The guest often drank herbal tea in the shed of the fireworks shop, and the two houses were close to each other. The guest naturally didn't refuse when he heard the words, and he just said "hello" very readily.
After Mr. Lu finished his tea leisurely, he put on his official hat and left the fireworks shop on his little donkey.
When he brought the household registration booklet that had been checked for each household to the Leiyang County Yamen, the Leiyang County Magistrate was talking to a young man.
He approached and found that the young man was actually Luo Jingshan, the eldest son of the Luo family.
This is not a coincidence, isn't it?
Lord Lu just thought like this, while secretly glancing at Luo Jingshan from time to time.
Seeing that it was a business matter, Luo Jingshan naturally stopped talking.
As for the Leiyang County Magistrate, when he saw Master Na Lu coming, he couldn't help but ask, "An Jun, the population statistics outside the city have been updated."
Lu Anjun immediately nodded and said, "Yes, sir, don't worry, I will take care of this matter, don't worry."
After hearing this, the Leiyang County Magistrate took the household registration book and flipped through it.
Lu Anjun continued to wait in the hall.
When the county magistrate saw that he was not leaving, he couldn't help but ask, "Anjun, do you have anything else to do?"
Hearing the title of County Magistrate, Lu Anjun only smiled and said, "Lord County Magistrate, of course I still have some things to ask about here."
"But it's not to you, but to Mr. Luo." When he said this, Lu Anjun's eyes only looked at Luo Jingshan.
When Luo Jingshan heard that the other party was looking for him, he felt strange for a while, but he still asked, "I wonder what you are looking for, Mr. Lu?"
Lu Anjun then told Mr. Luo about his encounter with Mr. Luo in the herbal tea shop.
"It's like this. After I verified everyone's information this morning, I stopped at a nearby fireworks shop to drink a cup of herbal tea. While I was drinking tea, I happened to meet the Second Young Master Luo. At that time, the Second Young Master seemed to be here. Order fireworks from the fireworks shop."
"I felt strange in my heart, so I asked the shopkeeper. The shopkeeper only said that the second Mr. Luo was here to order fireworks to celebrate the Luo family's newly built house in the suburbs. However, the second Mr. Luo did not pay the deposit. The shopkeeper felt a little uneasy. He didn't know Is it the Luo family's business or the Second Young Master's personal idea, so they wanted me to come and ask on their behalf, so that there won't be any misunderstandings between the two parties, which will cause trouble on both sides."
Hearing the store owner's words, Mr. Luo nodded.
But when Lu Anjun looked at him and waited for him to give an answer, Mr. Luo showed no reaction.
In the end, I don’t know how long I waited, but Mr. Luo took the initiative and said, "I don’t know much about this, but my family doesn’t seem to have an outhouse recently. Why don’t you wait a little longer until I ask my father?" How about I give you an answer later?"
Regarding Mr. Luo's proposal, Lu Anjun naturally nodded in agreement.
After receiving Lu Anjun's words, Mr. Luo carefully asked himself how many boxes of fireworks his younger brother had ordered, and then he made plans in his mind to ask his father when he went back.
On the other hand, Luo Jingcheng went straight to his mother's room after returning from the rouge shop.
At this time, Mrs. Luo was taking a lunch break, and while Luo Jingcheng was waiting for his mother, he only hooked up with a group of maids with whom he had an affair, but the total he got from them was only three taels of silver.
This money is far from enough.
Therefore, Luo Jingcheng could only wait for a while.
However, Mrs. Luo Er didn't wake up. While he was waiting for Mrs. Luo Er, he only heard a few maids discussing his mother's affairs.
"The young master seems to have not been here recently."
"Isn't this normal? When has the young master ever come here before, has he not defrauded the madam of her money? The madam has tightened the money recently and said that she can no longer give the young master a penny. She has said that from now on, not only She will not give the young master a penny, and she also asked us not to lend money to the young master. It seems that the madam has finally decided to make the young master suffer some hardships this time and learn to restrain his hands and feet. "
"It would be good if the second young master could restrain his hands and feet, but I'm afraid that my wife's trick won't work at all."
"How could it be useless? As long as the madam doesn't give him money, won't the young master naturally not be able to use the money?"
"What you want
I am naive, I am afraid that the young master will do some evil things. After all, the young master also has some idle friends. It is strange that those idle friends do not encourage the young master to learn bad things. "
Listening to these two girls arranging him behind the scenes, Luo Jingcheng just wanted to run to argue with these two girls.
However, after thinking about it, he still felt that there was no need to argue. After all, making money is the most important thing now. After he got the money, who would dare to criticize him? When he thought of this, Luo Jingcheng stopped unconsciously. pace.
However, on the other hand, he also understood that his mother would probably not be able to borrow money.
So where else should he go to borrow money?
Thinking about it this way, Luo Jingcheng realized that the only person who could borrow so much money and not report him was his mother.
