Chapter 81 Helping to look out, kissing in the alley

When Liu Mingan and Jiang Ning walked out of the government office, He Zhenhu was still waiting to be beaten with a stick.

Aunt Li Er and Li Xiangyun saw that they came out first and immediately walked up.

"Liu Mingan, where is Hu Zi? Why did you come out but he hasn't come out yet?" Aunt Li Er asked with a bad face.

Liu Mingan answered as he walked, "Don't worry, he was sentenced to be beaten with 20 sticks, and he came out after the beating."

"What?"

Aunt Li Er and Li Xiangyun stared at him in disbelief. When He Zhenhu was taken away, wasn't it said that he was just questioned? Why is he going to be beaten with a stick now?

Liu Mingan was too lazy to pay attention to them and took Jiang Ning to the direction of Baixiao Tower.

"Liu Ming'an, stop! Speak clearly, did you say nonsense to the county magistrate? What does your house burning have to do with my son? How can you, a scholar, be so mean..."

Aunt Li chased after him relentlessly. Seeing that Liu Ming'an ignored her, she stretched out her hand to grab his arm, but before her hand touched Liu Ming'an, she was pinched.

It was the girl with her face covered beside him.

Aunt Li struggled hard and found that the girl was very strong. She couldn't pry open the hand that clamped her even with all her strength.

"Let me go! You ugly bitch!"

Aunt Li was so angry that she had no other choice but to lower her head and try to bite Jiang Ning with her mouth.

Jiang Ning frowned in disgust, pulled Auntie Li's arm and twisted it with her backhand, turning her body around.

Auntie Li cried out in pain: "Ah! It hurts so much! You ugly bitch, when Hu Zi comes out, I will make sure he teaches him a lesson--"

"Pa!"

A powerful slap hit her face, and at the same time Jiang Ning released her hand, and Auntie Li was knocked to the ground in an instant, with half of her face red and swollen, and blood oozing from the corners of her mouth.

"Mom!" Li Xiangyun, who had been standing by, was startled and hurried over to help Auntie Li up, looking at Jiang Ning with hatred and fear.

Auntie Li was stunned by the beating, and Li Xiangyun's shout brought her back to her senses. She had a hot temper and was mean to others. No young lady in Lotus Village was not afraid of her. Now that she was beaten, Aunt Li Er reacted like a madman and rushed towards Jiang Ning with her teeth and claws bared: "You damn girl, you dare to hit me, I will fight you!"

Jiang Ning frowned in disgust, clamped her hand again, and slapped her on the other side of her face.

"What are you doing? You dare to hit my mother!"

Li Xiangyun saw Aunt Li Er being beaten again, and rushed over.

When Jiang Ning saw this woman, she remembered the scene of her taking off her pants that day. Her face was full of disgust, and she didn't even want to touch her. She just stretched out her leg and kicked her in the stomach. Li Xiangyun's body fell backwards uncontrollably and hit Aunt Li Er who had just climbed up from the ground.

"If you dare to seek death again, I will grant your wish!" Jiang Ning lost her patience and threatened in a cold voice.

The two of them were the kind of people who only bullied the weak and feared the strong. Seeing that Jiang Ning was a tough guy and they could not afford to offend him, they had to get up dejectedly and went back to the gate of the government office to wait.

After Jiang Ning dealt with the two men, she found that Liu Ming'an was standing far away at the street corner, looking around nervously.

Jiang Ning walked to Liu Ming'an and patted his shoulder.

Liu Ming'an seemed to be startled. When he turned around and found that it was Jiang Ning, he breathed a sigh of relief and smiled, "Are you okay?"

"What are you doing standing here? Do you think I'm rude?" Jiang Ning narrowed her eyes and asked in a bad tone.

"How could that be?" Liu Ming'an grabbed her hand, with a somewhat aggrieved look on his face: "Jiang Ning, you wronged me, I'm here to keep watch for you."

Jiang Ning: "..."

Does she still need Liu Ming'an to keep watch for her?

"After all, this place is too close to the government office. If someone passes by, I can inform you in time." Liu Ming'an said it quite seriously.

"...I understand," Jiang Ning replied, and then said: "Then let's go to Baixiao Tower now."

