Chapter 083: Looking for the Great Prince
"All of you people are going out to find the eldest prince?" Mrs. Lu asked Tao Ziyun as a matter of course, Shanyin is such a big place, it is not easy to find people.
Fucai Dao Chang's master and apprentice, Liu Liuga successively promised that they were willing to find the eldest prince of Lu back.
"Have you forgotten your brother? I'll wait and tell him to lead his troops to search for him all over the city. Tao Ziyun's words made everyone feel at ease immediately. Tao Ziyun saw that Lu Yuanwai was also relieved, raised his wine glass and persuaded him: "Okay, don't worry about it now, we can get him back immediately." Come on, everybody clink glasses and drink!"
Lu Yuanwai clinked glasses with everyone and drank a glass of wine, and said with a little regret: "I hope he can return home by himself before you go out to look for him." Even if there are a lot of people you go to look for, those soldiers don't know the eldest prince, and they can't recognize them when they meet them, can you draw a stack of portraits of the eldest prince and let them take them to find them?"
"That's not necessary, not every portrait I draw looks like the eldest prince, if you want to paint every picture like a portrait and paint so many pictures, how long will it take to paint?" Tao Ziyun looked at the male servants, maids and maids who were eating at other tables in the hall, in addition to the male servants who were on duty at the gate and the maid who was sifting wine next to them, there were more than a hundred people, "There are so many servants in the Lu Mansion, they all know the eldest prince, the maid and the maid don't need to go, we asked the male servants to follow the soldiers separately to find them, isn't it done?"
"That's right, it's still Tao Gongzi who thinks thoughtfully. Lu Yuanwai drank and ate with confidence, and instantly thought of another thing: "There are many guest rooms in Lu Mansion, so don't go to the eldest prince for a few of you who go to hunt demons today, and go to the guest room to rest after taking a bath." It's just that where does this jade genus sleep? Not only tonight, after we go to the south, how will the moss and this goblin arrange accommodation here?"
"I'll just live with Mossy. The jade goblin took the initiative to ask, she and Moss Yu glanced at each other, and did not tell the secret that Moss Yu was also a girl, because just now Moss Yu softly asked her not to tell everyone that she was a daughter: "Just now Moss Yu told me that they originally lived in a room with their brother, and they slept on two beds respectively, and Tao Gongzi went to the south, so I slept on a bed with Moss Yu in that room." ”
"Yes, my brother is going back to the south, so I'll get used to my brother's absence from tonight, so that I can guard the jade family and prevent her from escaping! Brother can find another place to sleep tonight, it's just one night, you will be able to get used to it, you have to go back tomorrow, right?"
"Well, Moss Jade has to guard the Jade Family, you should be a man and a woman in the same room? Although you want to sleep in a separate bed, it's still a bit ambiguous! Jade is a woman, so it will have an impact on your reputation!" Tao Ziyun looked at the Jade who had taken off the white veil scarf, and saw such a stunning beauty, wondering why she didn't be strict with her behavior?
"Tao Gongzi, don't think too much, I'm a goblin, I'm not a real person now, I don't have to care about the world's secular etiquette. Yu Zhi grinned and said playfully to Tao Ziyun.
Tao Ziyun heard that Yu belonged to his own thoughts, so he had to go with her, for Moss Yu, his brother, he couldn't ask for such a good thing: "Then so be it, this is what you said, don't blame me in the future Brother Moss Yu has affected your reputation." ”
"I won't blame anyone in the future, I'm an assertive and responsible female goblin. Yu Xiang grinned and assured Tao Ziyun that he didn't care about the comments of everyone in the hall at all.
"I listened to everyone's discussions, I don't want to care so much, let Jade take her own decision, let's let her go, maybe this is the difference between goblins and people. Lu Yuanwai put down his chopsticks as he spoke, and said to the servants: "I have eaten enough, the eldest prince has not come back yet, after you are all full, the male servants will go out with Tao Gongzi, and let Dai Idiot find the eldest prince with you!"
After listening to Lu Yuanwai's arrangement, a sound of promise sounded in the hall.
