Chapter 187

"Sister-in-law's personality is much more cheerful. It's the first time I see you smiling. My sister-in-law is so pretty." Li Qingzhou tilted her head, with an unknown smile on her lips.

"Young man, I'm very discerning. I'm the prettiest in the family. I look different from you."

As soon as these words came out, Li Zhaoxiang's face changed slightly. He turned his head to look at his father, only to see Li Sangqing sighed, "Don't eat or sleep, shut up and eat."

Li Zhaoxiang said to his son in a warm voice: "You must be tired after traveling and traveling, hurry up and eat and go back to rest."

"Yes."

Yuan Yunke had a panoramic view of everyone's expressions, and a thought floated up from the bottom of his heart, which couldn't be erased—maybe Li Keyao's life experience is really problematic.

Li Keyao looks a bit like a mixed-race person, which is more obvious when she is thin. Her skin is exaggeratedly white, and she has deep eyes and a high nose, which is different from the standard yellow skin and long eyes at home.

Of course, the blame can also be pushed to the mother's side, but their reaction today just proves that everything needs to be verified.

If Li Keyao was not the daughter of their family, then the series of acts of hatred towards her would make sense.

She immediately wanted to discuss all this with Qin Daoqing, and asked him how his translation plan was going. When she contacted him, foreman Liu told her that Qin Daoqing had been transferred to the city bureau to investigate the case, and he would not be able to return for a while.

Yuan Yunke read the newspaper and saw that the news about the mayor's assassination was on the paper. This matter is indeed difficult, and the police department may be under great pressure.

Forget it and don't bother him, she checked it herself.

Let’s start from the identity of Li Keyao’s biological mother.

Li Keyao's biological mother is a concubine of Li Sangqing, named Li Xiangtan, who is a singer.She passed away when Li Keyao was three years old. At that time, Mingyan hadn't entered the mansion yet. Apart from Li's father and son, the only one who could understand this person was... Cui Linhua.

It's time to go see her. It's really unreasonable for a daughter not to see her mother for so long.

It was Sunday and she asked the cook at home to make Cui Linhua's favorite snack buns, and took them to Li's old house.

The old house of the Li family is still a building from the Qing Dynasty. The two red-painted doors are already mottled and slag-like, and the big lock is rusty. It seems that no one has ever entered through the main entrance.

Yuan Yunke turned to the back north door and finally saw a small, unlocked iron door. She knocked on the door and asked, "Is anyone there?"

It took a while to hear footsteps approaching, but the person on the other side of the door was very alert and asked through the door, "Who?"

"I'm Li Keyao, come and see my mother."

The person on the other side of the door seemed to hesitate for a moment, "I'm looking at the house, wait a moment, I'll ask." After 5 minutes, someone opened the door again, "It's Miss San, please come in."

"Are you well?"

Yuan Yunke saw that Li Daiju's cheeks were indeed much thinner than when he saw her last time, and he really looked like he had a serious illness.

"Please remember, Madam will be very happy to know."

Following Li Daiju, he walked forward, passed through two houses, stepped onto the corridor, and stopped in a neatly tidied yard, "It's right here. This used to be Madam's house. She was very used to living there. Feel comfortable in the building.”

"That's good. I've been thinking about it, but my father said he was afraid that my mother would be irritated. But as a child, how can I rest assured? I couldn't sleep all night long, and my hair was almost falling out."

While talking exaggeratedly, Yuan Yunke looked at Li Daiju's expression and saw her gloomy brows, "What's the matter, is there something wrong with your expression?"

"It's nothing, Ma'am has always been like that. This time I have such a disaster, I feel uneasy. If only I had been by her side all the time, it would be fine, but she is sick and regrets to death."

He had already entered the yard while talking, "Madam is sleeping now, and after taking Dr. Daiwei's medicine, she can sleep peacefully for a while, otherwise the whole night can't be tolerated."

Daiwei’s medicine…

She really doesn't trust Daiwei's medicine, who knows what his idea is.

"I'm not in a hurry. I'll wait for my mother to wake up and say a few words to her, otherwise my visit will be in vain." Yuan Yunke handed her the snack in his hand, "My mother's favorite food is not available here."

Li Daiju remembered the snacks and said hesitantly: "How about, why don't you go inside and wait?"

"No, I've been looking around, I haven't been here for a long time, I grew up here, strictly speaking, this is my home."

