Broken Bonds

33

Chapter 33

On the streets of Huacheng, Ling Qing walked slowly with Yan Feili. The city was bustling with people coming and going, but beggars and victims in rags can be seen everywhere on the roadside. The streets had become much more crowded than in the past.

Yan Feili looked at these people with a heavy heart, and the feeling of wanting to come out had disappeared. Tomorrow they will leave for Jianjing. He had been deliberately avoiding Beitang Ao these days. His mood was conflicted and anxious. 

After drinking the medicine today, he wanted to come out for a walk, but Beitang Ao was not there so he left with Ling Qing.

Qiu Yeyuan was busy preparing medicinal materials and so on. He didn’t say anything.

Yan Feili had been to Huacheng several times. As the capital of a country, it was very prosperous. He recalled a time when he was the leader of Pan Jun ten years ago, he took several subordinates into Huacheng to replenish their supplies.

At that time, there was a shop in Laodong Street that sold the cute fat doll (or Ah Fu), rattles, shuttlecock, and other children’s favorite things. It was very famous in the city. A subordinate brought by Yan Feili at the time had a wife who was about to give birth. After finishing their work in Huacheng, the subordinate specifically asked for advice and took Yan Feili around there to buy two big Ah Fu. The subordinate explained that it was for the soon-to-be-born child to play, and secondly, he wanted to be safe and auspicious. 

During those years ago, Yan Feili was still young, only eighteen or nineteen years old. He accompanied the subordinate in that shop for a long time. He was kind of amused at the seriousness of his subordinate, although it was a bit embarrassing to look at children’s things.

Later, the subordinate finally chose a pair of fat Ah Fu under his suggestion. They were very cute. The subordinate was very happy and kept boasting that the leader had foresight. Yan Feili was also delighted that the subordinate was about to be a father.

At that time, Yan Feili had not yet met Beitang Ao. He just thought that after a few years, he would also marry a wife and have a baby. Then he would also go to this shop to buy some desirable toys for the child.

When Yan Feili thought of this, he curled up his mouth slightly, seeming to smile. But there was an indelible sadness in his expression because he recalled that his subordinate’s wife died in childbirth later. He heard that she had struggled for three days and nights during delivery, but in the end, neither the child nor the mother was saved.

He was not very clear on the details, just remembered that when the troops came back to see that subordinate, the whole person changed.

What happened to him? Yan Feili recalled carefully and couldn’t remember the battlefield in which that subordinate died. He was not much older than Yan Feili at the time. His brothers who were born and died, he didn’t know how many were living well.

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But what about yourself? Yan Feili smiled bitterly, remembering the scene two days ago.

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