Self-help guide for non-professional young masters

After finding out the whole story, the boatman who testified that day was the most suspected one. The Jiangling government immediately ordered the whole city to arrest this person. If you want to see people die or see corpses, you have to dig this dog out even if you dig three feet!

Xiao Beicheng was not idle here either, and summoned the two sons of the Ning family to sit under the shade of a tree and drink tea together.

The teenagers had never seen this scene before, and they looked awkward. Even so, they stood a few steps away from each other. It can be seen that there is a rift in their hearts, and they don't want to get close to each other.

Xiao Beicheng didn't put on King Jin's airs, poured them each a cup of tea, and shared a piece of pastry brought from Chang'an, and asked them to sit down with a gentle and calm tone.

"What a handsome and unrestrained young man. Hearing Ning Daren mentioning you before, this king had some speculations in his heart. Now that I see him today, I know that this king is thinking too much."

The eldest son replied eloquently, and said with a smile: "My lord, you are serious. You have met Caomin and Jiaozi, and you must be wondering whether we are brothers or not."

"Yeah, you don't look alike at all, and people walking on the street may not recognize you as brothers."

"It can't be helped. After all, Caomin doesn't look like his parents and brothers, so others will have many speculations. Unprovoked malice, this is just one of them..."

The expression on Xiao Beicheng's face remained unchanged, but he was complaining in his heart that even though this kid was young, he was too bad at speaking. I would be shocked by his poke and feel uncomfortable all over.

"Speaking of which, I don't know your name yet."

The other party made a bow to Xiao Beicheng, bowed his head and said: "The name of the grass people is silver ingots, the prince laughed."

What a silver ingot, jiaozi and ingot, this Ning Daren's eyes are probably blocked by money, even naming his son so casually.

After asking enough about Ning Yinding, Xiao Beicheng looked to the side and kept silent, pressing his hands on his knees. In the cool weather, he broke out in a lot of cold sweat, and even his clothes were wet. Ning Jiao, who looked very disturbed son.

He pushed the teacup towards Ning Jiaozi, cut the pastry on the other side's plate with a bamboo blade, and asked, "Why are you in such a panic, this king won't eat you."

"My lord, I made the lord laugh. Caomin has never seen anything in the world, so it's a bit..."

Ning Yinding saw the wind and turned the rudder, squinting at his younger brother and sneered: "Second brother is so disturbed, it must be because of a guilty conscience."

"you……"

"If the words don't agree, the two of them are about to quarrel, Xiao Beicheng calmed down, and waved his hands to ask them to retreat"—zwnj;

"I heard people say that you brothers have a very good relationship, so I brought you here for two cups of tea. Why is it like this now?"

Ning Yinding stared away, "Ning Jiaozi who didn't say a word, gritted his teeth and said angrily: "If he didn't kill Yuanbao, I wouldn't..."

"Brother, you are not qualified to say anything about me! You suggested the lake tour that day, and you were the one who took us out. How can you blame me for everything?"

"I didn't want you to kill him when I took you out! Dare you say that you didn't take any responsibility for Yuanbao falling into the water!"

"Brother, do you dare to say that you are innocent? After Yuanbao fell into the water, you ran away like a rabbit. You didn't even think about saving people. I dragged the boatman into the water to retrieve Yuanbao. How could you..."

"I don't know how to swim, and I'll be dead if I go down. Is there anything wrong with calling someone from another place?"

"By the time you find someone, something has happened long ago!!"

Listening to their arguing "zwnj; talking about me"-zwnj;, no one wants to be outdone, Xiao Beicheng is in pain, so he quickly silences them.

After both parties calmed down a bit, he asked: "From what you guys said, this fire seems to have been suppressed for a long time. Could it be that you haven't met after Ning Yuanbao's accident?"

Ning Yinding nodded, "After the incident, my father was furious and locked us in the east and west rooms, asking us to shut ourselves up and think about our mistakes. Even Yuan Bao Lingqian went to the incense at a different time."

This is strange, from what it means, Ning Daren obviously suspected his two sons, but why would he hide this matter?

Xiao Beicheng excused himself from the banquet and asked Shen Ci to watch over the two ignorant children, for fear that they would quarrel again and turn the post house upside down.

He went out with a cigarette stick in his mouth, and said to Liu Guanjia who had been listening outside the wall for a long time: "What did you find?"

"It's not a discovery, it's just a suspicion. Do you think they are brothers who grew up together?"

Xiao Beicheng raised his eyes, spit out the smoke from his mouth, &—zwnj;glanced at the two sitting back to back, and sighed for some reason: "Isn't human nature like this? By the way, it is an unexpected joy to drag others into the water, so father and son turn against each other, isn't it rare for brothers to kill each other?"

Knowing that he thought of the civil strife in the royal family, Liu Butler changed the subject, "You brought them here not just to treat them to a piece of cake, but to ask for their names?"

"You're right, after detaining them here, there's a place that's sure to go."

The two left the post house and went to Ning's mansion. Before entering the door, they could hear Mrs. Ning crying hoarsely inside the courtyard wall.

Steward Liu was puzzled, so he quickly stepped forward to look, but saw Ning Daren and his wife knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing to Wen Chu.The latter had no idea, just squatted on the ground to ask them to get up, "Seeing Xiao Beicheng approaching, both sides seemed to have seen a savior, Madam Ning crawled to the man's feet, tugged at the hem of his clothes, and cried half I can't hear the words clearly.

Wen Chu showed embarrassment, "My lord, this... the family members of the deceased are not willing to cooperate."

