The old lady is reborn

Hua got off the boat two days later, filled with all kinds of worries, and took a large cart with many people in the suburbs to rush back, changing buses repeatedly.

After finally returning to Kyoto after all the trouble, she wandered around the Nan'an Marquis' Mansion with extreme caution. She didn't hear any news about the concubine's son Rong Yueqi returning to the mansion, so she felt relieved.

But then I was at a loss. Where could I find my son now? I didn't dare to report to the authorities. Both of them used fake household registrations. If they were found out, it would be considered an exposure to Song Ying and a crime to the government.

After much thought, the only option was to go to the black market and spend money to find the person. So Hua Shi also came to the rice shop based on the little information she had at the outer house.

Hua had also been on the black market before, and she had learned a few tricks from the last transaction she had made, but when it came to renting a house and registering her household registration, she used “acquaintances” as a channel.

Because the mother and son did not leave Kyoto with a fake household registration as agreed, and looking for an "acquaintance" might only bring more trouble, the cautious Hua decided to find another way to find her son.

Now that she had also entered the door of this tavern, she was different from Rong Yunyue who had been sitting here for five days, waiting for the seller to come to him.

As soon as she arrived, eager to find her son, she asked the waiter directly while selling wine. The waiter said, "We only sell wine and snacks in our tavern. If you want to help with matchmaking, that's a different price."

Hua paid again, and the waiter helped her move a table closer to the back. Everyone knew the unwritten rules here, that the tables closer to the back were owned by someone else, and no one would sit there to discuss business.

After Hua finished talking to the matchmaker at the tavern, she paid half of the money first and asked, "How long will it take for the news to come?"

The man said, "Usually it takes three to five days, but in order not to break our promise to the master, we only promise to deliver within ten days."

Seeing Hua's uneasy look, the man said, "If this job goes well, come to us directly next time if you have any problems.

The food in this pub is shockingly expensive, and they also make money from both ends of the business. I have to share the money I take from you with them, so my income also goes up.

However, your money is not spent in vain. The business introduced by the pub will definitely be handled for you expeditiously with their face guarantee.

But since we are regular customers now, there is no need to pay this money anymore."

Hua had no choice but to nod and thank him. Just as she was about to get up and leave, she suddenly saw Rong Yunyue walking in.

She then changed her seat, turned her back to that side, and sat down again.

Her deskmate turned around and took a look: "Do you know him?"

Hua nodded and said, "I don't want him to see me."

The man then blew out the candles on their table and whispered, “This is just a damn place, with these few lamps lit.

If this is blown, it will be impossible to see our table clearly."

Rong Yunyue came to pay the second payment and also discuss the next matters.

Hua waited until he left and sat for a long time before leaving. She couldn't help wondering: What is he doing here?

Tang Chi, the illegitimate son of the Minister of Works, was ten years old this year. When he came back from school, he met two maids knocking on the doorbell. They looked unfamiliar, so Tang Chi asked his servant to go over and ask what was going on.

A maid said, "I am a maid from Lord Zhang's house a few houses away. I am afraid that our young lady's favorite peacock kite has landed in the backyard of your house.

The broken kite string is hanging on the wall in the backyard of your house. I tried to pull it, but it seems to be caught by something. I dare not pull it hard, so I have to bother you here."

Little Tang Chi nodded and said, "Wait here."

After entering the mansion, he was curious about what kind of kite the young lady of the Imperial Censor Zhang's family was reluctant to part with, so he went to the backyard with his servant boy and the page boy.

After walking around the courtyard wall, I finally saw a huge peacock kite. It was indeed exquisite, and it seemed that the tail feathers were designed so that it could spread its wings in the air.

It was not stuck on the tree in the yard, but the wall of the yard had a beautiful "eaves-like" protrusion and "flew out" to both sides of the wall.

The courtyard wall is low outside and high inside. If the girl pulls the kite string from the low outside, it will be difficult for the kite to fly around the "eaves" and it will get stuck under the "eaves".

Tang Chi asked his book boy and servant boy to carry the wind bamboo shoots back one after the other.

When he turned around and was about to leave, he saw a large clump of Euphorbia milii about three feet high in front of him. There was a gap between the Euphorbia milii, and there was an obvious path under the gap.

Curious, Tang Chi passed through the gap and walked along the path, and found a small courtyard.

There were always two burly maids guarding outside the yard, but at this moment one of them went to the kitchen to get food, and the other went to the toilet because of diarrhea.

Tang Chi pushed the door open and stepped inside, he saw a woman dressed as a nun, sweeping the small courtyard with her head down. When she heard the noise, she looked up at Tang Chi.

……

Tang Chi met his biological mother Wen Ran for the first time.

No one in the mansion had ever mentioned his biological mother in front of him, and Tang Chi always thought that she had passed away.

Following Wen Ran's instructions, Tang Chi picked out a few small items from the various gadgets his grandmother had given him and gave them to the two maids. He gave them some benefits every now and then. The two of them reached a tacit understanding with Wen Ran and her son that as long as Tang Chi sent the servants away and came alone, they would not be there at the time.

After the mother and son met quietly for a while, Wen Ran said to Tang Chi: "Can you bring Tang Peiyao here?"

Tang Chi said, "Why bring him here? He and I are not in the same courtyard, and he is surrounded by my mother's people, and he doesn't listen to me."

Wen Ran said: "Those people will always listen to him, you just need to quietly coax him and lure him here with delicious food, fun things, and strange things.

Just bring him here alone once, and when he comes, leave, don't stay here.

I want to do something really good. If I put it off any longer, I may not be able to do it."

Among Rong Huaian, Jing Zhong, He Shao, Lin Yindi, Yue Heng, Yan Hui and others who were heading towards the enclosure, there was a Miao girl named Luoxue.

Lin Yindi asked, "Isn't your father, the leader of the Miao region, named Luo Zhe? Why is your last name Luo?"

Luo Xue said: "Luo Zhe is the Central Plains way of writing the Miao surname. My father's Miao surname is pronounced as Luo Zhe. If it is changed to a Central Plains name, the surname Luo and the given name Zhe will also work. My father used this name.

My last name is Luo, not my father's, but my mother's, my grandmother's. My mother was the chief priest of the Miao region, and all her daughters took her mother's surname, and one of her daughters would be chosen to be the chief priest.

Lin Yindi asked, "What if your mother keeps giving birth to sons?"

Luo Xue said: "Then my mother might separate from my father, and my mother will find another young man from the Miao area to see if she can give birth to a daughter."

Jing Zhong asked: "How many daughters does your mother have now?"

Luoxue said: "I am the only one now."

Yue Heng asked: "So you will be the high priest in the future?"

Luoxue said: "Nine out of ten times, it is me."

Then he turned to Rong Huaian, unable to conceal his pride: "Is it difficult to be the archery master for the future high priest of Miaojiang?"

Lin Yindi said: "Tsk tsk tsk, you are so cocky..." Luoxue glared at him, and Lin Yindi said: "...you are almost the same as us."