Among them, Liu Liuga also asked to go together: "Brother Tao, I am so close to Lu Mansion, I want to go back to live, and now I am bored and panicked when I go back alone, and I go out with you to find someone, it is regarded as a pastime!"
Without waiting for the hesitant Tao Ziyun to answer, Lu Yuanwai readily agreed: "Anyway, Liu Liuga still wants to go out, so let him go together." By the way, Liu Liuga sent us so many horses, you all rode out!"
According to Lu Yuanwai's arrangement, the male servants who had eaten enough dinner went to the stable to lead the horses.
Tao Ziyun asked Lu Yuanwai: "The male servants of the Lu Mansion can ride horses!?"
Lu Yuanwai said proudly: "Lu Fu has always had the habit of learning martial arts, and the male servants have also learned from me, you can see the benefits and disadvantages of Dai Idiot's martial arts, but Dai Idiot is the highest martial arts among male servants, because he is diligent and willing to work hard." Originally, there were a small number of servants who couldn't ride horses, since Dai Idiot made a garrison because of the victory in the competition, which greatly improved their enthusiasm for practicing martial arts and horsebacking, and they couldn't ride horses before, because there was no suitable horse for practice, Liu Liuga gave a large number of horses to Lu Mansion, and the male servants all chose suitable horses for their own practice riding. ”
As he spoke, more than fifty manservants led the horses from the corridor next to the hall to the door, and the butlers who walked at the end, even Tao Ziyun and Liu Liuga's horses also came out and waited for them on the other side of the corridor.
So Tao Ziyun asked the master and apprentice of Fucai Dao to rest in Lu Mansion early, and explained a few words to Moss Yu, who had been sitting with the jade goblin, and chased after the people and horses who had gone away with Liu Liuga.
In the Sanyin Garrison Office, Dai Idiot had just returned from the barracks, and was about to drink a few cups of tea before he was going to sleep early.
Dai Idiot walked out and saw that Tao Ziyun had brought Liu Liuga and the servants of the Lu Mansion with lanterns, and hurriedly asked, "What happened to the Lu Mansion?"
Tao Ziyun asked the servants to watch the horses waiting outside, he and Liu Liuga followed Dai Zhi to the house, he told Dai Zhi about catching the white rat spirit, they were going to go to the south tomorrow to do business, Lu Dagongzi as the direct manager of the Lu family's business, Lu Yuanwai had a lot of things to explain to him before the trip, but he went out this afternoon and never came back.
"Lu Yuanwai is also going to the south with you? I haven't heard him talk about it before. Dai asked Tao Ziyun unexpectedly, he took Tao Ziyun and Liu Liuga to the living room to sit, and Yahuan came over with a teapot and teacup.
Tao Ziyun drank the freshly brewed tea, and thought of the white hairy sweet tea that he drank at the house of his brother Zhao Jinlong in the same year, the tea he drank at that time was sweet, and now he is going back, and he has been imagining the scene after going back, but the eldest son of the Lu family does not return when he goes out, and he has to look for it everywhere, so that he can't taste what the tea in his hand tastes like.
Dai Idiot accompanied Tao Ziyun and Liu Liuga to drink tea, listening to them talk about the results of the treatment after catching the goblin, of course, he heard more to ask him to help find the eldest prince of Lu, he understood what they meant, and finally he agreed to their request: "In this case, I will go to the barracks to order soldiers, saying that it is the task of the government, and let the soldiers search in the city one by one." ”
"Yes, you don't have to let the soldiers know too much about what the task is, and if you look for someone, the servants of the Lu Mansion will follow you to identify it. Tao Ziyun saw that Dai Idiot understood his intentions, so he talked to him about the way he was looking.
"I understand this, I asked each petty officer to bring a team of men, and each team to bring a few servants. I'm going to set out to order troops, the barracks is behind the garrison office, and you are waiting at the exit of the barracks. Dai Idiot took them to the barracks.
