Xiangling got on the donkey cart, and was about to catch the car, when Xiangling made a messenger: "Uncle Zhang, let's go around to the back of Chuzhuang first." ”

Foot Li Zhang drove to a corner of Chu Zhuang's backyard, Chu Zhou was ordering the little guys to build the broken wall stacks, and scolded and scolded: "This thief who kills tens of millions, you steal cows, you steal cows, and even steal cows that produce milk, so where can I go to find cows that produce milk, but I will be killed......

Xiangling smiled, jumped out of the car, approached the wall, carefully inspected the outside of the wall, and sniffed the smell, sure enough, as Chu Lizheng said, there was not even the smell of cow hoof prints and cow dung left.

Only traces of hoof prints were swept away with branches, which were blown away by the wind and gradually faded away.

According to Chu Lizheng, after discovering the loss of the cow, Chu Zhuang immediately sent someone to chase him, chased to the woods before the branch marks dissipated, and then disappeared.

When Chu Zhou saw Xiangling coming, he suddenly felt as if he had seen the last life-saving straw, and waved his hand enthusiastically: "Miss Chu, you have the best cooking skills, help my young master cook a dish that the young master has never eaten." ”

As long as he eats well, the young master's mood will be fine, and his fault for not buying the cow in time will be small.

Xiangling smiled and said: "I don't have time now, I'm in a hurry to go to the city, which restaurant's specialties does your young master like to eat, I'll help him bring one back?" ”

Chu Zhou immediately opened his eyebrows and smiled: "My young master loves to eat the stewed eight treasures of Qiwu Restaurant, the roast duck of the cheap shop, the mutton soup of the alley Li, and the ......."

Xiangling's face darkened, looking at Chu Zhou's gushing appearance, I am afraid that this Wang Wenqian has no restaurant that he has never been to, and there is no dish he doesn't like to eat, there are no taboos, and he is reincarnated gluttonously.

Xiangling couldn't help but tease: "Chu Zhou, I think it's better to say that your young master is taboo......

Chu Zhouxin thought it was true, and said seriously: "My young master doesn't like to eat green vegetables, especially coriander, can't eat cold food, can't eat raw food, can't eat leftovers...... You can't eat pestles, you can't eat ......."

Xiangling suddenly felt that she should retract the sentence "no taboos", Wang Wenqian is still a foodie with a bottom line.

Xiangling didn't want to listen to Chu Zhou's nagging anymore, so she said with a dark face: "I'll help him buy a roast duck from a cheap shop, which can't be refuted." ”

Xiangling twisted and got on the donkey cart, and the donkey cart first ran to Jiang Erlan's house in Xing Village.

The shops in the city have to be rented, and someone has to help guard the town first, and the first thing Xiangling thinks of is her second aunt Jiang Erlan.

Hearing that Xiangling rented a shop in the county seat to sell food, Jiang Erlan and his wife were very happy and immediately agreed.

Because the shop hasn't figured out what to sell except for bean paste, there are not many main bean paste, except for the one sold to Qiwu Restaurant, there is only one jar of more than 20 catties left.

So the shop was not in a hurry to open, Jiang Erlan was only responsible for cleaning up the shop first, and pounded the bean paste every morning and evening, with little work, and finally decided that Jiang Erlan would take her fourteen-year-old son Liang Kun, niece Liang Pei and daughter Liang Yu to the shop to watch for a while.

The group got on the donkey cart, talking and laughing.

Not far away, Xiangling suddenly smelled a faint smell of milk, Xiangling thought it was her own illusion, did not pay attention, and after a while, she smelled the smell of milk again, this time Xiangling was sure that it was not an illusion.

After stopping the donkey cart, Xiangling found the source of the milk smell---- in the grass beside the road, there were a few white dried milk stains on a green leaf.

Xiangling was stunned, what Chu Lizheng said and what Chu Zhou said quickly intersected in her mind, and the more she thought about it, the more she felt as if she had found a clue.

The thief tied the branch to the tail of the ox, and it was clearly seen that the thief did not want to leave the footprints of the ox, but why did the thief not expect that the branch would also leave traces?

