On the table were two purses, one green with cute chicks embroidered on top, and the other beige, with a sprig of spring flowers embroidered with tender green and light yellow.

The stitching method is immature, and the embroidered pattern is also immature, so it looks like a beginner's work.

These two purses are Du Yunnuan's embroidery.

And there were three people sitting around this purse, it was Uncle Zhang, Aunt Ruan and an old woman with gray hair.

The old woman's hair was combed in a bun at the back of her head, not a single hair came out casually, and her clothes were mainly gray and blue, and the whole person looked meticulous.

At this time, she was looking at the two purses on the table with a serious face.

Aunt Ruan looked at her expression, thought for a while and said, "Mother, take a look at these two purses, are they in the same vein as our family's embroidery?" ”

The woman who was called her mother by Aunt Ruan was called Ruan Ying, and she was Xie Zhiqing's master of etiquette and the master of female red and piano art.

Ruan Ying was also born in a scholarly family when she was young, and when she grew up, she married a scholar, and the couple gave birth to a daughter, and their lives were also very smooth.

It's a pity that her husband was killed by a bandit on the way to the imperial capital to catch the exam, leaving their mother and daughter to rely on each other.

Ruan Ying's husband is a lifter, and the family also has some industries, and the county also subsidizes some rice and grain for their family every year, so they don't have to worry about life.

Ruan Ying likes to play the piano since she was a child, and her mother is the successor of Tianxiangliu embroidery, so she passed on her embroidery kung fu to her.

It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, and several hooligans in the county knew that Ruan Ying's husband had died, so they saw the sky coming to make trouble, and Ruan Ying's mother-in-law was also angry to death.

Nguyen Anh didn't want to be harassed anymore, so she took her only daughter and prepared to move.

Who knows that the news leaked out somehow, and those gangsters made up their minds to defile the mother and daughter, so they blocked the road to kill and rob.

The coachman hired by Nguyen Anh was killed, and the only guard escorted the mother and daughter to escape, and in the process of escaping, the guard also died, and Nguyen Anh hid her daughter in a straw pile, intending to lure the people away first.

But when she got rid of the people and returned to the straw pile, her daughter was no longer there.

And the bandits in that place were rampant, and she heard that the bandits had come out to loot the night before, and even robbed some women and children, and her eyes suddenly went dark.

Frightened all the way, not to mention, but also assassinated, Ruan Ying fainted without holding it for a while, and was touched by Xie Xianyu and Yan Suining, who were returning to Chixia from the imperial capital at that time, and the couple saved Ruan Ying.

When Ruan Ying woke up, Xie Xianyu and Yan Suining listened to Ruan Ying's story, and Xie Xianyu immediately took Xie Yongyan's post to meet the local prefect, and the prefect sent troops to exterminate the bandits, but Ruan Ying's daughter was not found.

Yan Suining saw that Ruan Ying was a weak woman, so she left someone to find her daughter locally, but took Ruan Ying to Chixia.

Ruan Ying did not completely attach herself to the Xie family after arriving in Chixia, she had first-class piano skills, so she went to the class for women in Chixia Academy to teach piano skills, and now that she is too old to teach, she was invited back by Xie Chi to teach Xie Zhiqing alone.

Aunt Ruan's name is Ruan Wenqing, she is a little girl picked up by Ruan Ying, she grew up in Chixia Town since she was a child, and finally fell in love with Zhang Wai, who snatched Xie Zhiqing from the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion, and then fled all the way back to Chixia.

Although Zhang Wai was five years older than her, she still married Zhang Wai without hesitation, and saw that Xie Zhiqing at that time suddenly lost her mother and was very pitiful, so she simply became Xie Zhiqing's housekeeper mother and took care of this little girl.

Ruan Wenqing has always known that his adoptive mother had a daughter before, and the adoptive mother has never given up looking for that daughter, although it is very likely that the daughter is no longer alive, but whether it is Ruan Ying, Ruan Wenqing and Zhang Wei, they are not willing to give up that possibility.

Ruan Wenqing's embroidery is also taught by Ruan Ying, she felt familiar when she saw Du Yunnuan's stitching, this is not Du Yunnuan's two purses embroidered, the more she looked at this stitch, the more she felt that it was the same as the embroidery needle she learned.

She still remembers that her adoptive mother said that her adoptive mother's daughter was ten years old when she was lost with her adoptive mother, and she had learned embroidery with her adoptive mother for four or five years.

When Du Yunnuan gave the purse to Zhang Wei before, Ruan Wenqing was not sure of Du Yunnuan's embroidery skills, she was worried that Du Yunnuan had a strong imitation ability, and she didn't stare carefully when the two little girls sat together to embroider, afraid that Du Yunnuan embroidered according to Xie Zhiqing's technique.

Later, Du Yunnuan embroidered a purse of spring flowers, which is not like a duckling when embroidering chickens, it is completely Du Yunnuan's own hands, basically there is nothing to doubt.

Ruan Wenqing took Zhang Wei's purse that he confiscated and the purse he took from Xie Zhiqing under the pretext of helping Xie Zhiqing wash and put on herbs to Ruan Ying, and asked Ruan Ying to confirm.

Although Ruan Ying's expression was serious, her hands were shaking when she reached for the two purses.

Ruan Wenqing immediately understood that his adoptive mother was just holding on on the outside, and she was afraid that she was worried, excited and scared, and a variety of emotions were mixed.

"Did you ask her what her mother's name was?"

Ruan Wenqing shook his head, "Isn't it strange that I suddenly ran to ask someone what a little girl's name is?" ”

"And that girl is quite strict-mouthed, when she talks to her, she will never say more than what she shouldn't say."

Ruan Ying knew that the purse of the spring flower was given to Xie Zhiqing by Du Yunnuan, and Xie Zhiqing liked Du Yunnuan quite much, so she reached out and grabbed the chicken purse.

Zhang Wei also knew that his mother-in-law had been looking for her daughter for more than ten years, so he immediately said, "Mother, you can take this purse." ”

"I also have the duckling purse that Miss gave me, and it's good for me to use that."

Ruan Wenqing glared at Zhang Wai angrily.

Ruan Ying didn't care about the eyes of the little couple, she was silent for a while, "That girl's name is Du Yunnuan?" ”

"Yes, I inquired a little, she was rescued from the river by Yan Houye, I don't know what the specific situation is, I heard that her family is in Quxi County next door."

Ruan Ying's hand paused.

The place where she and her daughter were separated was in Quxi County, could it be that for so many years, her daughter has been in Quxi County, and she has married and had children?

Ruan Ying stretched out her other hand to hold her trembling hand, "Wen Qing, you go and ask her, can you meet me, I'...... I want to ask about her mother. ”