Kaifeng House Small Dining Table

"Why not?"

"I... I'm afraid of being scolded by them." The man squatted on the ground, crying with his head in his arms.In his emotions, he was panicked about losing his daughter, and he was also afraid of being discovered by his family.

"Even if you are being scolded, you should say it. Losing a child is a big deal, and everyone should work together to find it quickly. It's been a night now, and the best opportunity has been missed. If you don't look for it, the opportunity will be even more slim."

Zhao Hanyan asked Bai Yutang to help inform Kaifeng Mansion. Her disappearance just happened is not unusual in Kaifeng Mansion, but at least it would be better to invite a team of people to help.

Zhao Hanyan went home with the man to inform his family.

On the way to the man's house, Zhao Hanyan asked the man's name, Qi Desheng, and his home was two streets away from Zhouqiao, not too far away.

Zhao Hanyan then asked Qi Desheng about his family, how many children he had, brothers and sisters, etc.The man hesitated for a long while without speaking.

Zhao Hanyan couldn't bear his cowardice, so he raised his voice and asked him: "When is it? Your daughter is lost, and you are still so hesitant!"

"I... I actually married into Pi's family." Qi Desheng looked embarrassed and ashamed.

Zhao Hanyan looked at him puzzled: "So?"

Qi Desheng was stunned for a moment, and then he dared to look up at Zhao Hanyan's face, "Aren't you laughing at me? I'm a married woman."

"Why do I have to laugh at you for being a son-in-law? It's not something harmful or morally corrupt. It's just a son-in-law. It's been around since ancient times. It's not new. Besides, it's your own choice to be a son-in-law. No one should have thought of it in the first place." The knife on your neck is forcing you to do this? Why are you so sad?" Zhao Hanyan could see that Qi Desheng was feeling inferior because of this matter, so he said this on purpose.

After hearing these words, Qi Desheng fell silent. He was very grateful to Zhao Hanyan for his comfort and thanked her.

"No one looked down on me before, whether at home or outside."

"It doesn't matter whether others look down on you, but whether you think up yourself? If you can't even look down on yourself, how can you blame others for looking down on you?" Zhao Hanyan asked back.

Qi Desheng was taken aback again, and nodded.After that, he walked in silence with his head bowed, without speaking again.

The two of them walked for about a stick of incense, and then they arrived at Pi's mansion.

Zhao Hanyan first looked at the front of the Pi family's mansion. It is a big mansion. Although it is not as expensive as those high-ranking officials in Tokyo City, if this mansion is in some counties, it will definitely be famous in the city.

Zhao Hanyan asked Qi Desheng to introduce the situation of the Pi family to her.

Qi Desheng obediently told Zhao Hanyan everything he knew.

The ancestor of the Pi family used to have high-ranking officials, but later it declined, and most of the original house was abandoned.Later, because Pi Qingshan, the current head of the Pi family, married Pang Taishi's concubine sister, and then borrowed money, and got a job as an eighth-rank Chengshilang, and life gradually improved.

In addition to his official duties, Pi Qingshan would also help Grand Master Pang run errands and do some chores, so naturally he got some small benefits.After all, if you live with the tiger, you will be able to pick up leftover bones and meat scraps to eat, so the Pi family's mansion has the grandeur it has today.

Although Pi Qingshan managed to live a good life in the Pi family, but his generation had no sons and gave birth to seven daughters.Even jokingly said that his family is the life of the Seven Fairies.Ever since the seventh child was born, Pang's stomach has not moved.Today, Pond's has reached middle age, so naturally there is no way to regenerate.In desperation, Pi Qingshan had no choice but to keep the only seventh daughter who was not engaged to marry, and to keep the Pi family's property by recruiting a son-in-law.

And the son-in-law recruited after several selections is Qi Desheng.Qi Desheng also said that his previous name was not this, because Pi Qingshan thought it was unlucky and unpleasant, so he changed his name to 'Qi Desheng' before he married.

