Early the next morning, Chu Yao was awakened by a slight and continuous knocking on the door.
She slept so late last night that her mind was confused. She walked to the door with her shoes. As soon as she opened the door, she was stuffed with a stack of silver notes: "This is given to you by His Royal Highness." Chu Yao hadn't looked at it yet. After seeing the person's face clearly, he disappeared without a trace.
She was confused for a while before she remembered what Pei Zhan had said last night about buying back those antique calligraphy and paintings with a thousand taels. Unexpectedly, the banknotes were delivered early in the morning.
Could it be that all the things in the house have been moved away at this moment?
That's all, just move it away, she doesn't like those things either.
She closed the door and leaned against the door panel to count the banknotes, happily counting them. There were ten banknotes worth one hundred taels in total. She planned to put 80% of them into the bank to earn interest, and keep the remaining 20% with her for emergencies. The door behind her was pushed open, and the door panel that opened inward hit her. Hold it carefully and scatter the banknotes on the floor.
"Why are you laughing so early in the morning?" Ms. Zhou walked in, "I can hear your silly smile through the door..."
Chu Yao looked at the banknotes scattered on the ground and it was too late to hide them: "Mom, why did you come here so early?"
"I'm old, I sleep lightly, and I don't know who the annoying person is knocking on the door in the morning..." Mrs. Zhou looked at the ground, her eyes widened immediately, "Ouch! On the ground... there are banknotes. What?"
"Well..." Chu Yao responded helplessly. What she originally wanted to hide from her was now revealed to her. With my mother's temperament, I'm afraid that sooner or later she will find a solution to her parents' family, which will only be a waste of time.
Young Master Zhou had to ask her where the money came from. Chu Yao couldn't say it fell from the sky, nor could she say it was given by Pei Zhan. He could only lie that it was his own money. He used it to loan usury before, but now It was recovered with interest.
Zhou Shi trembled and counted the banknotes. She had never seen so much money before, and she patted her chest with surprise and joy: "My dear, it's so much, but it's not good to put usury money. We won't let it go in the future, so we'll just keep it." It’s enough to pass..."
"good."
Chu Yao was well aware of her mother's temperament of forgetting the pain after the scar healed. As time passed, she was afraid that she would secretly give money to her mother's relatives again. Chu Yao went to the city with the banknote without telling her the next day, planning to buy a small house near the Washi. , if the shop opens in the future, she will live nearby so that she can take care of the business of the shop.
After all, it is a prosperous place in the city. Even if the business is declining, but it occupies a good location, the price of the house is still high.
Chu Yao and Ya Bao looked at it for three days in a row, and they were very attracted to a house with two entrances. The house was not big but was exquisite and solid. Although it was a bit old, it was not dilapidated. There were two ginkgo trees in the backyard, one male and one female. The trees are blooming, the female trees are bearing fruit, the summer is lush and lush, and the autumn sunset is all over the ground. There is a swing between the two trees, covered with dense flower vines, which makes Chu Yao fall in love.
It's just that this house alone costs at least one thousand taels. In addition, a lot of deed taxes need to be paid to the Yamen. Plus the money to buy the lease and the dental insurance commission, it costs at least one thousand two hundred taels!
This is almost all Chu Yao's savings.
Naturally, there are cheaper houses than this house, but they are either too small or too dilapidated, and it will cost a lot of money to repair them. Chu Yao calculated over and over again, but couldn't make up his mind. Yabao persuaded both sides in a hurry, and finally persuaded him. He approached the owner of the house and said that if she could pay him happily, he would be willing to reduce the price by half.
Chu Yao still hesitated. Even if the price dropped by half, it was still a large amount of money for her.
Yabao really wanted to facilitate this deal, after all, he could get a lot of commission from it. He simply made an appointment with the owner of the house and asked Chu Yao to talk to him face to face. If he could reach an agreement, he would save himself the hassle of running back and forth.
At around 6 o'clock in the morning, Chu Yao arrived in front of the house on time. Ya Bao had been waiting at the door for a while, saying that the owner of the house had not arrived yet, so he asked Chu Yao to go in first to cool off for a while.
Chu Yao asked Zhiye to buy a pot of cooked perilla water. On such a hot day, drinking this is the best way to relieve the heat.
