Chapter 350: The family that can’t be found

Tangwan Village is built on an uneven hill. From the moment Qiao Qiao walked in, she found that this village was really lively.

Every door is open, and from time to time there are children playing on the street.

"It's different if you have money. If you don't find a place to get something to eat for a day over here, the whole family may go hungry."

When Qiao Qiao was just over five years old, she once went to the street market with her parents, and heard her father say to her mother: "If the clearance from this stall is sold, it should be enough for Jiang Jiang's birthday party."

Later, when she got a little older, she realized how poor her family was. Even the few thatched huts they have now were saved by them through all their efforts.

"Does your relative know that I gave you ten gold coins to tell your brother, or does he not know?" he asked.

"You should know that my mother told me in front of a lot of relatives when we were having a banquet at my third uncle's house a few days ago. Otherwise, they would definitely not tell my brother about such a good place." She said with certainty,

"Before, there was a wealthy family in the town who wanted to marry me. I will be my concubine. Why do I tell you this?" She stopped immediately.

During that period of time when people were fighting for their lives, her mother still insisted on getting her married. She had met that wealthy family on the street. He was a man in his forties. If it hadn't been for her, Qiao Ruolin. All kinds of tricks were used to break up the marriage. Most of the other families had to give the old man a warm bed.

Shen Jie was not interested in this, "Aren't your parents afraid of being robbed when riding in a bullock cart like this? In a place as poor as yours, some people dare to take this risk."

"I don't know how they got here. I didn't see any signs of cars passing by on the road just now." She began to worry when she thought about this.

"Let's go to your relative's house quickly," he said.

"Yeah." She looked at him with obviously worried eyes.

On the left is a small river and a vegetable garden. It is uneven and has several small bends. The bluestone path paved between the two rows of houses in front can barely accommodate two people walking side by side.

"I remember there was such a road." She said, looking even more anxious, and took him back to the stone bridge where he had just come.

In the front room next to the stone wall that has been soaked by rain all year round, there are two old men chatting in the sun. They look at the two young people and don't know what to say. She hates these older people the most. There is an old man in her village. The dead man often said in front of her that she was not serious.

"I remembered wrongly, this road has to go further inside." She said.

The road in front of the two people formed an area with several houses. There was no straight road and it had long been divided into countless small pieces.

After walking downhill for several hundred meters, we have reached the dead end of the road. We need to turn left to continue our journey. A large iron gate and stone road lie at the end of the road at a 45-degree angle.

She remembered the large-leaf magnolia in the courtyard.

"You really found me." Shen Jie said.

There were a lot of sweat on her face and her neck was soaked. She quickly pulled the iron ring and knocked on the door.

"It's possible, there are many people inside."

"Yes." She turned back to look at him, and nodded with a stiff expression.

She could hear the lively noise in the house from outside the door, and soon an old woman in her thirties or forties opened the door.

"It's Qiao Mo." This middle-aged woman was obviously dressed much better than the people in Qiao Village before them.

"Auntie. Have my parents and younger brother come here?" She knew this person. When she asked, she followed the crack she opened and looked inside. She also saw several people in their twenties and thirties in the front room. He was a man, but she basically didn’t recognize him.

"I didn't see it. Is there something happy?"

The middle-aged woman glanced at Shen Jie and smiled peacefully.

"No, today my parents brought my little brother here to see others. I thought they had already arrived." Qiao Qiao had a feeling in her heart that her parents and little brother might be inside.

"Can you let us go in and sit down?" Shen Jie asked.

The aunt glanced at the room behind her and quickly opened the door.

"A lot of people from Lao Ling's family are here today. You can go sit in the back room first," the middle-aged woman said.

"Thank you, Auntie." Qiaoqiao's voice was obviously a little weak. She looked towards the people in the hall,

The appearance and temperament of the two people were outstanding even when they were standing there. The dozen or so men and women in the front room all looked at the two people.

There was a child sleeping in the right wing on the first floor of the two small buildings in the back room. "You guys sit here." Auntie said to the two of them politely.

Ruolin waved to her and the door closed.

"It's very possible that your parents and little brother are not here." Shen Jie said.

"You think so too, right?" Qiao Qiao looked at the tall young man standing in front of him.

"I was just wondering if my parents would be kidnapped by them. Didn't you tell me on the way that some people can do anything for ten gold?"

"It shouldn't be the case. The people here are already very rich. Let's go back immediately. Maybe your parents were delayed because their cow fell into the field." He said.

"I hope so." She didn't want to stay here. After all, her relatives here were too far away and she didn't get along very well before. She felt very uncomfortable after staying here for a while.

"Auntie, my parents should still be on the way. I'll go back to greet them." She saw a middle-aged woman chatting with another woman of the same age who was also in her thirties in the courtyard.

The aunt waved to Qiaoqiao from several meters away, with a smile on her face.

Obviously, the people here live much more comfortably than the people in their village.

A lot of people looked over when they came, and it was still like this when they left, but for the two of them, it was just a short stay.

"Is something going to happen to them?" She was even more worried about her parents now than before.

"Do you know if there is any other way?" he asked.

"I once came here by horse and carriage with my uncle. I was embarrassed to look outside at that time," she said.

She clearly thought that there was a teenage boy about her age in the carriage. The boy kept staring at her. She remembered this during the process. She didn't know how she got there. His family's.

"There must be a better way," he said.

She nodded. Maybe it was because she had put her whole body and heart into it before, but now her mind was empty. When she thought that her home was so far away from here, she didn't know what to do next.