The genius pyrographer of the reborn daughter

Chapter 16 Murder Suspect

"Murder suspects? What's going on, Uncle Zhuangtou, please tell me!" Ning Wanzhu was not afraid at all when she heard this, but became more energetic, and quickly asked Ning Zhuangtou to tell herself about the life of the old man surnamed Du. .

It turned out that the old man Du was also from Du's Village. He studied for a while when he was young. Later, because his parents passed away, he gave up studying and went to Nanyang as an apprentice. He learned some carpentry work. After returning, he lived in Du's Village. Help people build some furniture, make some small items to support the family.

The old man Nadu later married a wife.Strange to say, no one knew where old man Du's wife came from, only knew that the woman was surprisingly generous and beautiful, definitely not like an ordinary village girl.So the village has everything to say, some people say that the old man Du kidnapped the young lady from a wealthy family in Nanyang City, and even more bizarre claims say that Du's wife is a fox fairy in the mountains.The words are terrible, so the old man Du and his wife moved out of Du's village and built several tile-roofed houses on the side of the mountain.Two or three years later, the two had a daughter.

Strange to say, when old man Du's daughter was two or three years old, Du's wife disappeared.Therefore, some people in the village always said that the old man Du's wife came to repay the kindness of the fox fairy, and after repaying the kindness and giving birth to a daughter, he left.In short, the old man Nadu raised the daughter alone.At the age of fifteen or sixteen, it was time to talk about marriage, but the Du family village was ransacked by bandits.

"Du's Village? There will also be bandits?" Ning Wanzhu couldn't believe it.She had lived for more than twenty years in her previous life, and she had never heard of robbers coming to this village where her ancestors "prospered".

Mother Ye next to her interjected, "Of course there will be. In the famine year, there will be robbers in and out of Funiu Mountain, harassing the neighbors. This Dujia Village is not too close to the main line of Funiu Mountain, so the chances of being attacked by robbers should not be many." .”

Ning Yongqiang nodded at the side, "Yes, Mammy is right. The villain grew up in Funiu Mountain, and he heard of thieves harassing the neighboring villages when he was a child, but in Du's Village, he had never encountered such a thing. thing."

"Well, yes." Ning Wanzhu relaxed his mind a little, and quickly said to Ning Yongqiang: "Uncle Zhuangtou, I'm interrupting your storytelling. You can continue talking!"

Ning Yongqiang rubbed the back of his head and thought, I'm not telling a story here, I'm trying to explain the truth to you, the second lady, okay?But this can't be said in the open, so he has no choice but to continue talking.

On the day when Du's village was attacked by robbers, old man Du's daughter disappeared.At such an age, a girl with a yellow flower disappeared without a trace, so what good could happen.Therefore, the people in the village felt sorry for the old man Du.However, on the day when the bandits retreated, outside the house where old man Du lived, several corpses were found, all dressed as bandits.When Nanyang Mansion came to investigate, they had already been convicted of robbers fighting each other to death, but it was discovered that one of the dead robbers was the son of a county magistrate under the jurisdiction of Nanyang Mansion.

Now the case is troublesome.People from Nanyang Mansion captured the old man Du, tried all kinds of punishments in prison for a long time, and went door-to-door in Du's village, but they couldn't find any witnesses, nor did they find any evidence or evidence. It is the murder weapon.The old man Du was also stubborn, and he lived in prison for more than a year. It was not until the county magistrate was defeated by a fight for corruption that the case was finally settled by mutual assault.

The old man Nadu was released.He has nowhere to go, he still lives alone outside the Du family village, and built a tomb for his daughter, with him day and night.The villagers in Du's village saw him as pitiful, so they would buy some wooden utensils made by him from time to time.Ordinary people will occasionally ask him to help when they are playing furniture.Old man Du has lived like this for decades, and he has lived alone all these years.

After hearing this, Ning Wanzhu sighed, and said: "Although this old man Du has provoked officials and is suspected of murder, hasn't he never confirmed it? And it sounds like this old man's situation is very pitiful." what!"

After hearing this, Ning Yongqiang thought to himself, why did he spend so much time trying to stop the young lady from provoking that old man Du, but the young lady seemed to have more sympathy for the old man Du.He immediately said: "This case happened several years before the villain was born. So the villain doesn't know the details. But according to the old man in the village, that old man Du is by no means innocent. He was just covering up. Well, those thieves who died near Du's house, as well as the county magistrate, were actually the murderers who killed Ms. Du. It was the old man Du who killed all these people one by one, but still pretended to be fighting to death , to convince the government.”

"So when the villain was young, the elders in the family frightened the villain, just say, let the old man in the mountain come and capture you. So the villain has a deep impression on this person. If the old man can really fight alone With so many thieves, I'm afraid it's really not an easy character."

After hearing Ning Yongqiang's words, Ning Wanzhu was in a daze.She didn't expect that the life experience of this old man in the mountain would be so miserable.When she was concentrating, Ye Momo reminded her, "Second Miss, Ning Zhuangtou came here specially to remind Miss, it's a kind article, Miss should thank Ningzhuangtou."

