"Messenger?"

Ran Qiunian naturally heard the sound coming from outside the carriage clearly, but she couldn't think of anyone who would send her a message at this time.

Qingxi also felt strange, but when he heard that the voice was just a child, he let go of his vigilance and asked Ran Qiunian, "Miss, do you want to hear what that child said?" ”

"Even if you don't want to hear it, you have to get rid of it first."

Ran Qiunian shook her head helplessly, she felt that the speed of the carriage was getting slower and slower, but the child's voice was getting closer and closer, presumably the child was too close to the carriage, and the coachman was afraid of hitting the child, so he forced him to slow down.

"Stop and ask the kid what he has to say."

Ran Qiunian simply commanded.

The carriage slowly stopped, and when the kid saw this, he immediately hit the snake and came up with the stick, and said to Ran Qiunian in the carriage: "That person asked me to give this note to the young lady in the carriage." ”

Ran Qiunian carefully put the veil on, and then lifted the curtain and looked out.

On the ground stood a child of seven or eight years old, ragged and dirty, looking like a little beggar. Ran Qiunian's eyes did not show disgust, but there was no pity.

Although the child was homeless and became a beggar at a young age, Ran Qiunian could see the sophistication and greed in his eyes.

Although his voice and deeds were all childlike, Ran Qiunian didn't think in his heart that he was really just a naïve child who didn't understand anything.

Under Ran Qiunian's instructions, the coachman brought the note presented by the little beggar for her, and after checking that there was no problem, he handed it to Ran Qiunian.

"Who asked you to give this to me?"

After reading the note, Ran Qiunian asked bluntly.

"It's a young master I don't know, but he's gone, he's not here, just let me give you the note."

The little beggar said.

"You liar, how can you not know him if you listen to him like this?" Ran Qiunian rolled his eyes and said deliberately.

"I really don't know him!" The little beggar was afraid that Ran Qiunian would not believe what he said, so he hurriedly defended.

"If you don't know him, why do you send him a letter? What good did he promise you? ”

Ran Qiunian said tentatively.

"He gave me two pennies." The little beggar swayed, and then stared at Ran Qiunian's carriage with a pair of eyes, obviously there were still unfinished words.

"Since you have received all the benefits and the others have left, how do you know if you have given me the letter? I don't want to stop, but you want to hit my car, and you have to send a letter at the risk of risking your life, how can I believe that you don't know that person? ”

Ran Qiu said thoughtfully, but his eyes stared at the little beggar for a moment, wanting to see if he had a weak heart.

"The young master said that if I gave you the letter, you would give it to me if you read it," the little beggar licked his lips and gestured, "two cents." ”

Ran Qiunian looked at him fixedly for a long time, so long that the little beggar was a little anxious, thinking that she was going to repay the debt, Ran Qiunian suddenly laughed, shook his head, and asked Qingxi to give him four cents.

"I'll give you two more articles, but you have to tell me the man's physiognomy."

Ran Qiunian said this, the little beggar got an extra four cents for no reason, so naturally there was nothing he should have.

"He is thin and tall, very fair, and very stylish, all of them are good materials, and he must be the son of a rich family. It should be a reader, when I was asking for food in this area, I saw a lot of readers in and out of the restaurant, all of them were like him, it must be right. ”

Ran Qiunian listened to it for a long time and didn't hear a useful word, so she had to wave her hand and give up her original plan with a wry smile.

It seems that she still overestimated the little beggar, who seemed to be shrewd and sophisticated, but in fact he was only an eight-year-old child: "I know, no need to say any more, you can go." ”

Ran Qiunian lowered the curtain of the car, no longer paying attention to the people outside, she opened the note in her hand and looked at it carefully.

In fact, there were not many words written on it, only one sentence, telling Ran Qiu Nian that if he wanted to find the child he lost last night, he would go to the moat before sunset to make an appointment.

Qingxi was next to Ran Qiunian, and naturally she also saw what was written on the note, and she was a little anxious: "Miss, you don't really want to go to the moat to find that child, do you?" ”

Ran Qiunian was naturally worried about the lost child, not to mention, in order to find the whereabouts of the child, Xiao Yin did not return overnight, and he didn't know where he had gone now.

Instead of wandering around like a headless fly, hoping for a pitiful bit of luck, the note in her hand was clearly a rare clue.

However, Ran Qiunian knocked Qingxi's head and said angrily, "Does your young lady look so stupid?" Obviously a problematic invitation, will you stupidly jump into the pit? ”

"What do you mean, Miss?" Qingxi smiled stupidly and touched his forehead.

"Naturally, I will hurry up and go home."

Ran Qiunian instructed the coachman to speed up, went home directly, sat in the carriage, looked at the note in his palm casually, and threw it on the table indifferently.

