Lingyu suddenly felt Chun Tao shrink twice in her arms, and hurriedly pushed her away to see what was going on, and said in surprise: "Chun Tao, what's wrong with you." As she spoke, she was busy checking her pulse, and Chun Tao smiled painfully and said, "My lord, you don't need to take the pulse, the slave has already eaten the poison." ”

Lingyu said anxiously: "Chun Tao, why, didn't I already agree to your conditions?" Chun Tao still smiled and said, "The slave is for the adult." Lingyu said puzzledly: "Since you are for Lord Ben, then you should live well, if you don't want to stay in the palace, I will find a way to get you out of the palace." Chun Tao said: "The slave is afraid of affecting the adult." Lingyu said: "How can you affect me?" Chun Tao said: "The slave likes you so much, I won't see you turn into hate because of love in the future, and I will want to take revenge on you, and I can't control my mouth and will tell you the secret of you and the concubine, which will hurt you." Lingyu said: "Then you don't have to die! ”

Chun Tao said: "My lord, you still hold the slave in your arms, and the slave can die in the arms of the adult, which is the greatest happiness of the slave and the maid." Lingyu sat up and hugged her in her arms, and said softly: "Chun Tao, what other wishes do you have, say it, as long as I can do it, I will definitely do it for you." Chun Tao said weakly: "If you want to talk about your wishes, there are really two slaves and maids, one is to hope that the adults can arrange an honest and kind palace maid to serve the concubine." Lingyu said: "This can be done, I promise you, what else?"

Chun Tao said: "The other is my family, the slave maid's family is a poor family, although the slave maid is in the palace, they don't give them much help, if the adults can help them." The slave was grateful. Lingyu said: "This is okay." Isn't it silver? Chun Tao said in a weak voice, "Thank you, sir." After saying that, he flinched a few more times. Lingyu said: "Where do you live!" After speaking, he didn't listen to the response, and when he looked at his snort, he was already out of breath, Lingyu sighed and said, "I, Zhang Lingyu, owe a debt that I can't repay." ”

Lingyu first put on her own clothes, then put on Chun Tao's clothes, combed her hair, and tidied up the bed, so that she could lie quietly on the bed, although the corners of her mouth were bleeding. There was a smile on his face. Lingyu packed up and left the backyard of the cold palace.

The next day, it was rumored that Chun Tao was in the cold palace, and she couldn't bear the torture of the madman Li Guifei and committed suicide by taking poison. Lingyu found out the cause of Chun Tao's death, investigated the palace archives to find the address of Chun Tao's house, and suggested sending an honest and hard-working palace maid to serve Concubine Li.

Later, Lingyu personally found Chuntao's family, Chuntao's family lived in Liujiazhuang, ten miles south of Chengnan, Anyang County, Henan, her father called Wang Shoufa, and inquired all the way to find Wang Shoufa's house, and happened to meet a rich old man Liu Facai in a place to give a dowry to Chuntao's house, and wanted to marry Chuntao's little sister Wang Chunliu as a concubine.

Lingyu walked into the courtyard and said, "May I ask if this is Wang Shoufa's family?" A middle-aged man with a cangsang face said: "The king is abiding by the law, may I ask if the son is looking for something in the next place?" Lingyu said: "Do you have a daughter named Chun Tao in the palace." When Wang Shoufa heard this, he shed tears. "Yes, the government has already notified you. Say she committed suicide, my miserable daughter. Lingyu said: "Chun Tao committed suicide, but before committing suicide, he entrusted me to bring some things to you." After speaking, he took out a small package from the large package and handed it to Wang Shoufa, who took the package and said, "You are an adult in the palace, please come and sit in the house." ”

Lingyu and Wang Shoufa entered the house, Wang Shoufa let Lingyu sit, and at the same time asked Chun Taoniang to pour boiling water for Lingyu to drink, Lingyu sat down and looked at the two boxes of gifts in the room, and said: "Uncle, there is a happy event in your family!" Wang Shoufa said: "There is no happy event, I am worried to death." Lingyu said: "Then what's going on with these financial gifts." Wang Shoufa said: "This is the dowry of the rich man Liu Facai of the village, and he has to marry our family Chunliu as a concubine." Lingyu said: "Your family is unwilling." ”

