Chapter 13: The Shadow of Life
Delayed by the greedy shopkeeper and the scumbag young master, it was already afternoon when Yuqing and the old lady returned to the villa. On the road, the old lady and the dumb woman were very nervous, for fear that those thieves would come to find trouble again, only Yuqing had been sitting firmly with the old god there.
"Yuqing, aren't you worried about them going down the mountain to retaliate?"
"Worried they won't come? With that effort, it is better to calculate how to save money with such a little silver, and a handling fee of 500 taels will be required for 10,000 taels of silver, which is the same as robbing silver. It's really three years without opening, and three years after opening. This business is too black-hearted, and these black-hearted merchants should be damned. ”
"Yuqing, this is the case in the imperial city, it's almost the end of the year, many shops in the villa have to come back to reconcile, some of you are busy, half of the business is profitable, and we don't have to worry about the silver."
"Auntie, are there many shops that belong to our villa? Catching up with the troubled times will not be affected. ”
"Influence is inevitable, of course, there are also those who have made a fortune in troubled times, and it is seen that the brains of people who do business are not alive. There are dozens of shops belonging to our villa, and the most profitable ones are a few rouge shops, and then a grocery store for food and daily necessities. You are not familiar with these, as long as you don't lose a lot this year, you don't need to check the accounts. ”
After listening to the old lady's words, Yuqing didn't say anything, but she had a score in her heart, it is said that the shopkeepers of each shop will come back to pay the account a few days before the Chinese New Year, and there is almost a month to go, so it is necessary for herself and Ye Xuanzhen'er to secretly visit the shop that belongs to the villa, so that they know it in their hearts.
After walking through the place where the road had been robbed in the morning, and there was no thief in sight, the old lady and the mute woman put their hearts in their stomachs. What they didn't know was that the thieves were kneeling in the council hall of the stockade to be trained.
The council hall of the thieves' village was surprisingly large, separated by a large screen inside. Now the thieves were kneeling underneath, and behind the screen a middle-aged man with a silver mask was sitting inside.
"It's really a waste, a group of people can't rob a few women when they go down the mountain. Which mountain villa, or from the countryside, entering the imperial city at this time is due to force majeure. The man behind the screen reprimanded in a majestic voice.
"The owners of the big village are all from Qi's Villa, the leader is the old owner's wife, and the dumb woman is still driving the car. But it's a little girl who speaks, and that little girl can't get up from beating our heads. ”
"Well, a little girl will hit your head until you can't get up, I haven't heard that there is such a capable person in Qi's Villa. Originally, when the old owner was alive, there was a master of the dumb woman, so we were polite to Qi's Villa, but now that the old owner is dead, where has a girl master appeared. ”
"The owner of the village, that girl is the new owner, and she will be Yuqing if she is treated by the wife of the previous owner. That girl's ability is really great, it's not us who blows for her, our leader's fist didn't even touch other people's clothes, and she was knocked down again and again. ”
"What a rubbish! It is normal for the country to come out from generation to generation, and this matter is written down first, and then I will slowly settle the account with them. Go down and ask Lang Zhong to take a look at the injury, and the owner of the village can understand the girl's kung fu. The lord of the village behind the screen said in a deep voice.
"Yuqing, Ye Yuqing, could it really be that child? Someone came, and finally some eyebrows...... "The people below are gone, and the lord of the big village said to himself and commanded from the depths of the screen.
