Dou Hua's classmate Cai Yong doesn't drink, he was in charge of pouring wine and taking food and taking care of Hu Qingyuan last night.

He was very sure that last night, he went to Xiaojie with Guan Yi first, and when they came back, Lou Mingyu just left.

He also went to look outside the courtyard because of curiosity, it turned out that last night, Miss Dou also lived in her courtyard, just across the flower field from here.

When Cai Yong went out, he saw a picture of men and women standing in a field of flowers embracing each other.

He didn't stay long before he withdrew, and it took a while for Lou Mingyu to come back.

When Hu Qingyuan went out, he was going to the room to get wine and came back, it was a moment in the morning, as for the time of coming back, he didn't care, but he was sure that the time was not long, because there were brothers who were composing poems, and some people had not finished writing a sentence or two.

Hu Qingyuan later drank a few more glasses, and took advantage of the wine to compose a poem, and after he got drunk, he and a few classmates helped him back to the room, and he stayed by his side in the second half of the night.

"This kid is reliable and credible, you believe it is right." Dou Hua invited Gong, "Ning Ning, are you sure you want to go to another courtyard?" ”

Song Ning thanked him: "Take advantage of the fact that it's not dark, let's go!" ”

"Yes, I'll lead the way." Dou Hua jumped on the pontoon bridge first, someone was washing clothes on the bank of the river, Song Ning swept his eyes around, and found that there was an eighteen or nineteen-year-old girl on the shore, who was looking at them curiously, and when she saw her, she carried the basket and left in a panic.

"I'll introduce you to this pontoon bridge, which my father took someone to build." Dou Hua proudly had a relationship with Song Ning and the only pontoon bridge in Langzhong.

Lu Miaomiao held back, yawning and looking at him with disdain.

I thought that the people of the Dou clan were all fierce and vicious, but I didn't expect Dou Hua to be even more stupid than him.

The courtyard of Loufu is not far from the pontoon bridge, after getting on the bridge, it is a small road paved with bluestone slabs, the path is divided into three sections, one is to the left, it is the road out of Baoning, the middle is the courtyard leading to Doufu, to the right is a longer road, along one side of this road, is the courtyard of a large family.

The courtyard of Lou Mansion is next to the courtyard of the Dou family, and between the two houses, there is a flower field of about one acre.

Song Ning felt that this place was like an ancient luxury single-family villa.

"That's my second uncle's house, next door is Lou's house, I'll take you there." Dou Hua walked in front, went straight to the small courtyard of Lou Mansion, knocked on the door and a small servant opened the door, Dou Hua asked people to step back, and accompanied Song Ning to the Fengting where he drank last night.

The wind pavilion is not far from the main entrance, and you can see it after a half-moon gate.

"It's especially beautiful in the summer, and I'll play with you next summer." Dou Hua said.

Song Ning didn't answer his words, and walked out again, Dou Hua followed her and asked, "Is this leaving?" ”

Outside the door was a flower field on the left, a wasteland on the right, and behind the house were jujube and orange trees, and she said expressionlessly, "You are waiting for me here." ”

There is a cobblestone path leading to the forest from the door, and after a dozen steps, there is an orange forest.

The forest was full of dirt, and the intricate shoe prints could not tell who it was, and when she stepped on it, she went into the woods, walked around, and stopped by an orange tree.

The tree is not at the entrance to the forest, there are no oranges left on the tree, but the footprints around it are fresh.

She crouched down to distinguish them, and could vaguely make out at least two footprints of more than two sizes.

"Three?" Song Ning measured seven or eight in a row, two of them were similar in size, and one was a little larger, "How can there be three kinds of footprints?" ”

Song Ning had something he couldn't figure out.

"Hey, what is this?"

She brushed aside a broken lump of mud and pulled half a piece of paper out of the dirt.

On this half piece of paper, you can vaguely see a few words, stewed pork ribs, peppercorns......

"The cookbook Luo Miyun found." Song Ning wrapped the paper in a handkerchief, and continued to search around with some excitement, if this was the first scene of Luo Miyun's murder, if Luo Miyun was carrying the book at the time, and dropped a page in the process of fighting with the murderer......

Could that book be around here?

She digs with her bare hands.

