After washing, Zhan's father and mother were lying on the bed, Zhan's father was drunk but seemed to be very sober. Zhan's mother saw that he was not honestly resting, so she got up and asked, "What are you thinking about before you get drunk by drinking?" ”

"Lady, look at Qi Ning, this girl..."

"I think this girl is very good, sensible, can do things, her eyes are clean, I like it very much, and I am very satisfied with being a daughter-in-law." After speaking, Zhan's mother glanced at him, frowned, and said: "I'm satisfied, your son likes it too, and the girl is also a good girl, what do you want to say now?" ”

Just saw that he was quite satisfied with his daughter-in-law at the dinner table, why now?

"If you have anything to say, you're stuck there halfway through, and you don't want me to sleep?"

Speaking of this, Father Zhan also sat up and said, "Do you remember that when my son came back to tell us about this, I mentioned to you the eldest girl of the Zhang family and the second son.

Although the two of them are juniors, I have heard a lot of them, but the three girls of the Zhang family are unheard of. Even such an important matter as the girl and the Ji didn't show the slightest rumor. ”

Zhan's mother: "Qi Ning's identity can't be fake. Our family is originally from the rivers and lakes, and the children's marriage never cares about the identity of the other party, Lin Zhao knows it. ”

Father Zhan put his arm around her and sighed. "Of course I know this, looking at Qi Ning's child's speech and demeanor, the identity will not be fake."

"And what are you bothering about?"

Zhan's father: "Before the meal, my son and I mentioned it to him. Lin Zhao said that Qi Ning's parents left early, she was not in good health when she was a child, and her sister looked at her very strictly, even a little too much. ”

"So what? When she marries into our family, she will be a member of our family. What do you think so much? ”

"You say... How did Lin Zhao persuade people to promise the girl to our family? I always felt like this kid didn't have something to say. Father Zhan rubbed his chin and couldn't help but say.

Zhan Mu looked at him, "It won't be a means of indiscriminateness." Just tell me, how is this kid Qi Ning? ”

"Of course that's good."

"Then what nonsense are you talking about? Go to bed! ”

Zhan's mother forcefully pressed Zhan's father back to cover the quilt, closed her eyes and prepared to rest.

Listening to Zhan's father whispering aggrievedly on the side: "I just cared about it, and I didn't say anything......"

"I think you're just drinking too much and worrying about it." Zhan Mu said ruthlessly. "I believe in my son, and I have seen people, and I am very relieved. I'm not a bad mother-in-law, do you want to be a bad father-in-law? ”

"Oops, okay, okay. I'm just mentioning it, look at my wife's anger. Don't say it, don't say it, sleep. ”

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Ji Ran sat in the room, staring at the flickering candle flames, and suddenly seemed to return to that day, and saw Tao Xueqi surrounded by flames in the village.

She looked at herself with a smile on the corner of her mouth, but her eyes looked like crying.

There were no tears, but the cry turned into an invisible dagger, smashing his heart.

At the moment when she disappeared, he seemed to follow her and turn away.

And at that moment, the first thought that came to him was not sympathy for those people in the village, nor was it hatred and doubt for her, but a strong retention.

All hesitation comes after calming down.

I knew the sin of her, but I couldn't bear to go to her. Just like Zhan Suiyu said, after knowing the news, will I look for her or not? After finding her, do you want to get rid of her or not?

From the moment I hesitated, I knew that I could not draw my sword against her, let alone kill her, but I could not turn a blind eye to her taking the lives of so many people without changing her face.

Then I... And why do you want to inquire about her?

It's wrong to kill someone, and killing an innocent person is even more of a crime, how is he going to face her?

She waved at the woman and child with a clean and neat gesture without the slightest hesitation, does it mean that this is not the first time she has done this?

still remembers the first time I met her, she was surrounded by people in old clothes, and Ji Ran passed by to save her. Now that I think about it, it may not be her who he saved, but the two of them.

After saving her, knowing that she had nowhere to go, Ji Ran took her all the way and gradually became attracted to her. Not only the bracelet, but he even gave away his own heart.

She knew that she hated killing innocents the most when she walked the rivers and lakes, but she did it in front of her.

If you hate him and don't like him, why should you take his bracelet?

"Why is it so broad, double jumping off around the wrist. Scold... Hehehe..."Ji Ran covered his head and laughed in a low voice, the laughter was like a mirror that suddenly fell to the ground, and it was shattered. "Why is it so broad, around the wrist... Double jump? ”

Death and life are broad, and Zicheng said. Hold the hand of the son, and grow old with the son.

Extravagant hope, after all, extravagant hope...... Ridiculous, ridiculous.

Ji Ran, you have been walking the rivers and lakes for many years in vain, but you don't understand people's hearts at all, how can you be so naïve.

