Chapter 218 Life is like a play (14)
No one paid attention to when Qin Ji left.
Finally Lian returned to the west courtyard holding Wen Chan in one hand.
Many people from the theater troupe in the courtyard have already gotten up and are packing their things.
Seeing Zhong Lian coming back with a woman in his arms, he looked confused.
But five of them have already met Wen Chan.
The outrageous feelings between the two of them have been accepted for a long time.
Two of them were sent by Wen Chan to monitor.
"You are back. Da Mao and I stayed up all night yesterday! We need a salary increase!"
"Humph, your bonus is gone and you still want a salary increase!" Zhong Lian snorted coldly.
"Why?" Da Mao was puzzled.
"Who told you to say that last night?" Zhong Lian lifted the box into his yard.
It was these few who acted strangely there yesterday, making him embarrassed in front of Cicada!
Wen Chan jumped off him.
“What did you hear?” She found a place to sit down in the yard.
Er Mao still wanted to fight for his bonus, but he replied to Wen Chan first, "Yesterday the mayor went to the little girl's house. I don't know what we talked about. The door was closed in the back room. I couldn't hear. The whole family and the mayor We chatted until midnight. After the mayor left, I heard those two people. A parent said that he would give the little girl some sleeping pills tonight to avoid having too many dreams. "
"How can such a parent be so shameless!"
Wen Chan remained silent and looked at Da Mao again.
Da Mao scratched his head and said, "I'm okay with that. After I got back, his parents held him and cried, coaxing him all night long, saying they would never have that kind of thought again."
< br>"Is everything going to be fine with this family?"
Wen Chan was noncommittal.
After a moment of silence, he said: "Let's wait until night."
"You can wait slowly, we are ready to pack up and leave."
Da Mao is already closing the box
Don’t even think about using them as free labor!
"Where are you going?" Wen Chan glanced at them
"The performance here is over, of course we have to leave here." Er Mao said.
Wen Chan said nonchalantly: "Oh, you go, your boss will stay here."
Everyone: "?"
It happened that Zhong Lian left the room When he came out, everyone turned their attention to him.
"Zhou Lian, aren't you leaving?" someone asked.
“Let’s go!” Zhong Lian responded.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, "Let me just say, how could you give up this great cause of ours because of a woman? Right? This woman is a bit pretentious, haha."
Zhou Lian said with a straight face: "I mean, I want to go with Cicada! Your bonus this month is gone too!"
The person who spoke: "..."
"Hmph, a bunch of singles."
Zhou Lian sat down next to Wen Chan, grabbed her hand and played with it.
"Cicada, leave them alone. If they want to leave, they can leave. I will always be with you."
Wen Chan leaned on his shoulder and said, "You are so kind."< br>
These three words were said by Zhong Lian before. Now that they were spoken from Wen Chan's mouth, a strange feeling spread throughout Zhong Lian's limbs.
Instantly the waist straightened.
Cicada praises him for being good, then he is really good!
Zhou Lian couldn't help but burst into laughter, "It's okay for Cicada! We are both good, but they are bad!"
Others: "?" Are you sick?
“You really don’t want to leave?” Da Mao asked, “The mayor won’t come to drive us away soon, right?”
Speaking of this, Wen Chan thought of something, "Are you sure the mayor invited you here?"
Da Mao looked puzzled, "otherwise?"
Wen Chan asked: "He What did you say at that time? "
"What else can you say? Just invite us to perform for three days and give us a lot of gold and silver jewelry." "Wen Chan? Raise an eyebrow.
"Yes! It's worth a lot in money! It's all at Zhong Lian's place. He said he would go back and change it into money to pay wages. Where is the money!"
Facing Da Mao's question, Wen Chan also turned his attention to Finally pity the body.
"Where's the money?"
Zhou Lian blinked and yelled at Da Mao: "It's not like I won't give it to you! Why are you in such a hurry!"
Turn around and face him again Wen Chan whispered: "Cicada, I'll get it for you."
After saying that, he stood up and kicked Da Mao, and then ran back to the room to get the reward.
After a while, he came out carrying a cloth bag.
"Cicada, it's all here."
Zhou Lian squatted on the ground and opened the cloth bag. The treasure inside flashed so hard that Wen Chan's eyes hurt.
There are a lot of them, and they all look like antiques from the past. They can indeed be sold for a lot of money.
But even if a grass stage opera troupe is really capable, it's not worth so much if it only performs for three days, right?
Wen Chan now had an idea and blurted out: "Did you throw your children up the mountain?"
