"Jiaolong, Jiaolong!" My grandpa ran after me breathlessly, looked at me, then at the closed door of the third lame brother's house, and opened his mouth: "You kid, what are you doing here?
Ah, then Chen Wei is a bastard, can we get over it with him?"
I looked at my grandpa and felt a dryness and pain in my throat: "Grandpa, Chen Wei was arrested and taken to the police station. He was taken away by the police yesterday afternoon. He was not the one who set the fire..."
Grandpa was stunned for a moment: "Who else could it be if it wasn't him?"
I knew that grandpa was also convinced that it was Chen Wei who did it, but he just didn’t want me to come to the door for fear that I would suffer. I shook my head and held my grandpa’s arm: “Let’s go back, I can’t figure out who it is.”
Grandpa glanced at me: "Could it be Chen Wei's little brothers? If he goes in, he can tell his little brothers to do it."
I continued to shake my head: "Grandpa, how is it possible? If Chen Wei is caught and imprisoned, then he will definitely not dare to let himself commit more crimes and be charged more. Now it is too late for him to clear himself of any charges."
Grandpa sighed: "Tell me, what a fuss this is, if you had known that Chen Wei had to go in, then Da Ya wouldn't have had to commit suicide and hang herself, and you wouldn't have had to send half of the ginseng to make soup for her and save her."
After living, he was sent away, and finally he got into trouble with Chen Wei. Life is really unpredictable. If Chen Wei didn't do it for our house, who else could be there? It's not winter, and we don't have a kang in our house. We can still light it by ourselves.
Is it done?"
I don’t know, now I feel like my head is in a mess. We both couldn’t walk along the way, so we sat on the side of the road to rest. Some villagers passing by almost didn’t recognize us. In the end, they all knew that something big had happened to my family.
, burned clean by the fire.
It was eight or nine o'clock when I walked home slowly, and I saw a car parked in front of my house from a distance. My grandfather said from the side: "Your dad got the message so soon?"
I didn't answer. I walked to the door and saw my father coming out of my yard with a worried look on his face. Uncle Zhuo was following behind him. I was a little surprised to see Uncle Zhuo. He had gained weight over the years and was a little bald. If it weren't for
The face was somewhat recognizable, but I really couldn't recognize him.
"Dad! Qiaoqiao! Are you okay? What's wrong with the house?" As soon as Dad saw us, he took a careful look at us first, and then ran over in stride. Maybe he saw the burning when he entered the yard just now.
It was scary to be like that.
Grandpa looked at Dad with a sad face: "Don't talk about it. There was a fire last night. I don't know who started it. I almost died in it. Fortunately, Jiaolong carried it out for me. Otherwise, I would
There will definitely be no one left."
Uncle Zhuo also came over, looked at me carefully, and said, "Qiao Qiao? Is that Qiao Qiao?"
"Uncle Zhuo." I responded immediately, "Why are you here?"
When Uncle Zhuo heard that I agreed, he couldn't help but nodded: "It's really Qiao Qiao. I don't dare to recognize you for being so tall. From now on, I will call you uncle instead of uncle. How many years have your sister-in-law and I been married?
It's okay if the house burns down. Are you and your grandpa okay?"
I shook my head, "It's okay."
Because my grandpa and Uncle Zhuo didn't know each other, my father quickly introduced me to the side. Seeing that my house had become like this, the final result of their discussion was to ask grandpa to give away all the surviving chickens, ducks, etc., and then we
I immediately followed my father and Uncle Zhuo into the city.
I had nothing to say or express an opinion. I watched my grandpa go to find the neighbors who helped us put out the fire and ask them to come to my house to catch chickens. I followed my father and said hello, turned around and walked directly towards the mountain to go.
We are in the county seat, so we have to tell grandma no matter what.
Halfway through, I heard footsteps behind me, turned around, and watched Uncle Zhuo catch up with me carrying some ghost papers, shouting: "Qiao Qiao! Wait for me!"
I stopped and looked back at him: "Zhuo...younger uncle, you also want to go up the mountain with me."
He ran to me, wiped his sweat, and nodded: "I didn't come to see your grandma when she left, but I kept thinking about it. If it hadn't been for her over the years, Qilin wouldn't have been so smooth. I have to thank her.
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I nodded and didn't say anything more. I felt very low and didn't want to say anything more. I walked to my grandma's grave, knelt down and burned paper for her, and then pulled out the grass on her grave as before, and then slowly
Slowly he opened his mouth and said: "Grandma, something really happened in our house. There was a fire. The incense of bad things burned so accurately. I don't know if I blame myself, but Chen Wei didn't set the fire. Grandma, who did it?
Yes."
Zhuo Wei also knelt down next to me, kowtowed twice and said, "Auntie, I come to see you all the time. You are always a master. You say you can keep Qilin fine, and Qilin will always be fine."
, but this time, I also want to ask you, did you see it wrong back then, or maybe you were reluctant to let go of Jiaolong, it should be Jiaolong who stays with Qilin!"
A gust of wind blew directly, and I was instantly blinded. When I opened my eyes, I saw that all the fire on the paper had been extinguished. This meant that grandma was angry. I frowned. How could grandma be angry? Uncle Zhuo saw this
I wanted to order more, so I stopped him and said, "Stop ordering. Grandma won't take the paper money after ordering."
After saying that, I lit a few incense sticks, but the incense sticks still burned poorly, which made me a little angry, "Grandma, don't you want me to go to my dad's house? I've come to see you often in the past two years and you've been
You should get used to it, but there is nothing you can do about it. There is nothing left in the house that was burned down. I can only go there for the time being and come back when the house is rebuilt. Don’t worry, grandma, I will still come back to see you often."
After I finished speaking, I kowtowed a few more times, and Uncle Zhuo followed me and kowtowed a few more times: "Auntie, don't worry, we will take good care of Qiao Qiao."
When I was going down the mountain, I vaguely felt that someone was looking at me from behind, but when I turned around I didn't see anything strange. Until I reached the bottom of the mountain, I remembered Zhuo Wei's words and looked at him: "Little uncle, when you were burning paper just now, you followed me.
What do you mean by grandma?"
Zhuo Wei frowned and looked at me: "Jiaolong, I'm not questioning your grandma. Your grandma is very powerful. I also know that she is an expert. But now we want An Qi to go abroad to study with Qilin. Please
The onmyoji who came said that An Qi is not the person we are looking for..."
I was stunned and looked at him, "But didn't you say that my eldest brother has been fine all these years?"
"Yeah, he's fine. He won't get sick even if he sees him. So the Onmyoji concluded that the person who protected him must have appeared next to Qilin back then. But your grandma lied and it wasn't An Qi. When we thought about it, it was true.
You also entered Qilin's room with your grandma back then, so it's very possible that your grandma was afraid that you would leave so she said it was An Qi. But no matter what, I still thank your grandma. If it hadn't been for her, Qilin wouldn't have been here for the past nine years.