Climbing up the steps and entering the gate, the first thing you see is the screen wall made of colored glaze. You pass through the hanging flower door and enter the backyard. The courtyard paved with regular strips of stone is neat and grand. Two ginkgo trees in the east cast a cool feeling on half of the yard. Under the flower stand The swing had been wiped, and the stone table next to it was also very clean. There was a plate of bright-colored fruits, which must have been prepared by the toothpaste.
Chu Yao sat down on the swing, kicked her legs, and the swing began to swing.
The swing made a harsh squeaking sound because it had not been taken care of for a long time. Chu Yao stopped swinging for a while, thinking that if he could buy this house, the first thing he would do would be to lubricate the swing.
Even though she is already married, she still likes this kind of girly thing.
She leaned on the swing and looked up to admire the waterfall-like wisteria spikes above. After an unknown amount of time, Ya Bao led someone in and said, "Ms. Chu, my boss is here."
Chu Yao turned her eyes and saw two people walking in side by side from the Yue Cave door. One was Ya Bao, whom she was familiar with, and the other was wearing a silk straight skirt with a gray dark cloud pattern and a jade button on his waist. He was slender and graceful. Pianpian, if it weren't for the warmth of the sun between his brows and the man's frozen eyes, Chu Yao would have thought that it was Pei Zhan who was here.
Although they had only met once not long ago, seeing each other again today still made her sigh: the two of them are indeed very similar.
She stood up slowly, with a somewhat surprised and complicated look on her face: "It turns out to be Mr. Lu."
Lu Shaohuai finally came back to his senses from the shock.
The light falling in the gaps between the dense leaves and flowers floats with the wind. The beauty under the flowers stands there delicately and coldly, without applying any powder, elegant and graceful, with autumn water as eyes, quiet and steady.
"It's you." He said, looking a little dazed.
He had been away from home for three years. On the day he returned, he was reminiscing with his father, mother, brothers and sisters in the hall. She suddenly fainted under the crabapple tree outside the hall. In the panic of the crowd, he only saw her profile with her eyes closed.
Then she was carried to the flower hall. Her mother said that she was the wife of His Royal Highness, and told him not to go over and care about her and just rest peacefully.
The next day, they learned the news of her reconciliation with His Royal Highness.
I didn't expect to see her again today.
Obviously he didn't see her face that day, but when he saw it today, he knew it was her.
"Sorry to keep you waiting," he said.
"I should say sorry," Chu Yao didn't wait for them to come over, and walked slowly to them, "I didn't know that this house was the property of the Lu family. If I had known it earlier, I would not have bothered Mr. Lu to run away. trip."
Then he looked at Yabo with a slight apology: "I don't want to buy this house. Please help me pay attention to other things. That's it for today."
Yabao finally got the people together, and he really didn't want to give up such a good business. Although he could see that there seemed to be some bad relationship between the two, he still wanted to save another one for the sake of this business commission. Fan: "Ms. Chu, please think about it again. I'm afraid it will be difficult to find such a good and reasonably priced house in the future..."
Chu Yao has made up her mind: "I'm sorry, I won't consider it anymore."
Ya Bao was so worried that he was sweating. He didn't know how to persuade her when he suddenly heard Lu Shaohuai say: "Ms. Chu, when I came here, my mother told me that the price of this house could be reduced to half a percent at most. But my family was ashamed of you before. Today, I will take it upon myself to give you a 30% discount, and I will never regret it after signing the contract, okay?"
Thirty percent is three hundred taels!
Chu Yaoting was almost moved, but when she thought of the Lu family, she felt her heart was filled with panic: "Thank you, Mr. Lu, for your kindness. No need."
"Ms. Chu," his words were sincere and his eyes were eager. He seemed to have a lot to say, "We have met before, haven't we?"
Chu Yao's heart suddenly tightened, and those dusty memories stained with the moist dew after the Qingming rain poured into her mind when the wind blew under the wisteria flowers.
The rainy period during Qingming Festival that year was particularly long, and my mother fell ill in such weather. The doctor prescribed expensive wild ginseng and dendrobium, and she had to save a lot of money to buy them.
