[Red Mansion] Adopted daughter and child

Lin Liu never imagined that she would meet Ji Song in Gusu.

The point is not to meet under normal circumstances——

The current identities of the two, one is the master who bought the servant, and the other is the servant who is really waiting to be bought with money.This scene is really strange.

Seeing that she recognized him, Ji Song grinned and showed his big white teeth.

Lin Liu couldn't bear to look directly and turned her head.

Just at this time, Ren Yazi turned his head and saw Ji Song smiling at Lin Liu, he immediately gave him a vicious look, and warned in a low voice, "Be more honest, I!"

After speaking, he took a step to the left and directly blocked Ji Song behind him.

Ji Song curled his lips, but he didn't dare to make excessive movements to attract Lin Liu's attention.It's just a pair of shining eyes, still can't stop looking around.

Lin Liu calmed down his overly shocked feeling after seeing Ji Song, and turned his head after a while, but he couldn't find Ji Song for a while.

Just as he was wondering, he saw a head popping out from behind someone's teeth.

Lin Liu: "...!!!"

Lin Liuhaoxuan didn't make a sound out of fright, but was angry and funny at the same time.

Several people saw her face suddenly softened, and looked at her in surprise.Lin Liu raised his brows, but didn't answer, but began to seriously look at the people brought by these people.

She picked out those who needed it calmly, then pointed at Ji Song, and said to the matchmaker: "That child is not very old, why was he picked in? Are you abducted from somewhere?"

If these tooth shops want to do population business, the most important thing is to understand all the local forces. Those who are powerful and involved with the forces in Beijing and China must not offend them.

Although the Lin family has moved directly to the capital to settle down in the past few generations, they will always send people back to Gusu to clean the old house and pay respects to the ancestors during the festivals. When encountering any major events, or passing through Gusu, they will definitely come back to live a few days.

Therefore, the local dental shop in Suzhou knows a lot about the situation of the Lin family.

At least, Lin Ruhai, the current head of the Lin family, is serving as an official in the court, and he has also done the work of a third-rank official.

In front of the officials' family members, they were found to be abducted and trafficked. Do you still want to live?

Everyone was startled.

The prostitute who took the lead broke out in a cold sweat, turned around and waited for Ren Yazi who brought the child over, and cursed: "Where did you find that child? I kindly found such a big deal for you, you pig!" You've got your heart dirty and come to harm me!"

The man didn't dare to be ambiguous, and quickly explained: "I bought this child from someone else. I don't know if he was abducted! Those of us who are dentists, if we want to find enough people, How can it be possible on my own? I can’t buy from other places. Miss Mingjian, I have never done such a conscienceless thing as human trafficking.”

He is just a person, and he can only guarantee that Ji Song was not abducted by himself. As for whether it was abducted by other people from other places, what does it matter to him?

Lin Liu couldn't help frowning when he heard that every word and every word he said regarded Ji Song as a commodity.

The others are fine, she can still ignore them, but after all Ji Song is someone she knows, and hearing him speak of him in such a tone inevitably makes her feel a little uncomfortable.

But the current law stipulates that, as long as it is not involuntary, human trafficking is a legal business.

Otherwise, these teeth will not exist.

Lin Liu paused, and called Ji Song indifferently: "Is what this man said true? Did you kidnap and sell him to Gusu?"

Ji Song's face was sullen, and he also knew that he was in danger now, so he didn't dare to have a relationship with her in front of other people, so he just said as if he didn't know her: "Miss Huilin, the younger one was abducted from Xuzhou to Yangzhou , and was bought back to Gusu from Yangzhou by this Ren Yazi."

In fact, more than one hand was changed in the middle. If Ji Song was not optimistic by nature, I am afraid that the torture along the way would have collapsed this young man who was originally well-clothed and well-fed.

Lin Liu nodded, and looked at the man's teeth: "Since you didn't abduct it, I won't pursue you. But I want this child too. When my father comes back, maybe I can entrust him to find parents for this child."

