Fate [Donglun Tong Humanities]

Q22 ：

"Give me back! Give me back!"

"Don't! I snatched this, it's mine!"

"It's for my mother! Give it back to me!"

"Then get it yourself! Come, come, come!"

The older boy waved the dry food in his hand and ran while making faces at the little girl who was chasing him. "Ah!" The boy bumped into Wang Dongcheng firmly.

The dry food fell from the boy's hand, and stopped on the side after rolling twice on the ground.

Wang Dongcheng looked at the boy who was better than the other children in terms of physique and complexion, and then at the little girl who ran over - her complexion was sallow and her lips were pale.He sighed, picked up the dry food and handed it to the boy. The boy glanced at Wang Dongcheng, but the dry food ran away immediately.

The little girl burst into tears when she saw that the dry food she had so hard to beg for was taken away like this.Wiping tears with dirty little hands, she was indescribably pitiful.

Wang Dongcheng glanced at Wei Qing behind him, then walked over and squatted beside the little girl, and moved her hands away from her face wiping her tears.

The little girl took a step back in resistance, and cried out, "Bad guy! I finally got it...my mother..."

"It's not good for your mother to eat the dusty steamed buns. Come here." Wang Dongcheng took a pack of steamed buns from Wei Qing and put them in the little girl's hand, "Give this to your mother."

The little girl was sobbing, and froze in place, not knowing whether to take it or not.

Wang Dongcheng smiled, picked up the little girl, and said to her, "What's your name? Can you tell me?"

"Bai Qi." She lowered her voice, and her nasal voice made people feel soft. Wang Dongcheng pinched her face lovingly, and then said, "Can you take me to meet your mother?"

The wooden door that was about to fall off made a creaking sound, and Bai Qi's unusually careful actions affected the hearts of Wang Dongcheng and Wei Qing.They didn't expect that Xicheng District was so impoverished that three meals a day became a big problem.People here don't care how good their lives are, and they may not even be able to do the most basic living.

Because Wang Dongcheng and Wei Qing's clothes were incompatible with the surrounding environment, many people followed them.Bai Qi's house has never been so lively.Bai Qi's mother, Shen Bing looked at Wang Dongcheng and Wei Qing who entered the gate in surprise.

Bai Qi ran to Shen Bing's side, grabbed Shen Bing's dress tightly, looked up at Shen Bing and said, "Mother, I met this on the street and gave it to us." She took it out of her arms. Those steamed buns came out.

Shen Bing looked at the steamed bun in Bai Qi's hand, and immediately expressed her gratitude to Wang Dongcheng through tears, but she couldn't utter a complete sentence because of her incessant coughing.

She has been sick and bedridden for several days, and she has been hungry for several days, her body is too weak to support her any extreme reactions, whether it is excitement or sadness.

After entering the back room and sitting down, the coughing eased a little. Bai Qi brought a bowl of water to Shen Bing, and then carefully fed it to Shen Bing.

Shen Bing gently wiped off the water stains from the corners of his mouth, put on a smile and said to Wang Dongcheng: "Your clothes don't look like those of ours, what's the matter here?"

"I have something important to come to Xicheng District to investigate, I wonder if I can ask you a few questions?"

Shen Bing nodded.

"How long have you lived here?"

"My family has been here for generations, so I grew up here since I was a child."

Wang Dongcheng was overjoyed, and then asked: "Then do you know what happened to the daughter of the Shi family who fell into the water three years ago?"

"The Shi family?" Shen Bing frowned slightly. Three years is a long time. If it wasn't for some major event, the impression would not be deep at all. "Three years ago... In fact, it is not uncommon for us to fall into the water here. If you can't survive, you jump into the lake and commit suicide." There are a lot of people, you just mention one family and I don’t even know who it is.”

Wang Dongcheng thought for a while, since it was done by one person, there must be something figured out in the four cases.Strike once? "I don't know if it can be regarded as a clue. The location should be in a relatively remote woods."

"Aunt Shen, have you forgotten about the Shi family?" Suddenly someone beside him interrupted.

Wang Dongcheng turned his head to look at the man, he was an old man. "I don't know how the uncle said this?"

"Well, it's actually not uncommon to forget. The Shi family was a relatively famous family in our generation three years ago. They came from other provinces and have a little money. The head of the family is also very good, and often helps us people. But Later, after the eldest daughter fell into the water and died, she moved away, and there was no sign, so they moved away together." The old man's tone was full of regret, and he sighed again and again, "If you want to talk about their eldest daughter, she is kind-hearted, but she is so lonely. Drowned. Alas..."

The doubtful look on Shen Bing's face eased a bit, "From what you said, it seems to be true."

"Isn't it?" The old man responded, "The strangest thing is that there are rumors that before the Shi family's daughter died, someone saw her looking around nervously."

Wei Qing whispered in Wang Dongcheng's ear, "My lord, I'm afraid someone is chasing her."

