Chapter 56 Where did you get so much money?
"Yes." Chunzhi didn't even turn around. "Can you leave now?"
Lu Jingyun felt as if his heart had been stabbed with a knife. He gave a wry smile and whispered, "Chunzhi."
His voice sounded bitter. "Would you please not talk to me like that?"
Chunzhi said coldly: "No."
When Lu Jingyun heard this, the two words "as expected" suddenly appeared in his mind.
After Chunzhi finished speaking, she went straight inside and wanted to close the gate, but Lu Jingyun got there first and walked in directly.
Chunzhi said coldly, "Lu Jingyun, don't think you can do whatever you want just because you're an official. If you dare take another step forward, I'll go to the government office and sue you for trespassing!"
Hearing this, Lu Jingyun stood still and didn't move forward. "I just wanted to ask you, did Zhou Rong come to see you the night before last? Did he... do anything to you?"
He asked this question with some difficulty.
During the time he had been back in Nanzhou, as an assistant investigator, he naturally knew that Zhou Rong was a shameless lecher, and almost no woman who caught his eye would be spared.
If Chunzhi was really...
"Isn't it too late for you to ask about what happened the night before last?" Chunzhi didn't want to mention what happened that night at all.
Whenever she thought of Zhou Rong touching her face and tearing her clothes, she felt extremely disgusted.
After Huo Qi took her home, he never mentioned what happened that night again.
But Lu Jingyun had to come and ask about this matter.
She said coldly, "What happened that day has nothing to do with you? Why should I tell you?"
Lu Jingyun looked at Chunzhi with an expression that was difficult to describe. "Zhou Rong is dead."
He couldn't tell Chunzhi that Zhou Rong came to her because Ji Ruzhen was behind it.
He didn't have the face to tell Chunzhi that she had been in a lot of trouble recently, all caused by him.
Lu Jingyun could only tell Chunzhi that Zhou Rong's death might make her happy.
"What?"
Chunzhi didn't expect him to say this suddenly.
She didn't react for a moment, and after a moment she said, "That's great."
Lu Jingyun thought to himself: I knew Chunzhi wanted to hear this news.
Then he continued, "Zhou He and Zhou Rong, father and son, have been causing trouble in Nanzhou for many years. The Prince of Chang'an personally tried their case, sentenced them to death, and confiscated their residences to appease the people."
Chunzhi was very excited when she heard this: That’s great.
Then Huo Qi should be back soon.
She thought so in her heart, with a smile in her eyes, but she still had a stern face when she looked at Lu Jingyun, "Are you done? You can go now."
When Lu Jingyun came today, Chunzhi thought he was here to deliver a message.
Don't bother with him.
Lu Jingyun looked at Chunzhi, "Can't you let me go in and sit for a while? I have a lot to say to you..."
"No." Chunzhi said, "And I have nothing to say to you."
Lu Jingyun wanted to say something else.
Another blue cloth carriage slowly drove in from the alley and stopped in front of the tofu workshop.
A slender jade-like hand lifted the curtain of the carriage, Huo Qi walked out slowly, got off the carriage, and watched Chunzhi and Lu Jingyun talking in front of the courtyard gate.
He looked at this scene, said nothing, but raised his eyebrows slightly.
"Huo Qi!" Chunzhi's eyes lit up immediately when she saw Huo Qi coming back. She brushed past Lu Jingyun and quickly stepped forward to greet him. "You're back!"
Huo Zhengren Chunzhi rushed over, the corners of his lips unconsciously raised slightly, and he reached out to hug her tightly, "Are you so happy to see me back?"
The secret guard who pretended to be an ordinary coachman to send the prince back to Taohua Lane did not dare to look at the situation any longer, fearing that the prince would kill him to silence him when he returned to the capital. He silently turned the carriage around and left first.
"Of course." Chunzhi put her arm around Huo Qi's neck and said with a smile, "I heard Zhou Rong is dead."
Huo Zheng asked: "Who told you that?"
Chunzhi looked up at Lu Jingyun.
Huo Zheng immediately knew that someone had told Chunzhi the good news before him.
"Why is the top scholar here?" Huo Zheng's tone was indifferent, but the look he gave Lu Jingyun was not friendly.
Seeing Chunzhi, who had always kept him at a distance, being so intimate with Huo Qi, Lu Jingyun felt even more bitter. "I'll come and see Chunzhi."
Huo Zheng asked, "Have you finished reading it?"
"I've finished reading it." Lu Jingyun said hoarsely, "If there's nothing else, I'll take my leave now."
Huo Zheng said "hmm" and walked inside with Chunzhi in his arms.
After taking two steps, I heard Chunzhi hiss and take a breath.
Huo Zheng held her waist with one hand, "What's wrong?"
"Someone stepped on my foot while I was watching the fun today." Chunzhi whispered, "Maybe it hurts. It hurts a little."
"Why didn't you say so earlier?" Upon hearing this, Huo Zheng picked up Chunzhi and carried her horizontally, striding into the house.
Lu Jingyun, who was about to leave, turned around to look at the two of them, but only saw Huo Qi's back as he held Chunzhi and walked towards the house.
He suddenly realized very clearly that Chunzhi had really left him.
And she would never look back at him again.
Lu Jingyun closed his eyes and stood there for a long time before leaving Taohua Lane with heavy steps.
And in the small courtyard.
Huo Zheng carried Chunzhi into the house, laid her on the bed, and gently took off her shoes and socks. "I told you to stay home, why did you run out? You went out to watch the fun and got stepped on."
Huo Zheng didn't know what to say to her.
Chunzhi's big toe was stepped on and it was swollen and purple, and there was also bruising.
How hard of a kick would it take to crush someone like this?
She was born fair, with a pair of white and tender feet, and the swollen areas were particularly obvious.
Chunzhi murmured softly, "No wonder it hurts so much..."
Huo Zheng found a pair of scissors and cut Chunzhi's toenails, then applied some medicine and wrapped her with white cloth.
He said to Chunzhi, "Don't wander around these two days."
"That won't do." Chunzhi said, "I still have to make tofu."
Huo Zheng said, "Even if I don't make tofu for two days, I won't starve to death."
Chunzhi glared at him angrily, "You don't know how expensive food and oil are until you run a household! How can we live without money?"
When Huo Qi went to Nanzhou City yesterday, Chunzhi gave him one hundred and fifty taels.
How much tofu does she have to make to earn back such a huge sum of money?
Speaking of money——
Huo Zheng took out a dozen banknotes from his sleeve and handed them to Chunzhi, "Keep these."
"Where did you get so much money?"
Chunzhi took the stack of banknotes and counted them three times.
One hundred and fifty taels of silver were the ones she had given to Huo Qi previously. Because they were hidden in a soybean jar, the silver notes even had the smell of soybeans.
There are still five hundred taels left.
Money doesn't make money so quickly.
Chunzhi looked at Huo Qi in surprise and asked again, "Speak up, where did you get so much money?"
Huo Zheng felt somewhat helpless. Five hundred taels was not a lot at all.
But in Chunzhi's opinion, it was probably too much.
Huo Zheng casually said, "The Prince of Chang'an gave it to me."
Chunzhi asked puzzledly, "Why did the King of Chang'an give you so much silver?"
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