According to Master Sun, after the mudslide in Tang Village over a decade ago, most of the villagers had moved to Happiness Village.
Because Happiness Village was fairly close to Tang Village, many villagers' deceased relatives were still buried back in Tang Village.
A small number of villagers had moved to other villages.
In the car.
I told An Ning and Yi Yang about the things I had seen in Old Shen's memories.
After listening, both of them looked bewildered, as though they had no idea what I was talking about.
Honestly, I didn't even know what exactly I had seen.
Things that were too absurd, with no reason or logic to them, were hard to understand.
"Didn't Zhang Chengfeng only kill six people?"
Yi Yang asked in confusion, "Aside from those two families who died in the mudslide, why did he kill the others?"
An Ning said, "It must be because he had a grudge against the others too..."
I had to admit, An Ning's simple, unthinking approach always managed to get straight to the point.
First, I went over why Zhang Chengfeng had killed those people back then.
Back then, Zhang Chengfeng had worked away from home and was gone for long stretches. Both the villagers and his family thought he was working in another province, but he was actually abroad. He had kept it from even his family.
Later, he came home to visit once and stayed for half a month. During that time, he slept with his wife, Liu Guifen, and she became pregnant.
When his wife was five or six months pregnant, a local thug, who was married himself, couldn't keep it in his pants and raped Liu Guifen one day.
Liu Guifen miscarried as a result. Under the double blow of the humiliation and