Zhou Yan

"Tao, Mr. Tao." Lin Ruanruan was caught in the middle, blocked by people on the left and right, unable to get out, so he could only lower his head and pinch his fingers in fear: "What's the matter with you?"

"I can't talk to you if I have nothing to do! Lift your head up to talk, and always do what you do with your head down." Tao Qian frivolously pinched Lin Ruanruan's chin, Lin Ruanruan tilted his head to avoid his hand.

"Master Tao, I still have a pile of unwashed clothes at home, the guests should be anxious." Lin Ruanruan whispered.

"Hurry up and ask him to come to me! Look, my family is soft and tired, and my hands are rough." Unable to touch her chin, Tao Qian went to grab her hand again, and rubbed it on the back of the girl's white hand. Tao Qian's little Eyes narrowed.

"This way, it's not good," Lin Ruanruan was ashamed and annoyed, but she didn't dare to attack, she gritted her teeth and pulled her hand back: "Young Master Tao respects himself."

Lin Ruanruan lowered her head, turned around and wanted to leave.

Talk to her a few words and she wants to hide, touch her face and she avoids, hold hands, she is about to leave!

Tao Qian stopped laughing, and his triangular eyes were a little gloomy: "Stop, who told you to go, you really think you are something, I don't want to say a few words to you, come back!"

"Mr. Tao," Lin Ruanruan stopped helplessly, daring not to speak out, "I really still have a lot of clothes to wash at home."

"What clothes are you washing? Do you know that you have something to do?" Tao Qian snorted, swayed his hands behind his back and walked to Lin Ruanruan: "When you came to deliver the clothes the day before yesterday, a set of gold was missing. A robe with a silk round neck, tell me, what are you doing with my clothes?"

"Oh!" The servants of the surrounding Tao Mansion let out malicious laughter at the right time, and everyone around them looked sideways.

Lin Ruanruan's pale face gave Tao Qian a great sense of accomplishment. He straightened his clothes, raised his chin triumphantly and raised his voice, "Miss Lin, what are you doing secretly hiding my clothes? Could it be that you are yearning for me and leaving me alone?" Clothes to comfort lovesickness."

The laughter around was louder, Lin Ruanruan's face was pure and innocent, twisting the hem of the clothes with both hands, almost tearing the clothes, almost biting his lips to bleed.

"It's really too much," Shen Xian couldn't stand it anymore: "A group of people bullied a weak woman in broad daylight, and they are still at the gate of the county government, wearing human skins and doing nothing, Brother Zhou!"

Zhou Ming knew it clearly, and looked at the group of people with his hands behind his back. Although he didn't like to do anything, Shen Xian could only do it if he wanted to help.

"Wait for me for a while, I'll be right back." Shen Xian ran away thumping.

……

Zhou Mingchao almost staggered, he started to gather strength, and waited for Shen Xian to rush up, but he ran away.

Zhou Mingchao looked at Shen Xian running into the county office blankly.

Not long after, Shen Xian came out, looking at Liang Yongrui who was following him, Zhou Mingchao's expression, um, was a little hard to describe, between the comfort that my child would find a way to solve the problem when he grows up, and you actually went to put The county magistrate shouted out, how can you not die between the two of you.

Zhou Mingchao rubbed his eyebrows, together with Shen Xian, every day is full of complexity and novelty.

Tao Qian was the son of a landlord. He wasn't considered a wealthy man, but his family assets were more than enough for him to run rampant in Qiuyang County. However, the people did not fight with the officials. As soon as Liang Yongrui came out, Tao Qian was driven away.

"Thank you Master Liang, you two." After being molested in the street, Lin Ruanruan's expression was still very bad. After bowing to them, he wiped the corners of his eyes with his hand.

"That Tao Qian, does he often bully you?"

Lin Ruanruan shook her head towards Shen Xian, and whispered, "It's not often."

"Then how about I find you a job." Shen Xian looked at the sky and wondered if there was any job that was easy and rich and suitable for girls.

Shen Xian felt that this girl was so pitiful, she would meet hooligans even if she worked hard to wash clothes, but fortunately they met today, if before, Lin Ruanruan wanted to get away, it would be even more difficult.

"You can come to my house, Tao Qian will naturally not come to provoke you again." Liang Yongrui seized every opportunity to please Shen Xian.

It's really a goddess who scatter flowers, he can be found everywhere.

"No need," Lin Ruanruan shook his head, and said in a low voice, "It's the same everywhere, thank you Mr. Shen for your concern, I can do it like this now."

"But……"

Shen Xian still wanted to persuade her again, shouldn't the girl's family think about being comfortable and relaxing?Why are you still willing to do that kind of tiring and bullied work?

Lin Ruanruan has already left. She is tall, but her steps are very slow. Every step is like a heavy weight, sad and dull.

"Why didn't she listen?" Shen Xian didn't understand.

"People don't like it, so don't force it." Zhou Mingchao was more open-minded than him: "Do you want roasted sweet potatoes?"

"want!"

Shen Xian dragged Zhou Mingchao excitedly to the sweet potato stand, Liang Yongrui opened his mouth watching the two people's backs, and walked away wisely.

Li Yong's home is at the end of a group of civilian houses. It looks bare here, and there is no leaf on the tree. Because it is a butcher, Li Yong is a single family, a little far away from the crowd, a simple small house.

