(Big chapter one, you know.) ）

The deer family is not the deer family.

The surname deer is not even the surname of deer.

This is a logic that sounds a little outlandish, but in Dayan, such things are not uncommon.

The parents of the Lu family sisters and brothers have committed serious crimes, and what kind of responsibility is no longer examinable, the Lu family's father was beheaded, and the Lu family sisters and brothers were also demoted to slaves because of their blame and stripped of their surnames. In the next few years, the brothers and sisters of the Lu family ran around, borrowed money from everywhere, and ransomed themselves from the master's family for themselves, but although the slave body was taken off, the slave status was not gone, and the original surname could not be restored, and the slave's homonym Lu could only be used as the surname. There are probably nearly 100,000 people with the surname Lu in Dayan, so there is a saying that the surname Lu is not the surname of Lu.

Wei Lai and the others didn't know about these things, but they were only aware of what the shopkeeper on the way to Lujia said.

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The Lu family is located in the west of Gutong City, not far from the "medical hall" of the old Mr. Wang Dao'an, in a remote alley called Luoyi Lane.

The houses in the whole alley are extremely low, and in the words of the shopkeeper, this Luoyi Alley is the slum of the ancient Tong City.

"That's it!" the shopkeeper suddenly pointed to a short distance ahead, where there was a low courtyard gate, and in front of the courtyard sat a thin boy, and that person was Lu Bai!

Seeing this, Sun Daren's eyes lit up, and he walked up menacingly, Wei Lai was afraid that Young Master Sun would act recklessly, so he didn't think much and hurriedly led everyone to follow.

"Stinky boy, let me catch you!" Sun Daren's face was gloomy, and he stepped forward and said coldly.

The boy who was squatting in front of the courtyard lowered his head, and when he heard the words, he glanced up at Sun Daren, but he did not have the fear and agility of his usual days, but his eyebrows and eyes were drooping, and his eyes were red.

Sun Daren secretly thought that it was the East Window incident, and this kid had no way out, so he was frightened and showed such an appearance.

He snorted coldly and said with a smug smile: "I knew why I had to do it today, today Grandpa Sun wants to let you know that your Grandpa Sun's money is not so easy to cheat." ”

As he spoke, Sun Daren clasped his hands in front of his chest, moved his fingertips, and made a gurgling sound, as if he wanted to cook Lu Bai raw.

Lu Bai glanced up at Sun Daren again, and at this time everyone also surrounded him, the shopkeeper of the Bafang Inn was still kind-hearted, seeing that Sun Daren was going to make a move, Lu Bai's body was afraid that he would not be able to stand Sun Daren's punch, he hurriedly said: "Xiao Lu Bai, what is going on? Did you take the money of these guest officers, quickly return it to these guest officers, and apologize to them!"

Wei Lai also stretched out his hand to hold Sun Daren, although this deception is hateful, but it is not to the point of heinousness, not to mention that the person who deceives is still a boy who is only thirteen or fourteen years old, he is afraid that Sun Daren will lose his severity and hurt the lives of others.

"Hmph!" Sun Daren snorted coldly, still staring at the deer cypress with an unkind face.

Lu Bai also raised his head at that time when he heard this, he took out the two pieces of broken silver from his arms with red eyes, and put them in Sun Daren's hands, but the things wrapped in his eyes could no longer bear it at that time, and rushed out, and he actually cried out at once.

Sun Daren's momentum instantly weakened by half, he took the two taels of silver in a daze, a little panicked, and said, "It's not a big deal...... Why are you crying, it's a big deal that I won't report to the official......"

"You report it! I don't want to live anyway!" But these words did not play the role of relief as Sun Daren imagined, and Lu Bai's emotions became more and more excited.

"Lu Bai!" Seeing this, the shopkeeper on the side turned pale and said: "Thank you, thank you, if you report to the official, you will be a slave again, and you will have to be sent to someone else's house as a slave!"

Lu Bai's body was slightly stunned when he heard this, and his whole person slumped: "It's all my father's fault, if we have to make a mistake, we deserve to be bullied." My sister ......"

Speaking of this, Lu Bai couldn't cry, crying more and more sadly.

The innkeeper's heart jumped, and he asked, "What's wrong with your sister? Is it that Gu Liu of the Hu family has come to harass again!?"

