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Chapter 342 The two formulas are different

They rested for a while beside the thatched house at the entrance of the cave, and Xiang Shaoyue whispered to his master about the hard work he had experienced over the years.

He certainly wouldn't tell you the important things, but from his words like "worse than a dog, more miserable than a cow", one could tell that this second senior brother had worked hard to get to where he is today, and after he returned, his relationship with the Cheng'en Marquis family was not harmonious.

"I thought..." Mo Shougui heard the hardship behind the child's joke, touched his second apprentice's shoulder and sighed.

In fact, he was not a good master before. When the child was with him, he mostly ran around with his family and fellow disciples.

When the people from Cheng'en Marquis' family came, Mo Shougui wanted to let the child go back to feel the love of his family. After all, the second apprentice had been missing for many years, and Cheng'en Marquis' family still looked for him. In any case, they shouldn't treat the child coldly, right?

"Well, let's just leave those things that happened in the mansion. It's not that my father doesn't value me, but he, a grown man, can't understand those dirty things in the backyard." After Xiang Shaoyue finished complaining, he comforted his master.

Yu Hongdou watched coldly and felt that the master and disciple were actually more like father and son. If the second senior brother hadn't asked his family to recognize him back, the teacher would probably not have left the house.

"Xiang Wu is the fifth son of Marquis Cheng'en. Marquis Cheng'en's first wife died young, and he did not remarry for six years."

"At that time, it was said that he valued a concubine, but the concubine was of low birth and could not be made his wife, so the Marquis of Cheng'en did not plan to marry again."

"Later, when the concubine gave birth to a child, she was framed and died in childbirth. The family used the child to pressure the Marquis Cheng'en to remarry."

Tan Yanlin was sitting next to Yu Hongdou and eavesdropping on the conversation between the master and the disciple. After the conversation ended, he whispered to Yu Hongdou about the situation in Cheng'en Marquis' Mansion.

He didn't know when he would return from his trip to the sea. If the little girl and her brother went to the capital first, it would be better to have more support.

"Then how did Second Brother get lost?" Yu Hongdou asked back in a low voice.

"When Xiang Wu was four years old, there was a flood in the suburbs of Beijing. The family members of the Cheng'en Marquis's mansion, who were staying at a farm outside the city to escape the summer heat, rushed back to Beijing, but they got lost on the way. The Cheng'en Marquis led people to rescue the victims, but when they returned, they found that they were gone two days later."

Tan Yanlin was speechless. Such a big child had been missing for two days. Even if the family was wealthy and had many people, no one would believe that it was not intentional.

Yu Hongdou also thought so. From what Tan Yanlin said, it seemed that Marquis Cheng'en valued Second Senior Brother's child very much. If such a big and favored child was missing for two days without telling the head of the family, it must be intentional.

"At that time, the Cheng'en Marquis's mansion was undergoing a major personnel change, and many slaves were sold off and sent directly to cold and bitter places. The second wife went to the family temple to pray for blessings while pregnant, and when the child was born, she was sent to a Buddhist temple for foster care on the pretext that the child had a hard life. She did not return to secular life until Fifth Brother Xiang was found."

If it weren’t for this child, Tan Yanlin would never have known that such a thing had happened in the Cheng’en Marquis’ family.

He turned his head to look at Xiang Wu who was personally grilling meat for his master. Just based on this point, some people hated Xiang Wu to death. No matter how bad a second wife was, she was still a wife. It would be easy for her to do some small things in the harem.

"Poor~" Yu Hongdou shook her head. It was really miserable. She didn't know whether to say that it was the second senior brother who was miserable, or the child of the second wife who was miserable. "By the way, after returning to the village this time, I will leave. You go back and say goodbye to the fifth brother for me." Tan Yanlin withdrew his gaze from Xiang Wu and said hello to Yu Hongdou in advance with regret.

"? Why are you suddenly so anxious?" Yu Hongdou was a little confused. Didn't she say that she would go back to the city with them and visit Tan Wu's wife and children?
If you think about it carefully, it seems that these three brothers all have some opinions about Tan Wu’s wife, or even fear of her?
Thinking of this, Yu Hongdou's heart for gossip, which she had not heard enough, started to stir again, and she asked casually, "Are you not going to visit the fifth sister-in-law?"

After spending so much time together, Tan Yanlin could no longer fail to see Yu Hongdou's deliberate intentions, and he glared at her angrily and helplessly.

"Fifth sister-in-law doesn't get along well with the family. Except for grandmother and aunt, no one is proud of her. Of course, she doesn't care much." Speaking of this, Tan Yanlin got a headache.

This fifth sister-in-law came from a wealthy family, and her marriage was arranged by her eldest uncle's mother. Her eldest aunt was not from a high-class family, and when she was fleeing in her youth, she was helped by the fifth sister-in-law's mother, and she never forgot about it and wanted to repay her.

It was not until the fifth sister-in-law's mother came to ask for help and wanted to find a marriage for the fifth sister-in-law that the eldest aunt finally got the chance and immediately decided to arrange someone among her own nephews and nephews.

"I've always wanted to say, Fifth Sister-in-law is..." Yu Hongdou asked cautiously.

She had several contacts with the Fifth Madam, but because she was cold and distant, Yu Hongdou always felt like she was putting a cold face on a warm butt. She was afraid that she would be considered fawning. Later, Yu Hongdou and her mother rarely visited Tan Bailu's backyard.

Fortunately, Tan Bailu didn't mind, otherwise it would be a real question whether the friendship between the two families could continue.

"It's hard to say. Maybe she lives in her own world and doesn't want to care about outsiders. Fortunately, she didn't delay her duties and social interactions, but she did offend people. She spent half of her fortune on her dowry."

Tan Yanlin shook his head. As a brother-in-law, it was not appropriate for him to judge his sister-in-law too much. Besides, apart from being dust-free, his sister-in-law did not do anything wrong. But because of this, no one in the family was willing to get close to her.

Yu Hongdou seemed to be deep in thought, which sounded a bit like autism, but after meeting him several times, Yu Hongdou did not feel it. She just felt that the other party was a bit cold.

However, Mrs. Tan Wu is capable of living in her own comfort zone. It doesn’t matter whether she is autistic or not, as long as she lives comfortably.

The two didn't say anything more. Yu Hongdou took out the golden plate again and examined it with a cloth. Now she knew why the handwriting was so sloppy and unclear, and why some parts were missing. It was because it took too much effort to carve it.

"This thing is harder than gold, but it doesn't seem to be as hard as iron." Yu Hongdou weighed the gold plate, and was curious whether there were parts like circuit boards inside the gold plate, and what the energy source of this thing was.

After looking over and over, I didn't see any interface. Could it be magnetic charging? Or solar power? Yu Hongdou's heart had never been so determined as it was at this moment. He really wanted to take it apart and take a look.

"It should be an alloy. Judging from the formula of [Turning Stone into Gold] that Mi Sheng brought back from the Hat Fairy, and the later research of Changlin Zhenren and Xu Maoling, they were initially looking for, or researching, a method to synthesize this kind of gold."

"Later, it suddenly evolved into a search for energy. I guess there must have been some changes or gains before." Tan Yanlin speculated based on the various clues discovered before.

After that, he looked at Yu Hongdou and put forward a favorable proof: "The evidence is that the formula carved on the stone door in the space under Yidai Mountain and the space under Sandai Mountain is different."