31. Tracking
Because of Ronna's incident, Jiang Wan didn't have the heart to go to Pei You again, and she was in no mood to tease him when she went, so she just went to see how Pei Yulian fried the medicine, and when she saw that there was no problem, she gave a few words of advice, and then didn't sneak away to find Pei You again.
And although Pei You couldn't see Jiang Wan at dinner time, because he had just received her gift, he was in a good mood, as if he could eat two more bites of rice.
Early the next morning, Jiang Wan wore a dusty dress that she had never worn to the county seat, and then painted herself with rouge and other things, and her face was still the same face, but it felt a little different. After she wore it, she didn't like to use the cosmetics of the original owner, and the heavy metal content of cosmetics in this era was too high, so it was better to use less. But now I have to use it.
Along the way, Jiang Gu was always a little worried.
"Sister, if Rhona is really captured, how can we save him?
"Sister, if we go to the county seat now, we won't be caught by them, right?
"Sister, should we sue my father and mother, let my father and mother take the idea......"
Seeing that Jiang Gu's whole face was about to wrinkle together, Jiang Wan smiled and touched Jiang Gu's head: "Don't worry too much, what is the situation now, it's not clear, don't scare yourself, it's really that time, let's talk about it." But this matter must not be told to sΓΉ parents, they are as frightened as us, how can they do anything? Xiao Er, you don't have to think much about this, leave it to your sister. β
Jiang Gu bit his lower lip, his eyes were filled with panic that could not be dispersed, and under Jiang Wan's comfort, he finally settled down and grabbed her hand: "Sister, I'm not afraid, I'll figure out a way with you." β
Jiang Wan smiled and nodded, and neither of them said anything more along the way.
Jiang Wan was also a little frightened, but no matter how scared she was, she couldn't show it in front of Jiang Gu, otherwise he would be even more fearful.
In fact, as she thought before, their family is still safe for the time being, and if something happens, it is probably just Ronna. Assuming that the person wanted by the government is really Ronna, first of all, the second generation of officials in the capital knows Ronna's appearance for some reason, and her appearance was obviously seen by the second generation of officials, but there is no wanted warrant for her on the street, why? Is it because the painters here are too poor to draw like it, so they simply don't put the portrait? It's possible. But the question is, is there something wrong with the wanted warrant not mentioning her and Jiang Gu except for Ronna? Although Rona is a person whose physical characteristics are distinct enough, she and Jiang Gu should also be the targets of the second generation of officials!
One more point, does Xie Chengchou know about the government's issuance of wanted warrants? After all, he is the son of the magistrate, what does the second generation of officials want to do, there should be no way he doesn't know, right? Last time, she warned him, and later, judging from his appearance, he really escaped because of her golden finger, and it seems that their family has a good relationship with the second generation of the official. And he will definitely be curious about her because of her prophecy, and he said last time that he wanted to make a personal promise...... So, if something really happens this time, if she goes to him, can she get help?
Jiang Wan was thinking about these many things all the way, and sighed after a long time. In this era, the people are really the lowest and hardest, running around for a living every day, and if they accidentally offend the powerful, this life will be over. Even if you can live under the hands of the powerful, you still rely on people's breath, and if you are not careful, you may cause death. Now she is hiding in a small mountain village, dealing with ordinary villagers every day, and she is still at ease, but if their family really moves to the county seat in the future, the possibility of provoking the powerful will greatly increase.
If Pei You can be admitted to the imperial examination and become an official in the future, she can also marry him smoothly, and become a powerful person herself, then many things will be much easier to do, at least no one will dare to provoke herself in a small place.
Along the way, Jiang Wan thought about what she didn't have, and finally the two finally walked to Changping County. Before entering the city, Jiang Wan carefully observed both sides of the city gate and the guards at the gate, the soldiers didn't check much, they all looked lazy, and there were several wanted notices posted at the city gate, one of which only said that he was looking for a blonde barbarian. After all, there are many illiterate people in this era, and no one reads the wanted notices.
