Shen Lingzhu subconsciously chased after them. The two children were very fast. Apart from a young and strong coachman who was chasing them closely, only her senior sister Shen Miaozhu from the rest of the Shen family could keep up with them.
People on the street watched the chase as if it were a curiosity. Someone who recognized the Shen family asked, "Another beggar?"
"Let's chase them and see." There are always people who like to stand up for justice. These people run faster than Shen Huai and his son. They overtook them in just a few breaths.
Mrs. Hu, who was in the carriage, saw her husband and son falling behind and became very anxious. She asked the driver to turn around and chase them, but she saw her master running back panting.
He said to the other young driver who was standing by the car, "Brother Chen, please take care of these children."
"Master Shen, I'm Chen Xiaoge." The driver clasped his fists and turned to chase the three children of the Shen family.
Mrs. Hu felt relieved when she saw another driver chasing after him. "Little Bamboo..." She looked at the people coming and going and urged her husband to park the cart to the side quickly.
Shen Lingzhu, whom she was worried about, caught up with the little beggar, but was soon led by him to an alley. At the end of the alley, she saw a burned-down courtyard.
"Hush, someone is still sleeping inside." The little beggar asked her and the young and strong coachman who were chasing them to speak in a low voice, but several people suddenly rushed out from behind, alarming those who had not left the ground in the alley and asked them to come out to see.
In addition, there were residents and acquaintances talking loudly, and the noise naturally woke up the people in the collapsed house.
He walked out of the broken wall and looked around. Why were there so many people outside?
Then the annoying little beggar was heard shouting, "That's him, the beggar."
Then he shuddered, and without thinking, he jumped over the broken wall behind him and ran away. Shen Lingzhu shouted: "Where are you running to!"
She chased after him like an arrow, and in the blink of an eye she reached the broken wall. She jumped over with a push of her hand.
The little beggar was not to be outdone and climbed over.
Shen Miaozhu was so angry that she couldn't catch up, and she just hoped that the driver who followed could catch the person quickly.
"Hu...ha...hu...second sister, where are the people?" Shen Xianzhu also followed.
Shen Miaozhu raised her hand from her knee and pointed in the direction, asking the following rickshaw driver, Chen Xiaoge, to help chase after them, but the latter refused: "Brother Cao is here, I will take care of you two."
Even if the two siblings said they didn't need his protection, he would still defend them.
The two of them exchanged glances, then walked over the wall in tacit understanding, ignoring the group of people who followed them and stayed there to discuss.
"Goudan is only ten years old, how could he be a beggar?" Someone who was chasing them recognized the running child.
The resident said, "Don't you know that this kid has never had a peaceful life since the old Shao who raised him passed away.
He wanders around all day, teasing cats and dogs and beating kids younger than him."
Resident 2: "Yes, he burned down the house because he led a group of children to roast bird eggs."
Among the gradually growing crowd, someone spoke up again: "The little beggar who was just pointed at him has lost the old beggar's protection and has been bullied by him recently. The food he managed to get was snatched away by Goudan."
"But we can't ask outsiders to arrest him. Isn't that bullying?"
"Hey, little beggar is also from another place and came to seek refuge with old Shaotou, but unfortunately he arrived too late."
"Whoever runs away, chase him and keep an eye on him. There are no bad guys in our Daludian.
The villagers who lost their children hated the strangers passing by the village the most."
"Old Shao picked up the dog egg somewhere else, and the second son of the Cao family was among the people who chased him."
"If you ask me, the little beggar is the legitimate descendant of Old Shao, the grandson of his brother."
Everyone immediately fell silent, looking at each other, and finally decided to ask the head of the village to come and ask for help.
Shen Lingzhu, who caught up with Goudan, didn't care about much. She was hesitant when she saw it was a child, but she knew there was something wrong as soon as he ran.
Fortunately, the place they ran to was a path leading to the river, and the weeds and gravel slowed down everyone's running speed.
