Hearing Sun Jidong's question, Sun Jiji said with some embarrassment:

"When I went to the second sister's house in Beijing that year, the back window of the guest room happened to be facing the bedroom of the girls in the backyard."

As soon as Sun Jiji said this, Sun Jidong understood. Qingwen, a girl, is not only lively, but also quite good-looking, and the second brother is a person who lingers in Flower Street and Willow Lane all day long, so it is inevitable that he will be interested in Qingwen.

"The second brother is afraid that he has recognized the wrong person. I did go to the Shunlai Inn that day, and I also went out of the city and went to the Zhuangzi of the Song family. However, that little girl is not Ran'er's original girl Qingwen. ”

"Big brother, I can't be mistaken."

"Second brother, there are many people in this world who look very similar. When I arrived at the inn that day, I also saw that little guy as Qingwen. Didn't the eldest brother go to Yanshan Mansion for the funeral at the beginning of the year, and I also saw Qingwen at that time. It's just that the little guy you see is the male pet of Li Yuanwai, a wealthy family in Suzhou. I don't know how Li Yuanwai found out that Song Jiatuan's Zhuangzi was mine, because he liked the delicacy of the Zhuangzi, so he came to the door and wanted to buy it. I had no intention of selling Zhuangzi, but Li Yuanwai insisted that I take him to Zhuangzi to have a look. That's why we met at Song Jiatuan. ”

"How much does it cost to go out?"

Speaking of money, Sun Jiji on the bed seemed to come to his senses and hurriedly asked.

"I said that as long as I sold the price, it was negotiable, but I didn't plan to sell it at all, so in the end, Li Yuanwai just stayed in the Zhuangzi for one night and left the next day."

"Could it really be that I recognized the wrong person?"

"It must be that the second brother recognized the wrong person, if you don't believe it, when you have the opportunity to go to Suzhou, you can visit Li Yuanwai and ask him in person."

Hearing Sun Jidong say this, Sun Jiji also began to wonder if he was really wrong. Sun Jidong, who has been in business for most of his life, can't say anything else, just talking about lip service and pondering people's minds, Sun Jiji is naturally not an opponent, so a few lies shook Sun Jiji's mind.

"Looks like I really recognized the wrong person."

Since Sun Jidong's purpose of coming here has been achieved, he no longer sits for a long time, gets up and says to Sun Jidong:

"The second brother will take care of his body, and the eldest brother has something to do, so he will leave first, and come to visit the second brother in a few days."

Sun Jidong said goodbye, came directly to Zhuangzi, and told Xiao Yiran what was going on.

"Ran'er doesn't have to worry about the second uncle anymore, I shouldn't worry about you anymore. I just want to drive the carriage away, otherwise I will be bumped into by your second uncle, and I will be suspicious again. ”

After speaking, Sun Jidong asked his subordinates to drive the carriage back to the mansion in the city.

"Does Ran'er like this Zhuangzi?"

"I like it."

"I like to stay here a little longer, just remember to write a letter to your parents."

"Okay, when it's written, I'll ask my uncle to help send it out."

Xiao Yiran naturally didn't dare to write letters to his family at will, not to mention that he was worried that the letters would fall into the hands of others, but he was good at handwriting, and many people in Yanshan Mansion knew him. In the evening, Xiao Yiran called Xiaoxi, dictated by Xiao Yiran, and Xiaoxi ghostwrote, wrote a letter to his parents in Yanshan Mansion, which was more than a thousand miles away, and this was the first time Xiao Yiran sent a letter back after going out.

"Are you going to stay here permanently?"

"Sister Xiaoxi, originally I wanted to come to Qinhuai River to have a look, and I was going to Huayin. Seeing that this Zhuangzi is secluded, the scenery is good, but it is suitable for summer. Besides, now is the hottest time, so let's spend some time with my uncle first, and when the weather is cooler, let's go to Xia Bang to visit Mr. Kou. ”

In this way, Xiao Yiran settled down in his uncle's Zhuangzi with peace of mind. In view of the fact that they were almost recognized by the second uncle last time, several people did not dare to go out at will. If there is anything, let the people in Zhuangzi do it, and the carriage has already rushed back to the uncle's house in the city.

