Daming female local tyrant

Supported by Qingyao and Baiju, Shen Wan followed the group led by Chen Lizheng to search for Jinglan along the river.

Chen Lizheng gathered four or fifty people, divided them into four teams, each team had more than a dozen people, and searched from both sides of the river from the north and south sides of the river where the boat sank last night.

Although the snow was a little lighter at this time, it was still falling one after another. Shen Wan and others braved the wind and snow to search for Jing Lan and those who escaped after the ship sank last night.

It's a pity that they walked along the river for more than ten miles, but they didn't find a living person, but they found a few drowned corpses.

Every time Shen Wan saw a corpse washed up to the bank by the river, Shen Wan would be terrified for a while.

When she walked over and saw that it was not Jing Lan, she would breathe a sigh of relief, but she would still feel sad for a while when she saw that it was a servant she was familiar with.

Whenever the people under Chen Lizheng found a drowned corpse, they would fish it up and put it on the wheelbarrow they pushed.

After traveling for more than ten miles, there were already five corpses on the wheelbarrows pushed by the townspeople. Among these corpses were Shen Wan's servant girl, Jijiao, and Jinglan's little servant girl, Ming'er.

Baiju, Pingan, and Qingyao burst out in grief when they saw it, and Shen Wan also shed tears.

Chen Lizheng and others persuaded Shen Wan not to cry, life and death have their own destiny, and it is more important to continue to find living people.

Shen Wan nodded, wiped away her tears, told Bai Ju and the others to stop crying, and continued to look for survivors.

The group of people walked another seven or eight miles, and there was no way. Ahead was a bifurcated tidal flat, where the wide river narrowed and divided into three narrower rivers rushing forward.

Chen Lizheng said to Shen Wan: "The three rivers ahead, the one on the far left leads to Yangzhou, and the other two, one leads to a town called Qingfeng, and the other leads to a place where barbarians live called Hongze .”

"A place where barbarians live?" Shen Wan asked as soon as she heard it, "There are barbarians here?"

Chen Lizheng: "Yes, those barbarians live in a stockade deep in the mountains about a hundred miles away from here, and make a living by fishing and hunting. Occasionally, businessmen who make good friends with the local leaders hire boats to sell some rice, flour, sugar, salt, cloth, etc. It is said that those barbarians were very vicious and hated the Han people. Occasionally, Han people broke into their settlements and were either imprisoned by them as slaves or killed by them to cook and share food. Therefore, Fengshu Town and the surrounding villages and market towns The common people never dared to go in that direction, and the passing boats were very careful when going here, for fear that they would go to the rightmost river leading to Hongze and be caught by those barbarians, and they would never return."

Shen Wan was inexplicably startled when she heard this, and frowned.

It was almost noon at this time, and Shen Wan and the others had already walked more than twenty miles from Fengshu Town to this place.

Shen Wan is a delicate and expensive young lady, she would not be able to bear such suffering in normal times.Her script was injured last night, if she hadn't been thinking about Jinglan in her heart, wanted to find Jinglan, and completely ignored the pain in her feet, she would not have been able to walk so far.

Although Jing Lan was not found, there was no Jing Lan among these corpses, which was good news.

Chen Lizheng said, there is no way here right now, the big guys are braving the wind and snow, and they are tired and hungry at the moment, so it is better to go back to the town to eat and rest first.

Shen Wan also wanted to go back to see if the other three groups had any news about Jing Lan, so she agreed to go back.

It's just that when she walked back, Shen Wan couldn't move anymore, and there were many blood blisters on her feet, plus the original injury, every step she took was excruciatingly painful.

So Ping An, Qing Yao, and Bai Ju took turns carrying her back.

Shen Wan was also anxious as she walked back, anxious to know if the other three teams had found Jing Lan, and it was Jing Lan alive.

Or if Jing Lan was not found, it would be good to find two more people who are still alive.

Everyone walked back, and when they arrived at Fengshu Town, it was already noon, everyone was hungry, tired and cold.

Qingyao and the others waited for Shen Wan to change into clean clothes first, took off the bloody socks on her feet, dried them, then applied ointment to stop bleeding and promote muscle growth, wrapped them in cloth strips, put on socks, put them on. After putting on a pair of warm cotton shoes and bringing her the hot chicken soup from Mrs. He to drink, Shen Wan finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Ping An and Ping Fu took a few taels of silver to invite Chen Lizheng and others to have dinner at a restaurant in the town, and asked the other three teams who had returned to Fengshu Town about their search.

About half an hour later, Ping Fu came back, and he reported to Shen Wan that the other three teams did not find a single living person, but only found a dozen corpses.They also transported the dozens of corpses back, and they were all placed on the river beach. There were men and women inside, and they didn't know who was the eldest lady of the Lu family.

When Shen Wan heard this, she immediately said: "Just carry me and take a look."

Bai Ju persuaded Shen Wan not to go, she or Qing Yao could just go for a while.

But Shen Wan disagreed, she said that she had to go to see it in person to be at ease.

So Ping Fu, Qing Yao, Bai Ju and the other three carried Shen Wan on their backs to the river beach where the corpses were placed.

