Chapter 186 Return

Ye Anyian stepped forward and grabbed the child, and it took some effort to pull him away.

　　He held his breath and looked at Jiang Zhu with hesitation: "Why do you bully even a child?"

　　"It was obviously him who rushed over and bit me." Jiang Zhu said, standing up and rolling up his sleeves to show Ye Anyian, "Such a deep tooth mark, it almost bleeds."

　　"Then I'll blow it for you." Ye Annian puffed up his cheeks and blew him twice.

　　But the smell in the room was so strong that he couldn't hold it back, turned around and ran to the side and vomited.

　　Jiang Zhu:...

　　"You'd better get out quickly."

　　After driving the people out and waiting, Jiang Zhu pulled off his belt, tied the child's hands together in a few moments, carried them out and placed them next to Ye Anian.

　　"Keep an eye on it, I'll go back to the house to see if there are any clues."

　　After saying that, he turned around and went back in, leaving Ye Annian outside to stare at the child.

　　Recalling what happened just now, Ye Anyian knew that the child could talk and understood the truth, so he should be able to communicate, so he tried to talk to him.

　　"Your name is Ah Li, right? Is the person in the room your relative?"

　　The child glanced at him but said nothing, with fear in his eyes.

　　"Don't be afraid, we are here to find people. But I didn't expect that after so many years, this place has become like this. Do you know what happened here before?" Ye Anyian said warmly.

　　The child pursed his lips tightly and looked him up and down. After a while, he uttered a few words: "Daddy, daddy..."

　　Ye Anyian understood immediately: "Is he your father?"

　　The child nodded, and after a while he added: "Fire...cart, gold, golden crown..."

　　This was said so unclearly that Ye Anyian really didn't understand what it meant.

　　I had to change the subject and asked: "How old is Ah Li this year?"

　　The child blinked, tilted his head and thought for a while before replying: "Twelve."

　　The twelve-year-old child can only speak a few simple words, and is obviously more than half a head shorter than his peers.

　　Ye Anyian counted the time and thought that the child was only five years old when Yueliang City was burned.

　　Although for some reason, he and his father survived but did not leave here, this environment did have a big impact on his growth. It can only be said that the two of them can survive for so many years. It's also a miracle.

　　Not long after, Jiang Zhu walked out of it holding his nose.

　　"How's it going? Did you find anything?" Ye Anyian asked.

　　Jiang Zhu waved his hand: "Find a place where we can talk, it's too smelly here."

　　Ye Annian pulled the child up from the ground, held his hand, and the three of them returned to the small square in the center of the small town.

　　Returning to the previous stone platform and sitting down, Jiang Zhu took out a copper belt buckle from his sleeve.

　　The belt buckle is in the shape of a lion's head and has some wear and tear.

　　He handed this thing to Ye Anyian: "I touched it from that man."

　　"Is it his thing?" Ye Anyian looked at the belt buckle in his hand, but didn't see anything special about it.

　　"Probably not. This lion head belt buckle is only for the Forbidden Army. That person is an ordinary citizen. He may have accidentally picked up something belonging to the Forbidden Army." Jiang Zhu said.

　　"That man must have been dead for at least three days." Recalling the tragic state of the corpse in the room, Jiang Zhu frowned so hard that he could kill a fly. "He was still a paralytic. There were two dead mice hanging in the room. They were probably like this." The children were caught and eaten."

　　"No wonder they stay here." Ye Anyian glanced at the child sitting quietly next to him and sighed.

The village where he and Jiang Zhu stayed was not very far from here. It only took two hours by horse carriage. Even if you walked, you could definitely walk there in a day.

　　But for a paralyzed adult and a five-year-old child, it is even more difficult than climbing to the sky.

　　Ye Anian was silent for a while and said to Jiang Zhu, "Let's... take him with us?"

　　I thought Jiang Zhu would not agree, but the other party nodded: "You stay here with him for a while, and I will go around the city to see if there is anyone else alive."

　　"Don't untie the belt on his hand. If anything happens, just call me loudly. It's empty here and the sound can spread far away. I can hear it."

　　Ye Anyian nodded in agreement, and Jiang Zhu got up and left.

　　The two waited there for a long time, but Jiang Zhu didn't come back.

　　Ye Anyian was a little bored, so he coaxed Ah Li to talk. The two of them talked about a lot of irrelevant things.

　　It was almost evening when Jiang Zhu came back, and Ye Anian hurriedly greeted him.

　　"Have you found anyone else alive?"

　　"I didn't find anyone alive, but I found something else." Jiang Zhu said, handing a rag bag in his hand to Ye Anyian.

　　"Ah!"

　　"I, I...mine!"

　　Ah Li, who was staying quietly aside, suddenly rushed over.

　　His hands were tied, so he held the cloth bag in his mouth.

　　With quick eyes and quick hands, Jiang Zhu took the cloth bag away, but Ah Li threw it away and glared at him with bared teeth.

　　Ye Anian quickly coaxed: "Don't be angry, I know it's yours, we just want to see it and return it to you after we see it."

　　When he said this, the child calmed down.

　　Jiang Zhu placed the cloth bag on the ground and opened it, and Ye Anyian saw some tattered things inside.

　　There were stones, pieces of wood, pieces of rags, a pile of broken bones, and a blackened firewood stick.

　　"I dug this out from a small pile of rocks." Jiang Zhu said.

　　Ye Annian was helpless. This was a treasure trove of other people's children.

　　He looked through these things. Except for the special pattern on the rag and the strange carvings on the fire fold, there was nothing unusual about it.

