In April and May, after a heavy rain, the south enters the summer early. The sun hanging on the horizon is boringly scorching the earth, and the city of Suzhou, which is close to the sea, is also immersed in the sultry heat.

In other words, this Suzhou City is also strange, the place is not big, but it has always been the most famous place in Jiangnan Province.

I don't know why, there is no big official in the small city of Suzhou, let alone everyone in the literary and martial arts world. However, the port of Suzhou is still a little famous, but it is just because it is the only abandoned port in the entire Hao country.

The people in the city have not changed their lives because of this port, and they have gone out to sea to fish as always, and they have been farming and weaving as always.

However, if you want to say why Suzhou City can be famous, then they can still say a thing or two.

It's not a taboo secret, it's just that they know that the big and small officials of Jiangnan Province, down to the county magistrate and county magistrate, up to the governor of the prefecture, will give a big gift to a mansion in this city every time they take office.

For what? It is the "mountain gate".

This mountain gate is not the other mountain gate. As early as a hundred years ago, the first owner of this mansion followed Emperor Taizu to fight in the south and the north, and made great contributions to the Hao country.

When it came, I didn't want to be a high-ranking official, and I only asked the emperor for a place in the remote city of Suzhou.

In the future, every owner of this has never left the small city of Suzhou, except for the current one, who went out of the city sixteen years ago, but came back a few days ago, and has never seen him appear since.

That said, officials knew that the owner of the mansion was anything but ordinary.

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The sun was shining, and the people in the city couldn't stand the heat, so they hid in their homes one by one, unwilling to go out. The same is true of street vendors, shaking folding fans and listening to their children scribble the school texts. Only a handful of shops are still open, for decadent and lazy apprentices to watch.

As far as the eye could see, there were few people on the bluestone-paved streets, except for a carriage slowly approaching the city gate.

When you look closer, you can see that the carriage is very ornate, with its new ornaments splendid and dignified, and the mud-stained wheels roll unhurriedly without making a sound. The two lanterns embroidered with the word "Chu" on the car did not sway from side to side, and hung safely.

"Crunch".

"Xiaocui, where are you now?" A female voice was heard from inside the car. Dignified and lazy, it sounds a little tired.

The maid named Xiaocui came to the side of the carriage, lowered her head, and said softly, "Miss Hui, I just passed the oil cake stall of the Cui family's aunt, and there is still some distance to get home." ”

"Hmm." The woman inside responded, paused for a moment, and then said, "Xiao'er loves the oil cakes made by Aunt Cui, you go buy a few, so that this child can complain." ”

"Miss cares so much about the young master, who knows what the young master is doing at home." Xiao Cui teased, and before the woman inside could speak, she immediately ran away.

The woman didn't say anything, she smiled helplessly, thinking that these maids were becoming more and more unruly, and on the other hand, she thought of the younger brother she hadn't seen for more than half a month.

This kid is very smart, he just loves to mess around, he runs out when he has nothing to do, and tells stories to the children in the city, telling stories that he has never heard of, what Journey to the Red Mansion, the Three Kingdoms Water Margin, strange and interesting.

There is always something about equality and socialism, and I hear it hazy, but I teach the maids in this house badly, so that they dare to joke with the master's family.

The carriage moved unhindered, but after a while it came to a halt in front of a mansion.

The magnificent door of the mansion was quietly open, and the two stone lions outside the door sat obediently, waiting for the master's blessing. Above, there is a dark black plaque, firmly engraved in large letters symbolizing the identity of the mansion, echoing the large red lanterns hanging on both sides.

This is the most noble mansion in the city - Chu Mansion.

When the carriage stopped, the subordinate standing at the door had already walked over and respectfully shouted to the people in the car, "Miss." ”

Hearing the sound, the woman in the car nodded, stretched out a skillful hand to lift the curtain, and a pair of beautiful feet stepped on the step stool brought by the next person, and helped the maid to land steadily.

"What happened in the house these days when I was away?" Chu Xin'er stretched out her hand to block the dazzling sky light and asked. The maid next to him did not pause, and was busy opening the umbrella to cover it.

Chu Jiaxin'er, a well-known talented woman in Suzhou City, is proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. The appearance is like a fairy in the sky, with bright eyes and bright teeth, fairy posture and jade color, and she not only has the refinement of a martial arts family, but also has the gentleness of a woman in the water town in the south of the Yangtze River.

It is rumored that many literati have written poems and paintings for them. There are also many suitors who have formed a support club, buying silk scarves used by Miss Chu's family, pen and ink everywhere. Of course, these things are out of the hands of Chu Fu. As for who passed it on, it is unknown, but a few objects will appear every month, not much, but expensive.

