Chapter 50: The Thirty or Forty Year Old Man
"Girl, although the people who live here are serious families, it is not good if you go there. I will go over and take a closer look and come back to report to the girl." The person who spoke was Shi Bing. Today, Hua Jingyao took only Shi Bing and Shi Ding with him when he went out.
Hua Jingyao nodded. Shi Bing was the most attentive among the four brothers. He asked him to come back to watch the fun and tell her that there would definitely be no misses.
The alley was full of people. She had to enter the alley and wait for these people to disperse. Anyway, there was no hurry today, so she just waited here for a while and listened to the excitement.
Shi Bing went there for a stick of incense. When Shi Bing came back, the crowds gathered at the entrance of the alley also scattered.
Hua Jingyao saw a woman leading two boys and hurriedly walked over. The woman lowered her head and wanted to bury her head in the ground. However, the two boys kept turning back and looked curiously at the entrance of the alley. They were only seven or eight years old, and they looked exactly the same, and they looked twins at first glance.
"What's going on?" Hua Jingyao watched the mother and son leave, subconsciously looked at the booklet again, rubbed her eyes, and made sure she was not dazzled and read it wrong.
Shi Bing reported: "When I was young, Chen Juren's wife and two sons came over. Mrs. Chen looked older than the lady just now. His two sons were already in the age of tying hair. Mrs. Chen said that she had been engaged to Chen Juren since childhood and had a marriage letter as evidence. It has been seventeen years since then. Moreover, Chen Juren and she are both from Tongzhou. Although the Chen and Liu families are not rich and noble, they are also family members of farming and studying. They have lived in Tongzhou for several generations. The marriage between the two families can be found out by just going to Tongzhou. The wife claimed to be from Mengjin, Henan Prefecture, which is obviously inconsistent. Besides, the two sons of this lady are only seven or eight years old. If they stop marrying each other again, it should be that Liu's son is younger than her son."
Hua Jingyao nodded frequently and said, "This Liu is orderly and reasonable, and there are some evidences and physical evidence, which is very good."
Shi Bing smiled and said, "Although the lady still looked disbelief, she had to give up after reading the wedding book, just said that she might have recognized the wrong person."
Hua Jingyao laughed: "I don't know how she found this place. There is no such thing as even her husband admitting his mistake in this world? Even if there is, it's a bit coincidental. Maybe this lady is just a few coincidences."
At this time, all the people outside Zhelu Lane had dispersed, and the carriage from the eldest princess's mansion finally slowly entered the alley.
As soon as he entered the yard, Hua Jingyao saw the painted paper spread out on the stone table under the wisteria frame.
"Dad, you are painting... Hey, why did you change the painting and painting? You should have lived in Zhelu Lane, and you even changed the painting to Zhelu Drawing." Hua Jingyao joked.
"I'm just practicing writing when I'm free..." Hua Yukun said, picking up a fine cloth, covering a few small paintings on the stone table, and saying to his daughter, "Go into the house, go into the house."
Hua Jingyao looked at the painting covered in, and then looked at her father's appearance that was about to cover it up. Hua Jingyao frowned and did not ask again.
In the evening, Hua Jingyao returned to the eldest princess's mansion. After about two cups of tea, Shi Bing came to see her.
"Girl, I found out clearly. Mr. Jiang helped Master San contact a small business, and was drawing illustrations for the call book. Master San has been busy with this these days."
Hua Jingyao was a little surprised. Her father, who was not touching the spring water, actually went to draw illustrations for Yinfang?
These days, scholars have more and more self-reliant status than the other, and they feel that they have lost their money by collecting money, let alone drawing illustrations for the book.
The next day, Hua Jingyao went to Zheluxiang again. This time she was caught off guard, and Hua Yukun was still holding a pen in her hand.
Hua Jingyao asked, "Dad, didn't you get tens of thousands of taels of property when you split up? Are you not enough?"
Seeing his daughter asking this, Hua Yukun knew that he could not hide it anymore. He blushed and said hesitantly: "You are already twelve years old. Your mother has been taking care of you all these years. Dad wants to keep the ones that were divided into the family for you as a dowry."
Hua Jingyao felt warm in her heart. She held her father's hand, shook it gently, and said coquettishly: "Who said I want to get married? I won't marry. I will not marry anyone in this life. I just want to accompany my father and mother. I want you all to be well and live a hundred years old."
"Silly kids, how can you not marry a daughter? Besides, you can't help your marriage. How could your mother and the queen mother let you not marry?" Hua Yukun said with a smile. This was the first time his eldest daughter acted coquettishly to him. This child has been sensible since childhood, like a little adult.
After coming out of Zhelu Lane again, Hua Jingyao did not take a carriage. She had opened a new pen and ink shop from Zhelu Lane. She wanted to go to the shop to pick up some new pens for her father.
She took Xiao Ai in front, and Shi Bing and Shi Ding followed far behind.
When she was about to reach the shop, she saw a woman running from a distance. She was wearing coarse cloth clothes and her hair was wrapped in blue cloth. She jogged in front of her, and then hid quickly behind a big tree.
The big tree was as thick as a hug. The woman hid behind the tree and was covered tightly, and even the corner of her clothes was not exposed.
Hua Jingyao looked at the big tree in surprise, but was pulled aside by Xiao Ai. It turned out that there was a sedan chair coming towards him.
When the sedan chair walked over, Hua Jingyao turned around and saw half of her body poking out from behind the big tree.
It was not until the sedan chair turned into Zhelu Lane that the woman came out from behind the tree, and looked in the direction of Zhelu Lane unwillingly before walking quickly.
"Is that woman the lady who mistakenly recognized her husband yesterday?" Hua Jingyao asked Xiao Ai.
Xiao Ai shook his head: "I didn't see clearly yesterday."
Although Hua Jingyao did not see the lady's face clearly yesterday, her eyesight and memory have always been good. Today, the woman walked quickly and looked surprisingly at the same time as the lady yesterday, and her body tilted slightly to the right.
Everyone has their own habits when walking. For example, this woman is a person who is used to using force on her right foot. Her left leg or left foot may have been injured and she has not been able to use force for a long time, so that she has developed this habit. It is not obvious when she walks slowly, but once she walks fast or runs, her body tilts back to the right.
"Go and see if the sedan chair just now went to Chen Juren's house." Hua Jingyao ordered.
Xiao Ai ran away quickly, and came back soon: "Girl, you're right, that sedan chair belongs to Juren."
This is interesting. Didn’t that lady admit that she had recognized the wrong person? Why did she come over and stare at Juren Chen today?
"Did you see Juren Chen? Do you look good?" Hua Jingyao asked.
Chapter completed!