"Miss, why did we go through the back door just now?" The carriage had already left the city, and on the official road where it was walking, Bai Zhi suddenly asked in a low voice.

Sanniang paused when she heard this, and then said lightly: "It may be that there are few people in the back street, so it won't be congested." ”

Bai Zhi thought about it, there were very few people even on the street at this hour.

glanced at Bai Ying, and saw that she was only caring about lowering her head to make tea, and Sanniang seemed to be beginning to close her eyes and recuperate, so she swallowed the question that came to her mouth.

The old lady always acted unexpectedly, and maybe it was just his whim.

Sanniang remembered that the monks of Dapu Temple were rejected by Mrs. Wang yesterday, why did they walk like lost dogs today?

The Buddha said: Don't say it, don't say it, it's wrong to say it.

"I'll take a nap." I closed my eyes to recuperate, but I didn't want to get sleepy.

Bai Zhi hurriedly came over and waited for Sanniang to lie down.

"What are you doing with this? It's not that I don't know if Miss is used to hard pillows. Bai Zhi whispered to Bai Ying with some disgust.

"I thought that since Mrs. Zhao took this young lady away alone, it must be something that Madame loved very much back then, and I was thinking about where to receive it."

Sanniang looked at Bai Ying and found that she was holding the white glazed cat-shaped porcelain pillow that Liu gave her.

Sanniang's heart suddenly moved.

She remembered that once when Mama Zhao was stuffing cotton into the pillow specially made for her, she smiled and told her that her mother Zhao was also like her, she didn't like to use hard pillows since she was a child, and her grandmother asked her to make a rice pillow for her. But one summer, she accidentally broke the rice pillow, and small insects flew out of the pillow, and she was so frightened that she didn't dare to use it anymore. My grandmother had no choice but to find someone to make one out of cotton for her.

"Bring it to me and show it." Sanniang said to Bai Ying.

Bai Ying hurriedly handed the porcelain pillow in his hand to Sanniang. Sanniang lay down and played for a while. Although the white porcelain used in this pillow is exquisite, it is also an ordinary pillow used by ordinary rich and noble people. I don't see any difference other than the styling being a little unique.

It's just that when Sanniang's eyes looked at the side of the pillow, she suddenly found that the cat's right front paw was something like a plug.

Sanniang was surprised in her heart, but she quietly put the pillow under her head and closed her eyes to rest.

When the carriage stopped at noon and everyone was resting, Bai Zhi got out of the carriage to find Bai Guo and them in the back car, and Sanniang and Bai Ying were left in the carriage. He picked up the white porcelain pillow and gently unscrewed the porcelain stopper made into the front paws.

Sanniang tried to put her hand in and dig it out, but pulled out a stack of rolled papers.

Sanniang unfolded the stack of papers, and her heart was shocked.

"Miss. Is this a silver ticket? Bai Ying exclaimed softly.

Sanniang nodded. Roughly counting the stack of silver tickets, there were more than a dozen large denomination silver tickets of one thousand taels and one piece, and there was a small note in the silver tickets.

Sanniang unfolded it and took a look. On the top is Liu's words to write her, saying that here is a silver ticket of 15,000 taels, which is her private silver, which no one else knows, and it will be used at the bottom of the box when she marries and when Wang Jing needs to dredge up the relationship in the future, so that she can put it away. Don't move or let people know about it, it can be of great use at critical moments.

Sanniang's eyes were red. She remembered that in her previous life, her grandmother always secretly stuffed her money behind people's backs.

Seeing that the carriage was about to leave again, Sanniang folded the silver ticket and stuffed it back into the pillow.

At this moment, there were many exclamations outside the car, followed by the old lady Wang shouting at the top of his voice: "Xiao Jiu! Little Nine! You're back! Come back! ”

Then came the sound of horses' hooves.

Bai Ying lifted the curtain and looked out, turned to Sanniang and said, "Miss, it's the old lady's nine-colored bird, somehow escaped from the cage and ran away, and the old lady has already chased after him." ”

Sanniang was silent when she heard this.

As such, I don't know how many years I have to go to Qingcheng County.

This was an afternoon, seeing that the sun was about to set, the old lady Wang still did not come back, and the place where the carriage stopped was a grassy clearing not far from the official road, which can be described as a wilderness forest.

"Miss, Li Da is here." Bai Zhi and Bai Ying were also in a hurry in the carriage, and from time to time quietly opened the curtain to look out, and at this time, they saw Li Da, the head of the suit, coming over, and Bai Zhi hurriedly said.

"Third Miss, less than thirty miles ahead is Feicheng. It's already three quarters of the unitary hour, and the sky will be dark in half an hour, do you and the young master want to go into the city and wait? The little one is afraid that when the city gate is closed, you and the young master will have to stay outside the city overnight. ”

"When do the gates close?"

"It's usually four o'clock, and the summer closes a little later, but it never passes the hour." Li Da thought about it and replied.