Ren Yazi knew he was safe, how could he control Ji Song?

As for what Lin Liu said about finding parents for an abducted child, none of the people present found it strange——

These officials' children have never known the misery in the world, and if they live happily, they don't want to see others suffer.

The child was indeed young, and it was normal for a girl from the Lin family to think about finding parents for him.

As long as the Lin family gives money, what do they care about?

Lin Liu also knew what these people were thinking, so after having someone take the servants she had chosen with her, she turned around and called Xinghua, and took out the silver ticket that Jia Min gave her.

Looking at the thick stack of bank notes in her hand, everyone's eyes turned red.

Lin Liu asked people to bring a pen and paper, and did the math himself, and quickly came up with the amount of silver taels that needed to be paid to these people: "Twenty rough envoys, 20 taels each, 400 taels in total; thirty entourages Labor, 30 taels per person, 900 taels in total; 15 maids, 750 taels each, 100 taels in total; and five cooks from Sichuan, Huaihe and Guangdong cuisines, 500 taels each, [-] taels in total..."

She turned her head and glanced at Ji Song, and then at the matchmaker, "I have never bought a child, so I don't know the exact amount. The people selected before need to give you a total of 550 taels of silver, so I will give you 600 taels directly." The silver should be enough for this child's worth."

Before the toothmaid who took the lead opened her mouth, Ren Yazi, who bought Ji Song, said pleasantly: "Enough is enough, the eldest girl is really a bodhisattva, and in the future, everything you want will come true, and everything will go well!"

Lin Liu shook his head, and asked someone to hand over the bank notes to the matchmaker: "The money is here, you send someone up to take it away, and you go back and divide it up slowly. Most of the family members are female relatives, so it's not easy to stay with you for a long time, so I can only tell everyone Sorry."

As long as the money is in hand, these people are easy to talk to.

After hearing Lin Liu's words, they shook their heads repeatedly, not thinking that there was anything wrong with the Lin family not keeping them here——

They are the children of officials and eunuchs, but she is a low class. If Miss Lin can explain to them in a nice voice, she has already given herself enough face. How can they stay here without knowing the meaning?

The matchmaker who took the lead stepped forward to take the silver ticket, but Xinghua took out the part that the matchmaker deserved, and kept the person: "Mr. Zhou, you can't leave for the time being, the girl has other things to explain. This silver ticket , It’s better to hand it over to others.”

The matchmaker called so many colleagues for the purpose of getting a commission, but now seeing a lot of bank notes flying away from her eyes, her expression suddenly became ugly.

Xinghua patted the matchmaker on the shoulder, and said in a low voice: "The girl promised you the benefits before, the safekeeping will make you satisfied, so you don't have to be both sides, you have to make enough money for your colleagues."

The matchmaker smiled happily and nodded again and again: "It should be like this. I was greedy before, and I thought about it."

Others were a little surprised to see that Mrs. Zhou agreed so easily with the Lin family to hand over the bank notes to other people——

Everyone is in this business and knows the rules everywhere.Since he agreed to Mrs. Zhou to bring someone over, he agreed to give her a commission in the future.Now that I picked up a lot of more than ten taels of silver for nothing, although I am happy, I can't help but feel puzzled.

After leaving the gate, the person who guessed the reason kindly explained to others: "We have encountered this kind of thing before, and the people who buy it always only care about giving money, and don't care how we divide it in private. The person who took the lead In order to earn more, it is natural to take a commission from other people.

But the Lin family is very kind, leaving the prostitute may mean giving her some money.Mrs. Zhou has received enough benefits from the Lin family, so naturally she doesn't like the three melons and two dates in our hands. "

How many people did the Lin family buy in total?There are only a hundred or so, even if each person takes a tael of silver, it is only a hundred or so.

The Lin family can't even give the benefit of 100 taels, right?