"Xiao Er, you wait for me here, I'll go and see first." The two entered the city, and seeing that the small restaurant that had made Rona work was not far in front, Jiang Wan stopped and told Jiang Gu.
Jiang Gu hurriedly said: "Sister, I want to go with you too!" β
"I'm more flexible when I go alone, and if you go together, it's easy to lag behind." Jiang Wan was not polite.
Jiang Gu's expression was lost, he was only twelve years old this year, although he was already about the same height as Jiang Wan, but in terms of dealing with trouble, he was still far behind.
Jiang Wan touched his head: "Xiao Er, you are still young, and there are some things that you shouldn't have to deal with." You wait here for me for a while, and I'll be back. She paused, but then advised, "In case I don't come back, don't come to me, and don't talk to me if you recognize me on the way." This is because of me, and if I do get caught, I won't let them know about our family. β
Jiang Gu listened to her words, and there was a panic in his heart, he pulled Jiang Wan's sleeve and refused to let go, for fear that she would never return.
Jiang Wan sighed and said, "Xiao Er, I'm talking about the worst situation. However, you have to have faith in your sister and me, I am so smart, how could I let myself fall into such a situation? So don't worry, just wait here and see you later. β
Under Jiang Wan's repeated reassurance, Jiang Gu's heart finally let go of a little.
"Sister, you must come back! I'll be waiting for you all the time! "Jiang Gu. Road.
Jiang Wan smiled and nodded, and left quickly.
Jiang Wan had a headscarf wrapped around her head, the rouge on her cheeks was a little red, and her eyebrows and tails were a little changed, looking a little uglier and older than her original appearance. She deliberately bent her back slightly, and looked even more unenergetic, and then she slowly walked to the vicinity of the small restaurant, and saw that it was open for business and there was nothing abnormal, so she walked in and found a small table where no one was there.
It's not yet a meal, and there aren't many people who come here to eat, as soon as Jiang Wan sat down, the shopkeeper came over: "Sister, what should you eat?" β
"A bowl of shredded pork noodles." Jiang Wan said in a hoarse voice.
The shopkeeper smiled: "Okay, you can wait a while!" β
As he spoke, he turned and left.
Jiang Wan quietly observed this small restaurant, the place was not big, and the owner who had accepted Rona before was not there, but even if she was, the other party would not recognize her. The next thing she had to do was find a way to find out if Rona had been captured or if he was still here. If she was still here, she would have taken Rona away, and if she had the former, she would have thought of something else. From what she saw all the way into the city, Ronna's wanted notice was not densely posted, at least there were very few in the vicinity, so the possibility that the shopkeeper saw the wanted notice and happened to know that it was Rona was greatly reduced.
Soon, Jiang Wan's noodles came up, she took the chopsticks, and said slowly, "Xiao Er, has this bowl been cleaned?" I'm not in good health, and I have to run out of my stomach when I eat dirty things. β
The shopkeeper said: "Sister, don't worry, this bowl is clean!" I'll tell you the truth, there is a foreign barbarian in our back kitchen, that strength, it's big, and the dishes are clean! β
Jiang Wan's heart moved, listening to his tone, Rona is still here?
"Really? Can I go to the back kitchen and see for myself? Jiang Wan said.
The shopkeeper was stunned, he thought that he could satisfy the eldest sister by saying those words, but he didn't expect her to go to the back kitchen to have a look, just a bowl of green vegetables and shredded pork noodles, as for it!
"Sister, you can't just go to this back kitchen. You see, I'm not going to lie to you......"
The shopkeeper was still here to persuade Jiang Wan, and a group of people suddenly walked in at the door, he glanced at it, immediately stopped talking, and whispered to Jiang Wan: "Sister, I'll go over there, and I'll talk to you later." β
The shopkeeper trotted to the door as he spoke, Jiang Wan happened to be facing away from the door, so she didn't see who was coming at the first time, and then she looked in the direction he was going, and she was so frightened that she quickly retracted her head!
The one standing at the door was actually Xie Chengchou!
Jiang Wan only felt her heart pounding, and she didn't know if her brief glance just now had attracted the other party's attention, and she was about to break out in a cold sweat.
