In front of the small courtyard in Tongmingli, the guards from the City Lord's Mansion formed a circle. Liu Qianling paced around the courtyard with her arms crossed, thinking about how to persuade Mrs. Yang to leave. Zhu Yuan couldn't wait, and had already gone back to the inn to inform Fei Tukong.

"Girl, we've tried everything in the past few months, but it doesn't work. The leading guard said.

Liu Qianling asked: "Do you know where the mother-in-law's daughter went?" This is the "crux" of the old lady, she insisted on staying here to wait for her daughter to return, and when her daughter returned, the problem was naturally solved.

The guards all shook their heads. The leading guard said: "We only know that the old lady's husband's family name is Yang, and her daughter should also be surnamed Yang." ”

"Why, 'Yang' is not her mother-in-law's surname, but her husband's surname?" Liu Qianling was a little surprised.

"The old lady's brain is not very bright, and she can't remember many things clearly, and she can't remember clearly, such as who her surname is. ”

"Then how did you know her husband's surname was Yang?"

The leader of the guards shrugged: "It's the neighbors of Tongmingli who said it." However, no one knows what her surname is, and everyone is generally referred to as 'Mrs. Yang'. ”

"If we can find out the whereabouts of her daughter, it will be easy......" Liu Qianling seemed to muttered to herself.

The leader of the guards smiled bitterly: "This is difficult. According to the neighbors, the old lady's daughter was most likely dead, but she always thought that her daughter was still alive. ”

Liu Qianling suddenly said: "No wonder! I said that her daughter was so unfilial, and she left her mother alone." So, mother-in-law, she's alone, right?"

"That's right. Seeing that Liu Qianling was at a loss, the leader of the guards persuaded, "Take a step back and say, even if her daughter is still alive, the sky and the earth are big, where to find it? Girl, some things are also a last resort, don't get into the horns. We promised to try to be as light as possible when 'inting' the old lady out, so as not to hurt her. ”

Liu Qianling sighed helplessly: "The injury is not in the body, but in the heart." To tell the truth, I originally thought that there was something strange in this alley, and for the sake of my mother-in-law's safety, I also planned to forcibly take my mother-in-law away as a last resort. But now I know that there is nothing wrong with this alley, and I can't bear to do it. ”

"But we can't spend a day here with you. ”

"In this way, you go back first, and then tolerate it for a day, I will definitely find a way to get my mother-in-law to leave Tongmingli today, how about it?"

"This ......" the leader of the guards looked very embarrassed. On the contrary, another guard persuaded: "Brother Zhang, since this girl is caring for the old lady, let's give her a day." Besides, we've been dragging on all these days, and it's not a bad day, is it?"

"That'...... Alright!" said the leader of the guards to Liu Qianling, "but this is the last day, if the old lady is still here when we come tomorrow, we will have to use our strength." ”

"Well, thank you. Liu Qianling gave it away.

After the guards left, Liu Qianling returned to the house. The old lady was still curled up in the pile of torn clothes, muttering, "Go!

Liu Qianling was very distressed, forced a smile, and squatted down in front of the old lady: "Yes, mother-in-law, they are all gone." But they will come back tomorrow. Before you do that, how about you go with me to the inn to take refuge?"

"No, no, I will never leave the house until my daughter comes back. "The old lady only admits this dead reason.

"Your daughter is already ......" Liu Qianling almost blurted out, but the words came to her mouth and swallowed again. The old lady is so delirious, I don't know what the consequences will be if I hit her again.

"What's wrong with my daughter?" the old lady shook her shoulders while hugging Liu Qianling.

As a last resort, Liu Qianling had no choice but to lie: "Your daughter has returned to Piaoding City." ”

The old lady was stunned, silent for a long time, and did not move.

"Mother-in-law?"

"My daughter...... Are you back?" the old lady burst into two lines of tears, sliding down her wrinkled face.

"yes, she's back. Liu Qianling also wanted to cry.

"She's finally back...... Finally back......" the old lady muttered, "then why didn't she come home?"

Liu Qianling was about to speak, but the old lady shouted again: "Here it is! Here it is again!" Liu Qianling looked out of the courtyard and saw no figure.

"They're almost at the door!" the old lady shrank back into the pile of rags.

"Could it be that the group of guards went and returned?" Liu Qianling got up and walked out of the house and came to the outside of the courtyard.

