At the foot of the vast, smoky mountains, the small gray-and-white villages are as ethereal as the mist on the mountaintops.

Her eyes looked through the clouds and mist at the boundless sky. In the early morning, a girl dressed in emerald color hiked to the highest point she could climb, hoping to see a touch of the sky in the sky.

Heaven and earth don't seem to have woken up yet, just like the beautiful eyes of the girl at the moment, the morning light flickered under the cover of clouds and mist, and she was in a trance.

There was not a trace of blemishes on the girl's face, white and tender like snow, and red as a tumble. The dew drops hung between the girl's thin eyebrows, and there was a special flavor in it.

The long hair behind her fluttered in the wind, messy and flying, covering the mind of a sixteen-year-old girl......

"Luzhu, you're here, I've been looking for you for a long time!"

The voice of the call came from behind him, the hazy voice of longing that had not been seen for a long time.

Green beads slowly turn around her body, and her beauty has a breathtaking sense of amazement, which makes people look at it for thousands of years and never forget it.

At this moment, when he saw the person coming, the dim light under the green beads' thick eyelashes showed surprise, and he couldn't wait to withdraw from the boulder he was standing on.

But it's easy to go up and hard to come down, and the jade feet can't stabilize the delicate people, and one of them stumbles and almost falls to the ground.

"Ahh

Before the exclamation fell, Lu Zhu's body threw himself into a warm embrace.

"Be careful."

A sentence that seemed to the girl's green beads came into his ears.

"Be careful...... Be careful......"

The voice of the young man full of magnetism, that is the longing that Green Bead buries deep in his heart, and it is also the luxury that Green Bead can never reach......

Clung to the warm, youthful chest, the green beads breathed the fragrance and sweetness of the earth.

She looked up at the longing, but, vaguely, why?

Why?

With so many thoughts, why can't you reshape your longing?

Midori felt something familiar slip out of her eyes again.

"Green beads! Green Beads!! ”

This time it was an old, calm, and caring voice, which was the voice of care and love that Luzhu had been saying for many years.

"Luzhu, you woke up crying in your dream again..."

The owner of the voice picked her up and gently soothed her, and his kiss fell on the forehead of the green bead, extremely reassuring.

Opening his tired eyes slightly, the green beads lightly opened his lips and responded:

"Lord Stone..."

"Why are you still called Lord Shi, I'm going to change my words, I'm no longer an official."

"Hmm...... I'm sorry. ”

The green beads were buried in the arms of the person in front of him, and he closed his eyes, and the tears had been gently wiped away by the man.

He silently guarded the emerald color in his palm, secretly determined in his heart not to let anyone take her away.

Changes

When he woke up in the morning, Xianggong Shi Chong was no longer by his side, Lu Zhu sighed lightly, put on an emerald green tulle coat, and walked to the dressing mirror.

Looking at the face that was obviously no longer a girl in the mirror, the plump and red lips let out a sigh again.

Ever since the distant boy fell asleep, the sighs of the green beads have become more and more, and she can't control herself.

Looking at the bronze mirror in a daze, the green bead just picked up the peach blossom comb and put it down again.

She always has a feeling of being at a loss, especially in front of her, life may change badly at any time, Xianggong has no power and powerless, and she doesn't know how long she can protect herself.

For so many years, the reason why Lu Zhu was able to escape the cruel world and fate was completely dependent on Shi Chong's favor for her.

And what about Midori herself? She felt that she liked Lord Shi, regardless of whether Lord Shi was rich or powerful. Green Bead doesn't care about any of that.

She just wants to have a corner of comfort and preserve her dignity.

However, now Lord Shi is being squeezed out by high-ranking officials in the DPRK and the central government, and his net worth is in danger. Although he never mentions the green bead, the smart green bead can be seen.

"Alas!"

The soft sigh shows the complex state of mind of the green bead.

Her thoughts drifted from Shi Chong to the young man in her dreams, and people unconsciously dyed with a different kind of charm.

The kind of peony is shy, and even Shi Chong has never seen it.

Therefore, Shi Chongshi Xianggong, who had just stepped into the door of the green bead room, was stunned all of a sudden. He was completely drawn to the eye.

