Xie Liangying and Xie Liangqing were talking with the golden lock, and neither of them noticed that the expressions on Wei's faces were not quite right.

Wei watched the two sisters chatting happily, and quietly glanced at his bride mother. The master and servant have been together for several years, and they have a tacit understanding with each other. With just one glance, Mama Wei knew what she wanted to say.

Mama squinted, looked at Xie Liangying's hand, looked at it for a long time, and finally nodded quietly at Wei.

Wei cleared his throat and asked, "Ah Ying, you golden lock...... Who gave it to you? ”

Xie Liangying thought that the Wei family wanted to see it, and without waiting for her to speak, she sent the golden lock to the Wei family. "It's the bookkeeper in my shop, and my aunt may have seen it. The surname is Wei, and his name is Wei Yang. I went to the shop today, and he gave it to me, saying that it was my congratulatory gift. ”

Wei looked at the pattern on the golden lock, and the more he looked at it, the more familiar it felt. She said: "Since it is someone else's mind, then we should put it away." You give me the lock first, and I'll go find a box for it to put up. When you get married, put it in the dowry and let you take it to the Hou Mansion. ”

Xie Liangying did not doubt him, and immediately nodded in response.

Wei took the lock, and left in a hurry under the pretext that he still had housework to deal with. Before leaving, she also specially told Xie Liangying not to sneak out again, and asked Xie Liangqing to play with her sister. The two of them were about to whisper, so naturally there was no reason not to agree.

Hurriedly returning to the courtyard, Wei hurriedly asked Mama to dig out her dowry account book and take the key to get something.

But in the blink of an eye, Mama brought her what Wei was looking for—a palm-sized rosewood box with extremely delicate carvings.

Wei took a small key from the small drawer in the dresser and opened the wooden box. It was filled with all the utensils used by children. Wei Shi looked at this, and his eyes softened a lot. She had to touch each one for a while.

Mama looked at Wei with a smile, and did not urge, her mind seemed to drift back to when Wei was not married.

At the bottom of the box is a golden lock, the pattern of a unicorn send.

Wei took out the golden lock in the box and compared it with the one he had just taken from Xie Liangying. "Mama, look at it, if it's the same." Aside from the difference in fineness, there is almost no difference between the two gold locks.

Mama leaned over and looked at it for a while, then turned the two golden locks over, and said with certainty: "It's the same." ”

Wei's whole person was relaxed, and she muttered in her mouth: "I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it, I really asked me to find it." It's really an eye-opener. And she cried like that.

Mama hurriedly cleared out all the people in the house, leaving herself alone to accompany Wei. She also wet her eyes at this time, but she still persuaded Wei, "Madame, don't cry, this is also my aunt's spirit in heaven." ”

Wei nodded, and wiped all the tears from his face with a handkerchief. She put everything else back in the box, leaving only the gold lock out. She wrapped the two golden locks in silk handkerchiefs and said, "The most important thing at the moment is that I have to hurry back to the house and show my mother the things." I haven't met my aunt a few times, I don't know for sure, she must know. ”

Mama hurriedly said: "Then I'll hurry up and ask someone to put the car on." ”

"Hmm." Wei carefully put away the wrapped golden lock, "I'll tell you to go down and leave with some things in hand." You wait for me at the second gate first, and I'll be right there. ”

Mama answered, and went to work.

Wei Shi was really anxious this time, but he finished the family affairs in a moment and appeared at Erdaomen.

On the way to Wei's house, Wei kept urging the coachman to hurry up. When the car arrived at Wei's house, before it could stop, Wei didn't wait for Mama to go down to help, so he jumped out of the carriage first.

Because this time he came back was a temporary intention, Wei only remembered to ask someone to go back to his parents' house to say a word. After several sisters-in-law in the family received the news that she was coming back, they were a little strange. Unless it is a major event, Wei will always tell his family a few days in advance. Could it be that something happened when I came back this time? Thinking like this, several sisters-in-law came out of their own yards and waited for her at the second gate. At this time, seeing Wei jumping directly from the carriage, he couldn't help but confirm his previous conjecture in his heart.