Lu Bai sobbed and choked up, and said: "Today at noon, after dinner, that Lu Wu came to pester me again, saying that he wanted to marry my sister Guomen, and I scolded him a few words when I was angry. But he was so annoyed by him that I sought to hide, and I did not mean to take their money. It's just that he ......" Saying this, Lu Bai pointed at Sun Daren and said: "It's just that he is really too annoying, and I just want to embarrass them, thinking that I will return the silver to them at night." ”

"But the liar surnamed Lu pestered me and had no choice, I hid in Tibet, and finally got rid of him and wanted to go home to see my sister, so I saw that Gu Liu rushed into the courtyard gate of my house with the son of the Hu family......"

When Sun Daren heard this, his eyes widened: "In broad daylight, why does the son of the Gu Liuhu family really have such courage!?"

Wei Lai and the others also frowned, but they didn't expect such a thing to happen, seeing Lu Bai sad like this, they could imagine how miserable his sister's experience was.

The shopkeeper also frowned, sighed and looked at Sun Daren and said, "The guest officers don't know anything. The Hu family is a relative of the little marquis, and it is not a matter of a day or two to do evil in Gutong City, and those family slaves under his command are also dogs and people, and they are very arrogant, that Gu Liu is the housekeeper of the Hu family, and he has won the trust of Hu Fuxing, and he is a well-known bully in this Gutong City, a few days ago, I heard Lu Bai talk about Gu Liu's harassment of his sister, but I don't want to ...... today."

"Where is your sister now!?" Probably because she is also a woman, Miss Long was the first to react after hearing this story, and asked immediately.

Lu Bai bowed his head and was silent, looking lonely.

This kind of performance makes everyone's hearts feel terrified, and the secret way is not good.

"Xiaobai has come in for dinner!"

But at this moment, a woman's voice suddenly sounded in the courtyard gate behind Lu Bai.

"Huh?" everyone was stunned, apparently still not recovering from the tragic story before.

"Xiaobai?" the voice sounded again.

"It's not ......," the shopkeeper asked, confused. But before he could finish speaking, the gate was pushed open, and a dignified young woman walked out of it.

"Xiaobai, it's time to eat, what are you doing here......" The woman said this, but before she finished speaking, she saw the people outside the door, the woman was stunned, and swallowed back the words that came to her mouth, looking at everyone vigilantly.

"What's going on?" Sun Daren asked, pointing at the woman. Obviously, judging by this woman's demeanor and what she said, she should be Lu Bai's sister, but she didn't look out of the ordinary at the moment, and she didn't look like she had suffered some misfortune......

When the group was figuring out the situation and secretly thought that Lu Bai was lying, another voice came from the door: "Xiaoting, why don't you come in, let me tell you, today I got the taste of this braised fish ......."

The voice also leaned out of the courtyard gate as he spoke, he looked at Wei Lai, Wei Lai and the others also looked at him, and both looked at each other, both showing surprise at that moment......

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"That son of the Hu family and that Gu Liu are all wine-colored people, the bones of the body have long been hollowed out, thin arms and legs, I saw that they were bullying Xiaoting, and picking up the wooden stick at the door was a messy hammer, the two guys were very timid, and they were beaten by me so that they couldn't find the way, and they fled with a roll. ”

The group sat in the small courtyard of the Lu family, and the group sitting on the wooden table listened attentively to the five mouths of the landing.

Lu Bai didn't lie, the son of the Hu family and the dog-legged housekeeper did come to the Lu family's house, and they did want to do that bad thing to Lu Bai's sister Lu Ting.

But fortunately, Lu Wu, who was bent on pleasing his brother-in-law and making the other party agree to this family business, followed Lu Bai back to the deer house, and then bumped into Hu Xu's misdeeds, although Lu Wu had done a lot of things about stealing chickens and dogs on weekdays, but he was not the self-aware coward, seeing that his sweetheart was bullied, how could he care if you were a son or not, he picked up the wooden stick and fought with the villain, which drove the two away.

It's just the process......

Obviously, he was not as wise and brave as Lu Wu said, and the black scar on his left eye socket was the best proof of this.

"Speaking of which, I have to thank a few sons and girls, if you hadn't given me the silver at the beginning, I really wouldn't have mustered up the courage to propose marriage to Xiaoting, and I wouldn't have been able to bump into today's events. Lu Wu was now proud, and he didn't care about the injury on his face, so he raised the wine glass in his hand and said to everyone.