Could it be that it is simply a trick deliberately left by the thieves to lure the trappers into the mountains to search, leaving a gap in the time to transfer the cattle and diverting the attention of the catchers?

If the herd did not go to the mountains, it was driven on the official road, so many cows, no footprints, no dung, no traces of gnawing grass, it looks clean and seamless, only forgetting that Wang Wenqian drank milk, and the cows that were lost were mixed with milk-producing cows.

Cows usually do not leak milk, but when the time for milking is not milked every day, they will swell, and they will be driven away by thieves in a hurry, and it will inevitably leak a few drops.

Xiangling felt that she had suddenly found a clue, and she was afraid that the clue would be interrupted after a long time, so she hurriedly gave Jiang Erlan ten taels of silver, and asked her to press the donkey cart to the county seat to find Su Mu, and he would rent a shop.

Xiangling quickly ran back to Chu Lizheng's house in Chujia Village.

Listening to Xiangling say that he may have found a clue to lose the cow, Chu Lizheng attaches great importance to it.

But this clue is too weak, it is not absolute ironclad evidence, it may also be empty joy, Chu Lizheng decided not to report to the official first, but personally took his son Erzhu and Sanzhu, and called Ge Changlin, Li Gui and He Xiang, led by Xiangling, and went straight to the direction of the county.

When I arrived at the place where Xiangling first encountered milk, I kept searching forward, and sure enough, every fifty or sixty meters, I could always find dripping milk.

Seeing that they had reached the direction of the county seat, following the clues, several people did not enter the city, but turned into a remote path, all the way to the south, until the sun was slanting westward, and then stopped in front of a Zhuangzi.

Looking at Zhuangzi, Chu Lizheng's confidence was insufficient, and he whispered to Xiangling: "Xiangling, I know this Zhuangzi, it is the Qingquzhuang of Mr. He, the deputy of Lin'an Academy, it is impossible for him to steal cattle, perhaps, it is his family who happens to be putting his own cattle?" ”

Xiangling didn't believe it at all, according to the geography of the green mountains and green grasses on all sides of this Zhuangzi, how could it be possible to go so far away to graze cattle, wouldn't it be putting the cart before the horse?

Xiangling groaned: "Wang Xiucai has studied in Lin'an Academy, and he must know this Mr. He very well, I will go back and ask him, you stay and watch, don't startle the snake." ”

Chu Li said that he would not leave anything, it was about his "clear name" of "Lizheng", and he had to stare at it with his own eyes to be reassured.

In the end, Chu Lizheng, Erzhu, Ge Changlin and He Xiang accompanied him to stay and keep an eye on him, while Xiangling and Li Gui drove the donkey cart back to Chujia Village and knocked directly on the door of Chuzhuangyuan.

It was not Chu Zhou who opened the door, but a housekeeper with a cold face, and when he saw that it was an ordinary villager, his face turned cold and said, "What are you doing in Chu Zhuang?" ”

Xiangling said eagerly: "We have clues to tell Wang Xiucai about losing the cow." ”

The old housekeeper glanced at him disdainfully and said, "No need, a few cows are gone, and Chu Zhuang can afford to lose them." Besides, the eldest master of our Wang family is the county master of Lin'an County, and the head of the road catcher personally caught the thief, and he is still worried that the thief will not obey the law? If you want to receive the reward, go to another house and get it. ”

The courtyard door closed with a "bang", causing Li Gui and Xiangling to eat a nose of ash.

Li Gui looked at Xiangling dumbfoundedly and said, "Didn't Li Zheng say that Wang Xiucai lost what he regarded as life?" Did I hear badly? ”

Xiangling shook her head and said, "It should be something important that has been lost, otherwise the road catcher can come to the door so early?" It's the butler who thinks he's right, or doesn't want to find it. ”

"So what now?" Li Gui didn't want to put a hot face against a cold ass anymore.

Xiangling gritted her teeth and said: "Go to the backyard and see if the wall stacks are finished, and Chu Zhou is still there." ”

The two of them went around to the back wall again, and found that the wall battlements were already intact, where was there still Chu Zhou's shadow?