"Miss, a few days ago, the teacher in the house left again." The housekeeper of the Chu Mansion lowered his head and looked ugly.

It seemed that she was used to it, Chu Xin'er didn't say much, just nodded, waved her hand and motioned for the people to pack up the things they brought, and then took the maids back to the house on the white stone steps.

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"Don't, don't!" In the study of the Chu family, a young man suddenly woke up. Wiping the cold sweat from his forehead, the boy threw away the paper that was spread on the table.

He lowered his head and gasped for air, apparently still lingering from the dream.

It's this dream again, this dream that is incomparably real in the depths of the sea of fire. In his dream, he clearly felt the scorching fire around him and the desperate and painful cries of people in the deep fire.

Over the past sixteen years, this dream has appeared from time to time, and it has been done more than a dozen times intermittently, all in the same scene, and all in the same anxiety. The fire was raging, screaming and screaming, and in the face of those people in his dream, he wanted to come to the rescue, but he couldn't do anything every time.

"What's the matter, Xiao'er, but what bad things did you dream about?" Just as he was thinking, a female voice suddenly came from beside him.

Turning his head, it was Chu Xin'er who had just entered the mansion.

"Sister." The boy got up excitedly and hurriedly ran over. The lingering palpitations in the dream just now are gone.

Chu Xin'er rubbed the young man's head, her face was full of gentleness, she looked at this familiar and handsome face, and said with a smile: "Why do you still look like a child, how old are you?" ”

The young man smiled and stopped talking, just hugged Chu Xin'er tightly, enjoying the warmth from his sister.

Unfortunately, it was only a moment, and the voice of the maid came from outside the door: "Miss, lunch is ready." ”

After hearing this, Chu Xin'er pinched the young man's little face, and seeing that the latter was fine, he got up and said, "Clean up well, don't always make such a mess." ”

With that, he pushed open the door and led the maid outside the door away, leaving only the young man alone.

The boy walked to the table and began to pick up the scattered papers on the table, and in a short time, the wooden table, which had been disorganized, became clean in an instant, and only two words were engraved on the table.

Li Xiao.

These are the two words on the table, and they are also the name of the teenager.

If you want to say why the young master of the Chu family is surnamed Li, this is interesting.

Sixteen years ago, he came to this world, and the first thing he saw was that the man in black held him and sent him to the medicine house, at first he thought that he was going to live in the mountains and rivers for a lifetime, and he couldn't help but be excited, but the next day a carriage came to pick him up with the old man in the medicine house.

The old man didn't stay long, and after teaching himself medical skills and giving him a few medical books, he disappeared, and as for himself, he was directly accepted as a righteous son by the master of the Chu Mansion and became a rich son.

Walking out the door, looking at the familiar scenery in the courtyard, and then looking at the sun hanging in the sky, everything was very real.

After being reborn, he did not reject this strange world, and after a short period of surprise, he got used to the identity he had crossed, but he always felt estranged from this world here, like oil that did not dissolve in water.

This world is not as unbearable as imagined, and the words here are exactly the same as the words in Li Xiao's previous life, but those catchy Li Du poems are missing. Some are just poems that Li Xiao has never seen. He thought about plagiarizing their literature to make himself a big man in the literary world, but after thinking about it, he was already a young master, and the Chu family's business was quite big, so there was no need to struggle.

And I also have a sister who is like a flower, and I have made a lot of money selling the personal belongings of the so-called "Miss Chu" on weekdays, and enjoying life in peace is the king, so why bother asking for trouble.

In his previous life, he was terminally ill and sick all day long, but now he is reborn, and he can "act recklessly", not having fun, and living a more interesting life, isn't it a waste of this resurrection coin?

Although he still thinks of his colorful world from time to time, he understands that he can't go back, and in the boring days, he can only tell stories boringly, recalling those bits and pieces to express his homesickness.

Life has to go on, and I still have to have three wives and four concubines in this world, how can I be restrained.

"What do you say, young master, how do you look?" Li Xiao looked at himself in the water tank and asked the accompanying maid standing behind him.

The little girl blushed, and secretly said in her heart that this young master of her family was sick again, although the young master is indeed handsome, a clean face always makes people want to be intimate, and a pair of heroic eyebrows are even more cute, but who would be like this, from time to time to mention.

"The young master is very handsome, and he looks like Pan An."

"Yo, even Pan An knows?"

"The young master says every day, it's hard to think about it."

"Hey, you girl, how do you talk to the young master, there are no rules."

The little maid stuck out her tongue and ignored it.