Only then did Ning Wanzhu save himself, and quickly thanked Ning Yongqiang according to his words.This time Ning Yongqiang returned to Nanyang, "just right" mentioned in front of his father Ning Yu and stepmother Yan Shi that she didn't have seasonal clothes to wear on Zhuangzi.In order to show that she is a mother who cares about her stepdaughter, Yan Shi asked someone to pack up even her big woolen clothes, and Ning Yongqiang brought them to Zhuangzi together.

"Thank you, Uncle Zhuangtou, for thinking about it. I understand what you mean." She got up solemnly and thanked Ningzhuangtou.However, Nanny Ye frowned behind her, and after Ning Zhuang head left, she said softly: "Is Second Madam Ning really planning to let Second Miss spend the winter in this Zhuangzi?"

Generally, rich families send their children to Zhuangzi outside the city, and there are no more than two situations.At one time, like Cao Shijun of the Cao family, he needed to study quietly and prepare for exams with peace of mind, and at the other, he was like Ning Wanzhu, who made a mistake and was sent to Zhuangzi to "grind his temper" and be punished for minor punishments.When it comes to the twelfth lunar month and the time of Chinese New Year, people will definitely be taken back to the city to celebrate the festival with their families.And Yan Shi's plan seems to have made it clear that he wants Ning Wanzhu to celebrate the New Year in this village.

Ning Wanzhu didn't find it strange.She knew that Qiu Yu, Aunt Shao's personal maid, had returned to Nanyang City yesterday.It wasn't until evening that he returned to Zhuangzi. Auntie Shao came out with news last night, saying that Auntie Shao's illness had improved a lot.Presumably, Qiu Yu's return to Nanyang City was to reassure Aunt Shao's heart.

She knew that Ning Luozi and Aunt Shao's goal was to separate herself from the Ning family, especially her father Ning Yu, as much as possible, and it was best to keep them far away, without the chance to meet each other.As long as her sense of presence in front of her father Ning Yu is weaker, Ning Luozi can play the role of "Miss Di" in front of her parents, and gradually let the family get used to it, Ning Luozi is the real daughter of the Ning family.

Thinking of this, she sighed, turned around and grabbed Ye Momo's sleeves, and said, "Momo, I'm sorry, I got you into trouble—I want you to suffer with me in this village..." In the eyes of others, she was only a six-year-old child. Seeing such words at this time, Mother Ye felt that Ning Wanzhu was cute and cute, so she held Ning Wanzhu in her arms and gently Patting her on the back, she said, "It's okay, it's rare that you are such a sensible child...Nurse is with you."

After Ning Zhuangtou told Ning Zhuangtou the story of old man Du, instead of feeling afraid, she felt that the old man had a pitiful background, and thought that he lived alone in the mountain outside the village, and his life must be miserable. bitter.However, as long as Ning Wanzhu thought that old man Du had said that her paintings were worthless that day, she would become very angry again.For a while, she was not in the mood to visit the old man again.

However, at noon of the second day, when everyone in Zhuangzi was busy, someone came to report that an old man in brown clothes came from outside Zhuangzi, saying that he wanted to see Miss Ning's family.

Ning Wan and Zhu Yu were still angry, and went to the study, found the branding pen, handed it to Mo Mei, and said, "Sister Mo Mei, return it to the old man for me!"

Mo Mei curled her lips and said, "Hmph, that weird old man, I'll go and scold him."

Ning Wanzhu hurriedly stopped her and said, "Don't, don't make any extra fuss, just return this object to him and forget about it if we don't have any more contact with him in the future." She didn't want everyone in Ning's family to know the murderous suspect back then and live alone. The strange old man in Du's village went to Zhuangzi to look for him.At the moment, Haosheng asked Mo Mei.

Mo Mei went to take orders, but when she came back, there was confusion between her brows and eyes.

"Miss, the old man didn't want you to return his branding pen, but instead gave you a painting." Mo Mei held a red cotton bundle in her hand.

Ning Wanzhu frowned, took the burden, opened it, and saw inside it was a book-sized fir board with a picture drawn on it with a branding pen—the picture was nothing but a white-drawn Du Ruo plant. The flower is in the same shape as the one I drew at the beginning, only there is an extra line of small characters beside it, which is also branded with a branding pen, seven characters-"Fang Duruo, a man from the mountains".

Ning Wanzhu stared at the painting for a while, only to see the sweat dripping from her forehead.She jumped up suddenly, hugged the painting on the wooden board, and said to Mo Mei: "Let's go and find the old man."

Mo Mei chased after her, and said while chasing: "Miss, miss, that old gentleman has left just now!"

Ning Wanzhu didn't listen to her, and ran all the way to the gate of Zhuangzi, but she didn't see the old man at all, but she herself, panting for breath.Mo Mei followed behind her and said, "Miss, what's the matter?"

Ning Wanzhu murmured: "Until today, I didn't know that I was the frog at the bottom of the well. I didn't mean to be humble, but I was blindly arrogant. I thought that even if my paintings were not the best, they were among the best in the boudoir. That's it. Who knows... who knows..."

(End of this chapter)