Chapter 1245

For the sake of safety, when Laura decorated Fang's house, cat's eyes were also installed on the big iron door.

So Yan Ying just needs to stand behind the door and look out to see who it is.

The one who knocked on the door was not Fang Yuan, but a white haired old woman. She was turning back. It seemed that after knocking on the door a few times, she was ready to leave without waiting for someone to come out.

When she went to the front neighbor's door and turned right to push the door, there was a creak of opening the door behind her. Subconsciously, she looked back and saw Yan Ying coming out and asked, "were you knocking at the door just now?"

"Yes, yes, I'm knocking."

The old lady nodded again and again, with a formal and kind smile on her face: "just now I thought there was no one at home -- I'm sorry to disturb you, madam."

"It's all right. I was cleaning the house at that time. I didn't pay much attention to your knocking at the door."

Although the old lady wore very ordinary clothes and didn't look very good, she had a temperament beyond her own appearance (polite and talkative), which made Yan Ying have a great favor for her. She looked at her with a smile and asked, "aunt, do you live in the front yard?"

Yan Ying has lived here for more than ten years. Of course, she is very familiar with who the neighbors are and where she went later. The daughters of those neighbors (the neighbors where the Fang family is located, just a man around, and the others are daughters) are basically married to other places.

Childless neighbors have also left the old city for various reasons in more than ten years. Their houses are either listed for sale or rented to others.

This kind old lady is obviously not Yan Ying's former neighbor, but she wants to go into the former neighbor's house, so she is the tenant here.

"Yes, madam, I rent here."

The old lady quickly nodded and answered. She must be able to detect a certain vigilance from Yan Ying's eyes. Her waist instinctively bent down, with an obvious color of inferiority.

Slowly speaking, she looks like an old woman in her seventies and eighties. Even if she is thirty years younger, she will behave like this in front of Yan Ying, who exudes a noble temperament in her bones.

"What can I do for you?"

Yan Ying seemed to see what the old lady thought in her heart. She looked much more friendly.

"Let me, just think, think --"

The old lady closed her withered mouth tightly and bowed her head slightly before saying, "yes, madam, when I went for a walk in the park yesterday, I found some fresh shepherd's purse behind the forest and wanted to make dumplings -- ha ha, sorry, I didn't expect you to be here. I was going to ask Xia Zongxi if he liked shepherd's purse dumplings."

The best time to eat shepherd's purse is in March of the lunar calendar. Now it is the end of July of the lunar calendar. The midsummer has basically passed. Shepherd's purse in the wild has long been "old" and has basically lost its edible value. However, it is not ruled out that fresh Shepherd's purse will appear in the dark environment of the woods.

Yan Ying left queen Tang and lived in the wild mountains all year round. Even after the Mid Autumn Festival, she could occasionally find a piece of fresh shepherd's purse in the woods. Therefore, when she heard the old lady say she found the fresh shepherd's purse, she didn't think there was anything wrong.

She understood that the old lady knocked on the door to ask Xia Xiaoyun if she liked shepherd's purse dumplings. She didn't expect it to be her.

"I also just came yesterday. I'm Xia Xiaoyun's aunt."

After simply indicating her identity, Yan Ying smiled and asked, "aunt, are you familiar with Chu Ci?"

"I'm not familiar with Xia."

The old lady shook her head: "Xiaobing's kind child is president Xia's secretary."

Since Yan Ying always pays attention to her son, of course she knows who he usually associates with. Just think about it, she knows that Xiaobing mentioned by the old lady is Qin Xiaobing, Xia Xiaoyun's secretary.

She also knows that Qin Xiaobing has an old brother who is currently on Lihua mountain. Her parents, who are not in good health, are far away in the countryside of a province, but she doesn't know what the old lady has to do with Qin Xiaobing.

"I used to be a beggar. Xiaobing looked at me and took me home from the street."

Before Yan Ying could ask anything more, the old lady took the initiative to tell her relationship with Qin Xiaobing, shook a bottle of old vinegar in her left hand: "I didn't think so originally. After I went out to buy vinegar, I found that President Xia's door was not locked, so I thought she was at home. "

Yan Ying understood that she was grateful to Qin Xiaobing's old lady. After knowing that she was the Secretary of Xia Xiaoyun, her later neighbor, she wanted to help her "please" President Xia. Only then did she dig up what she thought was a rare shepherd's purse (in fact, shepherd's purse is available in the supermarket all year round, but it's all in a greenhouse, which is very different from the taste of shepherd's purse in the wild). She wanted to invite President Xia to eat dumplings.

"Summer always went to work."

Yan Ying walked out of the door and said, "in fact, I especially like shepherd's purse dumplings -- why don't we make dumplings together?"

"OK, OK."

The old lady didn't expect Yan Ying to "enjoy the face" like this. She was not only willing to eat shepherd's purse dumplings, but also offered to make dumplings together. She nodded and opened the door: "madam, come to my house."

Yan Ying smiled, walked over and followed the old lady into the front neighbor's house.

She wanted to invite the old lady to make dumplings at her own house, but then she thought that the current "richly decorated" Fang family could increase the old lady's psychological pressure, which would be boring.

