Chapter 372 It turned out to be them

Author: Ge Buyou

Chapter 372 It turned out to be them

Just as the woman finished speaking, another "rustling" sound came from behind the bushes.

Xiao Ran turned his head again and saw that next to the little slug with tears in his eyes and an innocent face, there was a little boy who was also about three or four years old.

This little boy's body was covered with dust and dead leaves and twigs, and his hair was cut into a round shape, like a small green-skinned watermelon. Unlike a slug, this little green-skinned boy looked directly at Xiao Ran, with no fear on his face, no corners of his mouth.

Even smiling.

Xiao Qingpi's expression made Xiao Ran feel slightly disgusted. He stood up, forcing Xiao Qingpi to look up at him, then stretched out the acorn in his hand and asked deliberately with a straight face: "You are the one who attacked me, right?"

?You are so brave, aren't you afraid that I will spank you?"

Unexpectedly, after listening to his words, Xiao Qingpi just let out a disdainful "hum". His black bean-like eyes were 50% appreciative and 50% disdainful. The meaning of this expression clearly meant "I'm not afraid of you, but it's a pity I didn't hit you."

you."

"Naughty kid..."

Xiao Ran put away the last trace of his smile. When these three words came to his mind, a feeling of hostility suddenly appeared in his heart that made him feel violent and inexplicable. At this time, he just wanted to slap this little green-skinned man on the head.

Well, it's better to slap him until he kneels on the ground, and then pee his crotch...

Xiao Qingpi finally stopped laughing, looking at Xiao Ran's expression with a hint of fear. Children, like small animals, sometimes have a stronger instinct to detect hostility than adults.

"Yangyang! Why don't you apologize to your uncle quickly!"

At this moment, one of the women hurried over and pinched the ear of the little Qingpi named "Yangyang". The little Qingpi grinned in pain and did not forget to take the slingshot from the slug's hand.

He reached out again to grab the acorn in Xiao Ran's hand.

When the woman saw this, she quickly smiled apologetically at Xiao Ran and said, "Comrade, I'm sorry, children are not sensible. Don't be the same as him..."

Xiao Ran saw that this woman was about less than thirty. Her clothes were simple and ordinary, and her accent and appearance were obviously Jiangnan style. Looking at the little Qingpi whose ears he was twisting, her eyebrows, eyes, mouth and nose were very similar to this woman, so these two must have

There is no doubt that people are mother and son.

His own mother has come to apologize, can he really have trouble with a child? The inexplicable evil fire has been mostly gone for the time being, so Xiao Ran waved his hand and said: "Hey, what are you talking about? As a child, I

That is to tease him."

After saying that, he lowered his palm and handed the acorn to Xiao Qingpi. Unexpectedly, Xiao Qingpi grabbed the acorn and punched Xiao Ran's palm with his small fist.

"Why?!"

Now even his mother was angry. She slapped him on the butt, scolded him in a southern dialect, and apologized to Xiao Ran again and again. Xiao Ran frowned, forced out an ugly smile, and shook his head gently to express his disapproval.

After thinking about it, the woman dragged Xiao Qingpi towards the house.

Xiao Qingpi was unyielding, crying and cursing at his mother. The vague words of a toddler, coupled with the dialect, Xiao Ran could only roughly make out that the child said that he would no longer want his mother when he grew up, etc.

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"Xiaozi, come in too. Stop playing around outside. You don't know how you will die if you run into bad people..."

At this time, another woman also spoke, her voice was steady and powerful, with a hint of calm majesty, which made Xiao Ran, the "bad guy" who had been accused of slander and Huai Huai, feel a little afraid to resist.

He looked up and saw this woman who was completely different. She was about fifty or sixty years old. Her gray hair was tied into a delicate bun. It could be seen from her eyebrows that she was definitely a beauty when she was young. She was wearing a woolen coat.

, through the slightly open gap, you can see that she is wearing a dark green cheongsam underneath.

