"Just one night ten days ago, a little girl knocked on my door with a child, saying that the child was born illegitimate with her lover outside, and she didn't dare to take it back, so she was temporarily fostered in me, saying that she would come back after half a year, and the foster care fee was a total of four taels of silver, I saw a lot of money, and I was greedy for a while, so I left the child!"

"What is that little girl's name, and where does she live?"

"I don't know, I didn't ask about this", Feng shook his head.

"I'll just ask you to make it clear, you just look at the money, what if this child is abducted? You don't listen to your child if you are a little nicer! It's good now, the official has come to the door, right? Qi Dongjun complained about Feng.

"Isn't this for this family, what's wrong with saving more money, and I didn't starve him anyway", Feng muttered quietly.

"Alas!" , Qi Dongjun sighed, don't overdo it.

"It turns out that this family is so black-hearted!"

"That's it, they still abuse children, I think they must have abducted them, and they made up that they were fostered!"

"I think so!"

For a while, there was a burst of discussion in the lively crowd.

"Quiet!" , Shi Yuning shouted at the crowd, and the crowd immediately fell silent again.

"So what's the matter with this kid not being able to speak? Isn't it you...? ”

"No, no, no! It's not us, this kid is mute! Qi Dongjun hurriedly said.

"Yes, yes, yes! He's a dumb man from the beginning, my lord, and we don't dare to lie! Feng Shi hurriedly nodded in agreement.

Nie Xiaohu thought for a while, and then asked, "Then if you see that little girl again, can you still recognize her?" ”

"Recognize, recognize!" Feng Shi nodded like a chicken pecking rice, "She still owes me two taels of silver!" ”

"You're abusing children like this, and you're still thinking about asking for money?" , Nie Xiaohu snorted coldly.

Feng knew that he had said the wrong thing, and lowered his head again.

"One more thing, where's that puppy?"

"Jae... It was slaughtered and buried under the small tree in the backyard. ”

"Take them back first, and then talk about it when we find the child's family!" , Nie Xiaohu stood up, bent down and picked up the little boy.

"Let's go, uncle will take you to find your mother!"

A smile immediately bloomed on the little boy's face, and he nodded his head again and again, making an "ahhhh

It was close to evening when he returned to the county office, Nie Xiaohu found a family, temporarily settled the little boy, and found a doctor to show the child, it turned out that the little boy was not born dumb, but was poured dumb medicine.

"It's not Qi Dongjun and his wife, it's the woman who fostered the child to do it!" , Nie Xiaohu clenched his fists and thought, "Such a vicious person, I will find him out sooner or later!" ”

At night, there was a light rain in the sky, there was no noise during the day in the inn, the guests fell asleep early, the air was slightly cold in early spring, making the quilt warmer, unconsciously, the rain stopped, and the whole world fell into silence.

"Help! Kill! ~~~~”

At this moment, a woman's mournful cry pierced the night sky, and the entire inn was in a commotion.

In a guest room on the second floor of the Yuanlai Inn, a woman with a pretty face fell to the floor with a dagger stuck in her chest, the deceased was dressed like a maid, and a gorgeously dressed woman who looked like a young lady was standing in front of the door in horror, holding a champa to cover her nose and sobbing quietly.

The window in the room was wide open, and outside the window was a small vegetable patch, and at the edge of the vegetable patch was a fence wall, and on the ground below the window, there was a series of obvious footprints leading to the fence wall, judging by the size of the footprints, which should have been left by a man.

The surface of the stake was covered with a thick layer of dust, and because it had just rained, the stake was covered with mud, and there were traces of being scratched from the bottom of the stake about 1.5 meters up to about 2 meters.

"Who is the deceased, and what is your relationship with the deceased?" After inspecting the scene, Nie Xiaohu stared at the woman in the room and asked.

"Back to the official's words, the little woman's name is Shen Tingting, since Kaifeng, it was my maid Xiaoxue who died", Shen Tingting bowed and said with a low sob.

"From Kaifeng?" , Nie Xiaohu's brows were furrowed, "Just your master and servant?" ”

"That's right", Shen Tingting explained, "My family lives in Kaifeng City, and I am also a wealthy family, my father's name is Shen Bowen, and he is in the leather business. My mother passed away when I was born, and my father brought me up, but just half a year ago, my father fell seriously ill and died. ”

Speaking of this, Shen Tingting cried quietly, and tears slipped down from the corners of her eyes like beads with broken threads.

After calming down a little, Shen Tingting continued: "When my father was dying, he told me that he had a friend who had died, who was his friend of eight worships, named Meng Hefan, who lived in Luoning County, and Uncle Meng had a son, and they set up a family affair for us when they were born, and gave me half a copper coin, saying that it was a certificate of recognition with them. ”

After Shen Tingting finished speaking, she took out a half copper coin tied by a silk thread from her arms, Nie Xiaohu took it and looked at it, nodded, and handed it back to Shen Tingting.

After Shen Tingting took the copper coin, she continued: "My father had a premonition that his life was short since he fell ill, so he wrote a letter to Uncle Meng two months ago, saying that after his death, I asked me to come to confess my relatives with this half copper coin, and to marry his son Meng Wenhai, which is also a matter of my father's heart.

Uncle Meng quickly wrote back to my father, saying that he was reassuring him that he would keep the marriage contract and let his son marry me. After the death of her father, the little woman was helpless in Kaifeng, so she had to obey her father's will, sold her family property, and came to Luoning County with her personal maid Xiaoxue to recognize her relatives. ”

"Hmm", Nie Xiaohu nodded and asked, "Then have you seen Meng Hefan?" ”

"See, just half a month ago", Shen Tingting nodded, "We checked the half copper coin, Uncle Meng said that he was going back to prepare and set an auspicious day for me and Meng Wenhai to get married, during which Xiaoxue and I temporarily stayed in the inn." The day after tomorrow is the wedding date, and I just thought that my hard life was finally over, but I didn't think about it... I didn't expect it to be ......"

When Shen Tingting said this, she cried again, "My poor Xiaoxue, she died for me!" ”