"What? You mean, my third brother is also in the county now?" Yang Yongjin asked.

Chen Jinhong nodded, "Well, we found a private house in an alley over there to stay temporarily. If my second brother is free, he can come over to sit with us and talk to Yongzhi. We have no friends in the county.

…”

Chen Jinhong said, looking away, her eyes slightly red.

Yang Yongjin looked surprised.

"What about that? Is Yongzhi at home now?" he asked.

Chen Jinhong nodded: "When I went out to buy groceries, he was still sleeping, so he should be at home."

Yang Yongjin said: "Is the alley where you live far from here?"

Chen Jinhong shook his head, "No, it's just two streets away."

Yang Yongjin thought for a moment and then said: "Wait for me here. I'll go in and tell the manager of the restaurant that I'll come with you."

"Okay." Chen Jinhong said.

Yang Yongjin turned around and quickly entered the restaurant.

Looking at Yang Yongjin's back as he turned away, Chen Jinhong's lips curled up into a sneer.

Soon Yang Yongjin came out.

"Come on, take me to see my third brother." He ordered.

"good."

Chen Jinhong led the way with a low eyebrow and a basket on her arm, staring at her feet as she hurried on.

Along the way, whether you encounter hawkers, rouge and gouache shops, or handsome young men.

Chen Jinhong kept her eyes straight, hurried on her way, and looked cautious, just like a conservative and honest farm woman.

The habit of being flamboyant and ostentatious in the past seemed to have disappeared without a trace in just one month.

Yang Yongjin followed behind, but his eyes were secretly looking at Chen Jinhong, and he was secretly pleased with her current behavior.

As long as the third brother and sister change their minds, suffer some hardships, and then live a good life with the third brother.

After a few months and a year, I will join forces with my eldest brother and three uncles to go to my grandma to help beg for mercy, so that the third brother and his wife can go back to the village. It will be okay.

Just walking and thinking all the way, following Chen Jinhong around the streets and alleys.

Passing through the busiest streets in the county, we finally turned into an unusually dilapidated alley.

The bluestone slabs underfoot were uneven, and the alley was already narrow, with piles of debris piled on the walls on both sides.

In some places, you even have to turn sideways to cross.

"Second brother, be careful, don't fall." Chen Jinhong, who was leading the way, turned to warn Yang Yongjin behind him.

Yang Yongjin shook his head: "It's okay, it's okay, you can go your own way."

The two of them continued walking forward. The alley was very deep, as if it had no end.

Yang Yongjin looked at the rickety door frames and windows he saw along the way, and his heart was tightening one after another.

How did Third Brother and the others find this alley?

I'm afraid it's the lowest, worst, and dirtiest alley in the entire Wanghai County, right?

The people living here are probably only slightly better off than the homeless people under the bridge.

Even those low, yellow farmyards in Changping Village are cleaner and more spacious than this one.

Third brother, third brother, hey!

"Second brother, we're here."

Chen Jinhong's voice reached his ears again. Yang Yongjin raised his head and saw her standing in front of a thin courtyard door with fallen red paint.

"Oh, okay." Yang Yongjin responded, and then followed Chen Jinhong into the courtyard gate.

As soon as I entered, I was hit by a smell that was mixed with urine, rotten vegetable leaves, smelly socks and other odors.

The smoke made Yang Yongjin's stomach churn and he almost vomited.

"Second brother, are you okay?" Chen Jinhong turned around and came to Yang Yongjin's side, raised her hand to hold his arm, and asked with a worried look.

Yang Yongjin took a step back and took his arm back from her hand.

"It's okay, it's okay, which house do you and your third brother live in?" he asked.

Chen Jinhong raised her finger and pointed to the innermost room in the west wing, "Here, we live in that room. Second brother, come in and sit down."

The two people entered the house. The house was not big, as big as an old house in the village, but a curtain was pulled in the middle to separate it into two parts.

There is a small table in the front half, with two bowls and a teapot on the table.

In the corner, some simple daily necessities were scattered here and there.

There was half a room behind the curtain, and Yang Yongjin guessed it was where the young couple slept.

"Where is Yongzhi?" Yang Yongjin asked.

After Chen Jinhong entered the door, she closed the door and came to the table to pour tea for Yang Yongjin.

Hearing this, she pursed her lips and smiled, and said: "Second brother, come over and sit down and have a sip of tea. I'll call him up."

Yang Yongjin sat down as instructed and picked up the tea bowl, but did not drink.

When he got up in the morning, he hadn't had breakfast yet. He remembered that Bamei said that you are not allowed to drink tea with an empty stomach in the morning, and if you want to drink it, you have to drink a few sips of water.

Soon, Chen Jinhong came out from behind the curtain.

"It's strange. He was still sleeping and snoring when I left. Now he came back and there was no one on the bed?" Chen Jinhong said with a surprised look on his face.

Yang Yongjin put down his tea bowl, stood up and went behind the curtain.

The quilt on the bed was wrinkled into a ball, still retaining the same appearance as when I got up.

"Since the third brother is not here, I will come over to see him another day." Yang Yongjin said, turning to leave, but was stopped by Chen Jinhong.

"Second brother, it's rare for you to come here once. Don't leave in a hurry. You have to meet brothers no matter what. Yongzhi is talking about you, second brother, every day," she said.

Yang Yongjin hesitated and said, "But Yongzhi is not at home. I will come back another day."

Chen Jinhong said: "He should be back soon."

"Second brother, look at the door. When we came back just now, the door was not locked."

"This means that Yongzhi hasn't gone far. He might have gone to the nearby toilet, or he might have gone to the nearby streets to buy steamed buns."

"Is that so..." Yang Yongjin stood there, hesitating.

Chen Jinhong saw this and advised again: "Second brother, please sit down and wait for a while. If Yongzhi knows that you have come and left again, he will definitely scold me for not keeping you."

"Second brother, please, just sit down and finish your tea and wait for a while, okay?" Chen Jinhong put on a sincere look and begged.

Yang Yongjin really wanted to see Yang Yongzhi and ask him about his situation, so he sat down at the table.

Chen Jinhong also sat down and waited with Yang Yongjin, and took the initiative to strike up a conversation with him.

"Second brother, when did you come to the county town? I see that the name of the restaurant is also called Tianxiang Tower. Could it be that Qing'er opened a branch to the county town?" she asked.

Yang Yongjin nodded: "Yes, it will be opened after the Lantern Festival. Qing'er asked me to come over and take care of the restaurant's affairs."
Chapter completed!