Ever since Lu Zhu followed him, he had always been able to see a different kind of amazement and beauty from this concubine.

Her beauty seemed to be able to shine with different brilliance with his thoughts, and Shi Chong was extremely fascinated by this, which was of course the fundamental reason why he was unwilling to let go of the green bead no matter what.

Shi Chong is not a single-minded man, he has many wives and concubines, but the only one he loves the most is the green bead.

Maybe other women are indeed like a piece of clothing to Shi Chong, but Luzhu is different, Luzhu is the soul mate and the confidant of Shi Chong's life.

How can a partner or confidant be taken away?

Shi Chong had always known about Green Pearl's thoughts, and he knew about the distant boy from the first time he saw Green Pearl by the small river at the foot of Horn Mountain.

Even earlier known. He also knew the whereabouts of the young man, but Shi Chong couldn't say it and didn't dare to say it.

Because the green bead is his soul, and the boy is the soul of the green bead, if he says it, then Shi Chong is sure that he will lose his soul.

"Ahem......"

The hour was almost up, and seeing that Lu Zhu was still in a daze, Shi Chong coughed lightly to remind him.

"Ahh

At the same time as the delicate voice came out, Green Zhu turned her head and immediately put a smile on her face.

"Xianggong, you're here."

Gently opening his lips, Green Zhu beckoned Shi Chong into the room, but did not stand up.

Lu Zhu never had to be cautious in front of Shi Chong, even if she made a mistake, Shi Chong never blamed her. Unlike other sisters, they worry about their lives at every turn.

Shi Chong's temper is not good, many of Lu Zhu's sisters are cautious, Lu Zhu always does her best to help them, and sometimes persuades Shi Chong to treat them equally.

Just like now, a concubine actually sits and greets the master, and only Luzhu can have such treatment.

Shi Chong walked to Luzhu's side, although he was past his prime, but because of his rich life and rich family wealth, his body was still healthy.

Brushing his gray beard with one hand and caressing the soft back of the green beads with the other, Shi Chong said:

"Today I set up a banquet in the garden, you can come and sing and dance."

"Yes, Xianggong." Lu Zhu's answer has always been clear, Shi Chong doesn't care, he has heard too much flattery and deliberate flattery, but Lu Zhu's voice can make him feel more at ease.

"Then you hurry up and prepare, I'll wait for you in the Lake Center Pavilion."

"Uh-huh."

Bowing his head and kissing the petal-like cheek, Shi Chong was reluctant to give up, even if it was a moment of separation, it made Shi Chong feel worried.

When he left the room, Shi Chong stayed by the door and waited for a while.

There are some things that he hopes will never happen in his life, and there are some things that he hopes Luzhu will never know.

But how will fate arrange it? Shi Chong didn't dare to imagine......

Chapter 3: Worries before the end of the chapter

The bright midday sun shines on the Yuyu Qiong Tower, showing the luxury of the Golden Valley Garden.

Surrounded by countless exotic flowers and plants, some of which were green beads that could not even be named.

Green beads don't like these very much, because they are too luxurious, and there is no appreciation value.

In Luzhu's heart, the simple and bright mountain village at the foot of Jiaoshan Mountain is the most beautiful, where the wildflowers and weeds are like the subtle footsteps of spring, and every glance can make Luzhu feel happy.

But that was a long time ago, and she could feel happiness every day until she turned 18.

At that time, there was a small river at the foot of the mountain, right next to the village, and the man, the boy, always liked to stand at the door and look at the river.

Luzhu knew that he had great ambitions and hoped to make a contribution, but he was reluctant to leave him.

Every time Lu Zhu watched his parents kick the boy out of the house, his heart was extremely painful.

Fatherless, motherless and poor, the teenager did not even have a home, and often had to leave Luzhu to wander.

The lotus step moved slightly, and the green beads walked towards the garden Huxin Pavilion where Shi Chong was, a clear river was separated between the Baihua and the Huxin Pavilion, and above the small river was a small arched bridge paved with jasper.

It was a small bridge specially built by Shi Chong for the green beads, because the green beads like the emerald color the most, so Shi Chong paved the bridge with jade to show his attention to the green beads.

