Facing the other party's inquiry, Wu Chengwei just nodded silently.
However, the young man obviously still didn't believe it. "Why did you come to save me? Who are you?"
Facing the young man's inquiry, Wu Chengwei just said softly, "You don't need to worry about who I am. You just need to know that I will save your life."
Faced with Wu Chengwei's words, the man was obviously still a little confused, but at the moment he obviously had no better choice.
After all, his life seemed to have been completely changed since he came out of Wan'an Hall that night.
It was only later that he found out that after he left that night, the man returned to Wan'an Hall, and that man only burned Wan'an Hall with a fire. Unfortunately, he was killed in Wan'an Hall that night, so he returned to Wan'an Hall. There is the eldest son of the master.
He felt something was wrong at that time, so he ran away from Wan'an Hall. Unfortunately, he was not sure whether there was any risk, so he did not call Shaodong's family who was walking in the attic.
As a result, the young master's house was burned alive by the fire.
According to what they later said, the shopkeeper of Wan'antang hurried over after learning that his medicine hall was leaked. At first, he thought that the leak was just an accident. He even thought that his apprentice and son were dead. In the medicine hall.
Until the members of the fire brigade carried out only one body belonging to the young master's family, but his body was missing, everything became unusual in the words of the neighbors.
People began to suspect that he had colluded with outside thieves to rob Wan'antang. With people's clever and well-informed stories fabricated, he instantly became the culprit of everything.
Not long after, the shopkeeper of Wan'antang reported it to the officials, and the officials targeted him for arrest.
He was not the one who caused the fire. He could also choose to explain to people and show up, but he soon realized that this would not work at all.
He also secretly went to the medicine hall owner, but before he could step into the medicine hall, he heard the shopkeeper swearing at him and saying that if he was caught, he would be sent to prison himself.
Faced with such gnashing words from his former master, he naturally lost the courage to go in and talk to him.
What made him even more desperate was that after his sweetheart knew everything about him, she just refused to accept him. Naturally, his sweetheart didn't believe a word of his explanations, and even she only allowed herself to be afraid of him. Leave quickly, otherwise she will let the government arrest her. It is also because of her crazy mood that he does not dare to stay here too long.
His crush was undoubtedly a heavy blow to him. She was the closest person to him here. She didn't even believe in him, so why did he think that others would believe in him?
Later, he went to find his brother, but his relatives asked him to leave quickly and not to drag them down.
It was also because he suffered too much from those close to him that his current mentality was only somewhat similar to that of a snail, so he seemed even more panicked when he wanted to seek help from his master.
After feeling that his master's attitude was wrong, he immediately backed down. After all, he had no evidence to prove that he did not set the fire, and he could not guarantee that his master would believe what he said, so in despair he could only choose to continue to conceal it and continue Wandering.
Naturally, this arson case caused a stir in the city soon after. Therefore, the instructions for leaving and entering the city became more stringent in the next few days. There were portraits of himself everywhere in the city, and some people were searching for him everywhere. Plus the city gate is blocked.
So now he can't go out, let alone live anywhere.
In desperation, he could only wander around in alleys. When he was sleepy, he would sleep in an abandoned house. When he was hungry, he would go nearby and use the remaining money to buy steamed buns to eat.
This kind of day was an embarrassment that he had never imagined. In just a few days, he became slovenly in this embarrassing situation.
In addition, even if he became a beggar, beggars still have beggars' rules. After he became a beggar, those beggars also bullied him. Soon after, he entered the beggars in the south of the city.
After entering the beggar's territory, he was severely punished by the gang. They beat him and then took away the only money he had. They even only gave him his normal clothes. Zhi Ye also took away everything. After taking away everything from him, he could only be regarded as an idle man wandering the streets, but now he has completely become a beggar with nothing.
After that, he secretly went to someone else's house and stole a set of tattered clothes before he found clothes to cover his body.
During these days, he could almost be said to have suffered all the hardships of life. He couldn't sleep well, didn't have enough to eat, and didn't have enough clothes to wear. The only advantage is that after he became this beggar, he no longer had to hide his body.
Anyway, dirty beggars like them, with their knotted hair and greasy clothes, have always been the most disdainful existence on the street.
He actually went through a period of time when no one cared about him.
