Chapter Seventy-Eight: It's a Dream
"Stop, stop!"
Zhou Yunzhen looked at the familiar intersection in front of her, and immediately patted the edge of the car a few times, "It's almost at the gate of your house, I won't play with you, I'm leaving!" β
With that, he jumped out of the car, and the carriage stopped.
"Wait!"
Li Mingyun choked twice in the car and apologized in a low voice, "I didn't mean to. β
She said, a little aggrieved.
Zhou Yunzhen said "oh".
"What is there to cry about." He said with a straight face, "I didn't cry when I had a home and couldn't go back, why are you crying." β
"Can't go back home?"
Several curious voices came from the carriage.
Zhou Yunzhen tugged at the corners of her mouth.
He just said casually, but he didn't expect them to care about this matter.
"yes." He pointed to himself, "I owe a lot of debt at home, and my dad told me to hide outside......"
It turned out that the family owed money.
No wonder you need money so much.
Li Mingyun nodded thoughtfully.
"Gongzi Zhou, how much money does your family owe? You tell me, I'll help you pay it back. She said, let Chunyu get out of the car first.
"How much?" Zhou Yunzhen raised her eyebrows and touched her chin and didn't care too much, "I guess it's not low, the creditors want to arrest me and be my son-in-law!" β
How scary?
If you don't have the money, you have to arrest people?
Li Mingyun thought for a while and said, "I can give you all my jewelry." β
She has more than 20 boxes of jewelry, which are full of them, all of which have been given by others since she was a child.
I don't know if these can be worth a Zhou Gongzi.
After crying, people became naΓ―ve, and even believed what he made up like this.
The corners of Zhou Yunzhen's lips rose.
"Not necessarily." He said, "Just give me as much as you want, and when I borrow you, I'll pay you back when I have the money." β
"No, you don't." Li Mingyun couldn't help but open the curtain, "This is my thank you gift, don't say give it back to me." β
Her eyes were swollen from crying, her eyes were red and red, and she looked so weak and well-behaved that people were embarrassed to deceive.
Zhou Yunzhen coughed and turned her head.
"Don't give me jewelry or anything, it's too heavy." He muttered, "If you want to express your gratitude, just give me five hundred taels of silver tickets." β
This time it's a good deed.
In the future, I can save some flowers, and I can live for a while.
When he returns to Beijing, he will return the money to her.
Chunyu's eyes widened.
Is Zhou Gongzi worth that?
She took off a money bag and gave it to Zhou Gongzi.
Inside was the silver ticket that had been prepared for him earlier, and I don't know how many five hundred taels there were.
In this way, Zhou Gongzi should be able to live a more comfortable life, and he doesn't have to worry about being arrested if he owes debts in the future.
Zhou Yunzhen didn't look at what was in the money bag, and said thank you, and disappeared.
"Miss, shall we go home?"
Chunyu got into the carriage and asked, pulling Xue Yan's sleeve by the way.
"Xue Guard said that he promised not to tell the old lady." She leaned in a little and whispered, "Miss, we won't say anything, and Miss won't let us say that we will be killed." β
She even coaxed and persuaded the young lady's heart, and also gave Xue Yan a look to make him agree.
Qiu Qing also nodded repeatedly.
"Really?" Li Mingyun's innocent eyes were filled with infinite expectation and trust.
Chunyu raised his leg and secretly kicked Xue Yan.
"Of course it's true." She said with a smile, looking at Mu Ran's Xue Yan, "Xue Guard, you say, yes-right?" β
There was a thick warning and threat in her eyes, as if if if he didn't say a word at this time, he would be immediately cut by her eye knife and there was no scum left.
Xue Yan twitched the corners of his mouth.
"Yes." He said, driving the carriage on.
Li Mingyun's hanging heart was slightly lowered.
"Xue Yan, don't tell my father and mother that I met Yao Pu." She said, sobbing, "Anything else, whatever you want." β
Xue Yan's dark eyes moved.
"Miss, I won't say Yao Pu."
Again, he assured her, "I won't say anything when they ask me." β
Li Mingyun thanked him in a low voice.
Several people sat back in the carriage.
"Do I look okay?"
