Tan Qing and Tan Xiu depended on each other since childhood, and their parents passed away when they were very young.Tan Qing is two years older than Tan Xiu, and the siblings have a very good relationship.

According to Tan Qing, his younger sister is very beautiful, and there is no girl in the village who is more beautiful than his younger sister. Many people are interested in Tan Xiu, or rather, they are somewhat coveted.

The two have no parents and lack protection. Who would really respect two and a half older children?Since Tan Xiu was 15 years old, she has been taken advantage of by the men in the village, but they are powerless to resist. Tan Qing has been weak since she was a child, let alone protect her sister.

Later, thanks to Chen Yutang's help, the two were able to get out of this situation.

Tan Xiu likes Chen Yutang very much. He is decent and dignified, not as dirty as others. He never violates the rules and always takes good care of his siblings.

Chen Yutang opened a small shop, specializing in red thread, but throughout the year, only in winter is there business.When the weather is cold, the villagers will buy sweaters, scarves, gloves and cotton shoes knitted with red thread. In other seasons, the red thread is of no use at all.

Later, Tan Xiu discovered Chen Yutang's secret by accident. She discovered that Chen Yutang was coloring the threads with human blood, and the blood came from the villagers.

Every once in a while in Hongyu Village, someone would die unexpectedly, and the corpses of these dead people would all become very shriveled without a drop of blood.

Obviously, these villagers were all killed by Chen Yutang.

Tan Xiu discovered Chen Yutang's secret, but accidentally exposed herself.Chen Yutang sewed up Tan Xiu's eyeballs and mouth with red thread, and brutally killed her.

"Chen Yutang treats Axiu like this because he wants Axiu to keep what she sees in her eyes forever and never say what she knows." Tan Qing said, "Chen Yutang is simply a pervert. I don't know why he insists on using human blood to kill her." Dye the red thread."

After listening to Tan Qing's narration, everyone was a little silent, shocked and puzzled.

There are many loopholes in Tan Qing's rhetoric, and there are still many ambiguities.

And what did Chen Yutang use these red threads for?If it is just to sell to the villagers and make some money, it is not necessary to dye it with human blood.

"Well, I'll take you to Chen Yutang's shop tomorrow." Tan Qing saw that they didn't trust him very much, so he had to say, "It's getting late now, and I can't see the road clearly at night, so I'll take my leave first."

Needless to say, Tan Qing, Su Beize also planned to visit Chen Yutang's shop, he nodded, agreed to Tan Qing's proposal, and made an appointment to meet tomorrow.

Seeing Tan Qing get up and leave, Gu Nanyuan suddenly said: "You don't have red on your body."

Tan Qing: "..."

As soon as Gu Nanyuan said this, Su Beize saw that Tan Qing's expression froze for a moment.He couldn't help but feel his heart tense. After Gu Nanyuan reminded him, he realized that Tan Qing didn't have any red from the beginning to the end.Could it be that because he is Tan Xiu's elder brother, Tan Xiu will not harm him?

Gu Nanyuan said: "We have extra red jackets, I can give you one, thank you for the clues."

Chai Jiu immediately took out a red coat and handed it to Tan Qing.

"Thank you...thank you." Tan Qing's voice was a little dry, and she took the jacket and held it in her hand, with no trace of blood on her pale face.

After Tan Qing left, Chai Jiu took Li Ge to make dinner, Ye Yin saw that he was too much in the living room, so he followed him to the kitchen.

"Tuanzi is a little sleepy." Su Beize hugged the drowsy Tuanzi in his arms, "I'll carry him upstairs to sleep."

Gu Nanyuan said: "I'll go with you."

As he said that, he took the dumpling into his arms. The dumpling wasn't heavy, but it wasn't light either. It was still heavy, and carrying it upstairs was not an easy task.

Gu Nanyuan walked in front of the dumpling with his arms in his arms. Su Beize looked at his tall and straight back, and was shocked to find that his figure was very similar to the figure in his sleep whose face was not clear.