"The other party didn't even dare to reveal his true face, there must be a problem, although the child is pitiful, but when he meets me, I am not a saint, and I will not and am not willing to take risks for a stranger. When you get home, ask someone to take this note. The son was sent to the government, this kind of thing, since it should be reported to the government, I did my best. ”

When she is isolated and helpless, she does not risk her life, this is something she has only learned in several encounters, and it is also a motto that her eldest brother wants her to remember.

Naturally, she didn't dare to forget.

The person hiding in the shadows saw that the direction of Ran Qiunian's carriage had not changed, but the speed had increased, and he naturally knew that the note had failed to deceive Ran Qiunian, and he was not surprised.

He gestured to the person hidden in the shadows, who nodded knowingly, and in the next moment, a large number of beggars suddenly appeared on the street, old and young, men and women, all of whom swarmed towards Ran Qiunian's carriage.

The coachman was startled, and subconsciously slowed down, Ran Qiunian heard the movement, opened the curtain and saw this scalp-numbing scene outside, and at the moment when the coachman slowed down, he raised his voice and ordered:

"Don't stop, speed up, and rush straight over."

No matter how stupid Ran Qiunian is, she should react that this group of beggars who came out of nowhere was arranged by someone, the purpose is to besiege her carriage, what are they going to do next? Ran Qiunian didn't dare to think deeply.

"Miss, what should I do! Are these beggars crazy? ”

Qingxi was also frightened, but he still subconsciously protected Ran Qiunian behind him. The coachman is also an experienced servant of the Ran Mansion, and the moment he realized that something was wrong, he also began to accelerate with all his might, but there were still one or two good players with kung fu skills hidden in this troublesome beggar pile.

The carriage was soon forced to stop, the coachman fell off the carriage between pulling, and was soon overwhelmed by the crowd, Ran Qiunian immediately made a decision, and when the beggars had not yet snatched the reins of the carriage, he pulled a small hairpin from his head and stabbed it into the horse's buttocks.

The horses raised their hooves in pain, and rushed around like crazy, and the unprepared crowd scattered and ran around the slightly empty streets.

In a panic, Ran Qiunian was almost thrown out of the carriage, Qingxi quickly pulled the person back, but he didn't stand firmly, fell from the dangling and bumpy carriage, and rolled into the alley next to him.

"Qingxi!"

Ran Qiunian was shocked, she wanted to see if Qingxi was injured, but the next moment she got up, she hit the wall of the car hard, she endured the pain on her shoulder and back, and wanted to stop the carriage, but she heard a voice from outside, someone wanted to stop the carriage!

When he was jolting again, Ran Qiunian's head hit the carriage, and he fell unconscious in an instant, knowing nothing.

The movement of the beggars in the lantern street. The chaos soon subsided, and when the officials arrived, the band of troublesome beggars scattered in all directions, like slippery loaches, into the streets and alleys.

Xiao Yin saw that the overturned carriage was abandoned next to a dark alley, his heartbeat almost stopped for a moment, his face was cold, and he walked to the carriage almost stiffly, opened the curtain and looked in.

It was empty, except for a bloodstained white veil.

Xiao Yin didn't know what kind of mood he was feeling when he put the veil in his arms, he suddenly heard a groan from the alley, and his feet immediately walked towards that place.

"Qingxi?" I didn't expect to find Qingxi in the dark alley, Xiao Yin remembered that this was the big girl next to Ran Qiunian, and she had always won her trust.

"Master Da, go and save Miss! The horses were frightened, and many beggars were going to attack the carriages......"

Qingxi said incoherently, her face was as pale as paper, she fell from the carriage and was not lightly injured, and she was able to speak at this time, but she was only supported by an obsession.

"She's no longer in the carriage, do you know who took her?"

Xiao Yin asked in a deep voice.

But Qingxi couldn't give an answer, so he could only shake his head with red eyes and say anxiously: "Someone asked the little beggar to send a letter to Miss, asking her to go to the moat to find the lost child, but Miss didn't believe it, and then, it was chaotic, and the beggar who came from nowhere wanted to grab the carriage......"

"Wait, someone told Nian'er to go to the moat?"

Xiao Yin keenly grasped the key point, Qingxi was stunned for a moment, and quickly nodded: "The note is still in the carriage." ”

But the carriage had experienced a bump, and the note that had been casually thrown on the table did not know if it was still there.

Xiao Yin didn't plan to rummage through the note, the moat, he secretly remembered this place, got up, and transferred two officers and soldiers from behind, asking them to send the injured Qingxi back to Ran's house.

Then, he hurried to the moat non-stop, hoping that it would be too late to be together.

After Ran Qiunian opened her eyes, she found that she was tied to a stone, and the other end of the thick hemp rope that tied her was still long and dragged on the ground, and she found that the other end was connected to a high place.

Just when she was in doubt, a somewhat gloomy voice came, and in the grass shed not far away, Liu He, who was dressed in rags like a beggar, walked out.