Needless to say, the other two.

The one Song Ning took was inserted and unlocked.

The wooden box opened, and everyone was stunned.

There was a bright red silk cloth embroidered with dragons and phoenixes in a square folded into a square, Song Ning took it out, the silk material was shaken open, and the shopkeeper exclaimed: "Isn't this the bride's dragon and phoenix Xipa?" ”

The dragon and phoenix on the hippa are trimmed with gold and silver lines, and the embroidery is very fine and lifelike.

"And a letter." Song Yuan Shi said.

Song Ning looked at Xipa with her eyebrows, the strange feeling became stronger and stronger, and when she handed Xipa to Song Yuan, she took out the letter.

The letter was not sealed.

I took out a piece of paper, and the handwriting on the paper was small and beautiful.

It reads: Mandarin ducks are flying, Bi Zhiluo. A gentleman for ten thousand years, Fu Lu should be.

Aoro.

The concubine has groomed her eyebrows and is just waiting for you to come.

On the line.

After Song Ning finished reading, several people around the box had strange expressions.

This letter is clearly a letter written by Zhu Linlang to his fiancé before getting married.

"The key was for Qinglang, and it was placed under their bed, and she probably wanted to play a game with Qinglang. On the day of the wedding, let him find the key to come here and take out the box, get the hippa and the letter. ”

"So that I can ride a tall horse and marry her."

"Ah, I remember." The shopkeeper said, "Qinglang, it's Zhong Qing, the son-in-law of the Zhu official, I've seen it, it's called Zhong Qing." ”

The old boy nodded.

He went to Xintai to inquire, and there was indeed Zhong Qing, but he said that Zhong Qing had left since mid-June last year.

Because he has no family parents, no one knows his whereabouts.

Therefore, there is no such thing as Zhu Zhaogui moving to Xintai with a large family and accompanying his daughter to get married.

"It's going to be a lot of money. Later, when we talked about getting married, we thought that we should take care of Zhong Qing's reputation in the future imperial examination. The shopkeeper was strange and looked at his owner, "The owner, when Zhu Zhaogui left last summer, he came to say goodbye to you, right?" ”

Wantong's owner's surname is Wan, his name is Wan Shijie, and the family's money bank has been passed down for four generations.

He was in his forties, and Fat Dunton looked very amiable.

"Definitely. I think about it......" he walked around twice, "it must be June 15, and it was early in the morning on the day he left, and he and his family went out of the city in four cars. ”

"What did I say to you?" Song Ning asked.

Wan Shijie thought for a while: "Yes, I joked at the time, saying that people marry maids and women, and your old father is too novel." Zhu Zhaogui said with a smile that his daughter was born to splash out the water, and he was reluctant to keep this basin of water, so he simply followed. ”

"How's he looking, is he happy?"

"Happy, beaming. He also asked his son to greet me and say that he would come back to see us someday. ”

Song Ning held the letter and felt very strange.

"My lord, is there a problem?" Wan Shijie said, "Could it be that his son-in-law cheated on marriage and was a white-eyed wolf who harmed their family?" ”

This hypothesis was spoken, and no one objected.

Zhu Linlang put Hong Xipa here so lovingly, which shows how much she attaches importance to this marriage. Zhu Zhaogui also deliberately bought a house, and even bought the furniture, just waiting for marriage. Song Ning said, "Wu Yingfa and the people in Yaxing obviously heard Zhu Zhaogui mention that the son-in-law has withdrawn from the marriage. ”

"But they are still smiling and going to Xintai, is it sticking to the door to marry their daughter?"

Wan Shijie felt that it would not, shook his head and said, "What fairy son-in-law, is it worth such a sticker?" ”

"You have a point." Song Ning said, "The official will take the things and leave you a note." ”

The proprietor should be.

Song Ning came out with something and Song Yuanshi and Lao Tong.

Lao Tong scratched his head and said, "My lord, do you want to go to Xintai to inquire about it again?" ”

"Let's go to the Zhu clan and ask first." Song Ning said, "I'll go to Xintai after asking clearly." ”

Everyone in the Zhu clan has seen Zhong Qing, and praised this child for his good reading, and he is also polite and handsome.

His parents died early, and he grew up alone in the family and in the west for many years, and later listened to the lectures outside the school, and was seen by the husband, so he was exempted from his restraints and let him observe.

Later, he was also admitted to Xiucai.

After getting married in August last year, he was asked to take the autumn exam.

They are all businessmen, although the children are not stupid, but none of them can read, and they are all very optimistic about this son-in-law who is about to become rich.

They said that the divorce was against the people.

Although it's good, it's not so sticky, after all, it's a married girl, and I'm not afraid of looking down on it in the future.

However, Zhu Zhaogui made up his mind, and said that after retiring from the marriage, he immediately took the girl and the family to Xintai.

As for why even their sons, concubines, and even house slaves were sold, and even the family's shops, granges, and ancestral houses were sold, they didn't know, and they only thought that Zhu Zhaogui was crazy.

Song Ning asked Zhu's people to give her a list of all the property locations that Zhu Zhaogui had sold.

Coming out of the Zhu clan, Song Ning said as he walked: "Shen Wenyu and I went to Xintai in person. ”

"You go separately and find the tooth shop to verify all the properties on this piece of paper."

Song Yuanshi asked, "What are the main things to verify?" ”

"The time of sale, the specific person who handled it, whether it was a rush or a pre-sale, and how much was the difference between the price and the market at that time."

