Qingyan thought, should she not act recklessly? It would be disgusting if you become a human being inside and out, fail to accomplish any good things, and become a human being all over your body.
But now that we've come this far, it doesn't seem too good to just throw away and leave. It's better to go and have a look first. At least give it a try. If those three ladies are good natured, then they can help themselves and do a good deed that day. .
If they were of a bad nature, she would not take action directly or take them back to her small courtyard, but would just support them, which would be considered appropriate for people with the same surname.
So she told Zhang Qiaoling that she had skills and was not afraid at all. Let alone a grown man, she could easily fight three or four people.
Zhang Qiaoling didn't quite believe it when she heard this. After all, this little girl's figure didn't look like that of a Lianjiazi. She must be thick and muscular at least.
However, thinking that the other party can go out alone as a woman, especially such a beautiful woman, should be somewhat dependent on her.
Zhang Qiaoling stood up and said: "In that case, I will take you there directly. I have a good relationship with Sister Xue and I haven't seen her for two days. I just happened to go and have a look."
She didn't seem to go out much in the past two days, nor did she go to deliver embroidery. I don't know what happened. "
Qingyan thought, it would be good if there was an outsider following her, and it would be considered as a witness when the time came. After all, they were all hurt, so it would be bad if they didn't turn around and try to blackmail her.
He also stood up and walked out of the house together. Zhang Qiaoling's old woman was still sitting at the door of the courtyard.
Zhang Qiaoling walked over and whispered to her. The old lady glanced at Qingyan and nodded.
With Qingyan's ears, she could certainly hear the conversation between the two.
Zhang Qiaoling told the old lady that she was indeed Mr. Xue's sister and had come here specifically. She planned to take her to the Chen family to identify her.
The old lady said it was almost noon, so don’t stay there too long. It was already dinner time and it was not appropriate to go to someone else’s house.
Zhang Qiaoling responded with a smile, walked back to Qingyan and said, "Let's go, Miss Xue, the Chen family is the second to last house in this alley, not very far."
Qingyan nodded and said, "Sister-in-law, just call me sister. Calling me girl is too polite."
Zhang Qiaoling also thought this was a good idea and said: "Okay, then don't call me sister-in-law. Just call me sister Zhang. When I first saw you, I thought you looked kind. You look a lot like Sister Xue." ."
Qingyan smiled and said: "It's true, Sister Zhang, that means my clan sister is gone. Otherwise, how could there be such a coincidence."
Qingyan actually didn't really believe it, it was probably just a polite comment. If it was true, she should have said it a long time ago.
"Yes, it shouldn't be wrong. You have to help Sister Xue. It's been really difficult for her in the past two years..."
When they were nearing the end of the alley, Zhang Qiaoling stopped talking about the Chen family, and instead asked Qingyan what she had seen on the way here.
Qingyan told her about the situation on the road. Although they were not from the capital, Chou Chou often asked about the passing birds, so they really knew what was going on in the capital.
At least it's still very peaceful on the surface there. Although the Khitans have entered the customs, they haven't arrived here yet, and they haven't had much impact on the capital.
In addition, the Khitans were not preparing for war and did not cause any big trouble. The common people here did not even know about their entry.
On the contrary, it is the northwest, where many people are fleeing.
That's because the Khitan people only tried not to disturb the people publicly, but privately there were still many small teams going out to fight against the autumn wind.
Especially some patrolling soldiers, whose salary is small, can't help but go back and plunder once they encounter relatively remote places, just like the ones encountered by everyone in Yangjiaping, those people want to capture them and take them back as slaves.
This alley is actually not too deep, only about one or two hundred meters. There are less than seven houses in total from the beginning to the end. The yards are large and small. The one at the end of the alley is the largest, and the yards get smaller as you go to the outside. It may be facing the street. Houses have been built nearby, or maybe they are separated from each other.
The courtyard of the last house looks like five to six hundred square meters, and the house is not that big, with only four main rooms. There isn't even a wing.
The yard should be set aside to be built later after the children are divided into separate houses.
I heard Zhang Qiaoling say: "The last family with the longest wall is the Hou family. The two sons and the sisters are very harmonious with each other, so there is no separation. Therefore, their family has the largest yard. When the Hou family is gone, When the grandsons grew older, the yard was divided into two and divided between the two sons.
The relationship between their family and the Chen family was very bad, but it was fine before. Later, Mrs. Chen often spoke ill of others outside, and she was caught. The two families had a big quarrel, and they stopped communicating with each other from then on. "
Qingyan thought to herself that she couldn't blame the two sisters-in-law who heard Xue Minghua's screams and just talked in the yard instead of going over to help or take a look.
If you have a good relationship, if you hear such miserable screams, you will probably come to inquire about the situation.
Qingyan remembers that when she was a child, there was a child beater in an alley of their home. If the child cried too miserably, someone would come to the door to pull it away and help protect the child. Or if a couple fought and the beating was too severe, they would also Some people came to break up the fight.
At first, she thought it was just nosy, but her parents explained to her that it was not nosy, but a sign of closeness between neighbors. As the saying goes, a distant relative is not as good as a close neighbor. This is the truth.
Once something happens to a house, it's normal for neighbors to come to check on the house and show concern. It would be sad if the neighbors didn't know each other and didn't say hello.
If you really encounter something and are in danger, and no one comes to see you even if you scream for help at the top of your lungs, then you don’t know how you died.
People live in groups by nature, and they need nosy neighbors to be safer. Therefore, the first thing many people do when moving is to come to their new neighbors to say hello and get to know them.
Qingyan now feels that this is really the case, and her feeling is even deeper now.
If they had a good relationship, Xue Minghua's scream would at least attract the neighbors to have a look. At least the mother and son of the Chen family would not dare to do anything so blatantly.
Thinking of this, Qingyan wondered if the Chen family mother and son had deliberately made the relationship between the neighbors so tense that they could kill people, destroy corpses and eliminate traces.
Zhang Qiaoling took Qingyan to the yard of the penultimate house. This yard was not small, but it had been separated from it and divided into two houses.
"The house in front is Chen Jiawang's cousin's house. It used to belong to his uncle. After his uncle died, it belonged to his cousin.
However, his cousin's family was doing business on the street, and there was usually no one at home during the day, and the door was always locked. "
