Cypress Boat Floating

Arnold felt very satisfied to be able to see Ye Jianqing again here. Looking at Ye Jianqing's appearance, she had not forgotten him and even brought him a lot of things, which made Arnold even more moved.

During the days in prison, Lu Zhixing would arrange for a teacher to teach him how to read and write, and to teach him the truth. He felt that he was slowly getting away from his original self who was ignorant and fearless and didn't care about the world. Although there were still many things he didn't understand, he was gradually moving in the direction that Ye Jianqing hoped for.

He likes Ye Jianqing, and he doesn't want Ye Jianqing to be disappointed in him, nor does he want Ye Jianqing to be unhappy, so he tries his best to do more things to make Ye Jianqing happy.

Before he became the person in Ye Jianqing's mind, he never thought that he would be able to see Ye Jianqing again in the prison. All he wanted was to get out of here and meet her with another identity, but he didn't expect that Ye Jianqing would come by herself. He was really happy from the bottom of his heart.

Ye Jianqing knew nothing about Arnold's feelings, and she didn't know how Arnold had been doing during this period, but seeing that he was a little more cheerful now, which was different from before, she was already very satisfied.

Although he would not be so miserable in the prison, as he had food, quilts and clothes, it was still not as good as bringing things with him. Besides, he had already brought things with him, and it was impossible for him to take them back, so he simply took them out of his bag one by one.

Arnold was sitting next to her, watching her take things out of her bag with a smile on his face, as if he would never get tired of watching her no matter how long he watched.

"Arnold, the New Year is coming soon. Is there anything you want to eat? I'll buy it for you then." Ye Jianqing was halfway through packing when she suddenly remembered that the New Year was approaching. Although she didn't know if she could come to see him again before the New Year, she still asked, in case Lu Ci Qiu allowed her to come again then.

"Call me brother." Arnold corrected her address as usual.

Lu Ci Qiu had never come with Ye Jianqing to meet Arnold before, so naturally he didn't know that they could call each other brother and sister. Judging from Ye Jianqing's expression, it seemed that this was not the first or second time that Arnold corrected her address.

Although Lu Ci Qiu looks like a careless person on the surface, he grew up in the cannibalistic palace after all, so his mind is more or less sharp. However, there are many things that he is used to seeing and keeping in his heart and will never say them out loud.

At the moment, he didn't say anything, but he kept it in mind. Looking at Arnold's appearance, he suddenly remembered that Lu Zhixing asked him if Arnold had a sister. Could it be...

Lu Ci Qiu suddenly had a little idea in his mind, but he didn't say it out loud. He just continued to observe Arnold's every move in the dark, thinking about slowly finding the answer.

After Ye Jianqing packed food, quilts, clothes, etc. for Arnold, she pulled Arnold to sit down and chat with him. The last time she talked to Arnold, she was only talking about some past events after he accepted his master. This time, she wanted to try to get some news about herself from him.

"Arnold, how have you been lately?" Ye Jianqing asked.

"Call me brother." Arnold kept correcting her address as usual.

Ye Jianqing smiled and changed his address to "Brother."

Hearing Ye Jianqing correct his address, Arnold's deliberately stern face relaxed again. In front of Ye Jianqing, he always had a smile on his face.

"I'm doing fine. There are teachers here who can teach me how to read and write, and I can go out for some fresh air occasionally. We also have to do some work in exchange for better food, and we can use the money to buy clothes and other things."

Arnold happily unpacked and told Ye Jianqing all the events of the past few days, just for the sake of asking Ye Jianqing to stay with him for a while longer. He hadn't seen Ye Jianqing for a long time and really missed her.

Even though Ye Jianqing really wanted to get some information from him, he chose not to interrupt him but sat beside him and listened to him quietly, responding to him from time to time to give him more motivation to continue talking.

No one expected that Arnold, who had always been taciturn, would talk nonstop when facing Ye Jianqing. For the whole afternoon, Ye Jianqing didn't ask a single question she wanted to ask, but she listened to Arnold talk a lot about his life during this period and saw the changes in Arnold. It was really worth the trip.

On the way back to the courtyard with Ye Jianqing, Lu Ciqiu asked her, "I didn't get anything today. How about coming back another day?"