Everyone heard about the whole process, and secretly rejoiced for Lu Ting, and most of the previous unhappiness was dissipated at this moment, and even Sun Daren, who was thinking about his one hundred taels of silver, also relieved his previous suspicions, and no longer mentioned it, raised the wine glass in his hand with a smile on his face, and talked with Lu Wu about the wine - this is the temperament of Young Master Sun, the reason why he was angry about the hundred taels of silver that was cheated away was not so much because of the hundred taels of silver, but because he couldn't swallow the bad breath of being cheated. At this moment, seeing Lu Wu and the woman in her early twenties beside him with happy smiles on their faces, Sun Daren was also really happy for them, how could he be angry.

"I didn't expect Brother Lu's friends to come, I'll go and cook a few side dishes for you. At this time, the woman also stood up and said with a smile.

At this moment, there are seven or eight people sitting at the table, but there is only one braised fish and two side dishes, which is indeed a little shabby, Lu Ting's proposal, although everyone does not want to trouble Lu Ting on the grounds that they have had dinner. But the woman was extremely persistent, and it was difficult for everyone to say anything more when they saw this.

After a few glasses of wine, and the departure of the "hostess", Sun Daren, who began to call Lu Wu brothers, also began to ask those cliché questions that were enough to arouse everyone's interest.

I saw Sun Daren bump Lu Wu with his shoulder, then put his hand on the other party's shoulder, and asked with a teasing smile: "Alas! Tell me! How did you find such a beautiful and virtuous daughter-in-law!"

Lu Wu smiled, and his face showed a rare look of shame.

"Hmph! Even coax and deceive, what else does he have to do besides this!" And before Lu Wu could say why, Lu Bai, who had been sullen since he sat at the dinner table, snorted coldly, and raised his head and said with a disdainful face.

Only then did everyone remember that Lu Bai was crying non-stop outside the house, and Long Xiu quipped: "That little guy, your sister is so happy, what did you cry just now?"

Lu Bai's face was not good: "What is there to be happy about, just this liar! My sister is also blind to see him!"

Lu Wu's face was embarrassed, but he still stubbornly promised: "Don't worry, I will definitely be good to your sister!"

Lu Bai didn't appreciate it at all, and turned his head away from him, but after all, he couldn't reject Lu Wu's "non-divisive thoughts" as firmly as before.

Although he didn't want to admit it, he had to admit that if Lu Wu hadn't arrived in time before, his sister's innocence might have been ruined in the hands of those bad people, even if there were a thousand unwilling in his heart, and he was not at ease with Lu Wu, he had to change his position at this moment, as soon as he thought of this, the little guy was angry and angry, hating himself for why he didn't rush home a moment earlier, saved his sister, and gave Lu Wu, a liar, a chance.

Lu Wu also saw the unhappiness of his "brother-in-law", he didn't dare to dwell on this topic, and in order to ease the embarrassing atmosphere, his expression sank, and he said: "It's Xiaoting who is kind-hearted, a few years ago I gambled indiscriminately, owed someone money, was broken a leg, and was penniless, and I was about to starve to death on the street, it was Xiaoting who rescued me and tried to cure me......"

"I've liked her since then, but I'm a rotten person, I don't have the ability to do anything, and I still owe a lot of gambling debts outside. I hid at the mouth of the alley to peek at her, and sent some melons, fruits and meat to her family, but I didn't dare to think about anything else. Only by daydreaming when I have nothing to do from time to time, thinking about a windfall from the sky, can I muster up the courage to marry Xiaoting home. ”

"I'll just say how someone in my house puts something in and runs away from time to time, it turns out to be you!" Lu Bai on the side heard this, and answered angrily, but at this time, the tone of this "brother-in-law" was much more relaxed than before.

Lu Wu is now thinking about how to please Lu Bai, he smiled awkwardly when he heard this, raised his head and drank a glass of wine, his face flushed slightly, and continued: "Later, I met a few sons and girls, and I am ashamed to say that Lu is in his thirties this year, but many things cannot be seen clearly. ”

"I always thought that with money, I would be able to make Xiaoting look down on me, and I would be able to marry her, so ah, after defrauding my son of a few money, I swaggered to the door to propose marriage, but who knows, Xiaobai looked down on me, and Xiaoting ignored me. I thought it was a lack of sincerity, so I bought things and gave money......"

"It wasn't until I saved Xiaoting just now that Xiaoting told me the truth. She wants me to be down-to-earth and motivated, instead of wandering around the gambling house all day long and relying on the pit to get this money. ”

Saying this, a shy smile appeared on Lu Wu's face again, and he took it out in his arms and pulled out a stack of silver tickets—this was the money he had cheated from Sun Daren before.

"Here are forty taels of silver......