"You mean Li Yong?" The old lady washing clothes by the river put down the clothes stick in her hand: "By the way, I haven't heard the sound of him killing a pig today, and I haven't looked at others. What's wrong with him?"

The news of Li Yong's death in the alley has not yet spread, and Shen Xian can't say that Li Yong was stabbed in the chest with a sharp weapon, and he is no longer there.

"We are his distant relatives and want to join him. Do you know where he went yesterday? Who was he with?" Shen Xian squatted in front of the old woman and washed his hands with water.

"Relatives?" The old lady looked suspiciously at the clothes of Shen Xian and Zhou Mingchao: "He's just a butcher. I haven't seen how rich and powerful he is. How can he have rich relatives like you?"

"We are in a poor family," Shen Xian thought of an excuse in the blink of an eye, "That's why I wanted to join him."

At the water's edge, Shen Xian smiled and looked a little embarrassed, but in his heart he was thinking that the old lady is really not easy to cheat.

"That's it!" This reason won the old lady's trust: "Although he lives nearby, he doesn't usually talk to us very much. If you want to ask me where he is going, I don't know."

"Then when was the last time you saw him, and where did he go?" Shen Xian rubbed his belly: "In order to hurry, my brother and I haven't eaten yet, and we want to find him quickly."

Zhou Ming squeezed the kraft paper containing the roasted sweet potatoes into a ball without changing his expression, and held it in his hand.

"You haven't eaten yet!" Several grandchildren of the old woman's family have gone out to do coolie work. Seeing Shen Xian, she thought of her own grandchildren, and immediately felt pity: "Why don't you go to my house? Bake some steamed buns for you."

"No, no, no," Shen Xian didn't expect the old man to be so enthusiastic, and he didn't know how to refuse for a while: "Why bother the old man, my brother and I still have some troubles, just want to find our relative quickly, and we will also be here tonight." Good place to stay."

"Then let me help you think about it, don't worry," the old lady recalled carefully: "Last night when it was getting dark, I saw Li Yong going out with a man who was dressed like you What a nice dress!"

"Who is that person, do you know the old man?"

It was getting dark at that time, and the old lady only saw a figure from the back: "I didn't see the face clearly, but I vaguely remembered that the man was tall, but not too thin, like paper, and ran away when the wind blew." .”

"That's right! Thank you, old man,"

Asking again couldn't find anything, Shen Xian stood up and patted his clothes to say goodbye, two servants came from the east.

"Which house is Li Yong's?"

The old lady quickly stood up and pointed the way to the guard: "The one on the far east side is, Mr. Commander, where are you?"

"He's dead, and we took his house by order from above."

"He's dead!" The old lady's mallet fell into the water, and she was so shocked that she couldn't close her mouth from ear to ear. Although she didn't have much contact with each other, she was also a neighbor who often met: "I saw that he was fine yesterday, why did he suddenly die! He... "

"How do we know how he died? Office! Don't ask if you shouldn't!"

The guard waved his hand impatiently, and walked away with the sealing paper and the iron chain.

"A good person, why did he disappear?" Thinking of seeing Li Yong walking on the road yesterday, but today he is gone, the old man is a little depressed: "He also helped me carry water back home, and I don't even need to bring him food. Those who celebrate the New Year stay at home alone, let him come to my house for the New Year and don’t come, and he is alone everywhere.”

Shen Xian and Zhou Mingchao glanced at each other, picked up the washing stick and handed it to the old man, Shen Xian wanted to comfort the old lady, but didn't know how to say it.

The old lady sighed again: "Wherever you go, you are always alone, and you don't even need someone to accompany you. If you have a son and a half daughter, you won't have no successors."

Shen Xian and Zhou Mingchao circled around from left to right, patted the old man on the shoulder, and said: "Everyone has their own destiny, old man, don't be sad!" "That's right, that person won't come back either!"

Both of them were trying to persuade the old lady, the one who comforted her was useless, and the one who comforted her was really bad.

The old lady was at the age of dying, and she would sigh for a long time when encountering some taboos about life and death. When the atmosphere was the thickest, the old lady suddenly thought that these two were still Li Yong's relatives, and they were not sad, so they came to comfort them. She was an old lady whom she had never met before.

The old lady wiped her face and suppressed the mourning for Li Yong, looking at the two handsome young men, her eyes were full of pity: "You are here to look for Li Yong, poor child , I traveled all the way to look for it, but I encountered this kind of thing, so stay at my house tonight."

"Uh..." Shen Xian scratched his head and glanced at Zhou Mingchao: "Don't bother, we just go to the town and find an inn to sleep in."

"How can an inn have its own bed to sleep comfortably, and it doesn't cost money to live and eat?" Some flowers."

"No, no need."

Shen Xian was still refusing, but the old lady thought they were embarrassed: "There's nothing to be embarrassed about. We neighbors didn't do anything for Li Yong when he was alive. He's gone, so we can treat his descendants to a meal." , It can be regarded as a little thought from me as a neighbor, listen to my old lady, go, I will cook for you."

The old lady tidied up her clothes neatly, she picked up the washtub and held up the hem of the two people's clothes: "I'll make dumplings for you tonight."

In this way, thanks to Li Yong's blessing, Shen Xian and Zhou Mingchao were taken back by the old lady to be guests.

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