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In a small courtyard inside the Jinyan Hall, Dr. Hu was cooking medicinal porridge, and Chan Yi came in with her eyes swollen from crying to fetch the medicine. Dr. Hu said, "Okay, let's bring it, so that the old man will feel less pain when he leaves. "

He was terminally ill and hopelessly ill.

When Duan Yelin stepped into this courtyard, Chanyi pounced on him: "Commander! He who is in charge...he..."

"It's too late." Duan Yelin shook his head, and Chanyi knew that Xu Hang had already left, so he missed it.

When they entered the room, there was an old man with half white hair lying on the bed. He was already haggard due to the pain, and his mouth was blue and purple. If it weren't for the uncontrollable trembling of his hands, they would even think that she had gone.

Chanyi went to help her mother up and fed her porridge, but she couldn't feed it anyway. The old man was muttering, as if talking about something.

Duan Yelin stepped forward, took the bowl, approached the old man, and heard her keep chanting: "Young...Master...Little...Master..."

I once heard Xu Hang say that this nanny has many children, but in order to take care of Xu Hang, she put her own children aside and ignored them, so a lot of her love was given to Xu Hang.

Duan Yelin scooped up the porridge, and said to the delirious old man, "Nurse, Xu Hang will be here soon, can you have a sip of porridge?"

I don't know if the old man listened to it, Duan Yelin tried to feed it, but the old man still couldn't swallow it, as if he knew he was not Xu Hang, so he refused to drink.

"Take a sip, take a sip, Xu Hang will be back, trust me."

Still not working.

Chanyi cried anxiously: "Mother, even if you want to go on the road, you have to eat enough to go on the road, you can eat a little..."

Poor people are most afraid of these ghosts and gods. Duan Yelin wiped the corner of the old man's mouth with a handkerchief, showing some pity: "If Shaotang is here now, I'm afraid he will be sad. It's just that if he comes back and finds out that he didn't get to see him for the last time." , would be very sad."

Chanyi burst into tears.

But at this time, the nanny suddenly reacted, she grabbed Duan Yelin's sleeves, her eyes were a little brighter, as if she was trying her best, she just said in a breathy voice: "Shao...shao... Tang..."

Duan Yelin immediately understood what she wanted to say, and patted her on the back to comfort her: "Yes, Shaotang is coming back, he is back!"

Seeing that her mother looked back, Chanyi scooped up the porridge and tried it for her again, but this time she swallowed it all without vomiting.

It's just that her hand has been holding Duan Yelin's hand for a long time, and she didn't let it go for a long time. It took a long time to take out a safety buckle made of old silver from her arms. It looked like it was for that kind of baby. It may be a long time ago. The surface was blackened, and it was tremblingly placed in Duan Yelin's hands.

On the front of the Ping An buckle is written Ping An Ru Yi, and on the back there is only a word 'Hang' engraved, which should have been worn by Xu Hang when he was a child.

Perhaps he recognized Duan Yelin as Xu Hang, the old man looked at it peacefully for a while, then closed his eyes and died.

Amidst Chanyi's cries, Duan Yelin laid the person flat, covered it with a white cloth, looked at it for a while, and slowly went out from the yard.

Qiao Song was standing outside the courtyard, and Duan Yelin immediately told him: "Let's prepare for the funeral."

"Don't you need someone to notify Young Master Xu immediately?"

"I know his temper. He won't do half of the important things and come back. Instead of making him suffer sadly, it's better to wait for him to come back and tell him."

Qiao Song understood: "Okay."

Duan Yelin carefully instructed: "Go and buy some white lanterns, gauze curtains, white candles... and some black postcards, and by the way, black paper. Ask someone to cut out their surnames and stick them on the lanterns to hang."

"Yes, but what's Chanyi's maiden name?"

Duan Yelin thought for a while: "Usually, if the funeral is from the owner's house, the owner's surname should be hung. Shaotang should also be willing to paste the word 'Xu'..."

Having said that, Duan Yelin suddenly got stuck.

Surname?name?

It was like two strands of electricity collided and sparked in the brain, and Duan Yelin found that he seemed to have been forgetting one thing.

When he was taking care of the nanny just now, when he said 'Xu Hang', the nanny didn't respond; but when he called 'Shaotang', the nanny suddenly seemed to recognize him, isn't that strange?

