the knife of love

Chapter 357 Take Her Around

After the death of Du Hong and Fan Qingyan, all the properties under their names were confiscated, but the share he left to Tongtong after Chi Feng passed away remained unchanged. So he entrusted a lawyer to draw up an agreement, which will be kept by the lawyer first, and Tongtong will not be able to get the right to control the inheritance until he becomes an adult.

Tang Jingcheng looked at the little girl in the photo, with a thin figure and immature face. Tang Jingcheng still remembered her timid expression at Chi Feng's memorial service.

"A very sensible child, but unfortunately both his parents had an accident."

"Accident?" Guan slightly snorted, "The deaths of Chi Feng and Fan Lili were not accidents."

"What did you say?" Tang Jingcheng was shocked.

If Chi Feng was not an accident, Tang Jingcheng could understand it. After all, he was from Jiurongtai. So many things happened at that time. He even kidnapped himself and Lou Qingxiao, saying that the police came to inspect him. "Accidentally" fell from the roof, probably not many people believe it.

But Fan Lili was not an accident?
Tang Jingcheng looked at Guan Lue in disbelief, the latter's eyes were full of sadness and indifference.

The moonlight is cold, and it seems to be able to see the ugly truth through people's eyes.

"Do you want to hear why Fan Lili died?"

"I don't listen, I don't want to listen, and I don't need to listen." Tang Jingcheng firmly covered her ears. She felt that there were too many sad things buried in her heart, and she didn't want to add another one.

If you don't listen, you can act as if you don't know, if you don't know, you can act as if nothing happened.

"I'd like to believe it was an accident."

Tang Jingcheng was sure that Fan Lili's car really overturned accidentally on the mountain road, and she was not persecuted because of some ulterior motives.

Seeing her like this, Guan slightly smiled bitterly, and took away her hand covering her ears.

"Okay, whatever you say!"

"Then what? She's just a woman with no resistance. She hasn't hurt anyone, and she hasn't tried to take anyone's life. She just met Chi Feng by accident and became his woman. Why would someone insist on that?" Take her life? And the unborn child, the child is not guilty, why not leave him any chance?"

Tang Jingcheng's mood suddenly became a little excited.

Guan Lue held her hand, pulled her into his arms and sat down, hugging her tightly.

"This world is like this. Many people don't like to follow the rules. People have different hearts. It's useless for you to complain."

Tang Jingcheng listened to the slightly low voice next to his ear, and buried his face in his chest.

Guan Lue touched the top of her smooth head with his hands, took a breath, and asked, "Then are you afraid?"

Tang Jingcheng was silent for a moment, and after a while, she tightly grasped Guan Lue's fingers with her newly recovered right hand.

"Will it be useful?"

"...Probably, useless!"

"Then there's nothing to be afraid of, it's useless to be afraid anyway!"

Guan slightly smiled wryly, the girl had her own logic in her heart.

"By the way, you plan to leave Tongtong alone in Yunnan?"

"Otherwise what?"

"You can take it over. You can also take over the house. It's more at ease to keep it by your side. Anyway, it's a big place, and I can be a companion with Axi."

Guan Lue kissed the top of her hair and shook his head: "No, this is the place of Jiurong Terrace after all. Ah Xi has nothing to do. If he had healthy limbs, I wouldn't keep him by my side, but Tong Tong is different. , she is still young and a girl, going anywhere is better than staying in Jiurongtai."

All the arrangements made by Guan Lue had his own considerations. Whoever said this man was rough, he just had too many things on his shoulders.

Tang Jingcheng looked up at him, hugged his neck and rubbed against his arms.

"I understand."

She should understand his good intentions, and avoid some places if she can. Tongtong left here to live alone, and she will be an ordinary girl's life from now on.

Yaba stayed in Yunnan for more than half a month. The first week was spent doing the things Guanlue told him to do, and the rest of the time he stayed at home.

The stockade hidden in the mountains at the junction of China and Myanmar is simple, hardworking and peaceful.

Around the end of June, Yaba returned to Yunling from Yunnan. As soon as he came back, he excitedly went to the house to see Tang Jingcheng, and brought special products from his village.

Tang Jingcheng was very happy, and patted his head: "I know my sister didn't love you for nothing!"

