The city of Yunzhou Prefecture is Mingzhou. Mingzhou is located in the central area of ​​Daqing and at the intersection of the first river Yonghe River and the largest tributary of the Yonghe River. It has the largest inland dock in Daqing. Goods travel from south and north are transferred to Mingzhou docks, whether on 6 routes or water routes.

It is also thanks to this wharf that Mingzhou is much more prosperous than other prefectures. It ranks in the top three among the more than 20 prefectures in Daqing, second only to Beijing and another Haicheng that flourished hundreds of years ago.

Mingzhou Wharf has made merchants from all over the country and attracted millions of poor people who come here to make a living. More than 30 years since the establishment of the Wharf, several streets such as inns, warehouses, restaurants, and commercial banks have gradually formed here, which has become the most prosperous and lively center of this city.

As night falls, the streets like boiling water in the day gradually calm down, ushering in the quietest moment of the day.

Suddenly, a group of four people appeared on the deserted street as if they had crawled out from the ground, heading straight to a small inn at the end of the street.

The four looked very young, the oldest was about to pass thirty years old, and the youngest looked only in their early twenties. They each carried a burden, and seemed to be just an ordinary passenger traveler, but the light that was inadvertently revealed in their eyes could tell at a glance that these four were not ordinary people, but no one would show this.

These four people are none other than Zheng Lin and his three old friends who went out to look for someone twenty days ago. The oldest one is Zhang Niuyi from the "Lao Zhang Niu Shop" in Yunlai County. The other two younger ones are big bags and monkeys that they smashed at Cui's shop together.

He stepped into the gate of the inn with one foot. When the inn owner saw it, Zhang Niuyi said to Zheng Lin and the other two: "We brothers finally met. We will definitely have to stop drunk later. You can set two rooms to rest first. I will go to the kitchen to see what good dishes are there, and let the store cook a table of food to deliver to the room."

Zheng Lin and the other two had no objection to this arrangement, so they nodded and walked over to Zhang Niuyi towards the inn owner behind the counter.

The inn owner who had heard what Zhang Niuyi said was very enthusiastic: "Celebrity, I have three types of rooms, such as Tianzi, Earthzi, and Hermitage, one is a single room, the other is a double room, and there is a twenty-person large shop. Which type of room does the guest want?"

In fact, when the group of four entered the door, the boss secretly looked at their clothes, and he knew what kind of room they wanted. When Zhang Niuyi and the other two came over, they had already taken out two strings of four keys.

Sure enough, Zheng Lin smiled and said to the inn owner: "We brothers haven't met for a long time, so let's have two quieter spaces, just to talk about the past at night."

The inn owner quickly took out the two strings of keys, untied the ropes strung together, and then placed them on the counter and pushed them in front of Zheng Lin: "Keep, these are the two room keys in the innermost direction upstairs to the left. Staying for one night is 300 liters. How many nights do you want to stay for?"

Zheng Lin took out five taels of silver and put it on the counter, and said to the inn owner: "Our brothers will stay in the capital city for a few days. It is not very certain how many days you want. You can take these silver first. How much is the reward you give you. If it is not enough, I will make up for it."

The inn owner's eyes lit up, and he was so happy that he couldn't see his teeth. He nodded quickly and was secretly happy to meet the guest in the big room.

Zheng Lin and the other two led by the inn owner to the two rooms at the end of the second floor. Seeing that the rooms were clean and there was no mess, they nodded with satisfaction and thanked the inn owner.

The inn owner was also tactful and quietly left after sending the person there without saying a single word of nonsense.

After a while, Dabao and Monkey in the next room put down their own things and ran to the room where Zheng Lin and Zhang Niuyi were. Seeing that Zhang Niuyi had not come back, they did not close the door.

The three of them were speechless, not that they didn't want to talk, but they were so tired these days, and they were hungry and didn't have the interest to chat.

After ordering the meal, Zhang Niuyi came to the room and saw the three of them sitting in the same place and staring blankly, then smiled and said, "I didn't hear the bickering between Dabao and the monkey. I thought I had gone to the wrong room."

Dabao and the monkey glared at Zhang Niuyi and said in unison: "I have been searching for so much trouble for so long, but I haven't even looked for a few people.

