Chapter 21: The Child Is Lost
Yun Ning walked to the top of the text, only to see that it was written: "Proud to come to the country, proud to come to the city to show: Recently, there are many missing children in Aolai City, and the government has not done an inch after several searches. After reading it, Yun Ning stood in front of the list and thought for a long time, stretched out his hand to remove the list text, and watched the official of the list on the side, and was surprised to see a woman uncover the list text, and was surprised but still stepped forward to Yun Ning and said: "This girl, since the list has been removed, please wait with me to meet the prime minister." Yun Ning was surprised when he heard this: "Prime Minister?" The official said: "This matter is personally inquired about by the Prime Minister." After hearing this, Yun Ning returned the salute and said, "Please also ask the official to lead the way." ”
Here, Yun Ning unveiled the list and was guided by the official to the prime minister's mansion, someone had already flown to report to the prime minister, and the prime minister hurriedly went out of the house to greet him. Yun Ning had just walked to the door of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and saw a person wearing a purple official robe and an official hat, walking out of the mansion quickly. When the official guarding the list saw the prime minister come out, he hurriedly stepped forward and replied: "Prime minister, it is the list text revealed by this woman!" After hearing this, the prime minister stepped forward and made a gesture at Yun Ning and said: "Girl, please talk in the house." Yun Ning returned the salute and said, "Prime Minister, please." ”
Yun Ning followed the prime minister to the council hall, and the prime minister ordered: "Serve tea." He turned to Yun Ning and said, "May I ask the girl's surname Gao?" Yun Ning said: "Little woman Yun Ning, dare to ask the prime minister's surname?" The prime minister smiled: "Where is the surname Xu in Xia Xing." Yun Ning said again: "Prime Minister Xu!" Xu Cheng returned the salute again: "Miss Yun, please take a seat." As soon as Yun Ning sat down, the maid brought tea, and after the maid retreated, Prime Minister Xu asked Yun Ning: "What is the girl's opinion on this matter?" Yun Ning said: "I can't talk about it, but I just ask Prime Minister Xu to explain the details of this case to me." After hearing this, Prime Minister Xu stroked his beard and said: "The information I have may be similar to what the girl heard, this matter has been three months, and a child must have disappeared every seven days for three months, and General Song's youngest son also disappeared last night." Yun Ning pondered for a moment and said, "Without further ado, please ask Prime Minister Xu Cheng to send someone to take me to the General's Mansion to check." ”
Prime Minister Xu Cheng sent someone to take Yun Ning to General Song's mansion, and explained the situation to the sergeant guarding the door at the gate of the mansion, and a sergeant hurriedly ran inside, and came out with a big man after a while. The big man was dressed in a battle robe, with a sword hanging from his waist, a dark complexion, big eyes, a high nose, thick lips, and a wisp of beard on his forehead. Walking in front of Yun Ning, the people from the Prime Minister's Mansion told the general about Yun Ning, and the general hurriedly said to Yun Ning: "This girl, please talk to the house." After Yun Ning returned the salute, he entered the mansion with the general.
After entering the mansion, the general took Yun Ning to the living room, and the general ordered the tea to be served on the seat, and then Yun Ning asked: "General Song, when did Ling Lang get lost?" General Song said: "Xiao'er is only three years old, and he is only taken care of by his family in the mansion, and he never goes out." Since babies have been missing every seven days in the last three months, I have been patrolling the city since last month, and I don't want my family to report that my baby has been snatched away last night. Alas, the girl is so talented that she hopes to find the child for me. He closed his eyes. Yun Ning said: "Please take me to the place where the incident happened last night and find out." ”
General Song took Yun Ning to the dormitory, passing through a courtyard on the way, the courtyard was chaotic, everything was crooked, obviously after a battle here, General Song said: "Xiao'er was robbed here last night!" Yun Ning looked left and right, only to see this house, sitting north to south, two rooms, one inner room and one outer room, you must enter the outer room before entering the inner room, in the position of the window on the left side of the south side of the inner room, a huge hole, obviously the robbers broke out of the window last night. Yun Ning jumped out of this hole, and General Song said: "Xiao'er is lost, and I have no intention of cleaning it up." Yun Ning said: "It's okay. Yun Ning bent down to look at the broken window on the ground, then got up and looked at the other window and door, Yun Ning secretly thought: How did this robber get in? Yun Ning got up and asked General Song: "Is there a thing of mugwort in the general's mansion?" General Song hurriedly called the housekeeper, and the housekeeper said no, so Yun Ning asked General Song to send someone to buy mugwort, and at the same time let people buy it back and burn it into ashes with fire. During this time, Yun Ning walked back and forth in the courtyard.
In fact, Yun Ning didn't know how to reason and judge the case, but he felt that this matter was a little strange, so he revealed the list text, Yun Ning practiced with Lao Jun and Xuannu for three hundred years, and only learned spells and martial arts, Lao Jun's alchemy and calculus did not study, but he just read the books written by Lao Jun in his spare time and understood a little. After a while, the mugwort was brought according to Yun Ning's request, and Yun Ning sprinkled the burnt mugwort on the broken window, recited the incantation in his mouth, and then waved his hand, only to see a clear palm print appear on the broken window. Yun Ning turned the window over and sprinkled mugwort on the window again, but nothing unusual appeared. Yun Ning was very surprised, and sprinkled some mugwort ash on the door, but two palm prints appeared on the handle of the door.
