Daming Yinghua

Zheng Haizhu turned around quickly, pointed at Hua Er, and said to Jingzhao's female apprentice: "Today we also brought some incense money, please take my maidservant to donate merit."

Although the little nun is Hu Po's confidant, she only knows what Cui Wensheng told them on behalf of Concubine Zheng, and she doesn't know that the boy in front of her is Hu Po's son.

She didn't have any intention of looking after and monitoring her, and after leaning over to thank Zheng Haizhu, she led Hua Er to the main hall.

Ma Xianglin's subordinate who lost an arm, Qi Hu, rushed over to greet Zheng Haizhu, saluted Zheng Haizhu, took the bag of shoes and socks, and went to call the boy: "Ah Yong, thank you madam."

Ah Yong didn't respond.He still draws crooked houses with branches today.

Zheng Haizhu sat down on the upside-down hamper beside the vegetable field, and Qi Hu said softly, "Let the doll play by itself. Brother Qi can just go and do the work in the field. I'll rest here and wait for my baby." Maid is back."

Qi Hu responded, and walked back to the vegetable field.

Ayong drew a few more strokes, stopped suddenly, was in a daze for a moment, then stood up, ran to the fruit tree not far away, picked a handful of autumn dates, and handed them to Zheng Haizhu when he came back.

Zheng Haizhu raised the corner of his mouth, picked up a date and bit it, picked out a bigger one, and gave it back to the child: "Let's eat together."

In the boy's dark pupils, the original slack gaze finally focused, and his face was illuminated with a bit of spirit.

Zheng Haizhu stared at this face.

Unlike the first time we met before, this time, I was able to see the child's face clearly.

Although the doll is still young, the pair of starry eyes and the line from the lips to the mandible have a hint of handsomeness.

Zheng Haizhu suddenly felt like an electric shock in his heart.

This doll, why does it look a little like... like Ma Xianglin?
Thinking about the Sichuan-Shu accent of the man who grows vegetables, how can Zheng Haizhu's doubts not intensify?
"Ayong, where did your family live before?" Zheng Haizhu asked softly.

A Yong shook his head, held the dates but didn't eat them, but returned to the painting on the mud floor, and waved to Zheng Haizhu.

Zheng Haizhu stepped forward and squatted down.

Ayong held up the branch and lit the crooked house on fire.

"Nantianmen," he said, pointing to the two vague human figures far below the room, "Mom, Hook."

Nantianmen is an important building in Taoism. Those who ascend to immortality will pass through Nantianmen.

Zheng Haizhu thought about it, guessing that the boy had stayed in this Taoist temple for a long time, knew the Nantianmen's saying, and painted his deceased mother as a fairy going to the Nantianmen.

"Hook, is that you?" Zheng Haizhu asked, pointing at the smaller figure.

Ah Yong nodded and patted himself: "Hook."

Pointing to Zheng Haizhu again: "Er."

Zheng Haizhu seems to understand that the pronunciation of "hook" refers to No.1.

She has been traveling around for several years, listening to a mix of local dialects from the north and the south, and this is the first time she has heard such a self-proclaimed name.

It's not like Sichuan dialect either.

Then she patted herself and said, "Hook."

Ayong showed the childish and understanding smile of an ordinary child, looked at his feet, selected a thinner branch, and continued to draw beside the house and the two figures.

To be exact, it's more like writing, small.

Zheng Haizhu got closer, and he couldn't help being surprised when he saw the symbols written by Ah Yong.

Among the three characters, there are actually two, which are the same as the characters she saw in the cell where Ma Qiancheng was imprisoned in the Imperial Prison!
Zheng Haizhu calmed down a little, pointed at the symbol next to "Nantian Gate", and asked tentatively, "South?"

Ah Yong said "Hum", and pointed to the symbols next to the big and small figures respectively, and said softly: "Mom, hook."

Zheng Haizhu looked up at the man surnamed Qi who was busy working in the vegetable field, picked up a stone, drew a brand new symbol, and signaled Ayong to recognize it.

After taking a closer look, Ah Yong raised his eyes to look at Zheng Haizhu, pointed to the red coral hairpin on her head and said, "Red."

Zheng Haizhu felt a strange tingling sensation on his back, covering his neck.

What she drew was the character on the one-eyed gold steel chisel that Ma Xianglin gave her. General Xiao Ma told her that it meant "red", because the Shila natives, like the Miao people, admired fire.

So, this doll can speak and recognize Shiba dialect?
What shocked her even more and made her excited that "it didn't take much effort" was that she understood three of the four characters in the imperial edict.

I, Nan, Hong...

However, what does this mean?

Nanhong?

Agate from my hometown in the southwest?
This kind of conjecture with the imagination of modern people was quickly denied by Zheng Haizhu.

Liu Shimin said that the so-called "Ma Xuanfu committed suicide in prison" is an unsolved case, and many people think that he was murdered.

If Ma Qiancheng knew that he was about to be killed, or was on the verge of death, what would be left in the world should not be concerns about the treasure, but clues to the enemy.

Zheng Haizhu recalled the fourth character, a symbol in the shape of "Ding", and drew it for A Yong.

However, this time Ah Yong shook his head ignorantly.

"Madame Zheng..."

Brother Qi came over with a bamboo basket in his arms.

Zheng Haizhu hurriedly put the stone on the two symbols he had drawn, and when he got up, he pushed the stone with his shoe and wiped it off.

Qi Hu approached, smiled honestly, and said: "Picked some freshly ripe melons and vegetables, and brought them back for my wife to taste something fresh. When the Taoist priest left today, he also told me not to forget."

Zheng Haizhu took it readily, and praised: "You look so good. Brother Qi listens to his accent, is he from the south?"

Qi Hu replied: "Xiao's hometown is in Hanzhong, and his father-in-law's family lives in Chongqing, so Xiao's accent follows that of his mother-in-law."

Just as he was talking, Hua Er came back.

Zheng Haizhu patted Ah Yong on the shoulder, and said to Qi Hu, "Even if you wear shoes and socks, don't be reluctant. I'll see the doll again after a while."