In the past, they often worked together to go out and look for things like this, but at that time, she had short hair and no breasts, and both of them called her brother.
"Brother Zongtang, what are these things called?" Zhang Xingzu couldn't hold back and asked anxiously.
She made a shushing gesture.
"We'll talk about it after we get home!"
Zhang Xingzu understood and quickly shut up.
Afterwards, they used a similar method to collect two pottery jars, a bronze horse, two palm-sized incense burners, half a piece of broken jade, three black marbles, and a rusty slingshot.
When leaving, Chen Zhen bought back the three empty bottles.
It was a bunch of stuff and cost less than five hundred dollars in total.
After they walked out of the Little Glass Garden, she immediately said to the two of them, "Find someone to take away everything that can be taken away from inside. Be careful not to let anyone see it!"
If they hadn't bought so many things tonight, which was already eye-catching enough, she really wanted to buy everything sold in Xiaoli Garden.
Chen Zhen took it to heart.
"Sister Zong, I know a lot of people. I'll go find them right away."
She nodded quickly and urged, "Go, hurry up, otherwise you will have to close the stall after you find the person back."
Chen Zhen: "No, it's not until after midnight that things get really busy here. If there are a lot of things, it won't be over until four or five in the morning."
After watching Chen Zhen leave, Fang Zongtao did not rush back, but took Zhang Xingzu aside to talk.
"Fatty, among the seven of you, I trust you the most!" She said with a blank expression and serious eyes.
Zhang Xingzu immediately put away his smile, straightened his back, and stood up with his stomach tucked in.
"Brother Zongtang, do you have something for me to do?"
She put her hands behind her back and stared at Zhang Xingzu for two seconds. After staring at him and making him feel scared, she spoke: "Tell me how Song Yi and the child lived after I disappeared?"
When Zhang Xingzu heard this question, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
He had wanted to tell Brother Zongtang these words for a long time.
"Brother Song didn't believe that you would disappear at first, so he kept waiting at home with the child. As you know, he was about to graduate in those days and had a lot of things to do. When he came home at night, he saw a neighbor waiting for him at the door with a child in his arms, and thought you were out doing something. It wasn't until twelve o'clock in the evening that he found me holding the crying Ji Zong and asked me where I had been?" Zhang Xingzu fell into memories bit by bit.
"You didn't tell me when you left, so I definitely didn't know. Then I accompanied Brother Song to look for it together. We searched everywhere near our home and kept searching for the whole night. If Ji Zong hadn't been crying because of hunger, Brother Song would definitely have continued to look for it without sleep."
She listened quietly, her heart sinking little by little.
Zhang Xingzu continued, "During the day, we handed Ji Zong over to our neighbors and kept looking for him. We searched everywhere you go, both the places you frequent and the places you don't. No one had seen you."
She felt as if a huge rock was pressing down on her heart, and said in a low voice, "Keep going!"
Zhang Xingzu looked bitter: "We kept looking for it day and night for more than a month. We spent all the money we had."
Her throat rolled, inexplicable emotions were fermenting, and the sour taste kept rolling between her nose and throat.
Zhang Xingzu: "Brother Song is going crazy looking for you!"
When she heard this, she clenched her fist and held the ring on her hand tightly.
"One day a year later, I went on a long journey to find you. When I came back, I was too tired and fell asleep. When I woke up, Ji Zong was in my arms with a letter next to the pillow. I was so scared that I hurried to find him. When I found Brother Song, he was standing by the river with his hands outstretched!" He spread out his hands and made a gesture as if he was jumping into the river.