Chapter 4 Debt Repayment
Lu Yuan felt a pain in his heart, reached out and patted her on the back, and said softly: "Brother just went out to pay off other people's money, and he won't leave you." ”
Lu Yutong choked up and said, "I will never talk back to you in the future, don't leave me, woo woo." ”
Lu Yuan gently rubbed her back and said, "I'll go out for a while and come back soon." ”
Lu Yutong just shook his head and cried, refusing to let go.
Lu Yuan was helpless and said softly: "Then you go out with me, okay?" ”
Lu Yutong glanced up at him and nodded his little head, Lu Yuan reached out and wanted to pull her little hand, but Lu Yutong still pulled his trouser leg and didn't mean to pull his hand.
Lu Yuan had no choice but to be pulled by her trousers and walked out of the small courtyard with her.
Zheng Xing was already waiting outside the door, and when he saw Lu Yuanhou, he was about to speak, and then saw Lu Yutong at his feet.
He was taken aback: "Brother Lu, what are you?" ”
He also thought that Lu Yuan was going to sell Lu Yutong to pay off his debts.
If he knew what he was thinking, Lu Yuan would definitely kick it over, and he opened the brocade box: "I only have three taels or four coins of silver, and this jade pendant was bought for three taels of silver, you can see if you can pay off the debt." ”
He has remembered the memory of Zheng Xing, as the saying goes, things gather by like, people are grouped, this Zheng Xing looks polite, but in fact he is absurd, he accepted a three-room concubine at a young age, and his friendship with the original owner was played in Xiao Lefang.
The original owner didn't really regard him as a friend, and he was often jealous of the family where he was born.
Zheng Xing took the jade pendant and looked at it carefully, and said, "The jade pendant is old, how about counting it as two taels of silver?" ”
Lu Yuan didn't talk to him either, took the silver to him, arched his hand, and returned to the courtyard.
Lu Yutong saw that he really came to repay the money, so he had already loosened his trousers and followed him back to the house.
Zheng Xing shook the silver two, sneered, and threw his sleeves away.
Back in the house, Lu Yutong sat back on the small bench, Lu Yuan walked over and hugged her to the chair next to the table, the little girl's eyes were a little flustered, but she didn't dare to resist.
Lu Yuan took a steamed bun and stuffed it into her hand, and said with a smile: "Eat!" ”
Lu Yutong pursed his lips and said, "I'll just eat the bread." ”
Lu Yuan said softly: "I bought it for you, eat it." ”
The little girl couldn't bear it anymore, and her little mouth bit down on the steamed bun fiercely, and a neat row of tooth marks suddenly appeared on the snow-white steamed bun.
Seeing the sweetness of her food, Lu Yuan felt a burst of satisfaction and quietly watched her eat steamed buns. Lu Yutong finished eating one after a while, his tongue still licking on his fingers, refusing to let go of a piece of crumb.
Lu Yuan stuffed her with another one and said with a smile: "Eat again." ”
Lu Yutong pushed the steamed bun back in some panic: "I'm full." ”
Lu Yuan said: "These four are all bought for you to eat, eat them." ”
Lu Yutong felt that Lu Yuan was too strange today, she thought at first that he was going to abandon herself, so she gave herself a good meal, but later found out that it was not.
She asked, "I'm done, what are you eating?" ”
"I'll just eat the bread."
With that, he got up and went into the bedroom, tore off half of the bread, and went back to the lobby to munch.
The dough is hard, tasteless, and has a very poor texture. However, Lu Yuan was hungry in his belly, and he saw that Lu Yutong ate sweetly, and he ate with relish.
Lu Yutong saw that he really ate the bread, and his heart was uneasy, and asked, "Are you going to sell me?" ”
Lu Yuan almost squirted out of the bread in his mouth, swallowed the food in one gulp, and said angrily: "Why should I sell you?" ”
"You just paid back someone else's money, and you don't have any money on you, so you want to sell me for money." The little girl was full of words.
Lu Yuan immediately understood that he was suddenly so good to her, which made her suspicious, and she wondered what reason to find.
Seeing that he didn't speak, Lu Yutong shed tears and sobbed: "You don't speak, is it because I said it?" ”
This little ghost looks like he is only six years old, Lu Yuan hurriedly said: "I just suddenly remembered that my uncle and aunt adopted me and raised me back then, so I thought about being nice to you." ”
"Why do you suddenly remember for no reason?" Little girls are not easy to fool.
Lu Yuan's heart moved, and said: "Actually, this is the case, I am about to take up the post of county lieutenant of Nanling County, so I suddenly remembered their nurturing grace." ”
Lu Yutong was taken aback, she was worried that Lu Yuan would sell herself when she ran out of money, but she didn't expect him to be an official again, since he was an official, she didn't have to worry.
