While Fan Zhongquan was talking to Zhang He, there was a heart-rending cough in the inner courtyard, mixed with a thick phlegm sound, which made people's throats uncomfortable. wwwwcom Fan Zhongquan turned his head and ran to the inner courtyard, and Zhang He hurriedly followed.

The room in the inner courtyard and atrium can almost be described as a house with four walls. Zhang He saw that there were still many traces of painting scrolls on the wall, but now they were empty. There was a sandalwood eight-treasure table and a few chairs in the official hat, and the rest was a large bed carved from sour branches. When the Fan family was at its peak, these were mostly unsightly furniture, and now I only feel like I feel like a sigh of fate for the impermanence of fate.

In the bed lay a middle-aged woman, beautiful but emaciated, with a pale face flushed sickly from a violent cough.

Fan Zhongquan ran over and helped the woman up, grabbed her back with one hand and picked up the spittoon with the other, until the woman coughed up the phlegm, then pulled the pillow and put it behind her, "Mother, drink some water." The medicine is still frying on the fire, and you can sleep a little longer. ”

The woman tilted her head to the side, dodged the cup handed over by Fan Zhongquan, and said angrily, "Don't drink the medicine." Quan'er, don't buy any more medicine, hurry up and think about selling this house. ”

"Mother, don't worry, I'm looking for someone to buy it."

"Hmm. Men can bend and stretch, go back and buy a small yard to make a small living, and life is not unbearable. Don't buy medicine for your mother to treat your illness, your mother doesn't want to drag you down. ”

Fan Zhongquan lowered his head and sniffed, covered his mother with a quilt and stood up, wiped his eyes vigorously after walking to Zhang He's side, and smiled reluctantly: "Childe saw it." I am no longer the Fan Zhongquan I used to be, and even if Qiong Zhi marries me, I can't let her live a good life. ”

"Fan Gongzi, have you ever thought that Qiongzhi wouldn't care about this?"

"Even if she doesn't care, I do. Now it's different from the past, what kind of face do I have to take our old relationship to marry her again? Marrying her, but not giving her a rich and comfortable life, is the so-called mutual affection, it is better to forget about each other, let her live a stable life. Fan Zhongquan took Zhang He to the wing room next door, where a small stove was propped up and the decoction was fried over a simmer. He picked up a folding fan and fanned the fire, and said, "I used to do these things, but after something happened, I learned everything." ”

"I would venture to ask, what happened to your family?"

Fan Zhongquan was silent for a while, his breathing became a little heavy, and he closed the fan with a bang, "Our family was killed." ”

"Murdered? Who? Zhang He was puzzled, "Although your family is a businessman, how can you say that business is not easy for ordinary people to shake, how can it be so?" ”

"You're right, my family is a big businessman, but no matter how big this businessman is, he's just a businessman. It's a pity that no one in the family is an official in the DPRK, and he has no background, and no matter how good he has a good relationship with the officials of the DPRK and China, he is an outsider after all. When there are interests, they call them brothers and sisters, and this is difficult to ......, and those who don't fall into the well are considered kind. Fan Zhongquan shook his head helplessly.

"What does Fan Gongzi mean ......, your family has done business in the palace?"

"Yes, Imperial Merchant! There is more scenery, but the more scenery is, the more ruthless it falls. Last year, the fifth prince was sick, but it was not a serious illness, and the imperial doctor asked for a prescription, but the disease became more and more dangerous after a few pairs of medicines. The emperor was furious and ordered a strict investigation, and after some review, he was stunned to say that there was a problem with the medicine supplied by our Fan family! ”

"The Fifth Prince? The son of Concubine Yude? Zhang He was silenced after speaking, feeling a little speechless.

Fan Zhongquan didn't notice these at all, nodded and said excitedly: "Originally, there was a blind aconite in the pharmacy for the five princes, but after checking it layer by layer, it was said that my Fan family mixed Chuanwu into the aconite to fill the number. Aconite dissipates cold and relieves pain, that Chuanwu is very poisonous, our Fan family has not been a medicine merchant for one or two generations, how can we do this kind of self-destruction of the city wall! ”

Fan Zhongquan stared at Zhang He, as if he wanted to seek justice from Zhang He. Zhang He hurriedly nodded, "Yes, you don't have to. ”

Fan Zhongquan sneered, "Now that the emperor is older, the tilt between the princes is getting more and more powerful. Who knows what the five princes ate? Who mixed up this Chuanwu and aconite, we have no power to find out at all, and it is impossible to find out clearly. In short, this black cauldron was carried down by our Fan family, which is fortunate that the amount of aconite in the prescription of the five princes is light, otherwise, there would be no me talking to Gongzi here today. ”

Zhang He took the fan in Fan Zhongquan's hand and silently fanned the fire. What can he say? There are two sides to everything, everyone knows that it is easy to make money as an imperial businessman, but once something happens, it is necessary to take their lives into it, and it is not uncommon for someone like the Fan family to be used as a gun and finally carry a black pot. Knowing that there are tigers in the mountains and biasing towards the tigers, it is really meaningless to say that he is wronged now.

"Laughing." Fan Zhongquan sighed tiredly, "I haven't spoken for a long time." The family is separated, and I am the only one left in this big house with my mother, and no one comes on weekdays. ”

"Well, it's fine. Don't be too depressed, there are rich days when you are rich, and there is a poor way to live when you are poor, Fan Gongzi is young, and there will be no comeback one day before he is rich. Zhang He said politely. He understands that no amount of consolation in such a situation is thin, not to mention that he has never known him in his life, so it is really useless to say more.

