As Shangguan Xiye was looking at it, he suddenly seemed to remember something. He opened the drawer and found a tightly wrapped candied haws stick inside.

Slowly put the candied haws into your mouth, it still has that sweet taste, but something seems to be missing.

Everything around me changed and twisted, as if I had returned to that beautiful childhood.

………………

"Ye Ye, Ye Ye, come quickly, do you want to know about Brother Qian's news?"

Under the bright sunshine, the cute and naive girl came skipping over, full of energy.

"Yingying, won't your brother be angry if you cheat him like this?"

Shangguan Xiye, who is still a girl of twelve or thirteen, also looks lively and cute, with her pretty face always smiling.

"Hehe, it's a good idea to keep good things in the family. It just so happens that you like Brother Qian, and the three of us have been friends since we were little. We agreed when we were little that we would stay together forever when we grow up."

Pei Ying put her hands behind her back and walked on tiptoe. Her little face was smiling brightly and she kept talking with her little mouth.

"I've thought it through. When the time comes, the child you give birth to must recognize me as the godmother, and the child I give birth to will also recognize you as the godmother."

"Well, in order to avoid separation, if you give birth to a boy, he will definitely look like your brother, handsome, and I will give birth to a girl, and we will have an arranged marriage."

"Silly Yingying, you can give birth to whatever you want."

Shangguan Xiye rubbed Pei Ying's cute little head helplessly.

"Besides, my brother Qian and I haven't even started dating yet."

"Don't worry, Ye Ye. It will work with me here."

Pei Ying patted her chest, looking very confident.

"But--"

"Wow, they're selling candied haws. I've finally got what I've been waiting for. I want to eat some!"

Shangguan Xiye was just about to say that he didn't really like Brother Qian very much, but Pei Ying dragged him to buy candied haws.

"Yingying, eat less street food. It's not very hygienic. Be careful not to get diarrhea."

"Don't worry, how could it be possible? It looks so clean."

Pei Ying bought two strings and licked the sugar coating on one of them. Then, as if thinking of a mischief, she quietly switched the two strings from her left hand to her right hand and handed the one she had licked to Shangguan Xiye.

Little did he know that Shangguan Xiye saw the whole scene.

"Well, eat candied haws every night."

This time, she, who never liked sweets, somehow reached out to take it. Without giving Yingying time to react, she bit off one and put it in her mouth, chewing it.

"Ah, Ye Ye, you really eat a lot. Aren't you the one who hates sweets the most?"

"I just suddenly wanted to eat it, and Yingying wanted me to buy more for you."

"No, no need."

Pei Ying was embarrassed to say that there was saliva on the candied haws, so she kept it to herself until her face turned as red as an apple before she spoke in a low voice.

"Ye Ye, where is the string of saliva on your body that I licked? Are you angry with me?"

"Ah, Yingying, you actually asked me to eat your saliva! I was wondering why it smelled like pickled cabbage!"

"Ah, it also smells like pickled cabbage."

Pei Ying's face turned even redder.

"Hmm, it seems to smell like garlic. Tsk, tsk, tsk, I didn't expect a girl as cute as Yingying to eat garlic."

"Hey, Ye Ye, stop talking!"

“Hey, I also tasted it…”

…………

Shangguan Xiye could no longer remember whether the candied haws had the taste of sauerkraut and garlic at that time. It seemed like it had and it also seemed like it didn’t.

But she only remembered that the candied haws were very sweet and Yingying's blushing look was very cute.

It was from that time that she fell in love with candied haws.

The scene changes.

The surroundings changed from a bright and noisy street to a dim and quiet small room. Yingying and I were tied up and thrown into the corner.

"Are you scared, Yeye?"

A sweet and innocent voice came into my ears, and I could clearly hear the trembling in it.

"I'm not afraid! Yingying, if you're afraid, just hide behind me."

Although Shangguan Xiye did not appear to be afraid at this time, his pair of panicked eyes looking around were enough to reveal his inner panic.

"If I'm not afraid of Ye Ye, then I'm not afraid of Ying Ying either!"

As if to prove that she was not afraid, Pei Ying struggled to stand up, half leaning against the wall, and the other half of her body blocking Shangguan Xiye.

"Yingying, I'm sorry for getting you into trouble this time."

"Hey, there's nothing to apologize for. It has nothing to do with you."

As if to overcome the fear of the darkness around her, Pei Ying spoke louder.

"We should blame the kidnappers. The police will definitely come back to rescue us!"

After these few words of conversation, the dark room fell into a terrifying silence again.

"Ye Ye, do you think we can get out alive?"

In order to overcome her fear, Pei Ying tried to find a topic to talk about, and then she shouted "Pah, pah, pah" as soon as she finished speaking.

"Look at my mouth, we will definitely get out of here alive!"

"Well, we can all get out alive."

In fact, Shangguan Xiye's heart had already sunk to the bottom. She was kidnapped for ransom. In such kidnappings, more than 90% of the time the kidnappers will abscond with the money and the hostages will be killed.