"Last time, the prince gave us a hundred taels, and I divided fifty taels with Old Man Wang, and I have paid off those gambling debts here these days, and those expenses have spent ten taels, and these ten taels should be regarded as what I owe to my sons. I'll pay you back at a monthly rate, Old Man Wang is old, he seems to have some urgent use of the money, and it is estimated that it has been spent, so don't embarrass him, an old man......"

Saying that, Lu Wu also stood up and bowed very solemnly to everyone.

Sun Daren was embarrassed, he took the stack of silver tickets he had in mind, and he couldn't pay it back, so he could only look at Wei Lai as if asking for help.

Wei Lai smiled, took the four silver tickets, divided them in half, and handed them to Lu Wu's hand.

"Childe can't. Lu Wu waved his hand again and again, "I have promised Xiaoting that from now on I will be a down-to-earth person, and I will not be able to collect such ill-gotten gains." I have thought about it, in the future, I will go to the old man Wang as an apprentice, you don't look at the old man sloppy, but the medical skills are very good, although he is a veterinarian, but every time the medicine is cured, I just see that he has real skills, so I dare to arrest people with him. If I can learn some fur from him in the future, it will be enough for me to open a medical clinic to support me and Xiaoting. ”

"When the time comes, I have to buy a beautiful house, and I can't let Xiaoting and Xiaobai live in this rented dilapidated house...... Then I have to marry a daughter-in-law for Xiaobai Zhang Luo...... If you are not lucky, you can save enough money to free them from slavery and redeem them in the government. ”

As he said this, the thin man's eyes flashed with a bright light, and that light was a glow of infinite reverie for the future. The light was bright and moving, like a candle flame in a dark room, like a star in the night.

That thing is called hope.

Wei Lai smiled brightly, and forcibly stuffed the silver ticket representing twenty taels of silver into Lu Wu's hand, and before the other party could say anything, Wei Lai preemptively said: "Brother Lu also has a life-saving grace for us, Brother Lu's prodigal son turned back, and he didn't coerce him to repay him, so it was naturally not good to break Brother Lu's rules." ”

"But anyway, with this kindness, we can be considered friends. How can we not express our friend's great joy at all? The four of us, each of us is five taels, and we should all congratulate Brother Lu and Miss Lu Ting in advance on the congratulatory gift, if Brother Lu refuses, he will not treat us as friends!"

"Yes, yes, yes!" Sun Daren on the side lit up when he heard this, and hurriedly nodded again and again.

"If you take it, you will accept it, the big man will grind and chirp!" Miss Long also said on the side.

Lu Wu was embarrassed for a while, but when he saw that everyone was going to say it to this point, it was not easy to say any more, he put the silver ticket aside, and said with a slight reddening in his eyes: "Then thank you, I will give all this money to Xiaoting in a while......"

"Hehe, it's okay, I'm in a hurry, since I bumped into this happy event, I have to express it. At this time, the shopkeeper of the Bafang Inn who accompanied him also stood up, took out a few pieces of broken silver from his arms, and handed them over.

Lu Bai saw that everyone was smiling, and listened to Lu Wu's heartfelt words, and his heart was a little moved, but the little guy couldn't let go, so he still said stiffly at that time: "Yes!

"You're smart!" The mean brother-in-law couldn't even stand Liu Qingyan on the side, and pouted in response.

"Little fart knows a fart!" Lu Bai stood up, not to be outdone.

Liu Qingyan crossed his hands on his hips and stuck out his tongue: "You're just a little kid! You don't look as tall as me! Come, call sister!"

"You!"

Seeing the two little guys fighting, everyone on the side looked amused and laughed again.

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After returning from the Lu family's house, the time is not early, and everyone has no time to find a new inn, so they can only endure the pain and stay for another night, fortunately, the shopkeeper of the inn is also a sincere person, happy today, free everyone from the remaining two days of room money, Wei Lai insisted for a while, and finally couldn't resist the shopkeeper, so they took a step back and used one or two silver to make two days' room money.

Back in the wing room of the inn, Wei Lai threw the drunk Sun Daren on the bed, Long Xiu and Liu Qingyan had no intention of leaving, sitting at the wooden table next to them and drinking tea.

"Don't go back to sleep yet. Wei Lai also sat down at the wooden table and asked with a smile.

Long Xiu put down the teacup in his hand, supported his head with both hands, stared at the empty front with his eyes, and sighed: "It's so good......"

"Yes!" Liu Qingyan also sighed at that time, also holding his chin with both hands, his face was full of happiness.

