As he spoke, the shopkeeper Cui walked out of the Duobao Pavilion and turned around an enamel vase, only to hear a few creaks, and a dark cabinet was revealed on the wall.

The shopkeeper Cui took out an account book from the secret cabinet and handed it to Huo Roufeng: "Ninth Master, this is the wife's private property book, please take a closer look." ”

Huo Roufeng flipped through it, she remembered it clearly, she closed the account book, handed it back to Cui Da's shopkeeper, and asked, "Since it was my father's rules before his death, why didn't you tell my sister?" If my sister is going to marry one day, will you give her this book? ”

The shopkeeper Cui shook his head: "The master said before his death that there will be no need to send silver in another three or four years, I am thinking that I will find a way to plug this hole then." ”

Businessmen will always have a way to make up for the shortfall, and Cui Da has been in charge of the Wuxi branch for many years, and he has this ability.

"So this year's silver hasn't been delivered yet?" Huo Roufeng asked, she didn't see this year's sum in the account book.

Cui Da shopkeeper said: "I went to Wanhua Temple a few days ago, and the abbot said that there is no need to send it again in the future. ”

In other words, starting this year, the Huo family's 10,000 taels of silver to Wanhua Temple can be stopped.

"Shopkeeper Cui, I am my father's son, I must know about this, my father must not let you tell my sister about this, but he didn't say that he wouldn't let me know, right?" She sat down and took a sip of tea.

Cui Da shopkeeper sighed: "Actually, this matter, the master didn't say that he couldn't tell Mrs. Huo, but he used his own money every time, I don't want people to know, so after the master passed away, I hid this matter, since the master said that it was only three or four years, then thirty or forty thousand taels of silver, I can still make it up." ”

He said again: "Since the ninth master has asked, I can only tell what I know, but I don't know much about this matter." ”

"Then why does my father give Wanhua Temple 10,000 taels of silver every year?" Huo Roufeng asked.

The shopkeeper Cui pondered for a moment before he stubbornly said, "Master...... The 10,000 taels of silver were for a child's flowers. Of course, I don't need so much if I think about it, and the extra is given to the temple. As for who that kid is, Ninth Master, I really don't know, and I don't dare to ask more. ”

"Kid? My dad still has a child outside? What about me? Who am I? Why did he take me home and keep the other in the monastery? Huo Roufeng stood up in surprise.

Cui Da's shopkeeper looked embarrassed: "Ninth Master, this is also the truth I don't want to tell the eldest lady, that child...... Alas. ”

If that child is Master Huo's flesh and blood, the Huo family's account will be even more messy.

The reason why Master Huo raised the child in the temple was because he didn't want him to recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors, so he hid the matter.

If the person who asked him today was Mrs. Huo, he still wouldn't say.

"Ninth Master, now that you understand, don't mention this matter again, especially if you can't tell the eldest lady, let alone let the clan know." There were already tears in the eyes of the shopkeeper Cui.

Huo Roufeng was still surprised that his father was still raising a child outside!

She pointed to her nose and asked Cui Da's shopkeeper: "What about me, people outside say that I am an adulterer, you must know if I am not, right?" ”

As soon as the three words of adultery came out, the shopkeeper Cui almost covered her mouth: "My ninth master, don't listen to those people's nonsense, the master has never said that he loves you even more than the eldest lady, let alone the one in the temple, alas." ”

Huo Roufeng was confused, yes, if she was really a man, it would be reasonable for her father to take her back and raise the other one in the temple.

But she is a daughter, and the father has no reason to raise his son outside, and let her dress as a man and raise her as a son, which is too ridiculous and incredible.

"Shopkeeper Cui, did my father say where I got it?" She is unwilling, she is about to leave Wuxi, even if Cui Da's shopkeeper returns to Hangzhou to pay the account, it is under her sister's nose, and she can't ask as much as she wants now.

The shopkeeper Cui looked at her with pity: "Where did the ninth master get it back, I'm afraid only my wife knows, and the eldest lady was still young at that time, so there is a chance that nine out of ten will not tell her." ”

Mrs. Huo died as early as when Huo Roufeng was three years old, and she didn't have much of an image of this adoptive mother, only remembering that she was a gentle woman.

She was very disappointed, and sat listlessly in the Taishi chair, and after a long while, she said, "In which year did my father start sending silver to Wanhua Temple?" ”

Cui Da shopkeeper said: "Coincidentally, it is the year that you came to the Huo family. ”

Huo Roufeng wailed, that's right, that's right, she really has a brother with the same father and mother, maybe it's a dragon and phoenix fetus.

Her father must have been afraid that her mother would not follow suit when she found out, so he hid his son in Wanhua Temple, and then came back with his daughter.

Ahhh

She was sad and ate a peanut.

The shopkeeper Cui didn't know how to persuade her, so he had to go out and call Zhang Ting and Zhang Xuan in, and let them coax the ninth master to say something interesting.

From the two brothers going down to the river to catch rabbits, Huo Roufeng finally recovered her spirits, and she also figured it out, how could her father do what she thought?

No, my father wouldn't do that, Cui Da's shopkeeper doesn't know her gender, maybe he will think about it more, but she knows herself, she is a woman!

The father would rather let her, a child of unknown origin, disguise herself as a man than let the child enter the door, and the problem is not with the father or her, but with the child.

Or is there something wrong with the child's motherhood?

The Huo family is just a businessman, with no fame and no official status, even if the woman was born in Liuxiang, Huajie, and accepted into the Huo family as an aunt, it is not a shame.

Unless it's an official slave?

Huo Roufeng was puzzled, and she even wanted to go to Wanhua Temple to have a look again.

She asked Zhang Ting and Zhang Xuan: "Have ordinary people sent their children to Wanhua Temple to be lay disciples?" ”

Zhang Ting said: "There are often in small temples, most of them can't afford to raise their sons and send them to the temple, like Wanhua Temple, such a famous temple, I don't think there will be, the monk is a monk, the layman is a layman, who will send the son to the temple, and will not marry a daughter-in-law in the future?" ”

"You haven't seen any lay disciples in Wanhua Temple?" Huo Roufeng asked.

"At least we didn't meet when we went that day, except for the pilgrims and the people in the Buddhist hall, we didn't see any other laypeople in Wanhua Temple." Zhang Ting and Zhang Xuan said affirmatively.

Buddha Hall?

Huo Roufeng stood up violently, the woman in the Buddha hall was about the same age as her......

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This is the fifth update, and I will finish it in 10,000 words today.

The subscription is so bad, and the monthly pass is also small, ah, ah, ah, the old irons, sisters, brothers, Yao Mengmeng, don't you want me?