When Shen Huai got up, Qi Rin and the others were already sitting in the front hall, looking at their appearance, they seemed to be discussing something important.

During this period, Qi Xun and Qi Yuan spoke quite energetically. The scorching red clothes fell in Shen Huai's eyes, which was very conspicuous.

Qi Han still looked indifferent and speechless, holding a cup of tea, sitting in the corner with his head down, not knowing what he was thinking.

Qi Rin frowned slightly, listening to Qi Yuan and Qi Xun chattering and arguing.

Qi Xun talked less than Qi Yuan, but every sentence hit the nail on the head, and Qi Yuan couldn't speak.

At this moment, everyone heard a few soft noises from behind them, and the conversation stopped abruptly, and they all turned their heads to look.

Shen Huai approached Qi Rin in a wheelchair and asked a few words softly.

Qi Rin walked in front of Shen Huai, bent down and told her what they were arguing about, and between his eyebrows was the gentleness that Qi Xun had never seen before.

It turned out that Qi Xun and the others came here this time not only to welcome Qi Rin and Shen Huai, but also to go to Lincheng to investigate a case of officials abusing power for personal gain.

When Shen Huai heard this, he knew that it was definitely not an ordinary case, otherwise he would not have asked Qi Xun and the three of them to go over to investigate together.

When he really heard the back, Shen Huai couldn't help but be taken aback.

The official was the prefect of Lincheng, who had been in power for five or six years, not to mention the vegetarian meal, and also squeezed the people below in vain, and even caused several murders.

But paper can't contain fire after all. A month ago, some people in Lincheng stabbed this matter in front of Qi Wenzhao.

Qi Wenzhao was furious at the moment, and after ordering someone to settle the people, he immediately ordered Qi Yuan and the three of them to pack their bags and rush to Lincheng in person to investigate the matter.

Qi Yuan's original intention was to let Qi Rin take Shen Huai back to the royal city first, and the matter of Lincheng would be handled by the three of them.

But Qi Rin and Qi Xun disagreed.

As the eldest brother, Qi Rin naturally bears more on his shoulders than them. He withdrew himself and returned to the royal city, and let Qi Xun, Qi Yuan, and Qi Han go to investigate and deal with such a thing, Qi Rin would never be able to do it.

Qi Yuan wanted Qi Rin to take Shen Huai away from this place, so after persuading Qi Rin to no avail, he set his sights on Shen Huai.

"Miss Shen, do you want to go back earlier and meet your father and mother?" Qi Yuan looked at Shen Huai earnestly and said bitterly.

Shen Huai's eyes rolled, the corners of his mouth hooked slightly, and he looked at Qi Rin.

"Rin, do you want to go to Lincheng?"

Qi Rin nodded when he heard this.

"I listen to Rin." Shen Huai turned his head and looked at Qi Yuan again, his eyebrows raised, with a bit of playfulness.

Qi Yuan turned his face away at that time, expressing his unwillingness to look at it any longer.

Acid kills him.

I knew that he wouldn't ask Shen Huai much.

Qi Rin also followed Shen Huai, curled the corners of his lips, and there was a bit of warmth between his eyebrows and eyes.

Qi Yuan felt that he was even more sour.

Or did he pack up and salute and return to the royal city, and let Shen Huai and Qi Rin go to Lincheng alone.

Qi Han didn't know when he had already put down the cup in his hand, and raised his head fixedly to look at Shen Huai and Qi Rin.

In the afternoon of the same day, everyone hastily had lunch and set foot on the road to Lincheng.

Lincheng is not very far from here, but it takes some work.

Shen Huai bumped around in the carriage for more than five or six days before coming to Lincheng.

As soon as he stepped out of the carriage, Shen Huai saw the ruined city gate.

A few yellow creepers climbed on top of the stone wall, and a gust of wind blew and dropped a few withered leaves.

Qi Rin stepped on the fallen leaves and entered the city.

The whole city presents a desolate scene, that is, on the main street in the city, Shen Huai rarely sees street vendors.

Qi Rin couldn't help frowning as he looked at everything in front of him.

Although the boundary of this city is a little off, it will not be such a declining scene.

Just as the group was about to ask the local people about it, a little girl in a gray dress stumbled towards everyone.

Qi Xun looked at the little girl with a wary expression.

This also can't blame him, because of his noble background, Qi Xun has experienced several assassinations since he was a child, and the identities of those assassins are also different.

There was even an Assassin who approached him in the form of a faltering old woman, who nearly wounded him in the end.

Shen Huai stood beside Qi Rin, and his sharp eyes found a blood stain on the hem of the little girl's clothes.

"Wait." Shen Huai stretched out his hand to push Qi Rin away, walked to the little girl in a wheelchair, and opened his hands to her.

Qi Xun looked at Shen Huai disapprovingly, wanting to stop him, but he didn't want to be stopped by Qi Rin.

He wouldn't let anyone hurt Shen Huai.

The little girl threw herself into Shen Huai's arms and sobbed in her arms.

Shen Huai vaguely heard what she said, but he didn't hear what she said clearly.

