Chapter 50: Close at Hand
The fat boy leaned over, and he saw a mess of clothes in the package.
Steward Zhou took out the clothes and shook them a few times, sure enough, it was the clothes of a five or six-year-old boy.
I saw the corners of his mouth slightly open, and his voice trembled slightly: "This is Mao Mao's clothes......
Mao Mao is the little master.
Coincidentally, there is a word difference between Xiao Mao, the son of Chef Li, who was bitten to death by the big black dog Huzi.
On the clothes, there are also some blood stains.
The young master grabbed his younger brother's clothes, he was stunned, looking around, the kitchen was quiet. The kitchen knife was quietly placed on the cutting board, and the sharp blade seemed to be hanging with blood plasma.
Could it be that the things I ate just now are all ......
At that moment, everyone felt their stomachs rolling, and the food they had just eaten was squeezing out of the stomach muscles little by little.
Holding back the nausea in his heart, the young master looked at Steward Zhou, and he said vigorously:
"Where's the cook you found!?"
Steward Zhou was also nauseated, he also looked around, and found that Xiuzhen had disappeared, he was very flustered: "I'll go find him out immediately, I'm ......"
The young master's eyes were red, and he grabbed Steward Zhou's collar:
"If I can't find her, I'll stew you!"
Suddenly, such a big thing happened, and the entire Tang Mansion was boiling.
The subordinates rummaged through the corners of the Tang Mansion, but they didn't find the cook Xiuzhen.
Madame woke up several times and fainted again.
This kind of thing can be said to be miserable, Steward Zhou took a group of people and went to Xiuzhen's house to find someone. When I arrived, I found that the building was empty.
The neighbor said to Steward Zhou that after seeing this woman come back in the morning, he hurriedly packed up some things and left.
When Steward Zhou heard this, he hurriedly asked people to block Xiuzhen at various exits in the city.
tossed for a whole day, and didn't even see Xiuzhen's shadow.
Steward Zhou didn't dare to go back and continued to look for the cook.
She brought this woman back, and now that this has happened, he naturally has an unshirkable responsibility. After staying in the Tang family for so many years, this happened because of his own reasons.
He blamed himself very much.
Therefore, if he didn't catch Xiuzhen, he wouldn't dare to go back at all.
On this side, the fat boy looked at the lady lying on the bed, with a dying and heartbroken appearance, very similar to Yuzhen, the wife of Chef Li who had just lost her little hair a few days ago.
is the same mother, the same lost son, and the child's name also has the word "Mao".
Darkly, the fat boy felt that there seemed to be some connection between the two.
At this moment, there was a child's crying in his ears, which seemed to come from a long distance, and the child's voice was a little hoarse in the crying, as if he had been crying for a long time.
However, this voice seemed to be heard only by himself.
No one around noticed the sudden crying of a child.
The fat boy followed the sound and left the Tang family's mansion. He walked through a street, and there were many vendors on the street, and in front of the vendors selling sugar and oil fruits, many children gathered in front of the oil pot, staring at the snacks that were tumbling in the pot like little hair.
The child continued to pull the fat boy.
He walked further, and soon, he was out of the street.
There was a valley ahead, the road was narrow, the child's voice was louder than before, and the fat boy quickened his pace.
Standing on the edge of a mountain col, the fat boy sensed by his voice that the child should be nearby. So, he looked around, and there was a lot of fog everywhere, and he didn't see anyone there.
Standing still for a moment, he carefully discerned the source of the sound.
The voice is at hand.
But the strange thing is that the sound is obviously in the ear, but when you look around, you can't see a single figure at all.
The fat boy looked around, and suddenly walked towards a place.
It was a slope, and the recessed place below was hidden by a lot of weeds, so I got closer, put my ear to it, and sure enough, the sound of the child's crying came from inside.
The fat boy broke through the layers of weeds.
Inside, there's a small cave.
The child's crying is coming from inside.
The fat boy took two steps inside, and sure enough, he saw a little boy of five or six years old sitting in the innermost part of the cave.
The child, dressed in a white plain suit, sat on a rock and wept so loudly that his whole face was crying. Although I have never seen the little young master of the Tang family, Maomao, the fat boy's first feeling is that this child is him.
Since the child is here, what the people of the Tang Mansion eat is not Maomao.
So......
At this moment, a woman's voice came from behind him:
"Why should I slaughter the child when there are ready-made ingredients that are not needed? If you get your hands dirty, you have to do laundry, how troublesome it is......"
The fat boy turned around, and sure enough, it was Xiuzhen.
Xiuzhen at this moment is obviously different from the cowardly appearance she saw at first sight.
Although this woman is thin and weak, there is an indescribable fierceness between her eyebrows.
The fat boy wanted to say something, but saw Xiuzhen striding over. She walked past the fat boy, approached the cave, and came straight to Maomao.
She picked up the child and coaxed it in her arms.
It's strange to say, Xiao Mao, who was crying a lot just now, stopped crying all of a sudden.
Xiuzhen looked at the child and said with a smile: "You little thing, luck is really good, fortunately you weren't there at the time, otherwise you would ......"
The fat boy didn't understand what Xiuzhen meant, but fortunately the child wasn't there, or else?
Thinking of this, a terrible year suddenly flashed in his mind: Could it be that it was not Xiuzhen who took the child away at all, but another person and another reason.
Xiuzhen, who was holding the child, didn't say anything more.
She took the child out of the cave, put it on the ground and took his hand: "Xiao Mao, let's go......"
Xiao Mao looked at her daughter and said in a hurry: "I want to go home." ”
"Home? Do you want to go back to Tang's house? ”
Seeing the child nodding, Xiuzhen thought for a while: "It's okay, I'll take you back, and let you see what happened to your Tang family." ”
Xiuzhen pulled the child all the way forward.
The fat boy also followed, and the woman pulled the child to walk very fast, and there was a whirring wind around him, and the fat boy felt that he couldn't keep up.
Just walked all the way and came to the Tang family again.
The door was hidden, and when I pushed it open, there was a sudden thunderclap in the sky.
In an instant, a storm fell.
The wind swept up the mast sail that fell on the ground and hit the plaque of the Tang family.
I only heard a muffled sound, engraved with a plaque with the words "Tang Mansion", and it fell to the ground.