Chapter 1227: The search is fruitless

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Therefore, it was the dog days, the hottest time of the year, and a round of scorching sun hung high in the sky, mercilessly scorching the earth.

The earth was cracked by the sun, as if the chapped lips of a thirsty man were in dire need of a heavy rain.

The pedestrians on the road, and those who are not in urgent need of hurrying, rest in their homes or inns to avoid the sun that is going to sask the dead.

The dog in the teahouse drooped his head, stretched out his tongue, and lay on the ground listlessly, lazily looking at the sparrows bouncing in front of the dog basin, and did not get up to drive them away.

On the path in front of the teahouse, a horse-drawn carriage occasionally rushed, and the dust was flying, and it could not be calmed down for a long time.

The little two in the teahouse lazily lay on the table and took a nap, there was no wind on this sultry day, and the hot tea would not be cold for half a day.

"None of the guests came to the door, and you are too embarrassed to nap here?" The shopkeeper raised his eyes and saw Xiao Er lying on the table napping, he didn't get angry, and scolded and said, "Lazy ghost, don't hurry up and go to the door to greet the guests." ”

Xiao Er reluctantly got up, and said in his stomach, on such a hot day, there is not even a figure on the road, where will there be guests.

As he thought about it, he walked to the door, leaning on the pillar, and the path was bright and bright in the sun, and it winded into the distance until it was out of sight, and the leaves on the trees on both sides of the road were wilting.

There didn't seem to be even a trace of moisture under the sun's exposure, Xiao Er looked into the distance, just this ghost weather, I don't know if I can wait for a guest.

A figure appeared at the end of the path, staggering forward in the hot sun, Xiao Er thought he was dazzled, rubbed his eyes, and then looked forward, it was a person walking in the direction of the teahouse, "There are guests." ”

Xiao Er thought to himself: On this hot day, there must be something urgent to come out?

When the person in front of him approached, Xiao Er took a few quick steps forward to greet him.

"This guest officer, I'm still in a hurry on a hot day, do you want to sit down in the small shop and rest, drink a pot of tea before leaving?" Xiao Er asked diligently.

It turned out that the one who was rushing under the scorching sun was Yu Qiu, who ran to Chu to find Xue Jingqing, he looked up at the sky, it was past noon, he was thirsty and hungry, and he really couldn't walk, so he said to Xiao Er: "It's okay." ”

Xiao Er hurriedly let Yu Qiu into the teahouse, reached out and took off an uncolored rag on his shoulder, wiped the table and chairs, and invited Yu Qiu to sit down, "Guest officer, wait a minute." With that, he turned around and went to fetch the teapot and bowl, and poured a bowl of tea and put it on the table.

Yu Qiu looked at the somewhat greasy tea bowl and the broken tea foam that floated in the tea, and frowned slightly.

The shopkeeper saw that the guest was coming, although the guest was tired, the clothes and ornaments on his body were all good materials, and he hurriedly greeted him, "This guest officer, we are in a poor mountain and remote area, and the conditions are simple, don't be surprised." ”

"Where," Yu Qiu picked up the tea bowl and took a sip of the somewhat bitter tea, and continued, "I don't know what kind of tea this is?" ”

"Oh, this is the tea we picked in the mountains and fried at home, drinking this in summer is the most thirst-quenching and heat-relieving heat, the guest officer is in a hurry, you might as well drink more." The shopkeeper's busy road.

Yu Qiu bowed and thanked him, and asked, "I don't know if your store has anything to satisfy your hunger, and I walked for a long time before I saw that you have not eaten lunch." ”

"Yes, yes," the shopkeeper agreed, while instructing Xiao Er to go to the kitchen for the cake, "Our shop is simple, you can make do with it." ”

Yu Qiu asked while eating, "I don't know how far Linlang Town is from here." "Linlang Town is a border place, the intersection of the Three Kingdoms, with complex personnel, all kinds of people from the three sects and nine streams, etc., and it is the best place to inquire about Xue Jingqing's whereabouts. Along the way, he has traveled almost everywhere in Chu State, but there is no news of Xue Jingqing, and now he can only hope for this.

"You go all the way along this road, and you can probably get the money after dark," the shopkeeper sat down opposite Yuqiu, "The guest officer is not a local, I don't know what to do with Linlang Town?" ”

"I went to look for my sister, she was robbed," Yu Qiu said with some sadness, "I don't know if the shopkeeper can see that the girl of twelve or thirteen years old, dressed in a blue shirt, has a little cinnabar mole between her eyebrows. ”

The shopkeeper recalled and shook his head, "The people who drink tea and rest in my store are all villagers in the nearby countryside, and they temporarily rest here when they go out, as for the woman you mentioned, I haven't seen it for more than half a month." ”

Yu Qiu sighed and said sadly: "I have searched almost all over the Chu Kingdom, but I have not found her, and now I don't know where she is or whether she is safe." ”

The shopkeeper looked at Yu Qiu's sad appearance, a little unbearable, and said, "I have a brother who runs an inn in Linlang Town, why don't you ask him to inquire?" The shopkeeper took out a copper coin with a missing horn and handed it to Yu Qiu, "You take this to him." ”

Yu Qiu hurriedly got up and took it, put away the copper coin, thanked the shopkeeper, touched only a few pieces of broken silver left on his body, took out a larger one, and handed it to the shopkeeper, "In the next rush, there is not much silver left on the body, and I hope that the shopkeeper will not dislike this broken silver." ”

The shopkeeper saw the piece of broken silver, and the first half of the business was over, and accepted it with a smile, "It's not too little, it's not too little, you went to the inn in Linlang Town, and if you have something, just look for the shopkeeper there." ”

Yu Qiu thanked the shopkeeper, took another sip of tea, and got up and set off despite the scorching sun outside.

