Early in the morning, Lu Gui hurried to the Xiao Family.
He vigorously knocked on the door outside.
Hearing the noise, Liu You, who lived by the gatehouse, quickly ca to open the door.
Upon seeing Lu Gui, he smiled and asked, "What has happened, son-in-law? Why so early in the morning?"
Lu Gui didn’t respond to Liu You, and hurriedly rushed inside.
Liu You quickly told his family to inform Anning in the back house.
Just then, Xiao Yuan had gotten up, he heard Xiao Yi’s voice outside: "Dad, Mom, are you up? Uncle is here."
Xiao Yuan, while putting on his coat, walked outside: "What happened?"
Xiao Yi, running hastily with so redness on his face, said: "Uncle has co, saying he wants to see Dad and Aunt."
Xiao Yuan then told Xiao Yi: "Go tell your aunt, where is your aunt’s husband?"
Xiao Yi pointed to the front hall: "Right there, Ren is with him."
Anning, hearing the voices, asked through the window: "What happened?"
Xiao Yuan turned back and said, "It’s nothing, go back to sleep, I’ll be right back."
Anning, feeling sleepy, heard Xiao Yuan saying it was nothing and went back to sleep.
Xiao Yuan and Xiao Yi went to the front hall and saw Lu Gui pacing back and forth. Upon seeing Xiao Yuan, Lu Gui quickly asked: "Did Gou Dan co here last night? Did you guys pick up Gou Dan?"
Xiao Yuan frowned: "No, we were a bit busy here, we planned to pick up Gou Dan in a few days."
Hearing that Gou Dan had not been picked up, Lu Gui imdiately changed his expression, crouching on the ground, grasping his hair non-stop: "What should we do? Gou Dan never ca, what should we do now?"
Right then, Xiao Daya entered and imdiately asked Lu Gui: "What’s wrong? What happened to Gou Dan?"
Tears in his eyes, Lu Gui stood up: "Gou Dan, he... disappeared after dinner yesterday. I went out to look for him. Mom was sure that his uncle took him, told not to worry, but I couldn’t sleep all night. I ca early in the morning to inquire, but..."
Xiao Daya’s body swayed and she almost fell.
Xiao Yi and Xiao Ren quickly supported her, helping her to sit on a chair.
Xiao Daya, extrely anxious, angry, and worried, was trembling all over. She pointed at Lu Gui and scolded: "Are you even a human? How old is Gou Dan? Couldn’t you look for him when you didn’t see him at dinner? You just believed your mom when she said the Xiao Family took him? When has the Xiao Family ever taken anyone without informing your mom? Are my family mbers so sneaky that they can’t be seen in public? Would my brother be afraid to show his face while picking up his nephew to stay for a few days? When has that ever happened?"
Lu Gui also cried: "I, I never expected this. I believed because my mom said..."
"Your mom, always your mom, she never cares about Gou Dan; she would rather..."
Xiao Daya was also speaking without a filter out of anger.
Xiao Yuan’s eyes filled with rage: "Enough, now is not the ti to bla each other. Everyone get up, finding him is what matters. I’ll have the house servants from the mansion go out and search, brother-in-law, you should also hurry and have your family look."
Having lost the child overnight, the chances of finding him were slim. However, we must do everything we can to search for him. What if we find him?
At that, Xiao Daya imdiately stood up and headed out: "I’m going to search."
Xiao Yi and Xiao Ren also quickly said: "Dad, we’ll go search too."
Xiao Yuan waved them off: "Neither of you go anywhere, stay at ho, stay safe. At your young age, going out to look for soone, aren’t you afraid you’ll get lost too?"
If Xiao Yi and Xiao Ren still looked like ragamuffins, it wouldn’t matter, but these children are now well-raised, dressed nicely, they might get targeted if they wander out.
Xiao Yuan, one child under each arm, took them to Ms. Ping: "Mom, keep an eye on these two, don’t let them run out."
