Before leaving, he walked along the river for a long time, hoping to find some traces left by Lu Qingdai, but unfortunately, he found nothing.
Maybe... Li Xin'an didn't dare to think about that "maybe".
Sun Xiaocui packed their packages overnight, smiling like a newlywed girl all night long.
Early the next morning, Li Xin'an took Sun Xiaocui, said goodbye to the Sun Chen family, and prepared to go north to Luoyang.
On the way, when he was about to leave Sunjiazhuang, Sun Xiaocui looked back reluctantly, and Li Xin'an said softly: "If you are reluctant to leave, go and say goodbye to your aunt."
Sun Xiaocui shook her head and was speechless. This girl knew very well that when she left, she would probably say goodbye to her mother and brother forever.
Others don't know what they will think of me, will they think that I am a prostitute? But that is no longer important, because I am no longer here at that time, but my family still has to bear the glare of those people and be
Point to your spine and live.
Thinking of this, Sun Xiaocui suddenly had the urge to rush home. Marrying a stranger might not be so scary.
But she still held back because of the man behind her.
As luck would have it, how much better would it be if I hadn't met Li Xin'an? In that case, I would have lived a life of peace and contentment like an ordinary peasant woman.
Then arrange for your daughter to follow the same path as yourself?
Sun Xiaocui held back her grief, she wanted to change her destiny!
"Let's go." Sun Xiaocui turned around and tried her best to smile, "Let's go to Luoyang."
Li Xin'an nodded silently. He couldn't imagine how much pressure this girl was under. She was just an ordinary girl. For Li Xin'an, separation and death were commonplace, but for Sun Xiaocui, leaving home was a common occurrence.
It was the sadness that she could never forget in her life.
The two chatted on the road to relieve the pain in the young girl's heart.
"Xiaocui, which village is in front of you?" Li Xin'an pointed to a ruins not far away and said, "It looks abandoned."
"Oh, that's our Sunjiazhuang too." Sun Xiaocui replied, "More than ten years ago, there was a flood here and half of the original village was flooded. The government moved us one mile to the north and built a new village.
Sunjiazhuang, the old village gradually became deserted. The old ancestral hall in the village is also there, and there is also a private school. I learned a few words in that private school when I was a child. The gentleman in the private school was very nice and willing to teach us.
Girls can read."
"That is indeed a good gentleman. Is he still in the village now?"
Sun Xiaocui lowered his head and said sadly: "No more, Mr. was washed away by the flood that year."
"I see, I'm sorry." Li Xin'an sighed. In this world, good people always don't live long.
"Yeah!" Sun Xiaocui suddenly shouted and stopped.
"What's wrong?" Li Xin'an suddenly became alert and glanced around cautiously.
Sun Xiaocui said angrily: "I just remembered that I haven't said goodbye to my brother yet. He didn't come back all night last night. Mr. Li, can you wait here for a while and let me go find my brother?"
"Of course." Li Xin'an said with a smile, "Do you know where he is?"
"At this time, he should be working in the fields." The girl ran towards the farmland, and her petite figure quickly disappeared from Li Xin'an's sight.
There was no place to rest nearby, so Li Xin'an decided to go to the ruins at the old site of Sunjiacun.
The place is already overgrown with weeds, tilted and collapsed mud houses, broken beams, and the excrement of wild animals, all indicating that no one has set foot here for many years.
Li Xin'an had nowhere to go, but fortunately, one place seemed to have been trampled by someone, and the thatch fell down, so he could barely pass by.
Maybe a wild beast has come... Li Xin'an thought so.
He followed the path that could barely be called a road until he came to a dilapidated courtyard. This courtyard was larger than other courtyards, and the remaining layout and houses looked at it.
In the format, this should be the old ancestral hall that Sun Xiaocui mentioned.
Li Xin'an walked into the ancestral hall. Half of the roof of the main hall had collapsed and was crumbling. Apart from that, only two rooms were relatively well preserved.
Li Xin'an looked around and felt something strange inexplicably - there was a well on the right side of the main hall of the ancestral hall, and there were still water stains on the edge of the well. Along the way, Li Xin'an seemed to have followed the steps of his predecessors and came here. And there were other things.
The place is covered with dust, but this ancestral hall is still clean. Although there are no traces of cleaning, it is certain that people come here often.
At least before Li Xin'an came here, there were people who stayed in this ancestral hall.
After Li Xin'an thought about it for a moment, he didn't find it so strange. After all, the ancestral hall is different from other houses and has a very important commemorative significance. Even if a new ancestral hall is built in Sunjiazhuang, some old people will still come here to worship.
Li Xin'an was sitting on the steps. Behind him was the best-preserved side room of the ancestral hall. Li Xin'an didn't dare to sit under the main hall, after all, the house was about to collapse.
While Li Xin'an was waiting boredly for Sun Xiaocui, he faintly heard a faint sound coming from the locked room behind him.
Li Xin'an glanced back, thinking it might be some kind of wild dog or wild cat, so she didn't pay much attention and turned around again.
But the sound in the house did not stop, and Li Xin'an vaguely heard the sound of the iron chains rubbing together.
Something's wrong!
Li Xin'an stood up alertly. From the moment he stepped into this ruins, Li Xin'an always felt that something was strange - the paths that had been stepped on, the wells that had been used, and the old villages that had been abandoned for many years.
