He glanced at his watch uncontrollably, then turned to Lin Huai and asked, "Why are you here?"
"It's uncomfortable to sleep in the old house, so I plan to live in Ren's house—it just so happens that Ren Qiu also welcomes us very much." Lin Huai raised her head with a smile, "Why, can't it?"
"No..." Ying Xia was at a loss for words for a moment, "Is it okay with your companion?"
"They, I just met this afternoon, so I told them about the matter. We are all teammates, and it was all a misunderstanding." Lin Huai said lightly, "...Why, you don't look happy."
"... nothing." Ying Xia said.
The time gradually passed ten o'clock, then eleven o'clock, twelve o'clock... At half past eleven, Ren Qiu had already started to feel sleepy. Ying Xia watched him yawn one by one, and felt her heart tighten up.
"Don't rush to sleep, young people should stay up late, how healthy they are." Chu Tianshu, who was in a bandage, was still talking nonsense. Under his kind invitation, Ren Qiu was too embarrassed to go to bed first, he twitched the corners of his mouth, and continued playing poker.
But Lin Huai was already sleepy, he answered the phone and said, "Zhang Mingge asked me to go there, I'll go first, you guys take your time."
Lin Huai finally left, Ying Xia felt much relieved. However, Chu Tianshu had no intention of leaving at all. Seeing that Ren Qiu's eyelids were almost glued together, Ying Xia's heart began to waver like the flame on a candle.
... Calm down, calm down... Ren Qiu told himself. Thinking of this, he looked up at Chu Tianshu. After thinking for a while, he took advantage of Ren Qiu's time to go to the bathroom, and said to the two, "Let's go out for a while."
"Huh? Why?"
"About Ren Qiu's family." Ying Xia gritted her teeth, "I have something I want to give you."
To his surprise, Chu Tianshu agreed to his request happily. He took the two of them to Ying's house, looking at the time on the watch while walking.
When the hour hand passed twelve o'clock, his heart finally calmed down.
"...All the changes in Ren Qiu's family started with that lottery ticket." Ying Xia said suddenly.
"Before that, the Ren family was a low-income household in the village. They relied on carpentry for their livelihood. The two elderly people were both sick and couldn't make ends meet. They lived on the verge of life and death every day. Until they won the lottery, everything changed." Having said that, he turned to him, "Do you think winning the lottery is a good thing?"
Chu Tianshu said: "It was a good thing at the beginning, but later it is not necessarily."
"Yes." Ying Xia said coolly, "It was indeed a good thing at the beginning. They paid off their debts and built a new house. But soon... all kinds of troubles came up."
"There are countless people who seek relatives, borrow money, and seek connections, and they have the kind of character that knows how to reciprocate... I won't say these things, but you understand. When a person who has always been worse than yourself suddenly leaves There's no end to the jealousy and sense of loss that people get when they get lucky."
"so?"
"Ren Chun couldn't understand the behavior of her parents and advised the family to move away, but the two of them, including her younger brother, were a bunch of naive and unlucky people. They felt that they had been favored by the villagers in the past, and now they must be good. To repay the people in the village, he refused to move into the city. Ren Chun went to the city to study, and the Ren family's parents thought for a long time and came up with a good way." Ying Xia took them across a wheat field, "They decided to open a flour mill. factory, leading all the villagers to become rich together.”
"He trusted those villagers and gave them positions and wages, but one by one, they took the most inferior wheat to make up for it, mixed it with sand and weighed it. The few villagers in charge of management were all unemployed in the village. With a superior salary, they relied on the peace of the two old men, fishing for three days and drying the nets for two days, and they didn’t even care about laying out the wiring. Later in the evening, the security guard who was supposed to guard the flour mill went out to drink and asked for leave. When Ren's father went to the factory, the shoddy wires broke...the factory exploded. Of course, it's because they don't know people well, so there's nothing to say." Ying Xia said lightly.
"That village chief really didn't tell the truth..." Chu Tianshu complained, "No wonder Ren Chun hates this village to the bone."
"The factory was blown up, and the villagers beat the well to press for debts. Ren Chun and Ren Qiu, one 18 years old and the other 13 years old, what could they do? Ren Chun dropped out of school and went to work in the city, letting his younger brother Stay in the village. You already know the rumors in the village? Ren Chun has always been a beautiful girl. It is normal for someone to be jealous of her and slander her. Until three years ago, when Ren Chun came back from the city gone."
"Then she slipped and fell into the water?" Chu Tianshu asked.
"That's not a fall into the water at all." Ying Xia said coldly, "Ren Chun's water quality has always been good, how could such a shallow pond drown her? Those people said that Ren Chun and Ren Qiu quarreled because of Ren Chun Those rumors... are all false, all false!"
"The real reason for their quarrel is that Ren Qiu found out the truth about his father's death. The Wang family bribed those who made trouble and forced debts. The worker who tampered with the circuit was also bribed by the Wang family. Wang Zhankun has always Wanting to get Ren Chun, I originally wanted to create a small accident so that she would come to beg him. Then, the Ren family was ruined."
"Ren Chun did not agree to resort to the law. She said that the village chief and the Wang family colluded together, which was useless. She asked Ren Qiu to forget about the village and moved to the city with her. The two had a quarrel, and Ren Qiu ran away. After going out, Ren Chun chased after him, but bumped into Wang Zhanpeng and several of his friends. They were drunk. A group of people had a quarrel with Ren Chun. With the help of alcohol... Three days later, Ren Chun's body appeared in the pond Many villagers heard Ren Chun's screams and cries for help, and Ren Qiu knelt down to beg them to testify, but no one was willing to stand up." Ying Xia said without emotion, "This matter This ended hastily, and later, in February of the following year, heart-digging incidents began to happen continuously."
Chu Tianshu was silent for a long time, and said, "Why are you telling me this?"