Chapter 69: Parting
"I'm going to find my father!" Tang Xuexue held the porcelain ring in her hand tightly, and her tearful face was full of determination.
"Xiao Jue, I'll go with you!"
Xiao Yan naturally knew what was going on after watching it for so long, and he didn't know what to say when he saw the girl's heartbroken appearance, and after hearing what Xue Jue said, he immediately made up his mind and said.
"You two wait first!" Xiao Yi on the side saw that the two teenagers made such an impulsive decision, and hurriedly stopped him.
"It's getting late now, where can you two go to find it?" Xiao Yi said, "Besides, the enemy family may not be far away, Xiao Jue, aren't you going out at this time!"
When the young man heard Xiao Yi's words, he hesitated, but in an instant, Tang Xueying looked at Xiao Yi with a firm face.
"Alas......" Xiao Yi also knew that this niece seemed to be weak, but in fact she was tough in her heart.
"You two are waiting here, I'll go around and see if I can find some clues. Yan'er, take Xiao Jue back to our house, I will definitely come back before dawn! You must remember not to move around at will! Yan'er, protect Xiao Jue!" Xiao Yi said.
"Don't worry, Dad. Xiao Yan nodded vigorously.
Tang Xueying also knew that this was the best way at present, although she was in a hurry, if she went out recklessly, she was really likely to fall into the hands of the enemy, and then not only could she not save her father and mother, but also brought them trouble. The girl who suddenly changed dramatically also seemed to have grown up all of a sudden, "Don't be surprised when there is chaos!" "Some of the things I have learned before are really ready to be used, and I find that they are so useful. The girl has also learned to control her feelings very well under the big changes at a young age, in order to make a calm judgment, I really don't know whether to say that it is rare or a pity......
"I want to collect the corpses of Uncle Wu and Mother Wu first. The girl wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, calmed down, and said.
"Yan'er, you go and help!" Xiao Yi could naturally see the changes in the girl's body, and sighed helplessly in his heart.
"Hmm!"
Then, Xiao Yi walked out of the Tang Mansion, found a direction, turned around and jumped, and disappeared into the darkness in the distance.
The two teenagers who stayed behind began to pack up with difficulty......
The sky soon became cold, Tang Xueying didn't sleep all night, Xiao Yan also accompanied her all night, neither of them spoke, just waited quietly.
Soon, Xiao Yi is back!
"Uncle Xiao, my father and mother ......" The girl immediately stood up when she saw Xiao Yi in front of the door.
"Xiao Jue, uncle......" Xiao Yi shook his head helplessly.
Last night, Xiao Yi chased all the way along the traces left by the other party, there were few traces, and there were obvious signs of being cleaned up, but this was difficult for Xiao Yi.
Following the traces all the way to the south, Xiao Yi could judge that there were two people on the other side, the one in front should be the one who took away Tang Yuan and his wife, and the one in the back should be the one who wanted to snatch it, and he should have done it to clean up the traces. It's just very suspicious that the purpose of the enemy family coming here is not to destroy Tang Yuanmanmen, which can be seen from the fact that he quietly killed Lao Wu and his family. So that means that the person who saved Tang Yuan and his wife ran in front with the two of them, and the killer behind followed them all the way to chase and kill, which is too suspicious!
Tang Yuan and his wife are ordinary people who don't know martial arts, and the person in front of him wants to lead these two people to protect the safety of the two under the prying eyes of a killer, which is no less difficult than directly stopping and fighting the killer and then killing him. What is the reason for this peculiar chase? Xiao Yi was puzzled.
Xiao Yi followed all the way until he reached the shore of Poyang Lake, and the traces of the other party disappeared completely, and he still found nothing after looking around for a long time. Thinking that there were still two little ghosts at home, although Yan'er's kung fu was good, after all, he had not gone through actual combat, and it was not safe to leave him at home, so Xiao Yi had to turn around and go back.
