Ming Lanruo was holding the tiger lantern and finally squeezed out of the crowd. When she looked at the door of the store, she found that the little man who was standing there obediently was missing!
At first, she thought Xiaoxi was just playing around.
"Xiao Xi!" She looked around and saw a huge crowd.
After calling several times, but no one answered, Ming Lanruo suddenly panicked.
"Have you ever seen a child who is about this tall, wearing a tiger hat, and very good-looking?" She immediately asked around the shops and the people waiting in line.
Most of the people were shaking their heads, and occasionally there were one or two who had actually seen Xiao Xi. After all, the child looked so eye-catching.
But no one knows where he went.
Her shouts also alerted the people in the lantern shop. When the shop owner heard that Xiao Xi'er was missing, he immediately stopped doing business and asked the shopkeepers to help Ming Lanruo find the child.
This fear of losing Xiao Xi forever reminded Ming Lanruo of the moment when the little child was hung upside down on the tower, covered in blood!
Her eyes instantly turned red uncontrollably, and her whole body couldn't help but tremble.
Ming Lanruo held the lantern tightly and read that sentence over and over again——
Yes, I can't panic, I can't panic!
Ming Lanruo took a deep breath, forced herself to calm down, and began to count the time——
From entering the shop to leaving the shop, it only takes a short while, and Xiao Xier will never be taken too far!
She pushed the lantern in her hand into the shopkeeper's hand: "I'll keep it with you first, I'm going to report it to the official!"
Ming Lanruo lifted up her skirt and ran towards Dongchang!
Cang Qiao!
At this time, if Dongchang goes out, he will definitely find the child!
She ran all the way along the busy street, bumped into people, and was knocked down again. She struggled to get up and ran forward crazily, ignoring the pain in her hands and feet.
Xiaoxi, wait a minute, mother!
The road to Dongchang was so long, and it seemed like she would never run to the end. It was like the drowning despair that she felt when she died in her previous life came over her, and there was a buzzing sound in Ming Lanruo's eardrums!
"Bang!" She bumped into someone again, and when she was about to fall, a big hand held her arm.
"Princess Mourning, what's going on? What happened?" A clear and familiar voice sounded above the head.
Only then did Ming Lanruo realize that her veil had fallen off. When she looked at the person, she seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw: "Commander Mu, Xi'er, my Xi'er is missing, please help me!"
Mu Qingshu, covered in armor, was leading a group of forbidden troops to the school grounds in the western suburbs when he suddenly saw Ming Lanruo stumbling forward on the street.
Her beautiful, pale face was so eye-catching that he saw it at a glance.
Mu Qingshu immediately ordered to the soldiers behind him: "Seal the city gate immediately, and then start a search in a radius of ten miles centered on the place where the child disappeared!"
Minglan Ruoqiang calmed down and immediately added: "Xiao Xi is wearing a tiger head hat, a red brocade dress with a tiger head pattern, and small black soft boots."
Mu Qingshu also wrote someone to pass on the child's characteristics.
"Princess, don't worry, if the trafficker really abducts the child, he won't be able to leave the city, or even the eight alleys on Xuanwu Street!" Mu Qingshu comforted Ming Lanruo.
Ming Lanruo grabbed the lapel of her clothes and said with a pale face: "Thank you very much, Commander Mu... I... will go to Dongchang to have more strength and more protection!"
She must not lose Xiao Xi, she will go crazy!
"Can you ride a horse? I'll take you there. Dongchang is a bit far away from here!" Mu Qingshu asked someone to lead the horse over.
Ming Lanruo nodded and immediately got on the horse.
Mu Qingshu's soldiers would chase him over at any time to report the progress of the search for the child. With him accompanying her, she would know the situation in real time.
Along the way, Mu Qingshu looked at Ming Lanruo, whose face was pale and lost.
He frowned slightly and said in a low voice: "Princess Mourning, you have to hold on. There are everyone in the capital. If they know that Xi'er is your Achilles' heel, they will probably take action against the child next time."
Ming Lanruo paused, then tightened the reins: "Are there many children missing every year in the capital?"
The dignified commander of the imperial army will not aim without aim.
Mu Qingshu said calmly: "After all, this is the foot of the emperor. There are very few people in the blue sky during the day, but there are a few who get lost at night."
Ming Lanruo closed her eyes, and her butterfly-wing-like eyelashes trembled slightly: "I see."
How long has it been since she ended her confinement and there are already so many people who can't help but want to take action against her?
Mu Qingshu looked at her appearance, his heart moved slightly for some reason, and he comforted in a low voice: "The child will be found."
