Since Xu Yu was sick, Xiao has been complaining about her husband all the time, so Xu Qingtang dared not urge her grandson to study. △￠Xu Yu took advantage of the situation and went to school all day long and hang out with his sisters. Zhu Mingzhi advised him to use some skills. He ignored him all day long without going to school, which made Xu Yu dare not waste his pen and ink.

On the first day of September, he came back from the school and a servant came forward and said, "Master Xia is asking for a meeting."

Xu Yu said in surprise: "Hasn't he quit the restaurant? If you have anything to come to me?"

After entering the study, Xia Gui, who was dressed in glamor, smiled and said gossiping to each other. Xia Gui said, "I have been protected by the care of the master and I have been exempted from a minor official, as the magistrate, and I will go to Hunan after the New Year. Today I will visit the second master, but what are you going to explain?"

"No." Xu Yu said without hesitation.

Xia Gui smiled disconcertedly and said, "I heard that Mr. Yang Pu had proposed marriage to you recently. I don't know why the master refused. Mr. Yang's lady is talented and well-educated. How could she be better for the second master?"

Xu Yu was unhappy and said, "The elders will decide on the marriage."

"The Second Master is still childish." Xia Gui smiled and said, "I think the Second Master and the two girls in the garden have childhood sweethearts, but they have not been moved. I guess they are not in line with their wishes. This lifelong event should be something to do. If you don't meet your expectations in a day, wouldn't you regret it if you don't feel satisfied?"

Xu Yu was stunned for a moment, unable to understand what a master who left cares about him so much about doing? So he held back his anger and said, "Then let me ask you." He thought to himself that he would make a move.

"I will do my best." Xia Gui was shocked and said, "I'm not sure about it. I'll have less travel expenses when I go down in Hunan this time. I want to discuss with the second master to borrow some."

It turned out to be the one who beat Qiufeng. Xu Yu said speechlessly: "I owe my friend three thousand taels now, and I really don't have any money. Sorry, Master Xia should go and find someone else." After that, he got up and left.

The disappointed Xia Gui returned to the city in disappointment. It turned out that he had lost 700 to 800 taels in the past few days. He gradually struggled to make money and thought of the famous and generous Xu Yu.

That night, he and a group of friends had a drink at Hongji Temple and sent the servant back to get things.

Because they needed to serve the guests, the chef's family came over and no one guarded the house. It was as bright as the night sky, and the weather was particularly good. The servant walked to the yard with a lantern, took out the key, opened the lock, and reached out to push the door. He found that he could not push it.

"Strange, Suri's door shaft is loose, why is it tight?" The servant felt very strange and still couldn't push the door open after using his strength.

Putting the lantern on the ground, the servant pushed it hard with both hands, and then he pushed it a little open. He saw a stone from the crack in the door that pressed against the door.

The servant was surprised and thought that there was no one at home, so where did this stone come from? So he squatted down and lay down on the door. He reached in and pushed the stone away, picked up the lantern, and walked in carefully.

I took photos around the yard, but no one walked to the study and opened the lock. This time the door opened in response. I walked in and took a look. There were many things. The servant was slightly relieved.

An inexplicable stone appeared, and I was still worried. The servant carried a lantern to the inner house. After entering the main room, there were still many things, and the servant completely relieved.

I was determined to go into the inner room and steal a few candy beans, but I didn't know that one of the big suitcases in the bedroom was missing, and a single bag was gone. The servant quickly ran out and shouted, "Master, it's not good! Our family has been stolen!"

Xia Gui hurriedly ran over and saw that when he entered the room, he found that there was indeed a missing box, clothes and bag. He hurriedly opened the curtain and threw away the two boxes placed by the bedside. He immediately shouted: "Come on, elder."

The old monk and others rushed over, and Xia Gui said anxiously: "Why is this good? The door is locked, and the thief must have climbed the wall from the vegetable garden. Go and get the vegetables to ask, and you will make updates every day on time. Why haven't you heard the updates at the third day of today? There must be a ghost."

Xi Shiyi said in a deep voice: "Don't worry, let's go over and take a look now."

"Let's go." The old monk hurriedly called Yue to get the key and opened the secret door. The weather was so bright that the moon was as bright as day, so there was no need for any lanterns and torches.

A group of people rushed to the thatched hut, and the old monk went in and woke up the vegetable planters.

The vegetable grower heard that he had been frightened by a thief and hurriedly called the guy next door to come out. After calling out several times, he still agreed.

The vegetable grower was a little panicked and had a sad face. Xi Shiyi said, "Scattered everywhere and checked carefully, maybe there were some clues."

The people spread their heads apart, and after checking that the garden gate was closed, they suddenly went to the northwest corner and shouted: "Come on, the box is here."

Xia Gui ran over and took a look. An empty box was thrown on the ground, a few cotton jackets and other pieces of valuable things were scattered all over the floor, and a pocket watch was trampled to pieces.

The old monk said, "This thief came in outside the wall and then went out from the wall. Let's go out and look for it."

Xia Gui sighed: "I have run away long ago, why bother to do this?"

"No need to go out." Pan Laosan said: "You go back and check what you lost, and make a list. Good morning to report to the official."

The old monk was very unwilling to accept that Xia Gui rented the property of Hongji Temple and was thieves in the middle of the night. Besides, the thief came in from the vegetable garden and did not steal in the temple. He went straight to Xia Gui's bedroom after a long circle. It was obvious that there was an insider.

So the old monk was observing the vegetable planting and found that his appearance was a little panicked, so he scared him with words: "No one knows this road at any time. It must be the thief you colluded with. He tied him up and sent him to the yard tomorrow. Go to a few people to search his house."

