"Gone without a trace?" Qin Hanzhen couldn't help but repeat this sentence when he read the letter. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info This is the last sentence on a page of letterhead

Niu asked her, "What does this mean? How could a person as big as her mother and daughter disappear without a trace? Even if they hired a carriage and brought a mother-in-law, they were all women, and they should be very conspicuous." Isn't there anyone who can find out where they're going?!"

Qin Bai also felt a little surprised. Since Qin An had already sent someone to find the He family and visit Sister Zhang, that person knew that kind of news, he had to inquire more about the news before he could repay it, right? He felt that his youngest son was still quite soft-hearted, so he sent someone to ask, it was impossible to hear that the He family mother and daughter were missing, so he really ignored it.

Because Qin Jian and Zhao Mo were present when they read the family letter last time, the Niu family didn't watch out for a while, so that they also heard the ugly thing about their son's uncompetitive idea, and they felt a little embarrassed in their hearts. For the sake of the youngest son's face in front of the younger generation, this time he read the family letter, and there were only Qin Bai, Niu's husband and wife and granddaughter Qin Hanzhen in the cabin, and then the henchmen Hu Bo and Mama Hu were brought out, and even Hu Yong did not join in, let alone the girls. Therefore, everyone felt that there was no need to shy away from speaking, just go straight to the point.

Qin Bai asked Qin Hanzhen: "What is written in the back of the letter?

Qin Hanzhen turned the next page of the letter, fortunately, there was a follow-up introduction later.

The Chen family didn't care if Sister Zhang ran away, but they cared about the silver and jewelry that she stole from them, so they blew up at that time and ordered someone to chase after them. After all, they are local natives, although they are now down, but there are still three catties of nails in the rotten ship, and the connections are still there. As soon as they inquired carefully, someone told them that they saw Sister Zhang sneakily carrying a small burden to the gate of the county seat, where she got into a carriage.

The witness recognized her as the daughter of the Chen family, and when he saw that she was going out alone at a young age, he asked her where she was going. Sister Zhang said to go to see her mother, so the witness didn't stop her.

He only saw that the carriage was driven by a mother-in-law and a coachman in his forties, and that there was a handsome little daughter-in-law in the carriage helping to lift the curtain and carry the baggage. There was supposed to be another person in the car, but he didn't show up. Sister Zhang got into the car and went directly into the carriage. She knew the mother-in-law sitting on the wheel, and before getting into the car, she said hello and called "Mama".

It was precisely because Sister Zhang was very familiar with the other party and said that she was going to see her mother, that the witness was not suspicious at all. If it weren't for the Chen family looking for someone afterwards and making a fuss, he wouldn't have known that Sister Zhang had run away with the family's belongings.

The Chen family learned of Sister Zhang'er's whereabouts from this eyewitness, so they chased them all the way, looking for people to inquire along the way, but some people had seen the carriage, but when they chased it to a remote fork in the road, they lost it. If you really want to continue to send people to inquire, it's not that you can't find out which way Sister Zhang'er was sitting, but at that time, the Chen family was still busy with business, and they really couldn't spare this time.

The reason why Sister Zhang was able to see this loophole and flee with her belongings was because the Chen family was busy with one thing: saying goodbye to their daughter. The son of the chief bookkeeper of Linxian County fell in love with a beautiful girl in his family, but the wife of the master bookkeeper was a little disgusted that the Chen family's family background was too thin, but she couldn't resist her son, so she gave the Chen family a chance to let them take their daughter out to see each other. In order to leave a good impression on her, the Chen family specially devoted the whole clan to prepare good clothes and jewelry for the girl, and a talented lady with the most decent status in the clan took her to meet the master bookkeeper's wife.

It is said that the other party reluctantly agreed to the family affair after seeing each other, but the marriage contract has not been officially decided for a day, so it cannot be taken lightly. At such a time, how can it be easy to let people know that the Chen family has a daughter who has fled with her belongings without permission? When the Chen family saw that they could not catch Sister Zhang'er back, they stopped fighting.

Although they lost some property, Qin An still had dozens of taels of silver left over for Sister Zhang's living expenses that Qin An had sent to the Chen family, and they could also add some good clothes and jewelry to the Chen family's daughter as a dowry, and they were not at a loss. When you become in-laws with the master bookkeeper, how much money can't you earn back?

However, when the Chen family saw that Qin An sent someone to ask, they had some delusions, and sent a clansman to Datong to ask Qin An to compensate Sister Zhang for the stolen property, and also exaggerated the list of thefts tenfold, intending to make a windfall. Who knew that when she met Mama Lu, she was so embarrassed that she couldn't get into the hole in the ground in a few words. The Chen family knew that Qin An was the son of the Hou Mansion, and they didn't dare to make trouble anymore, so they would rather pay for the road expenses and go back to Linxian in a gloomy manner.

When Niu heard this, he said "deserved" with hatred, and said: "It was really correct to send Mama Lu to go." Idlers can't fool her. The Chen family still has the face to blackmail?!" But Sister Zhang stole things and ran away from home privately, which made the Niu family feel very embarrassed, "The stinky girl who is not easy to do is not a good character like her mother! She was also raised in Brother An's family, and she has been like a jewel since she was a child, how did she become a thief?! If people say that the girls of Brother An's family are not well educated, won't it affect our own children?!"

