122, Becoming Bald
122, Becoming Bald
When he realized something was wrong, Cai Renjun suddenly sat up from the bed. He touched his head with both hands, but instead of feeling hair as usual, he felt only a bald scalp!
He was horrified to find that his hair was gone and he was now bald!
"Someone come! Someone come quickly!"
"master."
The servant waiting outside the door heard the master of the house calling him, and thought that his master was calling him in to help him wash up, so he went in with a basin of water.
When the servant saw his master standing and walking around in the room, his eyes fell on the master's bald head. He was so scared that he loosened his grip and the basin filled with water fell to the ground with a clang, spilling water all over the floor.
"Master, where is your hair?" The servant looked at his master's bald head with horror.
"Where's my hair? My head..." At this moment, Cai Renjun looked down and saw the hair scattered on the floor in front of the bed. He rushed over and hugged the hair on the floor, shouting like crazy: "My hair, this is my hair..."
“This is my hair!”
"Who did it? Who shaved my hair!" Cai Renjun was so angry that his whole body was shaking, his teeth were chattering, and his whole face was distorted.
He was now very sure of one thing, that was, his hair was shaved off!
At this moment, Cai Renjun thought of a person. Lu! Ming! Fei! It must be him!
Seeing their young master kneeling on the ground holding a ball of hair, the servant realized something and turned around and ran out in fright, running to the main courtyard to inform their master and mistress.
"Jun'er, my Jun'er..."
Not long after, Mrs. Cai's voice calling her son was heard outside.
Following Mrs. Cai were Mr. Cai, their eldest son, the Cai mansion's housekeeper, and a group of servants.
"Bang!" When Cai Renjun heard his mother calling him from outside, his actions were faster than his brain reacted. He rushed over and closed the door of the house, and also bolted it from the inside to prevent people outside from coming into his house and seeing his current appearance.
"Jun'er? Jun'er, why did you close the door? Let me take a look at you. What happened? How come your hair is gone after a good sleep?" Mrs. Cai shouted outside the door.
"Yes, Jun'er? What's going on? Open the door quickly and let your mother and I in." Mr. Cai called his son to open the door and let them in.
When they heard that their youngest son had no hair after waking up, they were very worried.
They didn't hear any noise last night when they were sleeping. How could their little son's hair disappear? Mr. Cai and Mrs. Cai were puzzled and felt very strange.
Hearing the voices of his mother, mother, and brother coming from outside, Cai Renjun pressed his back against the door to prevent anyone from entering, "Leave, all of you leave!"
"No one is allowed to come in!"
"Jun'er, this is your mother. Please let me come in to check on you." The more her youngest son refused to open the door, the more worried Mrs. Cai became.
But in the end, no matter how they coaxed him, the little son inside refused to open the door for them.
"Dad, Mom, why don't you go back first? Let me talk to my younger brother." Young Master Cai already knew what was going on. He knew that his younger brother was ashamed and didn't want to see anyone, so he wanted to coax his parents away, and then coax his younger brother to open the door for him so that he could go in and ask what was going on.
When Mrs. Cai and Old Man Cai heard this, they saw that their youngest son was unwilling to open the door and let them in, so they had no choice but to listen to their eldest son and let him stay here to coax his younger brother and ask him what was going on.
Then the couple left first and went back to the main courtyard to wait for news.
After seeing his parents leave, Master Cai knocked on the door again and said to his younger brother inside, "Little brother, please open the door. Father and mother are gone."
“…” Cai Renjun.
After a long while, he opened the door and let the eldest brother outside come in.
As Master Cai entered, he saw his brother's bald head and gloomy face. After confirming that his brother had no other injuries, he breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "What happened? Do you want to tell me?"
"It must be him!" Cai Renjun said viciously.
"Him? Who is he?" Young Master Cai looked confused.
"Lu Mingfei, it must be him!" Even without any evidence, Cai Renjun was absolutely certain that his bald head must be related to Lu Mingfei. Otherwise, why would his head be bald right after he sent someone to cause trouble for Lu Mingfei?
"Lu Mingfei? This name... seems a little familiar? Have I heard this name somewhere before?" Young Master Cai thought for a moment and finally remembered, "Oh, I remember now. Isn't the first place in this county exam called Lu Mingfei?"
Because his younger brother was taking the county exam this time, he paid special attention to it. He remembered that the first place in this year's county exam was a candidate named Lu Mingfei.
"You know him? Is he... your classmate at the private school? Or is he an acquaintance?"
"Why did he do that? Is there any conflict between you two?"
Young Master Cai knew that the candidates who could take the county exam in Kyoto Prefecture were basically all students from Kyoto Prefecture. His younger brother had been studying in Kyoto Prefecture since he was a child, changing several private schools in the process. The only connection he had with Lu Mingfei was that the two of them were probably classmates or acquaintances.
“…” This time it was Cai Renjun who lowered his head and remained silent.
Young Master Cai understood his younger brother's character and personality. Seeing that his younger brother didn't say anything, he knew that it wasn't necessarily someone else's fault, otherwise his younger brother would have jumped up to refute him and said that he had done nothing.
No one else would risk being discovered and caught in the middle of the night and just run to their house and shave his brother's head.
