After Dawn Chapter 131: Pursuit (1)
“Hongyue, have you seen Qi bring Miss Su’s family here?” Dugujin asked hurriedly.
Hongyue widened her eyes in confusion and asked, “Master, who is Qi?”
Looking at her reaction, Dugujin knew that Qi should not have come to her. Thinking that Qi’s identity certificate had also fallen into the ruins of the Su family, he couldn’t ask his subordinates for help either.
His brows furrowed, and he didn’t know where to look for Su Qingran’s trace.
“Someone, please bring some ink?”
“Is this the number one beauty in Jiangcheng?” Hongyue looked at the beauty picture on Yue Ran’s paper, and asked curiously, “I have seen this once from a distance, this Miss Su is really born. is extremely beautiful.”
Dugu Jin looked at the smiling woman under the peach blossom tree in the painting, his frowning brows softened a little, but soon they knitted together again, his thin lips pursed tightly, and he commanded: “Check. “
“Yes.” Hong Yue replied.
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In a flash, half a month passed.
Dugujin is caught in an unprecedented fog. The group of people who set fire to Su’s house seemed to appear out of thin air. Jiang Cheng could not find any trace of them, and his subordinates in Jiang Cheng did not report anything strange, even if he sent people to search from house to house. , and couldn’t find any trace of this group of people, and aside from these people, it was even more difficult to find Qi and Su Qingran, who should have survived according to his guess, but the two seemed to be buried in the fire. In general, even if he blocked Jiangcheng immediately, relying on the identity of the prince to mobilize a large number of guards to search the whole city, he still could not find the trace of the two.
Even he couldn’t help but wonder if he was thinking wrong, maybe it was a servant of the Su family who survived, or maybe two of the twelve people he sent out, maybe because he couldn’t complete the mission , so he hid and did not dare to see him.
Dugujin fell into deep powerlessness.
He didn’t dare to think that Su Qingran was really buried in the sea of fire…
“Ajin, save me, save me, it hurts, I feel uncomfortable…”
“A Jin, the fire is so big, so hot, look, I have wounds all over my body.”
“A Jin, I was burned so ugly, would you not want me, do you not recognize me…”
Dugujin woke up from a nightmare. Similar dreams have haunted him repeatedly in the past few days. At first, he just dreamed that he found Su Qingran who was seriously injured somewhere. With the passage of time, his belief in Su Qingran’s still aliveness was shaken, and more and more terrifying images began to invade his dreams.
The window in the room is wide open. In the past few days, I almost never fell asleep on my own initiative, but looked at the news handed by my subordinates and checked them one by one. For a few days, I was really exhausted, and when I really couldn’t stand it, I leaned on the chair and squint for a while.
Moonlight poured in like water, and the bamboo shadow outside the window reflected on the ground, like a beautiful ink painting. He walked to the window, took a deep breath, and put those bad things in his mind that belonged to dreams. Screen expulsion.
The candles in the room had already been extinguished, but luckily the moon was so bright that he could see a painting on the opposite side of the desk from one side of his head.
After Hongyue left, he repainted a portrait of Su Qingran, which was different from the simple outline that he had given to Hongyue before. This painting in the room, regardless of color Even the details are handled extremely well. It seems that as long as you breathe on the woman in the painting, she will jump out of the painting and walk towards you with a smile.
His face was full of stubble, and his haggard expression softened. When looking at the painting, the corner of his mouth even raised a slight arc.
Then his expression looked a little lonely.
Of course, where will you go?
In the silent night, there is only the sound of the wind blowing the bamboo leaves.
Dugujin suddenly restrained the gentleness on his face, carefully turned his body, then the window covered his figure, and then leaned against the wall, there were faintly two female voices outside.
“Miss Jade, isn’t the person Aunt Hongyue called for the Miss Su family who was helped in by a man that day?” A female voice, who sounded younger, about fifteen or sixteen years old, came.
“What did you say?” The Jade girl who answered her was a woman with a cold voice, “Ruo’er, what day are you talking about?”
“It was the second day after the Su’s house caught fire.” The girl called Ruo’er whispered, “I got up early in the morning to go to the toilet, and saw a man who helped Miss Su’s family walk in through the side door. Although I don’t recognize the man, I still recognize Miss Su’s family.”
“How do you recognize Miss Su’s family?” Jade asked.
