"Ninth Brother ......"

Tang Jingcheng just read two words and stopped.

Guan Xiao waited for a while, but didn't see any signs of her continuing, so he looked up: "What's wrong?" ”

"Nothing."

Tang Jingcheng breathed a sigh of relief, squeezed the paper tightly, and tried again.

"Ninth Brother ......"

But it still doesn't work.

Guan slightly smiled bitterly: "I can't understand the words in the back?" ”

"Not really." Tang Jingcheng frowned, and suddenly raised his head and looked at Guan Luo very seriously: "What kind of person do you think Ye Tan is?" ”

“……”

Guan slightly didn't understand: "What do you want to say?" ”

"I don't think she seems to smile very much."

Ye Tan always had a vicious expression on her face, as if everyone owed her money.

"And she should be quite ruthless, ruthless to others, and ruthless to herself, often this kind of woman has a hard heart."

"Hmm!" Guan Luo admits this, "The first thing she learned in a place like Jiurongtai was how to survive." ”

Be kind to others, maybe others will kill her, so Ye Tan must be ruthless. She is indeed quite ruthless, she was helped to such a high position by Guan Luo in her early twenties, and there are so many people under her, and they are all men, but she can just sit in a stable position, the reason is nothing more than that she is more ruthless than those men.

"She can't be ruthless, I can understand that." Tang Jingcheng leaned back on the sofa, "But I find that she occasionally has special gentle times." ”

“……”

"For example, if she does things next to you, if she looks at your expression, for example..."Tang Jingcheng glanced at the paper and smiled bitterly, "For example, if she shouts the word 'Ninth Brother'..."

Tang Jingcheng always felt that every time Ye Tan shouted "Ninth Brother", her tone would be half a point lighter, and she was willing to soften herself in front of this man at that time.

"Maybe Ye Tan is only willing to be a girl in front of you."

A girl in her early twenties, wanting to be coquettish, angry, and occasionally begging for mercy.

Guan Xiao didn't squeak, just pursed his lips.

"Then I'll continue!" Tang Jingcheng withdrew his scattered emotions and raised the paper in his hand again.

"Brother Nine...", she tried to soften her tone as much as possible, "Do you remember the first time we met, in the emergency room of the hospital, I woke up from my hospital bed, and someone was doing it... Ban my fingers, I won't, they were all broken by then..."

Tang Jingcheng stopped again when he read this: "What's the situation?" ”

Guan Luo propped his forehead and recalled: "It's quite a fortuitous situation, in fact, the first time I saw her should not be in the hospital, but in thyme, when I went to Lao Mai, she was being dragged in the back alley and beaten......"

Tang was stunned: "For what?" ”

"She sneaked into the box to steal the guest's wallet, and was caught by the guest."

"And then you abused lynching?"

Guan Luo smiled bitterly: "This kind of thing is very common in the field, and she also asked for privacy at that time."

If you are private, you will be trained!

Tang Jingcheng still couldn't accept this rough way of dealing with it, but thinking about it, calling the police would also ruin her.

"And then?"

"Later, it's a beating, until the guest is satisfied!" Guan Luo still felt a little angry when he recalled the scene that night, "At that time, she was only fifteen years old, she was still a child, and she was not too greedy, she only took two hundred yuan from the guest's wallet. ”

The rest of her life was returned untouched, but was eventually discovered.

Tang Jingcheng could almost imagine the scene of a fifteen-year-old girl being carried to the back alley and beaten up. Definitely particularly helpless and desperate.

She took a deep breath: "Hit hard? ”

Guan Luo swept his forehead with his fingers again: "The people sent by Thyme over there are all thugs!" ”

A few thugs toss a little girl, and they still count on their subordinates to show mercy?

"A broken rib and a comminuted fracture of two fingers on the right hand!"

“……”

Tang Jingcheng didn't know what to say, she could only turn her face to look at the mountains across the terrace. The mountains are undulating, and a few faint lights can be seen on the mountainside.

At that time, Ye Tan's ribs were kicked and broken by Thyme's thugs, and as for her fingers, she was completely to blame.

The guests were drunk, and after a while they said that they had lost four or five hundred, and for a while they said that they had lost two or three thousand, Ye Tan said that he had only taken two hundred, but he refused to let go when he pinched it with his right hand.

You said that a girl was beaten like that, rolling on the ground and pinching her right hand but refused to let go, and finally the guest stepped forward and stepped on her right hand, and trampled her middle finger and ring finger alive.

After stepping on Ye Tan, she still didn't let go, lay on the ground, climbed two steps, her face was already swollen, but she didn't say a word. Viciously glaring at a pair of eyes.

She was thin then, thinner than she is now, with high cheekbones and deep eye sockets. A pair of dark eyes stared at him as if he was going to eat someone, and the guest was half awakened by the scare.

Who would have thought that a little girl would have such a hard temperament, so in the end, the matter was over, and the guest took back two hundred, and did not forget to spit on Ye Tan before leaving, saying that the rest of the money should be used for her funeral.

"You saved her?"

"Hmm."

"Why did you save her then?"

"Because of the murderous aura in her eyes!"

"So you brought her back to life and took her into Jiurongtai?"

