"Please, little brother, help me pass this letter to your young lady!" Sima Xiangru quietly stuffed a few pennies into a servant in the porter, and wanted to ask him to help deliver the message, but the other party gave him a very disdainful look.

"A few pennies, you're calling Hanako!" The porter pushed away the money and went back to Cui's house, leaving Sima Xiangru to stare at his back angrily, but he was a little helpless.

He didn't have much money when he came to Chang'an, and he begged for the money he had saved, the expenses of staying at Zhuang Ji's house before, and occasionally going out with Zhuang Ji, and the money he used to inquire about Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

"Dogs look at people's low things, wait for me to become the male owner of this house, see how I clean you up!" Sima Xiangru took a bite at the door of Cui's house, and then turned back to Zhuang Ji's house with some sadness, it was really difficult to do anything without money.

"Brother Changqing, what's wrong?"

Zhuang Ji drank himself in the big courtyard of his home today, looking for inspiration for writing Fu, so Sima Xiangru came back with an ugly face on the piano, and asked with concern.

"No, Brother Zhuang, it's hard to say!" Sima Xiangru didn't want to pour out the fact that he was downtrodden at first, but then he looked at the clothes that were not luxurious, but they were not bad, and there were also one or two family slaves in the family, and some thoughts were born in his heart to change his words.

"Brother Changqing, have you encountered any difficulties?" After Zhuang Ji saw Sima Xiangru say 'hard to say', his face became more sad and more worried Sima Xiangru sat up straight and asked him, and then heard Sima Xiangru leisurely tell him about the 'theft' of his purse when he went out.

"I came to Chang'an and all my belongings are in it, so how can I go back to my hometown in Chengdu!" Sima Xiangru's lying was very smooth and aroused Zhuang Ji's concern, and Zhuang Ji heard that he had lost his money and had no way to return to Chengdu, so he generously funded Sima Xiangru several times.

"What's so embarrassing!" Sima Xiangru looked ashamed, but Zhuang Ji kept comforting him, "Brother Changqing lost the travel expenses in Chang'an, and my brother and I left it behind, so the money will be used as the travel expenses back to Chengdu for Brother Changqing!" ”

"Then thank you Brother Zhuang, when I go back to Chengdu, ask the house slave to send you the money to Brother Zhuang!" Sima Xiangru looked grateful, but in his heart he felt that it was a little too little to get a few pieces of money, but seeing that Zhuang Ji was not a rich family, he could give him an extra few pieces of money, which was regarded as 'righteousness and squandering money', Sima Xiangru thought of the situation of Zhuang Ji's family, so he could only accept it with a pout.

Temporarily got a 'huge amount of money', Sima Xiangru thought that he could use this to ask the porter to send him a letter, but he invested most of the money before and after, and the letters sent by the other party for him were not delivered to Cui Lingling.

"Childe doesn't know, I have a house, the lowest slave in the family, it is difficult to contact my young lady, if you want to send a letter to Childe, you also need to point up, and the money given by Childe is only enough to dot up" The porter hinted at the purse and jade pendant that Sima Xiangru straddled his waist, Sima Xiangru knew that the other party was disgusted with the lack of money, and gave him all the funding in the purse from Zhuang Ji, but he only passed the letter to the maid beside Cui Lingling.

"Childe, Sister Hongzhu said, cats and dogs all want to send a letter to our young lady, our young lady is very annoyed to see this kind of thing, she withheld the letter!" The porter had a bitter face, and his face was not 'I won't help you send it, but it was delivered to the card person'.

"Red beads? Is it just a kind of maid who loves to wear red rewards and serve Miss Cui? Sima Xiangru thought about seeing the red beads that Cui Lingling had always accompanied him when she traveled in the past few days, and she had some calculations in her heart.