She asked Chunyu, and Chunyu nodded and said it was fine. She asked Qiuqing, and Qiuqing also said that it was fine.
In fact, the three of them have red eyes, and they all know that everyone is not good.
This last short stretch of the road seemed unusually long, and Li Mingyun almost fell asleep in the car.
The carriage stopped, and Li Tong drove the horse to the stable at the back gate of the Li Mansion, while Xue Yan sat in the carriage and waited quietly.
At the gate, Steward Li had already brought someone out and walked down the steps with a solemn face.
"Is Miss alright?" He asked, fearing that the meager drunkenness that had existed had now dissipated.
I don't know why, they suddenly disappeared, and they all frightened.
Xue Yan shook his head: "It's okay." β
He jumped out of the carriage and stepped aside.
Li Mingyun was helped out of the car by Chunyu, and looked at Steward Li and smiled reluctantly.
"I'm fine." She explained, "Those people deceived me out to extort money, and then Xue Yan beat me away. β
Actually, there is nothing wrong with this statement.
In that courtyard just now, she had already learned from Escort Li that they hadn't seen who had arrested her at all, but they just went into the courtyard and found a few people lying on the ground.
The truth of this matter, apart from her and Qiu Qing, only Xue Yan knew about the entire Li Mansion.
Steward Li's calm face was full of anger.
"Which bastard did it! When we Li Mansion is easy to bully! If we catch them, we'll send them all to jail! β
Steward Li rarely gets angry, and rarely scolds, and most of them are modest and polite on weekdays, which shows that he is angry.
Chunyu calmed his emotions on the side: "Don't worry, Steward Li, those people were beaten to pieces by Xue Guard, I'm afraid they won't dare to do bad things anymore." β
Steward Li was a little angry.
"I have just asked the doorman at the back door and the little guy in the house, and I learned that the fake guy who reported to the young lady before sneaked into the house today in the name of carrying the gift box, and almost asked about Zhou Gongzi with others." He said in a deep voice, "It seems that the house should be rectified and rectified, a loose mouth and lack of vigilance are taboos for subordinates, such a person, unacceptable!" β
Even the young lady's benefactor is Zhou Gongzi's secret thing is known, and she also told a person with a face, which shows how idle and broken the people in the house are on weekdays.
"yes." Qiu Qing echoed in the back, "Bad guys can sneak into the mansion, this is terrible, Steward Li, you must think of a way to make those bad guys want to run away when they see us." β
It seems that she listened to her previous words.
Li Mingyun smiled helplessly.
"Let's go in first." "I'm a little tired," she said. β
It's not that the body is tired, it's the heart that is tired.
She didn't want to do anything for the time being, she just hoped that she would be able to convince herself again after a while that it was fake.
That way, she wouldn't be forced to laugh, and she wouldn't be saddened by the happy scene.
Maybe take a break, wake up, and find that those things are just dreams, and they are all fake.
Steward Li nodded and retreated, signaling the two maids to help the young lady into the house.
The house is full of festive lanterns, the lanterns in the promenade are colorful, the square lanterns on the eaves are neat, and the delicate and transparent small lanterns are hung all over the branches of the trees in the distance.
Along the way, there were people who were happy to see her third lady, happy because of her arrival at this moment.
Standing in front of the empty and narrow corridor, Li Mingyun was surrounded by a patch of red, and in a trance, he thought it was still early in the morning.
That's a dream.
Or is it a dream?
She paused, and looked back deeply.
It's exactly the same as the scene in the dream, beautiful and brilliant.
"Miss, why don't you go to Madame's place first?" Chunyu pulled her back to reality in a low voice, and her words were a little tentative and a little persuasive.
It stands to reason that the young lady should go to Madame's place as soon as she returns home, although Madame already knew that she was okay at this time, but she almost fainted in fear when she heard the news.
"I want to rest."
Li Mingyun moved his eyelids, as if he was about to fall asleep.
The dream is different from reality, the dream is that she rushes to her mother to talk to her as usual, but the reality is that she wants to hide, hide far away, because she is afraid.
She was scared all the way, she was tired of being scared, because of Yao Pu's words, because of her own guesses, because of Xue Yan's answer.
I was so tired that I couldn't even convince myself for the time being.