Ye Jianqing stopped and looked up at the sky. The sunset glow was beautiful today, and the faint glow shone on her face. She said with relief, "I suddenly feel that this is good. No matter what purpose he has in approaching me and getting close to me, at least I am the person he trusts the most now. Why should I bother to investigate the cause and effect?"

Lu Ci Qiu didn't say anything, but just accompanied her to watch the sunset quietly.

In fact, he knew that Ye Jianqing was a person who would not make things difficult for herself. To describe her way of dealing with people in one sentence, it was "when the enemy comes, we will stop him with our generals; when the water comes, we will block it with earth." She would not worry too much. She would do what she could do, and put aside what she could not do and let others do it.

For some things, it's not that she doesn't want to investigate, but she just can't investigate for the time being. Since she can't investigate, she might as well let it go. Just like Arnold, like her own life experience, she wants to investigate, but she doesn't have the ability to investigate now, so she let it go first. Lu Ci Qiu believes that if she is given the opportunity in the future, she will definitely investigate it thoroughly if she has the ability.

Ye Jianqing currently does not have this ability, but that does not mean Lu Ci Qiu does not have it. He thought that even if it was not for Ye Jianqing, he had to find out Arnold's background. And based on his understanding of Lu Zhixing, he was afraid that Lu Zhixing now had more information about Arnold than he did.

It seems that I still need to find some time to talk to Arnold again. It would be best if I could get something out of him. If not, I can only go find Lu Zhixing.

But he didn't expect that before he went to find Arnold, Lu Zhixing came to him with his information the next day.

Lu Ci Qiu looked at the secret letter in his hand, raised his eyebrows, and waited for him to speak.

Lu Zhixing handed him the secret letter and slowly told him Arnold's story: "According to the investigation, Arnold was born in a small village near the south city. He has a sister who is five years younger than him. Because he looked different from ordinary people and had great strength since he was a child, his parents thought they had a monster and wanted to abandon him. But later his mother couldn't bear to let him go and reluctantly kept him. But after that, he was locked in the house and never seen.

When he was five years old, his family had a daughter. He liked that sister very much, and neighbors often saw him playing with his sister.

But later, when his daughter was two years old, their parents died. At first, when there was still food left at home, he could still take care of his sister, but later, when there was no food left at home, he was locked up in the house all the time, and he was too young to understand anything and couldn't take care of his sister.

One day, he entrusted his sister to a neighbor, saying that he was going out to find something to eat for his sister, and he never came back since then.

The younger sister was later stolen and sold, and no one ever saw the two siblings again."

After hearing this, Lu Ci Qiu was speechless for a long time and sighed. He knew that Arnold's life experience must be very miserable, but he didn't expect it to be like this.

Lu Ci Qiu knew that there must be a reason why Lu Zhixing told him Arnold's story in such detail. And when he remembered that Arnold had always asked Ye Jianqing to call him brother, it seemed that a question in his heart was about to be answered.

"That sister is Qing'er?" Lu Ci Qiu asked tentatively.

Lu Zhixing looked at him and nodded: "According to my investigation, yes."

Sure enough, this would explain why Arnold became so close to Ye Jianqing as soon as he saw her.

Lu Ci Qiu wanted to know why and how Ye Jianqing joined the Dark Guard Camp. He wanted to know more about her past. Although he had not been involved in her life for the past ten years, he wanted to know how she had lived for the past ten years.

He knew that Lu Zhixing would definitely not tell him about the Dark Guard Camp now, but he also wanted to ask tentatively to see how much Lu Zhixing would tell him.

But Lu Zhixing only picked and chose about Ye Jianqing's past, choosing those things that could be told, and excluded the matters concerning the Dark Guard Camp from talking to Lu Ci Qiu.

After separating from Lu Zhixing, Lu Ci Qiu kept thinking about Ye Jianqing all the way and unknowingly walked to the Ministry of Justice prison.

The prison boss from yesterday was on duty today. When he saw Lu Ci Qiu coming, he took him to find Arnold in the innermost cell without saying a word.

Without Ye Jianqing's company, Lu Ci Qiu didn't even receive a glance from Arnold.

The prison boss still opened the door for him and left, leaving them to chat on their own.

Lu Ci Qiu didn't say anything, and Arnold ignored him, and the two of them were quiet. One was still reading by the window in the light from outside, and the other was standing there watching him read.

In the end, Arnold's endurance was higher than Lu Ci Qiu's.

