"Ningshuang, where is Azhi?" Gao called out to Ningshuang and Tingxue who were walking towards her, "Have you seen Azhi today?"
"I didn't see it..." Ningshuang Tingxue had been busy helping her young lady count the things she needed to take with her since early morning, and she really didn't pay any attention to Fourth Miss Bai.
Seeing Gao's suddenly solemn expression, both of them were stunned. Then they looked through the open door beside Gao and into the empty room, their faces changed drastically.
"Miss Bai Si is missing?"
Fourth Miss Bai, Bai Mingzhi is really missing.
She was nowhere to be seen in the front and back yards of the Wei family, or even in the back room.
Gao said anxiously, "Go to Bai's house and see if Ah Zhi went there to play early in the morning?"
"Hey." Ningshuang and Tingxue responded and ran hurriedly towards the Bai family at the end of Jingping Lane.
Gao followed closely behind and walked quickly towards that direction.
No one in the Bai family is working outside, and there are elderly, children and patients at home, so they get up a little later than the Wei family.
They had just gotten up and were sitting in Madam Bai's main room having breakfast.
Madam Liu, who was beside Old Madam Bai, went over to open the gate. When she heard Ning Shuang asking whether Fourth Miss Bai had been here, she was stunned for a moment and responded, "I didn't see Fourth Miss coming here this morning..."
Ningshuang and Tingxue, as well as Gao, who was two steps behind and finally arrived at the gate of the Bai family at this time, couldn't help but feel their hearts sinking when they heard this.
Seeing their heavy faces, Madam Liu also realized that something was wrong. At this time, Madam Bai came out from inside and saw Gao standing by the gate. She subconsciously said politely, "Madam Wei, why are you standing outside? Please come in quickly. Madam, why don't you greet Madam Wei..."
As he spoke, he noticed that the expressions of several people were obviously not right. Thinking about the current time, his heart skipped a beat and he asked in panic, "What happened?"
"What, Azhi is missing?" Upon hearing the news from Gao that Fourth Miss Bai was missing, Second Madam Bai was suddenly startled and her voice couldn't help but rise a little.
Thinking of her mother-in-law and Madam Bai inside, she quickly covered her mouth, fearing that the two of them would get angry after hearing it and their physical condition would become worse.
"Madam Wei, what on earth is going on..."
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The carriage drove out of Jingping Lane and passed the bustling street opposite the West City Gate. It was early in the morning and many food shops on both sides had just opened.
Some have steamers in front of the doors, others have soup pots, and billowing smoke and bursts of aroma fill the streets.
Heiyun, who was originally lying in the carriage with his nose raised, quietly stuck his head out of the carriage and sniffed outside.
Seeing this, Wei Yunlan asked the driver to pull over for a while, threw a piece of silver out of the window, and directly bought six drawers of large meat buns, a batch of sesame cakes, and a pot of mutton soup that had just come out of the pot in the bun shop.
He fed two of them into Heiyun's mouth, and quietly stored half of the remaining ones into the space. The remaining half was just enough to share with Zou Yun and the others after they met up outside the city.
A bowl of warm mutton soup can make the journey less painful during this cold northern winter.
Wei Yunlan was the only one sitting in the carriage, so there was still plenty of empty space.
At Wei Yunlan's instruction, the driver Dong Da directly put the soup bucket and oil paper bag into the carriage.
Wei Yunlan took back part of the oil paper wrapping the buns, put his palm on the soup bucket, and through the bucket, he took out half of the mutton soup and put it into the empty big iron pot in the space.
After doing all this, she found Heiyun, who had just eaten two big meat buns, staring at the soup bucket with drooling at the corners of his mouth.
"I'll serve you a bowl." Wei Yunlan took out an empty bowl and filled it up for Heiyun.
After it finished drinking with a "huff and puff", Wei Yunlan thought it would go back to where it was and lie down, but he saw it moving its nose in the carriage, sniffing something, just like it did at the beginning.
"Another bowl?" Wei Yunlan said as he planned to continue serving soup to Heiyun.
But it didn't even glance at the soup bucket, and didn't even pay any attention to the fragrant buns.
The tip of its nose was clearly sniffing in the direction of Wei Yunlan's seat...
Wei Yunlan felt puzzled. Could it be that there was some smell on his body?
Just as doubts were rising in his heart, he suddenly heard, in addition to his own and Heiyun's breathing, there seemed to be a third voice in the carriage.
It is the "slurp, slurp" sound of continuously inhaling air.
Such an obvious noise, but I didn’t hear it when I passed by the downtown area just now!
Is there a third person in the car?
Wei Yunlan subconsciously took out a dagger from space.
It was only later that he realized that Heiyun had clearly sensed that there was someone else in the car. Heiyun had not barked to warn him, so it was obvious that the person hiding was someone Heiyun knew and was familiar with.
Is it Mingxuan or Jiayan?
Thinking about the fact that she saw Wei Mingxuan standing at the door after getting on the bus, Wei Yunlan crossed out his name.
The remaining one...
If it were really him, I would have to ask the carriage to turn around and send him back, and then ask my sister-in-law and mother to give him a good beating.
Thinking of this, Wei Yunlan suddenly leaned over, pulled open the shelf under the seat, and looked at the cabinet where things were stored under the seat.
Under the seat, in the dark and cramped space, a girl wearing only a thin room coat was curled up in a ball, looking outside with her big eyes open.
When he met Wei Yunlan's gaze, there was a hint of obvious guilt in his eyes.
"Azhi?"
"Come out and talk." Wei Yunlan pulled the man out of the cupboard, took out a bundle that had been stuffed in the cupboard beforehand, and took out a winter coat, "Put it on, don't catch a cold."
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