Behind Su Zhen was her own widow, wearing a white robe, with her head down, and when she greeted Ye Manwen, her voice was the size of a mosquito.

The Buddha hall built by Mrs. Lin is not big, but it is dedicated to a thousand-armed Guanyin Bodhisattva, which is different from the incense surrounding the general temple, the Buddha hall is ventilated from north to south, and there are two floor-to-ceiling windows on the left and right, and the decoration is mainly silver-white. There are three futons placed in front of the Buddha statue, which are obviously used by Mrs. Lin and Su Zhen's mother and daughter to do their homework on weekdays.

As soon as Ye Manwen stepped into the Buddhist hall, he felt quiet in his heart.

"Manwen, put incense on your father."

Ye Manwen took the three sticks of incense handed over by Mrs. Lin, and bowed respectfully to the tablet on the altar, while Su Zhen's mother and son quietly walked out of the Buddhist hall.

When Su Zhen's daughter Lin Zhixue was about to go out, she quickly raised her head and secretly glanced at Ye Manwen, and then said excitedly: "Mother, the eldest lady is so beautiful, and she seems to have a good temper, hey." ”

Lin Zhixue, who was looking backwards, hit Su Zhen who was immovable: "Mother, why don't you leave?" ”

Su Zhen didn't speak, just glanced at the Buddha Hall, and then quickly turned to leave.

Su Zhen's mother and son live in a small courtyard in Qinghua Garden, with two main rooms, two side rooms on the left and right, a rough girl in the yard, and an old mother in charge.

"Mother, what are you looking for?"

Lin Zhixue has lived in the small cross courtyard of Qinghua Garden with Su Zhen since she was born, and she has never been out of Qinghua Garden in her life, and today's new Ye Manwen made her extremely excited, and even talked more:

"Mother, you say, does the eldest lady like embroidery, or painting? Or can you play the piano? I heard that she grew up in the countryside, mother, or ....... Ask the second lady, if Manwen likes it, I can teach her all this. ”

The little girl grew up to be twenty-two years old alone, with no classmates or playmates, and was obviously lonely.

Su Zhen didn't reply, she was looking for something in the cabinets, and the housekeeper's mother who was guarding the yard saw that her clothes were spilled on the ground, and hurriedly stepped forward:

"Mrs. Jane, what do you need, I'll help you find it."

Su Zhen had words in her mouth: "Why can't I find it, where did I put it." Why can't I find it? ”

Seeing that Su Zhen seemed to be enchanted, the housekeeper's mother rummaged through the whole house and then turned to another room to rummage, and couldn't help but worry:

"Miss Zhixue, what's wrong with Mrs. Jane? Why is it that when you come back from the Buddha Hall, it is like losing your soul? But what happened in the temple? ”

Lin Zhixue also saw Su Zhen's abnormality, she thought about it for a while, shook her head and said, "Nothing happened, I just met Miss Manwen who just returned to the clan." ”

"Found it, found it. It turned out to be here. ”

Su Zhen found a brocade box from the bottom of a large cabinet, opened it and looked at it, and then covered it in her heart like a treasure.

Lin Zhixue also happened to see the things in the brocade box: "Mother, this is fetal hair?" ”

Placed in the brocade box is a red rope tied, tender yellow and tender yellow a small poke of hair, at first glance is the fetus of a newborn child.

Su Zhen's eyes flashed, and she answered two words vaguely, and then locked herself in the room, and didn't even come out to eat dinner.

When the lights were turned on in Qinghuayuan, Second Mrs. Lin also came over in person to offer condolences, but the lights in Su Zhen's room were turned off and the door was locked.

After all, it is the owner of the fence and avoiding the garden, which is not good after all, the housekeeper's mother haha:

"Second Madame, our Madam is a little unwell today, so she rested early, and when Madam wakes up tomorrow, I will convey my concern for Second Madame."

Second Mrs. Lin didn't care, and waved her hand: "Since she is not feeling well, then let her rest tomorrow, don't come to the Buddha Hall to do morning classes, her body is important." ”

The housekeeper's mother answered "yes", and when she sent Mrs. Lin to the door, Mrs. Lin turned around and explained:

"I still have a good pair of ginseng there, Kui Mom, you come with me, take it and get it over to get through your wife to drink, Dr. Zhang has stopped tonight, and I will ask someone to invite him over tomorrow."

Although the voice in the courtyard was not loud, it still clearly entered the bedroom of Su Zhen, the main house, and she was lying on the bed with her clothes closed, and a teardrop slipped from her closed eyes.

In the wee hours of the morning.

The little maid who kept vigil in the small courtyard had also fallen asleep, but Su Zhen's room suddenly turned on with lights.

I saw that he was wearing a red cheongsam, wearing a pair of red high heels on his feet, and a big red rose was inserted in his bun.

