At noon the next day, the camp suddenly became chaotic.After eating the medicinal meal, Gu Li was lazily laying on Ren Anshao's massage for him, but when he heard the noise of life outside, he put on his clothes and went out.

It doesn't matter if this question is asked, it turned out that one of the children that the princess bought a few days ago was out of stock, and one of them suddenly couldn't find it.

As soon as he heard that someone was missing, Gu Li gritted his teeth, opened his eyes and slowly scanned for a week, without speaking for a long time.The people around gradually became quieter and kept silent.It took a long time for Gu Li to say: "Call everyone out, let's check it out slowly." After speaking, he hurried back to the account and called An Shaohua.

When An Shaohua heard the words, he thought more about it than Gu Cheng.When you come out and find a child, ask who it was, who saw it last, and where.The child was probably too nervous, just cried and didn't speak, turned around and ran away after asking too many questions.

Gu Li stretched out his hand to grab the child, but stopped and did not push him again.

He originally thought that in this kind of weather, everyone would act like this without knowing how dangerous the situation was, such as bonfires, barbecues, and singing.It is obvious that life and death are unpredictable in the snow, but each of them seems to be here to play.But thinking about it carefully, maybe it is because he vaguely knew what might happen that he was so anxious and nervous, so he had to use this appearance to relieve him.

Especially those bought children are more sensitive and thoughtful, they were originally abandoned.There are too many children in the family to support, so he sells them for money, and he is the one who sells them.When it comes to the theater troupe, no matter how hard you study and how hard you work, once you lose your position, it will be him who will be spoiled.After finally meeting a nobleman, he also encountered a snow disaster.Once something happens, no one will protect them. They probably rely less, have less confidence, less stability, and less vitality than others.That's why I sang so hard on the snow yesterday.

Perhaps it is to attract the attention of the nobles, so there are many possibilities to survive.Maybe I want to leave something to this world.

"Don't be so fierce." Gu Cheng looked at the child's back and sighed, then looked back and saw An Shaohua and couldn't help but say something.

An Shaohua stood there dumbfounded, "Liu Guang, I just asked."

Gu Li knew that An Shaohua was telling the truth, and what he asked was the crux of the matter.The sooner these things are figured out, the better the chances of finding that child.

"My lord, Si Qi is still here this morning." A neatly dressed child was holding a basket with some brown rice in his hand, probably helping out on the stove.He took the initiative to come over and said to An Shaohua. "When I got up this morning, it was precisely because someone went out and knocked down the weapon shelf at the door, and I woke up with a bang."

The child said his name was Yun'an, he was seventeen, and he was the oldest among the children we bought.Kan Yun'an's speech and behavior are not like ordinary children who are afraid of strangers, nor are they flattering, but have a kind of immature calmness.

Following An Shaohua's questioning, Yun'an said that the child he couldn't find was Siqi, only fourteen, and a male singer.After singing last night, everyone went back to rest. Siqi shared a room with Yun'an and several other children.Yun'an said that when he counted the shoes last night, everyone including Si Qi was there.

"Count the shoes?" An Shaohua asked.

"Oh, just count the shoes on the ground before going to bed. If there are all the shoes, there are all the people."

"Shoes?" Gu Ling was a little puzzled: "Count..."

An Shaohua told him that people with many children in the folk would be like this.The father has to farm the land, and the mother has to do housework during the day and weaves cloth and shoe soles at night. The children play wildly in the fields all day long, and the parents only check to see if the children's shoes are there before going to bed.If there are shoes, there are people.This is still a good family.Children from poor families have no shoes to wear.

Seeing Gu Yu's compassionate eyes again, An Shaohua turned his head to talk to Yun'an: "You..." An Shaohua wanted to ask Yun'an if there were many children in his family, but later he was afraid of asking about other people's sad things, let alone Yun'an. What An Jia used to look like was irrelevant to finding someone, so the words changed to: "The shoes are here, where is the person? Who was the last person to see Si Qi? When and where did you meet? "

Yun'an was also taken aback, he probably wanted to say that he counted the shoes last night, how could they not be there when the shoes were there, suddenly thought of something, told An Shaohua that he was willing to help the adults to ask, and ran away after speaking.

After a while, the princess came.

"Anyway, I'm not in a hurry to travel now. Why don't you call all the maids and servants together and count the number of people." The princess said: "My wet nurse is from Liangzhou. She once said that there is a legend in Liangzhou. There is Xue Jing, who will pretend to be what people like, take away the good-looking children, and absorb the essence so that they can live forever."

Seeing that everyone was silent, the princess continued: "My wet nurse told me that if there is no snow spirit, they are all wolves in the wild, blind bears, and even tigers and wild dogs. Those things will not be able to eat when the mountains are covered by heavy snow." , will attack people at night and eat them."

Hearing what the princess said, thinking of the little actor who disappeared today, those palace people who came out of Yong'an capital all looked ashen and trembled.

"After all, you are someone close to you. If you find out early, you might be able to find it. It's also a life." The princess said, "Why don't you check it carefully and see..."

"My aunt's words are wrong." The third prince, wrapped into a big ball of hair, with his nose red from the cold, walked quickly, followed by Li Zan holding a hand stove. "If you let the wolf carry it away, there will be no bones left after most of the day. What else are you looking for?"

Without saying a word, Li Zan quickly put the stove into the hands of the third prince.

The third prince took the hand stove and said: "Besides, why mobilize the crowd. How could there be no footprints in such a heavy snow? Follow the footprints and check."

"I've checked, but there are no new footprints outside the camp, except for a few teams who went to explore the road the day before yesterday." An Shaohua said.

"Hmph..." Yin Duo sneered twice from his nose, and looked at An Shaohua disdainfully.Turned around and spat.

