It's been more than half a month since I came back from Qin Huai.

At the end of September, the autumn tiger has just left, and the weather is getting cooler day by day.

Su Ke and the eldest brother's daughter Nizi slept on the same kang, and the day and night reversal of the routine had been adjusted, but today's full moon, although it was three watches, her eyes were still shining.

"Sister-in-law, does your face still hurt?" Niko suddenly leaned over and whispered.

Su Ke was stunned for a moment, then shook his head, it was not real in the night, but he could see that the water in his bright eyes was getting brighter, "It doesn't hurt anymore." Why don't you sleep yet, be careful of blue circles under your eyes tomorrow. ”

Nizi drilled into Su Ke's arms, hugged her arm and whispered, "Sister-in-law, I believe you." ”

Su Ke closed his eyes, and two lines of water beads slid down the corners of his eyes.

When he came back from Qin Huai, Su Ke brought a hundred taels.

Yu Niang was kind, and when she left, she not only closed the door and thanked the guests for a few tables of wine a day for her to practice, but also stuffed her with two big ingots of fifty taels. Although it is not an exaggeration to exclude a hundred taels out of 10,000 taels, it is really surprising that which old bustard is not a miser and can still give her a hundred taels.

Su Ke is very grateful, with this hundred taels, she can be regarded as returning home.

After just half a year, it is not what it used to be. Su Ke didn't deliberately swagger, but just took out fifty taels to honor his father and mother, and let them buy some fields or build a few more rooms. The second elder of the Su family has never had so much money in his life, and he is so happy that he doesn't know how thick the sky is, and when he sees people, he praises Su Ke. Don't look at it as a girl, but it's more useful than the three sons in the family.

So the news that Su Ke went south to make a lot of money spread ten or ten hundreds, and it became a topic of conversation in the village after tea and dinner.

But if the family does not show their wealth, how can they attract the thief's thoughts, when the Su family is rich, the thief will come to the door. The knife was on the neck, and no one could move the rope, so they had to let the house turn upside down.

All the valuable things were taken, and the one hundred taels came and went happily.

The family cried so much, and the two sisters-in-law cried and scolded, only hating their men for not being useful. Su Ke felt uncomfortable, so he could only grit his teeth and go to the government to report the case.

But who would have thought that the people of the government would routinely ask about it, and the matter of this hundred taels would not be able to hold on.

Su Ke wanted to hide it, but he couldn't. The road guide has her road guide record, went south to Qinhuai, and came back with a hundred taels of ingots, how can a woman make money?

For a time, the Su family became the laughing stock of the village.

Su Ke's father was so angry that he hit Su Ke with a broom and asked her if it was real.

Su Ke wanted to say that although she worked in the Qinglou, she was not a girl, but she still received customers in the end, and she didn't know how to defend herself for a while. Just begged them to believe her over and over again.

Su Keniang cried into tears and asked her if she was still a yellow flower girl.

Su Ke bit his lip and shook his head tremblingly, so a big ear scraper that shook the sky slapped his face.

……

"Sister-in-law, don't be like this, if you cry, you won't feel uncomfortable." Nizi raised her hand to wipe the corners of Su Ke's eyes, but as soon as her fingers brushed it, new tears flowed down again.

Su Ke remembered the man.

He also asked her like this: "Have you always cried silently?" ”

In the final analysis, he is also the culprit, otherwise she would still be her leader in the Drunken Fragrance Pavilion. But after he left that day, Su Ke realized a lot of things.

For example, why no subordinates have come up to the top floor of the Drunken Fragrance Pavilion, why the Oiran Jindie has not returned to the house that night, and why there are emotional tea leaves on the round table.

During the showdown, Jindie smiled like a red lotus blooming in May, "Yes, I really want to push you into the quagmire." It's a pity that the sky is not beautiful, and it happened that the beloved man entered my house, and the person I arranged for saw that the door was blocking the table and entered the house opposite the firefly. Such a mistake, but the lover is fascinated by you. If it were me who served, I would be the one who walked out of the Drunken Fragrance Pavilion today. I'm really shooting myself in the foot. ”

Su Ke felt sad, this was not the result she wanted. But misfortune and blessing depend, and meeting him is both a curse and a blessing.

When parting, he invited her to go back to the capital together, but she refused, and he didn't force it, and seemed to understand her intentions very well.

He asked her, "Will you remember me?" ”

She replied: "The great kindness of the son, Su Ke remembers it in his heart." ”

He smiled and shook his head, "It doesn't sound like it's coming from the heart. She was about to argue, but he took off the jade pendant around his waist and handed it to her, "Leave a thought." ”

The piece of jade was a piece of fine mutton fat white jade, which was worth a lot of money, she didn't dare to ask for it, she only took off the big red tassels under the jade pendant, "The jade pendant is too valuable, and I can't wear it often." This tassel is just right, and when I turn around, I wear a rope and hang it around my neck, always looking at it, and always thinking of the kindness of my son. ”

He didn't say anything more, pinched the jade pendant, said take care and left.

Now Su Ke's tears can't be stopped, his palms are pressed against his chest, and the big red ears that stick to his skin are very piercing.

……

I woke up early the next day, and because I cried all night, my eyes were swollen and peach when I got up.

Su Ke used the well water in Liangjin to cover his eyes, and suddenly there was a noise in the second brother's house. Su Ke was startled, the handkerchief covering his eyes fell to the ground, and it took a long time before he bent down to pick it up.

The second sister-in-law cursed hoarsely, "Will I marry into your family and live a good life?" You are poor, you have no ability, I don't blame you, who let me die. But I do my duty, but now when I go out, I have to be poked in the backbone and laughed, who am I recruiting to provoke whom? It's not like I'm going to Qin Huai to be a......"

