Traveling through the ancient times

"Let Lord Zhou come to see me!" Lu Mingqian walked towards the city. He needed to know more information about the thief.

Jiang Ruixue also sent servants from the mansion to guard the city gate so that she could be informed immediately if there was any news.

She soon learned about Lu Mingqian and Lu Mingcheng's return to Qunan, "I'm going to Lord Zhou's residence."

Mingyue knew that the young lady was anxious, so after hearing the instructions, she immediately went downstairs to prepare the carriage and went to Zhou's house with Jiang Ruixue.

In the main hall, Lu Mingqian and Lu Mingcheng sat at the top, while Lord Zhou stood beside them and told the two princes the details of the missing girls.

This case is quite tricky, because Mr. Zhou has no clues at all, and sweat begins to form on his forehead as he speaks...

Lu Mingqian listened to Lord Zhou's narration. As soon as the girls were captured by the thieves, they immediately disappeared. Were they hidden too well, or were they killed?

Lord Zhou didn't have any useful information, so Lu Mingqian planned to go back home. When he arrived at the gate of Zhou's house, he ran into Jiang Ruixue.

Lu Mingcheng was a little surprised. Why was Jiang Ruixue also in Zhou's house? "Ruixue, why are you here too?"

"I heard from the servants that you guys are back and are staying at Lord Zhou's place, so I came to see how you are doing? Any news?"

"Mr. Zhou doesn't have any useful clues either..."

"Let's go to my house first and discuss it together." It would be inappropriate for them to just stand at someone else's door and start chatting.

No matter what, I want to see the person alive or the body dead!

When they returned to the Third Prince's Mansion, Qi Muhe was already waiting for them there.

"You are finally back. I have been waiting for you for a long time." Seeing several people coming back, Qi Muhe went up to them and said.

"Why are you here? But what's the matter?"

"Of course it's about the first painting."

Several people looked at Qi Muhe, and Lu Mingqian asked, "Do you have any clues?"

"I'll go to the city to ask around. I think Chu Hua might have been in the city from the beginning. The reason why no one could find her is that I guess she might have been disguised by someone else. The people who were searching might not recognize her even if they passed by her."

After listening to Qi Muhe's words, several people felt that it was very likely, otherwise how could there be no clues at all after he disappeared.

Lu Mingqian quickly called in the guards who had searched the city earlier, "Think carefully, did you find anyone behaving abnormally during the search?"

The guards thought carefully and realized that they would immediately capture anyone who showed any abnormality and interrogate them in detail, but they did not find out anything.

Being reminded at this time, the guard who was searching Nian Chuhua's room hesitated for a moment and said to Lu Mingqian, "Your Highness, when I was searching a family, I found a woman in the family who was seriously ill and lying on the bed, dying.

When I walked to her bed, the woman's eyes were wide open, staring at me without blinking. I thought she was skinny, so her eyes were big. Later, I thought something was wrong. I planned to go and have another look, but I had already gone somewhere else. Then I forgot about it because I was busy..."

When the others heard this, they stood up immediately. It must be her!

Lu Mingqian's voice couldn't help but tremble, "Where is it? Take me there quickly..."

The guards took them to the house where Nianchuhua was imprisoned, "It's here."

Lu Mingqian kicked open the door of the house, and several people hurried into the house. The house was already empty. They came to the room where Nian Chuhua was imprisoned, "Your Highness, the woman was lying on this bed at that time."

Several people carefully checked the house, but did not find any clues.

Lu Mingcheng looked at the furnishings in the room and said, "This person has strong anti-reconnaissance capabilities."

Lu Mingqian called people to search the house carefully, leaving no corner unsearched. The guards found a pair of hairpins under the charcoal fire in the yard. They were the same set that Nian Chuhua bought in Kyoto to attend Lu Jinse's birthday party. Lu Mingqian and his companions immediately recognized that these were Nian Chuhua's hairpins.

