[When he brought the child there, he told the abbot that the boy was not to become a monk, but was merely being left in the temple's care.
He left after giving the abbot a sum of silver, without even naming the child. It was the abbot who gave him the name Huiwu.
The "wu" in his name was a homophone of the surname Wu, concealing a clue to Huiwu's origins.
After handing Huiwu over to the abbot, Wu Liang never once went out of his way to visit him. It was only when Madam Wu came to offer incense at Liu'an Temple that Wu Liang remembered he had a child there.
Huiwu was already four by then. Though the abbot had not tonsured him or ordained him as a monk, he had grown up in a monastery and believed his parents had abandoned him.
So when he saw Wu Liang, he assumed the man was simply a major patron of the temple. It never occurred to him that this was his own father.
Wu Liang had never intended to acknowledge him anyway. Seeing that he was doing well at the temple, he left him there and made another donation.
From then on, whenever Wu Liang remembered him, he would donate to Liu'an Temple. When he forgot, he sometimes went years without asking after him.]
After Wu Liang revealed that Huiwu and Wu Qiaoyun were half siblings with the same father, they heard Shen Shixu's thoughts, along with another voice they had never heard before.
Wu Liang opened his mouth to ask how Shen Shixu knew, but Xu Wanda silenced him. Xu Wanda had been standing quietly to one side since arriving, watching the drama unfold without a word. He warned Wu Liang in a low voice.
"You're a clever