"Miss, please go this way." The young man leading the way in front turned slightly sideways, revealing the entrance to the alley behind him.

This small alley is built so narrow that it is a bit crowded for two adults next to each other.

Fortunately, Shen Qingyu is a half-grown child, and Ruyi is also a teenage girl, so it's okay for the two of them to walk together.

It's just that Zhang Jing, who was walking with another person behind him, couldn't stretch out, so he still chose to walk one after the other.

In this area, there is a large concentration of houses, and in order to build two more houses to the maximum, the road in the middle is naturally narrow and thin.

After Zhang Zhilan, that is, Zhang Jing's nephew, took them to the corner for a few turns, they finally arrived at their destination, but it was not the Wang family that Shen Qingyu had been thinking about, but the Li family who was married to the Wang family.

Shen Qingyu originally wanted to go to the Wang family to see the mother and daughter, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that the key to this matter was still on the Li family.

As long as the Li family is willing to withdraw from their relatives and no longer insist on asking Wang Su'er to come to the door, this matter can be regarded as complete.

Since Zhang Jing repeatedly assured that he would be able to solve the Li family, Shen Qingyu would not do anything superfluous, today's trip was more for fun, and there was no destination in the first place, and it was just incidental to come to the Li family.

In order not to make the appearance of Shen Qingyu and others seem too abrupt, Zhang Jing had already made preparations in advance.

The houses here are generally built very large, and it is appropriate for a large family to live in them, but it is more common for four or five families to rent a courtyard.

In addition to their own residence, the Li family's house was rented to three other families, and their lives were relatively wealthy compared to the rest of the people around them.

Zhang Jing said to one of the families in advance, and Shen Qingyu came to the door as a distant cousin, drank tea, and left after talking.

He was told that one of the three families was a widow in her forties, who lived alone and widowed.

Zhang Zhilan tapped on the door and said loudly, "Is Aunt Yun at home?" ”

After a while, the door "creaked" open, and the woman who opened the door should be the Yun aunt in Zhang Zhilan's mouth, because Shen Qingyu noticed that she nodded at Zhang Jing secretly.

The woman looked at Shen Qingyu and his party and asked, "Who are you looking for?" ”

The words were all set in advance, and without saying a few words, Shen Qingyu and the others were welcomed in as relatives.

When I entered the courtyard, I looked at the empty house from the outside, and the yard was full of things.

There are unknown wild vegetables to dry, firewood piled up in the corners into a hill, and chickens and ducks are raised in a small open space separated from each other.

There are also several half-finished lantern racks.

Shen Qingyu and the others were invited into the house, but the door was open, and they could have an unobstructed view of the situation in the courtyard by sitting in the hall.

According to Zhang Jing, Aunt Yun is only in her early forties, but she looks very old, and her hair is already gray.

She trembled and served tea to Shen Qingyu and a few people, saying that she was sixty years old, and everyone believed her.

Obviously, she knew very well the purpose of Shen Qingyu and the others coming, and she didn't say much after serving tea, so she sat in the corner stiffly.

There are always people busy going back and forth in the yard, Xu is here the door is wide open to attract people's attention, and after a while, a woman in her forties and fifties poked her head into the house to look in, and asked, "Aunt Yun, is there a guest?" ”

Aunt Yun still prepared the words in advance, "Yes, my cousins who came from afar came to see me, and it was their kindness." ”

The woman still kept looking in, her eyes wandering around, "This is empty-handed?" ”

Aunt Yun said embarrassedly: "It's not a wealthy family, people can do it." ”

The woman nodded with satisfaction, looked at Shen Qingyu and his party as nothing, twisted her body and left.

Shen Qingyu was curious: "...... is she?" ”

Aunt Yun said: "This is the sister-in-law of the Li family, and I rent her house." ”

That's the hostess of the Li family, and she looks like a bad person.

In the courtyard a beautiful woman was laboriously carrying a bucket of water, the bucket was so heavy that the woman almost stopped one step at a time.

Shen Qingyu was interested in learning about the situation of the Li family, and asked again, "What about her?" Who is she? ”

Aunt Yun said: "She is the daughter-in-law of the eldest son of the Li family, but unfortunately her man went to work on the dock and had an accident and died for several years." ”

Looking at it this way, the one who is married to the Wang family must be another son of the Li family.

What an ordeal it was, the eldest son had been dead for several years, and now the younger son was dead.

Shen Qingyu sighed in his heart, and suddenly heard a louder noise outside, but it was a man coming in with another man in his arms.

Both were drunk and staggered as they walked.

The man said in a loud voice: "Come on, serve the wine again." ”

Then he turned his head and smiled with the person next to him: "Drink until dawn." ”

Aunt Yun looked unaccustomed to it, "This Li Laosan is really, he drinks in broad daylight, either eats and drinks or gambles, and his daughter-in-law is not a capable person, that is, their eldest daughter-in-law still has some calculations, otherwise their family would have eaten the northwest wind a long time ago." ”

The two staggered into the house, and Li Laosan, who listened to it, asked his daughter-in-law to cook a few side dishes and send them into the house.

The two of them were talking in a low voice, and they seemed to be deliberately shouting, which made people upset, making Shen Qingyu's impression of them even worse, and he thought that he should urge Zhang Jing to solve this matter quickly.

Shen Qingyu sat for a while and was about to leave, when an exclamation sounded.

"Hell! Ghosts! ”

Shen Qingyu was stunned for a moment, and then quickly ran towards the source of the sound.

Her legs were short and her steps were small, and Zhang Jing and the others had to fall a few steps behind her because of her.

Soon found the person who made the sound, it was the man who came in with Li Laosan.

He sat down in the doorway, shaking with his head in his hands.

"What the hell? What nonsense? I told you to go back to the house and lie down, what are you doing lying here? "The drunken Li Laosan arrived later than Shen Qingyu and the others.

The man sitting on the ground said in a trembling voice, "There is a big-headed ghost in the house, who wants to eat me with his mouth wide open!" ”

Li Laosan sneered: "I want to see what the hell it is, is he eating me, or am I eating him?" ”

As he spoke, he lifted the curtain and entered the house, followed by laughter, and soon, Li Laosan came out with a wooden board in his hand.

"Look at you cowardly, a painting can scare you like this." Li Laosan put the wooden board in his arms to everyone.

On the board was a picture of a demon with a huge head, staring at it, its mouth wide open, and drooling down the corners of its mouth, as if it was about to swallow it at any moment.

"You forgot? This is the painting I told you, and I was instructed by someone to hang it in my bedroom to ensure that I would win every gamble. Li Laosan slapped the wooden board.

So amazing?

When Shen Qingyu heard this, he took a few more glances at the painting, and it looked like an ordinary painting.