Finally, I searched through the entire Zhou Mansion, but I still couldn't find anyone.

Mrs. Zhou immediately went to ask someone to ask the manager of the inner and outer courtyards, and asked the eldest grandma if she had gone out in the morning, but she had all the news that she had denied it.

"Can a living person disappear out of thin air?" Mrs. Zhou also had a vague premonition in her heart.

"Fu'an, you should take people to the wonton shop at Donghai Pier right now." Zhou Chengsi said, "Forget it, I'll go in person."

"Wonton Shop? What wonton Shop?" Mrs. Zhou still didn't understand very well.

But seeing that her son was about to go out, she was worried and had to ask someone to prepare a car and she followed her.

Fu Erlang and the others wanted to keep up, but they were ordered by Mrs. Zhou to stay at home, "Your brother and I are out. You are helping your father at home, and someone may come to the door."

Helplessly, Zhou Erlang and the others had to stay.

After leaving the mansion, Mrs. Zhou asked Zhou Chengsi: "What's going on? Why do you have to go to the East China Sea Pier?"

They are still a long way from Donghai Pier, and it will take less than half a day to go by carriage.

"The girl is the owner of the wonton shop." Zhou Chengsi said.

He couldn't see his eyes, so he had many ears and many sounds. He could remember them after listening to them for the first time. He would hear the voice of the girl almost once a month, which was quite familiar. So on the day he got married, he knew who she was.

Mrs. Zhou vaguely remembered that there was a wonton shop at the wharf, but she didn't know the extra matter. Seeing that her son was so sure, she had to go and talk about it first.

When they arrived at the wonton shop, the wonton shop door was under control.

The pier on the first day of the Lunar New Year is very cold, but there are also some coolies who are really unable to take care of their work.

When they saw the mother and son who came in a carriage, they started to speak in a sleeve: "No one inside. The store has been closed for a long time."

Zhou Chengsi could see that there was a thick layer of gray outside the door and on the door knocker, which really showed that no one had come today.

"Do you know where she went?" Zhou Chengsi asked the coolies.

"You ask the girl, she suddenly hung up the sign three or four months ago and never opened the door again." Kuli, who was familiar with the girl, said, "Maybe she left."

"Three or four months ago?" Mrs. Zhou was not in a hurry to speak.

It was exactly three months since the young woman got into the game, but when the young man and woman came to them to negotiate terms, it was indeed more than three months.

"Leave? She still has relatives? Where do those relatives live?" Zhou Chengsi continued to ask.

The coolies finally became suspicious and said vigilantly: "What are you looking for her?"

"Don't get me wrong." Zhou Chengsi touched his sleeves. In the end, Mrs. Zhou saw his actions and pulled the golden hairpin off her head and handed it to the coolies, saying, "We are here to find someone. We helped this shop owner before, and today we plan to repay this favor. As a result, when we come, she is not here, so I want to find out where she is and see if she can find her, which is also a matter of understanding."

The reasons Mrs. Zhou said were not important, what was important was the red gold hairpin.

Those coolies did not expect such a good thing to happen. They rushed to put away the golden hairpin and said, "This lady, young master, I think you are all rich and noble families, so you shouldn't do anything wrong with Ximei. Ximei has no relatives, and she has been alone for so many years."

"She has no relatives? What about her parents?" Mrs. Zhou was obviously more friendly than her son and was more likely to make people relax their guard.

"That girl is miserable," said another coolie. "Mother disappeared more than ten years ago, and later my father and brother died in the storm. We can't tell you exactly. If you want to inquire, I can take you to Gaojia Village, and people there should know it clearly."

Mrs. Zhou glanced at her son and said, "Okay, then I'll help you lead a way."

Gaojia Village is not very far from Donghai Pier, almost two miles away. At first glance, the whole village was dilapidated. Even if it was still in the New Year, there was still a layer of death surrounding the village.

When Mrs. Zhou saw this, she suddenly remembered something, "I have been here before." She said to her son, "You were still young at that time, and you were eight years old, so I will take you here to collect seafood."

The fish and shrimp in winter are not as fat as autumn, but they can be preserved in cold weather and can be sent to the north. At that time, the Zhou family had a lot of work and her husband was too busy to do it alone. She was worried that she would not be able to deliver these filial piety over the deadline, which would cause unhappiness among the adults above, so she showed up to deal with these matters in person.

"I saw a little girl selling her with a basket of sea food on her back. I saw that she was young and her clothes were thin, so I asked someone to give her a cotton jacket." Speaking of which, the little girl's eyes seemed to be blue. She just took a accidentally glance at it at that time, but didn't see it clearly, and she never remembered it later.

When she came here today, she remembered it.

If that little girl's eyes were blue, wouldn't that little girl...

Zhou Chengsi didn't say anything.

