The sudden accident shocked everyone.
Including Chen Anning, Xu Zan and Wen Huan.
Xu Zan was the first to react.
Uncertainly, he squatted in front of the young man, looked at the young man, and then at the old couple. After a long time, he muttered: "They are indeed somewhat similar."
Having said that, he still asked a few questions to the young man and the old couple. After confirming that they were a match and that they were the relatives each other had been looking for, Xu Zan stood up and looked at Chen Anning inquiringly: What should we do next?
Chen Anning glanced at the young man who was not excited or happy about finding his parents, and then at the old couple who were completely lost and found. After thinking for a moment, he motioned for him to help the young man aside.
The old couple immediately cried and screamed.
Chen Anning stood up and walked slowly to them. After walking around the two of them twice, he stopped beside them and said, "Father pays his debts to his son. I don't know if you two heard this." Pass?"
After the old couple fell silent for a moment, they immediately started shouting again.
The old man shouted: "One person does the work and the other takes responsibility. We are the ones who killed you. If you have anything to do with us, come at us!"
The old woman cried: "Girl, what do you want to do with us? We all admit it. Please let him go."
Chen Anning sneered unmoved: "When you were killing those people, why didn't you think that they also had parents, and their parents would be just like you!"
The old woman said: "We know we were wrong, please let him go."
The old man suddenly shouted: "He is not our son, we admitted our mistake!"
The old woman reacted and shouted: "Yes, he is not our son, our son is already dead! Where did the counterfeit come from? How dare he pretend to be our son to trick us, bah! Shameless bitch !”
Chen Anning did not argue with them, squatted down, and waited until the two of them were almost clear, then slowly said: "After you find your son, just be happy. Have you forgotten what he said before he met you? Have you spoken?"
"He originally planned to go to Beijing to take the exam, but he was delayed because of you."
"How did you treat him?"
"Knock him unconscious and throw him into the pit. If it weren't for the fact that I recognized that the bones in the bone soup are human bones, it won't be long before he will appear on the dining table, right?"
"He went to Beijing to take the exam. That's an opportunity that only thousands of troops can get. I wonder how much effort he put in for this opportunity?"
"By the way, the reason why he works so hard is because he wants to get ahead and come to you."
"What a pity. Although he is no longer in fear of his life and has found you, for the rest of his life, he will be unable to take the scientific examination because of parents like you, and he will also be unable to hold his head up because of you! "
The old couple cried bitterly: "Stop talking, please stop talking..."
"I am willing to spend the rest of my life to atone for their sins!" The young man who was pulled aside by Xu Zan suddenly knelt down, his face still pale, but his eyes were extremely determined.
Whether he wants it or not.
These are his parents.
They were most likely forced to commit such a heinous crime.
And that last resort must be related to his loss.
A real man has things he does and things he doesn't do. He cannot deny them just because they have committed a serious crime.
"No, we will bear the responsibility for our own mistakes." The old couple said immediately, "We killed the person, it has nothing to do with you. We don't need you to bear any guilt for us, and we don't need you to bear any punishment for me... …”
Seeing that they were about to fall into endless prevarication again, Chen Anning calmly interrupted them, "There is no way to prevent him from being implicated."
The old couple immediately asked: "What method? As long as we can exonerate him, we are willing to do whatever we are asked to do."
Chen Anning raised her eyebrows and pretended not to believe it: "Seriously?"
The old woman nodded immediately, "Seriously. Even if it costs my life, I will give it to you right away."
"Okay." He signaled Xu Zan to take the diners and those who came out of the pit, and then asked the secret guards to lift the old couple up from the ground and kneel down, and asked the young man to stand beside them. Chen Anning said softly. He said, "The only way to prevent him from being implicated by you is to atone for his sins."
After the old couple's expressions changed slightly, their expressions quickly became firm.
Chen Anning deliberately paused for a moment before saying, "Tell me, where are you from, what did you do before, and why did you open an inn here?"
