The world is broken, the cubs mend it

Pei Zhiyan came back after dealing with those people and stood outside the carriage for a long time before lifting the curtain.

The child also looked at him at this time, and a layer of mist slowly covered his eyes.

"..."

Pei Zhiyan lowered the curtain again, thinking that she was crying because of him, and stood outside with sword in hand, not knowing what to do.

"Wow ah ah..."

A child's sharp cry broke out in the carriage, and the curtain was lifted to reveal a small ball of flesh rushing towards him.

Pei Zhiyan reacted and reached out to catch it, but the child's forehead had already hit his nose heavily, and in an instant his tears burst out uncontrollably.

painful……

“Daddy, such a big head suddenly flew away…”

Yuanyuan gestured with her little hands in front of his eyes, crying with tears and snot, her little body still shaking uncontrollably.

These words may sound childish and funny, but they leave a deep psychological trauma on children.

"..."

Pei Zhiyan opened his mouth, not knowing how to comfort her. In troubled times, human life is worthless, and the achievements of those in power are built with the corpses of countless people.

Those who died on the battlefield were like a drop of water falling into the Yangtze River, without even a ripple.

"Don't be afraid, I will protect you and will never let you see this again."

Finally, he patted the child on the back and said, the real world outside is too cruel for her.

The child's palm was scratched and she kept holding it together without being noticed. When she was tired of crying, she raised her hand to wipe away her tears. She groaned in pain when her tears touched the wound.

The wound, which had been covered, was covered with a layer of transparent liquid, and there were signs of suppuration around it.

"When did you get hurt? Why didn't you say anything?"

Pei Zhiyan took some medicine to treat her wound and poured white powder on it. The child grimaced in pain and wanted to hide back.

"Just bear with it and take the medicine, you will get better faster."

He blew on the child's wound, hoping to relieve her pain.

Yuanyuan had a thin layer of gauze wrapped around her palm. She stared at him for a while and asked sullenly, "Why do people kill people?"

"Because of different standpoints, and also because of greed, hatred, evil thoughts..."

There are many motives for killing. Whether it is humans or animals, there is killing among the same kind. Pei Zhiyan cannot summarize all of them in detail.

"Why do you want to kill people?"

Yuanyuan looked into his eyes with her clear eyes. She still couldn't understand the words the old man said.

The carriage became quiet. Seeing this, Caizhi immediately got up and went out to drive the carriage with Xiaofuzi.

"Do you mean last night or in the past?"

"What's the difference?"

"The people I killed last night were my enemies. They wanted to take my life, and I have a grudge against them.

In the past, I killed people for revenge. They slaughtered my entire family, so I naturally couldn't let them go.

"The whole family was slaughtered" means all my relatives were killed. They all died miserably, and I was the only one who survived. "

Pei Zhiyan felt that she didn't quite understand, so he explained it to her again in plain language.

"As tragic as having your head fall to the ground?" Yuanyuan couldn't think of a more tragic scene than that.

"You're wrong. Killing someone with one blow is the most satisfying way to die. There are thousands of ways to make your life worse than death in this world."

Pei Zhiyan didn't want to think about it anymore, but those memories came flooding back like a tide, constantly hitting his brain.

"Then Daddy, after seeing a more painful death, will you be more scared than I was yesterday?"

Yuanyuan couldn't imagine a more cruel scene, so she moved her butt to lean against him, her little face tense without a trace of a smile.

The child's childish words were constantly beating on Pei Zhiyan's heart, and the warmth in his sincere eyes was about to burn him.

After going through so much, no one ever asked him if he was afraid, and even he himself forgot what fear was.

During the countless sleepless nights when he had to swallow his anger in silence, it was the overwhelming hatred that kept him alive.

His father taught him to learn martial arts and command military forces in order to defend the country, but he failed to live up to his father's expectations and became a disloyal and treacherous traitor.

"It's okay. I wasn't too scared. It's all over."

"Dad, not all your relatives are dead."

Yuanyuan raised her little hand and waved it in front of his eyes so that he could see her. She was still alive and well.

"Why aren't you afraid of me?"

Pei Zhiyan has always been curious about this question. Even if the child saw his worst side, he would still not dislike him.

"Why should you be afraid of your own father?" Yuanyuan looked at him in confusion.

This doubt happened to solve Pei Zhiyan's doubts. The bond between parents and children cannot be measured simply by good and evil.

But he didn't know when he established such a bond with the child.

"Congratulations, host. The target's favorability towards you has risen to 45 percent."

007 looked at the progress bar that was almost halfway through, his tone filled with suppressed excitement, his previous worries having long since disappeared without a trace.

"..."

Yuanyuan slapped his forehead, and the rabbit started talking to himself again.

"Why are you hitting yourself for no reason?"

Pei Zhiyan didn't quite understand some of her little actions. She hit him pretty hard and he could even hear the noise.

“The rabbit in my head is talking.”

Yuanyuan shook her head, and the rabbit closed its mouth and said nothing again, just looking at her fiercely.

“That’s not funny…”

Pei Zhiyan thought she was joking. How could there be a rabbit in a person's head?

"..." Yuanyuan squinted her eyes and glared at him, frowning tightly and looking quite disgusted: "I didn't make you laugh."

The old man's words are weird...

Pei Zhiyan also thought she was inexplicable...

After two and a half days of travel, they finally arrived at the post station. Yuanyuan hadn't eaten anything good in the past two days, so she just ate toasted steamed bread slices and some dried meat.

The soldiers camped outside the city to rest. Pei Zhiyan wore a veiled hat, and the hanging gauze covered his white hair and face.

Yuanyuan held his finger and walked through the bustling market, holding in her hand the wooden doll that the old man's father had just bought for her. The chubby doll was holding a koi in its arms.

Passing by a jewelry stall, Yuanyuan tiptoed and took a fancy to a pair of silver butterfly hairpins with fluttering wings.

"Like this?"

Pei Zhiyan picked up the hairpin and looked at it. When she inserted it into the child's bun, it didn't seem very suitable at first glance.

"Sir, this is not how you wear a hairpin."

The stall was run by a couple. The woman squatted down and adjusted the position of her hairpin. The silver butterfly rested on the velvet flower in the child's bun, making her look playful and cute, not as awkward as before.

"I want this..."

Yuanyuan pointed at the butterfly on her forehead and looked at the old man with anticipation.

Pei Zhiyan asked the price, took out some change and put it on the stall, then took the child to go to other stalls to buy things.

The little guy found everything new to him. He bought a lot of miscellaneous little gadgets and filled his arms with them.