In the afternoon of early spring, Du's house regained its tranquility.

Du Youlin was reading in the study, and Xue Bai was keeping fit in the courtyard.

As there was a knock on the door, steward Quan Rui led many people to the second hospital.

Xue Bai put down the stone in his hand and stood up. He saw an old man stumbling down the corridor and recognized it as Xue Gengbo, the steward of Xue Ling's family.

Liu Xiangjun and six children followed behind, as if they had just cried.

"Mukuro."

"Something happened?"

Hearing this calm question, Xue Gengbo hesitated for a moment and responded: "Yes, Alang was detained and his ancestral home was also robbed."

Xue Bai asked: "Why don't you go to Jinwu Guards General Xue, but come to me?"

Xue Gengbo said with a bitter face: "Dazong has already said that he will no longer care about Alang's affairs."

"Do I care?"

"this……"

Liu Xiangjun stepped forward, looked at Xue Bai with concern, his face was full of shame, and whispered: "Lang Jun went gambling again. Not only did he lose all his money, but he also owed a huge debt. The creditor is here

Occupying the house...I have no use for it, and the fifty thousand dollars was also robbed."

Fifty thousand copper coins were packed in a box, but this woman actually couldn't protect them.

"They said..." Liu Xiangjun hesitated: "They said, Liulang, that your Fengwei Restaurant earns a lot of gold every day, and they asked you to use the money to repay the debt, otherwise it would be unfilial. They also said that they asked you to go to Qingmen Kangjia Restaurant to redeem someone."

After saying this, she felt that this mother should be embarrassed and wiped her tears with her hands behind her back.

But all the available favors have been exhausted in the past few years. Whether it is the Liu family or the Xue family in Hedong, the couple has been hated by their relatives in every possible way. Apart from this lost and found son, they are really desperate.

Xue Bai asked: "Did they tell you specifically?"

"yes."

"No hurry, have you eaten?"

Liu Xiangjun was stunned for a moment. Before he could answer, someone already answered: "Not yet."

Xue Bai smiled and said, "Let's talk while we eat."

Qinglan quickly brought lunch.

Xue Bai learned about the six children of the Xue family, three boys and three girls.

Boys are Qilang, Eighth Lang, and Eleventh Lang; girls are Sanniang, Qiniang, and Jiuniang.

The missing ones in the ranking must have died in infancy, among them only Qilang and Qiniang were born to Liu Xiangjun, the others were born to different concubines, and the concubines have been sold.

Xue Ling also had five older sons. Erlang died in infancy, Dalang, Sanlang, and Silang joined the army early, and Wulang passed away as an adopted son.

"My eldest brother has written back. After he has made a meritorious service, he will come to take us and my mother to Fanyang. How about paying back the money to Brother Six then? My mother has no place to live, and Brother Six just wants to get the house back..."

Xue Qilang's name is Xue Xin. He is twelve years old. He is thin and small, but very courageous. He is not afraid of strangers, dares to speak, and even dares to ask Xue Bai for money.

Boys of this age are sometimes naughty and lawless, but Xue Xin is different. He is bold but not naughty.

Xue Bai asked: "As long as the house is in the house, what about your grandfather?"

Xue Xin pursed his lips, glanced at Liu Xiangjun, and said nothing.

But there was a stubbornness in the child's eyes, and he took a hard bite of the biscuit.

Xue Bai then asked Quan Rui: "Manager Quan, there is some trouble at home. I would like to ask Uncle Du if he can let them stay..."

"You don't have to ask Alang, just ask someone to clean up all the guest rooms in the front yard."

Liu Xiangjun was used to seeing cold looks from his relatives, so he felt uneasy about this and said, "One room is enough for me and my children."

Xue Gengbo hurriedly said: "You can just sleep in the woodshed..."

~~

evening.

There is a quiet teahouse in the alley behind Qingmen Kangjia Restaurant.