　　"Are these things useful?" he asked.

　　"It's somewhat useful." As expected, Jiang Zhu picked up the rag and the blackened fire fold.

"This piece of cloth is made of damask, with a hidden python pattern embroidered on it. Only high-ranking guards in the palace will wear clothes made of this material, such as Wei Zhihuai's personal guards."

　　"As for this fire stick, the patterns engraved on it are only found in the palace."

　　"Then these can be regarded as evidence that Wei Zhihuai did evil in the past?" Ye Annian was a little happy.

　　Jiang Zhu shook his head: "I'm afraid it's not feasible."

　　"Although this fabric is used by high-ranking guards in the palace, it does not prove that it is from Wei Zhihuai."

　　"As for the Huozhezi, apart from proving that it is something from the palace, it cannot be proven that it was made by someone led by Wei Zhihuai."

　　Ye Anyian:...

　　He was silent for a while, and suddenly remembered what Ah Li had said intermittently before.

　　Repeated: "Fire... cart, golden crown..."

　　"What?" Jiang Zhu looked at him doubtfully.

　　Ye Anyian pointed to the child standing next to him: "What Ah Li just said."

　　"Oh~"

　　Jiang Zhu touched his chin and looked at the child thoughtfully: "It seems he should know something."

　　Now, it was impossible not to take him back with us.

　　Seeing that it was getting late, the two of them were ready to return to the village.

　　It took a lot of effort to take Ah Li away.

　　The child refused to go with them and struggled to go back to the half-collapsed shabby house to guard his dead father.

　　The two tried hard to persuade them, but when the sky turned dark, Jiang Zhu got angry and forced the child into the carriage, and then they walked back smoothly.

　　Ah Li yelled all the way, which made the two people's ears buzzing. They finally returned to the old couple's home, and it was already dark.

　　Seeing that they brought back a dirty, skinny child, the old couple were a little surprised.

　　Especially when I heard that this child was picked up in Yueliang City.

　　"That place has been abandoned for seven or eight years, and there are still people alive." The old man sighed while smoking his pipe.

　　The old couple were both kind-hearted people. Seeing that the child was pitiful, they didn't say anything. The old woman even went to boil hot water and planned to wash the child.

　　This washing didn't matter, several people were shocked.

　　Ah Li turned out to be a pretty pretty little girl.

　　The old woman felt more and more pitiful about the child, so she rummaged through the cabinets and found a pair of old clothes that her daughter had worn when she was a child, put them on Ah Li, and tied the child's hair with a red headband.

　　In the evening, the old woman cooked porridge, fried two vegetables, and put cornmeal pancakes on it. Ah Li didn't make any fuss anymore since she had something to eat, so she ate until she was full.

　　The bed in the west room was small, so it was difficult for the two of them to sleep on it. The old woman originally wanted to take Ah Li to sleep on the kang with them in the east room, but Jiang Zhu was afraid that the child would sneak away at night or cause some trouble, so he asked the old woman to sleep next to the bed in the west room. They added a chair and put a quilt on it for Ah Li to sleep on.

In this way, he could sleep on the outside of the bed and watch her without disturbing Ye Annian's rest.

　　Fortunately, the night was uneventful.

　　The next day, the three of them went to Yueliang City again. Ye Anyian carefully walked around the remaining half of the city, and then watched Jiang Zhu bury the body of Ali's father.

　　In the afternoon, the three of them returned to the village and said goodbye to the old couple before setting off back to Baiyun Town.

　　Carrying a small burden, the three of them traveled for six days to arrive.

　　When he returned to Baihezhai, Zimo had already sent Zhang Lu off and returned from Tianshui Town.

　　Xie Xiaogong was tending herbs in his Qiyun Pavilion. When he heard the news of their return, he immediately ran out.

　　Seeing the three people standing together, they were stunned and their mouths were wide enough to swallow a goose egg.

"You guys..." he pointed at Ah Li who was standing next to Ye Anyian and said, "Little Ye Zi, you gave birth too fast, didn't you? It's only been a few days and the child is already so big?"

　　Ye Anyian:...

　　Jiang Zhu was speechless and told him roughly what happened along the way.

　　Xie Xiaogong stared at Ah Li for a while, then suddenly came to Jiang Zhu's side and whispered: "Wanwan, you two have picked up a little enemy."

　　Ye Annian didn't know why, and the old man said mysteriously: "What do you think is the reason why this child's parents and relatives are missing?"

　　"If she knew the truth in the future, she would have to kill Wanwan."

　　Um...

　　Ye Anyian was speechless.

　　Jiang Zhu patted his shoulder and comforted him: "No, I will send her away after she recovers a little and can tell the whole story of what happened back then."

　　"Then having such a big child between you two will also affect your relationship." Xie Xiaogong touched his chin.

　　Ye Anian understood what he meant instantly and pushed Ah Li towards him: "Then please help me, senior, to take care of it."

　　"Easy to say." The old man smiled, took the little girl's hand and returned to his Qiyun Pavilion.

　　"Master! Young Master!"

　　While several people were talking, Zi Mo ran out with a loud roar.

　　When I saw the two of them, I was very happy: "You are finally back!"

　　"I brought you a lot of things from Sweetwater Town!"

　　After saying that, he took the two of them and ran towards his residence.

　　Jiang Zhu pulled Ye Annian to sit down in the hall on the first floor. After a while, Zi Mo ran downstairs dragging a big baggage.

　　"Well, my family brought these for you!"