Day and night tour

Chapter 51 Embroidered Shoes

Yuan Buyu was cleaning the stove, wondering why Zhou Xuan's psychic abilities had improved so quickly?
"The faster the progress, the stronger the spiritual connection, and the more severe the side effects of pain will be. But seeing how energetic he was just now... maybe..."

Yuan Buyu suddenly thought of something and stopped sweeping the broom. She was stunned for a long time before she muttered to herself, "As a sister... I really love my brother!"

……

Red Lantern Alley.

The name of the alley gives people an ambiguous reverie - at night, small red lanterns are hung, and pretty women in cheongsams stand in the alley, charmingly waving their fingers at passers-by: "Uncle, play for a while..."

It's okay to have fantasies. This alley has been renamed. It was formerly called Pi Tiao Alley.

But now the beautiful scenery is gone, and there are only restaurants where people eat and drink.

Zhou Xuan drove Yu Zhengyuan to the middle of the alley, stopped the car, and urged, "Big Brother, don't sleep! How do we get to the alley now?"

"Huh? Is it time to eat?" Yu Zhengyuan was sleeping so soundly that he was suddenly woken up, and his brain hadn't started up in time.

"Isn't this just sleeping and eating? You're even more dissolute than me?" Zhou Xuan patted the car window and said, "Wake up, which house in the alley does that big-toothed guy live in?"

To put it bluntly, a broker is an intermediary, and to put it nicely, it is called an agent.

Yu Zhengyuan finally started the car normally, looked around the houses and stores, confirmed the location, pointed to the front and said, "Drive further ahead. There is an old man basking in the sun at the door. Just stop by him."

Zhou Xuan started the car and teased Yu Zhengyuan: "Big Brother, you brought me here to work, is it to teach me how to do business, or is it because I can drive?"

"You are lucky to be riding in a car. If I were to ride in a rickshaw, my waist would be broken..."

After parking the car, Yu Zhengyuan went to the trunk to get the gift for the visitor. He looked completely different, without any more miserable look of a sickly middle-aged man. He walked with his head held high, and his temperament instantly improved.

Yu Zhengyuan didn't rush to visit, but stood at the door and reminded Zhou Xuan: "The broker in this room is called Feng Xigui, the 'Bailiff' of our Pingshui Prefecture. He has a hand in controlling all dignitaries. You must be polite when you see him..."

After an enthusiastic explanation of the business world, Yu Zhengyuan gently knocked on the door with the copper door knocker.

Pa~pa~pa~
After three rings, the door opened and a middle-aged man with a slicked-back hair, wearing a black jacket, and with excellent looks and temperament walked out.

"Boss Feng, I haven't seen you for more than two months. You look better than the last time I saw you."

"Manager Yu, you're too polite. You called my home this morning and I didn't dare go out. I have some good tea waiting for you at home... Come in and chat. By the way, this young man is quite impressive. Who is he?" Feng Xigui pointed at Zhou Xuan and asked.

Those who work as dentists all have bright eyes and sharp vision.

Yu Zhengyuan found the key point and quickly introduced Zhou Xuan to Feng Xigui: "Zhou Xuan, the young master of our Zhou family class..."

"That's a distinguished guest, please come in!" Feng Xigui bent down and made a gesture of invitation.

Zhou Xuan stood there without moving.

Feng Xigui still had a smile on his face, but he was thinking in his mind - he didn't even move after being invited, could it be that this young man wanted to show off in my house?

"Boss Feng, you've been too worried lately. You should go to the pharmacy to get some medicine to relieve your depression..."

"Hmm?" Feng Xigui's eyes changed when he looked at Zhou Xuan. He had indeed been worried and troubled in the past six months, which were related to his eldest daughter and youngest son.

But Feng Xigui had never talked about this matter with outsiders, nor had he told Yu Zhengyuan. How did Zhou Xuan know about it?

Yu Zhengyuan didn't remember that Zhou Xuanneng was able to read faces, and thought he had said something wrong, so he hurried to apologize to Feng Xigui, but was stopped by the other party.

