Chapter 540 540 Pursuit

Lin Zexu is the examiner in the spring of this year and cannot leave the examination hall. Zhou Jia asked Lin Lan and Lin Yun to go to the Zhou family to report the news about Li Yu, and prepared to take Zhaocai and others out of the city to look for Li Yu.

Li Qing said to Zhou Jia: "Brother-in-law, Yue'er and Xing'er are crying at home. You should go back and comfort the children. Brother Cai and I will go find our sister."

Zhou Jia flatly refused, "Mommy Yue'er and Xing'er will take care of themselves. I'll go with you."

Tu Fuyin said to Zhou Jia: "Mr. Zhou, I sent Mr. Leng of the Fu Yamen to help your housekeeper find the whereabouts of Mrs. Li."

"Thank you, Lord Tu." Zhou Jia and Li Qing thanked Tu Fu Yin.

Ruyi walked up to Zhou Jia, took advantage of his unpreparedness, hit him on the back of the neck and knocked him unconscious, and handed him to Lin Lan, "Cousin, please take my master home."

Lin Lan nodded in agreement, and the two brothers said to Li Qing and Ruyi, "Be careful along the way."

Ruyi, Jixiang, Zhaocai and Li Qing nodded in agreement and left the city with the policemen.

Everyone searched for traces of Li Yu along the official road. When they came to a fork in the road, there was a mountain road on the left and an official road going straight. The head of the Yamen Leng said to Li Qing: "Master Li, how should we go?"

Li Qing glanced at Zhaocai and said, "I think we should search separately!"

Zhaocai nodded in agreement, and Ruyi said to Zhaocai: "Brother Cai, you, your uncle, and Leng Captou continue to search along the official road. Jixiang and I will walk along the mountain road to look for it."

Captain Leng nodded and said, "Okay, let's look for him separately."

Ruyi and Jixiang went up the mountain road. After walking for about half an hour, they found a rut in a soft place. They looked at each other happily and followed the mountain road forward.

After chasing for more than an hour, the ruts could no longer be seen. The two walked straight for half an hour, and found that there was only a narrow path in front of them, and the carriage and horse could not walk at all.

After returning to the place where the rut mark was left, Ruyi saw a forest in front of him and said to Jixiang, "Let's go and have a look in the forest."

"Okay." The two of them ran towards the woods and saw the ruts again. Ji Xiang glanced at Ruyi and said, "Sure enough, they came from this way."

The two of them chased toward the woods, following the tracks where the car had run through the grass.

Night had fallen in front of the woods, with dark clouds covering the sky, not even a single starlight in the sky, the leaves rustling in the wind, and the creepy hooting of owls coming from the woods.

Jixiang found a piece of pine firewood and lit it, and handed one to Ruyi. The two followed the ruts left by the car and chased forward in twists and turns in the forest. Fortunately, it was spring, the air was moist, and the soil in the forest was soft. The grass is lush and the carriages leave traces easily.

The two of them walked along the ruts with torches to a gentle slope, and a mountain road appeared in front of them.

Jixiang and Ruyi had more and more doubts in their hearts. This was a hilly forest land. How could there be a mountain road that could allow carriages and horses to pass through?

Jixiang said to Ruyi: "Ruyi, there is a mountain road here, and there should be a village below. Why didn't we see any villagers coming and going along the way?"

Ruyi threw away the pine firewood that was about to burn out, "The front may be the den of the person who kidnapped the wife. There were no signs of fighting along the way. It seems that the wife did not resist at all and went with them on purpose. Let's find another one." Pine wood, otherwise you won’t see the rut marks.”

Ji Xiang said proudly: "Madam followed them on purpose, otherwise how could they have held Madam hostage."

Ruyi is still a little worried, "Yes! As usual, even a dozen big men are no match for Madam. I'm afraid there will be an accident. If the enemy uses poison or hidden weapons, it will be impossible to guard against her."

Jixiang kicked a stone away fiercely: "These bastards, catch him and chop him into pieces."

The two found a dry firewood in the woods, lit it, and led the horses to continue walking along the ruts.

Li Qing and his party chased to Shanyang County and asked the city defenders, but no one found Zhou's carriage.

Leng Captou saw that it was already dark and everyone was exhausted from chasing him all the way, so he said to Li Qing: "Master Li, let's go to the city to rest for one night and continue chasing tomorrow, okay?"

Li Qing was so anxious that he couldn't bear to rest. He looked at Zhaocai and said to Captor Leng, "Captain Leng, you take your brothers to the city to rest. We want to visit a nearby town."

Seeing that Li Qing and the others refused to take a rest, Leng Captou smiled and said to Li Qing, "In that case, let's go to the small town ahead to rest."

Li Qing raised his hands to everyone and said, "I'm sorry to bother you all."

"Master Li, you are polite, we should." Leng Captou said politely.

When they arrived at the town, it was already so dark that they could not see their hands. Li Qing took Leng Captou and the others to the inn to rest. Zhaocai looked around the inn in the town, but did not find the carriage at home. His heart felt like someone was weighing it down with a big stone. As if sad, he secretly prayed for good luck and good luck to find the trace of his wife.

Li Qing stood in front of the window, looking at the darkness outside the window, feeling that his heart was also dark. Tears couldn't stop dripping down, and he covered his face and sobbed.

Zhaocai walked to the door of Li Qing's house and stopped when he heard the crying coming from inside. He turned his head and looked at the dark sky in a daze.

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Zhou Jia woke up after being sent home by the Lin Lan brothers. He looked at Yueyue and Xingxing who were rushing toward him. He opened his arms and hugged the two of them. Yueyue cried and asked Zhou Jia, "Where is my mother?"

Zhou Jia looked at the two children sadly, forced a smile, and hugged them, "Mother went to Wangjia'ao to look at the crops. Yue'er and Xing'er are at home waiting for mother to come back."

Xingxing put her arms around Zhou Jia's neck and looked at him, "Daddy lied. Daddy cried. I saw my aunt and uncle crying."

"When dad came back, he encountered someone else's chili pepper and knocked it down. The chili powder got into his eyes and turned them red."

Xingxing looked at Zhou Jia, "Really? You didn't lie to me. My mother said that you need to grow a long nose to lie."

"Yes, long nose." Yueyue also looked at Zhou Jia.

Zhou Jia looked at the two identical little faces and nodded vigorously, "Yeah! Long nose."

For the first time, Zhou Jia felt that it was troublesome for a child to be too smart. He thought it was a good thing that Yang'er didn't go home while he was in the palace, otherwise he wouldn't be able to satisfy him.

Gong said to Yueyue and Xingxing: "Baoer, come to my aunt quickly. Daddy is tired in the yamen. Let daddy have a good rest."

Xingxing shook his head, "Let's rest with daddy." Yueyue also said.

Zhou Jia said to Gong and Fan Mingfang: "Aunt, brothers and sisters, you go back first. I will inform you as soon as there is news."

Gong and Fan Mingfang nodded, and Gong said: "Okay, let's go back first, and you take the child to rest for a while. Grandma Chen said that the two of them just squinted for a while, and then started to clamor for his mother."

Yueyue pouted, "I want mother, not nanny."

Zhou Jia picked one up in one hand and said, "Okay, no mama! Let's let mother go play for a day, and daddy will take you to bed, okay?"

"Okay, sleep with daddy." Xingxing nodded, and Yueyue also nodded.

Gong and Fan Mingfang returned home, while Lin Yun stayed at the Zhou family to help.