Is the nanny sick and confused, or is Duan Yelin thinking too much?

The nanny knows 'Shaotang' but not 'Xu Hang'?

He immediately took out the safety buckle from his pocket and looked at it repeatedly. The word 'Hang' also looked weird.

Will someone only engrave the name but not the surname when engraving the safety buckle?This behavior is too abnormal.

He suddenly thought of what Qiao Daosang had told him before, that in Shu City, he had not found anyone with the surname Xu.

At that time, he suspected that Xu Hang might have used someone else's identity, or maybe he wasn't from Shu City, but he just said it casually because he didn't want others to know his past.

Thinking about it now, isn't there another simplest explanation——his surname is not 'Xu'.

Duan Yelin immediately grabbed Qiao Song who was about to buy funeral materials: "Where is the person that Uncle Qiao sent?!"

Qiao Song was stunned by his shaking, and then gradually came to his senses.

That person was a storyteller whose ancestral home was in Shu City, named Jiang Sheng, who was forty years old, and spent the rest of his time in Shu City except when he fled during the war in Shu City. When he was Bai Xiaosheng.

This Jiang Sheng didn't know what the commander wanted him to do, but that Master Qiao gave him a lot of money to let him know everything, answer every question, and don't care about the rest.

So he saluted Duan Yelin: "I have seen the commander."

Duan Yelin cut to the chase: "What news did Fourth Uncle Qiao ask you to bring me?"

"Boss Qiao didn't ask me to bring you news. He just said that there are some past events in Shu City. You can ask me anything you want to know."

Duan Yelin thought for a while, asked him to sit down, and then slowly described: "In Shu City, did you have any rich and noble houses more than [-] years ago?"

Jiang Sheng shook his fan: "That's too many, I don't know which one the commander wants to know?"

This made Duan Yelin very difficult. He thought for a while: "I don't know... Oh, there is a mistress in his family who is from Hezhou, and I don't know much about others."

Only now did he realize that his understanding of Xu Hang's past was so shallow.

Hearing this, Jiang Sheng patted the fan in his hand and blinked his eyes: "Hezhou people... um... more than twenty years ago, there was a young lady from Hezhou who married into Shucheng. I was young at that time. , I still can’t forget the scene of the ten miles of the Lantern River! I just don’t know if it’s the one the Commander wanted to ask about?”

"Tell me carefully, what's going on with that family!" Duan Yelin spoke faster and breathed heavily.

However, Jiang Sheng said slowly while recalling: "The lady's surname is Jin, and her name is Jin Yanchai..."

Jin Yanchai.Jin Yantang!

Click!Duan Yelin crushed a teacup, which startled Jiang Sheng.Although his face was stiff, he said, "Go ahead."

"Yes," Jiang Sheng tried to speak quickly, "more than 20 years ago, that family was the richest man in Shu City, and they were kind-hearted. Everyone in the ten miles and eight villages knew everyone. This family has practiced medicine for generations. Treating diseases for a living, opened the largest prescription in the family, named "Yan Wu Yao Tang", the surname of the owner of the pharmacy was Hang, and his name was Hang Heming, the scenery was endless for a while, and the husband and wife were also a good story."

Bang!

It was like a landmine entwined on the branches, and the twigs entangled the heart, and the place closest to the beating pulse exploded into a tragic scene!It sounded like a drum was beating in Duan Yelin's ears, but after listening carefully, he realized that it was his own heartbeat.

Yan Wu, Yan Wu, together they are exactly the word Xu. It turns out that his surname is neither Xu nor Xu Shaotang, but 'Hang Shaotang'.

He had loved the person for four years, but he didn't expect that he even hid his real name.The past that he didn't want to touch in the past turned out to be this gangrene-like fact.

"……and after?"

"Later? There is no later." Jiang Sheng closed his fan, lamenting what had happened to Shucheng, "The fire in Shucheng burned everything clean, and their family died without a single one left. "

"All... dead?"

"Yeah, it's a pity that there is only one son left in their family, and they didn't escape. Sigh... God doesn't have eyes, so what can I do? I have seen that young master once, and he is very smart. Those eyes It looks very much like his mother, so clear and clean. It's pitiful!"

Jiang Sheng, who was chattering and lamenting, didn't notice at all that Duan Yelin's hand was hanging there, his eyebrows were also down, and a gray and defeated look gradually appeared.