When Lu Yougui went home for dinner that night, Chunying didn't wait for her mother to speak, she said all the words of Aunt Lu today, and then said with a hint of eagerness and eagerness: "Dad, can you try it?" If it happens, we will be able to go out openly in the future! ”

Lu's mother scolded her husband while adding food to the side: "Look at your excitement! Why don't you bring your dad a full bottle of wine?! Lu Yougui has to drink two glasses every night when he eats, this is already a habit, although Chunying is anxious, he has to obediently go to get the wine, and run back quickly.

Mother Lu glared at her angrily before she said to her husband: "Although you plan to let me refuse, I listen to Ziyu's statement, it is a very good errand, and he is close to us." You really don't want to try it? Chunying was taken aback, and the movements of her hands slowed down.

Lu Yougui eats vegetables with his head bored: "What to try?" What's there to try? Where is my turn to do such a good errand? Then he raised his eyelids at his daughter: "Pour wine." Chunying hurriedly did so.

"That's not what I said." Mother Lu was a little unimpressed, "If it were someone else, I wouldn't believe it, but Ziyu wouldn't fool me." Besides, this was originally proposed by them themselves, with the Lu family as a guarantee, are you still afraid that the errand will not reach you? ”

Chunying also said: "Yes, yes, Dad, this is a rare opportunity, if you miss it, I don't know when you will be able to come out!" ”

"What's the head?" Lu Yougui raised his chopsticks and knocked his daughter, "Are you really so good at this errand?" Since it's good, everyone else is blind? The Lu family has its own brothers and nephews, but he is the only one who has left the Lu family, why didn't he look for his own family, but came to me? ”

Mother Lu hurriedly said: "Purple fish won't harm me." ”

"I didn't say she hurt you." Lu Yougui swallowed a piece of braised pork and squinted his eyes, "It's just that there are some things you don't know, if you jump down hot, you will be crushed in the future, and you will never be able to turn over again." He poured himself a drink, very happy, and suddenly saw that his wife and daughter were shocked on their faces, and then smiled: "What? Scared? It's okay, I'm just talking. ”

"Okay, how could you say that?" Mother Lu asked carefully, "Is it ...... What are the rumors in the house? She turned her head and chased her daughter: "Go feed your brother, these words are not for you to hear." ”

Where is Chunying willing to go: "It's only been fed for less than an hour, and he's not hungry." ”

Lu Yougui smiled: "It's okay." Sooner or later, she will have to go into the house on an errand, and there are some things that she knows, and it's nothing, just be careful not to talk outside. These things are all well known to the people below. ”

He drank another glass of wine before he said slowly: "Including the Lu family, this time I heard that there are five or six families who are going to leave their nationality, and there are forty or fifty men, women, and children combined, which is more than the number of people released in the past three years. And most of these people are in charge of the important industries in the house, either big granges or big shops, but the most decent Wang family, this time no one is among them, what should you do? ”

Mother Lu opened her mouth wide: "I guessed that it was so!" Did Master Hou want to ...... them" She raised her eyebrows, and before she finished the following words, Chun Ying already understood: "Then Aunt Lu, aren't they very dangerous?" ”

Lu Yougui smiled: "This is wrong. Although these families are in charge of important industries, there are many clansmen, and they have always been loyal, and if they deal with them, doesn't it make the rest of the people feel cold? He lowered his voice: "It's because the second room in the north sent a letter back, and the second master's family will come back in the autumn." ”

Second master? Who is this?

Chunying was about to ask, but Mother Lu opened her mouth first: "The second master is back, what does it have to do with this?" ”

"You forgot? Since the marquis has a lord, only the old marquis has a brother in this generation, and the old marquis treats the second old lady very well, never refuses to divide the family, and so the second old lady becomes a parent, and specially invited the elders of the clan to testify, and transfer several Zhuangzi shops to the name of the brother. The second old lady refused to accept it, and it took a long time to take it, but the old marquis still sent someone to take care of it and collect rent every year. Since the old marquis and the second old lady went successively, the second lord went to the north to be an official, and he didn't come back for more than ten years, and the people in the house have forgotten that the family business of the Hou Mansion was originally forty percent of the two-bedroom. ”

Mother Lu's eyes widened, and she was speechless for a long time. Chunying thought about it and guessed: "Could it be that the Hou Ye took advantage of the fact that the second master's family had not come back and wanted to change the person in charge, so he would not admit it when the time came?!" But wasn't there a contract back then? The elders of the clan also know, right? She rolled her eyes, "Or do you say...... He wants to buy the stewards? ”

"Of course not." Lu Yougui smiled, "Those are all old people who have lived for several lifetimes, and they are trained by the old marquis, and there are people in the second room, such as the old Xu family, who are left in the second room to see the house, and even the old lady is not easy to call, where can I buy it?" But there is one sentence you can guess, everyone under us is saying that Hou Ye must want to change the person in charge so that he can hide something. The second room has not been in Beijing for many years, how can I know so many things? After a pause, he added, "But...... This may not be what Master Hou meant, and we can't say for sure. ”

Chunying was a little confused when she heard this, and Mother Lu only thought about the safety of her friends: "According to what you said, the two of them are going to suffer this time?" ”

