The servants behind the butler, after seeing the butler kneeling, they also knelt on the ground and begged for mercy on the butler's behalf.
"Mr. Zhou, please don't blame our housekeeper. He can't help it. He has been frightened again and again. He is frightened. He is not like this normally."
"Master Zhou, please spare our housekeeper this time!"
The housekeeper knelt on the ground. Hearing his companion beg for mercy on his behalf, he was really moved. But at the same time, he was afraid that his companion would say something he shouldn't have said, which would have the opposite effect, so he immediately spoke to stop them: "Be quiet, everyone." It's my fault that I was impulsive and bumped into Mr. Zhou. I regretted it now.
Even if Lord Zhou really wants to punish me, I have nothing to say. "
Zhou Yiming stood in front of them, raising his eyebrows and looking confused. He thought to himself, I haven't said anything yet. Why are these people so full of inner drama? If I yelled at this time, wouldn't they have to prepare for the butler's funeral?
"Ignorant is not guilty, get up quickly!" Zhou Ming said lightly, then stretched out his hand and pulled up the housekeeper.
After the housekeeper received Zhou Ming's pardon, he didn't dare to get up for the first time. After thanking him for a while, he was sure that Zhou Ming really didn't blame him. Then he slowly stood up and began to look at Zhou Ming carefully from top to bottom.
The servants behind the butler also stood up after the butler. It was a rare occasion for them to see Zhou Ming, so they also seized the opportunity to look at him non-stop.
The clothes that Yi Ming was wearing at this time were in tatters and had a lot of blood stains on them. At first glance, people felt that he was either a beggar or a delinquent thief. It is no wonder that the housekeeper was so vigilant after seeing him. high.
After taking a quick look at Yi Ming, the old housekeeper hurriedly said in a low voice: "I didn't know that Mr. Zhou is coming to visit me. My master has missed the welcome, so please don't blame me, Mr. Zhou.
You are a distinguished guest in my house. Please follow me into the house quickly. Otherwise, if you don't treat me well, our master will find out about it later, and I will definitely not be able to eat and walk around. "
After saying these words, the housekeeper made a gesture of invitation, and the servants naturally divided into two rows and cleared the way in the middle.
Seeing this formation, Zhou Yiming frowned and shook his head. He came here to do something important, not to enjoy himself.
"Don't be busy. You haven't answered what I asked you just now. Are your masters back?" Zhou Yiming repeated the question just now.
Hearing this, the old housekeeper was obviously stunned for a moment, and finally said quickly: "Mr. Zhou, to be honest, my husband has not returned home since he went to the Yamen yesterday morning. Not only that, he didn't even get any news. No.
My wife is extremely anxious and has sent several groups of people out to search, but found nothing.
You and my master are our own people, so I won’t hide many things from you. In fact, our house is in chaos now, and my wife is clamoring to send someone to report it to the official.
Where do you think this happened? My husband was originally the inspector of the inspection yamen in the south of the city, but now he has to report to the official to find him. If I say this, people will laugh. "
The housekeeper's words did not surprise Zhou Ming. Anyone who had not been home for such a long time would have made the family anxious.
"Tell your wife, there is no need to report to the official. Your husband will be back soon, and he is safe and sound, with no injuries on his body." If Deng Tong was the one who was anxious now, Yi Ming would definitely not say these words. , after all, Deng Tong is not a good guy. If you have the opportunity to play tricks on him, Yi Ming will definitely not miss it.
But the one who was anxious at the moment was his wife, so that was a different matter. Zhou Ming had seen the women in his family worried about him, and he couldn't bear to let Mrs. Deng make the same mistake again.
After hearing the news from Yi Ming, the housekeeper and the servants behind him all looked at each other in shock. They did not understand the importance of the news at first. After they came to their senses, the housekeeper said to Yi Ming seriously: "Master Zhou, Is what you said true?"
"It's absolutely true. It's as good as false."
"Great!" After the housekeeper learned the good news, he almost jumped up with joy. This was not at all because he was worried about Deng Tong or what happened to him, but because Mrs. Deng put all the pressure of looking for Deng Tong into her. The pressure was on the housekeeper, and he even said just now that if the housekeeper couldn't find Deng Tong in the afternoon, he would be asked to pack up and get out.
The housekeeper was so happy that he quickly sent a servant into the house to tell Mrs. Deng the good news.
"Master Zhou, the good news you brought really saved the lives of our servants. If you had come a little later, we might have been tortured to death by our wife."
As the housekeeper spoke, he wiped his tears in grievance.
