Chapter 25: Innocence

The two have been married for so long, but he has been busy with other things and neglected her, no wonder she is so dissatisfied.

In the inn, Xiao Tao cultivated for a few days and felt that his body had recovered the same as before, so he went out of the city alone, preparing to find Ning Sumo.

In the night, Xiao Tao went downstairs and left a note in the room, which was left for the guys in the store, pressed with a piece of silver, saying that she was going to check out, but at night the people in the inn were asleep, and she was inconvenient to disturb, so she left a note.

The door to the inn was locked, and Peach quietly opened the door, crept out, and closed the door in the room with a little trick outside.

Hearing the sound of the deadbolt falling, Xiao Tao stood at the door and paused, she remembered her father who taught her this little trick, and she couldn't help but feel a little sad.

The death of her father and mother is inevitable in this life, and Xiao Tao also knows that it is unstoppable, but she is already very relieved, compared to the previous life, she would rather her father and mother be killed by someone, at least there is not too much pain.

Xiao Tao, who came out of the inn, had already changed into a man's clothes, and when she walked to the city gate, the city gate had just opened, and she left the city easily without alarming anyone.

The world outside is colorful, people can't help but take a deep breath, looking at the road ahead, Xiao Tao doesn't know what the road ahead is like, she can only continue to move forward now, keep moving forward.

There is a small town ten miles away, and Xiao Tao has found a place to sit here, this town has not been to before, but Xiao Tao seems to be very familiar with this town called Pingle Town.

"Shopkeeper Liu, I want an upper room, can this ingot of silver live here for a month?" The first time Xiao Tao came here, she knew that the shopkeeper's surname was Liu.

"Yes, yes." It was rare for the shopkeeper to see such a generous guest, and he took the money to take the guest upstairs in person, he probably saw that Xiao Tao was a girl, and deliberately chose a quiet and excellent location with excellent sight.

"Does your town's storyteller still tell stories at the teahouse on weekdays?" Xiao Tao opened the window and saw the teahouse opposite, which is a place that many people in Pingle Town love to go to, where they can play and have fun, and they can drink tea and listen to books.

"Every day at noon, I will speak there for two hours." Shopkeeper Liu glanced at the teahouse opposite and said with a smile.

At noon, Xiao Tao came to this place called Ruyi Teahouse, she found a place to sit down, saw the storyteller not far away, and saw the guests on the first floor who listened carefully, she couldn't help but burst into tears.

I thought there would never be such a leisurely day again, but I didn't expect to experience it. God is not kind to her.

"Little sister, do you want to buy flowers?" A little girl of seven or eight years old was holding a basket with a dozen flowers in it.

Xiao Tao took out five cents from his pocket.

"I used the money to buy a flower, but you're going to sit here and listen to me for half an hour, is that okay?" Xiao Tao asked softly.

This flower is a penny, and no one buys flowers on weekdays, and there are many people who grow flowers in this town, and few people think of buying flowers.

The little girl thought about it, then put the basket aside, took out a flower and handed it to the little peach, and sat awkwardly on the bench.

"Little sister, don't you have a family to accompany you to listen to the book?" The little girl sat for a while and then couldn't sit still, children of this age wanted to play, and refused to sit honestly in one seat.

"No, they can't come." Xiao Tao drank tea and said, she saw that the child opposite was a little unable to sit still, so she asked for some peanuts, and asked for a pot of tea again, so that the child could eat peanuts and drink tea with her.

There was something to eat, and the child was really much quieter, she peeled peanuts and beans with her little hands, looking clumsy and cute.

"Why does the young lady like to listen to books? I always felt that the old master was talking nonsense. The little girl was innocent and said whatever she thought of in her heart.

Xiao Tao looked at the old gentleman who was telling the story over there, he should be seventy years old, with gray hair, eight feet long, and a thin body.

What the little girl said, Xiao Tao vaguely heard someone say it, because the time was too long, she forgot when she had heard it.

"Who can tell if it's true or false." Xiao Tao poured a cup of tea for the little girl and touched her hair, "Do you like peanuts?" ”

The little girl nodded and looked at Little Peach expectantly.

Little Peach beckoned the little guy to bring another plate of peanuts and put it in front of the little girl.

"Would you like to hear me tell a story?"

"Is it better than what the old gentleman said?" The little girl didn't want to listen to it, but because Xiao Tao invited her to eat peanuts, she didn't say it directly.

"I try." Xiao Tao thought about it and said.

The little girl peeled the shell of the peanut bean with her little hands and looked at the little peach.

