"That's just your imagination!" Grandma Lu sighed, "Those people are cruel and ruthless. How could they still be alive when they fall into their hands?"

"But I believe that he will not die. After all, the person they are looking for is me, not him! If you ask a few words, you will find that the wrong person was caught. Maybe those people have let him go long ago. He doesn't remember being away from home and living outside. After all, it has been fifteen years, and he was young at that time..."

"He has your jade flute on his body. Those people will definitely regard him as you. How could they ask? They will only kill him." Madam Lu closed her eyes and frowned.

"If I hadn't taken the jade flute at that time..." Lu Ziyi sighed guiltily, "Lin En wouldn't have to go over and play, and there wouldn't be any more things."

"The cause of the incident is not you! Why do you feel guilty? You were only five years old at that time! It was all caused by the greedy Lin family mother!" Thinking of the past, Madam Lu gritted her teeth with hatred, "If she didn't attract those people, how could there be any future happenings? And your father's death, I also suspect that she was chewing her tongue! She was crazy about money, regardless of other people's life or death!"

"Mom, there is no evidence..."

Mrs. Lu sneered, "The day after her grandson was lost, she suddenly made a fortune, buying gold and silver for herself. The old man in her family was just a poor farmer, her mother's family was poor, her son was not rich, her daughter's family didn't make a fortune, and she was a person who couldn't make a living and only knew how to eat and play. Did the hundreds of taels of jewelry fall from the sky?"

“…”

"The only one pair of solid wide gold bracelets in Xiushui Village is available! No, no one in Lujia Village wears such thick gold bracelets. Her money is inexplicably made, so have you never been suspicious?"

“…”

"And, at noon on the day of the accident, someone in Lujia Village saw her talking to four people riding horses at the entrance of the village and pointing them over. The person who captured Lin En was the one who spoke the accent of the capital! She was not her, who was the one who caused the disaster?"

“…”

"That's just a bad woman who is open-minded and cares about other people's lives. She wants to cheat her granddaughter's bride price. How could she not do anything to harm her grandson? Besides, Lin En is not her biological grandson, but her stepson's son! She doesn't like the matter of Lin Dazhu's family, who doesn't know?"

Lu Ziyi didn't say anything anymore, he remembered what happened back then.

He was five years old that year.

Lynn is also five years old, three months older than him.

Because my father worked short-term workers everywhere and walked among villages for many years, he would always take him with him when he went out.

Therefore, he met Lynn.

One afternoon that summer, he sat in front of the courtyard of Mr. Niu, a neighbor of Lin En, and waited for his father to pick him up.

Lynn came and asked him to go swimming in Xiushui River with him.

The weather was very hot, and he was having a bored play alone, so he agreed.

The two little boys were naked and lay on the shallows by the river and played in the water.

Lynn found that the blood jade flute hanging around his neck was very beautiful and asked him to go over and play.

The good friend had something to share, which was what his father said, and he agreed and hung the blood jade flute pendant around Lynn's neck.

Lynn blew happily.

After playing for a while, a few men in brocade clothes suddenly came by the river.

It was a group of strangers, speaking with strange accents.

One man grabbed his arm and stared at his face, "This one looks about the same age."

Someone grabbed Lynn and said, "It's not that, it's this, look, the Blood Jade Flute! It's also like this."

"Take it away!" Someone shouted coldly.

Another man covered Lynn's mouth, tied it up with his backhand, put it in a bag and carried it to his shoulders, and a group of people strode away.

At that time, there were five or six boys under ten years old playing with water on the shallow water beach. What happened suddenly shocked them one by one, and no one dared to say anything.

He chased after him with courage, but he was only five years old, and the group was riding a horse. In the blink of an eye, the few people disappeared.

He shouted to attract adults to chase after him, but it was useless and did not find Lynn.

After returning home, he told his father and mother that Lin En was stolen. The two were so scared that they did not dare to speak out. They only told him that Yu Dizi and the man in Jinyi were not allowed to mention it again.

He only realized that the jade flute was a disaster.

If he hadn't taken the jade flute hidden in the crack of his father's wall that day and put it on his neck, it would not have attracted Lynn's attention. If Lynn hadn't taken it away and hadn't blown the flute, it would not have been lost.

Seven days later, in the lower reaches of Xiushui River, the body of a boy who was soaked in shape was found naked, without clothes and shoes. Everyone said that it was Lynn. The Lin family took the child back for burial.

But he felt that it was not Lynn, Lynn must not be dead.

He was young at that time, and no matter what he said, no one believed him.

Lu Ziyi sighed slightly, "Mom, after all, the source of the matter is still in my home. If I don't go to Chuzhou to see what happened, I will be uneasy."

Madam Lu knew that something happened to Lin En was always a thorn in his heart. She pursed her lips and said, "Go and go, don't stand out in everything. Whether you can find someone or not, come back soon."

"I know, mom." Lu Ziyi nodded.

Several large jars at home were filled with white rice, white flour, sorghum flour, buckwheat flour, and a few kilograms of jars hung on the roof beams. Several pickled vegetables in the yard were filled with the pickles that Mrs. Lu had just pickled.

