Jia Huan turned a corner and walked into a small alley.

This is the shortcut back to Rongguo Mansion, and it is also the alley behind Qi Guogong Mansion. There is no back door or corner door in this alley.

Jia Huan was moving very fast, and just as he was about to walk out of the alley, a shrill child's cry suddenly reached Jia Huan's ears.

"Auntie!"

What followed was the pitiful cry of the child.

Jia Huan thought to himself that this must be the death of the concubine of the Duke of Qi and his own mother.

This has nothing to do with him.

But the child's next words stopped Jia Huan in his tracks.

"Auntie, wait for Qi'er, Qi'er will go with you right now."

The child's voice was very childish, but full of the will to die.

Jia Huan was shocked.

He is not the Holy Father, but he cannot let a child die in front of him without stopping him.

If the person who wants to commit suicide is an adult, Jia Huan will stop him depending on his mood, but this is a child.

Jia Huan immediately used Qinggong to cross the high wall of Qi Duke's mansion and jump into the position where the sound came from.

This is a very remote and dilapidated small courtyard, more than ten times worse than Jia Huan's small courtyard.

There are overgrown weeds inside, the windows have no window paper, and the window frames are rotten, making it impossible to block the wind from the house.

There was only one breath in the whole yard, that of the child, and there was no one else.

There are no servants.

If this child is really a concubine from the Duke of Qi's palace, then his life will be really miserable.

In the room, the sad child struggled to stand up, suddenly gathered strength, and slammed his head against the wall.

The expected pain did not come, and a pair of hands held the child.

The child opened his eyes and found that the person pulling him was a boy he had never seen before.

The child didn't know how the boy appeared. He only had one thought: he wanted to leave with his aunt.

"Let me go, I want to find my aunt."

The child struggled fiercely, but he was thin and small. He had not eaten for a long time and had no strength at all.

For Jia Huan, the strength of his struggle was not as strong as that of a cat in Jia Huan's hands.

"Your aunt doesn't want to see you go looking for her." Jia Huan said, "Your aunt wants you to live well."

The child sobbed and cried: "I can't live without my aunt."

The child's scream before was so loud that it was heard by the servants in the mansion.

Although this courtyard is remote, there are still servants nearby.

Some servants came to investigate the situation and found that the child's aunt was dead, so they reported it to the mistress of the Duke of Qi's palace.

Not knowing what Mrs. Chen ordered, the servants rolled up my aunt in a torn mat and threw her into a mass grave.

No one paid attention to this child.

It was already dinner time, but no one brought food.

The children had no food to eat and had to endure hunger.

No wonder he said he couldn't survive.

The Chen family probably wanted to starve this child to death.

A sharp look flashed in Jia Huan's eyes.

The people in the Duke of Qi's mansion treated a child like this, which shows that there are no good people.

Compared with the head wife of the Duke of Qi, Jia Huan is definitely a good person to Mrs. Wang.

At least Mrs. Wang will not let Jia Huan starve.

Even if Mrs. Wang doesn't want Jia Huan to study, she is just tempting Jia Huan to play, rather than using vicious means to destroy Jia Huan.

Compared to this child, Jia Huan felt that her life was a paradise.

The child had cried and fell on the bed.

Crying consumes a lot of energy, and the child probably hasn't eaten for a long time, is weak, and has no strength.

Now even if I want to commit suicide, I can't achieve it.

Jia Huan sighed, picked up the child, and took him away from the Duke of Qi's mansion.

The Duke of Qi pretended that the child did not exist. Even if he left with the child for a few days, no one would find him.

Feng Ziying had not yet left the stronghold and was shocked when she saw Jia Huan coming with a child in his arms.

"Who is this kid?"

Jia Huan: "I brought him out from the Duke's Mansion of Qi State. This child is about to starve to death, so I asked someone to prepare some gruel for him."

Feng Ziying ordered one of her men to take over the child.

"What's going on with this child?" Feng Ziying asked Jia Huan.

Jia Huan told Feng Ziying how he met the child.

Feng Ziying frowned: "What's going on with Chen Ruiwen? Even if you don't like the bastard, you shouldn't treat him like that."

The subordinate on the side said: "Mrs. Chen is in charge of the backyard."

Jia Huan: "Chen Ruiwen is the head of the family. It is impossible for him not to know that the concubine suffered such torture, but chose to let it go."

Jia Huan continued: "I always feel that this matter is weird and needs to be investigated carefully."

It is rare for a big family to torture a concubine like this.

If you don't want the concubine to live, you can just plot to take away the concubine's life. Why keep your life alive for a long time?

And the biological father doesn’t care.

The secret agents have collected a lot of information about the four kings and eight princes, and they can find clues from that pile of information without anyone having to investigate.

It turns out that the child Jia Huan saved was called Chen Qi, not Chen Ruiwen's child, but the child of his eldest brother.

There is another elder brother above Chen Ruiwen, who is the real heir to the Duke of Qi.

However, Brother Chen died young when he fell off his horse while out hunting.

Brother Chen only had three daughters and no children at the time, so the title fell to his second son Chen Ruiwen.

After Chen Ruiwen inherited the title, Mrs. Chen discovered that one of Brother Chen's concubines was pregnant with Brother Chen's posthumous son.

Chen Ruiwen and Mrs. Chen concealed the news from the outside world. Outsiders had no idea that Brother Chen had a son.

Chen Qi and his aunt were arranged to live in the most remote courtyard of the Duke of Qi's mansion, and their lives were pretty good for the first two years.

Chen Ruiwen felt that Chen Qi was a concubine and could not pose a threat to him.

But the problem lies with Chen Qi's third sister.

Chen Qi's third sister believes that the title originally belonged to the eldest family, and her younger brother is the most orthodox heir to the title. When Chen Qi grows up, the second brother should return the title to the eldest family.

She actually has selfish motives. The sister of Chengjue's brother has a higher status than the side branch lady.

She wants to have a high status and marry the prince.

Her words and actions angered Chen Ruiwen and his wife, who directly married the third sister to a remote area to fill houses for others, and then felt that Chen Qi was a threat.

Life became difficult for Chen Qi and his aunt.

There was no charcoal fire for heating in winter, and meals were withheld.

They survived these two years because Chen Qi's aunt tried every means to get food so that the mother and son would not starve to death.

Now, Chen Qi's aunt is dead.

If Chen Qi had not met Jia Huan, he would not have survived more than two days even if he had not committed suicide.

"This is simply..."

Feng Ziying didn't even know how to comment on the Chen family, what a sin!


Chapter completed!