As soon as this thought came to his mind, Su Beize felt his head hurt again. He didn't dare to think about it any further. After a while, the pain slowly subsided.

That night, Su Beize dreamed about that person again. The dream was in a mess, and he still couldn't see the other person's face clearly.

The man peeled apples for him for a while, hugged him for a while and acted like a baby, whispered many nice words in his ear, and finally pressed him on the bed again, started kissing him, and then...

Su Beize woke up with fright, his breathing was a little messy, the scene after that was really indescribable, how could he have such a dream?Did he start thinking about men?

Su Beize lay in the dark for a long time, the drowsiness was swept away, and he couldn't help but recall what happened in the dream. The feeling was too real, as if it had really happened.

"Alas..." Su Beize covered his face with the quilt, and sighed for his indecency.

The next day, Su Beize was even more alienated from Gu Nanyuan. He was now basically sure that the man in his dream was his lover, so he had to avoid suspicion and not get too close to other people.Although he was a bit self-indulgent, he felt that Gu Nanyuan looked at him differently from others, probably because he was thinking too much, but it's always right to keep a distance.

Gu Nanyuan looked at Su Beize's colder attitude than yesterday, and couldn't figure out what he was thinking, or maybe he did something wrong, did he feel sorry for him?Absolutely not.Then what caused him to deliberately alienate himself?

The two had their own concerns, but they didn't say a word all morning.

Chai Jiu and the others naturally noticed the weird atmosphere between them, and they didn't dare to speak casually for a while, only Xiao Tuanzi chattered there, asking Su Beize to feed him porridge, and Gu Nanyuan to peel him eggs.

Not long after breakfast, Tan Qing came over, his complexion was a little better than last night, he was wearing thick clothes, he seemed to be particularly afraid of the cold, he put on the red coat that Gu Nanyuan gave him.

"Chen Yutang has opened a shop now, we can see him now." Tan Qing said, hesitant, "However, it's very ostentatious to go to too many people at once, it's best not to go to too many people."

Gu Nanyuan understood: "Only Mr. Su and I will go."

Tan breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good."

Su Beize originally wanted to ask Chai Jiu to accompany him, but Gu Nanyuan had already opened his mouth, so he couldn't say anything more.

Su Beize and Gu Nanyuan also wore a red jacket, and they came to Chen Yutang's red line shop under the leadership of Tan Qing.

This is a small shop with red lines on the outside.These red threads are bright in color and look very soft. Su Beize thought that these red threads had been soaked in human blood, so he resisted the urge to touch them.

"Chen Yutang usually eats and lives here." Tan whispered to them, "Not all of these red threads are dyed red with human blood. The ones displayed outside are normal red threads. The red threads stained with human blood, Chen Yutang will Put it away specially."

"Is it because there is not enough human blood?" Gu Nanyuan said.

"That's right." Tan Qing said, "It's impossible for people to die all day long in the village. Now that everyone is on guard, it's hard for him to strike. He didn't have much business in the shop before. After A Xiu's death, I don't know who told him The red thread can prevent the red thread female ghost, and the villagers all come to his shop to buy the red thread."

Tan Qing knew a lot, and also knew Chen Yutang very well. It seemed that he had spent a lot of effort in investigating Tan Xiu's death.

Su Beize was suspicious. The news that the red thread could prevent the red thread female ghost should have come from Chen Yutang. In other words, Chen Yutang may have killed Tan Xiu in order to sell the red thread.

Of course, the premise of these speculations is that Tan Qing did not lie.

The three of them walked into the store. There were also a lot of red threads in the store, which were neatly placed on the shelves in bunches, clean and tidy, without a trace of dust.

At this time, Su Beize saw a young man sitting behind the display cabinet. He was about 28 years old and had a calm demeanor.When they came in, he was writing something in his notebook with his head down.

Maybe because he heard the noise, Chen Yutang raised his head to look over, and when he saw Su Beize and Gu Nanyuan, he was slightly startled, but when his eyes fell on Tan Qing, he smiled gently again.