I only heard the shopkeeper say: "This son, please come in, please come in!" β
Xie Chengchou didn't speak, it was Xie An, the little guy next to him, who spoke: "Call your boss out, my young master has something to ask him." β
The shopkeeper is not very old, but he knows that the young master in front of him is either rich or expensive, so he doesn't say much, and hurriedly goes to the back kitchen.
Jiang Wan turned her back to the group, and her body stiffened.
Xie Chengchou is here, and he still brings his little servant and someone else, but there is no second generation of Beijing officials. He was about to find Rhona, but she was right now under the nose of the other party, and it was impossible for her to run straight to the back kitchen and pull people away.
She was so nervous that her palms were covered in cold sweat, but she didn't dare to act rashly.
After a while, the shopkeeper came out.
Xie An said: "The young master of my family is the son of the Zhixian family, I have something to ask you, if you don't tell the truth, be careful to eat in prison!" β
The shopkeeper was startled, and hurriedly said, "Young master, even if you ask, the little one will not dare to hide anything!" β
"That's pretty much it." Xie An said, "Someone reported that you are hiding a fugitive here, do you know?" β
"Fugitives?" The shopkeeper looked surprised.
"A blonde brute!" Xie Andao.
The shopkeeper's face changed: "The little one, the little one doesn't know that he is a fugitive!" Please see the young master and spare the little one's life! β
"There are all wanted notices outside, you say you don't know?" Xie An squinted.
The shopkeeper hurriedly said, "The little one is illiterate! I really don't know what is written on the wanted poster! What a small wrong! β
"Okay, okay, don't shout injustice, call people out, it's none of your business." Xie An waved his hand.
The shopkeeper nodded again and again, and immediately asked the shopkeeper to go to the back kitchen to call someone.
Xie Chengchou had been asking Xie An to endorse him before, and at this time he suddenly asked, "Why did you recruit a barbarian?" β
The shopkeeper said with a bitter face: "Back to the young master, the little one has also been deceived!" Before, a girl and a child brought him over, saying that he didn't understand what we were talking about, and that he just wanted food and shelter, and that even his salary was only ten cents a month, and that the small one was greedy for cheapness, so he left him behind. Little I really didn't expect him to be a wanted criminal! β
"I forgive you for the innocence of those who do not know." Xie Chengchou shook the fan in his hand and asked with a smile, "Do you recognize the girl who brought him here?" Did she come back later? β
"This ...... The little one had never seen her before. "After that, she never appeared again." β
"That girl looks like this?" Xie Chengchou took a scroll from Xie An's hand and opened it for the shopkeeper to look at.
I saw the woman in the painting leaning on the willow trunk next to the stream, with a charming and enchanting posture, and her eyebrows were graceful and affectionate.
After looking at it for a while, the shopkeeper finally determined that in addition to the wrong clothes and the wrong expression on his face, the painting was painted by the girl of that day, so he nodded again and again: "Exactly, it is this girl!" β
Xie Chengchou carefully rolled up the painting and handed it to Xie An, and then said, "What did the girl say that day, you can tell me about it." β
The shopkeeper frowned and thought for a while before he said, "The girl didn't talk to the little one that day, and the person who talked to the little one a lot was the girl's younger brother, and the girl seemed to have been talking to Rona all the time." β
"Ronna?" Xie Chengchou said strangely.
"It's the name of the barbarian, and that's what the girl sued." The shopkeeper said, "Little thinks, the girl seems to know what the barbarian is saying." That barbarian has been here for several days, and he can't even understand what we are saying here, but he works diligently, and always looks like a smile, not like a vicious man, otherwise the little morning newspaper officer. "Speaking of which, the shopkeeper is actually a little reluctant, such a useful person, I didn't expect it to be a criminal, alas, he originally thought he had picked up a bargain, but he didn't expect to receive a scourge!
"Oh?" Xie Chengchou's eyes lit up slightly, and he became more and more curious about the girl he had inadvertently met twice, once to save his whole family, and once to be escaped by her.