Perhaps because he hadn't spoken for a long time, Lu Ci Qiu's voice was a little hoarse as he spoke, "Qing'er is your sister."

It was not a question, but a statement. He didn't need to get any answer from him, because he already knew the answer.

Hearing this, Arnold finally raised his head from the book and gave Lu Ci Qiu a look, but there was a hint of cruelty in that look.

Lu Ci Qiu had no doubt that if he had a knife in his hand, he would have put it on his neck by now.

It seems that the so-called improvement is just a performance in front of Ye Jianqing.

"You are still the same you. This prison is actually of no use to you. You are willing to come in for Qing'er." Lu Ci Qiu didn't care whether he wanted to kill him or what he was thinking. He didn't even know what his purpose was in coming here, but he felt that he might be able to talk to him.

"What do you want to do?" Arnold put down the book and looked at him straight. In front of this person who had seen through him completely, he didn't want to pretend anymore.

"I won't report you, and I don't want to do anything. I came here today just to talk to you." Lu Ci Qiu shrugged.

Arnold did not have that much trust in him, nor did he have that much patience. When he saw that he did not continue, he picked up the book he had placed aside and continued reading. The teacher would come to check their reading progress this month. If they wanted to make them feel that they had changed and could get out of here smoothly, they had to satisfy the teacher.

Lu Ciqiu smacked his lips. This... he just said something, shouldn't it be his turn next? Why hasn't he spoken yet? This guy is really hard to talk to.

"Let's talk about Qing'er?" Lu Ci Qiu asked.

Arnold put down the book again and looked up at him: "What do you want to talk about?"

"I think you must love Qing'er very much, but you have been absent from her life for so many years. You must be very curious about how she has been doing all these years." Lu Ci Qiu admitted that he was gambling. He was gambling that Arnold's love for Ye Jianqing was greater than what he showed.

Sure enough, after hearing this, Arnold came over and sat opposite him, looking at him.

"you know?"

Lu Ci Qiu nodded proudly, thinking: "That's right, not only do I know, I was also reborn with her. We have been together for almost ten years, which is much longer than you."

But no matter what he thought, he was not so tactless as to say these words to Arnold, otherwise he could not guarantee that he would not return with injuries.

"She..." Arnold opened his mouth and hesitated for a long time before speaking: "How have you been these years?"

In fact, he knew without Lu Ci Qiu telling him that Ye Jianqing must not have lived a particularly good life these years, otherwise he would not have risked his life to exchange injuries with him, and he would not have grown so thin. How could a person with wounds all over his body live a good life these years?

He hated himself very much. If he had not gone out that year, he would not have been beaten almost to death because of theft, and he would not have been picked up by his master and never seen his sister again.

In fact, he later went down the mountain secretly to look for his sister without telling his master, but he could not find any news about her. Everyone said that his sister had been sold to someone unknown place and advised him not to look for her, but he was unwilling to give up. Later, he was discovered by his master, who arrested him and locked him up for a long time.

From then on, he felt nothing but regret and hatred for himself. If he had gone back at that time, his sister would not have been sold. If he had not surrendered to his master, he might have been able to find his sister.

In fact, when he first saw Ye Jianqing in the secret passage of Sannan Mountain, he did not recognize her immediately. He just thought that she looked very much like his sister, so he did not kill her at that time. Seeing her exhausted, with injuries all over her body, and still trying to protect the man in front of her, he couldn't bear it, so he agreed to let her rest when she asked for a rest.

Later it was confirmed that it was when she risked her life to exchange injury for injury. The knife cut through her clothes, and a moon-shaped birthmark was clearly visible on her skin. The moment he saw the birthmark, he wanted to put away the knife, but it was too late. The big knife directly cut through her skin, and the birthmark was stained with blood, forming a blood moon. His neck was also cut by Ye Jianqing's small knife.

"Why don't you tell her that you are her brother?" Lu Ci Qiu knew that he had had a hard time these years and it was painful for him to lose his sister, but now that he had the opportunity, why didn't he tell her the truth?

Arnold closed his eyes, and the memories of the past came to his mind. He shook his head slightly and said, "I am not a good brother, and I am not a good person either. You can't let her be harmed because of me."

Lu Ci Qiu opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say it. Arnold's action was for Ye Jianqing's good, so he had nothing to say.