In this cold northern street, it is roaring and raging.
Occasionally, a high-pitched wind whistle came, sharp and ear-piercing. It was like the howling of ghosts and wolves, making this biting winter night even more terrifying.
The big red lantern hung high at the entrance of the Wang family was still flickering with candlelight, illuminating the entire entrance.
However, the two servants holding sticks at the door were nowhere to be seen.
Xiao Chen's heart tightened, he didn't even bother to knock on the door, he jumped directly and stood on the high wall of Wang's house.
The entire Wang family was brightly lit, and through the pavilions and pavilions surrounded by rockeries, we could vaguely see the crowd of people in the Wang family's living room.
"Fortunately, nothing happened to the Wang family." A stone fell from Xiao Chen's heart. He lightly jumped off the courtyard wall and walked towards the living room.
I don't know how many people there are in the Wang family, but there are actually more than ten men and women gathered in the living room at this time.
Including the two servants who were standing at the door holding wooden sticks, there were four servants in total, holding the wooden sticks in their hands tightly, standing around the crowd, as if facing a formidable enemy.
Everyone's eyes were on the wall in the northeast, and their faces were a little pale.
The face of the royal patriarch in the middle of the crowd was as calm as ever. However, his face, which had always been as calm as water, seemed to have a little anger.
Butler Wang, who was at the front of the crowd, was panting, and his breath formed a white mist due to the cold weather, which looked quite obvious.
And the breathing frequency was like an old cow that had just returned from plowing the fields, extremely rapid.
I guessed that it was really hot, so I quickly waved my cattail leaf fan in my hand and fanned it to my head.
However, the cattail leaf fan that was still intact before had only one handle and one or two threads of the cattail leaves left.
"What happened? Someone broke into Wang's house to do something evil?" Xiao Chen walked up to the crowd and asked softly.
Hearing an unfamiliar voice, everyone was startled and turned around hastily. Especially the four servants, who almost picked up the sticks in their hands and hit him subconsciously.
Seeing that it was Xiao Chen, Patriarch Wang gently raised his right hand and waved: "Don't be nervous, everyone. It's okay now. Let's go back."
A middle-aged woman next to her was being supported by a young-looking girl.
She glanced at Xiao Chen, then at the royal family leader, and said hesitantly: "Master?!"
"Madam, go back to your room to rest first." The royal family leader nodded towards the woman, and at the same time looked at the girl beside him, "Help your mother go back to her room."
After arranging everyone to leave the living room, the royal family leader turned back to look at Xiao Chen.
"Xia Ji, why did you go and come back again?" Looking at Xiao Chen jumping over the wall and entering, the royal family leader did not mean to blame him.
"Chief Royal, can you sit down and talk?" On a winter night, he stood upright in the middle of the living room and talked like a fool.
"Okay, okay, knight, please take a seat." He quickly looked at Butler Wang behind him, "Second brother, let someone bring you some tea."
Immediately, he turned around, raised his right hand, and pointed to the Eight Immortals table at the top of the living room: "Knight, please come this way."
Xiao Chen was not polite, walked up and sat down.
A maid held two bowls of steaming tea and placed them gently on the table. Then she put the tray up, bowed and took a step back: "Master, please drink tea. Young Master, please drink tea."
"Well, let's go down." The head of the Wang family said softly.
"Wait a minute." Xiao Chen shouted.
The maid who was about to leave stopped, with a trace of surprise in her eyes.
Chief Wang also turned his head and looked at Xiao Chen with a puzzled expression.
Xiao Chen picked up the hot tea on the table and drank it in one gulp without saying a word.
Then he handed the tea bowl to the maid: "I'm very thirsty, let's have another bowl."
The maid took the tea bowl, smiled, and walked away.
"Hahaha, the knight is so magnanimous." The royal family leader smiled and pushed the tea bowl in front of him towards Xiao Chen: "This bowl is also yours. Although the Wang family is not rich, they have enough tea!"
Looking at the tea bowl pushed over by the royal family chief, Xiao Chen hesitated for a moment, picked it up without ceremony, and drank it all in one gulp.
"I'm just a rough guy, and I don't care about these many etiquettes. If you're thirsty, you're thirsty. Please don't take offense, head of the royal family." Xiao Chen said shyly as he put down the tea bowl.
"That's it." The royal family leader waved his right hand and said with a smile, "A knight walking in the rivers and lakes is so bold. If the knights are polite and courteous when encountering problems, I'm afraid it will be difficult to travel in the rivers and lakes."
At this time, the maid from earlier had already walked up with Xiao Chen's tea bowl, placed it on the table, picked up another empty tea bowl and turned away.
"Chief Wang, I saw everyone was nervous just now. Did something happen?" Xiao Chen straightened his body and asked.
After hearing this, the smile on the royal family leader's face gradually disappeared.
"Two thieves broke in and wanted to attack the Wang family. Fortunately, the second brother had been practicing martial arts and the cattail leaf fan in his hand was beaten to pieces, so the Wang family survived."
Looking up at the cattail leaf fan in Butler Wang's hand with only the handle and a trace of leaf veins left, Xiao Chen said, "You're talking about Butler Wang?"
"Yes." The royal family leader nodded, "My second brother has not been able to study well since he was a child, but he has a soft spot for martial arts. My father's persuasion failed, so he kicked him out of the house."
"A few years ago, my father passed away and my second brother came back to attend the funeral. I didn't want him to continue to wander outside, so I left him in the Wang family. It's just that he was aloof and arrogant by nature, and he was unwilling to return to the family as the second brother. But I had no choice but to rely on him.
I followed him and became the steward of the family."
Xiao Chen raised his head and looked at Butler Wang beside him with a smile.
When he noticed that Xiao Chen was looking at him and listened to the royal family leader telling his past in detail, Butler Wang rolled his eyes at Xiao Chen and turned his face to the side.
Xiao Chen summoned a surge of energy and suppressed the smile in his heart.
Butler Wang looks middle-aged, but his mind is like that of a child. He is truly an old naughty boy.
Thinking of this, and then thinking about the first time I saw Butler Wang, wearing thick cotton shoes as big as rocks, but still shaking a cattail leaf fan in his hand, it is not surprising.
"Chief Wang, do you know where the person who did this comes from?" Xiao Chen asked seriously.
"I don't know." Chief Wang shook his head, "My Wang family never disputes with others. If we really want to say who did it, I think it is the same group as the people who killed Zhang Shan's family."
"What memorable characteristics do they have?"
"No, they all have their faces covered."
"They had knives on them, but they refused to use them. They insisted on fighting me with their bare hands. They also smashed my cattail leaf fan with their fists. I couldn't swallow this breath." Steward Wang on the side finally spoke up.
"With bare hands? Are they two people? And they are tall and tall?"
"That's right, one of them is a head taller than me."