Why did she think this kind of thing should only be obtained by those who threw their children up the mountain? of?
Aren’t most of those people just getting a bunch of gold, silver and jewelry out of nowhere after losing their children, and then they get rich?
Hearing Wen Chan's words, Zhong Lian raised his head and looked at the other people in the yard.
Others immediately said: "What are you looking at! We are all singles, you don't know! Where did our children come from?"
Zhou Lian: "..."
He looked away and looked at Wen Chan innocently, proving with his expression that they had never done such a crazy thing.
Wen Chan picked up a gold lamp on the ground, held it in his hand and looked at it.
This gold does not look very pure, probably because of the previous era, when the extraction technology was not so good.
Wen Chan suddenly thought that the big Buddha in the Buddhist hall in the north courtyard was also a golden statue.
For a mayor, his family is so rich that it would be too extravagant to build such a large Buddha statue of pure gold to worship at home.
Wen Chan was silent for a while and said seriously: "If I am not wrong, you probably won't be able to leave."
Everyone was shocked, "What do you mean?"
Wen Chan He threw the gold lamp back into the pile of jewelry and patted the dust on his hands. "If you take someone else's money to buy your life, you will die if you leave this town."
"???"
Still don't understand, why is this money to buy life?
Wen Chan stood up and ordered: "Go and keep an eye on the Buddhist hall in the north courtyard, ah... if you encounter Qin Ji, don't start a conflict, stay on your own."
"Again Go to the two people and stare at the other two people in the east courtyard, and then find the two If you are good at it, look for the mayor's whereabouts. If you find him, just follow him. If you can't find him, forget it."
"Not sisters..." Someone in the crowd said dissatisfied: "Use us as guards. What?”
"Zhong Lian is your chief internal manager, we are not wailing!"
Wen Chan lowered her eyes and glanced at Zhong Lian, who was still squatting on the ground, looking up at her.
The boss's eyes were wide open, and the expression on his face was confused, like a big dog that didn't know what to do and wanted to be accompanied.
Wen Chan reached out and touched his head and smiled, "What kind of chief steward? This is my beloved concubine!"
She pulled Zhong Lian up and held her in her arms , and then pointed at the others, "If you don't obey, I will drag you all down and behead you!"
Everyone: "..."
She also had a great time acting.
But she looks like a fool now.
Everyone was silent for a while, and finally began to move slowly. As they left one by one, they were still shouting, "Remember to add money!"
Wen Chan couldn't hear this.
He immediately bent down to collect all the treasures on the ground and stuffed them back into Zhong Lian's arms, "Take them back and hide them, and pay them to me when it's all over."
If you just look at the numbers, Wen Chan is still considered young now. Have assets. But putting aside exchange rates and prices and talking about figures is just playing hooligans!
It would be a big mistake if the points in her hand were approximately equal to Zimbabwe dollars.
Anyway, the more money, the better.
It is impossible to give the money out of her hands again!
…
As the sun was about to set, Wen Chan was ready to take Zhong Lian out.
Before leaving the compound, one of the brothers who had been assigned to keep an eye on people came back.
“Those two people went to the little boy’s house, and they were so noisy that when I came back, they were almost starting to fight.”
Wen Chan and Zhong Lian looked at each other.
No surprise.
Qin Ji had also predicted that this would happen before.
“The two of you went to the same restaurant together?” Wen Chan asked.
The little brother nodded, "Yeah!"
"It seems they are cooperating." Wen Chan raised her eyebrows.
She and Qin Ji "isolated" the three of them when they came up. It was normal for them to join each other to keep warm.
It’s better to go to the same one so that the other one can speed things up.
“Let’s go hiking!”
Wen Chan dragged Zhong Lian and ran out.
The more noise they make, the more anxious the other family will be.
I heard from Da Mao Ermao that the little boy's family no longer planned to leave him in exchange for money. Now they went to choose the little boy's house to inquire about the situation. It was basically a false alarm.
Pang Yue and Yang Qiao didn't know why the child ran away from home and why they asked the theater troupe for help.
If you go there without knowing anything, others will think you are going there just to ridicule them.
Especially the unconscionable thing of losing a child in exchange for money, I don’t want others to know about it.
However, Pang Yue is not a person who can endure it, so the possibility of a fight between the two parties is too high.
It's a pity that Wen Chan doesn't have time to go to the theater now, otherwise she really wants to join in the fun.
When Pang Yue and the others are making trouble here, the people on the other side who really want to lose their children will definitely be very anxious, fearing that they will be found next.
