In winter, the first heavy snow of the year is ushered in, and the snowflakes are like a white quilt covering the earth. The leaves of the trees have long since fallen, and the messy branches support the snowflakes and the ice, making it even more cold and desolate, and even the squeaking of people stepping on the snow in the distance can be heard clearly in the already quiet city.

The weather became cold, and Ziyan stayed on the balcony for too long, contracting a wind chill and coughing. Qu Hao knew that she was too stubborn when she was sick, staring at the carriage on the road and not daring to slack off, except for three quick steps and not leaving the balcony, so that she was eroded by the wind and cold and fell ill.

Qu Hao saw Ziyan's sick appearance, and he didn't feel a little pity. After spending so many days with her day and night, Qu Hao has always taken care of her as his own sister, and Zi Yan's delicate appearance has made Qu Hao's fatherly love overflow. Qu Hao specially found the best doctor in Zhuye for her to see a doctor and personally decocted medicine for her.

Qu Hao found the innkeeper and repaired a fireplace in the room with his permission, so that the room could rise to a suitable temperature with only a single clothes.

As for observing the carriage from the balcony, Qu Hao didn't let Zi Yan do it, because it was too cold, but he still liked to stay on the balcony and watch, which made Zi Yan's heart ache.

It was not enough to find the carriage that Meng Yao was riding by just relying on the balcony to watch the carriage, so Qu Hao thought of a way to offer a reward and mobilized the people of Zhuye City to find it for him.

After obtaining the consent of the innkeeper, a notice was posted outside, looking for a carriage with an eagle pattern on the tail of the car two months ago in his name, and stipulating that the newly made eagle pattern would not be counted, and that a valuable clue would be rewarded with one tael of gold, and two taels of gold would be obtained if he found it.

In the name of the innkeeper is because Qu Hao doesn't want to be too public, and it's not a good thing to make a big splash. A few days after the notice was issued, there were still no valuable clues, and Qu Hao knew that it was useless to rush the matter, so he could only wait patiently.

After a few days of treatment, Ziyan's condition improved slightly, the temperature was rising, and the snow outside was slowly melting, Qu Hao finally breathed a sigh of relief.

This morning, Qu Hao was still on the balcony, and suddenly saw Zheng Shu's carriage coming to the inn. Qu Hao thought that maybe he was here to pick up customers, but he still couldn't hold back his curiosity and walked downstairs.

"Mr. Qu is auspicious." Zheng Shu saluted Qu Hao.

"I haven't seen you for many days, is Mr. Zheng okay recently?" Qu Hao replied.

"Thanks to Mr. To, all is well. I am here to meet Mr. Qu today. ”

"Oh." Qu Hao was a little strange. I don't know what happened to Mr. Zheng?

"Several of our peers are from the military, everyone has long wanted to get together with you, and today there is a new friend, he really wants to see you after we talk about you, I don't know if Mr. has time." Zheng Shu said.

"In that case, let me say hello to my sister first, and then I will go with you." Qu Hao said.

Qu Hao greeted Zi Yan, and went downstairs to instruct the innkeeper to bring lunch and decoction medicine for Zi Yan, and then went with Zheng Shu to meet the coachmen.

Zheng Shu took Qu Hao to a tavern near Tengyun Tower, where the coachmen sat in a small private room in the morning, and several long tables were gathered around a large stove in the middle of the room, on which a variety of delicacies were already placed.

Seeing Zheng Shu and Qu Hao coming in, these men stood up and greeted them, and Zheng Shu introduced them to Qu Hao one by one.

The last one introduced Zheng Shu's new friend, Zheng Shu introduced: "Mr. Qu Hao, this is our new colleague, and he especially wants to see you, his name is Ji Zhi."

"I'm glad I will." Qu Hao clasped his fists and saluted.

Ji Zhi also politely returned the salute.

However, Ji Zhi's next sentence surprised Qu Hao: "Mr. Qu is here, is he looking for Wu Mengyao?"

This sentence exploded in Qu Hao's heart like a thunderclap, so that he was so stunned that he didn't know what to do, and it took him a while to react, and he hurriedly stepped forward to hold Ji Zhi's hand, as if he was worried that he would turn around and leave at this moment.

"Tell me, how do you know the name? Do you know where she is? ”

"Of course I know the name, Wu Mengyao has been in our convoy for more than ten days." Ji Zhi said as he unbuttoned his coat with one hand, revealing the clothes inside: "Look, this down vest is still made by Wu Mengyao herself." ”

Qu Hao saw that Ji Zhi's down vest was the familiar sleeping bag material, and Qu Hao's tears flowed out of his eyes.