, will anyone come to worship at the ancestral hall? This explanation obviously does not make sense. Sunjiazhuang is a big village. If someone comes to worship at the old ancestral hall, it will not be one or two people, but several big families. If they really pay attention
If it were here, would the old ancestral hall still be what it is today?
Li Xin'an stared at the room behind him, his expression gradually becoming serious.
The door lock of this house is new!
The door is an old door and the lock is a new lock. Someone is hiding something unknown in this abandoned place.
Li Xin'an gently put her hand on the door lock. The lock collided with the door, and the sound inside the room suddenly became louder. Li Xin'an heard it clearly, that was the sound of the iron chain.
Will there be people inside?
Li Xin'an spat out her inner strength, broke the door lock, kicked open the door and walked in.
The sun shone into the room from behind him, and Li Xin'an saw a scene that he could never imagine in his life.
In a corner of the room, a woman curled up tightly like a frightened rabbit. Her feet were bare, her skin had cracks, her clothes were messy and covered with mud. She looked like a fairy in the sky who had fallen into a quagmire.
In the words of the woman, she is holding two swords.
"Master Lu..."
Li Xin'an's eyes were dull. He couldn't imagine that the woman in front of him, this poor woman covered in dust, was actually Lu Qingdai!
How could it be her! It couldn't be her! Even if Lu Qingdai died...it shouldn't be her!
Li Xin'an walked forward tremblingly, wanting to confirm whether the person in front of him was really Lu Qingdai. But the moment his hand touched Lu Qingdai's face, Lu Qingdai suddenly went crazy and screamed. She
He waved his sword desperately and was hysterical in an attempt to drive Li Xin'an out.
Li Xin'an was startled, stepped back in a daze, and stepped on an iron object. He lowered his head and found that he was stepping on a rice bowl.
Li Xin'an was very familiar with the style of the rice bowl. He was also very familiar with the remaining food in the rice bowl.
"Master Lu." Li Xin'an stepped forward and held Lu Qingdai's wrist, comforting him: "I am the master of Villa Lu, I am Li Xin'an!"
Lu Qingdai's roaring voice gradually became quieter, and her cloudy eyes gradually regained some clarity. Looking at Li Xin'an's face, she opened her lips with difficulty and whispered the name.
"Li Xin'an?"
"It's me, it's me!" Li Xin'an bit her lip tightly, took the two swords out of Lu Qingdai's hands and put them together.
Next to her, Lu Qingdai's messy hair was combed and her clothes were arranged.
"Master Lu, I am Li Xin'an, I'm here."
Lu Qingdai suddenly started sobbing, and after a while, she burst into tears.
Tears wet Li Xin'an's chest. Li Xin'an hugged Lu Qingdai tightly, his body trembling violently. He looked up at the roof, trying not to shed tears.
It's really great that you're not dead.
I will repay you ten times and a hundred times for all the suffering you have suffered!
"You bastard..." Lu Qingdai suddenly bit Li Xin'an's chest and cried vaguely: "Why did you hold me and jump into the river? Why didn't you hold me tight and let me float downstream alone...
"
"Why did you come just now?"
Li Xin'an bit the tip of his tongue hard, and the severe pain calmed him down. The calmer he was, the greater the murderous intention in his heart.
"Don't worry." Li Xin'an gently stroked Lu Qingdai's hair, as if to comfort her beloved daughter.
"When I come, I will never leave you again." Li Xin'an said softly, "I will make you pay the price for making you become like this."
Lu Qingdai curled up in Li Xin'an's arms. For the first time in her life, she felt that a man's embrace was so warm. It was so warm that Lu Qingdai could forget all this, cry without restraint, or fall asleep without restraint.
But the sudden sound of footsteps broke this short and warm moment.
At the door, a man rushed in panting. Upon noticing his appearance, Lu Qingdai immediately shrank behind Li Xin'an like a frightened kitten and screamed in horror.
"It's him! It's him..."
Who is he? The answer is self-evident.
Li Xin'an gently patted Lu Qingdai's jade hand and said comfortingly: "Okay, okay, I'm here, no one can bully you anymore, everything will pass."
The man looked fierce and said through gritted teeth, "It's you!"
"Do you know me?" Li Xin'an felt murderous intent in his chest and slowly picked up his White Rainbow Sword.
This sword was not lost. It had always been held in Lu Qingdai's arms. Even after so many days of inhuman treatment, Lu Qingdai never let go.
And now, Li Xin'an wants to use this sword to kill this beast!
"Brother, why are you running so fast?" A familiar voice rang in Li Xin'an's ears, and both he and the man were stunned for a moment.
Sun Xiaocui ran all the way over and walked into the room before the man could cover her up: "What are you doing? I can't catch up with you. Why don't you tell me to wait for me?"
The girl turned her head and met Li Xin'an's eyes.
Of course, she also saw Lu Qingdai behind Li Xin'an.
"Master Li, why are you..."
Sun Xiaocui hesitated to speak. She looked at Li Xin'an and then at her brother, her face gradually turning pale.
"Brother, what on earth is going on?"
Lu Qingdai put her head on Li Xin'an's back, her body trembled, and she begged in tears: "Li Xin'an, I beg you, can you kill him? I beg you to kill him!"