Chapter 425 Scissors (two chapters in one)
"... Although I am not a good person to rob a family, I can't bear to live in a remote village with a little girl. The bigger the place, the safer it will be.
They first lived in Qingyuan, and then I took my brothers to Qingyunling. Once I went down the mountain to do business. When I passed by Qingyuan, I went to visit them along the way.
Unexpectedly, I realized that A Ruan had caused trouble. A disciple climbed over the wall at night. A Ruan woke up and killed the man.
After A Ruan killed the man, she panicked. She and Mrs. Ji didn't know how to deal with the body, and the body was hidden at home for two days and one night.
As soon as I came in, I felt that there was something wrong with them. I looked at A Ruan in a daze. After asking, I realized that there was a dead person hidden in my home.
When I saw the corpse, I was also shocked. The corpse was cut for twenty or thirty times, and everyone was chopped to pieces.
Although Mrs. Ji took this matter to herself and said that she killed the man, I realized the truth from A Ruan's dull gaze.
That Dengtuzi was killed by A Ruan.
I asked Ah Ruan if it was?
A Ruan admitted immediately that she killed the man.
It was at that moment that I suddenly remembered someone.
I pointed to the scar on my face and asked her: Did you do that night? Was you the one who cut me down?
Before A Ruan could speak, Mrs. Ji rushed over, blocked A Ruan behind him, and said to me: I have said a long time ago that if you turn over old accounts, you will come to me, it has nothing to do with my wife."
When Zhou Hong said this, he raised his head, grinned, and smiled silly.
Li Qiniang was curious and asked, "Brother, did you really recognize her as the one who cut you down until then? Or did you recognize her long ago and keep pretending to be stupid?"
Zhou Hong shook his head: "I never thought about that matter at all. In my heart, I was even wondering if there was really such a woman. Maybe I was cut off by a man and had a drunken eye to recognize the wrong person. If I had known earlier that it was Aruan, I..."
"What are you going to do?" Li Qiniang asked anxiously.
Zhou Hong's old face turned red and said, "It's not like that. A Ruan had blocked his appearance along the way. His little face had probably not been washed, and it was dark and dirty. I could only see that her facial features were well-born. It was not until this time that I was caught off guard and showed up, and I discovered A Ruan's true appearance."
Li Qiniang understood that her elder brother must have discovered that A Ruan was a beauty, so even if he knew that A Ruan was the one who hurt him back then, he would not want to take revenge.
"Then what, Mrs. Ji said this, what about you?" Li Qiniang asked with a smile.
Zhou Hong smiled and said, "I patted my chest at that time and told Mrs. Ji and Aruan that I, Old Dong, are also a hero. I promised you not to turn over old accounts, and that will never happen. Don't worry, the so-called "no fight" will not be acquainted. The previous grudges have been written off, and I promise not to mention them again."
Li Qiniang suddenly felt something was wrong. She thought for a while and asked, "You drank too much back then, was it that Madam Ruan saved you?"
"I fell at the door, and A Ruan asked Mrs. Ji to help me into the house. Mrs. Ji went out to cook sober soup. A Ruan fell asleep, and I happened to wake up at this time." Zhou Hong said.
Li Qiniang became more and more suspicious. There was Zhou Hong in front and the disciple behind. This Aruan was really cruel to take action.
Also, is she actually carrying a knife with her?
"A Ruan knows martial arts?" Li Qiniang said, and felt something was wrong. If A Ruan knew martial arts, she would not have been sold to people by thieves at the beginning.
Zhou Hong guessed that Li Qiniang was suspicious, and he smiled bitterly and said, "You find something wrong with Aruan, right? Look, our girl is smarter than the man, the eldest girl is, too, you, let alone Sister Huai. I am the stupidest family member, Wan Qian and Xiaobai are all following me.
I really didn't think much about it at the beginning. I thought that Dengtuzi came in and Aruan killed Dengtuzi. This is what it should be, and it's nothing.
I helped them get rid of the body, thinking that the place could not be lived in, so I pretended that it was a relative at home to pick them up, asked the landlord to leave the house, and took them to Xuyang.
When I came to Xuyang to find a house, I found that there was a unique courtyard in Baicai Hutong, and it was the innermost courtyard. Both Ji Pozi and A Ruan thought this place were good and wanted to buy the house.
I really didn't expect that after they had experienced so much, Ji Pozi still had good things hidden. At that time, I didn't know how I escaped the thief and the human teeth. Ji Pozi had two night pearls and two emeralds hidden on his body. After asking, I found out that the woman had sewed these into her flesh.
