9 The deceased

Early the next morning, Chu Yao was woken up by a slight and continuous knock on the door.

She slept late last night, so that her mind was confused, and she walked to the door with her shoes on, and as soon as she opened the door, she was stuffed with a stack of silver tickets: "This is given to you by His Royal Highness the Prince." Chu Yao hadn't seen the man's face clearly, and he disappeared.

She was stunned for a while before she remembered what Pei Zhan said last night that she would buy back those antique calligraphy and paintings with a thousand taels, but she didn't expect to send the silver ticket early in the morning.

Isn't it at this time that everything in the house has also been moved?

That's it, she moved away, and she didn't like those things either.

She closed the door, leaned on the door and counted the silver tickets, counting happily as she went. There are a total of ten silver tickets of one hundred and twenty ones, and she is thinking about putting eighty percent of the money in the bank to earn interest, and the remaining two percent will stay by her side for emergencies, so that the door behind her may be pushed open, and the door panel that opens inward hits her and she does not hold it firmly and spills the silver ticket on the ground.

"What are you laughing at in the morning?" Zhou walked in, "I can hear your giggle through the door panel......

Chu Yao looked at the silver tickets scattered all over the place, and it was too late to hide them: "Mother, why did you come here so early?" ”

"I'm old, I'm a shallow sleeper, and I don't know which annoying knock on the door in the morning is endless......" Zhou Shi looked at the ground, and his eyes glared at the boss, "Ouch! This earth...... Is it a silver ticket? ”

"Hmm......" Chu Yao replied helplessly. I still wanted to hide it from her, but now she has seen it clean. With her mother's temperament, I'm afraid that sooner or later she will give it to her mother's family, so it can only take trouble.

Zhou had to ask her where the money came from, Chu Yao couldn't say that it fell from the sky, and it was difficult to say that it was given by Pei Zhan, so she could only lie that it was her own self-save, and she took it out to put the money in the seal before, and now she took it back with interest.

Zhou counted the silver tickets tremblingly, and she had never seen so much money, she patted her chest and was surprised and delighted: "Good girl, so much, but it's not good to put the money in the print, let's not let it go in the future, just keep these passes......"

"Okay."

Chu Yao is well versed in her mother's temperament of forgetting the pain after the scar, and after a long time, she is afraid that she will secretly stuff money to her mother's relatives, Chu Yao went to the city with a silver ticket the next day, planning to buy a small house near the tile shop, if the shop is opened in the future, she will live nearby, and she can take care of the business of the shop.

In the end, it is a prosperous place in the city, even if the business withers, but it occupies a good location, and the price of the house is also very expensive.

Chu Yao and Yabao watched for three days in a row, they are very fond of a two-entry house, the house is not big but delicate and solid, although it is old but not dilapidated, there are two ginkgo trees in the back, the male tree blooms, the female tree bears fruit, the summer is lush, the autumn sunset is full of gold, and there is a swing between the two trees, which is full of dense flowers and vines, so that Chu Yao is very loved.

It's just that this mansion alone costs at least 1,000 taels, and an additional deed tax needs to be paid to the yamen, plus the money for buying the deed and the commission for dental insurance, it will cost as little as 1,200 taels!

This is almost all of Chu Yao's savings.

Naturally, there are cheaper than this house, but it is either too small, or too dilapidated, and it will cost a lot of money to renovate.

Chu Yao still hesitated, even if the price dropped by half percent, it would still be a lot of money for her.

Dental Care wanted to facilitate this transaction, after all, he could get a lot of commission from it. He simply asked the owner of the house out and asked Chu Yao to talk to the other party in person, if he could talk, he would save himself from running back and forth.

In the morning, Chu Yao came to the front of the house on time, and Yabao had been waiting at the door for a while, saying that the owner of the house had not yet arrived, so let Chu Yao go in first to cool off for a while.

Chu Yao asked Zhiye to buy a pot of perilla cooked water, on such a hot day, drinking this is the best way to relieve the heat.

