Looking at the large group of people kneeling in front of the door. Hu Fei asked in a sullen voice, "What are you doing here?!" After a pause, he sneered: "It must have been sent by your eldest young master, right?" How? What tricks does he want to play? ”

The old servant raised his head slowly, and the old tears were full of tears: "Second young master...... You say that, the old slave is getting more and more faceless! We are all people who have been waiting for my lord for many years, and some of us have followed my aunt and grandmother, and since you left the Hu family, we have suffered a lot...... The eldest young master drove us to the village, not to mention, the young children, all those who looked neat and strong, were all dragged to the market and sold...... When we are old, we have to separate our flesh and bones...... It's all retribution! Second young master, the old slave is sorry for you! ”

He burst into tears, and the people behind him also cried very sadly. One of the women kneeling in the corner, with great difficulty, climbed to the bottom of the steps in front of the door, looked up at Hu Fei carefully, and said with tears in her eyes: "Brother Xiaofei...... It's the nurse who can't stand you that day......"

Hu Fei was taken aback and hurriedly helped her up. wiped the stains on her face with her sleeve, and her face turned a little pale: "Nurse? How did you end up here?! Haven't you already gone back to your son's house?! ”

Squeezed out a descendant from the kneeling crowd, bent over with a shrunken head, and whispered: "The eldest young master is angry and has taken back all the land we rented, and the whole family really can't find any other way to make a living......

Only then did Hu Fei remember that his nurse was actually a tenant farmer in Hujiazhuang, not a family slave. He originally hated the nurse for standing by and watching when his mother and son were in great trouble, but he didn't expect that even his mother could not escape his brother's clutches.

He smiled bitterly: "I can't do anything for the nurse now...... If the nurse has a body, she will buy two acres of thin fields to live, I think this should not be a problem, right? "Tenant farmers are not born of a family, even if they have no land, or rent other people's land, or start a small business, it is not a problem, he remembers that the family of the nurse is not too bad.

The nurse cried sadly: "My little brother Fei, it's hard for you to still think about the nurse, but ......" She seemed a little embarrassed, but finally told the truth: "We are a family of four, including my son, daughter-in-law and grandson...... Now they have all been sold into the Hu family......" her son added in a whisper: "It's really no way, my father owes a lot of silver for treatment before his death......"

Hu Fei's face changed, he sighed, easily opened the hand holding the nurse, and said lightly: "Since the nurse's family has a livelihood, what are you doing with me?" To tell you the truth, if you hadn't sold into the Hu family. I might be able to find an errand for my brother and wife, but now ...... I'm of no use to you! ”

The nurse was ashamed and cried in her son's arms, and her son also looked embarrassed, as if he didn't know how to speak. The old servant from before said: "Second young master, it was the eldest young master who ordered someone to find us back, saying that it was ...... We beg you to leave the capital...... Don't do business in the capital...... He said that we are decades old, and you have always respected us...... So borrow the old faces of our gang......" he paused, and was so ashamed that he could not speak.

And Hu Fei, on the other hand, couldn't hold back the anger in his heart: "What does he mean by this?!" What did I do to get in his way?! I live an honest life, but I just collect some ordinary fat powder jewelry and sell it, and the money I earn can't compare with him! Can't he even tolerate this? What does he think he is? There are not 1,000 but 800 people in the capital who do this business, why should he go against me alone?! When he had finished scolding, he looked at the old servant, and then at the nurse, and seemed disappointed: "Why do you want to listen to him?" He was so mean to you, why do you ...... Have you forgotten the benefits that my father and mother gave you during their lifetime? Really...... Even if a person is a slave in the family, there is no reason to be loyal to his master for a lifetime......"

"Second Young Master!" The old servant raised his sleeve to hide his face, fell down and cried, "How can the old slave not know the truth of loyalty to the master? On that day, we were blinded by lard! Later, I also knew that I regretted it...... Originally thought. Even if we live a hard life in the village for the rest of our lives, we will admit it, this is our retribution. But who would have thought that the eldest young master would not let us go...... He said, "If we can't get your permission to leave Beijing, we'll sell all of us to Warat and Qing!" A few of us are old, we can't stay up for long, we die early and reincarnate early, it's okay, but the children are still young, so let them leave their hometowns and send their lives to that kind of cold place, how can we bear it? I have to be cheeky and beg you to ......"

