Madam, she always wants to run away

Chapter 44 Crazy Demon
The sky has eyes, and the three groups of troops sent by Xiao Lian successfully intercepted the villains who tried to spread the plague, but unfortunately, only one person in Xiao Lian's hands remained among the dead.

As soon as Xiao Lian returned to Anlefang, he was in a hurry to interrogate the prisoner, and was reprimanded by Li Ying.

"I've heard it all. You were almost beaten to the ground."

"...creating something out of nothing, who is spreading rumors?"

"Oh, then you can show me a sword dance?"

"This...it doesn't have to be."

Li Ying angrily took off the sword around his waist, took off his dirty cloak and said, "Stay in the room for me today and have a good rest, and you are not allowed to go anywhere."

"But..." Xiao Lian wanted to say something, but Li Ying gave him a hard look, and quickly shut up.

While pushing Xiao Lian towards the bed, Li Ying muttered, "Since those people have been stopped, there is no urgent matter for the sky to fall. Your health is important, and I don't want you to die in front of me."

Xiao Lian didn't know whether to laugh or cry, just when she was about to be pushed to the corner of the bed, Xiao Lian sat on the edge of the bed and took Li Ying into his arms.

Before Li Ying could react, Xiao Lian had already hugged her from behind and sat on his lap stiffly.

"Let me go!" Li Ying blushed in embarrassment. In broad daylight, he was a patient who hadn't recovered yet. What did he want to do? !
"Don't move around." Xiao Lian's voice suddenly became a little hoarse.

Li Ying seemed to sense something, and immediately sat obediently on his lap without struggling.

"I'll just hug you." Xiao Lian leaned on her back, smelling the pleasant fragrance on her body, and took a deep breath.

My nerves are tense every day, and only when I stay with her can I feel a little relaxed.

"What's wrong with you?" Seeing Xiao Lian's silence, Li Ying felt a little worried for a while.

"It's nothing, I'm a little tired."

"Lie down, I'll sleep with you." Li Ying got out of his arms, took off her shoes and socks, and lay down beside him.

Xiao Lian held her hand and soon fell into a dream.

Seeing the person beside him sleeping soundly, Li Ying couldn't help raising his arms, and looked at him carefully.

He really lost a lot of weight. He must look like his mother, with high browbones and deep eye sockets. He was originally very good-looking, but after being ill, the sunken eye sockets made him look particularly haggard.Of course, his nose was still so high and straight, and his thin lips, which were originally a little cold, relaxed their curvature at the moment, and they were vivid and cute in her eyes.

Looking at it, Li Ying unconsciously leaned over and left a light kiss on his lips.

Unexpectedly, the moment she touched his lips, Li Ying suddenly felt dizzy and dizzy, and when he looked closely, he was crushed under the sleeping man just now.

"You...you didn't sleep?"

"A marching man will wake up at the slightest disturbance, let alone the prey brought to his door?" Xiao Lian put his arm on his hand, looking with great interest at the beauty under him who covered her face and dared not look at her.

"I, I'm just... fascinated by ghosts for a while!"

"It can make Madam fall in love with me. My face is not in vain."

Li Ying peeked through his fingers and found that he was curling up his mouth, smiling wickedly, so he went all out, pouted and said, "I'll just kiss you, what else do you want?"

Xiao Lian gave a muffled smile and said, "I still want to continue."

After speaking, his kiss came in like a broken bamboo.

Suddenly, the atmosphere in the room was very delicate.Neither of them spoke.

It took a while for Li Ying to regain his composure, and hastily said, "I'll make you some medicine."

Xiao Lian lay back to his original position in embarrassment, and said, "Well, then I'll sleep for a while."

Li Ying put on her shoes and hurriedly escaped.

Recalling his outrageous behavior, Xiao Lian couldn't help covering his eyes with his forearm, but when he looked closely, he could see the corners of his mouth constantly rising.

Autumn in Nanhe City is fleeting. Seeing that the day is getting colder and colder every day, Li Ying is worried about it, and takes care of Xiao Lian every day. He is not allowed to work hard, let alone worry.

Half a month later, the patients recovered one after another and left Anlefang, Xiao Lian also recovered, and everything was back on track, so Li Ying allowed him to continue his work.

The poor prisoner was imprisoned for half a month for no reason, and he was anxious every day, wondering what tricks Xiao Lian was playing with him.I hope that Xiao Lian will finish his interrogation soon so that he can die. The drive to die has passed, and now he wants to die again, but he can no longer muster the courage.I hope Xiao Lian will not come, but being locked up in this prison for a lifetime is not a way out.