If the housekeeper's mother was here, she would definitely be able to recognize at a glance that the dress Su Zhen was wearing was the wedding dress on the day she got married.

Su Zhen looked in the mirror, put on lipstick, completed the last step of dressing, held the brocade box containing fetal hair that she had rummaged through in the afternoon, and finally looked at herself in her glasses with joy, and then turned to open the door and leave.

The mother-in-law guarding the gate of the green garden was dozing off a little bit, and suddenly felt a gust of wind drifting in front of her, and when she opened her eyes, because the sky was dark, she only saw a touch of red from a distance.

The mother-in-law's body couldn't help but shudder:

"My wife won't be so unlucky, can she meet ghosts?"

When he took a few steps forward to take a closer look, the red figure that suddenly appeared had disappeared, and he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief:

"Fortunately, it was a false alarm."

There is a plum blossom forest in Qinghua Garden, which is the ancestral hall of the Lin family.

The ancestral hall of the Lin family covers an area of more than 40 acres, which is divided into ten courtyards according to different ages, and each courtyard is divided into small courtyards according to different branches.

And each small courtyard is full of tablets of all sizes.

The ancestral hall of the Lin family is guarded 24 hours a day, and generally on the fifteenth day of the first day of each month, the person in charge of each branch will come to worship the ancestors with incense.

Ordinary women, if they are not noble people, can rarely step into the ancestral hall of the Lin family, but Su Zhen has been a widow for more than 20 years, so the clan elder specially gave her the right to enter and leave the ancestral hall.

"Lady Jane, why did you come here so early today?"

Since the patriarch allowed Su Zhen to enter the ancestral hall, Su Zhen would enter the ancestral hall every day before going to the Buddhist hall for morning classes to give her deceased husband a stick of incense.

The family guarding the gate of the ancestral hall was surprised to see that Su Zhen had arrived two hours earlier than usual, and was uncharacteristically dressed in red.

Seeing Su Zhen enter the ancestral hall with an expressionless face, Jia Ding faintly felt that something was wrong.

Usually Mrs. Zhen is timid and shy, but to them, the gatekeepers, are polite, and today she passed by him without even nodding her head.

The eyes of the housekeepers guarding the gate were getting brighter and brighter, but Mrs. Zhen, who went in, did not come out for a long time, and finally couldn't help but call someone.

At this time, the Qinghua Garden had already been lit up, and the whole garden was in a commotion.

Second Mrs. Lin, who was woken up from her dream, sat on the Taishi chair in a coat and pressed her head one by one:

"Mom Aoi, tell me well, what happened?"

Aoi's mother, who was kneeling on the ground, had her hair scattered, her face was pale, and her lips trembled: "Return....... Back to the second lady, our Mrs. Zhen is not ........ It's gone. ”

"Gone?"

Second Mrs. Lin raised her hand to ask Gui's mother to stop massaging, and wondered: "Su Zhen has not been out of the Lin Mansion for more than 20 years since she entered Qinghua Garden, where can she go, have you looked for it carefully?" ”

Aoi's mother was so anxious that she was about to cry:

"Second lady, I have searched all the places that should be found in the entire Qinghua Garden, but I don't see my wife, second lady, please send someone to inform the eldest lady, find our wife, after our lady came back from your yard this afternoon, it is a little abnormal, I am afraid, I am afraid ......"

Second Mrs. Lin didn't have a score in her heart, and when she heard the words, her heart was also in turmoil, and at this time, Ye Manwen, who was in the same courtyard as Second Mrs. Lin, heard the news and also came to the living room.

"Oh, Manwen, it's still early, why are you getting up, be careful of catching a cold."

Second Mrs. Lin pulled Ye Manwen to sit next to her, and commanded in a loud voice: "Mother Gui, quickly take a cloak and put it on for the eldest lady, Jinzi, you go make a cup of hot tea and warm the eldest lady's stomach." ”

"No need."

Ye Manwen sat down and said directly: "There is only one exit from our Qinghua Garden, and there are people guarding it, if Aunt Suzhen is really not in this garden, just ask the gatekeeper." ”

Second Mrs. Lin put on the coat on Ye Manwen in distress, looking at Ye Manwen's calm and comfortable appearance, she felt extremely proud, and instructed according to her words:

"Didn't you hear what the eldest lady said, and called the cow woman who was guarding the door to come up and ask about it."

Mrs. Niu was half asleep and half dazed, and when she heard the words of the second lady, she was so frightened that the sleepy insect immediately ran away, and when she heard the content of the question, her heart trembled.

What she saw was not a ghost, the red figure was probably Madame Jane. But she did not see the man's appearance clearly, and fearing punishment for dereliction of duty, she did not know what to say:

"Returning to the second lady, Zhen...... Mrs. Jane........"

