Huo Roufeng has seen two old men beside Xie Sicheng, and especially has the deepest memory of Uncle Wang.

Uncle Wang is here, and Xie Sicheng should also be there.

Today, Huo Roufeng came out to hang out, but he was just hanging out. Mrs. Huo has business to do, Huo Qingzhou and Zhanhuai are not in the capital, Bi Daoyuan went to Guangdong with her, and she didn't come back with her because of her inconvenient legs, Huang Xianjun and Lu Yu must be as idle as her, but she can't see them yet.

Huo Roufeng was very idle, so she wanted to take a walk around.

guessed that Xie Sicheng was likely to be in this Chuwen Hall, so Huo Roufeng wanted to go in and have a look.

She hadn't seen Xie Sicheng for a long time, and since she learned from Cai Qinniang that the Taiping Society had inquired about her, she deliberately didn't meet Xie Sicheng.

Her surname is Xie, and Xie Sicheng is also surnamed Xie, the feeling that Xie Sicheng gave her at the beginning always reminded her of her cousin, but in fact, she and Huo Yan are the descendants of her cousin in this life, so in this way, Xie Sicheng gives her the feeling that is no longer warm, but strange.

She asked people to inquire about Xie Sicheng, and Huo Qingzhou also inquired, but they couldn't find anything, except that they knew that Xie Sicheng was a member of the Taiping Society, and they couldn't even find out his origin.

No one really jumps out of the cracks in the stones, and shooting stars streak across the night sky, leaving a fleeting trail, as long as it is a person, there are traces. Hometown, parents, where to study, where to come from, these are the traces that anyone who exists in the world.

But Xie Sicheng didn't.

It is rumored that the big proprietor of the Chuwentang is a Zhishi Hanlin, but Huo Qingzhou has checked the Hanlin of the Hanlin Academy over the years, except for those who have passed away and are still in the world, none of them have anything to do with the Chuwentang, that is to say, even the so-called great owner of the Chuwentang has no such person.

And the branch of the Pick-up Hall, in the documents of the government and the tooth line, are opened in the name of the shopkeeper, this kind of thing is not uncommon, a lot of officials and eunuchs will do business, but even then, outsiders also know which shop is this, who opened the business, the Pick-up Hall is the largest bookstore in the south of the Yangtze River, and now there is also a branch in Beizhili, in addition, there is also its own carving workshop, such a big business, so far, no one knows which one the owner is.

In this dynasty, the Xie family has declined, and Huo Qingzhou and Huo Roufeng are the only remaining bloodlines of the Xie family in Shaanxi. Shaanxi Xie is a big family, in addition to the concubine, there are side branches, and according to Huo Roufeng's inquiry, in order to avoid trouble, those side branches either changed their surnames to "Jie", or hid in the countryside, and even in the past hundred years, among the children who participated in the examination, the surname Xie was also rare.

And at this time, there was such a person as Xie Sicheng, which couldn't help but make Huo Qingzhou and Huo Roufeng feel strange.

is not only surnamed Xie, but also the leader of the Taiping Society.

Huo Roufeng was just sitting in an ordinary green cloth sedan chair, and the sedan chair was parked far away on the corner of the street, which was not noticeable.

Huo Roufeng called a maid and said, "You go to the Wentang, buy a few books of words, see who is in the bookstore, and tell me one by one when you come back." ”

This maid's name is Bai Zhi, and she and another one named Banxia are both second-class maids next to Mrs. Huo, who are not only old and reliable, but also very clever.

After about a cup of tea, Bai Zhi returned, and she lowered her head as she walked, as if thinking about something.

Approaching the sedan chair, Bai Zhi raised her head, but Huo Roufeng still saw doubts in her eyes.

Huo Roufeng asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Bai Zhi said: "There are only two guys and a guest that the slave maid can see in the bookstore, there is a big screen on the side of the bookstore, the slave and maid heard a cough behind the screen, the cough is very urgent, as if she is very sick, and there is the guest, she and the slave maid, she also looks like a big family as a maid, she doesn't look like she came to buy books, when she heard the cough, she actually walked towards the screen, and was stopped by one of the guys. ”

Huo Roufeng frowned slightly and asked, "You often follow the eldest lady outside, have you ever seen that maid, or are the clothes on her body familiar?" ”

But in all large households, the clothes of the maids are all according to the rank, and the grade is the same, and the color and material of the clothes are also the same.

Bai Zhi was about to speak, Huo Roufeng waved her hand, raised her chin slightly, and asked in the direction of Chuwentang through the sedan curtain, "Is it her?" ”

Bai Zhi also looked over, and saw a slender figure coming out of the Pick-up Hall.

Bai Zhi said: "Yes, it's her, she looks like an official eunuch, or a scholarly family, the slave and maid follow the eldest lady, but whenever there is a decent big maid in the businessman's family, the slave and maid have seen a lot, but this girl, the slave and maid have not seen it." ”

Huo Roufeng's eyes followed the maid, and seeing that she was not holding a book in her hand, she walked to the side of the road empty-handed, stopped a sedan chair with her feet, and walked in the opposite direction.

This maid came by herself, and she was not a sedan chair in the house.

Huo Roufeng knew in her heart that this maid came to pick up Wentang either for her own private affairs, or for her own female relatives to do things secretly.

Sending a maid out to do errands, and not being a sedan chair in his own house, then this matter must not be known to others in the house.

Huo Roufeng said to Bai Zhi: "Do you remember the appearance of that maid?" ”

Bai Zhi said with a smile: "Don't worry, the slave and maid remember, and they will definitely be able to recognize it next time they see it." ”

Huo Roufeng nodded, restarted the sedan chair, and continued to walk forward.

She remembered one thing, when she was still in Hangzhou, she bought a copy of "Taiping Shengxing" in the Chuwen Hall on the edge of the West Lake, and there was also a big screen in the Chuwen Hall, and she remembered that she also heard the cough that day, and later she also went to the stall selling tofu flowers on the opposite side to inquire.

The sedan chair walked out not far away, and saw Uncle Wang again, he was carrying two paper bags in his hand, and hurriedly walked over, it seemed that he wanted to go back to the Wentang.

Huo Roufeng stared at the two paper bags in his hand, looking like the paper bags in the medicine store.

The person who can let Uncle Wang grab the medicine must be Xie Sicheng.

The person coughing behind the screen in this shop is Xie Sicheng, so the person in the Chuwen Hall on the shore of Xizi Lake is also Xie Sicheng eight or nine times out of ten.

Huo Roufeng's heart moved, she always thought that the first time she met Xie Sicheng was on a small boat in Ningbo, and now it seems that Xie Sicheng may have noticed her as early as Hangzhou.

That day, she tore up the "Taiping Shengxing".

Later, the entire Hangzhou City Chuwentang did not do her business, she wanted to buy books, or Caiqin sent her younger brother Xiaohuzi to buy them for her.

Huo Roufeng's fingertips were buckled on the wall of the sedan chair, interesting, interesting, it turned out that the ninth master had been targeted early in the morning.