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The boy hesitated for a moment before answering, “I know Mr. Hong. He told us not to be afraid.”
“Hong Chenglue?”
“He lives in Yushu Alley. His house is the only one without a blessing charm on the door.”
That piece of information caught He Lingchuan completely off guard. “You mean he already lived in Bailu Town?”
The boy nodded vigorously.
“What does he do?”
“He teaches in the school.” As soon as he got his second candy, he popped it into his mouth and spoke around it. “My dad said we’re too poor. We can’t afford Mr. Hong’s classes.”
A grand general who was famed for bloodshed on the battlefield actually retired to a backwater town and became nothing more than a schoolteacher?
Before He Lingchuan could digest that absurdity, the boy lunged toward Ling Guang to grab a third candy. Stuffing sweets into his mouth too quickly made him hiccup twice in a row.
At that moment, Ling Guang suddenly turned its head.
A man rounded the corner of the alley they were on. When he spotted his son talking to strangers, his face visibly blanched. He rushed forward and snatched the boy into his arms. “What are you doing with my son?!”
“The grain convoy was ambushed. We’re here looking for clues.” He...
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