no puppet

"What did you say? Five...500 taels of silver?"

Outside the street was a bustling tavern, Xie Hengyan's dark and shiny almond eyes widened, and he almost overturned the entire wooden table in front of him: "Who is so generous and spent a lot of money just to buy me one?" broken teeth?"

At that time Yin Chu was sitting at the table, holding a few dishes of side dishes Yanyan, but his face was as expressionless as chewing wax.

"...I take back what I just said." Xie Hengyan was so greedy that his eyes would bleed, "Hurry up and find a way to get your teeth back... Oh my god, 500 taels of silver is enough for me to live on for the rest of my life ! Go get it back, get it back, please, please..."

Yin Chu put down the bowls and chopsticks in his hands, and then glanced at him coldly: "In your whole life, is it worth 500 taels of silver?"

Xie Hengyan buzzed in his ears: "Bring it back, get it back, get it back, get it back..."

Yin Chu: "..."

"Then it's like this—" Xie Hengyan had an idea, and suddenly raised his voice, "I also sold the other tooth, maybe someone else will ask for it for 500 taels. Wouldn't this make a fortune?"

Yin Chuan said in a cool voice, "Daydreaming."

"Ah... sell it, sell it, I'm going to die, I never knew I was so valuable."

"Sit down and eat." Yin Chun called to him, "You leave without eating, you have other things to do back in the mountains."

So Xie Hengyan went around for a while, then turned back to the table disheveledly to cook the rice, while Yin Chun stretched out his chopsticks, picked off the tender and clean shrimp meat on the plate, and picked them one by one into his bowl.

After all, he is just a heartless and stupid puppet, someone handed him food, turned around and those unpleasant things--will disappear immediately.

It was only left to Yin Zhen himself, while peeling the shrimp shells, feeling stuffy in his heart, finally couldn't help but look at Xie Hengyan, and said: "...I have a question for you."

Xie Hengyan didn't raise her head, she was busy eating shrimp: "You ask."

Yin Chun said, "What does your father look like?"

As soon as the words were finished, there were only two "clicks", and the chopsticks in Xie Hengyan's hands clattered and fell directly to the ground.

"You... why are you asking this?" The puppet looked terrified, "Have you seen my father?"

"……No."

Yin Chun's expression was indifferent, he didn't mention a word about the encounter in Shicai Alley, he just said casually: "Just ask, don't need such a big reaction."

Xie Hengyan was still in shock: "Why do you suddenly think of asking him?"

Yin Chun asked, "Can't you ask?"

"It's not that you can't ask. But my father... is just an ordinary woodcarving craftsman." Xie Hengyan scratched his head and said, "He never likes to cause trouble, at most he has a little bit of a bad temper, and he is not a bad person."

After finishing speaking, looking at Yin Chu's hesitant expression, he added in a calm and unhurried manner: "But, it's still much better than your master who suffered a thousand knives..."

Yin Chu: "..."

That's obviously not what he wanted to ask.

It's appearance, facial features, and every look in the other person's eyes.

However, the moment Xie Hengyan raised his head and looked at him, the puppet's pair of dark round eyes were nearly identical to the dark almond eyes that he accidentally glimpsed in that alley.

...It is simply carved out of the same mold.

If it is said that the puppet and his father are not biological, then who else in this world can be so similar in appearance to him?

The two stared and stared at each other for a long time without knowing what to say.

Suddenly, there was a sharp and slightly noisy sound.Someone desperately opened his voice, fearing that the world would not be chaotic, and shouted: "Senior brother?!"

Xie Hengyan and Yin Chun turned their heads at the same time, and saw Kang Wen and Cheng Miling not far from the table in the tavern. At that time, four pairs of eyes were wide open, and they were looking at them with incomparable horror.

Kang Wen stepped over the wooden table in two or three steps, walked straight forward to Yin Chun, lowered his voice, and shouted again in an extremely depressed voice: "Senior brother!"

However, they haven't seen each other in just three days, and the pair of senior brothers seem to have not seen each other for thousands of years, and there is a subtle feeling of reunion after a long absence.

"Brother, how can you eat with this young man?" Kang asked sourly, "Since the last time you visited the shrine, you didn't even go home, and you just wandered around in the mountains all day, which made the master cold-faced me and my junior sister every day. .”

Yin Chun coughed dryly, before he could say anything, Xie Hengyan frowned and asked, "Why can't Senior Brother have dinner with me?"

When the words came out, Kang Wen had already pulled away the table and chairs, sat down beside Yin Chun unceremoniously, picked up the chopsticks and ate the shrimp meat: "Brother, if you continue like this, don't you plan to go home and live?" gone?"

Yin Chu: "..."

After finishing speaking, Cheng Miling also followed up, but his eyes were not on Yin Chuan, the elder brother whom he hadn't seen for many days, but on Xie Hengyan, who was beside him wheezing and eating.

"This is the first time for me to see the little boy raised by my brother at such a close distance." Cheng Miling was curious and nervous, "It's really a living little boy, he...he can move! "

"..." Xie Hengyan didn't swallow a mouthful of rice, and she almost choked to death on the spot.

"Your skin is so white!" Cheng Miling looked at Xie Hengyan carefully from top to bottom, as if seeing something strange, and said, "Your eyes are so round... Oh my god, why are your eyes so round , do all the young ladies have eyes like this?"

