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Chapter 88: In the Bamboo Forest (Two Chapters in One)

Although Zhuxitang has the word "bamboo" in its name and there are scattered bamboos in the village, there are no large bamboo forests.

This is not only true for Zhuxitang, but also for the surrounding Huangzhu Village and Qingzhu Village. The bamboo forests are all at the junction of the two villages. No matter which direction you look in, seeing large tracts of bamboo forests means you are about to leave the village.

Zhao Shiqing closed his eyes and groped forward. After taking a few steps, his fingers were cut by the tangled bamboo branches and a drop of blood dripped from his fingertips.

Zhao Shiqing didn't care and continued to move forward. Suddenly, the bloody hand was grabbed by the sleeve from behind. A familiar voice with a cold breath brushed past her ears: "You were still young at that time. You couldn't have walked here alone."

Zhao Shiqing was slightly stunned. Did Xiao really see what she was going to do?
She didn't open her eyes. Of course she guessed that she was being held hostage. Wasn't she trying to find the feeling she had back then?
Just like yesterday on the swing, inspiration suddenly came to me.

Xiao Zhen looked at the little girl in front of him, his eyes slightly closed, his long eyelashes covering his bright eyes, like a butterfly's wings hovering in the shadow of a flower.

Xiao Zhen suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of accomplishment in his heart. I was the one who saved this girl.

But the next moment, another voice mocked in his heart: "You still sent her to the kidnapper."

Xiao Zhen sighed silently. If he could have another chance to be reborn and meet the young Zhao Shiqing again, he would neither send her to that black-hearted doctor nor hand her over to the government. He would search every inch of this bamboo sea and bamboo mountain to find her family.

Even if he couldn't find her family in the end, he would bring her back to the capital. The princess had been looking forward to having a daughter, and she would definitely like Zhao Shiqing when she saw her.

Although the princess is full of princess syndrome, she will definitely treat Zhao Shiqing as the apple of her eye and will never treat her indiscriminately and cruelly like Concubine Liang.

If he had brought Zhao Shiqing back to the capital back then, the princess's mansion would have had such a smart, clever, lovely and eloquent girl, and the princess's husband and mother would have had a spiritual sustenance and would not have had to be so affectionate all day long.

At this moment, Zhao Shiqing suddenly pulled her sleeve away from his hand, then bent down, trying to make herself as close to her height as she was back then, and then continued to grope forward.

Xiao really wanted to say: Let me carry you on my back.

But of course I can't say that.

With a frosty face, he called back Ling Bo who was exploring the way ahead: "Carry your young lady on your back."

Ling Bo didn't understand, but seeing that Zhao Shiqing didn't object, she gritted her teeth, exerted some strength, and carried Zhao Shiqing on her back.

Like lady, like maid. Although both the master and servant had learned martial arts, they were only slightly stronger than ordinary people. She carried Zhao Shiqing, who was about the same height and weight as herself, on her back. After only walking a dozen steps, Zhao Shiqing felt shaky and seemed like he would fall down at the next moment.

"Stop, stop!" Zhao Shiqing hurriedly called for a stop.

Ling Bo: "Don't be afraid, Second Miss. I can do it."

"That won't work. It's not like that!" Zhao Shiqing said.

Ling Bo had no choice but to stop and put Zhao Shiqing down.

"Second Miss, why isn't this possible?" Ling Bo was puzzled.

Zhao Shiqing said, "Think about it, who would carry a little girl on their back? Could it be that the person who held me hostage was also a child who was about the same height as me?"

Ling Bo shook his head: "It shouldn't be a child."

Zhao Shiqing tilted her head and thought for a moment, then looked at Xiao Zhen and said, "Master Zhen, if you were to hold a four or five-year-old girl hostage, how would you take her away? Carry her on your back? Hold her in your arms? Hold her by the hand?"

Xiao Zhen's face turned red. Carrying, holding, and leading? Miss Zhao Er, you are so bold.

"Hold it under your armpit." Xiao Zhen said.

He had seen his uncle catch Xiao Xiaosu from outside and hold him under his armpits. Xiao Xiaosu was crying and shouting, and kicking his legs wildly.

There was no way. Xiao Zhen had only seen it, he had not experienced it. From childhood to adulthood, he had always been a child who never caused his parents any worries.

"Yeah, why didn't I think of that?" Zhao Shiqing suddenly realized that this was what the men in Baihe Village did when they caught their naughty kids back home.

However, she was not a naughty child when she was young, and her father would never treat her like this. Only bad guys who catch children would treat her in this way.

Zhao Shiqing looked at Lingbo's thin arms. Not to mention Lingbo, even Loach couldn't help here. She wasn't bragging, Loach's physique was not as good as hers.

