Li Hao took two oil bottles on the road, the journey was very slow, it took four days to Luoyang, and he had not yet walked out of the boundary of Henan Province, and it was more than three o'clock in the afternoon when he entered Luoyang City.

As soon as he walked outside an inn, Li Hao found that there were two people squatting there begging in the corner opposite the inn, a little girl of twelve or thirteen years old, and a thin woman, in her early thirties, the two of them were in shabby clothes, their faces were full of mud, they looked very pitiful, the girl snuggled in the woman's arms, looking at the appearance of the two of them, it should be mother and daughter.

Now the living conditions of Datang are already very good, although it has not yet reached the level of not closing the door at night, but there are few beggars on the street, the mother and daughter are actually begging here, and they look quite pitiful, Li Hao's sympathy is overflowing again, he turned around and walked over, and threw seven or eight copper coins in the broken porcelain bowl in front of the woman's feet.

The woman hurriedly raised her head and thanked her: "Thank you, thank you Gongzi for your charity, Gongzi is really a kind person, the Bodhisattva will definitely bless you." ”

"I don't believe in bodhisattvas." Li Hao raised his eyebrows, showed a smile that he thought was very friendly, and asked, "Where are you two from?" ”

The woman replied, "The slave mother and daughter are from Xuzhou. ”

"Xuzhou?" Li Hao was stunned when he heard this, and Hu Dashan on the side interjected, "Coincidentally, we are also from Xuzhou." ”

The woman's eyes lit up and she asked excitedly, "Are you also from Xuzhou?" ”

Hu Dashan nodded vigorously, as if he was afraid that the other party would not believe it.

Li Hao asked slowly: "Since you are from Xuzhou, why are you in Luoyang?" ”

The woman couldn't help but have red eyes when she heard this, and there were hidden tears, she was sad for a moment, and explained: "Some time ago, there was a plague in Xuzhou, although the plague was finally calmed down, but the child's father still left, who knew that a few days after the plague was calmed down, the child's uncle actually called the government and snatched the field and house, and the slave family had no choice but to leave Xuzhou with the child and come here. ”

Li Hao was surprised when he heard this: "The little uncle robbed your field and house?" Or did the government help rob it? How so? ”

The woman helplessly wiped away her tears: "There is no way, who will let my stomach not be angry and give birth to a boy." ”

Li Hao suddenly heard this, and suddenly a mother and daughter who were killed by ancient etiquette, the etiquette of the Tang Dynasty was not as strict as in the Song and Ming dynasties, but it was still about the same in terms of family property inheritance, this woman's husband died, and there was no son under his knees, so his family property should be given to the brother who could inherit the incense, after all, the wife and daughter are all foreign surnames, and the ancient etiquette takes the ancestral surname very seriously, and the status of women is too low and too low.

For the ancient strict etiquette, Li Hao has not liked it very much, now listening to the story of the mother and daughter, he is full of disgust for the feudal etiquette system, but disgust is disgust, he has no choice, etiquette is a shackle on the heads of the feudal people, which lasted for thousands of years, no matter how the dynasty changes, the etiquette occasionally changes, but it is just a change of soup and not a change of medicine, Li Hao, the future person, can only sigh at the feudal etiquette system.

In just a short period of time, Li Hao had turned a lot of thoughts in his heart, and at this time, the woman spoke again: "After I left Xuzhou with my daughter, I accidentally lost my coil on the road, and begged all the way to Luoyang, I wanted to find a job to make a living, but people saw that I was a woman, and they didn't want me to work at all, so I had no choice but to take my daughter to beg along the street." When she said this, she couldn't hold back the sourness in her heart anymore, and tears flowed down her eyes.

When the little girl saw her crying, she obediently wiped her tears: "Mother, don't cry, don't cry, don't cry......"

Li Hao saw that the mother and daughter were pitiful, and immediately felt compassion, just because he was also short of manpower around him now, so he said: "Since you have nowhere to go now, why don't you go to my house to work." ”

"Ahh The woman was pleasantly surprised when she heard this, and hurriedly knelt on the ground and kowtowed, "Thank you, thank you for taking in, thank you for taking in, Yun'er, thank you for your kindness." As he spoke, he pulled the little girl and kowtowed together.

