Chapter 1780 - 319: The Water Dragon in the Well

"Not disassembling it is also good. After I took it apart, I didn't know how to piece it back together."

Li Zhiyuan looked at Zhao Yi and said:

"You can definitely piece it back together."

"Thanks for the kind words."

"It's not my kind words, but the fact that whatever you did, it surely likes it."

"Ha, you talk as if I'm doing this just to please it."

"There's no contradiction, opposing yourself is equivalent to proving your firm stance to it."

"Honestly, Li, with your analysis, I've started to wonder if I've been scheming."

"We can only say that Zhao Lu Hai's original intention was bad, but the high-sounding excuse he found actually worked."

"Li, can you lend me our team's internal reference to take a look?"

Li Zhiyuan shook his head.

"Do you think I'm poor? Do you think I can't afford it?"

"Hmm."

Li Zhiyuan turned around and gazed at the scenery.

Zhao Yi, facing Li Zhiyuan's back, mouthed silently.

Cursing and cursing, he accidentally swallowed the "lip paper" into his mouth.

"Pfft, pfft, pfft!"

An elderly, white-haired grandma came here to sell goods with a carrying pole. She didn't squeeze into the bustling center but stayed on the outskirts, placed two small display cabinets in front, then put a small stool wrapped with cloth strips behind and sat down.

She sat very upright, with her hands folded on her knees. Her white hair was meticulously groomed. Her clothes weren't new but were tidily adorned, even could be described as exquisite.

On the display cabinet was a horizontal paper, which read: Osmanthus sugared pastries.

Perhaps because her appearance and demeanor were so good, indirectly making people feel her goods were cleaner, many tourists stopped by here, she just started the stall and already had business.

Lin Shuyou was also attracted over, looking at those beautiful sugared pastries, pondering how much to buy to share with everyone.

Brother Xiao Yuan doesn't like sweets, Run Sheng doesn't like clean ones, Three-eyed cannot eat sticky ones for fear of sticking to the heart and lungs.

Hmm, it seems no need to consider others, just he himself loves sweets.

Picked two, paid up.

The grandma smiled and wrapped them in oiled paper, even gave Lin Shuyou an extra flavor.

"Thank you, granny."

"Here, take it."

After wandering for a while, Lin Shuyou returned to Li Zhiyuan, feeling they had stayed long enough here, Zhao Yi suggested going to the next scenic spot.

While pushing the wheelchair out, they passed by the grandma's stall again, Lin Shuyou waved goodbye to her.

The grandma also waved to Ah You, showing a kind smile.

At the square entrance, there was a big bulletin board, in one area specifically sticking missing children's information.

At this time, a new one had appeared that wasn't there when they entered.

Moreover, it was very conspicuous, because others posted photos of missing children with a descriptive text below.

But the new one was a painting.

The craftsmanship was exquisite.

The painting was of a little girl, very young.

Zhao Yi: "Li, I think this painting looks a bit familiar."

Li Zhiyuan: "Cui Cui."

The little girl in the painting, her eyebrows reminded him much of Cui Cui when he first arrived in Nantong, although the girl in the painting was a few years younger than Cui Cui at that time.

Below the painting was a brief description, broadly looking for the little girl kidnapped by human traffickers back then, no year was written, the details were vague, even without a contact address.

This writing was also written with a brush, very pretty.

Zhao Yi: "This handwriting..."

Li Zhiyuan: "Osmanthus sugared pastries."

...

The grandma's business was good, plus her handcrafted sugared pastries were not in large supply, they sold out quickly.

Packed up, carried the pole, and went home.

Her home was big, an age-old courtyard full of history.

After pushing the door open and entering, she soon went out with a vegetable basket.

Zhao Yi: "She's just an ordinary person, an ordinary person whose family once had a good condition."

Li Zhiyuan: "Hmm."

If the grandma's identity had any issues, it couldn't escape the eyes of Li Zhiyuan and Zhao Yi.

But the Life Chart on Liu Jinxia and her daughter, granddaughter was clearly special. If this grandma were a relative of Liu Jinxia, she wouldn't be so ordinary, at least it should be reflected in the Life Chart.

For this reason, Li Zhiyuan did not directly find the grandma who posted the missing person notice, moreover, that notice was indeed too strange, this is why he first followed the grandma to her home.

"Ah You, open the door."

Lin Shuyou went forward, pushed open the room door, entered, without noticing any abnormalities.

Li Zhiyuan pushed Zhao Yi inside.

Zhao Yi: "Li, I've got to say, you're actually quite strong."

Li Zhiyuan: "It's you who got significantly lighter now."

The courtyard was spacious, with ordinary furnishings and layout. Inside the house came the sound of an old man coughing.

Li Zhiyuan intended to check inside the house, gestured Lin Shuyou to continue forward.

Passing by the well in the courtyard, the youngster slowed his steps.

This well was covered with iron sheets, initially thought to be just for dust prevention, but upon closer inspection, it could be seen that the way the iron sheet was fixed made it impossible to open.

There was a notch on it that could be turned in an arc, its area only as large as a child's hand.

Li Zhiyuan placed his hand on it, feeling nothing special.

But as the youngster was about to turn the arc, he heard the water surface below the well start to churn, followed by the sound of scales rubbing against the well wall, mixed with the scraping of sharp, hard edges, incessantly upwards.

The youngster, based on the sound, quickly visualized the form of this thing:

Long body, scaled, horned...

There's a flood dragon in the well!