When Lu Miaomiao and Dou Hua's servant came in, they saw her kneeling on the ground, not knowing what they were looking for, and Dou Hua shouted: "What are you looking for, we will help you." ”

"No, you don't." Song Ning waved his hand and said, "Go and help me find some thick ropes and soft rulers." ”

Dou Hua responded without thinking: "Oh, oh, I'll find it for you." ”

He instructed Mao Ye to run errands, and he himself and Lu Miaomiao squatted at the entrance.

"Did you find anything?" Dou Hua looked at her kneeling on the ground, covered in mud, and stabbed Lu Miaomiao, "She's always been like this?" ”

Lu Miaomiao was puzzled: "How is it?" ”

"It's just that I work very seriously and ...... Crazy? He didn't think he was crazy, but he couldn't think of any words to describe it.

Fortunately, Lu Miaomiao didn't have the ability to delve into it, so she nodded and said, "Yes, she is very serious about what she wants to do." ”

"That's amazing." Dou Hua squatted on his stomach and felt stuffy, so he simply sat on the gravel road like Lu Miaomiao, holding his chin and looking at Song Ning.

Song Ning took out a sticky note from the soil that was pulled into a ball, with a seven-romance poem written on it, and there was no payment.

She looked around again, but there was nothing else.

"Bring the rope!" Song Ning wrapped the things, got up and patted the dust on his body, and Mao Ye threw the rope over.

Song Ning circled around the place, measured the length of the shoe prints of the three shoes respectively, and then said to Dou Hua: "Can you tell your subordinates to let them take care of this place." ”

"Okay!" Dou Hua nodded without thinking about it, "However, why are you doing this?" ”

Song Ning came out, looked at the orange grove again, looked at the other side again, and asked, "Do you have a pocket watch?" ”

Dou Hua nodded: "Yes." ”

He gave the pocket watch to Song Ning, thinking about her lying in the mud just now looking for something, thinking of the way she threw Lou Mingyu, and thinking about the scene where she overturned all his brothers and brothers' daughters-in-law after marrying him.

It was definitely the pinnacle of his life.

He has a backer.

After thinking about this, he looked at Song Ning's gaze, full of tenderness and admiration.

Can't wait to marry her.

Song Ning was given goosebumps by him, rubbed his arms, knotted the front and back of the gown and stuffed it into the waistband of his trousers, moved his legs and twisted his waist, and said, "I'll go first, you come to Hufu to find me." ”

"To Hufu?" Before Dou Hua finished speaking, he saw Song Ning fly out like an arrow off the string, and floated on the pontoon bridge like a swallow and flew on the water.

Dou Hua opened his mouth, and there were no words to describe his mood at the moment.

Lu Miaomiao also ran out, and Dou Hua also chased after him and asked, "Do you know what kind of person Ning Ning wants to marry?" ”

Lu Miaomiao glanced at him and looked up and down: "You are not worthy of Director Song." ”

"Don't say it so bluntly, I don't look good enough!" Dou Hua was unconvinced.

Lu Miaomiao glanced at him again and said, "Even I can't do it, you can't make it up." ”

"You?" Dou Hua didn't catch his breath evenly, standing on the pontoon bridge and coughing upside down.

Lu Miaomiao patted him on the back and said, "You want her to support you, but did you think she could bend your waist too?!" ”

Dou Hua: "......"

Lu Miaomiao shouted: "Hurry up, Director Song has arrived on the other side." ”

Dou Hua looked up at the river bank, and saw Song Ning standing opposite, talking to a woman, he said strangely: "Who is talking to Ning Ning?" ”

"I don't know." Lu Miaomiao shook her head.

On the other side, Song Ning looked at the woman standing in front of her, about twenty years old, wearing a short coat with blue cloth and white flowers, with a round face and big eyes, looking at her with a restrained look full of inquiry.

"Miss, what's wrong?" Song Ning took the initiative to ask.

The woman looked at her uncertainly and asked, "You, you are from the Yamen, are you in the case of Sister Charosser?" ”

Song Ning raised his eyebrows and nodded.

"You, are you from the Yamen, or are you from Mr. Hu?"

