Chapter 200 The truth about A Niang’s murder
Jiang Anning had almost arranged everything and planned to take a rest early and return to the county early tomorrow.
I just happened to go and transfer the original deed of the Zhao family's house to my own name to avoid any trouble in the future.
They had already taken off their shoes, washed their feet, and were lying on the kang, ready to blow out the lights. Just then, they thought of Zhou Ran, who was still soaking in the tomb cage.
She let out a light 'tsk': "I've actually forgotten about him."
Looking at the sky now, it's still early.
Many people probably haven't gone to bed yet.
Jiang Anning sighed helplessly, stood up quite resignedly, and sat down in front of the embroidery frame again.
She lit two more candles and made the candles brighter.
After finishing the third cat play, Jiang Anning stretched her muscles, opened the window, looked at the position of the moon hanging outside, and estimated that the time was almost up.
At this moment, it is the time when people are sleeping most soundly.
She closed the window gently, relit the two candles, and put on the lampshades.
Putting on the raincoat, bamboo hat and water boots she wore that day, Jiang Anning climbed over the wall from the yard behind the house and walked deeper into the forest.
Zhou Ran felt as if he was about to die.
He felt that he had spent an extremely long time in this dirty, smelly, cold water, with no hope of living, and his energy and spirit suddenly withered.
Just when he was filled with despair and felt like he was about to die, a rustling sound suddenly came from above his head.
who?
Who is it?
Did someone come to save him?
Zhou Ran seemed to have come back to his senses, and his originally weak body suddenly regained its vitality as if it had been injected with chicken blood.
His cloudy eyes shone with hope.
who?
Who is it?
He screamed loudly, trying to attract the attention of people outside.
But he waited for a long time and didn't get any response.
Could it be that the people outside are not people?
The hope in Zhou Ran's eyes gradually faded into despair.
His whole body soon became depressed again.
It was as if someone had taken away all the vitality and energy, and he suddenly appeared old.
Just when he thought that the commotion outside might be some kind of animal passing by and not a human being, the oilcloth tree cage covering his head was lifted up in an instant.
Even outside, it was still dark with no light.
But occasionally when the wind blows, the lush leaves are blown open a little, and the moonlight will take the opportunity to shine through.
Someone is coming!
Zhou Ran raised his head with excitement and looked at Jiang Anning, who had rescued him from the endless darkness. The hope that suddenly arose in his heart was like being grabbed by the throat, and he choked with sobs. It’s very uncomfortable to be unable to go up or down.
Yes, it's that scary man!
He looked at the familiar costumes, and his memory was brought back again, that horrible night.
Zhou Ran didn't even dare to utter a word now. He looked at the person with fear in his eyes, wary that the other person would suddenly rush forward, grab his hair, and throw him into the dirty water.
He really didn't want to feel that feeling of dying again.
"Why did you stop barking all of a sudden?"
Jiang Anning looked at Zhou Ran for a while, curious and sarcastic: "Didn't you shout very loud just now?"
Zhou Ran immediately shook his head like a rattle.
No, no!
His mouth was glued, so there was no way he could scream so loudly.
Uh-huh! !
He looked at the person with pleading eyes.
I have been honest, please let me go.
"Are you trying to say that you are innocent?"
"Do you still feel that you have suffered an unreasonable disaster?"
Jiang Anning looked at him with a half-smile, and followed the lead.
Zhou Ran hummed twice.
Yeah yeah!
But he soon realized something was wrong.
Perhaps it was because he had been locked up in a dark tree cage for too long.
So much so that he is now very sensitive to sounds,
Any disturbance in the surrounding area can arouse his vigilance.
Just now, although Jiang Anning's voice was very soft, he still captured it delicately.
She is sneering!
Why?
Zhou Ran started thinking in a panic, and soon thought of something, and changed his answer huh huh huh huh huh huh huh.
No no!
I have no grievance!
I deserve it!
Ahhhhh... Zhou Ran kept moving his throat anxiously, making a hoarse sound.
Jiang Anning smiled.
She was kind enough to tear off the glue from the person's mouth.
It's just that the force is so strong that it rips off people's lips without mercy.
Blood poured out instantly, covering Zhou Ran's lips.
Zhou Ran ignored the pain, and hurriedly defended, admitted his mistake, and begged for mercy: "I'm not innocent, I deserve it, I deserve it, please spare me, please spare me..."
