When he left Hangzhou, Chu Qing was in a heavy mood. He was the son of the family, when his grandfather fled to Hangzhou, and took a family of wives and children to sell himself to the Huo family, his grandfather and father were waiting for livestock, and his mother and aunts were also doing rough work. When he was five years old, he was selected from a bunch of children and became Master Huo's little servant, at that time, the people in Liuxi Lane said that their Chu family was lucky, and his grandfather was so happy that he shed tears and took him to Lingyin Temple to burn incense.

The daughter-in-law he married was a second-class maid beside his wife, and his daughter-in-law's dowry was in a house in Hangzhou, and he had saved a lot of money over the years, and there was a 200-acre grange in Yuhang, and his old son didn't want to go to Yunnan, and now he lives in the grange.

In the year he went to Yunnan, Master Huo gave their family a registration, and in the future, his children and grandchildren could study, take the imperial examination, and no longer have to be slaves and maids.

All of this was given by the Huo family, and it was given by Master Huo.

He knew that Master Huo didn't give any explanation before he died, and I was afraid that only he, Gu Tou'er, and Cui Da, the shopkeeper of the Wuxi branch, knew about the affairs of Wanhua Temple.

Gu Touer suffered from eye disease, he had already returned to his hometown, and there was also Zhang Shengping, but he had also been to Wanhua Temple, he met Zhang Shengping when he was in Liuxi Lane, and he had tried it, looking at Zhang Shengping's appearance, it didn't seem like he was in the know, obviously Master Huo didn't tell him, Zhang Shengping only escorted him to Wanhua Temple to send silver once.

Fortunately, there is also Cui Da Shopkeeper, who is a reliable person.

But Chu Qing was still not at ease, he did not return to Yunnan immediately, but went to Wuxi.

But there is one thing he didn't expect, that is, because Mrs. Huo temporarily went into battle to take over from Master Huo in charge of Yongfeng, Cui Da shopkeeper just returned to Wuxi, so he returned to Hangzhou to help Huo Da Lady coordinate the affairs of Yongfeng, when Chu Qing arrived in Wuxi, Cui Da shopkeeper had just left for two days.

Helpless, he had no choice but to go to Wanhua Temple alone.

He didn't alarm the people in the temple, he went to the back mountain by car, a few years ago, he came here more than once, mostly to tell Mama Dong to let her talk less, do more things, and manage Huo Sijin well. A few years ago, according to Master Huo's instructions, he bought a fatherless and motherless little girl Cui Wei from Ren Yazi and sent it to the nunnery to help Mama Dong serve Huo Sijin.

As before, he knocked on the door of the nunnery.

But the mother-in-law who came out to answer the door this time was not Mama Dong.

He was surprised, so he asked, "What about Mama Dong?" ”

The woman looked him up and down and asked, "Who are you?" What to do with Mama Dong? ”

Although he didn't know this mother-in-law, Chu Qing thought that this nunnery was built by the Huo family, and it was also supported by the Huo family, and this mother-in-law wanted to come and send it from the Huo family.

Therefore, he explained: "I am from the Huo family, I used to come every year, but I didn't come here when I went to Yunnan this year, my surname is Chu, you ask Mama Dong, she knows me." ”

The mother-in-law shook her head: "Mama Dong was picked up by her mother's relatives, this time she is no longer here, and now I am the one waiting for Miss." ”

So it was, Chu Qing felt that the world was vicissitudes, and he had only been away for less than two years, and the things were wrong, not only Master Huo had passed away, but even Mama Dong had left, and when he was in Hangzhou, he also heard that Mama Zuo, who was waiting for the ninth master, had also left the Huo family.

His heart became more and more sour, looking at the appearance of the mother-in-law, he didn't seem to know that Master Huo had passed away, so he didn't want to mention it, so he said to the mother-in-law: "Since Mama Dong has returned to her hometown, you will be able to wait for Miss in the future, and Mama Dong will also explain to you, Miss is still young, so she will be pampered in the nunnery, except for this temple, you can't let Miss go anywhere." ”

The mother-in-law was also sensible, and she only agreed, Chu Qing saw it, and thought that she was also the same as Mama Dong, a wooden one, so she put her mind at ease, and said a few words, and left Wanhua Temple and returned to Yunnan.

After listening to Chu Qing's words in one breath, Huo Roufeng said: "Before that, the last time you went to Wanhua Temple, you went with Zhang Shengping, have you also seen Mama Dong that time?" Have you ever met Huo Sijin? ”

Chu Qingdao: "Yes, the Wanhua Temple where Zhang Shengping and I went to see me alone was Mama Dong who I went to the back mountain alone, and told her to wait for Miss like every time, and not to take Miss out." As for the Miss Huo who was kept in the nunnery, I haven't seen her since I sent her to Wuxi, which is also what the old man said, he said that he didn't need to meet Miss Huo. ”

Huo Roufeng thought of the grandmother beside Huo Sijin, she had seen the grandmother in the bamboo forest in the mountain behind Wanhua Temple, as Chu Qing said, the grandmother didn't look like a clever person, but how about a person, how could she be seen at a glance from a distance?

Last time in the Hall of Merit, she knew that Huo Sijin was also there, but at that time, Huo Sijin came with the daughters of the Huo family, and the ladies all brought maids and daughters-in-law, she was a man, so she couldn't blatantly look at the women's heaps, so she didn't see Huo Sijin had any grandmothers around her that time.

"Sister, I think that Mama Dong left, maybe my father doesn't know." She didn't know why she had such an idea, but the death of her father and the change of her grandmother next to Huo Sijin happened in the same year, which was a bit strange.

Hearing this, Chu Qing's face changed suddenly.

If it is really as the ninth master said, the master does not know about Mama Dong's departure, then ......

Why did he leave like that? Why didn't you go to see the abbot of Wanhua Temple and ask about this matter clearly?

"Lady, Ninth Master, this matter is all my fault, I will go to Wanhua Temple and find out about this matter."

Huo Roufeng asked, "Where did Huo Sijin and I get it from, and did my father reveal a word to you?" Think about it, you can see it, it's because you didn't say anything back then, and now you have made such a trouble, so you'd better recall everything my dad said. ”

Chu Qing's face was red, his lips were red, and he said after a while: "The little one remembers that when the ninth master was just brought back, the swaddling clothes on his body were made of big red silk embroidered gold thread, so rich and rich, the Huo family has a silk business, and the small knows the material, but the kind of big red silk, the Huo family does not have it, and the little daughter-in-law used to be the second-class maid next to his wife, and once told me that his wife got two big red silk horses, and said that he would keep them for the eldest lady as a dowry." Therefore, when the little one saw the swaddling clothes on the ninth master's body that day, he remembered it very deeply, and muttered in his heart, thinking that it was too eye-catching to use such rich materials for children to make swaddling clothes. ”