the knife of love

Chapter 333 Ye Tan's Past

"Ninth Brother..."

Tang Jingcheng stopped after reading two words.

Guan Lue waited and saw no sign of her continuing, so he raised his head: "What's wrong?"

"It's nothing."

Tang Jingcheng breathed a sigh of relief, pinched the paper tightly, and tried again.

"Ninth Brother..."

But it still doesn't work.

Guan slightly smiled bitterly: "Can't you understand the following words?"

"That's not true." Tang Jingcheng frowned, and suddenly raised his head to look at Guan Lue seriously: "What kind of person do you think Ye Tan is?"

"..."

Guan slightly didn't understand: "What do you want to say?"

"It seems to me that she rarely smiles."

Ye Tan always had a vicious expression on his face, as if everyone owed her money.

"And she should be very ruthless, ruthless to others, and ruthless to herself. Usually this kind of woman is very hard-hearted."

"Yeah!" Guan slightly admitted, "In a place like Jiurongtai, the first thing she learned was how to survive."

Being kind to others may kill her, so Ye Qin must be ruthless, and she is indeed ruthless. She was helped to such a high position by Guan Lue in her early twenties, and there were so many people under her, and all of them were ruthless. It's a man, but she can hold her position firmly because she is more ruthless than those men.

"She can't be ruthless, I can understand that." Tang Jingcheng leaned on the sofa, "But I found that she would occasionally be very gentle."

"..."

"For example, she is doing things next to you, for example, for example when she looks at your expression, for example..." Tang Jingcheng glanced at the paper, and smiled wryly, "For example, she called the word 'Ninth Brother'..."

Tang Jingcheng always felt that every time Ye Tan called "Ninth Brother", the tone would be slightly lighter. At that time, she was willing to let herself soften in front of this man.

"Maybe Ye Tan is only willing to be a girl in front of you."

A girl in her early twenties who wants to be coquettish, angry, and occasionally begs for mercy.

Guan slightly didn't say anything, just pursed his lips.

"Then I'll continue!" Tang Jingcheng took back the scattered emotions and raised the paper in his hand again.

"Brother Jiu..." She tried to soften her tone as much as possible, "Do you still remember the scene when we first met? I woke up from the hospital bed in the emergency room of the hospital. ...ban my fingers, I refused, my fingers were already broken by then..."

Tang Jingcheng paused after reading this: "What's going on?"

Guan Lue supported his forehead and recalled: "It was quite a coincidence. In fact, the first time I saw her was not in the hospital, but in Thyme. When Lao Mai and I passed by, she was being dragged and beaten in the back alley..."

Tang Jingcheng was taken aback: "For what?"

"She sneaked into the box to steal the guest's wallet, and was just caught by the guest."

"And then you abuse lynching?"

Guan slightly smiled bitterly: "This kind of thing is very common in the venue, besides, she asked for privacy at the time.

To be private is to be punished!

Tang Jingcheng still couldn't accept this kind of rough handling, but after thinking about it, calling the police would be ruined for her.

"What then?"

"Then it was to fight until the customer was satisfied!" Guan Lue still felt a little angry when he recalled the scene that night, "At that time, she was only 15 years old, and she was still a child, and she was not too greedy. 200 yuan was withdrawn from the wallet."

The rest she returned intact, but was eventually discovered.

Tang Jingcheng could almost imagine the scene where a 15-year-old girl was taken to a back alley and gang-beaten, she must be extremely helpless and desperate.

She took a deep breath: "Severely beaten?"

Guan Lue swept his forehead with his fingers again: "Thyme sent all thugs!"

A few thugs are tossing a little girl, and they still expect their subordinates to be merciful?

"One rib was broken, and two fingers on the right hand were comminuted!"

"..."

Tang Jingcheng didn't know what to say, she could only turn her face to look at the mountains opposite the terrace, the mountains were undulating, and there were faint lights on the mountainside.

At that time, Ye Tan's ribs were broken by Thyme's thugs. As for the fingers, it was entirely her own fault.

The guest was so drunk that he said that he had lost four or five hundred, and another that he had lost two or three thousand. Ye Tan insisted that he only took two hundred, but he refused to let go of his right hand.

You said that a girl was beaten like that, rolling on the ground, holding her right hand and refusing to let go. In the end, the customer Mao stepped forward and stepped on her right hand, crushing her middle finger and ring finger to pieces.

After stepping on Ye Tan, she still didn't let go, lay on the ground, and crawled two steps. Her face was already swollen, but she insisted on not saying a word, and stared fiercely at her eyes.

She was thinner then, even thinner than now, with high cheekbones and deep eye sockets. The corners of her black eyes stared up as if she wanted to eat people, so that the guest half woke up from the wine.

Who would have thought that a little girl would be so stubborn, so the matter was settled in the end, and the guest took back two hundred, and before leaving, he did not forget to spit on Ye Tan, saying that the rest of the money would be given to her. She's done business.

"You saved her?"

"Ah."

"Why did you save her then?"

"Because of the murderous look in her eyes!"

"So you revived her and brought her into Jiurong Terrace?"

"That's not true." Guan slightly thought back, "It was a year after she officially entered Jiurongtai, and she stayed in Thyme for a while after she was discharged from the hospital."

