no puppet

The night wind that came late was filled with boundless silence.But in the dimly lit streets of Laifeng Town, there is still the temperature like a fire in the daytime.

Inside the jade pot full of debris, Xie Hengyan hung a pair of long legs, stuck between the wooden chairs like Boss Gan during the day, with a lazy expression, but a hint of impatience.

At this moment, Boss Gan and his daughter Gan Xiaozhu knelt down in front of Xie Hengyan, with an indescribable panic and panic on his face, but he was powerless to resist.

Xie Hengyan said first, "I'm hungry, cook for me."

Boss Gan's body bent suddenly, and then his hands and feet were uncontrollable, and he limped towards the kitchen, while his daughter followed closely, taking steps from left to right, and the posture was extremely weird.

After half a stick of incense, the two brought out a bowl of gruel, a dish of side dishes, and a few leftover rotten white flour steamed buns.

Xie Hengyan took a bite excitedly, then his expression changed suddenly, and he stretched out his hand to throw the table full of large bowls and small plates flying out, smashing them all over the floor.

The father and daughter immediately shrank like two quails, squatting in the corner one after the other, their eyes were loose and terrified.

Xie Hengyan pointed to the ground and said, "Clean it up."

Boss Gan bent down with great difficulty, trying to pick up countless broken pieces of porcelain on the ground.

Xie Hengyan smiled slightly, and said, "Kneel down and lick it clean."

Boss Gan's plump body trembled slightly, his tense nerves had reached the limit, almost piercing his brain.

At the same moment when he was bending over the edge of the ground and about to touch it with his tongue, Xie Hengyan suddenly said: "... Forget it."

He walked over, stretched out his hand, and gently grabbed Boss Gan's clothes corner: "I'm tired from playing, take me home."

The plump Boss Gan raised his head slightly, and saw that the room was surrounded by candlelight. The man's soft and bright eyes were full of innocence and grievance, like a stray dog.

Boss Gan's throat tightened in horror, and he asked almost word for word, "You... where is your home?"

Xie Hengyan was stunned for a moment, but quickly came to her senses and said, "...I don't know the way."

Boss Gan trembled and said, "Then how can I send you home?"

Xie Hengyan held onto the hem of his clothes, tugged and tugged, tugged and tugged: "I don't care, take me home quickly."

"How can this be... Master, let me go, let me go!" Boss Gan collapsed instantly, wishing he could dig a hole and bury himself.

Xie Hengyan suddenly changed his face and shouted sharply: "Hurry up!"

As soon as the words fell, Boss Gan's throat felt fishy, ​​and he immediately vomited a mouthful of black blood, which splashed all over the floor.Gan Xiaozhu screamed from the side, and even climbed up to hold his arm: "Father—"

However, at this time, Xie Hengyan stood in the same place, only to feel that all the scenes in front of him gradually became dull and meaningless.

"Forget it, you are all liars."

He closed his eyes, his long eyelashes fluttered, and his disappointment and bewilderment were all covered up.

He said, "They're all liars. So are you, brother, and father."

"A bunch of big liars."

After speaking, the red light in his pupils flowed, as if he was deliberately bewitching people, which was worthy of facing Boss Gan's old face full of flesh.

It didn't take long for the father and daughter in the store to roll their eyes and shake like chaff, and then lay down on the ground one after another, losing consciousness completely.

The nights in Feng Town were not that hot, but Xie Hengyan was naturally afraid of the cold, so when walking against the wind, she would feel a little cold.

It was approaching the third watch.

At this time of day, it is rare to see even a wild dog on the street—and Xie Hengyan is the most independent of them, he doesn't know the way, and he doesn't know where to go.

He slid around the street for a while, and finally turned back to the original place, squatted down, put his face into his knees and howled, "I'm so hungry..."

At this time, a piece of delicious meatloaf suddenly appeared in front of him, and a large cloud of hot air rose up with a puff, and immediately burrowed into the tip of his nose desperately.

Xie Hengyan moved his eyes up along the meatloaf, first a slender white arm, then soft and plump shoulders, and finally a woman's face with willow-leaf eyebrows, peach blossom eyes, and vermilion lips.

The woman pinched the piece of meatloaf and asked him, "Do you want to eat it? If you don't eat it, you will fall down."

Xie Hengyan nodded fiercely, her dark almond eyes were full of greed: "Eat!"

After finishing speaking, he took the meatloaf with both hands, buried his head in it without hesitation, and began to gobble it up.

Xie Hengyan gnawed on him with relish, and the woman looked at him carefully with her eyes—from top to bottom, from inside to outside, inch by inch, as if she wanted to stare at him thoroughly.

After a while, she said, "...are you interested in coming to work in my shop?"

Xie Hengyan paused, and immediately looked at her vigilantly: "What?"

"Three meals a day, including food and lodging, and beautiful clothes for you to dress up." The woman raised her eyebrows, her voice was soft, "And the only thing you need to do every day is a simple one."

——So half an hour later, the two stood in front of a brightly lit noisy restaurant, the woman's red lips were slightly drawn, one hand was holding Xie Hengyan's arm, and the other was pointing at the huge signboard of "Empty Restaurant", In a soft voice: "How is it? This place... Do you like it or not?"

