Cheng Ermeng was quite calm: "Miss Yin, the girl who was standing next to you that night was also wearing a veil, but Miss Yin, can you show me her horned magpie hairpin? If I am not mistaken, it was carved by my father to my sister by hand, and I designed it myself." ”

"You read that right," Zhiruo said directly, "it was given to my second sister by Aunt Ajuan."

"That'...... ......" Cheng Ermeng's eyes turned red with excitement, "Is my sister still there?"

"In L.A.," Zhiruo replied, "she's fine, and the worst days of her mother and son are gone." But no matter how bitter she is, she is also an upright person, worthy of heaven and earth and herself, this is what Aunt Ajuan's mother and son said when they sold themselves into slavery and went to Meizhuang. ”

"It's good, it's good," Cheng Er sobbed silently, "Mother and son, is my brother-in-law gone? Can I redeem their mother and son?"

Zhiruo snorted: "Do you think Aunt Ajuan will be willing to use the money you stole as a thief to redeem their mother and son?"

Cheng Ermeng was stunned for a moment, and said with a wry smile: "After I was taken away, I was sold to a copper mine. Three or four years later, when I was dying, I was thrown into a mass grave, and it was Chen Dameng who happened to save me. Because I looked like his younger brother who died young, he spent a lot of money to find Lang Zhong to cure me, and also brought me back to Mengniu Village and recognized me as a brother with a different surname. I changed my name to Cheng Ermeng in Mengniu Village, but they all called me Xiucai, and I raised my body back after nearly a year in Mengniu Village. ”

"I don't approve of Brother Chen being a mountain bandit either," Seeing that Zhiruo and several people were listening carefully, without disliking him, Cheng Ermeng continued to recall, "But so many people in the village went to the cottage to join him when they were desperate, and they had no other means of making a living except robbery." Brother Chen was very indulgent to me, knowing that I didn't want to be a bandit, he didn't force me, but just asked me to help do some things to write and paint, and teach the children in the village to read and write. ”

Later, when I heard that it was easy to earn money by shipping to the south, I thought that I would find a way to bring the brothers in the village to wash their hands and live a normal life. Brother Chen thought it was feasible, so he ordered ten brothers who knew how to go south with me. ”

"The shipping business does make money," the smile on Cheng Ermeng's face became more and more bitter, "but they are all controlled by several big families, like us, who have no background and make small fights, even if we have worked hard for so many years, we can only follow behind others to pick up some scraps." It wasn't until the beginning of this year that we took over a big ship by chance, and the scale was expanded to nearly 100 people, that I saw some hope, and then I went back to Mengniu Village to discuss with Brother Chen about moving south. You can guess what happened next. ”

"However, General Yin Zhao is for the country and the people, I have never thought of taking revenge on the Yin family or taking away Miss Yin or anything," Cheng Ermeng suddenly thought of Liang Dahai's words just now, and hurriedly explained, "That night I really just wanted Miss Yin to go to Brother Chen's grave to accompany him, and it was also an explanation for myself and those brothers, and I also took five thousand taels to make up for the life of Brother Chen's woman and child, Ye Niangzi said that they are living very hard now." "Let's do it

"Confess? The victim still has to give an explanation to the robber?" Zhi Ruo snorted coldly, "Ye told you that the child she gave birth to was Chen Dameng's, and you believed it? Is there any evidence? Have you ever seen her child? Which one looks like Chen Dameng?" She was really a little curious about this.

Cheng Ermeng was stunned again: "There is no evidence, and I haven't seen it, but ...... If it weren't true, what woman would slander her innocence like this? Ye Niangzi is still a daughter from an official family, and she was also a lady of an official family before. ”

"The daughter of the official family, the wife of the official family?" Liang Dahai scoffed, "How can you collude with the mountain bandits to rob Meizhuang? You all know that General Yin Zhao is for the country and the people, what is she doing? She asked you to blackmail 50,000 taels, not 5,000 taels, right?" The results of Ye's interrogation were sent to Pan Jiaming on the same day.

"How do you know?" Cheng Ermeng was surprised, "She wants 50,000 taels of silver, and she wants me to kill Miss Yin to avenge Brother Chen." Although I sympathize with her and want to make Brother Chen's children have a better life, I still understand the truth, and five thousand taels of silver is also a lot, and I think that if our shipping business is good in the future, we can also subsidize them. ”

Zhiruo shook his head, look at what this mountain bandit did! But Cheng Ermeng also said that although he has lived in the cottage for a few years, he is really not a pure mountain bandit, and he has not participated in the robbery before, the only time was the time when he hijacked Qiu Yanran and Niu Ruxia and threatened Zhiruo.

Liang Dahai admired this person's righteousness and gratitude, and patted him on the shoulder: "Go and run your shipping business well, don't trust that vicious woman of the Ye family." As much as we hate her, it is impossible for her children to be mountain bandits. And according to the information from the government, the Ye family didn't know Chen Dameng either, and the reason why she contacted Mengniu Village before was because she was an old acquaintance with your second master named Liu Xiang. ”

"Liu Er is in charge?" Cheng Ermeng immediately believed it, because Liu Xiang's father was a doctor before his death, and it was normal for their family to know the girl from the official family. Did a woman even lose her face for the sake of money, slandering her innocence for nothing, and turning her children into wild seeds of mountain bandits? This simply subverted his cognition.

Zhiruo simply told Aunt Ajuan's experience and situation before saying, "For Aunt Ajuan's sake, we don't care about your behavior that night." But the Ye family has seen you, you better leave the capital as soon as possible, and don't go to someone to confess to Aunt Ajuan, just contact her secretly. You also know that the government is still looking for you now, but don't bother Aunt Ajuan and Uncle Changsheng and their family. In addition, I suggest that you don't use the name Cheng Ermeng and the nickname Xiucai anymore, and in a year or two, maybe this matter will be over. ”

Cheng Er nodded violently, and knelt down to kowtow to Zhiruo, not only to apologize for his behavior that night, but also to thank Zhiruo for his kindness to his sister and nephew.

Cheng Ermeng got up and was about to say goodbye and leave, when he suddenly thought of something, took out a ball of things wrapped in a cotton handkerchief from his body, opened the cotton handkerchief, and inside was a jade Ruyi in the shape of a fan pendant: "This is the woman who accidentally fell, when I went to the agreed place to find her that day, she was thinking about this thing in her hand, and muttered about what Mr. Yu and what Shizi, and when she saw me suddenly appear, she quickly stuffed it into her sleeve." Later, when we were leaving, a few people happened to run towards us, saying that there was a riot or something, and the woman quickly ran away. I wanted to climb up the tree to see what was going on with the homeless, but when I turned around, I saw the cotton handkerchief wrapped in the ground, and she probably didn't put it away and fell out. ”