The little er named Shi went up and down the stairs a few times, ran to the backyard a few times with a plate, and on the way, he saw Qin Ling talking to Mr. Ledger and didn't bother, just busy packing things.

Qin Ling waited for a while, and when he saw the little second person coming out of the backyard, he clapped his hands, he should be busy with his work, and the little second walked towards the Qingxiu scribe.

"Sir, it's already packed. ”

"Mmmm, you go back first, go back early and rest, the hemp pole is injured, you have to be more busy these days. ”

"I know, sir. The little er named Shi said that he was about to go out, and when he left, he was in a hurry, and he saw that Qin Ling just barely squeezed out a smile.

"Little brother, wait for me. ”

Qin Ling called Xiao Er, who had already walked to the door of the restaurant, and chased after him.

The Qingxiu scribe raised his head in surprise, but he didn't know when Shi met the guest of the Iron Sword Gate, but he immediately lowered his head again and continued to calculate the account.

"Guest, aren't you going back?"

The shopkeeper who was called to stay scratched his head a little happily and a little embarrassed.

"Didn't you just say that I would accompany you to find that little girl. ”

"This ...... Okay, thank you" The shopkeeper hesitated for a moment, but gritted his teeth and agreed, now let's find Jiu'er first.

After finishing speaking, the shopkeeper walked towards the east of the town, his pace was very urgent, but with Qin Ling's strength, he could still easily keep up.

"Where are you going?" Qin Ling asked aloud behind Xiao Er.

"I'll go home first and see if Jiu'er went back first," explained the shopkeeper known as Stone, and then pointed to the east and continued to hurry.

Seeing that the shopkeeper was quite anxious, Qin Ling stopped making a sound, but followed behind the shopkeeper unhurriedly.

The town is indeed very small, less than a mile away, and there are almost no two-story houses to be seen further on the periphery, and there are very few wooden houses, all of which are low mud houses, and the houses are covered with sparse and broken tiles.

The two of them were interspersed in small alleys, and it took more than half an hour to arrive in just over a mile, and finally, the shopkeeper stayed by a dilapidated earthen house, panting.

"Whew...... Whew......"

The earthen house is a little higher than Qin Ling, the area is not very large, the earthen wall is covered with fine cracks, the corner of the wall is a gray-black mark, there are some dry firewood, there are some grass heads exposed in the soil on the wall, the construction of the house to add grass poles to the soil is to increase the willfulness, the house of ordinary people has been like this for a long time, although this kind of house is full of cracks, but the inhabitants are no problem, and it will not collapse without encountering some special circumstances.

It's just that this kind of house must not be drenched in the rain, as soon as it encounters water, it will become a pile of mud, this house is also paved with some tiles, but not much, and there are neat reeds and grass under the tiles to cover it, but it can also prevent rain.

The shopkeeper didn't explain anything to Qin Ling, so he wanted to push the door in, he was probably very anxious, and he called inside before the door opened.

"Jiu'er, are you there?"

The door was not locked, it was directly pushed open by the shopkeeper, and there was really no need to lock it, and there was nothing to steal here, what could a little girl with a half-sized child have?.

Qin Ling walked to the side of the shopkeeper and glanced at the door, there was a clay kang in the house, a small earthen stove in the corner of the wall, and a small porcelain urn on it, which should be the place where the fire was burned on weekdays, and there were some sundries scattered on the inside of the wall.

The room was pitch black, Qin Ling could still roughly distinguish things, and the improvement in vision and hearing was part of the gain brought by breaking through the eighth layer of Sword Qi Decision.

Qin Ling didn't see the little girl named "Jiu'er" in the house, and the shopkeeper also noticed it, and he couldn't bear the uneasiness, but he still hurried in, took out the fire fold and lit the oil lamp on the earthen kang with ease.

It is said that the oil lamp is actually just a small dish made of earthy yellow mud, with a small half spoon of vegetable oil in it, and the wick is made of cotton, which is very fine, and the vegetable oil in it cannot even be submerged.

A little orange light lit up in the dark room......

"Jiu'er, Jiu'er......"

The fact still broke the last trace of illusion of the shopkeeper stone, and the shopkeeper stood in front of the kang in a trance and muttered to himself.

Qin Ling walked in and sighed when he saw that the shopkeeper called Stone was stunned.

"Alas......"

patted the second shopkeeper on the shoulder and asked out loud.

"When was the last time you saw Jiu'er?"

The shopkeeper realized that there was another guest who was accompanying him to find Jiu'er, turned around, thought about it and said.