Yaba was still the same, he blushed when Tang Jingcheng teased him, and he leaned back.

Tang Jingcheng teased him even more.

"Show me quickly, why are you so black?"

Yaba smiled and rubbed his face with his hands: "Funo in the mountains."

After going back and blowing for half a month, there seemed to be several creases on my face, but my spirit looked good, especially those big eyes, black and bright, energetic, and there seemed to be joy that couldn't be hidden inside.

Seeing his appearance, Tang Jingcheng knew that there must be something good going back.

"Yaba, tell sister Tang, how does it feel to go back this time?"

"pretty good."

"Then who did you go back to see?"

"My father and mother, and a few brothers in the village."

"Oh, that's it?" Tang Jingcheng frowned and looked around, "Did you see anyone else?"

For a moment Yala lowered his head and refused to speak.

Tang Jingcheng liked to see his suffocated and shy appearance the most, and kicked him as soon as he raised his leg: "Speak, do you see anyone else?"

"No... I didn't see..."

"A lying daughter-in-law will run away with others,"

"..."

"Come on, let's talk!" Tang Jingcheng was very curious about what kind of girl Yaba would find, and kept staring and asking, but Yaba refused to say anything.

The two quarreled in the room for a while, but in the end Yaba couldn't stand it any longer, and took out something from his pocket and handed it to Tang Jingcheng.

"Aga told you."

Tang Jingcheng pursed his lips and smiled, but he didn't take what was in his hand, and only asked, "Who is Ajia?"

Ya Pa was sullen and stopped talking, holding back the things in his hand and stuffing them into Tang Jingcheng's arms.

"Take it out and have a look!"

Tang Jingcheng couldn't help laughing when he saw his holding back.

What Yaba stuffed in was a dark red linen bag, the seal was tied with a drawstring, Tang Jingcheng tore the drawstring, and a string of beads poured out from the inside, with all kinds of small shells on the string, The carved silver pieces and small beads look rough, but they are very distinctive when they are strung together with clangs.

"You did it?"

Yaba immediately scratched his head, and smiled naively: "I didn't have such a coincidence, it was made by Ajia, she asked me to bring it to you, the shells on it were picked up one by one by Ajia himself and drilled the holes. It is said that it is a doll that can bless you and Brother Nine."

"Is it really so spiritual? Then I want Dai Dai to see it."

Tang Jingcheng hung the string of beads around his neck, and asked Yala: "Does it look good?"

Yaba nodded vigorously: "It looks good!"

"Is that Sister Tang's prettier or Ajia's prettier?"

As a result, Yala stopped talking again, her face was flushed with suffocation, and she scratched the top of her head: "... Ajia is more beautiful!"

Tang Jingcheng: "..."

As soon as Guan Lue entered the door, he heard Tang Jingcheng's sharp voice from the back hall: "Get out!"

Yala hurriedly ran out from the yard, just bumped into Guan slightly.

"Ninth Brother..."

"What are you running for?"

Yaba was blushing, panting, and with a hey hey, he bypassed the switch and disappeared.

Guan Lue was puzzled, stood there for a while and walked towards the back hall, an orange flew out of the living room before entering the door, thanks to his agility and swiftness.

"what happened?"

When Guan slightly entered, Tang Jingcheng was sitting on the sofa with his belly in his arms, and glared at him: "It's nothing!"

It's nothing?
The girl can't wait to grind her teeth to pieces, is that nothing?
Guan slightly walked around to the front of the sofa: "Did Yaba mess with you?"

"No!" trying to cover up.

Guan Lue pursed his lips and laughed, and raised his hand to sweep Tang Jingcheng's hair: "You have the guts to make you angry after Yala came home?"

Tang Jingcheng became even more angry when he said this, but it was difficult to get up from his four-month-old stomach, but his legs were quite flexible, and he kicked Guan Lue's knee when he raised his leg.

"I want to die, I want to change my mind when I see a difference, and talk sweetly! You men are all of the same virtue!"

Guan Lue: "..."

