The villain holds on to the script

Zhou Ning lives in a remote place, in the suburbs.

The further you go to the suburbs, the more secluded it becomes.

The carriage finally stopped in front of a small courtyard, with a thick layer of white snow piled on the dead trees next to the courtyard.

The nights are colder than the days.The three of them got out of the car. Fang Huaixu gathered up the cotton cloak he was wearing and raised his hand to knock on the courtyard door.

"Knock knock knock!"

again and again.

Didn't wait for a response.

Shi Yu, who was following behind, couldn't help but ask: "Isn't it the wrong way?"

"No." Fang Huaixu's voice was very firm, "Because of A Yao, I have been to Zhou Ning's house many times, so I can't remember it wrong. This is it." The courtyard was dark, with no candles lit. He frowned slightly and murmured as if to himself: "Could it be that... you moved away two years ago?"

He tilted his head and stared at the dark yard. Suddenly, the candle light came on.

A woman walked out of the main room carrying a lantern and wrapped in a quilt. She was sleeping just fine, but she was woken up, and she was inevitably a little resentful.She opened the door and looked at the three people waiting at the door angrily: "Why are you knocking on my door so late at night?"

Before anyone could say anything, she said "Go away" several times.

"I'm going to go crazy somewhere else! My aunt, I've been working all day and I'm tired. I'm not in the mood to see you go crazy." As he said this, he was about to close the door and go back to the room.

Fang Huaixu hurriedly stretched out his hand to hold the door: "Do you recognize Zhou Ning?"

"I don't know what's wrong." The woman yawned and waved her hands irritably.Suddenly, the young master outside held her wrist and stuffed an ingot of gold into her palm.

Her eyes were shining, she held the gold to her mouth and took a bite.

Hey!

it is true!

She was surprised and happy, and immediately put on her face, put away the gold with a smile, and leaned against the door frame: "Zhou Ning, right... I've heard of her, and I bought this small courtyard from her father. Yes. I even saw her that day. She was a thin girl, with no flesh on her face, as if she didn't eat."

Shi Yu asked: "Do you know where she went? We have something to do with her."

The woman frowned slightly, looked at the three of them again, and said in a confused manner: "You three, please listen to my advice. Every injustice has its own debtor. No one in the village knows that Zhou Ning has a bad fate. She is a poor girl. My mother died early, and I was left with an eccentric father and a younger brother who was uneducated and lost money all day long."

Fang Huaixu knew a lot about Zhou Ning's family affairs.He said: "You misunderstood, we are not asking for debts."

The woman hesitated: "Then you are——"

Fang Huaixu: "He's her friend."

"You just said that you bought this yard from her father. Do you know where she went with her father? Is there any news about her?"

He originally got into contact with Zhou Ning because of A Yao. After A Yao's temperament changed drastically, all contact with Zhou Ning was completely cut off. He gradually stopped having contact with Zhou Ning. He had no idea about Zhou Ning's current situation.

The woman frowned, hissed, and muttered in a low voice: "I didn't hear that girl has any friends."

"Her father took the money and married her to a lame man in the south of the village. It was better to say that it was a sale than a marriage. I heard that on the day of the wedding, Zhou Ning wanted to die. Later, she was slapped twice in the face by her father in public. Again After that, I don’t know. If you really want to find her, you might as well go to the south of the village and find a person named Zhang Wu."

After a pause, he added: "At this hour, I don't know if I can sleep."

This village is surprisingly sparse at night, as if the night is a ferocious beast that eats people without spitting out their skin. When it gets dark, everyone hides in their rooms and refuses to go out.On the way there, he wondered if he could meet any villagers and asked about Zhang Wu's specific residence. Fang Huaixu took off the jade bracelet from his wrist, handed it to him and asked, "Do you know the specific location?"

When the woman saw the jade bracelet, she smiled so hard that her eyes narrowed. The table and the gold together were probably worth ten years of her wages!She secretly thought to herself that she had some bad luck today to meet such a generous nobleman.

"I know, I know!" She nodded in response, put the jade bracelet on her wrist and tried it. She turned sideways and watched it repeatedly by the candlelight in the room.

The more he looked at it, the more he fell in love with it, and almost forgot about the three people standing next to the wooden door.The woman hurriedly suppressed a smile, raised the hand that had just put on the bracelet, and pointed towards the south of the path.

He said with a smile: "You keep walking along this road. At the second fork in the road, turn west, and then follow the road that turned west and keep walking. There is a evergreen tree at the entrance of his house, which is easy to recognize. .”

Fang Huaixu thanked him and hurriedly got into the carriage. Shi Yu and Gu Yunchuan got into the carriage one after another.

The coachman who was waiting on the carriage board understood the route and drove the carriage forward according to the woman's instructions.

The carriage swayed, and Shi Yu, who was already a little sleepy, covered her mouth and yawned, with some tears hanging from the corners of her eyes.She rubbed her eyes, opened the curtain and looked outside. There was no one outside, not even a living thing.She complained in a low voice: "It's quite deserted."

Fang Huaixu glanced sideways through the raised curtain and continued: "There are many people in the village, but at night there is always no one around, and no one is willing to take a step out of their yard." Finally, He sighed deeply: "I don't know if Zhou Ning is sleeping. I haven't seen her for two years, but she got married and went to another house."

"The woman just said that she was married, rather than sold by her father." Shi Yu took back her hand, rubbed her eyes, and chewed on the woman's words, "Zhou Ning's father is partial, and his brother is a The one who lost money owes a lot of debts outside, and her life at home is always difficult, and I don’t know how Zhang Wu treats her."

Fang Huaixu added: "Her brother's temperament followed that of her father."

The implication is that Zhou Ning's father is also someone who does not strive for advancement.

Shi Yu rubbed the center of her brows and repeated the woman's words: "It's a bad fate."

Gu Yunchuan, who had been sitting silently next to her, said, "What kind of village is this?"

Fang Huaixu replied: "Laocheng Village."

Old Town Village.

Gu Yunchuan repeated silently.

He crossed his arms across his chest, his head slightly lowered, and his lowered eyelashes were like thick crow feathers, half-hiding the emotions in his eyes, making it impossible to see through his thoughts.

Shi Yu noticed something was wrong and gently tugged on Xian Zun's sleeve: "What's wrong? Is there anything wrong with this village?"

Gu Yunchuan visited this place in his previous life.

However, it was not with the little sparrow, but with Xiao Zixi.

The timeline has also changed. He remembered that when he went to Laocheng Village, it was the hottest time of summer, but now it was just after the Lantern Festival, and the weather was still cold, with snow falling only two days ago.

All the doubts and concerns turned into "It's okay" on his lips. He rubbed the little sparrow's head and said, "Please handle this matter earlier and return to heaven sooner."

The world is not peaceful.

In the dream, the little sparrow died in the world.