Chapter 214: Child Missing

Cao Wanzhi patted her own chest with lingering fear as she finished speaking.

"Thank heavens, fortunately it wasn't you, otherwise I wouldn't know what to do..."

Listening to Cao Wanzhi's words, Jiang Xiaoxiao couldn't help but frown, and even the tofu skin bun she was eating didn't taste good anymore.

An extra five or six-year-old child in the young master of the Huang family's mansion?

For some reason, she had a faint bad feeling.

Jiang Xiaoxiao wanted to inquire about this matter in more detail, but Cao Wanzhi had already run back behind the stall to continue kneading the dough.

"Xiaoxiao, I'll come find you to play when I have time tomorrow during the day. I really don't have time now..."

Cao Wanzhi's slightly apologetic voice came from inside.

"It's okay." Jiang Xiaoxiao responded, "Sister Merely'er, I'm going back to the village in a while. I won't be in town tomorrow, so I'll come find you when I have time another day."

"Ah, leaving in a while? So urgent?" Cao Wanzhi inside subconsciously looked up at the sky that had already turned dark.

Jiang Xiaoxiao smiled and said: "There is a patient at home who needs looking after, so I can't stay out overnight."

"I see..." Cao Wanzhi didn't try to keep her anymore.

Jiang Xiaoxiao finished the tofu skin bun in her hand and took out money to buy two more herself.

Before leaving, Jiang Wei looked at the oil-paper bag she was holding in her arms and said with some dissatisfaction: "Are you bringing this for that guy?"

Jiang Xiaoxiao nodded: "Lord Shen should not have eaten anything alone at home."

Before they set off, they had made Shen Que promise repeatedly not to step out of that ear room, lest he be discovered.

They had been out for almost a whole day, and besides the two eggs and one pancake left for Shen Que in the morning, there was nothing else.

Presumably he must be very hungry now.

"Hmph." Jiang Wei snorted lightly, her dissatisfaction becoming more and more obvious.

"After all, he, he is also our experimental subject, it wouldn't be good if he starved..." Jiang Xiaoxiao could only lower her head and laugh awkwardly, not daring to explain anything more.

Returning home, Jiang Xiaoxiao jumped off the carriage and ran toward the ear room holding the oil-paper bag.

Jiang Wei led the horse to the stable, muttering incessantly: "I don't know what kind of love potion this Shen guy fed my daughter..."

Jiang Xiaoxiao knocked on the door.

It wasn't until a "Please come in" came from inside that she pushed the door and entered.

Only an oil lamp was lit in the room, not particularly bright.

Shen Que sat cross-legged on the bed, his hands resting lightly on his legs. This posture was just like the martial arts masters in martial arts novels using their internal force to regulate their bodies!

And from Shen Que's body, some heat could be visibly seen rising slowly.

His face was also unprecedentedly rosy and lustrous, just like being in a sauna!

Jiang Xiaoxiao's big eyes widened, not daring to make a sound to interrupt Shen Que's current regulation.

So internal force regulation in novels really exists!

Shen Que, at a glance, was the kind of big-shot character with deep internal force.

Her family had truly picked up a treasure!

A moment later.

Shen Que slowly opened his eyes.

The heat that had appeared on his body also disappeared instantly, as if it had never appeared.

Seeing Jiang Xiaoxiao in front of him, Shen Que didn't ask anything, but his gaze shifted downward, landing on the oil-paper bag in her arms.

Jiang Xiaoxiao handed over the oil-paper bag in time: "This is what I bought for you, try it!"

Shen Que took the oil-paper bag, and after opening it, the fragrance and heat of the tofu skin buns rushed toward him. He hesitated for two seconds, then ate it in large mouthfuls, almost unable to maintain his usual reserved and noble posture.

Jiang Xiaoxiao smiled with curved eyebrows: "Is it delicious?"

"Mm." Shen Que responded rarely, "The taste is indeed not bad."

He ate very quickly, finishing one tofu skin bun in two or three bites, and began to eat the second one.

Jiang Xiaoxiao still watched him with a smile and said: "Lord Shen, I see your martial arts seem not bad. Since you are working at my house, why not teach me?"

Shen Que's eating motion paused.

He looked up at Jiang Xiaoxiao, his gaze landing on her short and slender limbs, and his expression became helpless: "You are still too young, and besides, a girl..."

"What's wrong with a girl? Can't a girl practice martial arts?" Jiang Xiaoxiao frowned and interrupted him, "You can't look down on girls. Don't forget, it was two girls who saved your life, Lord Shen."

Shen Que was silent for a rare moment.

After hesitating for a long time, he said: "Fine, start squatting in a horse stance tomorrow."

After he finished speaking, he took a bite of the tofu skin bun, and then added: "Naturally, this is after running the ten laps prescribed by your mother."

Jiang Xiaoxiao: "..."

Jiang Wei stood with her arms crossed, leaning outside the ear room, quietly listening to the movement inside.

Hearing the end, the corners of her mouth couldn't help but lift.

But immediately, this smile faded.

"Five or six-year-old little girl..."

A night wind blew, bringing a trace of chill.

After the cold dew, the weather in Yuhe Village became colder and colder at night.

The sky had turned completely pitch black, and Yuhe Village had almost fallen into a dream.

However, one household hadn't slept for a long time, and the oil lamp in the room was lit all night.

Oil lamps were considered rare items in the countryside, and ordinary families couldn't bear to keep them lit all night.

In the room, the wrinkled woman was crying until she was out of breath, while the man on the side was full of impatience.

"Cry, cry, cry, all you know is crying! What's the use of you crying now! It's just a little girl, if she's lost, she's lost! Our family can even save some food!"

"Woo woo woo... Master, how can you say that! Er Niu is your own daughter after all, she's missing, don't you feel any heartache at all!"

"What's the use of me feeling heartache! People have been missing for several days, what's the use of you crying now!"

The woman wiped the tears from her face and gritted her teeth: "No, I don't believe Er Niu would just walk away for no reason. Tomorrow I'll go ask the Lizheng..."

"Are you annoying or what!" The man scolded immediately when he heard she was going to find the Lizheng, "A little girl is lost, and you want to trouble the Lizheng, aren't you ashamed to say it out!"

"Where is it shameful? My daughter is missing, can't I go ask the Lizheng..." The woman cried halfway, suddenly realizing something, and stared dead at her own man, "No, are you hiding something from me? Why are you so afraid of me going to the Lizheng?"

"What, what am I hiding from you?" The man seemed a bit guilty and hurriedly turned his head, "What are you thinking! What could I be hiding from you? Our daughter is lost, I'm anxious too?"

After saying this, he seemed to be trying to cover up, softening his voice to comfort: "Forget it, forget it, you know Er Niu's temper, she probably ran off to your maternal home because I scolded her a couple of times that day, and is deliberately hiding from us..." ===== CHAPTER 215 =====