Chapter 103 Chapter 103 Shen Qing is shocked...
Chen Qing said in horror: "Don't tell me you've eaten—"
Li Daoxuan twitched the corner of his mouth, looked at her and said, "How else do you think I survived?"
Chen Qing was almost going crazy, "Then why did you kiss me?! Are you sick? And your mother is the same, why did she take such a small child to a place with no shit?!"
"My mother left me in Yangzhou, and I wanted to go to the ghost town on my own." Li Daoxuan looked at the flickering candlelight, feeling dazed, his thoughts gradually drifting away.
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Even though he was only five years old, he could never forget the memories that were deeply ingrained in his bones.
"Ah Man, can you just stay here obediently? A Niang is going to look for my father. If A Niang doesn't come back, you will just live with Uncle Gao obediently, okay?"
After the woman in white said this, she planted a protective amulet on his forehead.
Xiao Aman asked, "Why? What about my Aye?"
She held her forehead with her hands, tears welling up in her eyes, almost in despair. "Don't mention Aye again! The Gao family is your home, Ah Man. Remember, you can't be like your Aye. You absolutely can't! No," she shook her head. "You can't grow up in that kind of environment. A'mother wants you to be carefree. I don't ask you to achieve great things, I just ask you not to—" The words seemed to get stuck on her lips. Her eyes grew redder, and her voice trembled unconsciously. "Don't get involved. Your Aye is too persistent."
She held her son's hand tightly, her eyes filled with pleading. "A'man, I just hope you'll be safe, even if it means you can just be an ordinary person. I don't want you to repeat your father's fate."
He nodded in confusion, his eyes filled with bewilderment. He didn't understand why A Niang was suddenly so agitated, nor did he know what Aye had done to scare A Niang so much. But looking at A Niang's haggard face, he subconsciously replied, "A Niang, I remember. I won't let you down."
A'niang heaved a sigh of relief, as if a huge stone had been lifted from her heart. She raised her hand and gently stroked A'man's hair, saying, "Good boy, as long as you live a peaceful life, A'niang will be satisfied." However, there was a hint of worry in her eyes that could not be shaken off.
The next day, his mother disappeared.
He didn't know where his mother had gone, he only knew that Uncle Gao was a good man and he should listen to him.
Little A'man was only five years old, and his head was not even as high as the window frame. So the little guy stood on a small stool, stuck his head out of the window, looked towards the door, and hoped that his mother would come to pick him up.
For several days in a row, the door remained empty. A'niang did not wait for the arrival of the enemy, but instead, she waited for a long fire dragon that imprisoned the Gao family. Under the fire dragon, there were many ferocious faces of people. As footsteps sounded, the sound of armor opened in the night, and when the sharp sword pierced the abdomen, screams were heard one after another, breaking the miserable night.
Gao Haizhou hid him in advance, and he clearly heard the leading general read out Aye's will: General Gao is guilty of treason and shall be sentenced to death, and the entire Gao family shall be executed.
They even did not spare the infants.
The decree of amnesty came too late, and the Gao family had almost all been killed. From then on, the century-old Guangling Gao family came to an end.
When Gao Haizhou tremblingly opened the secret door, he found that A Man was gone.
Ah Man ran to the ghost town on the edge of Yangzhou alone.
With the amulet planted by his mother as a blessing, evil spirits could not get close to him. He asked everyone he met along the way where Guisui Hill was. However, when people heard the words Guisui Hill, their faces turned red as if they had encountered an evil spirit, and they pushed him away with resentment on their faces.
Until a voice sounded behind him, "Are you going to Sneaky Hill too?"
Ah Man turned around and saw a kind man who was also heading to Guisui Hill. The man had a kind face and took the initiative to talk to him. Ah Man was naive, so he believed this stranger and followed him into Guisui Hill, stepping deep and shallow.
In the snowy valley, a dead silence reigned, the only sound being the howling of the cold wind. Ah Man froze as she took in the scene before her. Before her was a massive mountain of corpses, countless bodies piled densely together. Ah Man panicked, but in the corner of the pile, she spotted a familiar figure—A Niang.
Ah Man could hardly recognize Ah Niang. Her eyes were hollow, tears and blood streaming down her face. Her face was filled with despair and death. She murmured, "I can't save them. My ability is too weak..."
Ah Man was full of doubts and didn't understand what Ah Niang was saying. She just instinctively threw herself into Ah Niang's arms and hugged her tightly, thinking that this would bring her some warmth and peace.
Ah Niang seemed to sense the person following Ah Man, and her expression suddenly changed. She pushed Ah Man aside and rushed towards the person. In an instant, the cold wind became even stronger, and the two of them fought each other. But Ah Niang was ultimately no match for her and was quickly defeated. Ah Man and Ah Niang were captured alive and imprisoned in the ghost town.
Under Xiang Yao's influence, the ghost town was shrouded in dark clouds, filled with evil spirits and a gloomy and terrifying atmosphere. Ah Man was imprisoned for several days, and the evil spirits followed him like a shadow, occasionally pouncing on him to bite and beat him. He became their toy for entertainment when they were bored. Ah Man was covered in wounds, his breath was on the verge of death, and his consciousness gradually faded.
After an unknown amount of time, the man who had captured them appeared, holding a bowl of rice in his hand. He smiled and asked, "Do you want to see your mother? If so, eat this bowl of rice. You will have the strength to move around." This bowl of rice was a great temptation for Ah Man, who had been hungry for several days.