After the others heard this, they immediately became envious: "I don't know how this week's mother-in-law got lucky and got on the line with the Lin family. I used to do business with the royal merchant Xue's family in Jinling, but even if the Xue family is as rich as the There is no such thing as a face-to-face payment of money and goods. But when you go to their account room to withdraw money, you will inevitably be robbed by the stewards of the Xue family, and after you get it, it is really not as much money as you can earn from doing business with a small family."

"It's just this one time. I heard that Mr. Lin is going to Jinling to be an official soon, and he will leave soon."

"Hey, it's a pity that such a generous host..."

"In the future, if we hear that the Lin family is in need again, we have to run more closely and do things more beautifully. If we have a good relationship, maybe the next time we encounter such a good thing, the Lin family will think of us." ?”

"This is a good idea!"

……

As guessed by these people, Lin Liu's reason for keeping Mrs. Zhou in the old house was indeed to benefit her.

At the beginning when he said he would buy people in Gusu, Jia Min gave Lin Liu 3000 taels of silver in one go, but now he gave 600 taels, leaving 400 taels left.

Lin Liu divided the 400 taels of silver into two halves, and first gave 200 taels to Mrs. Zhou: "I know that when buying and selling human beings, many people always use inferior products as good ones. Today, all the families brought healthy ones." , I think it was Mrs. Zhou who contributed to it, and the 200 taels of silver is to thank you."

Mrs. Zhou took it with a smile on her face.

Lin Liu took another 200 taels of silver and put it in Mrs. Zhou's hand: "These 200 taels of silver are for another matter. I saw that the child was separated from his family when he was young, and I was not very happy, but my father went to the mountain to pay respects to the ancestor's grave." , I don’t know how many days it will take, I am a little impatient and worried that I will be late, the kidnapper who kidnapped the child has disappeared without a trace.”

Mrs. Zhou was sure that Lin Liu would win the banknote, but when she heard this, she had a bad premonition in her heart, and she became hesitant when she reached out her hand.

She moved her fingers, even wanting to push the banknote back.

Lin Liu smiled: "I didn't ask you to catch the kidnapper, but I just asked you to find out for me, and ask who bought the child from the previous one. Of course, if you can catch the kidnapper Anyone can find out, and I will reward you."

Looking at the 200 taels of silver, Mrs. Zhou fell into a battle between heaven and man.

Dental dealers, especially people like her who are involved in human trafficking, have always been the group that deals most frequently with gangs of kidnappers——

Because of the government's jurisdiction, most conscientious people would not go into the water to make a living by trafficking, but in order to buy enough people, they naturally cannot avoid dealing with kidnappers.

People with high moral standards will refuse to meet such people, but if they have bad morals...

Mrs. Zhou's conduct is neither bad nor bad, but she has sons and daughters in her family, and several grandchildren, and her attitude towards kidnappers is not very good.

but……

Even if she doesn't like kidnappers, she can't betray them.

If it is known that she betrayed the kidnapper and the other party was arrested, let alone whether she can continue in this business, just say that the gang of kidnappers will not let her go.

Mrs. Zhou paused, and returned the silver ticket to Xinghua with a struggling face: "Miss Lin, I can't take this job. If it gets out, the safety of my family will not be guaranteed."

Lin Liu was stunned for a moment, but didn't think about this question.

She sat on a chair, and after serious thinking, she looked at Mrs. Zhou: "You can rest assured that we won't arrest people immediately after you find out about them. Maybe it will take a while, or we might as well find someone with whom to talk." Officials who have nothing to do with the Lin family go to arrest people, so no one will know that you revealed the identity of the kidnapper."

Mrs. Zhou still hesitated.

Lin Liu also understands that at such an advanced age, Mrs. Zhou only thinks about the safety of her family. Even if she loves money, it doesn't involve the safety of her family.

She thought for a while and said, "Madam Zhou, can you tell me where to start the investigation? We just came back from the capital and will go to Jinling in a few days. We really don't have much time to investigate thoroughly."