The old man took one step ahead of the old woman and answered honestly.
They are from Nanping County.
When I brought my child to Jinling County to live with a distant relative, I got separated from him at the ferry. After searching for the child in Jinling County and surrounding counties to no avail, the two opened a teahouse here. According to the two men, their plan was to open a teahouse and inquire about the child's whereabouts from passing merchants.
As for why we chose this place, it’s because although there is no village in front of it or no store in the back, there are many businessmen coming and going.
"Since we opened a teahouse, why did we start an inn business?" Chen Anning asked.
After the old man was silent for a while, he spoke again: "It's because of one person."
Chen Anning asked: "Who."
The old woman was more concerned about the young people, so she replied without thinking: "A bandit leader named Fan Dahai. He paid to build the inn and asked us to help him make money. He helped us find our son. We also know that pie will not fall in the sky." , but we wanted to find our son so much that we agreed. We thought that as long as we honestly made money for him, he would help us find our son. Who knew that after the inn was built, he asked us to make enough money every month? It takes at least three hundred taels of silver before he is willing to help us find our son."
"Three hundred taels of silver, even if you kill us, you won't be able to get it back."
"But if we don't make so much money, he won't help us find a son and will beat us. We really can't stand it anymore, so we can only find ways to make money."
"At the beginning, we just wanted to steal some money from tipping merchants, but we only stole it a few times. After the news spread, fewer and fewer people came to stay, eat and tip. We had no choice but to walk away. He killed the people on the side, so that there would be no more news. But the news was gone, and it became a problem to deal with the bones of those people. If they were thrown on the hillside behind, it would inevitably be discovered by someone. "
"After much thought, I could only remove the meat and throw the bones away. This way, there are only bones. Even if someone sees them, it is difficult to recognize them as human bones. As for the meat, I originally planned to throw it away, but later I saw that they were different from human bones. The pork and mutton I bought looked good, just..."
It looked no different from pork and mutton, so they simply chopped it into pieces and made dumplings and steamed buns together.
Not only is it not discovered, but it seems to be more popular.
So the two people were inspired and didn't even throw away the bones.
Business slowly picked up like this.
After three hundred taels of silver were handed over to Fan Dahai on time every month, Fan Dahai kept his promise and found a child for them.
But after searching for so many years, nothing was found.
It's not that the old couple never suspected that Fan Dahai didn't look for it carefully, it was just that Fan Dahai held the excuse for them to kill so that they didn't dare to resist.
Until recently.
Until youth appears.
"Fanda Hai..." After the old couple figured out the ins and outs of doing business here, new problems appeared again. After Chen Anning whispered Fan Dahai's name twice, his eyes fell on Zhu Cen again. But this time, before she asked, Zhu Cen took the initiative and said, "I know this Fan Dahai. He is a bandit leader who has been operating in Huainan Road and Jiangnan East and West Roads. Whether it is Huainan Road, or Jiangnan East Road, West Road, We have hunted and suppressed him many times, but failed every time."
Chen Anning asked: "Is it a bandit group?"
Zhu Cen nodded, "The gang is not small."
Chen Anning looked at the old couple again, "How do you always give the silver to Fan Dahai?"
The old woman replied: "He comes to get it or asks someone to come to get it."
Chen Anning asked again: "So, you have never been to his den?"
When the old couple hesitated, Chen Anning said slowly: "This is not easy to handle. Everything requires evidence. You said he asked you to open the inn, what is the evidence?"
The old couple were anxious.
After the two of them argued for a while, the old man said: "In Zhang Gong Mountain! I heard the two boys who came to collect the money mentioned it. But where it is in Zhang Gong Mountain, I don't know."
The old woman was afraid that Chen Anning wouldn't believe it, so she added: "Fan Dahai's accent seems to be from Guangling County."
Guangling County, Zhanggong Mountain.
Chen Anning looked at Zhu Cen, who hurriedly said: "I know where Zhang Gongshan is, I will take you there!"
He must atone for his sins!
