On this day, Lin Jin came back from the Yangzhou Prefect's Affiliated School, saw her grandmother and mother, etc., and 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 girls who were doing rough work and listening to the call were nowhere to be seen, which was a little strange.

Because of thirst, Lin Jin, who was about to drink tea, had to do it herself. Just when she was holding the tea bowl and picking up the teapot to pour the tea, she heard a voice from behind her: "Uncle burned his hands carefully, let me come." She mistakenly thought it was Zhen Yinglian and rescued her, the girl named Suzuko said as she walked up and took the teapot in her hand.

Lin Jin was taken aback and asked, "Where are you from?" Why didn't I see you just now, but suddenly you appeared and scared me. When he saw the person in front of him, he was very puzzled, "When did you enter the mansion, why don't I know?" How did you get you into my yard? ”

Suzuko handed over the tea and replied: "I was in the backyard, and I just came in through the back door of the inner room, didn't the uncle hear my footsteps?" I was brought into the house by Tao's mother a few days ago, Tao's mother said that my rules are not very good, so I have to practice, it just so happened that a sister walked in the uncle's yard, and there was a vacancy, so I was arranged here by the uncle. While on an errand, by the way, I can also learn the rules from Tao's mother. ”

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

"Back to the uncle, Mother Tao said that since I am a person in the uncle's yard, I should be named by 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, she has no habit of changing people's names, so she smiled: "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. ”

"Uncle, you better call me another one. Although I don't remember anything about my family, I know that the name Suzuko was given to me by the crutch that kidnapped me, and I don't want to use it. ”

"In that case," 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 by the way, this name was also the name of a nine-tailed little fox in a game she played in later generations, so as to commemorate her later life.

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 know how to come back to serve, and look back to see how I punish them." ”

Lin Jin hurriedly explained: "Regardless of their business, I came back early today. Today, my husband has something to do, and he got out of class more than half an hour early. ”

Mama Tao shook her head and said disapprovingly: "Uncle, you can indulge them, they are used to becoming 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 you when I came back this time, where did you go?" ”

Motioning to the bell standing on the side to go down, Mama Tao sighed and said, "I'll deal with the bell's business." Not long after the uncle went out today, a Mrs. Zhen came from outside the house, saying that a few years ago, her daughter with a rouge mark in the center of her family's eyebrows was abducted by a kidnapper when she was watching the lanterns during the Lantern Festival, and she was never found. Not long ago, I heard that our house bought a girl who has such a mark and is about the same age, so I came to the door. ”

Listening to her words, Lin Jin suddenly remembered this kind of thing. Zhen Yinglian's mother, Zhen Feng, can find her own door, or her 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 could send news to her. Therefore, after she rescued the people, she asked the Chamber of Commerce to go to Zhen Feng's mother's house when she went to Daruzhou, and then spread the gossip news that the old man Lin of Yangzhou Yanjiao bought a little girl with a rouge in her eyebrows, 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 this heart, Lin Jin decided to tell her Zhen Yinglian's life experience when she decided whether to reunite their mother and daughter, and it was up to her to decide.

It's just that Lin Jin's idea is good, but the person she saved is not Zhen Yinglian, so when she knew that she had saved the wrong person, although she realized that she had made the mistake of following the map, she forgot about the fact that she had let people pass the news to Zhen Yinglian's mother, Zhen Feng's family.

Now that people are looking for them, Lin Jin just remembered, and couldn't help but secretly complain about his broken memory in his heart, and then thought of the appearance of Xiangling just now, and asked a little strangely: "But I think that Xiangling doesn't seem to know about this?" ”

"That Mrs. Zhen came with a serious post, and it was Mrs. who asked to see her, and Mrs. Zhen was also there at that time. Originally, I wanted to call Lingzi directly and let their mother and daughter recognize each other, but Mrs. Lao stopped and said that it was better to call someone over first and let Mrs. Zhen take a look at it quietly, so as not to admit the mistake and embarrassment when she got it. Mrs. and Mrs. Zhen felt that what Mrs. Gu said was reasonable, so they sent someone to call the bell. After Mrs. Zhen watched it from the sidelines, she 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 Zhen Feng's disappointment at that time.

"Ugh." Mama Tao sighed and said, "Uncle, didn't you see that when Mrs. Zhen found out that Lingzi was not her daughter, she lost her temper on the spot and cried bitterly." I stood next to it, just looking at it, and I felt worried. Mrs. Zhen is actually not very 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 it looks like to be distressed, it's good if she is not crazy. ”

Although Lin Jin didn't see Zhen Feng's appearance, he could imagine what she looked like now, thought about it, and asked, "Then Mrs. Zhen is still in the house?" ”

Mrs. Zhen saw the appearance of Mrs. Zhen coming to the house, thinking that she must have received the news and hurried here, so she was left to rest in the house. Mrs. Zhen couldn't say goodbye, so she stayed and set off tomorrow. ”

"In that case, then go back to Mrs. Zhen and tell her that I heard a message outside. On my mother's side, my second aunt's own sister, the one who married into the imperial merchant Xue family, her only son Xue Pan killed someone in order to buy a girl. 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 it seems that her family is from Gusu, I don't know if it's in a temple or next to a Taoist temple. ”