After Qi Desheng married the seventh girl of the Pi family, he had no children for two years, and finally got pregnant with a child, but he was dumb.Fortunately, she became pregnant again and gave birth to a son, all normal.The son is naturally favored in every possible way, but the mute daughter is not treated harshly because of her kindness, and the whole family takes good care of her.

Yesterday evening, because Qi Desheng couldn't resist his daughter Susu's pleading, he quietly took his daughter to the night market to eat and play. He never expected such an accident.

Qi Desheng already felt inferior because of marrying into a family, but now that he smuggled the child out and lost it, he was even more frightened and dared not go home.

After Zhao Hanyan heard Qi Desheng's explanation, he sighed helplessly and didn't judge anything.I just asked Qi Desheng if he was ready. They were definitely going to face the Pi family at this moment, and they couldn't escape this hurdle no matter what.

Qi Desheng shrunk his neck and nodded. Although his expression was particularly frightened, he still decided to face it.

Seeing his pitiful appearance, Zhao Hanyan couldn't help but pat him on the shoulder to show comfort.

Zhao Hanyan went to knock on the side door of Pi's mansion, and immediately a young man opened the door.Seeing that it was Qi Desheng, the boy hurriedly said, "Why did you come back? The old man has been waiting for a long time."

Qi Desheng responded sullenly, looked at Zhao Hanyan, and walked into the mansion first.Zhao Hanyan then came and took a look at the environment of the mansion. It was clean and tidy. There were a few houses that looked similar to the Grand Master's Mansion, but there was a sense of deliberate grandeur.After all, it is a small family, whether it is slate, wood or planted flowers and plants, it is far less exquisite and precious than other people's mansions, and there is no way to compare with mansions like Taishi's mansion.

After the young man who had just opened the door closed the door, he hurried to catch up and asked Qi Desheng where the eldest girl had gone.

Qi Desheng shrank his head and did not speak.The boy didn't give Qi De any face at all, so he hurriedly asked him another question.

Seeing that Qi Desheng didn't answer, the boy said angrily: "Look at your stuffy temper, it's really unbearable. The old man is in a hurry, why are you gone? Let's see how you explain later!"

Qi Desheng was even more frightened, and stopped his feet, not daring to go.Zhao Hanyan hurriedly persuaded him a few words, and then he continued walking.

"Who is this?" Seeing Zhao Hanyan talking, the young servant quickly asked Qi Desheng.

From the moment Zhao Hanyan entered the door, he watched the boy's attitude towards Qi Desheng, showing no respect at all, as if he was teaching his younger brother a lesson.

"It's the yamen servant of Kaifeng Mansion." Qi Desheng replied.

"Why did you bring the people from Kaifeng Mansion home?" the servant immediately questioned Qi Desheng.

Qi Desheng faltered and couldn't speak.

"It's his job for him to bring me back, it's not your turn to ask more questions, just take us to see your old man." Zhao Hanyan sent the boy away.

The boy was stunned for a moment, and continued to look at Zhao Hanyan, as if he was questioning or suspecting something.

Zhao Hanyan sneered, "I see that your Pi family has a big face, but I didn't expect it to be such an unruly family. A mere doorkeeper, contradicting the master and neglecting the guests. I don't need to see your old man, you are the only one." People have completely embarrassed the entire Pi family."

When Zhao Hanyan was in a hurry, he sneered, his teeth were sharp and his mouth was sharp, and he was not polite at all.

The boy didn't expect that the friend Qi Desheng brought would be so talkative, his face was pale and uncertain, he didn't say any more, he hurried forward, and hurried to report the situation to Pi Qingshan.

Pi Qingshan and his wife were talking in the side hall, angry that Qi Desheng took Susu away secretly last night, and has not returned home yet.Now the couple suddenly heard that Qi Desheng had come back, they rushed out of the room one after the other, Qi Desheng scolded him all over the face, then saw that his granddaughter Susu was not there, and asked him where Susu was.

