Chapter 497 Missing

Song Mo coughed lightly, and the yard immediately started moving.

Ruozhu trotted over and knelt to salute Song Mo, respectfully calling him "Prince", while Ruotong loudly announced "Prince is back".

Song Mo walked straight towards the main hall.

Dou Zhao personally lifted the curtain and came out to greet him, smiling and saying, "Come over!"

Song Mo smiled and nodded, then asked, "Where's Yuan Ge'er?"

"The wet nurse is holding him and swinging on the swing in the backyard!" Dou Zhao walked into the hall side by side with him.

Ji Yong was sitting carelessly on the armchair in the right row. When he saw Song Mo coming in, he drank a sip of tea, stood up and said to Dou Zhao, "I have told you everything I know. Make a decision as soon as possible about what you want to do, or you can accuse me of acting on my own. I'm leaving first and will come to see Yuan Ge'er in two days!" Then he nodded to Song Mo and walked away.

Song Mo was extremely angry, but he looked very casual. He said with a smile, "This Ji Jianming is used to being arrogant and domineering. He never restrains himself. It is really an anomaly that he can smoothly and safely get along in the officialdom until today!"

"That's right." Dou Zhao agreed with him and said, "His parents must be worried about him!"

She thought about how Ji Yong was still unmarried, how two years ago the elders of the Ji family dared to scold him, and then as his popularity grew, there were fewer and fewer people in the Ji family who could speak to him, and she couldn't help but sigh.

Song Mo felt very awkward and said with a smile, "Is Yuan'er only accompanied by his wet nurse? Women are not very strong. It would be terrible if he fell or got hurt. I'll go and take a look!"

"Songluo and Gaoxing's youngest son Gaozan are both with him in the backyard. Otherwise, I wouldn't feel comfortable leaving him with the wet nurse," Dou Zhao said. "He can run and jump now. The idle servants don't have as much energy as him, let alone his wet nurse. I was just thinking of discussing with you whether we should find a few smart servants to accompany him, so that he won't be left alone to play with."

Dou Zhao was in a special situation now and didn't dare to be naughty with his son.

Song Mo smiled and said, "Then let's see which kid is suitable and pick a few who are four or five years older than him to play with him." After saying that, he was about to get up and go to the backyard.

Dou Zhao said, "I have something else to say to you." Then he took his hand and went to the inner room. "Just now, Ji Jianming came to tell me that his cousin Ji Lingze accompanied his grandmother to Kyoto, and said that the night Ji Lingze arrived in Beijing, the twelfth brother went to visit his home. He asked me to be careful and remind my father to arrange the marriage for the twelfth brother as soon as possible, so as to avoid any trouble."

It's going to rain, and my mother is going to get married.

Ji Yong is really meddling too much!

Song Mo muttered in his heart, but with a smile on his face, he said: "You said a few days ago that we should just let it go, why have you changed your mind now? After all, the twelfth brother is the older brother, and he should live his own life, so you should not interfere. If he really marries this Miss Ji, can you not respectfully call Miss Ji "sister-in-law"? If his affair is exposed, you, as a younger sister, and a married woman, will be in trouble. "My dear, how can it be your turn to speak now?" He said, holding Dou Zhao's hand and leading her to the big kang by the window, and helped her take off her shoes. "The most important thing for you now is to take good care of the baby. This child is much naughtier than Yuan Ge'er. When you were pregnant with Yuan Ge'er, you could eat and sleep well, but now you can't even stand the smell of rose water, and you have lost weight. Let's not worry about what's going on outside. It's the right thing for you to do to take good care of your body."

Dou Zhao couldn't help but take a mirror and look at himself: "Have I lost weight? Why do I feel like I've gained weight?"

Song Mo sat down next to her, took her target mirror and threw it aside, saying, "How can you see anything in this mirror?" Then he talked about summer vacation, "It's better to go early this year, so there won't be much to say among relatives."

The Song family has a villa in Xiangshan with beautiful scenery. Every summer when they go to the villa to escape the heat, they will close the door to visitors and spend two days in peace and quiet.

This child is indeed noisy. It would be nice for him to go there and take a rest.

Dou Zhao smiled and said, "You set a date, I'll prepare first, and you can take us there then."

Song Mo has work to do and can't leave.

"I want to take a leave." Song Mo went to get the almanac and said, "Anyway, the emperor will go to the West Garden in the summer. There are not so many rules in the West Garden like in the palace. The princes and ministers are trying their best to leave a good impression on the emperor. If I leave, it will just make room for some people. Maybe I can really take a leave!" He said, turning to May 22nd, which said it was suitable for travel. "How about this day? It's just after the Dragon Boat Festival, and the weather is getting hotter."

Dou Zhao thought that in her previous life, the Liao prince launched a coup in November, and it was still early now. In her previous life, she was too far away from the palace, and she only found out about the emperor's illness and the Liao prince's visit to the capital after the fact. In this life, she can often go to the palace, and Song Mo is on guard against the Liao prince. If the emperor is unusual, he will definitely not be able to hide it from her. Xiangshan is only two hours away from the capital, and it is also very cheap to go back. She leaned lazily on Song Mo's shoulder and said, "Just make your decision, I'll listen to you."

Seeing that Dou Zhao's face was full of fatigue, Song Mo bent down and kissed her forehead, and said softly: "Are you very tired? You should rest for a while. I'm here with Yuan Ge'er!" Then he took the pillow and helped her lie down.

