Drive the RV back to Datang

Chapter 16 Chapter 16: My Money!

Li Hao took two tow bottles on the road, and the journey was very slow. It took four days to arrive in Luoyang, and he hadn't left the border of Henan Province. It was already past three o'clock in the afternoon when he entered Luoyang City. Li Hao thought that if he continued on the road, Afraid of missing Sutou, I found an inn in Luoyang to stay and planned to continue my journey tomorrow.

As soon as he walked outside an inn, Li Hao found two people squatting in the corner opposite the inn to beg. A little girl about ten years old and a thin woman who looked 26 or seven years old. Their clothes were shabby and their faces were covered with mud. Grey, looking very pitiful, the girl is nestled in the arms of the woman, judging from the appearance of the two of them, they should be mother and daughter.

The current living conditions in Tang Dynasty are already very good. Although it has not reached the level of not closing the door at night and not picking up things, but there are very few beggars on the street. This mother and daughter are actually begging here. It looks quite pitiful. Li Hao's sympathy It flooded again, turned around and walked over, and threw seven or eight copper coins into the broken porcelain bowl in front of the woman's feet.

The woman quickly raised her head and said gratefully: "Thank you, thank you for your charity. You are really kind, and the Bodhisattva will definitely bless you."

"I don't believe in Bodhisattvas." Li Hao raised his eyebrows, showed a friendly smile, and asked, "Where are you from?"

The woman replied: "My mother and daughter are from Xuzhou."

"Xuzhou?" Li Hao was taken aback when he heard the words, and Hu Dashan interrupted, "Coincidentally, we are also from Xuzhou."

The woman's eyes lit up, and she asked excitedly, "Are you also from Xuzhou?"

Hu Dashan nodded vigorously, for fear that the other party would not believe it.

Li Hao slowly asked: "Since you are from Xuzhou, why are you in Luoyang?"

The woman couldn't help her eyes flushed with tears when she heard the words. She was hurt for a moment, and explained: "A few days ago, there was a plague in Xuzhou. Although the plague was finally quelled, the child's father still left. Within a few days, the child's uncle actually called the government and robbed the fields and houses. The slave family had no choice but to leave Xuzhou with the child and came here."

Li Hao was surprised when he heard this: "Your uncle robbed your fields and house? Or did the government help you? How could this happen?"

The woman wiped her tears helplessly: "I can't help it, who will make my stomach unfulfilling and unable to give birth to a boy."

When Li Hao heard this, he realized that he was another mother and daughter who had been persecuted by the ancient etiquette. The etiquette in the Tang Dynasty was not as strict as that in the Song and Ming Dynasties, but it was still the same in terms of family property inheritance. This woman's husband died. If there is no son under his knees, then all his family property must be given to his brother who can inherit the incense. After all, his wife and daughter are of foreign surnames. Ancient etiquette and etiquette attached great importance to ancestral surnames, and the status of women was too low.

Li Hao has always disliked the strict etiquette in ancient times. Now, after hearing the story of the mother and daughter, he is filled with disgust for feudal etiquette. The shackles on the world have lasted for thousands of years. No matter how the dynasties change, the etiquette changes occasionally, but that is just a change of soup without changing the medicine. Li Hao, a future man, can only look at the feudal etiquette system with a sigh.

In just a short while, Li Hao had many thoughts in his mind. At this time, the woman said again: "After I left Xuzhou with my daughter, I accidentally lost my money on the way, and came to Luoyang begging all the way. , I wanted to find a job to make a living, but people saw that I was a woman, so they didn't want me to work at all, so I had no choice but to take my daughter along the street to beg." When she said this, she couldn't help but feel Sour, tears fluttered down.

Seeing her crying, the little girl obediently wiped her tears: "Mother, don't cry, don't cry, don't cry..."

Seeing how pitiful the mother and daughter were, Li Hao immediately felt pity. He happened to be short of manpower, so he said, "Since you have nowhere to go, why don't you come to my house to work."

"Ah!" The woman was overwhelmed with surprise when she heard the words, and hurriedly bowed to express her gratitude, "Thank you, thank you for taking care of your benefactor, thank you for taking care of your benefactor, Yun'er, thank you benefactor soon." As she spoke, she pulled the little girl to bow to Li Hao Bowing.

"Don't do this." Li Hao waved his hands and asked, "What was your boudoir name when you were in your mother's house?"

The woman nodded respectfully and replied, "Jin Qiaoyun."

"What about your daughter?"

"Her name is Shi Xiaoyun."

"Two clouds, please be kind." Li Hao chuckled, looked at the dirty appearance of the two of them, and said, "Look at you dirty, follow me from now on, you must dress decently and cleanly, Don't embarrass me, go, go to the inn with me first, and wash off your mud."

After speaking, he turned and walked straight to the opposite inn, followed closely by the Hu family brothers and Jin Qiaoyun's mother and daughter.

Li Hao asked for three rooms, one for himself, one for the brothers of the Hu family, and one for the mother and daughter of the Jin family. Then he asked the store clerk to prepare hot water and a bathtub for Jin Qiaoyun's mother and daughter to bathe, while he himself went to the street to give them a bath. The mother and daughter bought several sets of changing clothes and asked a female guest to deliver them to the room of the mother and daughter of Jin.

After waiting for more than an hour, the mother and daughter finally finished washing and walked out of the room wearing new clothes. Li Hao took a closer look and found that Jin's appearance was quite beautiful, and she could be regarded as a beauty. As for her daughter Shi Xiaoyun, she was petite and cute. There are still two shallow dimples on both cheeks, and a pair of big eyes are looking at Li Hao, sparkling, watery.

