Picking up a greedy snake [Liao Zhai]

Lan Yuyan reached out and pinched his waist, gritted her teeth and said, "What should I do if I commit the crime again?"

Gu Huai stammered, "Beating, beating."

"Where?"

Gu Huai turned around, glared at him in shame and indignation, pushed him away, and lay down on the bed angrily.

Lan Yuyan was in a good mood and laughed heartily. He moved to Gu Huai's side, slid his hands restlessly behind Gu Huai, and said, "Quick, take off your clothes and let me see if it's swollen."

Gu Huai knocked off his claws, turned his head to look at the wall and ignored him.

"It hurts? Then I'll rub it for you."

"How dare you!" Gu Huai jumped up like a cat whose tail was stepped on, and looked at Lan Yuyan vigilantly with all his hair on end.

Lan Yuyan patted his head with a hearty laugh and said, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, I won't move you anymore, just to tease you."

Gu Huai's tense nerves relaxed a little.

"However, if you want to commit another crime, it's not as simple as being beaten," Lan Yuyan moved closer to Gu Huai's ear, and said in a volume that only the other party could hear, "It's about..."

Gu Huai's face was getting redder and redder, he looked at Lan Yuyan with shame and shock, he didn't expect this handsome man to say such unlimited swear words.

Lan Yuyan saw that Gu Huai was about to faint with embarrassment, and said with a smirk, "It seems that you can't wait, why don't we try it now?"

Gu Huai trembled all over, quickly got into the quilt and wrapped the quilt tightly around his body.

***

On the second day, Gu Huai and Lan Yuyan left the inn, and went to find his home in the streets and alleys according to Wang Tiezhu's description.

Gu Huai carefully wrapped the jade hairpin in a cloth and hid it in his arms.

Since Wang Tiezhu's description was not very clear, the two of them kept asking in the streets and alleys, and it took a lot of trouble to determine the location of Wang Tiezhu's wife.

Wang Tiezhu's wife Liu lived alone in a dilapidated thatched cottage.When Gu Huai and Lan Yuyan arrived, they saw the house standing alone on the barren land where not a single blade of grass grew, and it looked a little precarious in the wind.

Gu Huai stopped at the door and yelled a few times inside, but no one answered for a long time.

Just as the two of them were discussing to leave here first and come back tomorrow, a nervous female voice came from inside: "Who is it?"

Gu Huai hurriedly shouted excitedly, "We are friends of Brother Wang, and Brother Wang asked us to give something to my sister-in-law."

The room was silent for a long time before there was a sound of footsteps, accompanied by the sound of sticks hitting the ground.

The door was slowly opened, but Gu Huai froze there after seeing the man's face clearly.

It was a petite and slender woman with snow-white skin and a delicate face. Even though she was wearing a coarse cloth, she still looked elegant and pure.It's just that those eyes that were supposed to be beautiful and bright didn't have any brilliance, they were just opened wide, and the eyes were filled with emptiness.

The woman pounded the ground with the crutch in her hand, and said, "I can't see, you can come in by yourself."

After finishing speaking, he turned his head and entered the room, groping around to make tea for Gu Huai and Lan Yuyan.Gu Huai hurried up to help.

There was a smile on the corner of the woman's mouth, which made the whole face look full of life.She said nervously: "Is my husband okay now? Are you his comrades in arms? He asked you to bring me something, is it a letter from home?"

"Sister-in-law, sit down first and let me speak slowly." Gu Huai helped the woman back to the chair, but was at a loss for words, not knowing where to start.

He was silent for a moment, then took out the jade hairpin from his pocket, put it on the table and pushed it in front of Mrs. Liu.

Liu touched it excitedly, her wide eyes seemed to be filled with tears.But when he touched the hairpin, his face showed a puzzled expression, and his eyes suddenly filled with worry.

She asked: "This is... why did you give this to me? I am a husband-in-law?"

"Brother Wang...he has already died for the country." Gu Huai lowered his head and said in a sad tone.

The room fell into a suffocating silence again, making Gu Huai a little out of breath.

He originally thought that Mrs. Liu would cry and make a fuss when she got the news, and even fainted from grief, but none of this happened now.She just sat there quietly, without saying a word, with no sadness or joy on her face.

"Sister-in-law... your condolences."

Liu Shi suddenly raised the corners of his mouth and revealed a faint smile.She said, "I knew it... I knew it was going to be like this. Do you know how I'm blind?"

Gu Huai and Lan Yuyan looked at each other, not knowing how to answer.

"Two months ago, I dreamed that my husband came back from the battlefield, only to see his body separated. I saw my husband's body, holding his severed head, and said to me: 'Lady, for my husband Let's go, don't worry about it.'"

"Afterwards, I went to a great fairy to make a fortune, and the great fairy told me that my husband was dead, and let me mourn. From then on, I washed my face with tears every day, until one morning when I woke up, I found that I was crying It’s gone, and I can’t see it.”

Mrs. Liu didn't seem to be ready to let the two people in front of her answer the conversation, so she said to herself, "This jade hairpin is the only dowry my mother left me. When he went out to battle, I entrusted him with the jade hairpin as a talisman. I pray that he will return safely... Unexpectedly, it is still..."

Mrs. Liu couldn't continue speaking, and her breathing began to become a little short.

Gu Huai saw that Liu's face was getting redder and redder, and his body was shaking more and more. He felt bad, so he shouted anxiously: "Sister-in-law, sister-in-law, are you okay? Erqing, go and call the doctor!"

Lan Yuyan responded, and just as she was about to turn around and leave, she heard Liu's heart-piercing wail.Two red blood tears gushed out of her eyes, accompanied by a black resentment.

Lan Yuyan quickly pulled Gu Huai behind her, and looked at Liu Shi in front of her vigilantly.

The black resentment surged more and more, and finally gathered into a black ball, quickly attacking the two of them.

Lan Yuyan waved a green light and pierced through the black ball. The black ball exploded instantly, and a lavender spar fell out of it.

Liu's body trembled, and then fell limply to the ground.Gu Huai rushed up to catch Liu Shi's body that was about to fall to the ground. Lan Yuyan picked up the spar on the ground, with complicated emotions flashing in his eyes.

Liu Shi slowly woke up under Gu Huai's call.She was stunned for a moment, then looked at her hands in disbelief, and said, "My lord... I can see it now."

Gu Huai supported Liu Shi to stand up, turned to look at Lan Yuyan and said, "Great, my sister-in-law can see now!"

As a result, when he turned his head, he happened to see the scene where Lan Yuyan put the spar into his mouth.Gu Huai's smile instantly froze on his face.He hurriedly turned his head back, feeling a sour feeling welling up in his heart.