The Sick Beauty in the Republic of China

"Yes..." Cheng Gang sighed heavily again, but he was afraid of causing a bad misunderstanding, and then explained: "But Su Xi only liked Yao Jifeng back then. Who is the other one? She doesn't even know her name." Never told me."

Wang Luan lowered his eyes and thought carefully, according to what Sister Yunwei said before, Yao Jiguang was born with a romantic nature and disrespected the weavers in the workshop. If he also fell in love with Su Xi at that time, it is not impossible.

"Then one day, Su Xi suddenly asked someone to bring me a message, saying that she really couldn't do it anymore in the workshop, and she was going to leave Yunchuan."

"I guessed it at that time, it must be Mrs. Yao's method again, but Su Xi told me not to worry, saying that the uncle of the Yao family is generous and wants to give her money to return home."

"Yao Jihui?" Wang Luan and Qi Chensheng looked at each other. Based on Yao Jihui's pedantic appearance, if it was really the person Mrs. Yao wanted to drive away, would he still dare to reward money in private?

"Yes." Speaking of this, Cheng Gang was also full of regret: "I also thought something was wrong at the time, but in those days, the Yunshui Paper Cart Paper Horse Festival was approaching... the things in Lu's shop were all on my shoulders, I really don't want to talk about it, but that person brought some things to Su Xi, and advised her to be careful."

"I don't want to, something like that happened later!"

When it came to the paper car and paper horse, Wang Luan remembered Friday Qian's words. If Cheng Gang really had nothing to do with Su Xi's death, when the paper car and paper horse entered the clouds, almost everyone would avoid him. How could he? Just happened to see Su Xi's death?

"Then why did you go to Yunshui on the night of the sacrifice?" Qi Chensheng knew what Wang Luan was thinking, took the conversation, and looked at Cheng Gang with his gray broken eyes seemingly indifferent.

It was from this moment that Cheng Gang's gaze began to wander a bit: "I didn't know Su Xi would be there that night... It's just that I have been in Yunchuan for a few years, and I am brave enough to go and see it."

"Is that so?" Wang Luan also saw Cheng Gang's transformation, and the finger with the crimson ring scratched the teacup lightly, and repeated in a low voice: "Is that so?"

Under the gorgeous clothes, some broken feathers on the tip of the wings were exposed, and the words he spoke seemed to be as gentle as ever, but Cheng Gang suddenly felt as if he was being moved by something.

He tried his best to restrain his mind, and gulped down the cool tea in the cup: "I, my going to Yunshui really has nothing to do with Su Xi, it's all because of the Lu family's affairs."

"The Lu family, is there anything else that can't be seen?" Wang Luan coughed lightly twice, feeling that Qi Chensheng was holding his hand. In the past few days, he had been using the golden thread intermittently Sparrow, it really made him feel a little strenuous.

But Wang Luan felt that the injustice committed by Blind Zhao, the past that Qian Qian refused to talk about on Friday, and Cheng Gang's vague affairs about Lu's family at the moment were clearly entangled like vines, and he wanted to ask them out.

"No, it's not..." Cheng Gang still wanted to continue to resist, but Qi Chensheng refused to give him any more patience now.The cups and cups on the table were hit to the ground seemingly unintentionally, making a crisp and harsh cracking sound, and then crushed by the slender walking stick——

This time Cheng Gang suddenly became sober, but the oppression that frightened him even more, enveloped him without any gap.He didn't dare to look into Qi Chensheng's eyes anymore, but that gray remnant eye seemed to be deeply engraved in his mind, like a lingering haze.

"Such a pile of old things, Brother Nine is not worth the effort." Qi Chensheng held Wang Luan's body in his arms, stroked the tattoo under his collarbone through the skirt of his clothes, and it melted away with a kiss The afterglow of the canary.

Wang Luan sighed silently, but leaned on Qi Chensheng's shoulder obediently.He knew that this was the end of the matter, that he had "crossed the line".Qi Chensheng tacitly agreed that he could use the canary, but everything had to be within the tolerance of his body.

"Say, or not?" Qi Chensheng seemed to be satisfied with Wang Luan's support, and when he turned his eyes to Shang Chenggang, he became more and more stern, and continued without waiting for his answer: "Actually, it doesn't hurt if you don't say anything."

In the rain curtain outside the window, there happened to be a thunderstorm, but Qi Chensheng's voice seemed to be able to penetrate the thunderstorm, and continued to echo in Cheng Gang's ears.

"You have hidden ghosts in this street by the water, so I will send a hundred people here to turn this place upside down - even if he is something that cannot be seen, he will be seen by the sun."

"how?"

If these words were said from other people, Cheng Gang would probably just take them as threatening lies, but the person in front of him was Qi Ershao, and the whole Yunchuan knew about his insane Qi Chensheng—

"Second Young Master Qi... You, don't force me," Cheng Gang's voice was trembling, and he finally begged for mercy: "This matter has nothing to do with Su Xi, even if it has nothing to do with me!"

"Back then, I went to the edge of the cloud and water just to sneak a peek at what it was."

Noisier rain fell one after another, followed by another thunder that sounded like a crash, Qi Chensheng just looked at him and spit out a word.

