On this day, Lin Jin came back from the Yangzhou prefect's house, and after seeing her grandmother and mother, she returned to Yuhua Pavilion and saw that not only the big girls such as Mama Tao and Yuzhu were not in the house, but even the rough girls were nowhere to be seen, which was a little strange.

Lin Jin, who was thirsty, was holding the tea bowl and picking up the teapot to pour the tea, only to hear a voice coming out from behind: "Uncle burned his hands carefully, let me come." ”

Rescued by her mistaken for Zhen Yinglian, the girl named Suzuko said as she walked up and took the teapot in her hand.

Lin Jin was taken aback, looked left and right and asked, "Where are you from?" Why didn't I see you just now, but suddenly you appeared and scared me. Seeing that it was Suzuko, I was very puzzled, "When did you enter the mansion, and why did you arrange you in my yard?" ”

Suzuko handed her the tea, and replied: "I was watering the flowers in the backyard before, and I just came in through the back door of the inner room, didn't the uncle hear my footsteps entering the house?" I was brought into the house by Tao's mother two days ago. Tao's mother said that my rules are not very good, and I still have to practice, and it just so happened that there was a sister Yuou in the uncle's yard, and there was a vacancy, so I was arranged here with the uncle. ”

Lin Jin waited for her to finish talking, and asked with a smile, "Then what is your name now?" ”

"Mother Tao said that since I am a person in the uncle's yard, I should name the uncle. Before the uncle didn't name me, let me use the name Suzu first. ”

In Lin Jin's view, the name is just a symbol, and when the other party already has a name and is not vulgar, there is no need to change it, because he said with a smile: "I think the name Lingzi is not bad, and you have been bad for a while, and I think everyone is used to your name." In that case, there is no need to start anew. ”

Suzuko was unwilling: "Uncle, you better give me another one." I don't remember anything at home, but the name Suzuko was given to me by the crutch that kidnapped me, and I don't want to use it. ”

"That's right," Lin Jin pondered for a moment and said, "Then you should be called 'Xiangling'." It is the same as Zhen Yinglian's later name "Xiangling", which can be regarded as a record of the reason why she saved this girl, and this name is also the name of a nine-tailed little fox in a game she played in later generations, so as to commemorate her origin.

As soon as the words fell, Mama Tao walked in from outside, and saw that there were only Xiangling and Lin Jin in the house, she was stunned for a moment, and said angrily: "These little hooves, because the uncle is not at home during the day, he is not cautious when he is on errands, and he doesn't know where to go to play, and he doesn't even know how to come back to serve, and look back to see how I punish them." ”

Lin Jin hurriedly explained: "It's none of their business, I'm back early today." Today, Mr. has something to do, and he got out of class more than an hour early. ”

Mama Tao shook her head and said, "It's not a matter of whether you come back early or not, uncle." Uncle, you indulge them like this, I'm afraid that you will get used to them more and more disagreeable. ”

"With you in my house, I put a hundred and twenty hearts, and they can't climb your five-finger mountain." Knowing that Mama Tao was the most rigorous on errands and had nothing to do in Yuhua Pavilion, Lin Jin asked with some curiosity: "It's just that I didn't see Mama when I came back, where did you go?" ”

Xiangling, who retreated to the side, Mama Tao said: "Not long after the uncle went out today, a Mrs. Zhen came from outside the house, saying that a few years ago, her daughter who had a rouge mark in her eyebrows was abducted by a kidnapper when she was watching the lanterns during the Lantern Festival, and she has never been found. Not long ago, I heard that we bought a girl of about the same age with such an eyebrow mark in our house, so I came to the door. ”

Zhen Yinglian's mother, Zhen Feng, found the Lin family and was Lin Jin's pot.

At the beginning, after she rescued Xiangling, because she thought she was Zhen Yinglian, for the sake of her future reputation, she did not bring her into the house, but sent her to Mama Tao's house.

In order to reunite her with her family, although Lin Jin couldn't take the initiative to send people to Zhen Feng's mother's house in Daruzhou, she asked the Chamber of Commerce to take a detour to Zhen Feng's mother's house when she went to Daruzhou, and spread some gossip news about the fact that Mr. Lin's family bought a rouge note with the size of a grain of rice in the center of her eyebrows, and she was a teenager and a very pretty little girl.

If Zhen Feng's family has a heart and hears the news, he will naturally come to find his daughter; If she didn't have the heart, Lin Jin decided to tell her Zhen Yinglian's life experience when the time came, and it was up to her to decide.

It's just that although Lin Jin's idea is good, it is not Zhen Yinglian who she saved, and when she realized that she saved the wrong person, she not only didn't tell anyone, but also forgot that she had let people pass the news to Zhen Feng's family.

