Chapter 570: Xiao Hua’s fault
" What? What were we supposed to do when someone so dangerous was attacking the mers, what are you talking about?" One of the women couldn't help but say, they were the pillars of their houses if something was to happen to them then what would have happened to their family?
" Ah, you mean to say that you couldn't do anything to the woman who was stalking and threatening your husband and brothers but you wanted them, who couldn't even fight against that woman whom you didn't even have the guts to face, I see" Yu Dong nodded her head with an ' I understand' expression but that only made the women flush in shame.
It was not that bad when it wasn't said out loud but when Yu Dong spoke about it out loud, they couldn't help but get embarrassed.
" What is it to you?" One of the women spoke. "It's not like your family mer was harmed, why do you have to be so nosy?"
" Of course, it is not my concern but I was just stating the facts, if you all had used some brains and told the village head about this matter then maybe the murderer would have been caught by now and many lives would have been saved but oh well, you all are simply too much of a scaredy cats what am I even expecting?" She shrugged casually which only incensed the women even further.
" Anyway this is not important," she continued as if she hasn't just scolded the entire crowd of women and called them useless cowards in one breath. " The murderer has done a good job hiding for so long, there is no evidence against them either, more importantly, the corpses that are intact all have a sort of ribbon tied to their necks like they were being used as some sort of sick gifts, which shows that the woman is really crazy in the head."
" That's right a bow!" One of the women who was silently standing in the corner suddenly exclaimed. " Didn't Xiao Hua get a corpse of a mer with a bow attached to it, surely that woman is the same one who killed these mers as well right?"
Everyone hasn't forgotten about the murder of the mer who died so brutally in the village and it would be a long time before they will forget about the murder. As soon as the woman yelped about the murder, everyone turned to look at Yu Dong who raised a brow and asked, " What?"
"It's you, isn't it? You were the one who brought this matter to light?" At this moment the women of the village were very dissatisfied with Yu Dong, till now they were living a peaceful life and they didn't have to worry about anything but now because of Yu Dong's interference they all were going to become jokes in the eyes of others!
Yu Dong eyed these women in surprise and shock, were they serious? They weren't saddened by the grief of their family member but instead, they were grieving the fact that this matter came to the light, were they serious?
She was just going to give these women a piece of her mind but then she heard village head Gu speak, " Are you all done? This is not the time to fight among each other. We need to catch the person who is behind this and just because the corpses all have a red bow tied to their neck doesn't necessarily mean that the person is the same person we are looking for, after all, they were hiding for so long why will that woman suddenly make her presence known?"
" Most likely there is someone who knows about the murderer and the way she killed these mers, given that they weren't exactly buried properly it wouldn't be difficult for another woman to know about it, she could have stumbled on these corpses by chance and then recreated the entire thing to throw us off the scent."
Beside the village head Gu, her sister nodded. " I think my sister is right, the woman wants to make a fool out of us, while we are looking for the one who killed these mers, she might get away with what she is doing."
" Just how many murderers are roaming in this village?" A woman asked.
" I bet this is all because of Xiao Hua," Yu Dong heard a familiar voice and she wasn't at all shocked to see her aunt standing against her. " These things started after he came to the village, I-mean just how many times things have become unstable because of him in the village?"
Yu Dong felt her eyelid twitch, she knew that her aunt would do something like this, she was trying to turn the attention back to her family now that the villagers were talking about the old Yu family and the ruthlessness of Old master Tang. " You are not pinning the blame on Xiao Hua."
She wasn't even surprised that these women were all trying to pin blame on someone else. And given that she has never gotten along with anyone, especially her aunt, it seemed her personal agenda was to make things difficult for her.
" You are blind because of his beauty, I do not blame you," said Aunt Yu, but her voice was fairly vibrating with impatience and a strong desire for revenge. " Better women have fallen in the face of the beauty of mers, you naively believe that Xiao Hua has nothing to do with this but before he came to the village nothing like this happened, even the most decent corpse looks like months old, certainly the person behind this started acting up after she found out that Xiao Hua was no longer a courtesan and was bought by you."
" I beg to differ," said Yu Dong with her eyes narrowed. " Unlike you who is willing to solve the entire matter by burying your head in the ground, I can see that there is a pattern in the killing of the woman. The corpses are wary from six to three and nine months old, which means that the woman kills a mer every three months. Even if Xiao Hua wasn't here, someone else would have died in his place of him."
" I thought we agreed that the one who killed these mers and the one who is after Xiao Hua are two different people."
" Doesn't necessarily mean they are."
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