Chapter 396, whereabouts unknown

Soon the door came, after listening to the old lady's question, he said with certainty: "A few days ago, the old lady said that there are often guests at home, and the aunt and grandmother will come at any time.

I knew that she was in the third master's house, and she served by the old lady's side, so I didn't dare to slack off, and I didn't dare to ask more, so I let her go out, and pointed out to the one that drove the car, why don't I go to that house and ask? ”

The old lady rubbed her forehead with a headache, the government punished the fugitive slaves very strictly, and it was extremely difficult for the house slaves to survive after they escaped, and the Xie family treated the house slaves leniently, so there was never a slave escape, Douhuang said that he was ordered to go out to do urgent things, of course the door did not dare to ask more, let alone stop it, so naturally he was no wonder.

In fact, he didn't know at all that although Douhuang was a clear girl, she was not a slave of the Xie family, she was redeemed by Mingjing's friends as early as when she raided the house, and later returned the deed of sale, and when she came to the Xie family again, she was already free.

waved his hand and asked him to go to the house where he was rushing to the car to see if the handlebar style could come back, whether Douhuang had hired her car, and where did the car send Douhuang, and the handlebar style quickly took the order.

Mingjing asked Mama Du again: "Think about it again, what else is abnormal about her in the past few days?" ”

Mama Du thought for a while and said, "She didn't go to eat dinner yesterday, saying that she had a bad stomach, so she asked the old slave to bring a few cakes from the kitchen to eat." Oh, I remembered, I slept in a daze in the middle of the night last night, I heard the sound of the box bumping, as if I was rummaging through the cabinet to find something, so I asked her what she was doing in the middle of the night, she said that she had a stomach and went to the clean room, because it was raining outside and fell, and her clothes were muddy, and she wanted to find clean clothes to wear, and the old slave fell asleep without thinking too much, and the dirty clothes may still be in the house"

Lin Xinhui shouted: "Mother, let's go over and see what we have lost, and be careful that she escapes with smuggling."

Under the search of the group, most of Douhuang's clothes were still there, but the silver coins and jewelry were nowhere to be found, so they should have been taken away, and she had to eat when she went out.

Found a ball of dirty wet clothes and embroidered shoes under the bed, even more puzzled under a closer look, last night was just a light rain, in addition to the flower beds and tree pits, the house was all paved with green bricks, Douhuang did not fall on the way to the clean room, the clean room is not far away, why are the clothes wet like this? It seems that she has been drenched in the rain for a while, and there is a lot of mud and grass clippings on it, and her shoes are also covered with mud, what did she do last night?

But it is also reasonable to say, the rainy night is dark, and the minions have no lanterns to pick, maybe she walked in the dark and fell into the flower garden, her clothes were soaked with water from the leaves and stained with grass clippings, maybe she went out and it would rain heavily, anyway, no one went out in the middle of the night, and when she got up in the morning, she found that although the rain was not heavy, the ground was soaked.

When the dirty clothes were found, Ming Qing's face changed suddenly, in this group of people, only he clearly knew why the bean yellow clothes were so wet, where the grass clippings came from, and why the shoes were covered with mud, it was obvious that she was woken up by the rain in the middle of the night and came back from the woods, it seems that when she fled back to the house last night, she forgot to bolt the door of the vegetable garden in a panic, and she escaped.

But that's fine, she can find it slowly when she escapes, I don't believe where she can run with her body, if she was locked in the vegetable garden last night and couldn't get out, it would be bad if she was found by others today, if she was angry and angry, wouldn't she ruin her reputation and miss her future?

Back to the old lady's house to sit down, soon the door came back, said that he went to the handlebar house to ask, early this morning there was really a young and beautiful woman dressed as a girl, said that it was the Xie family girl, at the order of the old lady to go to the county town has urgent things to do, paid double the car money, let her go to the county town quickly, because of the speed of the road, more than an hour to the county town, the woman paid the car and left, told not to wait for her, she still has something to do, and then I don't know where to go.

She's definitely a bean yellow, everyone is sure. But everyone doesn't understand, why should Douhuang find an excuse to run away? She came to the door by herself, and she didn't sell herself to the Xie family, but a girl who had no birth and raising, if she really wanted to leave, the old lady would never stop her, maybe she would send some property to her for the road, why not find an excuse to escape?

The old lady ordered Ming and Qing to send someone to the county town tomorrow to inquire, but she hurriedly responded to the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Seeing that it was getting late, her daughter, son-in-law and grandson had been on the road for a day, tired and hungry but had never passed the meal, the old lady felt funny: "Forget it, isn't it just a girl who has a room?" Maybe she really went out to run errands, maybe she would come back later, if she didn't want to come back, it would be okay, and we didn't force her to go, maybe she had other plans. The reception banquet has been prepared early, gather well tonight, you will not see each other for several years when you go to Mianzhou. ”

As soon as everyone thought about it, they put this matter aside for the time being, and talked about Pei Lian's family's long trip. Mingjing's heart is still up and down, he knows Douhuang's temperament better than anyone else, he can't get rid of it on weekdays, he has to rely on life and death, how can he leave by himself for no reason now? What the hell is she for?

He didn't like her anymore, and he couldn't bear to let her end badly, but hopefully, as the old lady said, she would come back on her own later.

