Chapter 220 That Child
Whenever Xu Sheng pulled him to chat, Xiao Qi would sit quietly next to him, listening to the old man who had lived alone all his life slowly talk about his past.
The three of them sat in the courtyard for a while, and then Mrs. Xu slowly walked out of the room with a cane.
"This is the recipe for Qianjin Liquor. Take it and tell him for me that I don't owe him anything in this life."
After taking the drink, Chi Sheng and Xiao Qi were about to leave, but they heard Mrs. Xu speak again.
"Taotao, you should go back too."
Seeing Mrs. Xu acting like this, Su Tao was worried about leaving, but in the end she couldn't resist her, and in the end she could only agree to see her again in two days.
With Po Xu's assurance, Su Tao left the village with Chi Sheng and the others.
On the way, Chi Sheng looked at Su Tao and couldn't hold back his curiosity. He still asked, "How could Miss Su meet Po Xu?"
Since he met Su Tao, he also quietly inquired about her identity.
But all he got was praise.
Praise her for being one of the few female businessmen in Yancheng, praise her for having a bodhisattva heart, and praise her for her unparalleled talent and appearance.
The Su Tao that those people said was too perfect, she really didn't look like an ordinary girl.
"I fled to Yancheng in the early years. There were many refugees at that time, and I couldn't get into the city. It was Po Xu who took me back to Niuniu Village because she saw me as a little girl. Later, I got help from noble people and settled in Yancheng. After I settled down, I also wanted to take Granny Xu to the city for retirement, but she didn't want to because I was afraid that she would be alone, so I would come to the village to see her from time to time."
Su Tao looked relaxed when she said this, as if the escape was just a game and there was nothing terrible about it.
Chi Sheng pursed his lips slightly.
He knew very well what the escape was like that year.
They were always scolded when they went down the mountain to catch people, but gradually, those who were taken up the mountain lost the consciousness to resist, and more often knelt down and kowtowed to beg them to take them in.
It can make good people want to go up the mountain to join bandits, how can it be related to those man-eating monsters?
I didn't expect that this girl Su came here in the same way.
Chi Sheng's eyes were a little complicated, and he looked at Su Tao with some indescribable emotions.
"Why are you looking at me like this?" Su Tao was not used to being looked at by him. She turned her eyes and looked at Chi Sheng with a raised lip and a smile: "Is it possible that you have fallen in love with me?"
The girl only wore a green dress today and had two buns on her head. Although what she said was a bit explicit, the sight left Chi Sheng stunned.
The outline of the vague figure in his memory gradually became clearer, and the figure seemed to be smiling softly. He wanted to see clearly, but there always seemed to be a mist wrapping the figure in it.
[Ding——Chi Sheng’s favorability +5
The current favorability is 25, host please continue to work hard——]
The system's voice suddenly rang in her mind, and Su Tao's beautiful eyes suddenly opened wider.
Increased favorability by five points?
The three of them said nothing during the whole journey. At the entrance of the village, there were often people in the village tying their cattle to carts and waiting there to solicit customers.
It only costs two cents per person to get from Niuniu Village to Yancheng.
The coachman immediately cheered up when he saw someone coming, and became even more enthusiastic when he saw clearly that the person coming was Su Tao.
"Miss Su, are you going back to Yancheng?"
The driver is a middle-aged man in his forties, with dark skin, and you can still see his yellowed teeth when he grins.
"Um."
Su Tao smiled and nodded, and got on the bullock cart with the help of the small stool the driver put aside.
"Master, do you want to ride in an ox cart? Two pence per person."
Seeing that Chi Sheng and Xiao Qi were motionless, the driver hurriedly greeted them.
Chi Sheng looked at Xiao Qi beside him, then nodded and let Xiao Qi get on the bullock cart first.
After waiting for a while, two women came, and then the driver took the ox and swayed towards Yancheng.
"Miss Su, are you going to see Granny Xu again?"
A woman looked at Chi Sheng with a flash of surprise in her eyes, then looked at Xiao Qi sitting next to him, and then started talking to Su Tao with a smile.
"yes."
Su Tao didn't look too kindly on this woman, but nodded politely.
"If you ask me, Miss Su should choose to stay away from Mrs. Xu. She is a notorious evil star. Otherwise, why would her man just leave when he says so? Even the child... oh, it's really a crime!"
As the woman spoke, she patted her thigh, and the expression on her face was even more pityful.
"What happened to her baby?"
Hearing the woman talking about Mrs. Xu's child, Chi Sheng turned to look at her and asked.
The two women looked at each other, then looked at Chi Sheng, and then said: "That child has been a monster since birth! People in the village say that she is destined to be an evil spirit and is destined to be alone!"
"Yes, yes, whoever gets close to her will be in trouble! Back then, the people in the village, the second daughter-in-law of Li, persuaded the couple to move to the west of the village, but she didn't listen. She insisted on saying that her family's feng shui was good. As a result, within a month, she... He drowned alive!"
The other woman had a sad look on her face, which made Xiao Qi frown in disgust.
He knew this expression all too well. After the two people died, many people in the village looked at him and Yueyue like this.
But in the end, wasn't all the food in my home stolen by them?
The two women seemed to have started talking at this moment, talking about the "unfortunate things" that happened because of Mrs. Xu.
The more Su Tao listened, the expression on his face became lighter and lighter, until the last pair of eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of frost.
She didn't believe in those ghosts and gods. Even if she traveled through time now, how could a good person like Mrs. Xu be the evil star in these people's mouths?
Chi Sheng's face also didn't look good. It wasn't until they arrived in Yancheng that the two women stopped talking. Each of them took out two cents and gave it to the coachman before rushing towards the city.
"Miss Su, don't listen to those two people's nonsense. Granny Xu is a very good person, but the people in the village can't stand her."
The coachman is forty-six years old this year. He was only two years old when Xu Po and Xu Sheng settled in Niuniu Village. Although he was young, he had some impressions of them. At that time, the children in the village liked to go to Xu's house because they always I can get a piece of candy to eat.
Later, when he was four years old, Uncle Xu suddenly disappeared. Since then, the villagers have always stopped the children from going to Xu's house. He would occasionally sneak to Xu's house and knock on the door, but he never got any candy.
Everything was fine until the day when Mrs. Xu gave birth, the midwife said she had given birth to a monster. After that, people in the village avoided her like snakes and scorpions, and even the babies would run away quickly when they saw her.
But he had a bad temper and often got into trouble and was beaten by his father. Every time he would squat in a corner and cry after being beaten, he would meet Mrs. Xu. Mrs. Xu no longer had the same smile as before, but she would give him medicine when she was giving him medicine. Give him a gentle breath to make him feel better.
Although Dad would beat her again every time she was given the medicine, Granny Xu was a good person and he remembered it.
"I know." Su Tao looked better and got out of the cart after paying the fare, leaving only Chi Sheng and Xiao Qi in the cart.
"Sir, it's already here."
The driver was a little surprised to see that they were still moving.
"Uncle, what about the child that Mrs. Xu gave birth to? How is it going?"
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