Jiang Chen

【You do not know】

The young man with a tired look walked into a post station in Mobei, hesitated for a while and did not go upstairs to the wing room he had reserved a few days ago, but walked to the counter, bent his fingertips, and gently buckled the button in front of the shopkeeper. .

The slightly chubby middle-aged man raised his head and recognized that the smiling young man in front of him was the generous guest. A smile immediately appeared on his face: "What do you want, sir?"

Li Ran said with a smile: "The shopkeeper has ever heard that someone is looking for someone?"

The shopkeeper thought for a while, and said: "There is such a man, a good-looking young man, but his temperament seems very strange. He said he came to find an old friend, what's his name... Li, what is it?"

"But 'Li Ran'?" Li Ran asked.

"Yes, yes, yes... Look at my memory..." The shopkeeper slapped his head and nodded repeatedly.

Li Ran sighed slightly in his heart. Fortunately, he was in this station under an alias, and he changed his face, otherwise he might have been discovered long ago... However, he found this place so quickly, it seems that he can't stay here any longer... …

Thinking in his heart, Li Ran went upstairs in a leisurely manner and rested in his room.

After detoxifying Murong Rong with the medicine given by Jiang Lige and taking him away to settle down, Li Ran left Murong Rong's side.

He was tired and didn't want to bother anymore.Moreover, he wanted to give himself some time to think about it, what exactly did he want?

As for Murong Rong... That man never becomes passive, so Li Ran is not worried about him at all, but Li Ran, who has noticed something from daily clues, does not want to see him now.

After packing up his things, Li Ran looked at the endless Gobi outside the window, thinking about his next journey.

It’s been a long time since I’ve traveled well, why not take advantage of it now…

……

Murong Rong walked out of an inn with a gloomy expression, suppressing the anger in his heart.

And no... and no!

Murong Rong never realized before that he knew so little about Li Ran, and never thought that Li Ran would leave him one day...

Suppressing the restless fear in his heart, Murong Rong quickly sorted out all the clues he could think of.

When he just woke up a few days ago, Li Ran was still by his side. After his body gradually improved, Li Ran disappeared... But the time he disappeared was only these few days... This is a remote area in Mobei, and there is only such a small city... Li Ran If you want to leave, you must make preparations, that is, these few days... So Li Ran is still in this small town...

But now he has searched all over the place to stay and can't find him... Then, either the shopkeepers of these inns lied to him, or Li Ran lied to those shopkeepers...

Murong Rong lowered his eyes quietly, a doctor, a brilliant doctor who has been around for many years, his disguise is enough to deceive most people's eyes and ears.

No wonder...he can't always find...

Li Ran, do you really...don't want me...

……

Li Ran prepared the necessary things, and there was a noisy sound from outside the closed door.

The shopkeeper's voice was anxious: "Hey! You can't... I definitely don't have the person you're looking for here... Don't knock on the door..."

"Li Ran! Li Ran!" Murong Rong's voice sounded familiar and unfamiliar to Li Ran.What is familiar is this person's voice, what is unfamiliar is the anxiety in the voice and the hoarseness after exhaustion.

"Li Ran! Are you there?!" Murong Rong kicked the door open, and saw the stranger inside the door showing a surprised expression.He frowned slightly, took a closer look at this person, and then went to another room to search.

"Li Ran, I was wrong... Come out..." Murong Rong's voice gradually faded away, and Li Ran sat where he was, restraining the surprised expression on his face.He looked at the kicked open door and smiled.

Still don't recognize me, idiot.

He got up, walked out of the room with his baggage, and smiled at the shopkeeper with a bitter face: "I will compensate for the loss caused by that man."

The shopkeeper was surprised: "Guest officer and that person..."

Li Ran smiled: "Well... used to be friends."

"By the way, please keep my room for a few days, shopkeeper."

"Guest officer, don't worry, I will keep it for you."

"Trouble shopkeeper."

【Xin Yue】

Li Ran still remembered the first time he met Murong Rong.

It was also in this small town in Mobei, but Li Ran, who was only seven or eight years old, was held by a master who liked to practice medicine everywhere, and walked on the street looking around curiously.

"I want to eat." The soft and tender child looked up at him, his big moist eyes full of longing.

Li Ran, the master who is known as the sage of medicine, was about to melt, and nodded repeatedly: "Okay, okay, master will buy it for you, and wait for master there obediently."

