She said, “Alright, considering Xiao Wen’s spirit of sacrificing himself, we should praise you! So I won’t ask what you saw just now.”
He Wen nodded and stood obediently beside her.
At this moment, Fu Yuling looked ahead again and noticed that the two soft and cute children were nowhere to be seen.
“Where are Xiao Xuan and Xiao An?”
Fu Yuling became anxious and pulled He Wen toward the direction where He Xuan and the others had just gone.
As for He Xuan and He An, they just saw the bright-colored candied hawthorns in from of them, one string after another. When they looked back and saw Fu Yuling and the others talking, they ran over.
They were also clever and didn’t go to a place where they couldn’t see Fu Yuling.
But some things, no matter how careful you are, can still go unnoticed.
Just as they entered the candied hawthorn stall, a man suddenly darted out from the side and smiled at them.
“Hey, little friends, do you want to eat candied hawthorns? Uncle will take you to buy some, okay?”
He Xuan pulled He An behind him and looked warily at the scruffy and smelly man in front of him.
“Who are you?”
As he spoke, He Xuan quietly stepped back.
The man in front of He Xuan had a obsessed look in his eyes. What a beautiful face! He would definitely fetch a high price if sold to those people.
Seeing He Xuan getting farther and farther away, the man became anxious. He quickly stepped forward to grab each of them, pulling He Xuan and He An into a corner.
He Xuan and He An struggled, but the man couldn’t hold onto them tightly, so he quickly let them go.
He Xuan realized they couldn’t escape and that resisting might anger this man, so he began to cry. “Uncle, you said you would take us to eat candied hawthorns! Why are we coming here?”
Crying, he led He An back toward the vendor selling candied hawthorns.
His cries and shouts attracted some people, and the man sensed something was wrong and roughly dragged He Xuan and He An further inside.
He An’s bewildered eyes were filled with confusion as his small hands pulled at He Xuan’s, stumbling to keep up.
“Uncle, I want candied hawthorns! Wuwu, I want candied hawthorns…”
He Xuan saw his purpose being interrupted and cried out again, doing a good job protecting He An by keeping him behind.
The man grew impatient from hearing their cries and gestured towards one direction.
Before long, someone came over.
He Xuan’s eyes narrowed and his grip on He An tightened even more.
The person approaching was none other than the vendor selling candied hawthorns, swaggering towards them.
“Bring over two bunches.”
The vendor directly tore off two bunches and tossed them to him. “Hurry up and take them away. That woman will find out soon.”
“Got it, got it.”
The man waved his hand, completely unconcerned.
Because He Xuan was now holding a red candied hawthorn and had stopped crying instead, he curiously looked at it, his crystalline tears hanging at the corners of his eyes, enhancing his beauty.
This sight made the man stare at him obsessively, unable to tear his gaze away.
“How beautiful! I can’t bear to sell them.”
Hearing this, He Xuan scoffed coldly in his heart, while He An grew indignant.
He raised his small fist in the air and said, “You’re not allowed to bully my brother.”
The man was drawn in by He An’s appearance and suddenly realized that He An was also quite cute. A plan formed in his mind.
Two of them: if he sold one, wouldn’t the other one belong to him?
With this thought, the man began to entice them. “Little friends, how about following Uncle to a place? There’s a lot of delicious food there.”
