Chapter 290: One surnamed Zhu, one surnamed Wei
In Hong Town, on an unknown street.
Wang Baoguo looked at Ning Changge who seemed to be walking aimlessly, and suddenly asked curiously: "Ning Shangxian, can I ask where you want to go in the end?"
It had been almost half an hour since they parted with the fortune-teller, but Ning Changge was still taking him and Bai Xian'er for a stroll in the town. He didn't seem to care at all about the mission he had mentioned when they first set out.
"Let's go to Cao Miao Village, but I can't find the way to this village. Oh, right!" Ning Changge suddenly turned his head to look at Wang Baoguo, with an intriguing smile on his face:
"I forgot that you are the mayor here. You must know the way to Caomiao Village. Mayor Wang, please lead the way."
When Wang Baoguo heard that they were going to Caomiao Village, he paused, his pupils shrank suddenly, and his face was full of astonishment. However, in the blink of an eye, he lowered his head and sighed deeply:
"Alas! Wu'er Weiguo is right. Mortals like us are nothing in your eyes."
After saying that, Wang Baoguo clasped his fists, bent over, and bowed deeply to Ning Changge, and continued: "Ning Shangxian, although my apology may seem fake now, I still want to say sorry to you."
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hide the matter of Cao Miao Village from you, but I swear on the lives of more than a hundred people in the Wang family that they are really not the murderers! Malanhua only hates them because her grandson died, but all this is entirely her grandson's own fault!"
Ning Changge waved his hand and smiled: "Why are you so serious? I'm not going to punish you. I really just want you to lead the way."
Wang Baoguo was stunned: "Ah?"
Ning Changge smiled and asked back, "Why, do you think I will punish you severely and make you tell me everything you know?"
Wang Baoguo nodded subconsciously, as if to say, shouldn’t it be like this?
Ning Changge said with a smile: "It's not that exaggerated. After all, everyone has their own secrets. If you don't want to tell it, forget it. Besides, I already know most of the rumors about Cao Miao Village. Maybe I'm not so clear about some minor details."
Wang Baoguo was stunned again when he heard this, and then he stared at Ning Changge with his eyes wide open. An indescribable emotion rose in his eyes, like disbelief, like unbelievable, but more like a kind of touching, a kind of touching feeling of being treated equally. He stared at Ning Changge for a long time.
Ning Changge was a little confused by Wang Baoguo's strange behavior. He joked, "Why are you looking at me stupidly? Is there something on my face? Or, Mayor Wang, do you really want me to use my magical powers on you before you are willing to lead the way?"
Wang Baoguo opened his mouth, but something seemed to be stuck in his throat and he couldn't speak. But he finally spoke, but his voice was a little choked, as if he had just cried.
"No, nothing. I just suddenly felt that you, Ning Shangxian, are a little different from others."
Ning Changge asked in confusion, "Huh? They all have one mouth, one nose, two eyes, and two ears. What's the difference? Could it be that I'm prettier than others? I think so, haha!"
At the end of the conversation, Ning Changge laughed out of embarrassment. Dabaoshu had repeatedly reminded him to be cautious when adding the appearance item, which made him feel a little conceited now.
Wang Baoguo choked up and said, "I am 75 years old this year. Over the years, I have met some cultivators, but none of them treated me as a human being like Ning Shangxian, and were willing to talk to me as an equal, let alone joke with me. Even the disciples of the Medicine King Valley next door who often come to the town just follow their master's orders and don't conflict with us, but Ning Shangxian, you are different!"
Looking at the old man crying like a child, Ning Changge suddenly remembered the scene when Yun Xi hugged him and cried bitterly when he left Liuyun City with Yun Nishang a few days ago. He sighed in his heart: "Perhaps, it is just as I guessed at the beginning, Yun Xi also thought so at that time."
Although he felt sad in his heart, Ning Changge winked and joked, "Mayor Wang is a little too sentimental. Do you think there is a possibility that I just did it on purpose? I look down on everyone behind their backs."
Wang Baoguo shook his head and smiled: "It doesn't matter. Even if it's just temporary hypocrisy, it's still kindness."
Hearing such meaningful words, Ning Changge couldn't help but pat Wang Baoguo on the shoulder, "Hey! Mayor Wang, I didn't expect you to have such philosophical thoughts. It's a pity that you are just an ordinary mayor."
"What is this, philosophical thought?"
"I've told you, old man, but you don't understand. Well, stop being curious and lead the way. It's almost noon now. If we don't hurry up, we'll miss our meal."
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With Wang Baoguo leading the way, Ning Changge passed through the town streets, field ridges, and forest paths, and finally arrived at the destination before lunch time:
Caomiao Village.
The village is not big, a small village at the foot of the mountain. A few wisps of smoke are rising in the village, and only one house has no smoke rising. A few children are running and playing in the village, and there are old people plowing the fields on the roadside ridges.
Occasionally, from a house with smoke rising from the chimney, a voice saying "go home for dinner" would be heard, and a child would then say "I'll come to play with you guys after dinner" and hurriedly run home.
However, when they saw Wang Baoguo, they would still stop and respectfully call out, "Mayor Wang, good afternoon."
At this time, Wang Baoguo would point to Ning Changge beside him and introduce him, "This is Ning Shangxian from Qingyun Immortal Sect."
After hearing this, they all shouted respectfully to Ning Changge, "Immortal Ning!"
In this way, amid the respectful voices of the villagers of Cao Miao Village, Ning Changge arrived at the gate of a small courtyard made of straw and bamboo fences.
The courtyard gate was closed, and there was only a big yellow dog lying lazily outside the yard. It seemed to know Wang Baoguo, but it didn't bark. It was also very smart, as if it knew that Ning Changge and Bai Xianer were brought by Wang Baoguo, and it just looked at them curiously.
Ning Changge first glanced at the tightly closed gate, then turned to look at Wang Baoguo and said, "It seems that no one is here, Mayor Wang."
Wang Baoguo frowned when he heard this: "That shouldn't be the case. I've been here a few times before at this time. Qiuxiang was either in the kitchen cooking lunch or lying in the yard resting."
Qiuxiang is the Grandma Li who had an affair with Wang Baoguo as mentioned by the crazy Malanhua. Her full name is Li Qiuxiang. Her two granddaughters are named Zhu and Wei respectively. As for their actual names, Wang Baoguo doesn't know, or rather, he doesn't dare to know.
Although Wang Baoguo firmly did not believe that they were not the murderers, he believed in ghosts and gods. As for the two disaster stars, he chose to stay away from them. The only person he cared about was his Qiuxiang.
These old stories were the information Ning Changge learned from chatting with Wang Baoguo along the way. They were basically the same as what Han Feiyu told him last night, but Wang Baoguo explained the details in more detail.
Just as Wang Baoguo was hesitating whether to take Ning Changge directly into the yard to wait for Qiuxiang to come back, a middle-aged woman with good looks and wearing a coarse cloth skirt came up to them.
She first bowed respectfully to Ning Changge, "Ning Shangxian." Then she looked at Wang Baoguo and said:
"Uncle, they went to the back mountain."