When have there been good things in this world without regrets, but you and I are just willing. If you don't get along, you will leave, and it has always been so.

Zhan Suiyu said that he and Tao Xueqi were not in the same way, and this was true.

......

The next day, Ji Ran took the initiative to find Zhang Qining, and Zhan Suiyu happened to be accompanying her.

Seeing that someone was coming, Zhang Qining raised his eyes and looked over, and all the hesitations he had had overnight were as if they had been cut off by a sword.

The person holding the sword was not the same as in the past, and his delicate eyebrows and eyes were dyed with a layer of frost-like cold, freezing the warmth and innocence of the past.

There is nothing good or bad, there is no right or wrong, the person just makes a decision.

"Ji Gongzi came to the door, thinking that there is an answer?"

"Yes." Ji Ran looked at her and said slowly: "Please also ask Miss Zhang to tell the content of the letter below, on the other hand, if the girl wants to ask anything, she can also tell her truthfully." ”

"Good. It's good that Ji Gongzi thinks clearly. I wonder if you can tell me what you know in advance? I promise that after Ji Gongzi finishes speaking, I will tell you the news about Tao Xueqi in my hand immediately. I can give you the letterhead if you want, how about it? ”

Zhan Sui Yu looked at Ji Ran, when he came to Qi Ning at this time, what could he not agree to? He called out to him, "Ji Ran, come and sit down." ”

Ji Ran sat next to Zhan Suiyu, opposite Zhang Qining, and told him about the disappearance of Tao Xueqi who went to Liao's family that day, bumped into a middle-aged woman, and Tao Xueqi's murder and arson.

"I see..."Zhang Qining nodded. It seems that there is something wrong with the middle-aged woman that Ji Ran and Tao Xueqi met after they arrived at Liao's family.

"Would that middle-aged woman and Tao Xueqi know each other before?" Zhang Qining thought of it, Zhan Suiyu naturally noticed it, and he couldn't help but say: "First of all, whether she deliberately bumped into Tao Xueqi or not, let's just say that Tao Xueqi disappeared after hitting her." Ji Ran, don't you think it's too much of a coincidence? ”

Ji Ran also paid attention to this when recalling, otherwise he wouldn't have said this matter just now.

"It was strange, indeed, but the woman had left at that time, and even the people in the village would have been burned to the ground. Now to check, where to start? ”

"At least we can find out if she is from the stockade." Zhang Qining said.

Ji Ran said: "How to check?" ”

Zhang Qining: "According to what you said, the woman bumped into Tao Xueqi because she wanted to extort money, but she looked very scared after seeing Tao Xueqi. I don't think it's the first time she's done this, and most of the time she won't pick the familiar faces of the Liao family, but the new faces like you.

But she never expected to meet Tao Xueqi. Judging from your description, between her and Tao Xueqi, at least she has a shadow on Tao Xueqi. ”

"Shadows?" Ji Ran frowned.

Zhang Qining responded, "If you want to say what kind of person Tao Xueqi is, I'm afraid I know better than you, she has shown her claws to me in Suzhou." ”

“？” Zhan Suiyu raised his eyebrows and looked at her, how could he not know that there was such a thing?

Ji Ran: "What if you know that she is from the village?" ”

Zhang Qining held his cheek with one hand, looked at him with a smile, and said, "You always have to have a little trust in the person you like, don't you?" Tao Xueqi can hide from you and suppress your nature for so long, isn't it enough to explain anything? ”

Ji Ran was stunned.

Zhang Qining said: "If she hadn't taken the initiative to expose, do you think you would have found out?" Tao Xueqi is not a madman, and he won't set such a big fire like a madman. If that woman had something to do with the village, and Tao Xueqi was not kidnapped but took the initiative to find it, what do you think? ”

"You mean... She probably knew that the woman was from the stockade, and she..."

And she happened to have a holiday with the people in the stockade. Ji Ran, this is not Tao Xueqi's unilateral killing, but a grievance involving the rivers and lakes that you don't know. When you think about it, do you feel much better? ”

Zhang Qining took the words and said for him, he couldn't help but raise his eyes to look at the look in his eyes, and sure enough, seeing a hint of loosening in his cold eyes, he couldn't help but chuckle in his heart.

Ji Ran raised the leaky look in his eyes, and corrected the color, but he was afraid that he could not escape Zhang Qining's eyes.

"It's not impossible for you to think so, after all, such a possibility is still very large. At least the Tao Xueqi in my impression is not a person who will do it without a purpose. Zhang Qining said.

Ji Ran pursed her lips, deep down in her heart she agreed with her words, and at the same time hoped that it would be so.

"I've said everything I know. Miss Zhang, can you tell me what the letter is about now? ”

"Of course. Do you know which pottery Tao Xueqi's pottery is? The corners of Zhang Qining's mouth hooked.

