Chapter Ninety-Six: The Old Man
It's not the same shabby as it looks from the outside, and everything around it is a little exquisite.
At a glance, you can see that the owner of this family still cares about his own life.
"Excuse me, is there something you are doing?" After the woman finished pouring the water, she also sat across the table and asked Xue Tan expressionlessly.
Her voice was hoarse, as if she had been hurt before, but her tone was still gentle.
There was no precaution, as if he was just talking to an old friend.
After experiencing the blows of life, she can still treat others so gently, which is also an extremely precious treasure.
Xue Tan listened to her words and understood what it meant.
This shows that she has admitted that the owner of this family is surnamed Ding, and this person's status is not low, it is estimated that she is the woman in the man's mouth.
Even if Xue Tan didn't want to believe it, he had to believe it at this moment.
"Since I'm here, I won't beat around the bush, we're from the capital." Xue Tan directly clarified his identity, and after finishing speaking, he seemed to feel that it was still not enough, and added: "We are from the palace."
The man's face had already changed when he heard the capital, but Xue Tan said another word from the palace, and her expression directly stiffened on her face.
"Since you have worked so hard to get here first, it is not easy to come all the way here, and I don't want to drive you out like this." The woman said this.
Although he said that he didn't want to drive them away, the meaning of this sentence was almost to send them off.
"We don't mean anything else, we just want to ask about the past." Xue Tan made it clear.
It's like a silent war. Although Xue Tan has fought on the battlefield for so many years and has almost won many battles, he is not sure here.
The current situation is already obvious, the male owner of this family should be the wife of the soldier back then.
It's not that Xue Tan can determine her identity at a casual glance, and because of this woman's veil.
In this deep mountain and old forest, Xue Tan also discovered along the way that some ideas here are still backward.
For example, a woman must wear a veil when she goes out, no matter what her status, whether she already has a family or still lives alone.
You can't let other men see it, you can't just show your head in broad daylight.
Xue Tan had always known about this inexplicable rule, but he thought that this had disappeared decades ago, before he even noticed these things.
And now the result is in front of him again.
Xue Tan's trip was not here to observe some old customs, he thought of these only because he had just seen the soldier's name engraved on the woman's silk scarf.
Xue Tan didn't deliberately remember that name, but when he saw it, his mind would remind him that this was that person.
"Just ask." The woman did not seem to be rejected, and spoke indifferently.
This attitude was completely unexpected by Xue Tan, but this opportunity was really rare right now.
He asked the question he had already thought about, "Excuse me, you guys, no, why did you move here?" Did the emperor ask for it just because he liked it here? ”
Even though he had already thought about how to ask in his heart, he still paused when the real words came to his lips.
Now there was only one person left, and that was one of his few hopes.
Disembodied.
"You people in the capital don't know what they've done now?" The woman asked, gritting her teeth.
What can happen? What else can you do?
Xue Tan was confused.
It's not that all the people in the capital are the same, what's more, even if they all work for the emperor in the palace, the level is not the same.
If he knew, would he need to make such a big effort?
"We ......"
"That's it, just say it." Xue Tan just wanted to defend himself a few words, but just as he spoke, he let the man snatch the words.
You must have realized that you didn't think right, right?
"Everyone says that today's emperor is wise and capable, does things without leaving a tail, and is a good emperor."
"But when he dealt with that incident back then, he didn't figure it out, so he killed my husband directly."
The woman's tone was a little vicious, her eyes became sharp and sharp, and she also had a lot of resentment in her heart.
These Xue Tan also know.
He didn't speak.
He knew that only by maintaining a proper silence at this moment could he make the person in front of him speak further, but he also knew that the Emperor was indeed unfair in his judgment.
So Xue Tan's reason is too sufficient.
At the moment, this woman only said an ending that everyone knew, and if Xue Tan wanted to know anything more, she still had to wait until the anger in her heart subsided a little before listening.
It's hard to settle.
Xue Tan could understand that she was uneasy at the moment.
"By the way, are you usually the only one living here?"
Maybe Xue Tan would hate his change of topic later, but he also knew that his approach was a very suitable choice.
"yes." The woman's answer was simple, as if prevaricating. "His sister also left at a very young age."
"Leaving means?" Xue Tan didn't say anything more, waiting for her to continue.
"We stayed together very early on from us, but later, after that incident, she was gone. Went somewhere else. ”
"I guess it's enough to live with us, sometimes I think about it, even I can't hold on to it, how can I be embarrassed to ask her to stay all the time."
"Anyway, she is going to get married and leave in the future, so it's better to go out early, see the world, and go out to enjoy a little more happiness."
The woman said a lot at once.
Xue Tan didn't want to interrupt her, so he listened to her babble all the time.
Because Xue Tan didn't have this information when he checked the man's identity, he didn't know what sister he would have.
"Eh, has my sister been back recently? Let's start counting since I left. ”
Xue Tan didn't know what to say, and those words of happiness didn't seem to be suitable for him to pick up.
Let's be vague and vague.
Xue Tan heard himself ask in a flat tone.
In fact, he was not interested in the answer to the question, but after he asked, he found that he was wrong.
The world is a little too small.
"His sister's name is Ding Yufu......" The woman did not continue, because she only said one name and was interrupted by Xue Tan.
Ding Yufu!?
Is it the Ding Yufu who was redeemed and sent away by him?
A strange look flashed in Xue Tan's heart.