Ruan's heart trembled, she raised her hand and gently placed it on his chest, and asked in a hoarse voice, "When was this wound?"
Tang Songnian nodded: "I thought I was doomed at the time, but luckily I met a noble later, so I could save my life."
"Mother... how can she bear it!" Ruan shi said with tears in her eyes, choked up.
Just by looking at the scars on his chest, you can imagine how badly he was injured when he was less than fifteen years old at the time, and he shouldn't have to bear these.
"She said that her stepmother was in trouble, she had to..." Tang Songnian muttered.
Of the three sons, two are not biological, one is biological, and to give away one, she will only choose the biological one.
Ruan's heart tightened and subconsciously hugged him even tighter.
Xu Yunyao on the bed blinked, somewhat surprised by what she heard.
It turns out that the old man has such a sad past! She is obviously her own mother, but she is not as good as her two half-brothers.
Trouble with stepmother? Forgive her for not being able to feel such a complicated embarrassment.
She only knew that if she had her own flesh and blood, she would like to put on a battle suit and cut a grand avenue for him, so how could she choose to sacrifice him for others
Thinking of this, she wrinkled her nose a little dejectedly.
It's a pity that God didn't give her this chance, and Concubine Xu Shu didn't give birth to a boy and a girl until she died. And having no children under her knees is also a big obstacle for her to climb the Phoenix throne. The old man Tang Songnian also attacked her with this.
Then she thought of Tang Songnian's various oppression and attacks on her, and she hated it so much that she was so grateful that he had just washed away her grievances, but it disappeared again.
"Master, Mo Yan came to report, saying that the horse catcher has an urgent matter." Cui Wen hurried in.
"I'll go over immediately!" Tang Songnian froze in his heart, those dull and aggrieved feelings were swept away, he quickly changed his clothes, and left quickly under Ruan's watch.
"Sir, the Sun's mansion on Lane 18, West Street, is flooded, and someone has been sent to put out the fire." On the way out of the house, Ma Zhaotou briefly reported the matter to Tang Songnian.
"Look for ways to control the fire, don't let it spread!"
And Xu Junyao naturally knew that Tang Songnian was called away in a hurry, and heard Ruan's worried Zhongzhong ask Cuiwen: "It's getting dark now, I don't know what's the urgency of the master?"
"It seems that I heard that there is a family on the west side of the city that has lost water." Cui Wen reported the news.
"Going to the water?" Ruan Shi was obviously stunned, and his tone was even more worried, "I just hope that you don't want to hurt people."
It was a long time since Tang Songnian left, and Ruan was worried that her husband was also unable to sleep. Xu Yunyao was young and fell into a deep sleep after a long time.
When Tang Songnian hurried to the scene, the fire had already weakened, and the surrounding people and officials from the county government all threw themselves into the firefighting.
It was nearly half an hour after the fire was completely extinguished.
Tang Songnian's face was gray, and he just wiped his face indiscriminately, and hurriedly walked into the place of the fire - the main room of Sun's house.
When he walked over, he saw at a glance the two corpses on the ground that were so charred that they could not be seen, and the skinny one even had a knife stuck in its chest.
"My lord, after a preliminary autopsy, the man and the woman were not burned to death by fire, but burned to death after death. The dead man was hit by a heavy object in the middle of the back of his head, but the real cause of death was a stab wound to his chest. "Zuo Zuo, who had hurried over earlier, briefly checked for a moment and replied.
Tang Songnian frowned.
I thought it was just an accident, but I never thought it was a murder!
After some preliminary interrogation, it was finally determined that the deceased were the owner of the house, Sun Youcai, and his wife Tian.
He paced into the main house, which had been burned beyond recognition, and examined the surroundings of the corpse.
For a moment, he picked up a piece of broken tile in the corner, and his finger gently brushed the black thing on it, frowned and sniffed, and checked again, and sure enough, he found several such pieces of broken tile, and The tiles are all stained with the same thing without exception.
"Come and see, what is this?"
"This smell seems familiar, but I can't remember what it is for a while." Ma Zhaotou pondered for a moment, then shook his head.
On the other hand, Shen Ming was thoughtful, and then he also rummaged around in the house. After a while, he said, "Sir, it must be this thing on the tile."
Tang Songnian looked over and saw that he was holding a palm-sized arc-shaped tile in his hand. On the tile was a half-charred and half-intact pickle leaf.
Ma Caitou walked over quickly, took the pickle leaf and sniffed: "Sir, it really tastes like this."
"The wound on Sun Youcai's head is also stained with this thing." Zuo Zuo suddenly remembered the matter and said hurriedly.
"Could it be that this jar of pickles was the one who smashed the back of Sun Youcai's head?" Ma Zhaotou was surprised.
Tang Songnian didn't answer, but he also had such a guess in his heart.
"Sir, come and see, my lord!" Suddenly, an official shouted loudly from outside.
