Twenty miles south of Zhangqiu City, there is a small pond of about three or four acres. On the east side of the pond, there is a dense maple forest. In the open space in front of the maple forest, several simple houses with thatched roofs were built.
The path paved with bluestones extends along the muddy ground beside the pond to the end of the green hills not far away.
Both sides of the thatched house are covered with various flowers and plants. When the breeze blows, a faint fragrance of flowers and plants blows towards your face, making you feel like you are in a fairyland on earth.
However, on the pavilion by the pond not far away, a few lines of large characters with flying dragons and phoenixes revealed the true identity of the owner.
"I lived in Qiuchi, Shanren Yuanming on the eighth day of the first lunar month in the ninth year of Chongzhen!"
This is the Qiuchi Villa of Zhang Guangqi, a great scribe in Zhangqiu in the late Ming Dynasty.
At dusk, a heavy drizzle fell in the sky, and a carriage turned across the official road, followed the bluestone path, and headed straight for Qiuchi Villa.
"Mr. Yuanming, how is Ruyi?" A woman with unusually beautiful appearance, wearing a green brocade silk waist dress, who looked like she was only in her early thirties, stepped out of the carriage and asked anxiously.
"Madam, don't worry!" Zhang Guangqi bowed to the beautiful woman and said with a wry smile: "Ruyi's health has improved a lot, but, just..."
Zhang Guangqi glanced at the beautiful woman and hesitated to speak.
"Mr. Yuanming, Ruyi, Ruyi is the life of the slave family. Please Mr. Yuanming, we must save Ruyi! Even if the slave family has to work as a cow or a horse in the next life, they will definitely repay the kindness of the master!" The beautiful woman
After saying that, he ignored the muddy ground and suddenly knelt down!
"Madam, this, you can't do this!" Zhang Guangqi was shocked when he saw this beautiful woman paying such a big courtesy to him. He wanted to help her up, but due to etiquette, he couldn't reach out, so he just
Neng quickly winked at the two maids behind the beautiful woman.
The two maids understood and quickly stood up to help the beautiful woman kneeling in the rain.
"Xiu'er, Chuntao, don't move!" The beautiful woman stopped the movements of the two maids, kowtowed respectfully to Zhang Guangqi, and cried: "Mr. Yuan Ming, the Liu family has had a bad time! Ruyi's father has already passed away.
I am sick in bed, and Ruyi has become like this. My family burns incense and worships Buddha every day, just praying to God to open his eyes and keep my husband and my son safe, but who knows, who knows..."
The beautiful woman became more and more sad as she talked, and her big bright eyes gradually lost their sparkle. She knelt in the mud and burst into tears!
"Madam, madam, you misunderstood me! Oh, please listen to what I have to say!" Zhang Guangqi sighed, "Ruyi's body is fine now, but his spirit is still a little bad. He always likes to look at the pool
Qingshui is in a daze! Madam, the student will take you to see him now!"
"Really?" The beautiful woman's face was filled with joy, and she quickly wanted to stand up, but because the mud was so cold, her knees were no longer in control, and she was about to fall to the ground. Fortunately, the two maids behind her
He was already prepared and quickly helped her up.
After a while, several people followed the bluestone path and arrived at the pavilion behind the pond.
A tall boy, about eighteen or nineteen years old, wearing a pale white silk robe, stood with his hands behind his hands, staring blankly at the water in the rain, not knowing what he was thinking.
This young man's name is Liu Ruyi. He has red lips, white teeth, and delicate skin. From a distance, he looks very similar to this beautiful woman. He is even more beautiful than most girls. He is really a handsome young man with extraordinary beauty. It's just that
At this moment, there was no expression on Liu Ruyi's handsome face, and his eyes were staring straight at the water, but his eyes showed a kind of vicissitudes that was inconsistent with his age, as if he was an enlightened monk who had seen through the past in the world.
!
"Ruyi?" The beautiful woman's hands trembled slightly, and she wanted to step forward and take her beloved son into her arms, but her hand stopped halfway out, and she just called out softly.
Hearing this, Liu Ruyi turned around gently, and then her face lit up, "Mom, why are you here?"
Seeing that her son was not angry with her, the beautiful woman couldn't help but shed tears down her cheeks. She held his hand tightly and said sadly: "Ruyi, it's all useless for my mother. It's all for my mother."
It’s useless! You’ve been wronged!”
Liu Ruyi looked at the mud on the beautiful woman's dress, and then at her sad expression. She still didn't understand what had happened.
With a slight sigh, Liu Ruyi gently took her mother into her arms and said to Zhang Guangqi: "Mr. Yuan Ming, I am very grateful to you for taking care of me these days! It's just that my mother is weak and she caught the cold again today.
, I'd like to trouble Mr. and my family to make a bowl of ginger soup for my mother to go away the cold! One day, I will be richly rewarded!"
Zhang Guangqi and the beautiful woman were both stunned, especially the beautiful woman. She looked at the son in front of her in surprise, as if she didn't believe that these words were spoken by her son.
"Haha, this is natural! I will tell my family to do it now! Madam, if you wish, even if it is like this, I will not disturb you mother and son to reminisce about the past! I just learned that Madam is coming, and I have asked my family to prepare some wine, and also
Madam, please be sure to appreciate me!" Zhang Guangqi said with a smile.
"Thank you all sir!" Liu Ruyi bowed deeply to Zhang Guangqi.
Zhang Guangqi patted Liu Ruyi's shoulder thoughtfully, turned around and walked towards the thatched hut behind.
When Zhang Guangqi walked away, the beautiful woman sent away the two maids who were following him, held Liu Ruyi's hand, and said nervously: "Ruyi, don't you blame your mother for kissing her?"
