After the sound, everyone stood at the door and waited for a cup of tea, when the door creaked open.

Because of the shaking of the door opening, mud fell on the roof and walls.

The door opened, and a thin and withered lady stood in the doorway with a cane and a doorframe, with snow-white hair and drooping eyebrows, looking at everyone with great difficulty, just like her house, which could collapse at any moment.

If Wang Xuezhu is alive, he should be twenty-five this year, and his mother will be about forty years old.

But the woman in front of her was at least sixty years old.

"You come out to talk, don't ask adults to go to your house, if your house falls, it will be terrible." As Wang Shishi spoke, he instructed the person who went to move the stool to move a dozen stools and chairs.

Everyone sat down at once, Wang Xuezhu's mother, Wang Yao, knelt down at everyone, her voice was very hoarse, and she couldn't hear it at all if she didn't listen carefully: "My son is also dead, one life is worth one life, why does the eldest master want to kill me?" Kill if you want, I'm too tired to live. ”

Although she was weak, she spoke very clearly.

"Get up and speak, your son's business has nothing to do with you, and you will be guilty." Lu Qingqing went over and put her husband and wife on a small stool under her buttocks, "Just sit and talk." ”

"Thank you, sir."

Song Ning asked her, "Can you sit still?" What is the physical ailment, what does the doctor say? ”

"I just hung my breath, the wood was rotten, and I didn't see the doctor, so I waited for the day when I died at home, and the house fell down, and I didn't even dig a grave." Wang Yao said in a low voice.

For those who have no desire to survive, sympathy does not bring her anything, and even more, the crux of her problem is not illness and poverty, but her own son.

"I have a few questions, if you know, I will say them carefully, and if I don't know, I won't answer them, and I don't pay attention to anything special, just click on them." Song Ning said to her.

Wang Yao was fearless and nodded, "Got it." ”

"What kind of man is your son?" Song Ning asked her, "Tell me a few examples from life and prove it." ”

Thinking of his son, Wang Yao clenched the crutches in his hand, looked past Song Ning and them, and threw himself at the villagers who were watching the excitement outside.

In the past five years, her pain has been unknown to the loss of her son, the fact that he was a rapist and murderer, and the hostile abuse and curses from the villagers.

She is worse than dead.

"She is very filial and well-behaved. When he was seven or eight years old, he would go to work in the field and come back to cook, and when he was a teenager, he planted three acres of land by himself, and he could do all kinds of work inside and out. If it weren't for my poor health and taking medicine all year round, he wouldn't have been able to marry a daughter-in-law. ”

Wang Yao said, as if to prove something, he deliberately straightened his back: "The adults of the Yamen also asked me about this back then, and I said that it was impossible for my son to kill people. It is true that he likes Qingniang, but he didn't say that he wanted to marry Qingniang, he also said that my family is so poor, even if Qingniang wants to, he can't marry, and marrying Tianxian home is to harm her. ”

"My lord, I'm done with what I'm going to say, even if five years have passed, my son has rotted into a pile of bones, and I won't believe that he will kill people!"

There were villagers whispering around, but Song Ning didn't listen, and then asked, "Tell me about the scene when he went out that morning." ”

"On the same day?" Wang Yao only figured out something strange at this time, she looked at Song Ning and Zhao Yi seriously for the first time, thought for a while, and said, "He was very happy that day, he went out to hunt pigweed before dawn in the morning, and said that he would go to Mr. Qian when he came back early for breakfast." ”

"Mr. Qian?" Song Ning asked her.

Wang Shishi replied: "Mr. Qian is Mr. Zhangcun's private school, and Wang Xuezhu wants to study but has no money. When Mr. Qian was celebrating the New Year, he broke his leg while eating wine at night, and was carried home by Wang Xuezhu, otherwise he would have frozen to death. ”

"After Mr. Qian's leg is raised, he said that he would let Wang Xuezhu follow him for two years and not accept him."

"Everyone in the village knows about this."

Song Ning looked back at the village, and when everyone saw her, they all nodded, and they also said boldly: "We all know about this, Xuezhu also told my third son, and my third son is very envious." ”

"It means that if nothing happens that day, he will go to a private school to study, has he always wanted to study?" Song Ning asked Wang Yao.

Wang Yao nodded: "Yes, he has wanted to study since he was a child." When Mr. Qian called him to follow the class, he knelt down for Mr. Qian on the spot and kowtowed three times! ”

She recalled her son's joy that day, as if she had seen her son again, and her face was full of relief.

Song Ning thought thoughtfully, walked to the villagers who were watching the excitement with his hands behind his back, and asked softly, "That morning, did any of you see Wang Xuezhu and Su Qingniang with your own eyes?" I don't want to listen to anyone else, I want to see with my eyes. ”

Everyone, you look at me, I look at you, no one speaks.

"My lord, Xuezhu went out early that morning, and it wasn't dawn yet, so no one should see him." Wang Yao and Song Ningdao.

On the flat ground in front of Wang Yao's house, there was silence for a while.

Song Ning walked twice with his hands behind his back, and suddenly a woman shouted: "Adults, Xuezhu is a good boy, it is impossible for him to do such a hurtful thing." ”

"That's right! He has been very timid since he was a child, how dare he kill. ”

There were two people who helped to speak, and they were all subjective impressions of intercession.

