When the two returned to the city on horseback, it was already afternoon, and the street was bustling, and the bustling pedestrians on Chengdong Street could be seen from a distance.

"That... sister, Miss Shu, I think we should separate here now, lest that... you know..." Lian Yi tightened the rein in his hand and called Shu Qingwan, who lived in front of her, pointed to the crowd of passers-by on Chengdong Street, and said with some embarrassment.

Now that she is a man, she walks side by side with the unmarried Shu Qingwan in such a public place. It doesn't take a while, Zhong Qiqi probably has already written a stack of scripts waiting for them.

Although she doesn't care about it herself, this place is a feudal society, and for Shu Qingwan, it hurts her reputation.

The fact that she was pretending to be Ruan Linyi, and that she and Shu Qingwan were senior sisters, before the cause of Ruan Linyi's death was revealed, it was better to keep it a secret, so as not to cause complications and affect the investigation.

Shu Qingwan immediately understood what Lian Yi meant. Although she knew that Lian Yi had no malicious intentions, she still couldn't control the soreness in her heart.

They got along for a day and a night, and she kept proving that she was innocent, but she still scared the other party.

Even if the other party knew that they used to be close teachers and sisters, she still called her from "confidant" last night to "sister" in the morning, and until now it has changed back to "Miss Shu", who is the most distant.

After all, he is a different kind, and he has been careful for many years but still scares her.

Shu Qingwan smiled and nodded, stood on the spot on the horse, signaling Lian Yi to enter the city first, while she herself stayed at the spot and waited for the time to pass before riding into the city.

Lian Yi waved to her, then gripped the reins tightly, and galloped away with the horse's belly in place, the sound of the horse's hooves gradually disappeared in her ears.

The smile on Shu Qingwan's face gradually collapsed with Lian Yi's departure. She looked lonely in the direction where Lian Yi was no longer there, remembering how many times she had stood in the forest in the suburbs and looked in the same direction. Waiting for her to appear every day.

As long as the familiar sound of horseshoes came from far and near, she felt that all the gloom in her life was swept away without a trace.

The year she met Ruan Lianyi, Shu Qingwan was only 12 years old. Because she was destined to be a Kemu since she was a child, she has been kept in a remote farmyard on the outskirts of Shu's family.

Seeing that no one from the Shu family in the urban area has ever visited her, the nuns in the manor house did not take this young lady seriously over time, and abuse and insults often occurred.

Although she is a young lady of the Shu family on the surface and lives in the largest room in the manor, but in private she is not as good as a maid.

That day, Grandma Zhang, who loved Shu Qingwan since she was a child, went out to buy goods. Grandma Sun, who didn't want to see her, took advantage of the fact that Grandma Zhang was not in the manor, and brought long-smelling meals to her table, and lied to her that It is a fresh meal cooked at noon.

The stench of the food was so strong that Shu Qingwan could already smell the rancid smell even before he approached.

Shu Qingwan didn't dare to argue with Grandma Sun, so she could only explain in a low voice: "Grandma Sun, this meal seems to have gone bad, I don't want to eat it, I want to wait for Grandma Zhang to come back."

Nanny Sun stretched her neck like a shrew: "Why, Miss wants to wait for Nanny Zhang to come back so she can complain to her, right?"

Shu Qingwan lowered his head and said in a voice like a mosquito: "No, I just... just can't eat this meal."

Nanny Sun rolled her eyes, and said bitterly: "Yo, if I call you Miss, you really think you are Missy? You don't even look at yourself, you are a bitch that the Shu family doesn't want, and you pick on me?" Whoever you choose, I'll give you face!"

Shu Qingwan was wearing gray and white plain clothes. She was so thin that she was not as tall as Nanny Sun. She was so frightened by Nanny Sun's sharp and harsh words that she held back her tears. She didn't even dare to cry, and shrank into a small one. Trembling: "I...I didn't mean that, I..."