Ms. Ping was also anxious, but the roads were slippery and the weather was cold, she didn’t dare to go out.
If she went out to search, it wouldn’t be helping but rely adding to the chaos.
Xiao Yuan handed the child over to Ms. Ping, then returned to his room to talk to Anning about it.
As soon as Anning heard that the child was lost, she imdiately called Moli, "You and soone from Liu You’s family hurry back ho. If my uncle is at ho, tell him; if not, tell Lady and ask her to take our family’s na card to the Five Cities Military Departnt and request Lord Tian to help search."
Moli imdiately went to find soone from Liu You’s family after hearing this.
Anning couldn’t stay in bed any longer and quickly got up.
She did not bother grooming or dressing up, just threw on so clothes, tied her hair up, and was ready to go out to search for the child.
Xiao Yuan grabbed her, "Stay at ho and keep watch. I’ll go out and search, I have many friends outside, I will ask them to help."
Anning thought about it, realizing no one being ho wouldn’t do. If the whole family went out searching and sothing happened at ho, what would they do? She nodded, "Okay, you go search first, I’ll figure out a way to perform a spell in a while."
Xiao Yuan touched Anning’s hand, "Don’t force yourself, if it doesn’t work then don’t cast a spell."
This ti and space is completely different from any they had stayed in before.
They didn’t know where this place was, and this was the first ti and space they had encountered after being kicked out by the Main God, they needed to be very cautious.
As a result, upon arriving, Anning and Xiao Yuan didn’t rush to practice cultivation, nor did they perform any act that would transcend the laws of ti and space.
In Xiao Yuan’s heart, Anning was naturally the most important; although he was anxious about the missing child, he could not tolerate Anning getting hurt for the sake of searching.
Anning nodded, "Rest assured, I know what I’m doing."
After Xiao Yuan left, Anning went to Ms. Ping’s place.
Ms. Ping was extrely anxious and couldn’t calm down, Anning talked with her for a while, and had Xiao Tong entertain Ms. Ping by learning knitting.
Xiao Tong entangled, and Ms. Ping had no choice but to patiently teach her. After a while, Ms. Ping wasn’t so anxious.
Seeing that everything was fine on Ms. Ping’s side, Anning went straight to Xiao Daya’s room.
Xiao Daya had already gone to the streets to search, and there wasn’t anyone in the house.
However, Anning often visited and was familiar with the decorations in this room.
She opened a cupboard, found a piece of clothing that Gou Dan often wore, and took it back to her room.
Back in her room, Anning told Chuntao she had sothing to handle and instructed Chuntao to guard the door and not let anyone in.
Then, Anning closed the doors and windows tightly and began to attempt to cast a spell.
The suppression of spells and spiritual energy in this ti and space was severe, Anning hadn’t practiced much since coming here and had very little spiritual power available.
However, she was especially skilled with spells, and even with little spiritual power, she attempted to perform a spell.
She placed Gou Dan’s clothes on the table, then took so cinnabar and paper to start drawing talismans.
She drew a searching talisman and also a mirror moon charm.
The searching talisman ant to find soone; as long as there was an item with the searched person’s aura, the talisman could sense the location of that person. The mirror moon charm took its aning from ’the reflection of flowers in the mirror and the moon in the water’, being a type of talisman paper that displays images.
Anning tried for a long ti and was almost worn out, and finally drew two spirit talismans.
She placed the searching talisman on Gou Dan’s clothing. Then, she prepared a bowl of water and dropped the mirror moon charm into it.
Soon, ripples ford in the bowl.
When the water surface returned to calm, Anning saw Gou Dan in the water.
Gou Dan seed to be inside a residence, surrounded by several children, both boys and girls, so children even seed to be unconscious.
Gou Dan clearly had been hit; his little face was red, and he looked especially weak and droopy.
Anning then pointed to the bowl, and soon she could see the entire layout of the house, and also figured out where this place was.
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