He recognized the bead. It was something the Queue Army used specifically to suppress evil entities, break spells, and drive away demons. Ordinary soldiers could never possess one; generally, only soldiers carrying out special, secret missions were equipped with it.
This made the old man even more certain that Cui Jiuyang was an extraordinary man with genuine abilities.
So he shared his suspicions with his wife, and only then did the elderly couple resolve to tell this master, Cui Jiuyang, of the injustice they had suffered and beg for his help.
They knew their request was presumptuous, which was why they had hesitated so much and seemed so restless and out of sorts over breakfast.
The injustice they had suffered was rather strange-their precious grandson had actually been snatched away from them!
When Cui Jiuyang first heard the word "snatched," surprise and confusion crept onto his face.
He thought to himself, These two are so old that their grandson must at least be in his teens or twenties, a young fellow. How could someone simply snatch him away for no reason? And who could have taken him?
Only after he patiently listened further did he understand that this was not abduction by force in the usual sense. There was more to it...
As it turned out, the elderly couple's surname was Zhang. They were born and bred in Tianjin and had a grandson named Yuanbao.
They also had distant relatives in the city, surnamed Li, another elderly couple of roughly the same age.
Unlike the Zhang family, whose circumstances were ordinary, the Li Family had considerable property and influence in Tianjin and counted as a moderately wealthy local household.
Yet even the prosperous Li Family had a painful trouble they could hardly speak of-they had once had a precious grandson