Chapter 78 Doubt 2

  Yunchen put away the ropes, so that the next people can put food and food in place.

   "You guys eat first, I'll go get Mo'er up."

   Yunmo went to bed not long after Mochuli and Chu Xu left, and have been sleeping until now.

  Gu Qingmo and the three sat down first. Today's food is obviously much better than the previous day, both in terms of dishes and quantity.

  After the meals were all set, the old housekeeper was about to leave with the servants, but was stopped by Gu Qingmo.

  The old housekeeper asked the servants to leave first, "What is Gu Gongzi's order?"

   "How is your general?"

   "Nature is excellent."

   The old housekeeper was happy. General Zhenguo had grown up with him since he was a child. He never had a biological child in his life, and he had long regarded General Zhenguo as his own child.

   At first he was worried about the general and his wife's relationship, but now it seems that he can rest assured.

   In the end, they were just two poor people.

  Gu Qingmo thought for a while, "To be honest, I want to ask you something."

   The old housekeeper opened his eyes slightly and waved his hands: "Young Master Gu is very polite, just tell me this old man directly if you have anything."

   "Have any strange things happened to you here?"

   Mo Chuli almost spit out the porridge that was in his mouth, but he asked so directly!

   What made him even more incredible was that the old butler even answered seriously!

  The old butler also heard from his elders about the era when demons and monsters were rampant a hundred years ago.

   I've heard it a lot, but I haven't seen it, so even if I have some doubts in my heart, I won't fully believe it.

  It's just that there are always weird and bizarre things happening in Frontier City, so he has to think in that direction.

   "We have weird things happening all the year round here, but what happened recently is that there are always men missing in the city," the old butler thought again, "This is not long ago."

   "Not long ago?" Chu Xu asked suspiciously.

"Yeah, let me think about it, the man's disappearance started last year," the old housekeeper was old after all, and couldn't remember the exact time, "I remember it should have started last spring, and the first person who disappeared The man appeared."

  Gu Qingmo didn't speak, and started drinking tea again, but it didn't seem to taste as good as in the daytime, so he put it down again after two sips.

The old butler continued, "This matter was originally not worthy of the general's attention, but the government office has never been able to find the missing man, and the number of missing persons has been increasing, so many young and strong men have disappeared one after another. , I had to tell the general."

  The disappearance of young and strong men, and not one or two, this kind of thing can easily cause riots, on the one hand because of the man's family, on the other hand is the war between the two countries.

  Suzaku Kingdom is one of the two countries that survived after the Four Realms War, but it is often harassed by small border countries or ethnic tribes, so war is inevitable.

   Young and strong men are most suitable for the army.

  Small countries are inferior to big countries like them in every aspect.

  If you want enough soldiers to attack the city and plunder food and grass resources, then kidnapping the residents of the city is also an option.

   and kidnapping a man, not only can threaten him to join the army to fight, but also take him as a hostage.

  Just, there is a problem here.

   Only a young and strong man disappeared, and his family was the same. No one followed or kidnapped, threatened, etc., and never appeared.

   Therefore, it is very likely that it has nothing to do with those spies.

   This matter has been going on for nearly a year without any progress.

   The old housekeeper suddenly remembered something very important, "Speaking of which, the disappearance of the man stopped abruptly two or three months ago."

  Gu Qingmo's eyes moved slightly, and finally heard something useful, "When it stopped, was there anything special in the time before and after that, or strange people came and went in and out of the city?"

  The old housekeeper touched his goatee, "There is nothing special, but one day a few strange children came and said they wanted to see Mrs."

   Those children looked very spiritual, and he couldn't forget them after seeing them.

   "Have you seen it?" Gu Qingmo remembered that this paragraph was not written in detail on the scroll, but only mentioned it in one sentence. They were suspicious of the general's wife, and they didn't say that they had seen it.

   The old housekeeper shook his head, "At that time, Madam was giving alms outside the city, not in the mansion."

"and then?"

"Then, the children left, probably to find a wife outside the city," the old housekeeper frowned, there is another strange thing here, "It's just that when the wife came back, she didn't say that she had met any boys and girls. ."

  Gu Qingmo looked at the empty teacup, and now she can probably guess it. Those children were afraid they encountered something on the way to the outside of the city, so they didn't see the city owner's wife.

   At this time, Yun Chen brought Yun Mo who hadn't woken up, and the little girl squinted and hung on her sister's body.

   "Mo'er, sit down." Yun Chen's eyes were full of doting, and he really doted on this sister to the extreme.

   Yunmo leaned against Yunchen, as if he had no bones, lazily, "No, I'm so sleepy."

   "I've slept all day and I'm still sleepy, little lazy cat." Yun Chen scratched the bridge of her nose.

   When the old butler saw this, he immediately ordered his servants to prepare face wash.

   Yunchen smiled and said, "Don't bother, she's just a little tired, it's not that she didn't really wake up."

   Yunmo stuck out his tongue and put on the black gauze, still as if he had no bones, "Third sister~ just let me lean on for a while."

  It's good now, seeing that I was exposed, I immediately started acting like a spoiled child.

  Gu Qingmo glanced at the empty space, "Where's the girl with blue eyes?"

  Lan Tong went out early in the morning, and it's been a day, so what did he do?

  Gu Qingmo didn't have doubts about them either, he said he was a traveler, but it didn't look like that at all.

   "Blue pupil, she might come back later, we don't have to wait for her."

"I see."

   The old butler really deserves to be the person who has managed the general's mansion for decades, and he takes good care of the guests. Knowing that Lan Tong will be back late, he makes people prepare a late-night snack on the kang, which can be eaten when the person returns.

   "If there is nothing else, I will go down first."

"it is good."

   Yunmo shook Yunchen's arm unhappily, "Third sister, I haven't eaten any candy today, I want something sweet."

   Yunchen refused without thinking, and put a chopstick of greens in her bowl at the same time.

   "No, you've already eaten sweets in the morning, and now you're not allowed to eat them any more. Just eat vegetables and don't be picky eaters."

   "Ah—" Yun Mo reluctantly ate the green cabbage in front of him.

  Gu Qingmo and the three of them are not talkative people. Fortunately, there is Yunchen at the dinner table to adjust the atmosphere, otherwise it would be a little embarrassing to be quiet.

I just realized it now. When I was typing yesterday, I lost consciousness because I was too sleepy to write, and the next few hundred words were typed out unconsciously. When I woke up, I found that I could still read it. I really deserved to be o( *￣▽￣*)o

  

  

   (end of this chapter)