"Miss Lingling, Sima Xiangru is about to catch up with a fellow who is a dog warden." Hongzhu walked into Cui Lingling's study and whispered to Cui Lingling about it in her ear.

"Oh, caught it so quickly?" Cui Lingling closed the book in her hand, slightly surprised by Sima Xiangru's speed.

"If you have money, of course you will soon dredge the little people in front of you and catch the big fish!" Hongzhu brought some sarcastic words to make Cui Lingling laugh, but Hongzhu was a little nervous and asked Cui Lingling what to do next.

"This Sima Xiangru now secretly pawned the things that Miss gave him, and used all the money to dredge the relationship between the palace, he could only take some people from the outer palace before, but this time he sent the money in place, and a guard connected him with Yang Deyi, the dog warden who was in charge of the hunting dogs for Emperor Wu, this Yang Shengyi is said to be able to say a few words in front of Emperor Wu, if this Sima Xiangru is allowed to catch up with him, he intends to recommend Sima Xiangru to Emperor Wu, and Sima Xiangru has gained momentum" Hongzhu said more and more solemnly, Cui Lingling listened to her with a smile before patting Hongzhu's hand and saying.

"Hongzhu, I know what you are worried about Sima Xiangru, you are worried that Sima Xiangru will gain power and take revenge on Zhuo Gong and Miss Zhuo, and even in the end, I will be among the people he retaliates against. Sima Xiangru, his nature, I see it better than you, he is a Zhongshan wolf, and he will inevitably be rampant after he gets his will. You see that since he entered here and we gave him a face, he could immediately take action against the porters who had Diao Na and his original mouth, and his stubborn character can be glimpsed one or two, not to mention others. ”

"He, as soon as he entered, he was treated as a male host, so he immediately found an opportunity to pick the thorns of those porters, said bad things about them to Miss Lingling, and asked Miss Lingling to transfer them to do hard work, and the porter who collected the most money from him at the beginning, he also persuaded Miss Lingling to sell his hair to the place where he worked as coolies!" Cui Lingling mentioned that Sima Xiangru was the concierge who made things difficult for Sima Xiangru at the beginning, and Hongzhu thought that Sima Xiangru did to them, and felt that the Zhongshan wolf like Sima Xiangru was really terrifying.

"Zhuo Gong saw Sima Xiangru's nature earlier than me, and he has been on guard against him! When I was rescued, let me come to Chang'an to get this design Sima Xiangru, that is, I knew that Sima Xiangru was a fierce and sinister, and he would take revenge on the Zhongshan wolf, and the main purpose of letting me come here was to completely cut off his chance to gain power, and dispel your young lady's expectations for Sima Xiangru, in fact, it was just a passing task, Zhuo Gong would have to beat a Zhongshan wolf like Sima Xiangru early on, and he would never have a chance to run rampant! Cui Lingling brought a lot of admiration and gratitude when she mentioned Xia Xiyan, because without Xia Xiyan's rescue of her, she didn't know where she would die now.

"I was afraid that this Sima Xiangru would not be able to catch up with the characters around Emperor Wu, so I gave him those valuable things so generously, but now Sima Xiangru is about to catch up, and when the dog supervisor is willing to help him, we can take advantage of this opportunity to make this Sima Xiangru forever lose the possibility!" Cui Lingling's cold words made Hongzhu flutter, but Cui Lingling beckoned her to come over with her ear and arranged for her to send a message to the person who had been staring at Sima Xiangru.

"Miss Lingling's method is good, if it succeeds, no, this thing will definitely succeed, and after it succeeds, it will really be enough for Sima Xiangru to drink a pot, and then we can leave Chang'an and return to X County." After listening to Cui Lingling's words, Hongzhu shouted excitedly, but Cui Lingling shook her head when she heard that she was back in X County.

***

"Brother Changqing, have you had any happy events recently, and I will also give my brother joy for you!" Wang Ji was in the small courtyard where Sima Xiangru lived in the Cui family, and when he saw Sima Xiangru, who seemed to be walking with the wind, coming back, he couldn't help but ask Sima Xiangru with some sourness.

"What a happy event!" When Sima Xiangru saw Wang Ji, the bright good mood dissipated, and he replied to Wang Ji coldly, and went back to the bedroom without paying attention to him, leaving Wang Ji, who felt that he had been dumped at his face, looked at his back resentfully.

Sima Xiangru, who also hated the other party like Wang Ji, returned to the room and hammered down the table to express his resentment that Wang Ji was now relying on him.

Wang Ji relied on him, so that he had to listen to Cui Lingling, who felt that Wang Ji was embarrassed, and came in to live together, not to say a lot of his things, and to say some sour words like a mad dog every day to block him.

"When I'm developed, I'll be the first to kill him!" Sima Xiangru said fiercely, then took out a key on his body, opened a box, and took out a few things from it.