Xie Hengyan finally couldn't help raising his eyes to look back at her and said, "I am also a human being, why can't my eyes be round?"

Cheng Miling said strangely: "Oh, the young man has spoken!"

Xie Hengyan was speechless: "I..."

"Can I...touch you?" Cheng Miling said excitedly, "You are so beautiful, I want to touch you."

Xie Hengyan spread his hands indifferently: "If you want to touch it, feel it, and see if you can feel anything different?"

Yin Chun: "...cough."

Cheng Miling turned back in response, looked at Yin Chun expectantly and said, "Then...brother, can I touch your little girl?"

"What's there for him to touch?" Kang asked dissatisfiedly, he grabbed her wrist and said repeatedly, "You just touch me—won't they all look the same, have the same skin and flesh, and he can still compare us What's wrong with more?"

"Oh, who wants to touch you, you are covered in rough skin and thick flesh, there is nothing attractive about it."

Cheng Miling lost all interest immediately, sat back on the chair and rolled her eyes.

The three brothers and sisters have gone through many ups and downs recently, and it is rare to get together like this again.Yin Chun called Xiaoer to prepare some new dishes, Xie Hengyan took advantage of the situation and leaned into his ear, whispering: "I also want to eat shrimp."

Yin Chun nodded in agreement, and asked him again: "What else?"

"One more roast chicken... oh, and braised pork and pork rib soup."

Yin Chun looked at him indifferently: "Have you finished eating?"

Xie Hengyan smiled and said, "You can take it home to eat."

Yin Chun hummed, but still agreed one by one.When he tilted his head, Kang Wen had a panoramic view of the scene, but he didn't say much, he just stared at the two of them and said, "Speaking of which, shouldn't Senior Brother be working on the statue on the mountain right now...why did he appear here? place?"

Yin Chun said: "I have other things to do, but I just stopped by for a meal."

"Brother, has the statue... been repaired yet?" Kang asked with a slight frown, "I don't think Master has much hope, and I guess he will blame you later."

"Naturally I've done well, don't even look at who I am." Xie Hengyan raised his head in a smug manner, "Your senior brother was able to save the dog's life this time, all thanks to my help."

Kang asked with a sneer: "What's none of your business again? Smelly boy, if you hadn't suddenly come out to make trouble in the ancestral hall last time, our master wouldn't have become so angry."

Xie Hengyan said, "I really did help, if you don't believe me, ask senior brother."

Kang asked: "The stinky boy is the stinky boy, asking anyone will not change your stupidity."

Xie Hengyan: "You are stupid, you are a big idiot!"

"Can you say that again?"

"Kang asked the idiot!"

Yin Chun hadn't seen these two people chatting loudly at each other for a long time, but now when he heard it for a while, he could only feel his ears buzzing.On the other hand, Cheng Miling, who was watching the excitement, was quite normal. Now that he mentioned the matter related to the god statue in the ancestral hall, he couldn't help but also followed up and interrupted: "You are all saying that the god statue can be repaired. I just want to ask, who is so brave? Dare to engrave the seal of karma on the head of Shenjun Youqing?"

Her words revealed the truth, when Kang Wen heard this, he immediately stopped making noise, looked back at Yin Chun and said, "...that's right, senior brother, who carved the Karma Seal, do you hold it?"

Hearing this, Yin Chun just shook his head.Recently, I have been busy going in and out for the statue, and the person was sick on the day of the incident, so I didn't have time to think about who the culprit was behind the scenes.

That person obviously planned his actions on the day of the visit, in order to cause chaos, which ended in embarrassment, and ultimately depended on Bi Yufu's efforts to calm down the situation.

——But what if the situation does not stabilize as expected?

Cheng Miling stared fixedly into Yin Chun's eyes, stayed for a long while, then murmured: "My father that day..."

"Master wants me to take the blame." Yin Chun said indifferently, "...I understand what he means."

"No...brother, there must be a misunderstanding." Cheng Miling hastily explained to him, "You know, my father should have loved you the most. If it wasn't for the sudden incident, he probably wouldn't... also would not act like that.”

As soon as he finished speaking, a low laugh suddenly came from his ear.Cheng Miling tilted his head in surprise, and saw that Xie Hengyan narrowed his eyes, and then said sarcastically, "What's the excuse? Everyone beat him, so I can't see how much Cheng Daofeng loves him."

But Cheng Miling said: "What do you know? My father always has such a temper. The two senior brothers have been taught by him since childhood. When they get angry on weekdays, no one can stop them."

Kang Wen also advised: "That's right, you young man, don't keep stirring up discord, if senior brother has a quarrel with master because of this matter, then how can we live in the future life of Bi Yu Mansion?"

"Then Yin Chun wants to go home?" Xie Hengyan turned his head, stared straight at Yin Chun and said, "Let's talk, after tomorrow, do you want to live with me, or do you want to go back to Biyu Mansion and continue to eat and become enlightened?" Every face?"

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At a dining table, four people have their own concerns.

Cheng Miling: The first time I saw Xiaowan, he was alive!

Yin Chun: I haven't touched it yet, why should she touch it?

Kang asked: Brother, how could he eat with Xiaowan, he was always with me before!

Xie Hengyan: This roast chicken is delicious, this braised pork is delicious, this shrimp is also delicious, all of them are delicious, hahahahahaha...