It was only ten years ago that the Li family moved into the western-style building. Before that, the Li family had always lived in this big courtyard.This deep house compound is the foundation of the Li family.

After coming here, Li Daiju seems to have stretched a lot. Looking back at the time when she was in the mansion, she had a deep memory of the feeling of tension all over her body.

Li Daiju nodded, "Then you can walk around as you like, but don't go to that forest. It's been too long without anyone taking care of it, and all the birds and animals have taken it as their home."

"I know, I'll be back in a moment."

The Li family's yard occupies a large area, with rockeries, flowing water, and pavilions.But now it is swallowed up by weeds and creepers, and I can vaguely imagine how delicate it would be when someone takes care of it.

But now these have become the pattern of wild animals, and the wild animal botanical garden is also very good, and there is no waste.

Li Keyao lives in a small courtyard in the south. It is not big. There is a camphor tree planted in the courtyard. From a distance, you can see the umbrella-like crown of the tree standing proudly among the chickens.

On the road, I met a big golden pheasant and a group of lynxes, crossed a gazebo, and then arrived at the familiar house everywhere.

Some memory fragments that did not belong to Yuan Yunke appeared in his mind——

An undergrown girl was reading a book under a camphor tree in horseback riding clothes. The leaves fell on her book, and she twirled the leaves and looked back with a slight smile...

Unknowingly, Zhongyuan Yunke's hand had touched the trunk of the camphor tree, and the memory in his mind seemed to be clearer.

Li Keyao's childhood was still very happy. Li Sangqing paid more attention to her children's studies and would not relax in her studies just because she was a woman.She is also willing to learn and is motivated to go to Great Britain for further study.

It stands to reason that such a girl with a clear goal should not fall in love easily. Thinking about the contents of Song Qian's diary, she became more and more sure that Li Keyao was designed by someone.

The difficulty is that the purpose of this design is very strange.

Li Keyao's door was hung with a lock, Yuan Yunke walked around to the back of the house, lifted the second flowerpot on the left according to his feeling, and found a key.

The door was easily opened, and there was a thick layer of dust in the room, and the dust flew up as soon as one stepped in.

She pulled the silk scarf over her mouth and padded her feet into the bedroom.

The layout of the bedroom is not like a little girl's room. There are paper models of various buildings on the flower stand, and three-dimensional pictures of the house are pasted on the white wall. It can be seen that she has a lot of ideas.

Li Keyao's bed is a babu bed, and there is a lot of space inside. She climbed in and reached out to grope around the roof, and finally found an iron ring embedded in the wooden plank in the northeast corner, and she pulled it hard——

There was only a sound of machinery running, and finally a snapping sound came from under the bed.

Yuan Yunke quickly crawled under the bed and soon dragged out a wooden box.

The box was not big and it was not locked. Maybe he was very confident in his own mechanism.There were very few things in the box, except for a notepad. The notepad recorded various parameters that Yuan Yunke couldn't understand, and it was in English, so people who weren't majoring in architecture couldn't understand it.

She patiently flipped through the pages one by one, only to discover the important point.

Later, she finally wrote the text she could understand, although it was still in English.

Perhaps thanks to Li Keyao's ability to understand English, she can read English very clearly, but she expresses her emotions in prose, and the information she gets is limited.

This article said that Li Keyao said that she seemed to be wrong, and she had misjudged the wrong person.Compared with the people around her, she is as transparent as a baby.She could hardly breathe, and she wanted to go abroad to take a breath. This home was like an abyss, sucking her soul.

The following are fragmentary records of venting like this. She deliberately avoided talking about useful information. She must have been too scared, so she was more cautious.

In the end, she seemed to be in high spirits, and the sense of despair gradually disappeared, replaced by joy.

She said she found a very important person who was willing to take her out of this house and go abroad.

After that there is no after, and the information stops abruptly.

"I wonder who you found, tell me! Is it Song Qian?"

She shook the notepad unwillingly, and a thin piece of paper floated out and landed on the dusty ground.

Yuan Yunke's eyes lit up, and he immediately picked it up.

This is a map. The map seems to be the old town of Luobei. There are two antique shops on it that are time-honored shops of the Li family and are still in the old town.

One of the unknown buildings was circled by Li Keyao with a red pen. It seemed that this place had special meaning to her, or that this was the person she was looking for.