"These pawns are worth tens of thousands, but Yang said that he was willing to recommend me to the Son of Heaven after saying that he was at least 100,000!" After Sima Xiangru estimated the value of those things, he found that it was less than 100,000, which was obviously not enough for the 100,000 yuan that Yang proudly wanted, so he was a little worried.

"It's all that Zhuo Wenjun, if she hadn't made that incident and took away half of my things, she might be able to get together that 100,000 yuan now!" Sima Xiangru regretted a little that he had returned things to Zhuo Wenjun for the sake of face, and even hated Zhuo Wenjun a little because he was short of money now.

"Looks like I'm still trying to cheat something from Lingling!" After Sima Xiangru cursed Zhuo Wenjun for a few words, he thought of continuing to cheat money from Cui Lingling, "Lingling didn't ask me to play the piano with her for several days because of Wang Ji's leprosy dog matter, it seems that I have to be cheeky to meet her tomorrow!" That Yang is proud, but I only gave me ten days to make up 100,000 yuan, if I can't take it out, it's not good to offend this Yang proud. ”

Sima Xiangru thought about his plan for the next day, hastily ate a few bites of cold food, and went to sleep.

On the second day, he was cheeky to ask to see Cui Lingling, Cui Lingling was not seen at first, and after seeing him later, Sima Xiangru said that it was not good to be at home and asked Cui Lingling to go shopping.

The eager look was seen by Cui Lingling, but she still let him out.

"Lingling, you see that this hairpin and jade pendant are a pair, just like us" Sima Xiangru deliberately took Cui Lingling to visit the jade jewelry store, and when Cui Lingling looked at it casually, he picked out a few valuable men's jade jewelry and women's jade jewelry to be paired and wanted Cui Lingling to buy it.

That is good because of his eagerness and not much concealment, so that the store and other customers show a look of disdain for him, but Sima Xiangru doesn't know if he is used to it, or thinks that as long as he is valued by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and becomes an official, these stains on him will dissipate over time, so Sima Xiangru ignores those who despise him, and only flatteringly recommends what he wants to Cui Lingling.

Cui Lingling looked at it coldly, and finally bought the cheapest set for Sima Xiangru, although Sima Xiangru felt that it was not the one he wanted the most, but he felt that the value of the last purchase and the other items in his hand were enough for 100,000 yuan, so he happily continued to flatter Cui Lingling, and then went back to Cui's house with Cui Lingling.

***

"Lord Yang, this jade pendant is newly bought worth 60,000 guan, and the total value of these things is 50,000 guan!" Sima Xiangru handed a bag of things to Yang Deyi, Yang Deyi took it and saw that it was not the 100,000 yuan he wanted, but some items were a little displeased, Sima Xiangru saw it and immediately said that the total price of these items exceeded 100,000 yuan.

"Lord Yang gave three days, I was in a hurry, I didn't have time to exchange these things for money, so I could only directly give these things to Lord Yang!" Sima Xiangru concealed the fact that these things would be pawned in half, and said that the price of the things was higher.

Yang proudly saw it, but seeing that the total price of these things was more than 100,000 yuan, he also accepted it with satisfaction, patted Sima Xiangru's shoulder and said, "Where is the Son of Heaven, I will let him see your "Zi Xuan Fu", if the Son of Heaven likes it, I will push you out, whether you can win the favor of the Son of Heaven depends on your literary style of "Zi Xuan Fu"! ”

Yang Smug didn't say anything full, but Sima Xiangru was very confident that his "Zi Xufu" had good things to say to Yang Smugly.

After Yang returned to the palace proudly, Sima Xiangru seemed to have felt that he was going to go home humming a little song in one step, and he didn't meet Wang Ji who loved him all the way, so he was in a better mood to go back to the house.

In the next few days, Sima Xiangru was very excited to wait for the news, and became a little perfunctory to Cui Lingling's side I don't know if I am going to increase my value, Cui Lingling didn't care about this, but arranged for Hongzhu to start quietly packing up things.

When Sima Xiangru hadn't received the news that Yang Deyi had recommended him to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty almost four days later, he couldn't sit still and went to Yang Deyi, but he didn't expect that Yang Deyi didn't tell him about the recommendation as soon as he came out, but called the guards who were familiar with him outside the palace, dragged Sima Xiangru to a deserted alley and beat him severely.

"Dog, you dare to calculate you Yang Ye and me! See if I don't break your legs! After Yang shouted at Sima Xiangru in annoyance, he asked the guards to break Sima Xiangru's legs.

Sima Xiangru intermittently asked Yang Deyi why he did this to him while screaming, and Yang Deyi smashed the things that Sima Xiangru gave him on the head, squatted on the ground with blood and hatred, and smashed those things on Sima Xiangru's face one by one.

"Fool me with these imitations, Sima Xiangru, you are the most foolish of all the people who beg me to do something! I said why don't you give cash, but take things, it turns out that they are all fake, Sima Xiangru, if you don't want to carry the bloody case, Lao Tzu really wants to kill you, you fakes hurt Lao Tzu to be ugly, and Lao Tzu is harmed to offend people! Yang said proudly and hated Sima Xiangru to the bone, kicked him a few times with his foot, and saw the guards break Sima Xiangru's two legs, so he broke Sima Xiangru with a mouthful of phlegm and left with the guards.

