It was precisely because that guard recognized the original owner at first glance that he said to her, "You are still so kind-hearted."
Perhaps thinking of his own identity, he only said this one sentence before leaving with the children.
The original owner was left completely bewildered, unable to understand the meaning of those words or recall where he had seen him before.
As Xiao Yunying recalled this, she remembered that Luo Chen and the others used to dislike the original owner very much. Could it be because of this?
The original owner meant well but did something wrong, mistaking several children for beggars, touching their sore spots and hurting their self-esteem.
Given Luo Chen's initial personality, it's highly likely he'll hold a grudge.
People are like this: when faced with a stranger with a bad first impression, they have no patience to understand the person's true character and personality because they have already labeled the person in their mind, which leads to them unconsciously carrying prejudice no matter what the other person does.
Luo Sheng didn't disturb her reminiscing about the past. He silently filled in the soil and then went to weed the surrounding area.
Xiao Yunying continued to recall the original owner's memories, and suddenly slapped her thigh and said, "I remember how the original owner recognized Shi Sheng."
That was when the original owner went to the Western Hills to pick various flowers to make tie-dye. She was so engrossed in picking flowers that she was almost bitten by a snake. It was Shi Sheng, who happened to be hunting on the mountain, who saved her.
When he used his light-footed skill to catch the snake, the handkerchief in his arms fell out and was seen by the original owner. At the time, the original owner only felt that the embroidery on the handkerchief looked familiar and did not pay much attention to it.
Her entire attention was focused on the shyness of being rescued by a hero; it wasn't until she got back that she remembered the handkerchief looked like one she had embroidered when she was a child.
After the original owner remembered, she went to ask the guard, but the guard probably didn't dare to admit his identity because he had a mission to complete, so the original owner asked him about the handkerchief.
When it came to the handkerchief, Shi Sheng couldn't come up with a suitable lie for a moment, and stammered goodbye. His guilty look made the original owner of the body conclude that this person was the little beggar she had seen when she was a child.
It has to be said that Luo Sheng is really good-looking, and with the added bonus of being a hero who saves a damsel in distress, the original owner of this body fell in love with him.
After learning that Shi Sheng's wife had passed away, she decided to marry him.
The original owner of this body was somewhat stubborn and willful; once she made up her mind, no one could change it.
Some ideas, once formed, cannot be easily dispelled.
She felt that it was fate that they met again after going around in circles, and she didn't mind that Shi Sheng already had a wife and several children.
She only recognized that he still carried the handkerchief she had given him when he was a child, which meant that he still cared about her.
Actually, when she first had this idea, she went to find Shi Sheng and only asked him two questions.
Are you Shi Sheng?
Will you marry me?
Shi Sheng hesitated, neither refusing nor agreeing. He couldn't admit his identity because he knew the responsibility he had borne at the time; he couldn't provide the original owner with a comfortable life.
He must have been thinking about it, so he couldn't directly refuse.
He only said, "I can't drag you down," and then left.
It was this sentence that made the original owner believe that he was willing to marry her, probably because his family was poor and he had several children, so he said he was afraid of being a burden to her.
It was from that time that the original owner became convinced of her own ideas and insisted on marrying Shi Sheng, refusing to listen to anything Xiao Shan Hai and Mu Lian Rong said.
Because she was afraid that her family would look down on Shi Sheng because he had once been a beggar, she didn't tell anyone about it. As a result, her family thought that she was bewitched and had inexplicably fallen in love with a poor widower with a child in tow.
Luo Sheng cleared away the weeds around her, shoveling them far away. When he came over, he saw her listlessly playing with the withered grass.
“I just thought about it. Some of the people sold by human traffickers are not from legitimate sources. They may be beggars who have been abducted from other places. Such beggars are rarely reported to the authorities for help. You said that he suddenly disappeared when he was a child, so it is highly likely that he was abducted.”
Xiao Yunying thought for a moment and agreed, "That's probably it, otherwise he wouldn't have left so suddenly without even saying goodbye."
As she spoke, she remembered something else: even Shi Sheng's name was given to him by the original owner of the body.
The original owner hadn't received much education and was quite young at the time. Knowing that he had no parents and no name, he casually said, "Just pretend you were born of a stone, how about calling yourself Shisheng (Stone-Born)?" It sounded like he had a tough life.
Despite it being a joke, Shi Sheng has kept the name to this day.
Xiao Yunying sighed, plucked a dry blade of grass and twirled it around her hand: "Life is unpredictable, fate is cruel. Your love story could fill a novel, but it had a tragic ending..."
Luo Sheng didn't understand what she was saying: "What are you forcing me to do?"
"It's a bad ending, but it's not entirely a bad ending. We scholars say that even if both die, it's still a happy ending."
Luo Sheng was even more confused and looked at her with a puzzled expression.
"If you don't understand, that's fine."
Xiao Yunying stood up and said to the grave, "I have buried you together. If there is truly reincarnation, I hope you can be reborn in a peaceful era, into a good family, so that you can meet again, get to know each other, and live a happy life together."
After she finished speaking, she looked around and noticed that the weeds around the grave had been cleared away. She patted Luo Sheng on the shoulder with satisfaction: "Well done, I'll give you a treat when we get home."
She threw the shovel and cushion back into the supermarket, made sure nothing was left behind, and went down the mountain with Luo Sheng.
When they got home, they found that Luo Li had already returned.
Xiao Yunying glanced at the sky: "Why are you back so early today? Where are your older brothers?"
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