"My lord, we tell you, but you can't be angry." Mao Yuan Road.

Song Ning nodded.

"We're glad her dad died." Mao Yuan looked at Song Ning cautiously, "My lord, don't think that we are unfilial, so you don't like us." ”

Song Ning shook his head: "No." If such a father is still filial and obedient, it is foolish, how can adults not distinguish between right and wrong. ”

"Thank you, sir." Mao Yuan grinned and grabbed Song Ning's hand, "Adults are so good, is it okay for me and Yue'er to marry adults together when we grow up?" ”

Song Ning: "......"

It's really annoying that the charm is too great.

She smiled and said: "Then you grow up well and healthily, you can't fall behind in reading and learning crafts." ”

"Do you want to read too?" Ye Yue'er looked at Song Ning, "My brother hasn't gone to study yet, I, can I also read and write?" ”

Song Ning nodded and asked, "What, didn't you all go to school?" ”

The two little girls shook their heads: "My lord, the bundle is very expensive, and it is already difficult for my brother to study, how can we go to study." ”

"Besides, Mr. doesn't accept little girls."

Song Ning thought for a moment and said, "I know, I will think about this matter when I am free, and see if there is a way for you to study." ”

"Really?" Mao Yuan asked.

Song Ning nodded: "Your uncle's cousin, cousin can read." ”

Mao Yuan paused, shook his head and said, "My lord, I don't have an uncle." ”

Song Ning shook his head: "You have it, haven't you seen it?" ”

Mao Yuan shook his head: "No, I really don't." ”

Song Ning showed a strange expression: "Strange, then how did I hear that your uncle's name is Changping?" ”

"No, sir, you heard me wrong." Mao Yuan said loudly.

Song Ning looked at her and said with a smile: "I know, I remembered wrong." ”

After Song Ning finished speaking, Mao Mengshi came, looked at Song Ning and asked, "My lord is here, I see that your subordinates have already checked in the village." Why do adults ask the woman who has been married? ”

"Let's sort out the relationship between a few villages." Song Ning asked Mao Mengshi, "We went to Luo Village yesterday, but I didn't expect that you are also from Luo Village." ”

Mao Mengshi nodded and said, "I am indeed from Luocun. However, after marrying my husband at the age of nineteen, he never went back. ”

"Do you want to eat here at night?" Mao Mengshi said.

Song Ning shook his head: "I'll just talk to the two little girls, you're busy with you." ”

Mao Mengshi nodded and carried the basket to the vegetable garden to pick vegetables.

The two little girls and Ye Wenhai squatted together on the barn floor and counted how many pieces of candy were in the box, and they had to divide one point, and each person in the family could eat a few.

Song Ning looked at Mao Mengshi's back, she seemed to be very tired, her feet were dragging on the ground, and she couldn't stand firmly, and almost fell into the seedling field.

Song Ning stood with his hands in his hands, looking at the pedestrians coming and going on the official road in the distance, and for the first time he was shaken by what he had done.

"You don't have to save it." Song Ning looked at the innocent smiling faces of the three children, "I'll buy ten boxes for each of you another day." ”

Mao Yuan and Ye Yue'er giggled, and both of them shook their heads and said, "My lord, you spend a lot of money to buy so much sugar, and your salary is not high, right?" ”

"Well, it's not high." Song Ning said, "But there is still money to buy sugar." ”

Mao Yuan chuckled.

"I'm leaving." Song Ning asked the two children of the Ye family, "Can you go home by yourself, why don't you go with me?" ”

The two children should be saying goodbye to Mao Yuan, and followed Song Ning to Guozizhuang.

In the distance, Mao Mengshi stood on the edge of his own vegetable garden by the river, looking at Song Ning.

"What's the catch?" Song Ning asked Fu Yu and Yan Feng who had finished their work.

Yan Feng walked up to him with a notebook and handed it to him: "My lord, everyone in the village has asked, there are people who have relatives in four villages, there are three households in total, you can take a look." ”

Song Ning looked at it: "Have all the people stayed?" ”

Ranfeng nodded.

