In addition to a few people around Huo Roufeng, only a dozen or so brought by Mama Liu from the capital are considered old people, and the others have been purchased in Xi'an in recent years.

Except for An Hai in the mine and Zhang Xuan in the refining workshop, Huo Roufeng's people all followed her on the expedition, and Mama Liu brought two families, both of whom were in the mansion at this time, but they were not able to follow Ah Shang.

Time was pressing, and Mama Liu was so anxious that she had foaming on her mouth. It's not that Mama Liu has no one in her hands, in the past two years, she has also taught (prevented) a few little girls, ready to leave them to Ah Shang, but Ah Shang herself is not yet two years old, and the little girls that Mama Liu prepared for Ah Shang are all seven or eight years old, just waiting for Ah Shang to grow to seven or eight years old and have their own yard, these girls are thirteen or fourteen years old, just enough to let go.

Where did I think that Ah Shang was going to leave, these little girls who were only seven or eight years old could not come in handy.

Seeing that the set day was approaching day by day, Mama Liu had no choice but to beg Xie Honglin, allowing her to pick a few girls in Zhuangzi, come back to teach for more than ten days, and then let the big girl with the past guide on the road.

When Mrs. Huo came to Shaanxi, she asked people to help Huo Roufeng buy a grange shop near Xi'an, in addition to Huo Roufeng who took it out to make a refining workshop and live for Xiao Ye, there were also a few granges, and the silver from Zhanhuai was taken to raise soldiers, and the old and young on Chang'an Street used the income of these granges.

Hearing that she had to pick someone in Zhuangzi, Xie Honglin smiled and said, "How can it be so troublesome, haven't you already decided on two?" Let these two go with Ah Shang, if Mrs. Zhong suspects that she doesn't have enough manpower, let her send someone from Fujian. ”

Now that Xie Honglin has spoken, this matter will not be over. After Mrs. Zhong heard about it, she said to Mama Ruoshui: "This reminds me, I will prepare a few people for Ah Shang when I return to Fujian." ”

In a blink of an eye, the day before leaving, early in the morning, Xie Honglin asked people to carry Ah Sheng to her room, the little Ah Shang seemed to have known that she was going to be separated from her grandmother, she behaved very sensibly, she didn't cry, the maid brought the egg custard over, Xie Honglin fed her to eat, and she ate most of the bowl obediently.

Xie Honglin wiped her mouth with a handkerchief, and said to her softly: "Your mother is very busy, maybe she can't accompany you every day like your grandmother and grandmother, you have to be obedient when you arrive in Luoyang, don't make trouble for your mother, remember?" ”

Although she couldn't understand what her grandmother was saying, Ah Shang still smiled and agreed: "Yes." ”

After speaking, she pointed to the Western clock on the Hundred Treasure Pavilion: "I want it." ”

Xie Honglin asked people to take down the Western clock and put it on the kang table, and the Western clock was bracketed, and every time it was on the hour, there would be a bird fluttering its wings and jumping out. Every time Ah Shang came to Xie Honglin's house, he would lie on the kang and wait to see the birds.

Xie Honglin said to the maid beside her: "Put this bell up in a while and bring it to Ah Sheng with you, although her mother does not lack this, but Luoyang may not be able to find it." ”

At this moment, a little maid ran in, saying that Mama Liu was coming.

In the past few days, Mama Liu has been preparing for Mrs. Zhong and Ah Sheng to travel, and she is so busy that her feet don't touch the ground, and she will come to Xie Honglin from time to time to ask for instructions.

Xie Honglin nodded and let her in, Mama Liu hurriedly walked in, blessed, and said to Xie Honglin: "Madam, the concierge came in with a word, saying that a relative from Hangzhou had come over, and the slave thought that Hangzhou should not be looking for here, so she felt strange, went to the front yard and took a sneak look, but she didn't expect it to be a relative from Hangzhou." ”

Since it is from Hangzhou, it is a relative of the Huo family, except for Master Huo and Mrs. Huo, Xie Honglin is not familiar with the people of the Huo family, but she does not object to Huo Roufeng and the relatives of the Huo family, but how did the people of the Huo family come to Xi'an and find here?

"Who is here, is there a letter from Mrs. Huo?" Unless it was sent by Mrs. Huo, there would be something strange about this matter.

Mama Liu said: "The slave maid didn't ask if there was a letter from the eldest lady, because the person who came, the slave and maid knew it, and knew that the eldest lady would never let him come to the fifth lady." ”

"Who?" Xie Honglin asked.

"It's the third master of the second room of the Huo family's room!" Mama Liu told how Huo Zixing wanted to compete for the second family property back then, wanted to succeed her son in every possible way, and how the eldest lady and the ninth master rectified them later.

That year, the news of the death of the ninth master reached Hangzhou, and it didn't take long for Huo Sanye to bring a group of relatives to the capital, and he said that he wanted to take the coffin of the ninth master back to the ancestral tomb in Hangzhou, but in fact, he saw that there was no man in the second room, and he wanted to bring up the old things again. At that time, the director of the concierge happened to be An Hai's father, the old man was a powerful character, and he just blocked them out, and the eldest lady didn't know about it after hearing about it, and didn't let them enter the door, just when the first emperor died, the city was heavily guarded, these people first guarded in front of the Shuangjing Hutong for a day, and then the people from the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division came and blasted them out of the capital, and I haven't heard of them in the past few years. ”

After the death of the first emperor, there was a lot of trouble in the capital for a while, and then the queen was imprisoned, the Wang family was sent down, and the Ming and Emperor ascended the throne, only to stabilize slightly.

The people of the Huo family were blown away at that time, and it was not that Mrs. Huo intended to deal with them, but that more than a dozen of them came at that time, and there were also twenty or thirty people with the servants, who were noisy and noisy, and it looked like they had come to the capital to make trouble, so they were expelled from the capital by the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division without the help of Mrs. Huo.

After hearing what Mama Liu said, Xie Honglin frowned: "So Huo San and Xiaofeng have a grudge, so what is he going to do?" ”

Besides, as we all know, Zhanhuai's wife's surname is Xie, and it was also Xie who raised troops with Zhanhuai, what happened to Guan Huojiu?

When Xie Honglin thought of this, she was suspicious, and said to Mama Liu: "Don't show up, let others invite him in." ”

Mama Liu is the son of the Huo family, and she is a mama with a head and a face, Huo San has seen her.

After a while, Steward Chen of the outer courtyard asked Huo San to come in. Although Huo San was neatly dressed and had a jade pendant hanging around his waist, but if he looked closely, the material of the clothes was very ordinary, and the style was also a few years ago, and the color of the jade pendant was not good, and the whole person looked a little embarrassed.

Steward Chen came from the capital, Huo San didn't know him, and when he saw Steward Chen looking at him, Huo San asked, "Isn't there an old man from Hangzhou in the house?" ”

Mama Liu had already told Steward Chen before that he should not mention the Huo family's affairs, and it should have nothing to do with the Huo family.

So he said, "Hangzhou? This uncle, just now the villain wanted to ask you, you said that you are a relative of my wife, and said that you came from Hangzhou, but the villain does not know that my wife still has noble relatives in Hangzhou, how do you and my wife call you? The villain asked clearly, so he could go and talk to the old lady. ”

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