After buying the movie tickets, Ma Xiaoquan and Zhao Minglan went to Erqing Supply and Marketing Cooperative to buy some roasted sweet potatoes. On the way, Zhao Minglan kept praising the delicious sweet potatoes while eating them.
Seeing Zhao Minglan's cute look, Ma Xiaoquan's heart moved slightly, but soon he shook his head and warned himself not to make any more mistakes...
Yuan Lan's home.
Yuan Liang took the sweet potato and praised how delicious it was while eating. Zhao Minglan also echoed: "It's delicious, right, right..."
Yuan Lan looked at her younger brother with a smile, turned to Ma Xiaoquan and said, "Thank you, Xiaohu."
Ma Xiaoquan scratched his head: "Thank you for nothing, I didn't do anything."
Mother Yuan came over, carrying two jars of water, put them on the table and said, "I really have to thank you, because because of you, our family doesn't have to pay back the interest owed to Zhao Jianshe."
"Ah? Does this matter?" Ma Xiaoquan really didn't know that Zhao Jianshe exempted the Yuan family from interest, because this delivery of materials would have failed if Zhao Jianshe's requirements were followed.
"Yes, Zhao Jianshe asked Lao Yuan to go and cross off the interest on the IOU. Zhao Jianshe said that it was a shame that you went to him, and he had to give you, a hero, some face." Yuan's mother was happy.
The way.
Father Yuan told the truth and sighed: "But I still owe five hundred yuan."
"Eh?" Ma Xiaoquan looked at Yuan Lan. He remembered giving Yuan a necklace and said it could be sold for one or two hundred. Didn't Yuan Lan sell it?
Yuan Lan seemed to have really not disposed of the necklace. She quickly interrupted: "Dad, it's pretty good. It's all my fault. I will work hard and try to pay off the money as soon as possible."
Father Yuan nodded: "What are you talking about, girl, this is not your problem alone. Although our Yuan family's conditions are average, nothing can stump our old Yuan family."
Yuan's mother nodded, and her younger brother Yuan Liang also raised the sweet potato and shouted: "That's right~" But then, the sweet potato broke and fell to the ground.
Yuan Liang screamed "my sweet potato", and everyone in the family burst into laughter.
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After leaving Yuan's house, Zhao Minglan suddenly became quiet.
"What's wrong?" Ma Xiaoquan asked.
Zhao Minglan looked at the sky and murmured: "If the child in mom's belly is still there, I should have a younger brother now. Well, he should be as old as Yuan Liang."
Speaking of this matter, it was a heavy blow not only to Aunt Hong, but also to Zhao Minglan.
Ma Xiaoquan said: "How do you know it must be your younger brother?"
Zhao Minglan shook his head and said: "When my mother had an accident and had a miscarriage, I knew it when the fetus was taken out."
"this……."
"So, if I have children in the future, I must have a son, oh no, two sons..." Zhao Minglan murmured.
Zhao Minglan suddenly talked about his younger brother, and the reason was because of her running around. Although Uncle Zhao and Aunt Hong always said afterwards that it was not because of her running around, Zhao Minglan always felt very guilty in her heart.
"It was raining heavily that day, and I ran out of the nursery. My mother came to find me. I saw her, but my mother ran to a side road again... A man was chasing her..." At this point, I started crying.
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"Don't cry, don't cry..." Ma Xiaoquan comforted Zhao Minglan, "Let him go for some things in the past. Anyway, don't you still have a brother like me now?"
Zhao Minglan raised her head and turned from crying into smiling: "You are obviously my little nephew."
Ma Xiaoquan was stunned for a moment, thinking, could this woman's emotions switch freely? She was still crying, but now she started laughing again. Isn't it amazing?
Walking behind Zhao Minglan and watching Zhao Minglan jump and jump, Ma Xiaoquan fell into deep thought.
Zhao Minglan stopped and looked back to see that Ma Xiaoquan was silent, thinking that he was thinking about Aunt Hong, so she stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder and said: "I also know that things will eventually pass. Don't worry, I have figured it out.
Even if I don't get married, I will serve my parents until I grow old."
Ma Xiaoquan raised his head and smiled. He was about to nod when he suddenly found a woman standing in front of him. She was Princess Ting. Oh no, her name is now Yue Ting.
Ma Xiaoquan was stunned. He really didn't want to see Yue Ting, but she was in front now and seemed to be waiting for him.
Zhao Minglan also saw Yue Ting. She bit her lower lip tightly, thought for a while, and said: "Go quickly, she is waiting for you."
Ma Xiaoquan sighed: "Wait for me for a while, I will finish speaking soon."
"Okay~"
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Walking up to Yue Ting, Ma Xiaoquan said with a cold tone: "What do you want?"
Yue Ting smiled: "What do you mean, I don't care what I want. I helped you with what happened that night for free."
"What do you mean by helping?" Ma Xiaoquan sneered.