Nanny Sun grabbed the tail of her words and slapped the table vigorously: "Isn't that what you mean? You don't think you have a chance to go back to Shu's house, do you? Make your spring and autumn dream! You are just like your mother. It's a cheap hoof that no one wants!"

Shu Qingwan was startled by the sudden sound of Nanny Sun slapping the table, her legs gave way, and she fell to the ground.

This is not the first time Nanny Sun has bullied her like this. She didn't know it when she was young, but she only found out when she grew up that Nanny Sun used to be Mrs. Shu's dowry nun. Mrs. Shu hated her mother. Naturally, the madam's nanny wouldn't make her feel better.

The other nanny next to me couldn't bear it, so they came over and pulled Nanny Sun: "Forget it, she is the young lady of the Shu family after all, you should restrain yourself..."

"What's wrong with the Shu family? What kind of Miss Shu family is she?" Nanny Sun said with her hands on her hips, her eyes wide open.

The other mammies hurriedly followed Nanny Sun's words, flattering her high raised tail, and signaled Shu Qingwan who was on the ground to leave quickly with their eyes.

Shu Qingwan bit her lips with teary eyes, wanted to cry but still didn't dare to cry out, she got up from the ground in embarrassment, maintaining the last trace of her decency as a young lady, until she ran out of the house and into the courtyard, she Dare to cover his mouth with his hand.

Then, accompanied by Nanny Sun's cursing behind her, she ran towards the outside of the gate of the manor.

She stumbled and ran towards the forest in the distance, and she didn't know where she wanted to go. She just wanted to leave here and find Zhang Nanny who loved her so much, but she didn't know which direction Zhang Nanny was going to buy .

After she ran into the forest, she dared to let out the crying that was pent up in her heart, but she didn't dare to cry too loudly, she just wept sobbingly, she was afraid that her crying would be seen by the nuns in the manor house It will be exchanged for a new round of ridicule.

Tired of crying, she realized that she had been walking aimlessly in the forest for a long time. The trees around her looked similar, and she couldn't tell the difference between east, west, and north.

She had no choice but to walk back according to her memory, but the more she walked, the more she couldn't find her way, and she became more panicked when she couldn't find her way. Seeing the sun in the sky gradually slanting to the west, she panicked and felt her feet slipping , the whole person was top-heavy, and fell directly into the hunter's trap for catching small animals.

There was no softness at the bottom of the trap, there were some branches and small stones scattered here and there. Shu Qingwan's unprepared fall like this was enough for him to fall, and adding these things together, he felt that his body was about to fall apart in an instant.

She slowed down for a while, and then gathered her strength to get up, and then felt that her hands and feet were injured to varying degrees, and as long as she moved lightly, she could feel pain in those bones.

She endured the pain, moved her posture carefully, and looked up at the trap she fell into.

The trap is as high as two or three meters. If an adult falls into it, it will take a lot of effort to get up. But Shu Qingwan is only a half-old child. Way to climb the trap alone.

She had no choice but to sit in the trap and shout for help, but time passed by, and there was no one around the trap at all, and the surroundings were terribly silent, except for the occasional rustling of leaves blown by the wind.

Shu Qingwan's voice became hoarse at night, and she didn't eat at noon. She leaned weakly against the mud wall at the bottom of the trap, looking at the gradually dimming light at the entrance of the trap, feeling ashamed.

She parted her lips slightly, breathing weakly, and closed her eyes wearily.

Forget it, just give up.

She still went underground to find her mother, at least she was accompanied by her underground, but there was nothing here.

There is only endless suffering and unbearable bitter insults here, it might as well just go like this.

She thought vaguely like this, allowing her energy to drain little by little, waiting for the darkness and death to come powerlessly.

After an unknown amount of time, when Shu Qingwan thought she was dead, and even her soul had already floated up, she suddenly heard a slight sound of horseshoes approaching from far and near, gradually heading towards the direction of the trap, and then she heard a The lovely voice like a sparrow spirit said to himself: "Huh? Why did a hole break out today? What fell in?"