Her gaze swept across Ling Bo and fell on Xiao Zhen's face.

Xiao Zhen should be able to do it.

But there seems to be something about men and women not being able to touch each other.

But there is another saying: filial piety is more important than anything else. If she wants to find her parents and fulfill her filial duty, then there are no taboos!
Zhao Shiqing convinced herself as quickly as possible, and she began to lobby Xiao Zhen again.

Xiao Zhen is a child of aristocratic family, and he is usually old-fashioned. Zhao Shiqing can only bring out the theory that filial piety is more important than anything else to convince Xiao Zhen.

Fortunately, Xiao Zhen didn't act pretentiously and said, "I'm sorry."

The next moment, Zhao Shiqing's feet left the ground, and the next moment, she was crossed at the waist and held under the armpits.

Zhao Shiqing was surprised for just a moment, then he calmed down and closed his eyes.

Xiao Zhen's feet were as fast as the wind as he shuttled through the bamboo forest.

Zhao Shiqing's eyes were filled with darkness, and she could hear the sound of clothes rubbing against bamboo branches. She tried to raise her face upwards, and a ray of sunlight happened to shine through the bamboo forest onto her face. Even with her eyes closed, there was still light in front of her eyes.

Zhao Shiqing subconsciously covered her eyes with her hands. The finger that was pierced by the bamboo branch was still bleeding. If it were someone else, they would not be able to smell anything at all from this little bit of blood. However, Zhao Shiqing's sense of smell was superior to that of ordinary people. Although there was only a little bit of blood from the pierced finger, she could smell the unique smell of human blood.

A thought suddenly popped into her mind: This is not chicken blood or goat blood, this is the smell of human blood. When Dr. Yang's grandson was rescued by her father, they shed a lot of blood, and it smelled like this.

Suddenly, a memory that had long been imprisoned in the cage of time, at this moment, broke through the shackles and surged in like a surging river!

It was a dark night, it was raining, I woke up, there was a bamboo forest, there was a smell of blood, I was hit hard, and I lost consciousness.

No, it seems like she has overlooked something. What is it?

Zhao Shiqing imagined herself as a little kid being held under the armpits by a gangster, running through dense bamboo forests. There was no sign of her parents or grandma, only that stranger with a bloody smell.

Zhao Shiqing reached out and felt it, and it felt rough. It was the deerskin bag that Xiao Zhen always carried with him.

The Wu area had strict control over swords and knives. In order to enter and exit the city gate conveniently, Xiao Zhen, like Jiang Ping Cai An, also wrapped a soft sword around his waist. Therefore, his deerskin bag only contained some personal belongings, but no weapons.

This is also something that young masters like to wear, so the deerskin bags are extremely luxurious, some are embroidered, and some are inlaid with gold and jade.

Xiao Zhen originally changed his name and surname because he didn't want to attract attention, so his deerskin bag was plain and simple, with only a few copper nails inlaid on it.

Zhao Shiqing's hand groped on the deerskin bag, stroking the copper nails, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. There were a total of seven copper nails on Xiao Zhen's deerskin bag.

"So it's the Big Dipper." Zhao Shiqing said secretly.

Suddenly, her finger stopped on the last copper nail. No, it shouldn't be the Big Dipper, but a more complicated pattern. What is it?

Zhao Shiqing's fingers moved quickly across the deerskin bag. Yes, that was it, it was this pattern. Unfortunately, it was not a complete pattern. Before she finished touching it, she was knocked unconscious by something.

What hit it?

At that time, she was held under the man's armpits, at the same angle as now.

Suddenly, a slightly cool big hand fell on her forehead, touched it lightly and then took it away.

It was a palm. She was knocked unconscious by that man.

There is no need for advanced martial arts skills; an ordinary strong man can knock a child unconscious with just one slap.

Zhao Shiqing touched her head. No wonder she could memorize things quickly but forget them quickly. It was all because of that bad guy. Poor head. First, she was knocked unconscious by a bad guy, and then she was fed an excessive amount of drugs by another bad guy. And she was still a little child at that time!
Either of these two blows would be fatal to a child. If she didn't lose her memory, then who would? Compared to being killed by them or becoming a fool, losing her memory is simply God's favor to her.

"Found it, right here!"

There were cheers coming from the front, and Zhao Shiqing recognized it as Lu Niuer's voice.

Lu Niu'er at this moment was completely different from the weak and lazy Lu Niu'er in the morning. Even his voice had power. It is said that the environment can affect a person, but for Lu Niu'er, the environment had not had time to change yet, but he had already been reborn. This was not due to the environment, but to the silver. The eighty taels and the twenty taels that were about to be received were the confidence of Lu Niu'er.

