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Chapter 146 Changes
"Call the car over here." Pei Qing turned around and ordered Yusu, Yusu just waved, and the big cart just now came over from the side.

Yushu helped Li Yan get into the car and followed closely. Pei Qing turned around and glanced at the boy curled up on the ground and the even more angry middle-aged man, and motioned to Jin Dou: "Let someone keep an eye on him quietly." Jin Dou Agreeing, Pei Qing got on the horse, glanced at the boy who was curled up tighter, and clicked the riding whip: "Take a few taels of silver and settle this matter."

The car moved very slowly, but it was much faster than Li Yan's own walking. Before Yushu could sit still, the car stopped at the door of a tailor shop.

Pei Qing was in front, Yu Shuxu supported Li Yan, and was greeted by the shopkeeper and two or three women, and entered the private room at the back. The women were busy with tea and snacks, beckoned to a row of little girls, and All kinds of skirts, long jackets, short jackets, short sleeves, and other various clothes were held up in front of Li Yan and Pei Qing.

Li Yan's interest moved to the clothes. She stood up and looked at this one and twirled that one. She almost didn't recognize the materials of these clothes, and she didn't know the meaning of the embroidered patterns. However, these were just small details. These clothes look very comfortable.

Li Yan has touched and twirled the ones, and the mother-in-law looked into Pei Qing's eyes, and quickly folded them up carefully. This master is really magnificent. The clothes in their shop, at least in terms of price, are the first in Yangzhou. A girl liked it, and this man bought it!

Li Yan touched a dozen pieces, clapped his hands and sat back, "We don't seem to be short of clothes." Li Yan looked at Yushu and Yushu sighed, "How can Missy have any clothes?"

Pei Qing laughed and signaled to her mother-in-law, "These clothes are pretty decent. Check them out and send them back to the boat first." The last sentence was for Yusu, and Yusu bowed her body to agree. Pei Qing stood up, "After all, it is a tailor shop. No matter how good the clothes are, that’s all there is to it, first respond to emergencies, and then buy again when you go back. It’s almost noon, and there are a few specialty dishes in the Yuelou next door that are not bad, go try it?”

Li Yan nodded, stood up, came out from the side door of the tailor shop, and walked past two shops, which was the most famous Deyue Tower in Yangzhou City.

After passing through Huanmen and entering the lobby, Li Yan immediately saw the boy with his eyelids drooping and huddled in the corner of the stairs. He was the same boy who was curled up in front of the middle-aged man just now.

Pei Qing also saw it, frowning and looking at Jin Dou, Jin Dou's face turned blue, Master ordered to stare at him quietly, didn't say to watch him and don't walk around, but Master's eyes...

Li Yan looked at the boy, frowning little by little. After looking at it for a while, he turned to look at Pei Qing, "Did you ask someone to give him money? How much did you give him?"

"Yes," Pei Qing was a little embarrassed, as for how much he gave... Pei Qing looked at Jin Dou, Jin Dou hurriedly stepped forward, and replied in a low voice: "Twelve taels."

The boy recognized Pei Qing and Li Yan a long time ago. Li Yan did not deliberately lower his voice. The boy could hear her questions and Jin Dou's answers clearly. He still lowered his head, and his hands were Clenched tightly, the whole person did not shrink in, but moved out. If he raised his head again, the whole person was in a posture ready to fight to the death.

Pei Qing narrowed his eyes slightly when he saw two small fists clenched and trembling from his toes tightly on the floor.

Li Yan looked at the boy, but he didn't seem to see the boy. He stood there for a while, then suddenly burst into a smile, and murmured, "That's right."

"What's the matter?" Pei Qing asked immediately, Li Yan turned his head to look at him, didn't answer him, touched his body once, then touched it again, then asked Yushu, "Where's that Yuchan?"

"Here." Yushu immediately took out from his sleeve pocket the variegated jade cicada that Chen Yanfeng sent over the next day, and handed it to Li Yan. He stretched out his hand to block it, and then pointed to the boy's clenched fist as a signal: "This kid is wild."

"It's okay, he's too scared." Li Yan took a step to the side, bypassed Pei Qing, and stood in front of the boy. Pei Qing hurriedly followed.

"What's your last name? How old is this year?" Li Yan bent down and looked up at the boy's face from below. Holding Li Yan, like a little beast protecting food.

Li Yan waited for a while, saw that he was just wary of her like a little beast with fried hair, and smiled, "You don't say anything. Take this jade cicada back and tie it around your brother's neck. This jade cicada If you don't leave your body, your brother's strange disease will not recur."

The boy's eyes widened with a look of astonishment on his face, "How do you know about my brother's strange disease? My brother..."

"Hold it well. Your mother's illness can't be cured, and it will only be a few days." Li Yan stuffed Yuchan into the boy's hand, took two steps back, and looked at Pei Qing who at least looked very calm and calm. , "Go upstairs or go to the back?"

Pei Qing didn't speak, just raised his hand to signal to go upstairs, Li Yan held up his skirt, and just stepped on a step, the boy looked up at Li Yan, and took a step forward, "My name is Ning Yutai, my brother is Ning Yufei."

Li Yan glanced back at him, smiled, and barely paused in his steps.Pei Qing followed her, winking at Jindou.

The waiter brought out a pot of chicken soup and handed it to Ning Yutai. Ning Yutai took it, carried it carefully, lowered his head and left Deyue Tower, heading back to the Guanyin Hall in the east of the city.

Jin Dou winked at his boy, who followed Ning Yutai from a distance.

After entering the private room upstairs and sitting down, Pei Qing couldn't help but looked at Li Yan and asked, "What did you see?"

"I don't know." Li Yan looked around the private room, looking very happy. Pei Qing was silent for a moment, and asked again, "You seem sad to see the restaurant just now. The newly opened restaurant is full of joy."

"There are too many grievances, and the death is too miserable." Li Yan stopped looking at the private room and looked at Pei Qing. She didn't intend to completely hide the changes in her body from him. It should be better to not hide it than to hide it.

Pei Qing's face changed slightly. Although he thought about it, hearing it so truthfully made his heart feel heavy instantly, and he didn't know whether to go up or down.

"I used to hear people say that most of the people who died in the fire were actually smoked to death, just like covering their mouths and noses and suffocating to death. Among the many ways to die, they are not too painful, and there are a few that are... It is to be burned to death. The fire burns to the clothes, then to the skin, and then to the flesh, from the outside to the inside. Only then can a person die. This kind of death is as miserable as being cut into pieces by a thousand cuts. He died in that room. Everyone in the restaurant was burned to death." Li Yan's voice was calm.

Pei Qing's expression was as usual, but his face was still slightly pale, "The fire was set by Song Ande, the nephew of Huainan Wang's side concubine Jiang Shi. He took a fancy to that restaurant, but the proprietor refused to sell it... It's so tragic. , karma cannot be escaped, right?"

(End of this chapter)