Judging from his appearance, Xie Zhuo shouldn't be a clingy person. He has deep-set eyes and a high nose bridge. He looks fine when he smiles, but when he doesn't smile, he always gives off a cold and distant feeling.
I don't know who told me, but people with thin lips are also cold-hearted.
But Xie Zhuo's views contradict these statements.
He's such a clingy person.
“I miss you too,” Xu Yan said with a smile, giving him a gentle push. “The door is still open; if someone sees us, they’ll gossip.”
"I'm at home, kissing my own wife, what business is it of theirs?" Xie Zhu frowned, but when he saw an old woman craning her neck to look into the yard as she passed by their door, he took a small step back.
The old woman probably didn't expect Xie Zhuo to suddenly turn around. The two looked at each other, and then she turned around and walked away.
“Didn’t we say we were going to the city?” Xu Yan glanced at the gate as well. “Go quickly and come back as soon as you’re done.”
"Hmm," Xie Zhuo finally looked away.
Xie Zhuo went to the city to look for someone.
After he was reborn, he took Liu Mancang and Zhao Jisheng into the mountains several times and obtained a lot of game. Although Qingshan Brigade did not stop the villagers from going up the mountain to hunt, they did not allow them to sell the game.
It's fine to hunt them for your own consumption, but it's definitely not allowed to be done through an open and aboveboard transaction.
So Xie Zhuo used some memories from his previous life to find someone in the city's black market, originally intending to sell his prey for some money.
Unexpectedly, I ended up getting involved with Lao He.
Later, Lao He introduced him to someone who specialized in buying wild game. The price was reasonable, but there was a condition that the prey could not be killed.
Therefore, before each shot, Xie Zhuo tries to find a spot that will not be fatal to the animal.
Their harvest this afternoon was pretty good: six rabbits, three pheasants, and two deer.
Liu Mancang and Zhao Jisheng caught the deer. In the process of catching the two deer, Liu Mancang had two cuts on his neck and ankle from tree branches, and Zhao Jisheng also had some bruises on his face.
Only Xie Zhuo was unharmed.
Actually, he was the first to see the deer, but because his position was too remote, when he fired his slingshot, he only hit the deer's leg. When the deer was startled and ran around, he didn't pounce on it like Liu Mancang and Zhao Jisheng. Instead, he found a place to hide to make sure he wouldn't get hurt.
As Liu Mancang rode on the fallen deer, waiting for him to find a rope to tie it up, he asked, "Third Brother, why are you hiding?"
"Hmm?" Xie Zhuo put the deer legs together and glanced at him. "Your sister-in-law said you couldn't get hurt when you left home."
Liu Mancang: "..."
Depend on!
So what if you have a wife?
Xie Zhuo rode his bicycle into the city in a very short time; if the roads weren't so bad, he could have pedaled even faster.
The person he was looking for lived in the opposite direction from Lao He's family. He was a short, middle-aged man with a beard. At first glance, he seemed unremarkable, but he held a rather important position in the black market.
Moreover, according to Lao He, he is quite capable and has a wide network of connections.
Xie Zhuo listened to these things but didn't offer much comment.
Before marrying Xu Yan, he had considered getting involved, but because of his two children, he suppressed that thought. Now that he is married to Xu Yan, he is even less likely to do anything risky.
This time, Xie Zhuo didn't hide his bicycle. He rode directly into an alley, saw a person squatting at the entrance of the alley, said a few words to him, and then headed towards the state-run restaurant.
To most people, it would seem as if he went to ask for directions, and left after asking only a few questions.
But this scene, seen by Wang Chao who was not far away, was not so simple.
Wang Chao watched as Xie Zhuo rode his bicycle to the state-run restaurant and then walked home before emerging from the corner and heading towards the person Xie Zhuo had spoken to earlier.
Zhao Yulei looked at the person in front of him and raised an eyebrow slightly. "Which one are you talking to? I've had quite a few people talking to me today."
“That guy just now,” Wang Chao stared at him, “the tall guy on the bicycle, what did he say to you?”
“Him,” Zhao Yulei patted his trousers, brushing off a layer of dirt, “asked for directions to our state-run restaurant.”
"You're lying!" Wang Chao's expression suddenly changed.
“He’s been to the city at least eight or ten times, how could he not know where the state-run restaurant is?” Wang Chao glared at him. “What exactly did he say?”
"Heh," Zhao Yulei wasn't embarrassed at being exposed, but instead sneered, "Why should I tell you? Who do you think you are, questioning me here?"
"You," Wang Chao said, exasperated.
"What do you mean, 'you'?" Zhao Yulei's face slowly turned cold. "Everyone in Qingping County knows that you can't ask Master Zhao of Peach Blossom Lane for information empty-handed. But you, kid, come here and start questioning your grandfather."
"Who the hell are you?" Wang Chao's expression was ugly as he viciously punched Zhao Yulei in the face.
Unfortunately, before they could even reach Zhao Yulei, they heard him suddenly whistle, and then a group of people rushed out of the alley, each carrying a stick as thick as a forearm.
Wang Chao glanced at it once, felt a chill run down his spine, and immediately turned to run.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he made a move, Zhao Yulei kicked him in the back of the knee, and he fell to his knees with a thud.
Despite his short stature and advanced age, Zhao Yulei moved with remarkable speed and decisiveness, even grinding his foot into Wang Chao's fingers as he stepped on them.
"Today, Fourth Master will teach you some manners."
Wang Chao's shout echoed throughout the alley, but it was only once, and then there was silence, as if everyone had hallucinated for a moment.
Xie Zhuo had somehow ridden back into the alley, straddling his bicycle and watching from afar. He seemed to have a slight smile on his lips, but upon closer inspection, one could only see his cold face.
He already knew that Wang Chao was following him.
We discovered it as soon as we entered the city.
This idiot thinks he's hidden himself so well.
When Xie Zhuo rode his bike home again, it was almost time for dinner. He left his own food behind and went to Beishan to deliver another meal.
He had already arranged with Zhao Yulei several times before that they would take a detour to the city to deliver goods at 3 a.m. after everyone had fallen asleep, and they would wait to pick them up.
When I went there today, I just told him that the goods were in stock and would be delivered tonight.
Logically, they should have just left in the middle of the night, but Liu Mancang and Zhao Jisheng were worried and insisted on keeping watch in a dilapidated village at the foot of the mountain.
"Are you really not going home?" Xie Zhuo asked again before leaving. "If you hide here, no one will be able to find you."
“I’m not going back,” Liu Mancang said, with half a chicken leg stuffed in his mouth. “I wouldn’t feel at ease if I went back.”
“There’s no wife waiting for me when I go back,” Zhao Jisheng said.
"Damn," Xie Zhuo smiled and glanced at him sideways, "Then you guys can just squat there, I'll come over when it's time."
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