Chapter 256: Five Whole Days
There was a rumor in the entire imperial city, and many groups of people were dispatched together, all looking for people.
Find the emperor of the day, find the regent, find the ...... Under the premise that the regent and the emperor disappeared at the same time, it seems that they have become a princess who no one cares about.
The imperial city sent troops to search door to house, and the checkpoints on the left and right floors above the official road were stuck there, and the merchants who came and went, and the people who traveled far away from the passing, including the displaced people who could no longer linger near the imperial city because of the cold and the earth, and were ready to migrate to the south...... All of them have to go through layers of screening.
For several days, Lihua personally led the soldiers and horses mobilized from Zhongli Zhengzhen, and almost turned the entire imperial city upside down.
But no trace of Gan Qiongying was found, and the people he sent out to chase the people sent by Gan Qiongying, every time they came back to pass the word, the other party's car had been destroyed and people died.
The capsizing of a boat, the crash of a car, the encounter of bandits on horseback......
Every time Lihua received a message, it was like going through a delay, and in the end, he didn't allow those people to chase too closely, and even if he found people, he would only follow them from a distance.
He was afraid that he would chase him tightly, in case it was really Gan Qiongying, and there would be an accident because of his chase.
Lihua has been in the air for so many days, and the only thing that can support his spirit is "dead without seeing a corpse".
No matter what kind of accident happened to the group of people, Lihua had not seen any corpses so far, which was the best news he had ever received.
These days, he doesn't know what to eat, and even forgets whether he has slept or eaten, most of the time on the horse, and his legs are numb because of the cold, or even unconscious.
Five whole days, five days...... He caught up with almost all the people sent out by Gan Qiongying, but he didn't see any trace of Gan Qiongying.
The burden he had prepared was always on his back, as long as he found Gan Qiongying, he could care about nothing and ask nothing, as long as Gan Qiongying was willing to take him with him.
But he couldn't find her.
Lihua wanted to calm down very much, and wanted to think seriously about which group of people Gan Qiongying followed, which way she took, and how she avoided his pursuit.
But Lihua couldn't calm down at all, his soul was frozen, he had fallen from his horse countless times these days, his lips were always bruised, but there was a fire burning in his chest.
The fuel of this fire is his soul and his unwillingness.
He couldn't calm down, and he couldn't stop at all, he was afraid that if he couldn't find Gan Qiongying again, he would really miss her.
How short a person's life is, Lihua doesn't dare to imagine if they miss it this time, there will be no chance to meet again.
But no matter how anxious he was to self-immolate, no matter how he searched day and night, he never found a trace of Gan Qiongying.
I can't think of where she went.
In the early morning of the fifth day, Lihua rode a horse and led people, patrolling back and forth on the official road outside the city, numbly watching everyone who passed by, trying his best to distinguish according to their body shape and voice.
But no...... No one resembles Gan Qiongying.
"Prince, you must rest." Sanjiu grabbed the reins of Lihua, and looked at Lihua, whose face was already blue from the cold, and the whole person looked like a living corpse, and asked him to stop a little forcefully.
The horses were dragged to a halt, and Lihua lowered his head to look at Sanjiu, his eyes were a barren snowfield, colder and more desolate than this world covered by heavy snow.
Sanjiu felt extremely sorry for his master, and even hated the dignified princess in his heart.
He wanted to roar wildly at his master, he had already said that the woman who didn't even want to give birth to a child, the woman who didn't tell the truth from beginning to end, was simply deceiving his master's feelings!
Sanjiu still doesn't think that he has done anything wrong, he sincerely feels sorry for Lihua, he can do anything for Lihua, but Lihua hurt himself for that woman.
Sanjiu didn't dare to say anything bad about that woman in front of his master.
Because there is a person who said once these days, saying that Princess Duanrong may have rolled off the cliff and died, Sanjiu will never forget the look of his master at that time.
Even if it was just an idea, Sanjiu felt that his master had followed the woman down the cliff once, and had followed her to die once.
"Only the last group of homeless people are left, I'll keep an eye on it." Sanjiu said, "Master, you go to the tent over there to bake a fire, at least drink a bowl of soup, and the sweet horns have stayed up all night for you." ”
Lihua's expression was still stiff, Sanjiu couldn't persuade him, and couldn't help but say in a heavier tone: "Eldest son, you are confused!" If you freeze and get frostbitten, even if you really find Princess Duanrong, will she want you! ”
Sanjiu actually didn't have hope at all, the princess was golden and precious and extremely good at enjoyment, she had to eat a lot of dishes at every meal, and it was too simple to stay in the Pony Mansion for one night.
How could she be among the homeless? How could it be possible to leave the Imperial City on foot with those dirty people in such a cold and snowy weather?
She must have run away on the night of her escape, knowing how to hide her eyes.
But his master refused to believe or give up, so Sanjiu could only accompany him to screen the homeless people over and over again, check all the passing vendors, and all the suspicious people with similar figures.
Walk through every house in the city, even through their cellars.
may be because of the words "Princess Duanrong" and "Don't want him", which stimulated Lihua's already frozen nerves.
He rolled his eyes and glanced at Sanjiu, and then the hand that was about to pull the reins hung down, and his stiff fingers, which were so blue and white that he could not straighten at all, fell on his knees, and let Sanjiu lead the horse to a makeshift tent in front of him.
At this time, Dingzhen and the last group of homeless people are passing through this level of screening, not far behind Dingzhen and this group of homeless people, that is, Gan Qiongying and Gan Lin, who have been mixed in with a group of monks, have undergone a makeover, and even changed their height with boots specially stuffed with many layers of mats.
The disguised appearance of the two people is very ordinary, Gan Qiongying turned herself into a little novice who is only a teenager, and then he is next to Gan Qiongying, he is very young, and he looks as tall as Gan Qiongying at the moment, and the two look side by side like two boys of the same age.
And at the end of this group of monks, Gan Lin followed a few tall monks to stand in a row, and his appearance had also changed, and he was unremarkable. Coupled with the fact that his robe had some extra cotton on his back, his back no longer looked straight, but like a pot.
Gan Lin was very flustered now, but he watched Gan Qiongying follow everyone from a distance, without any sign of looking around, and Gan Lin quickly calmed down.
They had already heard about the situation in the Imperial City, and it was the shadow guards who followed them back to the Imperial City to inquire about it, and the inside and outside of the Imperial Palace had been completely chaotic, and now everyone was busy eating dogs.
There are more people looking for the regent, and King Kang Ganli doesn't want anyone to find the emperor and the regent, so he is frantically creating obstacles for this group of people.
Now that the most chaotic time has passed, the people of several roads have lost much hope of finding the few people who have disappeared.
Now is the perfect time for them to hang out.
Gan Lin couldn't recognize himself when he looked in the mirror today, just like Gan Qiongying said, don't look around and just look at your feet, and follow a group of monks.