C9 The past Was the past

Ann Xiangheng patted Jiang Xinman's back and asked softly, "Where does it hurt?"

Jiang Xinman leaned against his chest and shook her head, indicating that she was fine. She asked, "What about you?"

Ann Xiangheng also shook his head: "My back and arms were cut, but it's fine, it's just a little painful, there's no blood, I'm wearing armor inside..."

"I..."

"It's not your fault..."

Jiang Xinman suddenly blacked out and fainted. Ann Xiangheng's shout slowly faded away from her ears.

When he was young, Ann Xiangheng was punished by the prime minister to stand in the backyard because he didn't know the poem by heart. Jiang Xinman sneaked into his house through the back door.

The two of them were neighbors, so it was very convenient for them to come and go.

Jiang Xinman took out a handful of snacks from her pocket and handed them to Ann Xiangheng. "Why are you being punished to stand again? So stupid!"

Ann Xiangheng felt so wronged that tears were about to fall, "I don't like literary people... Dad always forced me to recite books..."

Jiang Xinman smacked her lips. "It's exactly the same as my big brother. He wanted to go to the army camp a few days ago, but my father caught him and locked him in his room. I just came from him."

"Aiya, let's just go out and play..."

"But father told me to stand..."

Jiang Xinman took out a piece of paper. On it was the special amnesty order that Ann Xiangheng's father had given him.

"Hehe, my father asked for it from your father. Let's go and play. I'm so bored. There's no one to accompany me."

Although Ann Xiangheng also wanted to go and play, he was a little suspicious of the authenticity of the amnesty order until his father appeared and told him to scram...

The two of them were loitering at the entrance of the mansion, discussing where they should go to play. When a cat appeared, their curiosity prompted them to follow the cat. When they reached the corner, the human trafficker covered his mouth and dragged them into the carriage.

The worst part was that there were only the two of them in the carriage. It was obvious that they were enemies. They did it on purpose.

Jiang Xinman was not afraid, and even got close to the two traffickers: "Hey, how much did they pay you? Our identities are very important, it will be very miserable if it is exposed..."

Jiang Xinman did not dare to say that she would definitely die. What if she was forced into a dead end...

"Hey, Uncle, just the two of you came out to abduct and sell? Why didn't you bring a few more? That's true, even children don't have the strength. An adult can easily beat down two children..."

Jiang Xinman covered Ann Xiangheng's mouth that was about to speak and kept hinting with her eyes. Unfortunately, this big fool could not understand what she meant at all and was about to be angered to death!

Jiang Xinman kept saying this to create the illusion that the two of them were extremely weak. For some reason, the two adults really let down their guard.

At the outskirts of the town they were driven down, and the two grown-ups, one in each hand, reached out to the man in the opposite carriage for money.

Jiang Xinman took advantage of the driver's momentum to pull Ann Xiangheng to the side, but she did not expect that there would be a hole at the bottom of the hill. The two of them fell down.

Inside the pothole, Jiang Xinman acted as Ann Xiangheng's scapegoat. Although her head was broken and she was bleeding profusely, and her body was in pain, she still insisted on comforting Ann Xiangheng.

Ann Xiangheng felt that he was older than her, but he couldn't do anything about it. He had always relied on Jiang Xinman to protect him. He did not understand why Jiang Xinman could do so many things at such a young age, but he knew one thing - he was too weak, he was too useless! He was tired of her!

He finally understood what his father had been nagging him about. [If you don't become stronger now, your weakness will crush you in the future...]

'Are you talking about what happened with my mother? My mother is dead. He can't do anything... '

'Now... Jiang Xinman can't hold on any longer, he can't do anything... It's because of him that she was hurt.'

'If he had been strong enough at the beginning, how could he have ended up like this...'

Ann Xiangheng used the clothes he had taken off to cover Jiang Xinman's wound. He kept talking to her, but told her not to speak.

Fortunately for them, there was no rain, no night, and before the sun had set, they were rescued by their families.

How could the family let two children play outside? They were watched but not watched, and the traffickers were so fast with their carts that they lost the men on their way and it took them some time to find them, or they would have been saved by now.

There was also a royal family member who came to their house as a guest. He also came and found them first.

Jiang Xinman had been ill for a long time. When Jiang Xinman recovered from her injuries and recovered, she could not remember the whole story. Just thinking about it gave her a headache, and her family deliberately avoided this matter.

She could not remember what Ann Xiangheng had done or where he had gone. She only heard that Ann Xiangheng had followed his father to the Imperial City for a transfer, and that her big brother had also gone to the army camp. Gradually, she could not remember who Ann Xiangheng was and forgot everything that had happened between them.

Jiang Xinman only remembered one thing. That imperial family had helped save her, a handsome young man, and bought her a crispy duck.

Before Jiang Xinman actually fell in love with him, she simply thought he was good-looking and took advantage of him every day on the pretext of thanking him.

The other party was not unhappy either, and Jiang Xinman became more and more arrogant. Once, when she was invited to eat crispy duck, the other party could not help but mention that they had met before, and that Jiang Xinman had helped him before. The other party said that Jiang Xinman had helped him find a hairpin a year ago, a very important hairpin...

Back then, Jiang Xinman saw a child on the road whose hands and feet were not clean. He stripped someone of their valuables and ran away. She had more important things to do, waiting for the crispy duck from the store. How could she care about something that was obviously troublesome?

Originally, she didn't want to meddle in others' business and help others, but as luck would have it, that child ran away in a panic and bumped into Jiang Xinman's crispy duck, knocking her crispy duck to the ground. Jiang Xinman was furious, and brought her people to find the other party. She beat him up and took the hairpin away at the same time.

Jiang Xinman gave him a bag of silver after beating him up. She said that he had been beaten up for medical expenses and asked him to go to his sister for treatment.

Jiang Xinman returned to the entrance of the store in high spirits. In order to prevent anyone from bumping into her, she arranged for people to stand guard around the store. The owner of the store saw that she liked his crispy duck so much and was a regular customer, so he gave her another one for free with a smile.

Jiang Xinman was dizzy from the sudden happiness. On the way back to the mansion, she saw that person desperately looking for the hairpin and was about to go crazy. She waved her hand and handed the hairpin to him. Jiang Xinman casually left her name and left...

Only then did Jiang Xinman remember. She waved her hand to tell him not to take it to heart, but the other party seemed to take it very seriously. That was a relic of his mother. Jiang Xinman suddenly rejoiced that she had returned the hairpin to the other party.

After getting the other party's promise to buy her crispy ducks every day, he was so happy that he didn't know what to say.

"You are so much better than my father. My father only lets me eat it twice a month. You are still the best. I really like you!"

... "Really?"

"Really! Just like how my father likes my mother, I really like you..."

"Then will you marry me when you grow up? Just like the relationship between your father and your mother..."

"Sure, just buy crispy duck for me in the future!"

... "Alright!"

Jiang Xinman didn't know what this meant to her, nor did she know what it meant to the young man. She was only happy that she could eat so many crispy ducks...

That young man treasured this promise very much. He was suppressed by his brother, betrayed by everyone, and his mother took all of it just to protect him. He was oppressed by all the coldness and disgust to the point that he would rather die than live. Only Jiang Xinman chose to help him when he was at his lowest point.

Jiang Xinman was easy to satisfy and simple, but right and wrong could be seen clearly. It was very comfortable and comfortable to be by her side, and it was the only place where he could take off his fake mask and really smile.