This is how wonderful things are in this world. Originally, since she escaped that day, he felt that it would be difficult to find her again in the future. After all, if she could escape from under his nose, she wouldn't be in front of him again. Unexpectedly, he heard from her again, or from Li Mao.
Two days ago, Li Mao came to him, his face was not good-looking, only said that he and his men were beaten by a mob on the road, and asked his county magistrate to hurry up and arrest people. Xie Chengchou knew that things were not so simple, so he responded on the face, but in fact, he asked people to investigate. And the results of the investigation also made him a little annoyed. It's just that this person is jealous of him in the Qinglou, and he even wants to rob the people's girls on the street, how can this kind of thing be endured? But in the end, the other party's father is high and powerful, and he was worried that his family would be unlucky after angering people, but he didn't dare to say anything, and deliberately put on a serious appearance and went to investigate in person.
At that time, in addition to the girl who Li Mao was flirting with, there was also a little boy in his early tens, a tall man who also wore a turban, according to the people who saw it at the scene, although the girl looked a little old, but she was not married, and the three were not a family. And after an in-depth investigation, what Li Mao hadn't seen also surfaced - it turned out that the tall man turned out to be a blonde barbarian, and the girl and the little boy were taking him to work in various restaurants.
Speaking of the blonde barbarian, Xie Chengchou remembered that the barbarian he saw after chasing and losing the girl at the door of the bookstore that day was also blonde. He suddenly realized it in his heart, and pretended to show her he painted to Li Mao in a casual appearance, and Li Mao recognized it at a glance, it was the girl he was going to flirt with on the street, but he didn't expect to be beaten by the blonde barbarian.
After hearing that the girl was related to the blonde barbarian, Xie Chengchou was even less active in finding people, and even issued a wanted warrant only a few pieces piecemeal, and did not send anyone to find it. He wanted to find the girl, but now that Li Mao also wanted to find her, he naturally couldn't let her be found. When he was thinking about how to protect the girl, Li Mao's family suddenly sent a letter asking him to go back. And just as Li Mao was leaving, he received a report that the blonde barbarian was working in a small restaurant, so he hurried to come. Since Li Mao's threat is no longer there, he naturally has to do his best to find out the girl!
While he was talking, the shopkeeper brought Rona out. When he came out, Rona still had a smile on his face, and he didn't know what he was about to face.
Xie Chengchou looked at Rona and said with a smile: "You really don't know what we say here?" β
Rona looked puzzled, looked at Xie Chengchou, and then looked at the shopkeeper, who immediately looked away.
Rona looked at Xie Chengqian again and said in stumbling Chinese: "Find me, what are you doing?" β
"Presumptuous, how dare you talk to our young master like this?!" Xie An rebuked loudly.
Xie Chengchou glared at Xie An, seeing that the latter's neck shrank and hid behind.
"I want to ask you about a girl, the girl who brought you here." Xie Chengchou looked at Rona at this time, and took out a piece of gold to show him as he spoke, "You tell the truth, this gold is yours." β
Rona's eyes lit up when he saw the gold, but he didn't take it, just frowned and wondered what the other party asked him to do. After thinking about it for a while, he suddenly remembered that there was a word "girl" in the other party's words, and he still remembered that he wanted to call the angel who helped him Miss Jiang, could it be that they came for Miss Jiang?
Rona shook his head violently, his eyes never falling on the gold again: "I don't know, I don't know anything!" β
"Looks like you can understand some." Xie Chengchou smiled, "I heard that your name is Ronna?" Ronna, Master Ben assures you that he will never hurt the girl he brought you. I have a two-sided relationship with that girl, but I have made a person, and now that I am separated, I would like to find her immediately. As for the one who wanted to tease her before, he had already returned to Beijing, and she didn't have to be afraid anymore. Are you an old acquaintance with that girl? No, that girl brought you here to help you find a job to support yourself, am I right? β
Rona only understood his name, but after understanding that the other party was looking for Jiang Wan, he pursed his lips and made up his mind not to speak. Miss Jiang was the angel who saved him! He promised her not to say anything, and now of course he has to shut up!
