"Yes." Pan Ning responded, "His name is Hao'er."
Lord Hou nodded and said thoughtfully: "This child looks very unusual!"
Pan Ning did not respond, but just said: "Master, Madam, why don't you have tea in the front hall?"
"No, since they don't want to stay at our house, we won't stay for long." The Marquis smiled and said, "I'll ask Madam to pick out some toys that the children like and send them over. Then we'll take our leave."
Seeing this, Pan Ning sent them out. After sending them away, when he was about to go back, he saw his eldest brother waiting for him in the front yard.
"Are they here for Yue'er and the others?" Pan Hong asked, looking at him.
"I guess the wife of the Marquis said something to the Marquis. They said they loved the two children very much and wanted to take them to live with them for a while, but Hao'er directly refused." Pan Ning said.
The voice paused, and then continued: "But in my opinion, they don't have any other thoughts, they just simply like the two children."
Pan Hong nodded and said, "The reputation of Qi Bohou and his wife in the imperial capital is quite good. Even if they find something strange, they probably won't go after the children. But even so, we still have to be careful."
"I know. Hao'er just said that people should not disturb them during this period. They will probably not go out for a while."
The two brothers chatted in the front yard for a while, and then Pan Ning gave instructions, asking people not to disturb them in the south yard. He also told the three children in the mansion not to look for Hao'er and the other two during this period.
For the next few days, Hao'er and the other two practiced in the courtyard. Even the people in the mansion didn't know what they were busy with all day. They only knew that except for eating, they hardly ever left their rooms.
Until this day, a piece of news came out from the Imperial Temple, causing a huge sensation in the imperial capital...
"Have you heard? There's news from the Imperial Temple that the Buddha appeared a few days ago and gave a fortune-telling. It's said that the one who got the fortune-telling was a little girl of three or four years old."
"What? A fortune? What kind of fortune? How come it was obtained by a three or four-year-old girl?"
"I heard that it was a white stick, but when the host took it in his hand, dots of gold appeared on the white stick, and a few lines of fortune appeared. It is also said that the little girl did not even kneel down, but just stood there and prayed for the lucky stick. However, this matter was suppressed by the host and was only reported recently."
"Why did the abbot suppress it? How could it be spread out again after it was suppressed? What did the fortune-telling say? Who is that little girl? How could the Buddha appear?"
"I heard that the fortune teller, Master Liaowu, was talking in his sleep and the story spread. I also heard that the little girl was not a mortal but a fairy. It was said that the Buddha showed it in the fortune slip."
On the street, groups of people were talking in low voices, and rumors were flying. As the news spread, several versions of the same thing were reported, some true and some false, which aroused suspicion.
When the Pan family heard the news, the father and son of the Pan family gathered in the hall, looking at Pan Ning with serious faces. Pan's father asked: "What is going on? Why did such a rumor arise after you went to the Imperial Temple? Now it has spread outside, and it is getting more and more outrageous. The emperor has also known about this and has sent people to the Imperial Temple to invite the abbot and Master Liaowu to the palace."