There was a rustling sound of footsteps coming from the side of the eaves. Huazhu was walking towards the yard from the small kitchen, holding Xiao Huaying in one hand and a bowl of hot rice porridge in the other.

Xie Wanyuan's gaze was also attracted by Hua Zhu's unfamiliar face, and his attention was immediately diverted.

His eyes were fixed on the slightly curly yellow hair on Huazhu's head, and his expression was a little strange.

"Who is that?!"

It was not until Hua Zhu pulled Xiao Hua Yingluo to sit at the wooden table that Xie Wanyuan reacted and asked Hua Li curiously.

It was at this time that he realized that in just half a month, two unfamiliar faces suddenly appeared in Huali's house. One was squatting on the ground feeding the cat, and the other was holding Xiao Huaying...

He was sure he had never seen these two faces before in the village. Plus, with their yellow hair, they didn't look like they were from the village...

Hua Li followed Xie Wanyuan's direction and looked towards Hua Zhu. With a gloomy look on his face, he turned back and said to Xie Wanyuan, "You two should go back first. I don't feel like going out recently. Something's going on at home."

“Hey hey hey…”

Xie Wanyuan wanted to ask something more, but Hua Li knew his temper. Once he started talking, he would talk endlessly. So she grabbed his sleeve with one hand and led him towards the gate of the courtyard, as if to kick him out.

Even after the courtyard gate was shut again, Xie Wanyuan remained bewildered, completely unaware of what had happened and why he had been half-driven out...

"Wanyuan, why don't we go back? We've been out long enough. What if the Master finds out we're gone?"

Outside the courtyard, a little friend suggested anxiously.

Xie Wanyuan touched his chin and said thoughtfully, "It's too late."

"ah?"

"I said it's too late now. It's past lunch time. The teacher might have already discovered that we skipped school. We'll still get scolded if we go back. We might as well have a good time first."

"Okay, so what do you want to play?"

Xie Wanyuan shook his head, sighed, looked at the three people who had also skipped school with him, and asked, "Do you know what happened to Hua Li?"

Obviously, he was still struggling with Hua Li's obviously abnormal expression just now. He was holding his breath, unable to let it go.

"have no idea……"

"I don't know either."

"Why don't we go ask the village? Second Granny will definitely know. She's the gossipiest person. She knows everything that happens in the village..."

Xie Wanyuan agreed with this suggestion very much, nodded, and prepared to go and find out what had happened in the village recently.

However, the four mischievous young boys had not walked far when they saw from afar an old man with an aged face and white hair, supporting a strong man covered in blood, walking towards them from the entrance of the village road.

The little brats were stunned on the spot, looking at each other in bewilderment, looking again and again, but no one dared to step forward.

Simply because, these were two unfamiliar faces again. The frequent appearance of strangers in the village meant something bad was not good. They were warned by their families to keep their distance from outsiders, so naturally they didn't dare to approach rashly...

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