"I am the fast hand of the Yamen, and I have nothing to do with the Hu Mansion when I get paid by the Yamen." Song Ning said.

The woman's eyes lit up, and she knelt down at Song Ning, Song Ning's eyes quickly helped her up, and said, "You have something to say, I can't stand the etiquette too heavy." ”

"Wu Ziyi, do you know?" The woman's eyes were red and she looked at Song Ningdao.

Song Ning nodded.

The woman's tears fell, and she said, "My name is Qiao Sujin, and I am his wife who has not passed through the door, and I can't find him after searching Baoning." Please, please, help me find him. ”

Song Ning was surprised in her heart, she was planning to investigate Wu Ziyi's matter tomorrow, but she didn't expect his family to come today.

"You say." Song Ning said.

Qiao Sujin looked at the Hu Mansion and said in a low voice: "After Miss Luo was killed, he was imprisoned in the county government, and he was locked up for three whole days before he was released. The night before he disappeared, he told me that he had a big secret and might not survive, and asked me to pack up my things and run away with him. ”

"I said he was making a fuss. Said that the gentleman was going to give him the deed of sale, and it would be better to wait a little longer. ”

If you have a deed of sale, you are a domestic slave, and if you escape, you will be questioned.

"He was very panicked and spoke incoherently." Qiao Sujin choked up and said, "When he leaves, I don't feel at ease and want to go to him, so I call him through the wall." Oh, he lives in the room next door to the pantry, and no one answers me for a long time. ”

Song Ning asked, "When was the time?" ”

"I've eaten, it's already dark, and I guess it's around the hour."

Song Ning said: "You go on." ”

"I haven't seen him since that day. About three days after his accident, I went to Hu Mansion to look for him, went to his room, and found that his clothes and belongings were gone. ”

"Steward Jin said that he fled that night, and he also reported that the government was looking for him."

"I didn't believe he left and didn't tell me, so I remembered that he once told me that there was a big hole in the wall under his bed, and that he had hidden all his money in it. So I took advantage of the fact that the gold steward was not paying attention to it, and I, I found the money he had saved, a total of seven taels of silver tickets, which he said to give me as a dowry. ”

"So, I'm sure he didn't run away."

"I found this in addition to the silver ticket!" She took a letter from her arms and handed it to Song Ning, hesitated again, and looked at her, "You, will you really help me?" ”

Song Ning said: "I'm not sure if I can help you, but I have to find out this case." ”

"Then, then I believe you." She handed the letter in her hand to Song Ning.

The letter was written by Rosser, a farewell letter crumpled into a ball of paper.

"The letter is supposed to have been picked up by Rosser the morning he was killed." Qiao Sujin said uncertainly, "Yes, is it useful?" ”

Song Ning nodded seriously and said, "It's very useful, thank you." ”

"That's good, please help me find Ziyi." Covering his face with grief, he cried, "Life is to see people, death, death is also to see corpses!" ”

Song Ning put the letter away, and seeing that Dou Hua and Lu Miaomiao were about to arrive, she made a long story short: "How tall and how heavy is Wu Ziyi?" ”

"He's tall," Qiao Sujin said, pointing to Dou Hua who was walking this way, "He's so tall, a little thinner than him." ”

Although Dou Hua is not tall, he is also five feet eight inches and weighs one hundred and seventy pounds.

is a little thinner than Dou Hua, which can be regarded as a big shoulder and a round waist.

"He has been abducted and trafficked since he was a child, he can't read and write, and he is honest and honest, so it is absolutely impossible for him to escape."

Song Ning agreed with her statement, a small servant with a deed of sale, left his hard-earned silver and fled with his engaged fiancée...... Even if he escaped, half a year had passed, and he should have secretly come back to see his fiancée.

"I'll take it first." Song Ning said, "Where do you live, I'll look for you when I have something." ”

Qiao Sujin pointed to the alley on the left: "Just enter this alley, and the one with the yellow couplet on the door of the second house is my house." ”

"Good!" Song Ning nodded, and was about to speak, but Qiao Sujin was startled, shrank back, and stepped back and said, "I, I'll go first, you, you have something to come to me." ”

She said and ran back into the alley.

Song Ning turned his head leisurely and saw Jin Guangyu standing at the door.