201. Land Deed

late at night.

From deep within the Chen Mansion came the sounds of laughter, music, and the singing of a singing girl.

Chen Liqin's direct officials did not wait for the banquet three days later, but came with their servants and carried gifts, and broke down the threshold of Chen's mansion.

However, the bustle of the Chen Mansion has nothing to do with Mingquan Garden.

At this moment, Chen Ji lay on the bed in Mingquan Garden, staring blankly at the curtains above his head. Wu Yun lay on his back beside him, also in a daze.

There are three layers of mattress on the bed. The bottom layer is a palm mat woven from palm leaves to prevent moisture. The second layer is a freshly fluffed cotton mattress, and the third layer is a silk sheet.

The bed was soft, infinitely better than the bunk beds in the apprentice dormitory. There was no foot odor, no snoring, but Chen Ji couldn't sleep.

He always felt that there were still many things to do before leaving Los Angeles, but he couldn't figure it out for a while.

"Dark Cloud, we are about to start a new life."

Wu Yun stared with round eyes: "Chen Ji, if you really can't sleep, why not sneak back to the clinic and sleep, and come back in the morning."

Chen Ji was happy: "I don't have to live in the hospital, I just can't sleep in my new home."

Moreover, those who snore, flip over the quilt, and kick their legs are no longer in the clinic.

Chen Ji asked, "Wuyun, after we rescue the princess, let's go out to sea together. We can also take a boat from Qiming all the way to Lushun Port and go to Jingchao."

Wuyun turned over and meowed curiously, "Are you going to find your uncle?"

Chen Ji thought for a moment and said, "No, we won't look for anyone. Let's go to the mountains and become hunters, building a hut there. In the winter, I'll take you to catch hibernating bears and roe deer. In the summer, I'll take you to dig out toads and catch cicadas. In late autumn, we'll pick all the pears and make frozen pears for you to eat... Then we'll go further north to see the aurora and ride a sled."

He was trapped in the beautiful hometown that Wu Hongbiao had woven, and even the dark clouds had some longing for it.

Chen Ji thought to himself that he was now an official of the Xiantian realm, so he could walk freely in the mountains. Dealing with animals was much better than dealing with people.

Wuyun was curious: "Then you hide in the mountains. There is no ice flow in the Mountain King's Path. If you can't reach the Dao Seeking Realm before the age of thirty-six, you won't be able to live long."

Chen Ji said in a relaxed tone: "What's the point of living so long? Master said that if you live longer, you will suffer more humiliation."

Wu Yun was silent for a moment: "But I see that Master is very happy every day."

Chen Ji was puzzled: "Is he happy? We are in the clinic and we are annoying him to death every day."

Wu Yun said casually, "He was just talking. Master was watching you guys playing around in the yard through the crack in the window in the main room, and he was laughing happily."

"Yeah……"

As he was speaking, there was a knock on the door outside Mingquan Garden.

Chen Ji threw back the quilt, got out of bed, and walked into the yard wearing a cloak: "Who is it?"

Chen Liqin said gently, "It's me."

Chen Ji opened the door bolt.

As soon as he opened the door, he smelled the strong odor of alcohol. He saw that Chen Liqin's dark cheeks were reddish purple, and the look of drunkenness was written all over his face.

Chen Ji asked in confusion, "Why did Master Chen come here so late at night?"

Chen Liqin was already used to hearing the name 'Master Chen', and he didn't even frown. "Why are you living in your own house and bolting the gate to the courtyard? Don't worry, our servants in the Chen Mansion patrol at night and won't let any bad guys in."

Chen Ji smiled but didn't answer. He was not guarding against the bad guys outside the mansion.

Under the moonlight, Chen Ji opened the wooden door only a crack, while Chen Liqin stood outside the door, unable to go in or out.

After a moment of silence, Chen Liqin asked, "Wouldn't you like me to come in and sit down?"

Chen Ji moved aside and said, "Master Chen, please."

Chen Liqin entered the courtyard and looked around: "Are you satisfied with this place?"

Chen Ji smiled and said, "Of course I am satisfied."

The two stood in the yard, suddenly looking at each other in silence, the atmosphere was eerily quiet.

