Lang Qing and Hua Siniang followed Zhanhuai in, and like Zhang Shengping and Huang Ling, the two of them also stood behind Zhanhuai.

But no one else was seen, including the emaciated man.

Then, a few more people walked into the open hall, Huo Roufeng didn't know any of them, Lang Qing came to Zhanhuai's ear, lowered his voice, and introduced them one by one.

Huo Roufeng pricked up her ears and listened to everything word for word.

The middle-aged scribe wearing a gray tuanhua straight jacket is Sun Wenyi, the cousin of Sun Wenyuan, a waiter in the Ministry of Rites, who has been a Hanlin, and last year Ding Wei's period expired, but he did not recover for a long time, and it was rumored that he wanted to leave the Hanlin Academy and transfer to the Sixth Department, so he did not move.

The fat man wearing a dark red Fuzi group brocade robe is Miao Fuqing, the cousin of Xu Zhen, Wuchangbo, the Xu family originated in the Gaozong period, the ancestor once blocked an arrow for Emperor Xizong, who was still the prince at the time, not only won the hereditary title, but also the next two generations, the descendants of the Xu family all served in the imperial front, and the favor was undiminished.

This generation of Wuchang Bo Xu Zhen, his mother is from the Miao family in Wuxi. The Miao family is thin, in this generation, there is only one seedling Miao Fuqing, who was an official to the fourth rank guerrilla general in his early years, and returned to his hometown due to foot disease ten years ago, and is still lame when he walks. But he was born with a good popularity, coupled with the prestige of the Xu family and the Miao family, he was often invited to do something that was confirmed.

The last person who walked in with the abbot was an old man with gray hair, he was wearing a dark blue robe with a crane pattern, his cheekbones were high, and the corners of his mouth were tightly pursed, looking like he was rejecting people.

Huo Roufeng immediately thought of someone, and sure enough, she heard Lang Qing say in a low voice: "Fifth Master, this is the uncle of Empress Dowager Zhao, Zhao Qingtai." ”

After some concessions, the abbot master sat at the head, Zhao Qingtai sat at the bottom of him, followed by Miao Fuqing and Sun Wenyi.

Everyone greeted each other, and when it was Zhanhuai and Huo Roufeng's turn, Hu Si, the magistrate, was stunned, he was really blind, at first he thought that these two children were the official transcripts of which family, but he didn't expect that they were just the children of merchants, but it was a pity that they had a good appearance.

Huo Roufeng didn't bother to look at Hu Si's expression, her attention was on the face of the abbot master.

But when he heard that she was a child of the Huo family in Wuxi, the abbot master only bowed slightly, and there was no trace of surprise between his eyebrows.

A master is a master.

However, General Miao laughed and said to Huo Roufeng: "You are the Huo family's Xiaojiu?" I haven't seen you so tall for a few years, I saw you when I went to Hangzhou, you followed your father to drink birthday wine at General Luo's house, you were so spicy that you cried, or you took a mouthful of sweet and sour fish and stuffed it into your mouth, do you remember? ”

Zhanhuai on the side lowered his head, shrugged his shoulders, and looked like he was snickering.

Huo Roufeng wanted to cry without tears, she remembered that the big fat man was General Miao.

She hurriedly saluted General Miao again, and General Miao waved his hand and said: Come to my house another day, there are a few boys in my family who are about the same age as you, how close you are. ”

When Huo Roufeng sat back in her seat, she felt a gaze looking at her, she looked up, and didn't see anyone paying attention to her, but her feeling would not be wrong.

At this time, Zhanhuai whispered in her ear: "I know why you want to drink bayberry wine, it turns out that you don't dare to drink." ”

Huo Roufeng glanced at him and ignored him.

Master Abbot said to the monks on the side: "All the people have arrived, you go and let Xuankong and Xuanjing, together with the people from Meihualing, come in." ”

The monks went together, and after a while, a group of people came in the open hall, led by Xuankong and Xuanjing, who had been to the county government, and behind them were a group of people from Huang Huasan and Meihualing.

As soon as the men stood still, another monk came out from behind, followed by a young man with a sturdy build.

The man was dressed in a monk's robe, but he wore his hair in a bun and dressed as a layman.

As soon as he walked out, there was an exclamation in the crowd, and a woman rushed out quickly, walked up to him, looked up and down, and then burst out crying.

"Da Dezi, Da Dezi, it's really you, it's really you!"

This is Da Dezi, the best carpenter in Meihualing, and Da Dezi who has been missing for three years.

Huang Huasan wiped away his tears, waved his hand to calm everyone down, and said to the woman: "Wang Zhu's family, this is a temple, you have to cry and stay home and cry, don't cry!" ”

Wang Zhujia hurriedly stopped crying, but his hands still grabbed Da Dezi's arm, for fear that as soon as he let go, Da Dezi would disappear without a trace.

Sun Wenyi, who had not spoken, took a sip of tea and said to the stunned Hu Si: "Master Hu, what's going on?" ”

Hu Si wiped the sweat on his forehead, and barely squeezed out a smile: "This is still the last case of Lord Chen when he was in office, in the past few years, the lower officials have spared no effort to find out in many ways to no avail, but I didn't expect that Jiren Tianxiang was able to reunite with his relatives in this Wanhua Temple, the Buddha blessed, the Buddha blessed." ”

A sneer flashed on Sun Wenyi's lips, and he didn't pay attention to him anymore.

"Amitabha!" Master Abbot's voice sounded, and the open hall immediately fell silent again, and Master Abbot's kind eyes looked at Da Dezi, "Your illness has been cured, and you can tell what you have experienced." ”

Da Dezi's expression was blank, even if Wang Zhu's family grabbed his arm, he was still like a wooden man, and there was no joy, anger or sorrow on his face.

Listening to the abbot's words, he violently broke away from Wang Zhu's hand, rushed to the abbot in a few steps, and knelt down with a puff: "Master, I don't want it, I don't want it." ”

The abbot stroked his head and said nothing.

After a while, Da Dezi quieted down, he stood up, turned to look at Huang Huasan and the villagers, and said in a trembling voice: "The people who took us out of Meishuling that day were not from the county government, they blindfolded us soon after leaving the village in the name of the county government, and we didn't know where they took us, but we knew that it was washed away by the heavy rain, and they asked us to work." But as soon as we entered, it collapsed, collapsed! ”

As soon as the word collapse came out, everyone present was stunned.

Huang Hua boldly asked, "Did you let you build a house?" ”

Without waiting for Da Dezi to speak, Huo Roufeng grabbed the conversation: "Is the place you going to be underground or in a cave?" ”

Da Dezi said: "It's a hole, a big hole, they are all buried in it, only me and I escaped......"

At this, he squatted on the ground and held his head, howling and crying.

The tragic scene of that day is vivid, and his fellow villagers, those who came out of the village with him, were all buried in that big hole.

He dug them with all his might, and his nails were broken, his hands were bloody, and the rain was getting heavier and heavier, and when someone came, they covered his mouth and threw him down the cliff......