Green Bead thought, how did he know he liked green?

Since following Master Shi, Lu Zhu has deliberately not wanted to hide her preferences, and for many years, she has wanted to leave what she likes to the bottom of her heart.

Green Bead especially wants to dream of the boy today, I don't know why, as if there is a feeling of coming to an end, very hazy, but so real.

Another light sigh, Lu Zhu sighed too much today, even she felt so herself, so Lu Zhu decided to wait a while to control her emotions, she didn't want to sweep away the rare Yaxing of her husband.

Raising his eyes, under the cover of the thick eyelashes, the beautiful black jade that was as bright as the stars looked at the eyes of Shi Chongcang in the Shanghu Heart Pavilion, and the green beads bowed slightly, and made a salute.

"Green beads see Xianggong."

"Love concubines are exempt." Shi Chongyi raised his hand, although he was old, he was extraordinary. Around Shi Chong, surrounded by more than a dozen beautiful concubines, they all knelt at Shi Chong's feet, smiling, and sometimes whispering softly, like swaying flowers in the garden.

Shi Chong has been waiting for the green bead to come, and today's green bead seems to have a strong heart, and it is very slow to come.

Although there was some displeasure in his heart, Shi Chong wanted to know more about what Lu Zhu was thinking, that distant boy had already been sent to the frontier and would never come back.

It is impossible to know about Luzhu, back then, Shi Chong had to do in order to get Luzhu's heart, and with the change of the situation in the DPRK and China, will it bring trouble?

Shi Chongwu was worried, but he believed that no matter what, the young man back then would never have a chance to fight back.

Looking at the face of the green beads across the river, Shi Chong couldn't make a sound for a moment, and after he looked at it for a moment, he said slowly: "Green beads, let's present a song!" ”

In fact, the most beautiful thing about green beads is dance, but Shi Chong didn't want to see her dance today, as if the dancing green beads would leave at any time.

Shi Chong felt that he was really old, so old that he would have such worries.

At the next bend, he made a graceful offering, and the servants beside him had already brought the piano stand and the piano bench for the green beads.

A waitress gently lifted Luzhu's delicate body and lifted her to the edge of the piano bench. Green beads pulled up the skirt flying in the wind with both hands and sat down on her delicate body.

Immediately, both hands stroked the priceless guqin strings.

Just as the first note was about to overflow, there was a sudden sound of a rough crash and a sound of the gate collapsing.

Shi Chong stood up suddenly, and his eyes flashed with surprise and panic that could not be concealed.

What should come will come after all, and those who want to hide can't escape after all.

No matter how hard Shi Chong tried and appropriated what he shouldn't have, the end would inevitably be repayment.

The tears that overflow in the darkness will one day turn to hatred, and hatred will consume all reason until it destroys everything......

Chapter 4 Shock

After a while, the gatekeeper outside the Golden Valley Park rushed in in a panic, out of breath.

"Sir! Master! Oh no!! ”

The more this time, the more Shi Chong warned himself not to panic.

He stood up, shook off the hand of the concubine holding his arm, and scolded loudly: "What kind of system is it to be so flustered!" ”

The old servant hurriedly knelt on the ground and said, "Yes! Be! But the rickety's body still trembled uncontrollably.

Just as he was about to report to Shi Chong what had happened outside the door, a hoarse but unusually powerful voice took his place.

"Lord Shi, do you remember the horse-leading man at the foot of Horn Mountain?"

Hearing this, Shi Chong was suddenly startled, and his weather-beaten heart felt like he had been hit by a sledgehammer at this moment.

The feeling of powerlessness filled his chest.

Blink to look at the green bead sitting opposite, sure enough, hearing these four words at the foot of the horn mountain, the green bead's face changed abruptly, and the person suddenly stood up.

The skirt lifted the guqin on the side, causing it to fall to the ground, splitting in half in an instant.

The beautiful eyes looked directly at the man who spit out the vagueness in his heart, and the green beads' lips trembled.

"You ......"

As soon as he said this word, he was interrupted by someone in front of him who was both familiar and strange.

