He Ran saw that the time was almost up, so she decided to go back to the capital, she called Zhou Jiong: "In the future, you will follow me, and others will ask, who are you, what do you say?" ”

Zhou Jiong blinked his bright eyes and said sweetly, "Sister." ”

He Ran nodded: "Not bad, smart." ”

I haven't seen it yet, but I'm very good at observing words and feelings.

He Ran is still satisfied with this child for the time being.

When they left Shunde Mansion the next day, they were still searching at the city gate, and this time, even the men were searched, but fortunately, they were out of the city and did not need to be searched.

He Ran smiled: "Isn't it a female thief who wants to be caught?" Why is it that even men have to be searched? ”

Xiao Li said: "It is said that the female thief is good at disguise, but she has not been caught, and I am worried that she will disguise herself as a man and sneak into the city." ”

Speaking of this, Xiao Li couldn't help laughing, their group of women dressed as men were swaggering into the city at that time.

He Ran also felt funny, feeling that the officials here didn't seem to be very smart.

The next day, they returned to the capital, He Ran didn't go to Jinghong Building, she took Zhou Jiong directly back to the old mill alley, entered the door, and didn't see Xiaoba, Shou Mei helplessly: "It's my fault, I shouldn't tell it, you want to come back in nine days, I guess it's a day." ”

He Ran, I have reasonable suspicions, Xiaoba still has a home outside.

She asked Shou Mei to take Zhou Jiong to the guest room: "Let's live in the guest room first, let's change places to live in a few days." ”

Now that she has Zhou Jiong in hand, it is inconvenient for her to live in the capital.

This time I went back to Beijing to deal with some trivial matters, and by the way, I took Xiaoba with me.

"What about them? Have you ever come back? He Ran asked.

"No, none of the four of them came back, by the way, Lu Shizi has been here and brought you this."

Shou Mei pointed to a pot of hibiscus placed under the porch, which was topped with two large red flowers at this time.

"Lu Shizi? Lu Zhen? He Ran asked.

"Yes, I'm wondering if I should talk to Mrs. Li the next time I see her." Shou Mei is really thinking like this, and it must be unkind to send flowers to a young woman.

He Ran snorted: "It's okay to say it or not, you can do it." ”

For those two big red flowers, He Ran just looked at them and didn't take them to heart.

Before she came back, she wrote a letter to Wen Qiu, the shopkeeper of Baoding Jinghong Building, asking Wen Qiu to find a teacher who should be reliable.

She thought it would take a few days to reply to the letter, but she didn't expect that on the second day after she returned to the capital, Wen Qiu actually brought Mr. Teaching into Beijing in person.

The teaching gentleman brought by Wen Qiu is named Bai Yan.

Wen Qiu asked Bai Yan to drink tea at the stone table in the courtyard first, and he went to see He Ran first.

It was the first time He Ran had seen Wen Qiu, Wen Qiu had no shadow of a businessman, he was elegant and handsome, no matter how he looked at it, he was a scholar.

In the previous few things, He Ran was very satisfied with Wen Qiu, so he didn't say too much to greet, and asked directly: "Is this Mr. Bai credible?" ”

Wen Qiu said: "Credible. ”

It turned out that Bai Yan was not from Baoding, he was from Qingzhou.

Bai Yan only has one daughter under his knees, and although his family is not rich, the family of three loves each other and is happy.

During the Qingming Festival a year ago, the family went to the suburbs to sweep the tomb, and happened to meet King Qi who went out.

Seeing this, King Qi personally dismounted, picked up the little girl, and returned it to Bai Yan and his wife, who were grateful for their kindness.

King Qi is approachable, noble and modest, saying that it was because of himself that he made the little girl fall and should apologize, he asked Bai Yan in detail for the address of his home, Bai Yan didn't want to say it at first, but King Qi was sincere, so he had to tell the truth.

After King Qi and his entourage left, the people praised King Qi for his wisdom, and even Bai Yan and his wife thought so.

After Bai Yan's family went back, after a few days, they didn't see anyone from the Qi Palace, so they just asked casually as the prince of Qi and left the matter behind.

No one thought that a few days later, in the early morning, after Bai Yan and his wife woke up, they habitually went to call their daughter to get up, but there was no movement in the house, and when his wife entered the house, the quilt was spread out on the bed, but Bai Dai did not know where to go, and the shoes were next to the bed.

At this time, Kashiwahiko and his wife both felt a little headache and even smelled the residual fragrance in their and their daughter's house, and they realized that someone had given them a scent and stole Dai Dai.

Bai Yan reported to the official, and he and his wife searched everywhere, but after looking for a whole month, there was no whereabouts of Bai Daidai.

When Bai Yan went to the yamen again, all he got was a cold sentence: "Go back and wait for news." ”

Bai Yan and his wife suspected that the yamen did not bother to find it, and when they were helpless, his wife suddenly said: "Why don't we go and ask the prince of Qi, he is so close to the people, maybe he can help us." ”

The speaker was unintentional, the listener was intentional, but his wife's words reminded Bai Yan of what happened on the Qingming Festival.

Isn't it all too coincidental.

He began to wander around in front of the Qi Palace's mansion from time to time, but soon, he was discovered by the guards of the Qi Palace, and he was expelled, and once, he was beaten with a few sticks.

In the blink of an eye, more than ten days later, Bai Yan's wife Yu Shi went outside the city to ask for a signature, and asked the Bodhisattva to guide the maze, maybe she could find her daughter.

On that day, there were many people who went to incense, and when they came back, a horse-drawn carriage accidentally stepped on the crops on the side of the road, clashed with the farmers, and blocked the road.

In desperation, many people had to take a detour.

There are two ways to get back to the city from here, one is the blocked one, and the other is to pass through mass graves, so no one will take that road unless they are forced to do so.

Fortunately, there are many people who come to incense today, so they have no scruples, and everyone goes to the road of mass graves together.

The women were talking and laughing, Yu was worried about her daughter, and she was not in the mood to talk and laugh with others, she subconsciously looked at the side of the road, and suddenly saw two little beggars fighting, one of them was tall, and lifted a thing high, and the other jumped to grab it.

The women covered their noses and subconsciously walked faster, for fear that the lice on the little beggar would jump on them.

But Yu couldn't move her legs, she walked up to the little beggar and snatched the things from the little beggar's hand.

It was a jade lock.

Yu's body shook, the back of the jade lock was engraved with a cypress character, and the rope on the jade lock was made by herself, she was used to tying an extra knot on the rope, so she could recognize it at a glance, this rope was made by her.

"Where was this found?" She grabbed the little beggar by the shoulder and yelled.

The little beggar hit the mass grave: "Over there, on the dead man." ”

Dai Dai's body was found, a nine-year-old girl, who had been humiliated and died, and her body had been dragged out of the pit by wild dogs.

He Ran asked in a deep voice, "What did King Qi do?" ”

Wen Qiu nodded and said: "Mr. Bai's wife went crazy and jumped into the lake and died, Mr. Bai went to the yamen again, and was bombed out, he took his life savings and the money from selling the ancestral house, and begged for Qingzhou Jinghong Building." ”