Chapter 64: Where is Home? Meng Yao Appears
Seeing that Shang Yuwan didn't care about her granddaughter's disrespect, the coroner Li realized that she was a person who didn't like false formalities and was easy to get along with, so he also put away his usual humble and submissive attitude towards dignitaries.
"Liu Mengyao? The child is in the backyard, and someone is guarding him. What does the adult want him to do now?"
"Liu Ziqi's death may be related to him. I want him to look at Liu Ziqi's body and speak the truth."
Coroner Li felt the corner of his clothes being tugged. He paused for a moment, "This... may not work."
Shang Yuwan pretended not to notice the little movement of the girl beside Li the coroner, and asked quickly: "But what's wrong with that child?"
"That child, he..." Li, the coroner, was a little embarrassed to speak, "He, he has already been..."
"Liu Mengyao is already my child husband! If you want to use him, you have to ask my opinion first!"
The girl finally couldn't hold back any longer and jumped out, her hands on her hips, her furry little head raised high, the pink beads on her head trembling slightly.
"Without my permission, you are not allowed to have any ideas about my child-raising husband!"
Shang Yuwan: “?”
Coroner Li: “…”
Shang Yuwan squatted down and asked with interest: "My name is Wan'er, the Wan in Sang Yufeiwan. What's your name?"
"My name is Li Chi, which means late in spring! I'm grandpa's granddaughter!" The girl had two small buns on her head, and she looked like a big rooster that woke up early in the morning, full of energy, and looked very proud and confident.
Shang Yuwan asked again, "Liu Mengyao was imprisoned in your backyard just yesterday. How come he's now your child husband? Did you exchange tokens?"
Li Chi pouted, "I don't have a token."
There are regulations regarding marriage in Dayu. A man and a woman must exchange a token of love to make a lifelong commitment. This also applies to child brides and child husbands. Otherwise, the commitment will be considered invalid.
"Um, sir, my granddaughter..." Coroner Li tried to save his face. He could see that Liu Mengyao was not a simple child, and he didn't want Chi'er to get involved.
Shang Yuwan hummed, raised his eyebrows and spread his hands, "Then you lied to me."
Li Chi was so anxious that he almost jumped up: "I don't have it! I, I have this!"
Under the sun, the girl hurriedly lifted her sleeve, revealing a fresh bite mark. The bite mark had stopped bleeding and was still slightly purple-red, a stark contrast to her fair skin.
"Look! Do you know what this is?!"
Shang Yuwan was stunned, and his thoughts were instantly pulled back to memories from long ago.
[Ah! You dare to bite me?!]
"What's wrong with biting you? Do you see the bite mark? A pact made by biting an arm cannot be broken. From now on, you belong to me, Shang Yuwan!"
[…I’m sick.]
Shang Yuwan suddenly chuckled.
Li Chi's face flushed red. "Don't laugh at me! This is the Arm-Gnawing Pact! Do you know the Arm-Gnawing Pact? It's the one Madam Lu Xu was talking about!"
Lu Xu is Shang Yuwan's biological mother, how could she not know about the Arm-Biting Alliance?
When I was little, my mother told me about a woman in her hometown who was an amazing storyteller. Every story she wrote was brilliant and acclaimed for years. In one of her stories, she particularly liked the "Arm-Biting Pledge," a poignant oath.
The "arm-gnawing pledge" refers to a vow between a man and a woman, a promise of eternal love. I really like this kind of pledge, and I think it's a brilliantly ingenious way to describe the two protagonists' romantic journeys in this book.
Shang Yuwan's eyes gradually dimmed.
In her previous life, my mother suffered from heart disease every year. Whenever she thought of her hometown, she would gradually fall into madness. Whenever she was unconscious, she would say that she wanted to go home, saying that Yanmen was not her home and Dayu was not her home either.
In fact, neither his father nor Shang Yuwan himself could understand where the "home" that Lu Xu mentioned was.
Lu Xu walked in this world, but he always felt like an outsider. Even after he got married and gave birth to Shang Yuwan, it was still the same, as if no one in the world could truly enter her heart.
She kept nagging and thinking: going home, going home.