Several monks rushed into the room and found nothing suspicious. The wife who was growing vegetables sat on the earthen kang and shivered.

The old monk asked the vegetable grower: "Where is your guy?"

The vegetable grower was stunned and replied, "I don't know, he slept before me tonight, saying that he would come out to have a sleep, why is the person missing?"

Xia Gui clapped his hands and said hatred: "It's them."

"What else can you say? Who else can you steal if you don't have them together?" The old monk was angry and shouted: "Tie the whole family and send them to the soldiers who patrol the streets to guard them, so as not to escape or seek death."

Suddenly, the vegetable garden was noisy, shouting and scolding, and calling soldiers over. Xia Gui asked the old monk and Xi Shiyi to help accompany the guests, and he went back to the house to count the lost property.

There seemed to be seven or eight pieces of clothes in the stolen box, ten taels of gold and one hundred taels of silver, more than thirty taels of scattered silver in the wooden box, and a few jade pieces, and a few cloaks and coats in the bag. A rough calculation was that it was lost more than 1,000 taels.

"The passing years are not good!" Xia Gui felt very distressed and hurriedly put out a list and took it out for everyone to see.

It was about to dawn, and something happened to the Xia family. Xi Shiyi and others said goodbye one after another.

Early in the morning, Xia Gui rushed to the yamen to report to the officials. The fang was responsible for public security in the border area of ​​Jinling City, which originated from the Han and Tang Dynasties, similar to the police station in later generations. On that day, the fang interrogated the vegetable planting. As a result, the honest man was indeed unaware of it. Even the old monk testified that the family had grown vegetables for more than 20 years and had always been merely divided.

The man's surname is Cai. He came here at the end of last year and knew everyone on the street. He was working in a butcher shop and had a breakup. He would rather help farm and make updates. Now the person is gone and the most suspected. The house sent the case to Shuntian Mansion. Soon Shuntian Mansion informed Jiucheng to arrest him and posted a portrait of Kuo Cai.

In a case of a theft like this, it would be nice to catch people. Even if you catch people, there would be little money left. In addition, officials would also work hard to pull out their hair, so Xia Gui didn't expect anything at all. It was nothing more than doing his part and thinking that he was not lucky.

It was about to be the Double Ninth Festival, Lan Chun came out to visit her aunt. When she arrived at the door, she saw a young man wearing a light blue brocade cloud gown standing at the gap in the wall. She was wearing a gray velvet basin hat with conspicuous rubies on it, and the hat was wrapped in three red, blue and green silk.

A pair of shiny leather shoes under her feet, how fashionable it is for both ancient and modern times? Lan Chun, who accidentally met a strange man, felt funny and turned her head to enter the yard. However, her aunt, Mrs. Leng, looked strange. No matter any dynasty, there was no shortage of such fashionable young people who liked to be innovative, such as the scholar who painted powder in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the scholar who arranged flowers in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

Yang Dan walked over with a smile and bowed his hand. The servant introduced: "This is the young master of the Yang family. He plans to repair the house as an external study."

When Mrs. Leng saw that she was the son of Yang Pu, the prime minister of the cabinet, she looked around and smiled at Yang Dan.

Yang Dan said: "We will be neighbors in the future. If we don't have any places, please forgive me."

Seeing that he was very polite, Mrs. Leng thought he was kind and smiled and said, "Young Master Yang does not need to be polite. I am a woman and I don't know anything.

As it rained, a corner of the wall collapsed, Mrs. Leng took the opportunity to say to the servant: "Please go and tell the housekeeper of the government and clean up the wall early."

"Don't worry, I'll fix it right away." The servant naturally agreed.

"I've said goodbye." Mrs. Leng turned around and entered the yard and closed the door.

Lan Chun asked, "Aunt, who is the person outside?"

"I don't recognize it." Mrs. Leng smiled and took her niece's hand into the house.

After entering the house, Lan Chun asked again: "I don't know you, why did you start talking?"

"I'm so kind, can I ignore it?" Mrs. Leng pulled her niece down and said, "Actually, it's not unfamiliar. It's the young master of Yang's family here."

"Mr. Yang's son? I said I seemed to have seen this person somewhere." Lan Chun tilted her head and thought about it, but unfortunately she knew nothing about Yang Pu.

Mrs. Leng smiled and said, "You may have seen it from afar in the mansion during festivals, or you may have never met you. Because you often see the young masters from various families, who are not dressed like a flower peacock, so you seem to have seen it."

"Yeah." Lan Chun felt that it was almost the same, so she threw it away and didn't take it seriously.

Mrs. Leng didn't mean to continue. After all, her niece was deeply favored by Mr. Xu San, so she didn't need to worry about the major marriage. She didn't think about that at all when she came back.

Another reason is that Yang Pu's eldest son and second son died early, Yang Dan ranked third and only son, so he naturally wanted to marry a wife of a good family.

After lunch, Mrs. Leng visited her for something. Lan Chun had nothing to do and chatted with Li’s mother at home. Li’s mother said, “Grand girl, I’m looking at the next door. You haven’t been there yet? That’s a big garden.”

Lan Chun said, "Then let's go over and take a look. In the past, when I saw the trees next door, the layout in the courtyard must be good. But people are moving, don't be embarrassed."

"It doesn't matter, what are the neighbors afraid of?" Li Ma was so surprised that she was guarding the eldest maid of the Xu Mansion without any scruples.

The two of them were about to walk through the gap. Lan Chun smiled while walking, "If my aunt asks me back, I will say you brought me here."
Chapter completed!