In fact, I think it's hard to forget someone, but if it's a coincidence, maybe it's not like this, especially when this girl shouldn't belong to you in the first place.

The late autumn in Hangzhou is particularly cool, especially by the West Lake, which is very pleasant, the beauty of the West Lake and the girl's pretty, which are enough to attract too many foreign tourists to stop.

As soon as there are many tourists, there will naturally be more things in the yamen, most of them are very trivial things, Meng Tianchu is in a bad mood, and he hides in the wing behind the yamen all day long, Cai Zhao knows that the case a few days ago made Meng Tianchu also take a lot of painstaking work, so he will go to the small things by himself, and he dare not bother Meng Tianchu.

At noon on this day, Meng Tianchu hid in the wing room and drank a bowl of mung bean smoothie brought by Murong Yuxue from home, and was about to sleep comfortably, when Murong Yuxue, who had just turned around and went out, came back in a hurry.

"Don't sleep, my lord wants you to go. It's said that something big is wrong! ”

Meng Tianchu didn't pay attention, just waved his hand, his eyes still closed. Murong Yuxue was anxious, stepped forward and snatched the fan from Meng Tianchu's hand, took the fan and beat him: "I told you, look at the old man's appearance, something really big has happened, in the past few days, if the old man can solve it himself, when has he called you, hurry up." ”

Meng Tianchu was beaten by her, and he didn't fall asleep, so he had to stand up, stretch his waist, and then walked straight out of the room, and Murong Yuxue hurriedly followed.

In front of the lobby, Meng Tianchu saw that Cai Zhao was angry with a few other catchers, and there were a few strangers standing on the side, looking at the dress should not be ordinary tourists, thinking that there was a reason. Especially a young woman in a gorgeous dress standing next to Cai Zhao, who was about eighteen years old, although her appearance was mediocre, but the domineering appearance on her body, even if she just stood there without saying a word, I think the entire person present felt it.

Meng Tianchu stepped forward and didn't speak, then Cai Zhao spoke.

"This is Miss Xi from the capital, this is Master Meng Tianchu Meng of our Yamen."

Meng Tianchu saw Cai Zhao's expression when he spoke, and knew that this woman must be not small, so he hurriedly bent down to salute, and the woman didn't look at Meng Tianchu. Just let out a breath from his nose: "Don't be verbose with me, you let this girl stand here and wait for so long." Is this the person who is waiting? Hurry up and get my things done, I'm leaving. What the hell is this place. It's so small, and the worst thing is that it still stinks! After speaking, he looked at Cai Zhao with disdain.

Meng Tianchu hurriedly turned around and instructed the people around him to move a chair for the girl surnamed Xi to sit on, at this time, a guard-like person beside the girl rudely retreated from the catcher who took the chair, and looked at the chair with disdain: "Your chairs here are so rotten and so hidden, you know that our young lady's skirt is made in the best cloth village in the capital, and it was damaged." I'm afraid you can't afford this dress with a ten-year salary. ”

Meng Tianchu smiled. It's hard to talk to people who feel good about themselves like this.

"What is the girl going to do?" Meng Tianchu asked politely: "Our young lady's personal maid Lian'er is gone, let you find it." Originally, we were going to leave this hellish place in the afternoon, but now the maid can't find it, so you quickly draw out all your people to find it for us. Found us in a hurry. ”

It was the guard who spoke again, Meng Tianchu nodded, turned around and called the Yamen painter, "Then please tell us the appearance of that maid, and we can paste it out after we finish painting." ”

I don't want the girl to get angry when she hears this: "What did you say? What else are you looking for someone to paint?

When you're done drawing, it's dark, what are you going to eat? How to do things is so inefficient, is this how you do things for the people with the money that the court gives you? “

"Does the girl mean that we should look in the streets without a purpose? We brothers don't know that girl, so how do you tell us to find her? And you're not locals, so no one will recognize you even if you say your name, right? ”

Meng Tianchu was also a little angry. I thought that if I rushed to this point, the woman would be furious, and she left angrily to find the people in Qiantang County, anyway, what she hated the most was this kind of dog and powerful person, he left, and he still wanted to be clean.

I didn't expect that the woman didn't expect that Meng Tianchu, a little master, would actually give herself a haircut, and she actually lost her arrogance, thought about it, and said: "We have a portrait of the dead girl here, but there is only one, you have to hurry up, or I'm worried about the dead girl." ”

Meng Tianchu took the portrait handed over by the fierce guard, didn't bother to look at it, and said: "We know, then ask the girl to go back to the inn and wait first, we will immediately ask someone to find someone with the portrait and give you an answer as soon as possible." ”

The girl nodded, and was about to leave, when she turned around again: "This portrait is the girl's favorite painting, it is well preserved on weekdays, if I am not looking for her in a hurry, I will not give this portrait to you, you must not break her, it is better to keep it carefully." ”

Meng Tianchu found that when this girl talked about her maid, her tone was softer, but her expression was still cold, as if everyone owed her thousands of taels of silver and didn't pay it back.

"Since the girl said it, Meng naturally instructed the people below to be careful."

Before leaving, the girl looked at the painting in Meng Tianchu's hand and sighed, "Everything is up to you, I'm waiting for your news at the inn." ”

The people present didn't expect this girl to speak so politely, they were all a little surprised, everyone was stunned and didn't come back to their senses, only Meng Tianchu hurriedly smiled: "Don't worry, girl." ”

After sending away that group of people, Meng Tianchu finally had the opportunity to ask Cai Zhao about the details of this girl.

