The sister-in-law was wrong, please forgive her, my black-bellied brother-in-law

"Brother Yan Zheng, can I come in?"

Qiao Xi had just stood up and was delighted when she heard the voice. She opened her mouth to let her in, but Xu Yi was one step ahead of her.

"My mother likes quietness. If you have anything to say, please talk outside."

Xu Yi glanced at Qiao Xi, who looked very happy, and felt a little puzzled.

After dying once, her personality changed a little, and she became more warm towards people than before.

Is this change a bit big?

Qiao Xi had something to ask and didn't notice that Xu Yi was looking at her with a bit of doubt.

She walked out of the mourning hall quickly, took Liu Lichun's hand, and said softly, "Sister Lichun, you just said that you were secretly following those people. Did you hear what they were saying?"

Liu Lichun looked down at his hand held by Qiao Xi, then saw the smile on her face. He felt surprised and looked alert.

What evil tricks is this bad woman planning?

Thinking of this, she did not answer, but looked at Xu Yi instead.

Seeing her looking at him, Xu Yi couldn't help but lower his brows and nodded slightly.

After getting Xu Yi's permission, Liu Lichun sighed lightly and said blankly: "I only heard a little bit. But it seems to be of no use."

Qiao Xi curled her lips and patted her hands: "You haven't told me yet, how do you know it's useless? Sister-in-law asks you, did any of them call out the names of their accomplices?"

name?

Upon hearing this, Liu Lichun tilted his head and thought for a moment, then nodded: "It seems so."

Qiao Xi's eyes lit up: "What are their names?"

"I think there's one called Sun Kui, and another called Tian Lang. I don't know the others."

Liu Lichun paused and asked doubtfully, "What's the point of knowing their names? Lingxiao City is so big, where are you going to find them? Besides, even if you find them, they won't admit it."

Although she had never experienced this, she had often heard villagers talk about similar things before.

Most of the time, nothing is done about it.

Qiao Xi knew that what she said made sense, but her target was the people behind them.

As the saying goes: Know yourself and your enemy, and you will never be defeated in a hundred battles.

She needed to know who was targeting Xu Yi and think of some ways to deal with it.

Or she could help Xu Yi bring that man to justice, so that Xu Yi would have no worries in the future.

Thinking of this, Qiao Xi patted Liu Lichun's shoulder and smiled: "Sister Lichun, thank you so much this time. By the way, did you come here to talk to your brother Yan Zheng about something? You two can talk. I'll go check on the other rooms."

Qiao Xi winked at her and seeing that she was shy, she said nothing more and left them some space.

When Xu Yi heard what Qiao Xi said, his brows slightly furrowed, thinking that what she said just now felt a bit awkward.

But he couldn't remember what was wrong.

In a moment of distraction, Liu Lichun had actually moved to only half a step away from Xu Yi.

Xu Yi never liked getting close to people, especially women. Even the little girls in the village, he could only keep a distance of two steps at most.

He unconsciously took two steps to the side, and then said lightly: "Do you have anything else to ask me?"

Hearing Xu Yi taking the initiative to talk to her, Liu Lichun nodded happily.

"You say it."

Xu Yi waited for a while, and seeing that she still didn't speak, he couldn't help but urge her.

At this time, Liu Lichun's cheeks were red, more beautiful than the sunset.

She was a little afraid to look at Xu Yi, her eyes half-closed, and she stammered, "Brother Yanzheng, I, I want to learn to recognize words. Now, you, you don't have to go to the academy, do you have time to teach me to recognize words?"

The villagers always joked that she was a toad wanting to eat swan meat, so she just had to work hard to become a swan.

Xu Yi always felt that it was good for people to be ambitious, but he couldn't agree to her.

"Sister Liu, it's a good idea for you to learn to read, but I can't teach you."

"Why?" Liu Lichun didn't expect to be rejected by him. Regardless of being shy, she looked at him in surprise and asked.

"Men and women should not touch each other. Sister Liu, you are going to get married, so your reputation is important."

She had never concealed her feelings for him, and now the entire Xuliu Village knew about it.

How could he not know? But he had rejected or warned her many times, openly or covertly, but she still did not change.

If he agreed to teach her to read this time, wouldn't it be an indirect response to her feelings? He couldn't let her misunderstand.

He said it so obviously, how could Liu Lichun not understand?

Suddenly, her eyes turned red and watery. When the tears were about to overflow uncontrollably, she quickly lowered her head.

A drop of water dripped from above, landed on the ground, formed a splash of water, and then slowly seeped into the ground and disappeared.

"Oh!" Xu Yi heard her faint sobbing, sighed, and felt helpless.

He looked up at the gate and whispered, "Sister Liu, you'd better go home quickly. If you stay at my house for too long, it will attract unnecessary gossip."

Hearing this, Liu Lichun was afraid of bringing a bad influence to Xu Yi, so she hurriedly wiped the tears from her face and forced a smile, her voice a little hoarse from crying.

"Okay, my mother probably has something to talk to me about, so I'll be leaving first." She turned around and was about to leave, but stopped after taking two steps. Without turning her head, she turned her back to Xu Yi and said, "Don't worry, Brother Yanzheng, the villagers will only gossip about me, not you."

After saying that, without waiting for Xu Yi to say anything, she ran out of the Xu family's yard.

……

Qiao Xi stood at the door of the main room, looking at the mess on the floor, and suddenly felt that those people were really hateful.

Although the things in the house are not expensive, it would cost a lot of money to buy them again.

What's more, she and Xu Yi didn't have much money.

Qiao Xi turned her head to look at the sky. It wasn't too late yet. Thinking of what she had to do soon, she didn't dare to delay even a moment and began to clean up the main room with her hands and feet.

When she had cleaned up almost half of the things, Xu Yi came over to help.

If they worked together, it would be faster. She would pick up and clean the things that were usable, and put the unusable things together so that they could be cleaned up later.

Xu Yi saw that her hands were moving quickly, as if she was in a hurry, especially after she looked up at the sky several times, so he couldn't help but ask.

"If you have something to do, go ahead and do it. I'll clean up here."

"Ah?" Qiao Xi, who was immersed in her own thoughts, was startled when she suddenly heard him speak, but she quickly reacted with a hint of joy in her eyes.

"Really? Then I'll go out for a while and be back soon."

After saying that, she put down what she was holding and quickly left the room.

Her anxious look was suspicious, but there seemed to be nothing at home that could make her so anxious.

His eyes were always on Qiao Xi, watching her go to the yard, pick up a basket, grab a shovel in her hand, then walk out of the yard without looking back and slowly disappear.

"Cuckoo-"

Suddenly, a noise was heard in the quiet main room.

Xu Yi had some guesses about Qiao Xi's whereabouts.

Seeing that the main room was almost cleaned up, he put down what he was doing and went into the kitchen.

……

Half an hour later, Xu Yi frowned as he looked at the cold rice porridge on the table.

Logically, she shouldn't have been gone for so long, especially since the place where she was picking wild vegetables was not far from Xuliu Village.

Xu Yi stood up and wanted to go outside to take a look, but he suddenly remembered something.

Those were the wild vegetables that the family had eaten before. It seemed that they were all dug by my mother and eldest brother, and Xu Qiao had never been there once.

The first time she dug, she did need a little more time.

Thinking of his plan, Xu Yi sat down again and waited quietly.

An hour passed.

An hour and a half passed.

As it got darker outside, Xu Yi looked out of the yard more and more frequently, but he could not see the woman.

No, even if I’m not familiar with the place, I should come back after such a long time.

Did something happen to her?