This kind of life was hard, but it also made him forget what he was running away from. He just knew that he couldn't go back to the past.
And on such a day, if it weren't for the fact that he went to a small shed to beg for food, but was recognized by his former friends, and then instead of inviting him to dinner, he immediately shouted that he was an arsonist on the run, he probably wouldn't have Maybe he ran in such a mess.
And the wandering around these days has actually made him feel tired. So he was still happy to seek a shelter.
Therefore, even though he knew nothing about the man in front of him, he still couldn't help but take the initiative to say, "I don't know who you are, but since you said so, I will believe it." What I also want to tell you is that I am not a murderer, and I did not set the fire on fire. I was not the one who killed the boss’s son!”
When he heard the waiter yelling, Wu Chengwei said in a calm voice, "I know you are not the murderer. It is precisely because I know you are not the murderer that I decided to protect you."
Hearing that Wu Chengwei actually believed in him, the waiter looked at Wu Chengwei with disbelief.
After all, after he became a suspect of arson, everyone around him no longer believed him. Even not long after, people who were once close to him just told him to get lost, as if they were afraid that he would implicate them. .
And Wu Chengwei can be said to be the only goodwill he feels here.
That's why he was still a little unbelievable.
"I know you were wronged and they didn't believe you, but I believe you." Wu Chengwei thought that he didn't believe it, so he repeated the words again.
Hearing Wu Chengwei's words, the store clerk burst into tears instantly.
Wu Chengwei's reaction was much calmer than that of the other party. He only said, "Are you willing to come with me now?"
The guy nodded, and then he thought about it and immediately seemed to remember something.
He suddenly looked at Wu Chengwei and said, "By the way, I have this."
Wu Chengwei didn't know what the other person wanted to show him, but he still cooperated with the other person and looked over. Then he saw with just one glance that the guy suddenly took out a small piece of bone, and the bone was obviously a piece of bone. Cut off the finger bones.
Seeing the bone, Wu Chengwei also knew the origin of the bone.
The guy continued to say to Wu Chengwei, "Brother, this bone is a human finger bone. I recognized it at a glance. You probably don't know, but on the night of the leak, I received an order from a strange customer." , the customer came to me with a bunch of bones that had obviously been burned by fire. They lied to me and said that these were the bones of wild beasts. They wanted to use these bones to make medicine, so they needed me to grind the bones into powder. I didn’t have much at the time. I thought, so I agreed to their request, but after that, I quickly discovered that there was something wrong with the bones. I found this human finger bone in the pile of bones, and I didn’t dare to talk nonsense with them. , and then I just secretly hid the small bone. I originally planned to wait until dawn to report to the official after sending them away, but I never thought that before dawn, I would be one step ahead of them. The person who was arrested.”
After saying this self-deprecating remark, the waiter only continued, "But I was not at the scene that day, and it was because of this."
For one reason, I was recognized as the murderer, but I am sure that the murderer must be those people. They must have discovered my abnormality, so they just wanted to kill me and then make me their scapegoat. "
Hear what man said. Wu Chengwei then simply asked, "Do you still remember who those people are and what they look like?"
Facing Wu Chengwei's inquiry, the waiter couldn't help but think for a moment, and then he immediately said: "He was driving a carriage at that time. I think he was a coachman. As for whether there was anyone else in his car." , then I don’t know.”
After hearing the waiter's words, Wu Chengwei could only say again, "What does that man look like?"
When asked, he just took a piece of black charcoal and held it in his hand.
The clerk didn't know what kind of medicine Wu Chengwei was selling in this gourd, but since Wu Chengwei asked, he tried his best to cooperate.
"The man was tall and thin, about 1.75 meters tall, with a long face, triangular eyes with swollen eyelids, sparse eyebrows, a hooked nose, and thin lips."
When the clerk was describing the man's appearance, Wu Chengwei was already sketching the man's face.
But for a moment, as the boy's description ended, the paintbrush in his hand stopped painting.
After the boy described all this, he soon saw the portraits on the ground.
When Wu Chengwei saw him looking at the portrait painting, he couldn't help but ask, "Does that person look like this?"
When the waiter heard this, he looked at the portrait without blinking.
Then he immediately shouted, "Yes! Yes! Yes! That's what that person looks like!"