Climb the stairs and go up into the gate, into the eye is the shadow wall made of glaze, through the hanging flower gate into the backyard, the regular stone paved courtyard is neat and atmospheric, the two ginkgo trees in the east cast a cool for half of the yard, the swing under the flower stand was wiped in advance, the stone table next to it is also clean, and there is a plate of brightly colored melons and fruits, which must have been prepared in advance by Yabao.

Chu Yao sat down on the swing, kicked her legs, and the swing swung.

The swing squeaked because it had not been taken care of for a long time, and Chu Yao stopped after swinging for a while, thinking that if this house could be bought, the first thing he would do was to moisten the swing.

Even if she has been married, she still likes this kind of thing full of girlish hearts.

She leaned on the swing, looking up at the waterfall-like spikes of wisteria flowers above, and I don't know how long later, Yabao led a person in: "Chu Niangzi, the owner is here." ”

Chu Yao turned her eyes to look, and two people walked in side by side outside the door of the Moon Cave, one was the tooth guard she was familiar with, and the other was wearing a Yan Yu gray dark cloud pattern silk straight jacket, with a jade buckle around her waist, slender and graceful, if it weren't for the warmth of the warm sun between his eyebrows, not like the person's frozen eyes, Chu Yao thought that it was Pei Zhan who came.

Although they had only met once not long ago, seeing her again today would still make her sigh: the two of them were really very similar.

She stood up slowly, her expression a little surprised and complicated: "It turned out to be the second son of Lu." ”

Lu Shaohuai also came back to his senses from his panic.

The light sprinkled in the gap between the dense leaves and flowers floats with the wind, and the beauty under the flowers stands there delicately and coldly, without powder, clear and graceful, with autumn water as the eye, quiet and steady.

"It's you." He spoke, looking a little dazed.

He had been away from home for three years, and on the day he returned, he was catching up with his father, mother, and siblings in the hall, when she suddenly fainted under the begonia tree outside the hall, and in the panic of the crowd, he could only see her side face with her eyes closed.

Then she was carried to the flower hall, and her mother said that she was the wife of His Royal Highness the Prince, and told him not to go over to care, and to rest in peace.

On the second day, I learned the news that she had reconciled with His Royal Highness the Prince.

I didn't expect to see her again today.

Obviously, he didn't see all her face that day, but when he saw it today, he knew it was her.

"Sorry to keep you waiting." He said.

"It's me who should say I'm sorry," Chu Yao didn't wait for them to come over, and walked slowly in front of them, "I didn't know that this mansion was the property of the Lu family, if I had known earlier, I wouldn't have bothered the second son of Lu to make this trip." ”

Then he looked at Yabao with a little apology: "I won't buy this house, please help me pay attention to the others, let's stop here today." ”

It was not easy for Yabao to get people together, and he didn't want to give up such a good business, although he could see that there seemed to be a bad relationship between the two, but for the sake of this business commission, he still wanted to save it again: "Chu Niangzi think about it again, I am afraid that it will be difficult to find such a good and affordable house in the future......"

Chu Yao has made up her mind: "I'm sorry, don't think about it." ”

Yabao was so anxious that she was sweating, and she didn't know how to persuade her, when she suddenly heard Lu Shaohuai say: "Chu Niangzi, when I came, my mother told me that the price of this house can be half at most." But my family was ashamed of you before, and today I will make my own initiative to give you a 30% reduction, and I will never regret it after signing the contract, okay? ”

Thirty percent is three hundred taels!

Chu Yao was almost moved, but when she thought of the Lu family, she felt panicked: "Thank you for the kindness of the second son of Lu, no need." ”

"Mrs. Chu," he said sincerely, his eyes eager, and he seemed to have a lot to say, "we've met before, haven't we?" ”

Chu Yao's heart tightened, and those dusty memories that were stained with the damp dew after the Qingming rain were blown by the wind under the wisteria flowers, and they poured into his mind.

That year, the rainy period in Qingming was particularly long, and my mother fell ill in such weather, and Lang Zhong prescribed expensive ginseng and dendrobium, which she needed to save a lot of money to buy.

In the humid and sultry Qixia Mountain, the mushrooms grew wildly, and Chu Yao temporarily closed the stall selling hemp rot, went to the mountains every day to collect mushrooms, and then took them to the city to sell.

