After her husband died, her parents came to force her to remarry

Chapter 181 Catching the Criminals

He Qing was feeling upset and couldn't sleep. When he heard the noise, he got up secretly. When he saw a dark shadow in the backyard, he rushed towards it.

The voice was filled with tears: "It's all my fault."

Zhang Long pulled her aside and asked, "Are you pregnant?"

He Qing nodded slightly and said, "I secretly went to see Doctor Niu this afternoon and he said she was pregnant."

"You go find him! Then we are not..."

"Don't worry, I gave him all the money you gave me, and told him not to tell anyone else."

Zhang Long was still worried, but thinking that he would be leaving today, he whispered, "My mother asked me to go out and hide out first. I will come back to find you after this is over. If you can, you'd better go back to your mother's house and hide out."

"I don't have a family anymore. Why don't you take me with you?"

Zhang Long hesitated, and after thinking about it, he decided that it would not work. If Zhang Daniu was not dead, he would still come back. But if he took He Qing with him, everyone in the village would know tomorrow morning that they had eloped, and he would never be able to come back.

"Since you are pregnant, you should not travel. I don't know what will happen on the road if I leave. What if you get hurt?" He took out a silver coin from the two taels of silver that Sun Tingfang gave him and said, "If this matter is eventually traced back to you, take this silver and run."

"But..." He Qing wanted to say something.

Chen Guifang yelled from inside the room, "Who's behind this?"

Zhang Long scared the two of them and quickly turned around and ran away.

He Qing then said, "Mom, it's me, get up and go to the bathroom."

Chen Guifang said unhappily, "Who is that person talking to in the back?"

He Qing quickly replied: "No one, it was dark, I was just talking to myself to give myself courage."

After saying this, Chen Guifang didn't ask any more questions. She just turned over in the room, cursed, and then fell asleep again.

He Qing looked at the direction Zhang Long left, wiped her tears, clenched the silver coins, and then went back to the room to sleep.

Just as she lay down and was about to fall asleep, she saw the village becoming bustling. She was so scared that she quickly got up again.

Chen Guifang even cursed: "You just don't let people sleep well every day, right?"

He Qing got up, put on a single piece of clothing, and walked out of the yard. At the entrance of the village, she saw many people holding torches, lighting up the road out of the village. She saw clearly that the person held by the yamen runner was Zhang Long.

She lost her balance and nearly fell to the ground, so she quickly turned around and put on her clothes.

Chen Guifang asked, "What happened outside?"

He Qing didn't answer, but put on her clothes and went out, which made Chen Guifang angry and scolded her again: "You little bitch, you didn't answer my question, but you ran away quickly to watch the fun!"

Zhang Long never expected that as soon as he stepped out of the village, several yamen runners rushed up to him from the roadside and arrested him. The village chief Zhang Shunchang and his son Zhang Bao were also there.

Only then did he realize that these people were waiting for him here.

The bailiff carried him towards Zhang Quan's home.

Zhang Long wanted to escape, but he couldn't break free.

When Zhang Quan saw that it was him, he glared at him!

"Why do you want to harm my Daniel?!"

Zhang Long quickly said: "This...this is all a misunderstanding, I didn't hurt him."

"I didn't harm him. If I didn't harm him, why did you leave the village tonight with a guilty conscience?"

Zhang Long quickly denied: "I didn't, I didn't, I just ate too much at night and couldn't sleep, so I got up to digest the food."

"Oh? You got up to digest your food and took your bag with you?" one of the yamen runners asked as he threw out the bag.

Zhang Long quickly changed his words: "Oh, I was just thinking about digesting my food, and I went to the town quarry to deliver something to my father. He left in a hurry today and forgot to bring anything with him."

The bailiff opened the bundle and asked, "Bring clothes and bread for your father? Why? Does he have no clothes to wear or no bread to eat in the quarry?"

The villagers who were watching looked at the clothes and said, "Isn't that clothes Zhang Long's own? When did it become his father's?"

Zhang Long really didn't know how to argue for a moment.

"Speak, if you don't tell the truth, I'm telling you, it won't be as simple as arresting you. Once you're in jail, we'll have plenty of ways to make you talk!"

In the distance, Sun Tingfang was at home and was worried that Zhang Long couldn't sleep, so he rushed over immediately. Outside the crowd, when he heard the yamen runner say these words, he was immediately scared out of his wits.

Almost fell to the ground.

Zhang Long was so scared that he immediately became honest: "I'll tell you, I'll tell you! I didn't mean it!"

Upon hearing his confession, Zeng Hua rushed over, crying and punching him several times: "We are from the same village, how could you have the heart to do this! My son, you have suffered so much!"

Zeng Hua cried until she was hoarse, and finally Wang Qiuxia pulled her away and she calmed down.

"But I really didn't mean it!"

"You didn't mean to?" Jiang Xiaohe stood up and said, "If you really didn't mean to hit him, why didn't you send him back to see a doctor, but threw him into the river?"

Zhang Long opened his mouth and finally said, "I...I was also scared."

Zeng Hua looked at a wooden stick in the yard, picked it up, and rushed over: "I will kill you for harming my son like that."

But he was stopped by the yamen runners.

Zeng Hua looked at the yamen runner and said in hatred, "Is it not possible for me to avenge my son?"

The bailiff looked at her and saw that she was also acting impulsively because her child was being treated like this, so he did not bother with the disrespect in her tone.

He cupped his hands and raised his fists: "This is right and wrong, and the decision will naturally be made by the head of the pavilion. We will escort the criminal back to the court now. If something happens to your Zhang Daniu tomorrow, the head of the pavilion will certainly seek justice for you."

As he said this, he called other bailiffs to take the man away.

Zhang Long was being escorted away dejectedly. When he saw Sun Tingfang in the crowd, he immediately shouted, "Mom, save me, save me!"

The bailiff was so annoyed by what he heard that he stuffed something directly into his mouth.

Zeng Hua watched the person being captured and still wanted to chase him.

Wang Qiuxia quickly grabbed her.

Zeng Hua was filled with resentment, and Wang Qiuxia advised him, "Don't get angry first!"

"Sister-in-law, how can I not hate you? The murderer is right in front of me, but I can't avenge Daniu."

Jiang Xiaohe said, "Second Aunt, there is no rush for revenge! Now that the person has been caught, the most important thing next is to take good care of Daniu. I hope he can wake up safely."

When talking about Daniu, the resentment in Zeng Hua's eyes disappeared, and more sadness and sorrow appeared: "Daniu's life is so miserable!"

When Sun Tingfang saw her son being taken away, she knelt down in front of Zeng Hua and Zhang Quan and said, "Zhang family, please let my son go. Zhang Long really didn't mean it!"