"What are you doing in Thyme?"

"Be a waiter!"

"You employ child labor?"

"..."

Guan slightly frowned: "This is Lao Mai's idea. She followed Lao Mai after she was discharged from the hospital, and I brought her into Jiurong Terrace a year later!"

"..."

Tang Jingcheng seemed to understand a little bit: "So that's how it is!"

In this way, she and Lao Mai have known each other for a little longer than Guan, but the fate is wrong, and they couldn't be together in the end.

"Continue reading!" Guan slightly raised his head.

Tang Jingcheng leaned against the sofa again.

"...I don't want to, my finger was already broken at that time, but that person was still banning it, oh yes, I remembered, the person who was banning my finger at that time was Lao Mai!"

Guan Lue: "..."

Tang Jingcheng: "..."

The two looked at each other, Tang Jingcheng coughed, and continued to read: "He is not happy after being banned, you came over, lowered your head and leaned against my ear, and you said something to me, that is The first sentence you said to me, do you still remember what you said at that time?"

Back and forth, around and around.

Ye Tan's letter was very wordy, and it took a lot of pen and ink to express one point clearly, but it can't be forced, after all, her level is limited.

"What did you say?"

"Didn't she write it in the letter?"

Tang Jingcheng glanced at it again, and made sure: "I didn't write it!"

Only then did Guan Lue purse his dry lips: "I said, let go of your hand, and I'll just take a look, and I won't steal her things."

Tang Jingcheng rolled his eyes: "You must have been very gentle when you said that, right?"

"how do you know?"

"Because she wrote that in her letter."

Guan Lue: "..."

Tang Jingcheng continued: "...Your voice is very nice, and your expression and tone are very gentle, and then I let go, you saw what I was holding, you did not break your promise, picked it up and put it on my clothes In the pocket, and then told me that my finger was broken, and the doctor will help me fix it..."

Tang Jingcheng stopped reading this.

"What was she holding in her hand?"

Guan Lue rubbed his face with his hands: "Two one dollar coins?"

"What?" Tang Jingcheng thought he heard it wrong, how could it be possible!

"She was stepped on and broke her right hand because of the two one-dollar coins, because she said they were her own, all her belongings at that time."

It's only two yuan, but she doesn't let go of her life and death, so Ye Tan's one-sided problem has been around since she was a child, and she can't change it.

Tang Jingcheng suddenly couldn't read anymore, she put the paper on her knees and took a few breaths.

"Give me a cigarette!"

"No!" Guan Lue said decisively, "What if I am really pregnant!"

Tang Jingcheng snorted, she didn't believe it, but Guan Lue couldn't grab it without giving it to her, and raised his hand to start reading the letter again, but Guan Lue snatched the paper in the next second.

"Okay, I'll see for myself. I can't finish reading at your speed until dawn!"

"..."

Tang Jingcheng rolled his eyes and ignored him.

"Then take your time, I'll go back to my room first!"

She got up and entered the room, and couldn't help shaking when she walked to the bed. It was too cold outside on the terrace, so she put on a thin coat with a bath towel inside, and most of her legs were bare, and she immediately lifted the quilt Drilled in.

He couldn't fall asleep for a while, so he lay on his side.

At that time, the lights in the house were not turned on, and all the lights on the terrace were reflected on the white gauze curtain, which was almost transparently illuminated, and Guan Lue's figure sitting on the sofa and reading a letter was outlined on it.

In fact, the letter wasn't too long. Although there were three or four sheets of paper, Ye Tan's handwriting was very large, with the addition of scribbles, corrections and crosses, so the content should not be too much.

It only took a few minutes for Guan Lue to read it.

Looking up, the night is getting dark.

Tang Jingcheng was lying on the bed and heard a "crack" on the other side of the balcony. It was the sound of ignition, and the smoke soon dispersed.

She didn't know what was written behind Ye Qin's letter, but Guan Lue didn't return to the room for a long time, and he smoked all the remaining cigarettes alone on the balcony with his arms propped up.

Tang Jingcheng felt that Ye Tan's death had some impact on Guan Lue, and he couldn't tell whether he was sad or regretful, not to mention that Ye Tan also took away the only blood of the Mai family.

It's just that Tang Jingcheng didn't ask some questions, everyone left, and it was pointless to ask too many questions.

Tang Jingcheng lay on the bed and waited. After waiting, he turned over and fell asleep. He didn't know how long he had slept. He heard the sound of pushing the door, and then the bed behind him sank. Guan slightly felt cold. Sticking it up, he pulled Tang Jingcheng into his arms from behind.

Tang Jingcheng shivered from his cold hands, and woke up a little from sleep.

"what happened?"

He seemed to shake his head, buried his face in the back of Tang Jingcheng's neck and did not speak.

Tang Jingcheng felt that something was wrong with him, and was about to turn over, but he was held down by him: "Don't move!"

"..."

He breathed heavily, and the strong smell of tobacco hit him.

How much did he smoke sitting outside alone?

"Guan Lue, talk, what happened?"

Guan Lue tightened the arms around her waist, and after a long time, he heard his voice so hoarse.

"Qing Xiao's death back then has nothing to do with you..."

(End of this chapter)