There are really people here, but it's not the guards, but Zhu Yuanlai and Fei Tukong. As soon as Fei Tukong saw Liu Qianling, he complained: "Qianling, you really make it easy for me to find!"

"Didn't I say don't call me that in front of outsiders?"

"Brother Zhu, what kind of outsider is he? Okay, okay, I know the general situation, I'm here to help you. ”

"Help, how to help?" Liu Qianling thought he was going to forcibly take the old lady away.

"The old lady thinks about her daughter, but according to my estimate, her daughter will probably never come back. ”

"I know that too. ”

"As long as her daughter comes back, the old lady is willing to leave. We just need to make a fake daughter, won't we?" Fei Tukong whispered.

"Huh?" Liu Qianling's eyes widened.

Fei Tukong squeezed his eyes at her: "Well, isn't there a ready-made one? You are so good to her, I think it's almost the same as my own daughter." You can just be aggrieved for the time being, pretend to be the old lady's daughter, and coax her to a new house in the east of the city to settle down!

"Good idea!" Zhu Yuanlai also agreed with this method, "I just don't know if the old lady will remember the appearance of her daughter." ”

"Most of the time I can't remember. Wonderful, really wonderful! I wanted to pretend that her daughter was waiting for her in the east of the city, and then I would lie to her first. You've really come up with a good idea!" Liu Qianling was overjoyed.

"Uh...... That's fine

Ah, the two methods are similar, both are to coax the old lady away first. "Wasteland.

"No, it's completely different!" Liu Qianling said excitedly and rushed into the room.

Fei Tukong looked at Zhu Yuanlai inexplicably: "Brother Zhu, what's the difference?"

Zhu Yuanlai touched his chin and smiled: "It's the same to say the same, and it's different to say different." It's all in Miss Liu's thoughts. ”

"What's the riddle?" Fei Tukong pouted.

"We'll see. Zhu Yuanlai patted him on the shoulder, "I have to talk to Miss Liu face to face if you have any important things, just tell me first, and I will convey it?"

"Hehe, I haven't seen you for a day, I miss her. ”

"People don't want you, haha!" Zhu Yuanlai was a little gloating.

Fei Tukong said seriously: "That's her business." I was satisfied when I saw her. You see, after Qianling washed all the lead, is it like a hibiscus out of the water?"

"Okay, okay, you just look good. Zhu Yuanlai shook his head and sighed secretly, Fei Tukong, this guy has completely fallen in love.

In the house, Liu Qianling comforted the old lady first: "Mother-in-law, it's not a 'demon' from outside, it's my two good friends, don't be afraid." After finishing speaking, she bit her lower lip slightly, since she was going to pretend to be a daughter, she had to change her title first.

"Mother......" she shouted timidly.

The old lady's body trembled: "Girl, what did you call me just now?"

"Mother, I'm your daughter, don't you recognize me?" Liu Qianling looked at the old lady eagerly, and couldn't finish the next sentence of the old lady.

"You, you are my daughter-in-law, then why did you call me 'mother-in-law' before?" the old lady stretched out her hands to Liu Qianling tremblingly.

Liu Qianling was ecstatic in her heart, the old lady really didn't remember her daughter's appearance!" "No wonder my mother-in-law said I was not filial last night, I think she probably took me as a substitute for her daughter, right?" she thought to herself.

"Mother, the neighbors say that you are confused and can't remember what your daughter looks like, so I'll call you 'mother-in-law' first to see if you still recognize me. Mother, you really don't remember. Liu Qianling took the old lady's hand and put it on her face.

The old lady burst into tears: "Remember, of course my mother remembers! After seeing you last night, the more I look at it, the more I feel like my Yu'er! However, you still call me 'mother-in-law' as if you don't know your mother, and your mother doesn't dare to recognize me!"

"Mother, you have been wronged. Liu Qianling couldn't bear to say.

The old lady burst into tears and laughed: "Where are you wronged? Not wronged, not wronged at all! Last night, you chatted with your mother, and your mother fell asleep, and you covered your mother's clothes." If you weren't your daughter, how could you be so good to your mother?"

Liu Qianling's tears endured again and again, and after hearing this, she couldn't hold back anymore, and threw herself into the old lady's arms and cried loudly.

The old lady hugged her, caressed her back, and comforted: "Good boy, don't be sad, our mother and daughter are reunited after a long absence, it's a happy event!"

