The old lady is reborn

After making sure that Duke Anguo and the person he was talking to had left, Wei Ran stood up tremblingly. He felt his legs go weak with fear, and it took him a long time to half-crouch on the boat and pull up the stone anchor of the lotus-picking boat.

This lotus-picking boat is sometimes also used to pick lotus flowers and dig fresh lotus roots. It is prepared to stop in the lake at any time.

As soon as she rowed out of the bridge hole, she was discovered by a secret guard of the Sixth King.

There were three secret guards, two of whom followed the six kings closely, and one would leave a little later every time they changed locations to observe whether there were any nails to be removed.

The secret guard was waiting for Wei Ran to come ashore, and was about to capture him alive and send him to the Sixth King for punishment.

I heard a girl shouting from afar: "It's you, judging by your figure! Are you being lazy again?

Madam wants to look at the games and prizes again, so hurry up!"

After hearing this, the secret guard did not show up. He waited until the girl ran over there in panic, and then he picked up an earring that the girl had dropped.

The matter was reported to the Sixth Prince and the Duke of Anguo. The Sixth Prince said, "You handle this matter. I need to bring someone to the banquet with me. If I don't leave now, your house will be filled with guests."

Duke Anguo looked at the earring and thought it resembled the ones his wife often wore.

Maids were not allowed to wear big earrings, they could only wear small and inconspicuous ones, which were most likely their wives'.

When she went over to ask, it turned out to be true. Madam Anguo said, "What a clumsy girl. She just told me that she lost one.

I saw that she was so scared that her face turned pale. It was not easy for me to find a replacement player of similar height, weight and size in this game, so I told her to forget about it and just do her job for today."

"Madam, do you remember the name of this maid?

"How could I remember? She is just a third-class maid in the mansion. She usually does some chores in the lakeside yard. I don't think she is smart or diligent."

The Duke of Anguo deliberately used this game played by the Duke of Anguo's wife at the banquet, and he went over to watch it with justification, and remembered the maid Weiran who was holding an earring.

As soon as the Sixth Prince arrived, he knew who the other person who was talking on the stone bridge was before he heard him speak. He was so frightened that he broke into a sweat.

As soon as the game was over, Duke Anguo waved his hand and called his butler to kill the girl named Weiran.

The butler took the order and came out. There were many guests here, so he followed Wei Ran out.

Unexpectedly, Jing Zhong called him from behind.

"The housekeeper of the mansion?"

"That's right, little one."

"Send my great bow and these arrows outside to my servant."

The butler just took the bow and arrow.

Yue Heng also came out and said, "Don't bother two masters with one thing. Let my servant bring in my horse whip. Maybe it can be used later."

The butler was delayed by the two masters who were thinking of something at the same time. When he turned around, Wei Ran was gone.

He could only instruct people to take care of the two masters' affairs while at the same time sending people to look for the girl.

When Wei Ran saw the housekeeper following him, he knew something was wrong. He thought no one had noticed, but how could they know that he was sleeping under the bridge so quickly?

Realizing that something was wrong and his life was in danger, Wei Ran did not stop for a moment. He walked straight through the corridor, into the flower hall and the backyard, went out of the garden from the back door, then out of the second door and the corner door. As soon as he left the Anguo Mansion, Wei Ran started to run away.

Run all the way.

Where to go? Go home. You will be found soon.

She remembered that before she entered the Anguo Mansion as a maid, she worked as a wine ladle maid in a tavern.

The proprietress is a quick-tempered and quick-talking person.

A customer who wanted to get some wine asked the lady boss, "Why don't you scoop the wine yourself? Aren't you afraid that this little girl won't be able to hit the target?"

The lady boss said with a smile, "This 11 or 12-year-old girl is standing over there, and she is like a water scallion, helping you scoop up the wine. I don't care if it's more or less, but why do you care?"

The proprietress may say she is not nice, but she is really nice and won't allow any customers to bully her.

Her hands cracked during the winter, and when the landlady saw this, she took a big radish and used a knife to dig a hole in it.

It was burned in the stove with tongs. After a while, a puddle of clear water accumulated in the radish pit.

The proprietress cooled the water and said it was radish oil, and rubbed it on Weiran's hands. She rubbed it quickly and urgently, and Weiran felt a little pain.

But she felt warm in her heart, it was really nice to be protected by the boss's wife all the time.

Later, the proprietress did not want her redemption money, saying that a place like her tavern was not suitable for Wei Ran to stay in, and sent little Wei Ran back home.

After being sold by his parents for the second time, in Wei Ran's heart, the only person he could get close to in the world was the boss's wife.

Moreover, the people in the Anguo Mansion would never think of that place.

She ran without stopping, ran to the familiar alley, entered the pub, and saw the only face that she had ever felt friendly and warm in her life.

Weiran threw herself into the boss lady's arms and started crying for some reason.

The boss's wife was terrified and asked her what happened. She dragged the boss's wife upstairs and whispered everything she had heard.

The proprietress was frightened when she heard this, and went downstairs to check, and saw that there were only the two customers who had come there earlier.

There are usually few people here during the day, only some people coming to buy wine, and occasionally two people sitting here drinking.

Usually customers would not come until the evening. The proprietress gave the two customers some wine and asked them to leave first, saying that she was not feeling well and then closed the door.

The lady boss said to Wei Ran, "The city gates are open at this hour, hurry out of the city."

She quickly packed a few changes of clothes for Wei Ran and stuffed some money into his pocket: "Hide your identity after leaving the city..."

Wei Ran left as she was told, but she didn't go far before she realized that if she just left, the Sixth Prince and the Duke of Anguo would find out about this sooner or later, and she would probably be harming the person who had been the best to her in this life.

So she threw away her bag, walked back, and changed direction, as if she was ready to go home but not yet home.

Originally, the Duke of Anguo's Mansion was separated from her home by half a city, and it was noisy where she lived. Where could she hide if she really went back?

Maybe it can't be avoided, and it will harm more people.

The fourteen-year-old girl was at a loss.

The steward of Duke Anguo was delayed for a moment, and when he turned around, the girl disappeared.

When the servants reported back, the girl had already left the house.

The housekeeper could only send people to look for her, and also placed spies near her house and the city gate.

The servants and guards of the Duke Anguo's Mansion searched street by street, starting from outside the mansion.

This girl seemed to be playing hide-and-seek with them. Surprisingly, she managed to hide in Kyoto for several days by hiding here and there and picking up garbage to eat.

Duke Anguo did not dare to tell the Sixth Prince. He knew that the guards under his command were far from those under the Sixth Prince. It was like the difference between professionals and amateurs.

So much so that the Sixth Prince probably couldn't imagine that after several days, he still hadn't gotten rid of the girl and even lost her.

However, after a few days of high tension and homelessness, Weiran was on the verge of collapse.

Just when she decided to give it a try, she decided to report to the Jingzhao Yin or leave the city. The proprietress was fine, so she shouldn't be implicated.

But as soon as this thought came to her mind, she was discovered by the increasingly anxious servants and guards of the Anguo Mansion as soon as she appeared.

She died in an alley she didn't even know existed.

Because the Yan Zhiming family murder case took place in Kyoto, although the case was finally solved, the Jingzhao Yin still increased the intensity of patrols.

Seeing that it was difficult to move the body in broad daylight, the guards could only hastily cover it up.

He reported back to Duke Anguo: "The girl looks like she has been wandering for a few days."