Wei Lai was a little speechless, it turned out that these two little girls were lamenting everything they saw today, probably girls like such stories, and they both had smiles on their faces when they said this. Wei Lai secretly felt a little funny, but said with a straight face: "Okay, it's not early, let's go back and rest quickly!"

"I don't understand the amorous feelings. Miss Long was interrupted from her reverie, stood up and glared at Wei Lai with some dissatisfaction.

Liu Qingyan seemed to be a little unsatisfied, she stood up and asked, "Sister Long, do you think Uncle Lu can really get rid of those stinky problems for Sister Lu?"

Long Xiu was a little unsure, and said hesitantly: "It should be...... I think he can quit the bad ones. ”

Liu Qingyan, who couldn't get a positive answer, looked at Wei Lai again, widened his flickering eyes and asked, "What does Brother Wei Lai think?"

Probably didn't expect to be asked this question, Wei Lai was slightly stunned.

He remembered the light that flashed in the man's eyes when he was planning Wei Lai for himself, Lu Ting, and Lu Bai.

His father once said that hope is the lighthouse of the long-distance ship, the starlight of the people who trek at night, and with guidance, even in the dark, there will be a way forward.

So Wei Lai nodded heavily at that time: "No." He'll be able to!"

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Night.

The city gradually returned from the noise to tranquility, and only the footsteps of the night watchmen still sounded from time to time in the streets.

Outside Luoyi Alley, Gu Liu glanced at Hu Xu beside him with some concern - the eldest son of the Hu family was a little embarrassed at the moment, there was an obvious scratch on his face, and a white cloth was on the forehead of his head.

"Young master, this is not very good. Gu Liu looked at the few strong men standing behind Hu Xu again, and the worry became more and more intense.

Today he originally wanted to take Hu Xu to have a good time, he recognized that there was a woman in this Luoyi Alley, who was born quite beautiful, and he had the intention to take it back to be a concubine, but who knew that this woman was very strong, and he promised several times that the other party was indifferent. He happened to investigate that this woman was in slavery, and in Dayan, for this kind of person, even if it is this kind of person who has been redeemed, as long as he has not gotten rid of slavery, Dayan's laws are extremely strict with him, even if something happens, ordinary judges will favor the other side when measuring the law, to put it bluntly, this kind of person is an inferior person in Dayan.

Even if his son-in-law really did something to the woman, it would be okay to give some money as a woman, not to mention that his son-in-law was still the eldest son of the Hu family, if the woman had some brains, she should not do unwise things such as reporting to the official. But the son was on the rise, and out of nowhere, a guy who didn't have long eyes came out, and beat the two of them with a wooden stick. Finally escaped, this Hu Xu was already holding his breath in his heart, and this was also ruined, so naturally the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, and after bandaging the wound, he asked Gu Liu to find some evil slaves raised at home to seek revenge.

It's just that although the woman is in a slave state, she is a human life, and looking at Hu Xu's posture, it seems that it is not as simple as wanting to beat people up and get angry. Gu Liuke didn't want to make too much trouble, so he reminded at this time.

"What's wrong? I'm the eldest son of the Hu family! That Yu Tong can't be the Hou Ye for two days, don't you see that now he is nesting in the Hou Mansion all day long and doesn't dare to come out? He is now too busy to take care of himself, can he still make any trouble for me for a slave woman!?" Hu Xu's eyes were red, and he gritted his teeth and said coldly.

Although Gu Liu secretly felt that Hu Xu's words were true, he was still a little uneasy in his heart.

"Don't worry, when my father sits in the position of the magistrate of Gutong City, I will be indispensable. Seeing that the other party was still hesitating, Hu Xu said softly.

This sentence is like a dose of fierce medicine poured into Gu Liu's heart, he is so flattering to Hu Xu, isn't it that one day the Hu family will take the throne, and he will follow the chicken dog to ascend to heaven? Since it is Hu Xu who takes the lead, even if the East Window incident really happens, then Hu Fuxing has to try his best to keep his eldest son, after all, his youngest son really died in Tonglin more than half a month ago. Thinking of this, Gu Liu also nodded heavily, he looked at the evil slaves behind him and said, "You and the good son, you can't say a word about what will happen later, otherwise I will take your head." ”

These evil slaves were raised by the Hu family to do some unseemly deeds, how could they not understand what Gu Liu's meant, they nodded their heads at that time.

Hu Xu's face was cold, he sneered, and led everyone towards the depths of the Luoyi Alley.

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