This person is the flattering villain Sun Xiu, who just caused Shi Chong to be dismissed from office a few days ago, and he is now officially sealed in the Chinese order, attached to Sima Lun, the king of Zhao today, and is very favored by the emperor.

Sun Xiuqi has bright eyes and bright teeth, which is quite attractive, and Luzhu looks down on this kind of person the most, so when Sima Lun was not called the emperor, he was cold to Sun Xiu, who had always coveted him.

But the strange thing is that after every rejection, Sun Xiu is not stubborn like others, but always looks at the green beads meaningfully for a while, and then walks away.

Green Bead was naturally unknown, but she didn't want to think about it too much, and quickly left it behind.

After Sun Xiu came in today, what he threw to Luzhu was not doubt, but shock, because he actually knew Jiaoshan, the place where Luzhu was haunted by his dreams, so that Luzhu had to pay attention to it.

Sun Xiu looked at Lu Zhu with a look of contempt, and didn't pay attention to Shi Chong, who was high up in the Lake Heart Pavilion.

Putting his hand into his robe, Sun Xiu was about to take out something, and the red thing showed a little corner.

Just as he was about to show it to Lu Zhu, Shi Chong's majestic voice sounded with anxiety, as if he wanted to stop Sun Xiu's behavior.

"Master Sun, what are you doing in the old man's mansion?!"

The movements in his hands did not stop, and Sun Xiu felt an unprecedented pleasure, which was the joy of imminent revenge.

His eyes looked at Shi Chong, and his pursed lips did not open, but brought a smug look.

The right hand left the robe, and with a shake of the palm, a fiery red square scarf was displayed in front of the eyes of the green beads, and the corner of the square scarf was embroidered with a budding green spring orchid with silk threads.

With just one glance, the tears of green beads burst out, and she staggered to the thing in front of her, but when she was about to touch it, she was pulled by Sun Xiu's backward movement, and the whole person fell to the ground, and the sharp mountain stones in the garden immediately made the snow-white forehead engraved with bright red.

"Green Pearl !!"

Shi Chong exclaimed in surprise, hurriedly rushed down from the Lake Center Pavilion, and rushed in the direction of the green bead.

In any case, he was the one who made the mistake back then, how could he let Luzhu suffer such an insult?

Chapter 5: The Truth

"Green Beads!"

The old man's anxious voice could no longer arouse the slightest attention from Green Bead, and she seemed to have forgotten everything.

There was only a touch of red color in Sun Xiu's hand in his eyes.

Ignoring the pain, Lu Zhu propped himself up and asked in a trembling voice, "You...... How did you get it? ”

There is an indescribable nostalgia for the past in his eyes.

Sun Xiu saw the appearance of Lu Zhu, but he didn't have any pity, he pulled the corners of his mouth and sneered, and his face actually showed a look of disdain.

"I thought you'd never remember it again? My former bride! ”

"What?!" Green Zhu's eyes widened instantly, shock replaced all her emotions, and even tears stayed in her eye sockets and stopped rolling down.

"You... What did you say?!! She had no strength but the strength to ask questions.

At this time, Shi Chong had already run across the small arch bridge separated from the green beads, after all, he was old, he felt a palpitation, and had to stop holding on to the bridge pier to breathe.

Shi Chong regretted why he didn't summon the green bead to his side in time just now, so that he could still control the situation.

One hand pointed directly at Sun Xiu, and shouted urgently: "Come on, blast this shameless villain out for me!! ”

However, he soon found that not a single housekeeper had appeared, and that only the trembling janitor was standing in the garden.

"What's going on?! What's going on?!! Shi Chong clutched his heart and asked loudly, answering him except for the uneasy screams of the concubines behind him, only the sound of the wind and Sun Xiu's contemptuous and hateful voices remained.

"Lord Shi, no one will help you anymore, they have already been taken down by the soldiers I brought. After all these years, I've finally waited for this day, for the day when you will return what I lost. ”

"Nope! Don't ......" Shi Chong felt that his heart was getting more and more fragile, and he couldn't help but bend down, and there was only a monotonous, incredibly stunned voice in his mouth.

