Chapter 39: Ask Yourself
"Is that a person?" Qing Song tried hard several times, swallowed his saliva, and still didn't dare to say this sentence out loud.
Maybe I'm wrong. He was apprehensive in his heart, and kept justifying himself: after all, the speed of the carriage was so fast, after all, this road was inaccessible, where did someone happen to get under his car?
The coachman was also a little shrunken, his body was unnaturally stiff, and he ran for a long time before he could restrain the horse, he clenched the whip in his hand, and tried to fight with Qingsong Haha: "My eyes are getting worse and worse, just now it seems like a finch in the past?" ”
He couldn't be sure, and he didn't dare to be sure, but as a coachman, he knew every blow of the carriage. They did roll over something, and that thing was not small.
But...... But how can it be human! There must be a mistake! He thought so and tried to cheer himself up. He was about to stop the carriage and get out of it to take a look, but he trembled, trembling, and his legs and feet were still unable to use their strength.
The coachman was confused: if it was really a man, the weight of the carriage ...... Eighty percent of this person won't survive.
"What's wrong?" Du Ruonan's voice came from behind the heavy door curtain. She was in the car, naturally also sensed the abnormal shaking of the carriage and too sudden stop, the girl waited for a while, but did not hear the answer, she raised her eyebrows, straightened up, stepped forward to lift the curtain, and looked out.
I saw that the coachman and Qingsong were both pale, especially Qingsong, the young man's lips were blue, and he snorted a few times, he glanced at the coachman and suppressed his voice: "Fang Cai...... It seems that something has been swept under our car. ”
Du Ruonan didn't react at first, her expression was confused, and she thought in her heart for a while: What do you mean?
"Miss, I'm me," the coachman couldn't stand the heavier and heavier atmosphere, and simply broke the jar, "I deserve a thousand cuts, it seems that I have been rolled into a ...... Person. ”
"I didn't mean to! I just didn't see it, the road was too fast just now, and I didn't expect anyone to come, so he pounced on himself......" The more the coachman spoke, the faster he spoke, but the passage was said in a messy way, and it was obvious that he had been frightened into six gods.
Du Ruonan guessed from the other party's words, she has a cold temperament, and since she became the owner, she has paid more and more attention to making her joy and anger invisible. The girl gestured to stop the coachman's argument.
"We don't know what's going on yet, so let's get out of the car and take a look, let's go see the situation first." The girl's tone was calm and her expression was cold, and the coachman also found the backbone of her heart because of her words, settled down, and jumped out of the car first.
"Miss, go this way." Qingsong originally wanted to stick out his arm and let Du Ruonan borrow his strength, he was still young, and he was the identity of the Du family's little servant, so he didn't pay much attention to avoiding suspicion.
Du Ruonan didn't catch it, she jumped out of the car deftly: "Let's go first, if it's really a person, you can't delay if you are injured." ”
Qingsong nodded hurriedly, Du Ruonan took the lead and walked to the front, and the coachman looked anxious to follow. But before the three of them took a few steps, a few other figures rushed out of the dense forest, and Du Ruonan only felt that there seemed to be a whirlwind blowing around him, and the "wind" was still squeaking, making a dry howl similar to that of a beast.
"My son! My wretched son! ”
Du Ruonan fixed his eyes, and saw that there was indeed a person lying horizontally on the dirt road not far away, and an old woman was squatting beside him, the old woman's hair was like fluffy grass, and her withered hands were constantly beating her chest, letting out a sharp cry.
- Is it such an old man who runs past him so quickly?
Du Ruonan subconsciously felt that something was wrong, but the tragic situation in front of her did not allow her to think about it.
The girl pursed her lips and took a few more steps, but before she could actually get forward, two other strong men stopped her. These two people are five big and three thick, the green tendons on the palms of the size of a pu fan are bursting up, their expressions are hideous, their eyes are cracked, and they are glaring at Du Ruonan with angry eyes, as if they want to eat the girl alive.
The two of them are as tall and tall as giant trees, reflecting the weakness of Du Ruonan's birds. Du Ruonan is not yet twenty years old, and although she is dressed as a man now, she is only a little girl in the final analysis, and her heart naturally trembles secretly. But now that she encounters this kind of thing, she can only face it hard.
What's more, if it was really her own carriage that killed the other party, she would not be happy in her heart.
The girl stopped when she was still three steps away from the strong man, and Du Ruonan was just about to be blessed, when she caught a glimpse of the men's shoes and socks on her feet, and then she reacted. She coughed lightly, deliberately snarled her throat a little, and mentally deliberated her words, ready to speak.
But before she could speak, one of the strong men stepped forward and took a step, stretched out his finger and pointed directly at Du Ruonan, almost shouting: "Unscrupulous dog thief, in broad daylight, he actually murdered my brother's life!" If you have killed someone, you will have to pay for my brother's life. ”
With his roar, the weeping old woman worked harder, she lowered her body, almost lying on the ground, and tore at the hem of her clothes with one hand, as if she were about to tear half of her clothes, and her mouth could not stop crying: "O my miserable child! You said you were walking well, but the person who didn't have long eyes knocked you out! Which one is so vicious with a thousand cuts! My son, my mother is only your son, and now that I have lost you, how will my mother live, how will I live......"
