The little boy was a little embarrassed, lowered his head and replied: "I have been studying for several years, my father and mother died last spring, my grandmother was not able to raise me, and I was afraid that I would be killed. ”

Yang Lan understood, the old man sold himself for his only grandson, but the boy may not have sold himself or signed a contract, so that it would not affect his future in the future.

"Then would you like to continue to learn martial arts? Studying literature? Will you have the ability to support your grandmother in the future? Yang Lan looked at him with a straight face.

The little boy raised his head and looked at her with burning eyes, and suddenly fell to his knees on the ground with a pop, "The benefactor is above, and the boy is willing to obey the dispatch in the future." ”

With a shallow crystal color in the corners of his eyes, no one can understand the excitement in his heart.

Yang Lan glanced at Rong Yi, with a pleading look in her eyes, Rong Yi just smiled, "Tell us about you, I'll tell the steward when I go back, you can go with us in two days, take your grandmother on the street, go to my house, and I'll find another gentleman to let you study and practice martial arts, okay?" ”

The little boy nodded vigorously, tears fell big and big, and said in a choked voice: "My surname is Xu, I am a side branch of the Xu family, after my father died, my mother couldn't stand it and followed, the people of the Xu family said that my family was out of order to take away our property and fields, and I wanted to pass it on to others, my grandmother did not agree to take me out overnight, and then I was afraid of being discovered by them, and I happened to meet the master's grange to collect people, so I took me to sell myself together."

Because my grandmother used to be a young lady in a big family, but then the family was down. But my grandmother was literate and knew how to manage the farm. Especially such trees. She is also a local, and she knows a lot of things, and the steward values my grandmother's experience and ability, so she agreed that I would not sign the deed of sale, but my grandmother would sign it. In the end, he stubbornly wiped away his tears, and there was hatred in his eyes.

Yang Lan sighed faintly, I don't know how many more tragic stories like this, why are there so many children and daughters sold every year. On the one hand, it is because of natural and man-made disasters, and on the other hand, the tribe cannot tolerate orphans and widows, and bullying them, there are even worse things than this.

In the past, when she was in Kyoto, she bought a mother and daughter, and the woman was very good at cooking pickles, making many kinds of pickles, and cooking Jiangnan-style dishes, and she was a capable woman.

But she was a miserable person, and the man died. left behind a son and a daughter, and the son was not yet three years old and was forcibly passed out by the clansmen. Not to mention the seizure of their property, she also wanted to sell her daughter to a dirty place and come back for a sum of money, but the woman had no choice but to run out with her daughter, and returned to her mother's house, and her sister-in-law disliked her as a drag, so she lost her daughter and remarried again.

Until now, her son can't be found, once Yang Lan sent his men to help her find it, but it's a pity that the child was raised by someone else and didn't know him, I heard that the raised one is okay, and he is currently studying, fortunately, the family is still a good one, and after knowing what happened, they secretly gave them a sum of money, otherwise they wouldn't even be able to escape.

After thinking about it, the woman felt that although her son couldn't recognize someone else, he had a good future, and the child didn't know him anymore, she saw that people were really good to the child and it was impossible to have other children, so she completely gave up her son and took her daughter to work in the Rong family with peace of mind. She is unwilling to redeem herself, mainly because she is a woman without the protection of the Hou Mansion, and she will be oppressed by others, and her daughter is growing up and has more people to worry about, which is also the reason why she is willing not to redeem herself for the rest of her life, and the first thing people want is to live first.

It's good to be alive like a little boy, and there are those who buy boys in dirty places and give them to big families to be prostitutes, and the children are very beautiful, and if they change their appearance when they are older, they will be discarded at will.

"What's your name?" Yang Lan asked him softly.

"Xu Lu." The little boy looked up at them.

"I teach you martial arts to read, are you willing to follow me?" Yang Lan looked at him and asked.

"I do."

"Are you willing to do anything? Maybe it's dangerous? Yang Lan asked.

"Then I'd do too." The little boy is very stubborn.

"Well, since you don't regret it, if you regret it in the future, tell me, and I'll arrange another way out for you." Yang Lan smiled.

In this way, Xu Lu followed behind them like a little tail, Yang Lan found that Xu Lu was really a natural soldier, he could freely shuttle through the forest, find something to eat by himself, know many kinds of wild herbs, know how to dig traps, make arrows by himself, and also recognize some words, people are very shrewd and cautious, and his martial arts foundation is extremely solid.

