Autumn

At night, the business of Linglong Flower Boat is the most prosperous. Although Linglong, the cash cow, is gone, Mother Zhou is a person who is used to storms.It's just that there is a missing top girl, so I just set up another one.Zhou's mother started to discuss this matter as early as the third day after Linglong's death.Today is the day for the new top girl to meet guests, and the Linglong Flower Boat is already full of guests.Zhou's mother hurriedly collected the money, while urging the little girls to bring tea and water.

"Mother Zhou is so lively here."

Hearing someone talking loudly outside the flower boat, Zhou's mother thought that there was a new guest, so she greeted her with a happy smile.

"Hey, who is calling me?"

It was still the apricot silk handkerchief, flying in the air like a butterfly among flowers.

"Long time no see, Mother Zhou."

Yin Danlu wore a crow-blue robe with wide sleeves, covered with a translucent white gauze.The long crimson hair was tied up with a white jade hair crown, and a folding fan with dark green tassels was painted with ink landscapes.When Zhou's mother saw him, her face was a little worried.

"Heh, isn't this Mr. Yin who has nothing to live in?" Mother Zhou's dancing apricot silk handkerchief stopped for a moment, "Mr. Yin is here to take care of my business today, or to disrupt the situation."

"To take care of the business or tear it down depends on whether Mother Zhou is willing to help me."

Zhou's mother looked at Yin Danlu with blank eyes, and groaned from her nose.

"Hey, how can I, a bustard, get a hand in the business you do for nothing. You think too highly of me."

"Mother Zhou was joking, and I won't let you catch monsters. I just want to answer your questions."

"Then I don't understand even more. What questions and doubts can I answer for you? Why is it suddenly hot today..."

Zhou's mother waved the silk handkerchief vigorously as she said, her eyes didn't know where to look.

"Mother Zhou, do you still remember how Miss Linglong came to Huafang?"

"I told you, it was adopted."

"How did you get it?"

"A monk who claimed to be in the Luming Temple hugged me, saying that he was looking for a good family for this child to adopt."

Yin Danlu twitched the corners of her mouth and looked at her with a half-smile.

"The monk with the triangular eyes and the hooked nose?"

The first time she heard Yin Danlu's words, Zhou's mother only felt her brows twitch a few times, and her eyes carefully glanced at Yin Danlu's smiling face.Although his heart was full of fifteen buckets, he was up and down, but his mouth was still unforgiving.

"The other party is a monk. As a woman, I can't keep staring at him. At the beginning, I didn't see what he looked like."

"Someone told me that his dharma name is Ding Xiaoqiu."

"This is a common name, and the dharma name is empty. I don't even understand this."

"Sure enough, Zhou's mother is well-informed. She didn't see the monk's face clearly, but she knew his lay name and Dharma name very well."

Zhou's mother was startled, only to realize that she was about to miss something.

"I'm just talking casually... I still have a lot of guests on board to greet, so you can do it yourself."

He turned around and was about to leave, but was blocked by Yin Danlu.

"Mother Zhou, I think you should tell the truth. Because that is empty, or Ding Xiaoqiu recruited everything."

"You... what do you want me to say. I have nothing to say."

Zhou's mother tried to escape from Yin Danlu's side, but failed several times.In the end, she yelled loudly, saying that Yin Danlu was molesting herself.Seeing the increase in the crowd of onlookers, Yin Danlu was taken aback for a moment, then shook her head helplessly.

"Mother Zhou, you're a bustard. To put it bluntly, you're the proprietress in the village. The one I molested is not a woman from a good family. This trick doesn't seem to work."

These words drew laughter from the onlookers, and Zhou's mother, who wanted to take advantage of the chaos and escape, was grabbed by Yin Danlu and whispered in her ear.

"Mother Zhou, I heard that today is the first time your new head girl sees guests. I also heard that she is very cute. My brother also wants to come here today, and he is sitting in the flower boat now. Said Maybe at this moment, your leading girl is already fascinated by my brother."

Zhou's mother turned pale when she heard this.That girl was chosen by herself, and she bought it at a huge price. If something goes wrong again, it will really kill her.There are not only many guests here today, but they are all distinguished guests.I know most of them well, even if there are some I don't know, there are not many of them, and I can recognize them for sure.But now that I think about it, I can't remember how many new guests there are.

Just when Zhou's mother was in a daze, a head stuck out of Huafang's window and yelled at her.Zhou's mother took a closer look, it was a handsome young man, and the one he was holding was his new number one girl.