It seems that the child annoyed Tang Jingcheng a lot this time, Guan slightly bent down to cover his aching knee, and he has to go to Yala tomorrow to settle the score!
In July, in the midsummer of Yunling, the hundreds of ginkgo trees at the gate of Guanzhai have grown into luxuriant branches and leaves. Every day after dinner, Guan Lue will accompany Tang Jingcheng to take a walk on that road, and sometimes push Axi went together, listened to the birdsong, and smelled the leaves blown by the wind.

Days passed like breaths fully stretched out.

In mid-July, Guan Lue and Tang Jingcheng officially set off for Myanmar.

At that time, the child in Tang Jingcheng's womb was exactly seventeen weeks old, with a big belly, but he was still very flexible.

The two flew to Yunnan from Yunling, and arrived in Kunming that afternoon. It was a very boring trick, and they went to the train station to eat KFC for the first meal in Kunming.

Tang Jingcheng hasn't eaten these junk foods for a long time. He ordered Coke, chicken wings, hamburgers and egg tarts, plus a family bucket.

Guan Lue couldn't stop her no matter what, and in the end she could only connive. Her appetite was so good that night that she almost ate the whole family bucket by herself.

The next day I went to Tengchong as planned. In order to satisfy Tang Jingcheng’s desire to take a minibus and worry about the baby in her belly, Guan Lue first drove her to Baoshan, and then took a bus from Baoshan to Tengchong.

In the past two years, Tengchong's tourism industry has developed better and better. There are more tourists. The government has spent money to repair all the mountain roads. The bus driving past is not as bumpy as it was a few years ago, but the scenery outside the window still seems to be the same.

Forests, valleys, exposed soil layers and cliffs, but the wind blowing in from the outside is very hot, carrying the usual moisture in the mountains.

The bus turned a corner on the mountain road and saw a blue warning sign erected on the edge of the cliff in front - "Accident-prone area, please slow down!".

Tang Jingcheng leaned on Guan Lue's shoulder and asked with a smile, "Do you still remember the place in front?"

The corner of Guan Lue's lips twitched: "Remember!"

"Did that person survive later?"

"Ah."

"That's good, I tore off a scarf for you in vain!"

Guan Lue: "..."

This girl really remembers everything. It happened many years ago, and she still has to keep the scarf to settle with him.

In the evening, the two stayed in Tengchong.

The Nihongchen Inn from many years ago has long been missing, but a clean bar was built on the original site of the Nihongchen Inn, and it has become a bustling road with the bars and small cafes next to it. commercial street.

That night, Tang Jingcheng and Guan Lue stayed in an inn opposite Yuan Ni Hongchen. The inn was decorated with distinctive features and the hardware facilities were good. At least each room had air conditioning and a private bathroom.

After checking in, Tang Jingcheng took a shower immediately, washing away all the sticky sweat and dust, changed into a loose skirt and went out to look for food with Guan Lue.

It was almost night and the sky was getting dark. The two found a special local restaurant on the street in front of the inn.

Guan Lue ordered a few light dishes, and threw the menu to Tang Jingcheng: "Look again, add what you want, so as not to call me stingy in the future!"

Tang Jingcheng bit his chopsticks and let out a snort. In fact, this man was really narrow-minded.

She took the menu and scanned it: "That's it, enough for two people."

"Is that enough?"

"Well, that's enough!"

In the past few years, not only her temper has been restrained, but her mouth problem has also improved a lot.

Guan slightly looked at her with disbelief, added another soup, and then said: "It seems that you are not as particular as before?"

Tang Jingcheng put down the chopsticks in his mouth and took a sip of water: "Well, if I was as particular as before, I guess I would have starved to death when I was recuperating in Myanmar."

Guan Lue: "..."

After dinner, the two walked along the road from the restaurant back to the inn. Some small bars on both sides of the street were open for business, and colorful neon lights were lit up.

"It looks busier than it was four years ago."

"In recent years, tourism in Tengchong has become a hot spot."

The Chinese also like to join in the fun, once a place is on fire, they all rush to run there.

Guan Lue took off his shirt and put it on Tang Jingcheng's shoulders, and suddenly asked a question: "Did you enter the bar on this street that time?"

Tang Jingcheng nodded: "It seems to be in front, why don't you go and have a look?"

