Chapter 228
When her mother was still alive, she kept telling Xiaorong that their mother and son had owed Aunt Nian too much, and if possible in the future, they would not trouble her again, and they would do their best to repay her kindness. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ο½ο½ο½Uο½Eγ ο½ο½ο½ο½
At that time, Xiaorong was too young, and his mother asked him if he remembered it, so he nodded ignorantly, but he didn't understand the actual meaning.
Until, my mother died of illness.
When he felt his mother's body temperature disappear little by little, Xiao Rong, who had no concept of "death" at all, suddenly felt panic and finally cried.
The mother is gone, and his only loved one is gone.
At that moment, he didn't think about how he would live in the future, his immature heart only had a tearing grief, full, unable to tolerate any other thoughts, except to cry loudly, he didn't know what else he could do.
Then, Huang Nian appeared in front of his eyes.
The thin man leaned down and hugged Xiao Rong, without any superfluous words from beginning to end, but the warmth had been tightly surrounding him like a mother.
Since then, that warmth has not given up on him.
Xiao Rong finally became sensible.
He cherishes this warmth, he is grateful to his aunt, but he is also even more afraid.
He was afraid that one day, Aunt Nian would no longer be able to bear him and leave him.
Xiao Rong knew that he was a child, and he couldn't do a lot of things, which would only drag Huang Nian down, so he began to work hard to do all kinds of things, as much as possible not to add unnecessary trouble to Huang Nian, even if many things that he couldn't accomplish still needed to trouble Huang Nian, but at least he insisted on taking care of his own daily life, and did not live in her home as Huang Nian proposed, disrupting her original life.
However, Xiao Rong still often goes to Huang Nian's residence, when he was young, it was because he couldn't cook, so he needed to eat with Huang Nian, and when he grew up, he would cook by himself, and he didn't have to trouble Huang Nian anymore, so he often went to help Huang Nian take care of the homestay, and help her busy to reduce her burden.
Even though he had to run from his own house in the west of the village to Huang Nian's house in the east of the village every day, Xiao Rong never complained.
This is his small persistence, and it is also what he can to repay his gratitude.
But recently, he couldn't help but hate his persistence.
Because Huang Nian's several strange incidents here were in the middle of the night, Xiao Rong, who stayed alone in his home to rest, undoubtedly missed all the crime scenes, and Huang Nian also maintained a non-asking attitude as always, so in the first two days, if it wasn't for the fact that he learned from the guests who stayed at the homestay when he went to help, Xiao Rong didn't know that that kind of strange thing had happened at all.
The child is naturally bold, and Xiao Rong, who has been calm and self-reliant since he was a child, is especially bold, he doesn't believe in ghosts, but out of concern for Huang Nian, he still tried to ask her, but saw that she was still as calm as ever, and the answer was also faint "don't care", so he didn't take it seriously.
After all, in such a peaceful countryside, what B&B doesn't have one or two bizarre "rumors"? Whether it's made up by the boss or imagined by the guests themselves, in short, it's a way to expand fame and attract customers, and it's no wonder in this village.
This time, most of the guests who came here to stay here were scaring themselves.
At that time, Xiao Rong didn't take this matter seriously, but he didn't expect that things would continue.
He finally realized that this time was probably different from the things that occasionally popped up in the past, so he was desperate to find out what happened, but Huang Nian suddenly fell ill in bed and refused to tell him the situation at that time, Xiao Rong could only find some villagers who usually took care of him and had a good relationship with him, and asked them in many ways.
According to the villagers, the situation was very chaotic at that time, much more chaotic than the first two days, and the appearance of the vision frightened the guests of the entire homestay, so those guests did not stay in the village for too long and left quickly, and the villagers naturally did not know the specific situation.
And when Xiao Rong asked who was the new witness among the guests that day, and was about to ask before the group of guests left, he got a very strange answer.
He asked several villagers separately, and each of them had different statements.
Some said it was upstairs, some said it was downstairs, and even the gender and age of the witnesses were different, and the answers were quite inconsistent, this strange reaction made Xiao Rong finally realize that something was wrong, and a dark speculation gradually emerged in his immature mind.
ββ¦β¦ If I say that this riot was deliberately caused by someone, do you think it is possible? β
Xiao Rong looked very nervous when he said this, he was a child, and he was not at the age when he could make dark conjectures at will, not to mention that the villagers had always taken good care of him, he really didn't want to believe that someone would really do such a thing.
He was asking the fox and seeking the answer in his heart.
Canghu didn't answer immediately, but thought for a moment before slowly speaking: "If - I mean if - this series of rumors is deliberately made up by someone, then his purpose is nothing more than to create a riot to hinder Huang Nian's business, and at the same time lower the reputation here, and then take this opportunity to join others to seize the source of customers." She looked at Xiao Rong, whose face was not very good-looking, and asked, "If that's the case, you should have someone to suspect, right?" β
After hesitating for a moment, Xiao Rong nodded slowly.
"There are a few B&Bs because of the bad geographical location, so they usually don't have much business, but these days they have been stopping people at the door of Aunt Nian's house, and they have stopped many guests from going over. If I'm in doubt, I think...... Probably that's them. β
Two simple sentences, Xiao Rong spoke very slowly, it seemed to be very difficult, although his face was still calm, his voice had a tremor that could not be hidden.
Of course, Canghu understood what Xiao Rong's reason was, so she smiled gently, and her voice was very soft: "This is just one of the possibilities, it is not necessarily the truth, it's okay." β
Xiao Rong bit his lip and didn't speak.
Even when facing the few villagers who jumped out to solicit customers, he was able to choke with them violently in order to defend Huang Nian, but Xiao Rong didn't want what he said to come true.
After all, they were all the people who had helped him.
But Huang Nian treats him like his own mother, if he really wants to choose a side, he will still choose to stand on Huang Nian's side.
β¦β¦ But does he really have that qualification?
ββWhether it's true or not, it has nothing to do with you, right?
The cold words resurfaced again, Xiao Rong's eyes dimmed for a moment, and even Canghu asked him about the identities and addresses of those suspects, and when he subconsciously opened his mouth to answer, he was in a trance, until there was a slight sound on the stairs outside, as if someone was slowly walking up, and Xiao Rong suddenly came back to his senses as if he had just woken up from a dream.
Glancing at the direction of the door, Xiao Rong hurriedly lowered his voice and said to Canghu: "Don't tell Aunt Nian that I've been here!" β
After saying that, he climbed out of the window where he came, and climbed down the old locust tree with agility.
Watching the thin figure disappear between the branches, and looking back at the empty doorway, Canghu frowned slightly.
She was sure that the clues that Rong had said were important.
However, when he told her about the situation a few days ago, Huang Nian didn't say a word about it. (To be continued.) )