The old woman wept bitterly, her voice hoarse, her snow-white hair protruding from under her turban, her face crumpled into a dry orange peel, her ragged clothes and thin character, apparently from a poor family.
Du Ruonan was attracted by the old woman, and her mood became heavier and heavier, and she was eager to investigate the man's injury: what if the man was still saved! Life and death can not tolerate the slightest sloppiness and delay, but don't let that person still have a breath, but because they are here to rip off, life and death!
"The two eldest brothers, the younger brother knows that the two of them are angry in their hearts now, but it will be useless to continue to block here." Du Ruonan raised his voice in a thick voice, "The most important thing at the moment is to look at this brother's injury, and we can send him to the hospital in time." ”
"Hospital?! Don't pretend to be nice! If it's not you! How could my third brother suffer from this! Don't pretend to be a good person! I want you to pay for my third brother's life! ”
The strong man with the scar on his face had a rough temper at all, completely ignoring Du Ruonan's defense, and strode over with his fist, as if he wanted to break Du Ruonan's neck.
"My third brother, since he was a child, has been lonely and thin, all relying on his mother to raise people to such a big age, in order to support my third brother, his mother spins yarn day and night, and his eyes are blind. Now that I see that my third brother is about to become an adult, his mother has a little hope in her heart, but now she has nothing to do because of you! Caused my third brother to lose his life! What do you say?! ”
Du Ruonan originally wanted to hurry up to check the person's injury, but she didn't want the other party to be so unreasonable, she was also very anxious, and still maintained a good voice: "If it was really made by my carriage, I wouldn't pretend to shirk it." The younger brother is familiar with pharmacology, why don't you let the younger brother come forward and take a look first? ”
Hearing Du Ruonan say this, the two secretly exchanged a look: "You should be your family's job!" My brother is no longer good, we have just seen it, and he has been out of breath for a long time! Even if you are that Bian Que in the world, the medicine stone is useless! My brother died a miserable death, and they all said that the dead were greater, so it was better not to disturb him! ”
When Du Ruonan heard this, he felt more and more that something was wrong: the two people in front of him were so tightly protected, but they had only one purpose, and they refused to let Du Ruonan come closer.
Especially after hearing that Du Ruonan claimed to "know medical science", one of them was a little more nervous, and deliberately put his arm on the shoulder of the other person, just to cover the scene behind him tightly and not let Du Ruonan see it.
- What is the reason for this? If you are really worried about your brother, what can you lose by letting the doctor take a look? Usually, you have to pay attention to a dead horse as a live horse doctor!
"Look at you! He looks like a dog, but he allowed an unscrupulous servant to harm my brother's life like this! We have to gallop on the narrow road, which is not to take our lives in our eyes at all! It's a fact that you hurt my brother, do you still have to quibble?! If you deny it, we will sue the official, don't think that you are a wealthy gentleman, we will be afraid of you! ”
The man scolded heartily, spitting everywhere, and his thick fingers poked Du Ruonan in the air, almost falling on Du Ruonan.
"You are so rude!" Qing Song jumped out from behind Du Ruonan, the young man stiffened his neck, his face was flushed, "You are not allowed to be so big to our family...... Son! ”
The coachman was so frightened that he had no master, and when he saw Qingsong rushing out, only then did a spirit wake up, and he was also busy blocking in front of Du Ruonan: "Yes, if you have a grudge, come to me!" I do things by myself, I ......"
The strong man didn't take the two of them seriously, he had already seen that among the three of them, it was the young man in white who took the idea, and the other two writers looked like servants, one was young and thin, and the other was full of horror: just looking at his appearance was not a powerful character.
He snorted coldly and took the opportunity to bite: "What's the matter, do you still want to bully others?" ”
"Wait, we have something to say," Du Ruonan raised his hand and gently brushed away the two people in front of him, "You are sure that we injured your brother, and you keep saying that we want to pay for our lives......" There was an unsympathetic coldness in her tone, a pair of eyes without sadness or joy, looking at the two of them lightly, but there was a domineering momentum in the slightly thin body that should not be underestimated, "If according to what you said, how do you want the murderer to pay for your brother's life?" ”
Du Ruonan said too shockingly, whether it was the two strong men or the green pine coachman, everyone didn't react for a while, and looked back at Du Ruonan with a stunned expression.
Even the old woman who was sitting in the dust not far away stopped crying.
The scar-faced strong man was the first to wake up, his eyes were narrow and long, his eyes were sharp, he stared at Du Ruonan, and said word by word: "There is a way to kill people to pay for their lives, but this coachman is just a rotten life, he can't eat or wear, what's the use of coming!" Sanniang is old, and she has lost her only son, your Du family has a lot of money, and it is not natural to lose one hundred and eighty taels? ”
"A life is worth one hundred and eighty taels," Du Ruonan nodded lightly, "Yes, it's a good deal, but this is your offer, but you can't replace your third brother, why don't we ask your third brother directly?" ”