“Is that uncle of yours called Wen Zhong?”
Song Wan Yue’s eyes widened in surprise, “How do you know?”
“That’s still the name I gave him?”
After the old man finished speaking, he then noticed that Shen Yan was still standing to the side, hesitated and said, “Can you let this escort of yours out?”
“Sure.”
Song Wangyue waved her hand at Shen Yan without changing her face.
Shen Yan gave him a faint look and turned to go out.
The old man dropped the shop door halfway down again, turned around and came back, saying with great excitement, “I’m not going to hide it from you, girl, I’m Wen Zhong’s grandfather.”
Song Wan Yue’s mouth opened wide in surprise.
“Many years ago, Huo married my eldest son and gave birth to a son and a daughter for him. Then, when my son died, she took her people and remarried, and did not allow us to visit our grandson.”
“You wait ……”
Song Wangyue interrupted him, “That’s not right, even if she took her children and remarried, she can’t not allow you to visit your grandson, right?”
The old man let out a long sigh, “It’s a long story, and it’s not convenient to talk to the girl, the old man would like to ask the girl to do me a favor, can you give my grandson a word so that he can secretly visit us.”
“I’m afraid I can’t help you with that.”
Song Wan Yue refused without thinking, “Since Grandmother Huo won’t let you visit Uncle Wen, it must be because you have done something to break her heart back then. I’ll judge whether I should tell Uncle Wen to come and see you.”
“This ……”
The old man and the woman looked at each other, thinking that more than thirty years had passed since the incident, even if they told Song Wangyue, there was no harm.
Gritting his teeth, he said, “Back then we were doing business within the capital, the shop was very big and the business was doing very well, my eldest son was good at everything, and he had a knack for business, but he was a good drinker. My eldest son was good at everything and had a way of doing business, but he was a good drinker. When he got drunk, he would go crazy and no one could stop him. One time, he clashed with my second son over a business matter, and when he got drunk, he took a knife and tried to kill my second son, so naturally we tried to stop him, but somehow in the confusion, the knife plunged into his body and my eldest son died on the spot.”
As he said this, the old man had tears in his eyes. The pain of sending his white hair to his black hair is still there to this day, and if he had not wanted to see his grandson, he would never have spoken to anyone about this past.
The old woman also dropped tears.
Song Wangyue did not pursue the matter, and after the old man had calmed down, she continued, “My eldest daughter-in-law insisted on reporting the matter to the government, so that they could deal with it. I only have two sons, and my eldest son is dead and will not survive. If my second son is taken away again, we will not be able to live. We put in a good word for her and asked her not to report the matter for the sake of the family. She agreed, but made a condition that the two children would be hers and we would move out of the capital and not bother them for the rest of our lives.”
“So we sold our shop in the capital and came to this town, occasionally sneaking into the capital to inquire about them, and were relieved to learn that she had later married Mr. Big and brought Zhong’er and Qing’er with her. But we would like to meet my grandson, but we dare not go, not because we are afraid that Huo will mention what happened back then, but because we are afraid that our grandson will not recognise us. If he still wants to acknowledge us, he will come and see us. If he doesn’t, we’ll give up.”
……
On the way back, Shen Yan deliberately slowed down his speed and looked at Song Wan Yue who was sitting in front of Gu Yi ……
He didn’t expect that in just a few words, Song Wan Yue would be able to get Huo’s past out of the old man’s mouth. If Wan Er had this kind of scheming back then, maybe ……
No maybe ……
He took a deep breath and his voice was low, “The line on the Wen family’s side has been broken, what remains are the people who served them back then, but after the incident, they sent all of them away, it is impossible to find them for three or five days.”
“Then let’s run through it again. After my mother’s accident back then, her two maids didn’t look for them. Then there are only two possibilities: one is that the two maids died; the other is that they were caught and brought back to the capital. The first one, I don’t think is very likely, after all, those were two human lives, those two underlings didn’t dare to kill them, the biggest possibility is that they were taken back to the capital. But at that time, the Xu family and your Shen family had turned the capital upside down. If they had killed the people, they naturally wouldn’t dare to just dump the bodies, so where are the bodies of these people? ”
Shen Yan narrowed his eyes.
At the beginning, not only the city, but even outside the city within a few miles radius had been searched, and mass graves had not been spared, and no new corpses had been found.
“Does Uncle Shen know how long after my mother disappeared, Huo entered the Xu family’s door?”
Shen Yan frowned and thought for a while, shaking his head, “I can’t remember.”
“Let’s go back quickly and ask Uncle.”
Several people beat their horses back to the city gate, Gu Yi and Song Wan Yue got off their horses and sat back on the carriage, Shen Yan followed the carriage, hesitated for a moment and said, “I will go back to the house first, send someone to let me know when you have asked for clarification.”
“Good, Uncle Shen take your time.”
Song Wangyue’s crisp voice came out from inside the carriage.
Shen Yan gave a deep glance towards the carriage and beat his horse to be the first to leave.
The carriage came to a halt at the entrance of the Xu residence, and Gu Yi lifted the curtain to see a boy standing at the entrance of the residence.
Gu Yi had only brought Xiao Si over with him, the rest of the men had stayed in the southern city.
“Miss Xiao sent me to ask you and Miss Song to come over.”
Song Wan Yue heard his words and quickly asked, “Is there something wrong with the pastry shop?”
“Don’t worry, Miss, nothing has happened to the pastry shop, it’s flourishing.”
“Go to the South City.”
The coachman instantly turned his horse around and went to the South City.
As the boy had said, the pastry shop sounded very prosperous, and the queue was up to the edge of the main road.
The fellows were smiling and happy, loading the customers with pastries.
“Yue’er.”
The two had just walked into the courtyard when Xiao Yao came out of the house with a nervous expression and gave them a note, “This was just thrown into the courtyard.”
Song Wan Yue unfolded it, there were a few lines on the note: I was the housekeeper of the Wen family back then, I know everything about what they did back then, if you want to know the details, meet at this place at the beginning of the eleventh hour today, bring a silver ticket of ten thousand taels, remember, the fewer people the better.”
Here is the address.
Song Wan Yue casually crumpled the note into a ball and asked Gu Yi, “What do you think?”
Xiao Yao was startled in her heart and jerked her head to look at Gu Yi, then she felt wrong and quickly turned back to look at Song Wan Yue’s expression and was secretly relieved to see that she had not noticed what she had just done.
She did not know whether Song Wangyue’s question to Gu Yi was a test or ……
“Not to be trusted.”
Gu Yi said.