The woman said, "Thank you, girl." ”

Ruan Caiyun saw that she really couldn't walk, so she said: "You hold on a little longer, go down this mountain, there is a small restaurant at the foot of the mountain, you can rest there first, drink some tea and eat something, because you have to climb a small hill behind, I'm afraid you won't be able to walk." ”

The woman nodded, and said, "Thank you, girl, I was looking for a place to rest." ”

Su Sanniang interjected in the back and said: "You can see the small restaurant when you go down the hill, this time it's all downhill, it's more labor-saving, it should be fine." ”

The woman nodded, and smiled awkwardly at them again. Ruan Caiyun felt that there was pain in her smile, she should be a girl with a story, but she didn't know what was going on, and she didn't want to ask too much, so she also smiled and walked forward briskly with a bucket.

Ruan Caiyun and her sister-in-law Su Sanniang walked very fast, basically without rest on the road, and arrived in Xuanzhou City in one trip.

They didn't go directly to the market to sell slowly, but went directly to the Four Seas Restaurant. Last time, Ruan Caiyun helped Yang Xianmao cut the throat of An Dagongzi of the restaurant and removed the tumor in his esophagus, so he escaped death, so the shopkeeper An was very grateful to Ruan Caiyun, and told her that selling fish could be directly picked up in his restaurant, and the price he gave would definitely not disappoint them, and with money and fish in one hand, they didn't have to wait in the market for half a day, and they could go back after selling fish.

Therefore, every time Ruan Caiyun and her sister-in-law pick fish to sell in the city, they sell them directly to the shopkeeper of Sihai Restaurant, and the price is good and worry-free. Every time she sold the fish and got the money, Ruan Caiyun would bring her sister-in-law to the Rejuvenation Hall and ask Yang Xianmao if she needed their help with the operation.

This time, they arrived at the Rejuvenation Hall as usual, only to see Yang Mingde and his wife Zhang busy in the pharmacy, and a few patients were seeing a doctor to buy medicine, but Yang Xianmao was nowhere to be seen. Ruan Caiyun stepped in and bowed, and asked Yang Mingde, "Uncle, is Brother Yang here?" Although she was already familiar with Yang Mingde and his wife, she was still a little shy when she asked about Yang Xianmao.

"Oh, it's Miss Ruan, Xianmao went to the doctor. By the way, he told me that if you come, let me tell you, there are no patients who need surgery these days. ”

Ruan Caiyun nodded and said, "Okay, then I'll take my leave." ”

Miss Ruan walked slowly. ”

Zhang sent the door out, smiled and said hello to Su Sanniang outside the door. She knew that these two people were important helpers for the child's surgery, so she was extra polite to the two of them.

Ruan Caiyun and her sister-in-law carried an empty bucket out of Xuanzhou City and went home. I still took the mountain road and took a shortcut back to the village.

They climbed up the hill and down the hill to the small table in the valley, and saw that the sun was still early, and after the two entered the city, they sold fish and had not yet drunk water, and were a little thirsty, so they went into the pergola of the restaurant and sat down, wanting to drink a bowl of tea and rest before leaving.

The shopkeeper of the restaurant is surnamed Tian, and they are also old acquaintances with Ruan Caiyun, Ruan Caiyun and his sister-in-law often take this road into the city to sell fish, and sometimes they also rest and drink tea in his village, buy a cooking cake to cushion their stomachs or something, and quickly greet them when they come.

At this time, it was the height of summer, the climate was hot, and a pergola was set up in front of the restaurant, and there were tables, chairs and benches in the pergola, and no one drank tea here. Ruan Caiyun and her sister-in-law chose a table and chair to sit down and put the bucket aside.

The shopkeeper's son named Tian Dalang came over with a teapot and two earthen bowls, placed them in front of Ruan Caiyun and Su Sanniang respectively, and then took the teapot and began to pour tea.

The tea kept pouring, and soon it spread to the side of the tea bowl and was about to overflow, but Tian Dalang's eyes were dull and he didn't mean to stop pouring tea. Ruan Caiyun was angry and funny, knocked on the table and said, "Hey! It's full!"

Tian Dalang woke up like a dream, and quickly raised the spout of the teapot, and this time, he spilled the tea again. Fortunately, Ruan Caiyun moved quickly, and let go of the tea that splashed over on one side, so that it did not splash on his body.

Su Sanniang said: "I said Tian Dalang, what are you doing? I think my daughter-in-law thinks, why do you lose your mind when you see our family's colorful clouds? ”

Ruan Caiyunqiao's face turned red, and she glanced at her sister-in-law with disgust and said: "He didn't look at me and lost his mind, I was a little distracted when I saw him coming, maybe I saw which girl passed, so I was dumbfounded, and I haven't taken my soul back until now!"

Tian Dalang blushed, looked a little flustered, and hurriedly poured tea for Su Sanniang, took off the rag on his shoulder and wiped off the splashed water, made a smile, and hurriedly went back to the house with the kettle.

Ruan Caiyun frowned and said, "What's wrong with this Tian Dalang today? ”

Su Sanniang said: "Yes, he used to talk a lot, and he kept talking when he saw people, but now he doesn't say a word, as if he is full of worries, is it stupid to want to marry a daughter-in-law?"

"It's kind of like looking at him like that. ”

The two of them talked, eating and laughing.