The second daughter-in-law of the Wei family was uncontrollable, she saw Wei jumping down, for fear that she would be injured, so she hurried over to hold the person. She asked the maid to squat down and rub Wei's broken feet for Wei, and asked on the other hand, "Why is my sister in such a hurry to come back this time?" But what happened? ”

Wei shook his head, took her second sister-in-law's hand and asked, "What about my mother?" But crooked in the conservatory? ”

The second daughter-in-law of the Wei family shook her head, "I woke up before noon, and after lunch, I sat in the garden and enjoyed the flowers." ”

"I'll go find her." Wei didn't say a word, and rushed inside. When I left, I didn't forget to touch the place where I hid the gold lock, for fear that I was too anxious and dropped it on the road. I was sure that everything was still there, and I let go of it a little.

The Wei family wanted to find news from Mrs. Wei, and the maid who had a spirit had already gone in to report it to Mrs. Wei. When Mrs. Yi Wei saw her daughter, she was not surprised. She asked Wei to sit down beside her, and asked her with a smile, "Is the Xie family busy today?" Why did you suddenly remember to come and see me? ”

Wei wanted to show the things to his mother quickly, but was about to reach out to touch them, when suddenly he was alert. She withdrew her hand and told all the people around her to retreat. The people knew that the married aunt and grandmother who were very favored by the family would not do anything disobedient, so they obediently withdrew one by one.

Old Madam Wei said curiously: "What do you have to tell me about this?" She knew that if it weren't for something important, Wei wouldn't be so cautious.

"Naturally, it's a big thing, or something that can't be known." Wei shook his hands, took out the wrapped golden lock from his arms, set it on the stone table in front of Mrs. Wei, and unfolded the silk handkerchief, revealing one or two almost identical golden locks inside. Wei Shi looked at Old Madam Wei, "Mother, look." ”

Old Madam Wei couldn't help but pick up the two golden locks at the same time, and asked her with a crying voice, "Where did you find it?" ”

The Wei family had to believe at this time that Xie Liangying was his own lucky star and the Wei family's lucky star. first Xie Liangqing, and then saved his mother, and now even the person the Wei family has been looking for for many years because of her. She wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief, "It's Hotaru." She went to the shop at the end of the Gongyuan today, and the bookkeeper in the shop gave it to her. ”

Old Madam Wei was calmer than Wei's, and when she heard her say this, she asked about the origin of the golden lock, "Did the bookkeeper say, where did this golden lock come from?" ”

Wei had already inquired clearly, "It was said that his father painted the pattern and took it to the gold shop to call someone to beat it." Wei excitedly took Mrs. Wei's arm and shook it, "Mother, the account room is also surnamed Wei!" It's all right! ”

Old Madam Wei held two golden locks and was speechless for a moment. After a long time, she stood up and said to Wei, "Follow me." ”

Wei followed his mother suspiciously and entered the main room.

Old Madam Wei went directly into the inner room, and the carved bed she slept with Old Man Wei was a little small. She swept all the mattresses on top of her to the ground, and patted lightly on the bed board a few times, only to hear a "click" before a crack appeared in what looked like a whole plank. Old Madam Wei struggled to break the crack open.

Seeing that she was struggling, Wei also hurried over to help. She thought to herself, why she never knew that there were such tricks in the family before.

The bed board is a bit heavy, and it is very difficult for the two women to open it. However, when only one hand could reach in, Mrs. Wei asked Wei to stop. She reached in and touched it, pulled it a few times, and pulled out a large stack of paper. She handed them to Wei, "Take a look." ”

Wei looked at them suspiciously, and the more he looked at them, the more frightened he became. She didn't know that her parents had hidden these things in the house, and if she had put them aside for a few years, it would have been a great sin for the whole family.

"Didn't you?" Old Madam Wei saw that Wei was slow to speak, thinking that she had not found it. She also poked her head out to look at her daughter.