Seeing that Rona didn't speak, Xie Chengchou smiled and said, "It seems that I can't make you believe that I won't hurt that girl...... Come back with me, and I will see my sincerity. β
Xie Chengchou made a gesture of please, Rona understood this gesture, and with a kind of righteousness on his face, he walked out without fear.
Xie Chengchou smiled, said to the shopkeeper to disturb, and turned to leave.
Waiting for the group to leave, the shopkeeper wiped a cold sweat and said: "I didn't expect Rona to be a wanted criminal, it's really scary to break out in a cold sweat!" β
"Fifth uncle, why don't I look like it!" The shopkeeper looked puzzled, "If Rona is a wanted criminal, why is the prince of the county so polite to him?" I'm afraid I'll let people take him down a long time ago! β
"That's right," the shopkeeper thought for a moment, shook his head, and said, "Forget it, this kind ......of thing has nothing to do with us!" Let's get to work. β
The shopkeeper was right to think about it, nodded and slowly walked to Jiang Wan, he still remembered that he was talking to her before.
What is peak loop turning? Here it is.
At this moment, Jiang Wan, who had eavesdropped on the whole process, relaxed a little in her heart. According to Xie Chengchou, the second generation of the Beijing official has returned to Beijing, so his threat to her can be regarded as non-existent. She didn't believe it, but she was just a peasant girl who couldn't be flirted with in a small county town, so would the second generation of officials still think about it after returning to the capital? If you don't think about it, you won't come back again. In other words, the threat of that person is lifted!
Now the problem has become Xie Chengchou.
For Xie Chengchou, after a short period of contact, Jiang Wan felt that he was barely a good person. At least he has always been polite to people, although he always talks about being the son of the magistrate, but he doesn't seem to be bullying, but he has a childish sense of pride that is proud of his identity. Just look at what he said to Rona just now, he shouldn't be bad for Ronna, Rona is there for him, he has food and drink, and his life will definitely be good, and even if he asks Ronna, Rona really said it, for Xie Chengchou, it doesn't mean much, it's just a name.
"Big sister, big sister?" The shopkeeper looked at Jiang Wan who seemed to be out of the world a little strangely, she was wrapped in a headscarf, and he couldn't see her appearance clearly.
"Oh......" Jiang Wan came back to her senses and said busily, "It's okay, I'll settle the bill first." β
There were people who paid the bill before and after the meal, and the shopkeeper didn't think it was strange, so he first accepted Jiang Wan's copper coin, and then left, and went to tell the shopkeeper that the table was settled. He was still thinking about Rhona, and he didn't know what the future would be for that dumbfounded man.
After Jiang Wan paid the money, she began to bury her head in eating noodles, since she spent money, she couldn't waste food.
Unexpectedly, not far behind him, there was the voice of the little guy next to Xie Chengchou, who went and returned, and said to the shopkeeper: "I forgot what I said, if you see that girl again in the future, remember to do your best to inform my young master, my young master will have a heavy reward!" β
"Little one knows!" The shopkeeper hurriedly answered.
Xie An nodded, turned and left.
Jiang Wan took a long time to finish the bowl of noodles and got up to leave. The shopkeeper glanced up at her, and saw that it was the one who had settled the bill earlier, so he bowed his head and ignored her.
Walking out of this small restaurant, Jiang Wan was in a relaxed mood. Rona should be fine for the time being, and she will still worry about herself in the future, like this small restaurant, and the bookstore where she met Xie Chengchou in the past, she can't go anymore, otherwise she will be caught sooner or later.
Regarding what Xie Chengchou said, Jiang Wan still feels ridiculous in retrospect, at first she felt that the other party didn't recognize her before she said the content of the gold finger, but she didn't expect to meet it again later, and the involvement is getting deeper and deeper, it is really not as good as heaven.
Jiang Wan soon came to a separate position from Jiang Gu, but from a distance, she saw that Jiang Gu seemed to be talking to someone, frowned and looked carefully, and her heart suddenly sank.
The person who talked to Jiang Gu was Xie Chengchou!