"Can you send her back to her room?" Pang asked.

Pi Qingshan quickly looked at Qi Desheng with hatred, "What do you say you do this every day! We were really blind to recruit you!"

Qi Desheng lowered his head silently, letting the elders scold him and kept silent.

Seeing this, Zhao Hanyan felt that it was impossible to expect Qi Desheng to speak out, so he revealed to Pi Qingshan and Pang that he was a government official in Kaifeng, and informed them about the disappearance of their granddaughter Susu.

"What? Susu lost?" Pang's eyes widened, he looked at Qi Desheng in disbelief, pointed at him with shaking fingers, and was so angry that he was about to faint, "You...you..."

Pi Qingshan hurriedly supported his wife, and turned to stare at Qi Desheng, "You are useless and stupid, you are not at home to take care of your daughter, and you have to take us outside. Now you have lost me Yes! Can you take this responsibility! Why are you still here? Why didn’t you lose it? How did our Pi family offend you? You insisted on doing such a thing to harm us!"

"When did you know that he left the mansion with Susu?" Zhao Hanyan asked.

"I just found out not long ago." Pi Qingshan calmed down his emotions, "Usually at this time of day, he should come to our Ding province, but today he was nowhere to be found. We sent someone to find him, so we knew he was not in the room. Later Susu's servant girl reported back and forth, saying that he secretly took Susu out of the mansion last night when everyone was resting. The servant girl saw it, but didn't dare to say anything. She didn't see anyone here this morning, so she knew it was a serious matter. Had to speak out."

"You are heartless, it is better to raise a loyal dog than to raise you, pity my Susu!"

"It's really useless to say these things to find someone now, and we should find someone as soon as possible." Zhao Hanyan advised the two of them to put away their sadness first, and hurriedly asked everyone in the Luo mansion to find Susu, "Susu can't speak, and she can't speak. Promise, those of you who are familiar with her are most needed to find her."

"Yes, yes, yes." Pang promised again and again, and hurriedly sent the housekeeper to make arrangements.

Zhao Hanyan asked where Susu's mother was.

Pang quickly stopped her and said, "You can't tell her about this. She just gave birth not long ago, her body is weak and she can't stand stimulation."

Zhao Hanyan agreed, and said that Kaifeng Mansion would also send people to investigate and help them find people as much as possible.

Pang and Pi Qingshan hurriedly thanked Zhao Hanyan, and then scolded Qi Desheng fiercely, blaming him for taking the child away in the middle of the night because of his troubles.When Pang was so sad that he was agitated, he ran to grab Qi Desheng, and beat him so angry that he couldn't help but die.

Qi Desheng just kept his head sullen, and let Ponzi scratch or scratch him. He didn't respond to any insulting words, but just lowered his head and wept silently.His appearance is extremely pitiful, and it can be seen that he is extremely guilty.

"You idiot, why did you take him out without authorization? Why!" Pang was helped to sit down, and then turned the hot tea that the maid had just served to Qi Desheng.The scalding hot tea was spilled all over Qi Desheng's chest, and some of the tea was still on Qi Desheng's face. Qi Desheng held his head and groaned a few times before he felt the hot tea go through his chest and through his clothes Burning pain on the skin.

Qi Desheng tried to explain with a trembling voice: "Susu has been begging me for half a year, and she wants to go to Zhouqiao Night Vision. She was born a few days ago, so she begged me for this matter. I don't want to disappoint Susu—— "

"Susu is a lady of everyone, how can she be taken out casually! You are a worthless wretch, you have no ability at all, and you have caused such a big trouble, what is the use of your life... Why don't you die, don't die, You ran to our Pi family to harm people!" Pang was so angry that tears flowed down his face, he beat his thigh and cursed bitterly.

Pi Qingshan also cast a blank glance at Qi Desheng, obviously he also wished that Qi Desheng would die now.

"It's better to save some energy to find the child." Zhao Hanyan persuaded Qi Desheng to change clothes quickly and find someone with her. "Multiple people will have multiple opportunities."

