The night was long and the autumn wind was cold. Han Zhi's illness relapsed and he had a high fever again. Everyone in the mansion was busy.
After dinner, Lin Sheng's usually relaxed face took on a more dejected look, his brow furrowed into a frown. He looked at the carefully prepared package in his hands, worried that he might not be able to deliver it.
A'mo Lu and Lao Gu came out from the kitchen to clean up, still chattering.
Lu A'mo was asking Lao Gu, "Is what the woman selling vegetables at the market in the evening said true or false?
We've only been here a few days, and it's been raining non-stop, and so many people have drowned. I heard there were even beggars frozen to death on the roadside. It's only autumn, not winter, and the weather is too much.
"It's hard to say. It's cold, humid and rainy. If you don't have a place to hide from the rain, you'll probably get sick. If you get sick and don't have money to see a doctor, you'll just have to wait to die." Lao Gu said seriously.
Lin Sheng, who was hiding quietly in the corner, couldn't help but move his ears. Then he turned his head to look at Lao Gu and his wife, with a worried look on his face.
He asked timidly, "What did you say?"
Only then did Lao Gu and the others notice Lin Sheng sitting by the door and repeated what they had just said: "I heard that it rained heavily in the town for several days since we went back. Many places were flooded and people died."
Lin Sheng's heart tightened, and his expression became even more lonely. He began to have wild thoughts in his mind, wondering if Han Zhi was dead.
Thinking of this, Lin Sheng quickly stopped the thought and extinguished it. He shook his head violently and muttered to himself, "Impossible, impossible, Han Zhi wouldn't do that..."
He hurried upstairs and soon came down with a lantern.
The old couple asked him in unison where he was going. Lin Sheng went out in a hurry, probably because he was in a hurry and didn't hear anyone calling him.
Lao Gu was wondering, "That's strange. Why are you out strolling around so late at night?"
Aunt Lu nudged Lao Gu lightly with her elbow and whispered in his ear, "You're so flustered, did we say something wrong just now?"
The two of them were staring at the direction Lin Sheng left with worried looks on their faces. They didn't know if what they had just said had irritated him, so he hurried out to find the beggar.
Thinking of this, Lu Amo realized that she was talking too much and subconsciously slapped her lips.
"Look at my mouth. Brother Sheng must have heard it and is in a hurry to find that beggar from the other day."
Lin Mo, who was standing on the second floor, saw the whole scene. He quietly returned to the house, holding a lantern, and followed silently.
Lin Sheng was searching frantically on the street, while Lin Mo kept a distance from him and followed closely behind.
After searching through all the places he had walked that day and thought he would be, Lin Sheng still couldn't find him, and finally squatted dejectedly on the side of the road.
A pair of clean cloth shoes came into view. He raised his head in panic and saw that it was Lin Mo. He couldn't hide the loneliness in his eyes.
He lowered his head again and said in a choked voice, "I can't find him. What should I do?"
Lin Mo squatted down and said soothingly, "Brother, let's go back first. We will find him. Tomorrow I will have people go out and search the entire Qingshui Town. I will help you find him no matter if he is dead or alive."
A faint twitching sound came from Lin Sheng's end. He hugged his knees with his hands, buried his head, and his body seemed to be shaking a little.
Lin Mo didn't know how to respond for a moment. He never thought that Lin Sheng would cry.
In the original body's memory, he has always been a gentle and tough person. Even though his family was poor and he even ruined his health, he never shed a tear.
Now Lin Mo didn’t know how to comfort her. He thought to himself, if only Su Mu were here, he would know how to comfort people.
Mingfan repeated the same action over and over again, trying to feed the medicine to Han Zhi's mouth, but he just couldn't get it into his mouth. This made him a little anxious.
While the servants were leaving, he anxiously slapped Han Zhi's face and shouted, "Wake up, wake up, drink some medicine, how can you get better without it?
Cousin, don’t you want to see that person? Can you hear me? Can you please open your mouth a little and take the medicine?
After slapping and shouting a few times, Ming Fan finally gave up. No matter how much he called out, the person lying on the bed still didn't respond at all.
He put the medicine aside and stamped his feet anxiously beside the bed. After thinking it over, he came up with a plan.
Ming Fan walked into the courtyard, gathered his men, and ordered, "You guys, go guard the pickled fish shop tomorrow morning and come back to inform me as soon as it opens.
And you all, go to the West Market early tomorrow morning, a few hundred meters from Jinfeng Bridge, and post people at regular intervals. If you find anyone staying there for more than half an hour, bring them back and I'll question them one by one."
"yes!"
After arranging everything, Ming Fan looked towards Han Zhi's house with a worried look on his face, his brow furrowed. He sighed and silently prayed to himself, "I hope I can catch up."
At this rate, Han Zhi wouldn't last many days without medicine or food. Ming Fan hoped he could hold on, and preferably wake up, otherwise all his efforts would be in vain.
Lin Mo brought Lin Sheng back to the shop. Su Mu noticed that they were in a bad mood, so he took advantage of the gap when his eldest brother went to wash up to ask Lin Mo.
"Amo, why are you and brother still out so late? Did something happen?"
Faced with Su Mu's patient questioning, Lin Mo told him everything.
After listening, Su Mu also felt that his elder brother had been a little absent-minded recently. Although he didn't show much in the village, he seemed like a different person once he came to the town.
Su Mu had a bold guess in his mind: "Do you think Big Brother has fallen in love with the person who saved him?"
After listening to this, Lin Mo thought about it more carefully. During this period of time, he had been paying attention to observing the movements of Tang Le and his elder brother, but he missed this point.
He always thought that his elder brother and the beggar were just a chance encounter, and that the beggar had saved his elder brother's life.
Thinking about why the elder brother was so anxious to find him, it might be because the beggar was in a bad situation, so the elder brother was eager to repay his kindness. But if you think about it from another perspective, it seems to make sense.
All Lin Mo can do now is to mobilize more people to help find the beggar. After thinking about it, he decided to spend some money to hire more people to help look for him tomorrow, so that Lin Sheng can save some trouble.
Lin Sheng tossed and turned that night, and Ming Fan also stayed by Han Zhi's side, unable to sleep.
Before daybreak, Mingfan's men were already on the move. One group was guarding the pickled fish shop, which hadn't opened yet, while another group was stationed by the river in the West Market, waiting for daybreak.
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