Chapter 126 The Fool's Bride for Good Luck 1

Xie Rong was thrown out onto the street wrapped in a quilt before she could even open her eyes after being born.

An old man who was busking on the street picked him up and took him home.

The old man's name was Liu Quan. He was originally the head of the Mingjin Opera Troupe in Jingzhou. Later, when foreigners invaded Jingzhou, he had no choice but to abandon the opera troupe left by his ancestors and flee south with a few children from the troupe who had nowhere to go and no one wanted them.

Xie Rong was someone he picked up on his escape.

The little bundle of flesh was wrapped in swaddling clothes, without even a cry. Perhaps knowing that it was in a chaotic world, it was exceptionally quiet and well-behaved, but it still could not escape being abandoned by its parents.

Liu Quan had simply dropped the dry rations in his arms onto the ground, and as he bent down to pick them up, his eyes met the child's round, bright pupils.

When he came to his senses, he had already squeezed through the shoving crowd at the city gate, protecting the baby in his arms. He left Jingzhou, which was once the most prosperous but is now the most panicked, and headed south to reach the relatively stable Lizhou.

In the past few years, things were relatively stable, and the foreigners' cannons couldn't reach this area. So Liu Quan used his skills from Jingzhou to perform on the streets with several young men from his family.

The money earned from performing was used to buy milk powder for the baby who was still breastfeeding. Children grow quickly, and a new cotton coat was needed every year for the New Year. Although life was tight, it was still relatively stable.

Later, when Xie Rong grew to be five or six years old, she would obediently follow them to the street. When they performed, Xie Rong would hold a porcelain bowl and present it to each passerby who cheered, raising her head and staring at the adults in front of her with her round, heterochromatic eyes, and say in a clear voice, "Uncle and Aunt, please give me some money."

There are many wealthy businessmen in Lizhou, but few watch street performers; they all go to upscale buildings to listen to operas.

So often, when Xie Rong walked around with the bowl, there were only a few copper coins in it.

Little Xie Rong had already witnessed Liu Quan and others arguing fiercely over a piece of land on the street. Although he couldn't read many words, he had learned a lot from Liu Quan.

For example, right now, as he watched the man in front of him, who was dressed in a fairly decent long gown, throw a copper coin into the bowl, he couldn't help but curse inwardly.

Poor bastard! Stingy bastard! Wearing a bright-colored long gown and looking all high and mighty, yet he comes to see this place when he has no money. Why doesn't Brother Liu breathe fire in his face and burn his thick skin to smithereens!

Xie Rong's eyes reddened with anger at the thought of not having any meat buns tonight. She pursed her lips, and her round eyes welled up with tears, making her look like a pitiful little thing.

The man in front of him then affectionately patted his head and tossed five more copper coins into the bowl.

Xie Rong smiled, pretending that the curses she had just hurled at him didn't matter, and said sweetly, "Thank you, Uncle. We'll come here again tomorrow."

Liu Quan taught his apprentices real skills from his previous opera troupe. As long as the skills involved were real, they were bound to work hard.

Therefore, Xie Rong only learned superficial skills; he could hold a porcelain bowl used to collect money until he was fourteen years old.

When he was fourteen, the war reached Lizhou, and the world was on the verge of chaos. People hurried along the streets, and no one paid attention to street performers anymore.

Liu Quan gritted his teeth and used all his remaining savings to open a small restaurant specializing in Jingzhou cuisine.

Fortunately, many people came to Jingzhou to seek refuge, and the small restaurant did brisk business for a while.

Later, the small restaurant's business became stagnant, but it became more stable because the war in Lizhou temporarily subsided. It didn't make a lot of money, but it was enough to buy Xie Rong a new outfit for every season.

Young people always love to wear new clothes and shoes.

That year, Xie Rong was eighteen years old.

He has gone from a little boy holding a porcelain bowl to a well-known young manager in a small restaurant.

A shopkeeper with a very striking appearance.

There are many wealthy merchants and beautiful women in Lizhou, but there is only one who can make people miss her so much that they lose their appetite and sleep. So even her temperament, which is more prickly than her face, seems cute.

Customers who walk into the small restaurant may not have had time to order before they suddenly see a beautiful woman on the counter, resting her chin on her left hand and deftly manipulating an abacus with her right. They find her beauty irresistible and unknowingly order several more dishes.

Ordering food is fine, but if anyone dares to flirt with him under the pretext of buying on credit, he will smash their head with his abacus and then curse their mother and father.

The abacus in the young shopkeeper's hand was spicy and fragrant, and it was considered a signature dish in this small restaurant.

But for some reason today, even though it was almost lunchtime, the small restaurant was still closed, and I couldn't even get yelled at.

The children selling newspapers on the street saw several familiar customers still waiting in front of the door and said, "The restaurant will not be open today."

"Why isn't the door open for no reason? Could it be that old man Liu heard about the defeat at the front and sold him out to escape?!" a diner asked anxiously.

"You didn't know about something this big?" The newsboy waved the thick stack of newspapers in his hand. "It's all written in the newspapers!"

After paying, the group looked down and nearly popped their eyes out.

The eldest son of the Lu family is getting married today, but he's marrying the owner of a small restaurant.

Who are the members of the Lu family? Any one of them could shake the entire Lizhou region.

But when everyone saw the shocking news in the newspaper, they felt no envy for the young shopkeeper, only regret.

The head of the Lu family is now General Lu, who commands the army of Lizhou. The eldest son of the Lu family has been working hard in the army for the past few years and has accumulated a lot of military merits. He was about to succeed his father's position, but he was seriously injured in a battle a month ago and became an idiot.

A fool, a fool destined to lose his inheritance of the Lu family!

The young shopkeeper was as young as a flower, not yet in full bloom, but simply because she was born with heterochromia, which was considered an auspicious sign, she was to be married off to a fool to bring him good luck. In the end, she was left in the Lu family, in a fool's house.

It's absolutely hateful!

Xie Rong didn't think there was anything hateful about marrying a fool.

Marrying a fool means not only getting to wear new clothes every day, but also having to spend three days calculating the dowry sent by the Lu family.

Xie Rong liked to use the abacus, the more his hand ached, the better.

Today is our wedding day, and the red silk in the bridal chamber must remain hanging for three days, otherwise he will insist on tearing it down and converting it into money.

Xie Rong did not wear the most fashionable white dress in Lizhou at the time, which she used as her wedding dress.

He disliked things from foreigners.

If it weren't for those foreigners who robbed his parents like bandits, he would be a young master in Jingzhou by now!

Grandpa said that when he was found, he had a jade pendant in his arms, which was a high-end item that only wealthy families would have.

His bright red wedding dress was very heavy, and the gold headdress made his neck ache.

Xie Rong didn't have time to take off these things. She hurriedly kicked off her embroidered shoes, climbed onto the bed, and sat on the bed counting money while using an abacus.

The big, simpleton had a handsome, cold face, but when people looked at him, they could only mutter his name:

"Honey, I'm sleepy."

Xie Rong kicked the man who was clinging to her off the bed and cursed, "You big idiot, if you're sleepy, go sleep on the sofa."

Do you really think I'd sleep in the same bed with a fool? Go sleep on some foreigner's beat-up sofa!

The man, kicked by him, turned and walked sullenly towards the sofa. His nearly 1.9-meter-tall frame could only curl up on the sofa, staring longingly at him.

Xie Rong lowered his eyes and fiddled with the abacus, a smug smile playing on his lips.

If you marry a fool, wouldn't he be able to bully you however he wants?

After he's done bullying them, he'll take all the money from the idiot!