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The next morning, as soon as the sky was bright, Xiao Liang was anxious to see the old house in Chang'an City, and the second lady was lazy to sleep in the house and didn't want to get up, so Ji Yao had to go out with her aunt.

The two of them smeared Chang'an City, sat in the car and listened to the Zhong family's coachman introduce which road leads to the Forbidden Palace, and the other leads to the largest and most lively market in the city. After walking for more than half an hour, the road gradually became scarce, the low eaves turned into high-walled gates of blue bricks and black tiles, and the weeds and moss were all over the stone slabs on both sides of the road, quiet and lifeless.

The coachman took them to the outside of a large mansion, knocked on the courtyard door and shouted: "Come out of someone, your head of the family has come to Chang'an City from Luoyang, come and greet them." ”

After a candle of incense, two elderly servants came out, with gray hair and bent waist, looking at Xiao Liang and Ji Yao with half-squinted eyes, and pointed at Ji Yao for a long time and said: "Isn't the eldest lady here?"

Ji Yao looks a little similar to her biological father, and those who have seen their father and daughter say that their eyebrows, eyes and bearings are very similar. The old servant didn't know Xiao Liang's family, but he could recognize Ji Yao because of the deceased Xianzhen Guogong, and they wiped their tears and led Ji Yao and Xiao Liang to visit the mansion.

The mansion here is amazingly large, and it is even larger than the Zhenguo Mansion in Luoyang City. There are five courtyards on the positive axis, and the windows of the large mansion are very atmospheric. The east hand study, martial arts training ground, home study and several small courtyards for hospitality. A lotus pond on the west side can not be seen at a glance, the edge of the pool is interspersed with rockery landscape pavilions and countless flowers and trees, there are two lacquered mottled painting boats parked by the pool, which are blown by the wind and make a squeaky sound, it is estimated that it is not to see and is not useful.

The old servant pointed to the back of the lotus pond, and there were vaguely a few corners of the eaves, which was the large courtyard for the old man to recuperate.

Xiao Liang waved his hand and said forget it, let's see it another day, from morning to noon, they walked roughly around for most of the circle, and the more they looked, the colder they became.

The mansion is big, but it has also been abandoned for nearly ten years, the corners and roofs are overgrown with weeds, the window lattices are rotten and fall down with a push, and the house is ten rooms and nine empty, not to mention the dust on the ground.

Xiao Liang began to get irritated again, walked back and forth with small steps, asked the old servant to pass the list of utensils, turned over a few pages and stacked them on the stone table, and said angrily: "Eight of the ten items on this list were secretly bought by your uncle, you see the big screen, the Hu bed and the rosewood suitcase, the embroidery bed, and the round table...... Valuables are gone. ”

Ji Yao also felt incredible after taking the list and reading it, she couldn't help asking: "There are still four or five small independent courtyards in Chang'an, there are also a few shops facing the street in the north, and there are thousands of acres of fertile land in Weinan, and the annual income of these industries is not a few, isn't my uncle enough?"

Xiao Liang sat on the cold stone bench with a sigh, pointed to her chest and was so angry that she couldn't speak, and it took her a long time to confess: "The harvest of the fields here in Chang'an is in the first two years of your father's visit, and I can still see it in my hands." But later, the old pious woman who had been cut a thousand knives instigated your uncle to hold the money in the palm of his hand, and I quarreled countless times, and every year I could only see a small amount of dividends in the account books. ...... from the year before that"

Xiao Liang paused, glanced at Ji Yao and continued: "After the Song family's incident, I can't see the real and the virtual. When I came out this time, I originally wanted to coax all the land deeds from your uncle's hands, but he refused to do all the good things, and finally forced him to be in a hurry, and even said cruelly that he would not hand it over to me if he burned it. ”

Speaking of sadness, Xiao Liang's tears have rolled down like pearls with broken threads, and he is not afraid of losing face, so he cried out in the hospital.

Ji Yao was deeply uneasy in her heart, and she guessed: "Is it because my uncle refuses to give it to you, or does he not have it at all." ”

A word woke up the dreamer, Xiao Liang raised his head suddenly, his face was as white as paper, his eyes were hazy with tears, his fingers trembled for a long time, and he covered his face with his hands and cried bitterly.

Ji Yao sighed, a room of dowry in Luoyang Mansion must have been looted. Before the change last year, she secretly handed over a title deed in her hand to Aunt Nan, and she still had some old background. But what's the use, Luoyang City is in the face of natural disasters and man-made disasters, and there is no harvest of land products.

The Ji family has a large family of seven or eight people guarding a huge empty yard, what to eat and drink?

"Auntie, let's go to the bazaar to inquire, maybe the shop is still in my uncle's hands, and he is just talking to you about anger. Ji Yao persuaded Xiao Liang.

Xiao Liang nodded, his legs were weak, and he reluctantly helped Ji Yao out of the yard and got into the car, and the two old servants chased out the door and asked the eldest lady if she wanted to live in Chang'an City for a long time.

"Exactly", Ji Yao asked the old servants to guard the house, she will come again in the near future, the carriage traveled far away, she saw the two old servants still standing outside the gate and stretched their necks to look around, desolation welled up in her heart, Ji was as old as these two servants.

The coachman of the Zhong family led them to the Hu market, Chang'an City was large, and there was an endless stream of Persian Hu merchants from the Western Regions, and the bearded women with yellow hair, blue eyes and high nose □□ dancing in the street with their waists and limbs, twisting and turning to attract thunderous cheers, and there were many new and stubborn children who could not be called and had never seen before.

