Started as a thatched house and ended up as a female figure

In the quiet world at the backyard of Suiyi Building, Cheng Wan explained to Wang in detail all the causes and consequences.

Wang smiled and said, "Your eldest brother chose this path himself. We can only support him. Besides, you have done a lot for him. The rest is up to him."

"Mom," Cheng Wan raised his head: "Gu Yan, Gu Yan and Shao Qing also went to the front line."

Wang paused.

In the dim light, Wang was not sure if she saw the redness in her daughter's eyes. She just asked with some difficulty: "Did she leave yesterday? Did she go to the front line as soon as she left our house?"

Cheng Wan nodded slightly.

Wang looked at Cheng Wan's peaceful and tranquil face, and her hot tears burst out again: "My Ah Wan, you have really...really worked hard."

Cheng Wan blinked and tears rolled down from the corners of her eyes.

Wang touched Cheng Wan's head, her voice hoarse but with a mother's unique tenderness: "Everyone has their own way to go, let them go, let them go..."

Nestled in Wang's arms, Cheng Wan shed tears happily for a while.

The irritability, worry, and uneasiness that had been suppressed in my heart for so long... dissipated into the wind as my tears flowed, and my heart felt a long-lost sense of ease and clarity.

In the corner, Old Mrs. Lin looked at the mother and daughter snuggling together, tears and snot streaming down her face.

"Mom?" Aunt Lin, whose eyes were also red and swollen, looked at Grandma Lin worriedly, not knowing what to say to comfort her.

Old Mrs. Lin waved her hands and said in a hoarse voice: "It's okay, let them stay for a while, let's not disturb them."

Having said that, Old Lady Lin wiped her face with her sleeve, turned around and left the place.

Aunt Lin took one last look at Cheng Wan and Wang, sighed silently, and followed Old Lady Lin.

Half a minute later, Cheng Wan raised his head from Wang's arms and revived with full health.

"Mom, I'm hungry!" Cheng Wan tilted his little face up and smiled at Wang.

Wang saw Cheng Wan's pitiful and cute appearance and laughed out loud: "Wait, mother will go cook!"

Wang got up to cook, while Cheng Wan prepared to go back to the house to change clothes and pack things.

Suddenly, Cheng Wan stopped walking.

Cheng Wan looked thoughtfully at the clay bricks, various clay shards, various ceramic bowl and plate fragments, fragments of jars and basins, various coal residues piled up in a corner of the yard, and felt that it was time to make cement.

The army was fighting in the front, and they were building roads in the back.

Cheng Wan raised his eyebrows. With a cement road, the army's logistics should be more secure, right?

Cheng Wan was thinking about what to do first and what to do next, when the sudden noise in front interrupted his thoughts.

"Oh no! Oh no!

Boss! Go check it out!

There are several yamen runners coming up, they want to take Erping away!"

Mrs. Song's eldest daughter-in-law, Mrs. Feng, ran into the backyard in panic. The moment she saw Cheng Wan, it was like she had seen a life-saving straw.

"What?!" Cheng Wan widened his eyes in disbelief.

Wang, who had just entered the kitchen not long ago, heard the noise and hurried out with noodles on one hand.

"take away!"

At the last moment when Cheng Erping was about to be escorted out of Suiyi Building, Cheng Wan arrived and said, "Wait!"

"A Wan!" Old Mrs. Lin and others came towards Cheng Wan in fear and confusion.

Cheng Wan held the long knife that Gu Yan gave her in her left hand, and patted Old Lady Lin's arm with her right hand to comfort her. Then she looked at the chief of the yamen runners and asked, "I wonder what my second brother has done wrong?"

"Someone has accused Cheng Erping of raping a young girl. Sir Cheng, we are also following orders to arrest him. Please don't make things difficult for us."

There was an uproar in Suiyi Building. Old Mrs. Lin and others seemed to have heard some ridiculous joke and forgot to react for a moment.

Cheng Wan looked at Cheng Erping, whose wrists were tied behind his back.

Cheng Erping's eyes were filled with confusion, as if he hadn't realized what was happening yet?

"Second brother?"

"Ah?" Cheng Erping looked up in confusion and met Cheng Wan's eyes.

Adultery of what?

Rape a young girl?

Cheng Erping woke up as if from a dream, and struggled hard the next moment: "You have caught the wrong person! I didn't rape... rape anything! Let me go! You have caught the wrong person!"

"Right, right, right! Sir, you must have arrested the wrong person! My grandson can't possibly do such a thing! He hasn't left Suiyi Building at all today, how could he have done such a thing!"

"Yes, sir, we can all testify that this kid has been staying in the Suiyi Building all day and has not gone out. You must have arrested the wrong person!"

"Sir, this child is a very honest and sensible person. It is impossible for him to do what you said. But is there someone with the same name as this child? Is that why they arrested the wrong person?"

......

The matter was too absurd and outrageous, and Old Lady Lin and others could not panic. They just explained to the yamen runners that Cheng Erping could not have raped the girl and that the runners had arrested the wrong person.

"Shut up, everyone!"

The leading yamen runner held his sword across his body, looking very scary with his stern brows and cold eyes.

Cheng Wan pulled Old Lady Lin and Wang behind him and stepped forward to stand in front of the others.

Just now, Cheng Wan remained silent when Old Lady Lin and others were explaining to the yamen runners.

It’s not that Cheng Wan felt that she was not needed, but Cheng Wan felt that this matter was not that simple.

It's probably directed at her.

"Which county government are you from? Where are you taking my second brother?"

Old Mrs. Lin was anxious.

What to take where?

You can't let people take the child away if it's obviously something unreliable!

Wang grabbed Old Lady Lin in time and shook her head at her.

"We are the arresting officers of Shuoxi County Yamen. We have been ordered to take Cheng Erping to the Yamen Prison to await trial tomorrow."

Shuoxi County?

Cheng Wan quickly searched for relevant memories in his mind.

The girl who was slapped twice by her years ago seemed to have said that she was the niece of the magistrate of Shuoxi County.

Cheng Wan frowned. Could today's incident be related to that girl?

"Sir Cheng, if everything is alright, we will go back and report." The leading yamen runner was very polite to Cheng Wan verbally, and could find no fault with him.

Cheng Wan gave a look to the panicked Cheng Erping to reassure him, then stroked the hilt of the knife in his hand and smiled at the leading yamen runner: "I'll go with you."

There was no way Cheng Wan would just let a few yamen runners take Cheng Erping to jail for a night.

Who knows what will happen tonight?

If the person behind this really set up this trap to target her, the second brother would definitely be in trouble.

It is even unknown whether I can see my second brother alive tomorrow.

"Ah Wan, what...what is going on?"

Seeing Cheng Erping being taken away, Old Lady Lin and others were completely panicked.

"There must be some misunderstanding. I'll go and take a look. No one can put the blame on my second brother for something he didn't do."