Sanniang converted the hour in her heart, it is now around six o'clock in the afternoon, and the city gate will be closed at ** o'clock in the evening. It takes about an hour and a half to get from here to Feicheng, according to the speed of the carriage here. If you can't enter the city today, and the old lady Wang can't come back, then you really have to spend the night in the wilderness. And whether the old lady Wang will rush back today, with Sanniang's understanding of him on weekdays, it's really hard to say.

"Let's go to the city, you send a few people to guard here. If my grandfather came back, he would know where we were. Sanniang explained to the outside.

"Yes, Third Miss, the little one will be arranged." After Li Da finished speaking, he retreated.

After a while, the carriage moved again, and everyone in the carriage breathed a sigh of relief.

During the journey, stopping in the middle of the road for inexplicable reasons is the most boring, and the boring mood of the car will dissipate.

By the time the carriage entered the city, it was already dark. Feicheng is a big city on the official road of Jinan Mansion, Tai'an Mansion and Yanzhou Mansion, although it is not as prosperous as Licheng and Ziyang City, but it is also a lot of business travel.

I didn't plan to stay here, so I didn't send anyone to arrange accommodation at first. When I entered the city and walked through a few inns, either there were not so many empty rooms, or the stables were empty for horses.

In the end, under the introduction of an innkeeper, I rented a small courtyard with three entrances of a merchant. Then Li Da sent another person out of the city to inform the people who stayed outside the city and waited for the old lady Wang of the whereabouts of Sanniang and the others.

Sanniang and the others waited for Mrs. Wang for an afternoon today, and the car was annoying and stuffy, and they were naturally thirsty, hungry and tired at this time. After everyone finished eating, when they were about to arrive at Hai, a mother-in-law came in outside to report that the old lady Wang had returned.

Sanniang couldn't help but let out a sigh.

It's good to come back, she is really afraid that the old lady Wang will chase back Ziyang City all the way, and then make a stubborn mistake, and if she doesn't find the bird, she won't go back to Qingcheng County. In this case, she and Wang Jing really didn't know whether to go back to find Old Lady Wang or set off back to Qingcheng by themselves.

"Did the bird catch it back?" Sanniang asked the mother-in-law.

No wonder she cares about that bird, if this old lady Wang's heart and heart are not found, she can foresee that she will not go smoothly in the future.

With the temperament of the old lady Wang, he must be able to stop and go, and even simply stay here and are reluctant to go, for fear that if the birds fly back to him, he will not find anyone.

She once heard two old servants of the family secretly make jokes about the old lady when he was young, saying that once the old lady Wang bought a talking parrot from a dealer from another city. But not an hour after it arrived, the parrot flew away while the old lady Wang was unprepared. The old lady Wang thought in his heart that it must be this parrot that missed the original owner, so he flew away to find the master.

So he changed into the coarse cloth clothes of the dealer, dressed up like the dealer, and went to the small broken courtyard where the man had rented and lived for three whole days, without changing his clothes. In the end, the bird did not wait to come back, and when the old lady Wang came out of the yard, it was already unkempt and smelly, because it was the height of summer.

"I heard from the little brother who went with me that the bird disappeared as soon as it flew away, and the old lady searched all around here, and her voice was hoarse, but in the end she still didn't find it. Originally, the old lady wanted to rush back to Ziyang City overnight to find it, but the gang of followers persuaded him desperately, saying that if the bird did not go back but flew to this vicinity to forage, then the old lady would not be able to find anyone as soon as he left, so he persuaded the old lady to stop. In the end, the old lady sent a few people to look for it, and she came back first. ”

Sanniang was speechless, she knew.

"Miss, hot water is here, do you want to go back to the room and take a shower first?" Bai Ying stepped forward and replied.

Hearing Bai Ying say this, Sanniang felt sticky and uncomfortable, and she waited in the car all afternoon today, and it happened to be the hottest time of the day, and she was already sweating. I wanted to take a bath as soon as I came, but I didn't want this courtyard to be unoccupied on weekdays, the stove was cold, and I had to relight the fire if I wanted water.

Seeing that everyone was hungry, he had to ask the restaurant outside to bring food first, and he also happened to prepare hot water during the meal.

Sanniang sent the mother-in-law away and went back to her room to take a bath. Because she was not used to taking a bath, she let people watch from the sidelines, so Sanniang asked Bai Ying to prepare the bathing utensils and a change of clothes and sent them out.

Reaching out to test the temperature of the water in the waist-high large bathtub, seeing that the temperature was just right, Sanniang untied the ties on her clothes and took off the gown she was wearing outside.

Just as he was about to raise his hand to take off his underwear, a slightly hoarse voice said, "Wait, don't take it off." ”

Sanniang was startled, this was a man's voice.

How could there be a man in her room?

Sanniang's heart was shocked, she looked around in a panic, reached out and picked up a wooden scoop that was placed on a small table next to the bathtub to scoop water, and stared at the dark shadow behind a beech cabinet on the left side of the room.

She tried her best to suppress the cries for help that were almost up her throat, and once watched a show that taught girls to protect themselves, saying that if the outlaws are so close to you that you can't wait for the rescuers to arrive, it's best to stay calm and not scream, because your cries for help may make the gangsters panic and kill them. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point () to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support, is my biggest motivation. )