After half a month of living like this, when Xiao Lian thought of him, the prisoner was a little delirious and kept talking to himself in the prison.

"My lord, do you want to be interrogated?"

Xiao Lian raised his hand: "No, I'll listen to what he's saying."

"This person is probably insane, talking all day and night, chanting words in his mouth."

"Go get a chair."

Xiao Lian just sat on the wall next to the prison cell and listened carefully. Although this man could not understand nine out of ten sentences, Xiao Lian still wrote down a few key words after a whole day.

"My name is Chen Hongyuan, not Cheng Hongyuan... My name is Chen Hongyuan, not Cheng Hongyuan..."

"Master, I was wrong, you killed me..."

"Grandpa, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'll come to apologize to you right away!"

Xiao Lian moved his numb legs and arms, took the paper in his hand, and left the cell thoughtfully.

"Go and check, everyone named Cheng Hongyuan in Nanhe City."

"Yes!"

Xiao Lian probably had a guess in his mind, and after the confession, Xiao Lian wandered around Anle Fang, and now there are only two or three people left here, and they will be back to normal soon.

"Uh uh ah..."

When passing through a door, accompanied by a few strange sounds, Xiao Lian seemed to be restrained by something, unable to move for a while.He turned around and saw the old woman whom he rescued from Yongjia was pulling his clothes, trying to say something.

Xiao Lian frowned, is there any inconvenience that needs his help?But he remembered that the old woman was deaf and dumb, how to communicate?

Xiao Lian was worried when Li Ying came with a pen and paper.

"How did you come?"

"The old woman had been drawing with me for a long time before I realized that she wanted a pen and paper. I just went to get it for her when I saw you here."

The old woman made another "uh uh ah ah" sound, Li Ying quickly handed over the pen and paper, and asked, "Old woman, are you literate?"

The old woman shook her head, and the two looked at each other. It was strange, what did she want paper and pen for being illiterate?
The old woman clutched the pen in a strange way, scribbled on the paper and drew a very crude map.

Li Ying looked at the horizontal and vertical lines on the paper, and asked doubtfully, "Is this Nanhe City?"

Xiao Lian nodded: "Three main streets, two auxiliary streets, and one moat, it should be right."

After the old woman finished drawing, she held the pen in her hand and kept pointing to a certain place on the paper: "Uh uh uh..."

"What does the old lady mean, she wants to go here?"

"It should be, is her illness cured?"

"It got better a few days ago, but I don't know why I have been refusing to leave. It seems that I have figured it out today?"

"Then send a few people to send her back."

"Uh-uh--" The old woman made a series of noises anxiously when she saw the two men gesticulating to leave. The old woman pointed to Xiao Lian and then to the point in the picture.

"She wants me to go with her?"

"It seems to mean that."

"This old woman has been behaving strangely since the first day she saw me. I want to see what kind of medicine she sells in her gourd."

"I'll go with you."

"No, what if there is danger?"

"What's the danger? This old woman is deaf and dumb, poor thing, she can still eat me?"

Half a month ago, Xiao Lian would definitely not agree.But now he has regained his confidence in his martial arts, protecting her is no problem.

"Then let's go."

The two of them followed the old woman out of the gate of Anlefang, and after making seven turns, they finally arrived at the position drawn on the picture of the old woman before sunset.

Looking at the almost dilapidated hut in front of him, Li Ying couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Does the old woman live here all alone? This house looks like it will collapse at any time."

"Having a place to shelter from the wind and rain is not easy for many people." Xiao Lian patted Li Ying's hand to comfort him.

The old woman stood at the door of the crumbling house and waved to Xiao Lian.

Li Ying plucked up her courage, and followed Xiao Lian to step in.

There was an unpleasant musty smell in the house, and the old woman bent over and lit a poor-quality candle, which dimly illuminated the dimly lit house.

Li Ying looked around, the house could be said to be barren, except for a bed, a table and a stove, there was nothing else to be found.

"What is the old lady going to do?" Li Ying asked curiously.

"Don't worry, you see."

The old woman scooped up a spoonful of water from the water tank outside the house, and carefully washed her hands over and over again until the water became turbid.

Then she unexpectedly knelt down on the ground and kowtowed three times in the direction of the head of the bed, which made Li Ying dumbfounded.

After doing all this, the old woman stood up tremblingly, stretched out her hand and lifted the mat on the bed, and opened a mezzanine at the head of the bed with difficulty.

Li Ying glanced at Xiao Lian, he had been looking at the old woman very calmly.

