Chapter 110: Granny Liu Appears

The second brother nodded with satisfaction, came over and sat down, rolled up a spoonful of noodles with his chopsticks, and slowly fed it to her.

It seemed that Naituanzi was really hungry. He ate without even raising his head. After a while, he had finished the whole bowl of noodles without leaving any soup. There was soup on the corners of Xinbao's mouth, and his big eyes were staring into the bottom of the bowl.

The second brother smiled and said, "Okay, that's enough. I'll eat at noon."

He wiped the juice from her lips with a handkerchief, peeled a candy and put it in her mouth, put the other one in her little pocket, and then went to wash the dishes.

Xinbao leaned his body, his big eyes gleaming as he peered through the door, then came close to Yan Shenjue and whispered, "Wife! I'll give you some candy!"

She tore off the oil paper in a mess and stuffed it into Yan Shenjue's mouth.

Yan Shenjue: “…”

The candy was very big, as big as an egg yolk, and it made a circle on Xinbao's cheek, and Yan Shenjue had a hard time holding it in his mouth.

Xinbao's big eyes were curved into eyelashes as she kept staring at him. Yan Xiaolang felt embarrassed by the girl's gaze and covered his lips with a handkerchief.

The second brother came in after washing the dishes. He knew what was going on at a glance and twitched his mouth.

Xinbao felt guilty, so he ran away.

The second brother said, "I can do it myself."

Yan Shenjue stood up and stepped aside. The second brother looked at the medicine and said, "Xinbao is usually very well behaved. Maybe because the family is not here, he is particularly noisy."

Yan Shenjue said: "Now..."

He had such a big piece of candy in his mouth that his speech was a little unclear. The tips of his ears turned red, but he still insisted on finishing his words: "I am very well behaved now."

The second brother said helplessly: "I'm glad you don't mind. If you meet someone who is serious about it, I will be really angry."

Yan Shenjue shook his head to indicate that he didn't mind, then stood up and opened the bag he brought yesterday.

The second brother poured out the medicine and put it aside to cool. He came over and asked, "What are these books?"

Yan Shenjue took out the seal script of the Three Hundred Thousand separately, and the rest were the Four Books and Five Classics. Yan Shenjue gestured to him, and his second brother's eyes were a little complicated: "I have learned all the Four Books, but I haven't studied them in depth..."

Yan Shenjue nodded.

He struggled to dissolve the sugar for a long time before finally swallowing it slowly. He drank a sip of tea and said, "When you go there next time, come to my place and take any book you want to read."

"Don't worry," said the second brother, "it won't be too late to wait until you move in."

Having said that, I still picked up a book and opened it.

Yan Shenjue specially took the old book, which had many annotations on it. The second brother was fascinated by it, turning the pages one by one.

Yan Shenjue reminded him: "Your medicine has gotten cold."

"Hmm," the second brother finally came back to his senses, quickly put down the book, and went over to drink the medicine.

Yan Shenjue asked him, "Do you want to take the imperial examination?"

"Yes," the second brother nodded, "I'm not good at other things either. What about you?"

Yan Shenjue sighed silently: "I don't know either..."

If he no longer had unexplained headaches, stomachaches, or fell down... it seems like he could go, but even if he got top scorer, what would that do?

That family would not allow him to become the top scorer in the imperial examination.

He couldn't help but look for the little baby with his eyes. Xinbao was running around in the yard, sometimes carrying water to water the trees, sometimes digging with a small hoe, and having a lot of fun.

As the two were chatting, Yuan Yaochu came back in a carriage. Before he arrived, he jumped off the carriage and said, "I'm telling you! Something big has happened!"

He lowered his voice and said, "Last night! Tang Sanshui and Hu Gua both got sick at the same time!!"

The second brother asked in surprise: "Is he ill?"

"Yes!" Yuan Yaochu said, "It has spread all over the outside world! It is said that at midnight, there was a scream, and all the jailers in the prison were woken up, and the prisoners were also terrified..." He described it vividly.

The second brother held his forehead with his hand.

Yan Shenjue watched helplessly as the little boy put down the basin of water, walked over quietly, and poked his little head in from behind Yuan Yaochu.

Yuan Yaochu finally got to the point: "Then when they looked over... they saw Tang Sanshui spit out a mouthful of blood!!"

There is no wrong version in the 1619 book forum!

The second brother reluctantly cooperated with him in the performance: "And then?"

Yuan Yaochu laughed twice: "Actually, after Tang Sanshui went back yesterday, he started to act crazy. He laughed, slapped the wall, and rolled around in the cell. He acted so convincingly! The jailer was not sure whether he was pretending or not, and they discussed whether to report it. Hu Gua was in the same cell with him, so he said he could cure him. Then he pushed Tang Sanshui to the toilet and told him to eat shit. Tang Sanshui couldn't pretend anymore, and the two of them fought for a few times, and Hu Gua threw him aside..."

"Then Tang Sanshui couldn't get up. He said he was in pain and uncomfortable. No one cared about him. He screamed and blocked his mouth. I heard that he rolled on the ground in pain. I don't know if he was faking it... Then in the middle of the night, Hu Gua suddenly screamed and insisted that something in his body hurt. He also started to struggle and roll around... Anyway, these two people kept rolling and screaming, scaring everyone. They all said that Liu Pozi came back to take revenge."

The second brother only knew that Madam Lin had been there, but he didn’t know what they had done. He pondered and asked, “And then?”

The second brother said, "Then within two hours, at dawn, Hu Gua died."

"Dead?"

"Yes, he was dead, really dead. The coroner didn't find anything, he was dead... But Tang Sanshui was still alive. I heard that when the cloth gagged his mouth was taken out, he vomited blood. The back of the cloth was soaked with blood and coagulated... So everyone said that it was Liu Pozi who came back for revenge. Then the county magistrate said that killing the mother was too vicious, and in order to appease the dead soul, a ritual had to be performed for seven consecutive days."

Xinbao had just stretched his little head out to listen secretly, but he became frightened and ran over to climb onto his second brother's lap and hid his little face in his collar.

The second brother hugged his sister, and pressed her little head to comfort her, saying: "In fact, Tang Sanshui's later illness and vomiting of blood may not be fake."

He told them what happened before, and then said, "The village doctor said that the medicine was not only extremely toxic, but also fierce and irritating. It's good that he can hold on until now. It's time for him to die. But Hu Gua... Don't you people in the martial arts world have fake deaths?"

"No," Yuan Yaochu waved his hand directly, "How rare is it to get a fake death drug? It's not something that someone like Hu Gua can get. Besides, fake death can only fool outsiders. The coroner can detect it because the fake death only means that the person has no breathing or heartbeat. His body is not stiff, not stiff, and there are no corpse spots. It's easy to see."

The second brother said: "So he is really dead."

"Yes, he is really dead." Yuan Yaochu said, "It's a good thing for him."

The second brother said: "Actually, I have been thinking about a question."

Yuan Yaochu sat down and drank tea to replenish his water. "What's the problem?"

The second brother said: "How could a person like Xiao Liu be so..." He chose a word: "Loyal and unyielding?? She even killed the assassin and then 'sacrificed her relatives for the greater good' to file a complaint? Why can't I believe it?"

(End of this chapter)