Chapter 739 - Meeting (1) (2/2)

After paying her respects, she went back to the house where she had lived.

It was a single storey house. There were two bedrooms, a hallway and a kitchen.

After she had woken up from a nap, she brought gifts to give to her neighbors.

The neighbors had all watched her grow up and were very warm towards her.

Lan Ye had let more than a dozen bodyguards follow her, so wherever she went, she attracted a lot of attention. She also did not like being stared at by so many pairs of eyes.

She found the captain of the bodyguards. “I want to take Lisa to the beach. You can just send two or three bodyguards to follow us.”

The captain of the bodyguards nodded. “Please don’t go too far, Miss. If something goes wrong, the Island Master will kill us.”

This was what Lan Xiaozhi hated most about Lan Ye. He was moody and regarded lives as worthless.

She remembered one time when she snuck out of the castle, Lisa had been punished and was almost beaten half to death.

“I know, I won’t make things difficult for you.”

Lan Xiaozhi took off her shoes and walked barefoot on the beach. Lisa followed behind and reminded her, “Miss, it’s improper.”

Lan Xiaozhi smiled and ignored her.

…

An egret saw Lan Xiaozhi coming over and it flew away. As Lan Xiaozhi looked at the egret flying high in the sky, she suddenly felt slightly envious.

It felt good to be free.

After walking for some distance, she suddenly saw a little boy sitting on the beach. He was sitting with his arms around himself, his shoulders shaking and looked like he was crying.

Lan Xiaozhi furrowed her eyebrows and was about to go forward when the captain of the bodyguards came over. “Miss, I’ll drive the child away.”

Lan Xiaozhi stopped him. “It’s just a child, are you afraid that I will approach him?”

“No.”

“Then it’s fine.” Lan Xiaozhi lifted her skirt hem and went forward. The captain of the bodyguards wanted to follow, but Lisa stopped him. “It’s just a child, it’s fine for Miss to go alone. If we go, it will frighten the child.”

Lan Xiaozhi went up to the child and crouched down, reaching out a slender finger to touch his arm. “What’s wrong with you, little boy? Where’s your daddy and mommy?”

The child did not look up, but continued to sob silently.

A trace of hesitation flashed past Lan Xiaozhi’s beautiful almond-shaped eyes.

Which parents were so careless to leave their child by the sea?

“Little boy, tell Auntie your parent’s number and Auntie will help you call them, okay?” Her voice became gentler.

The child seemed to pause and lifted his head from his arms.

A delicate face with big round eyes, tall nose, pink lips and a beautiful face shape emerged.

Why did this child seem so familiar to her?

She seemed to have seen him somewhere before.

She tried searching through her mind, but could not remember where she had met him.

Xiaojie looked at the woman crouching in front of him. She was wearing a veil, and showing only her bright eyes looking at him. Her gaze was very gentle, just like how Pretty Zhizhi looked at him before…

Daddy had asked him to sit here and cry. If he was sad, he might be able to see Pretty Zhizhi and it seemed like Daddy had not lied to him.

Lan Xiaozhi looked at the child who was blinking his wet eyes and looking at her.

Suddenly, she seemed to have thought of something and all her movements stopped.

Time seemed to have stopped in this moment.

No wonder why this boy felt so familiar to her.

It was because he looked like her…