Liu Ruyi helped the beautiful woman sit down on a wooden bench aside, looked into her eyes, and said: "Mom, after these days of recuperation, I seem to understand a lot of things! Don't worry, mom, I won't do it again."
I won’t make you angry anymore!”
"Good boy, good boy!" The beautiful woman hugged Liu Ruyi's arm tightly, as if she was afraid that her son would disappear in the blink of an eye.
Liu Ruyi gently patted her mother's back to comfort the poor woman, but her mind gradually drifted away.
In fact, he is not from this world, but a soul from the 21st century!
In her previous life, after Liu Ruyi graduated from university, she worked hard for several years and finally ran a small advertising company before she turned 30. She hired more than a dozen employees and was barely successful in her career! But in that country, the price of everything increased.
In an era when wages did not rise, Liu Ruyi spent several years saving up and finally bought a 70-square-meter house with two bedrooms and one living room in the suburbs of the city known as the Magic City, which he planned to use for his wedding! But
The tragedy is that when Liu Ruyi lay on the bed in her new house on the first day, when she woke up, everything was turned upside down!
Fortunately, Liu Ruyi's life is as tenacious as a weed. Although it was a bit unbelievable at first, she could only slowly accept this fate.
It is now the autumn of the ninth year of Chongzhen. There have been severe droughts in the north for many years, and bandits are everywhere in the northwest. The Jurchen climate in Jianzhou in the northeast has become a serious problem, and will soon become a serious problem for the Ming Dynasty. The darkest three hundred years in Chinese history are about to come!
But Liu Ruyi can't care about so much now, because a fatal crisis has gradually approached the mother and son.
The Liu family is a large family in the Zhangqiu area, with hundreds of hectares of fertile land and hundreds of servants. His father, Liu Hu, guards thousands of households in Zhangqiu and has nearly a thousand soldiers. He is a powerful man who can be ranked high in Jinan Prefecture.
It is a pity that although Liu Hu had many wives and concubines, he only had two sons, one was the eldest son Liu Jianwu, and the other was the youngest son Liu Ruyi!
Although Liu Jianwu was born to a wealthy woman, he was tall, strong, and highly skilled in martial arts. He was more like a replica of his father Liu Hu. However, because of his violent nature, cruelty and love of killing, Liu Hu did not like him.
The youngest son Liu Ruyi is not only handsome in appearance, but also very well-behaved. He was also born to Liu Hu's favorite concubine, so he has always been favored by Liu Hu and regarded as the apple of his eye!
Liu Hu spent his life in the army and killed countless people. Although he was only fifty years old, he had no less than ten scars on his body. In addition, he had many wives and concubines and indulged in excessive sexual activities. Since the beginning of this year, he has been bedridden and his life is not long!
According to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, Liu Hu's position would be inherited by his eldest son, Liu Ruyi's eldest brother Liu Jianwu. However, due to preference, Liu Hu deliberately wanted his younger son Liu Ruyi to inherit the family business!
Therefore, although the two people are called brothers, they are secretly incompatible!
More than two months ago, the two brothers Liu Jianwu and Liu Ruyi had a fierce conflict in the martial arts arena in the inner courtyard of the Liu Mansion, and they exchanged swords! However, Liu Ruyi was young and unskilled, so he was chopped down by Liu Jianwu with a sword.
, although the wound was not fatal, it still shocked Liu Ruyi at that time and made him despair!
Liu Ruyi's mother, the Zou family, was the beautiful woman. She was a singer by the Qinhuai River. She was bought by Liu Hu because of her beauty. Liu Jianwu's mother, the Qi family, was from a wealthy family in Jiyang County.
Powerful!
Liu Hu was unconscious in bed and didn't know about his personnel. Liu Ruyi had no choice but to ask his father for help. He could only vent his resentment on his mother Zou, hating her mother Zou for not giving him a good background!
Zou was helpless, but had no way to change all this. She could only send her seriously injured son to Zhang Guangqi, the former great scribe, for temporary refuge. Liu Ruyi, who touched the brows of Qi and Liu Jianwu, made herself
The lives of mother and son were in danger.
But at that time, Liu Ruyi was just a pampered young master. He could not understand the painstaking efforts of his mother, Zou. Instead, he put all the responsibilities on his mother, Zou. However, he only knew how to cry and escape, leaving the already powerless Zou.
More pain and self-blame!
That night, amid Zou's tears and self-blame, Liu Ruyi was carried on a carriage and sent to Zhang Guangqi's Qiuchi Villa. However, the original Liu Ruyi had already lost the courage to live, and the carriage had not arrived yet.
Halfway through, his soul passed away, but it also gave Liu Ruyi the opportunity to occupy the magpie's nest!
The fragments of memories in his mind were like a movie. Scenes flashed before his eyes. Liu Ruyi couldn't help but let out a sigh! With such ambition, he couldn't bear even this little suffering and still wanted to compete with his brother for power? Seriously?
How ridiculous!
Heaven is moving vigorously, and a gentleman should strive to constantly improve himself!
In her previous life, Liu Ruyi was born in the grassroots. In the past ten years of hard work in the business world, Liu Ruyi's character of never giving up has long been forged!
"Forget it, since I have taken over your body, let me fulfill your unfulfilled wish! Maybe there will be more gains?" Liu Ruyi clenched her fist tightly.
The light rain kept falling, it was already late autumn, and there was a hint of chill in the air.
Zou seemed to feel her son's mood swings and gently held Liu Ruyi's hand, trying to convey more warmth to Liu Ruyi.
"Ruyi, but the weather is too cold? Let's go inside to warm up?" Zou asked with concern.
Liu Ruyi shook her head gently, "Mom, it doesn't matter, how is dad's health now?"