Fungi grew wildly in the humid and sultry Qixia Mountains. Chu Yao temporarily closed the stall selling mafu and went to the mountains every day to collect fungi and sell them in the city.
In this way, he met Lu Shaohuai who was lost and alone when he went to the mountains to hunt for fun with his friends.
At that time, he was squatting on the ground roasting mushrooms. Chu Yao passed by and kindly reminded him: "These mushrooms are poisonous if they are not roasted properly. It is better for you to be cautious..." As he said this, he took two freshly harvested mushrooms from his backpack. Give him the fruit, "If you are hungry, eat this first."
The other party didn't answer, but slowly raised his head, and a handsome face came into her eyes.
She had never seen such a handsome husband, because the air in the mountains was humid, and a few strands of jet black hair lay softly on his forehead, like a...poor big dog.
His skin was fairer than the woman's, his elegant mist-like eyes were clear but bottomless, his nose was straight, and his lips were thin. He murmured to her: "I have a headache and want to vomit..."
Chu Yao saw a few black stains on the corners of his mouth and knew that he had eaten fungi.
In such a situation, he cannot be left here alone. She didn't think too much and helped him up: "You have been poisoned. I will take you down the mountain to find the doctor."
While murmuring his thanks, he fell into psychedelic nonsense: "Thank you, girl...be careful not to step on these little people...ah, you can't climb trees...what a big spider..."
She took him to see the doctor, who was not surprised by the poisoning caused by eating fungi. He asked the medicine boy to boil the medicinal materials prepared in advance and bring them over, and asked Chu Yao to drink them for him.
He was not cooperative and acted like a child.
Chu Yao had no choice but to ask others to hold him down, pinched his nose and drank the medicine.
He choked, coughed until his eyes turned red, and grabbed her hand with tears in his eyes: "I've caught you! Bad guy! You can't leave!"
He was so strong that he held her hand tightly and refused to let go. Chu Yao's face turned red with embarrassment. She couldn't break free and had to be held by him. It was not until he gradually woke up and the strength in his hand gradually loosened that she was able to shake him off. The hand escaped from there.
At that time, she didn't know his name, and she didn't take it to heart. Occasionally, when she thought about it, she would only think that beauty is misleading, and that the overly good-looking man only hindered her from buying and selling mushrooms.
But one day not long after, she went to the Lu Family Pharmacy to seek medicine for her mother. Her mother's illness had not waited until she could save enough money for medicine, and the nearby pharmacies refused to give her medicine on credit. With her last glimmer of hope, she begged the Lu family medicine store. Just in time, the young master of the Lu family came to investigate, and she found out that The husband I met that day turned out to be Lu Shaohuai, the second son of Lu Yuanwai.
He didn't know if he recognized her, but after learning about her predicament, he asked the shopkeeper to give her the medicine on credit and said there was no need to pay for the medicine in a hurry.
He later visited her stall once and praised the mafu she made for being delicious and would eat there often.
But after that meeting, he never showed up again.
And she relies on the money she earns from selling mafu and mushrooms. Every time she saves money, she sends it to the pharmacy. On the day she paid off the medicine, she mustered up the courage to ask the shopkeeper about his current situation. The shopkeeper looked at her meaningfully and said that he was very good and that his employer was arranging a marriage for him.
She was still thinking at that time, wondering what kind of good girl he would marry?
But she didn't expect that the Lu family would come to propose marriage to her.
He had a good appearance and a kind heart, and he had met her several times. She could not find any reason to refuse, so she happily married him with the love of a girl.
On the wedding day, she held a wooden wat in her hand and held the red and green colored silk tied into a concentric knot. She paid homage to the ancestral tablets of the Lu family and the elders of the Lu family. She sat on the bed covered with gold and silver colored threads and mixed fruits, and glanced shyly. The Qingju groom's heart settled down as if it were falling from the clouds, and because of his indifferent glance, his heart started to beat excitedly again.
How could she have imagined at that time that she was marrying a stranger she had never met before...
The past events have all been blown away by the wind. The past events have been explained, and Chu Yao doesn’t want to worry about it anymore.
As for the husband who was about to reminisce with her, she had no thoughts at all and just said lightly: "Have we met before? It must have been a long time ago, I don't even remember."
