Shu Huan got up and poured another cup of tea for Gu Xiran, this time without urging, she just quietly waited for him to speak.
Gu Xiran rationalized Du Qiu's words in his mind: "That uncle who enjoys the heart has always been idle, and he enjoys eating, drinking, whoring and gambling, as long as he has money in his hand, he will spend it all, and then reach out to his elder brother for money, or else The reason why her family is so poor is inseparable from her uncle's wanton squandering. The villagers who know about this will scold them, saying that if it is not for the pleasant father who maintains everything and is cautious. Nursing, his house and the remaining two acres of Susukida have been sold long ago.”
"So once her father died, wouldn't his uncle be left alone?"
Gu Xiran nodded: "It was okay at first, his uncle swore before his father died that he would never gamble again in this life, but this addiction is not easy to quit, he endured it for a few months, but he couldn't stand the slut of those gamblers *, I still used it as a family thing to gamble. At first, he won some money, but he didn’t know that it was a dirty trick used by those gamblers. It’s not bad to be pleasing to the eye, and even cut a few new clothes for her during the New Year, but then the more I gambled, the more I lost, the more I gambled, I pawned everything in the house, and even exported the house and fields.”
Every gambler who is deeply addicted to gambling has a mentality similar to the doomsday carnival. He will not stop until the end of the mountain and the bet is exhausted. Shu Huan can more or less guess what happened next: Has it all been exported?"
"Yeah." Gu Xiran lowered his head and took a sip of water: "It's fine if it's just exported, it might be miserable to be resold, but if it can be sold to a benevolent family as a maid, it's better than following her uncle."
Shu Huan frowned and said, "What else happened?"
"I don't know." Gu Xiran shook his head: "Privately, the villagers believed that she had been secretly sold, but her uncle kept calling for grievances, saying that she had hidden the last bit of food in the house and ran away secretly in the middle of the night. Where can she go if she has no money on her body? However, she has not been found anywhere, so she is counted as a mysterious missing person in Shadow Moon Village."
Shu Huan frowned even more, and pondered: "We met Xinxin on the mountain, so she must have escaped, but did she escape after being taken by her uncle to repay the debt, or did she escape before repaying the debt?"
"Before." Gu Xiran gave the answer with certainty: "Her uncle shouldn't have lied, but I think there is something hidden in it."
"How did you infer it?"
"On the night of her disappearance, someone saw her uncle drunk and staggering back home. The next morning, villagers found that the door of their kitchen was not closed, and her uncle fell asleep on the ground drunk, with a Burning fire sticks, the pot of water sitting on the stove has almost boiled to the bottom, it seems that no one is watching, if the firewood in the stove is not burned out, it is hard to say that a fire will be caused .”
Shu Huan was silent.
Gu Xiran went on to say: "The key is that when he was pushed awake, he was still swearing and running around the room looking for pleasure, but he couldn't find it, and found that the only food at home was missing, so he insisted on it." Xinxin escaped secretly while he was drunk, and he was the one who searched most diligently for someone afterwards."
"What if you don't search diligently? Everyone has been exported. Wouldn't it be bad if he couldn't hand over those gamblers who came to ask for someone later?" Shu Huan rarely showed a sarcastic expression, and he could more or less infer what happened after Xiang Xin escaped. thing, I felt a little relief in my heart, but I still had doubts: "But this can only prove that he didn't lie at most, so what about the secret? Judging from the scene you just described, it can only be inferred that the pleasing is escaped in a hurry."
Gu Xiran smiled slightly: "Her uncle goes out to gamble and fool around during the day, and often returns at night. If she wants to escape, why doesn't she choose such an inconvenient time at night when there is no one at home?"
"The day his uncle got drunk was the day he exported Xinxin, right?"
Gu Xiran nodded.
"Perhaps she was scared when she learned that she was going to be sent to the hands of those gamblers tomorrow, so she ran away while her uncle was drunk and unconscious."
This time, Gu Xiran shook his head.
Shu Huan frowned: "Is there a loophole in my deduction?"
Gu Xiran raised the corners of her lips slightly: "It's not a loophole, it's just that you think about her situation when we met Xiangxin."
Shu Huan lowered his head and thought for a while: "She is afraid of being in contact with people. At that time, I thought she must have been greatly stimulated, but based on what I know now, there is nothing wrong. She was afraid that she would be sent home after going down the mountain, so she struggled desperately. The reaction of refusing to go with us is also normal."
"Well, there's only one thing that's not normal." Gu Xiran smiled: "She's not too afraid of you."
Shu Huan was taken aback, and then said: "I look the least threatening, not to mention that I'm a woman like her, so it's more natural to get along with her. Don't forget, this is an era that pays attention to intimacy between men and women."
Gu Xiran didn't decide whether it was right or wrong, but just lowered her eyes and said: "There are still details. She ran away when the water was boiling on the stove. She was in such a hurry that she couldn't turn off the fire. If the water boiled dry and caused a fire, it would be her father who burned it. The house that was left behind, not to mention her uncle who was drunk on the ground, no matter how bad he was to her, it was still related by blood."
Shu Huan lowered his head and thought again, his frown tightened more and more: "What do you want to deduce?"
"There are still hidden things."
"You mean that she was afraid of men approaching... And something must have happened at that time that made her forget about other things, and only knew about the situation of running away..." There is no problem with the clues alone, but according to take care of Xiran At the prompt, she deduces a shocking enough conclusion.
Shu Huan raised his eyes suddenly: "No way? You see, she even took away the leftover food at home, which shows that the situation was not particularly urgent at that time. As for the water boiled on the stove, it is very likely that she simply forgot Turn off the fire..."
Gu Xiran raised his eyebrows, stroked his chin and said, "I just think it's possible, I didn't say it must be, but the place where the fire stick landed is also quite strange, and it happened to be beside her uncle."
"Gu Xiran..." Shu Huan was a little depressed: "Your inference is a bit dark. This is the ancient times with strict etiquette. They are blood relatives, and they are also uncles and nephews. The most important thing is that they are only about the same age as Xiaosi. She Uncle doesn't have such a beast, right?"
"He's not a beast enough?" Gu Xiran sighed slightly: "I also hope that this inference is because I think too darkly, but her uncle is really not a good person. Afterwards, the group of gamblers didn't want anyone. After a beating, he was kicked out of the house after receiving his house deed and land deed, and ordered him to find someone or pay back the money within half a year. In this way, I don’t see any remorse in him, when he has money, he either drinks or gambles, and when he is drunk, he curses and curses, saying that if she is caught, she will die badly.”
"What a scumbag fighter..." Shu Huan cursed in a low voice, stood up abruptly, raised his face and said, "I can't send Xiangxin back, then I want her, you can find a way to buy it for me." Well, in case her uncle finds out and comes to ask for it, we can't force her to stay."
Gu Xiran nodded and remained silent.
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