Chapter 176: Clues
At the door of Dao's house, there was silence with Daolin's words.
Even Dao Qingyun sighed, originally he thought that Dao Lin was here to make trouble, or even to recognize his relatives, but he never thought that Dao Lin was here for his mother, Chu Wan'er.
"It's all gone, Dowling quit drinking, you two come in." Dao Qingyun waved his hand, dismissed the servants, and said to Dao Lin.
Dowling nodded, it had been eighteen years, and it was the first time he had stepped into the door of a Taoist family.
I have to say that the family is indeed very large, and the decoration is more luxurious than Wei Zhengyang's family, and there are several extraordinary families, which are indeed a big family in the imperial capital.
Inside the living room.
The Taoist family should sit down, and those who should stand, Dao Lin and Qu Shan were not polite, and sat down by themselves.
"Hey... Where does this begin? Dao Qingyun opened his mouth with some worry.
"Second brother, let's start with that night." A middle-aged woman sitting below him spoke.
Dowling's gaze fell on the man.
"Little Daolin is so big in a blink of an eye." The woman smiled when she saw Dowling looking at her.
"I take the liberty of asking, are you the third aunt or the fourth aunt?" Dowling hurriedly got up and saluted.
Dao Wuji once told him that Dao Qingyun is in charge of Taoism, and Dao Qingxia and Dao Qingping don't like to get involved in Taoist affairs, if they encounter it, they must be polite.
"That's right, when you left with Wuji, you were still in your arms, and you should not recognize it, I am Dao Qingxia, your third aunt." Dao Qingxia said with a smile.
Dao Lin hurriedly saluted again, and then bowed to the woman beside Dao Qingxia.
"Dowling has seen the fourth aunt."
"What a clever child, with vision." Dao Qingping said with a smile.
Then Dao Lin turned to look at Dao Qingyun and said, "I'm not here to make trouble this time, and I'm too lazy to be unhappy with you, I'm just here to ask what's going on with my mother." ”
Facing Dao Qingyun, Dao Lin's words were not so polite.
"Hey, you may not believe it, we really don't know the details of your mother's disappearance." Dao Qingyun sighed and said.
"Lin'er, the third aunt testified, we really don't know what's going on here." Dao Qingxia spoke at this time.
"You don't know what's going on, my mother disappeared inexplicably?" Dowling asked with a frown.
"I've already made it clear to you about the events back then, it's all a misunderstanding, and you must have confirmed it through Wujina. Back then, Wuji had to take you away, and in order to keep the foundation of Taoism, we did use your mother to threaten your father to meet the emperor. ”
"But it was by no means house arrest, everyone present at the Taoist scene can testify, we are absolutely full of gratitude to your mother, all the good things everywhere have been given to your mother as compensation, and your mother didn't blame us at that time."
"I don't blame you, forcibly broke up our family, she doesn't blame you?" Dowling said with a sneer.
"Originally, what we planned was that after you settled down with Wuji, we would send your mother over, but seeing that it was the agreed day, we went to look for your mother, but found that there was no one in the house at all, we searched the entire Taoist mansion and didn't find it, and then even we searched the entire imperial capital and disappeared, not even a letter was left."
"At first, we thought that your mother couldn't wait to meet you again, so we left overnight, but I arrived at the first line of heaven to find out that your mother didn't come back at all, which is why Wuji misunderstood."
Dao Qingyun sighed after speaking, looking at him, it didn't look like he was telling a lie.
Dao Lin looked at Dao Qingxia and Dao Qingping again, and the two of them also nodded, he knew that either the Dao family had prepared their rhetoric in advance or that this matter really had nothing to do with them.
"I want to go to my mother's room and have a look, I don't know if it's still there." Dowling said in a deep voice after taking a few deep breaths.
"Come on, I'll take you." Dao Qingyun stood up and said.
Dao Lin nodded and followed behind Dao Qingyun, followed by Quan Drinking, followed by Dao Qingxia and Dao Qingping, and the others disbanded on the spot.
After passing through one yard after another, I finally came to my destination.
Dao Lin saw that Wanlin Yuan was written on the courtyard door, and Dao Qingyun stopped and looked at his third sister.
Dao Qingxia took out a bunch of keys from the storage space and opened the courtyard door.
"This is the only one that keeps the key, and I've always kept it." Dao Qingxia said with a smile.
The courtyard is very clean, there are not even fallen leaves, and at first glance, people often come to clean up, combined with the key that only has one, Dao Lin suddenly has a good impression of Dao Qingxia.
"Thank you, Auntie San." Dowling said respectfully.
"I liked Wan'er very much back then, and after she disappeared, I often came here to sit and clean up when I had nothing to do." Dao Qingxia said with a smile.
This courtyard is not small, but there is only a two-story small building, the small building sits in the north and faces south, with this unmanned courtyard, it seems a little lonely.
Dao Qingxia took out another key and opened the door of the small building.
The room was clean and there was no dust on the tables, chairs and benches.
"Do you still have an impression of this place?" Dao Qingping asked.
Dowling looked around and shook his head, although his memory has increased now, he still can't remember eighteen years ago, and even the memory of time travel was awakened when he was three years old.
"Is that when you're too young, see it for the rocker? Back then, your mother liked to put you on a rocking cart and sit in the yard to bask in the sun. Dao Qingping pointed to a wooden rocker in the corner of the living room and said.
Dowling walked over and reached out to touch it, and suddenly there was a familiar feeling.
"Your room is on the second floor, let's go up." Dao Qingyun said softly.
Dowling nodded, and followed him up to the second floor, where he could see that there were many valuable calligraphy, paintings, and works of art in the house.
When the Taoists were down, these things were placed in their own houses, which shows that they did give good things to their mothers back then.
On the second floor was the bedroom and the study, and Dowling carefully looked at the first corner, everything, hoping to find clues from it, but everything was too normal.
"The layout and items here are all items from the year, except for me who comes to clean up regularly, at most I help dry the quilt and the like, and nothing else has been touched." Dao Qingxia said.
"What happened that day?" Dowling sat on the bed and touched the bed where his father and mother slept in that year, and sighed with emotion.
These words seemed to wake up Dao Qingyun, and his eyes seemed to have fallen into memory.
"Impossible... It shouldn't be..."Dao Qingyun muttered in deep thought.
"Did you remember something?" Dowling was a little excited when he saw this.
"It shouldn't... It shouldn't be..."Dao Qingyun ignored Dao Lin and was still talking to himself.
Even Dao Qingxia and Dao Qingping looked at their second brother with some puzzlement.
"How could she have anything to do with that?"