At this moment, Xiao Lan spoke again," Miss, my parents passed away when I was very young. My uncle sold me to Master to be a maid, and Master asked me to serve you. I'm a maid, and you don't look down on me. You treat me like your own sister. I think you're my biological sister. I'm leaving today, so I came back to tell you. Miss, take care. I'm leaving, I'm leaving…" The blue figure on the window suddenly disappeared, as if it had never appeared.
The whole world returned to normal at this moment. The moonlight was still bright and white outside the window. It was quiet. Another team of guards and servants came back from patrolling the front yard. A long string of clear and dull footsteps came from the incense tower. Occasionally, someone among them coughed.
At this moment, my great-grandmother, Moxuri, shivered and slowly opened her eyes. She found herself lying on the bed, drenched in cold sweat. The room was still dark, and the moonlight that shone into the room through the window was still cold and bleak, but there was no trace of the blue figure. The footsteps of the guards patrolling downstairs also grew distant. It was obvious that they had already walked far away and could no longer be heard.
My great-great-grandmother immediately touched her side and happened to touch my great-grandfather's small stomach. It was rising and falling. My great-grandfather was clearly sleeping soundly. It was as if my great-grandfather had not woken up at all, let alone cried.
My great-great-grandmother heaved a sigh of relief, but at the same time, she couldn't help but feel puzzled. Could it be that what she saw and heard just now was just a dream?
The next day, my great-great-grandmother brought my great-great-grandfather to play in the city for the whole day, accompanied by the maid Xiao Xiang and a martial master. Although she was confused by the strange, almost real dream that night, she didn't pay too much attention to it. She felt that it might be because of Xiao Lan's disappearance that she had been thinking about it day and night. However, a dream was still a dream. No matter how real it was, it was still a dream.
Nothing happened for a day. In the evening, the old chef who was responsible for cooking for the Cai residence ran out of the kitchen to find Cai Wenye in a panic, saying that his disciple was missing.
The old chef said that he had seen his disciple before he went to bed last night. His disciple had even brought him water to wash his feet. However, when he came early in the morning, his clothes were still there, but he was gone. The old chef and his disciple did not live in the big room where the servants lived. The two of them lived in a small side room next to the kitchen, which was considered special treatment.
At first, the old chef thought that his disciple had been called by the people in the residence to do something else. However, he did not expect to see his disciple from morning to noon, then from noon to night. In the afternoon, the old chef even asked a few servants who had a good relationship with his disciple. Those servants all said that they did not see him.
This went on and on until night. The more the old chef thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong, so he hurriedly came to report to Cai Wenye.
When Cai Wenye heard this, the veins on his forehead popped out. The matter with the servant girl Xiao Lan had not ended yet, and now a little chef had appeared and disappeared. What was going on with the Cai residence?
When the old chef told Cai Wenye that his disciple was missing, my great-great-grandmother happened to hear it from the side. This reminded her of the dream she had last night. In the dream, Xiao Lan said that she found a man who loved her. Could the man Xiao Lan was talking about be the old chef's disciple? Could the two of them have eloped together? However, it didn't seem right to elope. Cai Wenye had once said that if Xiaolan wanted to get married, she could do so at any time. The Cai family had even prepared a dowry for her. There was no reason for her to elope without a dowry.
When the old butler Cai Zhang told my great-great-grandfather about this, my great-great-grandfather interrupted and said that Xiaolan might have died on the night of August 15th. She might have had an unfinished wish before she died. " Xiao Lan went to my great-grandmother's dream to say goodbye, and the little chef disappeared the next day. It wasn't a coincidence. The little chef was probably killed by Xiao Lan's ghost. Xiao Lan might have had feelings for this little chef when she was alive and wanted to be a ghost couple with him in the netherworld after she died. When she went to my great-grandmother's dream, the little chef might have already died. Xiao Lan's wish had been fulfilled, so she went to my great-grandmother's dream to say goodbye.
When my great-great-grandfather said these words, he analyzed them from the perspective of his own profession. If it were the officials in the yamen who analyzed them, it would be another matter. They generally would not involve ghosts in missing cases. If the people in the yamen heard what my great-great-grandfather said, they would definitely not believe it. They might even say that my great-great-grandfather was spreading heresy to confuse the public and scare them. Of course, the constables and bailiffs of Yanjin County were an exception.
After my great-great-grandfather finished speaking, my great-great-grandmother and the old butler, Cai Zhang, nodded. The old butler, Cai Zhang, took a sip of tea and continued," Young master, I believe you when you say that Xiao Lan killed Zhang Jiang. However, something even weirder is about to happen. Let me explain it to you slowly…"
The little chef, who was also the Zhang Jiang that the housekeeper Cai Zhang had mentioned, had gone missing. The entire Cai Residence had once again gone into a huge commotion. This time, even the county magistrate couldn't sit still. The constables investigating Xiaolan's disappearance had been coming in and out of the Cai Residence every day. During this period of time, the Cai Residence could be said to be heavily guarded. Under such circumstances, right under the eyes of the constables investigating the case, there were still people missing in the Cai Residence. This was probably not only adding to the trouble of the Cai Residence, but also deliberately provoking the authorities.
At that time, there were already bandits who kidnapped hostages and extorted money. However, Kaifeng was relatively peaceful and there were no bandits.
At this time, according to my speculation, Emperor Tongzhi's secret edict might have already arrived at Kaifeng Prefecture. The prefecture government immediately notified the various county governments under its jurisdiction.
At this time, the people in the county government no longer regarded the Cai family's disappearance case and the missing children as the same thing. They believed that the disappearance of Xiao Lan and Zhang Jiang was very likely the work of the kidnappers. However, there was no kidnapping of servants or cooks. For the county government, this was the biggest suspicious point in the two missing cases.
The county government had investigated both Xiao Lan's disappearance and Zhang Jiang's disappearance together. In other words, both cases were treated as one and investigated together.
However, the constables in the county government had no clue. If it was a gang kidnapping, someone should have given the Cai family a list after so many days. Placing an order was the code word for " hostage ", which was to send a letter. Most of the time, they would slip a note through the door at night. On it was a list of how much money the hostage's family had to prepare to buy his life to redeem him. There were also some who went straight to the door.
Speaking of which, the two missing people could not be found no matter what, and no one had given the Cai family a list. It seemed that these two cases would become unsolved cases.
At this time, it was already the beginning of September. It had been more than half a month since Xiaolan's disappearance, and seven to eight days since Zhang Jiang's disappearance.
That night, just after midnight, one of the guards returned from patrolling the front yard. When they walked near the garden between the front yard and the backyard, two figures suddenly appeared on the wall on the side of the garden. One was blue and the other was white. The blue figure was in front and the white figure was behind. They were very fast and disappeared on the wall like ghosts.
The patrolling servants all saw it for real. At first, they thought it was a cat burglar and rushed over with the weapons in their hands. However, when they got closer, there was no one there. There was nothing near the wall. However, it was impossible for all of them to be dazzled. If they were not dazzled, where was he? The two living people flashed a few times and disappeared? The servants looked at each other.
The leader of this group of guards, the Martial Master, was more courageous. He carried a lantern and walked up to the wall with his courage. He used the lantern to shine on the wall.
Under the light, the martial master could not say that he did not see anything on the wall. He saw that there were two foot-wide water marks on the wall, as if water had flowed across the wall. The water stains on them had not dried yet and were wet. When the lantern shone on them, it reflected the light of the water that looked like fish scales.
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