After Gu Yanjin and the others had left, they remembered Qin Rui at their feet.

"Why are you silent? Weren't you very talkative just now?"

Gu Yanjin half-knelt down to look at her at eye level.

Qin Rui tried very hard not to roll her eyes at him, but her expression was still quite speechless, as if to say, "You are really brainless."

"You are a high-ranking official in the Dali Temple. I just saw that those people with knives are afraid of you. I certainly can't afford to offend you. Isn't it better to stay quiet? Anyway, you can't hurt me."

Hearing the girl's confident tone, Gu Yanjin became interested, "Oh? Really? Then tell me why I wouldn't hurt you. What if I did hurt you, and no one else would know?"

Qin Rui saw that this man was treating her like a child and she really didn't want to answer this boring question, but he was a high-ranking official and she couldn't afford to offend him. She also wanted him to help her find a brother and sister-in-law.

"You are a high-ranking official, how can you hurt the people? If you really wanted to harm me, you wouldn't have asked those people to come over. If others saw you, you would have done it a long time ago. Although my brother always says that villains die because they talk too much, you talk too much."

Gu Yanjin pretended not to notice the speechless expression of the little girl. He was a grown man and was looked down upon by a little girl, so he had to save his face.

"Yeah, your brother is right. It seems that you often follow your brother. What about your brother?"

"If I knew where my brother was, would I be targeted by human traffickers? Why would I still be here chatting with you?"

Qin Rui was really angry. What's wrong with this person? He talks a lot of nonsense but never gets to the point. Could he have become stupid from reading too much?

There was a family diagonally opposite their elementary school. The boy was so absorbed in studying that he could not do any work. When people talked to him, they could not get through. The aunties next door said that he had become stupid because of studying too much.

Gu Yanjin opened his mouth and swallowed back what he was about to say, because the girl's eyes changed when she looked at him, and the feeling of "you might be a fool" came over him.

Gu Yanjin clenched his fist and put it to his mouth and coughed twice to hide his embarrassment, "Okay, then what's your name?"

Qin Rui: "My name is Qin Rui. My brother's name is Qin Yan. I came here with my brother and sister-in-law. We were originally eating noodles at the street corner in front, but I went to buy candied haws, and when I came back they were gone, so I came to look for them, and then I ended up here. Okay, do you have anything else to ask? And you asked my name, what's yours?"

Gu Yanjin was stunned, but only for a moment. His good upbringing allowed him to quickly conceal his emotions.

I sighed in my heart, are kids nowadays so smart? They don’t even need comforting. This makes me look very amateurish.

"Ahem, okay, I get it. My last name is Gu Yanjin, so is your brother the newly-appointed Qin County Man?"

Qin Rui nodded, "Yes."

Gu Yanjin: "Then your brother and sister-in-law are probably still on the street. I will take you to find your brother and sister-in-law first. If I can't find them, I will send you back to the Qin Mansion."

Qin Rui: "Okay."

She thought to herself, it’s a good thing she wasn’t sent back home directly. She hadn’t had enough fun yet, and she could go play again later.

He handed it to Gu Yanjin and said, "You are a good boy. I'm rooting for you."

"Let's go."

Gu Yanjin really didn't want to see the little girl's overly expressive expressions. He really didn't expect Qin Xiannan's sister to be like this. He didn't know how Qin Xiannan could stand it. This kid was very cunning.

Qin Yan said: It’s no big deal, just sprinkle some water.

When they reached the street, Gu Yanjin lowered her head and asked which way to find her brother and sister-in-law.

Qin Rui pointed directly into the street. Of course, she hadn’t even walked inside yet.

Gu Yanjin followed Qin Rui. Qin Rui was not affected by what happened just now. After all, she was quite capable.

Jumping and skipping among the stalls.

At the beginning, Qin Rui asked Gu Yanjin if he had money, and got a positive answer.

I started to act pitiful, "Brother Yanjin, I threw away all my coins, and it's so dark there that I can't find them. Can you lend me some? I'll ask my brother to return them to you as soon as I find him, okay?"

"Alas, I was just frightened and need to buy something to soothe my uneasy heart. Brother Yanjin, can you bear to let down a little girl? Doesn't your conscience hurt? Woo woo woo"

Gu Yanjin was panicking as he looked at the little girl who started crying at the drop of a hat, especially since the people around him saw that he, a grown man, was bullying a little girl. They stopped shopping and just surrounded him, pointing fingers.

"Don't cry, I didn't say I wouldn't lend it to you. Can't I buy it for you?"

Qin Rui cried so hard that she got a little dizzy. She slowly stopped crying, but tears were still falling.

Gu Yanjin was at a loss as to how to comfort her, but Qin Rui was still sobbing.

Gu Yanjin held his forehead with his hand. Although he was young, he could cry a lot.

He went to the side and bought the candied haws that he had heard the little girl mention before, and handed them to her, which almost comforted her.

But behind them, two people were walking towards them.

The two people were Lin Bingyuan and Cheng Ziyan who were out for fun.

Today, Lin Bingyuan and her mother went to visit her grandmother's house, that is, Her Royal Highness the Princess. Her mother is the daughter of the Princess, and she and the Prince are cousins.

Fortunately, the Princess's Mansion is in the capital, and her mother stayed there today to talk to her grandmother, the Princess.

She had nothing to do, but Zi Yan asked her to go out to watch the lantern festival, so she agreed.

Cheng Ziyan had been at home for a day. Her mother was the concubine's daughter of a wealthy man and was abducted to the mountain by her father. The wealthy man said that her mother was dead and he was afraid of revenge from the bandits.

Her mother just pretended that her father didn't exist. Later, when she followed her father Cheng Lao Hu to the capital, she never thought of that wealthy father. As long as he didn't bother her mother, her mother didn't want to deal with her grandfather's family. Bah, she didn't have a grandfather.

Today her father took her mother out shopping, outing, and playing everywhere, and he didn't allow her and her brother to follow them, saying that they were an eyesore.

Only she and her brother were left. Her brother went straight to the camp outside the city to play with those who didn't go home for the New Year. They fought, drank, and boasted. He had so much fun that he forgot he had a sister.

Cheng Ziyan didn’t have many good friends in Beijing, so she asked Lin Bingyuan to go out and play.

They walked halfway down the street when they heard a child crying in front of them, with a grown man standing next to him.

Cheng Ziyan thought he was bullying a child, so she pulled Lin Bingyuan over.

The people around Gu Yanjin realized that there was a misunderstanding and dispersed.

Cheng Ziyan just came in, let go of Lin Bingyuan's hand, put her hands on her waist, and questioned the man aggressively.

"Hey, you big man, are you bullying a little girl?"

Gu Yanjin and Qin Rui both turned around to look at the person who was about to speak suddenly, and they were startled.

Cheng Ziyan also saw the faces of the two people. Well, one of them looked pretty good. Hmm? This kid looked familiar.

Lin Bingyuan, who was behind Cheng Ziyan, walked forward and also saw the man's face.

Gu Yanjin, the youngest Dali Temple official in this dynasty, inherited his father's career. No matter how difficult the case is, he can detect doubts from clues and deduce the truth of the case.

After solving several major cases in succession, he was favored by the emperor and appointed as the youngest Minister of the Dali Temple.

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