Qi Desheng felt as if he had been pardoned, and hurriedly shrank his neck and ran out with his waist bowed.

The excitement of Pi Qingshan and Pangzi eased a little at this time, but they were still worried about the safety of the child outside, and they had lost it all night, and they were afraid that they would never get it back.When Ponzi thought of this, he wept even more sadly.

"This child can't speak at all. He is loved and very sensible. When he saw that I was tired from walking, he specially moved a small stool for me. When it rained, he saw that my legs hurt, so he sent the stove to my legs. Beside me, warm my legs." Pang said sadly, "Susu is such a good child, but she was lost by that useless bastard."

Pi Qingshan echoed Pang's words again and again, and scolded Qi Desheng again.Then they remembered that Zhao Hanyan hadn't left yet, and after apologizing to him, they begged Zhao Hanyan to bring the Yamen of Kaifeng Mansion to help them find Susu.

"Who knows that Su Su is dumb?" Zhao Hanyan asked.

"There are a lot of people who know about it. It's been like this since I was a child. All my relatives and friends know about it." Pi Qingshan replied.

"Then has anyone you don't know recently visited the house or asked about something?" Zhao Hanyan asked again.

Pi Qingshan thought for a while, then shook his head, "I don't have any here, I'll ask the housekeeper."

The housekeeper then clarified the situation: "There are no new faces, but two days ago, the janitor told me that he always saw a man sneaking around the back door of the mansion. He had seen him three times, but because the other Wearing a straw hat, I can't see my face clearly."

After Zhao Hanyan wrote down all these, Qi Desheng also changed his clothes.Zhao Hanyan went out with Qi Desheng to continue looking for Susu.

Centering on the boundary of Zhouqiao, the search was expanded little by little, and almost the whole city was searched.During this period, a witness was found, who said that he saw an easy-looking middle-aged man leaving the state bridge with a little girl dressed in the same clothes as Su Su last night.Since he was a middle-aged man, it must not be Qi Desheng. As for who it was, according to the witnesses' description, Qian Shi seemed to fit him.

In the end, it was dark and the child was not found. Qi Desheng didn't dare to go back to Pi's house, and wanted to follow Zhao Hanyan back to Kaifeng Mansion.

"It's fine to let me live in the horse pen." Qi Desheng begged Zhao Hanyan with a trembling voice.

"I can't help you with this. I have some money. If you really don't want to go back, you can use the money to stay in the hotel temporarily." Zhao Hanyan said and gave the money bag to Qi Desheng, "But your father-in-law will be closed sooner or later. You have to face it, you can't escape."

Qi Desheng thanked Zhao Hanyan for his help, and hurriedly said that he would definitely return the money to Zhao Hanyan in the future.

"It's not much money, so it doesn't matter."

After Zhao Hanyan asked the Yacha to help post the portraits of Susu drawn by the painter at the gates of the major cities, Fang returned to Kaifeng Mansion.Bai Yutang came back soon after, covered in dust.

"I'm afraid I won't be able to find it just by looking for it. The little girl was probably taken away from Tokyo by Qian Shi this morning." Bai Yutang guessed.

"Why does Qian Shi insist on looking for such a girl, who can't speak, but is still pretty. Could it be that some assassin's house is really looking for someone?"

Bai Yutang shook his head and said that he couldn't tell, "People have different hobbies. It depends on the kind of person they meet. Now there are too few clues to explain clearly."

"Qian Shi? Just now Mr. Zhao was talking about Qian Shi?" Lei Buzhi, the magistrate of Deping County, was called back to Kaifeng Mansion by the Yamen, and after hearing the conversation between Zhao Hanyan and Bai Yutang from a distance, he chased after him and asked .

After seeing Zhao Hanyan nodding his head, Lei Bu knew: "If I remember correctly, among the testimonies of the disappearance of the six children in Deping County, there is a person named Qian Shi who gave a statement."