Chapter 1: The Lost Gentleman

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The forty-fifth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, early winter.

The winter rain is misty, the cold wind is slight, and the drizzle that lasts for several days makes the bustling and noisy Baihe calmly shrouded in a hazy and elegant rain curtain, which looks like a fairyland on earth from a distance, fresh and beautiful.

Baihe Town is located on the bank of the Hanshui River, belonging to Jiangkou County, Xiangyang Prefecture, Daming Lake, more than 100 miles away from Xiangyang City in the west, and adjacent to Qingshan Town, Nanyang Prefecture, Henan Province, in the north, with superior geographical location and developed water and land transportation.

With convenient land and water freight, Baihe Town has become a transit point for materials from south to north and east to west since the Tang Dynasty, so the market has been prosperous, and its wealth is second to none among the towns of Xiangyang Prefecture.

The most magnificent of those wealthy compounds in the town is the Li mansion in the south of the town, with red bricks and green tiles, high doors and wide courtyards, pavilions and pavilions in the courtyard and small bridges and flowing water, all of which show the wealth of the owner.

The Li family is the largest family in Baihe Town, controls the operation of the wharf in Baihe Town, and is a well-known local wealthy family in Jingxiang.

At this moment, the back house of the Li family's mansion is in a small courtyard with a quiet environment.

A fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy in a thin white shirt sat on the steps under the eaves with his chin propped on his hands, staring boredly at a towering tree in the courtyard.

Li Hongyu couldn't have imagined that he just drank a few more glasses of celebration wine at the company's year-end cocktail party, and as a result, he woke up in a daze and came to the Ming Dynasty hundreds of years ago, inexplicably occupying the body of this young man with the same name and surname as him.

What made Li Hongyu particularly depressed was that after waking up, he lay on the bed for two months before getting off the ground, during which he had to drink a large amount of unpleasant decoction every day, so that as soon as he smelled the smell of the decoction now, his stomach turned over and he couldn't help but want to vomit.

Because of the fusion of this young man with the same name as him, Li Hongyu knew that the other party was weak and sickly since childhood, and he had to get sick several times a year as if it were a routine, which could be described as an out-and-out medicine jar, no wonder he could smell a faint smell of Chinese medicine wafting out of his mouth with one mouth.

Perhaps it is the reason for the frailty and illness that makes the young man's character more cowardly, although he is the sister-in-law of the Li family's third room, but he is often teased and ridiculed by the children of the family on weekdays.

If Li Hongyu's memory is not wrong, the reason why this boy has been lying in bed for more than two months is because he was pushed into the Han River by a child of the clan by the river, and if he hadn't been rescued in time, the boy who couldn't swim would have drowned alive, and as a result, the boy who was not in good health fell seriously ill with a shock.

It's a pity that no one knew that the boy was pushed down the river, because none of the Li family children present dared to tell the truth, which made the outside world think that he accidentally fell into the water, which shows his bad status among the children of the family.

As the son-in-law of the Li family's third room, the boy should have been feared by the Li family's children, but his father died when he went to Jiangnan to do business ten years ago, which made the third room gradually decline, and he was frail and sick and was regarded as unable to support the family business, so he gradually became the target of bullying.

The so-called warm and cold human feelings, the world is hot and cold, like this kind of person walking tea and cooling, and red top white things Li Hongyu has not encountered in the previous life, he thought that he had achieved the point where he was not shocked in his heart, but the unjust encounter of the young man still made him feel annoyed, you must know that pushing a teenager who can't swim into the water is murder, is it that the tiger will be treated as a sick cat if he does not exert his power?

Li Hongyu is not the kind of person who is obedient, if any blind guy offends him in the future, then he will not swallow his anger, he wants to let the outside world understand that the young master of the Li family's third room is not easy to provoke!

Although he has been in this world for more than two months, Li Hongyu still can't adapt to the boring life without electricity and the Internet, and he is extremely boring and boring.

However, compared with the previous life when he had to run around for a living, Li Hongyu felt that his luck was very good, and he was "reincarnated" into a rich family, living a happy life every day with clothes and food, and waiting for two years to marry a few wives and concubines and give birth to a group of children, he waited to tease his grandson and enjoy his old age in peace.

But it is not easy to live such a leisurely and leisurely life, Li Hongyu must first take the imperial examination according to the wishes of his mother Zhao and gain fame.

In Li Hongyu's memory, the young man with the same name and surname as him didn't know why the Zhao family wanted him to get famous, but Li Hongyu knew the reason very well:

In addition to letting the young man get ahead with the imperial examination, the Zhao family wanted to use this to keep the family business of Sanfang and avoid being swallowed up by people with ulterior motives in the Li family, after all, even if he was a member of half an official family with fame, no one would dare to bully him.

To tell the truth, it is difficult to get fame **** Hongyu, although he had a bit of a bumpy life in his previous life, but he is also a master of arts from a famous university, and he is a veritable professional in the ancient imperial examination.

Therefore, Li Hongyu didn't dare to say that he could get the Jinshi exam, but he was still full of confidence in searching his intestines and scraping his stomach to get a beautiful article and taking the exam, so that he could keep the three-room industry and have a stable life.

Thinking of this, Li Hongyu couldn't help but have mixed feelings in his heart, he never expected that the literature major that had made him suffer for "half his life" in his previous life would now become the foundation for him to gain a foothold in this world.

That year, after graduating with a master's degree, Li Hongyu declined the dean of the Faculty of Arts to let him study for a doctorate and go to the south, and he was adrift for ten years in the blink of an eye.

Although Li Hongyu graduated from a prestigious school and is considered to be from a famous family, his literature major is not useful at all when he is looking for a job, and it can be said that he is struggling in the workplace.