Wang Dongcheng nodded, probably the three people the old man told them about, one woman and two men.He thought for a while and said to Shen Bing: "I don't have anything to ask here. I don't know if you can trust your daughter to us and let her lead us. Of course, we will also protect her."

"This..." Shen Bing hesitated, looking at Bai Qi who didn't know anything, she frowned in embarrassment.

"Don't worry, it won't be too long, please." Wang Dongcheng said to Shen Bing sincerely.He now needs someone to lead the way for him.Everyone else might be enemies lurking beside him, only Bai Qi.He believed that Bai Qi, who was only five years old, at least her eyes would not deceive.

"This is the last forest in Xicheng District." Bai Qi pointed to the land under her feet and said to Wang Dongcheng, "Do you want to pick the bark like the previous two times?"

Hearing Bai Qi's description of Wang Dongcheng pursing his lips and picking the bark, also, in her opinion, it must be a very incomprehensible move.

"Yes, we have to continue. Is Qiqi tired? If you are tired, you can rest." Wang Dongcheng said to Bai Qi with a smile, smoothing the fine hair on her forehead with his fingers.

Bai Qi shook her head, "No."

Wang Dongcheng patted her on the head, "Then let's start."

In fact, Wang Dongcheng himself was not too sure if he could really find the bottle of blood in the tree trunk, but since he guessed so, he couldn't just do nothing.

After several hours passed, Wang Dongcheng and Wei Qing sighed.Couldn't find it, or maybe it wasn't there.Bai Qi squinted her eyes and looked at Wang Dongcheng and Wei Qing innocently.Suddenly she yelled in amazement: "Puppy!" Then she ran to the lake.

Wang Dongcheng and Wei Qing followed suit.

The puppy was digging the soil, digging a few times, stopped, smelled it, and then continued digging.

"What are you looking for, puppy?" Bai Qi knelt on the grass, picked up the puppy, and rubbed her face against the puppy's furry head, "You are very fragrant, you smell like flowers."

The puppy barked a few times, struggled out of Bai Qi's arms and ran away.

Both Wei Qing and Bai Qi regarded it as an accidental incident, only Wang Dongcheng frowned, he looked at the running away puppy and then looked back.Rubbing his chin with his thumb and forefinger, his eyes fixed on the spot where the puppy had scratched.He nodded thoughtfully at the spot, then tentatively stomped his feet towards the area.

Nothing happens.

Wang Dongcheng retracted his foot in doubt.Could it be that he was thinking too much?But his eyes were still tightly locked on that place.

Looking at Wang Dongcheng's reaction, Wei Qing guessed what Wang Dongcheng was suspicious of.He squatted down, found a big stone from the side and started digging.

Wang Dongcheng watched the pit gradually get deeper, and the feeling that he would find something became stronger and stronger.He licked his dry lips, and found a stone to dig together.

Finally, a white stone slab covered by the soil was exposed in front of Wang Dongcheng and Wei Qing.

Overjoyed, Wang Dongcheng dropped the stone, wiped off the soil on the surface of the stone slab with his fingers, found the joint with the surroundings, and lifted the stone slab away.

Sure enough, a bottle of bright red blood lay quietly in the small space.

Aaron Yan pushed off the cloth strip stuffed in his mouth with his tongue, and then spat out a mouthful of saliva.Just put something messy in his mouth.

"Hey, let me tell you, how long are you going to tie me up like this?" Aaron Yan shouted at the person opposite.

The figure approached Aaron Yan, and the same face was undoubtedly the old man who provided clues to Wang Dongcheng and Aaron Yan.At this moment, he changed from his trembling look before, and kicked Aaron Yan in the face.

The contact between the sole of the shoe and the face made Aaron Yan frowned in pain, and the back of his head hit the wall behind him with a "bang".But his eyes were still determined, and he pulled the corners of his mouth and said, "Why don't you speak?"

"You haven't told me why you came here? What have you seen?" The old man put his feet up and squatted in front of Aaron Yan.

"It's too dark, I can't see anything." Aaron Yan said contemptuously.

The old man kicked Aaron Yan on the shoulder, and Aaron Yan rolled over on his side.The bottle of blood in his arms also rolled out of his clothes and was exposed to the old man's eyes.Aaron Yan panicked, trying to move his body to protect the bottle of blood.

The old man's eyes changed, he picked up the bottle of blood, and said in his mouth, "It's here with you?"

Aaron Yan didn't speak, and twisted his hands behind him, trying to break free from the bondage of the rope.

"It's meritorious service this time." The old man's expression was twisted, his eyes were fixed on the blood in his hand, and his smile was stretched too much.He ignored Aaron Yan, turned around and ran out of the house.

Aaron Yan stopped struggling, and lay quietly on the ground with no expression on his face.But suddenly tears flowed, dripping down the ground from the corners of the eyes, and dark gray flowers bloomed.

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