Cai Zhao looked very nervous: "I also heard what the guard said, saying that the father of the girl surnamed Xi is a fourth-grade official in the capital, and the most terrible thing is that her mother is actually the eunuch of the watch and ceremonial supervisor, the supervisor of the Dongchang factory, and the big celebrity in front of the emperor - the cousin of the hot spring, do you think I can not break out in a cold sweat?" ”

Meng Tianchu laughed so hard that he almost lost his breath, held back his smile with a straight face, and nodded: "I probably guessed a little bit about the origin of this girl, and it is really not small." ”

"Then let's hurry up and do something. We can't afford to offend such people. ”

"What do you mean by not being able to offend, didn't our Master Meng already want to offend?" Murong Yuxue said tauntingly on the side, and everyone couldn't help laughing.

Meng Tianchu called all the brothers in the land, because there was only one portrait, so he had to let everyone recognize the person on the painting so that he could find this person.

Meng Tianchu opened the portrait, everyone looked at it, they were all taken aback, not to mention how skilled and profound the painting is, at first glance it is the work of a great painter, just look at the person in this painting is as gorgeous as a peony.

"Wow. Master, you should have opened it in front of that woman just now and took a look. Now it's miserable. One of them said.

"Why?" Murong Yuxue asked while looking at the beauty in the painting with interest.

"Where is there such a beautiful woman as a maid? I guess it's some relative of the girl just now. ”

"It's the same way. So what now? Murong Xue said, and then looked up at Meng Tianchu.

Meng Tianchu smiled, "We can't be blamed for this, the painting was given to us by the people around her, if it's really wrong, it's not ours." We looked for people according to the portrait she gave us, and if we couldn't find them. We can't be blamed for that. Anyway, we'd better not take this matter on ourselves. That woman wasn't a bully at first glance. ”

Murong Yuxue looked at Meng Tianchu, as if she was thinking about something. He didn't speak, he just looked at the painting and was distracted. Meng Tianchu walked to Murong Yuxue's side and asked softly. "What's wrong?

Have something to say? “

"I'm just strange, that girl seems to be very arrogant, if there is no maid, she will not come to our yamen to report the case herself, this is one of them; Second, although this girl looks at us as if she sees something dirty, when it comes to that maid, she has a different face, so I think..."So do you think the relationship between this maid and that girl is not just an ordinary master-servant relationship?" “

Murong Zhenxue nodded: "And I think this should be the portrait of that maid, she cares so much about that maid, naturally she won't take the wrong portrait when she comes to report the case." ”

"Okay, then we won't say more, the brothers have already seen the portrait, let's hurry up and find someone, if the real person is as beautiful as the portrait, I'm afraid that something bad will happen if it's too late."

When everyone heard Meng Tianchu and Murong Yuxue say this, they also felt that the matter was very important. There was no delay, so they all hurried out to find someone.

Although this Renhe County is only a county seat, because it is on the edge of the West Lake, there are a lot of tourists and outsiders, and it is the season to play, so the pedestrians on the street are bustling and endless.

Meng Tianchu, Wang Yi, and Murong Zhenxue took three people to search for three hours in the most prosperous city, and the five of them searched one by one, taverns, inns, shops, and even houses, but they didn't find any clues.

Everyone was finally tired of walking, so they came to a tea shed to sit down and rest, and the boss saw that it was Meng Tianchu and a few of them, so he enthusiastically stepped forward to say hello.

"Master Meng, are you still out on such a hot day?" The time to speak has already brought the tea to everyone.

Meng Tianchu drank all the herbal tea in the tea bowl in one gulp, and the boss hurriedly carried the teapot and filled the empty tea bowl with herbal tea again.

"Yes, we all think it's better to cool off at home on such a hot day, but we can't help but come out, or how can we say that our yamen servants have a hard life."

Meng Tianchu only cared about drinking tea, and Wang Yi took the words.

The boss laughed, "You are officials, do you know what an official is?" It is the people who eat the emperor's grain, if you have a hard life, then how can we, the common people, live? ”

"That's what Boss Wang said, it's just that we each have our own sufferings." Murong Yuxue also followed suit.

The boss nodded, and suddenly saw the portrait in Meng Tianchu's hand, so he picked it up and unfolded it, everyone was an acquaintance in a county town, so Meng Tianchu didn't stop him.

The boss looked at the portrait and said, "This painting is really good." ”

"That's, you don't look at who drew it." Meng Tianchu said with a smile.

"I'm not good at painting, and as for who painted it, naturally we rough people can't know." The boss put the painting away and returned it to Meng Tianchu.

"And how do you know it's a good drawing?"

"It's a good drawing, it's almost like a real person."

When Meng Tianchu heard this, his spirit suddenly came, "Boss Wang, do you mean that you have seen the girl in this portrait?" ”

The boss nodded, and everyone immediately became energetic, and they surrounded the boss at once. That posture startled the boss.

"You... You guys, what are you going to do? ”

Meng Tianchu smiled, "Boss, don't be afraid, we have worked hard for such a day, in fact, we are looking for this girl, if you see it, we will naturally ask you." ”

The boss breathed a sigh of relief when he heard Meng Tianchu say this, "Surprise me, I also saw her about four hours ago, probably when I was about to have breakfast." ”

"Boss Wang, tell me about the specific situation." Meng Tianchu motioned to Murong Yuxue to write down the boss's words.

"As you know, because of the cool weather recently, there are a lot of tourists, and my business is naturally much better, so I have to set up a stall much earlier than before, and this morning, my son and I just set up the stall, and the girl came."

"How many people were she when she came?" Meng Tianchu asked.

"She was alone, there was no one at the time, so she was alone drinking tea with me, so I remembered."

"You go on."

"At first, it was my son who found her, because my son said that the girl was very good-looking, so I paid attention to it, and usually when our guests are too large, I can't remember who came to my place for tea."