"Okay." Song Yuanshi bowed his head and asked, "When are you going?" ”

"Now." Song Ning entered the Torture Hall, just when Shen Wenyu came back, he saw her and said, "The matter of the seeds is in order, everyone has distributed it." ”

He took a sip of water and asked Song Ning, "What to do next?" ”

"Come with me to Xintai, let's talk as we go."

Shen Wenyu should be, followed her out, Qiao Si caught up and shouted, "I'll go too." ”

"You accompany Mr. Yuan to do errands, Lao Tong, they are old after all." Song Ning said.

Qiao Si muttered yes.

In the afternoon, Song Ning and Shen Wenyu went to Xintai.

During the Song and Yuan dynasties, several people checked separately.

Zhu Zhaogui has a total of 16 large and small fields and industries.

Song Ning and Shen Wenyu went to Xintai's county office, checked their household registration, and went straight to Zhongjia Village, where Zhong Qing's household registration was located.

Zhongjia Village does not rely on the official road, but faces a stone mountain at its back, and there are many households in the village, and the houses are dilapidated and crowded next to each other.

"Uncle, how do you get to the Chief's house?" Song Ning looked for an old man who was plowing the land at the entrance of the village, the old man was about fifty years old, black and thin in shabby and patched clothes, and looked at them strangely: "I am the chief, what is the matter with the two of you?" ”

"We are from Jinan, looking for Zhu Zhaogui, but I don't know where Zhu Zhaogui is, so we can only inquire about his son-in-law Zhong Qing."

Li Chang's face was strange: "Come to us to find Zhu Zhaogui?" He withdrew Zhong Qing's marriage, don't you know? ”

"It's also a son-in-law. Relying on a few stinky money, take people and treat them as people. The lieutenant took a sip and turned over the floor.

Song Ning frowned and asked, "Is it Zhu Zhaogui who quit his family?" ”

"It's not, the marriage in August, the divorce on the eighth day of June. Zhong Qing was not convinced, and went to them to theorize. "The child didn't know if it was because he was shy about being retired, so he never came back." ”

"That kid has been stubborn since he was a child, and he admits death. Don't do stupid things. Sato sighed.

Song Ning was quite surprised, Lao Tong said that Zhong Qing was missing, but he did not find out that after Zhong Qing was dismissed, he went to Jinan Mansion to ask about the Zhu family.

"What day did he go to Jinan?"

"On June 14, it was very hot, and he left alone with his bag."

"I said, it's too strange that you came here to find Zhu Zhaogui, there is no such person here." Li Chang said, "A few days ago, I was also a catcher from the Yamen who came to inquire about Zhong Qing. ”

"I don't know what's going on lately."

Song Ning said: "Captain, please take us to Zhong Qing's house." ”

The lieutenant chief stared at her and said impatiently, "What are you investigating?" ”

"Zhu Zhaogui's family and Zhong Qing disappeared after mid-June last year." Song Ning said, "We have to find them." ”

The lieutenant chief was startled and exclaimed, "You mean, Zhong Qing is not hiding, yes, something happened?" ”

"I don't know, these have to be verified."

"Cheng, Cheng!" The chief jumped on the ridge with a shovel on his shoulder, "I'll take you there, there is a lock on his door, and no one has been in for half a year." ”

Song Ning and Shen Wenyu followed the chief around the village.

In front of a stunted old house with a thick trunk leaning over a wall, he said, "This is it." ”

There is no courtyard, only a very low stove house on the east side, and the main house is three rooms, and the left and right are bedrooms.

The door to the bedroom is open from the hall, so there are only two windows facing the courtyard, which are now closed like the door of the hall.

The lieutenant groped under the eaves for a while, found a key, and opened the padlock on the door.

Pushing open the door, a musty smell hit my face.

The moment the door was pushed, the ashes at the door fell in a flutter, and the dim and dark hall was covered with cobwebs, and there were rat droppings on the ground.

There was a not very good landscape painting hanging in the main hall, which was not framed, and it was pasted on the wall, and she thought that it should be painted by Zhong Qing herself and used to decorate her home.

Below the painting is a confession, with four tablets on it.

In the center is a table of eight immortals, with only one bench.

Song Ning walked to the tablet and looked at it, and the names on it all started with the surname Zhong.

"It's a tablet for his grandparents and parents." Li Chang said, "This child is bitter, he has no parents when he is six years old, and he grows so big alone." ”

Song Ning bowed his head.

"You two can watch it." Li Chang said.

Song Ning thanked him and pushed open the door of the east bedroom.

Near the window is a kang with a kang table and a dilapidated wooden box.

When the box was opened, there were only a few worn-out padded jackets inside, and there were no summer clothes.

There is only a quilt on the kang.

The same goes for the bedroom on the west side.

"It seems that the day he left, he had no intention of coming back." Song Ning looked at the lieutenant chief, "Do you think Zhong Qing will leave here because he feels embarrassed and retired?" ”

"He doesn't have land in the village?"

The chief replied: "The land was planted for his uncle's family, and the uncle gave him a little rice a year." The child was stubborn and was withdrawn from his parents, or two days later, someone from us went to Jinan to do business and came back to talk about it. ”

"He didn't tell us anyone."

"What does he look like?" Song Ning said, "Can you make it clear?" ”

The lieutenant nodded.

Shen Wenyu handed Song Ning's burden to her.

Song Ning sat in front of the table and looked at the chief: "You say, I'll paint." ”

"Nose, eyebrows, and moles are all clear."

"Oh, okay." The lieutenant should be.