Shi Zhong hurriedly climbed to the attic and whispered: "Madam, Xue Ling has said everything."

Da Xi Yingying was still making tea. The seat opposite was empty, but a clean small tea cup was placed.

"He said that Sun Cheng, a minor official in the Western City Department, paid him to recognize his relatives. The villain went to check. Sun Cheng had a clan sister who was the crown prince's concubine and gave birth to the crown prince's second son, Dan."

"What's the use of checking these things? The sage made a famous story about father and son recognizing each other. Do you think the sage was wrong?" Da Xi Yingying said: "Is Xue Bai here?"

"No." Shi Zhong said: "Our people are staring at Du's house, and Xue Bai has never come out at all."

"Wait. Grandpa, the saint pointed out to him, he has to save me."

On the small stove, the tea is boiling and the foam is floating.

Da Xi Yingying frowned slightly, thinking that Xue Bai should not be unable to see that she just wanted to sell him a favor first.

As long as he comes, she can return the person and the house to him and slowly get closer.

But why not come?

~~

The sky is getting dark, and this is the last night in Tianbao's six years without curfew.

~~

The Du sisters walked into Xue Bai's room and stood in front of his desk to look at the results of his reading and calligraphy practice today.

But I saw a poem written on a calligraphy manuscript.

"The flowers are not flowers, and the mist is not mist. It comes in the middle of the night and goes at dawn. It comes like a spring dream in a short time, and goes like a morning cloud with nowhere to find it."

The poem was so beautiful that both of them were stunned for a moment.

When Xue Bai came back from washing, he saw them turning around and looked at their expressions carefully.

When he first saw Du Jin's unnatural expression, he seemed to understand something. But when he looked at Du Jin again, her expression was also wrong, and he became even more confused.

"I heard from Quan Rui that something happened to Xue Ling?"

"Um."

"Aren't you going to redeem him?" Du Jin asked, "If you need money, you can put some money in your account first."

Xue Bai shook his head and said: "This kind of person is a bottomless pit, and it is useless to redeem him."

Du Wei said: "You will be sent to the Imperial Academy soon, so you won't be accused of being unfilial."

"If he dies, you will have to observe mourning for him for three years before you can become an official."

Xue Bai also understood this and said thoughtfully: "It's normal for the creditor to know about Fengwei Tower, but it's also possible that he came here for us."

"What do you mean?"

"There's no rush." ​​Xue Bai said, "Let's observe it for two days and then see."

The Du sisters nodded one after another, and there was a subtle atmosphere among the three of them.

"It's okay to observe and observe, so you won't be in a hurry to move there in the next few days?"

"Well, the mansion is gone..."

~~

The next day is the seventeenth day of the first lunar month.

The three days of rest during the Shangyuan Festival have passed, and Chang'an has begun to return to its usual busy schedule.

In the early morning, Du Wulang and Xue Bai greeted each other on the porch.

"I'm so sleepy. Your window hinge hasn't been repaired yet? It rang again last night."

"The Xue family had some trouble yesterday, I forgot about it."

"What trouble?"

Xue Bai probably said something about Xue Ling, which made Du Wulang very distressed.

"Ah, it's troublesome to have such a grandpa on the street, isn't it? A while ago, grandpa established a family motto."

"The Xue family also has this ancestral motto. Those whose descendants dare to gamble will be expelled from the family forever, and their parents and children will be cut off from all ties."

Although Xue Bai was just inspired to draw up this ancestral precept, his tone was very plain.

Du Wulang nodded repeatedly when he heard this, and said: "As expected of the white-robed general of Three Arrows Dingtian Mountain, the family tradition is strict. I haven't realized it yet. It turns out that you are the great-grandson of General Xue. Can I accompany you to do this?

?”

"Isn't Fengweilou busy?"

"Of course I'm busy. How could I not be too busy? The banquet has been booked until the Lantern Festival next year."

In Xue Bai's eyes, Fengwei Building is much more important than Xue Ling.
To be continued...