Sima Xiangru, who was left with a broken leg and fainted with injuries, was left to fend for himself in the alley.

***

When Sima Xiangru woke up in unbearable pain, he crawled back to Cui's house struggling with bone-eating pain, but was stopped by the porter.

"Sima Xiangru, you stole my Cui family's things, and you still have the face to come back!"

"What did I steal, I don't have a head?" Sima Xiangru lay on the ground and looked up at the concierge who was standing, humiliated, but anxious to defend himself.

"You replace all the expensive ornaments in our miss's study with imitations, and you can enter my miss's study, it's not that you want to change them and steal them! Sima Xiangru, you are still a literati, but your hands and feet are so unclean, our young lady let you eat and drink for nothing in Cui's house, and rewarded you with so many things, you still have the face to steal things at home, you are really a wolf-hearted thing! The porter shouted a little big, and the people passing by pointed at Sima Xiangru, Sima Xiangru first defended himself, but then thought that the things he gave Yang Deyi seemed to have been changed, so he shouted that there was someone else who changed things, and this person, Sima Xiangru also wittily thought of Wang Ji, whom he hadn't seen for a few days, and asked Cui Lingling to report to the official to arrest him.

"Miss sees that you have met her, and she doesn't want to report to the official to let you go to prison, so don't push the matter to others! Get out of here or we'll throw you out!" The porter didn't care about Sima Xiangru's words, and impatiently drove Sima Xiangru away.

Sima Xiangru was really afraid that the porter would throw him out, so he dragged his broken leg and crawled away, wanting to treat the injury first, but because he was in a hurry to find Yang proudly, and he didn't bring anything and couldn't help the medical expenses, and finally dragged it out for a few days, only to meet a kind barefoot doctor who gave him a broken leg, but his medical skills were not good, and his leg was not connected well and became lame.

***

"Miss Lingling, what should you do with these things?"

Hongzhu asked Cui Lingling with the same burden as Sima Xiangru to send Yang proudly, Cui Lingling because she had finished packing up Sima Xiangru and was now writing a letter to Xia Xiyan, so she didn't raise her head and asked Cui Lingling to put it away and take it back to Xia Xiyan.

"These are all Zhuo Gong's, naturally they will all be returned to Zhuo Gong! This Sima Xiangru spent thousands of yuan, which should be regarded as the money that made him depressed for the rest of his life! I think Zhuo Gong shouldn't care about this. After Cui Lingling finished writing the letter, she picked it up and looked at it, dried the ink and talked to the red beads.

"Miss Lingling, this is that, all the things that the head of the family gave to Miss Lingling at the beginning were arranged by Miss Lingling, and after completing this, the rest will also belong to Miss Lingling." Hongzhu heard that Cui Lingling wanted to return everything to Xia Xiyan, so she said that Xia Xiyan's previous arrangements were repeated, Cui Lingling was stunned, and then she still wanted to return all the money that Xia Xiyan asked her to bring to Chang'an, and Xia Xiyan.

"Zhuo Gong has already given me the grace of saving my life, Lingling is no longer grateful, and she can't accept Zhuo Gong's huge amount of money. If Lingling doesn't still have a wish to come true, I'm afraid she will have to go back to X County and repay Zhuo Gong for being a slave! Cui Lingling asked Hongzhu to bring everything back to X County to Xia Xiyan, Hongzhu refused, Cui Lingling said this to her, Hongzhu was embarrassed, but Cui Lingling insisted, and on the night they left Chang'an, they only left quietly with a small baggage.

***

A few days after Xia Xiyan asked Zhuo Wenjun for his opinion, selected a good husband for Zhuo Wenjun, and set an auspicious date for him to marry with the other party's family, he saw Hongzhu and other domestic slaves who returned from Chang'an.

"She didn't come back with her?" Xia Xiyan looked at the things they brought back, and didn't see Cui Lingling, so she couldn't help but sigh, "This stupid girl! ”

"Father, what silly girl?" Zhuo Wenjun walked in with Zhuo Jun and asked Xia Xiyan with a smile, Xia Xiyan didn't want to talk to her about Cui Lingling, so he said nothing, and then asked her how the things for marriage were prepared.

In order to exercise the ability of the two sisters Zhuo Wenjun and Zhuo Wenshu to be housekeepers, Xia Xiyan handed over all the matters to be prepared for Zhuo Wenjun's marriage to their sisters, and she only prepared the dowry list for Zhuo Wenjun and didn't care, but took Zhuo Jun with her and slowly cultivated him to inherit the Zhuo family's family business in the future.

"Father, my sister and I have made arrangements, just wait for him to marry me next month!" Zhuo Wenjun said that she was a little shy in the back, and Xia Xiyan knew that she was very satisfied with her new husband when she saw this, so she was relieved.