He took the bowl with trembling hands and began to eat voraciously. Suddenly, he bit into something hard. He scraped aside the rice and saw that it was a piece of rib meat. Ah Man didn't care about anything else and stuffed it into his mouth without hesitation. The fishy smell of meat filled his mouth, but he didn't care.
But as he continued to dig into the rice and turned out another piece, he looked closely and found it was actually a finger. Ah Man's eyes widened instantly, and he spat out the rice in his mouth in horror, his stomach churning.
The man in black asked with a smile, "How is it? Is your mother delicious?"
It turned out that what he had just eaten was actually his mother.
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He could not remember what happened afterward, nor his reaction. He only knew that when he woke up, he was already in the palace. He was always holding two bones tightly in his hands, and he would vomit at the sight of meat all day long. This was especially true when he saw pork, which resembled human flesh. This horrific shadow had been with him for more than a decade, and he had been holding it in for more than a decade.
When he tentatively revealed the news to her, her expression of fear was as he'd anticipated. Li Daoxuan suddenly felt a surge of relief, as if years of pent-up anger had finally been released. Then came a wave of extreme inferiority. He saw only disgust and disdain in her eyes, not even a hint of sympathy.
She was afraid of him, hated him, but she didn't care about him!
When he discovered this, Li Daoxuan felt restless and his heart burned with pain. Why couldn't she like him? She was the one who provoked him first!
Li Daoxuan felt numb all over his body, and deep down he had a despicable desire to press her down and fuse his flesh and blood with her, but his expression remained normal.
Just when Chen Qing was surprised that he seemed to have eaten human flesh, he laughed, "You really believe what I said." His words were full of light mockery.
Chen Qing breathed a sigh of relief, subconsciously preferring to believe that he was joking, so she scolded him in a delicate voice: "You bad dog, you only know how to do bad things!"
It was obvious that she was the one who always did bad things, but she wanted to turn the tables and blame others.
Li Daoxuan's throat rolled, and he raised his chin slightly. His pair of charming peach blossom eyes slowly opened, and a hint of astringent desire spread in his eyes. The wedding candles were mostly burned, and the candlelight became more and more vigorous. The shadows cast by his long eyelashes successfully disguised the lust in his eyes.
Perhaps he felt hot, so he tugged at his collar, tearing most of the round collar open, revealing his delicate collarbone.
Chen Qing carefully studied her expression, lowered his eyes and concealed his deep thought.
The insect seems to be taking effect soon.
Chen Qing didn't know what kind of Gu it was, so he could still maintain some normal rationality. She was eager to know what happened in Weinan County. Who was the person behind Zhou Zhishan related to? The Gu in his body was the one who framed her in her previous life.
What grudge did the person behind this have with Li Daoxuan? How much did he know?
There were so many things she wanted to know. Her intuition told her that what Li Daoxuan was investigating at the moment was closely related to the mastermind behind the framing of the Shen family. She had to know what he was investigating, at least to know who Zhou Zhishan was related to and who owned the things on the ship.
Chen Qing pursed her lips and asked in a roundabout way, "Why did Zhou Zhishan kill the unregistered wanderer that night?"
Li Daoxuan: "Why are you asking this suddenly?"
Chen Qing said: “Curious.”
Li Daoxuan choked her and said, "How could you not guess it with your intelligence? What exactly do you want to ask? Tell me the truth. Maybe I'll tell you when I feel better."
Chen Qing spread his hands and said, "Well, most of these stateless wanderers came here illegally, and their specialty is finding hidden places that ordinary people can't find, so they can hide. Perhaps those ships happened to be hiding something extraordinary, and Zhou Zhishan was afraid that the stateless wanderers would find out, or perhaps the secret had already been discovered by them, so in order to keep it secret, he chose the middle of the night to kill them and silence them."
"Rovers are the best at hiding. The merchant ship was so large, and there were so many stowaways, we couldn't kill them all in one go. We had to kill them one by one over several nights. That night, when we were following the woman who had been reincarnated by the hungry bug, we must have stumbled upon the scene of the murder."
Her eyes lit up surprisingly, "Am I right?"
Li Daoxuan stared at her greedily, his breathing becoming increasingly irregular. "Yes, but it's all nonsense. I'll give you one last chance. Ask whatever you want to ask."
Chen Qing seemed to have not noticed anything unusual about him. She had wanted to take her time and ask in a tactful way, but he didn't give her the chance and simply asked directly, "Have you found out who the things on those merchant ships belong to?"
Li Daoxuan raised his eyebrows and said, "No, it's just some pepper. The dealer must have bought pepper from somewhere else and wanted to sell it at a high price."
Chen Qing immediately said in displeasure, "You're lying." That night, he clearly heard from the wandering people that there was not only pepper on the boat, but also a lot of amber.
Amber is waterproof, and who knows what's inside it.
Li Daoxuan said, "You'an, be careful of your words."
Chen Qing raised her eyes and stared at him, without a trace of inferiority in her eyes. "Don't forget that my Shen family is still in danger. You know that someone wants to harm me. Whether it's a disaster or not, it doesn't matter. What's more, what if the person behind the framing of me is the one behind Zhou Zhishan?"
Li Daoxuan: "What evidence do you have to prove that the two are from the same group?"
Chen Qing choked, of course there was, she was poisoned by someone in her previous life, and she saw it on Zhou Zhishan in this life.
But she couldn't say it.
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