When you arrive, who still has the heart to make trouble!"

When Zhang Niuyi heard this, the smile on his face fell, but he comforted his two friends: "Although the above said that he would see people in life and death, he issued a death order to make sure that we must find people, but there was no specific deadline. We just searched slowly, and there was always something we could find."

The monkey shook his head, not so optimistic: "If a person is still alive, he can find it as you said, and he will find it as he slowly, but what if he dies? He fell into Yonghe, which directly connects to Haizi. Where can we find it?"

Dabao thought so, and said in agreement with the monkey: "This matter is the most difficult thing since we started the mission. If we are lucky, we may find it tomorrow. If we are not lucky, we may not be able to complete it even if we are buried in the woods."

"Don't think so. Maybe as you said, we'll find it tomorrow if we're lucky." Zhang Niuyi smiled and said optimistic words, but he had long been in a state of inability to find it.

He knew that even if he didn't find him in the end, they would not be punished by the superiors. It was a shame for them that they could not complete the task, and no one was willing to bring this shame to the ground.

After laughing, seeing that Zheng Lin didn't speak from beginning to end, Zhang Niuyi couldn't help asking: "Brother, I think you are working harder than ever in this mission. Do you have any plans?"

Zheng Lin frowned and did not express his plans when receiving the task. He just shook his head and said, "No matter what plan you have, you have to find the person first." Otherwise, everything will be useless.

When Zhang Niuyi heard this, he was tactful and did not ask questions, but there was a little distress between his eyebrows: "This time, so many people were dispatched and so many days were searched without any news. I suspected that the two people were not dead at all, and they just hid and refused to let us find them."

Otherwise, from the upstream of the Yongjiang River to the downstream of the Yunzhou Prefecture section, why wouldn't there be anyone who once floated on the river that matched the characteristics of the woman and the child?

"How is this possible?" Dabao and the monkey said in unison, making them believe that a weak woman and a seriously ill child could survive after falling into Yonghe on a cliff more than a hundred feet high. It would be better to make them believe that Yonghe would dry up.

Zheng Lin lowered his head and thoughtful. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that Zhang Niuyi’s guess was impossible: "Maybe, they might even be alive. If there is no news, why can’t we try to find a living person?"

After all, people will float to the water sooner or later when they die. There are countless merchant ships coming and going from north to north on the Yonghe River. These merchant ships who make a living on the water believe in ghosts and gods. Generally, when corpses appear on the water, they usually use hooks to hook the boats to bury the body on the spot when they dock, which is considered to have accumulated this merit.

These people feel that praying for ghosts and gods will bless their merchant ships to travel smoothly for this merit, and even those who do not believe in their hearts will do this, even if they just seek psychological comfort.

Besides, before the mission was deployed to Yunzhou Prefecture, people from several prefectures in the upper reaches of Yonghe also received such orders, but they searched for more than half a year without any useful news.

The only thing that can be confirmed is that none of the corpses salvaged in the river section meet the characteristics of the person they are looking for, which makes the people above suspect that there are too few people going out to find them, so they arranged the task of finding people together in Yunzhou Prefecture and more than a dozen other prefectures along the coast.

But the possibility of a weak girl and sick child still surviving from a cliff a hundred feet high is too low, so low that everyone doesn't believe that these two people are alive when they receive the task. Therefore, when they search, they go through the way of finding dead people, and still search along the banks of the Yonghe River along the old methods, and they also find nothing.

Now that Zhang Niuyi said this, Zheng Lin felt that perhaps the direction they were looking for was really wrong.

"Oh, Brother Zheng, I'm just talking, don't take it seriously." Zhang Niuyi was excited to stop what he might say next: "Even the people above think that those two people are dead. Even if we say that people are alive, they won't believe it, and they think we are looking for excuses to slacke in work."

Zheng Lin looked at Zhang Niuyi and said seriously: "If you can't find it from both sides, it's better to change your mind and look for it. Maybe you will get unexpected gains?"

Seeing that his old friend said this, Zhang Niuyi was not easy to object. He thought for a while and said, "We should consider this matter together. At least we should be irritated with the superiors. Otherwise, even if we are still alive as you said, we have to find the Year of the Monkey and Horse Month!"

