Chapter 50: An Old Man in Thirty or Forty

"Girl, although they are all serious people who live here, if you go over, it is not good, the little one will take a closer look at the past, and then come back and report to the girl." It was Shi Bing who spoke, and when she went out today, Hua Jingyao only brought Shi Bing Shi Ding in addition to Xiao Ai and Xiao Li.

Hua Jingyao nodded, Shi Bing was the most careful among the four brothers, let him go and tell her about the excitement, and there would be no omissions.

The alley is full of people, she wants to enter the alley, and she has to wait for these people to disperse, anyway, there is no rush today, just wait here for a while, listen to the excitement.

Shi Bing's departure was a stick of incense, and when Shi Bing came back, the crowd gathered at the entrance of the alley also dispersed.

Hua Jingyao saw a woman, leading two boys, hurriedly walked over, the woman lowered her head, hated to bury her head in the ground, but the two boys couldn't help but look back, curiously looked at the alley, they were only seven or eight years old, they looked exactly the same, and they looked like twins.

"What's going on?" Hua Jingyao watched the mother and son leave, and subconsciously looked at the booklet again, rubbed her eyes, and made sure that she was not dazzled and not mistaken.

Shi Bingyu reported: "In the past, Chen Juren's wife and two sons came over, Mrs. Chen looked older than the lady just now, and his two sons were already in the age of bundling their hair. Mrs. Chen said that she and Chen Juren have been engaged since childhood, and there is a marriage certificate as evidence, and it has been 17 years since then. Moreover, Chen Juren and she are both Tongzhou people, although the Chen Liu family is not rich and noble, but it is also a well-off family of cultivation and study, and has lived in Tongzhou for several generations. And this lady claims to be a native of Mengjin, Henan Prefecture, which obviously does not match. Besides, this lady's two sons are only seven or eight years old, and if they stop marrying again, it should be that Liu's son is younger than her son. ”

Hua Jingyao nodded frequently and said, "This Liu family is well-organized, there are witnesses and material evidence, and he said it very well. ”

Shi Bing smiled and said: "Although that lady is still full of disbelief, after reading the marriage book, she has no choice but to do it, only saying that she may have recognized the wrong person." ”

Hua Jingyao laughed: "I don't know how she found here, how can there be anything in this world where even her father-in-law admits her mistakes?" Even if there is, it's too much of a coincidence, maybe this lady is a few coincidences. ”

At this time, all the people outside Zhelu Alley had dispersed, and the carriage of the eldest princess's mansion finally slowly entered the alley.

As soon as she entered the courtyard, Hua Jingyao saw the drawing paper spread out on the stone table under the wisteria trellis.

"Dad, you're drawing...... Hey, how did you change the white drawing, shouldn't you live in the Folding Reed Lane, and even the painting has been changed to the Folding Reed Drawing. Hua Jingyao quipped.

"I have nothing to do, ......just practice my pen," Hua Yukun said, picked up a fine cloth, covered a few small paintings on the stone table, and said to his daughter, "Go into the house, go into the house." ”

Hua Jingyao glanced at the painting that was covered, and then looked at her father's appearance that wanted to cover it, Hua Jingyao frowned and didn't ask again.

In the evening, Hua Jingyao returned to the eldest princess's mansion, and after about two teas, Shi Bing came to see her.

"Girl, the little one has been checked clearly, Master Jiang helped the third master contact a small business, it is to draw illustrations for the book, and the third master has been busy with this for the past few days."

Hua Jingyao was a little surprised, her father, who didn't touch the spring water with his ten fingers, actually went to illustrate the printing workshop?

In these years, the scholars are more self-sustaining than the other, and they feel that they have lost their nobility when they receive the pen and silver, let alone draw illustrations for the book.

The next day, Hua Jingyao went to Zhelu Lane again, this time she was caught off guard, Hua Yukun still had a pen in her hand.

Hua Jingyao asked, "Dad, didn't you also get tens of thousands of taels of belongings when you split the family?" Are you not enough? ”

Seeing his daughter ask like this, Hua Yukun knew that he couldn't hide it, his face was red, and he said in a hesitant voice: "You are twelve, your mother has been taking care of you all these years, and my father wants to keep the ones that are divided into the family for you as a dowry." ”

Hua Jingyao's heart was warm, she took her father's hand, shook it gently, and said coquettishly: "Who said that I was going to get married, I won't marry, I won't marry anyone in this life, just to accompany my father and guard my mother, I want to let you all be good and live a long life." ”

"Silly child, how can there be a daughter who doesn't marry? Besides, your family affairs can't help you, your mother, and the queen mother, how can you let you be willful and not marry? Hua Yukun said with a smile, this is the first time that the eldest daughter has been spoiled to him, this child has been sensible since he was a child, like a little adult.

Coming out of Zhelu Lane again, Hua Jingyao didn't take a carriage, but she just opened a new pen and ink shop from Zhelu Lane, and she wanted to go to the shop to pick out a few new pens for her father.

She took Xiao Ai to walk in front, and Shi Bing and Shi Ding followed far behind.

When she was about to get to the shop, she saw a woman running not far away, dressed in a coarse cloth shirt and with her hair wrapped in green cloth, trotting past her, and then quickly hid behind a large tree.

The big tree was the thickness of a hug, and the woman hid behind the tree, and was so tightly covered that not even the corners of her clothes were exposed.

Hua Jingyao looked at the big tree in surprise, but was pulled aside by Xiao Ai, and it turned out that a sedan chair came over.

When the sedan chair walked over, Hua Jingyao turned around again, and saw half of her body leaning out from behind the big tree.

It wasn't until the sedan chair turned into Zhelu Lane that the woman came out from behind the tree, and looked in the direction of Zhelu Lane without giving up, and then walked quickly.

"Is that the woman the lady who mistook her husband yesterday?" Hua Jingyao asked Xiao Ai.

Xiao Ai shook his head: "The slave didn't see it clearly yesterday. ”

Although Hua Jingyao also didn't see the lady's face clearly yesterday, her eyesight and memory have always been good, and the way this woman walks briskly today is surprisingly opposite to the lady yesterday, and her body is slightly tilted to the right.

Everyone has their own habits when walking, like this woman, that is, a person who is used to exerting force on her right foot, her left leg or left foot, it is likely that she has been injured and cannot exert force for a long time, so that she has developed this habit, it is not obvious when she walks slowly, but once she walks fast, or runs, her body will lean back to the right.

"Go and see if the sedan chair just now went to Chen Ju's house." Hua Jingyao commanded.

Xiao Ai ran away quickly, and came back after a while: "Girl, you're right, that sedan chair belongs to Chen Ju's family." ”

That's interesting, hasn't that lady already admitted that she recognized the wrong person? Why did you come over today and quietly stare at Chen Juren?

"Did you see Chen Juren? Is it good-looking? Hua Jingyao asked.

Xiao Ai shook his head: "It's not good-looking at all, it's an old man in his thirties and forties." ”