"Check Dong Xiang!"

With Chen Xiao's order, eight guards from the Duke's Mansion immediately set off for Gaobeidian and Baoding Mansion. Ye Xing also went with them.

Two days later, they came back and brought back a portrait and a man named Mao Guier.

The portrait was painted by Ye Xing. There are many people who have met Dong Xiang in Gaobeidian and Baoding Prefecture. This portrait was painted based on the descriptions of these people.

Mao Guier was once the eldest follower of Dong Xiang. Later, she suffered from cold and became rheumatoid and could not ride a horse, so she went back to her hometown to farm.

Hua Jingyao looked at the portrait. Dong Xiang had beautiful eyebrows and eyes, especially his eyes, which were particularly energetic.

She handed the portrait to Shi Bing and said, "I asked someone to search for twenty or thirty pictures of Momo, especially those shops, to see if anyone has done business with him."

The shops in Beijing opened on the fifth day of the first lunar month. Today is the sixth day of the lunar month. Except for some people who are not short of money, almost all shops of all sizes have opened their doors to do business.

According to the guards of the Duke's Mansion, Mao Guier owed a lot of money. During the Chinese New Year, he was worried that the creditor would come to collect debts. The family of six hid in a broken house that others abandoned and did not use. When the guards found him, Mao Guier didn't want to come. When his mother and wife heard that this trip would get twenty taels of silver, they forced him to come.

Hua Jingyao laughed and asked someone to call Mao Guier over and asked, "How many years have you been with Dong Xiang?"

Mao Guier gritted her teeth and refused to look up, turning a deaf ear to Hua Jingyao's questions.

Shi Ding on the side was about to scold him, but Hua Jingyao winked. Shi Ding glared at Mao Guier hatefully and said nothing.

Hua Jingyao said, "I heard that your mother and your wife forced you over? You can't blame them. During the Chinese New Year, other people's families are full of joy, but you have to hide from others. Your mother gave birth to you, but she can't enjoy her old age. Your wife married you, gave birth to children for you, but she can't go back to her family. The most pitiful thing is your children, who live worse than beggars. What's wrong with your mother, your wife, your children? Why do they have to suffer with you? Oh, by the way, how much money do you owe others? Is it the money you owe because of your leg disease that you have to treat? "

Mao Guier had long heard it blushed. At this time, when he heard the young lady in front of him mention his leg disease, he was even more ashamed and said with tears in his eyes: "It's not because of leg disease. My leg cannot be cured. Why waste money? The money I owe is to redeem my son. I can't go to the fields to farm, so I show people the orchard. Last year, I was outside watching the vegetable garden. My wife worked alone in the fields, and the two children were playing on the ridge of the field. After a while, Xiaoni ran back alone and told her mother that her brother had been taken away.

Our family searched all over the village but couldn't find the child. At night, someone threw a stone into my yard. The stone was wrapped in a cloth towel. The cloth towel said that we asked us to take 300 taels of silver to redeem the child in the Dao Temple three miles away. My family could have taken out 500 taels of silver, but the year before yesterday I paid 100 taels of watermelon with people, but I couldn't make up 300 taels at once. The village lived in the village, and at most I could borrow 100 taels of 100 taels of 100 taels of 100 taels of 100 taels of 100 taels of 100 taels of 100 taels of 100 taels of 100 taels of 100 taels of 100 taels of 100 taels of 100 taels of 100 taels of 100 taels of 100 taels of 100 taels of 100 taels of 100 taels of 100 taels of 100 taels of 100 taels of 100 taels of 100 taels of 100 taels of 100 taels of 100 taels of 100 taels of 100 taels of 100 taels of 100 taels of 100 taels of 100 taels of 100 taels of 100 taels of 100 taels of 100 taels of 100 taels of 100 taels of 100 taels of 100 taels of 100 taels of 100 taels of 100 taels of 100 taels of 100 ta

In order to pay back the money, I sold the land and cows, but it was only enough to pay the interest. The person who put the money asked a group of gangsters in the town to support him. The gangsters said, if I dared to escape, I would dig my ancestral grave. They were not scared. There were several families in the ancestral graves dug in all corners of the country. The yamen called the gangster leader over and asked, and he let the person out again. The gangster leader immediately took people to the traitor's house for a big fuss, saying that the traitor wronged him, and I had the old and young, and I dared not offend them. This New Year, I was worried that those people would come to cause trouble, so I could only take the whole family to hide in Tibet."

Mao Guier wiped her tears and cried like a child.

Hua Jingyao advised: "Anyway, your son has redeemed it. The family reunion is the best thing. You are hiding with your son now, but if your son is sold, he will not be as good as he is now. You should have heard of the overpass in the capital. A few years ago, there was a person named Gou Zisheng on the overpass. He was the most famous of dog taming. He raised a dog, and the dog knew how to recognize words and sing very cleverly. Gou Zisheng made a lot of money with this dog. A monkey-playing man looked at him and took a pill and stole Gou Zisheng's two dogs. The monkey-playing man originally wanted to kill the dog.

After eating meat, but after it was broken, he was so scared that he went to report to the official. The yamen sent someone to see it and found that the dog's skin was a six or seven-year-old child. It turned out that the dog was not a dog, but a human. He first used medicine to corrode the skin of the child's body, leaving him completely dead. Then he used dog hair, burned ash and mixed it with dense medicine to apply it. Then he gave him medicine to let his wound heal, so that the dog's hair would grow on his body, which was completely like a dog. During this process, he stole twenty or thirty boys and tried many times before he succeeded in the dog."

Speaking of this, Miss Hua paused and suddenly lowered her voice and asked, "Mao Guier, your son still lives in a broken house in a barren mountain ridge. My guards are all good at memory. Since you can find it, of course you can remember that level, right?"

The little girl in front of her voice was clear and happy, but when these words came out of her mouth, Mao Guier felt a chill on her back. He raised his head. What caught his eye this time was not the little girl's beautiful face like the bright moon, but the plain white dress.

Mao Guier was shocked. He didn't notice just now that the little girl was wearing white clothes!

It’s not the Lantern Festival, who will wear white clothes in the first lunar month!

Looking at the ever-changing expression on Mao Guier's face, Hua Jingyao smiled gloomyly.

Mao Guier sweated coldly and asked with a tough forehead: "What do girls want to know? Just ask. I don't want the twenty taels of silver. I just want you to let me go back soon."

"You said you originally had 300 taels of silver, but your family was an ordinary farmer. You used to be a long-lasting person. Where did you get 300 taels?" Hua Jingyao asked.

Mao Guier was stunned and said, "I have a problem with my legs. When I left my boss, I saw that I was pitiful and gave me 200 taels of silver. The other 100 taels were saved by me some years ago."

Hua Jingyao nodded and said with a smile: "The boss you are talking about is not the old master of the Dong family, but Dong Xiang. You used to be Dong Xiang's eldest follower. How many years have you been with him?"

Mao Guier said: "In the thirteenth year, I followed the second young master since I was twelve and left at the age of twenty-five."
Chapter completed!