Yun Ning looked at this palm print and nodded and asked General Song, "How many casualties did the general have in the fierce battle with this bandit last night?" General Song said: "There are no casualties. After hearing this, Yun Ning was secretly surprised and asked: "Is there a patrol in the house at night?How often do you patrol?" General Song said: "Patrol every other time of incense" Yun Ning nodded and asked: "Where is Mrs. Zun now?" General Song pointed out of the house and said: "The inner person went to the side room to rest because he was too sad." If the girl doesn't have anything special, please don't bother. Yun Ning walked a few steps towards the house, and General Song's face suddenly showed a touch of nervousness, Yun Ning stopped outside the house, listened for a while, and asked, "Mrs. Zun was not frightened, was she?" General Song said: "She didn't see the scene of the child's loss, but she was overly sad after knowing it." Yun Ning nodded and said, "Disturb for a long time, the little girl will retire first." With that, he walked out the door. General Song hurriedly said to the housekeeper on the side: "Hurry up and send the girl." Looking at Yun Ning's back, General Song let out a sigh of relief.
Yun Ning came out of the general's mansion, and was thinking about it when he suddenly saw a beggar in front of him, grabbed a Taoist priest and asked: "Dare to ask the Taoist, have you ever seen or heard that a child has been lost recently?" I don't know if this Taoist priest has a problem with his ears or didn't hear clearly, and asked: "What child? The children on the street, don't you see?" The beggar said again: "It's not these children, I'm asking if you have ......" The beggar didn't finish speaking, and the Taoist priest was anxious: "Why are you so filthy and innocent, poor and left home since childhood, where did the child come from?" The beggar cried and laughed and said: "It's not your child......" The Taoist priest grabbed the conversation again and said: "That's your child, your child, why did you come to ask me?" The beggar was a little anxious at this time and said: "It's not my child, I'm ......" "It's not your child, why are you in such a hurry?" This Taoist priest is definitely a good hand at stealing words, and the beggar looked at the Taoist priest helplessly and said: "Do you want me to say it well?" The Taoist priest looked at the beggar and stretched out his hand, which means please speak. The beggar said, "I'm asking if you've heard whose child was lost?" The Taoist priest was silent at this time, and the beggar was very surprised and asked, "Are you listening to me?" The Taoist priest asked, "Are you finished?" The beggar nodded. The Taoist priest said: "Child, jumping up and down, you must be playing somewhere, and you will come back after a while." The beggar shook his head and said, "It's not that it's playful, it's lost, and it's probably taken away by the monsters!" The Taoist priest was surprised when he heard this: "You mean that there are monsters who will catch children to eat?" The beggar nodded and said, "That's right!" The Taoist priest sighed and said, "Fortunately, I'm not a child, otherwise I have to be careful." The beggar shook his head helplessly when he saw him.
Yun Ning saw the beggar shaking his head and wanting to leave, and said, "Hey, did you take the child away and eat the beggar?" The beggar looked up and saw that Yun Ning was overjoyed, "Oh! It's Engong!" Yun Ning said: "Okay, when I helped you heal your wounds, you taught me a set of stick methods, and we don't owe each other." Why don't you ask about the child?" This beggar is the injured beggar he met at the beach and passed on to Yun Ning's nameless stick method. The beggar said, "Last night in a village ten miles away from here, a child was captured by a monster. Yun Ning was taken aback and said, "Zhuangzi ten miles away?" The beggar nodded and asked, "How do you know?" Yun Ning said: "I can't hide it, I'm investigating this matter." The beggar asked, "How is there any clue?" Yun Ning said: "This is not the place to talk, come with me." The beggar nodded, and entered the Prime Minister's Mansion with Yun Ning.
When they came to the Prime Minister's Mansion, Yun Ning and Xu Cheng introduced the beggar but didn't know the name of the beggar, and the beggar reported to himself that the beggar's surname was Haifeng. Since Qu Haifeng had just come to Aolai City without any valuable clues, Yun Ning suggested that Prime Minister Xu Cheng take him down, and come back when he was cleaned, Prime Minister Xu Cheng arranged for someone to serve Qu Haifeng to bathe and change clothes.
After a while, Qu Haifeng packed up and came to Prime Minister Xu Cheng, and listened to Yun Ning's investigation in the General's Mansion and told him in detail. After listening to this, Qu Haifeng thought carefully for a while and asked Yun Ning: "His bedroom has two rooms, and one inside and one outside?" Yun Ning nodded. Qu Haifeng asked again: "Are there many houses in the General's Mansion, is there a regularity in the location?" Yun Ning thought for a while and said: "The houses are not small, I didn't pay attention to whether there is a regularity." Prime Minister Xu Cheng said at this time: "His mansion was designed by General Song himself, and it was arranged according to the gossip of the Nine Palaces. Qu Haifeng said: "Prime Minister Xu, I doubt that there is something wrong with this Song general?"