"Young master Yin, I... You see, I am also old and my mind is a little confused. Tell me, what do you want to know?"

"Fellow folks, Mother Zhou just made a joke with me, everyone should leave."

Yin Danlu's words caused the onlookers to gradually disperse.Seeing that everyone was gone, Zhou's mother felt a little exhausted. If Yin Danlu hadn't supported her, she might have fallen down and sat down.

"Mother Zhou, let's talk after you think about it."

"Yes, yes, of course I thought about it. Don't dare, don't dare to talk nonsense."

Zhou's mother finally sat down on the river bank, and her breathing gradually became steady, but when she put a little force on her shoulders, the center of her eyebrows twitched for no reason.Zhou's mother closed her eyes hard, as if she was about to risk her life.

"Linglong, this child Linglong was indeed given to me by Yao Kong from Luming Temple."

Liaokong is enlightened's younger brother, but not from the same school.Liao Kong's master is the senior brother of the former abbot. Liao Kong also escaped into the Buddhist sect at the age of 20. He was an orphan without father and mother.Luming Temple didn't know much about his origin, only knew that he was from Dongli Prefecture.Liao Kong's dharma name was given to him by his master later, but this dharma name failed to make him understand what "□□, emptiness is form".Lao Kong always secretly goes down the mountain to drink, eat meat, and even visit prostitutes.The Disciplinary Academy repeatedly punished him to no avail, and was finally expelled from the division.So Liaokong began to use his former monk status to deceive and abduct him everywhere.However, his master had hoped to become the abbot, but he failed to do so because he accepted such an unworthy apprentice.

When Liao Kong was cheating to eat and drink, he met Zhou's mother, and the two hooked up after going back and forth.Liao Kong used false identities to deceive those ignorant people and sold some girls to Zhou's mother.If it looks better, Zhou's mother will buy it with silver.It looks almost the same, so I simply enjoy it myself and give it to Zhou's mother when I have time.The two can be regarded as what they need.

"I don't know where he got the news. He knew that Luming Temple had taken in a baby girl. He also secretly went to the temple to visit and said that the baby girl looks good and will definitely be a great beauty in the future. I Thinking, if this baby girl can grow up in my hands, it will be better in the future. It is much better than those who came in halfway, and he also told me that the baby girl has a jade pendant hanging on her body, which looks like Looks like a lot of money."

Liao Kong's description obviously moved Mother Zhou's heart.So they planned to steal the baby girl, after all no one would let a bustard have sex.Dawu's succession ceremony was a great opportunity, with so many people involved, no one would pay attention to the fake monk Li Kong, let alone think that someone would come to Luming Temple to steal the child.

"I got it soon, and I asked my maid to pretend to be an ordinary person and pick up the child. After all, I, the old bustard, can be easily spotted. When I came back, I saw the child's neck There is that Yu Linglong hanging on it, so I named her Linglong."

"You didn't take that Yu Linglong away."

"That Yu Linglong is very strange. After I took it away, the child kept getting sick, but once she put it on, she was cured."

Mother Zhou's astonished look was very funny, but Yin Danlu still held back her laughter.

"Then why did you link the illness with Yu Linglong?"

"I've heard people say that after wearing jade for a long time, it's not easy to take it off, otherwise there will be a catastrophe. That's what I thought, so I put it back on her."

"In that case, what do you think about Linglong's death?"

Mother Zhou took a cautious look at Yin Danlu.

"Didn't your last autopsy say fox fire? That's fox demon."

"Then who do you think is the fox demon?"

Yin Danlu's scarlet eyes stared at Mother Zhou's side face which was constantly sweating.

"I, I don't know about this. Also, I hope Mr. Lu can find out."

"But now the arrest warrant of the county government is still hanging in the city, and there is a portrait of Miss Jinse on it."

"I, I withdraw the lawsuit, I will withdraw the lawsuit."

Zhou's mother said hurriedly, still looking at the window just now.Of course Yin Danlu knew what she was thinking about, but this bargaining chip seemed to be still useful.

"Mother Zhou, do you know Shaoyao?"

It seems that she didn't expect Yin Danlu to mention Shaoyao, Zhou's mother was astonished.A woman's face could not help floating in her mind, that face was pale and feeble, but there was resentment in her eyes.

"Shao... Shaoyao... What did you ask her for?"

