It was a long way to report to the official, so it took one day to wait, and it was already evening when Zhang Ping brought the official errand.By coincidence, Li Gui, who went to Yizhou to report the news, came back with them, accompanied by officials from the Yizhou government.

Seeing the two groups of people gathered together, Ji Ran's eyes rolled and he suddenly smiled.

In this way, there will be a good show to watch.

That's right, Leng Xianglian hanged her family, Ji Ran didn't worry about it at all, except for the anger of being found unlucky at the beginning.He didn't do harm to people, he has a clear conscience, so of course he has nothing to worry about.

"Who is the Lu family here?"

On the way here, Zhang Ping and Li Gui breathed a sigh of relief, and told about Leng Xianglian's death by hanging in front of the door, and the Yizhou officials who came with them naturally knew about it.Knowing that the Lu family was gathered here, they didn't go to the Lu family, but came to Ji's house together. As soon as they arrived, the leader put his hand on his sword and asked, this person was the head of the Yizhou government office Bright.

Before the Lu family could react, Li Gui pointed out, "Qian Butou, these guys are all from the Lu family."

"Then who is Lu Changyuan?" Qian Tutou glared, and walked around the Lu family's house.

"Then Lu Changyuan is the son of the Lu family. He's not here. He should be at home." Li Gui pointed in the direction of the Lu family, "That's the Lu family over there. Go this way, turn to the right at the intersection, and there's the third farmer's house. The house is."

Qian Liang nodded at Li Gui, waved his hand and left with a few guards.

The Lu family saw that something was wrong. The officials in front of the gate couldn't see such a dead man hanging from the door. Why did they just look for their fourth child?

Mrs. Lu was about to catch up with him and stop him, but as soon as she moved, she saw several other officials standing there, one of them was also dressed as a head arrester, and they had seen this person before, he had been there before to arrest them Zhou Yong, the head catcher of the county government.

Zhou Yong's name was taboo, originally he didn't know it, but Tao Yuan heard it.

Regardless of who came, when did the county government have two arresters?

The Lu family looked at each other in blank dismay.

Zhou Yong didn't look at Lu's family, and directly ordered the accompanying guards to take down the body.

After the corpse was taken down and laid flat, Zhou Yong glanced at it, walked up to Ji Ran, and saluted him, "Brother Ji, you and the Lu family really have a deep connection. Even human life is at stake, I don't think that is the daughter-in-law of the Lu family? Why did the one who was pregnant suddenly run to your door and hang herself?"

"Brother Zhao." Ji Ran also saluted, with a wry smile on his face, "To be honest, I really don't know what's going on. I heard the report from the servants in the morning, and the people are already like that. The Lu family kept shouting for grievances. But I don't know, I have no contact with the Lu family this whole winter, where did this grievance come from."

"What don't you know? Xianglian fought with you for robbing the child a few days ago!" When Granny Lu heard this, she stopped in her footsteps when she was about to go home. She turned her head and shouted, "Mother and child are connected, Xianglian is It's because of the child that she's crazy. She's crying for the child every day these days. She must have hanged herself in front of your house because she couldn't think about it. What's the matter? Are you a wolf-hearted dog, so that you can drive people to a dead end? Xianglian left two children so young, what can I do?!"

Just at this moment, Lu Changqing suddenly yelled, "Mother, why was the fourth son taken away by the officials? Is that the fourth son?!"

"Ouch!" Mrs. Lu turned her head to look, and suddenly slapped her thigh in fright, and ran away without caring about her, "Stop sticking around like this, hurry up and see with me, what's going on? Fourth child But the scholar, and he didn’t commit any crime, how could they take someone casually?!”

After Mrs. Lu yelled and yelled, except for the two crying children holding Leng Xianglian, the Lu family ran away in an instant.Ji Ran, Zhou Yong and other officials were left looking at each other.

"Brother Ji, this..."

"A few days ago, Leng Xianglian really beat me because of the child. Thanks to the help of the villagers to subdue me, I was able to get away. I don't know why she hanged me in front of the door. I don't deny that it has something to do with the child, but That's the case, a lunatic would never do such a thing, and it would be instigated by others." Ji Ran sighed, "I knew it earlier, so why bother to realize it now, it's too late, if I didn't insist on saving Under the name of the child's adoption, she has no chance to hang in front of my door now, so she can only go to the child's grave to repent, and she will not live for her own crimes."

"How do you say that?" Zhou Yong frowned and said, "Brother Ji, the friendship between you and my brothers is friendship, but this matter is a matter of life and death, whether it is suicide or homicide. , I have to ask in detail, and please tell me the ins and outs of the matter."

"To be honest, the adopted son was born with two extra toes, one close to the big toe and one close to the little toe..."

Ji Ran did not hide anything, and told Zhou Yong in detail about what the Lu family did, as well as the adoption process, including Li Zheng's testimony and drafting of the agreement. The clank and tough guy also showed indignation, full of sympathy for this unfortunate child.

"I don't know if there is a saying in this village that people who are born with insanity or evildoers should be burned to death. What I want to say is that the world is so big that there are too many people born with disabilities. Apart from suffering in life, they are ridiculed I hate it, and with whom have I brought misfortune and disaster? It's just hostages who are ignorant and pedantic. Since Master Lizheng was willing to testify with me, it proves that the Lu family's so-called evil spirits harming the village is not true. It is just an exaggeration and cover-up It’s just sinister and disgusting.” The reason why Ji Ran said this was not because of emotion, but after the test of time. The child has grown to such a big size, and the villagers do not have close contacts. But I know, at least they didn't show fear or disgust when they saw each other for the first time, which is enough to see that the Lu family's nonsense, "At least I have adopted An'er for half a year. Anyone with eyes can see it.”

