"Miss Xie, please go upstairs, the ninth master has been waiting for you upstairs for a long time. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info" The clerk leaned sideways to give way to the staircase leading to the second floor.

Xie Shuyao was very curious about why this clerk knew who he was, and estimated that he would figure everything out after seeing the ninth master. However, who is this Ninth Master? Xie Shuyao became more and more interested in this ninth master.

There were piles of books piled up on both sides of the stairway, Xie Shuyao and Xie Chen passed through the narrow corridor very carefully, and at the end of the stairs was a closed wooden door, Xie Shuyao went up to the second floor and stopped in front of the door, and knocked lightly on the door twice.

"The door isn't closed—" Soon came the voice of a man with a southern accent from inside the door.

Hearing the southern accent coming from the door, Xie Shuyao paused slightly, originally thought that the person called Wang Jiuye was an authentic Beiping person, but listening to this voice was a southerner's accent, could it be that this Jiuye is a southerner?

After pushing open the door, several men and two women in long robes in the house turned their faces to look at Xie Shuyao, Xie Shuyao didn't expect that there were so many people in the house.

"You're Shu Yao, aren't you?" A woman in her forties in the room asked enthusiastically to Xie Shuyao, who was standing at the door.

Hearing someone call her name, Xie Shuyao frowned slightly and glanced at the woman, and nodded slightly.

"She looks so handsome, and she is so cute!" The middle-aged woman walked up to Xie Shuyao's side enthusiastically, smiling and squinting her eyes and constantly looking Xie Shuyao up and down.

"What are you doing standing outside the door, it's all your own family, hurry up and sit in the house with the concubine." Before Xie Shuyao could react, the middle-aged woman with an enthusiastic face took Xie Shuyao's hand and wanted to pull Xie Shuyao into the house without seeing it.

Xie Shuyao subconsciously hurriedly withdrew his hand from the arms of the middle-aged woman, and took a step back with some vigilance, Xie Chen hurriedly stepped forward to stop in front of Xie Shuyao to protect his sister. Xie Shuyao felt a little unhappy when she saw Xie Chen in front of her, pushed Xie Chen away gently, raised her eyebrows and said to a few people in the room: "I'm here to find Wang Jiuye, if Jiuye is not here, I will come back another day." ”

"I'm the Wang Jiuye you're looking for, your temper is really like your mother, and you like to speak straight." A mild-mannered middle-aged man with black-rimmed glasses smiled in Chinese with a southern accent.

The middle-aged man was not very tall, with round black-rimmed glasses, trousers and black leather shoes peeking out from under his long shirt, which is the most common dress for teachers in college. However, when I heard this Wang Jiuye mention that his temper was like his mother, he couldn't help but chuckle in his heart, which mother is this Jiu Ye talking about? Now that Xie Chen is still here, in case he tells his life experience in front of Xie Chen, Xie Shuyao doesn't want Xie Chen to know about this matter now.

Xie Shuyao secretly glanced at Xie Chen, and seeing that Xie Chen hadn't noticed anything yet, Xie Shuyao hurriedly stepped forward and said to the Ninth Master: "Ninth Master, since you know that I am coming today, then you must know what I want to talk to you about, I want to talk to you alone!" ”

After listening to Xie Shuyao's words, Jiu Ye glanced at Xie Chen beside Xie Shuyao, seemed to understand something, and said to Xie Shuyao with a smile: "It's up to you, Yunyu, you go and let Ah Mao drive the car downstairs." ”

Xie Shuyao looked at Wang Jiuye with some gratitude, he didn't expect this Jiu Ye to be able to speak so well, and he couldn't help but appreciate this Jiu Ye in his heart.

Wang Jiuye smiled faintly at Xie Shuyao, then turned his face to Xie Chen and nodded with a smile: "Here are some books that you can't see on the market, you can use them to relieve boredom, and we will come back in a while." ”

After a while, the car stopped in front of the bookstore.

Jiu Ye and Xie Shuyao sat in the back seat of the car, and the middle-aged woman named Yun Yu sat in the co-pilot's seat. Soon the car sent the three of them to a teahouse called Qinxiang Teahouse, and the owner of the store saw that it was Jiu Ye's car, personally came out to greet Jiu Ye, and brought Xie Shuyao and the three of them into the private room on the second floor.

Who is the Ninth Master? Xie Shuyao stood at the door of the private room and questioned Wang Jiuye's back.

"Miss Xie, don't you want to know your background?" Wang Jiuye took the middle-aged woman into the room and sat down, and found that Xie Shuyao was still standing at the door.

After entering the private room and closing the door and sitting down, Xie Shuyao asked Wang Jiuye directly, "Ninth Master, who is that Xiao Ziming?" ”

"Shu Yao, don't worry, have a cup of tea first." The middle-aged woman poured a cup of tea and handed it to Xie Shuyao.

Xie Shuyao politely took the teacup and put it aside, waiting for Wang Jiuye to give you an answer.