In the hanging basket in the kitchen, there were about ten wild/eggs, and in a small jar in a corner of the house, there were 10 or 20 wild duck eggs marinated with yellow mud and salt.

In addition to these, there are some mushrooms and wild vegetables in a basket in the kitchen.

In front and behind the room, there are piles of wood piles of one person tall.

Even if Lu Ziyi is not at home for one or two months, the food and food at home will be enough for Madam Lu and Lu Ziyan to maintain it.

After the family matters were arranged, two days later, Lu Ziyi set up a ox cart and prepared to go to Chuzhou Prefecture.

Mrs. Lu put a luggage package on the ox cart, and then told her, "No matter whether you can find someone or not, you must come back soon." She said, "Don't talk to people with accents in the capital, and don't talk much to officials."

Lu Ziyi nodded, "Mom, son understand."

Lu Ziyan placed a basket next to the luggage on the ox cart. There were two pots of water, five cooked wild/eggs, and a large paper bag containing a few pancakes baked early in the morning.

This is Lu Ziyi's dry food on the road.

Lu Ziyan blinked and asked, "Brother, who are you going to find?"

The big matters of the Lu family were kept from Lu Ziyan.

Madam Lu said angrily, "Someone owes your brother money and runs away. Your brother is going to collect debts!"

"Oh, it's debt collection. My mother is right. If you can find someone, you need money. If you can't find someone, you will come back. You are not as good as your family outside." Lu Ziyan reminded Lu Ziyi like a little adult.

Lu Ziyi reached out to touch his sister's head, "Listen to my mother at home, don't be naughty, don't run around in the village. You are a girl's house, not a boy."

Lu Ziyan stuck out her tongue and made a face, "Talk, aren't you annoying to say the same thing every day?"

"When you get married, I won't talk to you anymore. Let your husband say you can go." Lu Ziyi smiled slightly, got on the cart, tied his straw hat.

Lu Ziyan rolled her eyes, but her ears turned red quietly.

"You're still worried about your affairs. Ziyan's affairs have a mother!" Mrs. Lu patted her son's back, "Be careful all the way."

"I know, mom, I'm leaving." Lu Ziyi raised his whip and gently whipped Niu'er's back. "De'er, De'er" sounded, and the ox cart walked towards the entrance of the village.

Lu Ziyan suddenly remembered something, "Brother, have you ever told Sister Yuanzi about your trip?"

"I understand!" Lu Ziyi didn't respond, he was going to Lin Yuan's house now.

...

When Lu Ziyi came to Lin Yuan's house, he happened to Lin Yuan open the fence gate and prepare to herd cattle.

"Brother Lu? It's so early!" Lin Yuan smiled and strode over.

But he found that his ox cart contained a luggage bag, dry food, umbrella, and a roll of quilt covered with an old cowhide.

"Are you going to go far?" Lin Yuan asked in surprise.

"Yeah." Lu Ziyi nodded. After thinking about it, he still thought that he should not talk about Lin En's affairs first. When he found out the matter clearly, he would tell Lin Yuan before he could not worry about the people in Lin Yuan's family. "I'll go to Chuzhou to find a debtor. The man owed my family money and kept dragging it back to pay it back."

"Oh, that's right." Lin Yuan nodded, "You can wait a moment."

She turned around and ran into the room, and after a while, she took out two things.

A small blue cloth package and a gray cloth bag.

Lin Yuan raised the cloth bag, "There are two buttoned bowls inside, which contain the fried lotus root balls made this morning. I made them, you can compensate for the taste." She put the cloth bag in the car basket, stuffed the small blue cloth bag into Lu Ziyi's arms, and smiled playfully, "Hold it!"

A small bag of softness.

"What is this?" Lu Ziyi asked with his eyes flashing.

"Looking on the road." Lin Yuan smiled mysteriously.

Lu Ziyi understood what clothes and shoes this girl made for him? He must be embarrassed to be evaluated by him.

"Okay." Lu Ziyi nodded obediently, "I like everything you give."

This man was so obedient. Lin Yuan was embarrassed to bully him and smiled, "Don't worry, go out for a long distance. I will go to see you every day."

"I have arranged the family matters, you don't have to worry about it. But here is your house..." Lu Ziyi looked at the big wolf dog, "Isn't that... the wolf dog that ran out of the Wild Boar Ridge that day? Why are they here?"

"No one took it, so I brought it back. It happened to be the guard of the house. A few days ago, it bit the butt of a cow thief!" Lin Yuan remembered that day, Lin Chunsheng ran away with his butt and screamed, and couldn't help but feel funny.

"I feel much more at ease if I have a dog to protect my family." Lu Ziyi said, "I'll say goodbye to Uncle Lin and Aunt Lin. Are they at home?"

"Here!"

Lu Ziyi walked out of the ox cart, put down the package, took off the hat on his head, and walked into the yard.

The wolfdog roared at him a few times, but was stopped by Lin Yuan, "I am the heroine, he is the hero. I dare to yell, I will be hungry for you three times."

I don’t know if I understood Lin Yuan’s instructions or heard Lin Yuan’s tone sternly, the wolf dog whimpered and went to the ground honestly.
To be continued...