In her little head, she always thought that being an official meant being rich, and their family became poor back then because Lu Yuan's official was lost.
With a sigh of relief, she ate the steamed bun again, took two bites, and said, "Someone is looking for you today." ”
"Who is it?"
"There are two groups of people, the first to come is the people from Ningguo Houfu, and they said that they will come again tomorrow. Later, it was the people from Xiao Lefang, and they said that Miss Yiyi invited you over. ”
Originally, she wasn't going to say anything about the back, even if Lu Yuan knew about it afterwards and scolded her, she would admit it.
Although she is young, she is very shrewd, and she knows that every time Lu Yuan goes to Xiao Lefang, her family will have a lot less money.
What she is most worried about at the moment is that she will be sold by Lu Yuan, and the possibility of running out of money in the family will be greatly increased.
Now that Lu Yuan is going to be an official again, Lu Yutong naturally doesn't have to worry about being sold, so he doesn't have to worry about it.
Hearing the Yiyi girl, Lu Yuan felt a burst of emotion in his heart, and he learned from the memory of the original owner that the Yiyi girl was the Oiran of Xiao Lefang.
Speaking of the women of the Southern Tang Qinglou, they are divided into three classes. The most well-known among the common people is the kiln, which is full of prostitutes who sell their bodies, which is the lowest.
The second class is the hosts in the workshop, they are extremely eloquent, good at adapting, and are often invited by wealthy scholars to preside over banquets or poetry meetings, and some people call them Duzhi.
The highest level is those Qingqi people, they are good at singing and dancing, chanting poetry and music, and they are the spiritual paradise of wealthy scholars, and the most talented of these Qingqi people are called Oiran.
Xiao Lefang, as the largest music workshop in Ningguo County, is naturally extraordinary as one of the oirans.
Ningguo County is the most prosperous county seat in Xuanzhou, and the Jiedu envoy and the Assassin Yamen are all in the county, so it is conceivable that there are not a few wealthy high-ranking officials in the county.
However, the Yiyi girl turned a blind eye to the children of those wealthy families, and only favored the original owner Lu Yuan, which invisibly added a name to the original owner.
Lu Yuan had just thought of this when he suddenly heard a knock outside the door.
"It should be someone from Xiao Lefang." Lu Yutong ate the steamed bun and said vaguely.
Lu Yuan opened the door and saw a person wearing a cloak standing outside the house, and the moment she looked up, Lu Yuan's heart suddenly stopped.
Under the candlelight in the room, I saw a beautiful face appear in front of me.
The woman said lightly: "Why is Lu Gongzi hiding from others? ”
Lu Yuan knew that the person in front of him was the Oiran Liu Yiyi, so he settled down and asked, "I don't know what Miss Yiyi is looking for me?" ”
Liu Yiyi glanced at him sideways, and walked towards the house by herself, Lu Yuan couldn't stop her, so he had to let her in.
Seeing Liu Yiyi, Lu Yutong jumped off the chair and ran back to the study quickly.
After entering the house, Liu Yiyi took off her cloak and wore a purple gauze skirt inside, with a graceful posture and a good demeanor.
Lu Yuan silently recited a few times, "Color is emptiness", stabilized his mind, and asked, "What is the matter with the girl?" ”
"How's the work that Childe promised to help others do this morning?" Liu Yiyi said quietly.
Lu Yuan was stunned, tried hard to search the memory of the original owner, and finally understood the woman's intention.
It turned out that Liu Yiyi had an uncle, who was in the dungeon because he offended Ning Guohou, and most people rarely knew the location, so Liu Yiyi had been trying to find out if his uncle was still alive all these years.
Half a year ago, the original owner had a drink with Liu Yiyi, and when he heard about it, he immediately boasted that he was Ning Guohou's cronies, and he must have the idea of interceding with Hou Ye to save Liu Yiyi's uncle's life.
However, half a year has passed, and the original owner only found out that there was indeed a dungeon in Houfu, but he couldn't find out the specific location.
Liu Yiyi didn't blame him, but favored him, and didn't mention asking him to help rescue his uncle, only saying that he was satisfied to know if his uncle was alive.
Early this morning, Liu Yiyi didn't know where to get the news, and knew that Ning Guohou had sent someone to invite him to discuss the matter, so he sent someone to ask him not to forget to inquire about his uncle.
It's a pity that he inadvertently occupied the original owner's body, he was flustered, where could he think of this, and said: "Yiyi girl, I'm really sorry, I didn't hear the news today." ”
Liu Yiyi walked to the lantern, took off the lampshade, and said lightly: "Did Childe not hear it, or did he not listen to it at all?" ”
Lu Yuan didn't want to continue to deceive, and said, "I forgot." ”
"Did you forget?" Liu Yiyi said lightly, took out a dagger from his sleeve, and roasted it in the candlelight.