At this time, Huo Roufeng was at the age when she could imagine a monkey jumping out of a stone, so although she sat on the cold stone without embarrassment, she kept imagining countless possibilities in her mind.

The reason why Huo Jiang asked her to sit here and wait was because the master Yuantong had a bad look in his eyes, and when he saw two more stone statues outside the wooden house, he thought that the Buddha's manifestation had been enlightened, and he would come out to take a look and touch it?

Or, these two stones are the entrance to the secret passage, sit on the stone for a while, the stone can crack, revealing a secret passage, walk in from the dark passage, that is, inside the wooden house, and when you come out, you can see an old bald head knocking on the wooden fish?

Huo Roufeng thought about it, and became more and more sure, so she sat on the stone with peace of mind, and even her buttocks didn't feel cold.

"Huo Jiu, what is your birthday?" A dry voice sounded, interrupting Huo Roufeng's thoughts.

She had no choice but to put away her increasingly bizarre thoughts, and said impatiently: "It's my birthday in April. ”

"April?" Huo Jiang repeated it to himself, and then stopped talking.

Huo Roufeng became interested instead, she has always been very curious about Huo Jiang, isn't this a good opportunity?

"I heard that Mr. Huo's daughter-in-law grew up in Wuxi Wanhua Temple since she was a child? Coincidentally, I just went to Wanhua Temple last year. ”

As she spoke, she looked at Huo Jiang's face, and saw that Huo Jiang was like an old monk in a fixed state, his eyes were lowered, and he was motionless, so she continued: "When I went, it was a spring day, and the mountain bamboo behind Wanhua Temple was full of shadows, and a small sedan chair went down the stone steps. ”

Speaking of this, she saw Huo Jiang's lowered eyelids move, but it was only moving, and he didn't even raise his eyelids.

Huo Roufeng is interested, anyway, it's very boring to sit here, it's better to tease this uncle, who made him owe the Huo family more than 100,000 taels of silver, or return the silver, can't I say a few words to you?

Huo Roufeng pinched her fingers, this was an expensive transaction that made her feel distressed, but it could only be like this.

"Mr. Huo, it's not strange that you say it's weird, I also saw a lay disciple there when I was in Wanhua Temple, and it was said that it was a lay disciple, but it wasn't actually counted. He is a villager of Meishuling, one year there was a flash flood, he was rescued by the monks of Wanhua Temple, because he broke his head, he couldn't remember where his hometown was, so he stayed in Wanhua Temple, according to him, there was once a man wearing a hosta asked him about the nunnery in the back mountain, Mr. Huo, at first I thought it was my father, but I asked the people who served around my father, my father never wore a hosta, and his old man always only used a red gold hairpin. Mr. Huo, the master that the lay disciple met in the temple, is it you? ”

She went to look at Huo Jiang again, and saw that he still maintained the expression just now, motionless.

Huo Roufeng couldn't help but admire this person, a living person, a living normal person, how did he do it, he could make his face as stiff as a stone like a wooden tire?

She continued: "Our family is a merchant, our ancestors have been merchants for several generations, our family has so far, there has only been one Xiucai, that is, Huo Er of the long house, when he was admitted to Xiucai, our Hangzhou Huo family set off firecrackers in every household, and the ancestors of the clan also went to the ancestral grave to cry, saying that our ancestral tomb was smoking, and finally a Xiucai old man. ”

Huo Er was selected for Xiucai, and a few families in the clan also sharpened their heads and sent their sons to the famous academy in Hangzhou, and they also wanted to provide a Xiucai. Mr. Huo, you don't know, those scholars in Jiangnan look down on people, Jiuye, I am rich enough, don't talk about Jiangnan, it is the north and south of the river, and there are not many children who are richer than Jiuye, but that's it, those well-known scholars refuse to make a western seat for Jiuye, and the bundle of money from my family is enough to buy a college, but they still refuse. The ninth master is like this, not to mention other people's families, although they envy Huo Er, they can only study in the private school that our Huo family pays for. ”

When she said this, she saw Huo Jiang finally raise her eyelids and said, "When you were in Hangzhou, you didn't study?" ”

Huo Roufeng blinked, a scholar is a scholar, the matter of other people's sons' studies is more important than the affairs of their own daughters, and this Huo Jiang is also unclear.

Huo Roufeng said: "There is a Mr. Zhang in Hangzhou, he reads very well, but his family is very poor, my sister invited him to sit in the museum, Mr. Zhang came to our house, food and clothing are worry-free, he taught me while reading books, this time I came to the capital, Mr. Zhang also came, he will take the exam next year, Mr. Huo, I heard that you have been the chief examiner, if you are still the chief examiner this time, maybe you can be Mr. Zhang's teacher." ”

A hint of mockery flashed at the corner of Huo Jiang's mouth: "Are you so sure that he can be admitted?" ”

Huo Roufeng nodded: "Mr. Zhang was ridiculed by the students in Hangzhou for making me a western seat, and they laughed at him for bending his waist for five buckets of rice, and losing the nobility of a scholar." But when Mr. Zhang's family was poor, none of these people helped him. Mr. Huo, Mr. Zhang is a person who knows how to repay kindness, he said that he came to my house to repay his kindness, although I am young, but I also know that people who know how to repay are very rare. Mr. Zhang is just a man, but he knows better than some talented and respected people, Mr. Huo, are you right? ”

Huo Jiang raised his eyelids again, facing Huo Roufeng's sly eyes.

He said coldly: "Huo Jiu, are you talking about me?" ”

Huo Roufeng grinned, revealing a neat row of braided shells.

"Mr. Huo, why did you hand over your daughter to my father back then, my father spent more than 100,000 taels of silver to give Huo Si to adulthood, Mr. Huo, you won't know about this matter, what's wrong, why don't you mention it when you see the son of the deceased?"

Huo Roufeng became more and more angry the more she spoke, but she didn't show it, for a person like Huo Jiang who was like a stone statue, even if she was furious, Huo Jiang might just hang her eyelids again, like a half-dead dummy.

So, it's useless to get angry.

Huo Jiang obviously didn't expect that Huo Roufeng would question him openly and unfairly, he looked at Huo Roufeng sitting on the bluestone opposite in a daze, the corners of his mouth were twinning, and he didn't say anything for a while.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Huo Roufeng laughed, laughed enough, and then said: "I still think that Huo Qingzhou and Huo Sijin don't look like you, but now it seems that the three of you father and son are not only alike, but also very similar, and they are all very good at pretending." Mr. Huo, do you know my father? ”

The mountain wind hit, and there was a biting chill, and Huo Jiang shivered involuntarily.