"Are you used to living in the shop?" Su Xiaoxiao asked.

Liu Ping scratched his head. "I'm used to it. I'm used to it! The house is big, it doesn't leak wind or rain, and the children all sleep soundly."

Su Xiaoxiao said: "Then, let's live there from now on."

"Ah?" Liu Ping was stunned.

Su Xiaoxiao asked: "Don't you want to?"

Liu Ping waved his hands hurriedly: "No, no! It's just...that...ah..."

Su Xiaoxiao added: "I didn't let you live here for nothing."

Liu Ping nodded repeatedly: "That's right, it's time to pay some rent..."

Su Xiaoxiao: "I will pay you."

"Huh?" Liu Ping was so shocked that he became like a Muggle.

Su Xiaoxiao said: "Someone has to look after the shop."

"But this... I..." Liu Ping would occasionally become incoherent when he got excited.

What he wanted to say was that they lived in such a nice house for free, so they should be paid. How could they charge for their work? It was just a convenience for him to look after the shop. No, it should be said that it was his job.

Su Xiaoxiao is a strange person. If you say she is generous, she is actually very calculative most of the time. But if you say she is stingy, she is more generous than those men when it comes to wages.

Su Xiaoxiao said, "It's settled. We're going to renovate next. You guys will live upstairs first. When the wing in the backyard is finished, you can move over there and continue renovating upstairs. I'll leave the supervision to you."

Liu Ping instantly felt a sense of mission: "Don't worry, Daya, I will do my best!"

Wei Ting has been staying outside for a long time these days. Sometimes, even when Old Man Su comes back, he is still working in the fields alone.

Su Xiaoxiao wasn't sure whether it was real labor or not.

But if a man comes home late one after another, there is probably something going on.

The person plowing the field today was still Yuchi Xiu, but there was one more person beside him.

He was a man in white, wearing a bamboo hat and a veil, covering himself completely from head to toe.

"Master, the old lady knows that you left the capital. She is very angry and asked you to return to the capital immediately. In addition, on the way here, I heard another piece of news that the Third Prince has secretly set off."

Yuchi Xiu was furious: "What? Xiao Chonghua just left like that? He's not coming to grab the military token? Didn't he come to Qingzhou just for the military token? What's the trick?"

The man in white clothes and bamboo hat said: "Young Master...has he been exposed?"

Yuchi Xiu snorted, "It was exposed long ago. Xiao Chonghua even poisoned your young master. Thanks to my alertness, I noticed something was wrong in time!"

The man in white clothes and a bamboo hat said, "In this case, Master, you should not stay here any longer."

Yuchi Xiu chuckled and said, "Yes, if Xiao Chonghua returns to the capital earlier than your young master, he will definitely go to the dog emperor and expose the fact that your young master is not in the Huguo Dragon Temple. By then, your young master's life will be in danger!"

It turned out that Wei Ting's practice in compliance with the emperor's order was a big mistake.

Princess Hui'an was deeply in love with Wei Ting and wanted to recruit Wei Ting as her son-in-law. The emperor agreed, but who would have thought that Wei Ting would disobey the emperor's order directly in the Golden Palace.

The emperor was furious: "You can't even look down on my princess, who else in the world can you look down on? Do you want to be a monk?"

"As you wish."

The words "obey the order" choked the emperor so much that he almost fell off the dragon throne.

Yuchi Xiu continued to gloat over the misfortune: "Oh my, your young master may not be able to leave. He has become someone else's son-in-law and has been taken advantage of. He has no clean record!"

The man in white clothes and a bamboo hat looked at Yuchi Xiu coldly. Even through the veil one could sense his confusion, as if to say -

Is this guy really a killer? Did he just talk the target to death? Wei Ting said, "Meet me at the dock at noon tomorrow."

Yuchi Xiu stumbled: "What?"

Wei Ting continued: "Prepare some clothes for the children."

The man in white clothes and bamboo hat was silent for a moment, then understood and said, "Yes!"

After the man in white clothes and a bamboo hat left, Wei Ting turned around and saw three little guys who had come to the edge of the field at some point, looking at him eagerly.

The three of them had red eyes, turned around, and ran back home feeling aggrieved.

That night, the three little guys disappeared.

The three of them have always been sensible and never leave the adults' sight on their own initiative. They don't say a word and usually go next door to look for cow eggs. The farthest they go is to the village entrance and they will never go beyond the ancient well.

Today they grabbed a few small pancakes and went out the back door panting.

The family thought that they were going to Niu Dan again to show off their cookies.

Who would have thought that when Su Ergou went to call them home for dinner, Niu Dan said that Dahu, Erhu and Xiaohu had never been there.

The family then went to look for them in the village, including Li's house, the head of the village's house, Aunt Liu's house, and even Old Liu's fish pond, but they still couldn't find any trace of the three people.

Su Ergou said, "Last time they were playing hide-and-seek, they hid behind the old Su's house. I'll go look for them there!"

Father Su said, "I'll go to the woods at the back and take a look."

Su Yu Niang also wants to go look for her.

Su Xiaoxiao said: "We have to leave someone at home, Yu Niang, you wait at home."

"Okay." Su Yu Niang prayed that the three of them were just having fun and would come back when they had enough fun.

But after spending so much time with the three little guys, how could she not know their habits? "Could it be... someone..."

Su Yu Niang didn't say anything else after that.

Wei Ting's expression was cold.

He clenched his fists, a complex look flashed across his eyes, and he turned and disappeared into the endless night.

When the villagers heard that the little guy was missing, they all helped to look for him.

Some villager muttered, "Could he have been arrested by the Su family?"

This guess is not without reason. The old Su family stole Su Cheng's jade pendant back then. Now the truth is out, and the old Su family's reputation collapsed overnight. They must be extremely resentful of the young Su family.

It is not impossible that they really caught the child to take revenge on the Su family.

The villagers rushed into Lao Su's house.

This time, no matter how tightly the Su family closed the door, the villagers simply picked up hammers and smashed the door.

Fang's face turned pale: "What are you doing?"

"Hand over the child!"

Su Dalang came out and stood in front of Fang: "What child? What are you talking about!"

"You old Su family, stop playing dumb! Hurry up and hand over Da Hu, Er Hu, and Xiao Hu! Otherwise, you will be in trouble!"

The people of the Su family died unjustly.

They have been hiding in their homes these days, and only dared to sneak out in the middle of the night to pick some vegetables. Not to mention catching a child, they didn't even see the shadow of a child! The villagers put the blame on them, and now they have tasted back what the Su family experienced.

The old Su's house was smashed to pieces by the villagers, and Dahu, Erhu and Xiaohu were not found.

Yuchi Xiu went to inquire about Xiao Chonghua's whereabouts, but he was not in the village.

Wei Ting and Su Xiaoxiao went into the mountains.

"Big Tiger! Second Tiger! Little Tiger!"

Su Xiaoxiao shouted the names of the three little ones loudly.

In the past, no matter how well they hid or how happily they played, as long as they heard her voice, they would come running out and stretch out their little heads for her to touch.

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