Xiao Li Ran was very obedient, and ran to a corner in front of a closed inn to wait for Master to come back after shopping.

The medical sage bought what Xiao Li Ran wanted, and walked to the place where he asked Li Ran to stand and wait with a smile on his face: "My good disciple...brother..."

The young and handsome man with long gray hair looked around and roared, "Where's my good apprentice?!!!"

"Hmm..." Xiao Liran woke up in a jolt, rubbing his drowsy head, and the scent of incense remained on the tip of his nose.He opened his eyes in a little confusion, and found himself in a small compartment.

And not just myself.

The child sitting opposite had a gloomy face and was dirty, but his face was wiped clean, revealing a face that looked good and had the potential of being a beauty.

Of course, at Li Ran's age, he can't tell the difference between beauty and ugliness. The reason why he saw the boy opposite him at first sight was because he happened to be sitting opposite him, and he could see it as soon as he opened his eyes; Of all the boys in the carriage, this boy was the calmest and most imposing.

Oh, Li Ran was also very calm, because he hadn't figured out what was going on, so he looked left and right curiously.

There were many children in the carriage, but almost all of them were in a coma. Only Li Ran and the boy opposite him remained awake.

Xiao Liran found that the car was full of the smell of mist, that's why these children fell asleep and never woke up.He was able to wake up thanks to the fact that his master is a medical sage, and he developed a certain resistance to drugs when he was studying with him on weekdays.

The quality of this fragrance is not high, and his drug resistance can resist it.

As for why the kid opposite was able to stay awake... Li Ran didn't know at the time, but later he found out that the tip of the boy's tongue was about to be bitten off by himself.

"Hello." The boy lowered his voice and called him, "Are you awake?"

Xiao Li Ran glanced at him, and was about to speak, but was overwhelmed by the boy's body.He subconsciously closed his eyes and pretended to be asleep, and the boy's heavy breathing was heard next to his ears.

Someone outside the car said: "Aren't you awake?"

"No, I've been watching."

Xiao Liran felt the light change in front of his eyes, bright and dark for a while, and now it was completely dark.He waited for a while before slowly opening his eyes.

The boy was still pressing on him, pretending to be unconscious, but he said quickly in his ear: "If you want to leave, listen to me later, don't mess around!"

Xiao Li Ran pushed the boy on his body, indicating that he knew it, and asked him to get up by the way.

The boy got up immediately, trying to keep quiet.He quietly slipped to the door of the carriage, and stuck to the wall of the carriage to observe the situation outside through the gap of the shaking curtain.

Xiao Liran tilted his head to look at him, thought for a while, and took out a medicine bag from his arms.

"Here." Xiao Li Ran handed the boy the medicine bag that Master made for him, "You should need it later."

The boy was also polite, and reached out to take it: "What's the use?"

"It is useful for resisting drugs and poisons." Xiao Li Ran said.

The boy flipped through the small medicine package, and pointed to the unconscious children: "Can you wake them up?"

Xiao Liran replied: "Yes. But why?"

Little Murong Rong looked at this seemingly innocent child strangely: "Of course I want to save them."

Xiao Li Ran sneaked out of the carriage behind Xiao Murong Rong: "Are they your friends?"

"No."

"You know them?"

"do not know."

Xiao Liran stopped and said naturally: "Then why do you want to save them? They are neither relatives nor acquaintances."

Little Murongrong looked at the child in surprise and said cold-blooded words: "Save them, nothing but trouble."

The little boy frowned, and his tone sank: "What do you think, it's all human life!"

"Human life?" The well-behaved child blinked and tilted his head.

"Saving someone's life is better than building a seven-level pagoda! Besides, do you know what those people are going to do to us?!" Little Murong Rong clenched his fists, "Sell the good-looking ones into brothels, and sell the bad-looking ones to serve as slaves! "

"If no one saves us, we will fall into the most painful situation in our ignorance!" The little boy threw the medicine bag back into Li Ran's hand without looking back, "If you don't want to save us, Just go and stay aside, don't get in my way!"

Little Li Ran looked down at the medicine bag in his hand, and caught up with little Murong Rong's resolute back: "But, what if there are bad people among the people you save?"

Master said that it is best for a bad person to die, and he will not be saved no matter how many treasures are given to him.

Little Murongrong smiled: "How can there be so many bad guys? Besides, I saved them, so can they not remember this kindness of saving their lives?"