This made Yang Lan feel as if he had dug up a treasure, and Rong Yi asked curiously, "What are you going to do with him?" ”

Yang Lan thought for a while and said: "I think he was born to be a general, this feeling is obvious, even Xiao Wu didn't have this feeling as good as his martial arts back then, I want to send him to my father, he will be very happy, I want to ask my father to train him well, if you say that if he really becomes a general, will he be grateful to us?" ”

"Oh, are you so sure?"

Rong Yi was amused, feeling that Yang Lan was stunned.

"Maybe, even if it's not me, there's no loss, it's good to let my father train him well and keep it for Xiao Wu, isn't it?" Yang Lan smiled indifferently.

Rong Yi thought about it and nodded, a little boy and they don't have anything to lose, since the daughter-in-law likes to do what she likes, this is nothing.

"That's okay, I'll ask them to take them to Fujian another day to show my father-in-law, and this can only be trained by my father-in-law." Rong Yi smiled approvingly.

"What you said is very true, we just give him a chance to take off, whether he can seize the opportunity depends on his own ability." Yang Lan muttered.

After living in Zhuangzi for two days, Yang Lan felt that her complexion had changed for the better, so she took her grandparents and grandchildren back to the mansion together, and after returning to the house, she handed over the person to Mama Yue to arrange a place to live, and began to prepare the report of the stewards.

Yang Lan sat in the small hall and asked casually: "I've been at home these days, is there anything going on at home?" Is there a post to be handed over? ”

The housekeeper took the first step forward to report, "There is nothing major in the house, the housekeeper in the store sent the accounts yesterday, and the other is the posts of the Li family and the Lin family. ”

"Well, I know, the grandparents and grandchildren I brought back should be taken care of, and when I get back, I will have a boat to Fujian and send them to my father." Yang Lan instructed lightly.

"Little one understands." The butler nodded earnestly.

After Rong Yi came back in the evening, he asked, "Are the Li family and the Lin family here to post?" ”

"Yes, it was sent yesterday, but the Lin family is the one who is going to go overseas trade? Is it reliable? Yang Lan was making a rabbit fur glove in her hand, and raised her head when she heard Rong Yi's question.

"Well, it's okay, it's okay to cooperate with my father-in-law before, and then the business was handed over and their family lost a profitable business, and now I know that we are ready to do it again, and I plan to continue to cooperate with us, this time because I know that there are many people who compete, and there are a lot of benefits for Jean." Rong Yi smiled, sat down and drank a cup of tea.

"Oh, that's right, you just think it's appropriate, how about freshwater cultured pearls?" Yang Lan remembered the pearl.

"It's okay, it's going well, I found a foreigner to accompany me for consultation, and it will take a few years to see the results." Rong Yi is not very worried about this at the moment.

"Does the Emperor know? Will it stop us from doing it? Yang Lan thought of the stingy emperor and couldn't help but ask.

"Well, I reported to him, he asked me to do it myself, and when he got experience, he planned to send someone to get one, and he didn't need to grab this thing." Rong Yi sneered.

"Oh, it's rare to be generous." Yang Lan despised it, because she was afraid that she would lose money if she broke it.

"He's that kind of person, and you don't know it." Rong Yi will no longer feel sorry for him, a man's ability to bear is much stronger than that of a woman, and there will be no more wavering in his position.

"Well, that's fine, just let us do it ourselves." Yang Lan nodded.

"Have you packed your New Year's gifts? We'll be back in two months. Rong Yi asked.

"Well, it's almost, it's still a little bit later, and it's almost the same when the stewards send it over." Yang Lan nodded and said.

A trip from afar, gifts from relatives and friends are indispensable, you can't come to Guangdong in vain and don't bring anything to people, that can't be missing, expensive gifts or specialties and the like need to bring some, miscellaneous to really have a lot of things.

"I bought some more jewelry for my daughter and brought it back with me, and I also accumulated some fine pearls, which are in good condition." Yang Lan made gloves for Rong Yi to put on his hand and tried it, nodding with satisfaction.

"Your daughter's jewelry box can't fit in, so why do you buy it?" Rong Yi shook his head and smiled.

"Well, I also brought some gifts for my future daughter-in-law, two sets for my eldest daughter-in-law, and some gifts for my grandson. Yang Lan said with a smile.

"Whatever you want, the little one should call someone, right?" Rong Yi couldn't help but miss it a little, she hadn't seen it once.

"Yes, you haven't seen it yet, this time you have to take a good look, draw a few pictures and take it with you, I miss the child, that child is well-behaved, and he looks smart." When it comes to her grandson, the smile on Yang Lan's face has never disappeared.

"Well, I found an ancient inkstone, and I'll keep it for him." Rong Yihao did not hesitate to contribute his favorite inkstone. (To be continued......)