Xiao Tao pointed to a house not far outside, "My family used to live behind that tall house. ”

"Over there is the house of the rich man Li." The little girl said that she knew everything about the town, and that the rich man had lived there for decades.

"Well, it's still the home of Rich Man Li." Xiao Tao smiled, "You know the terrain here very well, but I'm just telling a story, don't take it seriously." ”

"That's the same as the old gentleman." The little girl was a little reluctant to listen.

"Yes, my father and I live there, and we come here every day to listen to the old gentleman talk and write books, and I live a very comfortable life." Xiao Tao said with full of memories, although the little girl didn't want to listen, she still sat next to her and listened.

The little girl eats peanuts, sucks her fingers from time to time, and licks the sugar on her hands, which looks very cute.

"But didn't you listen to it today?" The little girl interjected.

Xiao Tao looked at the house, as if she could see the house behind her through the thick courtyard wall.

At that time, her whole family was arranged there by Qi Yunyang, in order to avoid the disaster of war, and she lived there for a year before Furong City was gone.

"yes, I didn't come to listen." Xiao Tao sighed, speaking of this, Xiao Tao suddenly remembered something, she put the silver on the table, called the guy over, and asked the guy to clean up the table after the little girl had eaten. Walking out of the teahouse, Xiao Tao walked to the door of the rich man's house.

The tall courtyard wall, everything has not changed, the red door, the blue tile.

Xiao Tao still remembers the time when she lived in the mountains with her father and mother when she was a child, and then the family saved enough money, in order to let her learn some female workers, the family moved to this town, there are many flowers in the town, her mother taught her to make flower cakes, and the life of the family gradually improved.

The weather was fine that day, and she got up in the morning to make the flower cake, when a group of people rushed to her house and took her father and mother away, asking her father and mother to hand over the recipe for the flower cake.

Xiao Tao ran out of the door and bumped into a sedan chair at the door, she saw that the woman in the sedan chair must be either rich or expensive, so she begged the people in the sedan chair to save her father.

The person in the sedan chair was Zirou, she came from the third uncle and happened to pass by here.

Zirou saw that Xiao Tao was pitiful, so she asked people to help her save her father, but there is no such good thing in the world, Zirou saw that Xiao Tao was clever, so she let Xiao Tao stay by her side as a maid, and she could go home after three years, when she was sixteen years old, it was time to get married.

Xiao Tao left Pingle Town with her father and mother and went to the house where Zirou lived, at that time, Furong City was not there, and many things had not happened.

Xiao Tao knew some things there, she served Zirou wholeheartedly, and her father and mother also found a good errand there.

After that, she and her father went to Furong City, where they met Qi Yunyang and had some emotional entanglements with him.

Standing in front of the gate, Xiao Tao recalled the bits and pieces that happened at that time, and only felt like a lifetime away, and it really seemed like a lifetime apart.

Probably because Xiao Tao had been standing at the door for too long, the doorkeeper came over and asked.

"Girl, are you here to look for relatives?" The doorkeeper asked, and he saw that although Xiao Tao was wearing a maid's clothes, the clothes seemed to be worth a lot of money, and they were good fabrics.

"It's not." Xiao Tao said.

"Really?" The gatekeeper said suspiciously, as if he didn't fully believe what Momo said.

Xiao Tao suddenly thought of something, and she pointed to the courtyard.

"Is the owner of this yard going to sell the house?" Xiao Tao remembered that this yard was bought at a very cheap price.

"Little girl, I think you are a foreigner, you can't buy this house." The doorkeeper whispered.

"Why?" Xiao Tao was puzzled, when he bought this house, no one said that this house was not good, the man who sold the house said that it was a good place, because he was in a hurry to leave, so he sold it to Xiao Tao's family at a very low price.

"This house is ominous, the people who live in the house are all dead, if it weren't for the fact that there is still a master living in it, I really want to leave here quickly." The gatekeeper pulled Xiao Tao into the corner and whispered to her.

"How so?"

"I can't say for sure, it seems that the feng shui here is not good, and the people who live here seem to be prone to causing some trouble, and someone must have cursed here."

The more she talked, the more evil it became, Xiao Tao didn't believe it, but when she heard the doorkeeper say it so seriously, she wanted to go in and take a look at this courtyard.

"Can I go in and have a look?" Xiao Tao said with a little pleading.

"It can be, the only remaining Li family also said that they were going to sell the house, but it's so easy, who doesn't know that the house here is ominous." The doorkeeper pushed the door open as he spoke.

There were several coffins parked in the courtyard, and a white cloth floated everywhere you could see.

In the center of the hall, a coffin was parked, and a man in a blue shirt sat in front of the coffin drinking tea, his expression was very calm.