The sky was already bright, and she was wearing a satin dress and dress, although the material was not good, it was not something that ordinary people could wear. Such a girl who looks at everyone's young lady is walking alone in a car, which is too eye-catching.

Lu Xiyi immediately made a decision, found a pawnshop nearby, and used the carriage and satin clothes together, exchanging a total of ten taels of silver, and then asked the boss to send a set of coarse cloth jackets and skirts as an addition.

She changed into coarse cloth clothes, and in an instant, she changed from a young lady from a large family to a small jasper that can be seen everywhere in the market, and suddenly became low-key.

Lu Xiyi inquired about his uncle with the pawnshop owner by the way, and then looked for it according to the instructions, only to see a small shop with a plaque hanging on the lintel, with the four big characters "Liu's Wine Workshop" written on it.

The door of the store was wide open, but there were almost no customers, only a middle-aged man who looked like a shopkeeper stood behind the counter and lazily fiddled with the abacus.

"Guest officer ......" Seeing someone walk in, he hurriedly raised his head and greeted him with a smile, but his smile turned into surprise as soon as he was halfway through, "Mei Niang!" ”

Lu Xiyi was sure that in front of him was his mother's brother, Liu Dalang.

She smiled lightly: "Uncle, my name is Lu Xiyi, and I am Liu Rumei's daughter. ”

Because Lu Xiyi completely inherited Liu Rumei's beauty, and there were seven or eight points of similarity between his eyebrows and eyes, Liu Dalang recognized Lu Xiyi's niece without much confusion and took her to the backyard. There, Lu Xiyi met his aunt Huang Yue.

After a pleasant greeting, Huang Yue'e looked at the cloth clothes on Lu Xiyi's body, and asked in surprise: "Niece, didn't your mother marry a big official in the capital at the beginning?" Why are you dressed like this now? ”

Liu Dalang also looked at it in surprise.

Lu Xiyi pursed his lips and told him the truth: "Uncle, aunt, I came this time to tell you a piece of news, my mother and her...... Passed away. And I, because I angered my father, was kicked out of the Lu Mansion and broke off the relationship, and now I am no longer the Miss of the Lu Mansion. ”

"What!" Liu Dalang stood up in shock, "Your mother is dead?" ”

Lu Xiyi smiled bitterly and nodded. But she concealed the truth about the murder of her mother, and her uncle's family were all people at the lowest level, and facing the Lu Mansion was like a grasshopper shaking a tree, which was harmful and useless.

Liu Dalang sighed with emotion and asked again: "Niece, what are your plans next?" ”

Lu Xiyi said: "I haven't decided yet, let's take a step at a time." ”

Liu Dalang stood up suddenly, and slapped his chest with a "snapped" sound: "If my niece has nowhere to go, even if she lives here with her uncle, it will be no problem to stay as long as she wants!" ”

Huang Yue'e's face changed, and she couldn't stop pulling Liu Dalang's sleeve.

Liu Dalang was impatient: "What are you going to make noise about?" Could it be that my niece can't live in our house anymore? ”

Huang Yue's face couldn't hold back, and she was about to say something, when someone suddenly smashed the door outside the door: "Liu Dalang, come out!" ”

Liu Dalang and Huang Yue'e hurriedly went to the front to check, and Lu Xiyi thought about it and followed.

I saw more than a dozen big men with meaty faces lined up in front of the wine shop, surrounded by a Taishi chair in the middle, and a fat man with a fat brain was crooked on the Taishi chair.

The fat man is about fifty, with a fat head and big ears, a greasy face, and a pair of small eyes full of fine eyes, and he is not a good person at first glance.

He had just taken a sip of tea with the purple sand teapot, and happened to see Lu Xiyi who came out of the curtain, and his small eyes suddenly straightened.

Lu Xiyi's eyes narrowed slightly, moved his steps slightly, and hid his figure behind Liu Dalang.

Liu Dalang was unhappy when he saw the man's face: "Master Zhang, I have said many times that the well of my family's ancestors will not be sold!" ”

Zhang Fatzi came back to his senses when he heard the voice, and smiled: "Liu Dalang, I can't help you this time, look at this!" ”

As he spoke, he handed over a piece of paper, and Liu Dalang took it and looked at it, his hands trembling involuntarily.

Lu Xiyi glanced strangely from behind him, and saw that it was a gambling contract, which said that Liu Yulong, the son of Liu Dalang, was fighting with Zhang Caizhu in Ruyi Restaurant, and he took out ten jars of the most mellow wine in his respective wineries and exchanged them for drinking.

If Liu Yulong loses, he will lose the ancestral well of Liu's distillery to Zhang Caizhu; If the rich man loses, he will pay Liu Yu a hundred taels of silver with dragon patterns.

Liu Dalang said in a trembling voice: "No, no, although the wine of your Yuanbao Wine Workshop sells better than ours, my family's Liuquan wine is not much worse than yours, and even because of the excellent water quality, sometimes it will beat you, how can my son lose?" ”

Zhang Fatzi laughed: "Liuquan wine is a fart!" To tell you the truth, what Lao Tzu took out to fight wine today is the secret recipe purchased from Xichuan at a high price a few days ago, called Shujiangchun! Shu Jiangchun has heard of it, right? It is the best wine that the master Wei has praised for its 'thick and mellow flavor and luscious entrance', and what do you compare with me for your willow spring wine that fades out of a bird! ”

Liu Dalang held the gambling contract, as if it weighed a thousand pounds, and his eyes were dull.

