"You … you all …" The man lying on the ground suddenly realized that his wife was acquainted with the owner of the inn. He viciously said, "Bitch, so you intentionally lured us here. So you were stealing a man outside."
Jinxin helped Jinxin to stand up, she was covered in blood, with each step she took she picked up the blade on the ground and forced it towards the man.
"Don't kill me, Jinxin, spare me, I, I promise I won't say anything, I promise …" The man was scared to the point of peeing, he hugged his head and curled up into a ball, "I was wrong, Jinxin, I was wrong …"
"It's too late, you bastard. Where are you going to touch your hand? Where are you going to touch your daughter?"
"I didn't, I really didn't …"
Jinxin screamed and rushed forward crazily. She stabbed the back of the man's hand with his blade and the man shouted in pain as if he was about to kill a pig. He wanted to push her away, but she pulled out her blade and stabbed it into his heart.
The man twitched twice and no longer made a sound. The entire inn became quiet.
Xiaowan stood on the third floor. The other day, when she was watching the fight between the Wu Lin gang and Susu, she and Susu were extremely shocked. But today, after seeing the Bloody Red Inn, the expression on her face was very similar to that of the usually calm Ling Chaofeng.
Ling Chaofeng carried her up horizontally. She reached out his bloodied hand and gently stroked Ling Chaofeng's chin: "I know, you will definitely protect me."
In the backyard, Susu was carrying Little Xuan. The Aunt Zhang indicated for her not to let her child go out, so she picked up her stone water basin and cloth, and headed towards the main hall.
Xiaowan went downstairs and followed the bloody footprints to Yunze's room. The weak woman laid on the bed and when she saw her, she revealed a gentle smile.
"Sister-in-law …"
weakly called out. Her heart trembled, immediately her eyes filled with tears, she quickly walked up, but Jinxin fainted.
"Jinxin!" The Xiaowan called out to her. Ling Chaofeng supported his wife and said, "Let her sleep for a while. She's tired."
Downstairs, Uncle Biao had finally returned. He did not go rent a carriage, but rather went to the mountain to pick some wild hawthorn stalks, intending to make candy for his child to eat.
Seeing the scene in the shop, he silently closed the door and cleaned the bloodstains together with Aunt Zhang. He wrapped the three corpses in straw mats and stacked them beside the firewood at the back door.
Not long after, the inn returned to normal. Apart from the faint smell of blood on the second floor, it was hard to tell that there had been a massacre here.
In the evening, Jinxin woke up. After she had bathed and changed into a clean set of clothes, she went to see her daughter.
Little Xuan used a handkerchief to give her a little mouse to scare her mother, and laughed: "Mother, I really like it here, there's delicious food, and there's even someone to play with with me, the big grandpa made me sweet hawthorn, it's delicious."
Jinxin laughed: "In the future, mother will cook delicious food for you everyday and play with you everyday."
Little Xuan asked, "Mother, where are father and grandmother? I'm not seeing them."
Jinxin said worriedly: "They don't want us anymore. Little Xuan, are you willing to follow mother?"
The little girl stared blankly. A six year old child, she knew a lot of things, but she was still a child in the end. She wouldn't think about whether or not her grandmother and father had met with an accident.
However, she understood that since she was separated from her grandma and father, no one would ever hit her mother again.
"Don't want them." Little Xuan said, "I only want mother, I will be fine with mother."
She heaved a sigh of relief as she hugged her daughter and fondled her petite body lovingly. When she looked up and saw Ling Chaofeng and Xiaowan standing there, she wiped her tears and said embarrassedly: "I've troubled you guys."
"Little Xuan, Auntie will bring you to eat delicious food." Xiaowan thought that his husband and his childhood sweetheart should have something to say, so she trusted Ling Chaofeng. Jinxin was also a strong woman, so he was naturally at ease.
Little Xuan was not afraid that her mother would get beaten up, and was happy to follow Xiaowan. She even charmingly asked, "Aunt, why should I call you Aunt?"
Hearing that, Jinxin asked Ling Chaofeng: "You told her, do you take me as your little sister?"
Ling Chaofeng nodded: "Always."
Jinxin laughed helplessly: "It's just that you are, and I am not, but …. We are not fated to be together.
Ling Chaofeng frowned and asked: "I only know that you're already married, how could you be married to someone like me?"
Jinxin laughed coldly: "I was blind."
In the great hall, Little Xuan was pressing her head against Xiaowan's stomach and asked curiously, "Is Aunt going to have a baby? Aunt, my grandma always asks my mother to give birth to my little brother. If my mother could give birth to my little brother, my grandma wouldn't beat her up. "
Xiaowan rubbed Little Xuan's head and said gently: "It's grandmother's fault. Even if your mother didn't give birth to your brother, she still shouldn't be hit. Little Xuan, little sister, little brother, even you are your mother's precious baby. Other people can like you, but no one has the qualifications to despise you. "
The little guy did not seem to understand and grinned. "Anyway, no one else will hit my mother."
Upstairs, Ling Chaofeng did not linger, and quickly followed.
Uncle Biao made hawthorn ducks, Zhang Luo and his family ate dinner, the whole family sat around them, and although three people had died in the tavern today, it seemed as if nothing had happened.
But when they were eating, the door suddenly rang. He thought that Da Qing was here to pick him up, but when he opened the door, he walked into Constable Li and his subordinates.