The two walked to the door of the bar. It was a small shop, the lights inside were dimmed, and it was not a serious place at first glance.

Guan slightly gritted his teeth: "Did you take the initiative at that time, or that man came to look for you?"

"It seems that he came to look for me." Tang Jingcheng probably recalled, "Yes, he struck up a conversation with me first, maybe because he knew I didn't have much money to drink, so he came over and offered to buy me a drink.

"Drinking and drinking, I drank and went to your room?"

Tang Jingcheng glared: "It's because you were too stingy and gave me that little money, otherwise I wouldn't have talked to strangers just for two glasses of wine!"

Turning around, she always has an excuse to blame Guan Lue.

Guan slightly shot her a look: "You are blind, that kind of man is obviously hunting in the night market through the turnstile!"

Every time she thinks of her bare legs staying alone in the room with a man, Guan Lue gnaws with hatred. Fortunately, she put Qiu Qiguan's urn on the bedside table, probably Qiu Qiguan didn't want to see her so self-satisfied depraved.

"Okay, okay, I'm blind and I'm looking for you!" Tang Jingcheng quickly took Guan Lue's arm, and the two walked side by side, casting a pair of tall and short figures on the stone road in the old street.

On the second day, Guan Lue was woken up by the sound of footsteps in the corridor of the inn. He turned over on the bed, but his arms were thrown towards nothing.

There was no one on the next pillow.

"Tang Jingcheng?"

He put on his vest and pants and got off the bed. He grabbed his cell phone and was about to make a call when the doorbell rang.

He ran to open the door.

"Does it look good?"

The girl outside the door walked around in a circle in the aisle, as if a few years ago, she also appeared at the door of Guan Lue's room early in the morning in such a hurry, circled around, and asked him, "Does it look good?"

The only difference is that the girl in front of her now has her belly upright, while that girl had a cigarette dangling from her mouth back then.

Guan slightly raised his hand and raised his forehead: "It looks good."

"Thank you!"

"It was rented by the photo studio opposite again?"

"Of course not!" Tang Jingcheng put his hands in his skirt pockets, "I brought enough money this time, go, go out with me for a stroll!"

"..."

The two finished their breakfast in a nearby small restaurant, each with a portion of bean noodles and a snack, and after they were full, they went shopping in the old street.

The old street seems to be the same as it was four years ago. There are not many tourists in the morning. The morning mist is filled with the light of the midsummer morning. The bluestone slabs on the ground are covered with a layer of dew that was covered last night, making them dark and shiny.

Tang Jingcheng walked through the crowd in that "exotic outfit", and Guan Lue sometimes wondered if her four-month-old belly was real, and why she was still so strong.

"Hey, do you still remember the store in front?" Tang Jingcheng pointed to the store not far away. The door seemed to have been changed, but the furnishings inside were still the same.

Guan Lue immediately remembered that it was the small shop selling local handicrafts.

"Go in and see!"

Tang Jingcheng walked in first, and Guan Lue followed behind.

The shop is still very messy, the walls, cabinets, and the ropes hanging from above are full of exquisite handicrafts, but it may be because it is still early, there are only two or three customers in the shop, two The clerk who looked like a little girl was not in the mood to entertain them, and was sitting behind the cash register playing with her mobile phone.

It's better to have no one to entertain, Tang Jingcheng walks freely in the crowded small shop, wearing one thing for a while, and trying another for a while.

Guan slightly didn't move, followed behind and let her go, but saw her stop in front of a row of hanging cabinets.

Guan slightly walked over.

There are colorful beads in the cabinet, and nouns such as "beeswax", "agarwood", and "coral" are written on small pieces of paper beside them.

"Like these?"

Tang Jingcheng nodded, picked a string from the inside and hung it around his neck. He might not think it looked good, so he changed another string, and finally a clerk came over when he changed to the third string.

"Miss, do you want to buy beads?"

Tang Jingcheng responded: "I don't know which one is suitable?"

"Then let me introduce you." The clerk took a string of yellow beads in his hand, "This string is beeswax, one of the varieties of amber, one of the seven treasures of Buddhism, which has the effect of exorcising evil spirits and keeping you safe, and it can be worn for a long time It can also refresh your mind..."