Xiao Liran looked at the boy's smile, blushed and nodded vigorously, and put the medicine bag in Xiao Murongrong's hand.

"Let's save together!"

Now, there are still many good people in the world, so we need to save people, right?

……

Xiao Li Ran pulled the sleeve of the master who came over, and waved to the little friend he just recognized: "I'm leaving, I will come to play with you when I have time~"

Little Murong Rong watched the back of the child going away, and did not go to his home until he could no longer see him.

He is an orphan, and he grew up eating a variety of meals and wearing a variety of clothes.Everyone treats him very well, so he must protect everyone...

Thinking about it, little Murong Rong walked towards his house, but when passing by a dark corner, he heard someone talking faintly.He was curious for a while, relying on the skills he had practiced outside, he hid in a corner where no one could see him but he could hear them talking.

"Have you solved that little bastard?" The voice of the person who spoke in a low voice was very familiar. Little Murong Rong thought about it, and it was Uncle Wang's voice.Uncle Wang is always happy when he sees him, and even gives him sweets.

Little bastard... Little Murong Rong suddenly had a bad premonition, which made him feel chills all over.

He didn't want to listen any more, but the conversation between Uncle Wang and others continued.

"Hey! This kid is so beautiful, I didn't expect him to be so smart, he can even make a boiled duck fly!" The voice of another person, little Murong Rong, was also very familiar, it was the one who caught him.

Little Murong Rong gritted her teeth, Uncle Wang...why would Uncle Wang be with that bad guy?

"Oh, Murong Rong is so pitiful, he has lost his parents since he was a child..."

"Shh, don't pretend to be kind, didn't you hand this kid into my hands?"

The little boy curled up in the corner, his eyes widened, and big drops of tears fell down.

"Okay, okay, since I didn't succeed, return the money to me, everyone is waiting!"

How many people... Murong Rong gritted his teeth, it turned out that there was more than one...

"Huh!" The man's voice revealed a bit of dissatisfaction, "I wasted a lot of effort trying to sell this kid, but in the end it was all in vain..."

"Moji, Moji!" Uncle Wang's simple and honest voice was full of impatience, "It's a big deal to find a good time next time! I'll save you and catch that bastard!"

The sound of Uncle Wang's footsteps went away, and then the familiar voice of the villagers sounded: "Hey, what is Lao Wang doing in such a hurry?"

"Old Li is in a hurry to call me, I'm leaving first!"

That night, it rained cats and dogs.

Little Murong Rong walked back to his dilapidated thatched hut with a pale face, the rain mixed with the tears on his face, his body was dripping wet, like a water ghost just crawled out of the water.

The boy closed the door firmly with his backhand, then slowly slid to sit on the ground, buried his head in his knees, and murmured:

"It's fake...it's all fake..."

Love is fake, caring is fake, it turns out that raising and selling themselves is the real purpose of those who say they love him.

……

"Old Wang, how much did that kid sell?"

"Hush, bad luck! The little bastard ran back by himself, and didn't get a penny!"

"Ah? Then our capital..."

"Don't worry, I'm coming back. Hey, Li Zi, if you think of another way, you have to sell Murong Rong, otherwise you won't be able to get back the capital spent on him these years."

"Yes, yes, how much rice did you eat from me!"

"Li Zi, you are the smartest! Think about it!"

"Ah... Old Wang, Lao Huang, Xiaozhang, you... this... selling children is always against the law..."

"Oh, didn't you agree and think of a way before? It's nothing to regret at this time... Hurry up, come up with a surefire way, or when the time comes, the money will not be divided into your family..."

"Alright alright……"

The boy listened expressionlessly, the tears had already flowed clean.

……

Murong Rong had a serious fever.

In a daze, he heard the sound of chaotic footsteps in his ear, and the voice of a man talking in a rough voice.When the bitter potion flowed into his throat, Murong Rong thought, why should he be alive, would he be betrayed alive?Become a tool for others to make money?

But he was determined to die, but he didn't die.A high fever burned away the figure of the person in the memory, but left behind more and more clear dirty facts.

Murong Rong was unable to escape this catastrophe, he was hurriedly sold into Qingyue Building, the largest brothel in the city, as soon as he recovered from the fever.

He didn't have the strength to resist, and he couldn't resist.

Uncle Zhang, who was the most amiable in the past, knocked him unconscious, and when he woke up, he was already in the brothel.