Syllable. A slap in the face shattered the silence of the morning.

"You beat me, you still dare to hit me? Didn't she just sell herself for two taels of silver to marry your daughter-in-law? You're so worried about her. I will give you a son to run the house, and I will get you a big mouth in exchange...... I can't live this day, ah......"

The second sister-in-law has a sharp mouth, and the second brother is afraid of guilt, which is famous.

But Su Ke didn't expect the second brother to raise his hand and slap him.

Su Ke clutched his chest and smiled bitterly, unable to tell whether he was relieved or sad, and his smile became more and more aggrieved, and his eyes began to sour. She hurriedly twisted the veil in the copper basin, and it was wet and covered her eyes, leaving behind me without knowing whether it was water or tears.

This family can't stay any longer, don't destroy this family for her.

Su Ke took off his handkerchief and got up and took out a small cloth bag from his box.

The worship note he gave was carefully kept and placed together with another fifty taels of ingots. It's just that when the thief rummaged through the cabinets, this worthless prayer card was ruthlessly thrown to the ground, stepped on countless feet, and left dirty shoe prints.

If it weren't for the one hundred taels given by Yu Niang, Su Ke might have gone to the Hou Mansion to find a job immediately after returning home. But now that he has money, Su Ke wants to do some business or open a shop, so that the family can be settled.

Now that the family is destitute and has no money to do anything, even if Su Ke doesn't want to rely on him anymore, there is no way.

But the prayer post has become like this, how can you take it to the door?

Su Ke gritted her silver teeth, not believing that God would kill her like this. There is no endless road, and she still has to try, it is better than sitting still.

Just as I was thinking about it, a woman's voice suddenly came from the courtyard.

"Does Suke live here?"

Except for Su Ke, the family was in the second brother's house, and when they heard the voice, they came out and looked, and found that it was a very decently dressed woman, forty-five or sixteen, with a face like a silver platter, and a slightly chubby body. Because I heard the noise in the house, I smiled a little embarrassed at this time.

Su saw this, and hurriedly walked out of the house, "I am Su Ke, but you are ......"

The woman stepped forward to look at Su Ke, and said with a gentle smile: "My wife used to be a sister with the girl in the palace, and now she misses the girl and sent me to pick her up from the house." ”

Su Ke was very surprised, "The lady in your mouth is ......"

The woman said: "Madame said that as long as the name 'Yu Niang' is mentioned, the girl will know." ”

Yu Niang? Su Ke was even more shocked.

When did Yu Niang come to the capital? How did you become a lady again? What are you looking for her for?

With a thousand doubts, Su Ke simply cleaned up his body, and followed the woman towards the entrance of the village under the attention of his family. There was a black-lacquered Baogai carriage parked under the old locust tree at the entrance of the village, and Su Ke got into the car suspiciously, and when the curtain was lifted, he was dumbfounded.

"Zhou Gongzi!"

Shao Linghang assumed the alias Zhou Kang, and only said that it was his own words. Su Ke didn't dare to call him directly, so he had to compromise and call him Zhou Gongzi.

He is a native of Beijing, his family is in business, and he only went south to buy goods.

That's all Su Ke knows.

"Come up, lest they be seen." Shao Linghang leaned over and dragged Su Ke into the carriage and instructed the coachman to raise the whip.

The car drove quickly, Shao Linghang looked at Su Ke's face, his face darkened, "Have you cried?" ”

Su Ke turned his head and answered the question, "I didn't expect it to be Zhou Gongzi, I also want to say, how did Yu Niang come to the capital from Qinhuai." When did Childe return to the capital? Something to find me? ”

Deliberately changing the topic like this, Shao Linghang squinted his eyes, the answer to whether he had cried or not was too obvious, and it was okay not to ask.

He said in a deep voice, "Why don't you go to the Hou Mansion to serve?" ”

Su could see that he had changed the topic, and he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, but when he remembered the dirty post, he felt sad again, and muttered: "I have a slow pace, and I haven't been back for long, and I want to stay at home for two days first." ”

"Yet?" Shao Linghang looked at her in surprise, his eyes were very complicated.

Su Ke met his gaze, and couldn't understand why he hated iron but not steel. But the carriage suddenly bumped, and Su Ke remembered where he was, and he understood in an instant.

I understood, I felt embarrassed, my lips bit white, and I muttered after a while, "Childe knows about my family?" ”

Shao Linghang sighed.

He knows a lot of things. Where she got on the boat, where she stayed on the boat, where she changed to land, whether she hired a car, whether there was anyone making trouble on the road, someone reported it to him.

He had been in the capital for a while before she arrived home late. was afraid of the long distance, so she sent someone to take care of her when she had an accident on the road, and when she saw her home, the people withdrew. But it was withdrawn, and the matter of the thieves in her house was only known for a long time. sent someone to inquire, and happened to run into her father chasing after her.

After two days of not knowing what to do, he was worried about what he had today.

"I happened to go to see Master Hou two days ago, and I heard that you haven't been there, so I sent someone to inquire." He lied, and then said, "Since I can't stay at home, I should find another way, is it because I am afraid that my face will be bad, and I will eat closed doors when I arrive at the Hou Mansion?" ”

Su Ke hurriedly shook his head, "It's that the affairs of the family haven't been taken care of yet." ”

This person has great powers, and he is called a brother to the Marquis of Xuanping, and he easily knows about her family's affairs, and he also came to the door...... She didn't dare to underestimate him.

Shao Linghang saw that she was careful, and his chest felt a little blocked, "Do you think I'm troublesome?" ”

Su Ke shook his head again.

Shao Linghang sighed, "You are my woman, I hope you can understand this truth." ”