Chapter 392 Trick
The ceremony went on quickly. After the five grains were offered, the old helmsman puffed up his voice to read aloud the prayer he had memorized long ago, and then solemnly left the temple. The door closed with a bang, and the helmsman led everyone in shouting the slogan of Red Lotus Purifying the World again, and it was over.
The festival ends around noon, but for ordinary people, this is when the real fun begins.
Any place with decent scenery in winter was instantly crowded with people. Any restaurant with decent taste and price was also instantly filled with diners. Zhao Yushu and Lan Ling couldn't even get a place to have lunch.
"By the way, where are the Black Deer and the others?"
Zhao Yushu turned around a few times, but didn't seem to see Lao Lu, his very recognizable old brother.
"Hei Lu has the mentality of a child. He was probably taken by A-Dong to some busy place to play. He is a cultivator, so nothing will happen to him."
Lan Ling comforted him, Zhao Yushu nodded and continued to wander around aimlessly.
Finally, they found a restaurant where they could get a number. After eating, they went shopping. It took them a whole day to tour the entire expanding Yuezhou City. It was almost dusk when they returned to the clinic.
As soon as he entered the door, Zhao Yushu realized something was wrong. The clinic was too quiet.
As his spiritual awareness spread, Zhao Yushu soon realized that apart from a few patients, there was only the old doctor sitting alone in the room.
"Old man, where are the others? Hei Lu and A Dong haven't come back yet?" The two walked into the house and were shocked to find that the old doctor's eyes were red and his expression was extremely haggard.
"What happened?"
The old doctor's lips trembled: "Adong, it's lost."
Zhao Yushu and Lan Lingbing split into two groups and rushed in different directions in the night.
Lan Ling had to find Hei Lu first. Hei Lu was now in extreme guilt and madness, looking for people everywhere like a madman. If she didn't find him quickly, it was hard to imagine whether there would be more serious consequences.
Zhao Yushu went straight to the government office. He wanted to request in the name of the academy, and even coerce the Yuezhou government office to send people to help find him, or at least to release him from the curfew.
Lord Zhu had just returned home and had not yet had time to eat dinner. After receiving the report from his servants, although he was unhappy, he immediately changed into his official uniform and rushed to the government office next door.
"Miss A-Dong grew up under my care, so I will support her both emotionally and logically. However, Mr. Liu, I am familiar with the customs of Yuezhou people, so there shouldn't be any beggars left. Besides, A-Dong is not young anymore, so maybe she had so much fun somewhere that she forgot to go back?"
Zhao Yushu stood up and said, "Adong is a sensible child. I would like to thank Lord Zhu for his help. Without further delay, I will take my leave first."
Lord Zhu gave Zhao Yushu a few tokens, which allowed them to ignore the curfew in Yuezhou City, but it was a bit difficult to send people from the government office to help.
Then Master Zhu pondered for a moment, returned home, looked at his wife who was still waiting for him to eat, and waved away the maid: "The matter of Adong in the clinic has nothing to do with you, right?"
Mrs. Zhu was stunned for a moment, with a puzzled look in her eyes: "What happened to A-Dong?"
Lord Zhu let out a long sigh: "It seems that he got lost. It's good that it has nothing to do with you. It will only do harm to anger Zhao Yushu now. Where is Huo'er?"
"He didn't come back. The servants reported that he went out to play with some boys. Don't worry, Huo'er won't do anything bad."
Lord Zhu nodded, and although he was a little worried, he didn't say anything else.
Lan Ling found the black deer in the south of the city and immediately activated her spiritual power to make snowflakes fall directly from the area. Zhao Yushu saw it from afar and rushed over without stopping.
"How is it?" Zhao Yushu distributed the tokens to Lan Ling and several enthusiastic neighbors who came to help, and asked anxiously while looking at the black deer lying nearby.
"This kid couldn't speak coherently and still tried to force his way out of the city. I had no choice but to knock him out first, but I did get some information out of him."
Black Deer's ability to express himself is limited, so of course he couldn't explain the whole thing clearly, but the neighbors who came to help saw it with their own eyes and quickly explained the whole thing.
After the morning ceremony ended, Adong took Heilu to the most famous riverside pavilion in the area to enjoy the scenery.
Since it is the most famous, it naturally has the largest flow of people.
The scenery was beautiful and there were many people. It would be a shame for the scholars not to recite poems and compose couplets at this time. If it weren't for the cold weather, some brave ones might have even performed a mid-stream jiu-shui show in front of tens of thousands of people.
Hei Lu is uneducated, and Adong didn't learn poetry or songs, so naturally they are not interested in such things. However, Adong is petite and cute, so naturally someone is interested in her.
What's the most effective way to act cool in front of a girl?
It was the male companion who struck her.
In addition, the black deer's appearance made it vulnerable to beatings, so a long list of personal attacks came at him without any mercy.
Although Hei Lu was simple, he had been hanging out with Zhao Yushu and Lan Ling, two of the smartest of the smart, for such a long time that he was not stupid at all. He quickly realized that although the other party did not use any dirty words, every word he said was an insult to him.
Black Deer has never been a good-tempered person, so when he activated his third-level spiritual power, he immediately scared the hell out of those people.
Hei Lu's original intention was just to scare a few people and he didn't want to really take action, but at this time two monks stood up.
"A Kunlun slave from another region, relying on his own skills, do you think that you can bully Yuezhou?"
These are the exact words of one of the monks.
Hei Lu was not good at speaking and his explanation was not convincing, so he just started fighting with the other party in a daze.
The two monks' cultivation was not high and they could not defeat Black Deer. After being beaten, they ran away after saying a few harsh words. When Black Deer turned around in confusion, Adong was gone.
Hei Lu initially thought that Adong had been pushed away by the crowd because of the chaos. However, he searched for him by the river for a whole afternoon and then realized that Adong was missing.
Hei Lu rushed back to the clinic immediately, and his heart sank.
Then the current scene happened.
"There is something wrong here." Zhao Yushu immediately realized that a conspiracy was spreading over this side.
Lan Ling nodded: "Yes, what a coincidence."
"My dear brothers, may I ask if you have ever met those scholars and those two monks?"
Zhao Yushu took a step forward and saluted.
"You are too polite, sir. We are all ordinary people. To be honest, I don't know many of the cultivators, and I don't recognize those scholars either. But I seem to have some impression of one of them. Hey, don't you think he looks a bit like the second kid from the Xu family who makes mutton soup in Lower East Gate?"
Several neighbors pondered for a moment and said, "That's true, but Xu Erwa is not a scholar. Hasn't he always been helping his father?"
Several neighbors started chattering about it, and the more they talked, the more similar it seemed.
Zhao Yushu thought for a moment and said, "Lan Ling, take Hei Lu back first and calm him down. I wonder if any of you would be willing to take me to Old Xu's house to get to know him. I will definitely reward you handsomely."
One of the neighbors waved his hand and said, "We are all neighbors. A-Dong grew up under our care. There is no point in talking about whether to report it or not. I will go with you. Let's go now."
The few of them separated immediately. Lan Ling took Hei Lu back first, Zhao Yushu took a neighbor to Xiadongguan, and the rest continued to go to the four gates to ask the city gate officials.
Zhao Yushu frowned on the way. His bottom line was the people around him. He would not allow any room for negotiation if anyone attacked them. He just didn't know whether the attacker was targeting him this time or he just happened to be there?