Losing their balance, the two men were forced to kneel in front of the middle-aged man.
But they didn't dare to complain. They lay on the ground, looking like they were at the mercy of the emperor.
The middle-aged man glared fiercely at the two men kneeling on the ground. He then walked over to Xiaohua and pulled off the gauze that was stuffing her mouth. He asked softly, "Little sister, are you okay? Did my men scare you just now?"
Xiaohua quickly took a few steps back and huddled in the corner, staring at the middle-aged man with tearful eyes.
Xiaohua asked, "Who are you? Why did you ask your men to arrest me? Do you want to take over my house too?"
The middle-aged man laughed and looked at the yard where he was.
"Is this house yours?"
"No, this is Uncle Bagui's house. But Uncle Bagui and his father are dead, so no one lives in his house. Why are you here? I heard from the villagers that this house is very scary at night."
"horrible?"
The middle-aged man laughed again.
"I've fought in battle all my life, and yet I've never known the meaning of 'terrible'."
Hearing the man talk about 'going into battle and killing the enemy', Xiaohua remembered that the two men who had abducted her here before called the middle-aged man 'General'. She asked curiously, "Uncle, are you the general of our Luosuo country?"
The middle-aged man nodded.
"Yes, I am General Zhuang Tianming of Luosuo State."
Xiaohua couldn't understand. She asked, "Since you are a general, you should be in the capital. Why did you come to our Guangming Village?"
"Yes...I was originally in the capital, but the emperor sympathized with my hard work and approved my return to visit my relatives. I haven't been back to my hometown for a long time, so I came here to take a look."
"But Uncle General, I don't remember ever having a general from Guangming Village. Are you mistaken?"
Zhuang Tianming laughed and shook his head, saying, "You're right. I came to Guangming Village this time to find my lost wife and daughter."
"To find your lost wife and daughter?"
Xiaohua thought about her own life story again, but she remembered that Shu Jiaying had already verified in front of all the villagers that she was Erlang's daughter. She quickly said, "Uncle General, I'm not your daughter. My father's name is Zhang Erlang. Although he is no longer alive, I won't just claim anyone else as my father."
Zhuang Tianming frowned, because the child in front of him had such abnormal thoughts, but he still said patiently: "You can't be my daughter, because according to age calculation, my daughter should be eighteen years old this year."
"Oh...that's good, Uncle General. Now that you know you've got the wrong person, can I leave now? Because my sister Jiaying is almost done cooking, and if she doesn't see me coming back, she'll definitely be worried."
"Well, then you go back. Hey...wait a minute, little girl, have you seen the woman in this painting?"
Xiaohua glanced at the difficult-to-identify hand of Zhuang Tianming. She was not sure who the woman in the painting was.
But seeing the woman's pointed face and monkey cheeks, Xiaohua assumedly said, "The person in the painting looks like Aunt Ke. The more I look at it, the more similar it is. Uncle General, if you want to know if the person you're looking for is Aunt Ke, you can go to her house and ask."
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