Tomb Raiders I Can Hear Antique Talk

Chapter 372 It was them

As soon as the woman's voice fell, there was another "rustling" sound from behind the bushes.

Xiao Ran turned his head again, and saw that next to the innocent little slug with tears in his eyes, there was a little boy who was also about three or four years old.

The little boy's body was covered with dust, dead leaves and branches, and his hair was round and round, like a small watermelon with green skin.Unlike the slug, this little green skin looked directly at Xiao Ran, with no fear on his face, and even a smile on the corner of his mouth.

Xiao Qingpi's expression made Xiao Ran slightly disgusted.He stood up, forcing Xiao Qingpi to look up at him, then stretched out the acorn in his hand, and deliberately asked with a straight face: "You are the one who attacked me, right? You are so brave, aren't you afraid that I will spank your ass?"

Unexpectedly, Xiao Qingpi just let out a disdainful "hum" after hearing what he said, and the five points in his black bean-like eyes were lustful, and five points were disdainful.The meaning of this expression is clearly "I'm not afraid of you, it's a pity I missed you."

"bad boy……"

Xiao Ran put away the last trace of his smile. When these three words flooded into his mind, a sense of violent and inexplicable hostility suddenly appeared in his heart. At this moment, he just wanted to slap this little Qingpi on the head. Well, it's best to slap him to the ground and piss on his crotch...

Xiao Qingpi finally stopped smiling, looking at Xiao Ran's expression with a little fear.Children, like small animals, sometimes have a stronger instinct to detect hostility than adult humans.

"Yangyang! Hurry up and apologize to uncle!"

At this moment, one of the women hurried over and pinched the ear of the little Qingpi who was called "Yang Yang". He reached out to grab the acorn in Xiao Ran's hand again.

Seeing this, the woman quickly apologized to Xiao Ran and said with a smile: "Comrade, I'm sorry, children are not sensible, don't be as knowledgeable as him..."

Xiao Ran saw that this woman was about [-] years old, her clothes were plain and ordinary, her accent and appearance were clearly Jiangnan style.Looking at Xiao Qingpi whose ears were twisted by him, his eyebrows, eyes, mouth and nose are very similar to this woman, there must be no doubt that these two are mother and child.

His own mother has come to apologize, can he really have trouble with a child?More than half of that inexplicable evil fire has temporarily disappeared, so Xiao Ran waved his hand and said, "Hey, what are you talking about? A kid, I'm just teasing him."

After finishing speaking, he lowered his palm and handed the acorn there to Xiao Qingpi.Unexpectedly, after grabbing the acorn, Xiao Qingpi punched Li Ran's palm again with his small fist.

"Hey?!"

Now even his mother was angry, she slapped his buttocks, reprimanded him in southern dialect, and apologized to Xiao Ran again and again.Xiao Ran frowned, squeezed out an ugly smile, shook his head lightly to express his indifference, then the woman dragged Xiao Qingpi to the house.

Xiao Qingpi was reluctant, crying and cursing at his mother.With the babble of the child's babble and the dialect, Xiao Ran could only roughly hear that the child said that he would not want his mother when he grows up, and so on.

"Little dog, come in too, don't play around outside, you don't know how to die when you meet bad guys..."

At this moment, another woman also spoke, her voice was calm and powerful, with a trace of calm majesty, making Xiao Ran, the "bad guy" who was accused of being scolded, feel a little afraid to resist.

He looked up and saw that this woman was completely different. She was about five or sixty years old, her gray hair was tied into a delicate bun, and she could see that she was definitely a beauty when she was young.She was wearing a woolen overcoat, and through the slightly open gap, she could see a dark green cheongsam inside.

This dignified and majestic woman must be the owner of this house.The slug called "Puppy" walked past Xiao Ran, only then did Xiao Ran realize that he had been staring at the hostess, and quickly averted his eyes slightly. .