"Yes, Sister Hongzhu is the most faceless maid in front of our young lady!" The porter's hints made Sima Xiangru think of wearing more high-end red beads than ordinary rich maids, and he felt more and more that Cui Lingling had inherited a lot of property, otherwise how could there be a maid who was more decent than ordinary rich girls, and Cui Lingling himself went out a few times He also saw it, but it was much richer than the rich girl he had met before, and even Zhuo Wenjun, who never loved gold and silver jewelry, could not compare.

"That Hongzhu sister, I don't know what your preferences are?" Sima Xiangru is ready to open up the most critical red bead around Cui Lingling just like he bought Zhuo Wenjun's maid.

"Sister Hongzhu, I love jade very much, and Miss also loves to appreciate Sister Hongzhu's jade ornaments! Don't you see that Sister Hongzhu loves to wear jade jewelry every time she goes out? The porter looked at the jade pendant that Sima Xiangru wore on his waist and said this, and asked Sima Xiangru to also look at his jade pendant, but he didn't immediately think about his ancestral jade pendant.

This jade pendant was given to him by his grandfather when he was born, it is considered an heirloom of his Sima family, although it is not worth a thousand gold, but it is also worth a few taels of silver, he has been reluctant to sell it when he is down, one is that this jade pendant has some meaning for him, and the other is that it has not yet reached the time when he is exhausted, this jade pendant is also his last life amulet.

"Childe, think for yourself, I can only help you pass the letter to Sister Hongzhu, and Sister Hongzhu will detain your letter from you like those ordinary students! You are a talented person, I have also watched it in the past few days, and I can let my young lady take care of it a few times, and Childe's literary slave doesn't know how, but look at Childe's dignified appearance, the porter praised Sima Xiangru a few words, so that Sima Xiangru knew that he was still a little different in Cui Lingling's heart, and he was a little bound to marry Cui Lingling.

"This jade pendant, you take it and give it to Hongzhu!" Sima Xiangru took off the jade pendant on his waist and handed it to the porter, making his biggest investment in marrying Cui Lingling.

In order to buy the maid beside Zhuo Wenjun, he also took all the money on his body and begged, although this time a jade pendant made Sima Xiangru heartache, but compared to becoming the male master of the Cui family and sitting on a million family fortunes, this jade pendant is not enough to see in addition to the commemorative significance.

"Okay, Childe, the minion will send it to you!" The porter suppressed his disdain for Sima Xiangru, smiled and took the jade pendant into Cui's house.

***

"Miss Lingling, Sima Xiang sent the jade pendant in!" Hongzhu took Sima Xiangru's jade pendant into the house and told Cui Lingling, who was reading, Cui Lingling closed the book and looked at the jade pendant, asked Hongzhu to collect it and send it to Xia Xiyan, and after pondering, let Hongzhu start to contact Sima Xiangru tomorrow.

"This Sima Xiangru now has nothing new to show his literary brilliance except for playing the piano every day, and now he finally sent his letter in, I have to give a response, after all, there are still many big dramas to sing in the future!" Cui Lingling put down the book in her hand, looked at the courtyard outside the window and said coldly, Hongling nodded in agreement, "I heard the porter say that they cheated Sima Xiangru several times for money, I'm afraid that Sima Xiangru borrowed it from the outside world, and the jade pendant was also given out, and I can't get any money after I think about it!" He didn't have Wang Ji who helped him at the beginning in Chang'an, so he casually gave him hundreds of thousands of yuan! ”

"Then Wang Ji, I heard again, I am willing to pay for the blood, I am afraid that after Sima Xiangru calculates Zhuo Gong succeeds, it will be easy to share the cup! It's just that I didn't expect to be made by Zhuo Gong in the end to steal chickens and rice! Cui Lingling said these words with a smile, but she thought of something and sat back sadly, and her voice was a little low so that Hongzhu couldn't hear the sigh.

"Zhuo Gong is a real smart person, just like my father!"

"Miss Lingling, you've read a book all morning, now have some food and rest! You're not in good health, work less! Hongzhu didn't hear Cui Lingling's last words clearly, but she saw that Cui Lingling was thin, and she was a little distressed when she thought of something and persuaded her to rest.