Yuqing in the villa is also struggling with this matter: "Old lady, Yuqing is a little confused, our villa is surnamed Ye, how can some people call Ye's villa and some people call Qi's villa." ”
"What? You don't even know this, your aunt and uncle didn't tell you when they were alive. A hundred years ago, our ancestor was the general surnamed Ye, waiting for the Great Yan Kingdom for decades, and after returning to his hometown, he built the Ye Villa here, about a few decades ago, when the new emperor ascended the throne Ying Ye and Yan homonym, he expressed his dissatisfaction with this matter in the court. At that time, our Ye family still had people who were officials in the court, and after coming back, they said this, and the owner of the village at that time changed the name of the villa to Knight Villa for the safety of the villa. The first is to dispel the vigilance of the new emperor, the second is to commemorate the ancestor's career as a horse, and the third is to express his disappointment with the imperial court. Since then, the descendants of the Ye family have stayed away from the court, and set up an ancestral precept that no one can enter the court and work for the emperor surnamed Yan. After a long time, people screamed, and the knight became Qi, Yuqing, but it's just a name, just listen to it. ”
It turns out that this is the case, grandma didn't say it, and my aunt didn't say it, presumably because of their own life experience, they can't wait to scrape the side with the surname Yan. Yuqing was relieved when he thought about it in his heart, after all, decades had passed.
"People with the surname Yan are so stingy, they can't even tolerate homophonic surnames." Yuqing said disdainfully.
"Therefore, it is not surprising that their sons killed their fathers and their brothers fought each other for the throne. If the root is not right, we can still hope that future generations will be right. However, there is also an upright god of war who refuses to go along with them, and left the court at the age of twenty to garrison the border fortress, but unfortunately he was still killed by the traitors and threw his life in the border fortress. At this moment, Lao Langzhong came back, just in time to pick up the conversation.
"Grandpa Langzhong, I'm done with the outside of the villa." Yuqing felt uncomfortable and asked about the Yuanwai Villa.
"The business is over, and the wife has to leave someone to eat, so my old man will come back. There is one more thing, these seven aunts and eight aunts said that you delivered the baby, and the side of the Yuanwai Villa is also ready to call you over at that time, saying that the consultation fee will never be less, and the master has already responded for you. ”
"Master, you trust your apprentice so much, you will have to be brave for me when the time comes."
"That's a must, the consultation fee can't be missing the master's share." The old man joked.
"Hey, it's really the master and apprentice who want to make money, come over and first divide the money that the villagers went out to work today."
"Alas, 10,000 taels of silver sounds like a lot, and it spends so fast." Yuqing sighed as he counted the silver.
"Child, isn't there a saying that if you don't know the price of firewood and rice, you can't play in such a big villa without silver. Hey, why hasn't the dumb woman gone back yet? ”
"Auntie, Yuqing remembered, dumb mother-in-law, you come in, Yuqing will give you a pulse, see what reason you can hear or not." Yuqing shouted into the courtyard.
"Apprentice, this master knows that the dumb mother-in-law has been poisoned. In the early years, the master also tried to detoxify her, but the result was not effective at all. The old man said embarrassedly.
"Master, do you know what poison is?"
"I can't feel it from the pulse, apprentice, if you know what poison is, it will be easy to solve it."
Yuqing checked the pulse of the dumb mother-in-law, and Lao Langzhong watched while working, and was sure that this apprentice had the ability to make the dumb woman speak. When the grandmother took Xiao Yuqing to the villa to go to relatives, the child was frightened all the way or he was optimistic, at that time he realized that this child was not an ordinary family, and he remembered that she was wearing a collar that was gold, and the small quilt wrapped in it was not ordinary. Later, the grandmother used a lot of silver to buy her an identity and recorded it on the family tree of the Ye family's six rooms. More than ten years have passed, and almost no one has mentioned what happened back then. Now the wisdom and wisdom shown by this child at the moment of crisis proves Lao Langzhong's cognition, and this apprentice recognized by the pole is not a loss himself. As the old saying goes, heroes come out of troubled times, no matter how you look at this little girl back then, she is a heroine among women who does not let her eyebrows go.
"Apprentice, what about the dumb woman?" Seeing that Yuqing gave the dumb woman a pulse and didn't speak, Lao Langzhong couldn't help but ask.
"Master, you have solved the poison in the dumb mother-in-law back then, and now you need to give the dumb mother-in-law a silver needle to measure the acupoint, I hope it can be effective." Yuqing said, but the dumb mother-in-law took her hand and walked out. Yuqing was also full of questions, and after explaining, she followed the dumb mother-in-law to the place where she lived.
"Mrs. Old Zhuang, went to the Imperial City to exchange silver tickets, right?"
