Cute But Brutal Wife
Chapter 405: Jujube
By the time Chu Luo and Li Yan's helicopter landed in Green City, which was over 100 kilometers away from the northwest desert, it was already the next morning.
The temperature in Green City was actually higher than in the capital.
Li Yan's subordinates had long since prepared a place for the two of them to stay. It was an inconspicuous brick house with a large jujube tree outside.
It just went through the jujube maturation season. No one picked jujube on this tree, and they were already half-dry dried jujube.
Chu Luo walked up to the jujube tree and stared at the jujube on it. He said to Li Yan, This “Jujube is maturing very well.
After saying that, he licked his lips greedily.
Li Yan tilted her head to look at her small actions. A trace of smile flashed across his eyes as he asked, “Do you want to eat?”
As there were many bodyguards standing beside him, Chu Luo humbly nodded.
Li Yan jumped down and plucked two jujubes from the tree.
Chu Luo looked at the jujube in her hand with her sparkling eyes and reached out to pick it up.
Li Yan gestured for her to wait with her eyes. He wiped one of them with his hand and bit him.
Chu Luo looked at his expression and saw him chewing and swallowing slowly. He asked anxiously, “Is it delicious?”
Li Yan looked at him with her dark eyes and was about to speak.
Chu Luo could not wait anymore. He turned around and bit the jujube again in his hand.
Later then…
“Ah, pfft, pfft, pfft... Very acidic!”
Li Yan smiled faintly and said to the bodyguard standing at the side, “Bring me a bottle of water.”
Water was immediately brought. Li Yan took it and opened the bottle cap for Chu Luo.
Chu Luo took a few sips of water to remove the sour taste from her mouth. He complained to Li Yan with a bitter expression, “Why don't you react when it's so acidic?”
Li Yan took water from his hand and took a sip of two sips before holding his hand and walking in. “It's not too acidic.”
Chu Luo looked at him with bright eyes that said, “I don't believe you.”
“No wonder no one is picking from the jujube tree at the moment. So that's an acid jujube. The owner of this page should wait for this jujube to dry naturally on the tree before lowering it for other purposes.”
At this point, Chu Luo suddenly thought of a jujube cake and swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
Li Yan seemed to have guessed what she was thinking and said, “I'll ask someone to make you a jujube cake later.”
“Hehe, okay.”
The courtyard in the northwest was square-shaped, and the brick houses looked like they were from the seventies or eighties.
The people Li Yan had brought were already arranged to stay in the nearby house.
Chu Luo asked Li Yan, “So many of us live here. Will others find us?”
“No,” says Li Yan. “When the first wave of people came, I asked them to buy a house nearby.”
Chu Luo was relieved.
They both went in. The decor in the house was very simple, and there were very few pieces of furniture.
Li Yan asked Chu Luo, “Do you want to rest?”
“No.”
After Chu Luo finished speaking, she saw that Li Yan had asked the bodyguards to take her laptop. Knowing that he had something to pay attention to, he said, “I'll come out and see him.”
“Oke, don't go too far.”
Since this place had already been purchased, Li Yan was not worried that someone would appear in front of him.
“I know. I'll take a walk around. ”
As Chu Luo spoke, she walked out.
This is a village. In the distance, smoke can be seen coming from the chimney on the roof.
Chu Luo stood by the side of the road and looked at it for a while before walking slowly to the side.
The winter morning sunlight was warm and illuminated his body. Chu Luo walked for a while and saw two children playing in the mud on the edge of the waterless canal in the fields. He stopped and looked at them for a moment.
At this moment, a child who had shaved off all his hair except the small part in the middle, which was tied into a small ponytail, said in an arrogant tone, “When my father came back from making money this time, he said that he would take me to the city to buy a remote control plane as big as me. I really wish my dad could come back early.”
Chu Luo deliberately studied this dialect for seven to eight hours on the way here. He understood all the children's words.
Another child with a trace of snot on his nose immediately said, “I heard from my father that your father will not return.”
“Omong empty. My father said that he will be back in a few days.”
“Betulkah. I heard from my father last night that your father shouldn't have taken that group of people to that desert. Desert weather is not normal this year, and there are frequent sandstorms. Once people enter, they will most likely be eaten by that sand beast.”
The Little Horse Tail Child panicked and pushed the Beringus Child.
Pushed into the canal, Snotty Kid starts crying.