Ruan Caiyun saw that the bowl of tea in front of him was too full, and it might overflow when he took it, so he propped his hands on his knees, lay on the table, put his mouth up and took a shallow sip, smacked his lips and said, "Hey, it's so comfortable, it's a pity that it's hot, you should drink some herbal tea on this hot day." ”

As he spoke, he leaned in and took another sip.

She was facing the door of the small restaurant, lying on the table and smoking the tea in the bowl, her eyes involuntarily looked forward, and suddenly, she sighed.

Su Sanniang saw that her expression was different, so she turned her head to look at her, but she didn't see anything, turned around and asked curiously, "What's wrong?"

Ruan Caiyun blinked and said, "It's nothing. Then he picked up the tea bowl and sipped it lightly, but his eyes looked at the slightly dimly lit lobby of the small restaurant without blinking.

After a few more sips of tea, she put the bowl down, got up and said, "I'll go to a thatched house." Then he walked briskly forward.

There was a thatched house behind this small restaurant, and Lan Caiyun bypassed the small restaurant, but did not go to the thatched house, but walked in through the back door. This back door leads to the kitchen of the small restaurant, and through the kitchen, you will reach the lobby.

After she entered the kitchen, she saw that the shopkeeper Tian was cooking, on this hot day, he was sweating profusely, shirtless, and when he saw Ruan Caiyun coming in, he smiled and said: "Girl, hurry up to the pergola in front, this kitchen is on fire, it's too hot, don't be careful of heating you." ”

Ruan Caiyun walked through the kitchen to the lobby.

Behind the counter, Tian Dalang was sitting there in a daze. Ruan Caiyun didn't notice when he came in, Ruan Caiyun rolled his eyes, and said to him: "My tea is all drunk, go and pour the tea." ”

When Tian Dalang heard this, he hurriedly walked out of the lobby with a teapot.

Ruan Caiyun turned his head, and his eyes fell on the half-hidden door of the wing room next to him. When she looked over from the place where she was drinking tea, she saw a crack in the door, and there was something strange in the door, which seemed to be an embroidered shoe.

And this shoe has an elegant lotus flower pattern on it.

Although the light in the room was dim and Ruan Caiyun was far away, she was very impressed by these embroidered shoes, and she only saw a rough outline, which made her vigilant. So he deliberately broke away from Tian Dalang to see what was going on.

She squeaked the door open, gasping. I saw a woman lying on the ground of the wing, it was the young woman who was wearing a peasant girl's coarse blue shirt but was imposing on the mountain road before, lying motionless on the ground at the moment, one leg just stretched into the slightly open door, and the lotus pattern on the upper of the shoe was exposed, which happened to fall into Ruan Caiyun's eyes.

Ruan Caiyun was taken aback, and was about to step in to check, when suddenly there was a wind in the back of his head, and he knew that someone was sneaking up.

And at this moment, she was standing by the door, unable to dodge, not thinking about it, taking a step forward, jumping over the body of the woman who fell to the ground, turning in the air, falling to the ground, and taking a look, I saw that the shopkeeper Tian was holding a kitchen knife in his hand, and he was looking at her fiercely.

Ruan Caiyun looked down at the woman on the ground, who seemed to be no longer breathing, and said in a deep voice: "You killed this woman?

The money shopkeeper said, "If you don't find out, you go your way." Now that you've found out, leave your life behind!" he said, picking up a kitchen knife and rushing up and slashing at Ruan Caiyun's head.

This time, Ruan Caiyun did not retreat but advanced, shook his body, avoided the knife, and at the same time stepped forward, and with a slam of his right palm, he hit him firmly on the chest.

Shopkeeper Tian was hit upside down by this palm and flew out, rolled in the air and flew through the doorway, landing on the lobby outside, and then let out a miserable scream. His body twitched, struggling to get up, but he couldn't get up, and blood continued to flow from his neck, and soon it was a puddle.

Ruan Caiyun was taken aback, leaned out, glanced vigilantly at his side, and was stunned to find an incision on the neck of the shopkeeper Tian, and blood gushed out. But it turned out that when her palm knocked the shopkeeper Tian to the ground, somehow, the kitchen knife in her hand just cut into the neck of the shopkeeper Tian, cutting off the blood vessels in the neck, so the blood gushed out like a spring.

Ruan Caiyun kicked the kitchen knife to the side, pulled him by the shoulder and turned him over, and found that the shopkeeper Tian was too seriously injured and would definitely not survive. She wanted to know the truth of the matter, squatted down and said, "Why do you want to kill this woman?"

Shopkeeper Tian smiled miserably, and said in a weak voice: "In order to get money for my son...... Marry a daughter-in-law ....... Spare my son...... and he didn't know...... I did all this......"

At this time, Tian Dalang and Sun Sanniang, who were pouring tea under the pergola, were startled when they heard the movement, and hurriedly ran in.

Tian Dalang saw the blood flowing from his father's neck, he was so frightened that he reached out to press the wound, glanced at Ruan Caiyun in a panic, looked at his father again, and said sadly: "Dad, Dad, what's wrong with you?"

The blood of the shopkeeper Tian quickly stained half of his body red. His face was pale, he gasped, grabbed his son and said, "Daddy this is retribution, Daddy shouldn't be greedy for that woman's money...... , God has repaid your father. You have to be good, Dad won't be able to take care of you in the future......"

Tian Dalang held down the wound with his hand, but the blood from the wound couldn't be stopped at all, and it still poured out from the gap in his palm.