"Rich man?" Yue Ziran was stunned, and glanced at this person's dress, sure enough, he was a rich man, but this name was too direct, right?

When you saw his expression, you knew that he had misunderstood, and hurriedly explained: "My surname is You, Lu Shaoyou's You." Savvy, stingy people, don't think about it. ”

Yue Ziran smiled awkwardly and immediately returned the salute. Only then did the wanderer turn around and lead the way in front, and said: "It's getting late today, and the son will stay here for a while, and tomorrow I will personally send the son to the village." ”

"Zhuangshang, what Zhuangshang?" Yue Ziran was curious and asked, "Haven't we arrived at the place yet?"

You Xiaoren turned his head and glanced at the lame San, and when he saw that his face was expressionless, he suddenly came to his senses: "Hey, look at my brain, I forgot that the lame San'er is a piece of wood, and the son will definitely not explain if he doesn't ask." After that, he pointed to the pavilion in front of him and said: "This is the place where we usually meet guests and I live here to deal with business affairs, and the Zhuangzi where the old master lives is still in Taihu Lake." ”

Yue Ziran nodded, and looked around to see that this courtyard was much larger than other families, but it was just a place to entertain guests, and immediately couldn't help but secretly speak, becoming more and more curious about the dead old scholar.

This courtyard is a typical Suzhou garden of the Song Dynasty, with courtyards and pavilions, verandahs and paths meandering in the middle, free and freehand. Occasionally, a covered bridge stretches across the stream, and you can see all kinds of fish swimming freely in the water.

At this time, there are no other guests in the courtyard, but there are many people, so it is not very deserted, the only thing that is out of place is that the servants here are dressed very uniformly, the male servants are all black, the female servants are white all over, and there are different patterns at their cuffs and collars, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, flowers and plants, copper coins, and even knives and axes, and the workmanship is meticulous and exquisite, which seems to indicate their different identities.

Along the way, Yue Ziran had more and more doubts, but the nameless monk who knew a little about these things had already gone somewhere with the cripple three, so he could only put it in his stomach for the time being, and only after sitting at the banquet where the people in the upper reaches of the house were taking the wind and washing the dust for them, and after three rounds of drinking, he said the doubts in his heart.

Hearing this, You Xiaoren said with a smile: "Originally, Gongzi would know about these things after he saw Shi, but Gongzi asked, and I didn't dare not answer as a subordinate, but I don't know a lot, so please forgive Gongzi." ”

After a pause, Yue Ziran heard a trace of unconvincing in his words, and then listened to him say slowly: "I have been living in it for a long time, I don't know how many years it is. I only know that the old master used to live in the depths of Taihu Lake, and then one day the old master set up a flat boat out of Taihu Lake and began to do business, and in less than three years, he broke into the family business of this rich and rival country, and I followed the old master to do business at that time. ”

"Later, when the Song and Jin battles, the old master brought back the wounded soldiers from outside and placed them in the free house, and it was then that I learned where the free house was. But ......" Speaking of this, he glanced at Yue Ziran with some envy, "Even if I want to enter the Freedom House now, I still need someone to lead me, the terrain is too complicated." ”

"It was only then that I learned that there were other wonderful people in Zizaiju, who had lived in seclusion here for generations, and who had a lot of connections with the ancestors of the old master, and could be regarded as family members. As for what kind of wonderful people they are, tomorrow you will understand when you go up to the free house. ”

He said with a smile, glanced at the gem ring on Yue Ziran's finger, and said calmly: "To be honest, I originally thought that the old master would hand over the gem ring to the Shi family, but I didn't expect it to end up in the hands of Gongzi." ”

"What's the matter, you don't know the reason?" Yue Ziran faintly understood in his heart, and he was not very thorough.

You Yuren shook his head: "I don't know, the old master was divining a hexagram a year ago, ...... said, he raised his head and said: "Oh, by the way, the old master is good at divination deduction." Seeing that Yue Ziran and the others nodded, he continued: "After he deduced, he instructed all of us that he was going out to find friends and find a powerful owner for the gem ring together. ”

"Searching?" Yue Ziran noticed the word, but he really couldn't think of where he had seen the monk and the scholar.

After saying this, the wanderer stopped talking, and Yue Ziran estimated that he knew so much.

However, he left more doubts for Yue Ziran than before, so that Yue Ziran was still thinking about these questions in his mind when he returned to the small building where he was ready to rest.

Light rain in the middle of the night.

The rustling rain gathered into a line, knocking on the banana leaves in front of the window downstairs drop by drop, and then splashed into the water tank next to the fish raising, sounding a beautiful music that woke Yue Ziran up. But like the sound of a nameless monk's wooden fish, he fell into an ethereal spirit, as if he had not fallen asleep, wanted to wake up but did not wake up, and ran the breath in his body until the rooster crowed three times, and then fell asleep again.

When I woke up again, the sky was already bright, and the rain was still rustling, like silkworms. Yue Ziran's house faces the street, and you can hear occasional pedestrians walking by in the laneway, stepping on the bluestone slab, knocking out bursts of "da-da" sounds.

Suddenly, a girl's voice that Yue Ziran seemed to have heard, at the end of the alley, came over in a half-baked Wu Nong soft voice: "Sell apricot blossoms, do you want apricot blossoms?" ”

The little girl's shouting was mixed with Suzhou local dialect and official dialect, which immediately made Yue Ziran laugh. He put on a long coat, opened the window and looked in, and just saw a little girl wearing a green burlap robe, combing two maiden buns under the hat to cover the rain, the hat was slightly larger, obviously not hers, so it looked slightly funny.

She carried a bamboo basket in her left hand, and in the basket were some delicate apricot blossoms, as if they had just been plucked in the drizzle.

The little girl was wearing straw sandals, shouting a laughing shouting sound in her mouth, but a pair of eyes only paid attention to her feet, and after seeing a small pool of water on the ground, she carefully stood on tiptoe, but did not bypass, but put her little feet in the clear rain with interest, and slowly waded through.

She pinned a branch of apricot blossom between her hair, and when she looked up, Yue Ziran saw her true face.

"Bel. When the little girl walked under his window, Yue Ziran suddenly shouted, yes, this little girl is Mu Qingzhu's personal maidservant, Bi'er.

"Hmm. The little girl was about to wade through a pool of stagnant water, Wen Yanping raised her head, reflexively responded, but did not see anyone, and looked back again, and saw that there was no one yet, so she lowered her head again, and muttered: "Who called me?" but never glanced at his head.

"Bel. I want your basket of apricot blossoms. Yue Ziran was helpless, coughed, and continued.

This time she finally heard where the voice came from, raised her head, two watery eyes, hidden under the dense long eyelashes, saw Yue Ziran, and suddenly narrowed her eyes into crescent moons with joy: "Gongzi Yue!" As soon as she finished speaking, she heard her "oops", and was supported by her maiden bun The hat that was already out of her head fell to the ground completely.

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