Chapter 15: Family Affairs

"Li Xianggong, this book and silver are on the table." A servant girl carried twenty books and put them on the table, and beside them were five hundred taels of silver.

"Hmm." Li Si responded, and then asked as if he had thought of something, "Is this all the books in the house?" ”

"Yes, Lee Sang-ko." The handmaid replied.

"Oh." When Li Si heard it, he nodded and waved his hand: "Then you go down, I want to read a good book." ”

After the maid went down, Li Si fell into thought, and the room fell into silence for a while.

Li Si was thinking about how he could have forty or fifty books in his home, and there were only more than twenty books in this mansion that was so rich. In the memory of the original owner, his parents were just ordinary people, why did he have a big house in the city?

Suddenly, Li Si's head ached sharply, which made him cover his head with both hands, and his fingers were inserted into his hair fiercely, pinching his scalp.

"Ahh A suppressed voice of pain rang out in the room.

Suddenly, two voices, a man and a woman, sounded in my head.

"Si'er, my father told you about a family affair, are you unhappy."

"My mother brought you books, and you can read in the future."

"Don't blame your father, your father and mother are all for your good."

"If you marry the Nie family, our family won't have to have such a hard time, my father and mother are sorry for you."

"When you get admitted to the Juren, you will marry her, my hard-working child."

"Run, Run!!"

The suppressed screams in the room slowly subsided, and Li Si lowered his hands from his head, only then did he realize that he was already soaked with sweat.

He remembered that the original owner's family was very poor when he was young, his father was a bad gambler, and his mother was just an ordinary village woman, and it was not an exaggeration to say that the family was surrounded by four walls, and all this changed when he was five years old, and his father told him that after finding him a family, his family could buy a house, and he began to have books to read.

He also suddenly remembered the cause of death of the original owner's parents, his parents were going to find the Na Nie family to break the marriage contract, and they went out for seven days. By the time they returned, they were dead. And the original owner suddenly forgot about it.

"It turns out that I can study so hard because I have a marriage contract, and I have a big house at home." The corners of Li Si's mouth outlined a smile, but this smile was a little reluctant and bitter. The original owner was obviously sold by his parents, and the sale was definitely not a good place, maybe he told himself about his relatives or something.

But now there is nothing to do with the original owner, now it is his own business, and this family business is now his own.

"But it's not impossible." A flash of inspiration flashed in Li Si's head, and he suddenly remembered that in the conversation he remembered just now, there was a sentence that mentioned that he could get married when he was admitted to the exam.

Then as long as you don't go to the imperial examination, or you can't pass the exam. And the time for the township exam is August. And now it's only May, and there are still three months left, so there's no need to be in such a hurry, and there's no need to panic, after all, you may be able to easily break the game after three months.

Li Si exhaled, and after his thoughts were figured out, he was comfortable, and now he was thinking about how to get out of this mansion alive.

"Knock...... ......Suddenly, there was a knock on the door, which startled Li Si.

"Li Xianggong, are you okay?" The voice of a handmaid was heard outside the door.

"It's okay, I just fell." Li Si shouted to the maid outside.

"Okay, Li Xianggong can call me at any time if he needs to, my name is Xiaolan." After speaking, the footsteps outside the house became farther and farther away.

When he could no longer hear the sound, Li Si began to flip through the books on the table, and he found that most of them were books such as the Four Books and the Five Classics.

Li Si also felt that there was nothing to do now, so he took the book and read it. It's also strange to say, he was fascinated by this look, and he only felt that the scriptures in this book were indeed very exquisite, and after thinking about it carefully, he felt that it was wonderful. He was asked to calm down and study.

All this is because he has the memory of the original owner, otherwise he would only find it obscure when he reads this.

"Knock...... Boom! ”

"Knock...... Boom! ”

"Knock...... Boom! ”

"It's dry, watch out for the candles!" Suddenly, a sound of snoring came from outside, waking Li Si up from his addiction to reading.

"It's time." Li Si was stunned, he actually read this book for five or six hours, and he didn't feel that time had passed at all.

"Knock knock ......" A knock came from outside the door, and at the same time, a woman's voice came: "Li Xianggong, I'm Xiaolan, the lord and the lady have something to go out, I brought you food." ”

"Well, okay, you brought it in." Li Si answered, and a pretty woman walked in from outside the door with a tray. This woman is the woman who shook Li Si awake before.

"You put the food on the table." Li Si set aside the books on the table, leaving a large blank space just enough to put the tray down.

When Xiaolan put the tray down, Li Si frowned slightly, there were two dishes and one soup in the tray, and a bowl of rice, but the two dishes and one soup were vegetarian dishes, and there was no meat at all. This is completely different from eating at noon, where more than a dozen dishes are meat dishes, but now they are all vegetarian dishes.

"There's weirdness." Li Si's heart jumped, and then he took advantage of Xiaolan's cooking to quietly take out the gossip mirror and take a look. saw that Xiaolan in the gossip mirror was still like an ordinary person.

"It's not a ghost." Li Si exhaled in his heart, and then asked Xiaolan, "Do you know that Zhangfu is haunted?" ”

Xiaolan heard Li Si suddenly talk about the haunting of the Zhang family, and the hand that put the dishes suddenly trembled, and some of the soup was sprinkled.

"Of course I know." Xiaolan's face turned a little pale, and there was a hint of fear in her eyes.

"Then why do you dare to stay in Zhang's Mansion?" Li Si's question was something he just remembered, if this Zhang Mansion was haunted, why did the people of this Zhang Mansion still dare to stay in Zhang Mansion, not afraid of being killed by ghosts.

"Li Xianggong, you are too worried." Xiaolan smiled a little reluctantly, and then said: "The haunting of Zhangfu is mainly in Qinghuayuan, as long as you don't go to Qinghuayuan, it's fine." ”

Li Si's eyes suddenly showed a look of clarity, and he smiled and said, "That's okay, you can go out." ”

"Okay, Li Xianggong, I'll come back to get the dishes and chopsticks later." Xiaolan retreated.

And Li Si picked up the chopsticks and began to eat, at first he didn't feel hungry when he was fascinated by reading, but now he feels hungry.

And just as Li Si was eating Zhengxiang, he suddenly felt a little creepy, as if something was staring at him behind his back.

Li Si secretly glanced out of the window with his spare eyes, but saw that the paste paper on the window had broken a hole at some point. In the hole, a bloodshot eye met his gaze.