After a long while, Chen Liqin coughed lightly and said, "When you arrive in the capital, the government will reserve a separate courtyard for you. Don't worry, it will be no worse than the ones in Wenzong and Wenxiao."

Chen Ji bowed and thanked: "Thank you, Chen

grown ups. "

After saying this, Chen Liqin didn't know what to say for a moment. Chen Ji was not in a hurry to speak, so he just waited quietly.

After a long while, Chen Liqin sighed and said, "Today, I cannot expose our dirty laundry in front of outsiders. The Chen family's reputation is not just mine. As members of the Chen family, you and I must protect it well and not bring disgrace upon the Chen family. If outsiders learn of our dirty laundry, no one will truly worry. They will only laugh at our family's jokes."

Chen Ji hummed.

Chen Liqin stood in front of the wintersweet tree with his hands behind his back. "I know you've suffered a lot over the years, and have endured many injustices. Don't worry, I won't let you suffer such unjust grievances again in the future."

Chen Ji bowed and thanked him: "It is good that Master Chen knows that I am innocent."

At this time, Chen Liqin turned around, took out a paper deed from his sleeve and handed it to Chen Ji.

Chen Ji was puzzled: "What is this?"

Chen Liqin said, "The Imperial Household Department confiscated Prince Jing's mansion and the Liu family's assets, and some unimportant properties were sold on the spot. The deed in your hand is the title deed to the Taiping Medical Clinic. I know you lived there for two years and have feelings for it, so I asked someone to buy it back. I figured that even though we're going to the capital, this would be a way to leave a lasting memory in Luocheng..."

Chen Ji's expression changed, and he hurriedly unfolded the land deed. He saw five big words written at the top of the deed: "Divide the land into households ticket."

"The thirty-three-district six-sided report, this government clearly indicates that the fields and ponds are located at No. 12, Anxi Street..."

Chen Ji carefully folded the deed and tucked it into his sleeve. Then, he folded his hands and bowed deeply: "Thank you, Master Chen, for your thoughtfulness."

Chen Liqin looked at Chen Ji with a complicated expression. When he presented him with a hole-shaped cucumber worth a thousand coins, Chen Ji was not moved. When he said he would arrange for him to study at Donglin Academy and pave the way for the imperial examination, Chen Ji was not moved either.

Only at this moment did he finally feel Chen Ji's heartfelt gratitude.

Chen Liqin felt a little awkward for a moment. He helped Chen Ji up and said, "What are you doing? We are father and son, so it's only natural for me to do this for you..."

Before Chen Liqin could finish, he saw Chen Ji go back to the house, put on his clothes, picked up Wu Yun, and walked out of the yard with big strides: "Master Chen, I'm going out for a while."

"Where are you going..." Chen Liqin looked at Chen Ji's back and raised his hand, then slowly put it down.

…

…

Liujia Lane.

From a run-down household, a man's gruff roar rang out, "Back then, I told you not to study medicine, but you insisted, saying it would make me money. I spent so much money arranging connections to send you to school, but before you could even earn any money, the clinic closed down. Now all my money has gone down the drain. How should I settle this account?"

In the room, a faint oil residue lamp was burning on the table.

The blue bricks on the ground were chipped at the corners, and the paint on the vermilion eight-immortals table was peeling.

A man in his thirties sat on a chair, panting, his fat body trembling slightly, and a strong smell of alcohol coming out of his mouth.

Liu Quxing knelt in front of the main hall door with his head bowed. His mother knelt beside him, about to cry: "Master, there's nothing we can do about the clinic being gone. It has nothing to do with Xingxing."

"It doesn't matter?" The man sneered, "If you say it doesn't matter, then it doesn't matter?"

Liu Quxing whispered, "Then what do you say we should do?"

The man narrowed his eyes. "Was the man you spoke to at the Secret Service Office that day a high-ranking official? I've met him before. He was also an apprentice at your clinic, wasn't he?"

Liu Quxing nodded.

The man asked again: "I heard he is from the Chen family?"

Liu Quxing nodded again.

The man said, "His willingness to help you that day shows that you still have a schoolmate's friendship. Go find him tomorrow and ask him to arrange a job for you. When you work in the Imperial Household Department, you can manipulate anyone you want among the high-ranking officials in Luo City."

