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Chapter 34 Melon Seeds

The next day, before dawn, Li Qiniang got up. She warmed the prepared breakfast on the stove and walked out with slight hands.

Worried that his daughter was unsafe in the shop alone, Li Qiniang locked it.

After Yan Xuehuai woke up, she did not see Li Qiniang. She found the kitchen and saw the note left by Li Qiniang: Mom goes to buy vegetables, breakfast is on the stove, you are good at home, Mom will come back soon, obediently.

Yan Xuehuai laughed, did Li Qiniang think she was only three or four years old?

She held the note and was stunned.

Her memory in her previous life began when she was eight years old. There were many children younger than her in the orphanage. The caregivers were always very serious. She took a bath and made her own bed. She would go hungry if she missed the time to eat. In order to buy a popsicle, she secretly picked up waste after school.

Yan Xuehuai carefully folded the notes and put them in the makeup box.

Li Qiniang insisted on buying this makeup box for her, saying that she had one better one before, so she stayed in the south and didn't bring it with her.

Li Qiniang always felt that she owed her, and Yan Xuehuai even suspected that if she said she wanted the stars in the sky, Li Qiniang would pick them for her.

After breakfast and washing the dishes, Yan Xuehuai went to wash clothes. Half of the clothes were washed, Li Qiniang came back. Seeing Yan Xuehuai washing clothes, she immediately snatched them over: "The water in the well is so cold, you will get the disease."

Yan Xuehuai had no choice but to say: "Then I'll add hot water and wash it."

"That's not OK. You can't wash it. Put it there. I'll wash it. My mother bought you a melon. Go and taste it if it's sweet."

"Mom, I can wash."

"You can't wash it clean, go quickly, don't make trouble here, be obedient."

Yan Xuehuai had to shake his hands to get the melon, wash the melon, break a piece and stuff it into Li Qiniang's mouth: "Is it sweet?"

Li Qiniang smiled and said in a daze: "You eat it yourself, mom doesn't like to eat this."

But it looks like that, it is clearly what I like to eat.

Yan Xuehuai jumped into the kitchen, and Li Qiniang looked at her back and smiled with satisfaction.

Yan Xuehuai was sorting out the vegetables that Li Qiniang bought, and Zhang Wushao's voice sounded at the door: "Are you there?"

Yan Xuehuai hurriedly went out and saw Zhang Wusao stepping inside and outside the door. Seeing Yan Xuehuai, Zhang Wusao smiled so hard that she couldn't see her teeth: "Where is your mother?"

Yan Xuehuai pointed to the backyard: "It's in the back."

Zhang Wushu looked around seriously, lowered his voice and said, "Didn't you go out in the morning?"

"My mother just entered the door when I went to Dengshi Street to buy vegetables, but I didn't go out. What's wrong?" Yan Xuehuai was very curious. Zhang Wushao clearly wanted to share gossip.

"Ouch, no wonder something happened to Ouyang Hui!" Zhang Wushao's tone was strengthened.

"What happened? Didn't his child be retrieved? What happened again?"

The first thing Yan Xuehuai thought of was the siblings. Could it be that they were not relieved and were asking for trouble for Ouyang Hui and Wang again?

"It's not a child's business. The people from Wuchengsi went to Ouyang Hui's house early in the morning and said that someone reported the case and Ouyang Hui killed someone."

"Who killed someone?" Li Qiniang wiped her hands with a cloth towel while walking. When she saw Zhang Wu's sister-in-law, she hurriedly asked, "Fifth sister-in-law, who did you just say to kill someone?"

Mrs. Zhang Wu hurriedly said, "It's the one that used to run a sauce shop here. His family lives not far away from us. It's a street from us. When I came here in the morning, I happened to see it. Oh, it's so scary."

Li Qiniang didn't know the conflict between Yan Xuehuai and Ouyang Hui, but she knew about Ouyang Hui's forced occupation of Mrs. Ye's shop. Hearing this, she asked, "Hey, they live nearby."

"I didn't live here before, but later they somehow provoked bandits. The bandits tied up his son. I heard that they borrowed usury and paid the house, but they didn't pay it back. They just moved here not long ago. It was his cousin who was the patriarch who lent him the house. Oh, no one can think of living in that house in the future."

Yan Xuehuai was not interested in where Ouyang Hui and his wife lived, and the bandits would never be ruthless.

"Aunt Wu, what's going on today?"

Zhang Wusao quickly returned to the topic: "The Wuchengsi found the body at Ouyang Hui's house. Oh, the body was in the warehousing room in the backyard. I heard that there was a pile of rags on it. Everyone in the Wuchengsi said that this was killing people and hiding the body."

Yan Xuehuai recalled Ouyang Hui and Wang's every move. Although these two people were bad, they did not seem to have the courage to kill people.

"Who was killed by him?"

"I don't know that the people from Wuchengsi may still be there now. The house is now a haunted house. Oh, his cousin is really unlucky. He helped him everywhere before, but in the end he was cheated." Zhang Wushao stuffed a handful of melon seeds to Yan Xuehuai, "Try it, salt and salt."

"Ouyang Hui's cousin is the county magistrate, right?" Yan Xuehuai remembered very clearly that Mrs. Ye's complaint was handed over to Pingcheng County, but was sent by the county magistrate to Hui tribe to decide.

"What's the use of the county magistrate? We are now in the capital. The one who is here is the Wuchengsi Department, the big yamen that connects the sky. What's the county magistrate? Aunt, are you right?"

Zhang Wushao handed melon seeds to Li Qiniang again, and Li Qiniang waved her hand: "I won't eat it anymore, I'll go steam the buns."

Mrs. Zhang praised her and said to Yan Xuehuai: "Sister Huai, you are so lucky to be greedy for such a capable and love your mother."

Yan Xuehuai smiled at her: "Yes, I think I am very blessed."

After seeing off Zhang Wusao, Yan Xuehuai thought about it, the more he felt that something was strange about this matter.

"Mom, I'll go out for some breath."

Li Qiniang guessed that her daughter wanted to go to the fun, so she said, "Go away from the people in the yamen, they are holding swords."

"I know!"

Yan Xuehuai agreed to run out without asking, and followed the crowd watching the fun and quickly found the haunted house where something happened.

A seal was posted on the gate of the courtyard, and there were people wearing military uniforms standing at the door. These military uniforms were different from those in the army, and they didn't look like the yamen runners I saw on the street. Yan Xuehuai guessed that these people were from the Wuchengsi.

At this time, a sedan chair was parked at the intersection, and no sedan chair was stopped. A middle-aged man in a silk shirt came out of the sedan chair and headed straight to the door of the house.

Someone next to him recognized him: "This is the patriarch of the Ouyang family, and this house is his."

"I'm so unlucky. I'm afraid I won't be able to rent this house in the future."

Yan Xuehuai looked at the Ouyang Clan Chief Ouyang. Seeing that he was talking to the soldiers guarding the gate, the soldiers shook their heads. The Ouyang Clan Chief Ouyang was dejected and almost fell when he entered the sedan chair.

The sedan chair came and left again. Some people said that it was about to look at the direction he was going to Pingcheng County Government.

Yan Xuehuai asked the person watching the fun next to her: "Did you see the body?"

"I saw it, I've been here all the time, and that person died so miserably."

"Male or female?"

"The man is a big man. I really didn't see it before. Ouyang Hui lost a lot of weight and had this ability. That person is much bigger than him. Only the three Wuchengsi personnel carried him out and were as strong as a cow."
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