However, the extreme feeling that her body was experiencing at this moment could no longer give her any hope.
The smiles of his parents appeared in Si Si’s mind, as did the two little kids with tender faces, pulling her to act coquettishly.
There were also scenes of Imperial Concubine Yun, Qi Mohan, and the people of Qiushui City queuing up to receive porridge.
“Mom and Dad, please forgive my daughter for being unfilial. You gave me this precious life, but I didn’t keep it. Now I can only stop here!”
“Qing’er, Mujin, Sister can no longer play with you, nor can she prepare delicious snacks for you.”
“Imperial Concubine Yun, Qi Mohan, and the kind and honest people of Qiushui City, I’m sorry that the promises I made to you before can’t be fulfilled. I can’t do anything to give you any assistance.”
“Senior Tang Xu, who has always cared for me, I am sorry for causing you to suffer harm because of me, and in the end, you had to watch me fall into the bottomless abyss!”
“Farewell, my beloved relatives,s and dear friends, if there is an afterlife, we will meet again…”
After saying this softly, Si Si closed her eyes and silently waited for death to come!
*
At Qiushui City!
The heavy rain was still heavy and showed no sign of stopping.
Si Chaoqun’s family was sent here by Qi Mohan’s people, but they never looked for them again.
The couple also found their original residence based on the memory of the original owner.
After simply tidying up the house, they moved in.
When they left the village where they were hiding, they brought out a little bit of food. Si Chaoqun’s visual inspection showed that there was less than a grain of food.
Seeing their neighbors going to collect porridge every day to stay alive, he thought of saving the little food they had for emergencies, and went with everyone to the porridge shed to collect porridge.
Unexpectedly, as soon as Si Chaoqun went to line up, he was recognized by several people, who pointed at his nose and insulted him.
Regardless of morality and justice, he followed Qiao Zhenwu to collect money and fled Qiushui City. Now that it was raining, Qiushui City was about to survive the crisis, and this villain was back to eat the food that Prince Rong finally obtained.
Not only that, but someone even grabbed some mud and threw it at Si Chaoqun in anger.
After all, Si Chaoqun was a ‘newcomer here’. Being alone, he was no match for so many people, so he just held his head and ran towards his home.
In this regard, he was also very helpless. He was suffering retribution for the original owner!
Because they were not welcome, Si Chaoqun and Luo Xuehua no longer dared to go out to receive porridge with the common people, so they only ate their food, which had bottomed out.
Two days later, all the food in the family was eaten, and the couple sat in the main room worrying.
Si Chaoqun and Luo Xuehua have had enough of such dark days. The most important thing was that in the past two days, the couple had been uneasy, and it was certain that it was not because of being ostracized by the common people.
As for the reason, they couldn’t tell clearly, but they always felt that something would happen to Si Si.
Just now, when Luo Xuehua boiled some water and planned to drink some to warm her stomach, she suddenly felt a tightness in her heart, which was so uncomfortable that she could not breathe smoothly.
This feeling was the second time she had experienced it in her two lifetimes.
The first time was when she took the one-year-old Si S to her hometown. However, when her attention was diverted to something else, Si Si was pushed into the pond by her new friends.
When they rescued Si Si from the pond, they could no longer feel the child’s breathing. Fortunately, the rescuers saved her life in time.
At that time, Luo Xuehua thought that she would lose her precious daughter. Today, she feels the same as the stuffiness in her heart.
She said to Si Chaoqun with a worried look on her face: “Husband, I feel stuffy today. I always feel like something happened to Si Si.”
After saying this, Si Chaoqun didn’t comfort her like before because he also felt the same way.
“Did something happen to our Si Si?” Si Chaoqun didn’t believe these first thoughts before, but today, inexplicably, he couldn’t stop worrying about Si Si.
*
At Prince Rong’s Mansion!
Imperial Concubine Yun hadn’t slept much for two days in a row. She didn’t even go to the kitchen, which was her favorite place recently. She sat blankly in the two little kids’ rooms, while holding a string of Buddhist beads in her hands and kept chanting: “Bless the child, Si Si to safely return…”
The two little kids had been in Si Si’s room for the past two days, waiting for no news about their sister, but now, they were unable to contact the kind uncle.
“Brother, do you think the beautiful sister is no longer alive?” The little girl’s eyes were red and swollen, and she looked like she had cried.
Xiao Mujin was no better than her sister. He stared at the door, feeling in a daze.
“It would be nice if we could go out through this door, so we can go outside to find my sister.”
It was a pity that no matter how many times they tried, they couldn’t push the door open.
Xiao Qing’er hugged Si Si’s cell phone in despair: “That uncle hasn’t talked to us all day. Does it mean he doesn’t care about my sister anymore?”
To appease his sister, Xiao Mujin frowned and replied: “No, that uncle also cares about my sister very much. He must be troubled by something. He will call when he is done.”
As soon as Xiao Mujin finished speaking, the mobile phone in Xiao Qinger’s hand rang.
The little girl’s eyes suddenly brightened: “It’s uncle.”
Xiao Mujin was also very excited and urged: “Hurry up and pick it up.”
At the same time, he also prepared the recording that Qi Mohan finally sent to Tang Xu. The other party had not yet received it and was waiting for the call to be connected before playing it to his uncle.
When the call was connected, Tang Xu’s voice was low and filled with an irresistible sadness: [Tell your uncle, I failed to protect Si Si…]
At this point, Tang Xu couldn’t say anything anymore.
Watching Si Si fall into the cliff, at that moment, his heart seemed to have solidified.
Beyond the cliff was the bottomless Mirror Lake. Si Si’s hands were tied with ropes, and she fell into the lake without even a chance to struggle.
Although the police had contacted the rescue team as quickly as possible, Si Si had no hope of survival.
No need to mention coming back alive, he was afraid that even her body couldn’t be found.
Tang Xu’s speech was too profound for two children of a few years old. They couldn’t understand what it meant to ‘fail to protect Si Si’.
But from the kind uncle’s attitude, they can feel that what he said was not good news.
Xiao Qing’er was also infected by Tang Xu’s emotions, and cried and asked: “Uncle, why didn’t you protect your sister? Where did sister go?”
Hearing the cry of the little girl on the other side of the phone, Tang Xu also realized that his state was shocking.
Trying to contain his sadness, he solemnly said: “Get your recorder ready to record and bring this message to your uncle.”
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