Zhiye went straight to the backyard with Zi Su Shui in her arms. As soon as Fang stepped through the moon cave door, he saw a familiar figure standing inside.
Is that person the Crown Prince of Jinyang? Or Lu Shaohuai, the second son of the Lu family? She couldn't tell the difference for a moment.
Fu took a closer look: the same handsome face seemed a little more approachable, and he concluded that this person was probably Lu Shaohuai.
"Sister..." She walked to Chu Yao in confusion. She still didn't understand why Lu Shaohuai appeared here?
"Let's go back," Chu Yao gave Yabao the boiled perilla water she bought and apologized to him, "I have troubled my little brother today. After helping me find another suitable house in the future, I will not I’m treating you badly, brother.”
The three shops before were also handled by this tooth guard. He knew that Chu Yao was a good customer. If the deal couldn't work out today, he couldn't force it. He tried his best to smile and said: "Madam, you're welcome. Since Madam has made up her mind, I will do it in the future." Just keep looking for me for my wife."
Chu Yao took Zhiye's hand and walked out. After getting on the carriage, Zhiye dared to ask in a low voice: "Sister, why is that person here?"
The "he" she mentioned naturally refers to Lu Shaohuai.
"This house originally belonged to the Lu family," Chu Yao said helplessly, "I have been in the Lu family for three years, but I don't know much about the Lu family's property. If I had known that the house's surname was Lu, I would never have given it a second glance."
Now it was good, she was very attracted to the house, and the price had dropped so much, but she couldn't pass the test in her heart, so such a good house was not available to her.
"That's it," Zhiye frowned, "Then we won't buy it!"
Chu Yao held her chin and sighed: "But he gave me a discount of three hundred taels..."
"Ah?" Zhiye's eyes widened in shock, "Then let's buy it, right?"
Three hundred taels!
Not three taels, not thirty taels, but a real three hundred taels.
You must know that ordinary people working outside can only earn four or five taels of silver a month. If it is three hundred taels, it will take several years to save it.
"Forget it!" Chu Yao still insisted on her decision, "I don't want to have anything to do with the Lu family anymore!"
Zhiye was really moved by the price: "Three hundred taels, sister, have you really thought about it?"
Chu Yao buried her face in her palms: "I've thought about it. I can't say it anymore. Besides, I'm going to regret it..."
"Ms. Chu..."
Lu Shaohuai's voice suddenly came from outside the car window. Chu Yao was startled. She quickly collected her emotions and responded through the curtain: "Second Young Master Lu, is there anything else?"
"I still hope you can take over this house," the other party paused for a moment before saying, "This can be regarded as... making up for my family's debt to you..."
Chu Yao felt a little confused, but the Lu family never felt they owed her anything. And she also received compensation from Pei Zhan, and for her, everything was settled.
"Second Young Master Lu is too worried. There is nothing I owe or owe, and I don't need you to make up for anything."
"What if I...want to compensate you?"
Chu Yao didn't understand even more: "What do you mean by this?"
"I……"
Chu Yao was waiting to hear his explanation, but after hesitating for a moment, he suddenly changed his subject: "Our family will be moving to the capital soon, so we are in a hurry to dispose of some properties. You don't have to feel uncomfortable when you live in this house. If you feel uncomfortable, no one from the Lu family will bother you..."
The Lu family is moving to the capital?
In the past few days, Chu Yao did not care about the affairs in the capital, but he also heard some rumors. It was said that King Jinyang's army was overwhelming, and the guards of the imperial city had been defeated as if they were made of paper. Most of the princes and nobles in the imperial city After giving in, it is unknown what the scene was like in the palace.
Nowadays, the big power has been established, and the Lu family can be regarded as one of the heroes. Presumably, after King Jinyang ascends to the throne, he will be rewarded based on his merits. The Lu family will also be able to get an official position, and it is expected that they will move to the capital to settle down.
What's more, the Lu family will stuff Lu Mingshu into the East Palace in the future.
However, the prince of Jinyang is so similar to Lu Shaohuai. How will Lu Mingshu get along with a husband who looks just like her brother in the future? Don't you feel uncomfortable in your heart?
Chu Yao suddenly felt a chill, and hurriedly dismissed the uncomfortable associations in her mind, and said perfunctorily to Lu Shaohuai outside the carriage: "Congratulations on going to the capital, but this house..."
"I will have someone deliver the house deed and the contract to my wife's home. The seven hundred taels is just the price in the contract. I don't have to pay for it, I will just make up for it..."
Will he make up for it?
She doesn't have to pay?
Give it to her for free?
Why?
Chu Yao opened the curtain and was full of doubts: "Second Master Lu, I am not familiar with you, why did you give me the house for free? And just now, why did you say you wanted to compensate me?"
But he still refused to tell the truth: "In short, I feel ashamed of you."
Lu Shaohuai didn't say anything more and left on horseback. Chu Yao and Zhiye looked at each other in the carriage. Zhiye looked confused: "Sister, is it pie in the sky?"
Chu Yao couldn't figure out why he did this. He said he felt guilty about her. Why did he feel guilty?
He left without saying anything clearly, which only made her more troubled.
A few days later, someone came to her home with the deed and the deed. As long as she signed the deed, the house became hers.
Chu Yao refused to sign, but she couldn't bear it. When her mother heard that the Lu family was giving her a house for free, she was overjoyed and said she would sign on her behalf.