Tang Songnian hurried away and saw a boy about six or seven years old lying on the ground beside a well far from the main house.
"Sir, he passed out in a coma." An official picked up the child.
Tang Songnian took the pulse for the child, and his heart suddenly burst. He glanced suspiciously at the little gray face that had passed out in a coma. "
In addition to the deceased Sun Youcai and his wife, the Sun House had only one concubine, Mrs. Dong and her two-year-old daughter, a couple of old servants, and a 13- or 14-year-old maid named Qiuping.
"He, he is the son of my wife's distant cousin. He went to defect with his mother six months ago. Four months ago, his mother died of illness, so the child stayed in the house. In the past, my mother-in-law helped take care of him. I was busy putting out the fire just now, but I didn't notice that he came here." The old servant of the Sun House hurriedly replied.
It turned out that they came here without any support... Tang Songnian knew it.
There was a big incident in the Sun House, the owner and his wife were dead, and the rest of the people naturally didn't have the heart to pay attention to this foreign child. No wonder he didn't even notice that he fell unconscious here.
It wasn't until the sky turned white with fish belly that Nguyen, who had not slept all night, welcomed the returning husband: "Are you back? Are things handled properly?"
Tang Songnian said apologetically, "Waking you up?"
Ruan shook her head: "How can I fall asleep if you haven't come back?"
Tang Songnian knew her temperament, rubbed the corners of his eyes tiredly, and said in a low voice, "It was the Sun family's mansion in the west of the city that was flooded, and the fire destroyed the entire main house. Fortunately, the fire was well controlled and did not spread."
"Is there any casualties?"
Tang Songnian sighed: "The host and his wife were found dead in the fire."
Nguyen took a deep breath.
It burned people to death!
Tang Songnian patted her on the shoulder comfortingly, hesitated for a moment, and then said: "After the fire was put out, the yamen found a comatose boy beside a well in the Sun's house. Go, now there is an accident in Sun's house, Tian's life is lost again, there is chaos in the house, this boy is left unattended for the time being, I will take the lead and bring him back, and you can arrange for someone to take care of him for a while."
There is no reason for Ruan's disapproval, so he responded again and again.
After Tang Songnian finished his explanation, he took a shower and changed his clothes, had a simple breakfast and left in a hurry.
In the event of a life lawsuit, he did not dare to delay for a moment, and he must solve the case as soon as possible to comfort the dead.
However, since Mrs Ruan had the words of her husband, she naturally hurried to have the child brought. But after a while, the servant in the house walked in with a child.
The child may have been frightened, his face was very pale, his lips were tightly pursed, and his dark eyes were full of vigilance and precaution.
Nguyen was soft-hearted, and when he saw the child's appearance, he couldn't help feeling pity, and beckoned him to come to his side, but instead of moving forward, the child took a few steps back.
"Don't be afraid, this is Mrs. Tang's wife. The adults and Mrs. are kind-hearted. We will leave you to live in the mansion for now. We will only take you back when your relatives find you in the future." The maid comforted.
Nguyen raised a gentle smile and asked softly, "What's your name? How old are you?"
The child still pursed his lips tightly without saying a word, but the vigilance in his eyes disappeared a little.
Seeing this, the maid hurriedly said, "Mrs Hui, this child's nickname is Zhuzi, and he is six years old this year."
Ruan Shi asked him a few more questions in a soft voice, but the child remained silent, perhaps because her tone was too gentle and her appearance was loving and amiable. He relaxed a bit, but he still had a defensive posture.
Nguyen didn't care either, only someone from the house just happened to enter the house to ask for a reply, so he didn't care about the child for a while.
The child stood quietly by the side, raised his eyes inadvertently, and looked into the east room through the Red Sandalwood Duobao Pavilion, and saw a little girl in pink clothes holding half a rice cake into her mouth. plug.
The girl doll was born Yuxue cute, her big eyes flickered and she was prettier than all the girl dolls he had ever seen.
After a while, he saw the girl suddenly push the plate with half a piece of rice cake in front of her towards an older boy sitting opposite her, with a sweet smile on her round face.
Then, the older boy reached out, took the half of the rice cake, and stuffed it into his mouth.
He pursed his lips and was about to look away when he suddenly heard the girl cry out with a 'wow', crying while crying: "Mother, mother..."
He was stunned, and the next moment, he saw the lady in the room who was dispatching errands hurriedly walked in.
"Is Baoya a mother?" He heard the lady ask with surprise and joy.
Xu Yunyao pretended to wipe away tears.
What's the matter with this woman? Are you paying attention? Obviously you should ask me why I cry, right
The other party was so unprofessional, she could only wipe her tears while pointing at her brother Zhou who tilted his head and looked at her strangely, and said aggrievedly: "Brother, brother, bad..."
When Ruan Shi heard this, she became more and more happy: "Oh, even my brother can call me. I just said, my Baoya is so smart, why can't she be called mother!"
Xu Yunyao: "..."
This woman is really stupid!