In the palace of the king of Jin.

Xiao Ding is used to listening to the maid come up to report the thyme when he is eating every day, but today is very abnormal.

He had already finished his meal, and the maid did not come.

Xiao Ding seemed to realize that something was wrong.

Yan Luo also arrived at Xiao Ding's courtyard at this time.

Seeing Yan Luo coming in a hurry, Xiao Ding immediately had a bad premonition in his heart.

As soon as Yan Luo saw Xiao Ding, he said anxiously: "The thyme is gone." ”

As soon as these words came out, Xiao Ding immediately stood up and looked at Yan Luo with some incredulity.

"What did you say?"

Xiao Ding naturally didn't want to believe that Thyme could escape, you must know that the Jin Palace's Mansion was heavily guarded, even if Thyme had the ability to reach the sky, it was impossible to hide so many guards and secret guards and leave quietly.

Yan Luo looked at Xiao Ding very seriously and said: "It's really gone, and the maid has passed out, I didn't wake up no matter how I screamed, I didn't look for it all in the yard, and the guard guarding the door said that Thyme didn't go out at all last night." ”

Xiao Ding rushed out of the courtyard directly, there were some things he had to see with his own eyes to believe it.

Yan Luo immediately followed behind Xiao Ding.

At the same time, Xiao Ding ordered the housekeeper to search the Jin Palace.

Thyme lives inside the yard.

The yard, which used to be quiet, became noisy.

In the courtyard, the little servants and guards were looking for them in every corner, and they were three feet away from digging into the ground.

The butler also came with the news after a while.

The palace was searched inside and out, but none of the thyme was found.

Xiao Ding gradually calmed down.

The palace is so heavily guarded. Thyme can't be seen for no reason.

Either hiding there, or already out of the house.

But if you want to get out of the house, you must have someone to help, Xiao Ding looked at Yan Luo on the side with suspicion, it seems that the only person who can help Thyme escape is Yan Luo.

Yan Luo saw Xiao Ding looking at him, and knew that Xiao Ding must have suspected him.

Suddenly, Yan Luo looked at Xiao Ding with some anger.

"Why don't you suspect that I saved the thyme? I've betrayed even my eldest brother, will I betray you for thyme? Yan Luo was very angry.

Xiao Ding had a weird smile on his face, and then he looked away.

I have to say that Xiao Ding still has a way, and the maid who is still asleep was directly splashed with a bucket of water to wake up. But the maid has also become a soup chicken.

The maid sat up. Looking around blankly, the maid at this moment has been placed on the ground in the courtyard.

The maid saw Xiao Ding at a glance, glanced at Xiao Ding blankly, and then immediately understood what was going on.

"Tell me everything you know." Xiao Ding's voice was cold. The maid was cultivated by him with a lot of effort. I didn't expect to be dizzy with drugs one after another.

Such a mistake. In Xiao Ding's eyes, it is fatal.

The maid touched Xiao Ding's cold eyes and swallowed her saliva. said timidly: "Last night before going to bed, the slave and maid rested only after watching the thyme fall asleep, and I don't know what happened later." ”

The maid really didn't know much.

Xiao Ding didn't have time to blame the maid, but asked directly: "In the past few days, has there been anything unusual about thyme." ”

The maid thought carefully, and suddenly her eyes lit up and said: "There is a special strange place, yesterday thyme in the evening, suddenly said that she wanted to go to the garden, and then walked around the lake, there is nothing else unusual." ”

Xiao Ding's brows furrowed even more.

"You mean, Thyme went to the lake, did she look at something for a long time?" Xiao Ding seemed to have something in his heart.

The maid didn't dare to slack off, and after thinking carefully for a while, she said, "She looked at the wall on the other side of the lake for a while, and finally asked me to take her away." ”

Xiao Ding called the secret guard who was guarding last night.

"Did you hear anything unusual in the yard last night?" Xiao Ding is about to go crazy now, people are disappearing under his nose, there are still so many people in the palace, what an ironic thing, the secret guards all said that there was nothing abnormal last night.

It's Yan Luo, who is watching carefully around the pond.

Suddenly, Yan Luo saw a lotus flower that had been picked in the lotus pond.

Yan Luo immediately waved his hand: "Someone will pick up that lotus flower for me." ”

The little guy jumped off the pond and quickly picked up the lotus. Xiao Ding was also attracted to Yan Luo.

"What's the matter, did you notice something wrong?" Xiao Ding's voice was puzzled.

Yan Luo nodded, and then asked the maid on the side: "You said that you usually follow thyme and never leave an inch, right?" ”

The maid nodded: "Yes, the slave and maid follow Thyme every step of the way, unless it is when she goes to report to the prince, she will leave for a while, and she usually follows Thyme." ”

When Yan Luo heard this, he already knew it in his heart.

