Chapter 218 Life is a Play (14)

No one cared when Qin Ji left.

Zhong Lian returned to the west courtyard holding Wen Chan in one hand.

Many members of the opera troupe in the compound had already gotten up and were packing up.

When he saw Zhong Lian coming back with a woman, he was confused.

However, five of them have already met Wen Chan.

They have accepted the outrageous relationship that came about unexpectedly between the two of them.

Two of them were surveillance cameras sent out by Wen Chan.

“You guys are finally back. Damao and I stayed up all night yesterday! You deserve a raise!”

“Hmph, you already have your bonuses gone, and you still want a raise!” Zhong Lian snorted coldly.

“Why?” Damao was puzzled.

“Who told you to say that last evening?” Zhong Lian carried the box to her yard.

It was these few people who were acting weird yesterday and made him lose face in front of Chan Chan!

Wen Chan jumped off him.

“What did you hear?” She found a place to sit down in the yard.

Ermao wanted to fight for his own bonus, but he still responded to Wen Chan’s words first, “The mayor went to the little girl’s home yesterday. I don’t know what they talked about. The door was closed in the inner room, so I couldn’t hear it. The whole family and the mayor talked until midnight. After the mayor left, I heard the two parents say that in order to avoid more trouble at night, they were going to feed the little girl some sleeping pills tonight and send her up the mountain.”

“It’s totally heartless! How can parents be like this? Ugh!”

Wen Chan said nothing and looked at Damao again.

Da Mao scratched his head. “My case was not so bad. After I got home, his parents hugged him and cried. They coaxed him all night and said that he would never have such thoughts again.”

“Is this family supposed to be alright?”

Wen Chan remained noncommittal.

After a moment of silence, he said, “Wait until night.”

“Just wait for your time. We are going 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 performances here are all over, so of course we have to leave,” Ermao said.

Wen Chan said indifferently: “Oh, you guys go, your boss will stay here.”

Everyone: “?”

Zhong Lian happened to walk out of the room, and everyone’s eyes were on him.

“Zhonglian, you’re not leaving?” someone asked.

“Let’s go!” Zhong Lian responded.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. “That’s what I said. How could you give up our great cause just for a woman? Right? This woman is a little too sentimental, haha.”

Zhong Lian said with a straight face: “What I mean is that you should go with Chan Chan! You will lose your bonus this month too!”

The person who spoke: “…”

“Humph, a bunch of singles.”

Zhong Lian sat down next to Wen Chan, grabbed her hand and played with it.

“Don’t worry about them, Chanchan. 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 nice.”

These three words were all said by Zhong Lianai before, and now when they came out of Wen Chan’s mouth, a strange feeling ran through Zhong Lian’s limbs and bones.

Instantly, my back straightened.

If Chanchan praises him, then he is really good!
Zhong Lian couldn’t help laughing out loud, “Chan Chan is good too! We are both good, they are bad!”

Others: “?” Are you sick?
“Are you really not leaving?” Da Mao asked, “Will the mayor come and chase us away soon?”

Speaking of this, Wen Chan remembered something, “Are you sure you were invited by the mayor?”

Damao looked puzzled, “What else?”

Wen Chan asked: “What did he say at that time?”

“What else can I say? They just invited us to come and perform for three days and gave us a lot of gold, silver and jewelry.”

“Gold, silver and jewelry?” Wen Chan raised his eyebrows.

“Yes! It’s worth a lot of money! It’s all with Zhong Lian. He said he would exchange it for wages when he got back. Where’s the money?”

Facing Damao’s questioning, Wen Chan also turned her attention to Zhong Lian.

“Where’s the money?”

Zhong Lian blinked and yelled at Damao, “It’s not like I won’t give it to you! Why are you so anxious?”

She turned around and whispered to Wen Chan, “Chan Chan, I’ll get it for you.”

After saying that, he stood up and kicked Damao, then ran back to the room to get his reward.

After a while, he came out carrying a cloth bag.

“Cicada, they are all here.”

Zhong Lian squatted on the ground and opened the cloth bag. The treasures inside were so bright that Wen Chan’s eyes hurt.

There are quite a few of them, and they all look like antiques from a long time ago, so they can indeed be sold for a lot of money.

But a makeshift opera troupe, even if they have some talent, can’t be worth so much if they only perform for three days, right?
Wen Chan now had an idea and blurted out, “Did you abandon your child on the mountain?”