When the time comes to make this matter a big deal, their life in the town will be difficult.
After all, among these people who are still in the town, which one is not doting on their children?
Although pampering will not make you rich, it is also a beautiful thing for the family to enjoy themselves.
Thrown away as soon as they are born, they have not yet developed feelings, and they can only gossip behind their backs.
If you raise them so big and throw them away, their backbones will be broken.
After all, it has been seven or eight years, and raising a beast is full of emotions, let alone one's own biological child?
It would be even more embarrassing to go to the mayor.
So the best choice is to throw it away while everyone's attention is not on their home, and then leave the town overnight, waiting for the opportunity to make a fortune.
When the time comes, the mountains are high and the rivers are far away, who will come back to this idle town?
Who would know the history of their fortune?
The neighbors will only think that they are rich people.
…
Climbing a mountain in the evening is not a wise choice.
As night falls, the surrounding environment becomes more and more gloomy.
Looking up from the foot of Doll Mountain, you can always see some cardboard boxes and toys and clothes on both sides of the road, messyly turned over by unknown things, and exuding a disgusting smell.
Wen Chan held Zhong Lian's hand, and the higher he went, the louder the smell became.
The smell is so bad that it makes your head dizzy and you are not in the mood to think about other things.
I don't know if it was the sound of wind or the cry of a baby in my ears, but it was particularly eerie and scary.
"Cicada."
Zhou Lian, who was being pulled by Wen Chan and had been following her, suddenly shouted softly.
Wen Chan looked back at him, "What's wrong?"
This look made her subconsciously hold Zhong Lian's hand tightly.
I don't know if she was confused by the smoke, but she always felt that the final pity behind her was empty and real, like a dream, and would dissipate at any time.
Zhou Lian also held Wen Chan's hand, and the strength in his hand gave her some real feeling.
"It smells wrong here." he said.
Wen Chan pulled him towards her and put her arms around his waist, "I can feel it."
The feeling in her arms made Wen Chan sigh in relief. He was not a phantom. , others are still around you.
She hugged him so actively, which made Zhong Lian very happy.
"Let me cover your nose, let's go."
He chuckled and picked up Wen Chan before she could react.
He let her sit in his arms like a child, and freed one hand to cover Wen Chan's nose.
Wen Chan did not refuse. Regardless of whether this method worked or not, at least the two of them were so close to each other now, so there would definitely be no drama like one of them disappearing suddenly.
She hugged Zhong Lian's neck, put her head against it, and asked in a low voice: "Is this corpse odor?"
"Huh?" Zhong Lian turned his head and glanced at her in confusion, "Cicada Can't Cicada tell the difference? Haven't you ever smelled it? It must be the case! There are so many babies thrown away on the mountain, there must be a smell."
In Zhong Lian's impression, it's not like Wen Chan doesn't know the smell of corpses. What kind of person does it taste like.
Wen Chan lowered his eyes and said nothing.
She just smelled it and distinguished it too clearly, so she wondered why the smell was like this.
The usual corpse odor is nothing but stinky. This smell is also mixed with a subtle...sandalwood?
Yes, that’s what it tastes like!
“Let’s go!” Wen Chan suddenly patted Zhong Lian and ordered him as a mount.
"Oh." Zhong Lian didn't know why, but he still hugged her and ran up the mountain.
The smell got stronger the further I ran, and the sandalwood scent mixed with the rancid smell became stronger.
Wen Chan asked seriously: "Did you smell it?"
Zhou Lian was confused: "What?"
"..."
How could he still smell such a strong smell? Ask these two words?
Wen Chan reached out and poked his nose——
I didn't feel his breathing at all!
“You’re holding my breath again!” She grabbed Zhong Lian’s cheek with her backhand.
“It hurts, it hurts—Cicada~” Zhong Lian’s cheeks wrinkled up in pain, “But it really stinks.”
Wen Chan: “I I can't bear it!"
Zhou Lian looked pitiful, "I helped you cover your nose."
Wen Chan: "..."
Haha, isn't this a kind of love?
She kicked her legs and said, "Put me down!"
Zhong Lian hesitated for a while, originally holding her with one hand, she hugged her with both hands instead, and she hugged her even tighter. .
“I can’t hold my breath anymore. Can’t I just smell it? Let me hug you.”
It feels more realistic to hold it.
He felt the same as Wen Chan. As soon as he came in, he had the illusion that the other person was going to disappear.
He didn't want to let her go.
He was afraid that Wen Chan would disappear as soon as he let go.