“When Ruo’er was not sold into the Red Moon Tower, Miss Su’s family once went to the countryside to make porridge. Although Ruo’er only saw her from a distance, she will never forget her appearance in this life. Ruo’er said, and then asked puzzledly: “I saw the two of them received by Aunt Hongyue, and even helped Miss Su for a while, why does Aunt Hongyue not know where the two of them are now? ?”
Her words were simple, but Feicui broke out in a cold sweat. Which of the women who make a living in these dusty places is not a human being? Ruo’er said a few words. Although Feicui didn’t know the details, she still understood better than Ruo’er. , The mystery hidden here is not much at all.
Thinking of this, she hurriedly asked, “Have you been seen by Aunt Hongyue that day?”
“It shouldn’t be…” Ruo’er said with some uncertainty, but then nodded with certainty, “Certainly not, I have always been afraid of Aunt Hongyue. I saw someone coming in that day, and I planned to go there. I went to check the situation, but when I saw Aunt Hongyue coming out, I was too frightened to move, she probably didn’t see me.”
“That’s good…” Fei Cui patted her chest, her hand was already wet when she grabbed Ruo Er, “Forget it, it’s late at night, let’s go back to the room.”
“Aren’t you insomnia, Miss Jade?” Ruo’er asked with concern, “Would you like to walk again?”
“No need.” Jade refused, she sighed, and said, “Ruo’er, for the sake of you and my master and servant, you will be blind, deaf and mute in this matter, seeing nothing. I didn’t hear anything, don’t talk nonsense, I’ll find someone to redeem you after a while, you are a good girl, you can’t spend your whole life in the Red Moon Tower.”
“I won’t go.” Ruo’er said stubbornly, “Wherever Miss Jade goes, I will follow you. I will be your little maid for the rest of my life. In the future, I will wait for Miss Jade to marry and have children, and take care of the little master. What…”
Hearing this, Feicui didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, and the melancholy in her heart suddenly dissipated her panic: “A woman like me enters the Red Moon Tower, even if her body is clean, who would be willing to marry her? How about going back to be a wife? To put it in a nasty way, being a concubine is a blessing.”
She said it was a blessing, but Ruo’er knew that if someone really wanted to marry her as a concubine, she would rather stay in Hongyuelou for a lifetime than be a child in someone else’s family.
“Again,” she patted Ruo’er’s hand, “you are still young and don’t understand.”
“I’m young now, and I’m pretty good-looking, plus I can play the qin well, and I can still play with some elegance. In a few years, the evening will come to an end, so what kind of sons are willing to pay to listen to you? The old girl plays the piano…presumably it’s time…”
She shook her head and said nothing.
The sound of their footsteps gradually faded away in the bamboo forest. And Dugujin didn’t pay attention to what they said behind, just frowned, and thought carefully about the truth of what Ruo’er said.
According to what she said, since Su Qingran and Qi had been here before, but Hongyue didn’t report it… Then Hongyue’s sincerity is worth considering.
……
“Master,” there was a soft knock on the door, “Yue’er cooked porridge for you. You can eat some of it. If your body breaks down, presumably Mrs. will be sad when she finds out.”
Sitting at the desk, Dugu raised his brows earnestly. Since he explained Su Qingran’s identity, Hongyue is the one who changed his words the fastest among all his subordinates. When she saw that the real person easily refused to recognize this mistress, she had changed her mind and called Madam.
“Come in,” he said.
“Yes.”
As soon as she finished speaking, a graceful lady in a red dress pushed in the door. Today, she is wearing a long dress with Tingting. Compared with the dusty and gaudy days of the past, she is a little more ladylike. Dignified, the corners of her eyes that she used to pick up with makeup on weekdays also drooped down today, revealing a bit of gentleness and suppleness. For a while, Dugujin felt that she was a little different, but she couldn’t tell the difference.
“Master.” Seeing Dugujin, an obvious smile appeared on Hongyue’s face, and her eyes curled up, revealing a kind of pure aura, which made people forget the previous Aunt Hongyue, remembering She is just a woman who has just passed her two decades.
“Put things down, you can go do your work.” Dugujin only looked up at her when she was saluting, then lowered her head and commanded indifferently, Hongyue bit her lip, and a flash of light flashed on her face. Lost and unwilling, but then it was covered up again, just gently put the things on the small table aside, and then looked at Dugujin reluctantly, even Dugujin who pretended to look at the information at hand, could feel it She cast a burning gaze on herself.
“Yes.” She replied in a low voice, which was a lot more sad than the excitement when she came in.
After she left, Dugujin slowly put down the things at hand, looked up at the painting hanging on the opposite side, he finally understood, what was wrong with Hongyue.