"Brother Li, it's almost dark, why are you only just getting back?"
"I..." Li Zheng stared blankly at Qiu Yun's gentle face.
The scene he had imagined did not appear, leaving him at a loss.
"What do you mean 'I'? Hurry up and wash your hands, come and help."
After Ye finished speaking, she took Gu Xiaoran from Li Zheng and kissed him on the cheek.
Gu Xiaoran turned her face away. What's wrong with the adults today?
"Xiao Ran, I was wrong about yesterday. We're not outsiders, we're family." Ye's voice choked with emotion as she finished speaking, and her smile faltered.
It pained Li Zheng to see this.
“You're right, Madam,” Gu Xiaoran said cutely. “Madam just misses Aunt Shu’er… Hmm? Where did the carriage in the courtyard go?”
"They've been put on the ranch."
"You are not..."
"I'm not going. There's Xiao Ran and your two uncles at your house. I need to go and take care of them."
Gu Xiaoran's little head spun again. "Isn't it my uncle?"
“No, it’s my maternal uncle,” Ye said definitively.
Li Zheng's heart skipped a beat. Looking at Qiu Yun again, he saw she had already carried Gu Xiaoran into the kitchen.
"Xiao Ran, back then, the housewife asked the village oxcart driver to bring you a lot of peanut candy. Here, eat it quickly."
As she spoke, she stuffed a handful of peanut candy into Gu Xiaoran's hand, and then her voice choked with emotion.
Li Zheng followed her inside. Seeing Ye Shi's red-rimmed eyes, he reached out and pulled her into his arms. "Qiu Yun, what's wrong? Don't scare me."
"Brother Li, I'm fine. I just miss my daughter. Brother Li, can you tell me how Shu'er died?"
Li Zheng… So, she knew everything.
But how did she know? "Qiuyun, Shu'er, she..."
Clang...
Gu Xiaoran accidentally knocked over the porcelain plate on the stove.
"I...I'm sorry, I...I didn't mean to."
Li Zheng: "It's alright, we'll just buy another one if it breaks."
Ms. Ye's attention was not on the plate; she was eager to hear what Li Zheng had to say.
Gu Xiaoran had made a mistake and slunk out of the kitchen.
Li Zheng: "Shu'er, she..." He hesitated, unsure how to begin. "It was He Lin, he killed his daughter by mistake while trying to save her."
"He Lin, where is he?"
Enraged, Ye immediately rushed out of the courtyard.
But through the moonlight, all I could see were distant car silhouettes.
By this time, it was completely dark.
"He Lin, stop right there... You bastard, give me back my daughter..." Madam Ye chased after the carriage like a madwoman, but the carriage was getting further and further away from her.
Turning back, she hugged Li Zheng, her grief no longer suppressed.
"Brother Li, our daughter is so outstanding, why, why is God so unfair to her, why..."
"Qiuyun, we still have Xiaoran."
"Xiao Ran, where is Xiao Ran?"
Ye wiped away her tears and ran towards her home.
Not seeing Xiaoran, she suddenly felt a sense of panic.
Even if Gu Xiaoran doesn't appear for half a day, she doesn't need to worry.
"Maybe she went somewhere to play. Let's look for her again." Li Zheng was also uneasy. He searched every nook and cranny of the house, including the Qiu family next door, but there was no trace of Xiao Ran.
Without another thought, Li Zheng quickly went to the pasture, fetched a horse, mounted it, and sped off after the carriage ahead.
Fifteen minutes later...
He Lin sat inside the carriage, his heart unable to find peace for a long time.
"Your Majesty, are we leaving like this?" Zhan Yue asked from the front of the carriage.
"If I don't leave, what else can I do?" For him, being able to see Shu'er was already a great comfort.
"But, young master..."
Suddenly... Before Zhan Yue could finish her sentence, Li Zheng blocked her way.
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