171, merciless ridicule
171, merciless ridicule
"Then we'll leave first."
"Okay, let's make an appointment next time when we are free."
Considering that the elders of the Lu family had to get up early to do business tomorrow, Zhang Lingxuan and Ye Zhuoran did not stay at the Lu family until very late. When it was getting a little dark, they got up, said goodbye to their friends, got on their own carriage and left.
Fu Boming declined Zhang Lingxuan's offer to take him home and walked back alone.
When it was just him and Zhang Lingxuan sitting in the carriage on their way home, Ye Zhuoran asked the people around him, "Do you think Wang Zhe is a little weird?"
"What do you mean?" Zhang Lingxuan looked at the man who was usually confused but became a little shrewd at critical moments. He suppressed his inner laughter and asked seriously.
"It's just... I have an indescribable feeling, it's just weird." Ye Zhuoran didn't know how to describe this feeling in words.
However, no matter how smart Zhang Lingxuan was, he would never have imagined that the person they met tonight was wearing a human skin mask to meet them, and in order to be close to Lu Mingfei's house, he specially bought a small courtyard next door.
This time, Lu Mingfei didn't know that Zhang Lingxuan had already begun to doubt the relationship between him and Zhao Lang.
After watching the carriage leave, he looked at the last person who had not left.
Meeting Lu Mingfei's gaze, Zhao Lang, knowing that Lu Mingfei didn't go to bed so early, asked, "Would you like to come over to my place for a cup of tea?"
"You go back first. I'll go say hello to my family and then come find you." Lu Mingfei said to Zhao Lang.
Zhao Lang nodded, and walked towards the courtyard next door with the servant following him.
Seeing Zhao Lang going back to the next door, Lu Mingfei also returned to his own yard. Looking at the scene after their barbecue, he asked the others here: "Are you still eating?" They had basically eaten all the skewers they had just grilled, and there were still some ungrilled ingredients left here.
Liu Sanniang, who was in the yard, glanced at everyone and said, "I think you all shouldn't eat anymore. We've all eaten our fill and will be going to bed soon, so why not? If you don't want to eat, I'll have Ruyi and the others put the food away. We'll pick up the leftovers and stir-fry them tomorrow. Don't waste them."
The previous times, because they were eating for their family, they didn't prepare much food, and by the end, everyone had basically finished it. Unlike this time, they prepared more food to entertain friends, and after everyone finished eating, there were still a lot of meat and vegetable skewers left.
"Actually, it's okay not to pick them off. Just cook a soup base tomorrow and put them in to cook." Lu Mingfei thought of the skewers hotpot and suggested.
"Oh, that's fine." Liu Sanniang felt that putting the skewers directly into the soup was a fresh way of cooking.
Lu Mingfei thought that their family could start a chuanchuan hotpot business, so he asked Ruyi and the others to pack up first, and then quietly mentioned to his mother about opening another stall to sell chuanchuan hotpot. "When the time comes, we only need to cook the soup base, and the ingredients will be easy to arrange. This chuanchuan hotpot is also simple. Just throw the ingredients into the soup and cook it until it's done."
"Let's open a new stall next to the braised food stall, and then we can let Ruyi or Aqi sell it."
"Aqi has to take Mingrui and the others to the escort agency to learn martial arts this morning. I'm afraid I can't arrange it. I'll let Ruyi go then." Liu Sanniang thought that they would have more income every month by opening a new stall, and felt that the eldest son's idea of opening another stall was a good one.
A while ago, they bought land, chickens, ducks, geese, piglets, and lambs. Not only did they empty their savings over the years, but they also used up most of their earnings over the past two or three months. This month, they're also planning to build a workshop on their land outside the city. They'll need to hire people to work there, and everything costs money.
As the mistress of the household, Liu Sanniang felt a little nervous seeing the family spending money like water every day.
The mother and son discussed the matter for a few words.
Seeing that it was getting late, Liu Sanniang said to her eldest son, "I'll go back to the house and discuss this with your father."
Lu Mingfei nodded and said, "Okay, then, mother, go clean up and get some rest. I'll go next door and be back soon. Lock the door from the inside, and I'll open it myself when I come back."
"Oh, okay, don't go too late." Liu Sanniang remembered that one of the guests who came today was a neighbor who lived in the next yard. She thought her son knew the other party because the two families lived close to each other.
This time, Lu Mingfei passed through the open passage at his family's side, then went out through the main gate openly to visit the next yard.