Xinghua shook the silver ticket with a clatter: "Mrs. Zhou, as long as you provide me with a direction, the 200 taels of silver will be yours. If you don't say anything today, after passing this village, there will be no such shop anymore. After all In this city of Gusu, you are not the only one who can get relevant clues."

After all, Mrs. Zhou was greedy, and she just revealed a clue, and those kidnappers couldn't find her.

So she swallowed her saliva, and Mrs. Zhou said, "Ren Yazi who bought that child is different from those of us who are rooted in Gusu. He always likes to run around and specializes in human trafficking. Although he himself does not participate in trafficking, but Most of the people in his hands were bought from kidnappers. Now most of the people in his hands are out of hands, and he is afraid that he will leave Gusu in the future..."

After finishing speaking, her eyes fell on Lin Liu, looking straight and eager.

Lin Liu's eyes lit up, and she immediately understood what she meant: "Xinghua, give the silver ticket to Mrs. Zhou."

Mrs. Zhou took the bank note and said goodbye immediately, not daring to stay in Lin's house.

Lin Liu asked Xinghua to deliver it in person, while she turned around and went to the main courtyard——

Before when she asked people to take the servants who bought them down, she specially let Jin Qiu, the maid beside her, go there, and took Ji Song to the main courtyard alone.

Now, Ji Song might have met Jia Min.

When Lin Liu rushed to the main courtyard, Jia Min had already pulled Ji Song to talk.

Lin Liu went directly to his wife Sheng Man and sat down. Seeing that Jia Min and Ji Song were talking enthusiastically, she just listened beside her without interfering.

"I heard from the servant girl that Brother Song was abducted to Gusu?" Jia Min was full of worry: "But the capital is several months away from Gusu, how did you get brought here? If it wasn't for little Qilin You are thinking about buying people in Gusu, what should you do in a place you are not familiar with in Gusu?"

Ji Song didn't seem to have any shadow over the abduction. After hearing this, he just scratched his head in embarrassment: "I was abducted in Xuzhou, not in the capital."

Although there are kidnappers in the capital, but after all, the kidnappers are not so rampant under the feet of the emperor.Those who seem to have a good family background are also very safe to walk on the street.

After all, the capital is a place where smashing a plaque can kill a relative of the emperor, even if it is the waiter of a restaurant, there may be a relative with great power, so they can't help but be careless.

Jia Min nodded, but became more and more puzzled: "You are a child, why did you go to Xuzhou?"

Ji Song was even more embarrassed: "Didn't many people have their homes ransacked a while ago? My family was also affected. It's just that many old friends pleaded for mercy, so the emperor went online. It's just that the emperor hated it. Originally His title was also taken away, and his father's official position was also lost. After discussing with my mother, my father simply took the whole family back to his hometown in Xuzhou to settle down."

As soon as these words came out, everyone present was stunned.

No one expected that the young man in front of him would still be able to show a dazzling smile like the sun after such a family accident.

Jia Min and Sheng Man were so surprised that they had lost the ability to speak.

Ji Song seemed a little puzzled: "Is there any problem?"

Lin Liu looked at Jia Min, then at Sheng Man, shook his head and said, "I'm just curious, don't you feel sad? After all, you have to leave the capital to live in Xuzhou. Even though Xuzhou is the ancestral home of the Ji family, you have never lived in Xuzhou." Have you ever lived in Xuzhou? Can you get used to customs and customs?"

Ji Song shrugged: "Things are already like this, my father can't go to the emperor, please take it back."

"Furthermore," Ji Song suddenly smiled, "Although my father's title and official position are gone, and the house we used to live in has been confiscated by the court, at least our family is safe and sound. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could live together? My mother told me that not only were many officials’ homes ransacked, but even their families were killed.”

When Ji Song was living in the capital, many people thought he was a freak——

After all, he was not cheerful all day long, he didn't seem to have encountered any troubles, and he was not interested in all kinds of luxury things that everyone sought after. On the contrary, he liked the novelty gadgets on the street stalls.