"I'll go talk."

The winds and the rain followed.

The two of them handled the case with Song Ning for the first time, and they used to watch the excitement without caring about themselves, but today they participated as a catcher.

The two of them followed Song Ning, full of shock at her calmness and calmness.

Song Ning stopped in front of the three families they had screened.

One family is an old couple, the old lady's surname is Cui, her mother's family is from Luocun, and her daughter married to Maojiazhuang. The old couple spoke decently and generously, and the two sons were in their early thirties, but one was thin and the other was cheerful and lively.

"Is there still a family surnamed Cui in Luocun?" Song Ning Ye Cui.

Ye Cuishi said with a smile: "The village was originally a tenant, and the main family's surname was Luo. Later, when the lord's house fell, he sold the land to the tenants. ”

"There are many miscellaneous surnames in the village, and the surnames are the sons of the original master's family."

Song Ning asked casually, "Then do you know Cui Jue?" ”

"Cui Jue?" Ye Cuishi thought for a while and said, "Is it Cui Jue who lives in the T-shaped alley in the city?" ”

Song Ning nodded: "That's right, reader." ”

Ye Cuishi smiled and said, "That's my mother's nephew." ”

"That's a coincidence. Does he often come to your house? Song Ning was also secretly surprised.

But it's not surprising when you think about it, Jinan Mansion is so big, and acquaintances are always surrounded by acquaintances.

"Come, but not much." Song Ning frowned, and said, "He is familiar with Mao Zhihong from Maojiazhuang next door?" ”

Ye Cuishi was surprised: "How do adults know, he called Brother Mao Zhihong, every time he comes back to my house, he will go over there." ”

Song Ning bowed slightly and didn't ask again. The relationship in the village is like this, it looks complicated, but I can't bear to sort it out.

She prefers this to a clean case with no connections.

The more intricate it is, the greater the amount of information.

Song Ning asked the remaining two families again, and they all asked them to go back.

"So, can this village be excluded?" Ranfeng asked.

Song Ning said: "The first round is temporarily excluded. If we don't get the clues and evidence we thought of after the fact, we can do a second round. ”

Yan Feng nodded: "Yes." ”

"Then now shall we go to the village next door to help?" Fu Yu asked.

"You go to the village and look for your prince, he may have something to help over." Song Ning said.

Yan Feng and Fu Yu went to the village.

Song Ning took a small stool from Ye's house and sat in the grain drying field to make up for Ye Wenhai's homework.

Ye Jiji stood aside respectfully. Song Ning is an adult, and it is an honor for their family to make up for his grandson's homework.

Ye Wenhai is not smart, but he is studious, and he is willing to remember everything he says.

"I'll teach you arithmetic." Song Ning and Ye Wenhai said, "Literature and history are not what I am good at, and there are many people who can teach you." I'll teach you something that others can't, if you practice hard, you can be a bookkeeper if you don't succeed in the exam in the future. ”

"Arithmetic?" Ye Wenhai nodded vigorously, "Our husband said that he would have to wait a few more years to teach, my lord, I want to learn arithmetic." ”

"That's for the best." Song Ning found a pen and paper and taught him simple arithmetic.

These simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of input cost loans are not available today. Although everyone can do the ledger, how to do it is simple and easy to understand and has a high accuracy rate, and it is a craft in Da Zhou at this moment.

Ye Jiji stood aside and listened very carefully.

Ye Wenhai took notes.

"Teach you these first, you practice first." Song Ning left a question for him to do, "If I don't come when I'm done, you can go to the government to find me, and if you can't find me for a while, wait for me at the office." ”

"Yes, yes." Ye Wenhai held the notebook and kowtowed to Song Ning, "Thank you, sir." ”

Ye Jiji also kowtowed.