Dou Zhao enjoyed Song Mo's tenderness and thoughtfulness, holding Song Mo's hand, and soon fell asleep.

Song Mo smiled slightly, looking at Dou Zhao's peaceful sleeping posture, and after a while he got up and went to the backyard.

Two days later, Dou Zhao asked someone to tell Song Yichun that after the Dragon Boat Festival, he would take Yuan Ge'er to live in the villa in Xiangshan for two months.

Ever since he knew that Dou Zhao was pregnant again, Song Yichun had been feeling complicated. When he heard that Dou Zhao was going to escape the summer heat, he waved his hand impatiently, indicating that he had understood.

Dou Zhao began to prepare for the Dragon Boat Festival and the summer vacation.

Dou Dechang is missing.

When Ji came to her crying, she was dumbfounded and didn't know what to say for a long time.

"Where do you think he would go? Uncle Qi is almost dying of worry!" Ji cried, "Everything was fine before. We agreed to adopt him because he agreed. Uncle Qi treated him like his own son..." As she spoke, she tightly grabbed Dou Zhao's hand, "Tell me, could he have been kidnapped by criminals? When you got married, Uncle Qi gave you a bunch of banknotes. Since then, there have been many rumors that the Dou family is the richest family in Northern Zhili or even the world..."

Dou Zhao knew the truth. She took out a handkerchief to wipe Ji's tears and said, "Does the Shujishi Academy know about the disappearance of the twelfth brother? Who has the twelfth brother been closest to these days? Maybe they know the whereabouts of the twelfth brother. Isn't Wu Shan very good to the twelfth brother? They are from the same hometown and in the same class. Have the sixth uncle and father sent someone to ask?"

Her calm and composed voice soothed Ji's panicked heart. Ji wiped her tears and said, "Seventh uncle has already asked at the Shujishiguan. Wu Shan is also helping Seventh uncle to look for someone! Now there is no clue at all..."

Dou Zhao couldn't help but secretly blame Wu Shan after hearing this.

If he doesn't explain this to his elders now, and things get out of hand, how will Dou Dechang have the face to return to the Academy of Scholars?

However, kidnapping is a good excuse.

She really wanted to let her sixth aunt announce that Dou Dechang was kidnapped, but she was afraid that her sixth aunt would believe it and get scared, so she simply said, "I think it would be better to let the prince come forward, he has experience."

Ji's eyes lit up as if she had found a savior. She said "OK" repeatedly and couldn't wait to ask Dou Zhao to find Song Mo. She said, "Why didn't I think of that?"

Caring too much will make you lose your composure!

Dou Zhao invited Ji to have lunch, sent someone to inform Song Mo, and also sent someone to deliver a letter to comfort Jing'an Temple Hutong and Mao'er Hutong.

Ji hadn't slept for two days and two nights. She now had a backbone and was immediately tired. Dou Zhao ordered the maid to clean up the guest room and coaxed Ji to go to sleep.

During this time, Song Mo asked Liu Zhang to tell Dou Zhao: "Miss Ji from the Ji family is also missing. Don't worry, they won't go far. We'll find her by tomorrow night at the latest."

Dou Zhao felt relieved.

Ji Yong ran over, and his son followed behind him, carrying a bamboo handle full of windmills.

The colorful windmills whirred in the yard, which was very spectacular.

He must have bought the windmill and its bamboo handle from someone who was selling it.

Dou Zhao was a little amused.

Yuan Ge'er was so happy that he clapped his hands.

Ji Yong said proudly: "It's still more fun to follow uncle, right?"

Yuan Ge'er kept nodding and calling "Uncle" in a clear voice.

Ji Yong was very happy. He held Yuan Ge'er in his arms with a smile and asked him to pick out his favorite windmill. Then he handed Yuan Ge'er to his son and said, "Take the eldest master to play with the windmill."

The son replied "yes" respectfully, and took Yuan Ge'er to the corridor nearby, where he inserted the windmill next to the railing of the corridor.

Yuan Ge'er ran around, very excited.

Ji Yong nodded with satisfaction and said to Dou Zhao, "Could Zixian have eloped with my cousin? My cousin is missing too."

Dou Zhao couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

Ji Yong is so smart.

"It's hard to say now." She was most afraid that Ji Yong would do something rash. "Yuan Ge'er's father has already sent someone to investigate."

Ji Yong nodded and shouted to his children in the distance: "Plug a few on top of the rockery, the wind is strong over there."

The son responded and carried Yuan Ge'er up to the Taihu stone rockery.

Ji Yong turned to Dou Zhao and said, "I'll go ask Wu Shan - they've been good friends since they were young, and I don't believe that Wu Shan doesn't know anything about it." At this point, he glanced at Dou Zhao, "He might think he's doing a good deed!"

What does that have to do with me?

Dou Zhao muttered to himself, "Sixth Aunt is here with me, do you want to go and comfort her?"

"What is there to say?" Ji Yong said disapprovingly, "If she can't find the person, she will just cry. Nothing I say will help. Let's find her first!" He left his children to play with Yuan Ge'er and left the Duke of Ying's Mansion alone.

Fortunately, Dou Zhao had long been accustomed to his various eccentricities, and he easily explained to Ji and arranged for his children to return home...

Song Mo didn't come back until midnight.

The windmills whirring all over the yard made him stop and wonder, "Where did these come from? Did the Madam go out today?"

"No." Song Luo lowered her eyes, "It was bought for the eldest master by Uncle Ji."

Song Mo stood in the yard for a while before walking into the inner room.