"Although it is a messy and unsightly place, the whole town, the mouth that flows outward, is also in that place."

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After coming out of the hospital that day, Xie Mingchi proposed to go to the black market to investigate, and Hua Shi still remembered the last paragraph he said.

She understood what Xie Mingchi meant, although the black market was dangerous, but the intelligence network was well developed, and she wanted to find a doctor in the town who was skilled enough to cure Hua Yu's injured leg, but nine times out of ten, she couldn't find it.

But there are people from all walks of life in the black market, as long as you are willing to spend money, there will naturally be someone who can help you find out the information you need......

After the two reached an agreement, they had dinner in the night market and went back to the inn.

Along the way, Xie Mingchi seemed a little silent, not knowing what he was thinking, so he talked to him and called him twice before responding slowly......

"Meow ......"

There was a sound of rustling footsteps outside the door, and the black cat in the house jumped down from the table, stepped on a light cat step, and squatted in front of the door.

"Bang-"

After a while, as the footsteps approached, the door was pushed open.

Hua Shi saw at a glance Xiao Hei squatting on the ground, licking the cat's paws, and in a somewhat dimly lit room, a pair of dark blue cat eyes looked at the direction of the door.

"Meow ......"

"Blackie...?"

"Meow."

Hearing Blackie's cry, Hua Shi stepped forward and bent down to pick up the black cat.

The black cat jumped briskly into her arms, found a comfortable position, and curled up in the crook of her arm.

Xie Mingchi, who was behind him, walked in and lit the oil lamp placed on the windowsill, and the dim room was illuminated by the shaking firelight.

The field of vision suddenly broadened, and the cat's movements were paused, and the eyes fell on the tabletop, and the scattered baggage, as well as the messy mass of butter paper, were piled up on the table.

Hua Shi walked over and lifted the messy pile of oiled paper, and the small half of the dried meat in it was gone......

"Xiao Hei, you ate all this jerky in one day?"

Hua Shi screamed, and carefully rummaged through the pile of papers on the table, but still couldn't find the leftover jerky.

That small half of the jerky is so much food that she and Xie Mingchi combined, no matter how greedy Xiao Hei is, it is impossible to eat it all in just one day......

"Meow ......"

The black cat lazily swept its tail, curled up, and looked up at her, innocent, as if it couldn't understand what she was saying.

Hua Shi is used to it, every time this guy wants to hide something from her, or doesn't want to answer her directly, he always likes to show this innocent look and try to fool her through.

"Let me see my stomach, after eating so much jerky, don't my stomach hold up?"

Hua Shi gently pressed it with his hand, and Xiao Hei's soft belly did not bulge, and it didn't look like it was being propped up.

Xie Mingchi on the side walked over, pondered for a moment, and said loudly: "Could it be that your appetite has increased?" ”

Within a day, my appetite grew so big that I ate half a bag of jerky...?

Hua Shi was still suspicious, but after checking several times, she didn't find anything wrong with Xiao Hei, and this innocuous doubt was quickly forgotten by her.

There was no dream all night, and when the day was a little brighter, Hua Shi woke up from his sleep, opened his eyes, and saw the cat hair piled up on his face, and his vision was all blocked by the black cat's curled up body.

Reaching out to his side, the person who was lying next to him had gotten up at some point, and the bed was already cold, replaced by the black cat who jumped up at some point.

Hua Shi pushed away the black cat's buttocks, which was almost sitting on her face, turned over and sat up, looked at the steaming bowl on the table, paused, and remembered what Xie Mingchi said last night......

He said that he would go out early this morning and let her wait at the inn, it was not so easy to enter the black market, and he needed to have an acquaintance to bring him in, Xie Mingchi went out early and went to find someone to help.

After washing up briefly, eating the breakfast prepared by Xie Mingchi, a fried egg cake and clear soup noodles, and feeding Xiao Hei dried fish, he was ready to go out.

Because I don't know how long I will go out this time, a place like the black market, and I don't know how many potential dangers there are, so I am ready to take Xiao Hei with me.

But Xiao Hei, who has always been obedient, jumped out of her arms when she was about to carry it out, squatted on the ground, and meowed, as if refusing to go out this time.