"Thank you......, but I lost Qiongzhi after all, and I have no chance with her in this life." Fan Zhongquan arched his hand at Zhang He grassily, and there were tears in his eyes.

Zhang He originally thought that Fan Gongzi in Xiurui's mouth was a treacherous person and was not worthy of Qiongzhi, but in the face of such a situation, he didn't know whether to blame him.

In fact, that Qiongzhi was infatuated with Fan Zhongquan, and he didn't even give up a bracelet he gave, how could he dislike him because of his family's downfall. But then again, the Fan family was in a state of anxiety when Yuan Liang Dashui was, even if Fan Zhongquan wanted to go to Qiongzhi at that time, I am afraid that he would be powerless.

How to solve it? A good marriage that should have been a concubine.

Fan Zhongquan sent Zhang He to the door, repeatedly asked him to take care of Qiongzhi, and begged him not to tell her about his embarrassed appearance now, "Just let her think that I am a negative person, and forget about me." He said.

Zhang He responded one by one. In the end, he still couldn't bear to tell Fan Zhongquan what happened to Qiongzhi, and he didn't say that the woman he was worried about had died. As for the bracelet, as well as the wisp of incense in the bracelet, it was handed over to fate.

At that time, in the main house of Jiyue Villa, Lin Yu also felt that his fate was unpredictable.

Li Xiang'er rarely had a serious expression, looking at Lin Yu like an elder. She Li Xianger is big and open-mouthed, but that doesn't mean she's stupid.

Her son crawled out of his belly, and he was raised from a meat ball that couldn't fart, how could she not see what Lin Yu thought. It was precisely because she saw it that she couldn't let him be temperamental.

"Lin Yu, you don't like Yuan Lingxiang. Well, you can't say that, you should say that you don't want to marry her, right? ”

Lin Yu knew that Li Xiang'er had something to say, but he couldn't guess what it was, so he hesitated for a moment and nodded.

"Then tell me what kind of girl you want to marry."

"I ......" Lin Yu snorted for a long time, and could only shake his head and say, "I don't know." ”

"You don't know?" Li Xiang'er sneered and stood up, walked up to Lin Yu, and gently patted Lin Yu's face with her palm, "You don't know that your mother knows." But Yu'er, no. ”

"Why not?"

"Look! You still know! Li Xiang'er smiled slyly.

Lin Yu pressed his eyebrows and felt a headache, "Mother, are you guilty of playing tricks with your son?" ”

"It's not that I'm playing tricks on you, I just want to tell you kid not to play tricks on me." Li Xiang'er circled around Lin Yu, patted him on the shoulder, pressed him on the chair, and said condescendingly: "Why not, you know it yourself, otherwise you wouldn't have been in a hurry to deny it in front of Ling Xiang just now, is my mother right?" ”

Lin Yu nodded heavily under Li Xiang'er's coercion.

"I told Li Tan this last year, and I will tell you again this year. Son, there is no one in this world who can't live without it, a manly man, don't say it to make people think that our young master of Jiyue Villa has never seen a woman. Li Xiang'er nodded Lin Yu's head, "Since you already know that there is no hope, don't do that futile thing." ”

"It's not that I can't live, I just can't let go."

"If you can't put it down, don't let it go. In my heart, it is also a lifetime. Li Xiang'er sat down beside Lin Yu, "The discussion outside and the eyes of others will be your obstacles." You are the eldest son, you still have a younger brother, you can't be willful. Taking a step back, even if the whole family doesn't care about the world's eyes and goes out to fulfill you, then it has to be that you are both happy, but are you? ”

Lin Yu did not speak.

Li Xiang'er looked at Lin Yu's appearance and felt a little distressed, but she still nodded through the words, "Besides, she is not suitable for you." It's not that I think either of you is good, or which is bad, it's just not suitable. Do you really know her, can you understand what she's thinking? I really love you, so, no. ”

"I ......" Lin Yu looked at Li Xiang'er, his eyes were a little hesitant, "Isn't it more open-minded?" ”

Li Xiang'er rolled her eyes, "Yes, you're not enlightened." You put yourself in the right position, Yu'er, you are already a very close and strong relationship, this can't be changed, don't even lose what you have in the end. ”

Lin Yu wanted to cry a little when he said this. Originally, it was just a secret that he pressed in his heart, and he treasured it carefully, hoping that one day he would find a way to get what he wanted. It's good now, Wanjing rejected him, and Li Xiang'er suddenly erected a barrier. We all know it!

Lin Yu understood that what Li Xiang'er said was reasonable, but the reason was reasonable, if this matter could be solved because it was reasonable, then he wouldn't have to be so sad early.

In my heart, it is also a lifetime.

These words really made Lin Yu desperate, he almost imagined the day when he ran out of oil and the lamp dried up, stretching out his thin hands, with tears in his eyes, but he couldn't say a word, and finally died with hatred.

Li Xiang'er didn't know that Lin Yu's thoughts had drifted so far, and she pressed her chin and said thoughtfully: "What about Yuan Lingxiang......

Lin Yu's eyebrows jumped, and she hurriedly said: "She is a good girl, but I ...... now"

Li Xiang'er raised her palm and didn't let him continue, and said casually: "Look again, talk again, talk about it." ”