54. Granny Qin
Ning Xi didn't have time to wait for the carriage to stop, so he jumped down in a hurry, rushed in to take a look, and saw that the door of the entire mansion was wide open, all the cages and cabinets in the house were opened, and useless things were thrown to the ground.
Ning Xi grabbed a person casually: "Where is the owner of this family?" ”
The man impatiently pushed her away: "Who knows! Go and go, don't get in the way. ”
Ning Xi was so anxious that she jumped to her feet, but no one was willing to pay attention to her anymore, as if she was afraid that she would let others give her good things if she delayed the time, and she nagged while checking it: "Phew, the cucumber shed in August - empty shelves!" It looks bright on the face, but in private it is poorer than calling Hanako. Disgustedly, he threw aside a shirt that had been worn with a raw edge, thought about it and picked it up again, "It's better to take it back as a rag." ”
"Which of you can tell me what is going on here? Where did the people of the Qin family go? Ningxi said urgently.
A lean man with a black mole on his nose glanced at her: "Needless to say, you went to hide from debts, didn't you look at the big pool of red paint that was splashed on the door?" I owe the casino money and can't pay off the debt, so what can I do if I don't escape? Grandma's, just escaped, and it was so cleanly that there was not even a single hair left. ”
"Do you know where they're going?"
"Where else can I go, isn't it just ......" Speaking of this, the black mole man glanced at Ning Xi and Jun Qianyu vigilantly, "Who are you, why should I sue you?" ”
As soon as Jun Qianyu raised his hand, there was an extra ingot of shining silver in his hand: "That's it." ”
The black mole's eyes lit up, and he swallowed his saliva and said, "Master, you really asked the right person, only I can know where the Qin family is." And as he spoke, he reached out and took the money.
Jun Qianyu ignored him, raised his hand, and said loudly: "Come and tell me, whoever can tell the Qin family exactly where they are going to live, the money will belong to whom." ”
The black mole looked anxious: "The Qin family was originally born in a rural farmer, and then moved to the city to live, and there is an ancestral house in the countryside with a few acres of broken fields, and they will return to their hometowns to worship their ancestors in previous years, but they can't stay in the city now, so they naturally go back to their hometowns." ”
Someone next to him interjected: "How is it possible, are you all fools when you are the Qin family?" Can you know where the Qin family's countryside is, and how the people in the casino don't know? ”
"That's it, I think it must have been out of the city, maybe it was to the capital, then Qin Da boasted in the past, always saying that he was the nurse brother of some princess in the capital, and he must have gone to the capital to fight the autumn breeze by relying on his past relationship."
Ning Xi looked up at Jun Qianyu suddenly: "Fifth Master, will they really go to the capital?" ”
Jun Qianyu shook his head: "With Granny Qin's person, she will definitely not do this, if you really want to rely on the kindness of the old days to seek refuge in Beijing, how can you wait until today." ”
"But there is a vast sea of people, where can I find it!"
Jun Qianyu said: "Don't worry, I'll let people check, it won't take more than half a day, and I will definitely be able to find it." "Finding a few big living people may make Ning Xi helpless, but for him, it's a trivial matter.
At this time, a woman who had been standing far away without saying a word stepped forward and opened her mouth with a little timidity: "This girl is so anxious, what she wants to find is Mrs. Qin?" ”
When Ning Xi heard this, he nodded again and again: "Yes, yes, what I'm looking for is Granny Qin, what do you know about Auntie?" ”
The woman rubbed her hands and said, "The slave maid is the cook of the Qin family, and she has followed Mrs. Qin since the Qin family just moved to Lezhou, and it has been almost twenty years now, so she knows some old things from previous years." ”
Seeing that the silver in her hand was about to fly, the black mole rudely interrupted her: "Master, don't believe her nonsense, I know the affairs of the Qin family best, this Qin Er has an old friend in Yanhongfang, they couldn't go out of the city gate overnight last night, they must be hiding in his concubine." ”
Hearing the black mole's rude words, Ning Xi glared at him and pulled the woman aside: "Let's leave him alone, you continue." Jun Qianyu snapped his fingers, and followed their coachman to lift the collar of the black mole, only to hear a scream, and the black mole was thrown out of the wall by the coachman.