Before dark, Yu Qiu arrived at Linlang Town, entered the Youlai Inn, found the shopkeeper of the king, took out the copper coin and handed it to him, "I went down to look for my sister who was robbed, but I have never been missing, and I was fortunate to meet your brother on the road, and he recommended you to me." ”

When the shopkeeper Wang saw the copper coin, he was very enthusiastic, "It's easy to say, it's easy to say, what does your sister look like, you say I'll listen to it and see if there are any clues." ”

"My sister is twelve or thirteen years old, wearing a blue shirt, and a little cinnabar mole between her eyebrows, I wonder if the shopkeeper has seen it recently?" Yu Qiu asked hopefully.

Shopkeeper Wang recalled, "In the past month, twelve or thirteen-year-old girls have seen a lot, but I haven't seen this one with a cinnabar mole between her eyebrows. After saying that, he pondered for a moment, "However, I can help you ask the people in the other inns in town, but it costs a lot." ”

After hearing this, Yu Qiu hurriedly took off a piece of jade pendant from his waist and handed it to the shopkeeper Wang, "I am running all the way down, there is not much left of the coil on my body, this jade pendant is the best material, the shopkeeper Wang can use it as a silver tael in exchange." ”

The shopkeeper Wang took the jade pendant and looked at it, and it was really a good material, "The son is looking for a sister, so I will live in our store first, and I will ask someone to inquire." After that, he called Xiao Er, opened a room, and let Yu Qiu live first.

Yu Qiu thanked the shopkeeper of the king, went back to the room first, and wrote a letter to the second prince Long Yuanxiu, asking him and Zhuang Mingyue to help find Xue Jingqing's whereabouts, and the letter was delivered, Yu Qiu lay on the bed, thinking repeatedly in his mind that Xue Jingqing might be taken away.

Here, the shopkeeper put away the jade pendant, took out twenty taels of silver from his waist, and instructed a man to go out to help Yu Qiu inquire about his sister's whereabouts.

In the past two days, Yu Qiu has lived like a year, he doesn't want to have tea and dinner, and he is anxiously waiting in the room, he doesn't know where Xue Jingqing will be taken captive.

He searched all over the Chu State and there was no news, and the second prince in the Tiansheng Dynasty didn't have any news, so he could only wait here, hoping that someone could see Xue Jingqing.

On the third day, the shopkeeper Wang came to look for Yuqiu, he sent people to ask all the inns and restaurants in Linlang Town, unfortunately, no one has seen such a woman, looking at Yuqiu's sad appearance, the shopkeeper Wang comforted a few words, and asked: "I don't know what the son plans to do next?" ”

"There is no news of the sister in the Chu State, and the next entanglement is about to be exhausted, so I can only return to China first and then make plans," Yu Qiu said and thanked the shopkeeper Wang, "This time I troubled the shopkeeper Wang." ”

Hearing this, the shopkeeper waved his hand again and again, "Take people's money and do things for people, this is the rule of Linlang Town, the son is not polite," he said and took out ten taels of silver from his waist and handed it to Yu Qiu, "There are still some silver taels left here, and the son is far away from returning to China, so let's treat it as a coil." ”

Yu Qiu thanked him, said goodbye to the king's shopkeeper, and embarked on the road back to the Tiansheng Dynasty non-stop.

Yu Qiu finally returned to the Tiansheng Dynasty after a lot of hardships, and he didn't care for a moment and went straight to the second prince's mansion, now he still has a glimmer of hope in his heart, since he wrote a letter to the second prince in Linlang Town, day and night he hopes that the second prince has found Xue Jingqing's whereabouts, maybe now they have found Xue Jingqing.

It happened that Long Yuanxiu and Zhuang Mingyue were both in the mansion, Yu Qiu went in to salute the two of them, Long Yuanxiu and Zhuang Mingyue looked at Yu Qiu in front of them, almost unrecognizable, Yu Qiu in front of them was dusty, tired, disheveled, and had long lost the appearance of the handsome son before.

"Where's the Qinqing? Have you found out where he is? Did you find her? Yu Qiu couldn't take a breath and hurriedly asked.

Long Yuanxiu and Zhuang Mingyue glanced at each other, a little unbearable, but they had to shake their heads, Long Yuanxiu sent out many people, but they didn't find Xue Jingqing's whereabouts.

Yu Qiu looked at the two of them, and suddenly fell back and sat on the chair, "Still haven't you found it?" Yu Qiu muttered a little distractedly, "Where will she go?" ”

Zhuang Mingyue got up and handed a letter to Yu Qiu, "Look at it, this is a reply from the little emperor of Chu State." ”

There was silence in the front hall, and Yu Qiu read the letter several times before asking, "What does he mean?" Qin Jing was really lost in the palace, he was not in a hurry at all, he didn't plan to look for it? I'm afraid that things will make a big deal and ruin his big thing! ”

Yu Qiu was angry in his heart, and slapped the letter in his hand on the small table next to him.

"The little emperor is too much this time, we don't know what he means, Yuan Xiu sent a lot of people out, and there is no whereabouts of Qinqing, but don't worry, we won't give up looking for Qinqing." Zhuang Mingyue said firmly.