For the next two days, Dongzi stayed at the home of Lian Ruowei's grandfather, Mrs. Chen.
Lian Ruowei's room was right next to the guest room where he lived, and every night Lian Ruowei would chat with him until late at night before going back to his bedroom.
Dongzi didn't even have the chance to take a walk in the garden after dinner to quietly find out where the backyard Chen Yuefang mentioned was.
Then I thought about it and gave up.
It wasn't until the third day that things took a new turn.
That morning, Dongzi wanted to bring up the matter of meeting Lu Xiaohong with Lian Ruowei, but Lian Anping took Lian Ruowei out around ten o'clock, saying that he wanted to take Lian Ruowei to attend a cocktail party of an aristocratic family.
After lunch, Chen Yuefang went back to her bedroom to take a nap. Bored, Dongzi walked along the back door of the main hall and went to Zhongjin's garden for a stroll.
Of course, he also had some selfish motives. Maybe while wandering around like this, he would accidentally discover the backyard that Chen Yuefang mentioned.
He has also learned to watch Qi now. As long as Lu Xiaohong does not deliberately hide the Qi in his body, he should be able to find Lu Xiaohong's location by looking at Qi.
After wandering around for a long time, Dongzi found nothing.
She didn't know whether the layout of this courtyard was too complicated or some special layout was made. Dongzi could see the rows of eaves and corners of other courtyards, but she never found the doors or eaves leading to other courtyards.
After wandering around like this for two times, Dongzi was a little disappointed. He turned around and went to the Jiuqu Bridge to go back to the guest room to rest. However, he unexpectedly saw Mr. Chen’s personal maid, Mrs. Chen, coming out of nowhere with a tray in her hand.
After leaving the rockery, he disappeared.
Dongzi was a little confused. He walked around the rockery several times and didn't see any passage or secret door for entry and exit.
He sat on the bridge railing and watched for a while, but he never saw Ma Chen come out again.
Dongzi suddenly remembered that on the day he came, Old Mrs. Chen also went out from here. When he and Lian Ruowei came out, they didn't hear Lian Ruowei mention where Old Mrs. Chen lived.
After thinking about it, Dongzi was not willing to accept it, so she walked towards the rockery.
He walked to the place where Chen Ma's figure disappeared and took a closer look, but still only saw the rockery mountain and stone walls.
After taking a closer look and still not seeing anything, Dongzi could only turn around angrily.
If there really is a secret door here, it would be too rash for him to keep researching and searching for it as a guest.
Being seen may even cause more unnecessary misunderstandings.
Just as he was about to turn around, Dongzi suddenly saw a raised stone that looked shiny under the sunlight.
He was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously took a closer look. It turned out to be a small water stain.
It must have been stained by water on Ma Chen's hands just now.
Dongzi raised his hand and twisted the stone. There was no response, so he twisted it again.
With this twist, the stone actually moved.
Immediately afterwards, a rock on the rockery slowly moved, and a small moon cave door appeared behind the rock.
Dongzi felt happy and walked in without thinking too much.
Exiting the Moon Cave Gate is another garden.
The yard is very large, with more than a dozen red plum trees as thick as one person can surround them. The flowers are in full bloom, and they look like clusters of red clouds on the branches.
It was quiet, and no one was seen. At the end of the house, shaded by plum trees, was a row of houses. The layout was similar to the front yard, but the eaves and columns were more colorful.
The doors and windows are all ancient-style lattice-carved windows, and heavy brocade curtains hang on the doors.
The garden is filled with the cool fragrance of plum blossoms.
Dongzi felt at ease.
What he was most worried about was rashly breaking into the courtyard where Mr. Chen lived, but the environment of this place looked more like a place where a woman lived, so Mr. Chen probably wouldn't live here.
I don’t know why, but Mr. Chen always seems to be smiling, and he is also the person in Lian Ruowei’s family who supports Dongzi and Lian Ruowei’s relationship the most, but Dongzi feels flustered every time he sees Mr. Chen.
I always felt that there was something strange about Mrs. Chen, but I couldn't put my finger on what was strange.
Perhaps it was because of this strange feeling that Dongzi felt that the kind old man was far from being as simple as he seemed.
Of course, it can't be simple. He can live in such a big courtyard, have the Celestial Master from the Celestial Master's Mansion as his servant, and have the high-ranking Lian Anping treat him with such respect. He can raise the big white snake and the flaming lizard Lian.
How could the old man who planted the pure lotus be a simple person?
Lian Ruowei never mentioned Mr. Chen's identity in front of Dongzi. Every time Dongzi asked, Lian Ruowei always talked about him.
Dongzi flashed into the middle of the plum tree, and slowly approached the row of houses at the end under the cover of the thick plum trees.
After walking a few steps, Dongzi heard a woman's voice.
"Xiao Chen, why do I feel like an outsider has come into this garden?"
The voice that spoke was a woman's, and it sounded like she was no younger than Mrs. Chen.
Dongzi was so frightened that he quickly stopped and held his breath. To be safe, he took out a small bottle of epiphyllum hydrosol from his body and sprinkled some on himself.
The bottle of epiphyllum hydrosol was given to him by Hao Jingde after he heard that he was coming to Kyoto with Lian Ruowei when he went to his master Hao Jingde's house last time.
It is said that this epiphyllum hydrosol can hide the breath of a monk and make him look like an ordinary person.
If you encounter ghosts, you can also hide your anger so that ghosts cannot detect your existence.
Hao Jingde said that although Dongzi's true energy is mellow and close to the heaven level, he has not practiced many techniques. Kyoto is a place full of hidden dragons and crouching tigers. If he meets a colleague and sees that Dongzi is young but has a mellow breath, he will
I felt dissatisfied and wanted to challenge him.
If Dongzi fought against someone with cultivation level above fifth level, he would definitely not be his opponent.
In order to help Dongzi avoid unnecessary troubles and offend competitive people, Hao Jingde gave him this small bottle of Epiphyllum Hydrosol.
"Where has any outsider come in? I am very careful every time I go in and out. No one will come in."
This time it was Mother Chen’s voice that spoke.
"Do you think it's that boy Dongzi who broke in? I see that his cultivation is close to the heavenly level, and there are so few mechanisms in the garden that can't stop him!" the woman's voice said again.
Hearing the woman's voice this time, Dongzi was stunned.
The voice became more familiar the more I listened to it. Although it was a female voice, some of the tail sounds sounded a bit like Old Mrs. Chen's voice.
"I think that boy is quite responsible and obeys Ruowei's words. He shouldn't be so rash and barges in here." Mother Chen's voice said again.
"I'm always a little worried!"
The woman sighed softly and continued: "I saved that boy's life because I cherished his talent. Maybe he can be used by me in the future.
There have been no good seedlings in Tianshi Mansion for several years. Apart from Xiao Han, the hard stone in the cesspit, the only one left is Lu Xiaohong. Unfortunately, the boy named Lu has too strong willpower...
This boy really loves Ruowei, and if he can be used and trained by me in the future, she will be a good talent." This chapter has been completed!