There were many coolies leading the way: "There were a lot of people in Gaojia Village before, but I don't know what happened over the years. There were always people who died of illness for no reason, and the cause of death could not be found. Later, fewer people were willing to marry in, and those who were a little rich moved out of here, and fewer and fewer people in the village."

No wonder it's lifeless here.

Mrs. Zhou thought, and entered the village with a deeper and shallower.

After the villagers knew about Mrs. Zhou and the others' purpose and saw that she had caught the silver melon seeds, they immediately told them all about the past of the girl with money.

"You said the girl who sells wontons at the wharf, she has a miserable life." An older woman said, "The girl is Gao Xiang's daughter, and she said she is about the same as a slave. When she was five years old, she was caught by Gao Xiang and worked in her work. She was assigned to do everything inside and out, and she didn't feed her, and beating and scolding was even more common.

Gao Xiang and his son were eating big white steamed buns in the house, and the thin girl could only sit outside and eat thick bran. The thick bran was the shell left over from the millet, which made adults feel uncomfortable, let alone a baby.

When we were six years old, the girl would go out to sea with Gao Xiang. She was doing it when we were refilling the net and collecting fish. Sometimes when we got up in the middle of the night, we could see the girl squatting at the door to work.

I remember one year, a rich lady came to the village to collect seafood. The lady was kind-hearted. When she saw the girl standing in the wind in winter, she was trembling, so she asked someone to give her a cotton jacket. As a result, after the girl returned home, the cotton jacket was given to her son by Gao Xiang. The girl's face was frozen and blue. She slept in the pigpen at night and relied on the pig to keep warm.

Maybe God finally couldn't see it. When the girl was nine or ten years old, they went out to sea to catch fish. As a result, they encountered a storm, Gao Xiang and his son died in the storm. The girl was sent to the shore by the sea, and survived by chance. Later, she slowly lived a good life."

Speaking of these past events, the people in the village would sigh at the misery of the fine girl more and more.

Mrs. Zhou didn't expect that the clothes she gave were really for the delicate girl. When she was shocked, she heard her son say, "She was living such a hard time at that time. Have you ever reached out to help her?"

As soon as this problem arose, the surroundings became quiet.

Soon, someone said, "This is all someone else's family affairs, so how can we manage it?"

With this reason, others agreed, "That's right, even if you can manage for a while, you can't manage for a lifetime. No matter how you are, you are someone else's daughter, what's the use of our help?"

Looking at the shirkable faces of these people, Zhou Chengsi felt disgusted. He suddenly stood up and said to Mrs. Zhou: "Mom, let's go."

He knew that these people could not be blamed for not saving them, but he felt uncomfortable.

That person had experienced these disgusting things, but he had never heard her complain.

Mrs. Zhou didn't have a good impression of these villagers, so she stood up and walked out of the village with her son.

It was not until he left Gaojia Village that Zhou Chengsi asked his mother: "Mom, was the mermaid who presented the fish... the one who presented the fish from this village?"

He forgot to ask about this just now.

Mrs. Zhou didn't expect this to happen. She was stunned for a moment and couldn't help but recall what happened at that time in her mind.

She remembered that when someone bought a mermaid, it was very popular in the city. Everyone wanted to see if it was a real mermaid. But the origin of the mermaid...

"I only remember that I was a fisherman like the story Erlang told." Speaking of this, Mrs. Zhou suddenly reacted, "You don't mean that the fisherman is the father of a girl?"

Zhou Chengsi closed his eyes and asked someone to go back to Gaojia Village to ask.

Soon, the servant came and reported, "Yes, the one who sold the mermaids at that time was Gao Xiang."

After hearing this, Zhou Chengsi could guess something vaguely.

The mermaid had a child left...

"Mom," he felt like he was almost breathless and wanted to cry, "You go back first." He said in a hoarse voice, "I want to stay here for a while."

Seeing that her son was in a bad mood, Mrs. Zhou wanted to know what was going on, but she also knew that it was not the time to ask Fu Hao, "I'll wait for you at the dock."

She couldn't worry about her son.

"Okay." Zhou Chengsi said, "I want to go to the beach. After seeing the sea, I will come back to find you."

"Fu'an, follow me." Mrs. Zhou said.

Zhou Chengsi did not refuse, but let Fu'an stay away from him.

The sea breeze is very cold, hanging on the face like a knife, and when the eyes are opened, they are blown to tears in the wind.

Zhou Chengsi looked at the dark blue sea and walked along the coast.

He didn't know where he was going, he just wanted to see her and give her a hug.

The waves were slapped on the table one after another, and Zhou Chengsi walked to the reef beach. He stepped on the moss-covered stones and walked towards the part closest to the sea.

Is the sea in front of me witnessing her past? Are there still her tears in it?

With a "hula", another wave came, and Zhou Chengsi was almost blown down by the wind. It was at this moment that he saw a figure swimming slowly towards him in front of him.
Chapter completed!