Chapter 76
The young master is indeed the young master. Even if the Liu family gives him all the best food, this boy still dislikes him so much.
Father Liu and Mother Liu then asked the young master who his last name was and where he lived. He only said that his surname was Wang, that he was 5 years old and that he was a young master from a wealthy family in the capital. He didn't know whether he couldn't tell or dared to say anything else.
I couldn't ask anything.
As we have lived together for a longer time, Master Wang has become somewhat lively. He likes to play with Liu Xiangxiang, who is two years older than him. He may not feel that the soft little girl is a threat, and sometimes he will gossip.
Father Liu and Mother Liu learned from what Master Wang said when he was playing with Vanilla, why the Zhou family next door ran away, and why the young master treated them so arrogantly.
It turned out that the kidnapper abducted the young master in order to blackmail the Wang family for some money. Unexpectedly, when they arrived in Tongda County on the outskirts of Beijing, before they could send a letter to Master Wang's home, he fell ill and could not move.
In desperation, he had no choice but to beg the Zhou family to take him in. He would be thanked deeply when he recovered.
What I didn't expect was that the kidnapper died after just one night's stay.
The Zhou family immediately became numb.
They became refugees and fled all the way, and saw a lot of the world. The kidnapper was obviously not dressed at the same level as the young master, and his attitude towards the young master was also very strange.
I know that this is most likely a child of a wealthy family kidnapped by a kidnapper who wants to extort a huge sum of money.
But now that the kidnapper is dead, the matter has become a matter of people stealing donkeys and pulling out wooden stakes. Now the yellow mud is rotten in the crotch, and even if you have a mouth, you can't explain it clearly.
The Zhou family found a few broken pieces of silver and two silver coins from the kidnapper. They also found a small gold lock on Master Wang. They would never dare to send the child back in the chaos of war. They would take care of such a young master along the way just in case.
If something goes wrong, they will be blamed for their death. What if they are sent back and people say they are kidnappers?
When the time comes, the rich and noble will have to go to jail to eat in jail if they don't ask for it.
After the Zhou family discussed it, they decided to just take the money and the small gold lock and leave. The house didn't belong to them anyway, and they wouldn't have anywhere to look for it later.
But after all, the Zhou family were just ordinary people, and they didn't dare to kill anyone or offend the young master, so they took the golden lock and coaxed the young master into saying that he would use it to find a good family to serve him. The master and his wife would come in two days.
Got you.
When the child is found, it will be a good thing for the Liu family. If something goes wrong, the Liu family cannot blame them.
Of course, Liu's father wouldn't know so many details, but if he shares his mind, he can make a rough guess.
If the kidnapper was the one who stole the donkey, then the Zhou family would have pulled out the wooden stake anyway, and the Liu family would have inherited a small ancestor out of thin air without benefiting at all.
The Zhou family has so many things, where can they not be a cat for a while?
No wonder he ran away and left this unexplainable trouble to the Liu family.
The Liu family is not stupid either, so from that day on, patients with bruises and injuries would often see a well-dressed young man who was incompatible with the small town. The Liu family almost always told everyone they met that there was a young patient from next door.
Then he left the child and ran away.
The children are so young, and they will definitely not survive if they are released into chaos. God has a good life, so what else can they do besides raising them well?
Slowly, many people in Tongda Town and several nearby villages knew about it.
The Wang family finally came to our door more than 20 days later.
The young master was wearing the best clothes the Liu family could get, and he was having fun with Liu Xiangxiang carelessly.
Seeing his family coming to pick him up, the 5-year-old boy dragged Liu Xiangxiang and cried and refused to let go. The Wang family man then took the decision and took Liu Xiangxiang back to raise him as a young lady of the Wang family, which was a way of repaying this kindness.
How had the Liu family ever seen such a display and style of the prominent families in the capital? They did whatever they said. In the years of war and chaos, when human life was worthless and food was scarce, how many people were willing to spend money to see a doctor?
The life of the Liu family is becoming more and more difficult day by day. It is better for Xiaoya to go to Beijing and enjoy the happiness than to follow them and suffer the consequences.
In fact, in the huge Sijiu City, the Wang family is just a family of merchants who have just reached the threshold of wealth, that is, they are just trying to show off their prestige in front of ordinary people like the Liu family.
The Wang family left some gifts and a few pieces of cloth, and gave them another fifty taels of silver. Then they took Liu Xiangxiang with them, and under the envious eyes of the neighbors, they boarded a large carriage and started their own life.
The Wang family's population is relatively simple. After the riots in Beijing began, the whole family was broken up into pieces and everyone went to find ways to save their lives. After the separation, there are only six members of the family living in the Wang family's old house.
Mr. Wang took one wife, one concubine, and three children from his concubines: the eldest daughter Wang Muxue, the eldest daughter Wang Muxue, the eldest son Wang Muhuai, the one who was abducted, and the second daughter Wang Mushi, the eldest daughter of a concubine.
The dynasty has declined, war is everywhere, and the great powers are around. This is the fierce conflict between the old feudal system and the embryonic form of capitalism. There are various regimes and classes in the entire land of China.
The new-style family has abolished slavery and replaced it with a contract system, while the old-fashioned family still closes the door and becomes their aristocratic master. The Wang family is no exception. Those servants who want to leave are given back their deeds of sale, and those who want to stay are given back their deeds of sale.
The moon holds three oceans.
Only a few of the dozens of servants left originally. Anyway, after leaving the Wang Mansion, you have to find a new job, and it is better to work hard than to work hard.
It was precisely because of the sudden dismissal of many servants that the home's defense was compromised, and Wang Muhuai was abducted by a kidnapper, causing this chaos.
Liu Xiangxiang is two years older than Wang Muhuai, and the second daughter Wang Muchi and her eldest brother Wang Muhuai were born in the same year. The three of them can be considered childhood sweethearts and grew up together.
Although the Wang family did not regard Liu Xiangxiang as their own, they did not treat her badly.
Fast forward a few years. When Wang Muhuai was nine years old, he contracted smallpox and almost died. The Wang family now had only one seedling. Mrs. Wang was so sick that she went to the doctor and found a Taoist priest to figure it out. She said she wanted to find someone two years older.
Or if you are two years younger, you can survive this calamity if you are in conflict with wood.
If there were dozens of slaves in the past, they could just find a family to give birth to a child, and then take over the house and become a roommate or concubine. It would not be a big deal, but where can I find such a person in this urgent situation?
Mrs. Wang's eyes suddenly lit up when she looked at Liu Xiangxiang, who was taking care of her younger brother. She was two years older, and her name was Xiangxiang, so it was compatible with wood, right?
He sent people to go out of the city to discuss with the Liu family. Liu's father said that it was no time, our family was not a good family, but they were good people, and their children would never be concubines.
Not only did he not agree, but he also insisted on taking Liu Xiangxiang away directly.
Chapter completed!