"Okay, if you think it's not, then it's not~ But recently I heard that people from the province have set up a task force. The follow-up investigation on this matter will definitely not be completed. Do you think they will suspect you?"
Ma Xiaoquan did not refute Yue Ting's question, because ten people died as a result of his killing spree that night. If the police were more careful and asked forensic doctors to do fingerprints and skin tissue identification, they would always find some clues.
Well, although Ma Xiaoquan believes that it is the 1980s and forensic identification is almost vacant in this era, it does not mean that the task force sent by the province does not have other identification methods, so no matter what, Ma Xiao cannot escape the involvement.
"What do you want?"
Yue Ting smiled: "I didn't think about it, I mean, what do you want?"
Ma Xiaoquan didn't understand what the latter meant. He looked at the other party. Yue Ting smiled softly, came over and said, "Although the provincial task force is powerful, the focus is not on your case."
"Huh?" Ma Xiaoquan felt nervous, "What do you mean?"
Yue Ting made a shrug: "Follow me."
"This..." Ma Xiaoquan hesitated, having just agreed with Zhao Minglan.
Yue Ting glanced at Zhao Minglan who was not far behind her: "Let her go back first. Don't worry, she will be fine."
Ma Xiaoquan breathed out and waved to Zhao Minglan, gesturing for her to go back first. Although Zhao Minglan was a little reluctant, she nodded obediently and turned around to leave.
Following Yue Ting, she walked through two streets, went around a small alley, and finally stopped in front of a bungalow.
"What are you going to say?" Ma Xiaoquan grabbed her.
"Why are you so anxious?" Yue Ting shook her arm, "You'll know when you come in."
Following Yue Ting into the bungalow, Ma Xiaoquan found that the furnishings inside were very elegant. The decoration inside the house was very elegant, and it was a completely different world from the outside.
"Sit down, what should you drink? Pu'er tea? Okay?" Yue Ting skillfully took out a tea can.
"Just do whatever you want." Ma Xiaoquan turned out to be a little cautious.
After a while, Yue Ting placed a cup of tea on the table in front of Ma Xiaoquan.
"When did you make this place?" Ma Xiaoquan asked Yue Ting without drinking tea.
"It's pretty early. Usually whenever I go to a place, I will ask someone to sort out a small space of their own for resting."
"Well, after so many years, you have learned to enjoy it..."
Yue Ting stretched out, leaned on the chair and said, "A lot of things have happened since we separated more than three hundred years ago. Oh, by the way, your family is still there, but it has been in crisis recently."
Ma Xiaoquan was stunned: "Is it still there? In crisis?"
"Yes~" Yue Ting said, "After you left, your daughter completely inherited the family business. By recruiting a son-in-law, she continued the family's bloodline. Well, your son inherited the Fire Temple...
By the way, Li Qinghan died about ten years after you left."
Hearing the death of Li Qinghan, Ma Xiaoquan was a little sad. How much they loved each other once, but how sad they were after they separated.
"How is the underground world connected to the above-ground world?" Ma Xiaoquan asked.
Yue Ting said: "To put it simply, the world on the ground is too exciting, coupled with the game of various ethnic groups, the result... Do you know, from living with cold weapons to the current sense of following when using hot weapons, and
Lonely and excited.”
"How on earth did you live for such a long time?" Ma Xiaoquan asked again.
Yue Ting smiled and said: "Have you ever heard of seizing someone's body... Let me do the math. In the past three hundred years, there have been over fifty times of seizing someone's body."
Ma Xiaoquan: "..."
Seeing that Ma Xiaoquan was silent, Yue Ting continued: "Did you notice that I was particularly powerful that night? Even more powerful than I was more than three hundred years ago, right... Well, in the past three hundred years, the person I took over was the first
It means having superpowers... Whether it is the underground world or the above-ground world, there are always people with natural powers. I will observe a group of people at the same time, and then deliberately create opportunities to cultivate them, and finally select the best one from them. Of course,
As I seize more and more bodies, some of the abilities I have will be inherited, just like this..." Yue Ting stretched out her hand, and the water glass on the table slowly moved towards the direction where she was sitting.
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"Psychiatric power?" Ma Xiaoquan murmured.
"Sort of, but not entirely... How should I put it, it's a perception of the laws of nature..." Yue Ting gestured like a pistol with her hand, and said an onomatopoeia to the teacup on the table: "Bang~
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With a "crash", the tea cup shattered and the tea splashed out.
Ma Xiaoquan was startled. If he hadn't escaped quickly, the hot tea would have splashed all over him.
"Sorry, I've had a bit of fun~" Yue Ting stood up and cleaned up the broken teacups on the table. She raised her head and suddenly stopped smiling, "I need you... to help me..."
Ma Xiaoquan looked at Yue Ting and said nothing.
"I won't let you help in vain. I don't know what your purpose is in coming to this era, but if you help me, I can also help you. Of course, if you need me to accompany you, that's no problem."