Tang Chen's footsteps suddenly stopped without warning, and his demeanor suddenly changed. "Those guys are not good people. I personally think you should not go. They are so ruthless that they won't even let innocent people go. I'm afraid that you've followed me here peacefully, but when I return, I'll have a corpse to collect."
Seeing that Tang Chen didn't seem to be joking with him at all, Qiu Liang couldn't help but take this impulsive thing seriously: "Madam, are you still upset about Master Li's matter?"
Tang Chen corrected him, "This isn't a grudge, but a deep hatred. Xinzhai is my best friend here. I owe him so much, and before I could even repay him, they took his life so easily. Such a prime time, was ruined by those few people."
Qiu Liang was slightly stunned, then gave up the idea of asking the expert for advice: "Madam, I am sorry."
Tang Chen glared at the granary and said, "I'll get my revenge someday. Now, don't provoke them, or I might get angry and end up hurting myself and others."
"I understand."
Tang Chen didn't really want to make others feel unhappy because of his people. After standing there and taking a few deep breaths to calm down, he put a smile on his face again: "Let's not talk about these unhappy things. This should be your first time out of the valley, right?"
Seeing Tang Chen's sudden great sorrow and joy, Qiu Liang seemed to understand why Wang Yanzhou wanted him to stay with her all the time. It was not only for protection, but also because he didn't want her to bear things alone. "Strictly speaking, it should be the second time. The first time I left the valley, I ran away from home."
Hearing this, Tang Chen said in surprise, "I never thought someone like you would be so disobedient as to run away from home?"
"I was young at that time." I was young, yes. Who hasn't done many things that make people embarrassed or laughable when thinking about them now because of being young and ignorant?
Tang Chen looked at Qiu Liang's eyes exposed outside the veil, and it was obvious that she was a person with a story. "You have been with me for almost a year, and I still don't know you well. Anyway, there is nothing we can do in the territory of South Vietnam. Why don't you tell me about it?"
Qiu Liang looked around evasively and said, "Well, there's nothing much to say."
Tang Chen said relentlessly: "There's nothing much to say, so just tell me briefly. I'm not forcing you."
Seeing her like this, Qiu Liang seemed to be telling himself that if he didn't say anything today, he would harass Wang Nianqing another day. After a slight sigh, he admitted defeat: "The neighbor's child stole my kite. I was so angry that I went to my parents to ask them to help me get it back. As a result, the child was the first to complain, and my parents beat me. I was so angry that I ran away. My family lived not far from the valley entrance at the time, and I ran away. After sleeping outside for a night, I was hungry and prepared to go home."
At this point, Tang Chen couldn't help but interject. From the day she met Qiu Liang until now, she had never heard him or anyone he knew mention his family. If this story followed a normal script, then his parents would most likely have met with an irreversible accident during the short time he ran away from home. "Wait, why does this plot seem so familiar? I always feel like something bad is going to happen next?"
Qiu Liang didn't quite understand what Tang Chen meant, so he continued calmly, "After I returned, I discovered that my home was gone, along with that annoying neighbor. Later, people from Qingliang County came and caught the murderer, but the dead cannot be resurrected. At that time, there were only a few other people in our village who survived, besides me. We were all taken in by the master, and later, we met the shadow master, and gradually settled down."
Tang Chen couldn't help but sigh in his heart, wondering why these sad stories had so many similar plots: "It's a simple and clear story, but I always feel weird after listening to it."
Qiu Liang chuckled, treating Tang Chen as just a friend with whom he could chat and talk, and said, "I'm just a storyteller, so I don't feel anything. So, stop talking nonsense."
Tang Chen couldn't help but nodded and said, "That's right. Seeing how you are now, I guess they are all very nice to you."
If he hadn't met Wang Nianqing and the others, Qiu Liang couldn't even imagine what he would be like now. Could he survive? Could he survive as an upright person? He didn't know: "That's great. We are all about the same age. They all treat me as a younger brother."
In fact, when Tang Chen first asked Qiu Liang about him, he actually wanted to know what a face with such clear eyes would look like without the veil: "So, your face?"
"What happened to my face?"
Qiu Liang was stunned for a moment and still hadn't reacted to Tang Chen's true intention; even while speaking, he couldn't help but touch his face, wondering if there was some dirt on his face when he was drinking tea just now.
Tang Chen looked at Qiu Liang's silly behavior, and although he felt a little sorry, he couldn't help but add: "I mean, was your face ruined by those who killed your family, or is there some other reason that made you have to cover it?"
Qiu Liang answered very seriously: "No, it's great, I don't even have any pimples."
Hearing this, Tang Chen subconsciously touched the two very noticeable large red pimples on his chin and said, "I don't think I need to say the second half of your sentence. What do you think?"
"oh."
The question had come to this point. Since Qiu Liang's face beneath the veil didn't involve any psychological trauma or other reasons that made it untouchable, she just said it directly: "Then little brother, can you show me what you look like?"
Qiu Liang looked down at Tang Chen's hands, which were restless and inappropriate, and took a step back. "The Shadow Master and the others told me not to show my appearance to others easily."
The smile on Tang Chen's face froze instantly. Could it be that what she just thought was different from what she had just thought? "Why?"
Qiu Liang said without hiding anything: "It's true, he has grown ugly, and he is very different from before, it's a bit scary."
The smile on Tang Chen's face gradually became distorted. Although she was already married, who didn't like an excellent man? Besides, the meaning of liking someone was not limited to the narrow meaning of love between men and women.
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