When the old woman took out a painting from the interlayer, when she opened the painting with a "wow", Xiao Lian's expression could no longer be calm.

A picture of a beauty was displayed in front of the two of them.

The person in the painting has long black hair, skin like snow, a pair of green pupils on a slapped face, which is different from that of people from the Central Plains, deep eye sockets, and a small red lip under her tall nose.

Except for the color of the pupils, these facial features are exactly the same as Xiao Lian standing beside Li Ying.

"Could it be..." Before Li Ying finished speaking, Xiao Lian strode forward and snatched the painting from the old woman's hand, and asked sharply, "Where did you get my mother's portrait?!"

After asking, he realized that the old woman could not hear him.

Xiao Lian pointed the painting at the old woman, pointed at the painting with trembling fingers, then pointed to his own mouth, and said word by word to the old woman: "Where, come on?"

The old woman signaled Xiao Lian not to get excited, she turned around again, and took out a letter from the interlayer.

Things got really weird.Xiao Lian saw a portrait of his biological mother in a county that was neither his mother's hometown, nor was it thousands of miles away from the capital.It stands to reason that these paintings were either in Xiao Lian's study, or were buried with her mother. How could one of them be in Nanhecheng?
The old woman handed the letter to Xiao Lian, and seeing that Xiao Lian refused to accept it, she was so anxious that she said "uhhhhhh" again.

"Open it and have a look. I don't think the old lady has any bad intentions. She cleaned her hands before taking the portrait. Maybe it's your mother's old acquaintance."

Xiao Lian took the already yellowed letter suspiciously and opened it. When he saw the contents of the letter clearly, Xiao Lian's pupils shrank sharply and his whole body trembled. Knead it into a ball and throw it out.

"What nonsense!!!"

Seeing this, the old woman hurried to pick up the ball of paper.

"Say!" Xiao Lian grabbed the old woman by the throat and lifted her up high: "Who sent you here!"

The old woman was hanging in the air and struggling "uhhhhhh".

"Xiao Lian! What are you doing! Let the old lady down!"

Xiao Lian's eyes seemed to burst into flames, he gritted his teeth and said, "I'll ask you again, who sent you here!"

"Xiao Lian! You're crazy! She can't hear or speak!" Li Ying beat and pulled Xiao Lian's hand away, and the old woman was finally let down, squatting on the spot and coughing.

"What are you doing! Speak up if you have something to say!" Li Ying looked at Xiao Lian's extremely pale face, and asked again: "Then, can I read the letter?"

Xiao Lian didn't speak, so Li Ying picked up the letter and read it.

"My son Xiao Lian:
If one day you can read this letter, mother wants to say sorry to you.

Your father is gone, mother originally wanted to go with him, but who knew you would be there.

If it weren't for Xiao Chengping, that beast in clothes and clothes, who wouldn't even let me, a widow and pregnant person, I might really survive and grow up with you.

Now, I have no choice but to die.

Apart from you, my mother has nothing to worry about in this life, and you are the only person my mother can worry about.

My son, I'm sorry, may you grow up safely.

November [-], [-]th year of Deqing

Connor's own handwriting"

Li Ying held a thin piece of paper in his hand, his face full of shock.

"This...is this true?"

The old woman seemed to be afraid that the two of them would not believe it, so she hurriedly picked up the pen and began to draw on the paper.

Although the painting is simple, it can be understood at a glance.

In the spring of the [-]th year of Deqing, Xiao Cheng'an passed away. His wife Kang Na found out that she was more than one month pregnant, and she was full of grief and joy.

The emperor Xiao Chengping coveted Kang Na's beauty for a long time, but he didn't know the fact that she was pregnant, so he used the name of the palace banquet to insult her innocence.

After that, all the people around him were silenced, leaving only a few deaf-mute people to take care of them, and the old woman was one of them.

Kang Na was in grief and anger, because the fetus in her womb was forced to reach full term, and on the day Xiao Lian was born, Kang Na had no will to live, and she bled to death.

The old woman risked her life to bring out a painting and a letter written by herself, and wandered to Nanhe City.

Originally, she thought that this secret would be taken to the grave by her, but unexpectedly, she met Kang Na's own son.

Xiao Lian stared at the messy drawing paper on the table, and when the old woman finished drawing and wanted to say something to him with tears in her eyes, Xiao Lian's knees softened and she knelt down. on the ground.

Two lines of blood and tears overflowed from his scarlet eyes.

　In the preview, in the next chapter, our Yingying is going to run away again!
　　
　
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