Wang Jiuye drank a cup of tea and said with a playful smile: "Ziming? I asked him to help find you. ”

"And what he said is true?"

Wang Jiuye slowly put down the teacup and looked at Xie Shuyao with a soft face: "It's true, I asked him to tell you, your mother's name is Wang Yating, and she is my sister." ”

"I am your uncle, and she is your concubine." Wang Jiuye introduced himself and the middle-aged woman.

"You're my uncle?" Xie Shuyao didn't react for a while, and Xie Shuyao looked at the ninth master with suspicion.

The middle-aged woman was a self-acquaintance, and enthusiastically stepped forward to take Xie Shuyao's hand and added: "Shuyao, your uncle has been looking for you for more than ten years, and today he finally found you." ”

Xie Shuyao didn't like this enthusiastic woman very much, and hurriedly stopped her enthusiastic behavior. Frowning his eyebrows, he asked Wang Jiuye suspiciously: "There is no evidence, how can I believe that what you said is true?" ”

"Alas—this is a picture of your mother taking when you were on the full moon, with you in her arms, and a jade pendant engraved with your father's name." Wang Jiuye sighed, took out a somewhat shabby photo and handed it to Xie Shuyao along with the Jade Buddha that had been stolen by Xiao Ziming before.

Xie Shuyao looked at the handsome-looking woman in the photo, it turned out that she was the biological mother of her body, and she did have some similarities with her appearance, and she was grinning in her arms as if she was crying, as if she was scared to cry by the camera. After reading it, Xie Shuyao put the photo on the table and said to the expectant Ninth Master: "Is there anything else to prove my identity?" ”

"That's all, if you still don't believe it, you can go back and ask your current mother, she knows everything that happened back then." Wang Jiuye shook his head slightly.

In fact, Xie Shuyao basically believed it in the conversation with Xie Siting at noon yesterday, but Xie Shuyao still had some other things that he didn't understand, although he now knows that this ninth master is his own uncle, but Xie Shuyao still has a lot of things to think about: "Nine, uncle, I believe what you said is true, can you tell me more about my biological mother?" ”

Xie Shuyao learned from this uncle's words: his mother Wang Yating was born in Hefei in the sixteenth year of Guangxu (1890), and the family moved to Shanghai after the year of Gengzi (1900), because of the family's financial difficulties had to send Wang Yating to the church school in Shanghai, and later Wang Yating went to the Russian school with a Russian couple to live, in the second year of Xuantong (1909) Wang Yating obtained the consent of her adoptive parents to return to China to find relatives, and the ship to return to China was docked in Shanghai, Wang Yating met Xie Yingchang in the concession in Shanghai, Xie Yingchang was conquered by Wang Yating's beauty and thoughts, and frantically pursued Wang Yating, and soon Wang Yating fell in love, and later Xie Yingchang returned to Xie's house in Beijing, and proposed to divorce his original wife, and to marry Wang Yating as his wife, Mr. Xie thought that his son was crazy, and felt that it was humiliating to divorce his wife for such an unknown woman, and he was furious with his son Xie Yingchang, and once drove Xie Yingchang out of the house. Xie Yingchang left a divorce agreement to Hong (the original wife), and secretly ran back to Shanghai to find Wang Yating, and secretly married Wang Yating in a church in the British Concession. After marriage, Xie Yingchang wanted to take Wang Yating back to Xie's house, but was forcibly driven out of the house by Mr. Xie, and the two lived temporarily in the tea industry alley outside Xuanwu Gate, until Xie Shuyao's birth, not long after Xie Shuyao was born, Wang Yating didn't know where she learned that someone was going to assassinate Song Jiaoren, and rushed to Tianjin overnight with Xie Shuyao, who was still breastfeeding, and took the train from Tianjin to Nanjing Pukou early the next morning. hurriedly entrusted Xie Shuyao to his friend Zhou Yiya, who was in Nanjing at the time, and was killed soon after and hidden in the mountains on the outskirts of Nanjing.

Xie Shuyao was saddened by Wang Yating in the story, and a lot of questions popped up: "Who killed her?" ”

Wang Jiuye looked at Xie Shuyao with a soft face, shook his head and said, "These wicked people are already dead. ”

"By the way, Xie Yingchang, why did he return to the Xie family?" Xie Shuyao asked curiously.

Wang Jiuguang's eyes suddenly sank, and he said fiercely: "Your stupid father listened to Xie Yongjun's nonsense that the old thing deceived him, so he took Xie Siting back to Xie's house. (Xie Yongjun is the old man Xie)

Hearing this uncle angrily scolding the uncle for being a fool, Xie Shuyao always felt a little strange in his heart, as for how Old Man Xie deceived Xie Yingchang back then, Xie Shuyao didn't ask from Wang Jiuye's mouth.

"Who killed my mother?"

"It's all in the past, many people are dead, what's the point of asking about it again."

