Chang'an City Guiyi Fang

A horse-drawn carriage rolled into a small street in the north of Fangbei. Slowly docked outside the door of a house, there is a two-zhang high paulownia tree planted at the door, and there are small half leaves hanging on the treetops, and when the wind blows, a few pieces are swept down together and float on the road in front of the door.

Lu Zhi and Yi Yu got out of the car and helped Lu Shi, who was wrapped in a thick cloak, to help them down, and Xiao Man followed behind them with a few bags, looking left and right at the sparsely populated street.

"This is it?" Lu Shi looked at the closed door of the house on the side of the road and asked.

After Lu Zhi said "um", he let go of the hand that was holding her, stepped forward and knocked on the door for a while, and after a long time, just when Yi Yu thought he recognized the wrong door, he saw someone responding.

The one who opened the door was an old man who was over half a hundred years old, with a lot of wrinkles on his face, but his waist was straight, standing in the crack of the door, and when he saw Lu Zhi, he opened the door and nodded with a smile. He also looked at Lu Shi and the others, and while leading everyone in, he greeted:

"Childe is back, who are you?"

"Uncle Dong, this is my mother and sister, and I want to live here for a while."

"It turned out to be Madame and Miss."

Dongbo greeted Lu and Yiyu one by one, and after they had all entered the courtyard, he closed the gate again, closed the bolt, and then trotted to follow them.

This house is not big, the front and back combined, there are only five rooms, a small hall in the front yard, a small kitchen and a room in the northwest corner of the back yard, and a study room sandwiched between two rooms in the east row, and three or five trees planted in the courtyard, which seem to be eight or nine years old.

But even such a small house, in the capital, it costs a lot of silver.

When they entered the backyard, a subordinate and a rough maid trotted out of the hut on the west side, and greeted the Lu family under the introduction of the uncle.

Lu Zhi led the Lu family and them directly into a room in the east, and after pushing the door open, they saw that the room was simple and a little deserted, but fortunately, there was no moisture, and it was not cold.

Xiao Man went to pack his bags, and Lu sat down in the small hall outside the bedroom. As soon as he had said a few words, a servant came in with a brazier and placed it among several people, and the rough maid from before also came in with a tray to serve tea.

"Let's all go down." Lu Zhi asked his subordinates to move the brazier to Lu's feet, and then spoke.

Yi Yu knew that he had something to say, so he made a color to Xiao Man, who came out of the bedroom, and the little girl walked outside the door to guard.

Previously at home, Lu Zhi had told her about a small house in Beijing, and said that he was afraid that someone would find Longquan Town to find trouble, so he took her to live in the capital for a while.

There was only a family of three left in the house, and Lu Zhi said: "Mother, you can rest assured to live here, Xiaoyu is busy with schoolwork, and she needs to live in the school, I will come back to accompany you every night in the future, and when the new house is built, we will go back." ”

"It's important for you to study, and it's a hassle to come back every day. Mother can be here alone, isn't there still a subordinate and Xiaoman. "Brother and sister Lu Shi Zhi took leave to go home today, and they already feel that they have been delayed.

"No trouble." Lu Zhi had a resolute attitude, and after the doctor invited by Liu Xiangxiang in the morning to check Lu's pulse, he said that she was overly angry, so she would faint again and again, and she needed to adjust her mood and stabilize her emotions.

If it weren't for the fact that Yi Yu would go back to the secret house every night to help Li Tai take medicine, the two brothers and sisters would definitely be by Lu's side during this time.

Lu Shi knew what he was worried about, sighed, and did not mention the man's affairs again since he woke up at noon, and finally opened his mouth to speak:

"You two don't worry too much about my mother, I just suddenly saw that person in the morning, and was repeatedly angered by him, I couldn't bear it for a while, and my emotions would be a little excited, my mother is not a person who can't think about it, I slept this and felt good."

The three children have suffered with her for many years, Lu Shi has been stuffed in his chest for more than ten years, and he couldn't complain when he saw Lu Zhongzhi's old father, but when he saw Fang Qiao, he had a seizure, he was just recovering from a serious illness, his body was weak, and he would faint when his liver fire moved, and after waking up, no matter what his body was, his spirit was unprecedentedly relaxed.

Lu took the initiative to mention Fang Qiao. Yi Yu and Lu Zhi didn't know how to answer, seeing that her face was good, but they were afraid that she still had a pimple in her heart.

Seeing that the two of them wanted to speak and stopped, Lu Shi continued: "Mother is worried now, since that person is looking for us, I am afraid that there will be many incidents in the future, you and Jun'er are still on his family tree, and Niang, Niang is even more-"

Lu Zhiwen interjected and said, "You just need to take good care of your body, don't think about anything else, your son and Xiaoyu will take care of it, besides, isn't there still a grandfather." ”

Lu Shi knew that she couldn't have any ideas about this matter, and when she heard Lu Zhi mention Lu Zhongzhi, her expression was relieved, "Yes, and your grandfather, you need to find a time to talk to him about this matter, if there are any difficulties, remember to discuss with him." ”

Lu Zhi nodded in response, and the mother and son chatted for a while, and Lu yawned again and again, and Yi Yu helped her back to the room to lie down. Sitting at the head of the bed and accommodating her for a few words, seeing that she closed her eyes and her breathing gradually stabilized, she withdrew and called Xiaoman into the house to wait.

