Chapter 31: Wake up
Sure enough, the more she said Wang Cuilan's face darkened, and she gritted her teeth and wanted to pounce and tear her.
A wicked smile flashed in Qiao Xuan's eyes, she still liked the way others couldn't get used to her and couldn't kill her.
"Zheng, go prepare some food!" Xu Gui turned his head and explained to Zheng Yun.
"No need! Village Chief Xu, we just ate before we came," Qiao Xuan said with a smile.
The wine and food of the county order family are very rich and the taste is good, she ate more, and she is not hungry at this time.
Wang Cuilan breathed a sigh of relief, she didn't want Qiao Xuan to take advantage of their family.
At midnight, the village was silent.
Wang Cuilan stood at the door with a small treasure in her hand and her legs trembling, and she turned her head to look at Xu Gui and the others with a nervous face.
The door of Xu's house was wide open, and a few torches were inserted in the courtyard to illuminate the surroundings.
"Old man, I'm afraid, I don't dare, why don't you come?"
Wang Cuilan's voice trembled, and she glanced at the moon hidden by the clouds, and the outside of the darkness was eerie.
A gust of wind blew on the ground, the torches shook a few times and were silently extinguished, and the originally bright courtyard was also wrapped in darkness.
Xu Gui turned his head to look at Qiao Xuan, "Qiao girl, why don't you let me go?" β
Wang Cuilan is unreliable, but don't go out of business, about his grandson's name, but don't be sloppy.
"If I can, I'll do it!" Zheng Yun had an open-minded posture, and she was not at ease when she asked her mother-in-law to tell the truth.
Qiao Xuan shook his head, "Does the child take Aunt Wang the most on weekdays?" Is it the closest to Aunt Wang? β
Xu Gui and Zheng Yun's faces stiffened, it's really like this, everyone has endless work to do every day, Wang Cuilan is idle at home, and the child can only be taken with her.
"That's it! Don't waste time, hurry up, Aunt Wang. β
Qiao Xuan urged impatiently, "It's up to you whether you can save your little treasure or not!" β
Wang Cuilan: "......"
She really hates Qiao Xuan, a dead girl, for the sake of Xiaobao, she will endure it for the time being.
"Xiaobao, Xiaobaoβ"
"Aunt Wang, you have to call Xiaobao's full name, there are more children called Xiaobao, who knows who you are calling" Qiao Xuan reminded angrily as if he deliberately couldn't get along with Wang Cuilan.
Wang Cuilan gritted her teeth and said secretly in her heart: If Xiaobao can't get better, she will definitely not let go of this dead girl.
"Wang Zhigao, Wang Zhigao, come back quickly! Grandma misses you. β
"Wang Zhigao, Wang Zhigao, come back quickly! Come home. β
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According to what Qiao Xuan said, she hugged her clothes and shouted while walking towards the river where Xiaobao fell into the water.
"You guys are waiting here" Qiao Xuan dropped a sentence, glanced at Xi He, and then followed Wang Cuilan.
Xi He pursed his lips and silently followed behind Qiao Xuan.
Qiao Xuan heard the footsteps and knew that it was Xi He, but he didn't object, and the two followed Wang Cuilan from a distance one after the other.
Wang Cuilan's voice was ethereal and ethereal in the night wind, and it was very permeating, and even she felt a sense of panic in her heart when she listened to it.
"Wang Zhigao, grandma is coming to you, go home with grandma."
The moon peeked out of the clouds, and the river sparkled by it, except for her voice, there was silence all around, not even the chirping of insects and frogs.
Wang Cuilan stood by the river, and the cold sweat was about to come out.
Many people have drowned in this river, and no one dares to come at night, and this is for her precious grandson, otherwise she would not have been here at this point in time.
Just when she was thinking about it, the talisman that Qiao Xuan gave her in the palm of her hand suddenly became hot, and she was excited, and Qiao Xuan's words sounded in her head, "If the talisman is hot, go back, no matter what sound you hear, don't look back." β
She immediately turned and walked back.
Qiao Xuan, who was not far away, stuffed a talisman into Xi He's palm, hiding the aura of the existence of the two.
Under the moonlight, a small figure by the river crawled out of the water, wet.
Xi He's pupils shrank, this was the first time he had seen a human ghost, the ghost was translucent, as if it could be blown away by a gust of wind.
The small figure followed behind Wang Cuilan and stumbled away.
"Don't go! Stay with us," shouted someone in the river with his head bared out and rushed to the shore.
Wang Cuilan was scared to death, if she hadn't forced her breath to faint, her steps quickened.
"Grandma, grandma, you go slowly! Xiaobao can't keep up. β
Xiaobao's voice came from behind herself, Wang Cuilan took a deep breath, she couldn't turn back, Xiaobao really couldn't come back if she turned back.