"People in the world are ignorant, and have always treated people who are born with disabilities harshly, but those who abandon them are rare, especially those who are born mothers. As the saying goes, a child does not think the mother is ugly, and a mother does not think the child is inferior. This is the truth." Zhou Yongshen said Nodding emotionally, "In this case, this Leng Xianglian is also self-inflicted, that is, suicide, so it has nothing to do with Brother Ji, but before the case is investigated, everything is hard to say. I have to take this corpse away. The case can only be closed if it is verified by a witness and it is verified. It doesn’t matter if this Leng Xianglian is just suffering from madness, but if she is really instigated by someone, then she will definitely not be able to escape the punishment of the criminal law.”

"Thank you, everyone." Ji Ran cupped his fists in thanks.

However, when the two children heard that their mother's body was going to be carried away, they cried even harder, and both of them clasped and refused to let go. They were forcibly carried away by two guards.

When the corpse was carried away in the wrapping cloth, the two children were crying and chasing after him, even though they were hard-hearted, they couldn't help their throats choking and their eyes sore.

Ji Ran turned to Zhang Ping and said, "Bring the child in, let's get some hot food to eat, I've been hungry for a whole day here, adults don't care, the child can't stand it."

"This..." Zhang Ping hesitated, "Their mother was hanged here. The child doesn't know right from wrong, so he won't blame us for the hatred. The master is kind, but others may not appreciate it."

"Just try it, don't force it." Naturally, Ji Ran is not a kind-hearted person, his sympathy is limited, if others accept it, he will accept it, and if he does not accept him, he will not make fun of himself, whether it is a child or an adult.

Zhang Ping got the order not to talk nonsense, and immediately bowed, then turned his head and walked towards the two children who ran and fell.

The two children were emotionally agitated, and they just called for their mother regardless. I don't know what Zhang Ping said, the younger child was crying, but the older one calmed down first, sobbing.However, no matter whether they were crying or excited, the two children did not point the finger at Ji Ran. Instead, after listening to Zhang Ping's words, they turned their heads to look at Ji Ran in surprise.

Zhang Ping said something more, and walked back with the two children, one on the left and one on the right.

When passing by Ji Ran, the two children just looked at him sobbing, but did not express anything.

Ji Ran and her mother looked at each other for a while, then said calmly, "Take it in."

Zhang Ping answered yes, and brought the two children inside.

Just about to step into the threshold, Lu Wanxue stopped, turned to look at Ji Ran, "I know, my mother's death has nothing to do with you."

Ji Ran was startled when he heard the words, and turned to look at the other party.

"My mother gave birth to a younger brother. My grandma and father thought it was a monster. They not only drove away my younger brother, but also locked my mother in the woodshed. My mother was driven crazy by them." Lu Wanxue said, her tears just stopped Then she burst out again, "My mother, she wasn't so crazy at first, it was father, and father wanted to marry a stepmother again, but grandma said that others were jealous of our family and maliciously slandered our family a lot, resulting in a bad reputation. People who have daughters are not willing to marry, not to mention that my father is still remarried. It happened that the fourth uncle mentioned that he saw his brother in the town and was taken care of well by you. Grandma and father thought about it, saying that if you have money, you will not worry about it. When a man gets married, he encourages his mother to snatch the child from you, saying that as long as he can use the child to extort money from you, he will let the mother go. The mother has been insane for a long time, and she believed it as soon as the father said it. This is the end."

"Don't worry, I won't let you be wronged in vain. If the government asks, I will tell the truth." Lu Wanxue broke away from Zhang Ping's hand and bowed deeply to Ji Ran, "Thank you for adopting my younger brother and bringing him up. Also... sorry."

After Lu Wanxue finished speaking, the siblings were taken away by Zhang Ping, and Lu Ziyuan could vaguely hear Lu Ziyuan crying for his mother.

Ji Ran looked back at the place where Leng Xianglian was hanging before, with mixed feelings in his heart, for a while, he couldn't understand what he was feeling.Sighing, he turned and went back to the house.

While walking inside, he said to Li Gui, "The officials in Yizhou only took Lu Changyuan away, but they didn't see Tao Yuan. It's unreasonable to cover up and not say anything. There must be some accident that we don't know about. Pack up and go to Yizhou immediately, and keep an eye on it." Then he said to Uncle Chen, "Tao Yuan and Lu Changyuan have a very close personal relationship, and they have been hiding in Lujiacun these days. Without the support in life, he will definitely come out again, you should keep an eye on him, don't let anyone run away, and also watch his hiding place."

Both Chen Shu and Li Gui should be.

However, Li Gui had just entered the door and hadn't even put down his burden, so he was about to turn around and go out again, when Ji Ran called out in a dumbfounded way, "What are you in a hurry for? I'll let you clean up, which means I'll let you take a bath, change clothes and prepare some dry food. But I didn't let you turn around and leave."

"Yes yes yes." Hearing this, Li Gui scratched his head in embarrassment, and answered yes repeatedly, then turned around and walked inside.

Ji Ran sighed and shook his head, if Lu Zhen was there, there would be no need for Li Gui to go back and forth like this, he could easily handle it all by himself.Speaking of which, Lu Zhen left home for a few days and didn't know when he would come back. Before leaving, he said that he had received guidance on the whereabouts of the Huanyang Stone.

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