Qi Yuan looked at the extra child in Shen Huai's arms, touched his nose and said, "So where should we go now?"

This is an extra child, and it is not easy to move.

The little girl wrapped her hands tightly around Shen Huai, refusing to let go.

Shen Huai couldn't, so he had to hold people all the way.

"Let's go find an inn first."

Qi Xun nodded when he heard the voice, and asked people to go to the front to investigate.

Shen Huai and the others followed slowly behind with the child.

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way!" Suddenly, several fierce guards pushed and shoved the people in front of them, and walked straight towards Shen Huai and the others.

Some of the people were very unconvinced, and raised their heads to defend themselves, but when they saw their clothes, they all fell silent and did not speak again.

That's the prefect's people.

Shen Huai felt the little girl in his arms tremble vigorously after hearing the voices of the guards, and his two hands wrapped around her.

Shen Huai stretched out his free hand, soothed the little girl's back, and whispered in her ear, "Don't be afraid."

The little girl's body was still trembling.

Just when Shen Huai was about to say something, the guards had already pushed through the crowd and walked in front of them.

The guard at the head stretched out his hand and wanted to pull the little girl in Shen Huai's arms, but was stopped by Qi Yuan.

"Do what?" Qi Yuan squinted his eyes at the guard, and pressed one hand on the saber at his waist.

The guards glanced back and forth at Shen Huai's group of people, and after realizing that there were several guards beside them, they withdrew their hands stupidly, and shouted to everyone with a fierce expression: "I will do things on the orders of the prefect, please don't disturb the idle people."

Shen Huai met the guard's gaze fearlessly, covering the girl's face from being seen.

"Since you are acting on the orders of the prefect, why do you touch my sister?"

"We suspect that this child is ......the one who went missing from the prefect's house," the guard snapped his gaze on the little girl's back.

"You said yes?" Without waiting for the guard to finish speaking, Shen Huai raised his neck and retorted, raising his eyebrows.

Shen Huai's almost rude words obviously angered those guards.

One of the guards cursed indignantly and leaned forward, wanting to snatch the little girl in Shen Huai's arms.

Shen Huai glanced at the man, and suddenly reached out to cover the girl's ear.

The next moment, the screams of the guards rang out.

Qi Rin glanced at the guard holding his bloodied right hand, and slowly withdrew the sword.

"But anyone else wants to try it?" Shen Huai looked at the frightened guards opposite, laughing harmlessly.

It's just that the remaining guards obviously didn't have that much courage, and after seeing the pool of blood stains on the ground, they decisively put down a few cruel words and fled.

Shen Huai's gaze moved to the man lying on the ground wailing, and the corners of his lips were raised.

She was still wondering how to figure this out, and a ready-made one came to the door.

The owner of the inn was stunned when he saw Shen Huai and his party dragging a screaming guard in.

But fortunately, Qi Xun gave them a lot of silver, and the boss couldn't get along with the silver, so he accepted the silver at the moment, and arranged a room for Shen Huai and them with a smile.

Qi Han dragged the screaming guards with a fierce face, and casually pulled a rag to gag his mouth. Then he took the person to his room, Qi Xun and Qi Yuan glanced at each other and followed.

Shen Huai ordered a bucket of hot water, and then took the little girl back to his room.

Shu'er and Bu Shao followed Shen Huai into the house.

During this period, Shen Huai asked the little girl's name, surnamed Xia, and her name was Yunyu.

Shen Huai tried to ask her where her family was while putting on new clothes for her.

But as soon as Shen Huai's words fell, Xia Yunji's eyes turned red again, and he stumbled and said a few words to Shen Huai.

Only then did Shen Huai know that Xia Yunzhen was originally from the prefect's mansion, but her parents accidentally discovered some terrible secret, so they were killed by others.

Shen Huai was silent for a while after listening to her words, then took the handkerchief on the side to wipe the tears off her face, and comforted her softly.

Gradually, Xia Yunchu was tired from crying, and fell asleep slowly on the couch.

Shen Huai carefully folded the quilt for her, and gave in to shake the crowd. Then he took Shu'er out and went to find Qi Rin.

Qi Rin was in Qi Han's room at the moment, interrogating the guard with Qi Xun and Qi Yuan.

When Shen Huai found them, the guard had almost said everything he had to say, and the gist of it was similar to what Shen Huai had learned from Xia Yunji.

"The girl has a half-centimeter-long scar on her arm, but you cut it?" Shen Huai stepped forward and looked at the guard with cold eyes.

Just as she was cleaning her, she noticed that something was wrong with her left arm. When she lifted her sleeve to check, she was surprised to find a dry scar on her white arm.

When Shen Huai was sprinkling medicinal powder and wrapping bandages for her, her whole hand was trembling.

The woman has the most important face, and the scar on her arm is destined to be indelible and will follow her for the rest of her life.

Shen Huai was a little afraid to imagine that she would feel inferior because of this scar when she grew up.

A rag was stuffed into the guard's mouth, and he shivered at Shen Huaisen's cold gaze, shaking his head again and again.