Jiang Anning chuckled: "I'll spare you?"
Uh-huh! !
Zhou Ran nodded repeatedly, pleading.
"It's not impossible." Jiang Anning smiled a little deeper: "But I don't seem to see your sincerity in begging for mercy."
"I..." Zhou Ran didn't know how to be sincere, and his whole body was restrained and he couldn't move at all.
He was so anxious that he almost cried, and kept banging his head on the mound of soil next to him: "Please, please, please spare me."
He doesn't want to die!
Zhou Ran couldn't help but incontinence whenever he thought of the tongue dancing in front of him that day.
"It's okay if you want me to spare you."
Jiang Anning chuckled: "But you only have one chance, it depends on whether you can grasp it."
Zhou Ran nodded quickly.
able!
He must be able!
Jiang Anning just looked at him with a half-smile and didn't say anything.
Zhou Ran was confused and helpless. After a while, he seemed to suddenly understand something.
"What do you want to know? I, I said, I..."
When Zhou Ran saw that the person still had no intention of speaking or asking questions, he had to rack his brains and clear out the memories of more than ten years.
Suddenly, he remembered something and said hurriedly, ignoring the blood in his mouth: "The patriarch of Jiangjia Village is actually a bandit!"
"When the government imposed corvee service, it was he and his two brothers who were taken away from their family."
"I heard that his two brothers died on the dam. They were swept away by the flood during the construction of the dam, and their bodies were not even recovered."
"Later, other people who were also taken away for corvee service came back one after another while still alive." "Only Patriarch Jiang disappeared."
"Everyone guessed that he also died in corvee labor."
Zhou Ran secretly watched Jiang Anning's face and every move in panic, fearing that if what he said was unsatisfactory, he would lose his life immediately.
Fortunately, although he couldn't see the person's expression, he could roughly feel that the man was not angry.
It can be seen that I am quite interested in what he said.
This immediately gave him great confidence.
As if he had taken a reassurance, Zhou Ran breathed a sigh of relief and continued: "Then suddenly one day, Chief Jiang came back and became the chief of Jiangjia Village."
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"Everyone in the village thought he was just lucky."
"But I'm the only one who knows that it's not just any bad luck that happened to him."
"He became a traitor and a bitch. He got the position of leader of Jiangjia Village by kneeling and licking people like a lapdog."
Jiang Anning's expression suddenly became a little subtle.
Seeing that she still had no expression, Zhou Ran felt worried and gradually began to drum up. He didn't know what he meant, but he didn't dare to stop rashly, so he had to bite the bullet and continue.
"If that's all, there's nothing worth saying."
"It's just the idle business of some country folk. I don't dare to say it out loud and waste your precious time and ears."
"Indeed, the timing of Patriarch Jiang's return is too much of a coincidence."
Zhou Ran glanced at Jiang Anning with a sly look, hoping that the other party would ask a question so that he could continue talking with energy.
Talking here by yourself in such a dry manner is really heart-breaking.
I was afraid that if I said anything wrong, I would be pushed into the water again and face to face with the Lord of Hell.
However, Jiang Anning is very patient.
Mingming was particularly interested in the fact that Patriarch Jiang disappeared and came back inexplicably and became the Patriarch of Jiangjia Village.
But she remained silent.
Zhou Ran was murmuring in his heart, and he didn't dare to let go.
I'm afraid that some details are not explained clearly enough.
"This Chief Jiang came back eight years ago."
Zhou Ran deliberately emphasized the emphasis on the words "eight years ago".
I wanted to use this to test Jiang Anning's reaction.
Jiang Anning noticed the person's intention and sneered: "It seems you are very dishonest."
Zhou Ran was visibly panicked when he heard this.
Just when he was about to cry out for mercy, Jiang Anning stepped forward unexpectedly, plucked his hair, and pushed his head towards his ankles.
He was suddenly pushed into the water and immediately choked on a large gulp of water.
The muscles and bones all over the body were pulled apart with great force, and the pain was so painful that people couldn't bear to die.
Uh-huh! !
Gulu~Gulu~
Zhou Ran once again felt the feeling of death coming.
He was pulled out of the water repeatedly and pushed back again. The unprepared pulling made him choke on a lot of water in an instant, which made him feel uncomfortable.
"This is the last chance I give you."
