Qiu Ran came to propose marriage, and the one he wanted by name was Liao Caichen.

After explaining his intentions concisely, Qiu Ran left a letter and left, and stayed in the tea garden for half a cup of tea.

Mu Cripple looked at his back, stroked his beard and said with a smile, "This person, if you don't ask for a name, Najib, Nazheng, or ask for a date, you want to marry someone away; But you don't lose on your side, and marry off a young and vigorous young man. ”

"Brother Tai, don't be joking, I'm upset," Yu Chunhua opened the letterhead, pointed to it and said, "Look at it, it's clearly written on it, what day will you get married, what day will you send a bride price, and what day will you welcome your family, as if he has been sure that Liao Caichen will marry him." ”

"He is sure that he is determined, Liao Caichen is a man, why will he not really marry him, brother, what are you worried about?" Mu lame smiled, he felt that Yu Chunhua was really overreacting, how could he seem to take such a ridiculous thing seriously.

Who knew that Yu Chunhua crumpled the letterhead, grabbed Mu Cripple's arm, and earnestly instructed, "Liao Caichen will come back in a while, don't say that Qiu Ran has been here, just as if this thing has never happened, you must remember, don't say anything about it." ”

"For ...... Why? Mu Cripple was confused by him, "This kind of thing, everyone will laugh and it will be over, will Liao Caichen still take it seriously?" ”

"What if he's serious?" Yu Chunhua pulled Mu Cripple tighter, making him stunned for a while, not knowing how to react.

"How so? How can a big man marry another man? After a long while, Mu Cripple laughed loudly, but after laughing for a while, he saw that the expression on Yu Chunhua's face suddenly froze, his eyes were full of vigilance, and he clutched the paper ball in his hand again and again.

Mu Cripple reacted, but it was too late, the moment he turned around, Liao Caichen had already rubbed his shoulder and walked to Yu Chunhua's side, and spread his palm at him, "Give it to me." ”

"Did you hear it all?" Mu lame muttered.

Liao Caichen ignored him, only glared at Yu Chunhua, and leaned his palms forward again.

"Does it have to be? If you're really on the wrong path, no one will be able to help you then. Yu Chunhua suddenly raised his voice, he saw that Liao Caichen was obsessed, and he was angry. But after putting the paper ball heavily in Liao Caichen's palm, he breathed a deep sigh of relief, forced himself to calm down, and said slowly, "I gave you the letterhead, you can make your own decisions on what to do." ”

After saying this, he pulled Mu Cripple into the house, leaving Liao Caichen alone to stand in a daze.

He unfolded the paper ball and stared at the dense small print on it several times, but he didn't see anything. His mind was in turmoil now: the back road was blocked, and there was another road ahead that seemed to be impassable, and he didn't know what he should do, so he just picked up the crumpled piece of paper and unfolded it again and again.

When he was hesitating, he suddenly saw a person who recklessly broke into the courtyard, it was none other than Song Huan's wife Chen Sui. When she saw Liao Caichen, she didn't have time to say hello, so she hurriedly ran in and hurriedly said to him, "Young Master Liao, have you seen that one in our family these days?" He was pressed by the people in the gambling house, and he was without a home for several days, and now those people came to me and said that if my husband did not show up again, he would take the life of my child. You know they're all long-tailed scorpions, full of poisonous water, and I'm afraid they're going to cut open my belly. ”

Liao Caichen's heart moved: he had indeed seen Song Huan, just a few days ago, at the door of the Qiu Mansion, but if he told the truth and let her find him like this, wouldn't his identity be revealed?

The slightest hesitation betrayed him. Chen Sui then took a step closer to Liao Caichen, and said suspiciously, "Young Master Liao, have you seen my father-in-law?" ”

"I ......," Liao Caichen said, "I seem to have seen him go out of the city gate and go west a few days ago......"

Chen Sui showed a suddenly realized expression, "West, I know where he went, I knew he was going to find him." ”

After saying such an ambiguous sentence, she thanked Liao Caichen, and then, as when she came, hurried out of the door and walked in the direction of the city gate. Liao Caichen followed out, looking at her back and being stunned, but the words Chen Sui said repeatedly echoed in his mind: Those people in the gambling house are full of poisonous water, and they will definitely do it.

What did they say to themselves last night? If the money is not paid within three days, he must have all his limbs chopped off and thrown into the pigsty.

Liao Caichen shuddered, and his eyes once again fell on the ball of paper in his hand that had been soaked with his own sweat.

He suddenly knew what his choice was.

***

The door of the mound house was closed, and from a distance it looked lifeless, like a tomb without a living person. A few yellowed clumps of bamboo were picked out from the courtyard wall, and instead of adding a little vitality to the courtyard, it made it look even more depressed.

Chen Sui thought that there was no one in the house at first, but after a few taps on the door panel, the courtyard door was quickly opened, and a small man stood between the two doors, smiling respectfully at her.

It's Wang'er.

Chen Sui recognized him as Qiu Ran's personal servant, so he hurriedly asked, "This little brother, can my father-in-law be in the house?" ”

Wang'er saluted her, and said in a sharp voice that had not completely changed her voice, "Song Gongzi is here, but he ate too much wine at noon, and is now resting in the back room, you go in with me first and sit down, and I will go back to my young master and wife." ”

Hearing him say this, Chen Sui's heart was completely in his stomach, and he didn't even think much about why Song Huan came here to borrow money, why he stayed for a few days in a row, and he never thought about why he didn't send someone to inform him.

She followed Wang'er in, bypassed the shadow wall and entered the front hall, then sat down on a chair, and waited patiently for Qiu Ran and Song Yao while savoring the good tea brought by the people.

She didn't wait for any of them, and when the light of the setting sun faded from the illuminated wall and the darkness slowly settled in this lonely mansion, Chen Sui noticed that something was wrong.

It's been a whole hour, and the tea has long since cooled, but the host hasn't shown up. Not only that, but the people who were busy waiting for her when she first came were gone, and now she seemed to be the only one left in the whole mound house, except for the occasional ugly crow cry falling from the sky.

It was as if everyone else had disappeared, sucked away by something invisible.