"Ah Qing, you're here." Chen Yutang came out from behind the display cabinet. When he saw the red jacket Tan Qing was wearing, his expression froze, "Ah Qing, what are you wearing?"

The red coat that Tan Qing was wearing was given to him by Gu Nanyuan yesterday. He pulled the clothes on his body and said with a cold smile: "This is given to me by Boss Gu. It can prevent red line ghosts."

Chen Yutang sighed: "Ah Qing, are you still suspecting that I killed Axiu?" Then he looked at Su Beize and Gu Nanyuan, "Won't you introduce these two friends for me?"

Su Beize was slightly startled, Chen Yutang actually knew that Tan Qing had been suspicious of him, so could Chen Yutang want him to know the truth that Tan Qing knew?How credible is Tan Qing's words?

Thinking of the purpose of coming here today, Tan Qing had no choice but to suppress other emotions, and introduced: "This is Boss Gu, this is Mr. Su, they came from other places."

Chen Yutang was not surprised, and Su Beize and Gu Nanyuan were indeed not like the people in Hongyu Village.The village is that big, and the villagers are all familiar faces.

Su Beize just wanted to be polite, but Gu Nanyuan cut to the chase and said, "We want to know about the red thread female ghost."

Su Beize was stunned, but thinking that Gu Nanyuan's words naturally had his own reasons, he also echoed them.

Chen Yutang's complexion remained unchanged, and she acted very calmly, but she didn't reject the topic, and said, "I don't know what you want to know. The villagers know something about the red thread female ghost, and I don't know much. Besides, Ah Qing should talk to you guys. By the way, the red thread female ghost that the villagers talk about is actually his sister Tan Xiu."

Gu Nanyuan said: "We want to know that Miss Tan Xiu suffered this kind of treatment because of something she saw, or because she learned the truth."

"I don't know about that." Chen Yutang frowned and said, "If I knew, I'm afraid I would be treated the same as Axiu now."

Gu Nanyuan smiled, and suddenly picked up a ball of red thread from the shelf, instead of asking Chen Yutang, he asked Tan Qing: "Where did this red thread come from? Did you buy it from another place?"

Tan Qing said: "I didn't buy it from other places, but the mulberry hemp grown in the field. After harvesting it, it was soaked in river water, peeled, boiled, and dried before being twisted into silk thread. The process is very complicated." Then he sneered coldly. , "I just don't know what color this silk thread is dyed with."

Su Beize looked at the ball of red thread in Gu Nanyuan's hand, it might be a psychological effect, he felt that the redness was abnormal, he walked over, coughed, and said to Gu Nanyuan: "Don't take other people's things casually." Xiaoxin closed his hand.

Gu Nanyuan chuckled and put down the red thread.

Su Beize froze, he didn't know if it was his illusion, he felt that Gu Nanyuan seemed to be angry.

"Ah Qing really knows how to joke. When I dyed these silk threads, I never avoided you." Chen Yutang smiled and said, with a touch of helplessness in her voice, "I usually dye in the backyard. There are a few dye vats, if you are curious, I can take you to have a look."

Tan Qing immediately said: "Then take us to have a look."

Chen Yutang sighed and said, "Okay, then come with me."

Chen Yutang took the lead to go to the backyard. He didn't go to close the shop door. Theft would hardly happen in the village.

Tan Qing followed closely behind, while Su Beize and Gu Nanyuan were at the rear.

Su Beize was a little strange, he always felt that there was something wrong between Tan Qing and Chen Yutang.

Especially Chen Yutang treated Tan Qing with tenderness and compromise in his words and deeds.But this doesn't make sense again, Tan Qing regards Chen Yutang as the murderer of his sister, and Chen Yutang also knows Tan Qing's suspicion of him, the two of them can't have that kind of relationship.

Could it be that he likes men himself, so he sees others like this?Su Beize suddenly thought of last night's dream again, his blood began to surge, he hurriedly brought his attention back, not daring to think about it anymore.

What is he thinking again?Gu Nanyuan looked at his ears that turned red suddenly, and fell into deep thought.

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