Li Hao nodded with a smile: "Well, this is decent. Don't make it dirty again in the future. I have a cleanliness." At that time, he was actually a bit sloppy in life. After the time travel, he was trained by the real person Zhiyuan, and he improved a lot, but his nature was still difficult to change. To correct the reason, one word - "lazy".

Jin's cheeks were also flushed, she lowered her head and said: "How can the life of begging not be dirty, I also deliberately dirty my face."

Li Hao nodded and understood what she meant. After all, orphans and widows are wandering outside, but the mother and daughter are still so beautiful. If they don't get dirty, they will be defiled by others, or they will be abducted by traffickers and sold to brothels. And make a fortune.

It was getting late now, so Li Hao asked the inn to prepare dinner, and let the mother and daughter have a full meal first.

Early the next morning, Li Hao rented a carriage for Jin Qiaoyun's mother and daughter, but Jin refused, saying that they were Li Hao's servants and would be enslaved in the future, so how could they ride in a carriage? He got into the carriage first, and then called them in, saying that they were serving him and beating his legs, which was actually just an excuse, so Jin obeyed and got into the carriage obediently.

With the addition of a mother and daughter, the speed of the journey was even slower. Fortunately, Li Hao was not in a hurry, and he had enough money. He traveled all the way to enjoy the scenery. After a month, he finally arrived in Lantian County.

When they arrived at Shanghe Village, Li Hao was shocked to find that his old house had disappeared. To be exact, it wasn't gone, but changed so much that he couldn't even recognize it.

Standing at the door, I saw that everything from the courtyard wall to the gate to the gate has been completely renovated. There is a bright red plaque on the gate, with the word "Li Fu" in official script.

When Jin saw such a luxurious house, he couldn't close his mouth. He didn't expect Li Hao to have such a big net worth at such a young age. He asked in disbelief, "Master, is this your house?"

Li Hao himself was a little dazed, recovered from the state of trance, coughed dryly, and nodded: "Yes, that's right, this is my home, and you will live here from now on."

Shi Xiaoyun exclaimed happily: "Wow, this house is so big and beautiful, I feel like I'm dreaming."

Li Hao smiled and knocked on the door. After a while, the door opened, revealing a strange face, a young man in his 20s wearing a cloth cap. The young man looked at Li Hao and asked, "Who are you looking for?" ?”

Li Hao looked at him in surprise and asked, "Who are you? Where is Du Hong?"

The young man replied: "I'm the concierge Wang San. Steward Du is busy repairing flowers and plants. Do you know Steward Du?"

Li Hao said: "I am Li Hao, the owner of this house, you ask Du Hong to come see me."

The young man was startled when he heard the words, and hurriedly said: "Okay, wait a moment, I will inform Steward Du right now." After he finished speaking, he closed the door, and hurried footsteps came from inside.

After a while, there was another rush of footsteps, the door opened with a creak, and Du Hong appeared out of breath. When he saw Li Hao, Du Hong shouted in surprise: "Master, you are back." After speaking, he came up excitedly. Salute to Li Hao.

Li Hao pointed to the newly repaired gate of the courtyard wall, and asked with a confused face: "You repaired this?"

"I don't have that ability." Du Hong grinned and said, "It was repaired by the workers I hired. I wonder if the young master is satisfied?"

Li Hao frowned and nodded: "Satisfied, of course I am satisfied, but... in fact, just repair it casually, why do it have to be so luxurious, uh... this will cost a lot of money?" Li Hao didn't know why, Now he has become very money-loving and stingy, probably because he has lived a poor life in the mountains. He is so lazy that he has planted the land for four years, and he still feels resentful in his heart.

Du Hong said solemnly: "Young master, don't cherish money, appearance is a symbol of status, and the most important thing in a house is appearance."

Li Hao nodded, then shook his head again: "That's not right, my young master is white, how can I have any identity?"

Du Hong still said solemnly: "That's right, it is precisely because I know that the young master is white, the old servant made the stone lion at the door very small."

Li Hao felt a black line on his forehead, and realized that he and the old man were not on the same channel at all. Now that the stone lion was mentioned, Li Hao glanced at it, and his expression suddenly became very exciting. As for the stone carvings that were feet high, he really couldn't tell what was engraved on them, because... the resolution was too low, and these four words were not enough to describe this pair of stone lions.

"How much is this pair of stone...things?" Li Hao asked casually.

"Not much, not much, only six times." Du Hong replied with a smile on his face.

Li Hao's eyebrows twitched when he heard this, Liu Guan!One must know that the annual income of an ordinary family is only five or six guan, but this pair of stone lions who can't see what kind of monsters at all actually cost ten guan, he suddenly felt very distressed.

At this moment, Li Hao suddenly found a problem, stared at Du Hong with wide eyes, and asked excitedly, "Is the inside trimmed too?"

"It's fixed." Du Hong grinned stupidly, as if he was waiting for Li Hao's compliment.

Li Hao rushed into the courtyard like a gust of wind, and as far as he could see, the flowers and trees were in order, and the houses were brand new, almost as if they were newly built. Li Hao ran from one courtyard to another, looking for something to miss. Yes, because then he can spend less money, and the others run after him like fools. There is no way, who calls him a young master.

"It's over, it's over..." After looking around the yard, Li Hao was a little dazed. He sat down on the stone steps in the corridor and asked, "How much did you spend in total?"

Du Hong took out a stack of papers from the phone, handed it to Li Hao, and said, "It took 850 yuan to repair the house, and this is the bill."

When Li Hao heard this sentence, he felt as if he had been stabbed in the heart. He took a stack of thick bills tremblingly, looked at them one by one, and wailed every time he changed a bill: "My money! During the whole process, I heard him chanting, "My money, my money, my money..." The sad look made those who saw it feel sad and those who heard it shed tears.

(End of this chapter)