Jinxin's body trembled, her expression immediately changed as she pulled her daughter into her embrace.
"You have guests?" However, Constable Li smiled and said, "Manager Ling, I'm here to ask for money."
Ling Chaofeng slowly unfurled the scroll and revealed a smile. He turned around and said to his family: "That brat, the Awareness Source, is a document sent by the imperial government."
The Constable Li laughed: "The Lord Prefect asked me to come immediately to congratulate you. I'm afraid you guys don't know yet, but it seems like I came the right way. Your inn is truly an impressive place. I estimate that next year, there will be a top scholar appearing here. When we get back, you guys can change your name to the top scholar tower. "
The Uncle Biao said that they were currently on duty and could not drink. The Aunt Zhang then said: "How late do you think it is for you to be in town? It's only a trip back to the Li Prefecture, you can't be at ease in the middle of the night. I immediately went to get a room. Several officials are staying in the inn for the night. I have always been under your care and have never entertained you properly before. "
Ling Chaofeng also said: "The Li Prefecture is too far, Brother Li, let's leave tomorrow morning."
Jinxin nervously hugged her daughter. The three corpses were still stacked up at the back door, they would need to keep the officials to stay for the night. How great would that be if they found out that she had gone to save her daughter's life, leaving Little Xuan for someone else to take care of?
"It's fine." Xiaowan held Jinxin's hand gently and smiled confidently, "Hubby, he will make the arrangements."
Jinxin froze for a moment, then stiffly nodded her head.
That night, the Fast Catcher stayed in the main rooms on the south side of the second floor. After cooking a few more dishes, the officials were all drunk and carried upstairs to sleep.
On the other hand, Jinxin brought her daughter to live in Ershan's room in the backyard. Just now, Ling Chaofeng told Constable Li that she was the niece of the Uncle Biao and had come to visit him.
Xiaowan didn't know if the corpses were still piled at the back door, but she wasn't afraid at all. She lied on the bed and thought about everything that had happened today, and very quickly, Ling Chaofeng returned.
"Still awake?" Ling Chaofeng leaned on the side of the bed and asked lovingly, "Did I scare you today?"
Xiaowan shook her head: "With you here, what am I afraid of? Besides, this is not the first time that someone has died in our inn. "
Ling Chaofeng laughed: "I don't know if it's good or bad for you to be so indifferent to life and death."
Xiaowan caressed his face and said, "Of course it's good."
Ling Chaofeng laid down and hugged his lovely wife in his arms. The attitude that Xiaowan had during these two days made him feel extremely gratified, but it was not at all a pleasant surprise, because in his heart, late at night was always like this.
"Master, Jinxin is really good-looking." Xiaowan said as she raised her head to look at her husband. "As for me, I will compare myself to her. Which one of us is prettier?"
Ling Chaofeng deliberately looked at it carefully. Xiaowan pouted and said angrily: "You still have to think about it, Ling Chaofeng. Have you grown some skills?"
Ling Chaofeng said: "Don't you already have the answer?"
"That's my answer, too. What about you?" Xiaowan crawled up and sat on his body, domineeringly holding his face, "Quickly tell me, which one of us is prettier?"
However, Ling Chaofeng frowned, and coughed dryly: "Where are you sitting, are you doing this on purpose?"
The Xiaowan wriggled her fart. Ling Chaofeng didn't dare to press the Xiaowan down on the bed anymore so he could only lift her up and put her down. He covered her with a blanket and said hatefully, "If you continue to provoke me, I won't be polite anymore."
Xiaowan was fearless: "You dare?"
Ling Chaofeng said: "Take every note, once you're done, we will slowly calculate."
Xiaowan smiled weakly, as gentle as water. "Master, kiss me once, okay? Just once."
Ling Chaofeng kissed her as if he was kissing her, but then said angrily: "What should I do now, why are you so evil?"
With the gentle help of the Xiaowan, Ling Chaofeng finally resolved the "trouble". The happy occasion in his room was naturally not something that could be told to others, and with this peaceful night, although there were a few people from the yamen who lived in the shop, everything was peaceful.
In the morning of the second day, Uncle Biao made the sobering wine soup and wrapped a few bags of salted pork. After breakfast, Constable Li and the others left.
When Ling Chaofeng sent it out, the Xiaowan asked the Aunt Zhang, "Why didn't you give me the money?"
The Aunt Zhang laughed: "The current silver is too much of an eyesore, shopkeeper has a sense of propriety."
She only saw Jinxin walking in from the back door. Her face was pale from fright as she timidly asked, "Th-how did they … It's gone? "
Xiaowan laughed: "They have been taken away, rest assured, at this time, I am afraid that they have already turned to dust."
Jinxin nodded her head in a daze, but still felt it was inconceivable. She had come to the inn right away, she knew that unless she died, she would only be able to survive if she came here.
When Ling Chaofeng returned, the girls were no longer in the store. Aunt Zhang came in with a bucket of water to wipe the floor, and said to him: "Xiaowan and Jinxin are at the back door well. Susu and Little Xuan will go with my son to pick up the chestnuts."
Ling Chaofeng walked towards the back door. Beside the well, Jinxin was using his sleeves to wash the replaced pillow towel, while Xiaowan sat at the side to give her the soap horn. Jinxin said: "I was willing to marry him, but now that we are married, everyone has changed. Actually, I was able to endure the fact that they treated me badly. However, they did not even let their child go.