58. Red Rope Copper Coin Chapter: Looking for a baby on a snowy night
Chang's cloth workshop is the golden sign of Jincheng cloth art industry, in order to celebrate the birth of Changfu's little son, all Chang's cloth workshops at the same time to carry out preferential activities, just in time for the end of the year to buy new clothes, each of them are booming, the city celebrates.
Soon it was time for Changle's 100-day banquet, Changle was white and fat, wearing a festive red tiger head suit, laughing, and having two small dimples on his face, which was very cute.
There was an endless stream of guests who came to Daoxi, and Chang Zhifan even lavishly held a three-day banquet for 100 days.
By the third day, the Chang couple were tired, but despite this, they were still happy and sent off the last guest, and the two teased their son in the house.
"Yu Yan, let Le'er sleep with the nurse tonight, you have a good night's rest, I'm too tired these days. Chang Zhifan looked at the tired Qi Yuyan and said.
Since Chang Le was born, Qi Yuyan took care of her personally at night, although Qi Yuyan was reluctant, she also agreed with Chang Zhifan's suggestion, and she couldn't take care of Le'er if she didn't rest well.
She gently put Chang Le into the nurse's hand and instructed, "It snows heavily tonight, and the charcoal fire in the house tells the people to burn hotter, so as not to let Le'er catch a cold." ”
The nurse answered and withdrew.
In the middle of the night, a piercing scream woke up the sleeping Changfu compound, and Qi Yuyan was sweating profusely when she sat up, she was haunted by nightmares.
There was a crackling knock on the door outside the house, Chang Zhifan put on his coat and opened the door, only to see the nurse kneeling on the ground with bare feet, trembling all over, trembling and unable to speak.
Qi Yuyan on the bed saw the nurse outside the door, her heart was groaned, and she suddenly panicked, she hurriedly got out of bed, "Nurse, what's wrong?" Is Le'er feverish? Or is she crying? Qi Yuyan thought in her heart, and ran to the nurse's room.
"Yu Yan, put on your shoes and put on your clothes. Chang Zhifan said loudly.
"Little young master, little young master, he" The nurse opened her mouth and trembled, "Master, madam, little master, he is gone!"
The sunny day was like a thunderbolt, and Chang Zhifan and Qi Yuyan didn't hear the words of the nurse behind them, and the two ran into the nurse's room, only to see that the wooden crib next to the bed was empty, and the small bed was already cold.
Qi Yuyan's head went blank and she sat on the ground.
Chang Zhifan's face was pale, his teeth rattled, and his hands trembled because of anger, "What the hell is going on? Butler, send someone to find it!"
The nurse behind her was already frightened and overwhelmed, crying with a handful of snot and tears, "Master, madam, I don't know how to fall asleep, I woke up in the middle of the night and saw that the little master was missing on the bed......"
I saw Qi Yuyan get up from the ground, didn't say anything, and staggered out, stepping on the thick snow in the courtyard with her bare feet as if she couldn't feel the cold.
"Yu Yan, what are you going to do?" Chang Zhifan chased out and hugged Qi Yuyan horizontally.
Qi Yuyan beat Chang Zhifan's chest indiscriminately, "Let me go, I'm going to find Le'er, Le'er, Le'er......" As she spoke, Qi Yuyan's shouts sounded in the courtyard.
Chang Zhifan hugged Yu Yan in his arms, "Yu Yan, you calm down, I'll go out to find it immediately, don't worry, I will definitely get Le'er back." ”
But the person in her arms didn't move, and Qi Yuyan fainted due to excessive sadness for a while.
After putting Yu Yan on the bed and instructing his subordinates to take care of it, Chang Zhifan came to the courtyard, and the housekeeper had already gathered all the family members in the house, "No matter what method you use, you must get Le'er back." This is the only sentence, Chang Zhifan has nothing to say.
Everyone followed Chang Zhifan out and scattered to find it. On a snowy night, all traces of the road were buried.
Chang Zhifan looked in the snow all night, the dawn was approaching, and the night was about to disperse, but Chang Zhifan's heart became colder and colder.
"Master, master" I could only hear the voice of the housekeeper behind him, and the housekeeper trembled and pointed in the direction outside the city, "Master, the river outside the city ......"
By the river outside the city, the river has long frozen, and the first rays of sunlight shine on the ridges, shining on the dazzling red, which is the quilt sewn by Qi Yuyan for Chang Le, how could Chang Zhifan not recognize it.
The blanket has been frozen into a hard piece by ice and snow, and there are traces of chiseling on the surface of the river next to the blanket, and it is frozen again at this moment because of the cold.
Chang Zhifan squatted down and smashed his fists on the ice, his fingers were pierced by the ice, and the blood showed heartbreaking traces along the ice lines.
The eyes of the people behind him were red, everyone knew that if the little young master fell into the ice cave, he would have been washed away by the turbulent river under the ice, and the person should have been gone, but who dared to say it?
"Master" The housekeeper choked up and called Chang Zhifan behind him, Chang Zhifan's face was already covered with a layer of frost, and the place where the tears flowed was red and swollen.
Chang Zhifan stopped, just knelt on the ridge, motionless. He held the red quilt to his chest, and the melted ice water on the quilt soaked his clothes and froze again.
I don't know how long it took, he slowly spoke, "Butler, go and report to the official, you must find out who did it!"
That night, the turmoil in Changfu had spread throughout Jincheng before dawn. Some sighed, some sighed, some were sad, and some were smiling horribly in the shadows behind the crowd.
Chang Zhifan and Qi Yuyan both fell seriously ill, and all Chang's cloth shops in the city were closed for a long time when business was good.
There was no progress on the government.
Soon the streets and alleys were replaced with new talking points, and time seemed to be able to dilute all the gloom, but the pain in the hearts of the Chang couple was getting deeper and deeper, so deep that they didn't want to mention it anymore, and put their experience on taking care of business.
It wasn't until two years later that Qi Yuyan became pregnant again, and the Chang couple focused their guilt and thoughts about Chang Le on the upcoming child, deceiving themselves into thinking that this was a chance for God to give them a chance to do it again.
With another cry, the haze of Changfu seemed to have dissipated.
"Zhifan, give him a name, look, how similar he is to you..."
"It's called Yiran, it's always Yiran, everything goes naturally. ”
Qi Yuyan weakly turned her head in, tears silently soaking into the pillow.
......
But no one knew that before Chang Zhifan led everyone out, there was an old beggar in the city who was occupied by other beggars.
He walked tremblingly in the snowy night, walked out of the city gate, walked up the ridge, walked to the river, and wanted to end his rotten life, but the river was already frozen, and he tried to dig a hole where he could put down his thin body, but he did not even have the strength to do so.
He smiled sadly, "It's hell and there's no door." ”
"Woo" he suddenly heard the sound of a kitten behind him, he turned around, only to find that there was a package behind him, the night was too dark, and he didn't even notice it when he was old and dizzy.
He squatted down and took a closer look, what kind of kitten was this, it was obviously a little doll that was about to freeze to death. The outer quilt had been frozen into ice, and the little doll inside was only wrapped in a rag.
He hurriedly hugged the little doll into his arms, and if it weren't for the slight sound of breathing, he would have thought that the little doll was gone.
"You also have a bad fate, you were abandoned on a snowy night, and you met a beggar like me who has nothing, since Jincheng has no way for our grandchildren to live, then let's go somewhere else." Little doll, it's up to you whether you can survive tonight. ”
The beggar bent his back and slowly walked in the opposite direction of Jincheng.
Soon, the footprints behind him were covered in layers of heavy snow.