Once a person has confidence, he will be like a pine tree on a mountain. No matter how windy and frost-proof it is, he will still remain proud and unyielding.

Zhao Shiqing opened her eyes. She had found this memory. Next, she wanted to go see where the peddler had been.

"Master Zhen, please put me down."

Xiao Zhen paused, he also heard Lu Niuer's cheers, so, Miss Zhao Er's dream-seeking journey has come to an end for the time being?
Xiao Zhen stopped and loosened his hand. Zhao Shiqing stood firmly on the ground and clasped his fists towards him: "Thank you, Master Zhen."

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhao Shiqing laughed and said, "Look at my memory. What Master Zhen? I should call him uncle."

萧真
"I don't have a niece this old, so you should just call me Master Zhen."

Zhao Shiqing rolled his eyes, as if no one was willing to call him uncle.

I don't know what is good for me. I wish I could be someone's elder, but unfortunately I don't have the chance. My elder brother, elder sister and second brother are not married yet, so if she wants to be an aunt, she has to wait a long time. If there is someone now who is willing to call her aunt, she will be as happy as a morning glory, and the one with the biggest mouth.

She didn't have time to make friends with Xiao Zhen, so she called out Ling Bo, and the master and servant ran one after the other in the direction where Lu Niu'er was.

From a distance, I could see a piece of open space on the hillside. There were no bamboos or other trees here.

However, when we say open space, it does not mean that there is no grass anywhere.

Although there are no bamboos here, there are stones.

I saw a few stones not far away. It seemed that these stones had been placed here for a long time, and the bottoms of the stones were deeply sunken into the soil.

"This is what you said?"

Zhao Shiqing asked.

Lu Niu'er was very excited: "It's here, right here. I remember it very clearly. There are a few stones placed here. The stones are not big, so they are placed here. If they were placed somewhere else, they would have been dug up and placed in the backyard of the landlord's house."

Zhao Shiqing walked around the stones several times but couldn't see anything.

"You two, move all these stones away." Zhao Shiqing ordered.

The two strong men following Lu Niu'er were bored with nothing to do. When they finally got the order, they immediately rolled up their sleeves and moved the stones aside effortlessly.

Beneath the stones was uneven, wet mud.

"Lu Niu'er, can you act out what the peddler did when he came here that day?"

Lu Niuer thought about it and started to perform.

It’s called a performance, but it’s actually very simple.

Lu Niu'er made a gesture of putting down the burden on his shoulders, then he looked around, tiptoed to the stones, walked around them in a circle, and when he looked up, he saw little Lu Niu'er looking at him stupidly.

The man panicked and said, "You little bastard, who told you to follow me?"

Lu Niu'er imitated him and looked fierce and fierce.

Unfortunately, Lu Niuer is not that kind of person, and he can never imitate that person no matter what.

Everyone knows what happened next. The man chased Lu Niuer all the way until he chased him into the water, and then he kicked Lu Niuer into the pond.

After Zhao Shiqing read it, she felt more and more upset. She didn't know what was causing this sudden upset, nor could she describe it. It was as if something was blocking her chest. Not only did her heart feel uncomfortable, but it also felt sour and uncomfortable.

This legendary clearing now appears to me even more confusing.

She thought for a moment and said to the two strong men, "Go ahead and dig this place up."

They decided to follow Lu Niuer on the spur of the moment. At first, they just wanted to take a look here, and of course they didn't bring any tools.

Now, at Zhao Shiqing's command, the two men went to find tools.

Zhao Shiqing stood there in a daze. For some reason, looking at the mossy area, Zhao Shiqing felt his nose sore and he felt indescribably uncomfortable.

After waiting for a whole incense stick of time, the two strong men finally came back, and both of them had suitable tools.

With the tools in place, digging can be done faster.

Suddenly, a black shadow flew over, but stopped above Zhao Shiqing's head and stood firmly on Zhao Shiqing's shoulder.

Xiaoguai is here.

But at this moment, everyone's attention was on the two strong men, and no one knew what they could dig out.

If it was jars of silver, it would be shocking.

Suddenly, a sturdy man exclaimed, "There seems to be something underneath."

Before he finished speaking, Xiaoguai, who was standing on Zhao Shiqing's shoulder, suddenly flew up and rushed towards the burly man.

Lu Niu'er was startled. Children who grew up in the countryside have all seen eagles. Although this eagle was not big, its movements were fierce and it looked like it was going to peck the strong man.

The sturdy man was also surprised. He was a martial artist and was about to swing the shovel to protect himself, but he saw Xiaoguai didn't even look at him, but pecked at the dug ground!