Song Ning smiled at the two of them and said to Wang Yao's family: "Did he prepare anything in order to study?" Like a school bag or something? ”

"Yes!" Wang Yao said, "He sewed a schoolbag and a book, and the name he wrote was at the head of my bed!" ”

Song Ning said to Lu Qingqing: "You go and get it." He asked Wang Yao again, "Is it convenient?" ”

Wang Yao nodded.

Lu Qingqing entered the house and came out with a frown after a while, and whispered to Song Ning: "The room is very cold, and the quilt is like a stone." ”

"This is the bedside thing, is this the bag?"

Wang Yao took it, it was a schoolbag converted from a sack, and the thick needle and thick thread were just a bag that could hold things. Wang Yao took out a blank book bound by himself from inside, and wrote Wang Xuezhu's name crookedly on the cover.

Song Ning looked through it, she seemed to be able to see a young man sitting on the threshold, sewing the bag with a smile on his eyebrows, his hands were jerky and his feet were crooked, but he was very satisfied, and asked his mother over and over again with his back on his back, is it okay for me to carry it, is it childish?

The mother and son are thinking about how many words they can know after two years of studying, and whether they can learn a craft from a teacher in the future, and it will be much easier to marry a daughter-in-law after having a craft.

"Take it." Song Ning returned the bag to Wang Yao's family, she had nothing to ask, she looked at Zhao Yi, Zhao Yi bowed slightly, and looked at Wang Yao's family, "Your mother and son have discussed, ask for Su Qingniang?" ”

Wang Yao shook his head: "We have discussed several girls, but we have not talked about Qingniang. That child was born so well, the Su family is a baby, I can't wait to marry a mother in the palace, my family ...... Don't dare to imagine. ”

"But the pillar should like Qingniang, I, a mother, can feel it."

"But to say that because he likes it, he ...... when he sees Qingniang early in the morning" She sighed halfway and said to Song Ning, "Forget it, it's useless to say it!" ”

Wang Yao stopped talking.

Everyone stood up.

"Let's go!" Song Ning and Zhao Yi walked in front together, and the others followed without moving forward, and left after a while.

As soon as they left, the village was boiling over, and everyone wondered what they wanted to do.

"It's not going to overturn the case, is it? This case is decided! ”

"Village chief, are they overturning the case? Isn't Wang Xuezhu a murderer? ”

Wang Shishi shook his head: "I don't know, don't guess either, what we can guess about the thoughts of adults, go back to work." ”

"It's not about overturning the case, just asking what you can ask for. Back then, the yamen was much more careful than her. "It's humane," besides, Wang Xuezhu himself admitted it. ”

"That's it, these adults may be idle, going to the countryside to find something to do to pass the time."

The discussion gradually dispersed.

Wang Yao was sitting in the courtyard, a child stood from a distance and looked at her, she also looked at the child, and asked kindly: "Baby, is there something wrong?" ”

"I'm going to take the stool you're sitting on." The child pointed at her.

Wang Yao's smile froze, and he got up with his crutches: "Take it, take it." ”

She stood up and looked at the long stick supporting the wall, and said, "It doesn't rain heavily, and this house doesn't know when it will fall." ”

"I thought there was something, co-authored, all of them were vernacular people."

She entered the house and closed the door.

Song Ning and his entourage were not in a hurry, they stood on the avenue, looking at the small mountain bag where the accident occurred, Zhao Yi said: "Is there more than one village in this mountain bag who came in to cut the grass?" ”

"Yes, there is Zhang Village behind, and people from Wangjia Village and Sujia Village here will also come."

Everyone stood in a row, looking over there and not talking.

Wang Zhutou had no bottom in his heart, and asked cautiously, "That adult...... What are you looking at? ”

"Wait for Lu Miaomiao." Song Ning pointed to the person who was running over.

Wang Zhutou was stunned, he thought that Song Ning had really found something.

"Your Excellency." Lu Miaomiao ran over, "I thought you were all gone, I had a good time chatting with those aunts in the village, and I also ate particularly delicious noodles." ”

Lu Qingqing shouted: "How can you eat human noodles casually? ”

"I gave money, a bowl of noodles gave her twenty dollars."

Lu Qingqing didn't speak.

"Let's go back." Song Ning said to Wang Zhutou, "You come to the inn tomorrow morning to find us, I have something to explain to you." ”

Wang Zhutou should have gone first.

"Fu Yu, you go to find Yan Feng and ask him to take Su Li and his son to the inn."

Fu Yu walked quickly.

"We'll talk about it later." Song Ning said.

When everyone returned to the inn, Su Li was waiting for them in the room, the child was sleeping after taking the pill, Su Li looked at Song Ning stiffly: "Big, adult, you are looking for a villain, is there anything wrong?" ”

"I inform you that tomorrow I will open the coffin and re-investigate Su Qingniang's case."

Su Li looked at her in astonishment: "Re-check, re-check, why?" ”

"Because I only had two questions, but after talking to you today, I have more questions!" Song Ning said, "It's still the same sentence, I'll figure it out." ”