A person and a soul walked past Qiao Xuan and Xi He, as if they had not discovered their existence at all.
At the door of Xu's house, Xu Gui and the others saw Wang Cuilan coming back from a distance, and they didn't dare to take a breath of anger, so they hurriedly entered Xiaobao's house according to Qiao Xuan's explanation.
Wang Cuilan stood in the center of Xiaobao's room, looking at Xu Gui at a loss, not knowing what to do next.
Qiao Xuan and Xi He walked into the room, and when they saw that Xu Gui was about to speak, Qiao Xuan immediately made a silent gesture.
She looked at the shadow standing beside the bed with a confused expression, and her wrist flew to make a talisman.
The little soul was sucked into the body and disappeared.
Qiao Xuan picked up Xi He's bowl of cold tea on the table and walked to the bedside, "Wow! With a bang, all the tea was poured on Xiaobao's face.
"What are you doing?" Wang Cuilan couldn't help but roar.
In the next second, the child on the bed moved and slowly opened his eyes.
"Oops! My little treasure is awake, my little treasure is awake. β
Wang Cuilan pushed Qiao Xuan, who was beside the bed, smiled and couldn't see his teeth.
Qiao Xuan didn't bother to bother with her, took a few steps back, walked to the chair and sat down, and the Xu family gathered around the bed with happy faces.
"Thanks to me! If it's not me, Xiaobao is really going to suffer this time," Wang Cuilan was ashamed to grab the credit.
But fortunately, the rest of the Xu family was sober-minded, and Xu Qian solemnly bowed to Qiao Xuan, "Thank you girl for saving my son's life!" β
"Thank you, Miss Qiao, thank you, Miss Qiao," Zheng Yun also said gratefully.
"Thanksgiving doesn't have to be! Just give me the twenty taels of silver that I said, Village Chief Xu shouldn't forget it, right? β
Qiao Xuan looked at Xu Gui and said.
"Naturally not, I'll be ready in the afternoon" Xu Gui said and was about to go out to get the silver, but was stopped by Wang Cuilan.
"What to give, the person was rescued by me, she just used a piece of rune paper, where is it worth twenty taels, it is clear that the person is pitted."
She looked like a scoundrel, holding the child who had just woken up in her arms, and said with spit flying.
"Mother, can you stop messing around?" Xu Qian couldn't stand it, and impatiently reached out to tear Wang Cuilan away.
"Am I messing around? Who am I doing this for? Not for this home? If I put it here, twenty taels of silver won't work! Five taels of silver at most," Wang Cuilan glared at Qiao Xuan and said in a vicious voice.
She gave five taels of silver too much, she went to the river to bring Xiaobao's soul back, Qiao Xuan didn't do anything but draw talismans, how could she take so much money?
"Shut up!"
Xu Gui pushed away the nonsense, and the more he talked, the more outrageous Wang Cuilan became.
Qiao Xuan looked at it coldly, as if he was looking at a clown who made a fool of himself in public, and the Xu family dared not give her this money, as long as their family was willing to bear the punishment.
She doesn't lack this money, after all, she has a handful of money in her arms, and twenty taels is a drop in the bucket for her.
Xu Qian bumped into Wang Cuilan and rushed out, Xu Gui blocked at the door to stop Wang Cuilan who wanted to chase out.
Zheng Yun kept an eye on the child at all times, so as not to be hit by the child, and she was ready to snatch it back.
Xu Qian came back after a while and stuffed a money bag into Qiao Xuan's hand.
Qiao Xuan opened it and glanced at no more than twenty taels, she put it away and gave Xi He a look.
"Don't bother anymore, let's go first!"
The two of them walked out of the courtyard of the Xu family, followed by Wang Cuilan's heart-rending shouts, and twenty taels seemed to have cut off a piece of her flesh alive.
The way back was unusually quiet, and Xi He was silent and didn't know what he was thinking.
At Qiao's house, Xi Yan sat still, walking back and forth in the house, and the food on the table had been heated three times and Qiao Xuan and his brother had not come back.
She was very worried, for fear that the dog official would do bad to her brother and Qiao Xuan.
Just when she wanted to go out to the village entrance to have a look, "Squeak! With a bang, the courtyard door rang.
"You haven't slept yet!" Qiao Xuan felt a little guilty when he saw Xi He with a sad face.
"Why did you come back so late! Is it that the dog officer is embarrassing you? β
Xi Yan rubbed her stiff face and struggled to squeeze out a smile.
"No, we came back from the county government quite early, we just went to Qingfeng Village," Qiao Xuan explained.
Xi He patted Xi Yan's shoulder soothingly, "Sit down and say!" β