Chapter 181: Shifting the blame
"Why are you dressed like this?"
Seeing Xiao Yan wearing a tight black outfit and a bamboo hat, Lu Qiniang was surprised and joked, "You look like you're out to steal something."
"Not yet." Xiao Yan smiled and took off his bamboo hat and hung it up. "I'm going to find Cheng Jiuwan. I'm afraid it would be bad if someone saw me, so I'm doing it in secret."
"What do you want to do with Cheng Jiuwan?"
"I've been doing corvée for a month, and it hasn't even come to an end. I had some things to discuss with him."
"oh."
It turned out that he was busy with business.
Lu Qinniang didn't ask any more questions.
Yun Ting stretched and said, "I want to sleep in. Don't call me tomorrow."
During the month of forced labor, he seemed to have never had enough sleep.
Upon hearing this, Lu Qiniang said to Xiao Yan, "You should also take a good rest at home tomorrow."
Xiao Yan nodded.
At night, the two of them finally lay on the kang and had a special couple's night talk. Lu Qin's mother told her that Daya didn't like Jiang Xuan.
"Xiao Yan, what do you think we should do? You've tried your best, but she just doesn't like you. She thinks you're too old."
"She's a bit old indeed. It's alright if we don't have a good eye for her, I'll just keep looking. Daya is only fourteen, so I can keep her for a while."
In fact, Xiao Yan was reluctant to let Daya marry away.
This girl can hold her own.
Xiao Yan thought that maybe he should change his mindset and find someone who had no parents and was capable, so that he wouldn't feel burdened when marrying into the family.
However, it is a pity that such an excellent child like Daya can only follow a man.
Daya made Xiao Yan feel that the court should set up girls' schools to give women the opportunity to serve as officials in the court.
Being good at studying and quick to learn things are nothing compared to Daya's seemingly innate insights.
It is a talent that is enviable but impossible to emulate.
Let him think about it again. It is better to have nothing than to marry someone unsuitable. It must not be done casually.
As for Jiang Xuan, if he wants to get married and the matchmaker can come knocking on his door, let him do it.
I'm so unlucky.
Lu Qin's mother asked Xiao Yan to have a good rest, but Xiao Yan got up early the next day as usual and taught the four of them to practice basic skills.
Not only did he not sleep himself, he also pulled off Yun Ting's quilt.
Poor Yun Ting was forced to join the morning exercise army. He was extremely resentful and silently cursed Xiao Yan in his heart.
Doing horse stance is quite tiring, but no one complained of being tired except Yun Ting.
San Ya was particularly excited.
Because I had just started learning, I only practiced for a quarter of an hour in total. Then the whole family cleaned up and ate, and then went to set up the stall.
Because practicing martial arts took up some time, they arrived at the dock a little later than before.
"What's going on up ahead?"
From afar, Lu Qiniang saw several circles of people gathered by the river, it was very lively.
"What are you doing?" she asked curiously. "Daya, are you frying sunflower seeds? Give me the basket, I'll go over and sell them!"
Roasted melon seeds have just started being sold in the past few days. Isn’t this a great opportunity?
"Pumpkin seeds, selling pumpkin seeds, freshly fried large pumpkin seeds in an iron pan, fragrant large pumpkin seeds!"
Lu Qiniang carried a basket, shouted at the top of her voice, and squeezed into the crowd.
Seeing this, Xiao Yan followed quietly.
Erya cracked a handful of melon seeds, spitting out the shells and saying, "Dad, are you worried that Mom won't figure it out?"
Daya smiled, lowered her head and continued to place the various foods she brought today on the shelves of the stall.
Yun Ting now takes the initiative to offer help without anyone telling him to.
"Zhao Zhao, this is for you."
Erya just kept looking at her parents walking away.
"Oh, Dad, you're such a jerk! Isn't it so embarrassing?" Erya said with a smile.
Daya and Yun Ting looked up and saw Xiao Yan hugging Lu Qiniang, covering her eyes with his hands, holding her in his arms, and leading her out of the crowd.
After the two came back, Lu Qiniang was still in shock.
"I was so scared! Those people are really sick! They even look at dead people and are not afraid of having nightmares when they go home at night."
"Dead person, what dead person?" Erya stretched her neck to look over.
"You're not allowed to look." Lu Qiniang pulled her aside, "Two people drowned somehow. They're still floating on the river surface, and no one has rescued them. I guess we have to wait for our family to come and pay for help."
Erya said, "He must have fallen in accidentally when he was drunk last night."
Daya said, "Never mind. It has nothing to do with us. Let's sell the goods. Mother, will you and father go buy things for tomorrow's preparations?"
"Don't worry, I'll take a look and see what happened." Lu Qiniang said, "The deaths of these two people are a bit strange. People always fall down the river before, so they added a circle of railings. How did these two fall in? They can't have fallen over because they were drunk."
"What can't a drunkard do?" Arya said, "It's not surprising."
As they were talking, Shi Ping, who had helped Lu Qiniang, came out from the crowd and walked towards Lu Qiniang's stall.
"Shi Ping, you're here too! I didn't see you just now." Lu Qiniang greeted him warmly, "Come, take a bag of melon seeds back for your sister Qiao."
"No, no," Shi Ping said quickly. "I came to the dock to buy fish for the shopkeeper today, and that's when I saw all this hustle and bustle. Qi Niang, come here, come here—"
"What are you doing? Are you talking nonsense?" Lu Qiniang said with a smile.
Spin pulled her aside.
Erya leaned over and listened with her ears perked up. Her gossipy look made everyone laugh.
"Did you see that just now? Those two dead people were the ones who tried to stab you in the street that day!"
Lu Qiniang's eyes widened instantly: "!!!"
She didn’t see it just now!
Xiao Yan blocked her eyes.
"That's impossible." Lu Qiniang was a little unconvinced. "I clearly said that day that I would hand them over to the authorities!"
"It's them two. If you don't believe me, go and see for yourself."
Shi Ping was in a hurry to buy fish, so he left the news of the explosion and left in a hurry.
Lu Qiniang was left there muttering to herself, "How could it be them? They were both guilty, and the government would have sentenced them, so how could they have drowned?"
Yun Ting looked at Xiao Yan suspiciously.
Xiao Yan's expression was calm, and his eyes showed no fluctuation at all.
Yun Ting wondered, could it be that his suspicion was wrong, and it wasn't Xiao Yan who did it?
Unable to tell anything from Xiao Yan's face, he went to look at Daya.
Daya was greeting customers, "I'll give you some of this to try. If it's good, come buy it next time."
It doesn't seem to be anything.
Erya said, "Mom, I know!"
"What?"
"Didn't you tell us that they have someone above them, so Zhang Heyao didn't dare to investigate further and just took these two people to the government?"
No matter what happened at home, big or small, as long as it could be discussed, Lu Qin's mother would go back and talk to her daughters about it.
She hopes that this kind of communication over time will prevent her daughter from panicking when encountering problems in the future.
What she did may not be right, but she can review it with her daughters.
When her daughter encounters problems in the future, she will be able to handle them better than she does.
"That's what you said, what's wrong?"
"That's the problem. Mom, Zhang Heyao lied to you! He didn't dare to offend the people above him, so he killed people to silence them. That must be the case!" Erya said loudly, looking at Xiao Yan at the same time, "Dad, am I right?"
She knew that Xiao Yan liked Daya more because Daya was smart.
She is smart now!
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Xiao Yan was stunned for a moment, then nodded seriously, his eyes approving: "Zhuozhuo, Dad thinks what you said makes a lot of sense."
All the responsibility lies with Zhang Heyao.
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