Wang Shoufa said: "What if you don't want to, our family still owes him five taels of silver." Lingyu said: "What is five taels of silver, you open the package and take a look." Wang Shoufa opened the package and saw that there were two hundred taels of silver and some jewelry, and he was startled and surprised: "Son, how can the little girl have so much silver, is it that she took someone else's." Lingyu said: "How can you take someone else's?, she serves the lord well, the master rewards, you can accept it with confidence!" Wang Shoufa said: "Thank you, son, or give you some hard money." ”

Lingyu said: "Uncle, you're welcome, if I want to take your hard money, I won't send you a package all the way, I am entrusted by people to be loyal to people." Lingyu paused and said, "You can now bring the silver and return the lottery to others." Wang Shoufa said: "I'm afraid Master Liu won't agree." At this time, there was a girl crying in the house, and Lingyu said: "Is this Chun Tao's sister Chun Liu?" Wang Shoufa said: "It is Chun Liu, she is unwilling to live or die." After speaking, he said to the house: "Chunliu, come out and see the son, I don't know the son's name." Lingyu said: "Call me Zhang Gongzi." ”

Lingyu saw Chunliu wiping her tears and walked out, sure enough, it was a little beauty from a small family jasper, and she was really a little similar to Chun Tao, Chunliu stepped forward and said, "The slave family has seen Zhang Gongzi." Lingyu said: "No courtesy." Lingyu paused and said, "Uncle, I'll accompany you to return the gift." Wang Shoufa said: "I'm afraid that it will affect you, and the relationship between Master Liu and the county master is better." Lingyu said: "You don't have to be afraid of this, you tell your son to pick up the gift and let us go." Wang Shoufa secretly said: "Zhang Gongzi said that Chun Tao asked him to send silver, that must be the people in the palace, but the people in the palace are eunuchs, no matter how I look at him, he is not like a eunuch, no matter what, people are in Beijing, of course, I am not afraid of a county lord, this is Chun Tao in the sky has a spirit to trust this noble person to save our family." ”

Thinking of this, he said: "The two sons are not at home, they are both doing long-term work for others, Zhang Gongzi, I will take you there." After speaking, he found a flat shoulder to pick up the financial gift and walked out, Chunliu cried and said: "Dad, it's really not good, my daughter will obey him, don't let them hurt you." Wang Shoufa said: "Girl, don't worry! With Zhang Gongzi here, they don't dare to do anything to me." Lingyu said: "Yes, Miss Chunliu, don't worry! I won't let my uncle be hurt." After speaking, he followed Wang Shoufa and left.

Chunliu saw Lingyu for the first time, and his chest was like a deer pounding, and then he looked at Lingyu's back and said secretly: "If I Chunliu can marry this son, I will be willing to live twenty years less." ”

Lingyu and Wang Shoufa came to the door of Liu Facai's house, and a family member Li Qi stood at the door and said, "Wang Shoufa, why did you send the gift back." Wang Shoufa said: "My daughter is unwilling to live or die, there is no way, I can't covet money and gifts to force my daughter to a dead end, please trouble the eldest brother to return to Master Liu." Li Qidao: "Okay, you wait." After saying that, he walked towards the courtyard.

After a while, Liu Facai walked out of the door with a few house slaves, Liu Facai was a fat middle-aged man, his face was full of horizontal meat, and his mouth was inlaid with two gold teeth, with his head held high and he looked disdainful, and said: "Wang Shoufa, you are dozens of years old, why don't you know how to lift, this old man likes your Chunliu is her blessing, and it is also the blessing of your whole family." ”

Wang Shoufa said: "Master Liu, my Liu Er is unwilling to live or die, we can't bear your blessing, it's because we can't get rid of Master Liu's blessing." Liu Facai saw that Wang Shou was dead and did not agree, so it was useless to say, so he said: "It's too late for you not to agree now, you have accepted the financial gift, and you have already made a marriage contract, and if you want to return the financial gift now, it is a breach of contract, not only will you have to pay ten times the compensation for the financial gift, but also go to prison, if you don't believe it, you will be put in prison tomorrow." (To be continued......)