People in Daji Town already know Wen Baolin.
Seeing him coming, many people greeted him.
Xie Xun and Chen Anning took advantage of this energy and asked the people in the town for some details about Li Tianyi before turning towards Mashan.
Chongma Mountain is steep and the mountain road is rugged.
Chen Anning and Xie Xun were martial arts practitioners, and they followed the large army very cautiously.
Thinking of what people in the town said about Ling'er being deaf and mute and having bad eyesight, Chen Anning curiously asked the secret guard leading the way: "Is this the only way up the mountain, or is there another way?"
The secret guard replied: "This is the only one."
Xu Zan's understanding of Ling'er also came from other people's mouths. I heard before that she lived alone at the foot of the mountain, going down and up the mountain every day. I just sighed that this girl was strong. Now when I saw the path that could lead to falling off the cliff if I wasn't paying attention, I couldn't help but feel a little more curious while admiring her. Did your daughter also take this road to go down the mountain?"
The secret guard said uncertainly: "It should be."
"This is too dangerous." Xu Zan said.
Dangerous indeed.
Chen Anning took a look at the old wooden fence that was faintly visible on the side of the cliff, as well as the neatly cleaned thorns in the forest. She suddenly felt blessed and asked Xie Xun: "Have you ever checked what the beggars adopted by Miss Ling'er are?" origin?"
Xie Xun said 'hmm': "I'm checking."
Xu Zan asked: "Do you suspect there is something wrong with the origins of those beggars?"
Chen Anning shook his head, "I don't doubt that there is anything wrong with the origins of those beggars. I just thought that if Xu Tianyi is really nearby, then he should attach great importance to Miss Ling'er. Since he attaches great importance to Miss Ling'er, he may let Miss Ling'er go. Sitting alone in such a dangerous place."
"That makes sense." Xu Zan nodded.
Just talking and walking like this, they walked for more than half an hour before they arrived at the temple where Miss Ling'er had taken refuge.
The doors and windows of the temple remained closed.
Xu Zan stepped forward and knocked on the door twice, shouting: "Miss Ling'er, open the door. We are the ones handling the case at Dali Temple. We have something to ask you."
A child of seven or eight years old opened the door a crack, exposed half of his eyes and looked at him warily and said: "Sister Ling'er said, there is no one you are looking for in the house, you should leave quickly."
Saying that, he was about to close the door.
Xu Zan held the door with quick eyes and hands, and said: "Go and tell Miss Ling'er that if we don't look for anyone else, we will look for her."
"What are you doing with Sister Ling'er?" The child pressed his feet against the door to prevent him from forcing his way in.
Judging from the strength of Xu Zan's hand, there were other children hiding behind the door.
"Just ask a few questions about Li Tianyi and then leave." Xu Zan said in a good voice.
After taking a look at the other people behind the door, the child replied, "But Sister Ling'er doesn't know where Brother Tianyi is."
Xu Zan took out some candies from his arms and handed them over, but the child did not take them. After Xu Zan forced it to him, he still asked patiently: "Sister Ling'er doesn't know where brother Tianyi is, but do you know?"
The child looked at the candy in his arms and then at him, "We don't know either."
Xu Zan rolled his eyes twice and said slowly: "Did you know that Brother Tianyi is a liar? He has deceived many, many people. The temple you live in now was built with the money he cheated. Yes. He also caused many children like you to become homeless, causing..."
"Woooo!" Ling'er suddenly appeared, whining to express the impossibility.
The children hiding at the door immediately called 'Sister Ling'er' and ran towards her.
Ling'er held the arm of one of the children and walked to the door. After signaling the child who was leaning against the door to open the door, she looked at the crowd with dull eyes and kept whining.
The oldest of the children, after her whining stopped, said to Chen Anning and others: "Sister Ling'er said that Brother Tianyi is not a liar. You must be mistaken. Your government cannot wrongly accuse a good person like this."
Although no one wanted to make such a girl sad, Xu Zan still had to bite the bullet and said: "Miss Ling'er should know that if Xu Tianyi is really just working at Zhao Yongsheng's horse farm, there will be no way to earn the wages he deserves. Build such a big temple."
