The Second Sister of a Farmer's Family's Path to Imperial Destiny

"Some, but not much."

Liu You learned some skills from his parents since he was a child, but since his parents stopped selling these, he gradually forgot these skills, but it is still very easy to pick them up again.

"If you really want to open this store, I can leave one for you. But are you sure you want to do it? Or do you have the perseverance to do it? After all, you are still in charge of the accounts of my store, and you have signed a five-year contract."

Liu You nodded heavily and said, "Sister Guo Xin, I am willing! And I will not ignore the account books of the store and workshop just because I have opened a store. I will definitely manage them in an orderly manner."

Guo Xin nodded.

Although Liu You is not a scholar and his family is not rich, considering his sincerity towards Guo Zhi, it is believed that they will not be separated in the future.

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"Your Highness, I followed your orders and inquired about the villages near the pawnshop that usually sold things to the pawnshop. I checked them all and found that a few days before the pawnshop received the jade pendant, many nearby villages came together to sell things."

"Because you need to pay copper coins to enter the town, and the pawnshop is located in the town, many people choose to trade outside the town in order to pay less copper coins. Therefore, there are usually some peddlers at the entrance of the town as middlemen to collect the villagers' goods."

"Because there was a famine some time ago, some people's things were not clean. If they found peddlers outside the town to sell their things, they would not have to worry about not being able to sell their things. Therefore, the peddlers would also go to the gambling house to clarify the origins of the things."

"So, if I couldn't find the person according to your original method, I changed direction on my own initiative and directly inquired in the villages with the most food sold outside the town. In the end, there was only one village left - Guojia Village."

The spy lowered his head and narrated the story.

"Guojia Village?"

Zhao He was a little confused. Isn’t that Guo Xin’s home?

"That's right. When I went to that village, I pretended to be a peddler and tried to talk to them. When we talked about this topic, people were always evasive. Finally, a woman was kind enough to tell me that it was a family on the top of the mountain. However, the man was blind and his family was extremely poor."

Hearing this, Zhao He frowned, knocked his knuckles on the table unconsciously, and said, "Then go and take a look."

According to the General of Cavalry, the baby should have been a healthy person when he was stolen, and had a lot of valuables and jade pendants on his body. But how come this orphan on the mountain is blind and lives in poverty? Is it possible that no one adopted him after he was stolen?

But why did the general insist that someone had adopted him?

But no matter what, I still have to go to Guojia Village.

……

"Aunt, I want to ask if there is a boy in our village who lost his parents when he was young and was then adopted. If nothing unexpected happens, he should be over 40 years old now." Zhao He jumped off the carriage and found a woman who was working and asked.

The woman glanced at Zhao He and saw that his aura showed his wealth. She thought of how the villagers had repeatedly told her not to reveal Guo Xin's parents a few days ago, so she said, "Yes, there is one in our village, but she is blind. She is really pitiful."

Zhao He kept staring at the woman's face, hoping to learn something from it, but the brim of the woman's hat was too big, covering her entire face. The woman did not look up, so he had no way of judging whether her words were true or false.

So I had to say: "Thank you very much, auntie, but I don't know where he lives?"

"It's on that hill, just go up, and there's only one family living there." The woman pointed to the right.

Zhao He thanked him again and walked up the mountain with Wen Yan and Pei Yuan.

"Master, do you think what that woman said is true or false?" Wen Yan said.

"I don't know." Zhao He shook his head and said indifferently.

I walked in silence all the way to the door of that house. I saw that the yard was tidy, but there were still some large and small holes on the ground, which should have been caused by using wooden sticks to explore the way.

Zhao He looked at the situation and pursed his lips. He wondered how sad the general would be if he saw this.

Wen Yan shouted outside the door: "Is anyone there?"

The only response he got was silence. Wen Yan was about to shout again when he heard a dong dong dong sound, which sounded like the sound of someone exploring the way with a wooden stick.

"Who are you?" A man with gray hair walked out, his hands covered with wounds of varying sizes.

"Uncle, I was asked by someone to find his child. I heard that there was an orphan in Guojia Village, so I came to find you." Zhao He said in a gentle voice.

The blind man was a little excited. He kept hitting the ground with the stick in his hand and said, "Are my parents finally coming to find me? They finally came to find me..."

Zhao He wanted to say that he was still unsure, but seeing the blind man's excited expression, he couldn't say anything else, so he just said, "Let's go in first and talk in detail later."

The blind man nodded repeatedly and said, "Yes, yes, let's go back first. It's not convenient to talk here."

As he spoke, he was groping around with a stick. Seeing this, Wen Yan immediately stepped forward and helped the blind man into the house.

"Uncle, it's like this. We have searched all the nearby villages, and we have confirmed those who meet the requirements after asking as carefully as you did, so..." Zhao He stopped talking here.

When the blind man heard this, he understood the meaning of the words and said, "Then ask me, and I will tell you everything I know."

Zhao He nodded and motioned for Wen Yan to ask questions.

"Have you ever sold a jade pendant to improve your life?"

The blind man shook his head and said, "I have never seen a jade pendant. If I had one, I wouldn't be living here."

After asking this question a few more times, Wen Yan asked again.

"Then are there any valuables left in your childhood bag? Were you a healthy person back then?"

"Yes, but it's only one or two taels of silver. My parents took pity on me and picked me up and raised me as their son. But later they saw that I was blind and wanted to throw me away, but they thought it might offend the gods, so they just kept raising me like this."

Zhao He sighed softly and said, "You may not be the man we are looking for."

The blind man smiled bitterly and said, "I was a little excited at first, but then I came to my senses and remembered that my parents had thrown me away because I was blind, so how could they recognize me?"

"After listening to your questions, I feel even more strongly that the person you are looking for is definitely not me."

After a pause, he continued, "But from your description, it sounds like a family in our village."