Li Hao, as a modern person, is very resistant to kowtowing, to be honest, he didn't want to kowtow to Li Shimin when he was facing the saint in the Golden Palace, but if he didn't kowtow, he estimated that his head would move, he could only succumb to the imperial power, and it was not too embarrassing to kowtow to Li Shimin, after all, he was the first emperor of the ages, the Khan of heaven! At this moment, when he saw that the woman was kowtowing, he hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop her, pulled their mother and daughter to stand up, and said, "Don't kowtow, I don't like others to kowtow to me." ”

Although the woman stood up, she still thanked her several times before stopping, and Li Hao asked, "What was your girl's name when you were in your mother's house?" ”

The woman bowed her head respectfully and replied, "Jin Qiaoyun." ”

"Where's your daughter?"

"Her name is Shi Xiaoyun."

"Two clouds, dare to be kind." Li Hao smiled, looked at the dirty appearance of the two of them, and said, "Look at you dirty, follow me in the future, you must dress decently and neatly, don't embarrass me, go, follow me to the inn first, and wash off your mud." ”

After speaking, he turned around and walked straight to the inn opposite, followed by the Hu brothers and Jin Qiaoyun's mother and daughter.

Li Hao asked for three rooms, one for himself, one for the Hu brothers, and one for the Jin mother and daughter, and then asked the store guys to prepare hot water and a bath bucket for Jin Qiaoyun's mother and daughter to bathe, and he went to the street to buy a few sets of change clothes for their mother and daughter, and asked a female guest to help send them to the room of the Jin mother and daughter.

After waiting for more than an hour, the mother and daughter finally finished washing, walked out of the door in new clothes, Li Hao took a look, and found that this Jin looked quite standard, she could be regarded as a beauty, although she was in her early thirties, she was still beautiful and moving, as for her daughter Shi Xiaoyun, she was petite and cute, with two shallow dimples on her cheeks, and a pair of big eyes looked at Li Hao, who was smart.

Li Hao smiled and nodded: "Well, this is decent, don't get dirty in the future, I have a habit of cleanliness." "When it comes to his cleanliness, he himself is a little blushing, in his previous life, he was actually very sloppy in life, and after the crossing, he was trained by Zhiyuan Zhenren and improved a lot, but his nature is still difficult to change, and the reason for correcting it is one word - "lazy".

Jin also blushed, lowered his head and said: "How can the life of begging not be dirty, I also deliberately made my face dirty." ”

Li Hao nodded, understanding what she meant, after all, orphans and widows are wandering outside, but the mother and daughter are still so beautiful, if they don't get dirty, they are afraid that they will be defiled long ago.

It was getting late at the moment, so Li Hao asked the inn to prepare dinner, and let the mother and daughter have a full meal first.

Early the next morning, Li Hao rented a carriage and let Jin Qiaoyun's mother and daughter ride, Jin refused to live or die, saying that they were Li Hao's servants and would be enslaved in the future, how could they take the carriage, Li Hao was helpless, he got into the carriage first, and then called them in, saying that he was serving himself and beating his legs, but in fact it was just an excuse, and Jin was obedient and obediently got into the car.

There was an extra pair of mother and daughter, and the speed of the journey was slower, but fortunately, Li Hao was not in a hurry, and the money on his body was enough, so he traveled all the way to enjoy the scenery, and a month later, he finally arrived in Lantian County.

When they arrived at Shanghe Village, Li Hao was shocked to find that his old mansion was gone, not to be exact, but it had changed so much that he couldn't recognize it.

Standing at the door, I saw that from the courtyard wall to the door and then to the gate are all renovated, and there is a bright red plaque on the door, and the word "Li Mansion" is written in Lishu.

