After returning to the capital, they can live together openly.
Lu Bicheng was still worried about Li Yu's health: "Brother Yu, are you feeling well?"
Li Yu said with a smile: "I've been fine for a long time. Didn't I say it in the letter? Especially in my heart, it was extremely cold. The two quilts seemed a little difficult to face the provocation of this cold winter. Only the care of the girl I like can save me."
Feel warm."
Lu Bicheng laughed and scolded: "Don't come here, are you okay?"
Li Yu picked her up and said, "You'll know if she's okay soon!"
"you……"
After the clouds and rain in Wushan, nephrite was warm and fragrant in his arms. Li Yu chatted with her about future plans: "You should always have a honeymoon after marriage, and this time we will have a big one."
Lu Bicheng raised her lazy hand and smoothed her messy hair: "How old can it be? I've already gone to Europe and the United States."
Li Yu said: "This trip may be a bit difficult, going to a place filled with yellow sand."
Lu Bicheng hugged Li Yu's waist tightly: "I will go wherever you go! Speaking of the yellow sand in the sky, I remembered that big story you told about the journey to the west."
Li Yu said: "It's farther than that place."
"Is it still further?" Lu Bicheng asked, "Are you out of Yumen Pass?"
Li Yu nodded: "Dunhuang."
"Dunhuang?"
For many people at this time, this is a very distant and unfamiliar name, and it has almost disappeared into the depths of memory.
Li Yu said: "Do you still remember the paintings and calligraphy we brought back from the United States and Europe?"
Lu Bicheng said: "Remember, it was taken away by foreigners."
Li Yu said: "Now the foreigners want to steal more of our precious things. Do you think I should take care of this matter?"
Lu Bicheng immediately said: "We should take care of it! We must not let our good things be lost again."
Lu Bicheng was a person who had a strong sense of family and country. She not only advocated women's rights throughout her life, but also wanted to make the country rich and powerful and the people strong. Later, after the Twenty-One Movement, she even hated the Japanese.
Each of the four talented women of the Republic of China had their own merits, but Lu Bicheng was definitely the most ambitious one.
Li Yu said: "It would be nice to have you with me, otherwise this long journey would be a bit difficult."
Lu Bicheng asked: "How do you know that foreigners have ideas about Dunhuang?"
Li Yu said: "I'm just guessing, because four years ago, they had secretly taken away Loulan's treasures."
Lu Bicheng said: "I know about this."
Sven Hedin accidentally discovered the Loulan ruins in 1900, which caused a sensation around the world. Many foreign expeditions came here to snatch the treasures.
This matter was irreversible for Li Yu, and given the current situation, Li Yu had no choice but to ignore Loulan, or let it attract some attention, so that Westerners would not be aware of the existence of Mogao Grottoes at all.
After all, Loulan had already turned into a dead city due to lack of water in the Kongque River around 300 AD, and its cultural relics are far less abundant than those in Dunhuang.
Moreover, Loulan is extremely difficult to explore because it is located on the edge of Lop Nur. As we all know, Lop Nur is one of the four uninhabited areas. Without very professional skills, you will not be able to get out.
Moreover, Loulan was actually quite famous at this time. Everyone knew Wang Changling's poem "The yellow sand will wear golden armor in a hundred battles, and Loulan will never be returned until it is broken." On the contrary, Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes seemed to be a little transparent.
Very good, Li Yu's goal is to let it continue to be transparent for a hundred years.
Li Yu said angrily: "I really can't stand the fact that foreigners are plundering things in our territory, even in the name of exploration, and they will be regarded as heroes when they return to the country. It is simply shattering."
Lu Bicheng also said excitedly: "Brother Yu, I support you, let's go west out of Yumen Pass!"
Li Yu said: "You must be mentally prepared. There are no trains or ships on this trip. You can only ride horses or camels, which is very hard."
Lu Bicheng smiled and said: "Then why don't you ask me, sister, to teach you how to ride a horse?"
Li Yu smiled evilly: "I'm very good at riding horses!"
Lu Bicheng was shocked: "Wait, what are you going to do? Why do you want to do this again? Brother Yu, please pay attention to your health, ah~~~"
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Early the next morning, Fengling came and knocked on their door: "Sir, Madam, um... it's time to get up. There is something sent from abroad. It's quite a big item. The post office asked you to claim it."
Li Yu opened the door and asked, "What big thing?"
Fengling glanced inside and saw Lu Bicheng, who was full of peach blossoms, combing her hair in front of the dressing table.
Fengling smiled secretly, and then said: "It seems to be sent from a place called Austria."
Li Yu immediately thought of the piano and violin. "I'll get dressed and go."
Lu Bicheng said: "Wait a minute, I will come too."
Fengling smiled and said: "Sir and Madam, we are inseparable now."
Lu Bicheng also smiled and said: "I just sent a letter to my family by the way."
The piano was still very expensive. Li Yu and the others came to the post office, and their staff were arranging manpower to carry it.
Li Yu asked Zhao Qian to find several coachmen, and each of them gave a silver dollar: "Be sure not to cause any damage."
Zhao Qian rubbed his hands and said, "Don't worry, sir, we all know how to work."
Zhao Qian was right, Li Yu didn't need to command at all, they could do a good job.