Hundreds of miles back and forth overnight, although Xiao Yi's kung fu was good, he couldn't hide the tiredness on his face.
Seeing Xiao Yi's expression, Tang Xueying knew that there was no gain, and her expectant eyes dimmed again.
Changnan Town is actually not big, the residents of the town saw the gate of the Tang Mansion open last night, the lights on the house were on overnight, and the neighbors who got up early saw the messy Tang family lobby and the empty yard, where can they not know that something big has happened.
The county government was just north of the Changjiang River, and the Fuliang county magistrate was still asleep when he was awakened by a rapid knock on the door.
"My lord, it's not good! something happened to the Ling family in Tang City!" the officials outside kept urging.
Hearing that something had happened to Tang Yuan's family, Fuliang County Ling couldn't help but be shocked, and immediately remembered the day before yesterday, where could he still sleep!
"What's wrong?" the magistrate asked, getting up, opening the bedroom door, and facing the officials outside.
"My lord, this morning, a neighbor of the Tang City Ling family came to report to the official, saying that the door of the Tang City Ling family was opened last night, and the lights were on overnight. The official hurriedly reported the information he had obtained to the county lord.
"Oh no!" Fuliang County Ling couldn't help shouting in his heart, sure enough, something was wrong, and he knew that it was not that simple!
"Go, go and inform Song Zhutou, bring people, and immediately go to the Tang Mansion with this official!" the Fuliang County Commander immediately ordered.
Song Zhutou, who got up early and exercised at home in the morning, also got a report from his subordinates, and was naturally shocked and inexplicable, there was such a big thing in his Tang brother's house, where could he still sit still, and immediately picked up his clothes and blades and rushed to the county government to gather people.
On the way, he happened to meet the county lord, and the county lord didn't wait for him to salute, and directly took his hand and rushed to the Tang family.
A quarter of an hour later, the two of them rushed to Tang's house with a group of officials, and it was really as the person who reported to the official said.
The Fuliang County Order left Song Zhutou to check the scene, but he hurriedly came to the Xiao Mansion next to him and knocked on the door of the Xiao family.
"Brother Xiao, the affairs of the Tang family ......" Fuliang County Commander didn't know how to call Xiao Yi at first, and later Xiao Yi said that he was just a grass name, and he couldn't deserve the honorific title of the county lord, so the county magistrate had to be commensurate with his peers.
"The county order came just in time! Xiao asked you, who was the person who came to find my brother Tang the day before yesterday?" Xiao Yi saw the Fuliang county order coming, and hurriedly glared at him with his eyes and asked viciously.
Looking at Xiao Yi's reddened eyes, the Fuliang County Commander knew that he had to tell the truth, and he was also planning to tell the truth when he came today.
"Don't hide it from Brother Xiao, it was Yu Zhangchang Shi Duanzhang who sent his housekeeper and wanted Tang Shiling to fire a piece of porcelain for him. Fuliang County Commander said.
"Go on!" Xiao Yi said coldly.
It was only later that Tang Shiling hurried back after returning home, saying that the porcelain could not be fired, so he pushed the matter aside. The county magistrate reported to Xiao Yi like a subordinate.
"Pushed?" Xiao Yi asked, "Why pushed?"
"Uncle Xiao, it was my niece who asked my father to push it!" Tang Xueying said after hearing it.
"Oh, why?" Xiao Yi also knew Tang Yuan's craftsmanship, and a piece of porcelain must be difficult for him, so it was very unwise to offend the history of a county magistrate for this.
Originally, Daddy had some of them, but the potter Wang who took care of the kaolin suddenly disappeared a few days ago, and the kaolin was gone. Without kaolin, my father wouldn't be able to burn this porcelain, and my niece thought that since there was no official decree, it wouldn't be a tolerance, so I pushed it, but I didn't expect my father to still ...... it" Speaking of this, Tang Xuexuan's heart swelled with a strong sense of remorse, if he didn't build yƬ daddy did this, maybe it wouldn't be like this......
