"The kimchi made by my green girl is the best in the world, it's delicious!"

Lu Jinping sat on a cracked low bench in the kitchen of the old mansion, holding an earthen bowl, holding chopsticks, chewing exaggeratedly and grinning. Although there was musty aged brown rice in the bowl, and his mouth was as uncomfortable as running sand, his expression was as if he was eating delicacies from the mountains and seas.

"Eat more if it's delicious!" The little maid Ye Qingqing was happy to put a clip of kimchi with chopsticks and put it in Lu Jinping's earthen bowl, and a pair of eyes on the goose egg face narrowed into two cute little crescents because of joy, "By the way, sir, a matchmaker told you about matchmaking yesterday, why didn't you blow people away without listening?" ”

"Wife?" Lu Jinping knocked twice on the clay porcelain bowl with chopsticks, "The money our master and servant earn every day is enough to eat aged brown rice and kimchi, do you think we can still support an aunt and grandmother?" ”

"But...... The matchmaker said, that girl doesn't want to enjoy happiness with you, so she will scarce your title as the baronal of the founding county and this hundred-year-old mansion. She got married and came to suffer with us. ”

Lu Jinping looked up at the dim roof of the old house, it was early morning, the late autumn sun shone in through the window lattice, through the criss-crossing roof beams, the carved beams and paintings on it were already dim and blurred after the erosion of hundreds of years, but it still revealed the glory of the mansion. It's a pity that now the house is surrounded by four walls, and everything that can be sold has already been sold.

He sighed and said, "Forget it! I don't want to bother other other girls. Either you don't marry, or if you want to marry, you have to let your daughter-in-law live a good life. -- Marry a man, marry a man, dress and eat! If I can't dress people well and eat white rice, what face do I have to marry someone? ”

Lu Jinping is a forensic doctor who has traveled from the accidental soul of modern society to the era of Tang Zhongzong in the Tang Dynasty, half a year ago. He possessed a broken lord from a middle-class family, and he owed a lot of bad debts. The great-ancestor of this lord was Lu Deming, one of the famous eighteen bachelors around Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty in the early Tang Dynasty, when he was the king of Qin, and was knighted as a male of Wu County. Due to the poor financial management of children and grandchildren, nearly a hundred years have passed, and by the time of Lu Jinping's generation, the family business has almost failed.

Lu Jinping's parents died early, and only one sister has married away from home. Lu Jinping inherited the title of his great-ancestor Kaiguo County man, and had the heart to take the examination to reorganize his ancestral business, but he had no choice but to fail repeatedly. He was instigated to sell his land and use the old house as collateral to borrow usury to pay bribes, and wanted to find an official and a half-job, but he did not expect that after the official received the money, he was beheaded by the court for corruption and bribery. Lu Jinping was so angry and anxious that he vomited several liters of blood and died. The forensic doctor who crossed over was leaning over him. There is only one personal little maid by her side, Ye Qingqing, who depends on each other.

Ye Qingqing is an orphan who was taken in by Lu Jinping's parents as Lu Jinping's personal maid and scholar. The Lu family was defeated, and all the servants were gone, but she swore to follow the young master to the death.

Ye Qingqing saw that his expression was a little gloomy, his eyes rolled, and he said with a smile: "There is a bird's nest on the big tree in our backyard, and it is estimated that it has laid eggs, or let's go and dig out the bird's eggs and come back to cook and eat, you haven't been stained with meat for a long time." ”

Eggs are not strictly meaty, but for the poor master and servant, it is already a good thing to sacrifice teeth. When Lu Jinping heard this, he couldn't help but swallow his saliva. Immediately put the remaining small half bowl of rice on the table with a bang, and said, "Okay, go now!" ”

This old house is a three-door courtyard with a front hall, an inner house in the middle, and a back garden in the back. There is a bay of pond water in the back garden, and there is a towering tree by the pond. It's late autumn now, and the leaves on the trees have almost all gone. The morning sun shines brightly through the bare branches of the trees, illuminating a canopy of bird's nests near the treetops.

Lu Jinping spat on his hands, rubbed them, and was about to climb the tree. Unexpectedly, Ye Qingqing grabbed ahead of him, took off his embroidered shoes, and climbed up with two white and cute little feet, holding the trunk with both hands, like a raccoon.