After a few words of emotion, the housekeeper immediately invited Zhou Yiming into the house: "Master Zhou, you have to come into the house to stay for a while anyway, because our wife will definitely want to thank you for bringing this good news after learning that the master is safe and sound. , if we can’t find anyone by then, it will still be our fault.”
Zhou Yiming waved his hand and firmly refused, then he asked: "Forget it if you enter the house. Since your master is not at home, I will just ask you directly."
Seeing Zhou Yiming's serious expression and having questions to ask himself, the housekeeper immediately became nervous: "If Mr. Zhou has anything to say, feel free to ask. As long as I know, I will tell you the truth."
Zhou Yiming nodded and finally revealed the real purpose of coming here: "Let me ask you, from last night to now, has anyone come to your house to look for me?"
"Looking for you?" the housekeeper said doubtfully. He carefully recalled what happened in the house from last night to now. It seemed that no one had come to see Yi Ming.
"No, there is really no one who came to see you. I remember this quite clearly." After thinking for a while, the housekeeper said firmly.
Hearing these words, Zhou Yiming felt disappointed, because if his idea was right, Lin Ajiao would definitely come here to look for him. But she didn't come here, which proved that Zhou Ming's idea of searching was wrong again.
Zhou Ming, who had been trying to keep himself up, suddenly felt weak and almost lost his center of gravity and fell down.
Fortunately, the housekeeper had quick eyesight and stepped forward to support Zhou Ming, and said with concern: "Mr. Zhou, what's wrong with you? Are you injured? If so, don't hold on and come to our house quickly. Take a rest and I'll send someone to call a doctor for you right away."
"Thank you, I'm fine." Zhou Ming cheered up, stood up again, and planned to turn around and leave to try his luck elsewhere.
At this time, among the servants standing at the door, a person suddenly stood up, walked up to the old housekeeper, and said in a low voice: "Butler, is the person Mr. Zhou is looking for, could it be the woman who came in the morning?"
The housekeeper's attention was all on Yi Ming, fearing that something would happen to him in front of his house. At this moment, when he suddenly heard the servant say this, he was a little confused at first, but then he ruled out this possibility: "How is that possible? , that woman was just here to cause trouble, and from the beginning to the end, she never mentioned Mr. Zhou’s name.”
"Oh." Seeing that his suspicion was denied, the servant lowered his head and prepared to walk back to his original position.
Although the voices they spoke just now were very low, Zhou Ming's senses were very sensitive and he could hear every word they said clearly.
"What happened to the woman you two were talking about?" Zhou Yiming asked in a panic, because his intuition told him that the woman considered to be the troublemaker was probably Lin Gillian.
It turned out that this morning, a woman came to the door of Deng's house. This woman was in her prime, as beautiful as a flower, and charming.
When she arrived at the gate of the mansion, she did not tell her name, but directly asked the doorkeeper if Mr. Deng had returned home.
Deng Tong was usually a romantic person. He often owed romantic debts outside and hid at home without acknowledging the debt. This also led to the appearance of some women in front of Deng Tong's house every once in a while. After these women were deceived by Deng Tong, they... With no choice but to come to Deng Tong's house to ask for an explanation.
After this embarrassing thing happened many times, Mrs. Deng issued an order. In the future, once a woman comes to the house to find Deng Tong, the guard guard must not tell these women the whereabouts of Deng Tong. Instead, they must notify them immediately. Own.
The servants guarding the door at the time immediately thought that this woman was also here to settle a score with Deng Tong, so instead of telling her the whereabouts of Deng Tong, they drove her away arbitrarily and unreasonably.
Although the woman was treated so roughly, she still refused to leave. She remained polite and patiently asked the servants to tell her the truth.
The servant saw that this woman was so beautiful and spoke so kindly, so he suddenly lost his temper. The two sides remained in a stalemate until Mrs. Deng came forward to break the situation.
Mrs. Deng was very jealous, and Deng Tong's flirting with women made her miserable. However, she was unable to control Deng Tong, so she could only blame all her anger on the women who seduced Deng Tong.
After Mrs. Deng came out of the house, she saw the young and beautiful woman, and she immediately became angry. She asked her servants to beat the woman without asking any questions.
Although the servants felt pity for her and felt that it was inappropriate to bully others like this, they had no choice but to listen to their orders when they were eating from the Deng family.
The servants, armed with sticks, swarmed over and planned to beat the woman violently and drive her away.
What they didn't expect was that the woman was actually very skilled and managed to dodge their attacks in a flash.
At that time, these servants did not realize that this woman might have special skills. After all, she was so beautiful. In their impression, such a beautiful woman could not possibly have martial arts abilities.
It was this wrong misjudgment that caused the servants to suffer a lot and almost lost their lives because of it.