She took a breath and approached: "You can't run away. Tell the truth. If you haven't done anything wrong, we won't arrest you."
"Hu...ha...huha...hu..." Goudan moved with difficulty, leaning on his hunchback. When Shen Lingzhu stretched out his hand, a dagger instantly stabbed out.
Shen Lingzhu's pupils dilated slightly, and he twisted his body forcefully and rolled away.
clang
The coachman named Cao caught up in time and kicked Goudan over, and the dagger and its owner fell to the ground.
He stepped forward and grabbed Goudan: "Tell me, do you know Paihuazi?"
"Cao...Second brother..." Goudan curled up in pain.
Shen Lingzhu, rubbing his shoulders as he walked over, felt that he was afraid of the driver, so he said, "Second Brother Cao has a child..."
"Last year, after my eldest nephew and Goudan had a fight, my youngest nephew disappeared a few days later." Second Brother Cao grabbed Goudan's hair and made him look at him:
"I asked you twice about it back then, and you didn't dare go near my house anymore. It seems you're guilty."
"It hurts..." Goudan grabbed his big hands with both hands.
Shen Lingzhu squatted down and said, "Normally, if you didn't do anything evil, you should deny it first.
It seems that the little beggar was right when he said you were a beggar."
Goudan immediately refuted this time: "He's talking nonsense. He deliberately sent outsiders to harm me in order to steal the house and land left by my grandfather."
Shen Lingzhu smiled coldly: "You deny it too quickly, you are guilty."
"Bah!" Goudan spat at her.
The moment Shen Lingzhu nimbly dodged, Brother Cao immediately grabbed his chin and said, "Tell me, where is Xiaodouzi?
If you don’t say anything after the count of three, I’ll crush your mouth, one, two…”
Goudan opened his eyes wide in horror and nodded continuously.
Hearing him say that he would hand the person over to someone who called himself Fifth Brother, Shen Lingzhu thought, "Fifth Brother is in the same group as the two people he arrested yesterday, right? What does he look like?
How many people do you know, and how many children have you helped them steal? Do you know where to find them?
She asked too many questions and Goudan couldn't answer them for a while, but when he saw Cao Erge raised his hand again, he immediately spilled the beans and told her everything.
It turned out that in the summer of the previous year, he was almost drowned while swimming in the river, but was rescued by his fifth brother who was driving a small boat. Since then, he has been in contact with him without telling his grandfather.
Every time, the fifth brother would buy him meat, and later he introduced him to some lookout jobs to make money. When he found out that the other party was a beggar, his grandfather had already passed away.
He was frightened by the fifth brother again and kept helping him with small tasks such as keeping watch and watching the cars. Apart from Long San, Hu Si and the fifth brother from yesterday, he had not seen anyone else, but he knew there were two more.
Also, he sold Xiaodouzi. The two girls who were lost at the village temple fair this year were asked to get information before his fifth brother chose someone to take them away.
"Take us to find the fifth brother." Brother Cao hoped to get news about his nephew.
Goudan said timidly, "I don't know where he lives, but Fifth Brother said if there's an emergency, we should go to the old shed in the old melon field in Dawan Village.
And draw three circles on the stone there, and he said you will see it in two days at the latest."
"Take me there." Brother Cao helped him stand up and said, "Miss Shen San, I'll take you back and find a coachman to drive for me."
"Together, the fifth brother he mentioned should be the five dogs that Long Sanhu Si mentioned, the one who pushed the peach yesterday.
Unfortunately, the official left this morning." Shen Lingzhu carefully recalled the other person's appearance.
Second Brother Cao disagreed with her going to Dayuan Village, and he thought Goudan walked too slowly, so he carried him on his shoulders like a sack.
On the way back, I saw the little beggar chasing me from a distance, followed by the village head and several young men.
Village Chief Cao rode on his donkey and shouted, "Second boy, put Goudan down. He's from Dashuangdian."
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