Scholar Shi had wrongly accused his own grandson.
Shi Guang wasn't surprised because he knew Lin Momo had plenty of money.
Not to mention the batch of gold and silver I had prepared for her, any item she randomly picked up could be exchanged for a lot of silver in this backward era.
Out of the corner of his eye, he caught his grandfather glaring at him, and he was completely bewildered as he listened to their conversation.
He stood there quietly the whole time, doing nothing, so how did he manage to anger the old man?
Inside the main room.
Grandpa Lin paid no attention to the quarrel between the grandfather and grandson, his eyes fixed intently on Fan Chongyang.
The news he brought was truly shocking.
To this day, no one can say for sure how Er Ya left that day.
Where did they go?
What kind of people have you met?
This Fan Dalang was probably the only person who saw his granddaughter on the day she went missing.
Old Man Lin was eager to hear more information about his granddaughter from him.
At the same time, the doubts in Shi Guang's heart were finally resolved.
He had been wondering why Momo, who was supposed to go into the mountains, would head towards the county town on the day she left.
Isn't this going in the opposite direction?
This finally makes sense!
It turned out that she went to the county town to pay off her debt to Fan Chongyang, so that she could leave with no more debts and no burdens.
Fan Chongyang didn't have many clues to offer, and seeing that Old Master Lin was grasping at a straw and trying to get more information out of him, he felt quite guilty.
"After Er Ya returned the money, she left. I personally escorted her to the entrance of the academy, and stayed there for about fifteen minutes in total."
"If I had known this would happen, I should have kept her a little longer, or even asked the teacher at the academy for leave to take her back to the village. This was truly a lack of consideration on my part, which led to my little sister Er Ya getting lost..."
Judging from Lin Momo's words that day, he thought that Old Master Lin knew that his granddaughter was coming to the county to repay the money and had already made arrangements.
Before he could ask any further questions, Lin Momo hurriedly took her leave.
Looking back now, I guess she left in such a hurry because she was afraid he would ask her too many questions.
Old Master Lin sighed softly, interrupting his self-blame: "Chongyang, this is not your fault."
One sentence summed up the whole thing.
Although she harbored a tiny bit of resentment towards Fan Chongyang for not keeping her granddaughter, ultimately, the fault lay more with her own granddaughter.
"It's because Er Ya is too arrogant. Last time she went to the county with her uncle, she thought she could go by herself."
"Little did she know that there are many people in the county, and many of them have ill intentions. She oversimplified things. Even if she wanted to repay the money, she should have waited until you returned to the village. Or she could have mentioned it to me, and I could have had her uncles accompany her..."
"Sigh! It's too late to say anything now. We should hurry to the county and see if we can find him."
Even now, he still believes that his granddaughter was abducted.
yes!
Nowadays, no matter how much mistreatment a woman suffers from her own family or her husband's family, she would not do something as unconventional as running away from home.
At most, it's just self-consolation.
"This is all your fate. You owed someone in your past life, and you're here to pay it back in this life."
Or you might tell yourself to be patient.
"Just bear with it a little longer, it will be fine once I get married."
"It will be fine when my mother-in-law gets old or we separate from the family."
......
Therefore, Old Man Lin did not consider leaving home.
However, having been given a new soul, Lin Erya has broken free from all sorts of constraints and will naturally no longer submit to fate.
If you can't afford to mess with her, you can at least avoid her!
*
When Fan Chongyang left that day, it was Shi Guang who took the initiative to see him off.
When they arrived at the Lin family's house, Fan Chongyang asked him to stay, but Shi Guang smiled and started chatting with him, asking him to recall what Lin Momo had said at the time.
Fan Chongyang was somewhat puzzled by the enthusiasm of this peer, and he couldn't even figure out what the relationship was between this richly dressed young man and the Lin family.
But under his eager and encouraging gaze, Fan Chongyang put aside his doubts and thought carefully about their conversation that day, as if they had already discussed it in the main room just now...
wrong!
There's one more thing.
However, this was clearly just a trivial remark.
But after thinking about it, he realized that this was the only sentence left, so he decided to say it all: "Oh, Er Ya also gave herself a new name, Lin Momo."
Unexpectedly, he had barely uttered a word when...
The next moment, the wealthy young master in front of him, who was half a head taller than him, suddenly narrowed his eyes, his heart pounded, and he excitedly asked:
"What did you say? She gave herself a new name, Lin Momo? You didn't hear me wrong?!"
To be honest, Fan Chongyang was really startled by his reaction.
It's just a name, isn't it? Is it really worth getting so worked up about?
However, in terms of time.
worth!
It was totally worth it!
This means that speculation about time is no longer just speculation.
It is a fact that has been proven.
Lin Er Ya is Lin Mo Mo!
Fan Chongyang answered truthfully, "Yes, that's what she said."
His hands clenched into fists at his sides, Shi Guang tried hard to suppress his inner elation, lest Fan Chongyang look at him like he was a monster.
Just now, a look of astonishment flashed across his eyes.
With this extremely valuable clue provided by Fan Chongyang, Old Master Lin urged his sons and grandsons to go to the county to search for the person.
Clearly, this trip was another failure to find anyone.
More than half of the Lin family's uncles and cousins gave up and didn't want to look anymore.
The key issue is that we don't know where to start looking for it.
Just as Shi Guang was thinking of leading the search for the missing person towards the nearby Nanshan Mountain, Lin Xushi, who felt she had made a bad deal, jumped out and started complaining, saying that Lin Momo must have been eaten by wolves in the mountains, and that she had raised her for nothing, and so on.
However, there are flawed approaches even when there are mistakes.
Xu's complaint undoubtedly pointed the way in the search for the missing person.
Undeterred, Old Master Lin led his weary children and grandchildren back into the mountains to search for the person.
*
This search was personally led by Grandpa Lin.
The Lin family was divided into four groups and went into the mountains. They searched for three days but found no clues, such as Er Ya's shoe or a piece of cloth from her body.
The Lin family thought that a young girl couldn't have gone far, and besides, it was too cold to spend the night in the mountains. They were also afraid of encountering wild boars and wolves at night, so they only searched the outer perimeter of the mountains.
They would descend the mountain as the sun set, spend the night at the foot of the mountain, and then go back into the mountain the next day to look for people.
Naturally, nothing could be found.
Under their father's pressure, the sons, each with their own sons, searched tirelessly from the town to the county seat, and then from the county seat into the mountains.
After searching for so many days, they not only found nothing, but they also couldn't even get a bowl of water from the second son's family, which inevitably made them feel frustrated.
Left with no other choice, Old Master Lin had to withdraw his troops and return to camp, temporarily abandoning the plan.
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