Song Liyun suppressed her anger and asked, "What did you say to Xue Zhuang?"
"No, he didn't say anything. Brother Xue asked us where we were from, how many people were in our families, and why we were willing to become military households."
I told them my parents were dead, sob sob! We lost our house and land, and my second uncle wanted to sell you, so we ran away, sob sob!
Song Zhenping was sobbing. I had never seen him cry before, even after we'd known each other for so long.
Song Liyun was both angry and heartbroken. Song Zhenping had vented his grievances through alcohol.
Xue Zhuangmei simply claimed he was inviting him for drinks...
Unsolicited kindness is always suspicious; there's no smoke without fire. Go back and wait for him to sober up, then you'll have to find out the truth yourself.
Not far behind the brother and sister, a person emerged stealthily.
The man wore a sheepskin hat whose color was indistinguishable, and a shabby cotton-padded coat. With his hands in his pockets, his thin, long face and sly eyes were fixed on the direction the brother and sister had left. He muttered, "Oh my, this family not only survived living in a haunted house, but they've also made a good living."
This is the property of my Broken Gold Town! We have money to eat meat and drink wine, but we don't even know how to give it to our elders.
Song Liyun brought Song Zhenping back to Baolin Residence.
First, she took off his outer robe and threw it on the kang (a heated brick bed), then cleaned up her own soiled clothes before eating.
The afternoon passed quickly, and the snow fell heavier and heavier. Before it even got dark, the sparse snowflakes turned into large snowflakes, and the world was suddenly shrouded in chaos.
Song Liyun made a point of checking the courtyard gate and stayed in the greenhouse in the backyard for quite a while until it was late at night before returning to her room to rest.
The snowy night was quiet, with only a soft rustling sound to be heard.
Not long after the lights in Song Liyun's room went out, two figures suddenly appeared in the thicket outside the house.
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