Hu Fei gritted his teeth and turned his head: "I have already let him go again and again, and he is too much!" I finally made some money, and I wanted to do something business, but if I left, all my foundation would be ruined! You'd better go back. When my father and mother were here, you were in a high position in the Hu family, and you received their grace, and you had no less benefits in private, but my father died unexplained that day, who asked for him?! When my mother and I were kicked out that day, did anyone say a good word for us? My mother wants to pack some clothes and jewelry, which of you answered her? She died so desolately, who of you came to worship her and put on a pillar of incense?! For the sake of your own selfish interests, you have been so ruthless to our mother and son, and now you want to force me to leave for your own personal interests? Don't! ”

He turned and stepped out of the doorway. He closed the door with both hands, latched it again, and went back to his courtyard with a calm face. Chun Ying and Wei Po glanced at each other, hesitating what to do.

There was a choked cry outside the door, which gradually became louder, and someone banged on the door panel: "Little Feige, Little Feige...... It should be for the sake of my grandmother's affection...... Have pity on your brother...... He was only eighteen years old, how could he go to such a barbarian place to suffer? You have been smart and capable since you were a child, and even if you leave the capital, you can live well......"

"Second young master, it's all our fault, but the children are innocent, please spare them......"

"Second Young Master, do you remember when you were a child? We're still playing together...... I've made you a beautiful spinning top ......."

"Second young master, I am the old Yu of the tea room, you love to drink the tea I brewed the most......"

"Second Young Master, please, the eldest young master will not let us go...... Our shop was also forced to close by him, and poor my daughter was only full moon......" This is Ah Fan's voice, accompanied by a loud baby cry.

Chunying frowned, why was Ah Fan involved? She is obviously married, and she is no longer the son of the Hu family? She approached Hu Fei and asked in a low voice, "Your eldest brother seems to have learned to be obedient this time?" Don't force you. Change the people close to you? ”

Hu Fei sneered: "They are also people close to me?!" Glancing at the door, he simply blocked his ears: "Leave them alone!" When they get tired, they will naturally leave. But I will give them a taste of it, that the heavens should not be right, that the earth will not be spiritual. ”

Chunying knew that Hu Fei must have remembered the grievances and pains he had received in the past, and she couldn't persuade him to do anything, so she had to tell him to be relieved. Hu Fei snorted twice, and then looked at the account book, as if he couldn't hear the disturbance outside the door.

But there are some voices that he can't hear because he doesn't want to hear them. The old servants were blocking the door, and whoever went out would pounce on them and cry for help. Hu Fei couldn't go out to do business, and even the guests who came to the door were scared away by this scene. Wei Gong Wei Po's daily life was also affected, and she had to close the front door tightly, and she couldn't even sleep well at night.

The house they live in usually only uses the front yard, and there is a back door at the back of the mansion. Wei Po could only enter and exit through the back door and buy some rice, vegetables, oil and salt, so that she didn't stop cooking. But when she walked around the street, she heard a lot of gossip. The news of the old servants of the Hu family crying in front of her house day and night seems to have spread.

Some people say that it was Hu Fei's poor relatives who came to take refuge, but Hu Fei refused to receive it; Some people say that it was a door-to-door debt collection, and it was rejected before it was exported; Some people say that Hu Fei accidentally injured and killed someone outside, and the bitter master came to the door to explain; The most reliable guess is that Hu Fei's old servant when he was rich and noble, heard that he had made a fortune, so he came to take refuge, but Hu Fei refused to take him.