The paper was a few years old, and it was still a little damp because it was placed under the bed. But fortunately, because it is bamboo paper, it has not been bitten by insects, and the handwriting is still clear, and some are still paintings. Some of them have a few brushstrokes, writing homely or freehand paintings, while others are sprinkled with a large stack, and some are carefully depicted. The top is all stamped with private seals, and the payment is also settled.

Wei Shi took out one from it, took the golden lock and compared it, and the whole person was stunned.

Mrs. Wei took the original pattern painting and the golden lock from her daughter's hand, and sighed carefully. "If your father were here today, I'm afraid I'd have to cry."

Wei Shi helped his mother and cried, "We are finally worthy of our aunt." ”

Old Madam Wei held back her tears and calmed herself down, "Don't be busy first, whether the person is right or not, another matter." She thought about it for a while and said, "Does Ying know about this?" ”

"I don't know when I see her like that. I only heard that Mr. Wei's family suffered a crime in the early years, and the whole family was gone, leaving him alone. Wei trayed out everything he knew, and then thought carefully about what he had missed. She clapped her hands suddenly, "I remember, I went to Ah Ying's shop near Ah Ying and met Manager Li. ”

Old Madam Wei frowned, "Manager Li? Is it the Li Qian Li manager next to His Majesty? ”

"Not that one." Wei said, "At that time, the shop still sold calligraphy and paintings, and it was not what the fat powder shop looks like now. Mr. Li is a lover of calligraphy and painting, and I heard that he often goes there. ”

Saying this, Wei thought of many doubts that he had not thought about before. "That shop is actually not from the Xie family. Since I was in charge of the feed, I have never found that there are records of the income and expenditure of the shop in the account books of previous years. The more Wei thought about it, the more panicked she became, she grabbed Mrs. Wei's hand tightly, "Mother, according to my mother-in-law's temperament, I will never buy a shop from outside for Ah Ying." This shop, will this shop ......"

"Don't panic yet." Old Madam Wei's heartbeat became more and more intense, she looked at the two golden locks in her hand, "Let's figure out the origin of this golden lock first, see who the Wei account is, and then it's too late to think about it." ”

"That's what my mother said!" Wei was so happy that he didn't know what to do for a while.

Old Man Wei originally had a sister-in-law, and later married Old Man Wei's classmate and friend. The relationship between the two families has always been very good, but the good times do not last long, and there are always ups and downs in the Huan Sea. The classmate's family was raided more than ten years ago because of an unwarranted incident, and the family was gone. Old Man Wei had been holding back in order to save his home at that time. After the death of his sister's family, he sent someone to bury him secretly, but found that there was no one missing. After Wei Jiada learned about this, he has been secretly looking for the missing child for more than ten years.

At that time, the corpses of Aunt Wei's family had been exposed to the wilderness for several days, and when they went to look for them, the corpses had been scattered by wild beasts. Old Man Wei knew that the child might have been taken away by the beast, but he was always unwilling, thinking that maybe, maybe he would survive.

There are always more well-wishers in the world. If you can't keep it, who is passing by, seeing that the child is dying, she feels pitiful, so she saves the person.

In order to pray for this child, the Wei family has opened a soup kitchen shop all year round, and the incense money in the temple has never stopped, so they look forward to finding the child one day. More than ten years have passed, and Old Man Wei no longer has any hope, just thinking that even if he finds the bones and buries them with his sister, it is good to have a family reunion.

When Wei was young, he was very good with this aunt. Since her aunt's family is gone, the biggest thing in her heart is that she hopes to find her cousin. Now that I can find someone, I can comfort my aunt in the spirit of heaven when I incense my aunt every year in the future. Wei was so excited that he didn't know what to say.

Old Madam Wei pinched the golden lock and walked back and forth in the room, her lips trembling, "I must tell your father about this, if he knows, he may be very happy." She stopped suddenly, "By the way, hurry up and call someone to offer incense to the ancestors, and tell them that your aunt's descendants have news." ”

"I'll go." Wei Shi carried his skirt, and he was obviously thirty or forty people, but he still jumped over the threshold like a young girl. Old Madam Wei watched from behind her and didn't say anything about her.

At that time, the aunt and grandmother of the Wei family also loved to walk like this.