Ji Song, who doesn't have too high demands on material things and pays more attention to emotions, is not afraid when he is suddenly threatened by ransacking his home, but after he learned that his father returned safely, such fear disappeared without a trace.

As long as the person is still there, everything will be fine.

Jia Min saw that there was really no trace of gloom in his eyes. For some reason, she felt a little envious in her heart: "Your mother taught you very well."

Ji Song grinned: "My mother is the best." After a pause, he added, "Aunt Lin is also very good."

Jia Min laughed: "So I just thought Mrs. Ping Nanbo was no different from ordinary women. She was the most common gentle woman, virtuous and generous, and well-mannered. Now that I think about it, I am narrow-minded. If I have a chance in the future, I will definitely We need to have a good meeting with Lingtang."

Looking at the big picture from the small, one can see from Ji Song's mother's education of her son that this is a mother who has a pretty good personality and is also very good at educating her children.

Even Sheng Man, who has always been extremely picky about the temperaments of men and women, could not help but admire after hearing this: "Your mother is a person of great wisdom."

But it is precisely because Mrs. Ping Nanbo is a woman of great wisdom that it seems that Ji Song's abduction and trafficking in Xuzhou is too strange, which makes people suspicious.

Jia Min was worried that there was something secret in it, and wondered if he should ask.

But Lin Liu looked at it and always felt that even if there were some secrets in it, Ji Song might not care, so he asked: "Since you returned to Xuzhou with your family, how could you still be abducted? But what happened? "

Ji Song froze for a moment, showing an embarrassed smile: "It's because of me."

"Ok?"

"The reason why my father was confiscated and dismissed from office was that he embezzled 1 taels of silver." Ji Song frowned, with an unhappy expression on his face, "But when I was a child, I followed my mother to watch her settle accounts, knowing that it was just the prince of the family. There are 50 to [-] silver stored in the treasury. Although the father's private house is not known, there is always a hundred thousand. When my mother got married back then, the dowry brought from my grandfather's house was a huge amount..."

"If my father has bad habits like everyone else, he likes to go to flower houses to buy prostitutes, or he is obsessed with antique paintings, or likes to gamble, or..."

"But, neither."

"No matter what I think, I don't know why my father embezzled 1 taels of silver."

Jia Min and the others had also heard of Ping Nanbo's reputation, and knew that he was a well-known strict wife in the capital——

It is said that this Ping Nanbo not only has only two unfavorable concubines in his house, but even the money needed for food, clothing, housing, transportation, etc. can only be drawn from Mrs. Ping Nanbo. Only with her consent can Ping Nanbo Receive the money from the accountant at home.

It is said that people spend money on weekdays and search for it, which makes people look down on it.

Why do you listen, it doesn't match the name of Ping Nanbo that Ji Song said?

Ji Song is well aware of his father's reputation in the outside world, seeing Jia Min and Sheng Man's strange eyes, how can he not understand the reason?

He quickly explained: "Father is just impatient with those friends outside, so as long as there is any entertainment that he doesn't want to go, he pretends to refuse in the name of mother. Anyway, father can save face, but they dare not confront mother."

Jia Min suddenly said: "So it is like this."

Ji Song laughed: "It is precisely because I know that my father has a lot of private houses in his hands, so I don't understand why my father would go after that mere 1 taels of silver. It is completely unnecessary."

He curled his lips unhappily, "I always feel that my father was framed by a villain. I hate that the emperor doesn't believe in his father, but believes in that treacherous villain. I am not reconciled, so I want to go back to Beijing to find my grandfather, find someone Help reverse the case."

"It's just that I didn't expect it," Ji Song bowed his head dejectedly, "I just got rid of the servant, and I haven't left Xuzhou yet, but when I was lost and asked someone for directions, I was taken away by Pai Huazi in a daze."

Although he felt that Ji Song's experience of being lost and abducted was a bit pitiful, Jia Min still agreed with Ji Song's suspicion.

A family like them would never do such a stupid thing as losing their future for 1 taels of silver——

It's not that people like them are not greedy, it's just that 1 taels of silver is too little to attract their attention, and it's not worth them betting their official hats on it.

