The night is dark, and the stars keep flashing in the air, dotting the quiet evening.

This Taoist temple is becoming more and more desolate.

Not only during the day, there are fewer and fewer pilgrims coming to burn incense and pay homage to the public, only two or three people, but they are not here together, sparse and scattered. Even at night, the Taoists who live in Taoist temples do not clean up as diligently as before... In the past, when there were many people, there were always garbage of large and small, which often caused complaints from Taoists. But now, there are still complaints, but they are complaining about why no one came.

The yard and the open space outside the Taoist temple were all clean, except for a few fallen leaves, so no one came out to clean it. After dinner, the Taoists were in the room, either reading books by the light or sleeping... It was really leisurely.

In such a huge Taoist temple, only Bai Wu was standing outside.

He is waiting for someone.

Bai Wu is not young, but because he pays attention to strengthening his body, his body is still strong. The night wind blows, with a hint of coolness, and he seems to be unable to feel it. He stands straight outside the Taoist temple, his Taoist robe and beard move with the wind. His eyes look into the distance and look at a little light in the distance.

At the light, there should be the little Taoist named Hei Qier - Oh no, I am called Zhu Qi.

Bai Wu sighed in his heart. As the master of the Taoist temple of Shangqing Sect, he not only gave up his current identity. He was also a child of aristocratic family. He was born in the Bai family of Wuxing. He was just a small family and was dependent on the Zhu family of Wujun. Therefore, he was still clear about the situation of Zhu family now... The Zhu family is no longer the leader of the four families of Wujun. Especially after Zhu Xian was killed and the entire branch was slaughtered, the other three Zhang family, Gu family, and Lu family continued to develop, especially the Zhang family, who had been constantly rubbing with Zhu family, and was constantly suppressing when Zhu family was exhausted... The situation was very serious, and no wonder Zhu Chuo, the head of the Zhu family, cared so much about Zhu Qi.

While Bai Wu was thinking about the whole story, the lights in the distance turned closer and closer. He was a little Taoist holding a torch. He walked from afar, his figure was thinner, obviously Hei Qier who was notified in the daytime.

Hei Qi'er came over, Bai Wu hurriedly met him and said to Hei Qi'er: "Please, I'll come here again in the evening."

Hearing Bai Wu's words, Hei Qi'er's eyes were bright, and he looked at Bai Wu carefully and said, "I came here because the real person repeatedly emphasized that he would not set a trap. If something happened to me, Erlang would probably know it tomorrow morning..."

"See what you said, I worked hard to help you find relatives, how could I harm you?" Bai Wu Zhenren explained.

"Looking for relatives? Why do you need to go to the middle of the night and sneak in?" Hei Qier sneered, but his movements were not slow, and followed Bai Wu Zhenren slowly towards the Taoist temple.

Bai Wu Zhenren shook his head, feeling a little embarrassed: "You don't know that Zhu's family also has difficulties with Zhu's family. Although from some experiences, you are indeed like Zhu Xian's son, isn't this yet? In order not to make other aristocratic families suspicious, they can only contact them secretly... Don't worry, if you are really a child of the Zhu family, then the current head of the family, that is, Zhu Chuo, who may be your uncle, will definitely bring you into the door in a glorious way, visit the ancestral temple, and tell the world."

While talking, the two of them walked to a side hall and stopped.

Hei Qier obviously distrusts Bai Wu's explanation, but he doesn't say anything. Apart from worrying that Bai Wu will set up an ambush to kidnap him, it seems that there is no harm in contacting Zhu Chuo.

Besides... he didn't want to know about his life experience.

Bai Wu knocked on the door, and then, with a creaking sound, the door was opened by the person inside, revealing a man in his thirties. Seeing Hei Qi'er, he was stunned, and then he staggered his body: "Come in and speak."

Hei Qi'er walked in, but Bai Wu didn't come in. The man... The man named Zhu Chuo closed the door, sat in his seat, looked at Hei Qi'er and said, "Sit down and say, there is no need to be restrained."

"You called me here to verify if I am a member of the Zhu family... But how do you want to verify?" Hei Qier asked, but she was also sitting opposite Zhu Chuo.

"Your surname is Zhu, and you come from the north, to be precise, from the junction of the north and south, which is where my brother Zhu Xian's family is located. The time you traveled south coincides with the time when something happened to happen to my brother's family." Zhu Chuo looked at Hei Qi'er carefully while speaking, "A few years have passed, and you were still young at that time, so you shouldn't have recorded too much, and I have not grasped too much evidence... Verification is naturally based on your feelings."

"By feeling?" Hei Qi'er smiled, "It's really a pleasure to me."

"It's not a pastime, at least you look similar to the brother I remember." Zhu Chuo knocked on the table, "Let's do this, I'll ask you a few questions, and you can try to answer them, okay?"

Hei Qi'er narrowed her eyes and said, "You ask."

"Why are you called Zhu Qi? Is it because you are ranked as the seventh child at home?"

"This is not because my mother gave birth to me on the seventh day of the seventh month, and called me Aqi... As for the specific name, I don't know." Hei Qier shook her head.

Zhu Chuo seemed relieved after hearing this, looked at Hei Qier and said, "What kind of clothes do you often wear when you were a child?"

"Of course it's a good dress, it's almost the same as yours." Hei Qier hesitated for a moment and said, "I don't know what's going on at home, but at least I should be a poor family..."

Zhu Chuo frowned: "The name of the family...how many do you remember?"

"I have never deliberately remembered it, so I don't remember my father and mother, but only the names of the slaves who often accompany me." Hei Qi'er was embarrassed, "If I remember my parents' names, I might have found my family."

“That’s true.”

The room suddenly became silent, and Zhu Chuo was thinking, while looking at Hei Qi'er carefully. On the other side, Hei Qi'er was also looking at him.

...

Bai Wu waited outside for about a quarter of an hour, and the door of the side hall was opened again. Hei Qi'er walked out of the inside and saw that he was still waiting outside. He was stunned and chuckled, "I'll go back first."

"Has the matter been agreed?" Bai Wu asked, "Do I want someone to send you back?"

"No need, I'll just leave myself."

Hei Qier lit a torch and walked further and further away. After a while, he walked out of the Taoist temple and disappeared.

Zhu Chuo walked out of it and said to Bai Wu: "I'm leaving too, please send someone to prepare the car."

"Zu Ming...is he?" Bai Wu seemed to care quite a bit.

Zhu Chuo frowned, was stunned for a while before saying, "It looks a little similar, but what he remembers is a bit different from what I asked, so I'm not sure..."
Chapter completed!