……

Just when Xie Shuyao was about to end the topic, Xie Shuyao suddenly thought of Si Ting, and asked with some worry: "Then Si Ting, does she know you?" Do you know she's my sister? ”

"Siting, she doesn't know anything yet, and I plan to go to her school tomorrow to see her." Wang Jiuye replied lightly.

Xie Shuyao was silent for a while before he spoke: "Uncle, can you take Siting away from the Xie family?" Her life in the Xie family was not good. ”

"No, she's better at the Xie family than with me." Wang Jiuye sighed and said with some concern.

Xie Shuyao saw Wang Jiuye's face embarrassed, and thought for a while before saying, "Don't tell Si Ting yet, I want to tell her about me being her sister!" ”

Seeing that the time was close to noon, Xie Shuyao got up to leave: "Uncle and concubine (aunt), Xie Chen is still waiting for me outside, I will come to visit you two next time." ”

Before leaving, my aunt took out an envelope and stuffed it into Xie Shuyao's hand, and said reluctantly: "This is the first time I have seen you, and I don't know what you like, give you some money, and buy whatever you like." ”

Xie Shuyao hurriedly returned the envelope in his hand to his aunt: "Concubine, this can't be helped, how can I want-"

"Huh? This is a gift from me and your concubine, this is the rule, you can't do without! Wang Jiuye got up and said a little unhappily.

Xie Shuyao saw that her uncle was a little angry, so she had to accept the gift: "Thank you, uncle and concubine." ”

On the way back to the Spring and Autumn Bookstore, Wang Jiuye secretly stuffed Xie Shuyao with a very thick envelope, Xie Shuyao wanted to open his mouth to refuse, but Wang Jiuye secretly glared at him and held back his words.

After returning to the Spring and Autumn Bookstore, Xie Chen complained a few words because Xie Shuyao came back a little late, but what made Xie Shuyao a little funny was that Xie Chen said that he liked this Spring and Autumn Bookstore very much, and he would often come over to chat with the person named Wang Yong in the future.

After coming out of the Spring and Autumn Bookstore, Xie Shuyao secretly opened the thick envelope that his uncle gave him and opened it, there were about forty or fifty ten-yuan bills in it, estimated to be four or five hundred yuan, Xie Shuyao was frightened by this cheap uncle who was generous, you must know that the salary of the working class in this era is only one hundred yuan a year, and Xie Shuyao, who got such a huge windfall, could not hide the joy in his heart, and his face was always filled with a happy smile.

When passing by Shenwu Gate, Xie Shuyao saw Xie Mu standing at the intersection of Jingshan East Street and looking around, as if she was waiting for someone.

"Shu Yao, where did you and your brother go? Why don't you know how to come back? Before Xie Shuyao got off the rickshaw, Xie's mother began to teach her head and face, and saw her daughter holding something like an envelope tightly in her hand, and then asked curiously, "What are you holding in your hand?" ”

Xie Shuyao remembered the envelope in his hand, looked down at the envelope in his hand, held the envelope in front of Xie Mu with a smile, and said to Xie Mu with a trembling face: "Guess? ”

"Show it to me—" Xie Mu pretended to snatch it disappreciatively.

Xie Shuyao hurriedly hid the envelope behind his back, and said happily: "I won't show you-"

"Did some boy write you a letter?" When Xie's mother saw her daughter being so careful about this letter, she thought that a boy had written a love letter to her daughter.

At this time, Xie Chen also slowly came to Xie's mother's side and interrupted the conversation between the mother and daughter: "Mom, why are you standing here, are you going to have an important guest at home?" ”

Xie Shuyao also reacted, it was impossible for her mother to greet her and Xie Chen, and asked curiously, "Yes, who is coming?" ”

"It was your Uncle Jin who called, saying that he was going to bring his two friends to the house as guests, but he didn't say who it was, he just said that he wanted to surprise you!" Mother Xie raised her eyebrows and looked at her daughter, and asked her curiously, "Yaoyao, do you know who it is?" ”

This Uncle Jin's name is Jin Longsun, and he is a good friend of Xie's father, because both of them are from philosophy, so the two often fool around together to discuss life. Once, when Xie's father and Jin Longsun talked about the Tao Te Ching, when Jin Longsun learned that the teenage Xie Shuyao could recite the full text of the Tao Te Ching, he curiously asked Xie Shuyao which of the passages he liked the most, Xie Shuyao thought about it seriously and replied: "The Tao is very Taoist, the name is very famous, the beginning of the nameless heaven and earth, the mother of all things, so there is often no desire to observe its wonder, and there is often a desire to observe it." This answer made Jin Longsun have a great impression of Xie Shuyao, and since then he has often been pulled by Jin Longsun to discuss life.

Hearing that her mother said that Jin Longsun had brought two friends to her home as guests, Xie Shuyao had already guessed who the guest was, and that was the famous talented girl of the Republic of China - Lin Huiyin!