Chapter 291: Wanted for the Whole County
When Master Jiang heard this, he suddenly kicked the servant woman to the ground, and said angrily: "Since you are dizzy, how do you know that Xiaobai harmed your mother?" In case the mother she ...... She's ......"
Old Man Jiang glanced at the old lady Jiang who was dead in the courtyard, and he couldn't go on with what he said. He was entangled in his heart, he didn't want this to be true, he would rather that his mother died of a sudden illness, and had nothing to do with his daughter Xiaobai, but his intuition told him that this was impossible, and Xiaobai would definitely not be able to get rid of his mother's death.
Mrs. Jiang saw that the matter had come to this, and Master Jiang still had to deceive himself, and if she rubbed the wild girl again, she would run away, and the thousands of taels of silver would not be in the soup? She decided to take the next dose of the drug.
"Master, look, isn't that the wooden pillow that the old lady has used for decades? Isn't that hiding her life savings? How did it rot like that? Lo and behold, there are only a few pieces of gold and silver jewelry and a few silver ingots left, and the silver tickets are gone! ”
Master Jiang glanced at it, his heart was half cold again, and Mrs. Jiang pretended to be unintentional and said: "This is the root of the old lady's life, whoever wants to steal the silver will take her life!" Alas, I originally thought that Xiaobai's girl was strange, could it be...... Oh, sir, could it be that she came here for these thousands of taels of silver? ”
Master Jiang's face became even more ugly, but Mrs. Jiang kept talking and continued to add fuel to the fire: "Alas, this girl is young, and her heart is not small, and there are thousands of taels of silver in her mother's pillow!"
Didn't she still remember that his mother was robbed of the silver ticket by the old lady back then, and deliberately tried every means to come back to the old lady to ask for debts? It's really not easy, we haven't even seen it at all in the months she has lived in the house. ”
Master Jiang turned his head and glared at her with fire-breathing eyes: "Will you die if you don't speak?" ”
Mrs. Jiang pretended to shrink her neck timidly. whispered: "The old lady is gone, you still feel sorry for the wild girl who popped up out of nowhere, and you are not afraid that the old lady will feel cold when she hears it." ”
Master Jiang glared at Mrs. Jiang fiercely: "You are looking at the mansion." Arrange your mother's funeral. ”
Then he strode out of the courtyard with a blushing face, the corners of Mrs. Jiang's mouth were slightly upturned, and she was blessed behind him: "Don't worry, master, the concubine will definitely give the old lady a good ~ good ~ event." ”
Master Jiang walked out of Jiang's mansion with a bad face, and took a sedan chair all the way to the county office.
After he entered the yamen, he immediately issued a wanted warrant, and asked the painter to quickly draw several portraits of Ling'er and distribute them to all the officials. The police have the men who can send them out to search for Ling'er, and those who are captured alive will be rewarded with five hundred taels of silver.
A quarter of an hour later, the streets and alleys of Donghu City were plastered with notices chasing Ling'er. Everywhere were officials with portraits, and all girls who were fifteen or sixteen years old and had a slight resemblance to Ling'er were all taken back to the government.
At this time, Ling'er had already gotten off the boat and got into the carriage heading to the official road in Liangzhou. The lotus chrysanthemum and the others watched Ling'er's carriage drift away. Several people looked at each other for a long time, and Chrysanthemum said: "Alas, I have been thinking about coming out, but I don't know where to go when I come out?" ”
Lotus also said: "Yes, it would be nice if I could go with Miss, but why didn't she let me?" Does the young lady dislike us? ”
Osmanthus said: "Miss makes sense to arrange it this way, Miss is angry with the old lady, and the master will definitely issue a wanted warrant to chase Miss." We follow the young lady, and the target is easy to expose. Mademoiselle was kind enough to rescue us, and we couldn't trouble her. ”
Nodding in agreement for a few days, Osmanthus said: "There is a town in front, I plan to go to the town for one night, do you want to go together?" ”
"Okay, let's fix it for the night and set off tomorrow." A few people walked together to the town in front of them.
Ling'er borrowed the carriage and didn't go far before she found an excuse to get off, and then she went to a nearby village to buy shabby linen clothes and some dry food, and after remodeling, she became a poor and destitute young scholar.
Then she carried her burden and nibbled on the official road to Liangzhou on foot, if there was a passing donkey cart or ox cart, she would occasionally take a while, but she would get off again after not going far, so that the people of the government would not find their traces.
After Mr. Jiang issued the wanted warrant, he sat alone in front of the table in a daze, he looked at the wanted warrant in front of him fixedly, and a picture of getting along with Xiaobai appeared in his mind.
Am I going too far by doing this? The matter has not been clarified yet, will Xiaobai be wronged? …… But if she was wronged, how could she flee in a hurry? Where did the money in the old mother's pillow go?
Master Jiang sat motionless until dark, and the housekeeper Zhou Quanan came to ask for instructions about the funeral, Master Jiang came back to his senses, thought about it and asked, "Is there any news from Xiaobai?" ”
"Back to my lord, not yet."
Master Jiang sighed lightly, as if he was also relieved, Zhou Quanan's eyes flickered, remembering that Ling'er and Wan Xiaogui asked the family to go out to catch Li Liang a few days ago, he had been looking for an opportunity to tell the master, but seeing the old man's absent-minded appearance, he decided to talk about it after a while.
The Jiang family originally had half a month to do a happy event, but now it has changed to a funeral, and at first I thought it was a funeral for the young lady, but now it has become a funeral for Mrs. Jiang, and I don't know what happened to the Jiang Mansion? Donghu County has been speculating about this.
The wanted warrant has been issued for six days, but after tossing for a long time, only Miss Jiang's maids were found, but there was no trace of Miss Jiang at all.
Since the wanted warrant was issued, Master Jiang did not inquire about the matter, but asked the master to temporarily take over the affairs of the yamen and go home to keep a wake for the old lady.
Master Jiang knelt in front of the mourning hall with a pale face, and if there were guests who came to mourn, he would return the salute mechanically, without saying a word.
That afternoon, he was still kneeling on the mourning hall, but he heard a noise outside: "Childe stay, son, don't go inside, childe, childe stay!" ”
Master Jiang turned his head slowly, and saw a young man in a black robe with a cold face pushing away the little guy and striding in, he entered the mourning hall and looked left and right, and when he saw Master Jiang, he didn't say anything, just asked coldly: "Ling'er?" ”
Master Jiang was a little dazed, and the housekeeper Zhou Quanan rushed in with a few family members to surround the young man: "Son, the house is holding a funeral, if you come to condolence and ask for incense, leave, if you cause trouble...... Don't blame us for being polite. ”
The young man didn't even look at Zhou Quanan, and looked at Master Jiang with a straight face and unblinking: "Ling'er?" ”
Master Jiang stood up: "Are you ......?" ”
"My surname is Jia Haoyang, a native of Cangzhou, Ling'er is my wife, where is she?"
Master Jiang pondered for a moment: "Cangzhou Jia family? May I ask ...... the former dynasty Zaifu Jia Guogong and Gongzi? ”
"It's my grandfather."
Master Jiang was shocked when he heard this, and quickly got up and waved away Zhou Quanan and the family, "Childe, it is inconvenient to discuss here, can I invite Childe to talk in the courtyard?" (To be continued......)