Chapter 108: The Root (2)
The biological mother died of illness and was locked up in a small courtyard, and there was no familiar and caring person around to take care of her, and a four-year-old child was brutally taken away.
When Yan Yan heard it, it was easy to think of the original owner's life experience, her father was gone before she was born, and her mother was gone as soon as she was born, but fortunately, her grandmother took her to her side and raised her personally, and cared for her all the way to grow up.
But after the death of my grandmother, the original owner's personality has changed a lot, the original smart and lively and cheerful are gone, replaced by cautious and few words, this transformation is naturally not completed overnight, and the process during it will naturally not be a pleasant memory.
Therefore, Yan Yan can especially understand Lu You's pain.
"By the way, Mother Shi, there is one more thing, I asked my husband last night, he said that there was a greenhouse maid before, not Qiuhe Qiuju, what is going on?" Yan Yan asked the second question he was most concerned about.
Mother Shi didn't answer Yan Yan when she heard this, but first looked up at Yan Yan, and saw that Yan Yan didn't have a look of uncertainty on his face, but a look of concern, so she told Yan Yan that when Lu You was fifteen years old, because of his personality was still so withdrawn, even the maids around him couldn't get close to him, only the nurse and the nurse's son Shi Changsheng could get close to him, one of these two people brought him up, and the other grew up with him since he was a child and became his long-term companion.
Seeing this, the old lady and the Zhu family were worried that he might not even be able to be a man when he grew up in the future, so they acquiesced to the two maids beside him, Qiu Fu Qiurong, to be his roommate.
Qiu Fu Qiu Rong also used various tricks to get close to him, but Lu You really didn't understand the amorous style, he still lived in his own world, and in the end, he couldn't, the old lady ordered someone to add something to his diet.
Since then, Lu You has tasted the taste of men and women, I don't know if it was the first time that he was too impressed or something else, he only accepted Qiu Fu, who had sex with him that night, and still kept his distance from Qiu Rong.
Qiu Rong was unhappy, but Lu You was still a dead eye, and when she liked Qiu Fu, she devoted herself to her, not only handed over the affairs in the house to Qiu Fu to take care of, but even taught Qiu Fu to read and write.
But Qiu Fu is not a safe person, he thinks that he is with Lu You, his identity is different, and he has begun to be picky about food and clothing, and Lu You is not a favored son-in-law, his financial source is only two yuan per month.
Reasoning, two yuan a month is a lot of money for a son of a family who stays at home, but Qiu Fu likes beautiful clothes, beautiful jewelry, and a maiden family who needs help from time to time, so this money is a bit insufficient.
So, under Qiu Fu's encouragement, Lu You began to sell calligraphy and paintings, and his earliest job was to paint fans and embroidery samples.
"How did he know that his calligraphy and paintings could be sold for money?" Yan Yan asked curiously.
"This, that's Qiufu's idea."
It turned out that after Qiu Fu followed Lu You, in order to try if he really didn't dare to see the living, he specially took him out to go shopping, at first he took him to places with few people, such as the palace wall, the city wall, and the moat, and then, step by step, he took him into the bookstore, restaurant, and teahouse, Lu You's favorite place is the bookstore, followed by the teahouse, because he likes books and likes to listen to people.
Because the disciples of these families rarely went in and out of these markets, even if they appeared, everyone would not recognize him, so for a while, he was obsessed with shopping, especially those places in the market.
"So that's the case, no wonder I saw that his paintings were all small people in the market." Yan Yan remembered that time when she saw the prince bring Lu You's paintings, the characters on them were all low-level people, and she was a little puzzled at that time, this kind of life is not like what a son of a family who does not leave home can imagine.
Mother Shi didn't understand what Yan Yan meant, but she smiled bitterly and continued: "The eldest prince really likes to visit bookstores, he likes to buy books, calligraphy and paintings, so his little monthly routine is even less enough to spend. ”
However, it was precisely because he was in the bookstore that Lu You knew that a person's calligraphy and paintings could be sold if they were good, so in order to buy books and paintings for himself, and also to give Qiu Fu beautiful clothes and jewelry, he began to sell calligraphy and paintings.
But a person who is not famous, even if his calligraphy and paintings are good, he can't actually sell them at a high price, so the hard-earned money earned by Lu You can't satisfy Qiu Fu.
Qiu Rong watched Lu You pay so much for Qiu Fu from the side, and she was upset for Lu You, so whether it was jealousy or sympathy, Qiu Rong designed a scene and let Lu You hide behind and listen to a conversation about Qiu Fu and Qiu Rong, at that time Qiu Fu didn't know that Lu You was hiding behind her.
Since then, Lu You has made a big fuss and drove Qiu Fu and Qiu Rong away.
"It's a pity, what they are talking about The eldest prince has always refused to tell the slave maid, and the slave only knows that since then, the eldest prince has never been close to the maid sent by his wife, and now these two are still because the old lady spoke, saying that she helped him clean up the house, so she stayed." After Mother Shi finished speaking, she looked at Yan Yan cautiously.
"Before that, did the elders in the family know about the eldest prince going out on the street?" Yan Yan suddenly thought of a question.
This Qiu Fu Qiu Rong may have been specially arranged by Mrs. Lu to be by Lu You's side, so that she can keep track of Lu You's movements at any time.
And the reason why Mrs. Lu was able to allow a maid and a servant to take Lu You to the street was probably to test whether he was really speechless or pretending.
"I know, the lord first reprimanded, and then the lady said, the eldest son goes out for a walk, maybe he will dare to speak when he sees more people, but there is one point, this matter must not be publicized, it is all secretly out from outsiders, fortunately, no one knows him outside."
"What is the relationship between the eldest prince and the prince? Also, is the eldest prince of this family business willing to do so? Yan Yan asked.
What she was more curious about was that since Lu You knew about guarding against the people that Mrs. Lu had arranged by his side, how could he not guard her?
"It's hard to say whether the slave is willing or not, but after the eldest grandmother hanged herself, your Yan Mansion came to report that our eldest son knew that he sat by the pool in the back garden for several hours, and no one was allowed to approach, nor spoke, nor eat, and then I heard that you were alive, so I left the pool."
As for the relationship between Lu You and Lu Ming that Yan Yan asked, according to Shi's mother, the two studied under a gentleman for three years from the age of five to the age of eight, and after the age of eight, Lu Ming entered the academy, and Lu You and he met four or five times a year, that is, when the family reunited during the New Year.