Li Zan stepped forward and whispered: "Princess, you are His Highness' elder, but you can't humiliate our Highness with others in everything."

Princess Cheng An didn't keep up with her words, which made Li Zan choke again: "Last time on the boat, I said that a slave was lost and wanted to search the boat. I watched your people with cold eyes and didn't search any other places carefully. The room, including the salutes of the few of us, have been searched over and over again. I also lost a lot of bank notes, and there is really no reason for it."

Hearing that Li Zan lost something, Yin Duo turned his head and asked, "Did you lose money? Why didn't you tell me?"

"Then there's nothing to say. General Gu led the people from the Imperial Forest Army to conduct a search. Maybe it was regarded as a search of the house. Someone just took it by hand. It can't be regarded as entrainment. It's just that I put my things in the wrong place."

Seeing that Li Zan gave Gu Zhen a big hat in a few words, An Shaohua immediately said: "Brother Li misunderstood, the imperial army is the emperor's personal soldiers. Liu Guang..."

"It's gotta..." Yin Duo interrupted An Shaohua in a loud voice.He listened impatiently to these verbal maneuvers.He doesn't care if Li Zan really lost his money.He doesn't care if the Imperial Forest Army really stole the money.He was angry because An Shaohua relied on the support of Princess Cheng An and Gu Shi, an old man, to target him everywhere along the way. "Search, you want to search again, don't you!" Yin Duo poked An Shaohua's nose with his eyes.

"If you go back to His Highness, search it, maybe it can save a life."

"Then let's do one thing at a time. Let's talk about the boat search last time first!"

Li Zan hurriedly said: "Your Highness, let's forget what happened last time. It's only about a thousand taels of silver. Even if my Li family is in ruins now, it will not be enough to blackmail people."

"Why forget it?" Yin Duo's voice suddenly rose. "Search! They searched for us, and we want to search for them too!" Yin Duo said, bowing to Princess Cheng'an: "Aunt Cheng'an."

Princess Cheng'an stood up straight unknowingly: "What's the matter?"

"I agree to search. But first search the Yulin Army, and then search Gu Li and An Shaohua. In the end, even your aunt must be searched."

"You..." Qingyue yelled immediately after hearing the words, but just as she uttered a sound, Yin Duo's eyes were dumbfounded with fright.

"Qingyue!" Princess Cheng An was taken aback, and hurriedly stopped Qingyue from speaking. "Okay. For this search, let Lord An lead the search. Your Highness, Lord Li, and Lord Cai can all send someone to follow if you don't feel at ease. What do you think?"

Yin Duo looked at Princess Cheng An with a half-smile, but after a few breaths, Princess Cheng An broke out in a cold sweat.Yin Duo said slowly: "Saving a life is better than building a seven-level pagoda, and I naturally agree."

Another good search.It was not until night that Si Qi was found sleeping in the tent where the princess put the dowry.Si Qi didn't wake up until he was carried out.After An Shaohua felt his pulse, he said that he had probably been drugged. Unfortunately, he was not a doctor, so he didn't know what kind of drug it was, how effective it was, and whether it had any sequelae.

Fortunately, the person was found, and everyone from the princess to the children breathed a sigh of relief.

But Gu Li was furious the first time he saw Si Qi.

It turned out that Si Qi was none other than the little boy who sang "Study Club" the day before.Others didn't know, but Gu Li and An Shaohua knew that Si Qi's performance on the first day might have caught the eye of the murderer, but today he was just lucky.

After falling asleep at night, An Shaohua suddenly said that today's search found one person missing.

Gu Gu asked who it was, and felt suspicious after asking. After all, even though it is inconvenient in every way when it snows, leaving footprints alone is a rare convenience. "But haven't we seen the footprints, no one has left."

"It's... Xiaohong."

"Who?"

"Xiaohong, whom the third prince said he would give to you, has disappeared since he gave you sober soup that day."

Gu Cheng sat up abruptly: "What did you say?"

An Shaohua pushed him down and said, "Okay! Don't mess around in the middle of the night. I asked Hua Xun, and he said that after someone gave it to you, Xiaohong packed up her things and went to the General's Mansion that night. Appeared near the Third Prince."

Gu Li frowned and thought for a while: "I have never seen her before."

"But the secret guard who was staring at the third prince and the others had never seen her before." An Shaohua said, pointing to the wax ball handed over by the secret guard. "Today's search forced the suspect to release Si Qi."

Gu Li nodded, but suddenly remembered that Xiaohong and Yu Zuimei disappeared almost at the same time.

"If Xiaohong is in the tent, she will definitely not be able to escape everyone's sight." An Shaohua continued.

What An Shaohua said was not cryptic, but Gu Li understood it.Xiaohong is not in the tent at the moment.

Maybe it was because they knew that the murderer committed the crime under their noses, but they didn't know until more than ten days later.This bright life disappeared under the circumstances of his own carelessness, and Gu Cheng himself could not deal with this matter calmly anyway.Always blame yourself.

Fortunately, nothing happened after that.The pathfinders never returned, and nothing major happened in the camp.Despite this, Gu Li couldn't sleep well and was always alert.

Until the seventh day of the lunar new year, people from the Yulin Army came to call Gu Zhen, saying that a group of people had come.

Standing on the horse, Gu Cheng saw a group of people walking on the snow from a distance. Gu Cheng closed his eyes and slowly opened them again.Someone in the team used a flag to identify themselves—it was the prefect of Liangzhou who sent someone to meet him.

Only then did Gu Li heave a sigh of relief, and he was even unstable.That night, it burned up again in a daze.

On the tenth day of November, I finally arrived at the Liangzhou government office.

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