No longer caring about Shi Chong, Sun Xiu turned his head to look at Lu Zhu, the woman he had loved and hated for a long time.

Getting closer, squatting down his tall body, Sun Xiu stretched out a finger to lift the soft jaw of the green bead line.

He looked carefully at the flawless face, recalling the past vows made to each other, and the sadness in his heart had long since overflowed, but he stubbornly regarded it as hatred and disdain.

"Green Bead, you really don't recognize me? Hahaha, no wonder, many years ago, you forgot about me, didn't you? ”

The speculation in Lu Zhu's heart was spreading, but she couldn't believe her guess, so she could only shake her head slowly, and her eyes were fixed on the square scarf that Sun Xiu was holding in her other hand.

Finding that Luzhu was within sight, Sun Xiu held up the red square scarf to Luzhu's eyes and said, "Remember it?" Back then, I bought you a gift. ”

"No, it can't be, how can it be ......" Lu Zhu's hand trembled so much that she could barely support her body, and this sentence made her instantly return to the meeting in the grass hut ten years ago.

also instantly remembered the appearance of a teenager in countless midnight dreams.

Memories of the past

Ten years ago at the foot of Horn Mountain

Young Midori is anxiously waiting in a broken grass hut for her secret lover, an equally young, depressed teenager.

The boy had charming eyes, deep, charming, and his black eyes seemed to shine with the light that could conquer the world, and he was always so confident.

Green beads love those eyes, and they can never get enough of it when they are in front of them. Midori thought, 'No matter what, I'm going to go with him this time.' ’

Cheer herself up in her heart, Luzhu is not afraid of hardship, she is only afraid that the young man will not come back suddenly.

A year ago, when Luzhu was washing clothes by the river, he met a teenager by chance, and he was covered in scars, which seemed to have been caused by being beaten.

Unable to bear him to fend for himself, Luzhu hid the boy in the broken grass shed where she was now, and secretly sold the only two chickens in the family to buy medicine for him.

For this reason, Lu Zhu was punished by her mother to kneel outside the house for a whole night, but she did not tell the boy, and the next day she still limped to bring him coarse tea and light rice.

The teenager asked her what happened to her leg? Lu Zhu just said that he fell when he went up the mountain to collect medicine.

In fact, Luzhu's family is very poor, barely enough to eat, and there has been no news since his father went out many years ago, so he relies on his mother to help people sew and make ends meet.

The two chickens in the family are the mother's life, and the mother is reluctant to eat the eggs she brings, so she leaves them all for the green beads.

When her mother questioned her with tears in her eyes, Luzhu's heart was actually very painful, but she gritted her teeth and didn't say the reason, and her mother finally had no choice but to punish her for kneeling outside the door.

Lu Zhu's house is not much better than the broken grass shed in front of him, there are two small thatched houses, there is not even a decent yard, and the place where the chickens are raised is only a small open space in front of the door surrounded by broken branches by his mother. That night, Luzhu had been kneeling there. Kneeling below the knees.

Later, her mother felt sorry for her, touched Luzhu's knees and cried for a long time, in this life, Luzhu's mother had a really hard life.

Luzhu told her mother: I will definitely find a capable man in the future to let you live a good life.

When the mother heard this, she laughed, but she misunderstood the meaning of the green beads.

Luzhu doesn't mean looking for a rich man or a big official who can support them, Luzhu means looking for a man who really has the ability to take care of them for the rest of his life.

Because Luzhu hates his father a little, his father has been gone for so many years, and he didn't think to come back to see their mother and daughter, and his mother has changed from a beautiful young girl to a gray-haired appearance, all to blame for his father who can't fulfill his promise.

Therefore, Luzhu should not be a man who does not keep his promises, and he should not be a useless man.

However, this young man she saved was different, Green Pearl could see the future from his eyes, a bright, happy and happy future.

Therefore, when the boy came to the broken grass shed to see Luzhu again after his injury, the two of them agreed for life.

Lu Zhu told the boy everything about herself, and got an eternal promise and the young man's burning and determined eyes, and trusted it without hesitation.

At that time, they really thought it would last forever.

