Chapter 499: Tacit Understanding

Although they had agreed to meet at midnight, Jiang Lin and Qin Xiangnuan did not choose to stay in the inn. They quietly found a place to train.

This place is quite hidden, and Jiang Lin has people planted there who have never received any bad news, so it doesn't seem to have any problems at the moment.

"But there's something strange." Jiang Lin whispered to Qin Xiangnuan.

Qin Xiangnuan raised her eyebrows in confusion.

Jiang Lin had been in the army for so long that he knew that an army would be so loose if there was no leader, but that was not the case here.

"Isn't that general your man?" Qin Xiangnuan didn't know how Jiang Lin was placed in the army.

Jiang Lin shook his head. "That's someone from Gu Mingqi's mother's side. He's narrow-minded and arrogant. He has brute force but no brains."

"Gu Mingqi dared to let this person come here, just to show off." Qin Xiangnuan sneered.

"That's because he has no one else available." Jiang Lin was not surprised by Gu Mingqi's use of people in this way.

Qin Xiangnuan could understand it, and she also knew the reason why Jiang Lin was talking about it being strange.

"This place has been taken over by someone." Qin Xiangnuan said affirmatively.

"Let's leave here first." Jiang Lin discovered the problem and didn't want to stay here for long.

They had previously analyzed Gu Mingqi's death, but if they wanted to find out the whole story, they had to return to Beijing.

However, the people still didn't know about Gu Mingqi's death for such a long time. It seemed that the emperor didn't intend to tell the world. Qin Xiangnuan couldn't help but sigh that he deserved it.

"It's still early. Is there anywhere else we want to visit?" Qin Xiangnuan asked Jiang Lin.

Jiang Lin shook his head, "Just go to the temple and wait."

Qin Xiangnuan and Jiang Lin walked to the place agreed by the wine delivery man.

"It looks like people come here often?" Qin Xiangnuan reached out and touched the worn incense table, without leaving any dust between her fingers.

Jiang Lin walked around the small temple and found some relatively fresh food scraps.

"Nuannuan, be careful." Jiang Lin reminded.

Jiang Lin's care is actually unnecessary for Qin Xiangnuan, but Qin Xiangnuan always responds to Jiang Lin seriously, which can be regarded as a kind of affection between the two.

Just as Qin Xiangnuan was about to turn around, she suddenly noticed a place out of the corner of her eye.

"Jiang Lin." Qin Xiangnuan quietly took a few steps back and stood back to back with Jiang Lin.

The moment Qin Xiangnuan leaned against him from behind, Jiang Lin became alert and moved closer to her.

The two of them didn't speak after that. Qin Xiangnuan turned around and asked Jiang Lin to look in the direction she had just been looking.

Jiang Lin also had sharp eyes and noticed the abnormality in an instant.

"Nuannuan, let's go out first?" Jiang Lin said.

Qin Xiangnuan responded with a "OK".

But neither of them walked towards the door. Instead, they rushed to the place where the person was hiding and pulled away the things covering the other person.

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Jiang Lin and Qin Xiangnuan were both a little dazed and didn't understand the situation.

The cloth they saw belonged to a child, who had his eyes tightly closed, his hands covering his ears, and curled up, completely unaware of his current situation.

"Who are you?" The moment Qin Xiangnuan saw that it was a child, she inexplicably had an illusion that time was overlapping.

I still remember that they also met a group of children nearby at that time, but there should be no connection between the two.

The child at this time was obviously being taken care of. Although his clothes were not fancy, they were clean after all, and there was no dirt on his face and hands.

Qin Xiangnuan squatted right in front of the child, and her voice was not low, but the child still maintained his original state.

Qin Xiangnuan looked back at Jiang Lin, who could only spread his hands. It was obvious that Qin Xiangnuan was more adept at dealing with children.

"Don't be afraid, I won't hurt you." Qin Xiangnuan's assurance fell on deaf ears.

Helpless, Qin Xiangnuan could only reach out and pull the child's hands away.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Qin Xiangnuan touched him, the other party suddenly shrank back, but did not make any sound throughout the whole process.

Qin Xiangnuan had no choice but to give up.

"Do you think he looks familiar?" Qin Xiangnuan stood up and stepped back to Jiang Lin's side.

Upon hearing this, Jiang Lin stared at the child carefully, then shook his head.

Qin Xiangnuan also narrowed her eyes, and finally shook her head, telling herself not to have too much imagination.

"Since the other party asked us to meet here, this child must be related to him." Jiang Lin said.

Qin Xiangnuan nodded, but even so, they couldn't guess more.

"I'll try again." Qin Xiangnuan looked at the person with his eyes closed.

Since they appeared, the child must have been concentrating on closing his eyes. I wonder if he felt any pain.

"Can you hear me?" Qin Xiangnuan asked tentatively, "Do you want to eat something right now?"

Qin Xiangnuan used people's most instinctive needs to seduce the other party, and it really worked, because the other party's eyelids relaxed.

Since he is not so stubborn, Qin Xiangnuan has a way.

In fact, Qin Xiangnuan could completely ignore the existence of this child and wait for the person who delivered the wine to appear.

However, the other party looked so pitiful that Qin Xiangnuan couldn't bear to let him stay here in this state.

"What do you want to eat? Candied haws or roast chicken?" Qin Xiangnuan coaxed.

But the child's eyelids relaxed a little, only to close them tighter the next moment.

Qin Xiangnuan opened her mouth, but dared not speak anymore. The other party's defense was too strong. Qin Xiangnuan did not continue, but took Jiang Lin out of this place.

Qin Xiangnuan and Jiang Lin both saw that the child still did not move during the half hour they were away.

After that, the child began to move little by little, first slowly releasing his hands and opening his ears that were covered red.

Then he slowly opened his eyelids, revealing a pair of frightened eyes, but because he was not used to the light, he kept blinking.

Qin Xiangnuan didn't want to scare the child, but in order to see the child's situation clearly, she leaned forward and inadvertently made a little noise.

The child immediately returned to normal.

Qin Xiangnuan raised her eyebrows in surprise, and looked at Jiang Lin in silence.

After that, they kept waiting here with the child in almost the same posture. Half an hour before midnight, a few light footsteps were heard from not far away.

You can tell that the other person is deliberately slowing down his pace, and there is a certain pattern in his walking, which sounds quite pleasant.

Then they heard a little sound coming from the temple. It seemed that this was their special secret code.