In the Lu family courtyard, Ruchun brought her two sisters to clean up the things in the yard and clean the place.
All three of them had worked as maids in wealthy families, having been sold off by their former masters before coming to their current masters. So, they had all experienced how the masters of those wealthy families didn't treat their servants as human beings at all, beating and scolding them at the drop of a hat, and it was even more impossible for the servants to eat the same food as their masters.
But when they came to their new master's place, whether it was the master or the mistress, as well as the young masters in the family, they all treated them as human beings. They ate whatever the masters ate. Most importantly, the master would not beat or punish them for no reason.
Moreover, on the first day they were bought back, their eldest master told them that as long as they were willing to work hard, they would be released from slavery and become good citizens.
So even though she had to do more work under her new master, she still liked her current life and for the first time, she was full of anticipation for the future. Just because her current master treated them so well, they were willing to be maids for the rest of their lives.
While the sisters were cleaning the yard, Zhang Qi was helping to fetch water at the well.
There was a wooden frame at the mouth of the well in the Lu family courtyard. People could just sit on a stool and step on it with their feet to draw water up. This was much easier than carrying water by hand, and one could step on it for half an hour without getting tired.
Even the head of the family, Lu Youtian, was not idle. He brought buckets of water that Zhang Qi had fetched to the bathroom, poured them into a large basin, and asked the three boys sitting in the basin to take a bath. "Hurry up and wash up, you three, and go back to your room to sleep."
In response to him, he heard the sound of three boys playing and laughing in the water. He didn't know whether they heard what he said or not.
Lu Youtian shook his head, but he ignored the three guys.
Finally, it was Liu Sanniang who came over and got up the three boys with a fierce look on her face. She made them wear shorts and drove them back into the house to sleep.
Now the four boys all slept in the same room, even his own youngest son did not sleep in the same room with them. In order to make it easier for the four boys to sleep together, Lu Youtian added another bunk bed in the room. Now there are two bunk beds in the room, four beds in total, just enough for the four boys in the family to sleep.
As for the eldest son, he sleeps in a room alone, and his younger brothers cannot affect him.
***
At this time, Lu Mingfei was sitting in the courtyard next door, drinking tea with Zhao Lang, and could still hear the noises coming from their house. After a while, until the noises in their courtyard stopped, he got up, said goodbye to Zhao Lang, and went back to his own house next door.
However, not long after he returned home, Zhao Lang took him over the wall again, and the two of them took a carriage back to Prince Ding's Mansion.
When the two men arrived at Prince Ding's Mansion, they went directly to the training ground in the backyard of the mansion to practice archery.
This time they were still using the traditional longbow for practice. Although they already had a crossbow, Lu Mingfei still wanted to learn how to use the traditional longbow. If they really encountered danger one day and didn't have a crossbow, at least they could still use the longbow to deal with the enemy.
“Swoosh!”
After several months of training, his arrows could now hit the target steadily. Looking at the arrowhead stuck in the target, Lu Mingfei turned around and looked at Master Zhao standing next to him and asked, "How is it?"
"Well, there's still room for improvement." Zhao Lang looked at the proud young man and didn't think there was anything to be proud of after practicing for several months before the arrow finally hit the edge of the target.
In fact, in their Beijun, even three-year-old children can achieve this level of archery skills.
"..." Lu Mingfei looked at Master Zhao, who had an indifferent expression and didn't seem happy for him at all. He angrily shook his head and snorted, and even set a goal: "Just wait, one day I will become an archer."
"Oh?" Zhao Lang's "Oh" was filled with interest and suspicion. He looked at the boy with his chin raised and couldn't help but smile, "I'll wait."
"Just wait and see!" Lu Mingfei felt that Zhao Lang's "Oh" was a mockery of him and a naked contempt for him, so in order to refresh Zhao Lang's perception of him, he pulled the longbow all night long. He didn't know how many arrows he shot.
He kept pulling the bow until his hands were exhausted, and then he put it down.
Later he went to find two stones to use as barbells, and he lifted weights every day... stones. He didn't believe that he couldn't build arm strength.
Just when he was exhausted, a cold voice came to his ears: "Why, don't you want to practice anymore?"
"...I don't want to practice anymore. I'm tired. I want to go home, take a shower and go to bed." Lu Mingfei glanced at someone who was watching the show and didn't want to talk to the person who had hit and irritated him.
Before leaving, he drank a bowl of Tremella and Lotus Seed Soup sent by the housekeeper, then got on the carriage and asked the guards to take him home.
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