The two siblings wanted to talk about things, so they went to the study next door.

This study was even more modest than the living room on the side, except for the desk and a bookcase, there were only two chairs, and Yu Yu went under the bookshelf and rummaged through them, all of which were ideas she was not interested in.

"Big brother, how far is it from here to the secret house?"

"Come and help me with my ink." Lu Zhi sat down behind his desk. I pulled out some letterheads from a stack of books and paper next to them, and opened them to see.

"Oh."

After Mo Yan finished, Lu Zhi began to write a letter, and Yu Yu casually went to flip through the things on the desk, but Lu Zhi did not stop him, but instead took out a free hand and pushed a stack of letterheads on the left side to her.

"Take a look at the one with the red stamp on the cover."

Yu Yu picked up the new letter on the top for some reason, and saw that the envelope was printed with a strange seal the size of a copper coin, she took out the letter, shook it open and read it, and wrote four sentences very succinctly:

"Governor Liu Donghe, Governor of Meng, has more than 100 taels, six houses, seven shops, and more than 100 slaves."

Open another one:

"Dengzhou Sima Pu Youliang, less than 200, five houses, nine shops, and more than 100 slaves."

......

Seven letters came down in a row, all of them were four sentences, official names, Yilu and private property, but Yu Yu was shocked to see it, these people are all officials outside the Guan, the highest grade is only six grades, they eat imperial grain, and their net worth is a hundred times!

"Big brother, what is this?" Where did Lu Zhi find this information, and what did he check it for!

Lu Zhi didn't stop writing, and said with a smile: "Didn't you say that you want to share it with me, the eldest brother is doing this now." ”

"I don't understand." Yu Yu frowned, Lu Zhi has no officials now, how can he go to investigate the private property of these officials, isn't this a matter of Yushitai.

"Look at these again." Lu Zhi didn't answer, and pushed another stack to her.

Yi Yu suspiciously opened a few more letters to read, but it was no longer a simple count of private property, but the time and place of some local officials meeting each other.

Her eyebrows jumped, and a guess vaguely rose in her heart, wanting to ask Lu Zhi again. But he stopped his pen and looked up at her:

"Big brother is still not firmly rooted, so it's not good to know too much, but since we have already said it, I won't hide it from you, but I can't explain it to you now, and after a while, okay?"

Yi Yu really wanted to ask him now, but she also knew that there was a lot of stake, if Lu Zhizhen wanted to take that road, she couldn't stop it.

"Okay, go to the kitchen and tell them to make dinner early, I'll send you to the vicinity of the Guozijian, and you go back to the secret house alone," he hesitated for a moment, and finally advised, "Li Tai, this person is by no means as simple as you think, Xiaoyu, it's better not to get too close to him, lest you get the time..."

A quiet figure flashed in Yi Yu's mind, and a trace of strangeness crossed her heart, but she still obediently said to Lu Zhi: "I know." ”

***

The secret residence of Chang'an City

When it was dark, there was a low table in the middle of the study, and the meals placed on it were still steaming, and Li Tai sat behind the desk, flipping through the book, and did not move the chopsticks.

Yinxiao leaned on the side of the door frame of the study, poked his head out, looked at the flower hall, and made bursts of "grunt" sounds from time to time.

Li Tai flipped through a page of the book and noticed that the master was not in the right mood, Ah Sheng stood on the side with a little stiffness, and whispered, "Master, let's eat." ”

Yinxiao heard Ah Sheng's voice, quickly turned his head to look at Li Tai, who was hanging his head to read a book, one paw was quietly raised, crossed the threshold, and was about to fall on the ground outside the door, when he heard a faint voice sound:

"Stand still."

The claw "swished" and retracted, as if it hadn't stretched out at all, and Yinxiao continued to stare at the door of the flower hall, the golden beak rubbing back and forth against the door frame, and with the "click" sound that tormented people's ears, layers of wood chips floated on the door frame.

"Ahem." Ah Sheng cleared his throat, "Master, Master Lu and Miss Lu may have been delayed for something, so they came back late, why don't I go out to greet them?" ”

Li Tai finally shifted his gaze from the book to Ah Sheng, and looked at him at a glance, accompanied by the ugly friction sound made by Yinxiao, Ah Sheng secretly swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

"Check it out." Li Tai poured himself a glass of wine and said in a low voice.

Ah Sheng got his life, and hurriedly walked out of the study, it looked like a ghost was chasing after his buttocks, Yinxiao saw his figure running by, and quickly stopped his mouth, and stepped over with one paw, and also followed, its two paws just touched the ground outside the door, and the back of the head was numb, and it was a little painful, and it turned its head to look at it with red eyes, and saw Li Taikankan retract the two fingers dipped in water and wine.

"Yo!" Yinxiao finally screamed dissatisfied, twisted his head back, hugged his two wings forward, and squatted down at the door with some anger.

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