Chapter 20 I saw her, she was still alive
Before Feng Qingsui could catch the rope, Daben took the opportunity and bit and swung the rope with his two rows of big white teeth, sending the big black dog flying.
Then it stood firmly in front of Feng Qingsui and bared its teeth at the big black dog.
Want to steal its owner? No way!
Feng Qingsui: “…”
The big black dog stood still again, glared at Daben, growled twice viciously, and was about to pounce on him.
The servant quickly grabbed the leash, tied it around his waist, lay down and pressed down hard.
"Ma'am, please leave."
He waved at Feng Qingsui.
"I'll hold it back."
The big black dog glared at him.
Feng Qingsui was just finding it funny when he caught a glimpse of Ji Changqing from the corner of his eye and asked Wuhua, "Did you bring any jerky?"
Wuhua nodded and took two slices of jerky from the car.
Feng Qingsui fed a piece of meat jerky to the big black dog. The big black dog finished it in two bites and looked eagerly at the other piece of meat jerky in Feng Qingsui's hand.
After giving it the other piece, Feng Qingsui clapped his hands and said, "Okay, there's no more to eat. Stop bothering me."
The big black dog barked twice in grievance.
It's not for greed.
Feng Qingsui knew that it recognized her, but she couldn't recognize it, so she got on the donkey cart reluctantly.
Wuhua then put away the footstool and drove away.
"Goodbye, ma'am!"
The two children ran after Feng Qingsui's car for a few steps before stopping.
The big black dog also wanted to run after him, but the servant held the rope tightly.
It turned around angrily and barked loudly.
The servant did not recognize Feng Qingsui as the girl that Big Black Dog had loved to pursue. Seeing Big Black Dog lose his temper, he said with a sad face:
"Mobao, why are you having this old problem again? It's a good thing the lady wasn't frightened by you, otherwise she would have told the master, and you wouldn't be able to go out for a walk anymore..."
He dragged the big black dog towards the house opposite.
Ji Changqing left the warden and the others and stepped forward to ask, "Are you from the mansion across the street?"
Seeing that he was wearing the uniform of a first-rank official, the servant did not dare to neglect him and said respectfully, "Yes, sir."
"How many years have you had this dog?"
"Almost ten years."
"Did the lady just now come to your house?"
The servant hurriedly shook his head: "No, this is the first time I've seen her."
Ji Changqing didn't ask any more questions.
On the way back to the office, he was flipping through the account books of the orphanage, and his thoughts drifted away unconsciously.
Feng was extremely familiar with the situation in the orphanage. The dog of the family living opposite the orphanage seemed to have a connection with her. She also spoke Mandarin very well and did not seem like a native of Wucheng.
Could it be that... she was originally from the capital, living near this orphanage, or even -
Is he an orphan adopted by the Salesian Home?
He suddenly looked up and told the driver, "Go back to the Salesian Home."
After Fang Yuanjian sent Ji Changqing away, he breathed a sigh of relief, boiled a pot of water, and prepared to make a pot of tea to calm his nerves. Unexpectedly, before he even took a sip of the tea, Ji Changqing struck back.
"Adoption ledger?"
Her face was even paler than when Ji Changqing asked Baifu to go to various orphanages to get the income and expenditure ledgers.
"Why do you suddenly want to see this, sir?"
Ji Changqing said calmly, "This is not your business."
Fang Yuanzhang's heart sank, but he tried to remain calm. "The new children haven't been registered yet. Why don't we wait until they're sorted out and send them to their parents tomorrow?"
"No need, just look at the original records."
Ji Changqing said lightly.
The Fangyuan Supervisor had no choice but to move the account books over.
After checking and confirming that all the adoption records from previous years were here, Ji Changqing returned to the carriage.
He started looking through the account books from twenty years ago.
Until this year.
At Feng Qing's age, he could only fall into this range.
But the name "Feng Qingsui" did not appear in the account book.
"She may have changed her name or used a false one."
He pondered.
“But the last name may still remain.”
So he searched again, looking only for children with the surname Feng.
Find...eleven girls with the surname Feng of marriageable age.
Then he instructed Shi An: "Go check on the current situation of these eleven adopted children."
Shi An obeyed the order.
At the same time, Feng Qingsui and Wuhua came to Wuliu Lane.
This is a very quiet alley with three courtyards on both sides. The entrances are cleaned neatly and decorated with colorful chrysanthemums.
When she reached House Ding, she stopped and looked up at the plaque on the door, which read "Li's House".
There was a hint of surprise in his eyes.
The family that adopted Delphinium was surnamed Wu, so why is it that the Li family is living here?
Wuhua went forward and knocked on the door.
The door creaked open, revealing an old face wrinkled like a chrysanthemum, looking at the two of them in confusion.
Before he could ask, Feng Qingsui said, "Is this Mr. Wu Yuanqing's home? We want to discuss a silk business with him."
The old doorman pointed upwards and said, "There's no Mr. Wu here, only Mr. Li."
"Has Mr. Wu moved away?"
"I moved away three years ago."
Feng Qingsui inquired further and learned that three years ago Wu Yuanqing had taken on a big order, but something went wrong and he lost everything. He sold his shop and house and moved his family to the outer city.
The capital city was expanded a hundred years ago. With the imperial palace as its center, the area before the expansion was called the inner city, and the area after the expansion was called the outer city.
The powerful and most official agencies are in the inner city, while the outer city is mostly populated by ordinary people and a small number of low-level officials.
It is not easy to find Wu Yuanqing's family in the huge outer city.
Fortunately, one of the people they inquired about had contact with Wu Yuanqing's family and knew their new address.
The two of them searched for Wu Yuanqing and found him at the door of a thatched hut in the East Outer City.
"What can I do for you two?"
Wu Yuanqing asked weakly as he lay on a worn bamboo couch.
He was so thin that his bones were visible, and there was no sign that he had once been a wealthy silk merchant.
His wife was cooking wheat cakes nearby. The firewood was still a little damp, and the smoke billowed out. The smoke brought tears to her eyes, and she shouted to her daughter who was looking at Feng Qingsui curiously, "Quick, bring me the fan!"
The little girl was only five or six years old, with two loose buns on her head and a thin and yellow face.
When he heard the scolding, he immediately went into the house to get a fan.
Feng Qingsui only glanced at it, then looked away and said to Wu Yuanqing, "I want to ask you, what's going on with the delphinium?"
Wu Yuanqing was startled: "Who is Cuiqiao?"
"The child you adopted was called Delphinium when she was in the Salesian Home."
Feng Qingsui replied.
Wu Yuanqing's expression changed slightly.
"Are you from the Salesian Home? Didn't I tell you nine years ago? She died of illness."
Feng Qingsui naturally learned from Wuhua that Cuiqiao had been registered dead. The account book wrote that in the third year after Cuiqiao was adopted, she contracted chickenpox and died.
But she knew that was not the truth.
She looked past Wu Yuanqing, towards the pot of wheat cakes, and whispered, "I saw her. She's still alive."
Wu Yuanqing's face changed drastically.
The woman fanning the fire also changed her expression. Clutching the palm-leaf fan, she gritted her teeth and said, "I knew it! That little bastard must still be alive! She's the one who did it!"
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