In the end, Zhang Huban, who hesitated slightly, followed the woman into the Lin Mansion.

The woman took Zhang Huban to a quiet back garden in the Lin Mansion, and when she entered Zhang Huban, she saw at a glance the mature and beautiful woman in the garden pavilion wearing a snow-white robe and looking at this side with a look of expectation.

"Miss, the person has arrived," the woman who led Zhang Huban to the outside of the pavilion stepped forward and said respectfully to the mature beauty.

"Yumei, you go down first!" The mature and beautiful woman who had been staring at Zhang Huban commanded the woman beside her, and after she left respectfully, she couldn't help but beckoned to Zhang Huban with a little excitement: "Come close, let me take a good look." ”

Silently stepped forward, came to the shore of Zhang Lake in the pavilion, looked at the mature beautiful woman and said calmly: "I don't know why you called me here?"

"Child, you... Are you abandoning you back then, so you refuse to recognize your mother?" The mature beautiful woman couldn't help but look at Zhang Huban with red eyes and asked in a trembling voice.

Zhang Huban shook his head lightly and said, "No! If you didn't want me, you wouldn't have given birth to me in the first place." I don't blame you, and I'm alive and well now. ”

"You rescued my mother, didn't you?" since you came, why didn't you come to see your mother?" asked the mature beautiful woman.

"What's the point of seeing or not seeing? No matter what the reason, the relationship between you and me, mother and son, has been broken more than 20 years ago. Why bother with the past? Now, I am a monk and a cultivator. This time I came to the red world, just to get rid of the dust and experience it. After all, I still have to go back to the mountain to practice the immortal path with the master," Zhang Huban said and bowed slightly to the mature beautiful woman: "I should go, you take care of your body." ”

Seeing that Zhang Huban was about to turn around and leave after speaking, the mature beautiful woman couldn't help but cry with tears in her eyes: "Child, my mother has been looking forward to it for so many years, and I finally saw you, do you really have the heart to abandon your mother so much?"

"In life, there is always separation, but sooner or later," Zhang Huban, who said with a slight pause, left with a firm step.

"Okay, if you are really so ruthless, after you step out of the Lin Mansion, today next year will be my mother's death day," the mature beauty woman decisively said.

Zhang Huban, who stopped again, couldn't help frowning and turned to look at the mature beauty in the pavilion, and said a little helplessly: "Why do you force me like this?"

"Child, my mother doesn't want to force you, my mother can't wait to give you all the best things in the world to make up for the debt to you for so many years," the mature beauty shook her head and choked up: "However, my mother really doesn't want to lose you again." If I can't see you again, what's the point of my mother's life? Son, do you really not feel sorry for your mother's heart at all?"

Listening to the words of the mature and beautiful woman, Zhang Huban, whose expression was slightly complicated, couldn't help but secretly regret in his heart, maybe he shouldn't have come in the first place. It's good now, it's not easy to get out.

"My mother doesn't ask for anything else, I don't ask you to give up your cultivation, and I don't expect you to be by my mother's side forever. But you have to tell your mother where you are and where you are practicing. At the very least, I can let my mother go and meet you when she misses you," the mature beauty continued.

Zhang Huban, who sighed secretly in his heart, nodded after a little hesitation: "Okay! Then I'll tell you." In the future, if you have to see me, you can go to Wudang Mountain in Hubei, and I will practice there, and the Tao is Yunming. Because the old Taoist priests of the Wudang faction who took me away and raised me at the beginning have a relatively high rank and ignore mundane things, ordinary Wudang people are afraid that they don't know me. However, the head of the Wudang faction knows me. If you go to Wudang Mountain, you can go to him and ask me about my whereabouts. ”

"But because I went down the mountain this time, I shouldn't be able to return to Wudang Mountain in a short time. As for when I can go back, I can't say this," Zhang Huban shook his head and said again.

The mature beautiful woman nodded her eyes when she heard this, and said: "Oh, it turns out that it was a master of the Wudang faction who took you away at the beginning! No wonder, my son has learned a good skill, and my mother's illness for so many years has not only healed, but also feels reborn." By the way, child, you said that you went down the mountain to practice, have you ever thought about where you are going? If you are not in a hurry, stay for a while to accompany your mother, okay?"

"This... I'm afraid it's inconvenient.." Hesitantly saying that seeing the mature beauty's disappointed expression when he heard this, Zhang Huban couldn't help but feel a trace of unbearability in his heart, and said: "However, I am going to go to Shanghai, maybe I will spend some days there." ”

As soon as she heard that Zhang Huban was going to Shanghai, the mature beautiful woman's face suddenly showed joy again: "Shanghai? By the way, my mother remembers that she bought a house in Shanghai back then, but it has been vacant for many years. Son, if you go to Shanghai, why don't you go and live there! When I get back, I'll send a telegram and tell someone to clean up the place. ”

"Child, you don't have to rush to Shanghai, right? Why don't you stay for one night today and leave early tomorrow morning!" the mature beauty then couldn't help but look forward to it.

Zhang Huban, who was a little helpless when he heard this, still nodded and agreed: "Okay then! That's right,.. Mother, my common name, Zhang Huban, is based on the master's surname. Because Master picked me up by the West Lake, he gave me the name 'Lakeside'. ”

"Lakeside, good, the old fairy has this name, it's nice to hear and remember, good, it's really good." Listening to Zhang Huban teach his mother, the mature beauty was suddenly pleasantly surprised.

Next, the mature beautiful woman took Zhang Huhu to her residence and pulled him to say a lot of things. Lunch and dinner were cooked by her own person, which was very hearty, which made Zhang Lakeside experience a rare maternal love and family warmth.

The mother and son chatted for a long time that night, and Zhang Huban found that his mother was a very intelligent person, different from many women who were bound by feudal ideas in this era, but very far-sighted. The most important thing is that she understands new ideas and even foreigners, and is completely a representative of a progressive woman.

Early the next morning, she got up early to prepare breakfast for Zhang Huban, and happily watched him finish the hearty breakfast.

When Zhang Huban left in the morning, she didn't stop her, and she didn't even send Zhang Huban out of the house in person, but just let her personal maid Yumei send Zhang Huban away, which seemed to be very affordable and could be put down.

Under the leadership of Yumei, Zhang Hu, who had just left her mother's residence, saw a middle-aged man with extraordinary clothes and a dignified bearing who seemed to be waiting here outside.

"Master!" Yumei saw him, and suddenly couldn't help but change her face slightly, and hurriedly stepped forward to salute respectfully and shouted.

Zhang Huban raised his eyebrows when he heard this, this middle-aged man who looked like he was forty or fifty years old at most, it was absolutely impossible for him to be his grandfather, most of them were his mother's brothers, that is, his cheap uncle, but I don't know what he meant when he came to see him?

"More than 20 years ago, I personally brought you to the West Lake," Seeing Zhang Huban looking at himself silently and calmly, the middle-aged man also said calmly.

Zhang Huban nodded and smiled when he heard this: "That's really good! In this way, I can treat you as a stranger I don't know with peace of mind, and I won't have anything to do with the Lin Mansion." This place, I don't think I will come back again. ”

After speaking, ignoring the middle-aged man's reaction, Zhang Huban left directly.

The middle-aged man who seemed to be stunned turned around to look at the departing back of Zhang Huban, who passed by him, and couldn't help frowning slightly.