Just when Luzhu was thinking nonsense alone, the young man walked in gently, and instead of shouting with his back to his lover, he secretly took something out of his arms.

The red square scarf flickered in front of Green Zhu's eyes, and Green Zhu immediately turned around and reached for the gun, but the young man was faster than him, and quickly withdrew his right hand.

"Give it to me!" Midori pretended to be angry.

"I didn't say it was for you." Deliberately teasing, the young man carefully observed the changes in Lu Zhu's face.

Sure enough, Luzhu was really unhappy, she didn't look over her head and ignored her sweetheart.

Although today's young man is still dressed in tatters, he seems to be a lot more refreshed, and Luzhu feels very strange.

After being angry for a while, Luzhu couldn't hold it back, the boy was always like this, and he didn't know how to coax her at all.

"Why are you so happy today?" Lu Zhu couldn't help but ask, curiosity made her beautiful big eyes linger on the boy's face.

"Because today I'm going to propose to someone, and this is to buy her a gift." The boy raised the red scarf in his hand.

Lu Zhu was stabbed by something in his heart all of a sudden, and the young man just said that he didn't buy his own, so ......

Seeing that Lu Zhu was upset, the boy no longer teased her, but smiled, gently covered the red square scarf on the top of Lu Zhu's head, and then kissed Lu Zhu's forehead through the square scarf.

"For you, I swear, in this life, you are the only one I want to marry."

"Really?" Green beads burst into tears and smiled, staring closely into the young man's eyes, and asked hopefully.

It's not that she can't believe it, but happiness comes too suddenly, and Luzhu feels her heart jumping and jumping.

"Really! Come with me, Green Bead. The boy suggested the real purpose of his coming today.

But this sentence made Lu Zhu hesitate for a moment: "But mother, she ......"

"Luzhu, we will come back, I promise you, as long as you are famous, we will come back to pick up your mother, and I will be filial to her like my own mother."

The young man's words of assurance were true in Luzhu's ears, and she loved him and was willing to believe all her words. At this moment, the cold wind blowing in the broken grass hut is also warm.

Two young men in shabby clothes, hugging each other tightly, whispered endlessly, the yellow blades of grass, the wild flowers of the cold season outside the house, and the perennial mist that lingered below the mountain all seemed to be listening intently.

The boy lay on the knee of the green bead, narrating the strange things he had seen in the outside world, and listening to the petite and beautiful people constantly blooming like flowers.

After a long time, Green Bead suddenly lightly opened her red lips, "Oh! With a sigh, I remembered something.

"What's wrong? Green beads? The boy straightened up and asked.

"It's noon, it's time for my mother to look for me." Luzhu replied in a bit of a panic.

The young man handed the red scarf in his arms to Luzhu with both hands, and said again: "Take good care of it, I will come to pick you up at the beginning of the ugly hour tonight, and we will meet here then, we must come, Luzhu." ”

"Well, I will." Nodding obediently and gently, the green bead made a promise to her lover.

The young man reluctantly took the green beads to the door of the thatched hut, looked out for a moment to make sure that no one was there, and then said, "Then you go, I'll wait until you're far away." ”

"Okay, be careful yourself." After speaking, Lu Zhu turned around and walked in the direction of home three times in one step......

——

The young man standing alone by the river was fluttering, and his shabby and dirty clothes could not hide his clear and chic temperament. The boy kept looking in the direction of the two huts where Green Pearl was located on the other side of the river. He must take Green Pearl with him today, in fact, since the first time he saw Green Pearl, the boy had the urge to have her.

Green beads have such magic that people can't extricate themselves.

In the distance where the young man turned his back to the distance and could not see, there was a person who was also looking in the same direction, it was a rich and noble man in luxurious clothes, he was already rich at that time, he was Shi Chong ten years ago, at that time, he was over 50 years old, much more powerful than now, and he had been an official in the court for many years.

Shi Chong also didn't notice the boy by the river, he rode a tall horse, hid his body behind the mountain rocks, and looked at the place where the unknown beautiful woman had appeared.

Shi Chong is an extremely greedy person for women, and his family has already had a group of wives and concubines, but Shi Chong, who is rich and powerful, is not satisfied, and he always goes to various places to find excellent beauties in the name of micro-service visits.