Therefore, Li Hongyu started from scratch, and in the past ten years, he has worked in many industries, sold insurance, set up a stall, worked in sales, entered a factory and even sold a house, and even he himself does not remember how many jobs he has changed.

Although his career has been turbulent, Li Hongyu has learned a lot of valuable social experience, which not only enriched his experience but also accumulated the first pot of gold in his life, and then he was able to start a small futures investment company and set foot in the financial field he likes.

Soon after the establishment of the company, Li Hongyu made a lot of money in the oil and gold business with his keen sense of market smell, and successfully proposed to his girlfriend who had been in love for 12 years at the subsequent celebration banquet.

"Young master, it's cold outside, so you should just go into the house to rest when you're sick."

Just when Li Hongyu was wandering around the world there, a girl in a green dress with a double bun, a slender figure, and a beautiful appearance came out of the next room, and looked at him with a concerned face after seeing him, and her voice was soft and pleasant.

Seeing this, Li Hongyu's eyes couldn't help but light up, and after his eyes were dripping, he pressed his hands to his lower abdomen, and shouted in his mouth, "Oops! ”

"Young Master, what's wrong with you?" The girl in the green dress was suddenly startled, and hurriedly came over to check nervously.

"Sister Rou'er, my stomach hurts so much, as if I'm going to die." Li Hongyu looked up at the girl in the green skirt with a painful face.

"Young master, you hold on a little first, and I'll let people ask for a doctor." The girl in the green dress, known as Rou'er, was frightened by Li Hongyu's words, and hurriedly got up and wanted to call someone.

"It's too late!" Seeing this, Li Hongyu grabbed Rou'er's hand and said weakly, "Sister Rou'er, I'm afraid I won't be able to do it long ago when the doctor comes, you better rub it for me first, so that I can be relieved." ”

"Hmm!" Rou'er was already so anxious at this time that the six gods had no owner, so she naturally obeyed Li Hongyu's words, and walked to the bedroom before she had time to help him up.

"It smells so good!" When he got up, Li Hongyu's arm took advantage of the situation to wrap around Rou'er's fragrant shoulder, and when Rou'er was unprepared, he stretched out his nose and sniffed at Rou'er's snow-white neck, and a pleasant look appeared on his face.

I don't know if it's because Rou'er used incense powder, there is a faint fragrance on her body, Li Hongyu likes this fragrance very much, so he leans in and smells it with a dead face every opportunity.

In the boring life of Baihe Town, the only thing that makes him feel that there is a bright spot in front of him is the maid Rou'er who serves him.

Rou'er is two months older than Li Hongyu, ten years ago was sold by her parents into the Li family as a maid, in the Li family after a few years of training by the old mothers Zhao was favored by Li Hongyu's mother, sent to serve Li Hongyu, who has been weak and sick since childhood, and became Li Hongyu's personal maid responsible for his diet and daily life.

As the saying goes, the deep mountains breed handsome birds, and the chaimen produces beautiful women, and the smart and clever Rou'er gradually emerges into a handsome and beautiful girl, gentle and kind, empathetic, if nothing else, a personal maid like Rou'er will become Li Hongyu's concubine in the future, but it is just the practice of today's famous families.

It is precisely because he knows this relationship between himself and Rou'er that Li Hongyu, who is extremely bored, wants to make a harmless little joke to tease Rou'er to pass the boring days in front of him.

"It hurts, it hurts me!"

Entering the bedroom, Li Hongyu lay down on the bed, rolling left and right on the bed with his hands on his lower abdomen, and kept shouting in his mouth, with an unbearable posture of pain.

"Young master, young master, are you better?" Seeing this, Rou'er's eyes were red in a hurry, and she subconsciously reached out and gently rubbed Li Hongyu's lower abdomen, which was the only thing she could do now.

Li Hongyu shook his head in pain, looked at Rou'er pitifully and said, "Sister Rou'er, if I die, remember to burn some paper money for me during the New Year's holidays in the future, don't let me be an ownerless lonely ghost!" ”

"Young master, you'll be fine." Rou'er didn't expect the situation to be so serious, she was flustered, tears poured out, and she hurriedly unbuttoned Li Hongyu's shirt and put her white and delicate hands on his lower abdomen and rubbed them back and forth, trying to alleviate Li Hongyu's pain as much as possible.

Originally, Yi Rou'er's cleverness would not have fallen for Li Hongyu so easily, and the so-called concern was chaotic because she cared too much about Li Hongyu so much that she messed up, so she didn't realize that Li Hongyu had made a joke with her, and with Li Hongyu's previous introverted personality, she would not make such a joke.

Seeing Rou'er crying with pear blossoms and rain, Li Hongyu suddenly felt a trace of guilt and a faint warmth in his heart, and he could feel that Rou'er had deep feelings for himself, to be exact, for the boy with the same name and surname as himself, which made him feel less lonely in his heart.

Perhaps realizing that this joke was a bit excessive, Li Hongyu didn't want to scare Rou'er anymore, so he stopped struggling and closed his eyes comfortably and let Rou'er's pair of small and agile Rou'er rub his lower abdomen, and the strength of Rou'er's hand was just right to make him feel comfortable.

Rou'er couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when she saw Li Hongyu quieting down, where would she have thought that Li Hongyu was teasing her and thought that her massage had an effect, so she concentrated on rubbing Li Hongyu's lower abdomen.

"Miss, they are really too deceitful, they actually robbed our three-room grain business, that is the old lady gave us the three-room property before he died, is there any reason for them to do this!"

I don't know how long it took, but just when Li Hongyu was wondering whether to ask Rou'er to "blow" him mouth-to-mouth on the grounds of poor breathing, a woman's angry voice suddenly came from outside the window.

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