Chapter Twenty-Six: The Thief Is Coming
Chen Xiaoyi was taken by her aunt to a small village far from the town. His arrival naturally caused a lot of discussion. His hearing was excellent, and he could still hear the villagers talking in private even after walking far away.
From the mouths of those villagers, Chen Xiaoyi roughly heard that people called this aunt Lin Yimei, a native of this village, who married into the Wang family in a neighboring village when she was young, and had a child, but once she took the child to the market and lost the child. Soon after, Aunt Lin's husband's family kicked her out of the house, and she had no choice but to return to her parents' house.
A few years later, Aunt Lin's parents left, and her brothers and sisters disliked her again. Aunt Lin did not remarry, so she could only live alone in the old house left by her parents, and gradually became a little mentally disturbed. Sometimes when she sees other people's children, she will suddenly go crazy and cry with her children, and occasionally go to snatch other people's children. Therefore, people here will warn their children to stay away from this crazy woman.
Chen Xiaoyi was very surprised, from the time he met Aunt Lin to the time he came to this village, Aunt Lin took good care of him, and he couldn't see that he was mentally deranged at all. She was warm-hearted, kind and attentive, and when she came back, she went to the pharmacy to buy him some medicines. She is such a good person, how can she be the crazy woman in the mouth of the villagers.
After that, Chen Xiaoyi stayed at Aunt Lin's house for more than ten days. Aunt Lin has always taken good care of him, sometimes going to the mountains to collect medicine for him, and also stewed one of her own big roosters to let Chen Xiaoyi make up for his body.
Under Aunt Lin's meticulous care, Chen Xiaoyi's body recovered quickly. He began to get acquainted with everything here, and when he regained his basic mobility, he couldn't sit idle. When Aunt Lin cooks, he helps cook, wash, and light a fire, and when Aunt Lin is busy, he helps feed the chickens, sweep the floor, wash the dishes, and so on.
Thanks to the experience of living alone in Xianfeng for several years, he is also handy with these trivial matters. At the beginning, Aunt Lin always stopped him and didn't let him do anything. But Chen Xiaoyi is a very stubborn and grateful person, when Aunt Lin didn't look at it, he did everything by himself.
Over time, the two reached a tacit understanding silently, except for some heavy work, Aunt Lin didn't stop him anymore. Sometimes, Aunt Lin would stand aside and watch with a smile. Her smile was full of warmth, contentment, love, and a hint of pride, like a mother looking at her sensible child.
Chen Xiaoyi also felt these subtle changes in Aunt Lin, and he himself couldn't be. When he was very young, he fantasized countless times about having such a mother. In fact, in Chen Xiaoyi's heart, compared with Aunt Lin, Aunt Lin is more in line with his imagination of his mother.
This may be because he was too bitter and humble when he was young. A woman like the princess, he has never touched, let alone imagined. The imagination of his mother in his heart is closer to the appearance of a rural woman like Aunt Lin. She is diligent and thrifty, and she loves her children. And Chen Xiaoyi's imagination of himself as a son is not much different from his current life.
The experience of these days has caused a great touch in his heart, Aunt Lin did not get confused and regarded him as her own child, but Chen Xiaoyi has begun to move Aunt Lin closer to the role of mother in his heart, his imagination and reality gradually overlapped, and gradually became a little indistinguishable from each other.
Chen Xiaoyi even thought that maybe he could stay in this house, and when he recovered from his injury, he could help Aunt Lin do more things, and he could even stay here all the time to give Aunt Lin a pension. However, he still thinks of the prince and the princess, what will they do with their enmity?
Chen Xiaoyi is very entangled, the person who can defeat a prince, how strong his power must be, such a powerful enemy, if Chen Xiaoyi insists on revenge, the people involved in it may not have a good result.
Alas......
Chen Xiaoyi couldn't help but sigh, a little upset. He looked at the clear sky outside the door and was stunned, some people, some things, churning out of his memory, disturbing his peace.
Tap ...... Tap ......
A sound of horses' hooves woke him up, and Chen Xiaoyi suddenly stood up, his eyes already looking in the direction of the village entrance. After what had happened at the city gates, he was now especially alert to the sound of horses' hooves. As the saying goes, once you are bitten by a snake, you are afraid of the well rope for ten years. He was indeed a little scared now, and the identity of the wanted man had always been his hidden concern.
The facts quickly proved his guess, and the people who came into the village galloped towards Aunt Lin's house without stopping. Chen Xiaoyi's heart jumped, and his hair suddenly stood on end. The man at the head was actually the bearded man who threw him a whip at the city gate that day.