Ling'er's face turned pale instantly.
She is deaf-mute, but under Li Tianyi's early teachings, she can do some simple lip reading.
She understood Xu Zan's words.
But she never seemed to have thought about this issue, or had doubts about it, but she chose to believe him.
When Xu Zan said it to her, she couldn't bear it and suddenly rushed out screaming.
The eldest child quickly followed her and said: "Sister Ling'er said that Brother Tianyi is not a liar. She is going to find Brother Tianyi. She wants Brother Tianyi to confront you face to face!"
Xu Zan wanted to stop him, but Xie Xun stopped him.
Ling'er rushed out of the temple and hurriedly walked down the mountain.
All the children, big or small, called 'Sister Ling'er' and chased her.
After they walked a certain distance, Xie Xun motioned for everyone to follow them.
Several people followed them and walked down the mountain.
After adopting the children around her, Ling'er had not been down the mountain for a long time. In addition, she was anxious, so she inevitably stumbled when walking.
After another fall, the two older children tried to help her, but she pushed them away.
After just rolling around and falling down countless times, she simply fumbled with her hands and walked forward on her knees.
Xu Zan tilted his head unbearably.
Chen Anning felt uncomfortable, but in order to capture Li Tianyi, she could only endure it.
"Sister Ling'er!"
Ling'er's hand was cut open by a sharp stone. In pain, she instinctively retracted her hand. But when walking on a slope, without hands for support, people fall down involuntarily.
The children chased her anxiously, and some of the younger ones could not control their balance and rolled down the mountain.
The secret guard received Xie Xun's order and flew to stop them one by one.
"Miss Ling'er, go back." Looking at Ling'er who had a lot of cuts on his forehead and face, Xu Zan couldn't bear to persuade her.
Ling'er didn't listen and carefully held the tree and moved down the mountain step by step.
Halfway through, his feet slipped and he rolled down again.
Not far ahead is the cliff.
After the secret guard stopped her again, he reminded: "Miss Ling'er, go back. If you go forward, you will be in danger."
Ling'er didn't listen.
When she was groping about five or six steps away from the cliff, there was a sudden noise about eight or nine feet behind and to the right of the group. Then, Xu Tianyi quickly got out of it and headed towards Ling'er, who was crawling forward, shouted: "Sister Ling'er!"
Even though Linger's back was facing his direction, she still felt his presence.
The tears she had been holding back rolled down along the way, and she slowly turned around, stretched out her hand in his direction and whimpered twice.
"I'm here." Xu Tianyi quickly ran to her, knelt down and held her hand, carefully helped her sit aside, with red eyes, he quickly took out a handkerchief to wipe the dirt on her face. Dirty, "Didn't I say that no matter what happens, I will hide in the temple and never come out?"
Ling'er looked at him with tears in her eyes and kept whining.
The eldest child stood aside silently, looked at Xu Tianyi, and translated in a low voice: "Sister Ling'er asked Brother Tianyi to tell you that he is not a liar."
Xu Tianyi was silent.
Ling'er held his hand and cried anxiously: Tell me quickly, say you are not a liar and you have not made other children homeless.
"I'm sorry." Xu Tianyi lowered his eyes slightly.
Ling'er shook her head: I don't want to hear you say sorry, I want you to tell them that you didn't lie!
Xu Tianyi said again: "I'm sorry."
Ling'er pushed him away, curled up, and looked at him in complete disbelief: I don't want you to say sorry. You taught me to read, taught me how to read, took me to watch the sunrise, took me to watch the sunset, carried me to the county to see a doctor, cooked for me, built such a big house for me, and took in Erdan, Xiaowu and the others , you are obviously the best person in the world, how could you be a liar?
You told me clearly that when you make money in the future, you will take in all the homeless children in the world. How can you make other children homeless?
You are not a liar, they lied to me, and you also lied to me, right?
Xu Tianyi knelt down and hugged him, "Sister Ling'er, don't cry. It's my fault. I will never lie to others again. Can you please stop crying?"
Ling'er lay in his arms, crying and beating him: You are not a liar, you are lying to me, you teamed up with them to lie to me...
Chen Anning stepped forward in two steps and touched her sleeping point.