Ming Lanruo nodded, and the two rode their horses to the gate of Dongchang. Before they got off their horses, they heard a noise coming from the gate of Dongchang Yamen——
"Didn't Dongchang even catch Wang Erpazi's wife next door stealing a chicken? Why didn't he ignore the trafficker? If I caught the thief, why don't I give him a reward of 100 taels of silver?!"
"..."
As soon as Ming Lanruo heard this childish but loud voice, she immediately jumped off her horse, pushed through the crowd of spectators and squeezed in.
At the door of Dongchang Yamen, I saw a little kid with pink makeup dragging a middle-aged man who was several times taller than him like a dog.
The little baby was like a burst bean, arrogantly asking Dongchang Yamen for money.
The middle-aged man was lying on the ground shivering, with a bruised nose and swollen face. He was obviously tortured to the point that he couldn't get up!
The Jin Yiwei who was in charge of the duty at Dongchang Yamen stared at the little baby with a gloomy face: "The security of the capital is the responsibility of Jing Zhaoyin, not the Dongchang. Little kid, don't mess around here and blame the Dongchang. Your parents
Do you want to go to Dongchang for a walk!?"
If anyone else dared to make noise at the gate of the East Factory, they would have been punished by them long ago. But for such a little bastard, they didn't know how to deal with it for a while.
The little baby put her hands on her hips with an air of pride: "It's nothing to go to Dongchang. That nine thousand year old man of yours is peeing everywhere. My mother is going to cure him of this peeing problem. Don't you know!"
Onlookers: What, Nine Thousand Years Old has a problem with peeing everywhere?
The Jinyi guards angrily yelled: Shut up!!!
Onlookers: Well, it seems to be true.
Ming Lanruo: "..."
Mu Qingshu coughed: "Is this... your noble master? He seems to be a human trafficker..."
Ming Lanruo rubbed the burst blood vessels on her forehead and put on her veil: "Please lead the horse and wait for me at the corner."
After saying that, she pushed aside the crowd, went over and picked up the little baby.
"Mom, Xier is so scared!"
As soon as Xiao Xier saw her mother, she immediately changed from an arrogant little bean to a cute and innocent little baby girl, looking like she was about to cry.
Ming Lanruo gritted his teeth and glared at the little guy in his arms - "You playful brat, I'll take care of you later!"
She knew that this little bastard said whether human traffickers were fun or not was definitely up to no good, yet he dared to sell human traffickers!
Xiao Xi shrank his head, he had a premonition that his little butt was going to hurt!
Ming Lanruo bowed to the royal guards and said, "I'm really sorry, my naughty dog has caused trouble for all of you."
After saying that, she immediately retreated into the crowd with Xiao Xier in her arms, and quickly turned back to the corner of the alley where Mu Qingshu was.
Mu Qingshu could tell that Ming Lanruo didn't want to alarm Dongchang, or in other words, Jiu Qiansui.
Although he didn't know why, he still helped them mount their horses and left Dongchang in a tacit understanding.
A group of Jinyi guards looked at the abandoned and lonely human trafficker lying on the ground: "..."
The trafficker who couldn't move felt aggrieved: "Hey, hey, hey...who is selling whom..."
Regardless of whether the commotion at the gate of the East Factory was a big deal or not, the news soon reached Father-in-law He.
He and his father-in-law frowned briefly, thought for a while, turned around and entered Cang Qiao's room, whispering a few words in his ear.
"Ming Lanruo, that kid, and Mu Qingshu were making trouble at the gate of the East Factory and left again?" Cang Qiao was sitting by the window warming herself by the fire, reading the memorial.
The firelight in the gilded Boshan furnace danced, reflecting his exquisite and deep eyebrows, but it did not make his eyebrows warmer, only adding an unpredictable charm.
"Yes." He and his father-in-law whispered.
Ming Lanruo is actually always surrounded by people from Dongchang, but they will only take action when Ming Lanruo is in danger.
Cang Qiao dropped the memorial, stood up, and chuckled dangerously: "It's still winter, why is the female cat starting to miss spring? She really is not obedient at all."
A disobedient cat should be caught, skinned, or chained to the corner of a table.
"By the way, let's treat that trafficker well. Let's see who doesn't like our cat and wants to touch her."
Cang Qiao ordered while turning the white jade finger.
"We have already brought the person into the East Factory, and he will be tried out soon." He and his father-in-law had already made arrangements, and at the same time, he put on a cloak for Cang Qiao.
"Catch the cat. It has become wild after being left alone for a long time." Cang Qiao took the gilt stove to warm his hands and walked out, saying coldly.
Minglanruo didn't know that she was going to be unlucky.
She was holding down Xiao Xi'er under a crooked tree, slapping his little fat buttocks - "Pap, slap, slap"