Feng Xigui said to Zhou Xuan solemnly: "Young Master, you have good eyesight, but my worries are all about family matters, so don't bother talking about them... Please come in."

The three of them went into the inner room.

The furnishings in the house are exquisite. On the mahogany eight-immortal table is a white plum vase. The vase is elegant in shape and has smooth lines, which makes people feel comfortable when looking at it. The rest of the furnishings in the house are the same, which shows that Feng Xigui is a thoughtful person. Feng Xigui loves to smoke. The eldest brother came to the house to build a relationship with this "toothless man". Although he can't smoke, he also smokes as a token of his gratitude.

The two of them started chatting, mainly about the recent bad economic situation and the need to help each other.

Zhou Xuan felt bored listening to this, and his eyes involuntarily glanced out the door to look at the trees in the yard, to see more green, and to relax his eyes.

After just a few glances, suddenly, a little boy of five or six years old staggered in and hurriedly held Feng Xigui's hand.

"Dad, my sister is back... Go pick her up... She's back."

"Good boy, Luo'er. Dad is here talking to a guest. Go play in the yard. We have some new katydids. They chirp beautifully..."

"No, my sister is back, you go pick her up...you go pick her up?"

"Let's have some fun!"

Feng Xigui seemed to be so angry that he couldn't hold back his temper. With guests present, he couldn't control his demeanor. He stood up and roared into the yard: "Mother Yun, Mother Yun...Take Luo'er away. I'm here to talk about something."

An old lady in a short shirt hurriedly trotted into the house, scolding as she ran: "Oh, my young master Luo, I was just washing vegetables and you came in to disturb me..."

Without saying a word, Yun's mother forcibly hugged the little boy in her arms and walked out of the house. After the child struggled hard, he bit Yun's mother's arm.

"Ouch."

Yun's mother was old and lacked strength. It was already very difficult for her to hold the moving baby, and then she was bitten hard, so how could she hold on any longer?

The little boy broke free, ran to Feng Xigui, grabbed his father's pants tightly, and cried loudly: "Wa...wa...go get my sister...go get my sister...wa..."

The crying sound of a baby due to the strong force of sucking milk will make people who don't have a temper become angry.

Moreover, Feng Xigui was furious. He grabbed the little boy's ear viciously and scolded him, "You talk about your sister every day! I've told you many times that your sister will never come back. Did you hear me clearly? She will never come back!"

The little boy grimaced in pain, but he didn't protect his ears with his hands. With a stubborn spirit, he took out a pair of embroidered shoes from his pocket and handed them to Feng Xigui: "Look... these are my sister's shoes. She is in the outer courtyard and doesn't dare to come in, so I asked you to get them!"

"Take your mother's hammer!"

Feng Xigui looked at the little boy's empty hands and finally couldn't bear it anymore. He slapped his little son in the face and knocked him to the ground.

The embroidered shoes that the younger son could see but his father could not, also fell to the ground.

Staring at the clear red fingerprints on his youngest son's face, Feng Xigui slapped himself hard in the face, looking depressed. He squatted on the ground, blaming himself extremely.

He sighed for a full minute before he hugged his youngest son into his arms, his tone filled with so much sadness that tears could flow out, and he said,

"Luo, your father loves your sister, but your mother loves her even more. She has been looking for her like crazy for the past six months. She first searched all over Pingshui Prefecture, then Guangyuan Prefecture, and now Mingjiang Prefecture. Whenever she heard news about your sister, she would get on the train and go there...

...But your sister won't come back, maybe she is...dead."

When talking about the word "death", Feng Xigui's teeth were chattering. In the past six months, he asked someone to find a fortune teller to tell his fortunes for him several times, and each time the hexagram he deduced was extremely bad, with a chance of death and no chance of survival!

"His sister is indeed back..." Zhou Xuan squatted beside the embroidered shoes.

The embroidered shoes had a black bottom, black edges, and a pink color with a peony embroidered on it.

snap,

A drop of blood,

It drips on the peony flowers for no reason...

(End of this chapter)