Qin Bai comforted her and said, "Don't be angry, why is Sister Zhang'er also surnamed Chen, and she was brought up by her own mother." Her own mother has been divorced, who can say that Brother An's daughter is not well-up? The second girl is only a full moon now, and when she grows up, who else will remember these bad things?"

He turned his head and asked Qin Hanzhen, "What happened later? Did your father say in the letter that your second uncle would send someone to chase after He's mother and daughter again?"

Qin Hanzhen flipped through the letter again and replied: "Father said that the second uncle did not mention what happened in the family letter, only said that there was no whereabouts of the He family and Sister Zhang, and I don't know where to start, thinking that their mother and daughter still have a few hundred taels of silver by their side, and they should not worry about food and clothing." He is a shrewd person, thinking that she will choose to run away with her daughter, she must not want to clear the ancient Buddha for a lifetime, and she does not want her daughter to continue to suffer in the Chen family. She must have thought through how she was going to live with her daughter. If the second uncle rashly looked for it, it would ruin her calculations. The second uncle thought that in the end, the husband and wife were also pitiful for Sister Zhang'er for encountering a lot of hardships at a young age, so he turned a blind eye to their whereabouts and closed one eye. ”

Qin Bai raised his eyebrows: "It's rare, this sounds open-minded, but it doesn't seem like your second uncle would have an idea." "If Qin An had thought of this a long time ago, why did he send Sister Zhang away and arrange two servants to take care of her, and insist on sending living expenses to the Chen family every year? Not to mention the He family, who lived in the nunnery after being abandoned, Qin An was also providing for his living expenses. He is not a person who is ruthless enough to completely disown the biological mother of his biological children.

Niu has a guess about this: "Could it be the ghost of the golden ring, right? Brother An, this child, has always had soft ears, if the golden ring is being favored, blowing wind in his ears, maybe he really thinks that letting go is for the sake of He and Sister Zhang." She pursed her lips, "I said a long time ago that Jinhuan can stay by the He family's side for so long, and has become her confidant, it can't be a kind-hearted person!"

Maybe that's the case. But Qin Bai and his wife are far away, and they have never experienced the situation when their youngest son made such a decision, so they can't easily draw conclusions.

Qin Hanzhen interjected: "Grandfather, grandmother, although the second uncle only wrote these words in the letter sent to the capital, but the letter that was sent to the father was also a handwritten letter from Mama Lu. My father attached this handwritten letter to the letter and sent it with it. She raised another letter in her hand, on which most of the paper was densely written in silk hairpins, which was Mama Lu's handwriting.

Niu's spirits perked up, and he hurriedly said: "Read it and listen to it!"

Mama Lu's handwriting is very small, and Qin Han really has to look closely under the candlelight to see clearly. In the letter, she introduced the situation of He and Sister Zhang's departure, which was basically similar to Qin An's explanation, but there was one difference, that is, after Qin An made the decision not to track the whereabouts of his ex-wife and stepdaughter, she thought that He was Brother Zi'er's biological mother after all, and she still had to find out He's whereabouts just in case.

Ho has never been a fuel-efficient lamp. The male and female servants on Qin An's side also knew to her through words in private, and she knew that the death of Qin Ping's wife Guan was inseparable from the He family. The two of them have not lived together for a long time, how much hatred can they have? They can actually harm people's lives. The sudden loss of such a vicious woman's whereabouts is more worrying than her return to the Qin family.

Mama Lu also had money and manpower in her hands, so she hid from Qin An, asked Zhang Wanquan to help, hired a few trustworthy boys, and went to Linxian County to continue to track down the whereabouts of He and Sister Zhang. God willing, when these people went to Linxian, it had been a few days since the He family ran away, but because the Chen family was too talkative, and the marriage with the county chief bookkeeper had been decided, all kinds of gossip came out. A few boys followed the gossip and walked down in the direction where the carriage where the He mother and daughter had left, and when they reached the fork in the road, they divided into two ways to investigate, and finally found out where they were going.

He and Sister Zhang went in the direction of the capital.

Therefore, Mama Lu specially wrote back to Beijing to report the news, because she was worried that the mother and daughter would find the door of the Qin family when they went to Beijing. Although this divorced woman, a stepdaughter who is not related to the Qin family, has no face to rely on when she arrives at the Qin family, who knows? Not to mention, her biological brother Zi'er is now left alone in the Chengenhou Mansion, this child has always had a soft temper, if he knew that his biological mother and sister were in trouble, he might be soft-hearted.

Reading this, Qin Hanzhen, Qin Bai and Niu's faces changed, and Mama Hu, who was standing on the side, couldn't hold her breath and said, "No, how can they enter the door of the Hou Mansion? As long as they can't get in and their brother doesn't go out, how can they know that they are in the capital?"

Qin Hanzhen said: "Who knows? If the He family gives up the silver, such a big Chengenhou Mansion is afraid that it will not be able to find a subordinate who is willing to send letters and deliver messages? Not to mention, there is still a second room in the mansion that has always looked unpleasant to the eyes." ”

She looked at Qin Bai: "Grandfather, this matter can't be relaxed." Although his father already knew that he would take precautions, he had to go to the palace on an errand all day long, and few people in the family could hold on. What if He really asks the He family to find Brother Zi'er?"