Yun Ji and others took a horse-drawn carriage all the way from the capital to the "Bantian Noodle House" in Songshi Town. She originally thought that when she got off the carriage, she would see a bustling noodle shop, but who knew that what she saw was that the door of the noodle shop was closed.
Yun Bi was startled. Shouldn't this noodle restaurant be closed?
Could it be that Ping'er and the others closed early because they had a baby?
Just when Yun Xi was about to turn around and get on the carriage and go directly to Ding Lu's house, she heard the pedestrians passing by her, chatting:
"Hey, you have to take good care of your children during this period. I don't know where the traffickers came from who deserved to be beheaded, and stole several children. Even the one-month-old baby of the owner of Bantian Noodle House was given away.
Stolen..."
"No, I hope the government can catch the person as soon as possible and rescue the children!"
"..."
Yun Ji couldn't hear anything else. All she could think about was Ping'er's child being stolen?
"Two aunties——" Yun Shu immediately turned around and grabbed the two middle-aged women who were speaking.
The two women were trembling with fright when they were suddenly pulled by Yun Ji. When they saw that it was an aristocratic woman who looked like a fairy daughter, they relaxed a little. One of the fatter women couldn't help but feel a little bit nervous.
Yun Xi said complainingly:
"Young lady, just say whatever you want. You suddenly grabbed us, making me think I met a bad person."
"No." The other one also patted his heart, which was so frightened that it started to beat faster. "It almost killed me!"
She thought that when she encountered human traffickers, instead of stealing children, they would abduct women.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" Yun Shu also realized that she had scared them and quickly apologized. "I didn't mean to do it. I just heard them say that the child of the noodle shop owner was missing. Is it true?"
The two women looked at each other, then looked at Yun Xi suspiciously and said:
"Why are you asking this?"
They thought Yun was very handsome, but she was well-dressed and didn't look like an ordinary person. Moreover, she was followed by maids and guards, so they couldn't help but guess her identity.
"I am the adopted sister of Ping'er, the shop owner of Bantian Noodle Shop. I heard that my adopted sister had given birth to a nephew, so I came here to see the mother and son. As soon as I got off the car, I saw the noodle shop closed, and I was about to go to her house.
I heard what the two aunts said."
"Ah, I remembered, you must be the fairy owner of Bantian Noodle House." The fat woman suddenly remembered.
"Yes, I remembered it too." The other one looked at Yun Ji and nodded. She mentioned that she had met Yun Ji several times before when she went to a noodle shop to eat noodles. But at the time, Yun Ji was still wearing coarse clothes. She didn't expect this.
It had just been a long time since I last saw her, and she was already dressed in beautiful clothes. She looked just like the wife of a wealthy family, so she didn't recognize her for a moment.
Yun Ji was not interested in these, she just wanted to know if it was true that Ping'er's accident happened?
"Auntie, could you please tell me about the child loss you just mentioned?" Yun Jie said patiently.
She hoped this was not true, but she felt a little uneasy after seeing Guan's noodle shop.
"The thing is like this. Since half a month, someone reported to the official that the child was missing. At that time, he didn't take it seriously, but who knew that in the following time, several more children would be lost in and around the town.
.This made the government and everyone pay more attention to it, but who knew that just two days ago, the son of Ping'er, the owner of Bantian Noodle House, was also missing. No, the door has not been opened for the past two days..." The fat woman said
Everything he knew was told to Yun Xi.
Yun Ji couldn't sit still as soon as she heard this!
She didn't expect that something like this would happen. After losing her child, Ping'er was probably going to collapse.
"Thank you, auntie!" Yun Shu thanked her, turned around, and prepared to rush to Ping'er's house with her people.
"Madam, you have to be careful even though you are so beautiful. Maybe those traffickers are not only eyeing the children, but also the beautiful women." The aunt warmly warned Yun Xi.
"Thank you!"
Yun Ji nodded, and immediately ordered as soon as she got on the carriage:
"One of you will go to the Zhenbao Mansion Office to inquire about the news, one of you will go to the surrounding area to check if there is anything unusual, and the other one will follow me to Ding's house."
"yes."
Soon, two figures left.
When Yun Ji arrived at Ding Lu's village, there were many villagers on the roadside and in the fields nearby. Seeing such a carriage suddenly coming, they all looked over curiously, wondering whose rich relative was coming?
After being curious for a long time, I finally got the answer, because the carriage stopped at Ding Lu's house.
"I'm a relative of the Ding family. But I haven't heard of any rich relatives in the Ding family."
"You have forgotten that the Ding family's daughter-in-law's natal family is quite wealthy, and her dowry was given to a shop."
"Yes, that's right. Could it be that Ping'er's mother-in-law heard that her child was lost and came over to see it now?"
"Hey, the Ding family is also pitiful. They just got such a big fat grandson, and he didn't even hold him warmly, but he was snatched away by human traffickers. Hey..."
"..."
Yun Bi didn't know what the villagers behind her were talking about. She had already arrived in front of Ding Lu's house.
Ding Lu's house was as quiet as if there was no one around. She frowned and asked the people around her to knock on the door.
"Who?" After a while, someone answered in a lifeless voice.
After a while, the door was opened, revealing the surprised expression of the eldest daughter-in-law of the Ding family: "Dear, sister-in-law? No, king, princess!"
"Hello, sister-in-law." Yun Shu nodded towards the eldest daughter-in-law of the Ding family. As she walked inside, she asked, "I heard that the child was lost. How is Ping'er doing now?"
Although the eldest daughter-in-law of the Ding family was surprised that Yun Shu, who was already the regent princess, came suddenly, after hearing her words, her whole face turned into a frown:
"Princess, my sister-in-law has not eaten or drank since the child was lost. There is nothing we can do to persuade her. You came at the right time, please try to persuade her. The child is lost, and we all feel uncomfortable, but things have happened, so we still have to
Take care of yourself."
The eldest daughter-in-law of the Ding family did not expect that such a thing would happen. In the past two days, because of the missing child, the entire Ding family has been shrouded in a shadow. Especially the old lady of the Ding family who went to the noodle shop to find Ping'er with her child in her arms. She blamed herself.
She almost wanted to die to atone for her sins, but seeing that her youngest daughter-in-law was as if she had lost her soul because of the loss of her child, she felt uneasy. In short, no one in the Ding family felt easy.
But now that Yun Ji is here, the eldest daughter-in-law of the Ding family suddenly sees hope. You must know that after learning that Nie Zhou was actually the regent and Yun Ji became the regent princess, the entire Ding family was shocked for a long time. After all, Ping'er
She is Yun Ji's adopted sister, which means that the Ding family has married the princess' sister, which is something no one would have thought of.
The fact that Yun Shu was able to transform from a down-and-out daughter to firmly occupying the position of regent princess shows that she is extremely intelligent. Maybe now that she is back, Xiao Bao may be able to get her back.
[Author's digression]: Chapter 4, I wish there would be no cripples in the world..