"What did you catch? Let me see."

Shu Qingwan tried her best to open her eyes, followed the sound to look at the place where she fell at the mouth of the trap, and then she saw a handsome young boy sticking his head out to look into the trap. After seeing her, she was slightly surprised. keep your eyes open.

Those were a pair of round eyes with a smile, clear and bright, so that she would never forget her in this life, like a ray of morning light, passing through layers of haze and shining into her dark heart, arousing layer upon layer of melancholy. ripples.

She opened her eyes in a daze, forgetting everything around her, even forgetting that she was still waiting to die at the bottom of the trap.

The teenager on the edge of the trap supported his body with his hands and leaned forward. She looked at the bottom of the trap curiously, only to find that there was not a wounded little beast, but a girl about her size.

"Ah? Why is it a person?" She screamed, and then she seemed a little disappointed, "How did you fall in here? I obviously laid a very thin floor, didn't you see it?"

Shu Qingwan still didn't make a sound, seemed to have forgotten to breathe, and just stared blankly at the young boy who was as clean as a porcelain doll on the trap.

This little boy was Ruan Lianyi when she was young. Since she was a child, she dreamed of becoming a knight who saved lives and healed the wounded. She thought about stealing her brother's clothes all day long, and then turned out of the courtyard wall of Ruan's house to do justice everywhere.

Later, she really met a monk with strong martial arts, willing to accept her as an introductory disciple, and teach her martial arts from then on, so that she can "save the common people with the world in mind."

Seeing that the little girl in the trap didn't answer, Ruan Lianyi picked up a thick branch next to it, pushed aside the fallen leaves that covered the trap, and let the setting sun illuminate the bottom of the trap.

She dialed and complained: "Oh, why are you walking so carelessly? If I didn't come today, wouldn't you want to spend the night here?"

Ruan Lianyi leaned the thick branch in his hand against the dirt wall of the trap, and leaned forward again: "Can you still go?"

Shu Qingwan finally came back to her senses, she supported the earthen wall and shook her head.

"Ah? So what should I do?" Ruan Lianyi was disappointed, she stretched the branch forward again, "Then why don't you grab the branch first, and I'll see if I can pull you up?"

Shu Qingwan seemed to hesitate for a moment, then moved forward a little bit, and then reached out to reach Ruan Lianyi's branch, but finally grabbed the branch, but Ruan Lianyi couldn't pull her up.

After all, Ruan Lianyi is also a half-grown child, one year younger than Shu Qingwan in terms of age, but because she grew up with rich clothes and rich food, she looks a little older than Shu Qingwan.

But after all, her age is there, and she has just learned a little bit of martial arts, so she can't use much strength at all.

After trying hard, she finally gave up this method.

Ruan Lianyi stood up, paced back and forth around the trap a few times, and said to the air: "Well... what should I do? I'll think of a way, why don't I go to Master? "

"No, no, no, it's a bit far away, too late...I have, let me go down and carry you up?"

"But how should I get down?"

Ruan Lianyi talked to himself for a while, then suddenly turned and left without warning.

Shu Qingwan's originally uneasy heart was instantly emptied, as if he had fallen from heaven to hell.

She anxiously climbed two steps towards the entrance of the trap, and called out to the other party in a hoarse voice, but the other party didn't seem to hear it, and the footsteps got farther and farther away in her despair.

Her hope was crushed to pieces again, she fell down at the mouth of the trap, lowered her head decadently, counting the last hope that was lost in her heart bit by bit.

All hope is lost.

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Author: Xiaoshu Qingwan and Xiaoruan Lianyi officially appear on stage, come and say hello.

Xiao Ruan Lianyi smiled brightly: Hello everyone!

Xiao Shu lowered her head Qingwan and whispered: You guys, good.

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