Broken Bonds

Chapter 33

On the streets of Hwaseong City, Ling Qing walked slowly with Yan Feili.

The city was still bustling with people coming and going, but beggars and victims in ragged clothes can be seen everywhere on the roadside, and the streets have become much more crowded than in the past.

Yan Feili looked at these people with a heavy heart, and the feeling of wanting to go out and look around has disappeared.

Tomorrow they will leave for the main headquarters.

Yan Feili has been deliberately avoiding Beitang Ao in the past few days, and his mood has become ambivalent and anxious.

After taking the medicine that Doctor Qiu prepared today, he suddenly wanted to come out for a walk, but Beitang Ao was not there, so naturally he was left alone.

Qiu Yeyuan was busy preparing medicinal materials and so on, and didn't prohibit him from doing so, he just told Feili not to force himself and go back early.

He has been to Hwaseong City several times before, as the capital of Yue Country, it was very prosperous.

He remembered that when he was the leader of Pan Jun ten years ago,  he took several subordinates into Hwaseong to buy goods in order to replenish his army.

At that time, there was a shop in Laodong Street here that sold those cute fat dolls Ah Fu, as well as rattles, shuttlecocks and other children's favorite toys. It was very famous in the city back then.

He brought one of his subordinates, Anan, whose wife was pregnant and was about to give birth to Hwaseong.

After finishing his work in Hwaseong, he specifically asked for advice and took him around there to buy two big Ah Fu, saying that it was for the child who was about to be born to play with, and secondly, he also wanted it to be a safe and auspicious toy.

At that time, Yan Feili was still young, only eighteen or nineteen years old. He accompanied him in that shop and looked around for a long time. He was kind of amused at the seriousness of his choice, and he felt that an unmarried person picking up children things was a bit embarrassing.

Later, Anan finally chose a pair of fat Ah Fu, a man and a woman, under his suggestion. They were very cute. Anan was very happy, and he kept boasting to the group that their leader had a very good vision. Yan Feili was also delighted that he was about to be promoted to be a father.

At that time, he had not yet met Beitang Ao. He just thought that after a few years, he would also marry his own wife, who would give birth to their baby and so he would also go to this shop to buy some desirable toys for the child.

When Yan Feili thought of this, the corner of his mouth raised slightly, as if he was smiling, but there was an indelible sadness in his expression.

Because he recalled that Anan's wife died in childbirth later. He heard that she struggled for three days and nights during delivery, but in the end neither the child nor the mother was saved.

He didn't know what really happened very well, he just remembered bringing the soldiers back to see Anan again. Only seeing that his whole person has changed, his expression and eyes were dumb and he became very desperate to do things.

What happened to Anan? Yan Feili recalled carefully, but he couldn't remember the battlefield in which Anan died.

At that time, he was not much older than himself.

Now, with his brothers who had lived and died, he doesn't know how many are living well.

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