"Blackie...?"

Hua Shi reached out to hug it again, and the black cat shrank back, dodging her hand.

"Meow meow."

Xiao Hei yelled at her a few times, and raised his head in the direction of the door, as if to signal her to go by herself.

"Won't you go out with me?"

"Meow."

"Really not going?"

"Meow meow..."

Hua Shi asked two questions in succession, and the black cat answered all the questions, and told her very clearly that she would not go.

Hua Shi stood up, scratched his head, looked at Xiao Hei, who had jumped on the windowsill, and felt that his current attitude was indescribably strange.

It's weird......

Helplessly, Hua Shi told two words, left enough dried fish for it to eat for a day, and went out alone.

The door was closed again, and Xiao Hei, who was sitting on the windowsill, was still casually licking his paws, but after hearing the sound of the door closing, he immediately stopped, looked back, and made sure that the door was closed, and the black figure jumped out of the windowsill, and disappeared between the windowsills in the blink of an eye.

"Meow Meow Meow ......"

"Meow meow."

Two approaching cat meows sounded from the back of the inn, in the silent alley, and a big orange cat, with slow cat steps, came out of the corner.

"Meow meow......" it yelled at Black.

"Meow."

Xiao Hei whispered in response.

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Hanashi, who had already gone downstairs here, had no idea that the black cat in the room had jumped off the windowsill and slipped out quietly after she went out on her hind feet.

I don't know when Xie Mingchi will come back, Hua Shi thought, take a look near the street outside, and wait for him to come back by the way.

As soon as the people reached the door, they saw a large crowd of rioting people around the open gate of the inn, and there was a noisy discussion in the bustling street.

When he approached with confusion, he vaguely heard vague words such as "dead man...", "child...".

"Poor yo, I was fine yesterday, so I died......"

When I got closer, I heard a lady carrying a vegetable basket sighing loudly.

She quietly walked to the side of the eldest lady, squeezed in the direction of the crowd, and through the tight gap, she saw the crowd surrounded by... A corpse.

From the hair towel wrapped around her head and the dark-colored clothes on her body, it can be seen that it was a woman who died...... The pale face, the bruised lips, except for the wound on the forehead, the exposed hands and feet, there are no other obvious wounds, the cause of death is unknown, and the identity is unknown......

"Who is the one who died?" Hua Shi asked casually.

The eldest lady who was standing beside her glanced at her, and saw that she was born with red lips and white teeth, and looked pleasing to the eye, so she replied casually: "Who knows?" I don't look like a person from this town, but I saw her wandering around here two days ago, and somehow died. ”

The eldest lady said, shaking her head with a sigh on her face.

"You know that?" Asked rhetorically when he spent it.

The eldest lady listened to the questioning tone in her rhetorical question, her face was a little unhappy, and she said in a voice: "I live in the alley next door, and I come here every day, I must know, and I also know that she sat here yesterday and cried and shouted, saying that her son was missing, and she was going to find it. ”

After the eldest lady said this, Hua Shi suddenly remembered the day before yesterday, the two women who were forcibly kicked out of the inn, and one of the women shouted that her child was missing......

Hua Shi turned his eyes to look at the corpse surrounded by the crowd, and remembered that it looked familiar, as if it was one of the women who had been kicked out that day......

Combined with what the lady said, this woman didn't know what the reason was, the child was lost, and she refused to leave in the inn lobby, and after being driven out by the people in the inn, she was still wandering around, and refused to leave, so she stayed for a day and a night, and the next day somehow, she died here.

It is likely that her children were trafficked into the black market......

"Auntie, do the children in the town often get lost?" Hua Shi asked in a second thought.

"Why, don't you see that there are few dolls on this street coming out to play? I lost it a few times before, and then everyone didn't let the doll run out by itself, so I never heard of the doll being lost, but those outsiders often didn't take a good look at their children, and there were people on the street at the end of three days shouting that their dolls were lost,"

The eldest lady said, suddenly lowered her voice, and then said: "I heard that all the dolls lost in the town were buried in the black market, and it is impossible to find them back, if they are lost, they are lost, and even if they are found, they may not be still alive, if you want me to say it......"