"If you still can't learn how to speak well, then..."
Jiang Anning sneered: "Do you think this barren mountain will freeze you to death here first, or will some unknown beast eat you alive first?"
"I heard that those ferocious beasts don't like to kill their prey completely when they catch it."
"They will give the prey a little breath, so that they have no strength to resist and will not die, affecting the fresh taste."
"So when the prey is eaten, you can feel that your limbs, head, chest, etc. are being bitten off alive, and then die slowly in pain."
After a few words, Zhou Ran was so scared that he wet his pants again.
Uh huh...
He shook his head desperately, saying no.
I said, I'll tell you honestly, I'll be honest and I won't use my twisted thoughts anymore.
He hummed, eager to express, "I'm honest, please let me go."
Jiang Anning snorted coldly, feeling that he had gone through enough trouble, so he let go of his hand and allowed the person to be free for the time being.
Zhou Ran was panting heavily as if she had been granted amnesty. Looking at Jiang Anning, she became even more frightened, fearing that she might do something wrong again and accidentally offend this moody "man".
"Go on."
Jiang Anning was completely indifferent, just as if she was having fun.
Zhou Ran's heart pounded even more, not knowing what this "man" wanted to hear, so he could only bite the bullet and continue to say whatever he thought of.
"Eight or eight years ago, immigrants from Jiangjia Village were intercepted and killed by bandits on their way back from their trip."
"The corpse almost followed Patriarch Jiang back and forth."
"At that time, everyone was frightened by this bandit murder case. Everyone avoided it, for fear that if they were not careful, they would be found by the bandits and lose their lives, but not many people. Pay attention to the fact that Chief Jiang is back.”
"Although, everyone in Chief Jiang's family all agreed that he came back three days before that incident happened."
"But I remember it most clearly."
"Chief Jiang, he came back with the corpses of the immigrant couple."
"I didn't know why they told this lie at first."
"Thinking about it later, I just thought they were jealous of the taboo and were worried that someone would cause trouble for them, so they unified their approach to the outside world."
"It wasn't until that noble man in the capital came to me and asked me to tell Jiang Anning...oh, the orphan of the migrant couple that she could make money to Zhao Hai and his family that I got a glimpse of something about Chief Jiang. The secret.”
"Back then, Chief Jiang's two brothers died in corvee service, which scared him so much that he ran to the mountains and became a bandit."
"But even though he entered the bandits' den, he was not treated well by the bandits at all. He was only assigned to the kitchen to do things."
"Later, the capital sent people to suppress the bandits. This spineless Lao Deng immediately went over to lead the way for people to surrender, so that the bandits were caught off guard and they were all bloodbathed."
Zhou Ran thought of that scene and swallowed in fear: "After those people killed the bandits, they did not leave immediately. Instead, they stayed in the bandit's nest."
"Chief Jiang followed people like a lap dog until the migrant couple passed by the bandits' den and were intercepted and killed by those who came to suppress the bandits..."
"What did you say?!"
Jiang Anning's eyes were filled with anger for a moment, and she stepped forward and grabbed Zhou Ran's hair, forcing him to look up at her.
"You said A Niang...you said who killed the migrant couple?"
She almost gritted her teeth before she suppressed the raging hatred and spoke as calmly as possible.
"By, by those, those who suppressed, suppressed bandits!"
Zhou Ran was so frightened that he almost wet his pants again. He had no idea what he said wrongly and made people unhappy.
"How do you know that it was those who suppressed bandits who killed A Niang...the migrant couple!"
Jiang Anning held Zhou Ran's hair with her hands and exerted uncontrollable force, as if she was trying to tear off the person's scalp.
Zhou Ran's head was dizzy from the pain, but he didn't pay attention to the word "A Niang" that he just blurted out.
"One time, I was drinking with someone. He, he was drunk, and he accidentally said it. I, I originally wanted to use this as a handle to blackmail people for some money."
In fact, he wanted to take advantage of people, tricked them into the flower house, got them drunk, and tricked them into asking questions.
Later, I don't know if it was because after he sobered up, he still had the memory of that night, so he became very wary of him, and even ostracized and targeted him overtly and covertly.
He was worried that the person had been a bandit, maybe he had been stained with blood, and he could kill without blinking an eye.
So he didn't dare to act rashly and kept this matter in his stomach.