In the meantime, Xiao Yiran **** lingered in the lotus pond and bamboo forest, reading and writing in the morning and evening, and seemed to return to the old days. The eldest uncle Sun Jidong came to the city twice, and after confirming that Sun Jidong really thought that he was looking at the wrong person, he told his wife Lin about Xiao Yiran's fraudulent death. When Lin heard that his niece was still alive, he couldn't wait to come to Zhuangzi. As soon as I entered the door, I had a smile on my face, but tears flowed from my eyes. grabbed Xiao Yiran's hand, and was speechless with excitement for a while.

"Auntie."

"Ran'er, I think my aunt is bad. At the beginning of the year, when I heard the message from your second cousin, my aunt was going to go, because your uncle said that the road was far away, and the funeral was a day, so I was afraid that it would be too late to take my aunt. ”

"Fortunately, my aunt didn't go, otherwise it wouldn't have been a hard trip in vain."

"As long as Ran'er is good, what is the point of ten or eight trips of hard work?"

"Second cousin is still studying books, right?"

In order to divert the attention of the eldest aunt, Xiao Yiran proposed to his cousin.

"Fortunately, I went to Yanshan Mansion, and when I came back, I didn't express much of the frustration of falling off the list."

"Second cousin works harder, maybe he will be able to go to high school next time."

"We think the same way, but depending on what your second cousin means, I'm afraid I don't have much energy."

"How so?"

"The time when the middle lifter was able to hang up to the end, it was a very fluke. We also want to open, and the middle one can be regarded as a glorious lintel, if your second cousin wants to continue to study, if you really don't want to read, let him go. ”

Lin is a very talkative person, especially when he sees his niece who has come back from the dead, he is happy in his heart, and before he knows it, the two of them have been chatting for most of the day. It wasn't until the next person came up and said that lunch was ready, and Lin said apologetically:

"Look at me, just talking, let's go, let's eat."

During the banquet, he talked about the accident of the second uncle and grandson's inheritance, and Lin said fiercely:

"Why did he just run into a ghost, why didn't he let the impermanence ghost hook him away? What is such a heartless thing doing in the world? ”

Xiao Yiran listened to what his eldest aunt said, and wanted to stop it, but when he raised his eyes, he didn't dissuade his eldest aunt as if he hadn't heard it.

"However, it seems that good and evil will be rewarded in the end, and this is true. Otherwise, your second uncle just had a bad idea, how could he see a ghost, and the ghost still looks like Ran'er? It is estimated that the old man of the city god learned of Sun's intention to inherit that thing, and deliberately filmed the gods around him to scare him by pretending to be Ran'er. ”

Xiao Yiran listened to what his aunt said that he had a nose and eyes, and couldn't help but laugh in his heart, and finally knew how the rumors came from, and this was how it was passed on by word of mouth, coupled with everyone's subjective guesses, and gradually became like a real thing.

"Uncle, is the city god of Jiangning Mansion very spiritual?"

"Spirit, it works."

Speaking of the City God Temple, the Lin family's words box was completely opened. This topic alone was enough to talk about for an afternoon. Whose children cry every night and don't sleep, go to the temple to bow down, and then come back. What is the little daughter-in-law, she has not had a happy pregnancy (childbirth) for three years after marriage, but she went to the City God Temple to worship the City God three times, and gave birth to two children in succession. If it weren't for the fear of closing the city gate too late, the Lin family would have to continue.

Before leaving, when he came to the door of the small courtyard and was about to get into the carriage, Lin suddenly said to Xiao Yiran:

"Ran'er, tomorrow my aunt will come over early in the morning and accompany Ran'er to the City God Temple to worship the City God."