"Shaoyao used to be the top card in your flower boat, and we have confirmed this." Yin Danlu looked at Zhou's mother's frightened expression with satisfaction, "and we suspect that Linglong may be Shaoyao's child."

"Shaoyao was indeed pregnant. It was the seed of that poor scholar named Luo Ziwen."

When the matter of Shaoyao's pregnancy was mentioned, Mother Zhou's tone immediately became sharp, and even the speed of her speech accelerated a lot.

"I don't know why she fell in love with this man. She eagerly wanted to redeem herself and marry him. Later, that scholar fell ill and died. It was at that time that Shao Yao found out that she was pregnant and had to give birth. I just thought , if it’s a boy, I’ll work hard to raise it. If it’s a girl, maybe I’ll be an oiran in the future. After all, Shaoyao is also a beautiful woman. I didn’t expect that she gave birth to a daughter. I was very happy. As a result, she ran away the next night , We searched for a long time but couldn’t find her. Finally, a boatman found her on the other side of the river, and some guests on the boat recognized Shaoyao and brought them back. At that time, no body of the child was found.”

"If Shao Yao's child was alive, how old would it be?"

Zhou's mother frowned and calculated carefully. This calculation was quite frightening, and she fell directly from the rock she was sitting on.

"If the child is alive, he will be as old as Linglong." Zhou's mother's voice became a little strange, "My God, the child that Ding Xiaoqiu stole is probably really Shaoyao."

In the middle of the night, Jinse stood alone at the door and looked at the sprouting sweet-scented osmanthus tree. Although there was no fragrance, the emerald green leaves were still lovely.A yellow light flickered from the lantern at the door, casting long shadows on trees and people.

"What are you doing here alone?"

Jinse turned her head and saw Yin Danlu and Luo Honglian who were walking back. Judging from their expressions, she knew that today was a very fruitful day.

"It looks like you've got what you want."

"Although it took some trouble, it's time to chat with the old man. It's better to be Luo Honglian, sitting in the flower boat listening to a little song, and even holding the hand of the leading girl."

Luo Honglian's face was as red as a boiled shrimp, she coughed a few times in embarrassment, and walked quickly into the open door.

"Has the matter in Luming Temple been confirmed?"

"That's right, Zhou's mother said that it was Lao Kong who stole the child out. The last time Meng Yue saw him in the temple should be Lao Kong."

"But how did they meet in the temple that day?"

"Most of them meet on the first and fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year. There are already many pilgrims on this day, and the monks are too busy to attend to many things. Moreover, there are many artificial rocks in the backyard of Luming Temple. It's easy to dodge there, too."

Jinse and Yin Danlu talked all the way into the courtyard, just in time to meet Meng Yue helping Lu Li out of the bedroom.Judging from his appearance, he should have gotten the news, so he got up in a hurry.Her hair was still loose behind her, and she came out with a blouse over her white robe.

"So, Linglong is indeed Shao Yao's child?"

"It's almost inseparable. Now that they are all dead, it is difficult to verify. But judging from the words of Zhou's mother and Master Wuwu, it should not be wrong."

"I thought that the family with Cangyu Linglong should be very unusual, but I didn't expect it to be just an ordinary family."

Lu Li sighed, then thought of something else.

"Master Wu Wu said that the Cangyu Linglong was found in a jade mine...then, there must be something special about that jade mine..."

"You want to see that jade mine?"

Jinse asked with a frown.

"If possible, I would like to go once."

"Oh, that's right. I almost forgot one very important thing." Yin Danlu looked at Jinse mysteriously, "Mother Zhou said that she would go back to the county government to withdraw the charges against Jinse, which means you are no longer wanted." As for the criminals, let them think of them as fox demons for the time being."

Jinse was a little surprised. She didn't expect Zhou's mother to let her go so easily. She thought she would live a secluded life for a long time.

"He used Mother Zhou's new top girl as a threat, and if the matter of Mother Zhou's reconciliation with Kong Kong is made public, the Linglong Flower Boat will not be able to continue. I don't think Mother Zhou really wants to see this ending."

Luo Honglian crossed her arms, leaned against the catalpa tree in the yard and said.

"It seems that you got a good chip today."

Jinse said with a smile.

"Where, if it's not because of the good card of Honglian, no matter how good the chips are, it won't work."

"Can you stop talking about it?"

Luo Honglian blushed, and retorted in a dissatisfied tone, but everyone laughed.

"Okay, okay, let's stop teasing him." Lu Li forced his laughter back, "Let's go to Leng's house in Furong City in a few days."