However, Lin Liu was keenly aware of the strangeness in it: "Since you think this matter is strange, why don't you ask your father? If your father was really wronged, why didn't he find a way to seek justice?"

On the contrary, according to Ji Song's words, Ping Nanbo seemed to accept the result well——

After learning that he could save his life, he decisively took the whole family back to his ancestral home to settle down, and had no intention of staying in the capital to wait for a chance to reverse the case.

The father is not in a hurry, but Ji Song, the son, is indignant, which is really absurd.

The point is, with Ji Song's temperament that can't hide his words, he must have revealed his thoughts in front of his parents more than once.According to common sense, when Ping Nanbo and his wife found out that their son might escape, they would definitely have people under strict supervision.

Let alone being abducted, it is difficult to go out.

But the fact is that Ji Song escaped from Ping Nanbo and his wife very smoothly.

After hearing Lin Liu's doubts, Jia Min and Sheng Man realized the strangeness belatedly, but Ji Song waved his hands again and again, not feeling strange at all: "I'm not stupid, of course I took advantage of my parents I ran away when I was too busy.

At that time, all the servants of my family were unloading and saluting near the pier. Some elders in the family went to stare at the salute, and some went to take care of the elderly because the old lady at home was unwell. How could anyone notice me? "

Still weird.

Ping Nanbo and his wife don't need to keep an eye on Ji Song, especially at such a busy time, shouldn't they send a few more servants to protect Ji Song?

But seeing the swearing on Ji Song's face, it seems that he is quite proud of his experience of successfully escaping...

Lin Liu pursed her lips, but did not ask her doubts.

She shut up, and Jia Min and Sheng Man didn't ask any more questions.

Jia Min asked again: "If your parents find out that you are missing, they will definitely send someone to look for them. If they find that you have not run away by yourself, but have been abducted by a kidnapper, I am afraid they will be very worried. Why don't we wait for the master to come back? Send a few people to take you back to Xuzhou?"

Ji Song shook his head: "No, I want to go back to the capital."

Jia Min had no choice but to turn her head to look at Lin Liu, as if she wanted her to persuade Ji Song.

She is a mother, and she knows best how worried parents are when they find out that their children are missing.Comparing my heart to my heart, I naturally don't want Ji Song's parents to worry about him.

At least, you have to tell the Ji couple that Ji Song is with them, right?

Lin Liu frowned, and said in a slightly heavy tone: "Let's talk about it after my father comes back. If it's really not possible, just let my father push him to Xuzhou."

Ji Song's eyes widened immediately: "Miss Lin, I have no grievances with you in the past, and I have no vendettas in the present, why do you hurt me like this?"

Lin Liu rolled his eyes at him, got up and left the main courtyard.

I always feel that behind Yuan Ping Nanbo's hasty departure from the capital, there is still some ulterior secret hidden.

Before Lin Ruhai came back, she didn't intend to persuade Ji Song to return to Xuzhou——

Who knows what is waiting for him after he returns?

But during the few days waiting for Lin Ruhai's return, she didn't intend to do nothing.

At least, she will always find out the kidnapper who sold Ji Song to Gusu.

Lin Liu picked a few servants who were very ordinary in appearance and shape, and sent them directly to watch the Ren Yazi who bought Ji Song back from the kidnapper.

Since Mrs. Zhou said that this person is going to "buy goods" recently, she must be right.

In fact, at the beginning, Lin Liu didn't expect to take care of the trafficking of people. After all, she was still young, and the Lin family only stayed in Gusu for a few days. Besides, Lin Liu didn't realize the kidnapping at all. Son.

——Renyazi existed widely in ancient times, and the people Lin Liu called were all official tooth shops, so it was impossible to do human trafficking.

It wasn't until seeing Ji Song that Lin Liu remembered that the plot of Yinglian's abduction happened in Gusu.

Although the kidnapper took her away from Gusu and went to Jinling soon, but the place where she was kidnapped at the beginning was indeed Gusu.