Liu Quxing said stubbornly: "I won't go. I have no friendship with him."

The man picked up the wine bowl on the table and smashed it over. Liu Quxing turned his head away and with a bang, the wine bowl shattered into pieces in the small courtyard behind him.

Liu Quxing's mother quickly hugged her son and said, "Master, Xingxing

If you don't want to go, then don't go. There are plenty of ways to make money. Didn't I give you all the dividends from the preparation bureau? That money is enough for our family to spend for many years."

The man sneered, "The mention of money makes me angry. I was fine in the gambling house, but you chose to bring bad luck to me and made me lose all my money. You are a jinx. Ever since I married you, nothing has gone smoothly for me!"

The woman knelt there in a daze. "All gone? Master, you lost all five hundred taels of silver? We agreed that if Xingxing didn't become an imperial physician, the money would be left for him to open a clinic. How could you lose it all?"

The man stood up and kicked the woman to the ground: "You are the one who questions me?!"

Liu Quxing, who had been forbearing all this time, suddenly raised his head and straightened his back: "Don't hit my mother!"

The man was stunned for a moment, then slapped Liu Quxing in the face: "This is outrageous! I sent you to study medicine, and you became too independent?"

Liu Quxing was slapped so hard that he turned his face to the side, then turned back: "Don't hit my mother!"

The man sneered, "I don't know how that old man in the clinic taught you to disobey your father!"

Liu Quxing stood up and said fiercely, "Don't curse my master!"

The man slapped Liu Quxing in the face again: "Is that old man teaching you how to behave like this?"

Liu Quxing turned around and said word by word, "I told you not to hit my mother or scold my master again."

The man laughed angrily: "What's wrong with me scolding him?"

Liu Quxing hesitated for a moment, turned around and went out, taking out a kitchen knife.

He held up the kitchen knife, his whole body trembling as he said, "Hit my mother again and see how it goes? Curse my master again and see how it goes!"

The man ripped open his shirt, revealing his fat belly: "Can you really kill me? Come on, chop your father..."

Before he finished speaking, the man dodged to the side.

With a bang, the kitchen knife hit the eight-immortals table behind him.

The man was still in shock. If he hadn't dodged, the knife would have ripped him open. He turned to look at Liu Quxing, only to see a fierceness on his face that he had never seen before.

Liu Quxing pulled the kitchen knife from the table and said grimly, "Divorce my mother and sign the divorce papers now. If you don't, neither of us will live!"

The man took a step back: "You two have been eating and drinking my food all these years..."

Liu Quxing took a step forward, holding the kitchen knife. "Isn't five hundred taels of silver enough to pay you back? My mother and I don't owe you anything anymore! Will you write it? If not, I'll chop you to death right now!"

The man shuddered. "Write it! I wonder where you'll end up without me. This house is mine, get out of my house tonight!"

Liu Quxing sneered and stared at the man as he wrote the divorce letter: "Press your fingerprints!"

The man cursed: "There is no ink at home."

Liu Quxing cut a slit in his palm, opened his open palm and held it out to the man: "Press it with my blood!"

The man shuddered. "You must be possessed by some evil spirit. Tomorrow I'll have the City God take you away."

Seeing the man press his fingerprints, Liu Quxing tore off the hem of his shirt to wrap the wound on his hand. He took the divorce papers, pulled his mother and walked out.

As soon as he opened the door, Liu Quxing stood at the door in a daze... Where should he go?

But at this moment, his mother whispered, "Xingxing, what is this on the ground?"

Liu Quxing looked down and saw someone pressing a piece of white paper with two silver ingots on the bluestone road in the alley in front of the door.

He bent down to pick up the silver, then picked up the white paper on the ground and examined it. "This... This is the title deed to the Taiping Clinic!"

The woman uttered an "ah," and turning to look at the man behind her, she lowered her voice and asked, "Why is the deed to the clinic here?"

Liu Quxing didn't answer. He anxiously glanced at both ends of the alley and saw a thin figure just walking to the end of the alley and turning into the darkness without looking back.

He ran after her as fast as he could, but after leaving the alley, he could no longer see the figure in the darkness.

Liu Quxing suddenly squatted on the ground and burst into tears: "Don't go, all of you come back!"

(End of this chapter)