How can it be better to be a carpenter than to be a bookkeeper. Everyone can learn carpentry, and the bookkeeper must learn not only to read but also to do arithmetic.

Arithmetic is something that some gentlemen in the academy don't know.

Looking at Ye Wenhai's happy face, Song Ning's mood was much better: "You still have to practice after you learn it, and give yourself questions to practice every day for this year, otherwise you will forget." ”

"Okay, I'll take your words to heart."

Song Ning looked at the door, and saw Mao Mengshi standing in the fiery sunset with her head hanging on the hem of her clothes, and found that someone was looking at her, she raised her head to meet Song Ning's gaze, and retreated like a rabbit in panic, running back desperately.

"My people are back." Song Ning got up and said, "Wen Hai, take good care of your family, be a warm and kind person, and forget bad things." ”

Ye Wenhai looked at Song Ning and nodded vigorously: "Don't worry, I, I won't beat people like my father." ”

"Good boy." Song Ning went out with his hands behind his back, and in the distance, Zhao Yi got off his horse and trotted towards this side, Song Ning waved his hand and said, "Zhao catches the head." ”

Zhao Yi stopped in front of her, looked at her face, saw that her face was not very good, patted her shoulder, and said, "Are you hungry, go back to the city to eat first?" ”

"Okay." Song Ning and Zhao Yi walked side by side, neither of them spoke, nor did they ask each other what they had found.

Suddenly, someone behind him shouted, "My lord, Lord Song, wait for me, Lord Song." ”

Song Ning's footsteps paused, and his face sank completely.

"It's fine." Zhao Yi patted her arm, "It's not your fault. ”

A few people caught up with him and stood not far away watching.

Song Ning smiled at Zhao Yi, then looked back at Mao Mengshi, raised his eyebrows and said, "What's wrong?" ”

"My lord, I confess." Mao Mengshi knelt down and kowtowed, "From the case nine years ago to Ye Yong's death, I did it." ”

"Please punish you."

Mao Mengshi knelt on the muddy path, kowtowed three times, and looked up at Song Ning, with tears in his eyes, but looked at Song Ning firmly.

In the distance, Mao Yuan, her brother and grandmother Mao Tian, the old and the young ran towards this side while crying.

"Su Niang, why are you going?"

"Mother, mother, where are you going?"

The three of them ran towards this side, but Mao Mengshi was very nervous and kneeled a few steps, and couldn't wait to say: "My lord, my lord, take me back, can you cut off my head immediately?" ”

"I, I've killed so many people, I'm innocent of death, you cut me with a thousand knives."

"Please, sir."

Ye Ji's family also stood on the barn field, looking this way, they didn't know what was going on, but they could see that Mao Mengshi kept kowtowing to Song Ning.

"Lang Feng, take her away." Song Ning said.

Yan Feng and Fu Yu stepped forward, and one of them left with Mao Meng's family, and Song Ning stood on the path, looking at Mao Yuan, who had fallen and got up again.

"My lord, why did you take my mother?" Mao Yuan pounced in front of Song Ning, "Are you angry that I ate dumplings and sugar?" ”

"Shall I stop eating?"

"My lord, I was wrong, can you let my mother go?"

Her brother and the Geruda clan followed suit. Mao Tian kowtowed vigorously: "Adult, Su Niang, she won't make mistakes, she is a child who has never been bitter in snacks, and her heart is very pure." ”

"My lord, please."

Song Ning stepped forward to help the old man up, and said to the two brothers and sisters of Mao Yuan: "Go home first, I have found out, as long as she is innocent, I will not wronged her." ”

"I won't torture her, and I won't torture her."

The two children cried in fright, and Song Ning said softly to Mao Tian: "You take good care of the children, they don't understand, you should understand." ”

"Crying and begging only adds to their fear, what you have to do is comfort them."

Mao Tian looked at Song Ning pleadingly, thought about it and nodded: "The adult is a good person, I, I listen to the adult." ”

Song Ning bowed his head, glanced at the two children, and left.