Lin Liu remembered that the day she was kidnapped was the Lantern Festival, when Yinglian was three years old.

And now, they are in Gusu.

As a human being, there is no one who does not hate kidnappers.Now that they meet each other, and there is more than one person around him who has suffered from kidnappers, Lin Liu naturally wants to deal with this matter.

If possible, it is best to catch all the kidnappers in Gusu, so that no one will end up like Yinglian's original book.

There would be no one like the Zhen family whose family would be ruined because of the loss of a child.

But before that Ren Yazi left Gusu, the three members of Zhen Shiyin's family took care of everything in Gusu and came to the old house of the Lin family.

With Feng's mother and daughter around, Jia Min and Sheng Man lost interest in Ji Song——

Jia Min likes to drag Feng Shi to talk about children, while Sheng Man devotes herself to teaching Zhen Yinglian, a student who is quite talented in poetry.

Sheng Man wanted to pull Lin Liu to learn poetry together, but before Lin Liu could write the second poem, Sheng Man was so angry with her "rotten head" that she drove her to memorize chess records.

But Lin Liu had a good memory, and always quickly completed the tasks assigned by Sheng Man ahead of schedule.So I spontaneously practiced calligraphy and recited the Four Books and Five Classics.

After completing the day's study progress according to the plan, she was free.

Then Ji Song, who seemed to never run out of energy, would drag Lin Liu out of the mansion.In just a few days, under the leadership of Ji Song, Lin Liu almost visited all the famous scenic spots in the entire Gusu City.

On this day, they came to the famous Panxiang Temple in Suzhou.

Because there is a master who is very good at performing congenital numbers and is good at holding spirits, Panxiang Temple is not only famous in Gusu, but also in several nearby prefectures, and the incense in the temple is naturally very strong.

When Lin Liu was first dragged by Ji Song to the entrance of Panxiang Temple, she was still in a daze, and always felt that the name of this temple was familiar, as if she had heard it somewhere.

When I entered the Panxiang Temple, I heard that there were cheap rental houses in the temple, and I immediately recalled——

Didn't Miaoyu in the original work become a monk at Panxiang Temple?

Mrs. Xing's niece, Xing Xiuyan, also because of her poor family background, has been a neighbor of Miaoyu who is separated by a wall for more than ten years in the rented house in Panxiang Temple?

Thinking of the two girls in the original book, Lin Liu was ready to move, and wanted to meet them.

Unexpectedly, he asked the little nun in the temple, but was told that there was no one named Miaoyu in Panxiang Temple.Although there are a few lay monks with hair in the temple, they are all grown women and there are no children.

Asking about Xing Xiuyan, the nun shook her head even more: "I have never heard of someone with the surname Xing renting a house in the temple. Miss, you either found the wrong place, or you must have misremembered the person's name. "

After speaking, the little nun turned around and entered the temple.

Ji Song was a little curious: "Didn't the Lin family just return to Gusu? I remember that you grew up in the capital, so you should have never been back to Gusu. Why do you seem to have acquaintances in Gusu?"

Lin Liu paused, then laughed: "They are also from the capital."

After saying this sentence, there was no further explanation.

But this sentence is enough for Ji Song who likes to make up his mind.

After Ji Song finished listening, he really nodded thoughtfully.

Lin Liu didn't bother to guess what labels Ji Song put on herself, Miaoyu, and Xing Xiuyan, or what entanglements were arranged.

After holding another adult nun to inquire again, they still only got the result that there were no two people, so they simply gave up the idea of ​​meeting, took Ji Song to Panxiang Temple to finish offering incense, and then left the temple to go home.

Unexpectedly, before she left, she saw the little nun whom she held back at the beginning walked in front of her and blocked their way with her hand.

Lin Liu was puzzled: "Little master, what do you mean?"

The little master was a little embarrassed, but thinking of the master's order, he could only cup his hands at the two of them and said: "Master knows that the two benefactors are coming, so he specially asked the poor nun to invite the two benefactors into the Zen room for a talk."

