The Regent's Tender Darling

Xuemei touched her face, looked at the little loach with a smile, her big eyes flickered, and asked: "Am I really good-looking?"

"Yeah, it looks good." The little loach nodded seriously.

Xuemei no longer complained about what had just happened. She had quarreled with other girls in the past and was told that she might not be able to get married if she was like this.

Whenever she asked her empress if she looked good, she would always say she looked good in a perfunctory manner. As time went by, she lost all confidence.

Without any further delay, the two of them dressed up in disguise and then headed to Lotus Alley. Xuemei warned as they walked: "In this case, you are my brother, and we are here to find a relative."

"Am I bigger than you?" Little Loach retorted.

Xuemei made a disdainful sound and said: "Tch! Where are you older?"

I'm skinny, but I've been feeling better these past two days than before.

Seeing Xuemei's disgusted look, Little Loach was stunned for a moment. He didn't know what he was thinking of and said unconvinced: "I..."

He hesitated and then said: "I must be older than you."

Arriving noisily all the way to Lianhua Alley, Xuemei looked for the address according to Lin Jiaojiao's words. The original gate of the small courtyard had been pasted with couplets. It didn't look very old. Someone must have lived there.

Little Loach was the first to knock on the door. After a while, the door was opened. The person who opened the door was a middle-aged woman wearing a gray cloth scarf on her head, looking at two people who were carrying burdens.

Asked: "Who are you two?"

"Is this the Lin Sen family?" Little Loach asked.

"Lin Sen?" The woman looked confused, obviously not knowing.

Little Loach smiled and said, "Lin Sen is my uncle. You must be my aunt. I don't recognize him."

The woman quickly waved her hands and said, "You admit your mistake. I don't know Lin Sen, and I'm not your aunt. You kid, how can your aunt admit your mistake?"

"Ah?" Little Loach continued: "My parents said before they died that my aunt's family would live here."

The woman was quite patient and said, "It's impossible. My family moved here more than ten years ago. How can this be your aunt's house?"

"Then do you know which family lived here before?"

"How do I know this? When we came here, we bought the house deed from the government."

After asking the woman, the two looked at each other.

After the door was closed, Xuemei said: "She said she moved here more than ten years ago. My mother-in-law said that the Lin family lived here fifteen years ago and lived here for two years."

Little Loach nodded. The time counted was more than ten years, so he said, "Let's go and ask the neighbors around."

"good."

There was a grocery store next to it, and a middle-aged man was sitting inside, moving the abacus, as if he was calculating accounts.

After the two of them walked in, the man raised his head and looked at the two of them, then lowered his head and asked, "You two can take whatever you want."

"We don't want to buy anything. We want to ask uncle about something."

After they explained their purpose of coming to Lianhua Alley, the man looked at them, thought about it and said, "Thirteen years ago, there was a scholar named Lin Sen who lived next door with his wife and children, but he no longer lives here. ”

"Then do you know where they are going?" Xuemei asked quickly.

The man glanced at Xuemei, hesitated and said, "If you are looking for your aunt, I can take you there. I don't know where your uncle is."

"My aunt is still here?" Little Loach asked, as if she was really here to find her relatives.

"Yes." The man nodded and continued, "I was the one who dug the hole and buried it."