Lu Xiong made a mistake in Jinling, and his father-in-law Long Ding was removed from his official position. The couple followed Long Ding and his wife listlessly back to Suzhou. ⊙

During this period, he went to Shaanxi to visit his parents. At that time, Lu Zhen's wife was seriously ill. Because she couldn't stand living in Shaanxi, Lu Zhen was determined to seek reinstatement. She also wanted her son to resume his fame and fortune and then participate in the imperial examination for the next year. Therefore, the father and son concealed Mrs. Lu's condition from the outside.

Lu Xiong then went to Jiangnan again in the name of picking up his wife, and after returning, he still lived in his father-in-law's house.

Long Ding, who is unemployed at home, has no children and nephews, and does not have many distant relatives. He is just a son-in-law. Although he is tired of him, he will have to rely on half of his child to live in the future, so he doesn't complain at all.

Long Ding treated his son-in-law as his son, worried that Lu Xiong was ashamed of having made white clothes and was depressed. With the plea of ​​his in-laws, he used thousands of taels of silver and connections to temporarily change his name to seek an official position as the deputy guard of the vassal prince's mansion.

The power of the vassal king's palace is no longer there, and people are overstandard. There are so many families and the Ministry of Personnel cannot supervise it, so Long Ding easily takes advantage of the loopholes.

When Lu Xiong saw an official from the fifth rank, he immediately gave up the idea of ​​imperial examinations. With his knowledge, the road to imperial examinations was undoubtedly a fantasy.

The satisfied Lu Xiong was a little shy when he first met someone. He was embarrassed. After a long time, he resurrected his old ways. He sleeps in Suzhou City all day long, and bullies others with his power. Because the Long family was a famous gentry, he did not dare to offend him. After suffering losses, he had to be angry and not speak out.

Long Ding has been an official in Beijing for half his life. He has several funds invested in overseas trade. He hurriedly left Beijing that day and failed to ask for it in time, so he sent his son-in-law to Beijing.

Before leaving, Long Ding gave a special instructions. Lu Xiong patted his chest and promised to go quickly and return quickly and would never cause trouble. He brought three or four followers and confidants Wang De and took a boat to Jinling.

A few days later, he arrived in the capital and rented a private house outside the city to settle down. For ten days, half of the silver was recovered, and half had to wait for a few more days.

All the money has to be returned, so Lu Xiong was not in a hurry. With money in his hand, he ran to the Qinhuai River to visit famous prostitutes every day. Although the Qinhuai River is not as prosperous as before, there are more and more private pleasure boats, and drunken music and singing are still the same. Lu Xiong is having fun without any day or night.

On this day, I met that guy Liu Yun. Liu Yun has defected to Lu Xiong's father Lu Zhen over the years. Recently, he was impeached by the censor and lost his official position.

At this time, Liu Yun's wife Cao had passed away. Liu Yun was unscrupulous and had no scruples. All the women with a little beauty at home wanted to get involved.

The two of them, who were intimate in the past, were now called close friends, and they hang out in the courtyard every day. However, the capital was full of powerful people, and they couldn't help having fun.

Liu Yun said, "Brother, come back to Yangzhou with me to go for a walk. The scenery of Yangzhou is still as good as Jinling, I will take you to open your eyes."

"Okay!" Lu Xiong clapped his hands and said that he was wonderful.

So the two hired a boat to open it to Yangzhou City, and deposited the money they received into the money house, which was very convenient to go out. After arriving, Liu Yun took him around to have fun every day.

On the fifth day of coming to Yangzhou, Liu Yun got up early in the morning and ate snacks. Because Lu Xiong had drunk too much last night and did not wake up, he couldn't go out alone. He stood in front of the door and watched the fun.

The prosperity of Yangzhou is no less than that of Jinling. Pedestrians on the street are coming and going, and the shouts of hawking are endless. The road seems particularly crowded. Liu Yun's eyes searched for the woman who was eye-catching, and suddenly noticed that a young lady opened the door and came out to splash water on the other side.

"Yo!" Liu Yun's eyes brightened even brighter. The little lady looked only seventeen or eighteen years old, with a fluffy and lazy cloud bun. She obviously hadn't washed up after getting up. She wore a tight little lake green jacket and a blue cloth skirt. Her face was like a delicate flower with her face, and her waist was not full of willows, which was naturally graceful and charming.

Just as the young lady finished splashing water, she raised her head and noticed someone staring at her opposite side. Her pretty face turned red, she turned around and ran back a few steps, closing the door.

Liu Yun's soul seemed to follow him in, thinking who is this? He looked at the door of the house in a daze, his straight eyes still moving.

Suddenly I realized that someone had been patted on the back, "Brother Renxiang, are you in a daze when you see anything?"

Liu Yun looked back and saw that it was Lu Xiong and smiled and said, "A moment ago, a god passed by in heaven, so my foolish brother is here to be respectful."

Lu Xiong smiled and said, "What are you saying? I don't understand."

"Come on, come on!" Liu Yun pulled him into the study, carefully described the charm of the young lady opposite the door, and sighed: "How can you let such a beautiful woman go?"

Lu Xiong said with a smile: "It's not difficult! I think the opposite family is not a big family. I send someone to find out what kind of business it is to impress with money and not worry about not fulfilling our brother's wishes. If his family insists on not wanting, we will use our power to suppress people. Are ordinary people still afraid of flying into the sky?"

This is Yangzhou, what is Liu Yun afraid of? He immediately asked the left-behind housekeeper. The housekeeper replied without thinking: "It is the former scholarly family Shen family. After his parents died, the family fell sharply, and brothers and sisters separated. Master Shen failed to study and seemed to be running a cloth business. His wife's surname was Wu. The master should have seen the only daughter of the Wu family, whose nickname was Lan Gu. He used to visit our house. At that time, he was a yellow-haired girl. He seemed to be seventeen years old this year. The people who have gone out are more than Hua Jiao and are still unmarried."

