Jin Liangyu

Chapter 68 Find it
  "Uncle, is there any news about our girl?"

"Mother Lin, there is no news about my sister yet."

Tao Wenzhong anxiously directed his servants to search one by one along the road, but they had all reached the border of Linjiang and could not find the little girl yet.

The old housekeeper who was following him looked at the forked road and gave him some advice: "Uncle, how about we allocate some people and follow the forked road to look for it."

The words of the old housekeeper awaken the dreamer.

"Amber, just do as you say."

"Yes, the old slave will lead the people to search along this road now."

Next, the Tao family members were divided into several groups, searching in towns and villages.

...

This half month has been the most comfortable time that Mrs. Tao has ever had. The two little girls are very sensible and surround her, helping her with things.

She, a girl who grew up under the care of the Tao family, also learned how to cook rice, but the taste was not very good and she could barely eat it.

And the honest man who saved her showed nothing but a grateful smile to her every day.

At the beginning, when the honest man saw her clumsily doing housework, he once said that she didn't need to cook, he would just do it.

Looking at the bare-walled new house and the dependent eyes of the two young girls, she persisted.

Now I can do housework in a decent manner, not only with ease.

Even when she had nothing to do, she leaned against the gray earth wall, thinking that it would be nice to live like this for the rest of her life.

At least there are no plots or intrigues here.

In the afternoon, the sky was overcast, as if a heavy rain was brewing.

Old man Zhou saw that the weather was not good, so he hurriedly took his eldest son to clear several drainage ditches, and then hurried home.

Just halfway through the run, dense raindrops began to patter down.

Old man Zhou only had time to shout: "Run." He felt the rain running down his face.

"Oh my God, this heavy rain, God, you are kidding us."

"Okay, there's no point in arguing, God won't listen to us."

The father and son stopped talking, fearing that the rain would get into their mouths. There was only one thought left in their minds, and they ran home.

As soon as the father and son ran to the door of their yard, a carriage happened to enter the village.

The driver of the carriage said to the people in the carriage: "Mother Lin, the rain outside is too heavy. Let's find a house to take shelter from the rain."

"Okay, I'll listen to you."

After hearing what Mother Lin said, the coachman drove the carriage towards the yard where someone had just run in.

Zhou Dalang was standing under the eaves, taking off his little coat and wringing water. The strong and straight back fell right into Tao's eyes.

Zhou Dalang didn't know it yet, but his disheveled appearance was noticed by Mrs. Tao.

He is still in a hurry now and wants to put on his clothes quickly. There is a female guest at home, and it doesn't look good with his bare back like this.

"Is anyone there? Is anyone at home? The two of us were passing by your place. It rained heavily and we wanted to find a place to take shelter. Is it convenient?"

Zhou Dalang heard clearly and quickly put on the coat he had just finished twisting, then picked up the dripping bamboo hat next to him and wanted to invite them in.

"Okay, come in quickly, it's not inconvenient." Of course, he had to tell the south room: "Sister Tao, you should stay in the house. It's inconvenient for outsiders to come. "

Mrs. Tao was not surprised. Her blushing face was still faintly hot, so she gave a soft "hmm" as an answer.

Zhou Dalang didn't say much. When he arrived at the gate, the coachman had already helped Mother Lin out of the carriage with an umbrella.

The rain was so heavy that the umbrella didn't work, and the two of them were soaked in the rain in an instant. Seeing that there was another aunt, Zhou Dalang hurriedly asked them to leave quickly and invited them into the main room of the east wing.

"Auntie, sit here."

"Thank you young man."

Mother Lin said words of thanks, but did not sit on the bench pointed by Zhou Dalang.

"Why don't you sit down, aunt?" After Zhou Dalang finished speaking, he remembered that his aunt's clothes were still dripping with water.

He knocked on the closed door of the south room and said, "Sister Tao, this aunt's clothes are soaked. Can you let her come into your room and take off her wet clothes and wring them out to water them?"

"Okay, Brother Zhou, please let her in."

The gentle and virtuous female voice was so familiar that Mother Lin's face, which was soaked by the heavy rain, changed.

"girl."

"Mother Lin."

When Mrs. Tao opened the door, she saw Mother Lin, who was wet and dripping with water.

"My girl, I have found you." Mother Lin was still concerned that she was getting wet and did not hug her girl.

But Mrs. Tao didn't take any care and stretched out her hand to hug Mother Lin.

"Girl, this old slave is already soaked. What if your clothes get soaked too?"

"Mother Lin, it's okay."

When the coachman who had been standing at the door saw that his girl had been found, he didn't even bother to come in to take shelter from the rain, so he ran out.

"Girl, Mother Lin, I will send a letter to the uncle now to say that the girl has been found."

Mother Lin said "Yeah." and let him go.

The driver ran outside Zhou's house, quickly unloaded the horse that was pulling the cart, and then climbed on the horse's back neatly. Regardless of the pouring rain, he urged the horse and ran towards the county seat.

He wanted to tell the uncle as soon as possible that the girl had been found.

In the room, Mother Lin didn't care at all how uncomfortable the wet clothes were sticking to her body. Her hands kept stroking the lotus-colored cloth on her girl's body.

The fabric is still eye-catching and the workmanship is good, but when has her girl ever worn such coarse clothes?

If the master and his wife saw this, I don’t know how distressed they would be.

"Girl, you are suffering."

"Mother Lin, what am I suffering from? Look carefully, your girl lives in the best house in this yard."

"Girl." Mother Lin didn't say that this room was not as good as the inferior servant's room in Tao's mansion.

This must be a newly built house, and the yellow mud on the walls seems to have not dried yet.

Fortunately it's summer, otherwise how could this wet girl's body bear it?

There were no furnishings in this room, it was empty and shabby, and the only thing of interest was the new straw mat on the earthen bed.

(Zhou Dalang thought that Mrs. Tao was rich, so he bought it with money. The house he lived in was only covered with a layer of straw.)
  There were two little girls sitting on the kang. The older one looked about four years old, and the younger one looked less than two years old.

Maybe there was a stranger in the house, so the two little girls retreated to the kang a little uneasily, but kept staring at Mrs. Tao.

"Da Ya, Er Ya, don't be afraid, don't be afraid. Mother Lin is Aunt Tao's nanny."

"Not afraid."

(End of this chapter)