spring cloud warm

Chapter 318
In the evening, the drizzle was like sorrow, dense and continuous.

In front of the gate of Yong'anhou's Mansion on Ziyang Street, a man with the appearance of a scholar came in the rain.

Although he was holding an umbrella, his shoes, socks and sleeves were soaked by the rain. He had a blue cloth bundle under his arm, and it looked like there should be a book or two in it.

"My lord, I don't know who you are? What are you doing at our house? Is there a greeting card?" The gatekeeper stepped forward and asked him.

The man smiled cautiously at the gatekeeper. He looked simple and honest, and his smile was even more simple and honest.

He took out a squarely folded piece of paper from his sleeve, and said: "I came down in a hurry, and I didn't plan to ask for a post. I just saw this reward notice on the road, and I seem to have met the person on it a few days ago. "

The gatekeeper heard this, and immediately said, "Your Master, are you serious?"

"I'm a scholar, how can I lie?" The man smiled honestly again, "However, I'm not completely sure that the person I saw is the young lady of your family."

The gatekeeper couldn't control that much, he pulled him inside and said, "Please come in quickly, please come in quickly."

On the one hand, he sent a boy from the chief corner to report inside: "Tell the second master that someone has come with a reward notice."

The boy ran in after hearing this.

In just half a month, Cen Tong seemed to have aged 20 years.

Her hair was more than half white, her cheeks were sunken, and her eye sockets were sunken. She looked like an old tree in late autumn, skinny and lonely.

The matter of Cen Yunchu's disappearance could not be concealed after all. Now the old lady fell ill in bed, and he only had half his life left.

If it wasn't for finding his daughter to support him, he would have collapsed long ago.

Hearing that someone came with a reward notice, his eyes immediately lit up, and he stood up quickly and walked to the door.

"Master Cen, the villain's surname is Li and his name is Kaiyan." The man saluted Cen Tong in a dignified way, and reported his family background. "I came to Beijing to study from the Eastern Capital."

"Disrespect and disrespect, Mr. Li, please sit down." Cen Tong asked Li Kaiyan to sit down, and a maid had already brought tea.

Li Kaiyan thanked him for his seat, but did not sit down, shyly put down the bundle wrapped in books, opened the reward notice and said, "When I came from Dongdu, I saw a woman on the street. It's quite similar to the one in this painting..."

Cen Tong didn't wait for him to finish, and asked eagerly: "Where did you see her, Young Master? Is she still in Dongdu?"

"This..." Li Kaiyan couldn't help but blushed, her eyes fixed on the ground, not daring to look directly at Cen Tong.

"Don't worry, Mr. Li, the bounty written here will never change. As long as it is confirmed that it is a young girl, Cen will immediately give the bounty in full." Cen Tong said.

Li Kaiyan shook her head quickly when she heard this, and said, "Master Cen, don't misunderstand, the villain doesn't mean that. I don't care if that person is a lady from your house or not. Don't worry if someone's daughter is lost. Help others." The reunion of flesh and blood is a good deed, so how can we pay for it?"

Cen Tong knew that Li Kaiyan was a kind gentleman, so he said: "Thank you, Mr. Li, for your generous help. If you are really a little girl, I will be very grateful. At that time, please give Mr. Cen another chance to repay him, otherwise our family will die. I feel uneasy."

"Master Cen is too serious, so let's not mention this for now. Actually, I am a little embarrassed to say it." Li Kaiyan was a little at a loss, "The villain said it, please don't blame me."

"Mr. Li, please tell me." Cen Tong was really anxious.

"I saw that woman on the street in Dongdu. At that time, it was the annual oiran meeting in Dongdu. The selected oiran ladies paraded along the street. Many people would watch the excitement." Li Kaiyan blushed, because these Scholars shouldn't talk about it, "One of them is the most popular, a newcomer in Yurenfang, and her nickname seems to be Yimei. At that time, she was standing on a float and passed in front of me, and I saw her appearance."

Hearing what he said, Cen Tong's face became more and more ugly. Li Kaiyan quickly explained: "I just think it looks a bit like it, not necessarily. I'm just not afraid of ten thousand, just in case... I also hesitated for a long time , I don’t know whether I should say it or not.”

Cen Tong suppressed his worry and grief, and bowed deeply to Li Kaiyan and said, "Mr. Li, you are a righteous man, thank you for coming to tell me. I'm going to Dongdu to check now. I wonder where you are staying now?"

Li Kaiyan told her where she lived, and then she was about to leave.

Cen Tong personally sent him to the second gate, and when he was walking back, he directly told the people who followed: "Prepare the car now, I want to go out immediately."

"Second Master, it's getting late and it's still raining, let's leave tomorrow morning." The servant advised.

But Cen Tong ignored him at all, and started changing clothes as soon as he entered the door.

Everyone knew how important the eldest lady was to the second grandfather, so they stopped persuading her, and they all honestly did what they should do.

Cen Tong was halfway through packing, slapped his forehead suddenly, and said, "I'm so confused, the fastest way to go to Dongdu is by boat!"

So he ordered people to find a boat quickly. If they were fast, they would be able to reach Dongdu at noon tomorrow.

The rest of the Cen family knew about it, so they didn't worry about him going alone.

Cen Shaoxiang from the eldest room and Cen Shaohui from the third room followed, and Cen Shaohong also wanted to follow, but because he was too young, he was stopped.

"There is no need for outsiders to know about this," Cen Tong said to his brothers. "If it is really Yunchu, we will never go back to the capital. I will take her away and talk to Chen. The marriage at home, you just break it off."

Cen Zhou, Cen Gang and Cen Ran looked at each other, and they all understood what Cen Tong meant.

If the oiran Li Kaiyan saw was Cen Yunchu, then her reputation would be completely ruined.

When he came back to the capital, what he had to face was rumors, slander and slander.

Rather than that, it would be better not to come back at all.

So he nodded and said, "Don't worry, we know what to do."

Cen Tong didn't even have time to eat dinner, so the third wife ordered the kitchen to cook a few meals in a hurry, put them in food boxes, and asked the boy to carry them to the boat.

At this time, the sky was darker, and the rain was obviously heavier.

The three uncles and nephews of the Cen family, along with dozens of servants, braved the rain and rushed to the Qingping River to board a boat.

Sitting on the boat, Cen Tong looked at the water surface silently, his heart seemed to be repeatedly tormented by a cannon.

Is that person really Yunchu?Who kidnapped her?And who trafficked her to such a dirty place?
how is she nowBut still... alive?
He knows his daughter's temperament best, and I'm afraid that she would rather be broken.

Two nephews repeatedly came to invite him to eat, but he shook his head and said he was not hungry.

He really couldn't bear it, and his heart began to bleed when he thought of his daughter's suffering.

(End of this chapter)