Until Lu Xu killed herself with the silver jade feather-shaped hairpin, until the end, no one in this world understood where her "home" was.
Shang Yuwan came back to his senses and turned to ask Li the coroner: "Liu Mengyao bit your granddaughter, you..."
No objection at all?
"This is just children playing around." Coroner Li smiled, and every wrinkle on his wrinkled old face revealed embarrassment.
Shang Yuwan raised an eyebrow and stood up. "Then let's go meet Liu Mengyao and see if they have formed an arm-gnawing alliance. That way, Chi'er can see clearly, right?"
Liu Mengyao is a wandering man. If Li Chi really wants to marry him after she turns sixteen and comes of age, it will not be good for her future life.
Coroner Li also knew that continuing to indulge would lead to unknown disasters in the future. "Yes, sir, please follow me."
Li Chi was about to get angry when Shang Yuwan turned around and looked at her, smiling, "Chi'er also wants to know what Tong Yangfu feels for her, right?"
Li Chi rolled his eyes and curled his lips when he thought of Liu Mengyao's extremely bad attitude towards him last night.
"Okay then, then, it's up to you."
Shang Yuwan's eyebrows curved slightly. This child was quite interesting, like Qi'er when she was little—no, Qi'er was three years younger than her, the same age as Liu Mengyao.
Li Chi dragged Shang Yuwan to the backyard. Seeing that she seemed...happy, Coroner Li didn't pay much attention to her and just pretended to scold her a few times.
Several burly men recognized Shang Yuwan's face and immediately stepped forward to salute him, "Sir."
Shang Yuwan's hand was held by Li Chi, and her shoulders were slightly tilted. She nodded and said, "Open the door."
The man opened the door as he was told, and the room was empty, without a single person in sight.
"Sir, sir, we!"
Shang Yuwan raised his hand, and the panicked man who wanted to go in and search for people immediately shut up.
Li Chi didn't make a fuss at this time. She first looked inside for a few times, then looked at Shang Yuwan.
She knew Shang Yuwan, but she was not familiar with him. This man did not seem panicked at all. To be respected as an adult by her grandfather, he must have some extraordinary qualities. If an adult was not panicked, why would she be afraid that Liu Mengyao would run away?
Shang Yuwan was indeed not panicked at all, and even said leisurely: "If he doesn't come out, I will let Li the coroner burn him."
After three breaths, there was silence and no one responded.
Shang Yuwan nodded and said, "Coroner Li, go and burn Liu Ziqi."
Coroner Li glanced around the room and said loudly, "Yes."
As soon as the words fell, a dark shadow rushed out of the room, "You dare!!"
A cold light caught Shang Yuwan's eyes. As the cold light got closer, the sharp end of the hairpin was also within reach.
In a flash, the guest who had been following Shang Yuwan secretly flew over in an instant, snatched the short hairpin from Liu Mengyao's hand with his bare hands, and grabbed the violent child with a backhand.
Shang Yuwan only had the hem of her robe blown a few times throughout the whole process. She smiled and said, "Not bad."
Lou Ke: "...Sir, please quickly ask someone to find some ropes to tie him up."
This kid is so fierce, but Lord Shang can still be so leisurely. He really deserves to be the person who can get along with the author of the post.
Frightened by the sudden change, Li Zhuo and Li Chi said: "..."
The man who didn't react at all: "......"
Shang Yuwan shook her head. "He's still a child. Why tie him up? But don't let go yet. I have something to ask him."
"yes."
Shang Yuwan squatted down on one knee, and what came into view was a face that was still young but already revealed a bit of evil.
The seven-year-old boy had black hair and black pupils, and fingers as thin as scallions. Beneath his long, thin eyebrows were a pair of captivating fox eyes. A few faint veins appeared in his porcelain-white skin. His nose was high and straight, like a jade sculpture, and he had pale, thin lips, resembling a king of the ghost world still in the making.
Shang Yuwan: “…?”
Has she not seen a child in a long time? Can a boy in Youkou Country look like this at the age of seven?
What do kids eat these days that make them grow so fast?
With such a good-looking appearance, it's no wonder that Li Chi wanted to take him in as a child husband.
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