"In order to find out the murderer, I want to be fair to my son. Is there anything I would not like to do?" Xiao Beicheng took a step back without a trace, and said to the flustered Ning Daren: "You should It can't be that something has been discovered, in order to protect the murderer, I want Ning Yuanbao to be buried quickly."

"My lord! Absolutely nothing... There is absolutely no such thing. Yuan Bao has already gone, and the father of Cao Min is heartbroken, but even if the murderer is found, Yuan Bao can't come back, right... Why don't you just let him be so peaceful?" Go quietly, what are you doing to disturb his peace?"

"You can think about it, but the law of Dayuan clearly stipulates that the murderer pays his life, and the punishment cannot be exempted by the understanding of the victim's family. This is not only for your son to seek justice, but also to make more innocent people People who are safe from poisonous hands, do you understand?"

"My lord, you see that my wife is already in pain, so why bother adding fuel to the flames. Please forgive me, my lord, just let my child go."

To be honest, being begged like this made Xiao Beicheng feel compassionate.

He walked slowly to the side of ‌ and sat down, looked at Wen Chu who was finally grabbing a life-saving straw, and asked, "What do you think?"

This is the proposition he gave to people, and the test is whether the other party values ​​human feelings or laws in the past few years as an official.

Wen Chu corrected his posture, straightened his back, and coughed lightly, "My lord, I think the coffin is about to be opened."

"I heard that the coffin was about to be opened, Steward Liu was heartbroken"—zwnj; Shen, no wonder the Ning family refused to cooperate, it was a white-haired person sending a black-haired person, if this happens again, it will just dig out his heart It hurts.

"My lord..."

Xiao Beicheng raised his hand and signaled Steward Liu not to talk too much, but after hearing what Wen Chu said, Madam Ning fainted from crying on the spot, and was hurriedly helped down by her servants.

Only Yu Ning Daren—zwnj; was facing him, Xiao Beicheng sighed, biting the cigarette rod between his teeth, his eyes looked a bit complicated.

"Ning Daren, are you still going to pretend to be a fool?"

"My lord, the grass people don't understand what you mean..."

"Whether Ning Yinding is your own, don't you know in your heart?"

When these words came out, Ning Daren was so frightened that his legs went limp, he slumped on the ground and froze for a long time before he came back to his senses, and asked in a daze, "My lord, how did you know, could it be that he discovered the silver ingot?" I told you about my life experience..."

"Why does this king listen to other people's speculation?"

"That's because he doesn't look like Caomin anymore..."

"This is not much evidence. It would be reckless to assert that he is not your own without having met his mother. What really made me realize that the matter is not simple is the actions of you and Mrs. Ning."

Xiao Beicheng put away the cigarette, and thought about his words for a while, "The ones you and your wife talk about most often are Ning Yuanbao, who is old and has a son, and Ning Jiaozi, who was born in the concubine's room. I have never mentioned the eldest son in front of this king. , and deliberately concealed that Ning Yinding participated in the Ning family's twin sons' tour of the lake... It can be seen that she was afraid of being exposed. But Mrs. Ning just tried her best to prevent Master Wen from opening the coffin for an autopsy. The most likely reason is that she was afraid of being It turns out that Ning Yinding is the murderer."

"No! No!! The silver ingot can't be the murderer's, he's a good boy!"

Looking around, Xiao Beicheng caressed his knees, leaned forward, and said in a low voice, "Tell me about his background."

"Actually, Yinding is my brother's son. In the early years, my brother and I started a business together. At that time, our life was poor. My brother fell in love with a girl from a brothel. He promised to redeem her for her. I lived with her forever. Later, the woman became pregnant, but her elder brother died of illness, and her dying entrustment was to take care of their mother and child. Unfortunately, the woman died shortly after giving birth. At that time, my wife and I only had a few Yinding, after burying the woman, I thought that this child would suffer a lot, so it might be easier to raise him with a vulgar name, so I called him Yinding."

"So Ning Yinding is actually Brother Ling's son."

Ning Daren nodded, remembering the sad things, couldn't help wiping away tears, "I have no children with my wife, and I treat the silver ingots as my own, and treat him wholeheartedly, and his arrival has brought good luck to our family , since adopting him, the business of the family is getting better and better, earning more money, and life is getting better. My wife and I regard Yinding as a lucky star, which is "zwnj;heart"—zwnj; Being nice to him is indeed too pampering and makes him a bit arrogant, but I think it's harmless, it's just a bit of spoiling..."

As he spoke, he cried even harder, sobbing and out of breath, Steward Liu handed him a bowl of water, and waited for him to straighten out before continuing to speak: "Silver ingots still cling to us when we were young, —zwnj;口—zwnj; The name of the father and mother is so sweet, it seems that the heart can be melted. Later, Jiaozi was born and lost his mother at a young age. The wife felt sorry for him, so she treated him as her own son Afterwards, Yuan Bao was also born... the child inevitably needs more care—zwnj; a little, and if Yin Yin was left out in the slightest, he would become estranged from us."

"The couple seldom talked with him, and no longer understood his thoughts. After the tragedy happened, they heard that he was involved in the incident, and thought it was him who did it. In order to help him get rid of the crime, they concealed the part that he was also involved in. Is it right?"

"...Yes. That day when he came back covered in water, he said in a panic that something had happened to Yuanbao. My wife and I were frightened, so we hurried to see him. We saw that Jiaozi was guarding Yuanbao, and the child was already dying. , I thought it was..."

Hearing this narration made Xiao Beicheng feel uncomfortable, he patted Ning Daren on the shoulder, and made a wink for Wen Chu to help him up.

"Don't worry, Ning Yinding is not the murderer. And this king insists on opening the coffin just to prove his innocence."