Pushing forward more than half an hour, on the carriage heading to Dahe Town, Ding Xiaolian and Hongluan both fell asleep leaning on the soft cushions. Old Zhao did not dare to sleep and kept talking to the coachman every time.
The coachman didn't talk much. Lao Zhao told him to drive the carriage more slowly and not to bump around so much, and he responded humbly.
The road conditions were good, the driver's skills were also good, and the car moved quite balancedly. Although it was unavoidable to wobble, the more it did, the more drowsy it became. Ding Xiaolian fell asleep quickly and fell into a slight slumber.
After walking forward for a while, the driver suddenly said he was hungry and took a meat bun to eat while driving. It smelled quite good.
Lao Zhao asked him if he had enough, and asked him for four, thinking that he would leave two for his young lady to eat when she wakes up, and one for himself and Hong Luan.
Hongluan didn't dare to sleep too deeply. He woke up when he heard the words, took the meat buns handed over by Lao Zhao and started eating.
I always feel that the meat buns don’t taste right, they have a bit of sour taste.
I didn’t know if it was because they were sour, but they got upset not long after eating the buns. They hurriedly asked the driver to stop the car on the side of the road, and got out of the car to relieve themselves while holding their stomachs in their arms.
"It stinks so much. I'll wait for you in front." The coachman said in a low voice.
"Okay." Lao Zhao almost pulled his pants in his pants, he casually responded and got in on the side of the road.
Hong Luan was even more anxious and got out of the carriage with her legs tightly crossed. She didn't even pay attention to what the coachman and Lao Zhao said. She hurriedly found a place to relax as soon as she got off the car.
His stomach was so upset that he lifted his pants and squatted down again before taking two steps. When the two of them finally reached the road, there was no trace of the carriage anywhere.
Hong Luan was so frightened that he lost his soul: "What's going on, Lao Zhao, where is the carriage?"
Old Zhao's heart skipped a beat: "The coachman said he was afraid of the smell and had to wait a little ahead, so we hurried forward to catch up." Fortunately, the moon was bright and the stars were thin, and the road was bright, so the two of them ran forward to catch up.
After chasing for a long time, Hong Luan started to cry: "What should we do? We have lost the lady, what should we do?"
Old Zhao was also anxious and tried his best to calmly say, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid. Our lady is the legitimate daughter of the governor of Lingzhou. Even if you encounter bad people, as long as you tell her your name, no one will dare to do anything to her."
"I hope so." Hong Luan's face looks better after all. Miss Xindao is not easy to deal with. She is not good at beating and scolding people. Who dares to do anything to her?
"Then let's go to the town. Maybe the young lady thinks we are smelly and asks the coachman to leave us and go to the town." According to my young lady's temperament, this kind of thing is really possible.
"Okay." Lao Zhao responded.
Anyway, after chasing so far, they were not far away from the town. The two of them trotted to Dahe Town in a hurry.
It was already dawn when we arrived at the town. As soon as we arrived at the entrance of the town, we met Lao Qian leading two carriages and stopped in front of them.
Lao Qian and the coachman were sitting side by side at the driver's seat. As soon as they saw Lao Zhao and Hong Luan, they jumped out of the car strangely.
"Huh? Didn't you find a carriage? Why did you come to town running?"
Hong Luan almost ran out of breath and couldn't speak. He squatted down directly holding his heart in his hands, sweating all over his body.
Old Zhao was also out of breath. He held the carriage for a long time before speaking: "Look, have you seen Miss? Did you see that there is a carriage coming from Shenjia Village?"
Lao Qian shook his head: "I don't know. I just found two carriages from the north of the town and am preparing to go back to pick you up. What's the matter? What happened?'
"Quick, go around the town and see if the carriage that the eldest lady is riding has entered the town." After saying that, he got on the carriage and called Hong Luan, "Get in the carriage quickly and go look around the town."
Hong Luan climbed onto the carriage exhaustedly. She was so tired and anxious that she almost fainted.
The streets were empty and no one had gotten up yet.
We also encountered several carriages that were looking for work early in the morning, but none of them were the one Ding Xiaolian was riding.
Finally, they searched the whole town but couldn't find Ding Xiaolian. Hongluan and Lao Zhao and Lao Qian fell into despair.
After discussing, they divided the troops into two groups and asked Lao Qian to rush back in a carriage to see if his lady had returned to Shenjia Village. Hong Luan and Lao Zhao continued to search in the town.
Like headless flies, they asked questions about people and carriages, but no one had seen Ding Xiaolian.
The two of them were sweating coldly and hotly, their bodies were wet, and their hearts were almost broken with fear. They had lost their young lady and they still wanted to survive? Apart from other things, if they were raped by a man, their heads wouldn't be enough to chop off, let alone
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When Hong Luan thought about this, a terrible thought suddenly popped into his mind, and he immediately looked at Lao Zhao with horror on his face.
"What does that coachman look like?'
"What does it look like? It was dark at night and I couldn't see clearly." Old Zhao wiped his sweat, his face full of worry and panic.
"Is he wearing a bamboo hat?" Hong Luan only saw his back when he got into the car. He was not wearing a bamboo hat. It was because he didn't wear a bamboo hat that she felt relieved to get into the car.
But what if he wore a bamboo hat before and took it off later?
"No." After thinking about it, Lao Zhao added, "But it seems that there is a bamboo hat hanging on the front of his carriage." After hearing this, Hongluan almost became paralyzed with fear and sat down on the stone bench by the roadside.
, breaking out in cold sweat.
The coachman who almost strangled her to death that day was the one wearing a bamboo hat. God forbid it be the same person, otherwise the lady might be in danger!
After sitting in Hongluan for a long time, he calmed down and asked tremblingly, "Where did you hire the car?"
"It's on the side of the road in the east of the town. When I wanted to hire his car, he refused. Do you think there's something wrong with the driver?"
"I don't know." Hong Luan was a little unsure after hearing this. Just hanging a bamboo hat on the front of the car really doesn't mean anything. Many coachmen are like this.
"Then why did he agree?" Hong Luan asked.
"I said that my lady was in a hurry to use the car, so I could give her a high price. He relented."
Hong Luan suddenly broke into a cold sweat. Why didn't he agree to the man's use of the car? But he agreed as soon as he heard that the lady wanted the car.
And why did they suddenly have diarrhea on the way?
"Old Zhao is not good, Miss must have met a bad person." Lu Xiao said in panic, "There is something wrong with the coachman, and there must be something wrong with the buns he gave us! He must have put a laxative in the buns. Report to the official, we
You have to report it to the official immediately!"
Lao Zhao was not clear about what happened to Hongluan in the past two days, so he hesitated: "How about waiting? What if the young lady turns around and goes back to Shenjia Village? Let's wait until Lao Qian comes."
"Okay." Hong Luan was in a panic and nodded at a loss.
The two of them sat there and waited. As the number of pedestrians gradually increased, many stalls were set up next to them.
Strangely enough, I am no longer upset now, I am still a little hungry, but I have no money, I put my luggage on the carriage and disappeared with my lady, so I can only starve.
After waiting like this for more than an hour, Lao Qian hurriedly found them and said that Ding Xiaolian had never returned to Shenjia Village.
"Hurry, go and report to the official." Hong Luan stood up staggeringly, her legs were completely weak.