What kind of problem is this? Ji Ran looked at Zhan Suiyu in confusion, only to see a trace of clarity flashing in Zhan Suiyu's heart, as if he remembered something.

He said: "Zhengzhou, Dow." ”

"Zhengzhou Dow?" Ji Ran was puzzled, what Zhengzhou Dow? What are they talking about?

"Yes, that's it. Twenty years ago, it was robbed and destroyed in a fire. ”

Thieves in the house? Blaze? Twenty years ago? What are they talking about?

A layer of cold sweat broke out behind Ji Ran for no reason.

"I told you last time, so tell him this time." Zhang Qining said to Zhan Sui Yu, and Zhan Sui Yu responded to her dotingly and looked at Ji Ran.

"The Tao family is a porcelain-making master in Zhengzhou, and what I just mentioned was an old case." Zhan Sui Yu paused.

"According to the archives, twenty years ago, the Tao family was sacked by a nest of thieves, and after those thieves left, the Tao family was burned down by a fire, and no one survived."

He looked at Ji Ran, only to see that the other party was completely stunned, and there was no expression on his face except for shock.

None survived?!

So, what's going on with Tao Xueqi?

"But the snow... Miss Tao. Ji Ran paused, bumped into Zhang Qining's gaze, and couldn't help but change his words a little weakly.

Zhang Qining retracted his gaze, turned his face to Zhan Suiyu, and shook his head helplessly at him.

"But Miss Tao, isn't she still alive and well?"

Zhang Qining: "Then you have to ask her." Why is everyone dead, only she is alive? Why is the world so big, and you are passing through here? Why is that village exactly the same as when Dow wiped out? You go ask her? ”

Zhang Qining suddenly remembered one more thing, and said: "Oh yes, the letter also said that there were no grandchildren in the Tao family when the family was destroyed, and the youngest child was seven years old and a boy. Even if he had survived, he would have been twenty-seven years old.

I remember Tao Xueqi she... It's only sixteen or seventeen, right? It looks a little smaller. Ji Gongzi, don't you think it's strange? ”

"What do you mean?" Ji Ran stared at her and said.

Zhang Qining stood up with his support on the table and said slowly: "Ji Gongzi believes the theory of ghosts and gods? ”

"What, what?"

"Don't believe me? That's fine. Zhang Qining put his hands behind his back and said, "Seeing is believing, hearing is false." I think that this Tao Xueqi can burn down the entire village by himself, and let none of the people inside escape, no matter how you look at it, this matter is a bit mysterious. Maybe when I see her, everything will be clear. ”

Looking at him, Zhang Qining said, "Ji Gongzi, what do you say?" Do you make up your own mind? ”

Ji Ran was determined.

Tao Xueqi knew that person, but he hid it from himself, and he went to the door to take revenge?

Thinking about it carefully, he originally asked her where she was going, although she said Qingzhou, but think about it carefully... In fact, intentionally or unintentionally, she focuses more on the more fun places along the way.

Qingzhou and Zhengzhou are connected, and when she mentions Qingzhou and fun, of course she will think of Zhengzhou first. He took the initiative to mention Zhengzhou, so that she successfully dispelled her possible suspicions.

"Where is she?" Ji Ran asked.

Zhang Qining: "Zhengzhou, the ruins of Tao's old house. ”

Ji Ran's eyes were slightly stunned, Zhengzhou...

It seems that what she wanted to go to was Zhengzhou at the beginning, not on a whim but premeditated. So... Is passing through Liao's family boundary also in her plan?

As Zhang Qining said, Tao Xueqi is very smart. And Zhang Qining seems to know Tao Xueqi's thoughts very well, why?

Ji Ran raised his eyes, looked at Zhang Qining and said with some hesitation: "Miss Zhang, you seem to have only met her once, why are you so-"

"Why do you know her so well?" Zhang Qining smiled, turned around and said, "Definitely." I just know myself better. ”

Ji Ran: "I don't understand what you mean. ”

That's right, most people probably don't understand.

Zhang Qining walked towards Zhan Suiyu, and the corners of her mouth rose: "Tao Xueqi is very similar to me in the past, the two of us have similar views on problems, although there may be differences in choice, but I can still guess what she will think." ”

"I'm a little bit more like me used to be, but I'm a little bit more like I used to be. At this point, I feel like I'm much luckier than she is. ”

Zhang Qining looked at Zhan Suiyu with a smile, only to see Zhan Suiyu raise her eyebrows at her, the corners of her mouth curved a little, and she took her hand and pulled the person in front of her.

"Ji Gongzi, don't regret making a choice, otherwise the person who is chosen will be more painful."

Zhang Qining looked back at him and said, "Especially people like me and her, if they are in pain, they are not sure what they will do to others." Ji Gongzi, be careful~"