Chapter 95 Lingyu Villa

Mr. Hu stared at the people in front of him in a daze.

"What do you want to do with people?"

Chen Shiyi took a sip of water and replied quickly.

"Uncle Jin is seriously ill, so he needs someone to take care of him. You often go to and from the court, and the emperor always sends someone to pick you up. But sometimes you always have your own private matters, right? Wouldn't it be easier to have a carriage and a driver?"

"I don't have money to keep horses and people."

Chen Shiyi asked with a frown.

"Where did you spend your five hundred taels of salary a year?"

Mr. Hu kept silent.

Chen Shiyi continued.

"People have already bought it, so you have to take it even if you don't want it."

Mr. Hu couldn't help but ask again.

"Forget about Yuanzhong. As for Yuanxi, she is too old to be a maid. She may have her own little thoughts. It's hard to discipline her. And there's also the little beggar next to her. Where did you pick her up from?"

"Don't worry about those two. I'll take them with me when I leave."

The two followed Chen Shiyi back to Liluoyuan.

In Liluoyuan, on a stone bench, one person was sitting, one was standing, and one was kneeling.

Chen Shiyi was very puzzled and asked the kneeling little beggar.

"Why are you kneeling like that?"

The little beggar said tremblingly.

"Sister, please don't chase me away. I will be very good..."

Chen Shiyi remembered the disgusted look on the old man's face, and hurried to comfort him.

"It's okay, I'll let you stay. Get up soon, please? I forgot to ask, what's your name?"

"My real name is Fu Xuwen. Sister, you can give me another name."

Chen Shiyi said with a smile.

"Your name is very good. I'm not very good at naming."

She turned and spoke to Yuanxi.

"What did you want to say to me in the matchmaker's yard?"

Yuanxi looked slightly apologetic.

"Among the several owners who bought me, one lost his business, one was dismissed from office, one of them died of illness, and another jumped into the river. I want to say that I have a lot of bad luck. If you buy me, you will definitely be in big trouble. Old Lady Cai won't let me say it..."

Chen Shiyi's eyes were bright.

"Is yours particularly accurate?"

Yuan Xi nodded.

"Or you can sell me out again!"

Chen Shiyi said with a smile.

"If it's true, then you are simply a treasure. If I have an enemy, I can just put you there and make him suffer without any effort. It saves trouble and worry, and it doesn't take any effort."

After hearing this, Yuan Xi was stunned for a long time, not knowing how to answer.

"Please tidy up the house in the next few days, and leave Kyoto with me after a while."

In Huihua Garden, Mr. Hu and Chen Shiyi were sitting on a stone bench under a persimmon tree.

On the table were a few side dishes and a pot of aged Huadiao.

"What is it? Tell me."

"Who is Long Muchuan?"

"The ninth son of the late emperor, how do you know him?"

"I was drunk one day and accidentally saved his life."

Chen Shiyi took out the land deed from his sleeve pocket and handed it to his grandfather.

"It's the title deed to Yanzhou."

Mr. Hu thought for a moment.

"It's also good to go to Yanzhou. It's close to Kyoto, but far away from trouble."

Chen Shiyi nodded.

"I'll go to Yanzhou first. If it doesn't work, I'll make other arrangements. I'm alone, so I can go anywhere. Sometimes I wonder how I should live my life in the future so that it will be worthwhile to come to this world."

Mr. Hu said with a smile.

"In fact, just follow your heart. In just a few decades, there are too many gains and losses, too many ups and downs. If you can't see things clearly, you will think that it is hardship and suffering. If you can see things clearly, it is a part of the scenery of life."

"My dear, I had a very hard life when I was little. No one protected me. I have been struggling all the way to this day. Sometimes I think that if I become powerful, no one will dare to bully me. But the reality is that I have no chance and no ability to make myself powerful!"

Mr. Hu sneered.

"Everything is possible. The ancestor of the Daye Dynasty was born as a lowly official, and the current Right Prime Minister went to the capital to take the imperial examination in ragged old clothes. A hero is not judged by his origin."

"But they themselves are very capable, which is why they were able to achieve success so quickly!"

"Do what you are good at, and do it to the extreme, and you will find that those honors and disgraces, those respects and inferiors, those orders, and those rituals will all change because of your ability. On that day, the rules will be made by you, and no one will dare to bully you in the future!"

Chen Shiyi's eyes were sparkling.

“I want to be that person.”

Mr. Hu pursed his lips and smiled.

"Yeah, ambitious."

After saying that, he took out a bronze plate and gave it to Chen Shiyi.

"This is my token. It doesn't do much, but it's good for scaring people."

Chen Shiyi took the bright yellow bronze medal and was deeply moved.

"Thank you, uncle."

When we left Kyoto, autumn had arrived.

The sun shines brightly during the day, and at night, a cool breeze blows into the neck, making people shiver.

After Fu Xuwen tidied himself up a bit, he still looked like a handsome young man.

Yuanxi was always a little worried, afraid that his bad luck would affect Chen Shiyi.

Chen Shiyi advised.

"I don't talk about strange things. Sometimes, things in the world just happen by coincidence. But it's not necessarily because of you. If you go to another place, maybe this won't happen."

Fu Xuwen drove the carriage, and they rested on the road for two days. Two days later, they finally arrived at the forest that Long Muchuan mentioned.

It is called a forest, but to be more precise it is a mountain village.

There are two old houses in the village. Outside the houses, there is a large open space where golden corns are basking in the sun. Occasionally, a few chickens would come out from the bushes nearby and try to peck at the rice, but a five-year-old kid who was watching nearby would swing them with a bamboo stick and they would spread their wings and run away...

"Kid, where are your parents?"

The little boy raised his head and glanced at Chen Shiyi and the others, then quickly pointed to the fields in the distance.

"They are working there."

In the distance, there are busy figures in the fields. The harvest season is always exceptionally busy.

Chen Shiyi sat under the eaves, enjoying the cool air and waiting for the others to return.

At sunset, when the sky was dyed red, people could be seen dragging their tired bodies back from the fields.

A middle-aged couple, a man and a woman in their twenties, and a little girl about ten years old.

When the middle-aged man saw Chen Shiyi, a look of confusion appeared on his bronze face.

"Girl, who are you?"

"I am the owner of this villa and I will be staying here for a while."

The middle-aged man's attitude instantly became respectful.

"So you are the master. We are tenants of the farmland in the mountain manor. Our surname is Sun."

Chen Shiyi suddenly realized.

"Aren't you the manager here?"

"No, shall I take you to find them?"

"That's a bother for you."

Fu Xuwen drove the carriage, and the tenant grandson sat beside the carriage to lead the way.

After swaying for about a quarter of an hour, we arrived at the gate of a large courtyard. In front of the gate, there were two red lanterns, shining brightly and particularly eye-catching.

There were two large tables in the yard, and they were filled with people, drinking, eating, laughing and playing. It was really lively...

Sun Dianhu brought Chen Shiyi and his group in, but did not let them stop the lively conversation at the table.

A middle-aged man with a short beard and shrewd eyes looked at the grand-tenant who was running towards him with a hunched back and said with a look of impatience.

"It's so late, why can't we talk about it tomorrow?"

"Manager Li, the owner of the manor is here."

The middle-aged man named Manager Li immediately became cautious after hearing this.

He stood up suddenly and looked at the two women and one man that the grandtenant was pointing at, and his brows furrowed.

"Wasn't it Old Zhang who came before? Why is it that someone else has come now?"

Chen Shiyi felt very uncomfortable when he heard the tone of Manager Li's voice.

He doesn't have the attitude that a subordinate should have and is quite arrogant.