Song Wangyue turned around, saw Xu Ling’er and frowned slightly, “Old man, you want something?”
Old Mr. Xu’s excited gaze fell on her face, the unintentional glance he had just taken just now had only looked somewhat alike, but now, up close, the little girl in front of him was simply identical to Wan’er when she was a child.
Old Mr Xu could not contain his excitement, “Little girl, what is your, your, your surname?”
Song Wan Yue looked at Xu Ling’er and saw Xu Ling’er giving her an anxious wink, immediately it became clear that Old Mr. Xu did not know about Xu Ling’er’s visit to the inn to look for her.
“My surname is Song.”
Old Mr Xu became even more anxious, “Then your mother ……”
“Old Mr Xu ……”
Song Wangyue interrupted him, “I know it’s rude to interrupt you like this, but I have important things to do, I really can’t accompany you to chat, I hope you’ll forgive me.”
After saying that, she turned around and was about to leave.
“Song ……”
Seeing that she did not take the opportunity to befriend her great grandfather, Xu Ling’er was so anxious that she almost shouted out her mouth, the word sister was about to be on the edge of her mouth when she suddenly reacted and hurriedly changed her mouth, “Miss Song, my great grandfather easily does not ……”
“Ling’er ……”
Old Mr. Xu saw Song Wangyue’s eagerness and knew that she did have something important to do, stopped Xu Ling’er and eagerly asked Song Wangyue, “Little girl, can you tell me where your family lives?”
“I’m staying at the Fulai Inn for the time being, and my elder brother is Song Si.”
Song Si, the schoolboy from Qingping County?
Old Mr Xu’s heart steadied, “Then there will be no delay for the young lady.”
Song Wan Yue nodded slightly at him and turned to leave quickly with Gu Yi.
Old Mr. Xu kept watching her back until he could no longer see it, and still did not want to withdraw his gaze.
Seeing him like this, Xu Ling’er was puzzled and asked tentatively, “Great-grandfather, why are you so excited to see Miss Song?”
“Yes?”
Old Mr Xu asked with a smile as he withdrew his eyes; if that was Wan’er’s child, then it was his own great-granddaughter.
“Yes.”
Seeing him in such a good mood, Xu Ling’er was emboldened, “I saw it clearly, you don’t want to deny it.”
“Hahahahaha ……”
Old Mr. Xu stroked his beard, a rare outward display of happiness, “I, I just see that the young girl is likeable, it’s been years since I’ve met someone so likeable.”
The first time I saw the man, I was able to see him. She helped Old Mr. Xu to the carriage, helped him get into the carriage and went all the way back to the house.
When he entered the house, Old Mr. Xu said that Xu Ling’er was also tired and asked her to go back and rest, so there was no need to send him there.
When he was far away, Xu Ling’er turned around and went to Wen’s room and told her what had happened at the Western Market.
“I always felt that great-grandfather’s eyes were not right when he saw Song Song Wan Yue, as if ……”, Xu Ling’er paused for a moment, “as if he had seen a relative he hadn’t seen for a long time.”
Wen’s heart thumped as she listened, so shocked that she almost stood up, and her face changed a few times, “Tell Mother, what does that little girl look like?”
When Xu Ling’er finished, she could not help but stand up, “Did your grandfather ask for her name?”
Speaking of this, Xu Ling’er was very happy and did not notice Wen’s strange appearance, “Would you say that coincidentally, she is actually Song Si’s sister.”
Song Si’s sister?
Wen fell into a chair.
Only then did Xu Ling’er notice her abnormality and shouted in confusion, “Mother?”
She subconsciously opened her mouth to reprimand her, but when she realized that she had overreacted, she swallowed her words of reprimand and took a deep breath to steady herself. ”
“I also feel so coincidental, so many people come and go in the west market, but it is just that great grandfather saw Song Wan Yue at a glance ……”
said, looking at Wen expectantly, “Mother, do you think, does this mean that the heavens are helping me?”
Wen’s lips moved, but in the end did not answer her words, but raised her hand and touched her head, “You went out early in the morning and only came back now, you are also tired, go back to your room to rest first, mother will go to the kitchen to see, ask them to cook two more dishes you love to eat.”
Xu Ling’er thanked her happily and went back to her courtyard.
Before she left the house, Wen hurriedly went to Qing Yuan after she had fixed her clothes, and before she entered, she shouted eagerly, “Mother!”
“What is the matter in such a hurry?”
Huo closed the account book she was half reading, she was Mr Xu’s ordinary wife, and had caused quite a stir in the capital when she remarried to Mr Xu with a son and a daughter.
She was rumoured to be as beautiful as a fairy, but in fact her looks were not even half as good as her main wife Meng’s, and now in her forties, she had even less good looks, but she had been born with a weak body and a soft face that could arouse men’s protective desire, so she had always been pampered by Mr Xu Da, and even the affairs of the house had been handed over to her.
After saying this, he ordered the maids serving in the house, “You guys go out first.”
The maids gave Wen a bow and then retreated. Wen hurriedly closed the door behind her and walked to the table, saying eagerly, “Something big has happened.”
“The sky is falling?”
“Worse than the sky falling!” , Wen said, sitting down at the table, holding the account book in front of her away, her voice lowered to a low, low level, “When that old thing went to the West Market today, she ran into a little girl called Song Wangyue, who looks very much like Xu Qingyuan.”
“What did you say?”
Huo’s eyes widened suddenly.
“More than that, Mother remember the scholar called Song Si that I told you about the other day that Ling’er had fallen in love with, he is this little girl’s brother.”
Huo’s face changed dramatically, “Really?”
Wen nodded her head eagerly, “It’s true.”
Huo stood up sharply and walked restlessly back and forth around the room a few times before sitting down again, “Impossible, from your description, Song Si is at least fifteen or sixteen years old, Xu Qingwan has only been missing for how many years, let’s not scare ourselves.”
The fear on her face receded instantly, “Mother is right, Song Si cannot be Xu Qingwan’s child, I was too anxious just now, I didn’t think of it for a moment.”
She added, “Since Song Si isn’t, Song Wan Yue naturally isn’t either, she should just look like Xu Qingyuan.”
After saying that, he touched his heart, “I was scared to death just now, I almost lost my temper in front of Ling’er.”
Huo also calmed down and sniffed, slowly glancing at her, “How many times have I told you to be calm when things go wrong, if it wasn’t for you back then ……”
“Master ……”
The maid’s voice rang out at the door.
Huo swallowed back the words behind her, got up and straightened her clothes, walking towards the door, her gentle voice following, “Master, why are you back so early today?”