Chapter 17 Zhou Yunqing Returns

Xie Anci dragged Li Jinchen to a stall selling jade without saying anything.

"Sir, come and take a look at the jade." The vendor was immediately excited when he saw the two people dressed in extraordinary clothes.

Xie Anci picked up an emerald green jade hairpin on the stall. The hairpin was made to look like a bamboo and felt cold to the touch. The quality was not very good, but the shape was good.

"How about this?" Xie Anci handed it to Li Jinchen with great interest.

Li Jinchen was not very interested, "Whatever, anything is fine."

"Oh, sir, you have a good eye. This is the best quality jade in my stall."

"I won't charge you much, just one hundred taels, how about it?"

The vendor promoted enthusiastically.

Li Jinchen's eyes widened when he heard this. This jade hairpin of inferior quality actually costs one hundred taels?

How shameless.

"Okay." Xie Anci took out one hundred taels and handed it to the stall owner.

The stall owner's eyes were wide open. This man was really stupid and rich.

He made ninety-nine taels with tears.

"No, do you really want to spend one hundred taels to buy this?" Li Jinchen couldn't bear it anymore and quickly grabbed his hand.

"Oh, sir, this jade hairpin is worth the price, so don't hesitate." The stall owner was afraid that the duck in his mouth would fly away, so he quickly said.

"Well, I want the gift for you to be as expensive as possible." Xie Anci said calmly, but Li Jinchen was stunned.

Whether something is expensive or not depends on whether it is worth the price. Isn't Xie Anci being treated as a sucker by doing this? Xie Anci

handed the money to the stall owner. Li Jinchen stopped trying to persuade him, because he was not the sucker anyway.

The stall owner took the money quickly, fearing that it would run away.

"Thank you, sir, thank you, sir. Please come often." The stall owner grinned happily, wishing that there would be more customers like this.

Xie Anci had just bought the jade hairpin when it began to drizzle.

"It's raining?"

"Do you still want to go shopping? Go buy an umbrella." Li Jinchen suggested.

Xie Anci nodded and put away the jade hairpin first.

Neither of them noticed that a pair of eyes were closely watching their movements not far away.

Xie You seemed to be looking for trouble and tried to sneak over.

What he saw was his adoptive father and Li Jinchen chatting and laughing in a harmonious scene.

His heart suddenly felt as if it was stabbed by a needle.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and pedestrians scattered to avoid the rain.

A passerby bumped into Xie You, and the two lotus-shaped river lanterns in his hands fell to the ground.

"Hey! Don't stand here like a pillar, you

're getting in the way." "Is this guy a fool? It's raining so hard and he's not running away?"

Passersby looked at Xie You as if he was a fool.

Xie You lowered his head and let out a bitter smile from his throat.

He had wanted to come to find his adoptive father to release river lanterns together, but he was simply a joke.

"Hahaha..."

Xie You couldn't help laughing out loud, his voice full of suppressed pain and grief.

The rain hit his body, freezing cold.

But at this moment it was not even one ten-thousandth as cold as he felt in his heart.

He looked up in the direction where Xie Anci and Li Jinchen left, the light in his eyes gradually dimmed.

"Adoptive father..." He muttered to himself, his voice drowned out by the sound of rain.

Xie You slowly squatted down and picked up the broken river lantern on the ground. It was unclear whether it was rain or tears on his most beautiful face.

Xie You raised his head, his eyes became very firm again.

He didn't believe that Li Jinchen would have other thoughts about his adoptive father, otherwise his adoptive father would not have used such a despicable means to get Li Jinchen.

Now all this is an illusion.

Yes, it's all an illusion.

Xie You thought silently.

He is also half a relative of Xie Anci, and he will always follow his adoptive father, even if he hates him and is annoyed by him.

Xie Anci knew nothing about this, and the two came to the door of a shop selling umbrellas.

Xie Anci took out the jade hairpin in his arms and was about to hand it to Li Jinchen, when a man with tattered clothes and disheveled hair suddenly rushed towards Li Jinchen.

Xie Anci reacted immediately and kicked the man out with one foot. The jade hairpin in his hand fell to the ground and broke into several petals.

Xie Anci frowned unhappily. Where did this homeless man come from?

Why did he suddenly rush towards Li Jinchen?

Xie Anci looked over in confusion, but saw that Li Jinchen seemed to be frozen in place, staring at the person lying on the ground in a daze.

Xie Anci then turned his gaze to the homeless man on the ground, and his face turned pale when he saw the person clearly.

How could that person be a homeless man?

That familiar face, that face that Xie Anci would never forget until his death.

That person was obviously Zhou Yunqing!

Xie Anci trembled all over, not knowing whether it was because of the cold, anger, or too much surprise.

Zhou Yunqing actually came back to the capital?

What were those people he kept for? He couldn't even keep an eye on one person.

Xie Anci was furious, his heart full of anger and panic.

Li Jinchen also came to his senses at this time, and hurried forward to help Zhou Yunqing up.

Zhou Yunqing was covered in dirt and blood at the corner of his mouth, probably because Xie Anci had kicked him.

Zhou Yunqing was like a rag, paralyzed in Li Jinchen's arms, and had long passed out.

Li Jinchen stared at Xie Anci angrily, "Look at what you have done!"

Xie Anci shuddered, his lips trembled slightly, and he didn't know what to say.

He had brought Zhou Yunqing into a Nanfeng brothel in a remote town, and he had kicked him.

After reacting, Xie Anci wished he had kicked Zhou Yunqing to death.

Xie Anci thought viciously.

Why is Zhou Yunqing still haunting him?

He had clearly taken Zhou Yunqing to the northernmost tip of Aolong State, but how could this man find his way back to the capital?

"Your Majesty! How did you get out? You are..." Gu Lingyu saw Li Jinchen during his patrol, his eyes lit up, and he quickly got off his horse and walked over.

When he saw the person in Li Jinchen's arms, his face changed, and he felt both distressed and surprised.

"Zhou Yunqing! He...he is still alive."

Zhou Yunqing in Li Jinchen's arms was very thin, his face was pale without a trace of blood, and his pale face was full of dirt and blood.

Gu Lingyu could only recognize him with difficulty.

"Lend me the horse." Li Jinchen's face was full of anger, and he carried Zhou Yunqing onto the horse.

"Drive!" Li Jinchen rode away without looking back, without even glancing at Xie Anci.

Xie Anci seemed to be stunned, and the blood in his body turned cold.

He silently told himself to stay calm, but the sudden change still made him lose his mind.

"Hey! Wait for me!" Gu Lingyu was also worried about Zhou Yunqing, so he took a horse from his own men and followed.

Xie Anci sneered. Zhou Yunqing was like this, always easily attracting everyone's attention.

The rain hit his face, but he was unaware of it.

The broken jade hairpin on the ground reminded him that it seemed like just a beautiful dream.

When he woke up from the dream, everything was over.

The peaceful and harmonious relationship with Li Jinchen these days was just a dream.