"Uncle, this is not good, I am afraid of being recognized."

"Where is such a coincidence? Now your second uncle is still recuperating in the house, where is there anyone who knows you. That's it, and my aunt will come over early tomorrow morning. ”

Xiao Yiran looked at his uncle Sun Jidong next to him, and only heard his uncle say:

"It's okay to let your aunt stay with you for two days, the provincial governor is stuffy here. If it weren't for the fear of being too talkative, my uncle would have wanted your two cousins to stay for two days. ”

Seeing that both of them said this, Xiao Yiran could only nod and agree.

The next day, as soon as Xiao Yiran had breakfast, his aunt came to Zhuangzi in a carriage.

"Did Ran'er have breakfast?"

"Auntie, I just ate it."

"Then let's go now, otherwise it's too late, and there will be a lot of people."

Xiao Yiran couldn't imagine how a small City God Temple could be so prosperous. However, since the eldest aunt said so, hurry back to the room to dress up for a while, the key is to apply a layer of black lead powder on the face. As soon as she walked out of the room, the eldest aunt said with great pity:

"Look at what kind of sin this is made, the good end is a girl's family, and it has to be forced to be like this."

When I went out this time and learned the lesson of the last time, Xiao Yiran didn't take Xiaoxi and the three of them. It was in the carriage of the eldest uncle's family, and there was only a girl brought by the eldest aunt by his side. Sitting in the carriage, Lin still kept chattering. The City God Temple is a little south of the east gate of the city, so it is not far away. It only took less than half an hour for Xiao Yiran and Lin to arrive.

Although it was early in the morning, the temple was already crowded. Xiao Yiran looked at the pious bows one by one, and couldn't help but believe his aunt's words, the city god here should be very effective. With the bustling flow of people, slowly enter the City God Temple. Fortunately, the incense candles and paper money were all prepared by the eldest aunt at home and brought over together, and were held by the girl who brought them. Xiao Yiran and his eldest aunt soon came to the main hall of the City God Temple.

"Ran'er, quickly kneel down and kowtow to Lord Chenghuang, and tell Master Sù Chenghuang if you have any wishes in your heart."

Xiao Yiran was not taboo at all when he heard his aunt, but directly called himself by his name. I couldn't help but raise my eyes and look around, but fortunately, no one thought about them. So he listened to the words of his eldest aunt, raised his legs and stepped into the threshold, kneeling on the futon in front of the statue of the city god. First kowtowed respectfully three times, and then followed the example of others, put his hands together between his eyebrows, and prayed silently in his heart:

Master Chenghuang, Xiao Yiran is here to confess. A few nights ago, the disciple took the soul of Zheng Xinxin's sister out of the Yin God to stop the second uncle Sun Jiji and Shi Liben's plan to blackmail on the grounds that the disciple had cheated death.

The reason why Xiao Yiran said this was because she seemed to have seen in a certain book that the city god was similar to the city lord of the yang world, and was in charge of the ghosts and gods of a city. Xiao Yiran came out of the Yin God and took Zheng Xinxin's ghost to act in Jiangning Mansion, so he was naturally a little disrespectful to Lord Chenghuang.

Just as Xiao Yiran was about to pray for something, he suddenly heard a soft shout from behind him:

"Topol, it's time to go."

Xiao Yiran couldn't hold back the curiosity in his heart and turned his head to look. I saw a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy, looking at him stupidly, and behind him there was a slightly older boy, pulling his sleeve.

Poplar, why is this name so familiar? Xiao Yiran didn't have the heart to worship the city god at this time, and his mind was full of the name Baiyang. Xiao Yiran always felt that this name was very familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had heard of it or seen this person for a while. When I looked up again, I just saw a young man named Poplar reluctantly looking away from him.

When Xiao Yiran saw this scene, his heart hurt for no reason.