Murong Rong thought, this is also good, from now on, kindness and righteousness will be cut off.

……

"Xiao Rong, this is your first time receiving a guest, show me a good performance." Qingyin looked at the silent young man in front of him, covered her mouth and smiled softly.

"I don't accept customers." The boy's beautiful face only had a cold expression, and his tone of refusal was firm.

Qingyin blinked: "Murong Rong, there are people who can't help themselves in this building. This guest is not something you just pick up if you don't want to."

The boy's eyelashes drooped, and he looked very fragile: "Sister Qingyin, I..."

Seeing him like this, Qingyin couldn't help feeling sorry for him: "Xiaorong, it's not that Qingyin didn't help you this time. You've been in this building for so many years, how can you not know the rules in Qingyue Building?" Well... who in this building is willing? Aren't they all involuntary?"

Murong Rong closed his eyes: "...I see, Sister Qingyin."

Qingyin blinked again, and took the young man's hand: "If you meet a good customer, you should earn him a fortune..."

After talking for a while, Qingyin winked slyly at Murong Rong: "My sister can only teach you so much, you must remember it."

The boy clenched his fists: "Sister Qingyin, thank you."

"Thank you." Qingyin waved her hand and went back to her room.

Murong Rong returned to his room in silence, and the spy watching him collapsed on the bed as if powerless and decadent, and covered the removed tiles with confidence.

Until late at night, Murong Rong, who seemed to give up on himself, suddenly opened his eyes, his eyes condensed.He casually turned over, and through the moonlight from the window, he saw clearly the contents of the note that Qingyin secretly gave him.

[Xiao Rong:

There is an exit behind the woodpile in the woodshed. I'm going to cause some confusion tomorrow, so you can escape.

Unvoiced ^_^]

Although he didn't quite understand the meaning of the last character that looked like a smiling face, Murong Rong was still very grateful for Qingyin's help.

But what the boy at this moment doesn't know is that Qingyin's help will be realized in a very decisive way.

The next day.

"Qingyue's number one Qingyin girl is dead!"

"What's going on?! I haven't been able to kiss Fangze yet!"

"Hahaha, as poor as you are, you still want to kiss Fangze? I'm afraid you can't even enter the threshold of Qingyue."

"Hey, don't interrupt, let's get down to business."

"It is said that this Qingyin girl played a piece of Tian Lai upstairs. When everyone asked what the song was, Qingyin girl pulled up the curtain to cover it, and said with a smile that the song was called "Guangling San", and what hope was there? Please support me a lot in the future, and then jump out of the open window next to you!"

"Ah! Why can't this girl think about it?"

"Hey, who doesn't know the dirty business that Qingyue Building is doing in private? But she has a big backer, so no one dares to resist. This Qingyin girl is also fierce, so she will do her best if she can't be resisted."

Sitting in the corner, the body of the man wrapped in black cloth trembled slightly, and his low murmur drifted into the sighs of others.

"Sister Qingyin..."

Murong Rong never expected that Qingyin, who seemed to care nothing in the past and was always optimistic, would make such a decisive move.At that time, he watched Qingyin standing above in a red dress, she still had the usual smile on her face, but in an instant, a woman fell like a burning and bright flame, and an incomparably gorgeous flower bloomed on the bluestone ground.

Murong Rong, with a blank mind, escaped from behind the woodshed, and saw the blood-stained flower decaying and withering from a distance, and was carried away without mercy. He finally understood Qingyin's thoughts.

No matter how beautiful and admirable a canary is, it cannot get rid of the fact that its feet are tied with chains.

She doesn't want to be a bird in a cage, even if the result of being off the chain is to be smashed to pieces, she doesn't want to be that canary.

In the vague memory, someone said: "Save them, and there will be nothing but trouble."

"Then why do you want to save them? They are neither relatives nor relatives, nor acquaintances."

Someone else said greedily: "No matter what, I have to sell Murong Rong, otherwise I won't be able to get back the capital spent on him over the years."

"Hush, bad luck! The little bastard ran back by himself, and didn't get a penny!"

A woman sighed and said, "Who in this building is willing? Aren't they all involuntary?"

The boy hiding under the hood smiled, laughing bitterly.

Sister Qingyin is dead... the last person who cared about him is also dead, at the hands of those greedy people...

Then what else can he worry about?Besides yourself, what else can you care about?

