Chapter 15: We Are Wronged
Hu Shi also cried: "Yes, aunt, not only was there a fire that night, but the tree in the orchard was also cut down, we didn't find it at the time, thinking that the fire was just a careless servant, until the next day when I looked for Dawang I found that the tree was cut down, I said that Dawang may have had an accident, the lord still didn't believe it, but I didn't ......find it for so long."
Lu Jingzhen's voice was cold: "It's on fire and cutting down trees, what have you done to offend people?" ”
Lu Jinshan's face twitched for a long time, and finally he hesitated and said, "That, that...... In fact, he didn't do anything, it was just that Dawang, this kid, was messing around, and let people go to the village in advance to collect money, maybe someone in the village was dissatisfied. ”
"Let people 'collect' money? Isn't that either! How can you be so shameless, it's just a bully! ”
Lu Jingzhen spoke reluctantly, saying whatever he thought, and scolded Lu Jinshan and his family so much that they couldn't wait to get into the cracks.
Hu didn't dare to answer, Lu Jinshan whispered: "It's not what we mean, it's because Dawang is young and ignorant, so he will mess around." ”
Lu Jingzhen snorted coldly and asked, "Then when he asked for money, did he have any conflicts with others?" ”
Lu Jinshan lowered his head and said: "Get up, get up, there are many families who don't want to give it, some scold, and some fight." ”
Lu Jingzhen squinted at them, and she could see that she was very dissatisfied without seeing her face, so she paused and said, "Where is his room, take me to see it." ”
Lu Jinshan and Hu Shi hurriedly led the way in front and took her to Lu Dawang's room.
Lu Jingzhen looked around the room, grabbed the old clothes that were thrown on the bed, and said, "This is his clothes?" What was he wearing when he disappeared? ”
Hu said: "Wedding clothes, he is wearing wedding clothes, when he is on fire, he tries on wedding clothes, and he wears them out, and he should not have returned to the house after that." ”
Lu Jingzhen frowned: "Then he disappeared beside you?" ”
"It's not around, the fire was in the front yard, we were all in the front yard at the time, he went to the back yard by himself, and no one saw it after that."
"And you can't even be sure where he disappeared?"
Lu Jinshan and Hu Shi looked at each other and replied awkwardly: "No, I can't be sure." ”
Lu Jingzhen was a little irritable, thought about it, and asked, "You said that the fruit tree was cut down, and it was also that day?" ”
"Yes, all that night."
"Take me to see it."
Lu Jinshan and his wife took Lu Jingzhen to the orchard again.
Lu Jingzhen walked around wrapped in her black robe like that, even if it was under the sun, she didn't lift it a little, which made Lu Jinshan a little suspicious, whether the person he invited back was his aunt or grandmother, and why was it so different from what he remembered when he was a child.
But he didn't dare to question it, he invited his aunt and grandmother back with a message of incense, and people can't be wrong, no matter what she wears, just help him find his son.
When he came to the orchard, he looked at the fruit trees all over the ground and felt distressed, and scolded in a low voice: "His grandmother's, who did it, but it's a pity that my fruit tree, it took a lot of effort to move it, and it took two years to cut down the fruit, this person is too lacking in virtue, why don't you be killed by thunder!" ”
Hu Shi thought he was talking too much, poked him hard, and said: "Okay, don't talk about it, look at how my aunt and grandmother find someone, what I want now is to find my son, as long as I can get my son back, what if the trees in the garden are cut down!" ”
Lu Jingzhen walked around the black robe among the felled fruit trees, walked to a place with footprints and stopped, stood there quietly, stood for a while, the black clothes on his body began to flutter slightly, as if the wind was blowing outward from the inside.
After a while, he stopped, raised his eyes and asked Lu Jinshan and his wife: "A boy, very thin, with a yellow shirt and gray pants, do you know who it is?" ”
Lu Jinshan said suspiciously: "There are several skinny boys, only the color of the clothes, we are not sure which one, can my aunt and grandmother be more detailed?" ”
Hu Shi also said: "Yes, we must know what this person's face looks like, otherwise we can't guess." ”
Lu Jingzhen sighed, seemed to be very helpless, and described carefully: "This child looks very delicate, but his health is not good, he should be fifteen years old, but he looks like twelve or thirteen, and he scolded while cutting down trees, you robbed his family's things, and made his grandfather angry, he wanted to kill your whole family." ”
Lu Jinshan and Hu Shi were surprised, and shouted at the same time: "Shen Baiding! It must be him, the child is smaller than others, and there are only two people in the family, him and grandpa. ”
After calling Hu Shi, he asked again: "Auntie, you even know what he said, what about Dawang, was he arrested?" ”
Lu Jinshan also said: "Yes, apart from him, have you seen anyone else, where is Dawang?" ”
Lu Jingzhen said angrily: "I can only see these things now, and I can't do anything else, what is Dawang, let's ask that kid!" ”
Lu Jinshan gritted his teeth and said: "Yes, I will let people arrest Shen Baiding and ask my aunt and grandmother to interrogate!" ”
Lu Jingzhen said: "Don't arrest him, look at his thin appearance, he shouldn't be able to arrest Dawang, he cut down your fruit tree because you were at fault first, if you arrest him, he will definitely be said to be bullying, I don't want to be infamous with you, go, go to his house and ask." ”
Lu Jinshan didn't dare to refute, and whispered: "Yes, then we will take my aunt and grandmother to his house." ”
In this way, he and the Hu family took Lu Jingzhen and walked towards the Shenbai Ding family.
By this time the sun had already set, and it was about to get dark.
Xu Hongyi helped her mother wash her clothes and cook together, and after eating, she found that there were a lot of mosquitoes in the house, and Ruan wanted to scrub Xu Changhe, so Xu Hongyi and Xu Genbao went outside the house, got some hay and wet grass mixed with it, lit a cigarette in front of the window, and fanned the smoke mosquitoes into the house.
Xu Genbao loves to do this thing the most, jumping and fanning, but Xu Hongyi squatted in front of the smoking haystack, looking at the hay, and thinking of his dry branches on the slag mountain, his heart was indescribably sad, he missed the years that grew up in the wilderness of the world, happily stretched his waist in the wind, enjoyed the sun and nectar, and now he is a man, much freer than before, but why can't he be happy.
She crouched by the fire and was distracted, not noticing when her brother had run out.
After a while, Xu Gen Bao Tengteng ran back and shouted and said: "Sister, the rich man Lu really invited the immortal back, I heard Aunt Wu say that they took the immortal to the front street, I don't know who they are going to!" ”
Xu Hongyi stood up in surprise and said, "What? Really invited? What kind of immortals? What are you doing on Front Street? ”
"I don't know, I came back after listening to Aunt Wu's words, sister, let's go and see, is it that his family's immortals have found Lu Dawang!"