"There is also this string of small-leaf red sandalwood, which is hard in texture, but has a perennial fragrance on it. Nowadays, many girls wear red sandalwood."

"Then there's the string on your right, that's the Thousand-Eyed Bodhi, there's..."

The clerk enthusiastically introduced it to Tang Jingcheng. Tang Jingcheng frowned and thought about it, carrying the string around his neck.

"what is this?"

"Pink crystal, but it seems that it is not suitable for you to wear."

"why?"

The clerk glanced at Guanlue, then at Tang Jingcheng's obviously swollen belly: "You think you must be pregnant?"

"Well, is there any other explanation?"

"Yes, pink crystals are also called love stones, and they are usually bought by single girls to attract peach blossoms."

"Really?"

"Yes, there is indeed such a saying!"

Tang Jingcheng immediately bit his finger, and the clerk smiled all over his face: "So this pink crystal is not suitable for you, why don't you take a look at the beeswax, if you think this string is not good enough, I'll get you a better string. "

Guan Lue didn't talk to him for a while, he didn't understand these things, he just picked up all kinds of beads in the cabinet, and thought that beeswax was the most suitable, mainly because beeswax had the effect of calming the mind and keeping the peace.

"Then you go get a better string."

"Okay!" The clerk touched the key to get it, but was called back by Tang Jingcheng.

"You don't need to take it, just this string, how much is it?"

The clerk froze for a moment: "Do you really want it?"

"If you really want it, how much will it be?"

"Then... I'll give you a cheap price, nine hundred!"

"Six hundred, it's auspicious!" Tang Jingcheng patted Guan Lue next to him: "Ask him to collect the money!" So he walked away happily wearing the string of powder that can attract peach blossoms, and Guan Lue stood where he was. His face was dark.

"return!"

Tang Jingcheng didn't care about him, he had already walked out of the store in a blink of an eye.

Guan Lue wanted to chase after him, but the two shop assistants behind him held him tight: "Hey! Sir, you haven't paid the money yet!"

Guan Lue was so angry that he ground his teeth, what the hell is this!
After Guan Lue paid the money and went out, Tang Jingcheng had already disappeared.

Guan slightly ran around in a hurry, took out his mobile phone and was about to make a call, when he heard someone behind him shouting: "Hi, I'm here!"

He turned around.

In the morning light, Tang Jingcheng stood at the door of a small shop, behind him was a mottled white wall and a wooden door with a few cracks.

She was dressed in a white dress and numb red dress, her half-length hair was braided into many whips, and a small piece of silver jewelry fell from the top of her forehead. She leaned against the wooden door with her hands behind her back and her chest Hanging on the front is the string of pink crystals that I just bought, and there is another thing hanging under the pink crystals.

In that trance, there was an instant of light and shadow.

Many years ago, Tang Jingcheng seemed to be wearing this kind of clothes and walking on this quaint old street, leaning against the old wall and old door, calling him through the morning light.

"Hey, I'm here!"

Guan slightly walked over.

Tang Jingcheng half-closed his eyes under the light, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, he looked straight at Guan Lue: "How is it?"

Guan Lue's eyes dimmed, and he reached out to pick up the dagger she hung under the pink crystal, and the knife sheath was inlaid with so many pieces of jade.

"Still keep it?"

"Keep it all the time!"

Guan slightly smiled, raised his other hand, and gently squeezed Tang Jingcheng's chin: "Good girl!"

The two stayed in Tengchong for three days, two days were spent wandering around, and the last day they stayed at the inn to recuperate. After all, Tang Jingcheng was pregnant for more than four months, and she was afraid that she would not be able to take it after running around for days.

But in the morning before leaving, Guan Lue accompanied Tang Jingcheng to Ginkgo Village.

The village is still the same, and there are many tourists, but it does not affect the peace and tranquility of the local villagers.

He also went to the courtyard that Su Zhan had given to Tang Jingcheng before, but the courtyard could no longer be entered, and a seal was pasted on the door.

The river behind the yard is still there, and a small wooden bridge has been built on the river for tourists to pass through. Perhaps because of that bridge, the undeveloped village on the other side of the river has become a scenic spot.

In less than a year, the world does not stop every minute and every second.

(End of this chapter)