Only then did Qu Hao understand that Ji Zhi was a member of the horse team he was looking for. It turned out that after the horse convoy was disbanded in Xinzheng, Ji Zhi and Chen Damao returned to Chen, Ji Zhi began to engage in carriage passenger transportation, and the Chen Damao brothers returned to their own homes.

"Mr. Qu, don't worry, sit down and talk slowly." Zheng Shu said.

Qu Hao hurriedly pulled Ji Zhi to sit beside him, and asked eagerly, "Mr. Ji, what's going on?" Please tell me more about it. ”

"Let's talk while we eat." Ji Zhi was worried that others would not dare to move the chopsticks, so he beckoned everyone to sit down and eat and drink first.

After everyone sat down, Ji Zhi talked in detail about the process of Wu Mengyao being tied up and carried by the gangsters on his body, until he was sold to the Qinglou by Li Cang.

Wu Mengyao's ups and downs made everyone sigh, and Qu Hao's mood was more like a roller coaster, a moment of worry, a moment of sorrow to joy, a moment from joy to sorrow, after hearing that Li Cang sold Mengyao to a brothel in Xinzheng, Qu Hao was like a needle felt, anxious, eager to immediately put on wings and fly to Xinzheng to rescue Wu Mengyao.

"Mr. Ji, I am really grateful to you for taking care of my wife, as well as Chen Damao who saved Mengyao's life, and I will definitely repay you for saving me in the future. But what I want to know most now is how to find Zheng Rong and Li Cang in Xinzheng, and I will leave for Xinzheng early tomorrow morning. ”

"Mr. Qu, you must not go, now that the snow is beginning to melt, many beasts are still in a state of extreme hunger, and you are easily the target of beast attacks." Zheng Shu said to Qu Hao.

The others also persuaded Qu Hao and told him that they would accompany him to Xinzheng when the snow melted.

"Zheng Rong's contact address I'll give you later, Li Cang, I don't have his address, but Zheng Rong definitely knows. But I also advise you to wait a few days before leaving, it is indeed too dangerous to go now. Ji Zhi understood Qu Hao's feelings, if it wasn't for something at home that he couldn't leave, he might accompany him to Xinzheng.

"Thank you for your concern. But no matter how difficult it is to go to Xinzheng, I will not hesitate in the slightest. Qu Hao said firmly.

"Okay, I'll write you Zheng Rong's address." Ji Zhi said that he asked the hotel owner for a brush, cut a piece of silk cloth from his clothes, wrote Zheng Rong's contact address on it, and handed it to Qu Hao.

"Mr. Ji Zhi, there is one more thing I want to ask you. You said at the beginning that you have also been to Chen Damao's house, can you take me to his house tomorrow, one is that I want to thank him for saving my wife, and the other is that I know him from you, and he has a younger sister who can help me take care of my sister, she followed me to Zhuye, and now she has a little illness, I don't want her to follow me to Xinzheng, I want to entrust her to their family for the time being. Qu Hao said.

"That's no problem, I'll pick you up in a carriage early tomorrow morning." Ji Zhi said.

"Mr. Zheng, are you free tomorrow? I want to hire your carriage to go to Chenjia Village together. Qu Hao said to Zheng Shu again.

"Okay, I'll go to your inn with Ji Zhi early tomorrow morning and wait for you." Zheng Shu readily agreed.

Qu Hao walked out of the private room again, told the boss at the hotel counter to add the best wine and food to them, and then paid the bill first.

Qu Hao returned to the wine table and picked up the wine glass, and said to everyone: "All of you here today are my brothers, I am very happy today, everyone worries about my affairs and helps, my little brother is very grateful, if you need my help in the future, I will definitely do my best." As he spoke, he drank the glass of wine in his hand.

Everyone saw that Qu Hao was so polite, and they all toasted Qu Hao one after another.

After drinking, Qu Hao said to everyone again: "Everyone is sent to Tengyun Tower every day, I don't know if you have ever been in?" ”

Everyone shook their heads.

"That's it, let's all go in and be the master today, let the girls who usually look down on us see the grandeur of our old man, and all the expenses will be borne by me." Qu Hao said.

When everyone heard this, they immediately cheered, got up and left the tavern, and hugged Qu Hao into Tengyun Tower.

The girls in Tengyunlou were surprised to see these coachmen who usually solicited customers outside, and the bustard mother was just about to call the nursing home to drive people, but she saw the big young man standing in the middle holding a gold ingot in his hand to greet her, and quickly changed his face, and shouted with a smile to the girls to welcome the guests.

Qu Hao arranged these brothers, settled the account and walked out to rent a carriage inn, on the way back to the inn, Qu Hao also bought a lot of meat, fish, snacks, fabrics, and daily necessities.