Chapter 206: Past Events (IV)
When Wen's mother woke up again, several days had passed.
She was lying in the clinic, beside her was her son with bloodshot eyes and a tired face.
When Wen Tingkuan saw his mother finally wake up, he cried with joy, but there was uncontrollable sadness in his eyes.
The doctor told him that his mother didn't have much time to live.
Wen's mother was very surprised to learn that she had been lying in the clinic for several days.
Wen Tingkuan explained to her that a few days ago, a young girl wearing a veil brought her to the clinic.
The girl gave the doctor a large sum of money and asked him to help take care of Wen's mother for a few days. She also left a portrait of Wen Tingkuan and asked the doctor to go to the gate of the Imperial Examination Hall on the day when the Autumn Examination ended and find the person in the portrait to come to the clinic to pick up his mother.
The girl didn't know Wen Tingkuan's name either, she only knew his surname was Wen.
After explaining this, the girl left in a hurry.
The doctor took the money and took care of Wen's mother for several days. On the day when the Autumn Examination ended, he waited at the gate of the Imperial Examination Hall early in the morning and successfully ambushed Wen Tingkuan.
When Wen Tingkuan saw his mother's appearance and learned that the Nangong family was wiped out overnight, he was so shocked that he fell to the ground.
His mind was in a mess, filled with shock, anger, doubt and other emotions, and he urgently wanted to know the truth.
As soon as Wen's mother woke up, she asked her son to take her back to the small house where they lived.
After repeatedly confirming that the courtyard door was locked, she coughed and told Wen Tingkuan in a halting manner everything that happened in Nangong Mansion that night.
The person who sent Wen's mother to the clinic should be Nangong Mu.
At that time, the two adults and one child all fainted on the road. After Nangong Mu woke up, he sent Wen's mother to the clinic and left with the children.
She had to leave. If the villains who killed her entire family knew that there was an aunt and niece who survived the Nangong family, they would chase them to the ends of the earth and kill them.
When Wen's mother learned that Nangong Mu and her nephew had left Mizhou City, she was happy for them but also a little anxious.
Before Nangong Lingxiao passed away, he explained a lot of things.
Nangong Mu was in a coma at the time, so she probably didn't hear it.
Liu is dead, and now she is the only one who knows those wills.
Mother Wen rubbed her aching temples, thinking back over and over again, and repeatedly told Wen Tingkuan that she was afraid that after her death, no one would know Nangong Lingxiao's will.
Wen Tingkuan burst into tears after hearing this.
Before he had the chance to repay Nangong Lingxiao's kindness, the other party had already died in such a tragic way.
My mother's heart and lungs were damaged by the fire, and the ten years of her life that she had just extended were gone overnight. Even the best doctors in Mizhou City were unable to save her.
Too weak to shed tears, he asked his mother if there was anything else she wanted to do. Or, he could take her back to Luohe Town immediately to see her hometown again.
Mother Wen clearly felt that her life was gradually fading away, but she was very open-minded.
This life was saved. I was lucky enough to live a few more months, leave Luohe Town, come to a new place, and meet new people.
For her, it is a blessing.
Wen's mother insisted on staying in Mizhou City to wait for the results of her son's provincial examination.
If she could only wait until she heard that her son had passed the imperial examination, she would die without regrets.
Wen Tingkuan nodded with tears in his eyes.
After his mother took the medicine and fell asleep, he sat there in a daze for a long time before he walked out the door lightly and ran towards Nangong Mansion.
The Nangong Mansion had been sealed off by the government, and even the walls had been burned black.
And because it was heavily guarded, he couldn't get in.
Using the onlookers as cover, Wen Tingkuan walked around Nangong Mansion several times and noted down several places where the officers and soldiers were negligent in guarding.
At night, he secretly climbed over the broken courtyard wall and entered the Nangong Mansion.
Wherever the moonlight reaches, there is devastation.
The scorched earth made a crackling sound under my feet, and all I could see was dried blood, mixed in with the soil, dark red and black.
The center of the once beautifully laid out courtyard was now filled with collapsed beams and charred bricks and tiles.
The pungent smell of smoke and strong smell of blood in the air made people feel nauseous.
Although the flames have gone out, the ashes are still floating in the wind, like a soul's mourning.
Wen Tingkuan walked slowly past every ruin, his fingertips touching the burnt and twisted door frames, as if he could feel the despair of everyone that night.
He came to the courtyard of Nangong Lingxiao and Liu.
This place was burned more thoroughly than other places, and the original layout is almost unrecognizable.
He lit the oil lamp he brought with him, squatted down, and brushed his fingertips across the ground, touching a piece of charred broken bones, and his heart trembled violently.
This is what my mother said, the trace left by Nangong Lingxiao when he was crawling.
The scratches left by the ten fingers digging into the soil are still clearly visible, extending all the way to the outside of the courtyard gate and finally stopping abruptly.
Wen Tingkuan closed his eyes, as if he could see the man who was burned beyond recognition, crawling towards his wife and daughter with his last bit of strength, and only closed his eyes after he had explained everything.
Wen Tingkuan clenched his palms tightly, his throat ached and his fingertips trembled slightly.
He stood in the middle of the ruins, muttering softly, his voice hoarse as if he was swallowing sand.
"Ling Xiao, one day, I, Wen, will find the murderer... and avenge your Nangong family."
He stood there for a long time, slowly moving the rubble and finding the location of Nangong Lingxiao's study.
Wen Tingkuan opened the ground under the place where the bookshelf was originally placed according to the method of opening the mechanism mentioned in Nangong Lingxiao's last words.
Below is a dark secret room.
The secret room was very large, with the ceiling and walls made of granite, and the middle filled with sand, vermiculite and mortar, which was able to prevent the fire.
The secret room contains countless gold, silver, jewelry, house deeds, land deeds, medical books, ancient books, etc. It can be regarded as a treasure house.
It is normal for Shenglin, a family of medicine, to have strong financial resources.
Wen Tingkuan knocked on the stone wall and opened another mechanism.
Hidden inside is the "Medical Questions" that Nangong Lingxiao specifically emphasized. This is the medical heritage passed down from generation to generation in the Nangong family.
Just in case, Wen Tingkuan took the "Medical Questions" away.
Before leaving, he also took away 10,000 taels of silver notes.
To handle the subsequent matters, he needed money, but he and his mother had nothing.
After leaving the secret room, he restored the moved ruins.
Of all the bodies taken away by the government, except for the apprentice taken in by Nangong Lingxiao's father who was claimed by someone, and the bodies of several slaves who were taken away by their families, the bodies of others were left in the morgue.
Many people couldn't bear it, but were worried about being implicated and retaliated by the criminals, so no one dared to collect the bodies of the Nangong family.
If no one comes to claim the bodies by the time the case is over, they will have to be buried collectively in a government-established "public cemetery."
Wen Tingkuan asked around in Mizhou City and found a fifty-year-old man who had no children and had received favors from the Nangong family. His surname was Chen.
He gave Old Man Chen a large sum of money for his retirement and asked him to hire a group of people to go to the government office to collect the bodies of the Nangong family because he had received favors from the Nangong family.
Wen Tingkuan had already bought a piece of auspicious land on Yongqing Mountain outside Mizhou and asked Old Man Chen to bury all the members of the Nangong family there.
Once Nangong Mu is found, she will move the people of Nangong Mansion into the ancestral tomb.
Wen Tingkuan acted as one of the hired men and tried hard to identify the bodies.
Those who could be recognized carved monuments for them.
If it cannot be recognized, it can only be an unknown monument.
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