"Yes, yes, mother, the house here is going to be demolished, you leave with your daughter, okay?" Liu Qianling cried and persuaded.

"Okay! Actually, my mother also knows that I won't stay here for long, the neighbors have already moved away one after another, and those 'evil ghosts' always come to urge my mother to leave, but I'm just worried, what if you come back, you can't find your home, you can't find your mother, you're lonely, what should I do?"

Liu Qianling has already cried into tears.

"Don't cry, mother, let's clean up, let's go!" the old lady stood up and busied herself in the messy room. In fact, in this dilapidated home, the only thing worth cleaning up is the family affection that will never die!

The two people outside the courtyard heard the crying coming from the room and knew that it was done. Fei Tukong smiled proudly at Zhu Yuan: "What's the matter?"

Zhu Yuanlai gave him a thumbs up.

Liu Qianling watched the old lady happily work for a long time, picking up a lot of tattered things from the corners: there were tattered clothes, a few large moldy and festering rag rolls, a few decent jewelry, and even a dirty rag doll that couldn't distinguish the color. The old lady muttered quietly while cleaning up: "This is the cloth that my mother prepared for you to make clothes, I haven't seen you for many years, and I don't know if you are fat or thin, so I haven't ......done it" "Oh, these pieces of jewelry, is the mother asked the stall at the entrance of the alley to come, the mother has no money, so I have to pester the little brother every day, and finally maybe people are annoyed, throw me these pieces of jewelry, my mother herself is reluctant to use, has been for you to collect it, wait for you to come back to put on ......" Also, this doll is your favorite when you were a child, you hold it wherever you go, and you don't even want to let go of sleep, and you are not there for many years, your mother lives on this doll! When I miss you, I look at her, and sometimes I feel that she seems to be alive, as if she has something to say to my mother. Oh, I wouldn't be surprised if one day she called me 'mother'......"

Liu Qianling couldn't cry. Chunhui inch grass, the world's mother's heart!

In the end, the old lady took out a small round box out of nowhere and handed it to Liu Qianling: "Girl, you can use this box of rouge gouache, a girl's family shows up outside, you have to dress up!"

Liu Qianling was stunned, trembling like sifting chaff. How could this scene be so much like it used to be?

Seeing that she hadn't taken the box for a long time, the old lady said a little apologetically: "It's a little bit this time, but this is already the best thing my mother can come up with!

"No, no, how could I be disgusted? I'm so happy, mother, thank you!" Liu Qianling's tears today were broken, and when he opened the box and looked at it, a choking smell came to his nose, and the contents were naturally unusable. She covered the box and said to the old lady: "Mother, I will definitely keep this box of rouge gouache!"

"Why, don't you use it?" the old lady was a little disappointed.

Liu Qianling comforted her: "I'm reluctant, this is what my mother exchanged for the precious bracelet given by my father, and I want to keep it with me forever."

"Okay. By the way, I asked you to wash off those rouge gouaches last night, my mother is actually not stinky, but I think you don't recognize my mother, and I feel a little angry, you don't blame my mother!"

"Mother, give me all these things, I don't lack clothes to wear, I don't lack jewelry, just let me keep them." ”

The old lady was very happy: "Well, looking at what you are wearing, you should be better off than your mother." ”

Liu Qianling put the bag full of mother's love "tatters" into the storage magic weapon, and put it together with the inferior rouge gouache that he usually painted.

The old lady looked around at the dilapidated home and sighed reluctantly: "Alas, gone, finally leaving." My daughter came to pick me up. ”

"Mother, I will be filial to you in the future. Liu Qianling walked out of the house with the old lady in her arms.

Fei Tukong saw Liu Qianling's eyes red and swollen from crying, and sighed: "You are really ...... "Originally, he wanted to say "into the play", but he was afraid that the old lady would see through it, so he changed his words in a hurry.

Liu Qianling glared at him, but with her eyes red and swollen, she didn't know if Fei Tukong could notice that she was glaring at him. "You two, come and see my mother. She urged.

"Well, this guy just came. The old lady looked at Zhu Yuanlai.

"Zhu Yuan has come to see the old lady. He bowed.

"Old lady, my name is Fei Tukong, and I am a good friend of your daughter. Fei Tukong also saluted.

