Chapter 612 (2/2)
The next morning, Chang Wen went to the little widow's restaurant for breakfast.
The little widow asked, ”last night, I heard that a gangster came up to our town and wanted to rob money, but she didn't succeed. Money yelled for help, and the gangster ran away. I guess that gangster should be you?”
Chang Wen said dejectedly: ”last night, I waited for more than an hour, and finally I got aunt Qian. However, before I asked her a few words, she yelled for help, which scared me to run away.”
The little widow laughed and said, ”handsome boy, you're a little younger. You know what lady Qian is. Don't look at her seventy years old and eighty years old. She has a good head.”
Chang Wen sighed and said, ”this lady Qian is wonderful enough. I just asked her a few words, and she yelled for help.”
”Handsome boy, what did you ask? I think: if you ask, you must upset aunt Qian. That's why people call for help. ”
Chang Wen thinks that it's better to tell the little widow the truth. Maybe she can help her figure it out.
Seeing that there were no diners in the restaurant, Chang Wen said, ”Madame, the boatman of Xiao Li Zhuang has twin girls, right?”
”Yes.”
”In fact, at that time, the shipowner's daughter-in-law gave birth to triplets and three daughters.”
The little widow was surprised and asked: ”handsome man, are you running a fever and talking nonsense? The shipowner's daughter-in-law gave birth to twin daughters. How did she become triplets? Ha ha... Are you making up a story?”
”Madame, on the morning after the shipowner's daughter-in-law gave birth to a baby, someone picked up a baby girl near xiaolizhuang. Do you think the baby girl was thrown to xiaolizhuang by people from other villages?”
”Handsome boy, how do you know someone picked up a baby girl near xiaolizhuang?”
”Don't ask. As far as I know, there is no other village near xiaolizhuang. The nearest village is three miles away. Who would throw the baby girl near xiaolizhuang? There is only one possibility, that is the child of Xiao Li Zhuang's life. That night, Xiao Lizhuang had only the boatman's daughter-in-law to give birth, so the abandoned baby girl was born by the boatman's daughter-in-law. ”
The little widow frowned and thought for a moment, then asked, ”do you mean it was lady Qian who threw one of the boatman's daughters into the wild?”
”Yes.”
”How can this be possible? Why does aunt Qian want to throw the boatman's daughter into the wild?”
”I don't know about this, but there must be a reason. Only aunt Qian knows this reason. So, I'm here to find out why aunt Qian wants to throw away one of the boatman's daughters.”
The little widow tightened her brows, thought for a long time, and suddenly said: ”handsome boy, your conjecture is reasonable. Maybe aunt Qian threw away one of the boatman's daughters, which was later known by the boatman. That's why the boatman hated aunt Qian so much that she almost killed her once.”
”By the way, if we sum up all kinds of clues and analyze them, it must be so.”
The little widow puzzled and said, ”aunt Qian and the boatman have no grievances or grudges. Why does she want to throw away the boatman's daughter?”
”This also makes me puzzled, so last night I asked aunt Qian, want to know the truth of the matter, but, aunt Qian is very tight lipped, not willing to tell the truth, and, also shouting for help, want to drive me away.”
The little widow said: ”strange, in recent decades, the boatman has never mentioned this to me. Normally, there is no need for the boatman to hide this.”
”Maybe, this is the pain in the boatman's heart. He doesn't want to touch this problem. You think, how painful it is for his daughter to be thrown away and can't be found.”