully you."
Tian Liuer pointed at the young master and said, "Captain Hong, this is it. This man is called Sun Wei, Sun Angshan, and he is my fiancé. He came to me to break off the engagement with me. He told me that as long as I stopped interfering in my brother's affairs, he would marry me, but if I showed up at the yamen again for my brother's affairs, he would divorce me on the spot. I would not agree to stop interfering in my brother's affairs, so he had someone forcibly take me away and take me home and lock me up, which is why there was the noise just now."
Sun Wei said unconvincedly, "Humph! As the daughter-in-law of my Sun family, you are always out in the open, even worse than that ignorant and reckless woman from the countryside. If I don't divorce you, won't my family lose face because of you? I asked someone to take you home for your own good, but you are not only ungrateful but also reckless and violent. It's really outrageous. Officers, please judge for yourself, which honest family would want a daughter-in-law like this? Isn't this going too far?"
In ancient times, women valued virtue the most. Tian Liuer's behavior was out of line. The two yamen runners looked at each other and chose to remain silent.
Tian Liuer swallowed a mouthful of phlegm and spat at Sun Wei heavily, saying, "Bah, you hypocritical hypocrite, don't use this reason to pressure me. What kind of poor family is yours? You are not worthy of talking to me about face or not. Your father, an old scholar who failed the imperial examination, was so poor that he almost starved to death in front of my house. If it weren't for my father who took him in, gave him food and drink, and gave him errands to do, he would have been a ghost in the underworld. Now that my family has suffered a disaster, not only does your family not help, but you also use such a ridiculous reason to cancel the engagement. You have the nerve to do that. Don't you want to cancel the engagement? I will cancel it, and I will also cancel the marriage between my brother and your sister, and return my family's ancestral head jewelry and chicken blood stone jade pendant."
As she spoke, Tian Liu'er fished in her sleeves, pulled out a silver lock and threw it to Sun Wei, saying, "You ungrateful family, you don't have to give me any divorce letter. I have the court officials as witnesses. I will never default on this marriage. From now on, we are done with each other and we will have no contact with each other."
Hearing this, everyone's opinion tilted towards Tian Liu'er again. It was understandable that she was busy traveling outside. Now her father had passed away and her mother was seriously ill in bed, and she was the only one who could take care of things. If she no longer cared about her brother's affairs, let alone whether her brother could be found, there was no one to break the clay pots after her mother died.
The Sun family is also looking after their grandson, how can they bring up the matter of breaking off the engagement at this time? If not being ungrateful and adding insult to injury, what else could it be?
How could Sun Wei be convinced? He did not mention the unbearable past, but the present. His father was now the alternate magistrate of Qinghe County, and would soon be an official in Qinghe County. How could her Tian family compare to him? Was it her, Tian Liuer, who did not know what was good for her? Was it her, Tian Liuer, who wanted to get close to her without knowing the limits? If she knew when to advance and when to retreat, she should have canceled the marriage on her own initiative, and would have avoided making a big fuss in the Yingtian government office today, leaving a bad impression on him in the eyes of the officials. He was still attached to her. If she refused to cancel the engagement, then he would settle for the next best thing and take her as his concubine.
Sun Wei pointed at Tian Liu'er angrily and said, "Okay! Okay! That's what you said, so I will divorce you as you wish. I want to see if you can get married in the future. With your reputation as a broken flower and a willow, who would want to marry you?"
As soon as he finished speaking, someone interrupted him and said, "Someone in my family is going to marry her. Don't worry, as soon as you cancel the engagement, I will ask my brother to marry her."
The person who spoke was naturally Shen Wen.
Shen Wen was irritated by this young boy. She really didn't expect a middle school boy to say such vicious words, especially the four words "broken flowers and defeated willows". Isn't it just breaking the contract before marriage? Why would he use those four words to hurt others? What a little feudal.
Shen Wen grabbed Ji Zichu's sleeve and pulled him, pointing at him and saying to Sun Wei: "Ji Zichu, the Third Young Master Ji! My brother! I told my brother to marry her, so you swear quickly, swear that you and Miss Tian Liuer of the Tian family will cancel your engagement today!"
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