This dignified and majestic woman must be the owner of this house. The slug named "Little Coyote" walked past Xiao Ran. Only then did Xiao Ran realize that he had been staring at the mistress, and hurriedly

He looked away slightly..

At this time, Xiao Qingpi's mother and son also walked past the old lady. The old lady glanced at Xiao Qingpi calmly. Xiao Qingpi's mother seemed to feel the old lady's dissatisfaction and slapped Xiao Qingpi on the butt again.

Then he nodded slightly and apologized to the old lady.

It turned out that the "bad guy" the old lady was referring to was this little green-skinned one. The pressure in Xiao Ran's heart eased a bit. He quickly followed Coyotito to the stone steps at the door, bowed slightly and said: "Old lady... Grandma...

...Old lady, I, I came here to visit...that..."

When the words came to his lips, he was so nervous that he couldn't say them out. Xiao Ran wanted to slap himself twice at this moment. Where was the good joke that he usually made while chatting and doing business?

"hehe……"

A soft laugh came, Xiao Ran looked up with a blushing face, and saw a faint smile on the corner of the majestic old lady's eyes, and said to him: "Madam...we are all called comrades now, and when we are old, we are old comrades. How many years ago?"

No one has called me madam. It’s cold outside, please come in and talk if you have anything to say..."

Xiao Ran felt a coolness on his scalp, which was caused by the cool breeze drying his fine beads of sweat. He never expected that a very common name in his time would become this old lady... No, in the eyes of the old lady

bonus points.

"Blessings come from misfortunes, misfortunes come from blessings..."

At this time, the Yin Yang Mirror spoke. It seemed that these artifacts had been watching the fun.

Xiao Ran had no time to care about them, so he hurried up to help the old lady open the door. The old lady's walking speed did not change at all from the beginning to the end, as if she expected Xiao Ran to open the door, and she never seemed to care whether he would open the door. That kind of insight into the world.

It is impossible to be calm without experiencing some life, death, and ups and downs.

Xiao Ran completely turned into a primary school student in front of her. He only dared to follow humbly, turning his head slightly from time to time and quietly looking at everything in the room.

Different from the exquisite mansion style outside, the inside of the house is extremely simple. The walls are half painted with green paint. All the wooden door panels and door frames with a western style, as well as the stair handrails leading to the upper floor, are painted completely.

It is an eye-catching apricot color. On both sides of the corridor nearly ten meters from the door, in addition to portraits of leaders, there are some propaganda posters that are no longer common even in ordinary people's homes.

This kind of simplicity is very abrupt, so abrupt that it feels like it was done deliberately.

After passing the corridor, the old lady turned around and took Xiao Ran into a large living room. There was not even a sofa in the living room, only the simplest wooden bench, electroplated folding chair and a long coffee table covered with iron.

The old lady motioned for Xiao Ran to sit down, and she sat on a single rocking chair. She took out an exquisite long cigarette rod, lit it with a match and took a small puff. This dignified and elegant scene actually made Xiao Ran involuntarily fantasize about the old man.

What people look like when they are young.

"Little dog, take some candy and go play in the corridor." The old lady said.

The child walked over obediently, picked up two candies from the table, turned around and saw Xiao Ran, thought for a while, took another one and stuffed it into Xiao Ran's hand, and then jumped out.

Xiao Ran sighed: "You are so good, you still remember to give it to me..."

The old lady blew out a puff of smoke and said: "Child, remember your shortcomings but not your longings. In a few years, you may even forget me. But you do understand the rules. Among the three generations of his family, he is the most obedient..."

Their house? Xiao Ran turned his head in confusion and looked at the old lady. Isn't this old lady the owner of this place? Or does this child have nothing to do with her?

The old lady knocked the ashes of her cigarette and said: "The child from my old friend's family, the one who hit you with the slingshot is from another family. They are coming to visit me during the Chinese New Year. I usually don't have many people here, so I kept them here for a while, just for fun.

.Can you tell me your story?"

Xiao Ran suddenly realized it. Seeing that the old lady came straight to the point, he quickly said: "That... Changkong worships the Immortal Family..."