Seeing his brother's condition, he thought it was unlikely he would be able to go out, so he said to him, "During this time, you should stay home and study hard. Don't go anywhere. I'll invite a teacher to come to our house and teach you privately for a while."
"I'll ask around for you and try to find some connections to see if I can send you to a better academy." In fact, he had asked before. This time, all nine students led by Mr. Fu took the county exam, and four of them passed, including one who won the first place in the county exam.
So one thing that is certain is that Mr. Fu is quite good at teaching students.
However, this younger brother failed the county examination, while the other four classmates who went with him all passed. This younger brother made a scene at home and refused to go back to the private school. However, his mother doted on her youngest son and allowed him to leave the school and asked him to find a better academy to send his younger brother to study.
So sometimes, as the eldest brother, he cannot make any decisions for his younger brother. After all, he is just the eldest brother, and he has his parents above him.
"Rest well in the room." Seeing that his younger brother didn't say anything, Master Cai stood up and went out. When he passed by the door, he glanced at the servant guarding outside.
"Goodbye, young master." The servant bowed.
Young Master Cai strode away and went out.
"Bang---"
Cai Renjun, who was in the room, heard his elder brother's footsteps leaving, and was so angry that he swept the vase on the table to the ground, breaking porcelain pieces all over the floor.
The servant standing by didn't dare to say a word or even breathe.
Young Master Cai, who had not walked far yet, heard the sound of porcelain breaking from behind. He just shook his head and walked away without stopping.
***
Lu Mingfei, who was studying at home at the time, didn't know how Cai Renjun would react when he woke up in the morning and found that he had become bald, but he thought it would be very interesting, right?
Thinking of this, his mood for studying that day became better.
Everything was calm in the next few days. No thugs came to their stall to cause trouble, and no one came to cause trouble for him.
He had nothing to do outside recently and was studying at home, so he asked Jixiang, Jixing and Jikang to follow his father and adoptive father out of the city to the suburbs to sort out the land their family had bought.
I heard that his adoptive father also hired four servants, so there were eight or nine people in total who went out of the city to till the land.
With more people working, his father and godfather obviously had their work much easier.
His father told him that they were currently building a thatched hut for living and a duck shed over there. Once the hut and the duck shed were finished, they could buy some ducklings and start raising them. The fence outside could be built gradually, and then a few people would be assigned to raise the ducks there, so no one would be so bold as to steal them at night.
The main reason is that when the ducks are still young, not many people will come to steal them.
When the ducks grow up and their fences are built and raised, it will not be so easy for thieves to steal the ducks.
He also suggested that his father and adoptive father buy a few dogs and raise them there. When the dogs grow up, they can look after the ducks and the farm. His father told his adoptive father about this, and he went looking for puppies, but he hasn't bought any suitable ones yet.
Of the four people bought that day, Ruyi stayed at home to help his mother with housework, including washing clothes and cooking. He would also get up in the morning to help their family make braised food. In the morning, he would go to the stall with his mother to sell things, so that his mother could have some relief.
As for the two brothers, Zhang Xiaobao is too young to do any work. Zhang Qi is older and gets up in the morning to help with the braised food. He spends the rest of the time looking after the children and also rushes to help with other chores.
It has been raining for the past few days, so the children at home are studying at home and have not gone to the escort agency to practice martial arts.
After studying at home for a few days, Lu Mingfei finally remembered that the parts he had ordered should be ready. It just so happened that he was tired from studying that morning, so he decided to go out for a walk and pick up something.
Coming out of the study, he said to Zhang Qi who was at home, "Xiao Qi, I'm going out for a while. Don't run around at home."
"Brother, how about I go with you?" Zhang Qi asked worriedly, remembering what happened last time.
"No, just stay home and watch over them." But Lu Mingfei wasn't too worried anymore. Cai Renjun hadn't sent anyone to cause trouble for them in the past few days, probably because he was afraid he would retaliate.
If Cai Renjun dared to have anyone cause trouble for him again, he wouldn't mind breaking into Cai's house at night and giving Cai Renjun a beating. But next time, he couldn't guarantee whether Cai Renjun would be lying on his bed at home or hanging on the street!
If you don't teach that kind of person a lesson, he will really think that others are easy to bully!
"Brother, I want to go too!" When Lu Mingrui heard that his brother was going out, he ran over and hugged his brother's feet.
Lu Mingcong followed suit, hugged his brother's other leg, and begged, "Brother, take me there!"
Only Zhang Xiaobao didn't dare to hug his brother's thigh.
“…” Lu Mingfei looked at the two large pendants on his legs and was speechless.
Finally, he promised to buy candied haws and a bunch of delicious food when he came back. The two brats finally loosened their grip on his thighs and agreed to let him go out. Seeing Zhang Xiaobao looking at him expectantly, he reached out and touched the child's head, smiling and said, "You have to be obedient at home. I'll bring you some delicious food when I come back."
"Okay." Zhang Xiaobao tilted his little face up and smiled happily at his brother.
After asking Zhang Qi to close the gate of the courtyard, Lu Mingfei went out alone with his small bag on his back. With the lesson learned last time, he subconsciously looked around before going out. After making sure there was no danger, he raised his foot to go out. Author's words: Thank you Bole 9492239 (9492239) for your support. Kisses! To know more exciting content, please leave me a message on Liancheng Reading.
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