Another neighbor persuaded Wei Po: "Go back and persuade Brother Xiaofei a few words, what's so difficult about taking in a few people?" Take care of two meals, and send them out to find work! Don't stand out of the way, although the day is warm, the wind is cold at night, their group of people, the old and the weak, and the weak and the weak, as well as women and children, I heard that there is a new full moon? Poor one, don't get frostbite! Accumulate virtue for yourself! ”

As soon as Wei Po came back and said the words, Chunying's face changed. She has been blocked so much that she can't go home these days, and she is already in a bad mood, according to the neighbors, Hu Fei's reputation is almost ruined! These people are really pitiful, but no one let them kneel in front of the door for a few days and not leave? Isn't this a bitter meat ploy? It's too much, if the old man and child here are really sick, will it be counted on Hu Fei's head? ! Maybe you have to pull Wei Gong Wei and Wei Po and her?!

She went to Hu Fei angrily: "You can't let it go like this anymore!" No matter what, Wei Gong Wei didn't feel sorry for them, but now Wei Po is listening to gossip outside! ”

Hu Fei sank his face. got up and walked out, opened the courtyard door, and the people who were sitting on the wall and "crying" weakly immediately turned over and knelt down under the steps again.

The man cried: "Second young master, please have mercy on us......"

"Isn't it true that if I agree, you will get a lot of reward?!" Hu Fei interrupted him without waiting for him to finish, and seeing him in a daze, he asked again, "Your eldest young master didn't promise you any benefits?!" ”

The man stammered, "The little ones don't dare to force it...... I just hope that the host will not sell us to a foreign country......"

Hu Fei sneered: "Whether it is the Qing Kingdom or Vala, the imperial court prohibits private trade among the people, except for the three imperial merchants, no one can get in with it." When did the Hu family get this grace? If not, the eldest young master will sell you, and you won't be afraid of being ginseng and foreign countries? When the time comes, it will be his business to raid his family and exterminate the clan, but don't bother me! ”

The man was stunned, squeaky and didn't know what to say, Hu Fei said mockingly: "I originally thought that you are all old people who have been waiting for my father and mother for decades, and it is not good to expose it to your face if you give you a little face." I can't think of it, I can't say it clearly! Why don't you let me go? If you keep pestering me again, don't blame me for ignoring the past! ”

The man bowed down in shame, and the others also lowered their heads, and they didn't know who it was, so they said quietly: "Even if it's not Qingguo Wala, who knows which poor ravine it is......"

Hu Fei snorted: "That has nothing to do with me!" He was about to pull back and turn around, but Ah Fan pounced on him and grabbed him and said, "Second young master! Please! Even if you don't remember the past, don't you even care about Mo Han?! ”

Hu Fei quickly turned around and stared at her: "What does this have to do with Mo Han?" He has already sold it to Lord Liu's mansion! ”

Ah Fan bit his lip and cried: "The eldest young master saw that we had been crying here for two or three days, so he called Mo Han's parents to Lord Liu's house to ransom him back...... He also said that he would rather lose money than get him back and beat him to death! The eldest young master seemed to be very angry with Mo Han, and repeatedly scolded him for being a rabbit cub......"

Hu Fei's face changed, knowing that the matter of Liu Yushi's complaint was leaked last time, although he didn't know how his brother knew, but Mo Han had to protect it. He remembered that Mo Han had mentioned that the Liu family had signed a death contract with him, and the Liu family was poor, and there were few servants......

Seeing that Hu Fei didn't answer for a long time, Ah Fan was anxious, and when he saw Chun Ying standing next to him, he couldn't take much of it, so he grabbed Chun Ying's arm and begged: "Good girl, please help us talk, you can say a word, it's better than us to say a hundred words!" ”

Chunying was in a dilemma, she felt pitiful for them, but their demands were too much, especially after exaggerating the damage they would suffer. It is not easy for Hu Fei to struggle to this day, as soon as he leaves, all his connections will be in vain, and besides, he has already bought a house......

The old servant struggled to get up, and said to Chunying in a hoarse voice: "Good girl, everyone is the same child, you should know our suffering...... Please help me say a few words, the old man has kowtowed to you! With that, he pushed away the man who had come up to help him, and kowtowed to the ground.

Chun Ying was startled and hurriedly went over to help him: "Don't! Old man, don't knock, aren't you breaking my life? Hu Fei stepped forward and opened her, holding the old servant's wrists tightly: "How do you know...... She's also a family child?! ”。.。