Chapter 176 Good People Are Rewarded
Lu Qiniang smiled when she heard this and said, "Xiao Yan, now that I realize you're here, can I change my name?"
San Ya blinked her eyes. "Mom, I get it. Are you the Xiao Lu family? People have to call you Xiao family?"
She had worked in the Zhou family, and that was how the housekeepers and maids in the Xiao family were called.
Lu Qiniang glared at her to hide her blush: "What nonsense are you talking about?"
Xiao Yan smiled deeply and picked up a piece of meat for San Ya, "Eat more."
If you can speak, say more.
"I mean, I have to call you Lu Duidui from now on," Lu Qin's mother said, "Your father always talks to me like, 'You're right,' 'You did the right thing,' 'You're very right,' so I'm Lu Duidui, right?"
Everyone was amused by her.
After Lu Qiniang laughed herself, she announced the important decision for the whole family to practice martial arts.
Daya nodded in agreement, Sanya was overjoyed, only Erya was unwilling.
"Isn't that a tan?"
"Why, are you very white?" Lu Qiniang asked, "If you were to encounter a desperado like me, wouldn't the white man stab you? The more beautiful you are, the more skills you need to learn to protect yourself! The bandits in the mountains only pick on beautiful girls."
Arya: "See how scary you sound, I'll try to learn it, but I have to stay in a cool place."
"Okay." Xiao Yan nodded, ending the argument between mother and daughter.
"But let's wait until Dad's corvée service is finished before we start again," Daya said, "otherwise Dad will be too tired."
"I'm fine." Xiao Yan said, "That little bit of work is nothing to me. I'm riding a donkey on the road, so it's not necessarily harder than you guys at home."
Speaking of donkeys, Erya couldn't help but mention it to Lu Qin's mother: "Mom, save some money and buy a horse for my dad. It makes me uncomfortable to see my dad riding a donkey."
"You can make money just by talking?" Lu Qiniang said, "Wait and see how we collect the rent from the warehouse."
She also felt that it was indeed not quite the right look.
"Leave that donkey as a dowry for your eldest sister."
Daya's face turned slightly red.
Erya said, "Then I must have it when I go back."
"You don't need to. You're stupid enough yourself." Lu Qin's mother laughed.
Erya was speechless: "Anyway, I can't be less than my eldest sister."
"Not a hair of your head is safe, so you should think this way when you work."
When it was time to go to bed at night, lying on the kang, Lu Qiniang couldn't fall asleep.
She was thinking about the day's events.
"Xiao Yan, are you asleep?"
"No. What's wrong?"
"I'm thinking about Zhang Heyao..."
"Just tell me, I'm listening."
Don't pause, don't breathe heavily, his heart has been a little fragile lately.
The young man stopped thinking about it and started thinking about Zhang Heyao again.
Do you want him dead?
"You said that when you saw Cheng Jiuwan, he pointed his finger upwards and said the word 'up'. What did that mean? Why did I feel so deflated the moment I looked at Zhang Heyao?"
He was so arrogant originally, how come he suddenly lost his arrogance?
Although Zhang Heyao pretended to be calm and acted like he was really capable, Lu Qiniang was too familiar with him and could easily see that he was giving in.
In the end, those two people were sent to the government. Weren’t they just two little ghosts?
Who ordered them?
Feeling that they have a backer, Zhang Heyao didn't dare to move.
"They must have someone above them." Xiao Yan patiently explained to Lu Qiniang, "The Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue is indeed a high-ranking official. But he also has many constraints. The relationships in the court are complicated and intertwined. No one can be completely powerful and invincible. Instead, one must make trade-offs and make concessions."
This is why Xiao Yan really dislikes the court.
He likes the Northwest, and he likes to see the truth behind broken souls.
Zhang Heyao had a good starting point and he did have some abilities, so he received praise from the emperor several times and made his mark.
But that wasn't enough to make him walk sideways.
"So, officials have their own reasons, and the emperor has his own reasons." Lu Qiniang sighed.
"Yes, but it's still much better than the people at the bottom."
Xiao Yan never knew that the sufferings of the lower-class people could be so different, and all of them made people feel sad and even desperate.
They have done nothing wrong, they work hard and are never complaining, but they often find it difficult to even survive, let alone live with dignity.
Xiao Yan also asked Lu Qiniang another question.
"Abandoned Mother, the person who helped you today is called Shi Ping. Why have I never heard you mention him before?"
Most of the people Lu Qiniang knew were men, not many women.
But Xiao Yanlue understood it as soon as she thought about it, because she had always supported the family like a man, and she worked with the man.
The people I met at Zhou's house later are now hard to see again.
"Shi Ping is a thief." Lu Qiniang said.
"thief?"
"Yeah. Two years ago, when I was still at Zhou's house, he touched my purse when I went out to buy something. I was so angry."
"You caught me?"
"No. Not to mention catching him, I don't even know when he took my things."
"And what happened next?"
"Later, I had no choice but to walk back, cursing and feeling heartbroken. I had five or six coins in my purse, thinking I'd buy a pair of silver cloves for Da Ya and Er Ya. Yes, it was around this time two years ago, when their birthdays were approaching..."
Lu Qiniang recalled more details.
On the way back, she saw a woman holding a child, kneeling in front of the clinic in despair, begging for help.
The people at the clinic also advised her, "It's not that we don't want to save you, it's that we really can't. You already owe so much money, and if you delay any longer, you'll just be throwing money away and only prolong your life for a few more days. It's not worth it."
It’s not that people are bad. Everyone has tried their best, but God is unforgiving.
Lu Qiniang felt sorry for her.
The child in the woman's arms looked like a girl, about the same age as San Ya.
Lu Qiniang wanted to get business for Lao Hu again.
But this family obviously had no money, so Lao Hu had to scold her again.
But go ahead and scold her, saving her life is more important.
Just as Lu Qiniang was about to speak, she saw a short man rushing over with a purse in his hand. "I have money, I have money, please save my daughter."
That purse actually belonged to Lu Qin's mother.
"Isn't it a coincidence?" Lu Qiniang and Xiao Yan said.
"Then you took them to see Divine Doctor Hu?"
"I went."
"Has the person been rescued?"
"I was rescued, and Old Hu scolded me." Lu Qiniang was overjoyed. "But Dujuan's mother was kind and spoke up for me."
"Did you get the silver back?" Xiao Yan asked with a smile.
Lu Qiniang: "...I was in the Zhou residence at the time, I wasn't sick, and I had plenty of money."
Okay, it’s posted again.
But when he thought about how the man named Shi Ping saved Lu Qin's life two years later, Xiao Yan felt that there really was a way of fate.
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