She firmly believed that it would not be so simple to hide such a secret and laborious mechanism.

She put these things in her bag, put them back in place, and left here.

When Yuan Yunke returned to Cui Linhua's residence, Li Daiju saw her covered in ashes, and quickly took a feather duster to help her dust off, "My lady, are you rolling in the ashes?"

"Hey, I'm going to get my baby."

Li Daiju just now saw that she was still holding a dirty paper house, she frowned, "What are you doing with this thing, how unlucky you are."

Knowing that she didn't understand these things, Yuan Yunke didn't explain, so she asked, "Is my mother awake?"

"Not yet. Sometimes I go to bed late, get up for a meal, and go back to sleep after taking the medicine."

"It's not good to fall asleep like this all the time..."

Li Daiju sighed, "Who says it's not the case..." At this time, the housekeeper ran out and said, "Daju, someone is here again, it's the young master."

Li Qingzhou is the only one who can be called the "little master". He came anyway, is he following her?

Full of suspicion, Yuan Yunke showed kindness to the oncoming Li Qingzhou, "Why are you here? If you knew it earlier, you would have come together. I would have spent a few more copper coins."

Li Qingzhou bowed his head in a joking manner, "That's really my fault. I came here by car generously. You can go back with me later."

"Don't I want to come here by car? You haven't seen your grandfather's face before, but when you mention it, you stare like Zhang Fei. You are his favorite grandson, of course it doesn't matter. A full man doesn't know a hungry man. hungry."

Li Qingzhou said with a smile: "The situation is different now. It has been so long. You just have to come."

Li Daiju made chrysanthemum tea and said, "This is made from the chrysanthemums in our yard. It's very fragrant. Come and try it."

The two of them sat on the stone tables under the vines. Li Qingzhou poured tea for Yuan Yunke, took a deep breath, "It smells so good, it smells like home. I always think everything here is the best, that kind of No advanced thing can replace intimacy.”

Yuan Yunke didn't feel anything at all. She said, "Why does a little kid speak so old-fashioned? He's just like some old men who write about nostalgia. It's a shame you went abroad."

"I don't think my hometown is better if I don't go abroad. This is the voice of all people who go abroad." Li Qingzhou took a sip of tea and nodded repeatedly, "That's the taste."

Li Daiju brought another plate of snacks, "This is the sweet-scented osmanthus cake, which is also made from local ingredients. You guys have a try."

"How is my grandma, are you awake?"

Li Daiju shook her head, "I'll go take a look. The sun is almost setting, so I can see it too soon."

"It's okay, let's wait slowly."

Talking to Li Qingzhou, I found that he is very slippery and a little shrewd. He will use his status as a junior to trick her in a flattering way, but his IQ is incomparable to his father.

This person is really annoying. Why does Nian Nian Qing have a greasy smell?

Fortunately, after a while, Li Daiju came over and told them that the old lady woke up and could see them.

Yuan Yunke and Li Qingzhou followed her into the house, and Li Daiju went in and stayed for a while before bringing them in.

As soon as people entered the room, Li Qingzhou threw herself on the woman on the kang and cried loudly, "Grandma, why are you so thin? It makes me, a grandson, so uncomfortable..."

Cui Linhua opened his eyes in bewilderment, and reacted for a long time, "Are you Xiaozhou?"

She held up Li Qingzhou's face and looked at it carefully, "Why do you look like this, and your face is so fat."

"Mom, why is Xiao Zhou getting fat? He's getting fat at a young age?" Yuan Yunke couldn't help laughing.

Cui Linhua seemed to have not heard what she said, and said in her mouth: "Xiaozhou, you are Xiaozhou, little fat guy..."

"Yes, I am chubby. I was fat when I was young. Do you remember that you used to like to hold my hand and watch camellias." Li Qingzhou's eyes seemed to have tears.

"Xiao Zhou, Xiao Zhou, why are you so thin..."

Fat for a while and thin for a while, it really is that the brain is not clear.

Yuan Yunke chuckled, this is still called skinny, how fat he used to be, ball?

"Grandma, I have grown up, and your grandson has grown up. He is no longer the fat little boy he used to be. He lost weight later and has gained a lot of weight now."

Cui Linhua held up his face and looked at it carefully. Suddenly, her eyes turned away, and her hands quickly moved down and tightened, screaming: "Damn it, you die! Die!"

(End of this chapter)

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