Xie Hengyan stood in front of the door blankly, speechless for a moment.He thought of Yuhuju, where flies were flying around during the day, compared with the empty building where the singing and dancing are now, one is in the ground and the other is in the sky.

While he was thinking about it, a group of beautiful girls with beautiful flowers and branches came out of the building one after another. One held Xie Hengyan's left hand, the other held Xie Hengyan's right hand, and another person supported both shoulders of him.

"Master, come in and listen to the music!"

"Young master, come quickly, Xiaotao will dance for you."

"Xiaolu will dance for you too! Xiaolu can... also play the flute!"

Xie Hengyan sank in the middle of the flowers, his handsome face blushed instantly.However, before he could react, the red-lipped woman who brought him at the beginning had already reached out and pinched his chin, and continued to seduce him with winking eyes: "How? Just come to my empty building, the people here girl……"

"It's all yours."

The next morning, the weather was as fine as ever.

The sun was shining, and the warm wind was blowing head-on. It was rare for Yin Chun to sleep late because he went out last night to dig a hole and dig the soil, and hurriedly buried the corpse of the old demon that had been piled up in the backyard for a day. Tombstone, and it can be regarded as the last respect for the dead.

Maybe it was because of being too tired in the past few days, and it just so happened that the milk dog surnamed Xie didn't bark vigorously. When Yin Chun woke up, he suddenly thought of himself...seems to have forgotten something trivial.

But small things are small things after all, Yin Zhu didn't pay much attention to them.After getting out of bed, dressing and washing, I happened to run into Cheng Miling who hurried in from the gate of the courtyard.

This girl usually spends her days in the town studying female celebrities with others, and rarely runs back home halfway.

As soon as Yin Chun saw her, before he could speak, Cheng Miling covered his lips with his hand, making a disgusted expression on his face.

Yin Chun asked, "What's wrong with you?"

"Oh, don't mention it, it scared me out of my wits." Cheng Miling frowned and complained, "Not long after I left this morning, I saw a circle of people under the Zhenkou Bridge. I was curious and went to have a look. With two eyes... I saw a woman lying on the river beach, her skin was soaked, and there was a pile of sand all over her body, how disgusting it was..."

Yin Chun's pupils shrank, and immediately asked again: "Dead?"

Cheng Miling nodded: "Of course he's dead—is it possible to cheat a corpse without dying?"

"Whose girl is it?"

"I don't know." Cheng Miling said, "According to the neighbors in the neighborhood, it seems to be Boss Gan's daughter... the fat one."

As a result, as soon as he finished speaking, Yin Zhu, like a hurricane, pushed open the courtyard door and ran straight to the bridge.

Sure enough, he didn't go far, and the street was already crowded with a large group of townspeople who couldn't get enough of the excitement.Before Yin Chun squeezed into the middle of the crowd, the voices of people talking around him had already overwhelmed him, almost deafening his ears.

Someone said: "This girl is young, she is not married yet, and the time is gone in the blink of an eye. What a pity..."

There are still people who don't know why, and frequently ask: "Hey, hey, how did he die, how did he die? How could such a living person disappear like this?"

Soon someone replied: "How else can I die? I fell into the river and drowned. After being soaked like this, it probably took almost a night to fall, right?"

"Maybe—isn't this girl the daughter of Boss Gan's family? That fat man has a big temper every day, and he only beats up his own men who have no money and no power. This time, I drove away several people in a row. Maybe they came back for revenge. ?”

As soon as these words came out, Yin Chun raised his eyes slightly, and happened to see a roll of wet and tattered straw mat above the river beach, inside which was a person wrapped up indiscriminately, his head and hands were tightly covered, only a pair of pale big The feet couldn't be stuffed in, and they were crumpled outside, making them look even more ugly and awkward.

Yin Chun stared at the woman's feet for a long time, and seemed to feel that there was something wrong, but he couldn't explain it for a while—until he turned his eyes away, at the most noisy place behind the mat, where people came and went, Unintentionally, I saw Boss Gan's frail figure sitting slumped on the ground in a daze.

Yin Chun's expression froze, and some bad premonitions popped out of his heart.

The matter had come to this, he could only squeeze past regardless, stretched out his hand, and patted the man's fat and bulky shoulder forcefully: "... Boss Gan, Boss Gan?"

After calling twice in a row, Boss Gan regained his composure.While holding his daughter wrapped in straw mats in his arms, he turned around and asked in a daze, "What?"

Yin Chun couldn't bear it, but reason was enough to overcome sympathy. He still chose to bend down slightly and whispered in Boss Gan's ear: "Although the current situation is like this, I shouldn't ask you some presumptuous questions. But the matter is important. Yes, I still want to know... where is the young guy who worked in your store yesterday? Is he... all right?"

"Man? What man?"

Boss Gan turned his head suddenly, his eyes were full of slackening and bewilderment: "I didn't hire any young men yesterday, and it's just me and my poor daughter..."

After saying that, his throat choked up, and two lines of tears that would have been worse than death hastily slid down his cheeks.