Rebirth of the 1980s: The Rich Farm Girl

Chapter 46 46. Smile
It happened in the middle of the night and it was cold.Ning Qiu was young, and her grandma wouldn't let her go out.

It wasn't until dawn the next day that she and her grandma went out to the west of the village to see what happened yesterday.

The village is full of dirt roads. The further west you go, the more muddy the roads become. There is not even a place to step down, and there are puddles of water stains everywhere.

Before I got to the place, I could smell a burning smell, and I could see black smoke rising in the distance.

I saw more and more villagers, all of whom were talking about what happened last night.

There were two police cars and a white ambulance parked in the open space in front. Ning Qiu really wanted to see what happened there, but unfortunately, a small group of villagers surrounded her and she couldn't see anything.

"Hey, Second Aunt Ning, are you here too?" Someone greeted Zhu Ximei and made room for the two of them to pass by.

Zhu Ximei held Ning Qiu tightly, squeezed through the crowd and came to the front.

Squeezing through the crowd, Ning Qiu saw that in front of him was a small courtyard that had been burnt to charcoal. It was black as far as the eye could see, with blue smoke rising from several places.

The only house in the yard can only vaguely make out its outline.The roof had already collapsed, and several broken beams were lying alone in the air.Most of the walls that had been scorched black by the flames collapsed, turning into a pile of black ruins.

This yard is on the edge of the village, with its back against the mountains in the northwest.A forest at the foot of the mountain was also burned by the fire, and it was completely dark.

"It's so miserable, how did it burn like this?" Some villagers whispered.

"Didn't we all go to fight the fire last night? Why did it burn like this?" Zhu Ximei asked the people nearby.

"Second Aunt Ning, you don't know, the northwest wind blew yesterday, the fire was so strong, how could it be extinguished!?"

"What about Ma Chengen's family?"

The aunt pouted towards the ambulance, "It's all burned to charcoal, and several of them have been moved out!"

"What a sin!"

Mu Bowen carefully observed the scorched scene. He originally came to Fuyuan County to do finishing work on the case of child abduction and trafficking, but he did not expect to meet a report from a villager.

The fire is the most difficult scene to investigate, and all traces have been destroyed by the fire.It is more difficult to survey such small farm yards, and farmers often pile up a lot of flammable materials such as wood straws for fire at home.In addition, in the construction of rural houses, large-scale wood will be used, which is difficult to distinguish once burned.

Mu Bowen took a camera along the circle of foundations around the house and took several photos.

At this moment, the villagers exclaimed in surprise, Mu Bowen raised his head, and followed everyone's gaze.

A girl leading a sheep stood alone at the foot of the mountain. The child was all dirty and embarrassed.

"Tu Niu! Tu Niu is still alive!!?" The villagers exclaimed.

The director of the police station immediately called the village chief to inquire about the situation, and Mu Bowen walked over to listen to their conversation.

"Who is that boy leading the sheep?"

"She belongs to this family, Ma Chengen's daughter."

"Is she not there when the fire broke out yesterday?"

"This... I don't know, I didn't see this child yesterday?"

Mu Bowen, who was standing on the side, stared at the girl not far away, "Is this child...is it one of the abducted ones a while ago?"

Zhang Changwang nodded again and again, "Ah yes! That's right! It's this child, and there is a child named Ning Qiu from the Ning family."

Mu Bowen narrowed his eyes when he heard the name Ning Qiu, he was too impressed with this child.

etc!A few human traffickers were burned to death outside YL city that time, this time it was a fire again, it couldn’t be such a coincidence...

His eyes couldn't help but searched among the villagers, and it didn't take him much effort to see that extraordinarily beautiful child...he was indeed here.

Ning Qiu felt the gaze and looked over. Isn't this the narrow-minded policeman who asked her silly questions in the car?

Noticing the thoughtful gaze of this man staring at him, Ning Qiu frowned. This guy doesn't think that this fire has something to do with him again... I have to tell the truth about Ning Qiu.

"This child..." the director asked for Mu Bowen's opinion.

Looking away, Mu Bowen looked at the child holding the sheep again.

"Take it back to the office and ask about the specific situation."

The director nodded and told his staff to go down and take the child into the car.

Tu Niu looked at the dark yard without any expression on her face.It wasn't until a policeman walked up to her and said a few words that she lowered her head and got into the car with the policeman in silence amidst the villagers' discussions.

The car door closed, and she turned her head slightly to look out the car window.She saw Shen Qiu in the crowd, and Ning Qiu also looked at her.The native girl raised the corners of her mouth slightly, showing a smile.

Such a big incident happened in the village, Zhang Changwang went to the county police station for three consecutive days.

The gossip in the village was even more frequent. Some said that Huang Cuifeng was used to burying her, and she must have caused the fire by accident.Others said that the whole family was burned to death and only Tu Niu survived, and Tu Niu had been abused by this family all the time, so maybe she set fire to her in a fit of anger.

Both sides seemed to make sense, but the vast majority still felt the incident was an accident.Although Huang Cuifeng is her stepmother, Ma Chengen is her real father. It is impossible for a teenager to do such a thing.

Knowing that the villagers were concerned about this matter, the village chief also announced the results of the police investigation on the loudspeaker.

It was said that on the day of the fire, one of Ma Chengen's sheep ran away and Huang Cuifeng asked the local girl to look for it, saying that she didn't have to go home if she couldn't find it.The child really spent a night looking for it, only to find that the house had been burned the next day when he came back the next day.

After the village head said this, the suspicion of arson by the local girl was completely ruled out.

Ning Qiu sat on the edge of the kang, frowning and meditating while listening to the words from the loudspeaker outside.

Is it really what the village chief said?At that time, Tu Niu did appear at the foot of the mountain with a sheep, but why did she laugh at herself at that time?

Ning Qiu was so impressed by that smile, she had never seen a Tu girl smile before, and that weird smile made her very uneasy.

Voices came from the main room, which interrupted Ning Qiu's thoughts. At this time, the eldest aunt should have brought back a few children.

In the main room, the three brothers of the Ning family hung their heads, and the youngest, Ning Wei, still had tears on his face.

Zhang Heping sat at the table, looking at the three of them with a straight face.

"What are you doing again!? Making your mother angry." Zhu Ximei asked from the side.

Seeing that none of the three boys spoke, Zhang Heping took out the grade book from his pocket and slapped it on the table.

"The three of them! What kind of grade is this test!!"

The old lady walked to the table, opened the grade book and saw that the good guy was red.

"Tell me, is it easy for your family to support your studies!? You just come back with such a score!? Your teacher said that this is only a midterm exam. If you still take the exam at the end of the semester, you will repeat the grade!!"

Seeing that the boys were still silent, Zhang Heping slapped the table.

"Everyone is so honest now! What are you doing in class!? I have heard from the teacher that you are the best in class! Now you are only two or three years old and you are taking the exam like this! Others think that my third son is What a fool!"

At this moment, Ning Hongfu and Ning Cheng also came back from the field, and just after unloading the four big boxes of corn from the cart, they heard Zhang Heping's voice training the children in the main room.

Ning Cheng brushed the mud off his trouser legs, changed his shoes and entered the main room.

"What's the matter?"

(End of this chapter)