Shen Wan and others were placed on the river beach, as well as nearly twenty corpses discovered and brought back by others.

Ping Fu looked at the past one by one behind Shen Wan's back, and at the end, Shen Wan's heart was relieved, but seeing so many people who were alive and kicking yesterday, lying on the cold river beach at this moment, Shen Wan was still ashamed. Knife twisted.

"Go back." In the end, Shen Wan told softly with tears in her eyes.

Pingfu and the others agreed, and walked back with a heavy heart.

As soon as Shen Wan lay down on the bed in her room in the inn, she came back safely, followed by Cheng Ze, who was limping, and a man in his fifties, with gray beard and hair, who looked Very shrewd old man.

As soon as Cheng Ze came in, he rushed to Shen Wan and asked her, "Sister Wan, did you find my elder sister?"

In fact, he was too anxious to say such unreasonable words.

Because if Jing Lan is found, then Jing Lan should be with Shen Wan at this moment, but Shen Wan is the only one lying on the bed at this moment.

Bai Ju helped Shen Wan up, and put a pillow behind her, before Shen Wan told Chengze that she had found the local Chen Lizheng, who called forty or fifty townspeople to help, and divided them into four teams to search for Jinglan.In the end, neither Jing Lan nor any other survivors were found, only nineteen corpses were found.

"A total of nineteen lives are lost just like that, Cheng Ze, we must find out who did this and who is behind the scenes." Shen Wan gritted her teeth.

Cheng Ze nodded heavily, saying that he would find out the truth with Shen Wan, avenge these innocent people who died, and avenge his missing sister.

Then, he introduced the old man who was with him to Shen Wan: "Sister Wan, this is Feng Guangsheng, the chief steward of our Lu family. Our ancestors sent him to help us find sister and find out the truth about the sunken ship."

After Feng Guangsheng bowed his hands to Shen Wan, he explained the reason for his visit, and said that he would leave the rest of the matter to him. Dozens of capable subordinates came outside, and they would continue to look for Jing Lan.

Shen Wan bowed to him, and said: "Then Lao Feng will be in charge, but I want to say something to Feng, if you are looking for someone, you'd better go and see Chen Lizheng, and ask him to send you a local as a guide." Just now, I followed Chen Lizheng to find your eldest lady. Chen Lizheng said that there are barbarians living in a deep mountain hundreds of miles away from here. Those barbarians are very vicious, so be careful..."

She told Feng Guangsheng what Chen Lizheng said to her.

Feng Guangsheng stroked his gray beard after hearing this, but said: "Just now I heard from the girl that so many of you went to look for our eldest lady, but you couldn't find her. No matter how dangerous it is, you have to find it."

After hearing this, Cheng Ze nodded and said that what Feng Guangsheng said was good, but before going to Hongze, you can go to the direction of Yangzhou and Qingfeng Town within a hundred miles downstream to look for sister. If you can't find them in these two directions, then where is Hongze? Must go.

"It's not too late. Manager Feng, you can go to Chen Lizheng with your money, and ask him to recruit a manpower and hire a few boats, and then go to my sister. If my sister is still alive, the sooner she can be found in such severe cold weather." The better she is."

"Yes, third young master, the old servant will go right away."

After Feng Guangsheng turned and left, Shen Wan asked Cheng Ze to sit down on the chair in front of her bed, and ordered the servant girl to build a brazier and make a pot of tea, and asked Cheng Ze to drink tea while warming the fire.Then he asked him how he met his great-grandmother when he returned to Lu's house in Jinling and told her what happened here, what she said.

Cheng Ze said that he returned to Lu's house in Jinling in a mule cart early in the morning, and he asked Mo Yu to get off the car to find him a change of clothes, and then dismissed the guard at the west corner gate. He walked in wearing a veiled hat.He also chose the corridor where the servants walked, bypassed many houses and avoided many people, and finally arrived at Fuhaitang to meet his great-grandmother.

"When my great-grandmother saw me, she was taken aback and asked me if something had happened. I told her that something had happened. My great-grandmother was so frightened that her hands trembled. She immediately asked if something happened to my elder sister."

When Shen Wan heard this, she interjected: "Your great-grandmother is so lucky, she guessed right away that something happened to Lan'er."

Cheng Ze nodded: "Well, I told her later that the ship sank last night, how my sister saved me and you, we were saved, but my sister lost her strength and disappeared. When my grandmother heard this, tears came down immediately She asked someone to help her immediately to go to the Buddhist hall to pray to the Buddha, and begged the Buddha to bless my sister's death and make it auspicious, so that she can survive this disaster safely. Then she asked someone to call Feng Guanshi, and asked him to bring more money and manpower. Search for my sister."

"You didn't tell her that you were afraid someone might drug her?"

"That's right, I told her when Steward Feng stepped back to gather the manpower."

"She listened, how to say it."

"My great-grandmother said that she had suspected it for a long time, and the reason why she didn't raise it was because she wanted to wait for the man to see that she was fine, and would take the risk and drug her again. At that time, she would catch the man on the spot and let him have nothing to do. Hidden form, no quibble."

The author has something to say: Jinglan will be rough in the next chapter...