The General is Pregnant: His Majesty Abstinence and Sexual Devotion Every Night

Chapter 274 Looking for someone

Yongning Hou looked at the little boy's expression, and his tense face softened. He nodded in a gentle tone and said, "Really."

Seeing this, the little boy jumped out from the pillar that was covering half of his body. However, seeing the group of people staring at him, he shrank his neck and hid behind the pillar again. However, his clear and childish eyes were filled with unreserved joy and confusion. The little boy's childish voice suddenly lowered its tone and said:

"My brother who used to play with me has gone missing in the past few days. I went to his house but couldn't find him. I also waited for him several times when my father wasn't paying attention, but he still didn't show up. Can you help me find my brother?"

The little boy thought of something and added quickly, "...By the way, that brother's home is in the thatched house near my home, where you just went..."

Looking for brother? Thatched cottage?

Yongning Hou's eyes froze for a moment, and then he realized that this matter was quite strange, so he looked into the little boy's eyes and asked hurriedly:

"When exactly did your friend disappear? Who was in his family? What were you doing when you last saw him? You must tell us the truth..."

Seeing the shrinking look in the little boy's eyes, Yongning Hou paused, and then he realized that his tone just now was a bit like interrogating a prisoner. He slowed down his tone and said in a gentle voice: "Don't be afraid, just tell me, so that I can find your brother faster."

The little boy heaved a sigh of relief, and then thought about the questions that Yongning Hou had asked. He was still young, and didn't remember some of the questions, so he only picked out some questions that he remembered and answered:

"The last time we met, my brother and I hid in the bushes behind his house, watching his father dig a hole under a tree and bury something. I wanted to see what his father was hiding, but my brother stopped me. After he finished burying it, he chased me out..."

At this point, the little boy seemed to feel aggrieved and his eyes became red.

Yongning Hou listened to the boy's long speech without showing any impatience, showing full patience. After he finished speaking, he asked the same question again, but he picked the one that the boy did not answer, and asked:

"When did you not see your brother?"

The little boy pouted, his lips tightly pursed, his face full of grievances that seemed to be overflowing: "My birthday..."

Upon hearing this, Marquis Yongning paused slightly, then raised his head and touched the little boy's head a few times as a way of comforting him.

After asking a few more questions and finding them to be irrelevant, Yongning Hou stood up and asked the little boy to go back to his father first, while they walked towards the thatched cottage.

They once again pushed open the wooden door that had just been barely repaired by the guards, and saw that the door was about to fall to the ground again. The guard who had just repaired the door immediately stepped out and held the door in place. After the guards went in, they thought about it and decided to simply take the door down again, thinking that they could repair it themselves when they left.

Marquis Yongning had no idea what the guards were thinking, so he just sent the people around him to check the place carefully to see if there were any clues. He then took one or two people to the place the little boy had just mentioned to dig out the things that the owner of the thatched hut had buried under the tree. He didn't know if they were still there.

The exact direction is still unknown, we only know that it is under a tree. Tree?

Yongning Hou thought about the road they had taken just now. Although there were trees in that place, the owner of the thatched hut would definitely not be stupid enough to bury something in public.

Yongning Hou thought so in his mind and came to the corner of the thatched hut. Not far from his left foot there was a kang, which was probably used to keep warm in winter.

He withdrew his gaze and placed it in the dark corner.

After seeing a gap, he stretched out his hand and pushed forward hard.

Become!

There really is a backdoor.

Marquis Yongning's brows relaxed, and he then turned his attention to the guards who were still searching for clues here. He called two more people to follow him, and the five of them walked towards the back door.

Yongning Hou stood in the middle of the five people. He raised his head and looked around, and found that except for a few trees and a few piles of weeds, the rest were vegetables. It would not be an exaggeration to say that this was a vegetable garden.

However, there are also two pear trees planted in this vegetable garden.

The group walked towards the tree, Yongning went to the left one, and the other two went to the right. In the end, they didn't ask the little boy how many trees there were, so they had to dig separately.

Marquis Yongning had his men dig all around the tree, but saw nothing, so he turned around and looked to the other side.

As he walked over, one of the guards who was digging the soil seemed to see something and jumped up suddenly. The guard digging the soil on the other side of the tree was frightened by the man's action and almost threw the shovel at him. However, when he saw the figure of Yongning Marquis rushing here, he put down the shovel in his hand, and while his own marquis was not here, he knocked on the head of the guard who was making a fuss, and walked to him with a curse to help dig.

When Yongning Hou walked up to these people, the things in the soil had also been dug out.

There was a pile of letters and some bottles and jars, and I didn't know what they were filled with.

Yongning Hou squatted down and picked up a letter from the pile and glanced at it. He had a careless look on his face before, but after seeing this letter, his expression became serious.

Most of what is written in this letter is about the plague.

But all that was written were the symptoms of the plague and the conditions after the plague, as if someone was deliberately observing the plague.

Of course, apart from this, there is no other news in this letter.

Marquis Yongning put the letter back, and then thought to himself, an ordinary common man, living in this thatched hut, seems to have no special talents. From the little boy's previous description, the owner of this thatched hut lives on his own vegetable garden. He is not rich, can hardly recognize a few big words, and most of his money is spent on buying wine.

Paper is not expensive in the current Da Qi, but it is something that is mostly bought for children to go to school. In addition to pens, ink, paper, and inkstones, there are also these small porcelain bottles that look exquisite and beautiful. Judging from the temperament of the owner of the thatched cottage, how could he possibly buy these things?

If this is the case, how do we explain the letters and the bottles and jars here?

Marquis Yongning lowered his eyes, thinking that he was no longer as clueless about the plague as before.

At the very least, we have to start with the owner of the thatched cottage and find him first.