At this time, Xiao Qingpi's mother and son also walked past the old lady, and the old lady glanced at Xiao Qingpi calmly, and Xiao Qingpi's mother seemed to feel the old lady's dissatisfaction, and slapped Xiao Qingpi's buttocks again. Put it, and then slightly nodded to apologize to the old lady.

It turned out that the "bad guy" that the old lady referred to was this little Qingpi. Xiao Ran felt relieved a little, and hurriedly followed the little dog to the stone steps at the door, bowed slightly and said, "Old lady... Grandma... ...Old lady, I, I am here, that visit...that..."

When the words came to his lips, he was so nervous that he couldn't speak. At this moment, Xiao Ran wanted to slap himself. When chatting and doing business, where did that good gag go?
"Ha ha……"

There was a soft laugh, and Xiao Ran blushed and looked up, seeing a slight smile on the majestic old lady's eyes, and said to him: "Ma'am... now they are all called comrades, and when they are old, they are old comrades. How many years?" No one calls me Madam anymore. It’s cold outside, come in if you have something to say..."

Xiao Ran felt a coolness on his scalp, it was because the cool wind dried his fine beads of sweat.He never expected that a very common address in his era would become this old lady... no, it was a bonus item in the eyes of the old lady.

"Fortune comes with misfortune, misfortune comes with blessing..."

At this time, Yin Yang mirror spoke, it seems that these artifacts have been watching the excitement.

Xiao Ran had no time to care about them, so he hurried up to help the old lady open the door.The old lady's walking speed didn't change a bit from the beginning to the end, as if she expected that Xiao Ran would open the door, and it seemed that she never cared whether he would open the door or not.That kind of composure that sees through the world is impossible without experiencing some life-and-death storms.

Xiao Ran completely became a primary school student in front of her, he only dared to follow behind humbly, turning his head slightly from time to time, quietly looking at everything in the room.

Different from the exquisite style of the mansion outside, the inside of the house is extremely plain. The walls are half-painted with green paint, and all the wooden door panels and door frames with foreign styles, as well as the handrails of the stairs leading to the upper floor, are painted in an unadorned and unremarkable style. Eye-catching apricot yellow.On both sides of the corridor nearly ten meters from the door, in addition to the portraits of leaders, there are some posters that are not often seen in ordinary people's homes.

This simplicity is very abrupt, so abrupt that it feels like it was done on purpose.

Passing through the corridor, the old lady led Xiao Ran into a large living room as soon as she turned around.There is not even a sofa in the living room, only the simplest wooden benches, electroplated folding chairs and long iron-clad coffee tables.

The old lady signaled Xiao Ran to sit down, while she herself sat on a single rocking chair, and took out a delicate long tobacco rod, lit it with a match and took a small puff.This dignified and elegant picture made Xiao Ran involuntarily imagine the appearance of the old lady when she was young.

"Puppy, take some candy and go play in the corridor." The old lady said.

The child came over obediently, picked up two candies from the table, turned to see Xiao Ran, thought for a while and took one more candy, stuffed it into Xiao Ran's hand, and then bounced out.

Xiao Ran sighed: "You are so good, remember to give it to me..."

The old lady took a puff of smoke and said: "Child, remember the short but not the long. Maybe even I will forget it in a few years. But he does understand the rules. He is the most obedient among the three generations of his family..."

Their house?Xiao Ran turned his head suspiciously and looked at the old lady.Isn't this old lady the owner here?Or is it that this child has nothing to do with her?

The old lady knocked the cigarette ash and said: "The child of my old friend's family, the one who hit you with a slingshot is from another family. I will visit here during the Chinese New Year. I usually have no one here, so I will let them stay for a while, just for fun. .Can you tell me about yourself?"

Only then did Xiao Ran suddenly realize that, seeing the old lady straight to the point, he hurriedly said, "That... Changkong Baixian's family..."