This afternoon, when his car passed by the door of Lu Zhu's house, he accidentally saw Lu Zhu who was secretly returning home.

With just one glance, Shi Chong couldn't extricate himself, he had seen countless beautiful appearances all over the country, but he didn't expect that he would have such a moment of falling in love at first sight.

According to Shi Chong's previous character, he would immediately step into the door of Luzhu's house. The money in my hand or the power I have now, anyway, no matter what the method, take the green bead away.

But just when Shi Chong wanted to step out of the car, an inexplicable hesitation hit his heart, as if a voice was telling him: 'Don't blaspheme this woman, she will be your best partner in this life.'" ’

"Mate?" Shi Chong chewed softly on this word that he had never thought of using on the woman who followed him, and at this moment it suddenly came to mind, giving him a strange and warm feeling, even accompanied by a little different emotion.

Shi Chong himself couldn't say clearly, but he still knew what he needed, put down the curtain that had been lifted, Shi Chong instructed the coachman: "Let's go!"

His actions took the coachman a little unexpected, but naturally he did not dare to ask, and soon, the chariots and horses of the rich and noble, which were rarely seen in the eyes of the villagers, disappeared from their sight.

Chapter 4: Shi Chong's Past and the Origin of Jingu Garden

After returning to the mansion, Shi Chong couldn't sit still, he put aside all official duties, and asked the housekeeper to inquire about the situation of the woman he met today, the more detailed the better.

The imperial court had already sent someone to urge him to turn back, and Shi Chong wanted to leave early the next morning, but now, he was reluctant to leave, and when he picked up his pen, Shi Chong wanted to write a reply letter to the officials urging him to return to Beijing, explaining the reason for continuing to stay in Guancheng Jiaoshan Town.

It is adjacent to the Great Wall in the north, and the mountains are steep, and it is a place where mountain bandits and thieves frequently appear, so Shi Chong's reason is very easy to find. In his reply, he wrote that thieves were rampant in this place, and the people were struggling to make a living, so he needed time to persuade the good and punish the evil, so he asked for a cure. It is also hoped that Lord Jia Mi will write his proposal to the emperor on his behalf, approving him to stay here for three months, rectify the rule of officials, and appease the people.

After the reply letter was written, Shi Chong read it again and felt that there was nothing inappropriate, so he asked the servant to send it to the capital quickly.

In fact, at this time, the power of the imperial court was held by the Empress Dowager Jia Nanfeng alone, and Jia Mi was deeply favored by Jia Nanfeng, and it can be said that he was above 10,000 people under one person among the Beijing officials. Shi Chong was in business when he was young, his face was full of shrewdness, and he was very good at gathering contacts, so he became rich in a few years.

The fame spread to the capital and was known by Jia Mi. In the process of an unannounced visit to Beijing (in fact, it was a tour of the mountains and rivers), Jia Mi deliberately did not reveal his identity, and pretended to stay in Shi Chong's mansion with a cloth coat, wanting to see how shrewd this person was.

At that time, the construction of Jingu Garden had not yet begun, and Shi Chong's mansion was obviously not as luxurious as it is now, but in fact, Shi Chong's wealth was already incomparable to that of few people.

The clever Shi Chong saw at first glance that Jia Mi was not an ordinary person, so he held a banquet to entertain Jia Mi. During the banquet, Shi Chong deliberately informed Jia Mi of his wealth without reservation, and vaguely said that his lifelong wish was to enter Beijing as an official and do something great.

Jia Mi is extremely greedy, he has no business mind himself, but he likes to scavenge money from merchants, and of course he will eliminate disasters for them. When he heard that Shi Chong had an inexhaustible wealth of thousands of dollars, Jia Mi immediately hinted that he was from the capital, and as long as he found the right door in the capital, he could exchange money for an official position.

Of course, Jia Mi will not directly tell Shi Chong his true identity and let Shi Chong come to him. Instead, under the pretext of thanking Shi Chong for his warm hospitality, he gave Shi Chong a jade plaque engraved with the word Jia on his body as a thank you gift.