Lu Jinping smiled: "You little girl moves very fast. -- Hold on to your hands, step on your feet firmly, grasp the trunk with your hands, yes, that's it......"

Ye Qingqing quickly climbed to the bird's nest. After being stunned for a while, he cautiously reached into the bird's nest, grabbed something, took it out, looked at it in the palm of his hand, and then stretched it out to Lu Jinping under the tree. It turned out to be a squeaky chick that had just been born.

Ye Qingqing said: "They have all hatched, and there are three of them." Sir, they're so pitiful. Why don't you eat them? ”

Lu Jinping has no interest in eating live chicks. Say it out loud, "Don't! Hurry down and be careful! ”

Ye Qingqing put the chick in his hand back into the nest. Using both hands and feet, he soon descended under the tree.

The bird's nest was not dug up, so I had to go back. Walking through the pond, Ye Qingqing said in surprise: "Sir, there are fish in the pond!" A small fish, swimming over, hid under the lotus leaf. ”

When Lu Jinping heard this, the appearance of braised carp immediately appeared in his mind, and his saliva was dripping down, so he quickly turned around and asked in surprise: "Where is it?" Where are the fish? ”

"Hide under the lotus leaves, and you'll come out later."

Lu Jinping squatted on the edge of the pond, his eyes widened and he looked under a few withered yellow lotus leaves on the water. Ye Qingqing also squatted beside him and watched wide-eyed. After a while, the fish finally swam out, but it was only the size of chopsticks.

Lu Jinping was disappointed, sighed, and said, "Forget it, let's go, set up a stall!" ”

The two packed up and went out and came to the street stall in front of the yamen of the Tongzhou Mansion.

When Lu Jinping crossed over, he was about to go to the scene of the murder, and he carried a forensic investigation box with him, although there were advanced instruments and medicines in it, but they were all used for forensic investigation, and because there was no way to enter the yamen, it was not needed. He studied Western medicine, did not know Chinese medicine, did not have Western medicine and equipment, and could not treat people. In order to make a living, Lu Jinping set up a word stall on the street next to the yamen, transcribing judgments for people, writing letters, copying books and scriptures, and earning a few pennies a day to get by.

Business at the stall is not very good as usual. It's almost noon, and I've earned a total of two cents.

Lu Jinping was bored watching the pedestrians coming and going on the street, and Ye Qingqing was sitting on the bench next to him, as well-behaved as a docile cat.

Suddenly, there was a bang, and someone slapped him the table, which shook the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone on the table.

Lu Jinping was taken aback, turned around and looked, only to see two big men, followed by a few gangsters standing in front of the table, staring at him viciously.

One of these two people is called Leper Zhang, and the other is called Yao Fatzi. It was they who instigated the scholar possessed by Lu Jinping to use the old house as collateral to borrow usury from them, and to sell the remaining family property and land to raise money to pay bribes and seek official positions. As a result, the bamboo basket was empty.

Leper Zhang and Yao Fatzi and others originally hoped to help Lu Jinping bribe and become an official, and if it didn't work, they could also receive a loan shark, anyway, they had his old house as collateral, so seeing that Lu Jinping couldn't become an official, they came to force him to sell his old house to pay off his debts. was rejected by Lu Jinping, because the Lu family had nothing of value to sell to pay off the debt except for this empty shell old house, so they went to the yamen to sue Lu Jinping, asking for an order to sell his old house to repay the debt.

After the assassin learned the reason, he ruled that this was the only ancestral property left by Lord Lu Deming, the eighteenth scholar of the former emperor of Taizong, and it was a reward from the emperor, and he could not be forced to sell it unless the current founding county male Lu Jinping agreed to it. Not only that, but the old man of the assassin Shi was very angry that the leper Zhang and others actually sued the lord, and reprimanded them all by one, saying that they had no lord and no emperor, and ordered the officials to beat the leper Zhang and others out of the lobby.

When they saw that the yamen was still defending this shabby lord, they were immediately discouraged, and they could only privately find Lu Jinping to discuss with him about repaying the debt. But Lu Jinping only said that there was no money.

On this day, the leper Zhang and Yao Fatzi brought someone to find Lu Jinping's word stall again, and the leper Zhang crossed his hands on his waist and looked at Lu Jinping with a cold face: "Lord Lu, when will you pay us back?" ”