In the spring of the sixth year of Dashang, the Lantern Festival of the Marquis of Ningyuan made a mistake, and the hereditary title was reduced to hereditary.

Song Dazhuang, the Marquis of Ningyuan, guarded the border passes, and was not allowed to enter Beijing without a call.

This punishment is not light, but heavy, and it is indeed not heavy compared with the incident on the 14th.

Officials of all sizes in Beijing who were involved in this matter were all shocked.

The only thing that people can't understand is that the Yongyi Marquis Mansion, which is the same as the Marquis of Ningyuan's Mansion, was only reprimanded by the emperor for two sentences in this incident.

Everyone knows that the second son of Song, who is brave and resolute, is deeply loved by His Majesty today, even if he has a broken arm, the current saint can't bear to remove him. Asked if he needed to change places, Song Yunfei said that he liked Yu Linwei very much, even if it was a small idle job in Yu Linwei.

The second son of the Yongyi Marquis's Mansion, Yu Linwei commanded Song Yunfei to chase and kill Yu Xian and was seriously injured.

It is okay to say that Song Yunfei was a blessing in disguise, or that Song Yunfei was blue-eyed by the emperor.

Anyway, the brave and resolute Houfu is a holy family.

That night, the Lu family stayed in Jixianglou for one night, only letting Chunhua and Qiushi take the time to go back.

Only Chen Xiaohu was left at home to guard the door, and Lu Yangge always felt a vague sense of unease when he thought of tonight's incident.

At night, martial law was imposed in the entire capital, and Chunhua and Qiushi returned all the way back to the Lu Mansion, and were interrogated four or five times on the way.

When they arrived home, they saw that the door was closed, and Chen Xiaohu was not at home.

Lu Yangge didn't know that Chen Xiaohu was missing until the next day, when he returned home.

"Gone?" Lu Yangge glanced at the concierge.

The concierge of the Lu family all lived in the inverted seat room at the gate, and there were three slender rooms, one for guests and two for people.

Chen Xiaohu is the latecomer and lives alone in the innermost room.

Chunhua opened the door, and Lu Yangge went in and took a turn.

A bed, a table, a chair, a low cabinet for clothes, fortunately, the room is not big, there should be, and it does not look simple.

"His clothes and belongings are all there, but the person is gone." Chen Xiaohu was brought back by Si Shao, and Chunhua didn't dare to say more.

Lu Yangge looked around: "That is, something is gone, don't move his things for the time being, if he comes back, just don't come back, wait and see." ”

Chunhua responded: "Yes." ”

But he was muttering in his heart, this Chen Xiaohu didn't know what the way was coming, people came inexplicably, and they disappeared inexplicably, and Si Shao didn't care at all.

But he knew his identity, he said what he should say, and he didn't dare to ask more than what he shouldn't.

Lu Yangge only stood in Chen Xiaohu's house, and when she returned to the hall, Lu Xiaoyu immediately asked, "Is that Chen Xiaohu gone?" ”

Lu Yangge nodded: "Yes." ”

Lu Quan immediately said: "Then I have to let your mother see, there is nothing missing at home." ”

"Dad, no, Chen Xiaohu is not that kind of person." After thinking about it, Lu Yangge still said in a tone, "It's okay to let my mother take a look." ”

She believed in Chen Xiaohu, but the Lu family didn't know Chen Xiaohu's identity, so it was okay to take a look.

"Since you say you're not that kind of person, what's there to see." Lu Quan didn't care about the jacket on his body, "I'll go to the backyard to have a look, you just stay in the house, if you want to eat, let your mother do it, just don't go out." ”

Hearing Lu Quan say to go to the backyard, Lu Yangge suddenly got up: "Dad, there seems to be heavy snow in the evening, you can help your mother bring some firewood and put it in the stove room, and the backyard will go later." ”

"Can there be snow at night on this day?" Lu Quan looked at the clear sky and frowned suspiciously, but he didn't say that he wanted to go to the backyard anymore, and turned around to go to the pyre to get firewood.

The firewood chopped by Chunhua and Qiushi was piled up behind the stove and bundled neatly.

Firewood in the capital is bought for money, six cents a load, and it is picked up by a porter in the countryside or nearby.

It is said that it is one load, but it is only two bundles, and the branches and branches are not real.

A few years ago, the Lu family spent 600 yuan to buy firewood, and half of the Chinese New Year's croquettes and pig's heads have gone down.

Lu Quanwei was distressed, thinking that after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, he called the Qiu family to go to the mountain to have a look.

The capital is mountainous, and there are always miscellaneous trees and grass on the mountain.

Lu Yangge didn't know what Lu Quan thought, but he knew that she wouldn't stop her.

Individuals have their own way of living, and the Lu family has money, but for Lu Quan and Qiu, there is nothing wrong with spending what should be spent and what can be saved.

Passing through the second room, there is a small courtyard between the back cover room and the main house, which was developed by Lu Quan and Qiu, and a few small vegetable gardens were sorted out along the root of the wall.

The back cover room slipped into the house, and the square bricks were laid in front of the door, although there were no people, but it was cleaned very cleanly, and there was not even a gray mark on the foot.

This back cover room was originally reserved for the rest of the family to live in, the Lu family is not a big family, and even Chen Xiaohu has a total of three boys living in the front cover room, and the back cover room has been empty.

Only the Qiu family will bring Lu Xiaoyu and Miss Lu Qingluan over to clean up from time to time, although it is empty, it is not dirty or messy.

Lu Yangge walked along the eaves of the back cover room all the way to the back door in the northwest corner.

Open the back door, there is an alley where carriages can pass, go out from this side to the east, two or three families apart, and you will arrive at the house of the shopkeeper Li's house.

Walking only 100 meters to the west, you can see the city wall.

Lu Yangge stood at the back door and looked east. The whole alleyway is very quiet, the doors are closed, and you can still hear dogs barking or children crying in the past, but now there is no sound at all.

Looking to the west, you can see that the road by the city wall, there are vaguely soldiers passing by, and they are searching for the errand of the remnants of the previous dynasty.

Lu Yangge looked down at the threshold of the backyard, no one had walked for a long time, and there was a shallow inward footprint outside the threshold.

Someone must have walked through this back door on these two days.

Lu Yangge cautiously closed the door, and heard a slight movement in the room near the back door.

"Who?"

Lu Yangge stepped forward and pushed open the door, and saw a bamboo basket in the corner of the empty room.

The bamboo basket was covered with thick straw, and in the straw lay a black puppy, whose whole body was completely black without a trace of stray hair.

Lu Yangge picked up the puppy and looked at it.

It is a black male dog, my uncle has raised a big black dog, and often takes it up the mountain to hunt, she and Brother Xiaohu like the big dog called Big Black.

The little black dog's nose was wet, and he was not afraid to be lifted by Lu Yangge, humming and chirping to lick her hands.

Withdrawing his hand, Lu Yangge found that there was still a string of golden cloves tied to the edge of the basket, and the pearls on the string had been slightly yellowed.

Isn't this the golden lilac she used to wear on her head as a child?

It was originally a pair, but she only had one when she arrived at Lu's house, and the other probably fell off the road and was picked up by Xiaohu.

This golden lilac was bought by the eldest brother, the second brother and the little tiger brother together, and it was a gift for her fourth birthday. She has liked it since she was a child, and she wore it from the age of five to the age of nine, until her family was ruined, and she also dressed up as a boy, and the pair of golden lilacs has almost been forgotten by her.

When Brother Xiaohu left, he didn't leave a word, leaving only a little black dog and a string of golden cloves.

Did he know he would never come back?

(End of chapter)