Zhao Guangyi subconsciously stopped the attendant's arm and stretched out his hand to the child, and his voice did not have a trace of waves: "The silver will be returned to me."

The child's lips were still tightly pursed, and he clenched the purse of silver even tighter, and took two steps back.

Zhao Guangyi's brows furrowed, "Huh? "Yes.

The child swallowed. said: "Give me the silver, okay?" After a pause, he shook his little head again, "Lend me the money." ”

Zhao Guangyi couldn't help but be a little funny, he had never seen such a child, and couldn't help asking, "Why?" Why? ”

The child lowered his head and muttered, "Because I didn't." This is the only way to buy food. I'm hungry. When I find my father, he will definitely return it to you. ”

Zhao Guangyi was stunned: "You and your father got lost?" He couldn't help but raise his hand and brush the child's unkempt hair.

This question seemed to hook up all the sad things of the child, and suddenly tears fell down, and the more he cried, the more he cried, he simply pulled Zhao Guangyi's sleeve and cried. While crying, he said: "I can't find my father, and I can't find my mother, there are bad people bullying me, woo, I miss my mother." Whining. I want to go home. ”

Another squire approached. He said a few words in Zhao Guangyi's ear. Zhao Guangyi's face changed, and he leaned down and said to the child, "I'll give you the silver." Ask for your own blessings. He turned around and left.

The child was stunned for a moment and watched Zhao Guangyi walk away. After only a pause, he immediately chased after him. Zhao Guangyi's steps are fast. Hurry to the inn. The child also ran closely and followed, and even fell on the way, and got up without caring to continue to follow.

The attendant on the side said beside Zhao Guangyi: "My lord, that kid has been following us just now. ”

Zhao Guangyi frowned very tightly: "Whatever he wants." If you can't keep up, you won't follow. ”

Zhao Guangyi didn't go far, and returned to the inn in less than a stick of incense. The attendant who came back from the Shezhou area to inquire about the news returned, and Zhao Guangyi ordered people to close the doors and windows. The attendant said, "Lin Renzhao led the troops to change the route. If you don't go from Xuanzhou, you will be in Changzhou in two or three days. I'm afraid that I will meet with Qi Zhengxiu, who is stationed in Changzhou. "Homespun cloth carrying.

Zhao Guangyi hooked his lips and sneered: "Then go to Changzhou to find him." ”

The attendant said worriedly: "But there is Qi Zhengxiu in Changzhou, and the garrison there is very tight. ”

Qi Zhengxiu? At the mention of this name, the anger in Zhao Guangyi's heart swelled a few feet. Gritted his teeth and said: "If you don't enter the tiger's den, you can get the tiger!" ”

As he was talking, there was a crackling sound outside, mixed with a man's rough scolding and a child's cry: "Help! Help me! ”

Zhao Guangyi was stunned for a moment, his voice was very familiar, and like the child just now, he couldn't help but ask another attendant: "Is it that child?" ”

The other pushed the door out, looked outside, and replied, "Yes." That kid is really good, and he has been chasing after him. But it seems that there is trouble, and a man drags him to leave, dragging and beating him. ”

Zhao Guangyi has no time to take care of such a trivial matter on weekdays. He is also not as overflowing with compassion. If he is in Kaifeng Mansion, he will order his subordinates to deal with it. Now in Xuanzhou, the boundaries of the Southern Tang Dynasty have nothing to do with him. But as soon as he thought of the child's pitiful eyes, Zhao Guangyi felt a little unbearable. I couldn't help but walk out of the room in a few steps, and a man in a coarse cloth short coat was dragging the child out with all his might, and he was scolding.

The boy was lying on the ground like a scale, screaming for help as he could. Zhao Guangyi couldn't help but shout: "Stop!" ”

The man froze. Zhao Guangyi, who came to see clearly, was dressed in a dark brocade robe, with an extraordinary bearing, and an entourage behind him, and he didn't look like an ordinary person. He let go. The child immediately jumped up from the ground, hid behind Zhao Guangyi, and gently reached out and took Zhao Guangyi's hand: "Help me." ”

The child's hands were soft, and Zhao Guangyi's heart was also touched a little soft. is one or two years younger than his second son, Deming. Zhao Guangyi looked at the man coldly: "What are you doing?" ”

The man was stunned by Zhao Guangyi's momentum, and only after a while did he say, "This is my son, I'll take him back." ”

Before he finished speaking, the child said loudly: "I am not his son, he is a bad person, and he wants to sell me." ”

"You kid, how can you talk nonsense" The man didn't finish speaking, and was coldly interrupted by Zhao Guangyi: "This child already understands personnel and will not deny his parents." Thou art crudely clothed, and though his garments are dirty, they are fine. Your accent is from the Yuezhou area, and his accent is near Jinling. Tell me, "How did you give birth to this son?" ”

The man stammered and couldn't speak. Zhao Guangyi's voice was very flat: "You are just seeking money." Saying that, he glanced at the attendant, the attendant took out a piece of silver and put it on the table, Zhao Guangyi looked at the man and said, "I'll give you this silver, just when you sell the child to me." This price is not low. As he spoke, his voice became sharp, "If you don't know what to do, let's go to the official right now and let the government check if you are his father?" ”

The man hesitated for a long time, looked at the silver on the table, picked it up and bit it with his teeth, and then said to Zhao Guangyi happily: "Since you have the silver, then this child will belong to you." After speaking, he didn't look at the child again, and ran out of the inn with the silver in his hand.

