Now that the people had been caught, Deng Qiyue ordered Zhao Yi to teach the two men a lesson and then send them to the prefect of Yuzhou so that he could trace the clues and find out the mastermind behind the incident.
On the other side, the four children on the mountain found a place in the valley to hide temporarily. Fortunately, there happened to be a small river nearby, and they could occasionally catch a few fish from the river. What was even more unexpected was that Huang Yibei actually carried a fire starter with him.
So they grilled the fish happily and enjoyed this authentic grilled fish feast with great relish.
Huang Yibei ate the grilled fish while mumbling, "I didn't expect the fish to be so delicious. I never liked it before."
Su Shian heard this and said to him, "That's because you're not hungry enough."
Xiao Ran also nodded, expressing his agreement: "You are right. If a person is hungry, everything he eats will taste delicious."
At this moment, Su Shian suddenly coughed. It turned out that she was choked by a fish bone. She finally spit out the fish bone. Huang Yibei couldn't help but complain: "Eat slowly. Why don't you remove the fish bones before eating fish?"
Su Shian scratched her head a little embarrassedly and said, "I just want to enjoy the happiness brought by the food as soon as possible." After saying that, she silently felt a little ashamed of herself. She subconsciously glanced at the little girl sitting next to her and found that she was eating very politely. Su Shian couldn't help but wonder: This little girl doesn't look like a child from an ordinary family, but her hands and clothes show that she often does farm work. Is she a rich girl?
Perhaps she felt Su Shian's gaze, the little girl raised her head, looked at her and said, "Why are you looking at me?"
Su Shian was a little flustered for a moment, and quickly explained: "No, no, no, I just think the way you eat is very elegant."
She looked shy, lowered her head slightly, and muttered in a mosquito-like voice: "I've heard from others that you must spit out the bones when eating fish, otherwise it's easy to get stuck with fish bones. Since I've never tasted fish, so..."
The little girl finally plucked up the courage to reveal her life story to everyone. It turned out that her name was Wu Jin, and she was different from the others. Her parents had passed away long ago, and she was sold to a beggar by her uncle for only one or two taels of silver. The reason was that she ate too much and her family couldn't afford it. In fact, she was the one who was most worried and afraid of being caught, because once caught, she would only die. This was also the reason why she didn't plan to escape at first, but later decided to help her companions after seeing them fighting so hard.
Su Shian said with deep emotion: "So that's how it is. Is human life so cheap and worthless? Your uncle and the others are really..."
"In fact, it's not their fault. After all, our family is extremely poor. And I don't eat too much myself. I can usually eat five bowls of rice per meal, but I will try my best to restrain myself and only eat three bowls. The reason for this is..."
The three of them lowered their heads. This matter was really hard to talk about! After all, Xiao Ran and Huang Yibei had secretly estimated their appetite, and it was only two bowls of rice at most. In this way, Wu Jin's appetite was indeed larger than that of ordinary people.
With the concerted and unremitting efforts of Gao Shuyue and his men, after a long and arduous search that lasted most of the night, they finally got what they wanted and successfully found the four children who had escaped together in a mountain.
Upon learning that the Huang family's child had been found, the governor was extremely anxious and immediately sent several trustworthy guards to escort him home safely. At this moment, Xiao Ran and Wu Jin had nowhere to go, so Deng Qiyue led them and Su Shian back to his home.
However, when they returned home, they found Su Shikuan sitting quietly in the main room, waiting silently, his eyes bloodshot and his face full of fatigue. People around him urged him to go to rest, but he refused, claiming that he could not fall asleep and would not rest until An An returned safely.
Finally arriving at the door of home, Su Shian shouted loudly, "We are back!" The voice sounded particularly loud in the quiet night.
When Su Shikuan heard this, he jumped up as if he had been electrocuted, his face full of ecstasy, and his voice trembled with excitement: "What? An An is back? I seemed to hear her voice." After that, he took big steps impatiently and ran towards the door, looking forward to witnessing his beloved daughter returning home safely with his own eyes.
"That's right. Open the door quickly. We all heard it." Aunt Sun echoed. She stayed in the yard with Su Shikuan all night.
"Eunuch Sun, Granny Sun, Second Brother, I'm back!" Su Shian jumped lightly from Deng Qiyue's back and ran towards Su Shikuan like a happy little deer.
Su Shikuan could no longer suppress his inner emotions, and tears burst out like a dam breaking: "Let me take a good look, are you hurt anywhere? I was really scared by what happened today..."
"Brother, don't worry, I'm fine. It's just that there are other people behind me, and it's a bit embarrassing to look like this." Su Shian said as he motioned him to pay attention behind him. He saw Xiao Ran looking at him indifferently as he looked at his embarrassed state with tears streaming down his face, and he almost laughed at him.
Su Shikuan was particularly surprised by Xiao Ran's unexpected arrival: "Huh? How could he...how could he come here..."
"Brother, they have nowhere to go for the time being, so Uncle Seven brought them back together." Su Shian just remembered and quickly introduced them to everyone: "This is five kilograms."
Aunt Sun took Wu Jin's hand, looked at it carefully, and said with concern: "Oh, you have suffered so much. Look at these hands, you must have worked a lot..." In fact, as soon as she entered the door, she had already noticed this poor little girl, and her heart was already full of pity for her.
"Granny Sun, could you please help Wu Jin wash up?" Su Shian requested.
Aunt Sun readily agreed: "Okay, okay, no trouble."
At this time, Deng Qiyue walked behind the child, patted his shoulder and said, "Okay, it's getting late, and we are all very sleepy. Let's go back to bed. Kuan'er, take this young master to your room to rest. Aunt Sun will take care of the rest."
"Seventh Uncle, but I don't want to..." Su Shikuan seemed a little reluctant, and he wanted to fight for it.
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