Before the eldest lady began to speak at length, there was a sudden movement at the mouth of the alley of the street, and then, a rough voice sounded,

"Get out of the way, get out of the way! Get out of the way! ”

The messy and rapid driving sound sounded, and the familiar people had quickly retreated to both sides, those who didn't know what the situation was, and those who stood in place stupidly and watched, were pushed away vigorously by a dozen or so officials, several pushes, you step on me, I step on you, the crowd fell to both sides,

"Oops, hey...! My shoes! My shoes...! ”

"Don't squeeze, don't squeeze!"

“… You've stepped on me! ”

The crowd was in turmoil, and the screams were repeated one after another, and the scene was once funny.

The dozen or so fierce officials, but they didn't care about this, and the hands that pushed people were not serious, and several people who were pushed to the ground and retreated, without looking, stepped on the bodies of those who fell to the ground.

The lady who talked to Hua Shi was also very fine, and after hearing the voice of the official, she immediately hid far away, and Hua Shi also hid away, so as to avoid being squeezed out by the surging crowd.

After the dozen or so officials drove the crowd to both sides, they did not ask questions, separated four people, lifted the corpses on the ground, and walked back in the direction they came, and the remaining officials controlled the chaotic scene.

With a vigorous and resolute speed, in the blink of an eye, the corpse was carried away, and the officials also withdrew, and the lively crowd saw that there was nothing to see, so they also dispersed.

The streets were calm again, as if the corpse lying on the ground was hallucinating, and no one cared about it, and it was... It's over.

"Ahh Are you standing here like this? ”

When he was stunned, Xie Mingchi's voice suddenly sounded in his ears, and Hua Shi turned his head to look over.

Xie Mingchi saw that something was wrong with her face, stepped forward, raised his hand and rubbed her face.

Her calloused hands grossed across her cheeks, making her face ache.

Hua Shi's brows furrowed suddenly, he took a breath and slapped his hand down, "Don't rub it, it hurts... Yes. ”

Xie Mingchi's hand stiffened, drooped down, pinched the hard callus in his palm, raised his eyes to look at Ah Shi's face that was rubbed red by him, pursed his lips, and whispered an apology.

"I'm fine..."Hanashi coughed lightly, squeezing his hand, and his gaze fell on the ... on another person.

It looks familiar......

Ye Shaoqing strained his face, looking at the intimate actions of the two, as well as the unfamiliar eyes of Hua Shi, his heart seemed to have been violently hit again.

He Jiang said to him a few years ago... The flower girl and Mingchi are already engaged, tell him to stop playing those crooked thoughts, he was still suspicious, but now looking at this scene, he has to believe it again.

His... It was love at first sight...... And so the fetus was stillborn.

What's even more annoying is that the flower girl's eyes are simply ... I've forgotten about him as a person!

"I'm Ye Shaoqing, does the flower girl remember me?"

Ye Shaoqing restrained his mood and took the initiative to break the deadlock.

When I heard this name, my mind immediately flashed to the one who had a relationship a few months ago... The wealthy Young Master Ye.

She remembered that they met at the foot of the mountain, this Young Master Ye took a fancy to the black cat in her bamboo basket at a glance, and asked for five taels of silver to buy Xiao Hei, but she didn't agree......

"Young Master Ye, long time no see."

Ye Shaoqing listened to her unfamiliar name, and her heart choked, this is... Completely dead.

The flower girl didn't think about him at all, and she didn't remember him at all.

Hua Shi didn't understand Ye Shaoqing's resentful gaze, but looked at Xie Mingchi, lowered his voice, and asked, "Is he the person you are talking about?" ”

Xie Mingchi nodded: "Well, Shaoqing is the second young master of the Ye family's dyeing workshop, and if he takes two people into the black market, no one will stop him." ”

The Ye family dyeing workshop has some fame in the town, except for the gang of people who sell it in the black market, the rest of the people want to fish in troubled waters, it depends on the identity of the leader.

After all, the black market is a place for buying and selling, you have status, you have money, you can afford to buy the things inside, and others will let you in if they see it valuable......

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