In this way, I happened to meet Lu Shaohuai, who went into the mountains with his friends to hunt for curiosities and was lost and left alone.

At that time, he was squatting on the ground and roasting mushrooms with his head stuffy, Chu Yao passed by and kindly reminded him: "This mushroom is poisonous if it is not cooked, it is better to be cautious ......" said and took two freshly picked fruits from the back basket and gave them to him, "If you are hungry, eat this first." ”

The other party didn't answer, just slowly raised her head, and her handsome face met her eyes.

She had never seen such a good-looking Lang Jun, because the mountain air was humid, and a few strands of jet-black hair were softly placed on her forehead, like a ...... Poor big dog.

His skin was fairer than that of a woman, his eyes were as clear as mist, his nose was beautiful, his lips were thin, and he muttered to her: "I have a headache and want to vomit ......"

Chu Yao saw a few black stains on the corners of his mouth, and knew that he had eaten mushrooms.

In such a situation, he could not be left alone. She didn't think too much about it, and helped him up: "You are poisoned, I will take you down the mountain to find Langzhong." ”

He muttered thanks as he fell into psychedelic nonsense, "Thank you, girl...... Be careful not to step on these little people...... Ah, you can't climb trees...... It's a big spider......"

She took him to see Lang Zhong, who was no stranger to eating fungus poisoning, and asked the medicine boy to boil the medicinal materials prepared in advance and bring them over, and let Chu Yao give him a drink.

He didn't cooperate, and he made a fuss like a child.

Chu Yao had no choice, so he bothered others to help hold him down, pinched his nose and poured the medicine down.

He choked, coughed and his eyes reddened, and grabbed her hand with teary eyes: "I caught you!" Villain! You are not allowed to go! ”

He had a lot of strength, firmly clamped her hand and refused to let go, Chu Yao's face was flushed, and she couldn't break free and had to be held by him, until he gradually sobered up and the strength of her hand gradually loosened, she was able to shake off his hand and escape there.

At that time, she didn't know who his surname was, and she didn't take this matter to heart, and occasionally when she thought about it, she would only think that the beauty was misleading, and that the overly good-looking Lang Jun just prevented her from picking and selling mushrooms.

But one day not long after, she begged for medicine for her mother and went to the Lu family pharmacy. Her mother's illness could not wait for her to save enough money for medicine, and the pharmacy next to her refused to give her medicine on credit, she asked for the Lu family's pharmacy with the last glimmer of hope, and just in time to catch up with the Lu family's young owner to investigate, she knew that the Lang Jun she met that day was actually Lu Shaohuai, the second son of Lu Yuanwaifu.

He didn't know if he recognized her, but when he learned of her predicament, he asked the shopkeeper to give her the medicine on credit, and said that the medicine money was not in a hurry.

Later, he also visited her stall once, and praised her for the deliciousness of the curd she made, and he would come to eat it often.

But after that meeting, he never appeared again.

And she relied on the money she earned from selling hemp rot and mushrooms, and every time she saved up, she sent it to the pharmacy. On the day she paid off the medicine money, she plucked up the courage to ask the shopkeeper about his current situation, and the shopkeeper looked at her meaningfully, saying that he was very good, and the owner was giving him a family affair.

She still thought at that time, I don't know what kind of good girl he will marry?

But she didn't expect the Lu family to come to propose to her.

He was good-looking, kind-hearted, and had met her a few times, but she couldn't find a reason to refuse, so she married happily with the spring heart of a girl.

On the day of marriage, she held a wooden wat in her hand, held the red and green colored silk tied into a concentric knot, worshiped the ancestral tablet of the Lu family and the elders of the Lu family, sat on the bed sprinkled with gold and silver colored threads and miscellaneous fruits, and glanced at the groom official with clear eyebrows shyly.

At that time, how could she have imagined that she was married to a stranger she had never met......

The past has been blown away by the wind, and the previous things have been explained, and Chu Yao doesn't want to worry about it anymore.

As for Lang Jun, who was about to catch up with her in front of her, she didn't have any thoughts at all, and only said lightly: "Have we met before?" It's been a long time, I don't even remember. ”