I, a bandit, was frightened when I heard this. At that time, I thought that with Mrs. Ji following A Ruan, A Ruan would definitely not suffer any loss.
The house where Ah Ruan lives now and the shop where she collects rent are purchased, they are purchased with these. Over the years, Ah Ruan has never asked me for a penny and I have not raised her. Instead, every time I come to see her, she will prepare a lot of things for me to take away.
Xiaomei has been following them all the time. A Ruan likes Xiaomei very much. Once I asked A Ruan to be a mother to Xiaomei, but A Ruan refused. She said that she could not let Xiaomei be her daughter, as she would implicate Xiaomei.
So Mrs. Ji simply recognized Xiaomei as her granddaughter. Xiaomei is now grown up and is called Hanmei."
Li Qiniang remembered what Yan Xuehuai told her. She had seen wintersweet, but she didn't pay attention at that time.
When Li Qiniang thought of A Ruan's refusal to accept Xiaomei as her adopted daughter, she frowned slightly and asked, "Xiaomei is not her biological child, and it is understandable that Mrs. Ruan is unwilling to be a daughter, but Wanqian and Xiaobai are her biological flesh and blood. Why does she also refuse to accept it and raise it?"
Since Zhou Hong said that he only had A Ruan in his life, Li Qiniang has confirmed that A Ruan is the biological mother of Zhou Wanqian and Zhou Xiaonu.
Zhou Hong's smile on the corner of his mouth was a little bitter. He sighed and said, "This is what I said before. You are smarter than me. From my few words, I found something was wrong. But I didn't know A Ruan's problem until Wan Qian was born."
Li Qiniang looked solemn. This lady Ruan had a mysterious origin. Could it be that she was from a family who escaped from her wife or concubine?
Zhou Hong took a sip of tea and continued, "Later, I often took the opportunity to visit Xiaomei to find A Ruan. At the beginning, Mrs. Ji was guarding me like a thief, but I found that A Ruan didn't hate me. A Ruan wanted to eat melon seeds, so I bought all kinds of melon seeds. A Ruan had never read the book of words. Every time I went there, I bought a lot of book of words for her.
Gradually, Mrs. Ji was no longer so cautious about me. The first time I saw A Ruan was in Pingcheng, and later I refused to live in Pingcheng, so I suspected that A Ruan was from Pingcheng.
Once, I went to Xuyang to visit A Ruan again, so I asked my brother to go to Pingcheng in advance and bought a lot of snacks and candies from Pingcheng's specialty products. I originally thought A Ruan would like it, but I didn't expect that she had never eaten it.
Seeing A Ruan having fun eating, I told her that they were all from old-fashioned shops.
A Ruan told me that her family had kept her very strict control, and she had never heard of or eaten anything outside.
That time I was very happy, but as I was talking, Ah Ruan started crying. She cried and suddenly ran into the wall. I was not prepared and it was too late to hold her.
A Ruan hit a big bag on her head, and she fainted.
At that time, Mrs. Ji went out to buy vegetables. After she came back, I told her about this. Mrs. Ji told me not to talk about her family affairs to A Ruan in the future.
That was my first and last time.
After half a year, I took the courage to propose marriage to A Ruan, but A Ruan refused. She said that she could not get married to anyone, otherwise she would only implicate others.
I was a little anxious. I said I was a bandit and didn't know how many lives I had taken, so I was not afraid of being implicated by her.
But she just refused. I was young and full of energy at that time, so I took advantage of the alcohol... "
Li Qiniang widened her eyes and said, Brother, you are such a beast!
Zhou Hong shook his head quickly: "Girl, don't think too much, I didn't. Oh, I just hugged her and kissed her."
Li Qiniang breathed a sigh of relief, but she still glared at Zhou Hong fiercely, and the scar on Zhou Hong's face turned redder.
"After that day, I didn't leave Xu Yang. I slept at the inn at night. During the day, I ran to pester her and sucked her hard. I knew she would like me too. Otherwise, with her temper, when I hugged her that day, she would cut me with a knife. If she didn't do that, she would definitely like me.
My kung fu was not in vain. One day, Ah Ruan finally talked to me. She said she had made up her mind and wanted to have my child.
At that time, I was so happy that I was stunned. I thought Aruan was finally going to be my wife, but I didn’t expect that she said that giving birth was really just giving birth.
She said she would not write a marriage letter to me. I think I am a bandit. Her origin is unknown. If she doesn’t write a marriage letter, she won’t write it.