Now that people came to the door, Lin Jin remembered it, and couldn't help but secretly complain in her heart about her broken memory, thinking of Xiangling's appearance just now, she asked a little puzzled: "Then my mother didn't ask Xiangling to come over to recognize her relatives?" I don't think Xiang Ling seems to know about this. ”

"Mrs. Zhen came here with a serious post, and it was Mrs. who asked to see her, and Mrs. Zhen was also there at the time. When Mrs. Zhen heard Mrs. Zhen's intention, she originally wanted to call Lingzi directly and let their mother and daughter recognize each other, but she was stopped by Mrs. Zhen and said that it was better to let Mrs. Zhen take a look quietly on the side first, so as not to recognize the wrong person and be embarrassed. Mrs. Zhen and Mrs. Zhen felt that what Mrs. Gu said was reasonable, so they sent someone to call the bell over, and Mrs. Zhen hid aside and watched, and found that it was not, and she was overjoyed. ”

Although Lin Jin was not present, and Mama Tao said it was very plain, she could still imagine the disappointment of Zhen Feng's hopes after the hope was shattered.

"Ugh." Mama Tao sighed and said, "Uncle, didn't you see that Mrs. Zhen saw that Lingzi was not her daughter, and she lost her temper on the spot, and couldn't help crying." I stood next to it, just looking at it, and I felt worried. In fact, Mrs. Zhen is not too old, but her hair is gray, and she looks older than Mrs. Zhen. The child is the flesh of the mother's heart, and now that the meat has been dug up, Mrs. Zhen doesn't know what the pain looks like, and it's good if she isn't crazy. ”

She looked left and right, lowered her voice and said, "I heard that Mrs. Zhen and her husband only have such a daughter under their knees, and after their daughter was abducted, the house was unfortunately hit by fire. After that, she took her husband to live in her mother's house for less than two years, and her husband left with a crazy man, leaving her to cling to her mother's house, relying on daily needlework and sales with personal maids for daily use. In fact, Mrs. Zhen had already received the news that her daughter might be in our house, but because she couldn't make up enough money for the journey, she delayed it until now. In this way, when she set off with the maid, it was not enough for the journey, and there was a section of the road behind, and they were begging. ”

"Begging?" Hearing this, Lin Jin was very surprised, and when she thought of Zhen Feng's father, Feng Su, she understood the reason.

Obviously, the family is solid, but Zhen Su is still half-coaxing and half-earning for his son-in-law who came to him, and he has no feelings for a granddaughter who has never met him and can't bring him benefits, so it is difficult to expect him to pay for Zhen Feng's travel expenses and let her use it to find his daughter.

"By the way, Mama, how did you know that Mrs. Zhen was begging?" Thinking of the information revealed in Mama Tao's words, Lin Jin asked curiously.

"There is a Zhuangzi outside the city in our house leaning on the official road, didn't the uncle let the people on the Zhuangzi set up a tea stall on the edge of the official road last year, not to make money, but to have a temporary place to rest for the passers-by.

Before Mrs. Zhen took the maid into the city, she stayed at the tea stall opened by Zhuangzi for a while, changed from a beggar woman to a wife, and cleaned up the house before she came neatly.

Today is the day of the house shop to report the account, although the tea stall is small, but it must also abide by the rules, when the person who reports the account comes, he happens to meet Mrs. Zhen to hand a post to the house. ”

Before, although Lin Jin was sorry for letting Zhen Feng's white run, she was not very moved. At this time, hearing that Zhen Feng's family did not hesitate to be a beggar in order to find her daughter, she was silent for a moment and asked, "Who else knows about this?" Is Mrs. Zhen still in the house? ”

Mama Tao knew what she was worried about, and said busily: "Don't worry, only me and my uncle know in the house." When I heard the gossip of the teller, I stopped drinking, and then I took him aside, asked him to make it clear, and sent him away. Mrs. took pity on Mrs. Zhen's plight and insisted on leaving her to rest at the house, but Mrs. Zhen couldn't say goodbye, so she stayed, saying that she would leave home tomorrow. ”

"In this case, go back to Mama, you go to Mrs. Zhen's side and tell her that I heard a news outside: the sister of Mrs. Xian's maiden second sister-in-law, the one who married into the imperial merchant Xue family, her only son fought with someone to buy a girl and killed someone. That girl also has a rouge mark the size of a grain of rice in the center of her eyebrows, and she is about the same age as Xiangling, and I heard that her family seems to be in Gusu, I don't know if it's in a temple or next to a Taoist temple. ”

Originally, Lin Jin didn't want to tell Zhen Feng's whereabouts of Zhen Yinglian, because she knew that Zhen Feng's family had no power or power, and even if a lonely old woman found the Xue family, the Xue family would never return her daughter to her, and she didn't even know how to treat her.

After listening to Mama Tao's words, she changed her mind, and if she can fulfill Zhen Feng's family, it will be better for her.

Lin Jin thought that Xue Pan left Jinling after killing people, and said: "By the way, the Xue family is not in Jinling now, and the family has gone to Beijing, so if Mrs. Zhen wants to find her daughter, she will go to the capital Jingying Festival to make Prince Teng's house, or Rongguo Mansion to find it." ”

Since you are a good person, you will do it to the end, she said: "Also, Mrs. Zhen's husband and the Zhen family, the president of the Jinling Provincial Tiren Institute in Jinling City, are of the same clan, when you talk to Mrs. Zhen, order her, and let her go to the Zhen family before going to the capital to find her daughter, if you can get a letter from the head of the Zhen family, it should be of great help to her to find her daughter and reunite the mother and daughter." ”