The old lady frowned slightly, coughed lightly, and said, "I don't dare to be a fairy family. When did the old Huangli come, and now it's a new society. As for you, it wasn't Changkong, it was Xiao Changkong who asked you to come, right? Do you have something to say? Just say it."

When Xiao Ran heard this, he had no choice but to stop talking, but put the yarrow, yin and yang mirror, and soul-locking spirit beads on the table one by one.The old lady still elegantly exhaled smoke rings, but raised her eyebrows from time to time.

And when he also took out the Guanshan Knife and placed it on the tea table, the old lady had a somewhat surprised expression on her face, and then said lightly, "How dare you... Where did you get this thing?!"

Xiao Ran was also shocked, he didn't expect that the old lady would suddenly get angry, and was about to get up to explain, when he suddenly felt two big hands pressing on his shoulders, pressing him hard on the bench.

He hurriedly turned around to look, and was surprised to find two tightly wrapped men in cotton coats, hats and scarves, just like the guards at the gate, standing behind him on both sides.Behind them, there were seven or eight similar people, and even at the entrance of the living room, there were suddenly two more people watching him vigilantly.

When did these people come?He didn't notice it at all.No matter how fast he was or how hard he was to suppress him, Xiao Ran could figure out that he had no problem with these people one-on-one, but there was nothing wrong with two of them.

What's more, there are more than a dozen people with the same style here.This old lady is definitely not simple.

Xiao Ran quickly weighed it in his mind, and then described the origin of the Guan Shan Dao in the simplest terms, emphasizing the characteristics of the sword seller, as if he was honestly explaining the real culprit behind the scenes.

"Hmph... no wonder, it turned out to be that little bastard, he is the only one who can do this, and it's hard to guard against house thieves..."

After listening to Xiao Ran's description, the old lady seemed to understand everything in an instant.She signaled those tightly wrapped people to let go of Xiao Ran, but Xiao Ran who was sitting there was a little confused.

This is the second time, when talking about Guan Shandao, someone mentioned some kind of house thief.Last time, it was a blind man...

"Since this is the case, I know why you are here. Just now in the yard, I felt something was wrong with you. If I hadn't said anything, you could have screwed Yang Yang's head off. Come with me, and I'll take you to a place..."

After the old lady finished speaking, she signaled the leader in the living room to let him prepare.The man asked in a low voice: "Should we go to the Huo family's old house first..."

The Huo family?Xianjia... These two words flashed across Xiao Ran's mind, and suddenly he felt a thunderbolt hit his head, and goose bumps surged all over his body. He seemed to have thought of something.

"Your... your surname is Huo? You are the ninth..."

The old lady knocked the cigarette rod on the table immediately, frowned slightly and said: "My surname is Huo, don't talk about the past..."

Xiao Ran's heart skipped a beat, no wonder the second uncle let him bring a magic weapon here, no wonder there are so many experts here, no wonder there are black and blind people in this world...

In this way, little dog, Yangyang...

At this time, the old lady had already got up accompanied by two bodyguards, and Xiao Ran hurriedly followed.Passing by the corridor, I saw the two children squatting on the ground playing, the little dog looked at Xiao Qingpi pitifully, Xiao Qingpi smacked with sugar in his mouth, peeled off another piece and put it in his mouth .

Xiao Ran strode over and said to the puppy, "Open your mouth!"

Xiao Gouzi opened his mouth obediently, and Xiao Ran peeled off the candy in his hand, stuffed it into his mouth and said, "Xiao Tianzhen, be careful when making friends in the future, don't let people lead you by the nose... Hey! You will have good friends in the future Yes, there are still two!"

Seeing the little dog nodded in confusion, he raised his hand and tapped the little green skin again, pretending to shout: "Don't say you don't want your mother in the future, or you will regret it..."

Xiao Qingpi finally cried out with a "wow", the old lady witnessed everything, a slight smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, and Xiao Ran hurriedly followed with great strides.

(End of this chapter)