But she didn't even allow the wedding banquet. I said I was just asking my brothers to have the wedding banquet, but she refused. She said she didn't want anyone to know about us. If I didn't agree, she would rather die than marry me.
Although I was unhappy, I knew in my heart that Ah Ruan was worried that one day, someone would know her relationship with me would implicate me.
Although I don’t know why she was worried, at that time, my wish was to marry A Ruan and I wouldn’t care about anything else.
Mrs. Ji combed A Ruan's hair and face, I set up a spiritual seat for our father and mother, and A Ruan and I got married in front of the spiritual seat, we had a glass of wine, and we became husband and wife from then on.
In the past ten years, except for A Ruan and me, only Mrs. Ji and the grown-up Rimei knew about our relationship. Even my brothers, including the second brother, have never told me."
Li Qiniang was moved. When she heard Zhou Hong say that she was getting married in front of her parents' tablet, she burst into tears.
When Zhou Hong saw his sister crying, he blamed himself: "It's the big brother that's not good, why did you say you were crying? Be good, don't cry. My brother and your sister-in-law think it's good to get married like this. It's nothing, it's really nothing."
Li Qiniang sniffed, squeezed out a smile, and asked, "Later, you haven't told me why Wan Qian and Xiaobai were brought to the village to raise them."
"Well, that's right, I said earlier that something was wrong with Aruan. I didn't care or think about it at that time.
I was on the mountain thinking that Ah Ruan was about to give birth, so I rushed back. When Ah Ruan was giving birth, I was waiting outside the door. I heard the cry of the child from the delivery room. I was so happy that I wanted to go in. The door of the delivery room was knocked open from the inside, and the wife ran out like crazy. Ji Ma chased me out and asked me to stop Wen Po. I thought Wen Po had done something to Ah Ruan, so I stopped Wen Po.
Unexpectedly, Wenpo said that Aruan wanted to kill her.
Later I found out that when Wen Po took the scissors to cut the umbilical cord for the child, A Ruan saw the scissors and was completely in a bad mood.
She actually rushed up to strangle Wen Po to death. Fortunately, she had just given birth to the child and had Madam Ji next to her, so no major trouble happened.
Mrs. Ji kept saying nice things to the woman. I was upset and said to the woman that if I dared to talk nonsense outside, I would kill all the family.
I gave Wenma 100 taels of silver.
I had scars on my face and a banditry body. The stable woman was frightened. Besides, she had worked for ten years and could not save 100 taels. She took the 100 taels of silver and took her husband and children back to the countryside the next day.
I thought this matter was over, but the next day, after A Ruan fed Wanqian, she handed Wanqian over to me and said that I would take Wanqian away.
I asked why, and she said she could not let people know that Wanqian was her child, otherwise Wanqian would die.
I didn't agree to her, so I quietly asked Mrs. Ji, but I didn't expect Mrs. Ji also agreed to let me take thousands of people away.
It was that time that Mrs. Ji told the truth. She said that A Ruan had suffered grievances and was not in good spirits. She would hit her head against the wall at any time to hurt herself. For example, she slashed me with a knife and killed the Dingtu. Even when she was in the mining village, they had never thought of killing people. It was the man who said that if Xiaomei couldn't sell it, she simply threw it into the mountains to feed the wolf.
After hearing this, Aruan threw herself onto the man's body and strangled him to death like crazy.
Mrs. Ji was worried that human teeth would hurt A Ruan, so she broke the water bowl and stabbed the human teeth to death with broken porcelain pieces.
If Renya and Dengtuzi are both bad people, that would be fine, but yesterday Wenpo just picked up the scissors, and Aruan thought Wenpo was going to hurt her child, so she almost strangled Wenpo to death.
Mrs. Ji said that after Aruan and I had a relationship, she did not have another attack. She thought Aruan was fine, but she did not expect that this time she had an attack again and almost caused a big disaster.
A Ruan asked me to take Wan Qian away because I was worried that it would cause trouble.
Mrs. Ji asked me to take Wan Qian away, but she was worried that Aruan would accidentally hurt the child when she had another attack.
I didn't take Wanqian away immediately, until Aruan was out of confinement, and even Mrs. Ji said that Wanqian could be kept, so I took Wanqian back to Qingyunling with me.
This is true for thousands of people, and later gave birth to Xiaobai, the same is true for him.
Fortunately, the two children were all strong, sick and disaster-free, and they followed me on the mountain, each of them looked like calves."
Li Qiniang felt that her back was wet. Madam Ruan was not having a bad temper, but it should be a disease. It was probably the root cause of the disease after being stimulated.
Chapter completed!