The woman continued: "Old Mrs. Qin originally had a daughter, eighteen years ago, when she was not married, she was designed by her two elder brothers and almost gave them a friend of wine and meat, so the relationship with the two elder brothers was extremely stiff, and after getting married, she completely broke off the relationship with the Qin family and never walked back and forth, so many people don't know that the Qin family also had a daughter who married outside. ”
"In fact, this little sister Qin has secretly brought things to Mrs. Qin a few times, and the slaves and maids have seen it in their eyes, last night, the two brothers made a fuss again, forcing Mrs. Qin to take the silver, but over the years, the coffin book of Mrs. Qin's pension has been posted, where can I still get the silver, I was forced to can't, so I had to grab the scissors and put them on my neck, saying that if they make trouble again, they will simply die in front of them, and it will be a hundred. The two brothers then stopped, and then there was a burst of confusion, and the two men packed up and fled, leaving their sixty-year-old mother behind. ”
Ning Xi said, "Are you saying they didn't take Granny Qin away?" So where is she now? ”
The woman shook her head: "After the two brothers escaped, the rest of the people were too busy to take care of themselves, and they were scattered, and the whole house was scattered overnight, and no one had the time to take care of a half-dead old lady, and there were also old people and children in the slave maid's family, so naturally they couldn't spend it here, thinking that after all, they had worked in the Qin family for nearly twenty years, and they still had to say to the old lady before leaving, but they didn't expect the old lady to be in the room, and the slave and maid couldn't find the whole house, so I knew that the old lady was also gone." ”
"Then where will Granny Qin go?"
"A few days ago, Mrs. Qin often wiped her tears secretly, saying that the two rebels were really too unreasonable, Qin Xiaomei once proposed to take the old lady to live, but the old lady thought that as soon as she left, this family would definitely be scattered, after all, she was still reluctant, according to the slave maid, the old lady Qin was completely dead, go to Qin Xiaomei!"
"Then where did Qin Xiaomei marry?"
"I heard that I married into Huangjia Village, but I don't know which family it is."
"It's easy to know the place, let's go to Huangjia Village to find Qin Xiaomei, right?" The latter sentence was said by Ning Xi to Jun Qianyu.
The woman added: "Huangjia Village is not far away, go out from the city gate, go west, and arrive in more than an hour, if the old lady is out of the city gate early in the morning, she will probably have just arrived now, alas, the old lady is not in good health, she was still sick two days ago, and it is raining again, and I don't know if there will be anything bad along the way." ”
Ning Xi thanked the woman, took the silver in Jun Qianyu's hand and stuffed it into her hand, then hurriedly got into the carriage, urging the coachman to hurry up and go to Huangjia Village, but it has been raining for days recently, the village road is muddy, and the carriage is not going fast.
"Let's go and see, who is that person in front of you?" As the carriage approached, the black dot became clearer, and it turned out to be a rickety old woman, holding a black umbrella, with a thin body, and seemed to be still shivering, as if she would fall into the mud at any moment.
Ning Xi shouted at the old woman, "May I ask if it's Granny Qin in front?" ”
The figure paused slightly, and the carriage quickly arrived in front of her, slowing down, and the gray-haired old woman under the black umbrella raised her head, and her old eyes were full of surprise: "How does the girl recognize the old body?" ”
Ning Xi was overjoyed: "It's really Granny Qin." Jumping out of the car, ignoring the yellow mud that had been stained with a foot, he grabbed Granny Qin's hand, "Mother-in-law, we are specially here to find you, let's get in the car first!" ”
Granny Qin was reluctant to get into the car: "Who are you?" ”
Ning Xi knew that she was worried, so she hurriedly told her: "Don't worry, we are not debt collectors, we are from the capital, mother-in-law still remember Princess Qi?" ”
Unexpectedly, as soon as she heard the words Princess Qi, Granny Qin grabbed Ning Xi's wrist violently and asked busily, "Is the princess okay?" ”
Ning Xi took the opportunity to get her into the car: "Let's get in the car." Granny Qin was extremely thin, and Ning Xi almost didn't dare to use much force when she held her arm, for fear that one would break if she was not careful, and there was a sour feeling in her heart.
"Mother-in-law, your life is like this, why don't you go to the capital to find Princess Qi? I believe that the princess will not watch you suffer. ”
Granny Qin shook her head: "When the old body left, the reward given by the Feng Mansion to the old body was already rich enough, if you are not satisfied, it is insatiable, these old people just hope that the princess can live well." ”
Ning Xi sighed: "It's a pity that the princess is not doing well!" ”
Granny Qin became anxious again: "What's wrong with Yu'er?" As soon as she got up in a hurry, she unconsciously said the name of Princess Qi, who had only been quietly called in private in the past.
Ning Xi naturally knew that what she said about Yu'er was referring to the princess, but the princess's tragic experience was afraid that it would scare the old man, so she had to say lightly: "The princess has suffered from anorexia all these years, and she can't think about tea and dinner all day long, so we specially came to find her mother-in-law, hoping to get her mother-in-law's help." ”
Granny Qin's thin palm pinched Ning Xi's wrist painfully: "My poor Yu'er, this, how is this good?" ”
"I want to know, when the princess was a child, did she have any special favorite food, or that kind of food that evokes some particularly warm memories of her childhood?" Ning Xi endured the discomfort on his wrist, but instead used his other hand to gently cover Granny Qin's hand, gently soothing him.
Granny Qin's body was trembling all the time, she lowered her head and pondered for a while, and suddenly her head fell forward, and she actually fainted.