Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 831 Half a Year After Disappearance

"Amituofo, what the third sister said is true." Du Fangfei said.

Since the news of Du Jinning's disappearance came, she set up a Buddhist temple at home, burning incense and worshiping Buddha day and night, praying for the gods to bless Du Jinning and her mother.

Du Fanghui nodded: "Jin Ning said a lot that day, and now that I think about it, there are deep meanings. So don't worry. In addition, Jin Ning has settled down with her mother. If something happens to her, someone will send a letter to her. Let's, let's pick up my mother; no one has delivered the letter now, which means that Jinning is still fine."

Both Du Fangfei and Du Fangling nodded, agreeing with Du Fanghui's words very much.

No matter what, when a loved one is missing, as long as there is no final bad news, everyone will think about the good, so as to comfort themselves and bless their loved ones.

"Third sister, where is the third brother-in-law, you have to persuade him well. Bie Jinning is fine, but he fell down." Du Fanghui said to Du Fangling.

"Well, I see." Du Fangling was very satisfied with Lu Xiaobei's performance.

After all, he is not a white-eyed wolf, and he has not forgotten Du Jinning's kindness to him back then.

Du Fanghui sighed again: "Third brother-in-law is better off with your persuasion. I heard from my husband-in-law that Qi Muyuan hasn't closed his eyes for three days and three nights. Tell me, is he with Jinning..."

She didn't continue, but both Du Fangfei and Du Fangling understood the surprise.

"You mean..." Du Fangling became excited, and his bloodshot eyes were filled with gossip.

"I'm also guessing. Whether it's true or not, I have to wait for Jinning to come back and ask her to find out." Du Fanghui said.

"Alas..." Du Fangling lost his temper, and hoped that Du Jinning would return soon.

The three sisters all have a good home. At the beginning, she was worried that Du Jinning would be an official for a long time. In the end, even if Du Jinning regained her daughter's body, it would be difficult for her to remarry when she was older. She never expected to hear such explosive news all of a sudden.

Thinking about Qi Muyuan's death, not only did he not get married, he didn't even have an engagement, so she couldn't help thinking about it, and felt that Du Fanghui's guess was very reasonable.

Du Fangfei also had the same idea as Du Fangling.

Anyway, there is nowhere to put the heart that is worrying, so it is better to gossip and adjust the tense nerves.

She also asked Du Fanghui enthusiastically: "It's okay to guess, just tell me. I'm out of town, so I don't know anything about Beijing."

Du Fanghui didn't know that Du Jinning and Qi Muyuan had an affair with broken sleeves, and that Zhao Mingyue and Zhao Yu knew about it; he didn't know that Du Jinning's real gender had already been told to Qi Muyuan.

She just heard from her husband that Qi Muyuan visited Du Jinning twice in Runzhou; this time when Du Jinning disappeared, Qi Muyuan's madness was even worse than that of Du Jinning's third brother-in-law, Lu Xiaobei.

Only then did she guess that the relationship between the two was unusual.

There was no one in the hall, and the maids and mother-in-law had been sent far away by them.Seeing that the two sisters were interested, Du Fanghui asked the two to bring their heads together, and told them what they knew and guessed.

"Oh, if Jin Ning can return to women's clothing, it would be great to marry Qi Muyuan. The two grew up together, and Qi Muyuan treated her so well." Du Fangfei said.

Lu Xiaobei flew solo early and stopped playing with Du Jinning and the others; Du Fanghui and Fang Shaohua hadn't been married for long.Therefore, Du Fangfei knew a little more about the friendship between Qi Muyuan and Du Jinning than the two younger sisters through her husband Xu Chengyuan.

……

One day, two days, three days...

Ten days passed, half a month passed.

All searches turned up nothing.

As early as [-] days after Du Jinning disappeared, Zhao Wei withdrew the part of the Imperial Forest Army that was searching for Du Jinning's whereabouts.On the day he disappeared for a full month, he gave Qi Muyuan an order to stop searching for Du Jinning's whereabouts.

"I know Du Jinning's contribution to Da Song. But she has been missing for a month, and all the places that should be searched have been checked. I think if she hadn't been tired of court disputes, she left quietly alone and became You Yunye. Crane, that means being killed. Otherwise, it is impossible that there is no news. Since there is no hope, let’s stop. Although several families have been destroyed or fought for power, there are still certain hidden dangers. You Withdraw back and investigate the hidden dangers left by the Wang family and the Li family."

Qi Muyuan replied expressionlessly: "Yes."

After coming out of the palace, he returned home at night and told Qi Bokun what Zhao Yu said.

Qi Bokun stroked his beard and said: "It seems that the emperor has always felt that Du Jinning escaped by himself. What he said is just to convey a message to you, that is, he knows everything you have done."

Qi Muyuan smiled bitterly: "I don't even know, what does he know?"

Qi Bokun shook his head: "So, even if the emperor orders to withdraw all the troops, you can't relax. As long as you have free time, just walk around and put on a show."

Qi Muyuan frowned slightly: "Even if you don't tell me, I'm going to look for it."

As he spoke, he lowered his head, inserted his fingers into his hair, buried his head in his lap, and remained motionless.

Seeing him like this, Qi Bokun heaved a long sigh, stood up and patted his shoulder, got up and left.

……

Autumn is the harvest season of the year again.On this day, Yao Shuqi got up, washed up and punched in the yard, and then went out to inspect.

The first thing he went to was Du Jinning's yard.

Seeing that all the rooms are bright and clean, and the yard has been swept without even a single fallen leaf, he nodded in satisfaction, and smiled at Aoki: "Very good. When the young master comes back, I will ask him to reward you."

But Aoki shook his head: "This is my job, and I can't be rewarded by the young master."

After saying this, both of them felt depressed.

Yao Shuqi cheered up, not so much to encourage Aoki, but to encourage himself: "We both know that the young master will definitely come back."

There is one thing that others don't know, but they both know very well, that is the existence of Qin Lao Liu.

Du Jinning had sent countless letters to Qin Lao Liu through their hands, and they knew that Qin Lao Liu was helping his young master.

When the news of Du Jinning's disappearance came, they went to look for Qin Laoliu, but found that Qin Laoliu was also missing.Although the teahouse where he stayed and the mansion he lived in are still there, but like Du Jinning, there is no news.

Yao Shuqi and Qin Laoliu have been friends for many years. He knows that this friend is very loyal. He doesn't suspect that Qin Laoliu has harmed Du Jinning, but wonders whether Du Jinning is hiding under the protection of Qin Laoliu.

Although they didn't know Du Jinning's real gender and why she was hiding, Yao Shuqi had been with Du Jinning for so many years, and he had already learned to think about the big picture.

Du Jinning disappeared, using this as an excuse for the emperor to search the family, and the family collapsed one after another.In this matter, Du Jinning's disappearance is the key.

Therefore, Yao Shuqi had a bold guess that the emperor deliberately made Du Jinning disappear in order to clean up his political enemies.

With Du Jinning's contribution and importance to Song Dynasty, Yao Shuqi believed that the emperor was reluctant to let her disappear.In due course, she will be brought back.

Therefore, even though the three sisters of the Du family had visited a month ago and wanted him to seal up the house and bring his servants and family luggage back to the capital, he insisted on refusing.Said that he would rather not pay the monthly money from the Du family, but use his own savings to pay the servants, and he would stay here until the young master returned.

At that time, the three sisters of the Du family cried bitterly.

(End of this chapter)