"I still have many dreams to realize, I will definitely be able to get out!"

"I want to try all the delicacies in the world, especially desserts! I want to try all those Michelin-rated Haagen-Dazs! There are also amusement parks, where there are many fun things to do. I heard it's very exciting, but every time they see that I'm too short and don't let me play."

"And the Happy Valley and Disneyland that I saw online, I really want to go there."

"And I really want to see my parents. I haven't seen them for two years. The last time I saw them was when I was seven years old. Ye Ye, do you think my parents will wait until I'm seventeen to come back?"

…………

Pei Ying said a lot, and Shangguan Xiye just listened quietly.

Suddenly Pei Ying paused, then spoke with a smile.

"Actually... I don't really want to go to those places to play. I just heard that families go there together. Then my parents will be back, and my brother's family will go together, so it will definitely be very happy..."

When she spoke the last part, Pei Ying choked up, and Shangguan Xiye could clearly hear the heavy cry in Yingying's tone.

"Yingying, you still have me."

"Woo woo, yes, I still have Ye Ye, Ye Ye, you must promise me that we will never separate!"

"Well, never separate!"

The two girls huddled in a corner, feeling each other's warm bodies, their two pairs of bound hands tightly clasped together, as if they would never be separated.

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Chapter 41: Yingying Part 2

This peace did not last long. Soon, dense sirens were heard outside the house, accompanied by calls from a loudspeaker.

Shangguan Xiye and Pei Ying could vaguely hear something like "surrender quickly" and "you are surrounded".

"Ye Ye, look, the police are here, are we saved?"

Unlike Pei Ying's excitement, Shangguan Xiye's hands and feet were already cold, and he was completely surrounded by deep fear.

"No, no, why didn't they quietly send someone to rescue us after we were kidnapped, but exposed us directly like this?"

"This will anger the kidnappers!"

As expected, several kidnappers wearing black leather masks entered the dim hut the next second.

"Damn it, how did these cops find this place?!"

"If I can't survive, then neither can these two little bitches!"

"That's right, don't even think about living."

The criminals who would think of kidnapping for ransom are all extremely evil and vicious people, and they may have killed several people.

"You know what, this daughter of the Shangguan family is quite pretty."

Even though they were surrounded by the police, this group of desperate criminals did not show any fear. Instead, they kept looking at the two girls' bodies, their cloudy eyes revealing lust.

Pei Ying shrank back in fear, her little mouth trembling as she tried to speak but she was too frightened to say anything.

"How about we just have some fun first? Even if we die under the peony flowers, we will still be romantic."

"It's great."

One of the kidnappers, who seemed to be the leader, reached out and slapped Fengliu's subordinate on the head.

"Enough of the nonsense. Untie their legs and let's get out of the tunnel."

There were four kidnappers in total, all of them were burly men. They untied the ropes on Pei Ying and Shangguan Xiye's feet and then led one person in front.

"Is Lao Wu still dealing with the cops?"

"Never mind him. He has no family or relatives and is all alone. It doesn't matter if he dies."

The boss took his men, plus two hostages, a total of six people, to a room next door, and there was a hole under a tile in the kitchen.

"Boss, do you want to give this thing I brought here to--"

A thinner kidnapper glanced at Pei Ying and made a gesture of cutting her neck, which frightened Pei Ying so much that her legs went limp.

"Stand still!"

The kidnapper who was holding Pei Ying roared, which frightened Pei Ying even more, while Shangguan Xiye could only watch from the side and could do nothing.

The boss thought about it and decided not to kill him.

"Forget it. It's always good to keep one more hostage. A girl can't make any waves anyway."

After entering the tunnel, it was pitch black and the only way to illuminate it was by the flashlights of the four kidnappers.

Moreover, the tunnel was interconnected with many forks in the road. However, the kidnappers seemed to be very familiar with this and knew exactly which roads were dead ends and which ones led to which. They walked for who knows how long after turning around so many times.

Shangguan Xiye and Pei Ying felt like their feet were about to break before they finally got out from a place.

"He actually ran into the forest."

Shangguan Xiye looked at the dense branches around him, and his heart suddenly sank to the bottom of his heart.

The forest can be considered a natural place for killing and burying bodies. No one can find the body if it is thrown anywhere unless a force is sent out to conduct a carpet search.

The chances of survival may be extremely slim.

But who would have thought that after walking in the forest for a while, we would hear the barking of dogs in the distance!

"Damn it, where did that dog come from in the woods? It must be a police dog. The cops came here so quickly!"

The boss gnashed his teeth.

"It must be Lao Wu who recruited us out!"

The remaining three accomplices were also very angry as they shared the same hatred for the enemy.

"Damn it, that bastard Lao Wu."

"I said that Lao Wu had a traitor in his head."

"What should I do now? Which way should I go?"

Faced with three pairs of slightly panicked eyes, the boss was a little unsteady.

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