On the way home, I heard gossip on the side of the road, and the incident of the old woman being beaten at the gate of the 3,000 camp seemed to have become a new hot topic of public opinion.

I don't know that Niu San's child, it will be smooth to go to Jiangning Mansion alone to join his relatives.

Niu Er...... In addition to having the same name as a liquor from a previous life, it seems to have been seen somewhere.

I reminisced about the journey until I got home and saw a sleepy tree in the study facing the book.

Running to the bookcase, he took out a pile of heavy books, and finally found the blue cloth bag at the bottom of the box.

I opened the cloth bag, spread out the parchment book that Chun Tao had given me on the little tree's desk, and pushed him awake.

"What!" The little tree was startled and almost stumbled off the chair.

"I remember, Niu Er......" I flipped through the pages of the roster, and my index finger tapped on one page, "here!" I think I've seen it somewhere not long ago. ”

"Niu Er is a soldier of the 3,000 battalion," Xiao Shu raised his hand and wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth, "This is the roster of the 3,000 battalion, it's normal to have his name, what's the fuss." ”

"I'm thinking, the second prince got rid of Qingli first for this roster, and burned Tianxianglou later, which shows that this roster is very important." I tapped my fingertips on the roster, "but we never figured out why it mattered." Now that Niu Er's life and death are unknown, let's count him missing, I wonder if these two things will be related. ”

Hearing me say this, Xiao Shu's expression also became cautious, and he carefully looked at the roster for a while, "Sister, look, on this roster, some names have red circles drawn on the corners, and some are not. And Niu Er's name is circled in red. ”

I was aware of the many red circles on the roster, but I didn't understand what these small circles meant, and now I put the two things together...... "If the red circle means missing, then the other people who are circled should also be missing!" ”

As soon as I said this, Xiaoshu couldn't help but gasp.

I took a closer look at the roster, and said, "In those days, the technique of registering and making the register was not rigorous, and the names were neither arranged by pinyin letters nor by the strokes of the surnames. ”

"What is the phonetic alphabet? What is a surname stroke? ”

"It doesn't matter," I hastily waved my hand, "it is important that the clerk in charge of the registration and the registration of the clerk will register the names of the soldiers in the order in which they came to report, so that the names of the soldiers who came together will be written together." I looked up at the little tree in a daze, "Then the question is: who will meet to report together?" ”

"What kind of person ......" Xiaoshu scratched his head, "acquaintances, fellow villagers?" ”

"That's right," I nodded approvingly, "a fellow countryman, or a neighbor." Finger pointed to the page of the roster, "You see, the two names before and after Niu Er are Li Dan and Wang Shishi, so the three of them may be neighbors who live in Hui'an Fang, and the names of these two people have also been circled." ”

"In other words," Xiao Shu suddenly realized, "we can go to Hui'an Fang to investigate whether these two people are also missing." ”

Hui'an Fang is not large, but people live densely, I went around near Niu Er's house, inquired all the way, but did not find a person named Li Dan.