So after Li Yu signed his name and completed the handover procedures at the post office, he took Lu Bicheng and prepared to go home.
When the two of them passed by a pawn shop, they suddenly heard the very miserable cry of a woman inside.
Another man said: "Okay, okay, don't cry. Follow me for three years and I won't let you suffer anything."
The woman cried: "You can't do this!"
The man said: "What's going to happen? Who told him that he can't pay back the money?"
Lu Bicheng took Li Yu's arm: "Let's take a look."
Li Yu looked up and saw the words "Ding Sheng Dang" on the plaque.
The two came closer and saw a young woman crying on the ground inside, and a dejected man sitting opposite.
The person who spoke just now was another well-dressed man next to him.
The decent man said: "Sign and come with me."
Lu Bicheng asked Li Yu in a low voice: "Will you sell your daughter?"
Li Yu shook his head: "No, the man sitting next to him doesn't look that old."
Seeing the woman crying miserably, Lu Bicheng felt a little soft-hearted, and suddenly thought: "Could it be..."
Li Yu asked: "What is it?"
Lu Bicheng said: "Dian wife."
"Dian's wife?" Li Yu heard this for the first time, "What is this?"
Lu Bicheng said: "It means pawning my wife to others."
Li Yu felt incredible: "There is still such an operation? Impossible! How can you endure the two great shames of a man, the hatred of killing his father and the hatred of taking his wife?"
Lu Bicheng was also newly married, so she couldn't stand this kind of thing even more: "Let's see if we can help."
Li Yu walked into the pawn shop with her.
The pawn shop owner saw the two of them and asked, "You two gentlemen, do you want to pawn something?"
Li Yu said: "I was just passing by."
The pawnshop owner suddenly recognized him: "Are you the Imperial Master Li Yu? You are all in the newspapers now."
"It's easy to talk about," Li Yu said, and then asked, "What's going on?"
The pawn shop owner said: "Oh, you said they are just pawn wives."
Li Yu was surprised and said: "It really does exist."
The pawn shop owner took out a wife's pawn deed and said, "I still want to marry each other."
Li Yu took a look and saw that the beginning of the paper on the far right side was written in red with the three characters "wife deed", and then the main text read:
"Deed
Wang Chengjian owed Li Yufa one hundred and five hundred taels of silver for a long time and was unable to pay it back. He would like to marry his wife Chen to Li Yufa. At the end of three years, Wang Chengjian will redeem his wife with two hundred and fifty taels of silver. If he does not redeem after the expiration date, he will make another discussion.
Model Wife: Wang Chengjian
Bearer: Li Yufa
Narrator: Wang Zhiqing"
After reading it, Li Yu couldn't help but blurt out: "What a sin!"
Feminist pioneers like Lu Bicheng couldn't stand it anymore: "Wang Chengjian, right? You don't have any future, so you pawned off your wife? Is it just goods?"
Sitting on the stool, Wang Chengjian was dejected and said helplessly: "I really have no choice, I was forced too hard."
Li Yu asked: "Is this legal?"
Pawn shop owner Wang Zhiqing said: "Whether this... is legal or not, with the wife's pawn contract, I shouldn't be able to say..."
After Li Yufa knew that Li Yu was the emperor's master, he also came over to greet him with a smile: "He turned out to be the emperor's master. This is not surprising. If you give me a child, you can send him back."
Li Yu felt sick all over after hearing this, but he was even more disgusted with Wang Chengjian and the ugly feudal dregs that pawned his wife. But at this time, pawning a wife was not particularly uncommon.
Lu Bicheng was so angry that she almost beat this useless man.
Li Yu stopped her and squatted down next to Chen. She was indeed pretty, with fair fingers. She must have been educated and had some education, at least she hadn't done much farm work.
Li Yu asked: "Do you still want to live with him?"
Chen covered her eyes: "I don't want to live anymore."
"Then do you want to redeem yourself?" Li Yu asked.
Li Yu said: "My factory also recruits female workers. On average, they can earn 30 taels of silver a year, and if they do well, they can even earn a hundred taels of silver."
Lu Bicheng said: "You have redeemed yourself in a few years, what else do you want from a man like this?"
Mrs. Chen was surprised and said: "Is this really possible?"
Li Yu stood up: "The choice is yours. It's up to you whether you want to break through the shackles or not."
"Me? I can also decide my own life?" Mrs. Chen understood, but still couldn't believe it.
She glanced at her cowardly husband Wang Chengjian and Li Yufa, who looked wretched, biting her lips but not daring to speak.
But Li Yufa was anxious: "Emperor Master, you can't do bad things to others!"
"A good thing?" Li Yu suddenly remembered that, yes, he is still an official, so he added, "I am now a member of the fifth rank of the Ministry of Rites, and I wear the seal of the second rank on my waist. What does the Ministry of Rites do? It is to take care of these customs and etiquette.
, Moral regulations, look at what you have done, which thing is right?"
Li Yu put out the seal with a snap.
I have to say that even though I don’t want to be an official, this thing is really, really easy to use and the results are immediate.
The pawn shop owner Wang Zhiqing naturally knows the goods. When he saw it, he quickly said: "Oh, you are really an official!"