Lin Liu was stunned for a moment, then frowned: "There should really be a layman named Miaoyu in the temple, right?"

The little master smiled shyly and didn't answer.

Lin Liu belatedly remembered Miaoyu's identity, and all her original curiosity faded away, and she had no intention of meeting Miaoyu.

At first it was just joy, but now that she remembered her identity, she just felt troubled.

Lin Liu somewhat regretted her impulsiveness, and embarrassedly apologized to her little master: "I'm not from Gusu, and I don't have any close friends in Gusu. If there are no Miaoyu and Xing Xiuyan in the temple, I will Just an ordinary pilgrim, there is really no need to meet the master in the temple."

The little master frowned, suddenly caught in a dilemma.

On the one hand, it was the master's order to meet the two benefactors, and on the other hand, it was the abbot's order not to inform others of Miaoyu's existence without permission...

After entanglement, the little master seemed to think that the abbot was even more terrifying, so he denied the existence of Miaoyu again.

Lin Liu nodded: "In that case, let's take our leave first and leave."

After speaking, pulling Ji Song, he stepped out of the gate of Panxiang Temple, quickly joined the crowd, and quickly disappeared in front of the little master.

Lin Liu didn't want to have anything to do with the former crown prince and the posthumous Prince Yizhong, so when Lin Ruhai came back with her three younger brothers and asked if she wanted to stay in Gusu for a few days, she directly refused his offer. proposal.

For this reason, she even did not hesitate to use Ji Song as a cover: "Father, I always feel that Ping Nanbo's behavior of rushing back to his hometown to settle down is a bit strange, and what is even more strange is that Ji Song was able to succeed under the strict protection of Ji's family." He ran away from home and was trafficked to Gusu by a kidnapper. I always felt that something big might happen to Xuzhou."

Lin Liu was a little dazed: "So?"

Lin Liu was slightly embarrassed: "Ji Song and I are good friends, so I naturally want to know if his parents are safe. But I don't have enough manpower on hand, so I can only hope that father, you can take office as soon as possible, and then there will be enough Manpower went to Xuzhou to investigate."

Lin Ruhai was helpless, but he also understood Lin Liu's sincerity towards his friend, and nodded in agreement.

So the next day, the Lin family packed up their bags, got on a boat and went upstream, and within a few days they arrived in Huaiyang, and after another two days, they arrived in Jinling.

Thanks to Lin Liu's timely response, otherwise, even if it was delayed by a day, the master of Miaoyu who is good at holding spirits in Panxiang Temple would come to the door.

But because of Lin Liu's timely response, when the master from Panxiang Temple came to him, the Lin family had already left Gusu, and he couldn't catch up at all.

Looking at the empty pier, the master was silent for a while, and then heaved a long sigh.

When he returned to Panxiang Temple, he still looked gloomy, as if he had been hit by something.

Miaoyu walked up to her with a smile: "Didn't the master say that he went out to visit friends this morning? Why did he look unhappy when he came back? Could it be that he had a quarrel with a friend?"

The master gave Miaoyu a sad look, shook his head, walked to the side and sat down: "Yesterday when I was meditating in the meditation room, I suddenly felt heart palpitations. Just at this time, your little senior sister came in and said that someone was asking about 'Miaoyu'. You know, this is the noble person I calculated, who can free you from your original fate."

Miaoyu was still ignorant: "Master is going to find that nobleman today?"

The master looked remorseful: "Your little senior sister doesn't understand. She was cheated by that person yesterday. In order to conceal your existence, she let her leave Panxiang Temple easily. The person was alert again. When I calculated that the other party might leave Gusu in the near future, So I went to wait at the pier immediately, but it was a step too late, the other party had already left Gusu by boat."

Miaoyu was a little flustered: "Then can't master help the spirit to calculate the other party's identity?"

"If it's so easy to figure out the identity of the other party, what's the matter with Master?"