Zhao Guangyi turned around and looked at the child, and after a while, the child was even worse than just now, and his face was swollen. Zhao Guangyi said to the attendant: "Take this child to wash, when he is full, bring him to my room." ”

In less than half an hour, the attendant walked to Zhao Guangyi's room with the child. It was getting late, and the house was lit with candles. Zhao Guangyi took a closer look at the child, the child looked good after washing. The eyebrows and eyes are delicate, and the chin and lips are very strong. Zhao Guangyi hooked his lips, with a rare pleasant face: "What is your name?" ”

The child pouted and said, "Yin'er." ”

"How did you get here?" Zhao Guangyi continued to ask.

Yin'er pursed her lips and almost cried again. From Yin'er's intermittent words, Zhao Guangyi knew that the child was going to find his father, but he was targeted by the man just now before he left Jinling City. The man arrested Yin'er and planned to take it back to Yuezhou to sell, but Yin'er ran out of Xuanzhou, wandered around for less than a day, stole his own silver, and was found by the man to take it back. Zhao Guangyi couldn't help asking, "Your father is not in Jinling?" ”

Yin'er nodded. Zhao Guangyi asked again: "Then where is he?" How do you find him? ”

Yin'er shook his head, he didn't know how to find it, his father said that he was in the north, and he could be found from Jinling all the way north. But he didn't know that it was so big outside. He couldn't even find where the north was.

Seeing that Yin'er kept shaking her head, Zhao Guangyi shook his head and asked again: "Why do you keep following me?" ”

Yin'er looked straight at Zhao Guangyi: "You are a good person." "If you are willing to give him silver, you should be a good person, and you should be able to help him.

Zhao Guangyi smiled, his voice rustled, and he was about to speak, when another guard came in to tell him about the matter. Zhao Guangyi asked people to take Yin'er out to rest first, and then talk about it tomorrow. The guards found that there were some people of unknown origin near the inn, who were very agile, but they were afraid that the comers would not be good, so they asked Zhao Guangyi if he would leave early tomorrow morning.

Zhao Guangyi frowned and fell into deep thought, this time he came out in secret, it was impossible for the people of Nantang to know the news so quickly. Could it be that Zhao Pu's old thief wants to secretly do it? No wonder he so happily agreed to come to Xuanzhou. Zhao Guangyi sneered. If it was really him, he would want him to look good.

Zhao Guangyi ordered to go down and set off for Changzhou early tomorrow morning. Time is urgent, Lin Renzhao has already rushed to the Changzhou area, and he must catch up as soon as possible.

Early the next morning, before it was too late, Zhao Guangyi had already gotten up and was ready to go. When the attendant brought Yin'er, who was still rubbing her eyes and drowsy, to Zhao Guangyi, Zhao Guangyi suddenly remembered that there was such a little guy. If it weren't for the urgency of time, he wouldn't mind sending him back to Jinling. But the important thing is to be in the body, and it will be too delayed to turn from Jinling to Changzhou. There is no reliable person to trust this child at the moment. For the first time, Zhao Guangyi felt that he would take over this trouble because of his brain, but the child's eyes were stubborn in his wisdom, and there was an indescribable feeling, which made him feel a feeling called "unbearable" for no reason.

Zhao Guangyi patted Yin'er on the shoulder: "Today we are on the road and take you on a horse, are you afraid?" ”

Yin'er pursed her lips and said in a firm voice like a little adult: "Don't be afraid." My dad took me on a ride. ”

"That's good." Zhao Guangyi rubbed Yin'er's head, hugged Yin'er to his horse, circled it in his arms, and rode away in the direction of Changzhou.

After a morning on the horse, they arrived at a roadside tea stall at noon, and only then did they stop their horses. Zhao Guangyi hugged Yin'er off the horse, and Yin'er planted her head on the ground, and her legs were so weak that she couldn't stand up. The little face is also pale.

The guards asked for a few bowls of hot tea from the tea stall, and Zhao Guangyi hugged Yin'er and fed him a few sips of tea, and Yin'er eased his breath. Zhao Guangyi's voice was very deep: "Haven't you ever ridden a horse?" ”

Yin'er pouted: "I didn't ride so fast." Qi Zhengxiu just took him to ride and play, how could he have been in such a desperate hurry as Zhao Guangyi. After a pause, Yin'er looked at Zhao Guangyi and asked, "Uncle, do you have a son?" ”

Uncle? Zhao Guangyi couldn't cry or laugh, is this title really very old? Zhao Guangyi twitched the corners of his mouth and spit out a word: "Yes." ”

"Have you ever ridden them?" Yin'er asked with big eyes flashing again.

Zhao Guangyi thought about it, he was always busy, but he rarely played with his sons. Motozo is eight years old, and I remember taking him on a ride once. The rest of the children are gone. Zhao Guangyi nodded slightly: "Ride." ”

"Riding so fast, too?" Yin'er asked.

"Nope." Zhao Guangyi vaguely remembered that the guards were asked to ride with Yuan Zuo, Yuan Zuo cried and made trouble, he had to take the ride in person, and ordered someone to send him back.

Yin'er pouted: "Look, dad won't take his son to ride so fast." ”