"Xiao Jue, it's right for you to do this! If your father really burns things out, I'm afraid it will be really bad luck!" Lao Wang disappeared inexplicably, and even the important materials were gone, and then Duan Zhang sent people to customize porcelain, one ring after another, obviously someone had planned it!
Xiao Yi made this conclusion based on the news he obtained, and after finishing it, he didn't care about the surprised Tang Xuexuan, and asked directly to the county order: "What did Duan Zhang's housekeeper say afterwards?"
He didn't say anything, not even angry at Tang Shiling's offense, took the drawings and walked away without looking back. The Fuliang County Commander is still full of doubts when he talks about this.
"Gone?" Xiao Yi lowered his head and pondered for a while, still clueless, in fact, Xiao Yi is not good at these, and the speculation just now was also analyzed in view of the two parties who chased and fled and the strange disappearance of Lao Wang.
"It would be nice if the boss was here, even those ghosts and spirits are better at this than themselves!" Xiao Yi couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
"I'm going to Yuzhang City!" Tang Xueying said seriously after listening to the words of the two.
"Do you want to go to Yuzhang City?" Xiao Yi looked at the girl in front of him, knowing that it was difficult for him to refuse, he lowered his head and thought about it again, and said: "It's okay to go to Yuzhang City! ā
Xiao Yi said very domineeringly, and he didn't know how an ordinary person like him would go to the county magistrate Shi to "ask".
"Lord County, please watch from Fuliang's side, if my Tang brother and his wife come back, please send someone to inform you!" Xiao Yi said to Fuliang County.
"Brother Xiao, don't worry, Fuliang will definitely be optimistic about it in the future!" the county magistrate replied seriously.
"Xiao Jue, let's go!" Xiao Yi is also a decisive person, since he has decided to do it immediately, no one can rest now anyway.
"Thank you Uncle Xiao!" Tang Xueying saluted Xiao Yi, the family suffered a great change, and now Xiao Yi did not hesitate to deal with such a high-ranking official as the long history of the previous county for the sake of his own affairs, which naturally moved the girl very much.
Tang Xueying didn't know Xiao Yi's past, so she naturally felt that it was a very dangerous thing to confront an official from the fifth grade. Xiao Yi didn't care about this, and naturally it was impossible to tell his past.
In fact, for Xiao Yi, this time to help the Tang family and his original intention of living in seclusion are incompatible, this time to Yuzhang City his identity will definitely attract the attention of people with a heart, I am afraid that his peaceful life for more than ten years will come to an end. It's just that Xiao Yi and Tang Yuan have been friends for more than ten years, and now that Tang Yuan has an accident, he really can't do it if he wants to be indifferent. Forget it! It's worth it to have a peaceful life for more than ten years in your life!
"Dad, I'm going too!" Xiao Yan saw that his father and Tang Xueying were leaving, and if he wanted to stay at home alone, it would be better to kill him with a knife.
āā¦ā¦ Okay!" Xiao Yi stared at his son for a long time, as if he wanted to deeply carve his son's still immature face, he was leaving, what could he do if he left his son alone? If he wants to go, let him go, but this time, I am afraid that he will be separated from his son.
The three of them packed up, took some soft and went out, and before leaving, Xiao Yi had a few conversations with the old servant who had been with him for many years.
"Old Xiao, I'm leaving!"
"Fuliang is a beautiful place, and it is also a good choice to bury bones here. ā
"Haha, congratulations on that!
"yes. ā
After the two finished speaking, they looked at each other speechlessly, only smiled, and then Xiao Yi turned around and left, leaving the home where he had lived for more than ten years.
The three of them came to the wharf on the Changjiang River, although the land route to Yuzhang City is only a few hundred miles, but there is a lack of horses in the south, and the land route will only be slower, and it is impossible to perform light skills with two little ghosts.
Straight down from the Changjiang River, enter Poyang Lake, and then enter the Ganjiang River, you can reach Yuzhang City in one day......