After unlocking the material space, I raised my younger siblings in a farmhouse.

The young man carried Old Man Yu out of the City God Temple, entered the nearby forest, and came to an open space. There was a pit dug in the open space with a coffin placed in the pit.

The coffin lid was open. The young man put Old Man Yu into the coffin, closed the lid, and used the shovel left by the coffin shop clerk to cover the soil back and build a grave mound.

After doing all this, the young man was so tired that he collapsed on the ground to rest.

After recovering, the young man pulled out a dagger from his clothes and planned to make a tombstone for Old Man Yu.

The dagger is very exquisite, with many gems inlaid on the handle and scabbard, which sparkle brightly under the refraction of the sunlight. When the dagger is unscabbarded, the blade is smooth and bright, cold and sharp, and it can cut wood as easily as cutting melons and vegetables.

Anyone with a discerning eye would know that this dagger must be worth a fortune. The reason why this dagger fell into the hands of this young man can be traced back to his life experience.

The young man’s name is Lu Yunshu. He is the eldest son of the governor of Cangzhou. His mother is Liu Mingxin, the only daughter of Liu Zhao, the richest man in Yunzhou.

Lu Yunshu's father's surname is Lu and his given name is Chengyuan. He was born in a farming family, but he studied hard since childhood. He passed the imperial examination and became a scholar at the age of twenty. He became famous in Yunzhou. Liu Zhao saw the potential of Lu Chengyuan and recruited him as his son-in-law.

After Lu Chengyuan and Liu Mingxin got married, he relied on the huge financial resources of his father-in-law's family and his own talent for studying to pass the imperial examinations and become a juren and jinshi.

With money to bribe people, the place where Lu Chengyuan was exiled was a good place. In addition, Lu Chengyuan himself was a good person, and he always got A in the performance evaluation, and he rose rapidly.

Now, in just over a decade, he, a poor boy with no background, has risen to the position of governor of a state. His future is limitless.

Lu Chengyuan, who was young and had no background but knew how to be an official, was naturally noticed by many senior officials in the court. They intended to win him over to their camp, and the method they chose was marriage.

After weighing the pros and cons, Lu Chengyuan decided to divorce his wife and remarry. Liu Mingxin was unwilling to be humiliated, nor did she want to bring shame to her father, so she chose to hang herself.

Lu Chengyuan kept the news secret and only told others that his wife had died of a serious illness. One year after Liu Mingxin's death, Lu Chengyuan married a second wife.

The second wife was the concubine's daughter of the current Minister of Revenue. There was nothing Liu Zhao didn't understand. He just hated himself for having chosen such an ungrateful person for his daughter. He immediately cut off the supply to Lu Chengyuan and even ignored the grandson who had Lu Chengyuan's blood in his body.

With the coming of the second wife, the status of Lu Yunshu, the eldest son left by the original wife, became extremely embarrassing. In addition, his in-laws ignored him, which made it difficult for him to make a living in the Lu Mansion.

Now he is fifteen years old. According to the ancient saying, he is already an adult. The dowry left by Lu Chengyuan's first wife Liu Mingxin, which is controlled by his stepmother, should be returned to Lu Yunshu.

But the second wife had been in charge of Liu's dowry for many years, and relying on the income from those shops, she lived a more comfortable life than when she was in the Shangshu Mansion. How could she be willing to give up the meat in her mouth?

So the second wife took action against Lu Yunshu. Because she had to do it secretly and not be discovered, the second wife was always very careful in doing things.

It was precisely because of his excessive caution that Lu Yunshu was able to escape death many times by accident.

Lu Yunshu knew his stepmother's character very well and knew that she would not stop until she killed him. He could no longer stay in the Lu Mansion, so he found an opportunity to leave the Lu Mansion with the silver money and the dagger his mother gave him.

After he left, his stepmother became more unscrupulous and spent his mother's dowry to hire a killer to assassinate him.

He fled in a panic and soon spent all the money he had. In order to survive, he faked his own death, tricked the killer into thinking he had jumped off a cliff and committed suicide, thus escaping the danger.

It's just that he didn't control the strength well and injured his leg. All the remaining money was used to treat his leg. With his leg injured, he couldn't go out to earn money, and he also had to be careful not to be discovered that he was not dead.

In desperation, Lu Yunshu could only disguise himself as a beggar and mingle with the beggars.

When the pain in his legs and the hunger in his stomach appeared at the same time, Lu Yunshu leaned against the pillar helplessly and thought about life.

He didn't understand how he had ended up like this. What was the point of living like this?

Just then, a porcelain bottle and several meat buns appeared in front of him.

Lu Yunshu looked up and saw that the person who gave him the thing was a little girl who looked only eight or nine years old. Although she looked thin, her eyes were very clear, as if she could see through everything.

The girl made a deal with him for the two things he needed most, asking him to help deal with the funeral affairs of an old beggar.

This gave him hope of survival. Although he had never buried anyone before, he still chose to accept the deal.

The deal was done. He took the porcelain bottle, opened the lid, and poured out two white pills as the girl instructed.

He had never seen this kind of pill before, but his intuition told him that it was edible and the person in front of him had no ill will towards him, so he swallowed the pill directly.

The pill tasted a little bitter when it went down his throat, but it was much better than drinking the medicine juice. He didn't know if it was his illusion, but he felt that his legs didn't hurt as much as before.

Then he shook his head again. It was impossible. How could any medicine work so quickly? He moved his eyes to the paper bag. He reached out and took a bun from it and put it in his mouth to chew.

He finished one bun in just three or two bites. When he went to get the second bun, he noticed a piece of broken silver stuck in the gap between the buns. It should be about two taels in size.

Of course, Lu Yunshu was not naive enough to think that the silver was put in by the stall owner or the little girl by mistake. It should be the money the little girl used to arrange the funeral of the old man.

Lu Yunshu did not ask the little girl directly. His expression remained unchanged as he ate all the buns in front of the others. Only when he saw the others looking away in disappointment did he secretly hide the silver on his body.

After Lu Yunshu finished eating all four buns, he leaned against the pillar, closed his eyes and rubbed his stomach back and forth with his hands. To outsiders, this scene meant that he was full and was savoring the taste of the buns.

In fact, Lu Yunshu was stroking the two taels of silver in his arms, and he was thinking about how to use these two taels of silver to make more money.

He thought that the two taels of silver given by the little girl were money for the old man's funeral arrangements, and he had no intention of breaching the contract and embezzling the money.

But he needed money to continue treating his leg. He couldn't delay any longer and he didn't want to become a cripple. So, he could only say sorry to the old man. He needed to use the two taels of silver first.

After much thought, Lu Yunshu could think of the fastest way to make money was from gambling.

His stepmother treated him with the intention of spoiling him. At that time, he was already old enough to remember things. With the reminder of the loyal servant left by his mother, he understood his stepmother's sinister intentions. In order to save his life, he had no choice but to play along.