At this moment, the beard also spotted him, and Chen Xiaoyi could clearly see that the expression on that guy's face changed from fierce at the beginning to extremely excited, and then turned into hideous. The horse team swept through the whole small village like a gust of wind, and finally stopped in front of Aunt Lin's house.
The bearded man sat down and stopped suddenly, his eyes wandered left and right, and he looked around. Then, he took out a portrait from his arms and looked at it for a while, and finally, his eyes locked on Chen Xiaoyi. At this time, Chen Xiaoyi felt like his face had been blown by a gust of wind and sand, which was hot, and he actually felt some pain.
The beard suddenly burst out laughing and shouted, "Brothers, we are going to be developed, God really helps me!"
Immediately, he shouted at Chen Xiaoyi: "Little prince, don't struggle, otherwise don't blame me for being ruthless!"
Boom!
The long knife was unsheathed, and the cold light was piercing.
Chen Xiaoyi suddenly calmed down at the moment when his long knife came out of the sheath, this should always come, and there was no way to avoid it. He puffed up his chest, stood proudly, and silently felt his internal organs in private, wanting to mobilize the power of the seven emotions that had been silent for a long time. In fact, he has been trying hard these days, but the results are not satisfactory.
With a wave of his beard, two men jumped off the horse and walked towards Chen Xiaoyi side by side. These two people are not kind people just by looking at their faces, and a long scar on the face of the person on the left extends from the corner of his eye to his chin, revealing a fierce smell, and he is definitely a brave and ruthless character. The man on the right, with a pair of dark circles wrapped around a pair of triangular eyes, showed a fierce light, but his face was full of greed and excitement, obviously this is a very dissatisfied guy.
Chen Xiaoyi still failed to mobilize the power of the seven emotions, and the two of them got closer and closer, and he simply gave up running away and resisting. Because he knew that without using the power of the Seven Emotions, any of his struggles would be in vain.
Scarface walked up to Chen Xiaoyi, and saw that he didn't have the slightest intention of resisting, but instead showed a puzzled look, but he didn't hesitate to start, and tied Chen Xiaoyi firmly in three or two clicks. The triangular eye took the opportunity to touch Chen Xiaoyi's body up and down, but found nothing, so he forced him to ask: "Tell me honestly, where are the treasures hidden, don't pretend to be dumb to Lao Tzu, you are a dignified little prince, your body will be cleaner than Lao Tzu?"
Chen Xiaoyi looked at the triangular eyes, the corners of his mouth curled, revealing a sneer. A fierce light flashed in his triangular eyes, and he raised his hand to fight, but was stopped by the beard not far away. But he was not reconciled, so he glared at Chen Xiaoyi and said: "I still think that I am the noble little prince, in three days, your family will have to go to see the prince of Yama, you are the king in the world, and you are not obedient ghosts at the bottom, hehe......"
After saying that, Triangle Eye picked up Chen Xiaoyi by the waist, and threw him on the back of the horse after trotting all the way. Then, the triangular eye jumped on the horse's back, returned the long knife to the sheath, led the horse with his right hand, and held Chen Xiaoyi down with his left hand.
Chen Xiaoyi was pressed by his big hand on his back, and he was suddenly a little out of breath, and his little face was red. The beard glanced at it, and then said: "Third child, lightly start, don't press people to death, how can you go back?"
Triangle Eyes immediately replied with a smile: "Don't worry, big brother, I just want to educate this kid and let him figure out what his current situation is." "Pay attention, let's go!" At the sound of the beard, the horse team galloped away like a gust of wind.
Chen Xiaoyi was lying on the horse's back, and there was a jolt, and he suddenly felt a churning in his stomach, but he was suffocated. He looked back, and the villagers were still talking, with different expressions on their faces. At this moment, he was very relieved.
Tap ...... Tap ......
The sound of the horse's hooves gradually moved away from the village, and Chen Xiaoyi withdrew his gaze, only to see Scarface pull out a long knife and slap it on the horse's buttocks. The horse was in pain, and suddenly there was a neigh, and then all four hooves galloped wildly, like a black lightning bolt interspersed through the horse team, and swept forward.
Chen Xiaoyi's gaze passed through the horse team, and his eyes suddenly widened. He saw Aunt Lin holding a scythe, flashing out of a path, and then rushing towards the horse team.
"Don't kill her......"
Before the words fell, he saw a flash of knife, and the long knife slashed through his neck, and blood gushed out.