Of course, Shi Chong understood Jia Mi's intentions, and after seeing the jade plate, he was even more sure of his guess. Hiding the jade plaque in his sleeve, Shi Chong personally picked out the best high-headed horse in the house, wrapped the gold nugget in cloth, hid it under the horse's belly, and gave it to Jia Mi together, and personally sent it ten miles away.

Since then, Shi Chong has been on the rise, rising all the way to Jingzhou Thorn History, and has become Jia Mi's confidant and Jia Nanfeng's favorite minister. Calling for wind and rain in the capital, so majestic.

But he is not a person who gets carried away easily, Shi Chong knows very well that the reason why he is where he is today is entirely because he has thousands of family wealth to bribe Jia Mi, so he flatters Jia Mi to the fullest, while secretly looting money while running various businesses.

Soon, Shi Chong's wealth grew like a snowball, except for the part revealed to Jia Mi, the rest was secretly hidden by him, so that once Jia Mi and Jia Nanfeng fell in the future, he could still be at ease.

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Shi Chong was forty-two years old when he met Jia Mi, Jia Mi was greedy for money but not lustful, but Shi Chong was different, he was greedy for money and lustful, and there were countless beauties in his family.

But it was inconvenient for these beauties to be brought into the capital, and at that time, many officials had already impeached Shi Chong for his extravagant lifestyle, and when Jia Mi knew about it, he also told him in person that he hoped that he could change his style.

So, Shi Chong thought about it again and again and decided to build a luxurious mansion in his hometown, Jingujian in Henan, and named it Jinguyuan.

Then send all the wives and concubines to the Golden Valley Garden, and use it as their leisure and entertainment residence, so that they can avoid the eyes and ears of the Beijing officials and have no scruples.

But the real implementation of this matter did not go as smoothly as Shi Chong thought, and it took him a lot of brains to choose the location of Jingu Garden first.

Nuoda's mansion and garden cannot be built in the middle of the town, and if you are outside the mountains, you are afraid of being attacked by thieves and bandits. Shi Chong personally returned to his hometown, inspected the terrain, and picked and chose for more than two years before finally deciding on the address of Jingu Garden.

In order not to let the imperial court find out, Shi Chong secretly kept a group of craftsmen in his own home, that is to say, even if there was no work to do, he would pay them silver on time, but he was not allowed to go out to find other jobs, and he was only allowed to build a garden and repair a mansion for Shi Chong alone.

Due to Shi Chong's extremely high requirements, the construction process of Jingu Garden was very slow, and it took less than three years until Shi Chong met the green pearl, and even half of Jingu Garden was not built.

However, Shi Chong was not in a hurry, he also had a mansion in Jingzhou, the area under his jurisdiction, and let his wives and concubines temporarily live there first. While procuring rare treasures from all over the world, we will enrich the unfinished Golden Valley Garden.

This time I arrived in the town of Guancheng Jiaoshan for this purpose.

Shi Chong had long heard that there were many beautiful women at the foot of Jiaoshan Mountain, but he had never had the opportunity to visit here, and this time he accidentally saw Luzhu, how could he give up easily.

So naturally he would do everything he could to stay in Jiaoshan Town, but what Shi Chong didn't expect was that Luzhu's heart had already been taken away by another person, and this person was Sun Xiu when he was a teenager.

But at that time, he was not called Sun Xiu, he had a more heroic name - Sun Junzhong.

Junzhong was originally Sun Xiu's character, because he didn't like the show character in the name, so he replaced it with Junzhong. Before Sun Junzhong was twenty-five years old, almost no one knew that he also had a name called Sun Xiu.

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Author's Note:

There are many versions of the story of Sun Xiu and Luzhu in later generations, most of which tell the story of Sun Xiu coveting the beauty of Luzhu, and killing Shi Chong by the hand of Sima Lun, Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty, in an attempt to occupy Luzhu, but Luzhu did not obey and committed suicide by jumping off the building.

In this one, I changed the original story mode, except for the names of the characters and the general framework, the rest are fictional, which does not match historical facts or legends, I hope readers don't get entangled in this, just be happy.