Zheng Lin was just thinking about this and said, "Okay, I will hand over this guess tonight. We will stay here for the time being until the new instructions are coming down."

"Well, just follow what you said." Zhang Niuyi had no objection, and he didn't have enough time to stay.

Dabao and Monkey had no objection. They were very tired after finding people these days. They could just take some rest and not delay the subsequent events.

Sang Ye, who was far away in Lijia Village, didn't know that a dead escape he wrote and directed would be exposed, or was exposed by a man who was about to become his fiancé.

No, it cannot be said to be exposed. As long as she and Huan'er are not exposed for a day and are not found for a day, her plan to escape death will be successful.

The crowd is vast, and finding two living people is not easier than finding two corpses in Yonghe. Moreover, on the way back, Sang Ye deliberately cleared the traces along the road, unless someone suspected her and Huan'er, and specially collected evidence to prove that they were the ones they were looking for.

On that day, Sang Lin came back from Suxinzhai after delivering the flower sauce, and couldn't wait to find the sister who was sleeping in the room to make clothes. He originally wanted to say something, the clothes sewn in his hand were obviously men's cotton coats. He immediately said with a touching look: "Ye'er, you know that the second brother doesn't have cotton coats, but he actually secretly made new ones for the second brother. You are so nice to the second brother."

Sang Ye didn't raise his head, and gave a critical blow: "Second brother, you're thinking too much. This is what I made for Brother Zheng. You want a cotton coat to find your second sister-in-law."

Sang Lin almost let out a mouthful of old blood and accused him: "Ye'er, the boy named Zheng is nothing. I'm your second brother. Is there anything you're so biased in like this?"

Sang Ye finally raised his head and replied with a smile: "This is what my mother told me. I originally wanted to make a cotton coat for Brother Zheng personally, but my mother's eyes were a little uncomfortable these days, so I left it to me. If my second brother is unhappy, I will ask my mother for an explanation."

"Mingming, Mingming, Mingming, I had told my mother that she didn't wear cotton clothes and asked her to pull cloth to make me. Unexpectedly, she would do it for an outsider and not do it for me. Am I really her biological child?" In just a few breaths, Sang Lin suffered a double critical blow, and for the first time he felt the deep malice from his relatives.

"Puff, second brother, you can rest assured that you are definitely born to your mother." Sang Ye couldn't help laughing, and felt a little sympathetic to his second brother.

Sang Lin looked at his sister and said unlovingly: "Yes, I was born to my mother. What a pity, it's not as good as the guy who has only known me for a few months."

Sang Ye laughed again. After laughing, he didn't want to listen to his second brother playing tricks anymore, so he put down the needle and asked, "Did you have something to tell me just now?"

After being reminded, Sang Lin suddenly remembered the important thing, so he said, "I'm going to Suxinzhai to send flower sauce. Boss Fang is also in the shop and said that several businessmen from the north have taken a fancy to the flower sauce and want to ask us to do this business, so he asked about our garden."

Sang Ye was a little surprised and said with a smile: "I didn't expect someone to ask so soon. I originally planned to wait until the garden had flowers to grow. Our flower sauce was transmitted to the county town through Boss Fang before anyone would pay attention!"

Sang Lin was also very happy and rubbed his hands and said, "Then do we have to find someone to prepare for the land reclamation? There is no work in the left and right fields. Everyone is idle at home, and the grass in the field is almost frozen to death. It is just right to open the land reclamation now."

Sang Ye said: "It's been found. If you go to the town, you will find someone. The day for the land reclamation has been decided, and it will be tomorrow."

Sang Lin didn't know about this, and after hearing this, he became even happier: "Okay, you can pick up the land early and fatten it up early. You can plant it next spring. I really wish I could pick flowers and make sauce in the second half of next year, buy our flower sauce in the mansion and capital city."

When Sang Ye heard this, he also became optimistic, but said in a realistic manner: "Second brother, you have to wait for at least one year to pick flowers in the garden to make sauce. Next year, we can only hire people to pick wild flowers in the mountains. This business cannot be done for the time being, so there is no need to think about the capital city."

"Well, my second brother is just talking about it. Our family will live a better life next year than this year." Sang Lin naturally knew that he couldn't eat hot tofu in a hurry, but he was still happy and his expectations were getting stronger.

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