Halfway through the wine, it was already night, and the bean yolk had not yet returned. After the wine and feast, except for a few children to sleep, the adults all sat around and talked and laughed together, and at the beginning of the day (more than nine o'clock in the evening), they still did not see Douhuang come back.

The old lady made the door lock without waiting, so that the door was told to wake up at night, in case Douhuang came back in the middle of the night, remember to ask clearly before opening the door, and then handed it to Sister-in-law Xia, and she would drop it again tomorrow morning.

When everyone stopped mentioning this incident, Lin Xinhui suddenly said: "I thought of where Douhuang might go"

Ming Qing's startled chopsticks almost fell to the ground, Lin Xinhui looked at Mingjing and said proudly: "Douhuang knows the rules of our family, it is impossible to deceive the master and leave late at night without returning, she may be anxious to see the authentic master and can't wait, and she is afraid that after a long time, people will forget her happily in the capital, so she did not hesitate to run to find it in the name of the bully, who would have thought that her master actually came to pick it up, but the two took a fork in the road, and the mother said yes?" ”

Ming Qing resisted the urge to spray rice, and reprimanded in disguise: "Don't talk nonsense, Douhuang just wants to see the third brother, just tell her mother, and her mother will send someone to send her to Beijing in a beautiful way, why do you run to meet without permission?" It seems that I can't see anyone, maybe I think I'm going to go to the big temple because I'm small."

Mingjing agreed with Lin Xinhui's guess: "What the second sister-in-law said is also possible, she is likely to do such a thing." ”

Douhuang is indeed very likely to do such a thing. She saw that the old lady had not sent her to Beijing for a long time, and she did not pick her up, and everyone in the house knew that the eldest aunt and grandmother were the most disgusted girls, and every time she saw herself, she did not have a good face, and she would never take her back to Beijing, and maybe persuaded the old lady to send her away.

So she was worried day and night, worried that she would never want her again and leave her in the Xie family, so she would rather risk being punished and disliked, and she would go to the county lord's mansion to block herself and Changsheng. Maybe she set off early in the morning and arrived at the county lord's mansion early.

Although Changsheng doesn't like Douhuang, and she doesn't want to sandwich a different woman between the two, she is a kind and reasonable person, no matter what, she must settle down and take care of her first, and then make plans when she goes back, maybe Changsheng will be troubled by this.

For a while, except for Ming and Qing, who knew the truth, everyone thought it was very possible, Xie Mingzhu said disdainfully: "This girl can't stay, she actually went out without permission from her master, and she didn't know how to run to find a man by herself, and I wanted me to say, if you go back, you will be sent away, don't let her make trouble for her brother and daughter-in-law."

Leave early tomorrow morning, we will leave the day after tomorrow, you don't have to wait for us, anyway, you can come back at any time when you are close. Remember to focus on the overall situation, but don't meet after she cries and begs you to keep her soft-heartedly, so as not to cause endless trouble"

Although Pei Lin listened harshly, he didn't dare to say anything, just looked at Mingjing sympathetically, he thought that Mingjing liked Douhuang but was afraid that immortality would not tolerate it.

Mingjing obviously agreed with the eldest sister's words: "The eldest sister is right, I will rush back early tomorrow morning, so as not to cause trouble for her." ”

The whole ****, Mingjing has always been worried about whether Douhuang going to the county lord's mansion will bring trouble to Changsheng. It's not that Changsheng can't deal with Douhuang, Mingjing is not worried about this, he is worried that the county lord of Anyang will interfere in this matter, if she has to leave Douhuang and support her, isn't it intentional to make him and Changsheng uncomfortable?

Early the next morning, Ming Jing hurriedly had breakfast, said goodbye to the old lady, and rode a fast horse of the Pei family back to Beijing.

Hurry up all the way, but it's not the end of the day (afternoon...). Left and right) arrived at the county lord's mansion, and Changsheng was taken aback when he saw his anxious appearance: "Why did you come back so soon?" Didn't you say you were going to stay for two nights? ”

Mingjing asked anxiously: "What about the bean yolk?" Did she come over? I was afraid that she would come to you without permission to cause trouble, so I rushed back in a hurry, and the bones were about to fall apart, tell me quickly, did she come? ”

"Bean yolk? Didn't see her? How? What happened? ”

Mingjing 1510 said what happened yesterday, and Changsheng was also puzzled: "Hasn't she always refused to leave the Xie family?" Why did you suddenly leave yesterday? Do you suspect that she came to the capital privately? She is a woman's house, where can she stay last night? ”

Mingjing nodded: "She must have silver on her when she leaves, can she have nowhere to eat and live?" We really couldn't understand the reason why she suddenly left home without permission, and we couldn't find out anything, so we suspected that she came to the county lord's mansion to answer us.

To tell the truth, I rushed back in such a hurry just to send her away early, she didn't come just because she had a lot of property on her, and she was free, she could go wherever she wanted, maybe she figured it out and couldn't pull her face, and she was afraid that the old lady would stop her, so she left in this way, right? ”

Changsheng said that things were not so simple, and she didn't believe that Douhuang would suddenly figure it out, she felt that there must be some unknown reason, but she couldn't guess what the reason was. But it's really a good thing that Douhuang is gone, it's good for her and everyone, I hope she really figured it out.