Little Horse Tail Child stood in the canal with his hands on his waist and said angrily, “I won't play with you anymore. How dare you speak ill of my father.”
With that, he ran away crying.
Chu Luo looked at the child who had fallen into the canal and wailed. He thought for a moment and walked over to lift her up and place her on the street.
Snotty Kid looked up and immediately forgot to cry.
After a while, she asked, “Are you Sister Fairy?”
Chu Luo nodded seriously. “Yes, I'll ask you some questions. You must answer me correctly.”
“OK,” Snotty Kid replied loudly.
Chu Luo asked in satisfaction, “Where did the father who left the child go?”
“Why did he go there?”
“Someone from the city came to find someone to take them to the desert. They gave Lu Lang's father a lot of money.”
“Do you know what kind of person came to look for Lu Lang's father?”
“I know.”
The child explained to Chu Luo what kind of person that came down to look for Lu Lang's father was. Although the description was a little abstract, Chu Luo still heard useful information.
“You said one of the people looking for Lu Lang's father was wearing nice clothes?”
Chu Luo took out her phone and showed the child a costume photo of an ethnic group. “Is that person wearing such a costume?”
“Ya, right it.”
The boy said that this was a costume from Southern Xinjiang. The clothes from Southern Xinjiang are all very bright, and there are a lot of accessories there.
Chu Luo was almost certain that there was Master Gu among these people.
He put down his phone and asked, “You just said that your father said that Lu Lang's father will not come back. How does your father know?”
The child was stunned by Chu Luo's question. After all, he was only six or seven years old. Adults won't tell her much. Maybe he knew about this matter by accident.
Chu Luo did not continue asking. Instead, he asked, “Where is your home?”
“There.”
There was a house behind some trees to the west that might be a kilometer or two away.
Chu Luo nodded and asked, “What is your name?”
“My name is Iron Egg[1].”
“…”
This name is really earthy!
Chu Luo said, “Iron Egg, come back. Don't play outside alone. Also ... do not tell anyone that you have seen me.”
“Why?”
At this moment, Iron Egg wished everyone in the village knew that she had seen the legendary Fairy Sister.
“Because I'm a fairy. I can't tell a lot of people. Otherwise, I won't show up again.”
Iron Eggs are worried. “I won't tell anyone then. Sister Fairy, will you show up again?”
“It depends on whether you comply or not.”
“I comply.”
“OK, back then.”
“Mm, mm.”
Tricked by Chu Luo, Iron Egg obediently ran towards his house.
Chu Luo watched the child run away and thought that when the time came, she would have Li Yan send someone to ask. Maybe he can get some useful information.
Chu Luo walked on the road for a while before returning.
He had just walked into the courtyard when he smelled the sweet and sour aroma of the jujube cake.
Chu Luo quickly entered and happened to see a bodyguard putting a steaming plate of jujube cake on the table. Li Yan said to him, “Call Luoluo back.”
“Ya.”
The bodyguard turned around and saw Chu Luo walking to the door. He greeted her and left.
Chu Luo walked in, picked up her chopsticks, and ate a piece of jujube cake.
The sweet, sour, and tender taste instantly conquered his tongue and made him squint at pleasure.
Li Yan looked at him from the computer screen.
Chu Luo asked him, “Do you want to eat?”
“I don't eat.”
When Chu Luo heard this, she immediately gave him half of her food and looked at him with her sparkling eyes. “This is very delicious. Tryin. Just one bite.”
Li Yan looked into his eyes and finally opened his mouth to eat half of it.
“How is it? Is it delicious?”
Li Yan did not answer him, but his expression was extremely silent.
Chu Luo poked her arm in dissatisfaction. “If you don't answer, I'll find it delicious too.”
Li Yan glanced at him and pointed at the tea on the table.
Chu Luo gave him tea.
Li Yan drank it before saying, “It feels too nauseating.”
Chu Luo: “...”
Is this guy so fed up with this cake that he won't talk?
Chu Luo glanced at him awkwardly and sat down to eat.
As he ate, he told me what he heard outside.
In the end, he said, “I suspect that the one who found the people in this village as guides in the desert was from the Qin family. That Gu teacher is also inside.”
“Mm, I'll ask someone to investigate.”
Li Yan called someone and instructed him on the matter.
After that person left, Chu Luo put down her chopsticks and rubbed her chin while thinking. “This place is at least more than 100 kilometers away from XX Desert. Isn't it a bit strange that there are desert guides in this village?”
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[1] special version of soy eggs