The old lady frowned slightly, coughed slightly and said: "I don't dare to be an immortal. When did I become an old man? It's a new society now. As for you, it's not Changkong, but that boy Xiao Changkong who asked you to come, right? You have something to say

Just say it."

When Xiao Ran heard this, he had no choice but to say no more. Instead, he arranged the beads on his body, such as the Yin Yang Mirror and the Soul Locking Lingzhu, on the table one by one. The old lady still puffed out smoke rings gracefully, but raised her eyebrows from time to time.

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And when he took out the Guanshan Dao and placed it on the coffee table, the old lady had an expression of surprise on her face, and then shouted softly: "How dare you...where did you get this thing?!"

Xiao Ran was also shocked. He didn't expect that the old lady would suddenly get angry. Just as he was about to stand up to explain, he suddenly felt two big hands pressing his shoulders and pressing him hard on the bench.

He hurriedly turned around and was surprised to find that two people, who were the same as the guards at the door, wearing cotton clothes, cotton hats and scarves, and wrapped tightly, were standing behind him on both sides. Behind them, there were seven or eight similar people.

There were suddenly two people at the door of the living room, looking at him alertly.

When did these people come? He didn't notice it at all. Regardless of his body skills or the strength of suppressing him, Xiao Ran could estimate that he would have no problem with these people one-on-one, but two people could get even the slightest advantage.

No more.

What's more, there are more than a dozen people of the same style here. This old lady is definitely not simple.

Xiao Ran quickly weighed it in his mind, and then told the origin of the Guanshan Knife in the simplest terms, focusing on the characteristics of the knife seller, as if he was honestly explaining the real culprit behind the scenes.

"Hmph... No wonder, it turns out to be that little beast. He is the only one who can do this. It's hard to guard against domestic thieves..."

After listening to Xiao Ran's description, the old lady seemed to understand everything instantly. She motioned to the tightly wrapped people to let Xiao Ran go, but Xiao Ran who was sitting there was a little confused.

This is the second time that someone mentioned a thief when talking about Guan Shan Dao. Last time, it was Hei Xiazi...

"In this case, I know why you are here. I felt something was wrong with you in the yard just now. If I don't say anything, you can twist Yang Yang's head off. Come with me, I will take you somewhere..."

After the old lady said this, she motioned to the person in charge in the living room to get ready. The person asked in a low voice: "Are you going to the Huo family's old house first..."

Huo family? Xian family... Xiao Ran crossed these two words in his mind, and suddenly felt a thunderbolt strike on his head, and goosebumps surged all over his body. He seemed to have thought of something.

"Your... surname is Huo? You are Lao Jiu..."

The old lady immediately knocked the cigarette stick on the table, frowned slightly and said: "My surname is Huo, don't mention the past..."

Xiao Ran's heart was shocked, no wonder his second uncle asked him to come here with the artifact, no wonder there are so many masters here, and no wonder there is a black blind man in this world...

So, Coyotito, Yangyang...

At this time, the old lady had already stood up accompanied by two bodyguards, and Xiao Ran quickly followed her. Passing by the corridor, he saw the two children squatting on the ground playing. Xiao Qingpi looked pitifully at Xiao Qingpi, who had a mouth full of

The candy smacked loudly, and he peeled off another piece in his hand and put it into his mouth.

Xiao Ran strode over and said to Coyotito: "Open your mouth!"

Xiao Wuzhi opened his mouth obediently, Xiao Ran peeled off the candy in his hand, stuffed it into his mouth and said: "Xiao Zhenzhen, be careful when making friends in the future, don't let others lead you by the nose... Hi! You will have good friends in the future.

Yes, there are still two!”

Seeing that Coyotito nodded in confusion, he raised his hand and knocked a chestnut on Xiaoqingpi, pretending to shout: "Don't say you don't want your mother in the future, otherwise you will regret it..."

Xiao Qingpi finally cried "Wow". The old lady witnessed everything and raised a slight smile at the corner of her mouth. Xiao Ran quickly followed her in big strides.
Chapter completed!