Yan Ying took the initiative to "enjoy the face" to make dumplings at her neighbor's house, mainly because she saw the family photo and knew that her son was always thinking of her and was in a good mood.

As soon as Yan Ying walked into the front neighbor's house and saw the clean yard, she nodded slightly: even the people who clean the yard must be very hygienic, whether rich or poor.

As she imagined, it was still in the main house with cement floor. Although the furniture was old, it was clean. There was a chopping board on the table, on which there were already reconciled faces.

After the old lady asked Yan Ying to sit down, she went to the kitchen to get a clean apron. When she wanted to make tea for her, she was stopped by Yan Ying: "aunt, don't be busy. I'm not thirsty. Sit down, too. We'll chat while making dumplings. "

Of course, the old lady has no opinion on Yan Ying's proposal.

They were making dumplings and chatting -- of course, Yan Ying was basically asking, asking where the old lady came from, what she used to do, how she could live on the street and be taken in by Qin Xiaobing, etc.

The old lady naturally answered Yan Ying's seemingly random questions like Qin Xiaobing. When talking about her past bad experiences, she looked very calm except for her bitter smile.

It seems that she has completely put down the previous things -- when Yan Ying thought of here, she suddenly felt a burst of fatigue, subconsciously raised her hand, covered her mouth and yawned.

Although she got up late today and slept well, it was normal for her to feel a little tired near noon because of the sharp ups and downs of her mood last night.

The old lady saw that Yan Ying was not in good spirits, so she stood up and whispered, "madam, let me make you a cup of strong tea to refresh yourself."

"Then please."

Yan Ying rubbed her eyes with the back of her hand and answered with a sorry smile.

"No trouble. I'll go to the kitchen and see if the water in the thermos is still hot."

The old lady patted the flour on her hands and hurried out to the kitchen.

As soon as the old lady went out, Yan Ying yawned again. She felt sleepy and pressed her head down like a mountain, forcing her to ignore the flour on her hand. She supported her left elbow on the armrest of the sofa and closed her eyes with her left hand holding her cheek.

She wanted to take a nap while the old lady went to boil water and make tea, and then wake up.

In a short time, mother-in-law Bai, who claimed to be surnamed Bai, appeared in front of the door, but she didn't hold the teapot in her hand, nor did she see Yan Ying sleeping with her cheeks in her hand. She felt any strange, but smiled strangely and turned to the gate.

If Yan Ying could open her eyes and see that mother-in-law Bai was so agile when she walked, she would be surprised.

It's a pity that she has fallen asleep and can't see -- even less. Ten minutes after she fell asleep at most, a dark green pickup truck stopped at the door of Fangjia alley.

In the carriage, there are some water pipes, valves and other things.

This is a maintenance vehicle of the water conservancy department of the king of the Tang Dynasty. It is usually specially responsible for repairing water pipes and changing valves for households.

Two young men in light gray work clothes of the water conservancy department looked left and right after getting off the bus, winked at each other, took out a big backpack from the rear seat, and walked into Fangjia alley one after another.

When the two young men passed by the gate of the courtyard rented by Qin Xiaobing, one of them stopped, then stepped into the door hole, put his left ear on the crack of the door, listened attentively for a moment, and then gave a thumbs up to his companion, which meant that everything was normal.

Bang, bang, a young man came to Fang's house, raised his hand and gently knocked the iron door.

When he knocked on the door, his companion always looked back at the entrance of the alley and the front neighbor's door.

"Who?"

An old woman's voice came from Fang's yard.

"Repair the pipe."

The young man who knocked at the door stepped back and asked, "is the head of this family called Fangyuan?"

"Yes."

When the iron door opened, an old lady dressed in rustic but clean clothes appeared in the sight of the young people, looked at them up and down, and asked in some doubt, "are you a pipe repairer? Our pipes are not broken. "

The young man in the back took out a small book from his pocket, turned over a few pieces of paper and said, "at nine o'clock this morning, someone called our unit and said that the kitchen pipe leaked. Let's come and replace it."

"Is the kitchen pipe valve leaking? Why don't I know?"

The old lady frowned and dodged the door: "please come in and check first."

The two young men walked into Fang's house and looked up at the yard quickly, but they didn't go to the kitchen, but walked quickly to the north door.

"You, aren't you going to the kitchen?"

The old lady who had just closed the door saw that the two young people were acting abnormally, so she quickly caught up and asked.

"Take care of her."

The young man walking in front said, "don't let her disturb the neighbors."

He had no doubt about whether his companions could handle a white haired old lady who suddenly appeared in the Fang family (according to the information they had, the Fang family didn't exist, but they didn't care), just like crushing an ant with their feet.

He walked quickly to the door. When the young man raised his foot and kicked open the door, he had a short knife with a cold blade in his hand.

There was no one in the living room, and the doors of the two bedrooms were closed.

The young man went directly to the East bedroom door, kicked the door board again, and jumped in with an arrow step.

"Well, why is there no one?"

When the young man with a short knife didn't see the target, he frowned a little and talked to himself. When he was about to turn around and go to another room to find someone, he heard an unusually charming woman's voice behind him. He giggled and asked, "who are you looking for?"