Why did she feel that this kind of thing would be obtained by those who abandoned their children on the mountain?
Aren’t most of those people just getting a bunch of gold, silver and jewelry out of nowhere and then becoming rich because after they lost their children?
Hearing Wen Chan’s words, Zhong Lian looked up at the other people in the yard.

Others immediately said, “What are you looking at! We are all single, you know that! Where did our children come from?”

Zhong Lian: “…”

He retracted his gaze and looked at Wen Chan innocently, using his expression to prove that they had never done such a cruel thing.

Wen Chan picked up a golden cup on the ground and looked at it in her hand.

This gold doesn’t look very pure, probably because it’s from a different era and the extraction technology wasn’t that advanced back then.

Wen Chan suddenly thought of the big Buddha in the Buddhist hall in the north courtyard, which was also a golden statue.

It is too extravagant for a town mayor to have such a wealthy family to build such a large Buddha statue with pure gold and worship it at home.

Wen Chan was silent for a while, then said seriously: “If I’m not mistaken, you probably can’t leave.”

Everyone was shocked, “What do you mean?”

Wen Chan threw the golden cup back into the pile of jewels and patted the dust off her hands. “If you take someone’s money to buy their life, you will die if you leave this town.”

“???”

I still don’t understand, why is this the money for buying life?
Wen Chan stood up and ordered, “Go and get a few people to keep an eye on the Buddhist hall in the north courtyard. Ah…if you run into Qin Ji, don’t get into a conflict. We are on the same side.”

“Two more people will keep an eye on the other two people in the East Courtyard, and then find two skilled fighters to look for the mayor’s whereabouts. If you find him, follow him. If not, forget it.”

“We are not sisters…” Someone in the crowd said dissatisfiedly, “You are treating us as guards?”

“Zhong Lian is your chief eunuch, but we are not!”

Wen Chan lowered her eyes and glanced at Zhong Lian who was still squatting on the ground, looking up at her.

Its eyes are wide open and its face has a confused expression, as if it doesn’t know what to do and it just wants a big dog to be with it.

Wen Chan reached out and touched his head, and laughed, “What Grand Chamberlain? This is my beloved concubine!”

She pulled Zhong Lian up, hugged her into her arms, and pointed at the others, “If you don’t obey, I’ll drag you all away and behead you!”

Everyone: “…”

It also made her feel good about acting.

But now she looks like a tyrant.

Everyone was silent for a while, and finally slowly started to move. As they left one by one, they were still shouting, “Remember to pay more!”

Wen Chan couldn’t bear to hear this.

He immediately bent down and collected all the treasures on the ground and stuffed them back into Zhong Lian’s arms. “Take them back and hide them. Give them to me after this is over.”

If we only look at the numbers, Wen Chan is now considered to have a small fortune. But if we talk about the numbers without considering the exchange rate and prices, it is just a hooligan!
It would be a rip-off if the points she has are roughly equivalent to Zimbabwean dollars.

Anyway, the more money the better.

It is impossible for her to give away the money she has earned!

…

As the sun was about to set, Wen Chan prepared to take Zhong Lian out.

Before leaving the compound, one of the brothers who had been assigned to keep watch came back.

“Those two people went to the little boy’s house and had a huge fight. When I came back, they were almost at the point of fighting.”

Wen Chan and Zhong Lian looked at each other.

No surprise.

Qin Ji had predicted that this situation would occur before.

“Did they both go to the same restaurant?” Wen Chan asked.

The younger brother nodded, “Yeah!”

“It looks like they are cooperating.” Wen Chan raised his eyebrows.

She and Qin Ji “isolated” the three of them right away, so it was normal for them to stick together for warmth.

It’s better to go to the same store so that the other one can speed up.

“Let’s go climb the mountain!”

Wen Chan grabbed Zhong Lian and ran out.

The louder the noise they make, the more anxious the other family will become.

I heard from Da Mao and Er Mao that the little boy’s family no longer planned to exchange him for money. If they went to the boy’s family now to inquire about the situation, it would be like stepping on a landmine that would easily set off a fire.

Pang Li and Yang Qiao didn’t know why the child ran away from home and why he asked the opera troupe for help.

If you go there without knowing anything, others will think that you are there to mock them.

Especially this kind of conscienceless thing of wanting to abandon a child for money, I don’t want other people to know about it at all.