"Okay, okay, you are all good friends of Yu'er, thank you for taking care of her for me!"

Names are a nuisance. Liu Qianling was inspired and asked, "Mother, I'll test you again, do you remember what your daughter's full name is?"

"Why don't you remember? Yang Yuhan! This name was given by your father, and he said that his daughter is Jin Gui, and she has jade rank beads, so she will be called Yuhan! But your mother usually calls your milk name - Yu'er, how is it, does your mother remember clearly?" said the old lady proudly.

Liu Qianling smiled: "Yes, my mother has a clear mind, how can she be as confused as those neighbors say?"

Fei Tukong quietly nodded at Liu Qianling and signaled: Gao Ming!

Zhu Yuanlai whistled easily: "Let's go!"

"Slow, you still praise your mother for being clear-headed, and I forgot to take the cane, so I'll go back to the house to get it. The old lady said.

Zhu Yuan said: "Old lady, I don't think you have inconvenient legs and feet, don't use that crutch." ”

Liu Qianling also persuaded: "Yes, mother, that crutch is old, if you really want it, wait for me to make you a new one." ”

"No, that rod has been with me all my life, and I can't get used to anything else. The old lady went back to the house herself.

"A lifetime? It's an exaggeration, I guess it took a few years at most. Fei Tukong thought it was funny.

"Shhh

"Yes, yes, now the old lady has your daughter to support her!" said Fei Tu Kong.

When the old lady took out her crutches from the house, the four of them went out of Tongmingli together.

On the bright and outside streets, people come and go, and it is not lively. The old lady may not have been out of the alley for a long time, and she looked around excitedly and exclaimed: "Good-looking, good-looking! Piaoding City is so prosperous, our row of old houses should indeed be demolished." ”

"Old lady, your new home is in the ...... city" Fei Tukong was halfway through his words, and the back of his hand was suddenly pinched by Liu Qianling, and the words stopped. Fei Tukong didn't understand what she meant, and turned his head to look at her. But Liu Qianling pretended not to do anything, chatting with the old lady. Zhu Yuanlai dragged Fei Tukong behind and whispered, "It seems that Miss Liu has made a decision." ”

"What decision?" Fei Tukong did not understand.

"Decide how to settle the old lady. ”

"Isn't there a new house in the east of the city? There must be one that belongs to her!"

"There is a house, but what about the people? The old lady has just reunited with her 'girl', and she left her like this?"

"That's no way, you can't take it with you...... Ah!" Fei Tukong didn't suddenly realize until this time, he finally knew Liu Qianling's intentions, "She is going to take the old lady with her! No wonder you said before, 'It's all in Miss Liu's thoughts'!"

"It seems that Miss Liu's parents should be gone. It is a good thing to have such a 'mother' who allows her to fulfill her filial piety and relieve the pain of the old man's longing. Zhu Yuanlai looked at the intimate backs of the pair of "mother and daughter" in front of him, "Miss Liu's heart is kinder than her appearance, and your vision is good." ”

"Of course!" Fei Tukong had just finished his smugness, and then he realized that his words were wrong, "Hey, what do you mean by 'kinder than she looks'?

"Haha, the person you like will naturally look good everywhere. Let's not talk about this, this old lady is not a simple character. Zhu Yuanlai put away his smile.

"What do you mean?" No matter how Fei Tukong looked, the old lady was very simple, just a mother who wanted to be a girl.

Zhu Yuanlai reminded: "Look at her crutch." ”

Fei Tukong looked at the old lady's hand, and he was an ordinary staff, but he didn't see the reason.

"The old lady has very sharp legs, and when she first saw me in the morning, she ran around with her teeth and claws! Zhu Yuan said. Indeed, when he was in the yard, he said something similar to the old lady. "I tried to try it, but she insisted on going back to the house to get it, and I thought there must be something strange about it. So I've been keeping an eye on that crutch since I was discharged from the hospital. ”

"Did you find anything?"

"The cane doesn't seem to be made of wood, and the pestle can easily poke out white marks on the bluestone road, so it should be quite heavy. Zhu Yuan analyzed.

Hearing him say this, Fei Tukong suddenly became nervous. The crutches are very heavy, but the old lady is quite easy to handle, that is to say, the old lady's arm strength is not trivial. He was worried that the old lady deliberately approached Liu Qianling, whether she had ulterior motives.

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