Xiao Liang and Ji Yao had no intention of watching the scenery, they had already been to a store, and the shopkeeper said that he had replaced the shop with three night pearls five years ago, and he was not surnamed Ji here, but changed his surname.

Five years ago!

What Xiao Liang wants to say is that she doesn't know at all, and she hasn't seen any valuable night pearls. I don't have to think about what my husband did with them, he didn't secretly use them to please the women outside, and he didn't know how much cheaper the kabuki in Luoyang Ping'an Fang.

Second, third...... When she reached the sixth and last house, Xiao Liang almost lost hope, her face was pale, her lips were purple, and she stood on the street and hesitated: "Or, let's come back another day?" ”

Ji Yao helped Xiao Liang into a tea shop next to her, asked for two bowls of milk tea and a plate of Hu cakes, and threw down ten official money to let the shopkeeper worry about her.

After settling down, she went out again to inquire about the shop, and just said that she was the Ji family of the Zhenguo Mansion, and a person who looked like a shopkeeper behind the counter said angrily: "What's wrong with the Zhenguo Mansion, the transfer of the shop is your words, I paid a lot of money to change the title deed and get the flower charge." Later, he said that he regretted it, and repeatedly sent people to me to ask for silk and spices, two or three times a year, without stopping for two years. Now I want it again, and it just so happens that we go to Fu Yin Li to ask for justice, and ask the adults to comment, and the silk and spices I gave can be converted into money and can rent the second half of the shop. The Ji family will either refund me the money or return my goods as they are. ”

Ji Yao smiled bitterly and made up a round: "The title deed of the shop has always been in my father's hands, and Luoyang didn't wait to use the money, but now the store also knows that Luoyang is in trouble, and the family is anxious to use the money to rebuild the yard, and my father can't get the money and refuses to say the reason, my grandmother and mother asked me to come over and ask, I want to ask for an understanding." ”

The store was also bluffing, the people did not suppress the official, he looked Ji Yao up and down a few times, and felt that her words were somewhat credible, so he snorted: "The goods I paid for are not lower than those on the market, and there is no way to get it back at the original price." ”

"The final word is written in black and white, I just want to look at the documents for the transfer, so that I can go back and explain to the elders. Ji Yao was reasonable, and the shopkeeper's face eased again, and she went into the back room and took out the paperwork title deed and flower charge for her to see.

Ji Yao checked the handwriting and the letter, it was indeed from the hand of Zhen Guogong, and then stared at the date, and saw that it was only a month before and after he asked the Song family two years ago.

She handed the paperwork back to the shopkeeper, and said goodbye.

In the tea shop, Xiao Liang's eyes were waiting for an echo, and when she saw Ji Yao appearing, she asked anxiously, "How is it?"

Ji Yao shook her head with a solemn face.

Xiao Liang's mouth trembled, and she fell from the stool to the ground with a thud, and when Ji Yao pounced on her, she foamed at the mouth and spasmed with one hand.

The shopkeeper took Ji Yao's three more big boards, and he also came to help with people's money, and when he saw Xiao Liang's appearance, he sighed: "This lady has suffered a stroke, and she must be healed as soon as possible." ”

Ji Yao didn't look back, and while pinching Xiao Liang's people, he instructed the shopkeeper: "Brother Lao is tired to shout at the door: Mrs. Ji is dizzy, let the coachman come quickly." ”

The shopkeeper should get down, and after going out, he led the Zhong family's coachman in, and several people worked together to carry Xiao Liang's into the car, and the coachman whipped and hurried back to Sikong Mansion.

The carriage was bumpy on the bluestone pavement, and Ji Yao sat in the car, her heart also undulating. Xiao Liang lay in the crook of her elbow and fainted, no wonder Ji Yao didn't think of preparing pills when she went out today, how did she know that the Zhenguo Guild did such a good thing, and Xiao Liang was so unbearable.

She pulled down the beads on her ears, straightened half of the silver needle, and stabbed Xiao Liang's people with a sharp end, calling out to her aunt, Xiao Liang reacted slightly, and moaned softly in a coma.

Although Xiao Liang's is half good and half good and bad for Ji Yao, and she doesn't have much affection for her heart and lungs, if she has three long and two short, Ji Yao can't imagine the consequences.

Let's not talk about the estrangement with the Zhong family and the Liang family, just say that the old and deaf Mrs. Tai in the family, and the idle Zhenguo Gong, these two people together are simply firewood for the loser, without the Xiao Liang family watering from time to time, the Ji family is even more depressed than now.

"Is it almost there?" Ji Yao urged the coachman.

"It's almost there, it's almost there, but the intersection in front of me is blocked and I can't get through. "The coachman was also sweating profusely.

"It doesn't matter who he is, rush over, and I'll make amends when I turn around. Don't be afraid, your aunt will have a lady behind you, but if something happens, your whole family can't afford it. Ji Yao lifted the curtain and let out cruel words.

The coachman looked bitter: "That's the general's men and horses, more than that, half of them are the guards in Beijing." ”

Ji Yao raised his eyes and looked into the distance, in front of the gate of Sikong Mansion, there were feathers in the forest, Lang officials were numerous, there were many swords, and the guards were heavily guarded to surround this place into an iron bucket.