At this time, there was an urgent message from a maid at the door:

"Back to the second lady, the guards of the ancestral hall have something to ask to see."

Why did the people from the ancestral hall come over? Second Lady Lin chuckled in her heart, and hurriedly said, "Quick, quickly pass people over." ”

The guard lowered his head, looked at the ground, and respectfully saluted Second Mrs. Lin and said, "Back to Second Madame, thirty-five minutes ago, Mrs. Zhen entered the ancestral hall, but she has not come out of the ancestral hall yet. ”

It turned out that it was not gone, but entered the ancestral hall.

Su Zhen usually entered the ancestral hall once a day, and Second Lady Lin yawned disapprenomerly: "Okay, if someone finds it, let's go back and rest." ”

Second Mrs. Lin turned to Ye Manwen and said to Yan Yuese: "Manwen, you should go back early, there is still an hour and a half before dawn, and women can't stay up late." ”

Ye Manwen saw that the guards were still kneeling in the hall, looking like they wanted to speak and stopped, and frowned: "You still have something to say." ”

The guards are waiting for that.

Hearing this, the guard quickly raised his head and glanced at Ye Manwen gratefully, and said anxiously:

"Exactly, the eldest lady, the second lady, Mrs. Zhen entered the ancestral hall wearing a red wedding dress today, and her expression is not right, I am afraid that ......"

Red wedding dress.

How could he wear a red wedding dress into the ancestral hall for no reason.

Bad thoughts came out of the hearts of everyone present.

At this time, Mrs. Niu's eyes rolled, her tongue was also wide, and she stammered:

"Back to ........ Back to the second lady, Mrs. Jane did go out in a red wedding dress, I asked her where she was going, but she didn't say a word, like a gust of wind floated in front of me, I originally thought to wait for you to get up, and then report. Who ......"

If something happened to Mrs. Jane, she would have this set of rhetoric, which would be better than if she didn't see anything and didn't say anything.

Mrs. Niu was lying, but Second Lady Lin had already gotten up from the chair and walked out directly: "Quick, which of you has faster legs and feet, hurry up and enter the ancestral hall and find out Mrs. Zhen for me." ”

Obviously, everyone thinks that Mrs. Jane is likely to have an accident!

Thinking about it, I felt panicked, and in the middle of the night, a red coat shuttled in front of the mourning hall that I entered, under the layers of tablets.

Second Mrs. Lin was also dizzy in a hurry, and even some remote branches of the Lin family were not qualified to step into the Lin family's ancestral hall, and the servants were even less qualified.

Fortunately, Ye Manwen's legs and feet are fast.

But she didn't know where the ancestral hall was, although she had the skill, but she had to follow behind the ancestral hall guards, until she stepped into the ancestral hall, and when she was about to move forward, she looked up at the endless ancestral hall, turned to the guard, and said:

"Where did Lady Jane enter the courtyard?"

The guard was stunned for a moment, and then remembered that Ye Manwen had not entered the ancestral hall yet, so he naturally didn't know the layout inside, so he hurriedly replied:

"It's at the second turn on the left hand side of the second entrance, the third row of Tianyou Garden."

There are a total of ten in the Lin ancestral hall, the more back, the greater the generation, the last seven are occupied by the Lin family's branches, and only the first three are the places where the Lin family's branch tablets are placed.

Ye Manwen was almost full of skill, his toes were connected, and in the blink of an eye, there were only afterimages left on the spot, so shocked that the guard's mouth couldn't close his mouth.

The garden of the second entrance was very large, and Ye Manwen shuttled through more than a dozen mourning halls in a few breaths according to the tips of the guards, and finally stopped in front of a courtyard that was not too big or small.

I saw that the courtyard of Tianyou Garden was written, and a long white silk was hung under the eaves of the mourning hall, and a woman in a red wedding dress was set in the white silk.

This woman is none other than the missing Mrs. Jane.

Ye Manwen slowly closed his eyes: "It's too late after all." ”

At this time, Mrs. Zhen's face had already turned the color of pig liver, her eyes were big and abrupt, and her tongue was sticking out directly.

Apparently long dead.

"Suzhen, Suzhen?"

From around the corner, there was an anxious call from Second Mrs. Lin, Ye Manwen's eyes suddenly opened, and he was about to step forward to cover Second Mrs. Lin's eyes, but it was too late:

"Ah~ah~"

Second Lady Lin was so frightened by the red figure that fell in the air and swayed in the wind that she screamed again and again, and then fainted in Ye Manwen's arms.

"What's wrong, what's going on?"

Mrs. Lin, who got the news, also rushed over, and when she saw Mrs. Zhen's hideous face, she was so frightened that she almost collapsed to the ground.

Obviously, the guards reported to Mrs. Lin and Mrs. Lin at the same time, so Mrs. Lin and Mrs. Lin arrived almost front and back.