"No, I came here to investigate a matter secretly."
Lin Xiao's face was solemn, as if he was keeping something secret.
Seeing this, Ah Qiu quickly asked:
"What's the matter? As long as I can help, Lin En, just ask!"
"Do you know that twenty years ago, a child in your village was carried by someone?"
Lin Xiao asked tentatively, for fear of arousing Ah Qiu's suspicion.
"Of course I know! Isn't he the child of Liu Datou's family in front of me!"
Ah Qiu curled her lips disdainfully:
"Liu Datou gave birth to a daughter at that time. When he was about to throw the child into the water tank and drown it, my father found out. My father snatched the child away and slapped him awake.
"
"and after?"
Lin Xiao asked.
Ah Qiu recalled it and continued:
"Then one night, I went to the hut and saw several people coming out of Liu Datou's house. One of them was holding a baby in his arms. I thought it was the Qianqian Killer who had sold his own daughter!
"
"So sure?"
"Yes, because the next day people in the village heard Liu's big-headed mother-in-law crying and shouting that her daughter was missing."
"If you sell your biological daughter, is she still a human being?"
Chen Yun was filled with anger.
Lin Xiao fell into deep thought.
"This was pretty good, but what he did later was so unscrupulous!"
When Ah Qiu mentioned this matter, his tone was still full of anger.
"What bad thing did he do?"
"Selling your own son!"
Ah Qiu said bitterly:
"He used the money from selling his daughter to get two more concubines. Not long after, his mother-in-law and the two concubines gave birth to sons one after another. Who would have thought that this unlucky thing would secretly give away three more sons to him?
sold!"
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Lin Xiao was silent.
Three sons and one daughter, right!
Ah Qiu smacked his lips and continued:
"I don't know if God can't stand it any longer or if evildoers find their own evildoers, Liu Datou's family was suddenly poisoned. Except for one concubine who was still alive, the others all died!"
"Where is my concubine? Take me to see her quickly!"
Lin Xiao felt excited.
"After the concubine was rescued, she was sometimes sane and sometimes crazy. Lin En, I think it's better not to see her. If she gets hurt, it will be troublesome!"
Ah Qiu dissuaded.
"I have my own sense of discretion. Hurry, lead the way!"
"Oh well."
Ah Qiu sighed and led Lin Xiao towards the river.
Halfway through, Lin Xiao suddenly stopped and asked:
"You just said that Liu Datou and his family were suddenly poisoned and died collectively?"
"That's right."
Aqiu nodded.
Lin Xiao frowned. It seemed that the Chen family was really not that cruel and ruthless. They would just take the child away, but they actually wanted to kill people to silence them and eradicate the roots!
By the river, the sound of a woman singing a lullaby came from a remote and dilapidated house.
Ah Qiu walked over with Lin Xiao and gently knocked on the courtyard door, and the singing stopped suddenly.
Then a woman in coarse clothes hugged the pillow with one hand and opened the door with the other. Her eyes were filled with horror as she stared at Aqiu and the others standing outside the door.
"You, who are you looking for?"
"Aunt Liu, it's me, Ah Qiu, don't you recognize it?"
Ah Qiu smiled.
"Aqiu, it turns out it's you. I haven't seen you for a while, and you've grown a lot taller!"
The woman seemed to have remembered A Qiu, and quickly stepped forward and patted A Qiu on the shoulder:
"Quick, get in the house, it's cold outside!"
Lin Xiao and Chen Yun followed Ah Qiu into the house and heard the woman say:
"You guys sit down, I'm going to put my little brother to sleep first."
After saying that, the woman sat down, gently patted the pillow in her arms, and hummed the lullaby she had just sung, her face full of motherly love and kindness.
This scene made Lin Xiao filled with emotions.
Being a mother makes you strong. Even if you go crazy and stupid, you can still retain the brilliance of motherhood. This motherhood moved Lin Xiao extremely.
The words I wanted to ask came to my lips, but I couldn't say them.
Chen Yun looked at Lin Xiao's appearance, quietly pulled her, and whispered:
"Brother Lin, what's wrong?"
"Let's go back! She... is so pitiful!"
"No, I finally found the witness. I have to take her back to the capital to confront the Chen family!"
When Chen Yun saw Lin Xiao flinching, he became very anxious and raised his voice a lot.
The voice reached the ears of the woman who was coaxing herself to sleep with a pillow. The woman stood up suddenly, her eyes widened, pointed at Chen Yun's nose and angrily yelled:
"You beast! The child is your own, why are you willing to sell the child to the capital?!"
Obviously, the woman thought Chen Yun was Liu Datou.
Chen Yun simply used his trick and snatched the pillow from the woman's arms:
"The child will only suffer hardships if he follows us! If he is sent to a wealthy family in the capital, he will be well clothed and well-fed. I am doing this for the child's good!"
"Bah, you beast! You beast, I will fight you!"
The woman was so angry that she trembled all over and reached out to snatch the pillow from Chen Yun's hand.
Chen Yun didn't give the woman a chance. When he turned to dodge, the woman fell to the ground, and her knees hit the bluestone floor, causing unbearable pain.
The woman struggled to get up, raised her foot and kicked Chen Yun.
Chen Yun quickly retreated to avoid it. When Lin Xiao saw this, he immediately shouted:
"Chen Yun! Return the 'child' to Aunt Liu quickly!"
Lin Xiao's voice made the woman stop what she was doing, and turned to look at Lin Xiao. Her eyes were bloodshot, as if she wanted to eat her.
Lin Xiao's heart trembled and she didn't dare to speak again.
The woman walked towards Lin Xiao step by step, her eyes full of hatred.
Just when they thought the woman was going to attack Lin Xiao, they saw the woman kneeling in front of Lin Xiao with a plop, and begged with tears in her eyes:
"My lord, I beg you, please, please don't buy my son, okay? I know your Chen family is a prestigious and wealthy family in the capital, but the child is the flesh that fell from my body, and I can't bear to part with it! Please!"
Please, please..."
After saying this, the woman kept kowtowing, and her forehead soon became red and swollen.
When Lin Xiao saw this, he quickly stepped forward to help the woman up and said with regret:
"Aunt Liu, you get up first and then talk!"
"No, I won't get up! I just want my son, give him back to me, give him back to me! Woo hoo hoo~"
The woman cried heartbrokenly, and bright red liquid kept flowing from the corners of her eyes.
Lin Xiao couldn't help but feel sad in her heart, and quickly comforted:
Hearing this, the woman stopped crying, wiped away her tears, and looked at Lin Xiao, her eyes full of begging.
"I promise you that I will help you bring your son back, but I don't know if your son has any special marks on his body that can be used to prove his identity?"
"Birthmark, there is a brown birthmark on my son's left thigh, like a crescent moon."
The woman thought for a while and then confirmed.
Then, the woman suddenly got up from the ground like crazy and shouted at Chen Yun:
"Where is my child? Take me to find it quickly! Go and take me to find it! I want to see my child!"