When the Jin family saw such a luxurious house, his mouth couldn't close, but he didn't expect Li Hao to have such a big net worth at such a young age, and asked in disbelief: "Young master, this is your home?" ”

Li Hao himself was a little stunned, came back to his senses from his state of trance, coughed dryly, and nodded: "Yes, that's right, this is my home, and you will live here in the future." ”

Shi Xiaoyun called happily: "Wow, this house is so big and beautiful, I feel like a dream." ”

Li Hao smiled, stepped forward and knocked on the door, and after a while, the door opened, revealing an unfamiliar face, a young man in his twenties, wearing a cloth hat, the young man looked at Li Hao and asked, "Who are you looking for?" ”

Li Hao looked at him in surprise and asked, "Who are you?" What about Duhon? ”

The young man replied, "Steward Du is busy repairing flowers and plants, do you know Steward Du?" ”

Li Hao said: "I am Li Hao, the owner of this house, you let Du Hong come to see me." ”

The young man was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly said, "Okay, you wait a minute, I'll go and inform Steward Du." After saying that, he closed the door, and there was the sound of hurried footsteps inside.

After a while, there was another rush of footsteps, the door creaked open, Du Hong appeared panting, and when he saw Li Hao, Du Hong shouted in surprise: "Young master, you are back." After speaking, he came up excitedly and saluted Li Hao.

Li Hao pointed to the newly renovated courtyard wall and asked with a confused expression: "This is what you repaired?" ”

"I don't have that ability." Du Hong grinned and said, "It was repaired by the workers I hired, I don't know if the young master is satisfied?" ”

Li Hao frowned and nodded: "Of course I am satisfied, but it's just ...... In fact, it's good to repair it casually, why bother to cultivate it so luxuriously, eh...... It's going to cost a lot of money, right? Li Hao doesn't know why, now he has become very fond of money and stingy, probably because he has lived a poor enough life in the mountains, and he is still very resentful in his heart after he has been planting for four years because he is extremely lazy.

Du Hong said solemnly: "Young master, don't care about money, the face is a symbol of status, and the most important thing in a house is the face." ”

Li Hao nodded, and then shook his head again: "No, Young Master Ben, I have a white body, how can I have any identity?" ”

Du Hong still said seriously: "That's right, it is precisely because he knows that the young master is white, that the old slave makes the stone lion at the door very small. ”

Li Hao had a black line in his head, and found that he was not on the same channel as this old man at all, since the stone lion was mentioned, Li Hao glanced at it twice, and his expression suddenly became so exciting, he saw that there were two three-foot-high stone carvings standing on both sides of the gate, as for what was carved, he really couldn't see it, because ...... The resolution is too low, and the four words of shoddy production are not enough to describe this pair of stone lions.

"This pair of stone ...... Stuff, how much does it cost? Li Hao asked casually.

"No more, no more, only ten." Du Hong replied with a smile on his face.

Li Hao's eyebrows twitched when he heard this, ten times! You must know that the income of a common people's family is only five or six times a year, and this pair of stone lions who can't see what kind of monster they are at all actually want ten times, and he suddenly feels so painful.

At this moment, Li Hao suddenly found a problem, looked at Du Hong with wide eyes, and asked excitedly, "Is it also repaired inside?" ”

"It's trimmed." Du Hong grinned, as if he was waiting for Li Hao's praise.

Li Hao rushed into the courtyard like a gust of wind, and as far as the eye could see, the flowers and trees were neat, and the house was new, almost like the newly built one, Li Hao ran from this yard to that yard, scurrying back and forth, just looking for something missing, because then he could spend less money, and the others ran behind him like a fool, no way, who called him a young master.

"It's over, it's over......" After walking around the yard, Li Hao was already a little sluggish, sat on the stone steps of the corridor, and asked, "You...... How much did it cost? ”

Du Hong took out a stack of paper from his words, handed it to Li Hao, and said, "It took a total of eight hundred and fifty-six yuan to repair the house, and this is the bill." ”

When Li Hao heard this, he felt as if he had been stabbed in his heart, and trembled to take over a stack of thick bills, looking at them one by one, and wailing every time he changed a bill: "My money." The whole process I heard him say "My money, my money, my money......" The sad look of the person who saw it was sad and the person who heard it was in tears.