Chapter 175: Touching the Melons (Part II)

In the middle of the night, when it is even quieter, every household is already resting, and the lights are rarely seen. There is a large mansion in a deep alley, but it is brightly lit inside and out, and it is particularly conspicuous in this dark night.

Although the house was large, there were few empty people, only a few elderly mothers-in-law carried rickety lanterns and hurried to a room in the inner courtyard.

"Who called you in? Get out and get out! A young woman of twenty-five or sixteen was anxiously pushing people out while she was busy fastening her neck.

"Uh...... The old man ...... a mother-in-law was a little suspicious, they heard their aunt just shouting here "come here, help" or something, so they hurried over.

"Good master!" The young woman raised her eyebrows, glanced at everyone and shouted, "You want to ruin this house by lighting so many candles at once, don't you?" Hurry up and go back to your room! ”

Although everyone was not convinced, they had no choice but to agree, quickly blew out the lantern, and reluctantly groped their way to their room by the dim moonlight. Walking out of the courtyard, everyone whispered: "I just saw the old man sitting on the ground, and his expression was like hitting a ghost......

"I also saw that Aunt Mei and Grandma Mei called people by herself, but she opened her eyes and said nonsense!"

Aunt Mei stood at the door and saw that everyone had walked away, so she carefully closed the door. She said complainingly as she walked inside: "Master, your surprise has scared me a lot. ”

At this time, the old man of the Zhang family was pacing back and forth in the house restlessly, and the green silk clothes covered the round body, like a huge watermelon rolling back and forth in the house. Seeing that Aunt Mei came in, Master Zhang hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed her and asked in a low voice, "What you just said is true or false?" ”

"Then can there be a fake? The third watch in the middle of the night is a joke? ”

When the old man heard this, he sat on the edge of the bed and sighed: "Mom, Zixing, this rabbit cub is also bold!" What should the Zhan family do if they report to the official? ”

Aunt Mei said: "What are you afraid of, they don't dare to report to the official!" Even if the government knows, it can't find out our family, Zixing has arranged it. His friends are not locals, and they will run away when the money is gone, what can the government do? ”

Master Zhang was a little relieved at this time, and after thinking about it for a while, he suddenly stared at Aunt Mei and asked, "How did you know about this?" ”

Aunt Mei glared at him and said, "The eldest and the second are all known, so they will hide it from you." Say that you are too timid, afraid that this and that will always chatter, it is better to cut first and then play. ”

"Then why are you telling me now? Isn't the money available tomorrow? The old man still didn't give up.

Aunt Mei endured her anger and patiently explained: "If it weren't for the fact that you were looking for life and death for the mortgage of the house just now, how could I have said this? ”

Looking at the white silk on the ground and the stool that had been kicked over, Master Zhang's fat face turned slightly red, and he said: "The tea shop is no longer good, I want to sell this house again, then it will be even more shameless to see the ancestors!" ”

The corners of the young woman's mouth twitched with disdain, as if she did not agree with him. The tea shop was earned by the ancestors of the Zhang family for several generations, and I am really sorry for the ancestors if they are defeated. But this house was originally not the Zhang family, I heard that it was a family surnamed Qing who lived here in the past. The old man forcibly occupied the young master's fiancée at that time, and fell in love with the ancestral house of others, so he colluded with the government to drive out the Naqing family, which robbed the house. Now he said that he had no shame to see his ancestors, and he didn't know if the ancestors of the Qing family would jump out of the coffin in anger when they heard this. But the old man was really bold back then, why has he become so obscene now? Let's take a look at the third young master Zixing, that temperament, that appearance, that figure...... The more Aunt Mei thought about it, the more she felt worthless about herself, and suddenly regretted that she shouldn't have stopped the old man from hanging himself.

"Hey, how much is the ransom?" Master Zhang dragged the concubine who was in a daze, and asked expectantly.

Aunt Mei came back to her soul and said in a low voice: "I heard that it costs 100,000 taels, but I also gave 50,000 to Zixing's friends on the road, so our family got 50,000." ”

"Fifty thousand ......" Master Zhang's expression was a little shocked and a little painful. I don't know if I'm surprised by the 50,000 that is about to arrive, or if I feel hurt by the 50,000 that I want to give away. After a long time, he said in a whisper: "However, that old guy Zhan Wenbing is ruthless, and his son is not far behind." How could he obediently cooperate? And he still has a dart game in his hand, and there are some powerful people in it. Even if he doesn't know how to report to the official openly, won't he secretly use the dart game? Once they catch someone, it's over when they come out of our house! ”

"Sleep, sleep! People are tied up, what's the use of saying so much now, you just need to pay some money when the time comes! Aunt Mei said as she pushed the old man to lie down and sleep, but she couldn't push it. Seeing that the old man was still sitting in a daze as the sky was falling, the more Aunt Mei looked at him, the more angry she became, and said impatiently: "You are afraid of smashing your head when you drop a leaf, I really don't know if you made up those things back then!" Leave you alone, I'll go to sleep by myself! As she spoke, she took off her shoes and went to bed.

At this moment, there was a sudden creak outside, like the sound of a door opening. Aunt Mei was taken aback and asked, "Who?" ”

No one answered, and there was a dead silence all around.

Aunt Mei thought she had misheard, and was about to go to bed again, but she heard a strange man's voice outside: "Wait, I still have something to ask." ”

"Sir, sir!" Aunt Mei was so frightened that she pushed Master Zhang next to her, but found that he was still dumbfounded and motionless, and she was even more panicked, and shouted at the top of her voice: "Someone's coming—help—"

Her sharp voice soon spread throughout the house.

In the subordinate room not far away, a mother-in-law on night duty muttered dissatisfiedly: "Grandma is howling again, what is the matter this time......

The companion who was dozing off rubbed his sleepy eyes and said, "Don't worry about her, lest you have to be told if you go." ”

"What I said is that if I go, I will go in vain. I don't let the lights light up, the black lights are blinding, and my old bones can't withstand falling. ”

Aunt Mei only screamed for a while and then fell silent, and everyone was even more convinced that this time it was another blind toss, so they ignored it.

At this time, Aunt Mei was sitting on the chair obediently, and said to Zhan Shaofeng and Guanfeng in front of her: "They are in Jiaxing County. ”