"Not really." Guan Luo thought about it for a while, "It was a year after she officially entered Jiurongtai, and she went to thyme for a while after being discharged from the hospital. ”

"What are you doing in thyme?"

"Be a waiter!"

"Do you employ child labor?"

“……”

Guan Luo frowned: "This is Lao Mai's idea, she followed Lao Mai after being discharged from the hospital, and I was brought into Jiurong Terrace a year later!" ”

“……”

Tang Jingcheng seemed to have some understanding: "I see! ”

In this way, she and Lao Mai have known each other for a little longer than Guan, but the fate is wrong. In the end, they didn't get together.

"Keep reading!" Guan slightly looked up.

Tang Jingcheng leaned back on the sofa again.

“…… I refused, my fingers were broken by then, but the man was still banning, oh yes. I remembered that the person who had been banning my fingers at that time was Lao Mai! ”

Guan Luo: "......"

Tang Jingcheng: "......"

The two glanced at each other, Tang Jingcheng coughed, and continued to read: "Ban to the back he is not happy, you come over, lower your head and lean against my ear, you said a word to me, that was the first thing you said to me, do you remember what you said at that time?" ”

Over and over again, around and around.

Ye Tan's letter is very wordy, and it takes a lot of pen and ink to express a meaning clearly, but she can't force it, after all, her level is limited.

"What did you say then?"

"Didn't she write it in the letter?"

Tang Jingcheng glanced at it again and confirmed: "I didn't write it!" ”

Guan Luo pursed his lips at this time: "I said, you let go of your hand, I'll take a look, I won't rob her of things." ”

Tang Jingcheng rolled his eyes: "You must have said this in a very gentle tone at that time, right?" ”

"How do you know?"

"Because of this she wrote in the letter."

Guan Luo: "......"

Tang Jingcheng continued: "...... Your voice was very good, and your expression and tone were gentle, and then I let go of my hand, and you saw what I was holding in my hand, and you didn't break your promise, and you picked it up and put it in my pocket, and then told me that my finger was broken, and the doctor was going to fix it for me..."

Tang Jingcheng stopped when he read this.

"What did she hold in her hand?"

Guan Luo rubbed his face with his hand: "Two one-dollar coins? ”

"What?" Tang Jingcheng thought that he had heard it wrong, how could it be!

"She was trampled on and broke her right hand for those two one-dollar coins, because she said it was her own and all her belongings at the time."

It's only two dollars, but she won't let go. Therefore, Ye Qin's tendon problem has been there since he was a child, and he can't change it.

Tang Jingcheng suddenly couldn't read anymore, she put the paper on her lap and gasped twice.

"Give me a cigarette!"

"Not allowed!" Guan Luo was simply decisive, "What if I really get pregnant!" ”

Tang snorted. She didn't believe it, but Guan Luo didn't give it to her, and she couldn't grab it clearly, and she was about to raise her hand and start reading the letter, but the next second the paper was swept away by Guan Luo.

"Okay, I'll see for myself, I can't finish reading until dawn at your speed!"

“……”

Tang Jingcheng rolled his eyes and didn't pay any more attention.

"Then you take your time, I'll go back to the room first!"

She got up and went into the house, and when she walked to the bed, she couldn't help but shiver, the terrace outside was too cold, so she put on a thin coat with a bath towel wrapped around it, and most of her legs were bare, and she immediately opened the quilt and got in.

I couldn't sleep for a while, so I lay on my side.

At that time, there were no lights on in the house, and all the lights on the terrace were reflected in the white curtains, which were almost transparent. It outlines the figure of Guan Luo sitting on the sofa reading a letter.

In fact, the letter is not very long, although there are three or four sheets of paper, but Ye Tan's writing is very large, plus scribbling and alteration, so the content should not be much.

It only took a few minutes to read it.

After reading it, I looked up, and the night was thick.

Lying on the bed, Tang Jingcheng heard a "crackling" sound on the other side of the terrace, which was the sound of ignition, and soon the smoke dispersed.

She didn't know what else was written behind Ye Tan's letter, but Guan Xiao didn't return to the room for a long time, and he smoked the few remaining cigarettes on the terrace with his arms alone.

Tang Jingcheng felt that Ye Tan's death still had some impact on Guan Luo, and he couldn't tell whether he was sad or regretful, not to mention that Ye Tan also took away the only bloodline of the Mai family.

It's just that Tang Jingcheng didn't ask some words, everyone left, and it was pointless to ask too much.

Tang Jingcheng lay on the bed and waited, waited and waited, then turned over and fell asleep in a daze, I don't know how long I slept, I heard the sound of pushing the door dimly, and then the bed behind him sank, Guan slightly with a cold air pasted up, and took Tang Jingcheng into his arms from behind.

Tang Jingcheng was shivering from the cold of his hands, and woke up a little sleepy.

"What's wrong?"

He seemed to shake his head, buried his face in the back of Tang Jingcheng's neck and did not speak.

Tang Jingcheng felt that something was wrong with him, and was about to turn over, but he was held back: "Don't move yet!" ”

“……”

He breathed heavily, and the strong smell of tobacco hit him.

How much did he smoke when he sat out alone?

"Guan Luo, speak, what's wrong?"

Guan Luo tightened the arm around her waist, and for a long time, he heard his voice too hoarse.

"Qingxiao's death back then has nothing to do with you......"