Chapter 671: 671: Mom, Don't Cry...

She smiled, barely moving her lips, her voice barely louder than a mosquito’s.

“Mom, don’t cry…”

“Alright! Mom won’t cry! Mom isn’t crying, Mom is waiting for our YingEr to get better, not crying…”

But she could no longer hold back the sorrow deep in her heart, covering her mouth with her hand and rushing out of the room to cry loudly.

“Sisi…”

Di Yelei happened to come by: “Sisi, what happened to you?”

Liu Sisi could no longer hold back, directly throwing herself into Di Yelei’s arms: “It’s YingEr, YingEr, she…”

Di Yelei was alarmed, shaking Liu Sisi’s shoulders urgently: “What happened to YingEr? Sisi, just say it quickly, what happened to YingEr?”

“YingEr, she…she said: ‘Mom, don’t cry…’ wuuwuu…”

Mom, don’t cry…

Such a simple sentence, yet so heart-wrenching!

That girl, covered in wounds, lying there barely breathing, couldn’t even turn over, yet she still comforted her not to cry. How could this not make Liu Sisi moved, sad, and heartbroken!

Di Xuan stood far away at the corner of the wall, his gaze gloomy as he watched the scene before him, his eyes filled with boundless remorse.

He eventually left silently, as if he had never been there.

Di Yelei’s eyes turned red as well, and he patted Liu Sisi’s shoulder: “What did Old He say?”

Liu Sisi forcefully held back her sorrow and repeated Old He’s words: “Fortunately, we got Old He this time. He is a direct descendant of a famous medical family and has served in the palace for many years. I can’t imagine if it wasn’t for him to save YingEr, what would have…happened.”

Di Yelei was silent for a long time and sighed softly: “I…I’ll go in and see YingEr.” After that, he let go of Liu Sisi and entered the room.

In the room, Di Ying was already asleep.

Even in her sleep, she was frowning painfully, gasping with agony.

Her small face was full of light scratches, covered with yellow and green herbal juice, her swollen eyes squeezed into slits, her head wrapped like a rabbit…not to mention the area under the thin quilt covered by clothing.

Di Yelei gently sat down by the bedside and reached out to touch her. But as his hand extended halfway, he couldn’t find a place that wasn’t injured to touch, and it froze there.

He had personally experienced the pain of a fractured rib, whose difficulty in breathing was indescribable.

Old Man Li, Yuan Mengbai!

Old Man Li, as an outsider, was ruthless, but Yuan Mengbai was her uncle. Why did you harm my YingEr? She is still so young… Could it be because of what happened initially?

His stiff hand in mid-air slowly turned into a fist and was slowly retracted.

A determined radiance flashed in his eyes.

Due to being busy with the shop, Liu Zhi’er went back to the small town after YingEr’s condition had stabilized.

Zhang Peng and his family, on the other hand, stayed at Di Residence. Especially Zhang Yun, who stayed with YingEr almost all day, making her bedridden time less boring. Guihua personally cooked for YingEr; as she was recovering from a serious illness, YingEr could only eat some light food. Guihua would make various kinds of meals for her and play with her when she had free time.

As for Zhang Peng, he was not seen for the whole day. Actually, he was mostly out chasing the suspect.

At this point, the only suspect who hadn’t been caught was Yuan Mengbai.

Not long after, Zhang Peng returned, and also brought back information about the suspects.

“When our people arrived, that mansion was already empty. I asked the neighbors around, and they didn’t know where the people had gone either. But there was a neighbor who said, yesterday evening, they heard a burst of noise before it calmed down. However, the residence was often noisy every couple of days, so the neighbors didn’t pay too much attention.”

Di Yelei was somewhat surprised: “Brother Zhang, based on your experience, what’s the likelihood of them escaping?”

Even though he didn’t want to think about it, at the moment, he had no choice but to consider it.

Zhang Peng shook his head: “I’ve inspected their room. All their belongings are still there, and it doesn’t look like they’ve fled.”

“Then… why did they suddenly disappear?”

While the two were worrying about Yuan Mengbai and the others’ mysterious disappearance, Liu Sisi and others were following Zhu Caimai into the wine-house’s backyard.

Walking through the backyard and along a narrow path not too far away, they stopped in front of a small hut.

“Prefecture Princess, they are here.”

“Hmm. Have you followed my orders?”

“Prefecture Princess, rest assured, everything is going according to plan.”

“Good.”

Following the already opened door, Liu Sisi and the others entered the hut.

In the hut, several people were tied to wooden chairs, their eyes blindfolded and mouths filled. Liu Sisi took a glance and immediately recognized Yuan Mengbai and Di Ruoning.

Hearing someone enter, everyone struggled and tried to make noises from their mouths.

Liu Sisi didn’t speak and directly sat down on a chair. Then, she nodded at Zhu Caimai beside her.

Zhu Caimai took a step forward and removed the stinky sock from Yuan Mengbai’s mouth.

Yuan Mengbai coughed violently and listened carefully, “What are you…what are you trying to do? We are just ordinary common people. You can’t just arbitrarily arrest people like this, it’s against the law!”

Everyone else remained still, letting Yuan Mengbai perform his act alone.

Yuan Mengbai kept talking, “…I’m a scholar, as long as you let me go, I’ll have my family send you 100 taels of silver, okay? After all, we haven’t seen your faces. My uncle is a lord captain, as long as you agree, they will surely give you satisfactory rewards…”

Yuan Mengbai was always crafty.

In just a few words, he pointed out his identity as a scholar and lord captain to deter any small-time thieves. He also mentioned that they hadn’t seen the captor’s faces and offered silver to further erode their resolve.

Of course, if the captors weren’t satisfied with the offered price, they would surely make further demands… But at that time, he would naturally have a way to deal with it.

Liu Sisi nodded at Zhu Caimai beside her.

Zhu Caimai coughed heavily and spoke with a changed voice.

“So it turns out that the head of a cultured scholar is worth only 100 taels of silver? How ridiculous! And this woman, her looks are quite good too! Even though she’s a married woman, giving her to our brothers might interest them, don’t you think?”

As they spoke, they ordered someone to untie the woman and take her out of the room.