"So have you seen this lotus flower picked by her before?" Yan Luo asked seriously.

The maid still shook her head: "No, except that I helped Miss pick a lotus flower that day, I really haven't picked it again." ”

Yan Luo immediately walked to the edge of the pond and looked around carefully.

"Come, all of you, and find the path of this lotus flower."

Xiao Ding looked at Yan Luo's actions suspiciously, he really didn't understand Yan Luo's purpose for doing this, so he hurriedly stepped forward and asked.

"What the hell is going on? Tell me about it. ”

Yan Luo didn't hide it, and immediately said, "I suspect that Thyme has escaped from the house." ”

As soon as these words came out, Xiao Ding was surprised: "How can you have such a conjecture." ”

Yan Luo shook his head: "I just have this hunch, if you want to be sure, you have to further verify."

The little guy over there searched around and didn't find the path of the lotus.

Yan Luo is even more affirmative.

Yan Luo slowly began to walk around the lotus pond.

You must know that thyme has never been out of the yard, which means that thyme is missing in the yard.

The yard is so big. If you don't hide it, you must leave.

"Lord Wang, is this pool leading to the outside?"

Yan Luo also seems to have found the water intake.

Xiao Ding nodded: "It does lead to the outside." ”

As soon as these words came out, Xiao Ding also thought of something, but asked Yan Luo a little incredulously: "You mean that Thyme left from here?" ”

Yan Luo nodded.

Xiao Ding still asked with some disbelief: "But how can a woman with thyme be water." ”

Yan Luo shook his head and said: "I don't know about this, but the most important thing at the moment is to find thyme, the longer the time drags on, the more the hope of finding thyme will become."

This can be regarded as a reminder to Xiao Ding.

Xiao Ding immediately ordered his subordinates to be under martial law, on the one hand, everyone who entered and exited must be checked, and secondly, the city should also be searched. And the others chased them straight out of the city.

The soldiers are divided into several ways. Everybody's busy.

Yan Luo was worried about thyme in his heart.

The thyme here has already taken advantage of people's inattention to walk to the river.

The riverside is generally a small forest, and because there are few people walking, the natural path is not very easy to walk.

Thyme has been walking upstream.

She remembers going down the river when she was on the boat.

Other words. Southern Xia is upstream.

After walking by the river for a long time, Thyme realized a problem. That is, the big river is very close to the village. In other words, she is a stranger walking on the road very conspicuously.

Thyme knew in her heart that Xiao Ding must be looking for her everywhere at this time.

Caught in a dilemma, Thyme could only bite the bullet and continue to walk upstream, hoping to meet the dock somewhere. When the time comes, hire a boat and leave.

The only good thing is that this season is not yet busy with farming, just when the rice begins to turn yellow, and there are not many people coming by the river, and occasionally you can meet one or two people, and when you see thyme carrying a burden, you think it is a passerby, but you don't think much about it.

The burden was taken out of the space by thyme, and the things contained in it were something to be used, but there was nothing to eat, only a little salt, which was inadvertently put into the space by thyme, but I didn't think about it, and I can still use it.

Walking to the river with fewer people, thyme was also rumbling with hunger, and along the way, thyme had something to do, and more than a dozen taro were dug up.

With taro, I don't have to worry about going hungry.

Make a fire, bury the taro directly in the fire and start burning.

When the taro was ripe, the thyme picked the taro out of the fire, peeled and ate it one by one.

The cooked taro is delicious, and it is very comfortable to eat without putting anything.

Now as long as I can eat a full stomach.

And thyme now just wants to go where she can rest.

A woman is outside, not afraid that it is fake, if it is not for the thought that if she is caught back, she may die, and Thyme will not risk escaping.

In this way, as long as you can meet food on the way, the thyme will also be collected.

Fortunately, in the afternoon, Thyme finally saw a pier in the distance, and there were people coming and going on the pier, and at a glance, he knew that he had arrived in a small town.

Thyme did not let her guard down, and slowly approached the town, far away in the woods, and Thyme saw the situation in the distance, so she was so frightened that she hid behind the trees.

On the dock, an official in an official costume was holding a portrait in his hand and began to inspect one by one.

Although Thyme didn't look closer, she had a hunch that the portrait on it should be hers.

I don't know why, she just had such a hunch.

The plan to hire a boat and find a place to rest was shattered.

Thyme knew that as soon as she arrived in a crowded place, she would show her stuffing, after all, she didn't know Xixia's words, and slowly retreated into the depths of the woods, and Thyme was dazed and helpless for a while.

Finding a big tree, Thyme leaned against the tree, a feeling of helplessness and dazedness invaded her whole body.

Where should she go?

How should she return to Nanxia, which is thousands of miles away?

What should she do in the future?

And the loneliness on the road is also the biggest challenge she faces.

Thyme even regretted leaving the palace a little at this time. (To be continued......)