"Say."

Most of the midsummer showers come quickly and go quickly, but this time, they are like broken jade and silver beads that can't be restrained, rolling and falling from the black curtain and submerging into the cloud water.

Wang Luan followed Qi Chensheng from the bank of Yunshui, watching him hold an umbrella in one hand and a gentleman's stick in the other, walking in the long street almost clinging to the base of the wall.

Almost every few steps in a row, he raised his eyes and looked deeply at the plaque of the shop he came to, and then hit the ground heavily with his cane.

Although it was mixed with the sound of rain, the sound coming from under the cane was so clearly heard by the two of them.

Xingfu groceries, empty

Zhangjia Wine Shop, empty

Lu Kee Silk and Satin Village, empty

Rejuvenation medicine hall, really

……

Wang Luan followed Qi Chensheng all the time, without uttering a word, nor persuading him. Cheng Gang above the restaurant couldn't withstand the threats in the end, and told the old things more than ten years ago.

"When Su Xi came, I had been working as a clerk in Lu's house for several years. That was old shopkeeper Lu and not my father-in-law, but he... had already trusted me a lot, and gradually began to hand over some things in the shop to me. Do it for me."

"Especially around the annual Yunshui Sacrifice, he and the other old guys in the store always seem to be busy with something, and they often don't see him all day long. The things in the store are backlogged on me. At that time, I So I was very curious, since he is willing to hand over the shop to me, what else is more important than the shop, and even I have to guard against it?"

"So I kept an eye on the movements of those old guys every day, until one day I finally found an opportunity and followed them secretly, only to find that they didn't leave the shop at all, but went underground... from the backyard."

Wang Luan continued to walk forward with Qi Chensheng, listening to the sound of knocking under the cane.

"Boom, boom, boom—"

In fact, there is a hollow echo on the ground of the street near the river, which is not unnoticed.But most of them were just regarded as extensions of underground rivers, and they were never taken to heart.

Since then, Cheng Gang has become more and more suspicious, and he has also noticed more things wrong in the backyard.

"Although I failed to find an opportunity to go down, I secretly followed them... I feel that they seem to be doing something underground, and sometimes there is a strange smell."

"Finally, during the last few days of the sacrificial ceremony, those fellows suddenly appeared again. They rolled out several carts from the backyard, with many small jars placed on them."

"If you meet someone, say yes, and give it to Blind Zhao."

The street, which was not long at all, soon came to an end, but Qi Chensheng continued to hold an umbrella, and walked along the shop on the opposite side, tapping towards Yunshui.

"I've never seen blind Zhao use any sacrificial wine!"

But almost no one raised any objection. They just smiled and nodded as if they understood clearly.

Such a discovery made Cheng Gang feel an inexplicable panic. The people around him seemed to be doing something tacitly, something that kept him out.

Although he knew that in fact, there were not as many people involved in this matter as he imagined, but Cheng Gang still felt that every brick and stone in the peaceful and peaceful alley in front of him seemed to be fake.

Just like the echo under the stick that Wang Luan and Qi Chensheng heard now.

It was empty, so empty that one couldn't help guessing what kind of terrifying demon was hidden in that empty hole.

Qi Chensheng's steps paused, all he saw was the old storefront of the Qi family, Wang Luan also raised his head slightly, and looked at the plaque with the word "Qi" engraved on the lower right corner.

Thunder was rolling, lightning tore through the rain, but Qi Chensheng finally raised his cane and knocked it on the ground in front of the shop.

It's empty, and it's empty here.

"I finally figured it out later. In this street, there are only seven or eight families who don't send things to Blind Zhao. They all know it... And the last secret must be hidden in the paper cart and paper horse into the cloud." in the water."

"That's why I sneaked to the river that night, trying to find out what happened while no one was paying attention."

"I didn't expect, I didn't expect to see Su Xi, I ran to the river in a hurry, but I still couldn't save her!"

With the last sound under the cane, Wang Luan and Qi Chensheng finally came to the bank of the cloud and water again.

Cheng Gang's search for Yun Shui ended silently and fruitlessly with the death of Ye Suxi.

It wasn't until that year that he finally married the young lady of the Lu family and was completely tied to the Lu family. Those doubts that Cheng Gang planned to bury in his heart unexpectedly had answers.

"Blind Zhao suddenly went crazy. In the second year, there was no one to preside over the Yunshui sacrifice. I said it was just a few paper figurines, and I would just find someone to do it, but my father-in-law shook his head regretfully, saying that they couldn't do anything. "

Why not?It's just paper carts and paper horses, after all, they will all float away with the water, and finally sink and disperse, so what's the difference?

But the old shopkeeper Lu shook his head, looked at him full of deep meaning and said, Blind Zhao’s paper carts and horses can carry goods and return with gold and silver. It doesn’t matter if they sink or disperse, the key is to They sink when they sink, and they scatter when you want them to.

"Qi Ershao... came away with goods, what do you think... what kind of goods should be sent out of Yunchuan all the way along the river with this paper cart and horse?"

"Is the gold and silver really given by Lord Yan?"