When walking out of this street, Jiang Ning turned around and found that the two women were supporting the limping He Zhenhu to the other side, and they seemed to be wiping tears.

"What happened to those two people just now?" Jiang Ning couldn't help asking.

"Oh, they are very troublesome," Liu Mingan explained casually, "The older one is called Aunt Li Er, the mother of He Zhenhu, and she is a very unreasonable person. The younger one is called Li Xiangyun, who is both Aunt Li Er's niece and He Zhenhu's wife, and she is also quite unreasonable. Moreover, both of them like to gossip about other people's right and wrong, but they are petty."

"Then how did you offend Li Xiangyun before?" Jiang Ning asked again.

Liu Mingan didn't want to say those unpleasant words to Jiang Ning, and only said, "There were a few verbal disputes." But after saying that, he suddenly realized, how did Jiang Ning know that he had offended Li Xiangyun?

Suddenly remembering what his third aunt had said to him, Liu Ming'an turned around and asked Jiang Ning uncertainly: "She seemed to say that she saw a ghost before, could it be..."

Jiang Ning admitted nonchalantly: "It was me. Who asked her to come to me so late at night? I just gave her a little lesson."

It turned out that Jiang Ning had been protecting him for a long time. Thinking of this, Liu Ming'an felt very happy.

There were people coming and going on the street. Liu Ming'an looked at it, stretched out his hand to pull Jiang Ning and walked into a small alley next to it.

"What are you doing? Didn't you say you were going to Baixiao Tower?" Jiang Ning looked at Liu Ming'an's actions in confusion.

The person holding her stopped at this time, turned around, stretched out his hand and pulled off her veil.

Jiang Ning's eyes suddenly darkened, and Liu Ming'an's face enlarged in front of her, followed by a gentle kiss on her lips.

Liu Ming'an closed his eyes, the corners of his eyes slightly curved upwards, and his long eyelashes fell on his lower eyelids. This close-up scene made Jiang Ning's heart beat.

"Jiang Ning, thank you." After Liu Ming'an left Jiang Ning's lips, he said to her tenderly with his eyes.

Jiang Ning pursed her lips, looked at Liu Ming'an with a burning gaze, and looked away unnaturally: "Don't waste time, go to Baixiaolou first."

After saying that, without waiting for Liu Ming'an to react, she grabbed the veil and put it on, turned around and walked towards the street outside the alley.

Liu Ming'an smiled and shouted "Wait for me", and quickly followed.

Inside Baixiaolou, the boss heard the purpose of the visit, first stretched out his right hand to make a "three" gesture, and then stretched out the index fingers of his left and right hands to make a "ten" gesture.

"For thirty copper coins, I will tell you the route to Qushui City." said the boss.

Liu Ming'an glanced at Jiang Ning, and seeing that she had no objection, he quickly took out the money.

The boss took the copper plate happily, took out a piece of paper, and wrote as he said, "Qushui City is far away from Lingshan Town, separated by half of Liang State. It takes half a month to get there with a carriage. It takes two or three days to get to Gujiu Town, and then five or six days to enter Maozhu County. From Maozhu County, it takes about four days to walk along the official road to Zhuangzhu Village, and finally pass Zhuangzhu Village and walk for another four or five days to reach Qushui City." After

the boss finished writing, he handed the paper to Liu Ming'an and said, "If you and your wife want to go to Qushui City, I can give you some advice for free."

"Please tell me." Liu Ming'an said politely.

"Gujiu Town is famous for its wine. I send carriages there every half a month to buy wine and then resell it to the wine houses in Lingshan Town. For example, Fusheng Wine House buys all its wine from my Baixiao House, and I make a profit from the difference. If you two want to go to Qushui City, give me 100 coins, and I will let my people take you with them when they go to buy wine, and give you a ride."

"When do you usually send people?" Jiang Ning asked.

"The first and fifteenth of every month."

Liu Ming'an will take part in the provincial examination on the sixteenth of this month, and the results will be announced at the end of the month. If he passes the examination successfully, he can leave on the first day of next month.

The two looked at each other and understood each other's thoughts.

Liu Mingan smiled politely at the boss and said, "Okay, we'll come to see you on the first day of next month."

"We usually leave after lunch, at 3 p.m., please come as scheduled, sir and madam." The boss said.

"Okay."