After buying Wu Yue's favorite jujube cakes, pineapples and asparagus candies at the market, Jiang Chen walked like the wind and soon arrived at Wu's house.

Except for Wu Yue, Lao Wu and Wu Qingshan were not at home. It seemed that they deliberately avoided going out to create opportunities for the two of them to be alone.

"My brother went fishing with his friends. Don't you think he can't take a good rest? Yesterday he said he accidentally fell. I don't know how he got injured like that."

Even Wu Yue could see the flaws in such a lame lie, and Jiang Chen couldn't help but shake his head.

"Don't worry about him. What I bought is what you like. Sit down and eat."

When Wu Yue saw Jiang Chen buying so many of her favorite foods, she sat down and tasted them deliciously.

"What about your father? Why can't I see him lately? Could it be that he is hiding from me on purpose?"

Jiang Chen was a little worried, whether this old Wu had changed his mind again. If he stopped blocking his marriage with Wu Yue, then he would have to elope with Wu Yue.

Hearing Jiang Chen's words, Wu Yue burst into laughter.

"Elope? Brother Chen, do you really want to elope with me, a loser?"

"What, you're not happy?" Jiang Chen stretched out his finger and scratched Wu Yue's little nose lovingly.

Wu Yue has lived in this small town since she was a child and has never been to a place hundreds of miles away from home. She feels that if she elopes with Jiang Chen, she will definitely be a burden.

"No, I will go wherever Brother Chen wants to take me, as long as you don't mind me being a burden."

"By the way, my dad has been home later than usual recently. I don't know what he has been doing, but he didn't say he would object to our marriage. Don't worry."

The two were talking when Old Wu came back. After seeing Jiang Chen, he chatted for a few words and then went into the kitchen to start tinkering.

Both Jiang Chen and Wu Yue looked a little confused. Wu Yue always prepared the meals at home, and today's dinner was also cooked. They didn't know what he was going to do now.

Not long after, Lao Wu came out with a bowl of food. When he went out, he did not forget to say, "I will feed the cows something to eat. You can eat first without waiting for me."

After Old Wu walked away, Jiang Chen asked Wu Yue doubtfully: "Don't the cows in your thatched shed eat grass? When did they start eating white rice?"

Wu Yue also frowned and said in surprise: "I also saw a chicken leg in that bowl of rice!"

Combined with Lao Wu's various abnormal behaviors recently, Jiang Chen felt that it was necessary to investigate carefully. This was his father-in-law, so he should pay more attention to him.

He asked Wu Yue to have dinner first and walked towards the Wu family's hay shed.

Before he even got close, he could faintly hear voices coming from inside the shed. Wasn't Old Wu talking to the cow alone?

Things are getting more and more weird. Is it because Lao Wu is reluctant to marry his daughter, so he is anxious and doesn't want his family to know, so he runs to such a place to hide?

Jiang Chen had many questions in his heart, and then he began to deliberately slow down his pace, while minimizing the movement under his feet.

Due to his professional training and countless battle experiences, Jiang Chen did an impeccable job here. If there was no accident, it would be impossible for Old Wu inside to notice his presence.

"Stop killing those cats and dogs. Your strange behavior will cause panic to the people nearby, and it will easily arouse suspicion."

Old Wu's words made Jiang Chen's brain seem to have an electric current flowing through it.

The strange things I heard at the market during the day actually matched up with Lao Wu, which meant that there should be another person in front of Lao Wu at this time, that is, the man who killed cats and dogs and dumped their bodies.

"Wouldn't it arouse your family's suspicion if you bring me food every day?"

It was a man's voice. Although Jiang Chen didn't know who he was and had never heard this voice before, he could almost roughly picture the image of this man in his mind.

"You don't have to worry about my affairs. All in all, I can't let you mess around outside, even if I am no longer the same person as before."

"Fresh raw meat is more to my taste. The smell of blood dripping and filled with fishy smell is disgusting."

The man's tone of voice did not fluctuate at all, just like the calm, mirror-like surface of the water.

"Is it a quirk you developed on the battlefield?"

"If the instinct to survive can be considered a quirk."

Every sentence of the conversation between Lao Wu and this mysterious man surprised Jiang Chen. The identity of the other man was actually a man who had been fighting on the battlefield for a long time.

Only people who walk on the edge of death every day can have such a cold tone and ambivalence towards blood.

Jiang Chen can feel this strongly. He was once a man who struggled to survive on the edge of a knife. He would not understand what it feels like unless he has experienced several battles between life and death.

Then he must be a capable soldier!

"What are your plans for the next step?" Old Wu asked again after being silent for a while.

"I must complete my mission, even if I die!"

When the two of them said this, they suddenly stopped in a tacit understanding. They seemed to be holding their breath and listening to the movements around them. This reaction surprised Jiang Chen.

He has reduced his breathing to an inaudible level, but even so, do the two people inside still feel it?

How is this possible?

It's really ridiculous to the extreme. Old Wu, the butcher he's known since childhood, actually has an unknown side. Now Jiang Chen has become very interested in Old Wu's past. He really wants to know who he was in the past?

"It's almost time. If I don't go back, I'm afraid they will become suspicious."

Old Wu stood up to leave, and there was no other movement from the man. When Old Wu returned home, he saw his daughter Wu Yue and Jiang Chen having dinner happily.

"Humph, I don't know, wait for me, they say that a married daughter throws away water, and you are not even married yet!"

"Didn't you say that we should eat first?" Jiang Chen reminded.

But Lao Wu suddenly became arrogant: "Humph, the elders are just saying this to be polite. Don't you juniors know some etiquette?"

Although he had a straight face, it could be seen that Lao Wu was not really angry. He, who was always serious, actually knew how to joke.

After returning from the Wu family, Jiang Chen stayed at home alone and began to think quietly. He had a strong feeling that the man hiding in the Wu family's hut was the guy he had seen before.
Chapter completed!