Cui Lingling listened to Hongzhu's words, but instead of resting, she asked Hongzhu to show her the letter sent by Sima Xiangru.

"I'm afraid Zhuo Gong's side is also in a hurry, and I have to speed up here to relieve Zhuo Gong!"

Hongzhu saw that Cui Lingling did not listen to persuasion, and reluctantly took out Sima Xiangru's letter from her sleeve and handed it to Cui Lingling.

"This Sima is like a good literary talent, this letter is really painstaking to show me his literary talent, if it is a little girl who is not deeply involved in the world, I am afraid that it is easy to be attracted by his literary talent, no wonder it was able to make your Zhuo family eldest lady fall in love at the beginning!"

"It's just that this Sima is similar, full of literary brilliance, but he is a rich woman who uses it to flatter and calculate, and she wants to live the life of a rich man without doing anything, and she is really a literati without roots, no matter how talented she is, it is also disgusting and sour!"

Cui Lingling only read the letter that Sima Xiangru sent in with great effort, and did not read it again, but sat aside a little disgusting without knowing what to think of, and let Hongzhu go down to arrange.

"It's time to close the net!" After the red bead went down, Cui Lingling looked at her hand and said this coldly.

***

"Your young lady likes my resignation very much?" Sima Xiangru looked at Hongzhu with some joy, Hongzhu nodded, Sima Xiangru smiled very handily and said to Hongzhu, "Thank you Sister Hongzhu for helping me send a letter to your young lady!" ”

Hongzhu blushed because of Sima Xiangru's movements, and then asked Sima Xiangru in a low voice if he had any letter he wanted to give to Cui Lingling.

Sima Xiangru saw that Hongzhu wanted to take the initiative to send a letter for him, and happily immediately wrote a letter, earnestly asking Hongzhu to send it, Hongzhu took the letter, smiled at Sima Xiangru, and then turned to leave, leaving Sima Xiangru overjoyed for his recent luck.

"Transferred, transferred! The value given by that jade pendant, now with the help of red beads, it is a matter of time before Miss Cui falls in love with me! Sima Xiangru clapped his hands and said happily, and at the same time felt very confident that it would be easy for Cui Lingling to fall in love with him and marry him.

Cui Lingling looked at these coldly, but she still had correspondence and talked with Sima Xiangru for a few days, and only then did she let Sima Xiangru enter Cui's house through the back door one day, and chatted with her face-to-face about the lyrics and lyrics that she was interested in.

On that day, Sima Xiangru tried his best to show his charm in Cui Lingling, and Cui Lingling also cooperated to let herself slowly 'worship' and 'admire' Sima Xiangru.

"Lingling, what the best woman I've ever seen!" Sima Xiangru took a poem written by Cui Lingling on the spot, praised and praised, making Cui Lingling very 'happy', and at the same time, he did not forget to tell Cui Lingling that she was different from other women to him.

Cui Lingling left a little 'shyly' because of his words, Sima Xiangru saw this, and felt proud in his heart, feeling that he was going to marry the rich woman Cui Lingling, and he walked with the wind.

However, just when Sima Xiangru felt that the time was right to spend his life with Cui Lingling, who was getting better with him, he got something from Cui Lingling that made him a little unhappy.

"Lingling has to be widowed for five years before she can remarry?" Sima Xiangru learned from Hongzhu that Cui Lingling couldn't marry him immediately, so he was a little impatient, he couldn't marry Cui Lingling immediately, so how could he use Cui Lingling's property.

"My young lady is pitiful, after the death of Duke Cui, he left all his property to our young lady, and the only requirement for my young lady is that he cannot remarry for five years after his death!" Hongzhu said that it was sad, so that Sima Xiangru, who was in a hurry, couldn't say anything.

Hongzhu quietly looked at Sima Xiangru's situation, and waited until Sima Xiangru couldn't sit still in a hurry, and then proposed an idea to Sima Xiangru to let Sima Xiangru live a 'good' life.