Lu Yougui smiled: "No." Several other families were trying to keep their errands, but the Lu family didn't have to worry about it. His family has been on the Zhuangzi in Xishan for several generations, and even if he is honest, he has accumulated a lot of family business. Isn't what is lacking now just a free body? I remember that Emperor Taizong once promulgated a new law, slaves and prostitutes are originally lowly subordinates, among which if the subordinate is of good character and has a skill, or the slave is released by the owner as a citizen, then after the official government records, the descendants can take the imperial examination and become officials, but the official position is not allowed to exceed four grades, and they cannot be posthumously crowned fathers and ancestors. I heard that Lu Dazu originally had an uncle, who was smart since he was a child, and after his family got out of his nationality, he went to take the exam, and he really took the exam before he came back! It was only later in the provincial examination that his background hindered the eyes of the examiner, so he failed the exam. Even so, it's a rare decentness! I think Lu Da and his wife are probably thinking about letting his son give it a try. ”

Lu's mother recalled her friend's words, and remembered that she mentioned that her son was studying in the school in Zhuangshang, and was often praised by her husband, and she knew in her heart: "I see...... They have been married for more than ten years before they have a son, naturally they are like babies, and it is no wonder that they think about their children in everything. To put it this way...... Hou Ye's orders will never be disobeyed, as long as they follow their wishes, Hou Ye will not embarrass their family? ”

"That's right, but their family has been in the village for a long time, and there are clansmen here, I'm afraid that there are some things that are not easy for outsiders to know, so they asked us to go, so they wanted us to cover them up." Lu Yougui drank the residual wine in the cup and smacked his lips, "But they have a good calculation, are others stupid?" Such a big mountain of gold, who will let it go? Even if the Lu family has the heart to recommend us, the result is difficult to say. If others don't know, once they know, we will go and rob the errand, and we don't know what will happen. ”

He drank a few more drinks on a whim tonight, but now he was a little drunk: "I'm on an errand now in peace, why take this risk?" If you don't become the steward in the end, you will be stabbed in the back and lose your current errand, but you will not regret taking the medicine......"

Seeing his drowsy appearance, Lu's mother hurriedly supported him and scolded her daughter: "It's all you, what are you doing pouring so much wine?!" After that, she took her husband back to sleep on the kang, took off her coat, pulled the quilt, and burned the kang hole more vigorously.

Chunying sat back in place in a daze, looking at the food on the table, and suddenly lost her appetite.

Although his father said so much, he didn't want to try, and the most important reason was probably that he was afraid that he would lose his current job. But if she doesn't take risks, it means that she hasn't changed, and what else can she do to free her family from being slaves?

If it was her, there was such an opportunity, no matter how many shady scenes there were, just to have a chance to get free, I would have to give it a try anyway. Anyway, he is already a child of the family, even if he really loses his job, he will not starve to death.

But now the key is that her father refuses, and she has no choice. If the cow doesn't drink water, how can the cow's head be low?

She sat there dumbfounded, her hands on her cheeks, looking depressed.

Mother Lu turned around in pieces, saw her like this, frowned, and said, "You seem to be thinking about leaving the country recently, and I have never seen you so concerned before." ”

After many days of testing, Chunying was quite calm in the face of this situation: "Just because our family is someone else's slave, my sister can only see each other a few times a year, if it is an ordinary person, how can this be?" ”

When Mother Lu heard this, her eyes turned red: "This is our life!" When you were young, wasn't that the case? Our family is already good, some of our closest relatives are in other places, and they can't see each other for two or three years, haven't they boiled it out? ”

"But if we get out of our nationality, we can be reunited, right?" Chunying grabbed her mother's arm, "My brother doesn't have to wait for others when he grows up." Mother, can you persuade your father again? Daddy has always listened to you. ”

Mother Lu sighed: "If it was something else, he would naturally listen to it, but it's not easy to say." You don't know, your old Lu family was originally no worse than the Lu family, and your grandfather was also a big steward with a head and a face, in charge of several big grain stores in Tongzhou, and the silver earned every year could fill half of the treasury in the mansion! But because the oil and water are too much, some people are red-eyed, and they don't know how many bad things they say about your grandfather behind their backs, and they pull your grandfather down from the position of steward, and the family property is confiscated, and your grandfather dies of illness, and your grandfather also loses his errand. Your father was also rich when he was a child, but later he ...... He was really scared. ”

Chunying opened her mouth and was silent for a long time before she said, "Then you can't just work on the gate for a lifetime?" Didn't Aunt Lu say that there is a chance to be promoted to stewardship? If this errand doesn't work, what about the other errands? Even if it's an errand with little oil and water, as long as Dad works honestly, there is always a chance to get ahead, right? Maybe the Hou Ye saw that he was honest and loyal, and let our family out. ”

Mother Lu shook her head and got up to clean up the dishes, although Chunying was unwilling, she could only help on the side, and suddenly heard her mother complain in a low voice: "One day, there is only a hot meal to eat at night, but I prefer to patronize and drink, see if you shout that the dry food is hard and cold!" ”

A thought flashed in Chunying's heart, and she looked up at her mother: "Mother, my father can only eat dry food at noon, it's too pitiful, it's better to ...... I'll bring him food every day, right? ”

(Front...... Still at a loss...... ）