"Alas, how can it be smooth, the silver that used to be filial to Qian Zhuang has been fed to the dogs, if it weren't for Yuqing's cleverness, our loss would have been greater. When I came out, I met the gangsters again, and I don't know which mansion it was, but it was only thanks to Yuqing that it was resolved. ”
"Which house can it be, the upstart of the new emperor's faction."
"Hey, there is one thing you know in your heart, Yuqing can also do kung fu, and it will be revealed in the future, the dumb woman recognized Yuqing as an apprentice, and said that Yuqing secretly studied with her for five years."
"Mrs. Old Rancher, the old man knows. Protecting this child is also protecting our villa. It's just that now the villa has become a woman's world, and the mouths of these seven aunts and eight aunts are really unstoppable. A lot of things really want to be in front, and save the time to be passive. I hope that our villa can get through the difficulties in front of us and be alone in the eventful autumn. ”
"Old Imperial Doctor, you have been here for more than 20 years, and we have not always cooperated very well. Our Ye clan will definitely be able to continue, and we will continue to work hard together. ”
"Mrs. Old Zhuang, you can be regarded as a heroine among women."
"Forget it, let's not flatter each other, the future is a stage for young people. I think that even if Yuqing has a situation, he will not forget that we have forgotten the villa. ”
"Master, do you have something to say to your apprentice? The poisonous old man on your body has already solved it for you, and the apprentice boldly guessed, master, you would have been able to speak a long time ago. Walking on the way to the dumb mother-in-law's residence, Yuqing couldn't help but ask. The dumb mother-in-law didn't speak, but just squeezed Yuqing's hand hard, and her feet sped up even more.
"Child, is your surname Yan?" Walking back into the house, the dumb mother-in-law closed the door nervously, and asked in a rough voice, with a vague pronunciation, which stunned Yuqing.
"Ahh
"Child, you don't have to answer the master first, in the year you came, your aunt held you and begged the owner of the village to write you into the family tree with five thousand taels of silver. At that time, you had a gold collar around your neck with a delicate pattern carved on it. Gold is only allowed to be used by the royal family, your grandmother is too careless, and the little quilt that wraps you is also a high-grade brocade, although your aunt is wrapped in a sheet outside, but the old woman I used to often come into contact with those clothes, simply not too familiar. If you're still there, hide it. Don't lose it, it contains your identity information. The dumb woman said a few more words, as if she had found the skill of speaking, this time she said smoothly and clearly, listening to Yuqing's ears, she felt that there was no need to tell lies, and the identity of the dumb woman was by no means simple.
"Master, Yuqing has just learned about these things, and the master is ......"
"Child, the master used to be a palace maid, and because of his poor appearance, he was assigned to the pulp washing room, and because he was unlucky enough to see the ugly things of the harem concubines, he was poisoned and couldn't speak. Once Mu Xiu went to the street, just in time for the young former owner to be bullied, the master took action. It's not that the master is upright, it's that it was too difficult to live at that time. Because of this incident, the master was beaten and thrown into the mass grave before he died, and when I climbed out and was fortunately rescued by the owner, the owner took me in and lived incognito in the villa. This may be fate, since then the master picked up the martial arts that he had learned from his father and brother, and later drove the car to the owner's wife, your master Langzhong is also from the palace, he was a famous imperial doctor in the palace at that time, and he didn't know how he was a folk master. ”
After listening to the words of the dumb mother-in-law, Yuqing thought about it a few times in her heart, and couldn't help but sigh that it was the will of heaven, of course, whether it was her own grandmother or the current dumb mother-in-law master, what they said was watery. The real situation is definitely not that simple. Thinking of this, Yuqing asked bluntly.
"Master, even if this is the case, you don't have to pretend to be dumb all the time, this is not burying Lao Langzhong's medical skills, maybe Master Langzhong will feel guilty and regretful."
"Alas, child, perhaps this is the only way to protect both of us. Now the opportunity has come, the master can speak, and the master will give you a car in the future, about the things in the palace, the master will tell you slowly. ”