But Zhou was illiterate, so the man said that pressing fingerprints counted. Chu Yao failed to stop her mother and watched her pressing fingerprints on the contract. The matter was a foregone conclusion. Chu Yao had no choice but to chase the man out and kill her. She gave him all the thousand taels of silver notes and asked him to come back and write down the receipt. Even if she bought this house, she didn't get it for free.
After the man left, Mrs. Zhou felt sorry for the thousand taels of silver. She pointed at Chu Yao and scolded her for being stubborn, stupid and stubborn. Others clearly wanted to give it away for free, but she insisted on giving it to her. Why should she act so aloof? look?
Mrs. Zhou also knew that she was scolding unpleasantly, but she couldn't hold back her words when she got emotional: "You just gave me a thousand taels as you said? You just don't take the money seriously. You know if we had this thousand taels back then, Your two brothers don’t have to go to the battlefield to die. One thousand taels, how dare you just give it away..."
Chu Yao was not angry when her mother scolded her. After all, she was prepared to be scolded when she took out the banknote. But her mother mentioned her two brothers...
She suddenly looked at her mother and asked her: "Yes, if our family had money back then, at least one of your two sons could have saved it. But what about our family's money, mother? Who did you give our family's money to?"
Zhou was originally hysterical, but when she heard her questioning, her momentum dissipated a lot.
She feels guilty.
Back then, she secretly took the money to give to her mother's family, but she never got it back in the end.
She murmured: "I'm telling you that I have one thousand taels now, so why are you mentioning the past?"
To this day, Ms. Zhou still doesn’t feel that she did anything wrong. What was wrong with her giving money to her natal family? What's wrong if my mother's family can't come up with the money? The blame is only that the world is not good, the blame is that they were born into poor families and everyone is not rich.
"After all these years, have you never felt that you were at fault?" Chu Yao's voice trembled slightly. Her two brothers were the biggest pain in her heart. As long as she mentioned them, she could not control herself from blaming her mother. "In terms of blood relationship, My brothers and I are your closest relatives, and the money you gave to your parents' family was earned by my father with his life, so how could you give it to someone else without discussing it with us?"
"You were still young then..."
"Are you young? My eldest brother was about to get engaged at that time, and my second brother was also studying. I was the only one who was young. Have you discussed it with them again?"
Mrs. Zhou opened her mouth to retort, but seeing her daughter's stern face trying to hold back her anger, she didn't dare to say the words that came to her lips.
Chu Yao felt bad when she saw her mother's expression, not daring to speak.
She didn't want to talk too much about this old debt with her mother, after all, nothing would help now.
She took a breath and thought about it for a while, then she sorted out her words and explained today's events to her clearly: "On the day I moved out from the Lu family, Mrs. Lu and her two daughters came to check my luggage, for fear that I Take more things from the Lu family. They are so guarded against me. How could they give me a house for nothing for no reason after being separated for so long? I stopped you today and refused to let you press my fingerprints. You refused to listen. After pressing my fingerprints, I So I had no choice but to buy it at the original price. Fortunately, I’ve seen that house and it’s pretty good. I can buy one for one thousand taels and live in it with peace of mind..."
After hearing these words, Ms. Zhou began to reflect that she was indeed too impulsive just now, but because she was an elder, she always had to save some face: "You didn't tell me before that they were guarding against you. You only told me that Lu My family gave you money and a shop, so I thought they were very kind to you?"
"I have been married for three years, and they have never lacked me for anything. It's just that since we are divorced, it doesn't matter if they are more cautious about me." The reason is that Chu Yao cannot tell the truth to her mother, so she just fools her into living her life. There's nothing wrong with living on. "In short, we are settled with the Lu family, and we don't owe anyone anything. Now that we have bought the house, let's find someone to calculate the auspicious date and let's move there."
Zhou sighed and said nothing more.
Not long after, the sky changed in Daliang. The former monarch of Daliang was enthroned by King Jinyang. The new emperor ascended the throne and changed his reign to Yong'an. The new policy was immediately promulgated, lenient punishments and poor taxes were eliminated, and the people's livelihood was brought to an end. The whole country was excited.
The capital soon sent people over to take Brother Ming back to the capital.
Chu Yao held her son in the house and fed him for the last time. The little man didn't know that he was about to leave his mother. While sucking, he looked at his mother with his round eyes. From time to time, he let go and grinned at his mother. There were two little ones that had just popped up on his tender red gums. tooth……
When he smiled, Chu Yao burst into tears.
When Pei Zhan wanted a child, she readily agreed, but now that the mother and son were separated, she felt so painful and unable to vent her feelings that she wished she could go back on her word.
But after all, she still has reason. She can't really keep her son by her side. This is too selfish. Her son's father is the Prince of the East Palace. If her son follows him, he will make great achievements in the future.
The son was tired from drinking, so he fell asleep while sucking, his chubby face full of happiness and satisfaction.
Chu Yao carefully handed him over to the nanny, and watched as the nanny got into the carriage with the sleeping little man in her arms. Before leaving, she stopped again and pushed Zhiye up.
"Zhiye, thank you for your hard work. Come along for a while." She stuffed a bulging purse into Zhiye's hand. "You will come back when everything is settled."
Zhiye understood what she meant: "Sister, don't worry, I will take good care of Brother Ming."
As the carriage gradually moved away, Chu Yao stood at the door and watched from a distance. The sound of the wheels almost crushed her heart...
