Just as the woman was hesitating, she heard a man's rough voice coming from the distance.
"You're such a badass, I asked you to come out to look for your baby, why did you even lose yourself?"
Looking in the direction of the sound, I saw a tall, thick-set middle-aged man walking from a distance.
After the man approached, he first looked at Liang Yuanque and the others, and then looked at his wife.
"Who are these two?"
The woman whispered, "I said I was passing through and wanted to stay overnight."
No matter how they look, Liang Yuanque and Zhuang Youjie don't look like bad people. The man is not vigilant at all.
"Just find a place for them to stay. It's not easy for them to come from afar."
The woman let go of her son, punched him lightly and said, "I'm not thinking about where is the right place for him to live."
But the man immediately thought of the place and said very boldly, "What are you still thinking about? You can just live at my uncle's place. It's vacant anyway."
"But..." The woman still hesitated.
"But what the hell, stop grinding and whining all the time, be happy!" The man scolded his wife and said to Liang Yuanque and the others,
"You two, if you don't mind, I'll take you to my uncle's house to live near my house, not far away."
Zhuang Youjie was good at politeness, and he immediately said with a smile,
"Do you mind if you don't mind? We are very grateful to our big brothers and sisters for having a place to live."
The man smiled heartily and said, "Hey, it doesn't matter. The people in our village are very welcoming. In the past, many people from other places came and lived in our village."
But then the man changed the topic, "But little brother, let me tell you first..."
Zhuang Youjie thought that the man was asking them to pay for accommodation. He thought it would be great to have a place to live in this almost wild place, so just spend the money.
And if you don't pay, you might get into trouble, so just think of spending money to buy peace of mind.
It turns out that he was overthinking it. They didn’t ask for money at all, but whispered,
"Brother, to tell you the truth, people have died in that room, but they were all old people who died of old age. Don't mind."
Zhuang Youjie had a lump in his throat, not because he minded, but because he was so overwhelmed by the man's simple enthusiasm that he didn't know what to say.
Not to mention that someone died in the house, we also went to dig up corpses today, so you know, you probably have to mind us.
He didn't say anything, and Liang Yuanque came up to him, "Oh, birth, old age, sickness and death are normal in this world. If the eldest brother is willing to take us in, we will be very satisfied."
The man waved to his wife and children, asking them to follow him together, and took Liang Yuanque and Zhuang Youjie to their residence.
The small house here is low and old, and a musty smell comes out when the door is opened, but at least there is a place to shelter from the wind and rain.
The eldest brother is so enthusiastic, there is no reason to be picky.
After thanking their family, Liang Yuanque and Zhuang Youjie both plopped down on the small bed to relieve their lumbar spine and knees that were overused today.
Zhuang Youjie lowered his head, looking as if he was about to cry with excitement.
"Ah Que, I've never liked bed so much."
He didn't sleep well last night, and he was so overworked today. As soon as he put his head down, he felt like he was almost comatose.
However, his growling stomach prevented him from falling asleep.
Yes, they haven't had any water or rice all day long.
I was so nervous along the way that I couldn't even care about my stomach. Now that I'm relaxed, the feeling of hunger is hard to dispel and spreads throughout my body.
Liang Yuanque advised him, "Why don't you go find your elder brother and sister-in-law to order some food?"
"Forget it, I don't really want to go."
Zhuang Youjie was already very embarrassed at the thought of staying with him. No matter how late at night, it would sound too shameless to ask someone for food.
He still has the dignity of a young master and the dignity of a scholar.
But the hunger was too unbearable. After tossing and turning on the bed for a while, he got up and said to Liang Yuanque,
"It's better that you go and ask for it, I believe you can do it."
Liang Yuanque let out a "hehe", "I won't go, I'm not hungry."
"Go ahead," Zhuang Youjie started to act rogue, "I'm doing this for your own good, otherwise you'll suffer from hypoglycemia again later!"
Having said that, Liang Yuanque's performance today was already very good. He didn't eat anything all day long and had to run away for his life, but he was still able to hold on.
He didn't expect that Liang Yuanque grabbed a handful of candy bars from his bag and threw them to him.
"I have this, it can be of some use."
Zhuang Youjie took out a piece of candy and stuffed it into his mouth. The surface of the candy had melted, but it still tasted sweet.
But what's the use of a piece of candy? You should be hungry or hungry!
Liang Yuanque was indeed a little dizzy, so he took a candy in his mouth to relieve it.
But just now when he was taking candy from his pocket, he came across something he almost forgot. When he took it out of his pocket, he found it was a button.
This was something he saw from the barren cemetery. Too many things happened after that, and he didn't have time to take a closer look.
This is a tin buckle with a pattern embossed on it. Judging from the size, it should be the kind sewn onto the cuffs.
This button looks well made and should be sewn on quite high-end clothing.
Then could it be the button that the second master tore off the murderer when he was fighting with him?
This kind of tin buckle is quite high-end and should be easier to trace than ordinary buttons.
If this was Liang Yuanque's home court, then through this button, he could trace the dress and then the person wearing it.
Clothes that can use such buttons must be customized. The number of people in Jade Town who can afford customized clothes is very small.
But Liang Yuanque was blocked here after all. If this was the territory of Inspector Chang or Inspector Fu, he would have killed everyone.
He looked through the button repeatedly in his hand until he confirmed that he could find no clues, then he put down his hand in frustration.
Zhuang Youjie, who was hungry and sleepy, looked up at him, "What's wrong? Are you still sighing?"
"Suddenly I feel useless." Liang Yuanque said and sighed again.
"No way, at least you are more useful than me." Zhuang Youjie comforted him casually.
Liang Yuanque nodded when he heard this, "That's the truth."
"Well, yes... wait, why do I feel so wrong?" Zhuang Youjie raised his head.
"Illusions are all wrong..."
As they were talking, they heard the voice of the kind brother outside the door,
"You two little brothers, I've brought you some food."
As soon as he heard that there was food, Zhuang Youjie immediately became energetic. He jumped out of bed and hurriedly opened the door for his elder brother.
I saw the big brother outside the door, holding a basket of golden and fragrant pancakes, not to mention how tempting they were.
"I don't know if you have enough to eat, and there isn't much good food in the countryside. You just make do with what you have to eat!"
"Oh, thank you so much." Zhuang Youjie took the cake and was extremely moved. This is a timely help, brother!
Seeing him delivering the things and getting ready to leave, Zhuang Youjie suddenly remembered something.
"Hey, brother, I haven't asked you what to call me yet."
"Oh, my surname is Jiao."
Brother Jiao smiled innocently, and Zhuang Youjie felt that this smile was somewhat familiar.
And Liang Yuanque in the room suddenly looked towards the door after hearing this surname.
The surname is Jiao, is it a coincidence or...
