Perhaps the father and daughter had a tacit understanding. The incense barrel in the place where Bei Yanming lived was overturned last night. He felt that he had to try hard, otherwise Bei Danzhu would have no chance to come in.
So Bei Yanming tried hard to eat and drink a lot yesterday, and finally upset his stomach and had diarrhea.
The night fragrance bucket is almost full again...
Bei Danzhu finally got the chance and met him again today.
The palace servants who served Bei Yanming complained about the taste and stood in the yard chatting while waiting. No one expected that Bei Danzhu, a night-time incense burner, was actually brewing a huge conspiracy.
The two were chatting when they heard Bei Danzhu shouting from inside the room: "Hey! What happened to you? Why did you fall to the ground?"
The palace maid hurriedly stopped chatting and ran into the house, but she didn't expect that as soon as she entered the room, her neck would be broken by someone.
Bei Danzhu had beaten and scolded servants many times when she was in Beidi, but this was the first time she had killed someone, so she was stunned for a while, then she came to her senses and dragged Bei Yanming into the night fragrance car.
"Fortunately... you are here." Bei Yanming said incoherently.
Bei Danzhu glanced at him with a meaningful look.
Although it was a bit humiliating, the ambition to escape made Bei Yanming willing to endure any hardship, so he could endure the smell in the night fragrance barrel.
Bei Danzhu pushed him out of the palace.
When they arrived at the outskirts of the city, Bei Danzhu took the dirty Bei Yanming out and the first thing he asked was, "Where is my child?"
Bei Yanming was stunned for a moment, then he laughed at himself for a while before saying, "I thought... you were trying to... save me..."
"Speak now! Otherwise I'll leave you here to fend for yourself!" Bei Danzhu said as he fetched two buckets of water.
"Send me... back to the North... and I will tell... you..." Bei Yanming's bones became even harder.
Bei Danzhu poured two buckets of cold water on him, but still couldn't get him to speak.
It was winter.
Bei Yanming had the dirt washed off, but he was also terribly cold. Fortunately, Bei Danzhu stuffed him into a haystack by the roadside, thus saving his life.
Bei Danzhu was determined to find the child this time, so after hiding Bei Yanming, she returned to the city and hired a carriage, then went out to pick up Bei Yanming and headed north.
Once the father was loving and the daughter was filial, but now they were just like strangers. They didn't say a few words along the way, but just kept on walking.
It’s just that Bei Yanming’s health was not good to begin with, and he was doused with cold water. He managed to survive by making it to the north, which really showed that he was very lucky.
"Tell me! If you tell me, I will send you back to the palace!" Bei Danzhu looked at the palace gate from afar, and then looked at Bei Yanming who was already seriously ill.
Bei Yanming coughed for a long time before speaking: "He is... at the Qu family..."
Bei Danzhu thought about it carefully for a long time and realized that the only child of the same age as hers was the child born to Qu Lang, a concubine.
It’s terrifying when you think about it.
Qu Lang was very happy because the concubine gave birth to a son. If Bei Danzhu tried to win favor after marrying into the Qu family, she might kill her own child.
Thinking of this, Bei Danzhu's last bit of affection for Bei Yanming was gone. She turned around and left without saying a word.
Bei Yanming was lying alone in the carriage, paralyzed and seriously ill, staring at the palace gate but unable to enter. If he hadn't been determined, he would have died here.
He crawled out, using all his strength to crawl to the palace gate. The soldiers drove him away as a beggar, but he insisted on seeing the new emperor. He even read out the names of all the ministers in the court, including each person's official rank.
An ordinary beggar naturally could not do these things. His identity aroused the suspicion of the soldiers, and they reported it to higher authorities. Finally, Bei Yanming was carried into the palace unconscious.
At this moment, Bei Danzhu had already arrived at Qu's house.
The baby, who had only been seen once at that time, is now a toddler. I heard that after Qu Lang died, Qu Feng disappeared, and Qu Liu was captured, the concubines of the Qu family fled if they could, and those who could not escape tried their best to find a way out for themselves, so the child was left with only a wet nurse.
Bei Danzhu walked forward and, ignoring the nurse's surprised look, pulled open the child's collar.
Sure enough, there was a bright red mole on the back of the child's neck, the same one she had seen before.
Bei Danzhu held her child in her arms, and both mother and child cried together.
It was around this time that Chu Younan received the news that Bei Yanming was missing.
Bei Yanming himself was not taken seriously, so there were only two palace servants looking after him, and usually not many people came to visit him.
If Song Gui hadn't gone to pour out the night incense after he recovered and hadn't noticed something was wrong when he passed by there, I'm afraid the two people would have turned into ashes before they were discovered.
Song Gui had made another contribution, but he was not very happy because his little wife was missing again.
The reward money did not make him happy, and he was not happy even when Chu Younan arranged a job as a jailer for him.
After Bei Danzhu disappeared that day, Song Gui found a handful of beans under the bed. He didn't recognize what they were and thought about cooking them to eat. However, the aunt next door came to borrow something and recognized them at a glance.
"You can't eat this, it's croton! It was in the medicine my husband took before..."
Song Guiquan didn't listen to what was said next. He remembered that Bei Danzhu refused to eat fish that day, and he had diarrhea after eating fish. Then he thought that Bei Danzhu had disappeared since then, so how could he not think of something.
But he just couldn't understand how a night-sitter like him could be used.
As for the possibility of someone hiding in the night-time incense barrel, Song Gui couldn't figure it out no matter how hard he tried.
How stinky it must be! Who could hide it? When Bei Danzhu rushed back to the capital with her child, it was the coldest time of the year, but it was far less chilling than her heart.
There was someone else living in Song Gui's house, and Song Gui disappeared.
Fortunately, she had some jewelry from the past, and she stayed in an inn with her child. However, she waited for several days on the road that Song Gui had to take to pour the night fragrance, but she never saw him.
Could it be that there were too many croton seeds and the person was dead? Thinking of this, Bei Danzhu felt a chill down his spine.
But she still went to the auntie's house next door, knocked on the door, and just as she was about to ask, the auntie rolled her eyes at her, "Why did you come back? Song Gui treated you so well. He didn't despise you when you were stupid, and he didn't despise you when you ran away. What's the matter? Did you get deceived by a wild man and come back to eat for free?!"
Bei Danzhu had no way to defend herself. After all, the women here never went out of the house. There was really no one like her who ran away again and again. No wonder people suspected that she had run away with someone.
But she was unwilling to not find out Song Gui's whereabouts, so she lowered her posture and almost begged: "Auntie, please be kind and tell me where he went..."
"He's fine! Don't go and harm him again! Get out of here!" The aunt was also angry. After all, Song Gui was such an honest man, and he was fooled by a woman several times. The neighbors couldn't stand it anymore.
Bei Danzhu was helpless and went to ask other neighbors, but everyone had been discussing the matter privately during this period. No one was willing to treat her well and no one paid any attention to her at all.
Bei Danzhu returned to the inn disappointed. She had taken her child out for a few days, and the child had caught a cold. When she came back, she found that her bag was missing. She was about to collapse...