The man burned all the clothes he had painted at the beginning of the year, but the jewelry could not be burned, so he dug a hole to bury them, and built a fire on the pile of new soil so that it would not attract attention. This time they checked carefully and brushed away the charcoal ashes before they saw that there was new soil that had been loosened underneath, so they dug it out.

Lu Mingqian went to the house to find pen and ink, and painted two portraits of the woman and the man according to the guard's description of their appearance, and then took his men to the city gate.

As they didn't know which gate Chu Shuhua had left the city from, several people went to ask the city guards one by one whether they had seen them leave the city.

Hua Ling was still searching for Nian Chu Hua elsewhere. Upon hearing that Lu Mingqian and his team had news about Nian Chu Hua, she immediately rushed to where Lu Mingqian was.

After confirming the direction in which Chuanxihua and the others left the city, the soldiers split up into several groups and began searching. As there were many forks in the road, Hua Ling reminded all the soldiers who were going to search to pay close attention to all the flowers, plants and trees on the roadside. If they found an "SOS" pattern, they should report it immediately.

Hua Ling told Lu Mingqian and others that this was the secret code they had agreed upon before Chuan-hua.

Jiang Ruixue and Lu Mingcheng naturally knew what this symbol meant. Now that they had a direction, they did not dare to delay and started looking immediately.

Within half an hour, a soldier found the leaf with the pattern engraved on it on the fork in the road that they had been drawing at the beginning of the year.

Seeing hope, everyone was very happy and hurried to the soldier. Hua Ling took the leaf and looked at it, "This is the secret code left by the young lady!" Hua Ling shed tears of excitement.

Everyone started looking along the road. Some of the leaves had been scorched by the sun and their shapes could no longer be seen, so they didn't find any leaves for a long time. Until they found the campfire where Chuanchuhua and the other man had rested, they saw the leaves with patterns in the grass over there.

Not far ahead, there was a fork in the road. There were no leaves on either side. Lu Mingqian looked carefully at the ground and found ruts on one side, but not on the other.

He immediately pointed to the road with tire tracks and said, "Go this way."

Everyone headed in that direction...

At this time, Nianchuhua was standing in a thatched hut halfway up the mountain. Opposite her sat a little girl who was about ten years old. The man introduced the little girl's situation to Nianchuhua and the purpose for which she was captured.

"You are crazy! You wanted me to play with your sister, but you didn't tell me. You wanted to drug me and catch me. I was almost scared to death..." After hearing what the man said, Chu Nianhua was very angry. This man who loves his sister...

The little girl is the man's sister. According to his description, the man concluded that the little girl should be suffering from autism and mania...

They used to live in a village at the foot of the mountain. His parents passed away a few years ago, leaving him and his younger sister to depend on each other.

The little girl was unwilling to communicate with others, and would occasionally bite people when she had a manic attack. All the children in the village had been bitten by her, so no one wanted to play with her.

Because their parents were gone and their sister was sick and biting people, they were driven out by the villagers and moved to the mountains.

A while ago, a girl went up the mountain to pick herbs. She passed by them and saw the little girl sitting alone in the yard, so she came over and played with her for a while.

"It was the first time I saw my sister smile in so many years. She was really happy that day. It turns out she can laugh!" The man recalled the scene that day.

For so many years, the little girl would not cry, laugh, talk, or communicate with others when she was not having an attack. She was like a wooden figure.

The girl played here for the whole afternoon. After she left, the little girl said to her brother, "Brother, I like this sister!"

The little girl seldom talked to the man, let alone expressed such joy to him.

But from that day on, the girl never came again, and his sister became the same as before...

He wanted to find some girls to accompany his sister, "Maybe after a while, his sister's illness will get better."

He asked a girl from the neighboring village to play with his sister. But not long after the girl came, she was bitten by his sister. The girl said his sister was a monster and didn’t want to play with her anymore. “My sister is so cute, she just doesn’t like to talk. She is sick. How can she become a monster?”

The man was so angry that he killed the girl. From then on, he began to capture girls and bring them to the mountains to play with his sister, and Chushulhua became one of them...

Stupid, there are all kinds of birds in the forest!