Zhang Fatzi looked at Liu Dalang's trembling words and couldn't say anything, he shook his fan proudly and smiled:

"Now your son is still drunk under the table and can't get up! I am willing to lose the gamble, give you two days, hurry up and send the title deed of the well to the master, if it is more than a moment and a half, you will wait to go to the yamen prison to send your son prison food! ”

After saying cruel words, Zhang Fatzi waved his hand, and a group of dogs lifted him up and even took the Taishi chair, ready to leave.

Huang Yue'e staggered after her, grabbed the sleeve of the fat man, and cried and begged:

"Master Zhang, you know, that well is the life, root, and son of our family! The business of our Liu's Distillery is not good, and it is all supported by the water quality of that well. Without that well, we would have no way to live, and wouldn't this force our whole family to death? ”

Zhang Fatzi snorted coldly:

"Then I don't care, anyway, this gambling contract is clear in black and white, and it is covered with your son's handprint! When will you bring the title deed of that well, and when will you exchange it for your son! ”

Saying this, he suddenly raised his head and glanced at Lu Xiyi who was not far away, a gleam flashed in his eyes, and he lowered his voice and said to Huang Yue'e, "Of course, if you are willing to move your mind, it is not that there is no other way......

Huang Yue'e seemed to grasp the life-saving straw, and asked in a stack: "What way?" Mr. Zhang, say it quickly! ”

Zhang Fatzi didn't answer, just smiled meaningfully, shook off Huang Yue'e, and left with his dogs.

After receiving such bad news, Liu Dalang and Huang Yue'e were both devastated, Liu Dalang sighed, and Huang Yue'e babbled about how to keep the well and save her son.

The two of them didn't move like they were stunned, but Lu Xiyi went to the kitchen to clean up some food and came out, persuading the two to eat a few bites.

Lu Xiyi took care of the two of them for the night.

After a night of torment, Liu Dalang and Huang Yue'e were even anxious and worried, and they were simply tortured into human shape.

Lu Xiyi had just persuaded the two to eat a few bites of breakfast, when suddenly a woman came in front of her, and shouted when she entered the door: "Yo~ Is the sister-in-law of the Huang family at home?" My sister is here to say hello to you! ”

Lu Xiyi was packing up the dishes and chopsticks and walking to the back kitchen, and accidentally glanced ahead, only to see that the woman was dressed in red, with flowers on her head, powdered on her face, and a festive smile deliberately piled up on her face.

She couldn't help frowning, looking at the dress, this is a matchmaker? What did the matchmaker do at this time?

Huang Yue'e went out of the door, and the matchmaker grabbed her and chatted with her for a while.

whispered for a long time, only to hear Huang Yue'e exclaim: "Really? ”

After a while, I suddenly heard a slap of "pop", followed by Liu Dalang's roar: "What kind of bad idea are you!" ”

Then Huang Yue'e cried and shouted: "Otherwise, what can you do?" Is it hard to watch your son go to jail? If you don't say it, I'll go! ”

Lu Xiyi inexplicably felt a bad premonition in his heart, wiped the water on his hands, and was just about to go out to see what was going on, when the door curtain was suddenly opened with a bang, Huang Yue'e blew in like a gust of wind, and knelt in front of Lu Xiyi with a "poof".

Lu Xiyi was startled, and hurriedly bent down to help her: "Uncle, what are you doing?" ”

Huang Yue'e knelt on the ground and couldn't get up, bursting into tears: "Niece, Xiyi, please save your cousin, save our family!" ”

Lu Xiyi's gaze was slightly condensed, but he still used a little more strength in his hand to help Huang Yue'e up: "Auntie, you get up first and say, how do you want me to save my cousin?" ”

Huang Yue'e said like pouring beans into a bamboo tube, it turned out that the fat man yesterday took a fancy to Lu Xiyi's beauty at a glance, and today he asked the matchmaker to say that if Lu Xiyi is willing to be his eighth concubine, he can write off this gamble!

Huang Yue'e also knew that it was too unkind to let a good lady be a concubine for a rich man, not to mention that this niece had only met for less than a day.

But for the sake of her son and the winery, she still gritted her teeth and persuaded: "Xiyi, my aunt knows that you have a high heart, but aren't you breaking off relations with the Lu Mansion now?" You are alone and helpless now, what's wrong with marrying Master Zhang? Eat fragrant and drink spicy ......"

The expression on Lu Xiyi's face slowly disappeared.

Before she finished speaking, as soon as the door curtain was lifted, Liu Dalang rushed in, grabbed Huang Yue'e and hit her: "Stinky woman, give you face, right?" I said that if it can't be done, it won't work! ”

Huang Yue'e was not stage frightened, and immediately tore up with him: "Liu Dalang, you bastard, do you really want to watch your son go to prison?" ”

Lu Xiyi watched the two of them fight coldly, and suddenly spoke: "Uncle, aunt, stop, I won't agree to marry that rich man." ”

As soon as these words came out, Liu Dalang was just stunned for a moment, but Huang Yue'e suddenly cried and cried: "Niece, you can't be so conscienceless!" Yesterday when you were desperate, it was your uncle who took you in without hesitation, how can you see death like this and not save him, and harm his only seedling......"

The corners of Lu Xiyi's lips twitched, and he raised his voice slightly: "I mean, I have another way to rescue my cousin!" ”