Chapter Forty-Nine: Is Old Thief Deng Injured?

"That's not right! When you came, there were five carriages, and now there are four. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info" Qi Sheng suddenly asked.

"When I go... When I went there, a carriage accidentally fell off a cliff in the mountains. Zhou Rong nervously explained.

"Fell off a cliff?" Qi Sheng raised his eyebrows and said with some disbelief.

"It rained heavily that day and the slope was steep, and an accident happened...... So when he came back, the old man deliberately explained that he had slowed down the speed, and it was only at noon on the 17th that he entered Mi County. At that time, someone had already been sent to the county to report to the official. Meng Shang turned his head and explained for Zhou Rong.

"Already reported to the official? How did I not know? Qi Sheng asked loudly with a glare.

......The carriage and coachman who fell into the cliff were all men and horses from the palace of Nankang County, and the leading coachman had to hurry as soon as possible that day, and he would arrange for someone to go to the county seat to report to the official. Meng Shang, who didn't know how to explain to the prince, saw that someone took the initiative to take responsibility, so he happily agreed. After thinking about it, so many days have passed, and the coachman sent to report to the official has already completed the task, and even the coachman and carriage who fell off the cliff should have been found. But Qi Sheng actually said that he didn't know, and Meng Sheng didn't know how to explain it for a while. "Southern ......"

"This official, it's like this, Dengfeng County, where the cliff fell, is relatively close, so the person sent to report to the official went to Dengfeng County. The official naturally didn't know about it in Mi County. A coachman hurriedly came over, interrupted Meng Shang, and explained with a smile.

"Huh? Is that so? ”

"It's like this, it's like this. There is certainly not a word of falsehood in the small one......"

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After a few officials inquired for a while, they didn't seem to find any useful clues, so they hurried away and hurried to the next place.

At noon on the 20th, after staying in Mi County for a few days, the group was finally allowed to leave the city.

When he couldn't see the county seat of Mi County, Meng Banxian touched the empty purse, and greeted many officials and officials in Mi County one by one, as well as the black-hearted innkeeper, but his words were naturally not as vulgar as Liu Yong and them.

After Mi County, it is almost a plain. Returning to the flat official road, Meng Shang, who didn't want to delay for a moment, asked the coachman to speed up. But when I got back to Tokyo, it was the next day.

The horse-drawn carriage entered Tokyo City from the Shinzheng Gate and drove directly down the street to the private school. Liu Yong and Liu Xun got out of the car at Longjin Bridge and ran towards home.

Pushing open the door of the house, he saw Mu fidgeting in the main hall and looking outside the courtyard. Seeing the two children coming back, he hurriedly ran over and hugged Liu Yong and cried tears.

When he went, Mr. Meng said that he would return on the evening of 17 August, not later than 18 August. But today it is already August 21, which is more than three days before Mr. Meng's return date, and eight days before Liu Yong's departure.

In these years, transportation and communication were very inconvenient, and Liu Yong and others were detained in Mi County, so it was naturally impossible to report to their families, and Mi County reported the blockade to the imperial court, but the news had not yet spread. The people only know about the recent heavy rain in western Beijing and the interruption of traffic in Mixian and other places, but they don't know anything else. Therefore, mixed with the news of previous years, there are many news that it is difficult to distinguish between true and false, such as "a certain mountain in western Beijing was washed away by heavy rain, and hundreds of business travelers were killed" and "heavy rain fell in western Beijing, rivers flooded, and 100,000 acres of fertile land became a country".

Liu Qingzhi is doing business outside, and a woman from the Mu family has not seen Liu Yong and Liu Xun's two children come back for a long time, combined with many rumors in the alleys, it is inevitable that they will not think about it. When I went to the private school, I met other parents who were worried about the safety of their children, and after exchanging the rumors they had heard, I panicked even more.

"My mother heard that it rained heavily for half a year in Jingxi, which broke the embankment and drowned many people, lest you ...... too," Mu said in a choked voice.

"Mother, where did you hear all these rumors? Heavy rain in the first half of the year? Couldn't it have been going on since February? It's still snowflakes in February. What's more, the embankment of the river has always burst on our side of Tokyo, when did it break the embankment in Jingxi? Unlike ours, there are mountains everywhere, and no matter how big the flood is, there is no fear of it. Liu Yong plucked a dead leaf from his mother's head that had fallen at some point and said with relief.

"You know a lot." Seeing that Liu Yong was fine, Mu Shi burst into tears and smiled.

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After a few days of bumps, Liu Yong and Liu Xun were both tired, and after lunch and a beautiful bath, the two fell asleep early.

I slept from the afternoon to the next morning. Liu Yong woke up to a rooster crow, got dressed and cleaned up briefly, and went out.

Walking to the steamed bun shop under the Longjin Bridge, Liu Yong repeatedly thanked the shopkeeper for taking care of the meat buns in the past few days, and then bought a large bag of meat buns and walked towards Deng Lao's house.

In the days of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Liu Yong and Deng Lao Thief were not at home, so there was no one to take care of the meat buns, because he was afraid that the meat buns would starve, so Liu Yong bought a hundred meat buns from the owner of the steamed bun shop in one go before leaving, and asked him to give it a few when he saw the meat buns every day.

Deng Lao Thief's house is not far away, and it is not far to walk along the Cai River. Pushing open the courtyard door, the courtyard was quiet. Even the meat buns, which had been here for almost the entire month, were gone. The fallen leaves in the yard have accumulated a thick layer, and it must have not been cleaned for a few days.

Liu Yong closed the door and walked towards the room by the faint light of the morning light. The door was locked, and Liu Yong knocked on it, but there was no response for a long time. Looking through the crack in the door, I saw that it was dark inside, and there didn't seem to be a sleeping figure of Deng Lao Thief on the bed.

"Could it be that the old thief Deng hasn't come back yet?" Liu Yong thought in surprise. He was still thinking about how to explain to Deng Lao Thief why he didn't come to "class" for a few days, but who expected that Deng Lao Thief, who had said earlier that he would be able to return on the 17th, also missed his deadline, and it seemed to be even more serious than Liu Yong.

Sweeping the fallen leaves in the yard, Liu Yong practiced jumping the pit for a while, and then cleaned up and went to school.

In the next few days, Liu Yong still got up early every day and came to Deng Lao's place, and the meat bun came back, but Deng Lao's thief did not come back for a long time.

Until the first day of September, when Liu Yong came to the door of Deng Lao's house again, he obviously smelled a strong herb feeding.

"Old thief Deng is injured?"

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To be continued......

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