In this way, the soldiers set off with lanterns, and the servants followed the soldiers of each team to search in Sanyin City, hotels, inns, green buildings, shops, dart bureaus, martial arts halls and even private houses, one by one. Tao Ziyun, Dai Idiot, and Liu Liuga rode horses back and forth on the traffic arteries, waiting for the progress report of the search for the sergeants of each team.
After searching most of Sanyin City, he finally asked for the news of the eldest prince of Lu in a large restaurant, and the shopkeeper told the servants who followed the soldiers: "You said that the eldest prince of Lu Yi, together with the other two rich sons Zeng Jianren and Feng Ligui, drove two carriages over today, and bought a lot of expensive wine and food, snacks and rice in the store, and packed them in food boxes, which were enough to load a carriage. When the runner and I loaded the food they bought into one of the wagons, we asked them where they were going to eat, and they said that they hadn't decided yet, and that they had just decided to buy food here. They said that they invited the three pink confidants to go to the wild for dinner, and where to wait, and then it depends on what they mean to know that the three girls did not come, and they had to go over to pick them up. ”
After asking the shopkeeper about the direction of the eldest prince Lu when they left, the officers and soldiers and servants went to report the results of their search to Dai Idiot and Tao Ziyun.
After finding out this result, Dai Idiot asked the herald to gather the various search teams, follow the direction of the carriage in which the Grand Prince Lu and the others were leaving, and ask the people they met and the pedestrians on the road along the road, and asked the people who were asked to tell them if they had seen the two carriages passing by, and when they met people who had seen the two carriages, they asked where the carriages went. Pushing forward while asking for the road, Dai Idiot's team came to the road far outside the city.
"In this direction, further on, it will be Xingshan, do you think they will go to Xingshan?" Tao Ziyun discussed with Dai Idiot.
Dai Idiot looked up at the sky, there was no crescent moon in the night sky, and he muttered: "There is not even a crescent moon in the sky like when the Qixi Festival party was held on Xingshan before, what is the fun for them to go up?"
"You said that moon viewing party! It was the eldest princess who was looking for the little princess and decided to hold it temporarily, there are colorful platforms, there are lanterns, and the party is also very peaceful and poetic, don't care about the size of the moon in the sky. Tao Ziyun thought of this, and his heart flashed: "The color table is still there, isn't it the same as when the lanterns are hung?" They are having dinner with three pink confidants, the girls like romance, isn't it very poetic and romantic to hang lanterns on the color platform for a candlelight dinner?"
When Dai Idiot asked, he looked at Liu Liuga, and when he saw Liu Liuga nodding to Tao Ziyun, he said, "Then let's go up to Xingshan to find it." ”
When I came to the foot of Xingshan Mountain, I saw two carriages there from a distance, and when Tao Ziyun, Liu Liuga and Dai Niang rushed over to ask, they were the servants and carriages of Zeng Jianren and Feng Ligui respectively, and let the horses eat the night grass that would get fat when they ate it. They told Tao Ziyun: "The eldest prince of Lu and the son of our family also had a picnic with the three girls on Xingshan. ”
"Is there anything abnormal on the mountain?" Tao Ziyun asked the two servants.
"No, it's normal, we moved the food from the carriage to the color table, brought some food and drove the carriage to the foot of the mountain. One of the servants said lightly.
"Alright, let's go up and bring them down. Tao Ziyun said to Dai Idiot.
Under Dai Idiot's order, a large group of men and horses rushed to Xingshan.
In the distance, they heard a shout: "Lu Yi, where are you, girls, where have you gone?"
Everyone felt bad in their hearts, when they rushed to the front of the color platform to see, dozens of lanterns were hung on both sides and behind the color platform, the candlelight was brilliant, a table on the color platform was full of good wine and good food, and the boxes and cages next to the table were opened, and there were meals that had not yet been served on the table.
The people who called Lu Dagongzi and the three girls just now were Zeng Jianren and Feng Ligui in the Jianting Pavilion next to the color platform. When they saw a large group of people rushing up, they rushed over and said to Tao Ziyun, Dai Idiot, and Liu Liuga, who were in the lead, "Help us find someone!