After listening to Mr. Xu's words, Miss Yao San finally understood the various aspects of this matter.
After thinking for a while, she said: "It seems that the person who cut off this guy's face...and killed Hu Daqing must be the same person. His purpose is obviously not to let me find the person I want to find. ..."
"Or..." Mr. Xu looked at Miss Yao San and said word by word: "He wants you... to find... him!"
Mr. Xu said this very slowly, the last three words almost every two seconds.
Miss Yao San naturally understood Mr. Xu's intention. She looked at the pattern behind the corpse's ears and thought for a long time before she slowly said, "It's almost time! Let's go!"
Mr. Xu did not move, but looked at Miss Yao San and said, "Where are you going?"
Tiebanzi Hutong is an extremely small alley in Xicheng District.
Iron Banzi Hutong is called this because there is an oversized iron plate nailed at the entrance of the alley. It is rusty and has no words on it. No one knows who left it, and no one knows why it was nailed. There is an iron plate like this on top.
It's just that nearby residents occasionally hear from people of a previous generation that the iron plate was left here by Tieguaili, one of the Eight Immortals during the Song Dynasty, for the purpose of suppressing the things in the well deep in the alley.
As for what that thing is, there are different opinions. Some say it is a fox with a thousand years of cultivation, some say it is Bai Suzhen's clone, and some say that there is a dragon inside that is causing trouble to the world...anyway Whatever you say.
But legends are legends after all, and people just listen to them
After a while, most of them became a topic of conversation after dinner.
Today's Iron Banzi Hutong has long been transformed. Almost everyone who can be moved has moved away from this place. Only a small number of people are still living here. There is also the iron plate at the entrance of the alley, and The well in the alley.
Tailor Li's family lives next to the well.
"Why is this place so narrow?" Miss Yao San said, covering her nose and saying, "It still smells so bad!"
Mr. Xu walked sideways around a few pieces of clothes hanging outside and said, "Alleys are always like this, public toilets! There will always be a smell!"
"Public toilets?" Ms. Yao San asked a little surprised: "None of these families here have their own toilets?"
Mr. Xu replied calmly: "Of course not... Third Miss, what kind of life have you lived in Fengge since you were a child? They, the people who live at the bottom of society, don't live like you. The people here are extremely poor in their lives." My biggest wish is to have a toilet of my own home."
While they were talking, Mr. Xu and Miss Yao San had already reached the end of the alley.
There are three low rooms in the innermost part. The doors on both sides are locked. Only the black iron door in the middle is ajar. There is a sign hanging diagonally on the edge of the door, which reads "Three Houses". The line is "tailoring, darning, odd jobs".
Upon seeing this, Mr. Xu gently straightened the signboard with his hands, then stretched out his right hand to knock on the iron door in front of him.
But at this moment, Miss Yao San suddenly grabbed Master Xu's arm and said, "Master Xu, someone is following us..."
….
Mr. Xu smiled when he heard this and said, "I know!
"
Mr. Xu Er's words made Miss Yao San stunned. After a few seconds, she asked: "You know?"
Mr. Xu nodded and said, "We have been following him since we came out of the unfinished building."
Miss Yao San looked at Mr. Xu in front of her, as if she were looking at a monster, the biggest monster in the world.
After a while, Miss Yao San finally said, "Since you know someone is following you, you still insist on coming to Tailor Li?"
Mr. Xu looked at Miss Yao San and said, "Why can't I come to Tailor Li?"
"But……"
Before Miss Yao San finished speaking, a very hoarse voice suddenly came from inside the room, interrupting Miss Yao San.
Just listen to the man saying calmly: "It's nothing... Since the second master can come to me with those tails, he has his own plan. We are just the pawns in the second master's game... Since If it’s a chess piece, then you don’t have to worry about the chess player, cough cough cough…”
When the people in the room said this, they suddenly started coughing.
Seeing the man coughing, Mr. Xu was not polite and immediately stretched out his hand to open the ajar iron door, strode in, and said as he walked: "Old Litou, are you still sick? "
"Don't you know about my disease? I will never get better in this life!"
Miss Yao San saw Mr. Xu striding into the house, and followed her into the iron door. After entering the house, her first reaction was that many people in the house smoked, because it was not a big house to begin with. The inside was already "filled with smoke" at this time.
There were three people sitting in the room at this time, except for Old Liu and Miss Yao San.
Apart from the few people she had met, she had never met them before.
The speaker was an old man sitting on the bed. He looked to be around seventy years old no matter how old he was. He was not fat, but not thin either. His appearance was also extremely ordinary. He was the kind of person who would not be found in a crowd. . However, this person's skin is very white, so white that it's a bit scary. You can tell at a glance that this person doesn't stay in the sun all year round.
In addition, the old man's eye sockets are sunken and somewhat black. At first glance, he looks like the kind of person who has been troubled by insomnia for a long time.
However, compared to his panda-like dark circles, this guy's eyes were surprisingly bright.
Especially when he stared at people, Miss Yao San vaguely felt that she suddenly turned into a rabbit, a rabbit that was stared at by an eagle.
The person sitting with his head hanging down was a man with a sallow complexion and thin muscles.
This man was in his forties or fifties, with a stooped body leaning on a stool. He looked to be less than 1.6 meters tall at most.
Although this guy is quite young, he doesn't sit upright, with one foot on the stool and one foot clacking underneath. Coupled with his sinister appearance and a pile of yellow hair on the top of his head, it doesn't look good. Like a weasel turned into a spirit.
Miss Yao San looked at him, and he was also looking at Miss Yao San at this moment. Although neither of them spoke, the boy's eyes fully revealed his inner thoughts at this moment.
Miss Yao San was from Fengge. She had never seen any kind of man. No matter what kind of man he was, she could almost guess what he was thinking with just a glance, let alone the guy in front of her. .
So, Miss Yao San
Not talking nonsense, he walked forward, swung his arms and said "papapapapa" together, giving this guy four big ear scrapers. The sound was loud and crisp.
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