Seeing him leaving, Cheng waved his hand and sent the maids who were serving in the hall out.

Only Cheng and Cao Yong were left in the hall, and neither of them spoke for a while.

Cheng Zihe was in the inner room and was hesitating when he would come out to pay homage. When he heard his grandmother sending everyone out, standing there holding a veil, he became more and more anxious.

This will go out, it is inappropriate; if you don’t go out, it is still inappropriate in the inner room, what should you do?

The little girl was anxious when she heard Cheng ask, "I heard that Mr. Cao died of illness two years ago. You went south by Ding You, but what important thing happened?"

Cao Yong did not answer immediately, but stopped for a while, and said, "I have a friend of mine, but I have lost my news after several years of separation. Now I am heading south to Guangzhou to find him..."

"Ah, did he go to Guangzhou?" Cheng heard this and his voice was a little excited, and he hurriedly asked, "When did you go? Well, why did you lose the news?"

Cheng Zihe listened in the inner room, still hesitating about who this "he" was, so he heard Cao Yong say, "Why should I call you the Lord of Mudan House or you... Aunt Qiu? You misunderstood. Although Zhiran abandoned the position of abbot of Qingliang Temple and went out for a trip, he did not go south, but went north. The younger generation received his letter from him, and he left the pass and went to Mongolia..."

That's right, the person in front of me is the owner of Ruyifang, "Peony", that Cao Yong had seen on the Qinhuai River more than ten years ago.

As for knowing that "Mudan"'s surname is Qiu, it was because after his father passed away, Cao Yong followed his father's last words and sent someone to visit his concubine's mother in Jiangning. He learned that a woman named "Qiu" had lived near Qingliang Temple and had some contact with Zhiran. After Zhiran left Qingliang Temple, the woman disappeared.

It turned out that I didn’t know that “Mudan” was “Qiu”, but if I looked closely at her eyebrows and eyes, I had a wise shadow and knew that these two were actually one person.

Cheng looked at Cao Yong nervously. When he heard Zhiran's name, his body leaned forward and his eyes were already red.

It was not until she heard Zhiran’s letter that she could follow that she stroked her chest, took a deep breath, looked at Cao Yong, and said softly: “Master Mudan House? Aunt Qiu? Both are not right. When it comes to it, you should call me a cousin... or a sister-in-law..."

Cao Yong was surprised when he heard this.

From Zhiran's appearance and Cao Yin's suicide note, he could confirm that Zhiran was his half-brother.

Zhiran's biological mother, just treats Cheng as the one in front of her, why has she become her cousin or sister-in-law again?

At this time, Cheng slowly said: "My surname is Cheng. Qiu is my mother's surname. My mother was born into a family of officials in the previous dynasty. Later, she was exhausted by the family and was confiscated as a member of the family. My father met my mother by chance. But because of my mother's identity, he could not accept her. He had to keep her in the outdoor room. Later, my mother died of illness and my grandmother asked someone to pick me up. She did not take me back to Cheng's house, but sent me to the cousin of Jiangning."
Chapter completed!