【I do not know】

Li Ran traveled around and saved many people.

He didn't kill again.When he was still under Murong Rong, he had already killed enough people.

He didn't try to hide his whereabouts anymore.Because of Murong Rong, I couldn't find him.

Found it, didn't recognize him.

On this day, Li Ran was drying the collected herbs in front of a small thatched hut he bought, and Murong Rong found this place again.

The previous throbbing was gone, and Li Ran only felt it was funny when he looked at this hurried man.

He was standing right in front of him, but he couldn't recognize him.

So Li Ran didn't say anything, just looked at this person quietly, waiting for him to leave disappointed again.

But this time, Li Ran was destined to be surprised.

Because Murong Rong looked at him and said, "Li Ran."

The tone was so firm that even Li Ran found it inconceivable.

"Did you recognize me?" Li Ran thought for a while, and asked curiously instead of covering it up.

So many times I didn't recognize it, how could I recognize it this time?

What Li Ran didn't know was that Murong Rong recognized him in that small inn in the desert.

Although it was recognized later, Murong Rong did recognize Li Ran later.

Recognized every time, but he didn't recognize each other.

He felt that Li Ran was angry and deliberately prevented him from finding him, so in order to calm Li Ran, he deliberately showed that he did not recognize him, and waited for Li Ran to calm down before apologizing.

Then Murong Rong followed Li Ran's pace little by little, watching the fluctuation in his eyes disappear little by little.

When Li Ran looked at him with extremely calm eyes, Murong Rong realized belatedly that this was not what he wanted.

Not this Li Ran who looked at him calmly, not this Li Ran who looked at him as if he were a familiar stranger.

But it was too late, the person who was always by his side was finally lost by himself.

After listening to Murong Rong's explanation, Li Ran felt dumbfounded.This guy is very smart, but he didn't expect to know nothing about feelings.

However, whether Murong Rong knows it or not has nothing to do with him.Such a long time of chasing and being chased, expectations and disappointments intertwined in his heart, those feelings for Murong Rong, have been worn away by Li Ran bit by bit.

Not a sliver remains.

The current Murong Rong is indeed a familiar stranger to Li Ran.

"Li Ran, this is my fault, I will not give up." Murong Rong's eyes were firm, "I woke up too late, I'm sorry."

Li Ran smiled: "It's okay, I don't care."

Murong Rong felt a pain in his heart when he saw the man's breezy smile.When he found out that he was already emotional, the person who made him emotional had already erased the affection.

He took a deep breath: "I will not give up. Li Ran, I know that I am no different from a stranger to you now, but I hope you will give me a chance and we will start again."

"Murong Rong, I don't know how to address you?"

Li Ran was surprised. He watched the man clasped his fists at him and performed a common etiquette gesture when meeting people in the Jianghu.

Watching and watching, Li Ran just smiled when he saw Murong Rong's body was a little stiff, and his smile was full of relief:

"I'm Li Ran."

The author has something to say:

Ah, Qingqiu's computer has finally been repaired in the past few days.

By the way, when I was about to write this chapter, the computer broke down, and I wondered if Murong Rong broke the dimensional wall and hacked my computer...

Uh, Qingqiu, who is only transparent, can't see anyone reading my article, but I still have to write it [smile]

Let's put a small theater below.

【Interview with Jiang Chen】

Qingqiu: Welcome to this episode. We will conduct detailed interviews on child trafficking cases.Is the abduction and trafficking of ignorant and ignorant young children a lack of humanity or a loss of morality?For this reason, we specially invited the victims of the year to come to the scene, and then let us ask the parties' views on this.What is Li Ran's opinion on this matter?

Li Ran [smiling]: Hmm... Abducting and selling young children is of course a very bad behavior.My behavior at that time was also very bad, and I did not consider the personal safety of the other victims. Fortunately, Murong Rong noticed this.

Qingqiu: Well, what Li Ran said is very good, what about Murong Rong's thoughts?

Murong Rong [laughs]: Stupid.

Qingqiu: Huh? ! ! !

Li Ran [smiling]: ...

Murong Rong: At that time, my head must have been flooded, and I could say such stupid things...

Qingqiu [sweating profusely]: Stop! ! !Well, this interview is over. If you want to know more details, please pay attention to the QR code at the bottom of the screen... [Whispering] Cameraman, cut this paragraph out, don't broadcast it.

Zhong Li [acting as cameraman]: Understood.