But Pang Li is not a man who can endure it, so the possibility of a fight between the two sides is very high.

It’s a pity that Wen Chan doesn’t have time to watch a play now, otherwise she would really like to join in the fun.

While Pang Li and the others are making a fuss here, the people on the other side who really want to lose the child will definitely be very anxious, fearing that they will be the next one to be found.

If this matter gets out of hand, their life in the town will be difficult.

After all, among those who are still staying in the town, who among them does not dote on their own children?
Although spoiling your child won’t make you rich, it’s also a good thing if the family is happy and harmonious.

She was abandoned right after the birth, before any feelings were developed between them. At most, people would gossip about her behind her back.

If you raise them to this age and then throw them away, their spines will be broken.

After all, it has been seven or eight years. You will have feelings for an animal, let alone your own child?

It would be even more embarrassing to bring the incident before the mayor.

Therefore, the best option is to throw it away when no one’s attention is on their house, then leave the town overnight and wait patiently for the opportunity to make a fortune.

By then, the mountains are high and the waters are far away, who would come back to this desolate town?
Who knows their history of success?

Neighbors will just think they are rich.

…

Hiking in the evening is not a wise choice.

As night fell, the surrounding environment became more and more gloomy.

Looking up from the foot of Wawa Mountain, you can always see some cardboard boxes, toys and clothes on both sides of the road, which are turned upside down by unknown things and emit a disgusting smell.

Wen Chan led Zhong Lian, and the higher they went, the stronger the smell became.

The stench is so bad that it makes people dizzy and they have no mood to think about other things.

I couldn’t tell if it was the sound of the wind or the crying of a baby, it was particularly eerie and creepy.

“Cicada cicada.”

Zhong Lian, who was being pulled by Wen Chan and following her, suddenly shouted softly.

Wen Chan turned around and looked at him, “What’s wrong?”

This sight 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 presence behind her was illusory, like a dream, and would disappear at any time.

Zhong Lian also held Wen Chan’s hand, and the strength of his hand made her feel some reality.

“It doesn’t smell right here,” he said.

Wen Chan pulled him towards her and put her arms around his waist, “I can feel it.”

The feeling in his arms made Wen Chan breathe a sigh of relief. He was not an illusion, he was still by her side.

Zhong Lian was very happy that she took the initiative to hug him.

“I’ll cover your nose for you, let’s go.”

He chuckled and picked her up before Wen Chan could react.

He held her 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 now, there was no chance that one of them would suddenly disappear.

She hugged Zhong Lian’s neck, put her head close to him, and asked in a low voice: “Is this the stench of a corpse?”

“Hmm?” Zhong Lian tilted her head to look at her in confusion, “Can’t you tell the difference between a cicada and a cicada? Haven’t you smelled it? This must be it! So many dolls have been thrown on the mountain, there must be a smell.”

In Zhong Lian’s impression, Wen Chan didn’t seem like someone who didn’t know what the stench of a corpse smelled like.

Wen Chan lowered her eyes and said nothing.

She had smelled it before and could tell it apart very clearly, so she was wondering why the smell was like that.

The usual stench of a corpse is just stinky, but this smell is mixed with a subtle hint of… sandalwood?
Yes, that’s the taste!

“Hurry up!” Wen Chan suddenly patted Zhong Lian and used him as a mount.

“Oh.” Zhong Lian didn’t understand, but still carried her and ran up the mountain.

The further we ran, the stronger the smell became, and the scent of sandalwood mixed with the rotten smell also became stronger.

Wen Chan asked seriously: “Do you smell it?”

Zhong Lian was puzzled: “What?”

“…”

With such a strong smell, how could he still ask these two words?

Wen Chan stretched out her hand and poked his nose——

I couldn’t feel his breath at all!
“You’re holding your breath again!” She grabbed Zhong Lian’s cheek with her backhand.

“It hurts, it hurts, it hurts—chanchan~” Zhong Lian’s cheeks wrinkled up in pain, “But it really stinks.”

Wen Chan: “I endured it all!”

Zhong Lian said pitifully, “I covered your nose for you.”

Wen Chan: “…”

Haha, isn’t this a kind of love?

She kicked her legs, “Put me down!”

Zhong Lian hesitated for a while, and changed from holding with one hand to holding with both hands, and hugged even tighter.

“I won’t hold my breath anymore. Can’t I just smell it? Let me hug you.”

It feels more real when held.

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 once he let go.