"Hmm...... About an hour ago, when Ma Zhu'er was pushed downstairs, I also saw Jiu'er hiding at the door, not daring to come in, but at that time I was in a hurry to help Ma Zhu'er to the backyard, and I didn't have time to care about her, and then because there was one less person to entertain guests, I was busy and didn't pay attention to anything else. ”

"Oh, an hour?...... An hour, it's not easy. ”

Qin Ling thought about it and couldn't find a clue, an hour is so long, a child can run a lot of distances, the restaurant and home are the most likely, if not here, then it is a restaurant, if it is not abducted by someone.

"Where's the restaurant?"

"I've looked for the restaurant, but there is no backyard, and there is no one on the first and second floors. The shopkeeper replied with a wry smile.

"I see that there are still three or four floors in the restaurant, have you gone to see it above?"

"No, no, no, it shouldn't be on it. Shi hurriedly shook his head and explained, "The third floor is the boss's residence, the boss is not in good health, no one bothers him on weekdays, the boss hands over the business to the hired Mr. Wang to take care of, three meals a day are sent by the old servant, and occasionally come down and walk around for a while, and the door on the third floor is tied inside, if you want to go in, you have to call the door." ”

"As for the fourth floor...... I don't know very well, I haven't been up, but when I was a child, I heard the boss say that it was a warehouse where things were put on it, and the door locks on the fourth floor were rusty, and the boss didn't let people clean it for several years. ”

Seeing the positive appearance of the shopkeeper, I thought it was not in the restaurant.

"Then has she been to other places in her daily life, the kind of places that she goes to a lot?"

Qin Ling asked again.

"There shouldn't be...... Bar, after I brought Jiu'er back a month ago, in addition to being at home and in the restaurant, Jiu'er is quite sensible, and he doesn't run around on weekdays, he sticks to me a lot, at most...... At most............"

"Hiss......"

Before he finished speaking, Xiao Ershi took a sharp breath of cold air, his eyes widened behind Qin Ling, his eyes were blank, as if he had seen something frightened.

"Huh~"

Qin Ling pulled out the iron sword in his hand violently, and quickly activated the sword qi, and the sword qi of the eighth layer mobilized the internal force in his body, and looked behind his head.

He went out of the house on tiptoe, holding the sword in front of him, but there was silence all around, and he still couldn't detect the slightest abnormality, even if he used the sword qi to the maximum extent, after three breaths, Qin Ling still didn't dare to put the sword down.

"What did you just see?"

Qin Ling asked in a deep voice, he couldn't even notice it at all, obviously his strength was not weak, but if he was waiting for an opportunity on the sidelines, it would be difficult to resist.

"Huh? what?...... You...... This is...... What are you doing?"

Seeing Qin Ling questioning him, the shopkeeper came back to his senses at this time, when did he Qin Ling run out, and held the iron sword in front of him, with a look of surprise, and then asked in a whisper.

"What did you just see?"

Qin Ling said in a deep voice again, frowned, looked around, and still didn't notice anything unusual, there were only a few places where it was better to hide people, all of them were blocked by other houses, and Qin Ling carefully watched these places as he spoke.

"What do you see?" shopkeeper Ershi turned his head and looked at it with some confusion, looking around, there was nothing there, but he didn't know what Qin Ling was talking about.

"Guest officer, I think of one thing, about Jiu'er!" said the shopkeeper in a hurry.

"Oh, let's hear it. Standing his sword on the side, Qin Ling turned his head.

"After I brought Jiu'er back last month, I took her to the restaurant on weekdays, but she didn't play with the kid next door to the restaurant, she mostly ran around in the restaurant by herself, and the restaurant stuck to me when there were no guests, Jiu'er was also very clever and sensible, but it wasn't very troublesome, and the bookkeeper in the store turned a blind eye to it......

"Who would have thought that half a month ago night, Jiu'er suddenly said that she was very sleepy and wanted to come back to sleep first, but I couldn't leave because I wanted to entertain guests, and the town was not big, I also took her to the restaurant every morning, and walked for nearly half a month...... When I went back at night, I didn't find her, I searched in the town all night but didn't find anything, and the next day when I was about to go to the yamen to report to the official, I heard a few old vegetable sellers say when I was passing by the market, he went to the field in the morning and came back, and saw a little girl falling asleep under a tree on the side of the road, and asked her what she was doing, where her home was, and the little girl didn't say anything, just said that she was waiting for her aunt......"

"It was already an hour later when I rushed over, the little girl was really Jiu'er, I pulled her back and she refused, kept telling me to wait for her aunt to go back together, no matter how she refused to go back, I saw that her palms were cold, and her little face was frozen and white, so I forcibly carried her back, crying all the way, but came back and coaxed her for a long time before she stopped making noise......"

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"Where does she have any Auntie, it's long gone......"

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