One touch and one silence

Old Man Qiu naturally understood what Liu Yue said.

He waved his hands helplessly, "Forget it! Forget it, no one can help with this kind of thing, it's his fate."

Seeing this, Liu Yue added, "Although our master is not very powerful in Kyoto, his words still carry a lot of weight."

"If you really have difficulties, please tell me."

"Just consider it as our way of repaying you."

Old Man Qiu smiled and said, "Thank you for your kindness, young lady. But my son committed murder, and the person he killed was an official. No one can help him!"

Liu Yue listened to the old man's tone and did not insist, so he changed the subject.

"We came to this town yesterday and found that everyone here has the surname Bai. We were very curious. Yesterday we also wanted to stay with other people, but many people refused. Why is that?"

Liu Yue's words made Old Man Qiu smile.

"In this town, apart from the women who married here from outside, our family is the only one with other surnames. Basically, there are no other surnames."

"So Uncle Qiu, have you always lived in this village? Or did you settle here later?"

Liu Yue originally just asked casually, but unexpectedly, Old Man Qiu's eyes became red again.

"I was originally from another family, but due to some reasons, my family had to move away. My wife was originally the daughter of a scholar."

"We had two sons. The eldest was a very intelligent child. My wife taught him to read and he passed the examination for a student at the age of ten."

“That is why we were able to settle in this village and educate the children of this village.”

"Who would have thought that the year my son passed the imperial examination, he went out to party with his friends and came back a dead body."

"My little son was still in my wife's belly at the time, so I kept it a secret until the baby was born and I dared to tell her."

"My wife's eyes have been infected since then and have continued to be infected until now."

"Didn't you go to the authorities to file a complaint?"

Liu Yue was puzzled. As long as this kind of thing was reported to the Dali Temple, no one would dare to do anything behind the scenes.

"How dare we! After my son died, the head of the village came and warned us that if we report to the authorities, our Qiu family will be driven out."

"But my wife just gave birth to a child, and my eldest son died. How dare I do that?"

"I can only accept it with gritted teeth!"

"It's also our fault. Our son's excellence blocked the way for others. It was destined. But we never expected that our youngest son would now be on the road to death."

"I had known this..."

"If I had known this, I should have left this village directly."

Thinking of this, Old Man Qiu was filled with regret.

Both sons died here.

He was unwilling, but he had no choice.

But what would it matter if he didn't do it? The youngest son killed someone in public and still became an official.

now……

They were just waiting to collect their son's body, and then the family of four could be reunited.

Liu Yue heard the old man's determination to die from his tone and thought of the three coffins in the cowshed.

Then I understood.

Liu Yue didn't expect that there was another case involved in this matter.

At this time, Liu Yue saw his master walk out of the yard, stretching and yawning.

Liu Yue quickly stood up and walked forward, "Master, get up!"

"Well! It's too cold. I was woken up by the cold!" Nanzhi said and couldn't help shivering.

Liu Yue then remembered that he had forgotten about it because he was busy asking questions.

"Then Master, go back to your room and wash up quickly. We'll go out for breakfast later!"

After Liu Yue finished speaking, she went to Old Man Qiu and asked for a washbasin. She put hot water in the basin and brought it into the house.

He took the opportunity to tell him everything he had found out in the morning.

Nanzhi, who was wiping her face, was suddenly stunned. "What did you say? There is another case here?"

This was a question that Nanzhi had never thought of, and it was completely beyond his expectations.

But she didn’t hear anything about Qiu Hancheng’s elder brother?

"Is this true?"

"Master, I bought some breakfast in town!"

Liu Yue was just about to say something when he saw Fatty Chen coming back happily.

interrupted the conversation between the two.

Nanzhi put down the handkerchief in her hand and smiled, "Oh! Fatty Chen, you are very considerate! I happen to be hungry too."

"Fatty Chen scratched his hair in a simple and honest manner and took out the food box in his hand."

"They were all hot. I drove my carriage to buy them."

Nanzhi looked at the wide variety of breakfast and gave an order to Fatty Chen.

"Send some to the old couple of the Qiu family!"

Nanzhi picked out some soft buns and noodles, but she didn't expect there were two packs of snacks underneath.

Nanzhi smiled. If it was breakfast, then Butcher Chen was attentive. If it was snacks, then he was very thoughtful.

"Master, I thought you might be hungry, so I bought you some snacks. I didn't know which one would taste good, so I bought you a little of each."

Nanzhi suddenly laughed.

"All the money has been spent! Liu Yue will reimburse him."

Nanzhi suddenly felt very warmed. This boy had been working hard to change himself after being with her.

Liu Yue was also surprised that this grown man could be so thoughtful. She casually took out a silver note worth one hundred taels and handed it to him.

"Next time you buy something, use this money. Tell me if you don't have any left."

"No need, I still have money. I haven't spent a penny of the reward from the master last time."

Liu Yue stuffed it directly into Fatty Chen's hand and said, "Just take it if I tell you to."

"That's right, your money will be used to marry a wife in the future."

"When you fall in love with someone in the future, and that person likes you, I will definitely go to your home to propose marriage for you."

Fatty Chen felt a little embarrassed, so he simply took some breakfast and a bag of snacks and sent them to the east yard.

Nanzhi, however, burst into laughter behind him.

Everything about this kid has changed, except his temperament, which remains the same as before.

Nanzhi was eating buns and asked Liuyue to eat with her.

“Try it, it’s not bad!”

Liu Yue casually picked up a bun and took two bites. It was indeed delicious.

"The people in this town who can make buns like this have really good skills."

"It seems that the boy went to more than one store, otherwise it wouldn't be such a coincidence that the food he bought was so delicious."

When Fatty Chen came back, he saw them eating. Nanzhi invited him to come for breakfast, but Fatty Chen refused.

He was almost stuffed to death. Thinking about the buns he had tried from every store, he couldn't even remember how many he had eaten.

In the mansion, he heard the two girls Shuhua and Shuyue say that the master should be careful about what he eats, and he took it to heart.

Liu Yue glanced at Fatty Chen's belly and immediately understood.

"Sir, there's no need to call him. He's already eaten!"

"hey-hey!"

Fatty Chen smiled naively and scratched his hair with his hands.

Nanzhi didn't say anything else.

Fatty Chen then remembered what he had said yesterday.

"Sir, you asked me to get some information yesterday, and only Bai San said something."

"Bai Dacheng and Bai Gen were much more cautious and refused to let me in."

Nanzhi put down the bun in her hand and became interested.

"Tell me!"