Liu Yun frowned and said, "It's actually my old neighbor, and my junior. Alas! I can't do anything rude. I pity my lovesickness."

Lu Xiong smiled happily and said, "I might as well do it! Butler, continue talking."

The housekeeper said: "Young Master Shen went out to sell cloth. There was only two mother and daughter in the family. Mrs. Shen was frugal at home, and she didn't need a servant."

"As the saying goes, as long as the kung fu is deep, the iron rod is ground into a needle." Lu Xiong seemed confident. "Since his father is not at home, I have my own plan, and I am not afraid that her daughter will not be on my hook. Brother Xiang, don't be sorry, what is the neighbor? If I succeed, I will naturally have to take the lead and you can also do your wish."

Liu Yun shook his head and said, "You don't need to explain, I don't care about you in this matter. I just want to say a few words to her and I will never dare to do it. As for you, you have figured out your ability."

After all, Liu Yun has been an official for many years. When he is middle-aged, he knows what he can do and what he cannot do. Rabbits don’t eat grass beside his nest! At least on the surface, this is true. Of course, he is not a good person, so he doesn’t interfere with Lu Xiong. Only God knows his real idea.

Lu Xiong immediately told his confidant Wang De to do this and gave him fifty taels of silver. Wang De went to the Shen family to knock on the door, and the Lan Gu inside walked out and opened the door. Seeing that it was a stranger, he hurriedly retreated.

Wu, who was less than forty years old, came out and asked, "Who are you?"

Wang De smiled and said, "Are you grandma of the Shen family? Your Master Shen has a letter here, and I asked me to send it."

"Ah! Come in quickly." Wu saw that it was her husband's entrustment, and the people who came were well-dressed and looked like a deacon, without any doubt.

When she invited the person to the house to sit down, Lan Gu shyly sent tea and stood behind her mother. Wu asked, "Where is my husband who got to know the Lord? What letter is he asking for?"

"The letter was brought by my master. I'll send it here." Wang De said again: "The head of the family is named Lu, the student of the Imperial College of the Capital City, the eldest son of the former Minister of Rites, and the son-in-law of the former Shaoqing of Dali Temple. Because he met Mr. Shen in a teahouse in Suzhou, he learned that he had a family friend in the previous dynasty. Seeing that Mr. Shen was loyal and kind, I was very close to each other. Because the master was going to visit friends in Yangzhou, Mr. Shen asked to bring back a silver and a letter, saying that he would not be able to write a letter in a hurry. He cannot go home for the time being, so I tell you to rest assured."

"Oh!" Wu and his daughter were very happy when they heard this, and saw Wang De put a heavy bag of silver on the table. "It just so happened that my young master lived in the Liu Mansion opposite. I sent me the silver. The young master said that there was no man at home in the Zun Mansion, so it was inconvenient to visit him, which made me greet my wife."

After Wang De said that, he asked Wu to check the silver, picked up the tea and blew it. He looked leisurely.

Although Wu did not receive a letter from her husband's family, who would give you silver for no reason? Mr. Lu is an official and a son who has read the books of sages and has a noble family. He believes it completely.

After looking at the silver happily, it was not bad at all. Wu happily handed it to his daughter to pack it, and asked Lan Gu to give it five cents of silver and said to Wang De: "Thank you for your young master to carry it from afar, I am so uneasy. I also have to work for the housekeeper to carry it with you, and I have some respect. Please buy a pair of shoes to wear. In front of your young master, you have to ask the housekeeper to thank you for your servant."

Wang De smiled and said, "Madam is too polite. Do you still need money for three or five steps? No, the young master will find out, and he will definitely not follow it."

"This is what I mean, it's okay for the young master to know." Wu also smiled and said, "Does the butler think he is too young?"

Wang De refused several times, and then reluctantly accepted it. Then he stood up to thank and said goodbye. Wu personally took him out.

Wu watched Wang De walk through the street and enter the Liu Mansion and said to his daughter: "It turns out that the young master of the Liu family is really back. I don't know if Mrs. Liu has returned. I haven't seen her for many years. Alas!"

At that time, Liu Yun was naughty since childhood and liked to tease people, and was also very lustful. However, he was obedient by Cao's discipline and basically never harmed his daughter next door. Therefore, in Wu's heart, Liu Yun was not bad, but a little unreasonable. Later, I heard that he had a prosperous career after entering Beijing, but his husband was repeatedly disappointed in the imperial examination. It was like some people in later generations who often said that naughty children were more promising, and they were inevitably filled with emotion.

Lan Gu said, "Why don't you buy a gift and go over and take a look?"

"If you don't go, why should you be embarrassed?" Wu shook his head, "Besides, things are changing, your father is not at home, so it's hard for us mothers to go out at will. Let's go back, mom makes delicious food for you."

"That's great." Lan Gu happily supported her mother and said as she walked: "Mom, is it really my father entrusted?"

"Why isn't it?" Wu explained: "Your father is worried about the lack of energy in his family because he can't come back for the time being. I guess the young master named Lu is a serious man. Didn't he say that the previous generation had a family relationship with my family? So he didn't write a letter, it would be fine."

Lan Gu nodded slightly, but was puzzled in her heart. She thought that her father was doing things for the boss, so where did she get the fifty taels of silver? Her father has always been meticulous and even if the salary he deserves is well received, how could he misappropriate the boss's capital? And she did not return the letter from her own writer, so she could not believe the one-sided words of the Lu family. There must be a reason.
Chapter completed!