Splendid Abandoned Wife

Chapter 624 The woman left behind ([-]st update)
Cheng Ermeng was quite calm: "Miss Yin, the girl standing next to you that night who was also wearing a veil was Miss Yin Er? Can you let me see her horned magpie hairpin? If I read it correctly, that is My dad hand-carved it for my sister and I designed it myself.”

"You read that right," Zhiruo said directly, "That was given to my second sister by Aunt Ajuan."

"Then...then..." Cheng Ermeng was so excited that his eyes were red, "Is my sister still there? Where is she now?"

"In Luo City," Zhiruo replied, "she is doing very well. The most difficult days for her mother and son are over. But no matter how hard it is, she is an upright person, worthy of heaven, earth and herself. This is Aunt Ajuan, mother and son. What they said when they sold themselves into slavery and came to Meizhuang."

"It's OK, it's OK," Cheng Er burst into tears, "Mother and son? Is my brother-in-law gone? Can I redeem them, mother and son?"

Zhiruo snorted: "Do you think Aunt Ajuan would be willing to use the money you robbed as a bandit to redeem the lives of their mother and son?"

Cheng Ermeng was stunned and said with a wry smile: "After I was kidnapped, I was sold to a copper mine. Three or four years later, I was thrown into a mass grave while I was dying. It was Chen Dameng who happened to save me. Because I looked like him. Yao's younger brother, he spent a lot of money to find a doctor to cure me, and took me back to Mengniu Village and recognized me as a brother with a different surname. I changed my name to Cheng Ermeng in Mengniu Village, but they all called me Xiucai. It took Mengniuzhai nearly a year to nurse her body back."

"I don't approve of Brother Chen becoming a bandit," Cheng Ermeng continued to recall, seeing that Zhiruo and others were listening attentively and did not look disgusted with him, "but so many people in the village came to the village to join him because they were desperate. There was no other way to make a living except robbery. Brother Chen was very indulgent to me. Knowing that I didn’t want to be a bandit, he didn’t force me. He just asked me to help with writing and painting, and taught the children in the village how to read. Character."

"Later I heard that it was easy to make money by shipping in the south, so I thought of finding a way. In the future, I might be able to lead the brothers in the village to wash their hands in a golden basin and live a normal life. Brother Chen thought it was feasible, so he ordered ten Brothers who know how to swim will follow me south."

"The shipping business does make money," the smile on Cheng Ermeng's face became increasingly bitter, "but it is controlled by a few big families. People like us who have no background and work in small businesses can only make money even if we work hard for so many years. I followed others to pick up some leftovers. It was not until the beginning of this year that we took over a large ship by chance and the scale expanded to nearly a hundred people. I finally saw some hope, and then I returned to Mengniu Village to discuss with Brother Chen. You can guess what happened after moving the village south."

"However, General Yin Zhao serves the country and the people. I have never thought about retaliating against the Yin family or kidnapping Miss Yin." Cheng Ermeng suddenly thought of Liang Dahai's words just now and quickly explained, "That night I really just wanted to Asking Miss Yin to go to Brother Chen's grave to accompany her is also an explanation I gave to myself and the brothers. I also used 5000 taels to supplement the lives of Brother Chen's woman and child. Madam Ye said that they are living a very hard life now. ."

"Explain? The victim still has to give an explanation to the robbers?" Zhiruo snorted coldly, "Ye told you that the child she gave birth to was Chen Dameng's, and you believed it? Is there any evidence? Have you seen her child? ?Which one looks like Chen Dameng?" She was really curious about this.Cheng Ermeng was stunned again: "There is no evidence, and I have never seen it, but... if it is not true, which woman would slander her innocence like this? Madam Ye is a rich lady from an official family, and she was also an official wife before. "

"An official's daughter? An official's wife?" Liang Dahai sneered, "How could you collude with bandits to rob Meizhuang? You know that General Yin Zhao serves the country and the people, what is she doing? What she asked you to blackmail is 5 Two, not 5000 taels, right?" The results of Ye's interrogation were delivered to Pan Jiaming on the same day.

"How do you know?" Cheng Ermeng was surprised, "She wants 5 taels of silver and wants me to kill Miss Yin to avenge Brother Chen. Although I sympathize with her and want to make life easier for Brother Chen's children, but I still understand the right and wrong, and 5000 taels of silver is a lot. I think if our shipping business does well in the future, we can also subsidize them some."

A few people in Zhiruo shook their heads, look what this bandit did!However, Cheng Ermeng also said that although he had lived in the village for several years, he was not a pure bandit and had never participated in robbery before. The only time he had kidnapped Qiu Yanran and Niu Ruxia was to threaten Zhiruo.

Liang Dahai admired this man's loyalty and gratitude, and patted him hard on the shoulder: "Go and run your shipping business well, and don't trust that vicious woman Ye anymore. Although we hate her extremely, her children It really can’t be a bandit. And according to the information from the government, Mrs. Ye doesn’t know Chen Dameng. The reason why she contacted Mengniu Village before was because she was an old acquaintance with your second-in-command named Liu Xiang.”

"Liu Er is in charge?" Cheng Ermeng believed it immediately, because Liu Xiang's father was an imperial physician during his lifetime, and it was normal for his family to know girls from official families.That woman actually lied to him?A woman would give up her face for money, slander her innocence for nothing, and turn her children into bastards of bandits?This simply subverted his cognition.

Zhiruo simply told Aunt Ajuan's experience and situation before saying: "For Auntie Ajuan's sake, we won't care about your behavior that night. But after Mrs. Ye has seen you, you should leave as soon as possible." Come to the capital, don’t go to Aunt Ajuan to recognize your relatives in front of people, just contact her secretly. You also know that the government is still looking for you, but don’t involve Aunt Ajuan and Uncle Changsheng’s family. In addition, I suggest you For a moment, the name Cheng Ermeng and the nickname Xiucai should no longer be used. In a year or two, perhaps this matter will be settled."

Cheng Ermeng nodded in agreement, and actually knelt down and kowtowed to Zhiruo, not only to apologize for his actions that night, but also to thank Zhiruo for his kindness to his sister and nephew.

When Cheng Ermeng stood up and was about to say goodbye, he suddenly thought of something. He took out a bunch of things wrapped in a cotton handkerchief from his body, opened the cotton handkerchief, and inside was a fan pendant-shaped jade Ruyi: "This is what the woman accidentally dropped. That day When I went to find her at the appointed place, she was holding this thing in her hand and thinking about it. She was also muttering something about Mr. Yu and the Crown Prince. When she saw me suddenly appearing, she quickly stuffed it into her sleeves. Later, when we were about to leave, there happened to be a few people. He ran toward us, saying there was a commotion among the refugees or something, and the woman quickly ran after her. I originally wanted to climb a tree to see the movements of the refugees, but when I turned around, I saw this cotton handkerchief wrapped on the ground. It must be her It fell out if I didn’t put it properly.”

(End of this chapter)