But if he had to borrow money from his mother at this moment, his mother would probably not lend it to him. After all, he had just made his mother angry not long ago.
Borrowing money at this moment is just adding fuel to the fire, and especially if it is such a large amount of money, his mother will definitely be even more reluctant to part with it.
But soon he had a new idea.
He knew where his mother's money was hidden. Since his mother wouldn't let him borrow the money, he just went and got it.
Anyway, when he earns that money, it will be the same when he returns the money to his mother.
Luo Jingcheng is the kind of person who does whatever comes to his mind.
So in the next moment, he quietly climbed out of the window and directly into the inner room. There was no one in the inner room. Because of the hot weather, his mother only slept on the imperial concubine's couch near the lotus pond in the outer room and took a nap next to her. There was also a maid fanning her, so they were both cool.
On the other hand, after he turned over and entered the room, he secretly walked towards his mother's dressing table.
At this time, the inner room was separated by a bead curtain, and it was a blind spot.
Therefore, the maid who was fanning did not see Luo Jingcheng, so Luo Jingcheng opened his mother's jewelry box. Then he found a one hundred tael silver note in the jewelry box, but after thinking about it, he felt that it was not enough.
In the end, he only picked up a pearl bracelet from his mother's jewelry box. After taking the bracelet, he secretly climbed out of the inner window.
And when he left the inner room, his mother did not notice his arrival.
However, the woman who was guarding the gate of the outer courtyard saw that Luo Jingcheng had come out after such a while, so she only said hello to Luo Jingcheng, "Master, are you leaving? Madam, are you awake?"
Luo Jingcheng had already put away the bracelet and banknotes, so he just said nonchalantly, "My mother is not awake, but it's too hot today and I can't stay. Anyway, I don't have anything important to do. I The same goes for greeting my mother the next time I see her."
I heard my young master say this. The woman nodded and said yes.
Then Luo Jingcheng left directly from here.
On the other side, when Mrs. Luo woke up after her lunch break, the third lady of the Luo family, Luo Ruixue, also came to Mrs. Luo with an embroidery shed. They had made an agreement long ago.
Every afternoon, Miss Luo San would come over to Mrs. Luo Er to do embroidery together.
Although the second lady Luo and the third lady are not biological mothers and daughters, the third lady is the daughter of the late eldest lady. Because her mother died early, the third lady was brought up by the second lady Luo, so the two are still close. Count it as a coincidence.
"Mother." Luo Ruixue saluted Mrs. Luo who had just stood up. Mrs. Luo Er naturally also motioned for her to come over.
"Ruixue, let me see how your results are?" I heard Mrs. Luo's words. Luo Ruixue naturally handed over the embroidered handkerchief of cold plums and cold snow that she had embroidered to Mrs. Luo Er for a closer look.
Mrs. Luo Er naturally saw the shortcomings in Luo Ruixue's painting at a glance. He just sighed and shook his head and said, "Ruixue, your plum blossom center embroidery is really too monotonous, and the stitching method is not like this." .”
After hearing Mrs. Luo's words, Luo Ruixue only glanced at the snowflake again, and then she asked Mrs. Luo in a low voice, "What does mother think, how should I embroider this plum blossom?"
Hearing Luo Ruixue's words, Mrs. Luo only looked at the plum blossoms carefully, and then she whispered, "Go to the embroidery stand in my room and take out my embroidery shed. I have a finished product there. You can take it." Go figure it out.”
After hearing Mrs. Luo's words, Luo Ruixue naturally didn't think much about it. She just followed her mother's instructions and then took down the flower shed from one of the embroidery stands.
And after she studied it carefully, she naturally praised Mrs. Luo Er very much.
The mother and daughter only embroidered together for a long time, and it was not until almost evening that Luo Ruixue left Mrs. Luo's room.
Later, as evening approached, Mrs. Luo Er was just about to tidy up herself again.
She was wearing a lotus-colored plum blossom dress tonight, so she wanted to pair it with a pearl bracelet.
However, when the maids opened her jewelry box, the jewelry in the box was obviously in a mess, and the pearl bracelet was even missing.
Upon seeing this situation, the maid looking for the bracelet also turned pale.
"Ma'am, the bracelet is missing!"
Upon hearing this, Luo Shi immediately said, "Why is it missing? I put the things in this box. You have to take a closer look!"
Another maid immediately followed suit and said, "It's impossible to lose things. You can look for them elsewhere."
After the eldest maid came to the rescue, the little maid immediately said yes, and then the girl went to look elsewhere.
However, Mrs. Luo Er's mood became bad. No matter how much the maid tried to comfort her, she would just give her a cold look.
After being so indifferent for who knows how long, Mrs. Luo suddenly seemed to remember something. She just said to the eldest maid, "Please check for me quickly to see if anything else is missing."
After receiving Mrs. Luo's order, the eldest maid naturally checked Mrs. Luo's belongings.
