Thinking of this, Hu Xuanyun asked helplessly: "Then why before, my husband had not only a village, but also a town?"

The old man kept explaining, "Actually, in the eyes of us villagers, that place is not a town at all!"

Hu Xuanyun wondered: "What is this method, my husband still had a town there before, why is it not a town at this time?"

"Well, well, in our opinion, that place is actually a market with the size of a town, and that place has never been recognized by the imperial court, so that this place is not a town at all in our opinion, but only a market with the size of a town. ”

Hu Xuanyun became even more curious: "But my husband, even if it's just a market, it has the scale of a town, why doesn't the imperial court recognize it or simply build a town there?"

"It's... You don't understand the doll, since it's a market, it means that there are not so many people coming and going there all the time, and I guess it's for this reason that the imperial court doesn't directly build a town there. The old guy was choked by Hu Xuanyun's question at first, but then he didn't know how to pretend to understand and came up with an excuse at random.

Of course, Hu Xuanyun heard it, that kind of reason was just made up by the old guy himself, and the real situation would definitely not be as he said.

However, it is estimated that he can't ask anything from the old guy's mouth, so Hu Xuanyun stopped talking about this topic.

When they entered the house, after Hu Xuanyun and the old man sat down, the old guy called loudly to his granddaughter to come over.

After the girl came over, the old guy asked her to hurry up and pack up the guest room, ready to lend Hu Xuanyun for a temporary stay for one night.

However, the girl didn't move, just said in a voice: "Guest... The guest room, I have just cleaned up, and the quilt and everything are taken outside to dry. ”

When the old man heard it, he obviously had a smiling face, but the tone of his words was full of complaints: "Hmph, there were guests in the house before, why don't you see you so diligent!"

"Grandpa, you..." The girl's face turned red when she was complained by the old guy, and she peeked at Hu Xuanyun from time to time, for fear that she would be misunderstood by Hu Xuanyun as that kind of lazy person.

After seeing the girl's performance, the old guy also had a helpless expression, and sighed: "What are you still doing standing there stupidly, don't you hurry up and pour tea and water for this doll, by the way, pour a good pot of tea in the house." ”

After the girl sighed, she ran out to boil water.

The old guy pretended to sigh there, as if he was really helpless for the girl, but then he didn't see Hu Xuanyun talking, so he changed the topic and asked about Hu Xuanyun's family affairs.

"By the way, doll, you see I don't know what your name is, and where you live, is it convenient, or I can't always call you a doll!"

"Oh, it's not down, I forgot to report my family, and I ask my uncle to forgive me, I was born in Xuanyun City near Xuanyun Mountain, and it can be regarded as a scholarly family, anyway, my father and grandfather are also scholars.

As for Zaixia, surnamed Hu and named Xuanyun, he has studied in the academy for several years, and he is currently out to travel. Hu Xuanyun pretended to be modest, but the pride in his tone was very obvious.

As for what Xuanyun City is, it is completely just Hu Xuanyun's own nonsense, that is, whether there is a Xuanyun City near Xuanyun Mountain, she doesn't know at all, and she is not worried that this old guy will know what Xuanyun City is, because Xuanyun Mountain is not close to here.

That old guy may not have really heard of Xuanyun City, but he has heard of Xuanyun Mountain, so he didn't have any suspicions.

As for Hu Xuanyun's words that she came out to travel, there is nothing to doubt, because there are countless things like Hu Xuanyun who go out to travel, and they can be regarded as mainstream activities of reading.

So there is naturally nothing to doubt about Hu Xuanyun's explanation.

After answering, Hu Xuanyun immediately changed the topic, she was really worried that if this old guy continued to ask, she would show something, so she quickly changed the topic and asked: "By the way, old man, I don't know why your son and daughter-in-law are not at home, is there something going out?"

After Hu Xuanyun talked about his son and daughter-in-law, the original smile on the old guy's face dispersed, and even the surrounding atmosphere seemed a little dull.

Sure enough, I saw that the old guy's eyes were cloudy and stunned, and he didn't know what he was thinking, and after a while, he sighed and said: "My daughter-in-law was born to her granddaughter, and she had a difficult birth, and then my son was also sad and unwilling to continue to stay in the village, so he went to join the army, and even my granddaughter didn't care." ”