1970s: Transmigrated into a cannon fodder female supporting character in a lucky koi novel!

"Meng... Meng Zhiqing, are you Meng Zhiqing?" Guo Caixia cried out the name that chilled her to the bone in fear.

Upon hearing this name, Xu Yuan nearly dropped his sickle. Meng Zhou?

Lu Zechuan was equally shocked. Was Guo Caixia talking nonsense, or...?

Immediately afterwards, Guo Caixia's tearful pleas for mercy rang out.

"Meng, I was wrong, I was really wrong. I didn't know anything, I didn't see anything, please let me go!"

Guo Caixia, afraid that "he" wouldn't believe her, immediately raised three fingers, "I swear, I will never tell anyone about that, or I'll die a horrible death!"

"Please, please let me go. I know I was wrong. I just wanted to escape the Zhang family, so I tried to blackmail Wen Li for some money. But I really didn't mean to push you away!"

Guo Caixia cried uncontrollably, tears and snot streaming down her face. The overwhelming fear caused her to lose control of her bladder, and the air was thick with an indescribable stench.

"Tell me what you saw at that time?" Xu Yuan lowered his voice again.

Guo Caixia was so frightened that she lost her mind and stammered out what she had seen.

That day, she was beaten by Zhang Mazi and her mother. She had to go to work in the afternoon, and her body was in a lot of pain, so she hid in the reeds by the river to slack off. As a result, she accidentally fell asleep. In her drowsy state, she heard movement in the water.

At first, she thought someone was bathing in the river, but when she opened her eyes, she saw Meng Zhou pushing a woman into the water.

She covered her mouth tightly to keep herself from making a sound, and with great difficulty, she could see that the person in the water was Li Hong.

Li Hong was seen struggling desperately in the water, but Meng Zhou's face remained expressionless, as if he were holding a lifeless stone rather than a person underwater.

She was so frightened that she couldn't speak; her mind went completely blank when she saw such a horrifying scene.

By the time she realized what was happening, Li Hong had already lost her life. Her body had floated to the surface of the water. Meng Zhou calmly moved a rock and placed it on top of Li Hong, then washed his hands in the water without any expression.

After doing all that, Meng Zhou looked around carefully. She was by the river at the time, and when she saw Meng Zhou walking towards the reeds, she was so scared that she didn't dare to breathe. Just when she was about to be discovered, the people from the cowshed came over from the river carrying manure.

Meng Zhou was worried about being seen, so he hurriedly left the riverbank.

After Meng Zhou left, she was so frightened that she was soaked in sweat and hid inside all afternoon, too scared to come out.

It wasn't until evening, when the children came to play in the river, that someone accidentally moved a stone and everyone discovered Li Hong. Taking advantage of the crowd at the riverbank and everyone's attention being on Li Hong, she managed to slip out from the reeds in the chaos.

After returning home, she had nightmares for several days in a row, and during this time she was too afraid to go out.

She was afraid that meeting Meng Zhou would expose her secret. If she hadn't been struggling to make ends meet in the Zhang family, she would never have thought of using this information to exchange for money with Wen Li.

After all, Wen Li is a very good friend, and she believes that Wen Li would spend the money for Li Xiangxiang's sake.

She needs money now, otherwise she won't be able to survive any longer!

"Meng Zhiqing, please let me go! If you let me go, I'll do anything for you, I'll listen to whatever you say, and I'll never tell anyone about that. If you're worried Wen Li will find out, I'll help you shut her up!"

Xu Yuan was furious at Guo Caixia's ruthlessness. In a moment of carelessness, the sickle slashed her neck. The wound was small, and a little blood oozed out.

The sickle pressed tightly against her skin, the icy touch making Guo Caixia's heart pound in her throat.

"Ahhhhhh, please don't kill me! I beg you, Meng Zhiqing, I don't want to die, please don't kill me..."

Xu Yuan grew impatient with her noise. "Shut up!"

Guo Caixia's shrill voice came to an abrupt halt.

"Go to the police station tomorrow and report the case yourself. Tell the officers what you know, otherwise..."

Guo Caixia quickly agreed, "Okay, okay, I'll go to the police station tomorrow..." Before she could finish speaking, she suddenly realized, "You're not Meng Zhou?"

"You don't need to know who I am. You just need to report to the police, understand?" Xu Yuan slapped Guo Caixia's face with a sickle, scaring her so much that she collapsed weakly to the ground.

Watching the two figures leave, Guo Caixia didn't dare to blink, afraid they might turn back and kill her at any moment.

After confirming that the two people had left, Guo Caixia, panting heavily, collapsed onto the haystack.

The wind rustled the leaves. She didn't know how long she had been lying there, but she gradually regained her senses. The wound on her neck reminded her that tonight was not a dream.

Although she couldn't see their faces clearly, judging from their builds, the taller one looked a lot like Lu Zechuan, since there weren't any men that tall in the village. The shorter one was Xu Yuan.

It's Wen Li again!

She didn't expect Wen Li to act unpredictably. She actually called someone to scare her. If she hadn't been so scared at the time, she might not have noticed the flaw in the plan. It was a classic case of trying to steal a chicken but losing the rice instead!

She had already revealed that Meng Zhou was the murderer, and thinking of the expression on Meng Zhou's face when he pushed Li Hong into the water, she shuddered with fear.

If Meng Zhou had known she was behind the reeds, then Meng Zhou...

Just thinking about that name makes Guo Caixia tremble with fear.

If she wanted to survive, she had to report it to the police. Only if Meng Zhou was arrested would she be safe. Although Wen Li always tried to harm her, she had never killed her.

After Guo Caixia learned who the person tonight was, she wasn't so scared anymore.

She gritted her teeth and cursed Wen Li in her heart for her lack of martial ethics.

A gust of cold wind blew by, and Guo Caixia felt a little cold. Only then did she realize that she had just been so frightened that she had wet her pants.

She quickly got up and ran down the mountain.

In the darkness, Lu Zechuan and Xu Yuan watched as Guo Caixia returned home safely before leaving.

Xu Yuan tucked the sickle behind his back. "Once she regains her senses, she'll probably realize that we were the ones who scared her tonight!"

"We need to let her know, so she won't keep popping up and bothering people!"

"Why do you think he did that?"

Lu Zechuan couldn't understand it either. Meng Zhou usually seemed polite and well-mannered, a person with principles.

If Guo Caixia hadn't said it herself, Lu Zechuan might never have associated Li Hong's death with him.

Why?

He couldn't understand it at all. Li Hong and Meng Zhou had never had any disagreements, and Meng Zhou had never argued with anyone after he went to the countryside.

The only unusual thing was that he started dating Li Xiangxiang not long after he went to the countryside.

Did he genuinely like Li Xiangxiang, or was there something about Li Xiangxiang that he wanted to exploit?

Lu Zechuan couldn't figure it out no matter how much he thought about it. After all, Li Xiangxiang was just a country girl born and raised in the countryside, and the only thing she had that was a father who was the brigade leader.

Her older brother also has a job, and their family's financial situation is considered quite good in the village.

But Meng Zhou's family is quite well-off, so this reason doesn't hold up.

So why exactly?