Master respects him by serving the devil

Bai Ruoyi raised her eyebrows and was slightly surprised: "You know this thing?"

Shanglu stared straight at the kneecap in his hand, and lightly touched the beaded embroidery, which was a pair of red-billed lovesick birds with gorgeous plumage and light body.

"...This is embroidered by Chacha. The gorgeous dress with a red mouth and lovesickness, and the love is inseparable..."

Su Ye muttered: "Didn't you say that this is the buried object of the goddess in the goddess tomb?"

Shanglu raised his bloodshot eyes and said excitedly: "How can there be any funeral things? This is Chacha, which was embroidered by Chacha and given to me."

Bai Ruoyi asked, "Then why did it appear in Li Hai's hands?"

Shang Lu's eyes were flustered for a moment, and he was about to cry. He lost his mind for a while, as if recalling the past, he choked up and said, "Chacha and I grew up in Huashan. She is an orphan adopted by the villagers. Knowing how to recognize people, we play with her. Chacha is ingenious and skillful, and she is a good female celebrity..."

After the merchant moved out of Huashanji, Shanglu and Nicha still kept in touch with letters. Until ten years later, both of them reached the age of marriage. Shanglu revealed that he would marry Nicha and take her away from Huashanji to live in Jinling. Feeling shy and unable to express it in words, she embroidered a knee-covering support and brought it to Shanglu.

The embroidered red-billed lovesick bird was lifelike, and his affection was self-evident. Shanglu was full of joy, so he held the knee cap and asked the servant: "Where are my parents?"

Servant: "Master and Madam are in the front hall."

Shang Lu then rushed to the front hall, the servant was surprised, and hurriedly shouted: "Young Master, wait a minute, there are distinguished guests, and they are discussing matters..."

It's a pity that Shang Lu, who was full of joy, didn't hear what the servant said clearly, and only when he rushed to the front hall did he feel that he was abrupt.

In the front hall, besides the parents, there was a businessman dressed in luxurious clothes, standing beside him were two domestic servants and a man in a black robe. The business father and the business mother didn't know how this normally polite child would be so reckless today, and suddenly they were a little embarrassed , reprimanded: "Why are you so unruly?"

Shang Lu was reprimanded and sobered up a lot, and immediately bowed his hands and apologized: "My child is reckless, so I will step down first."

"Wait a minute." The wealthy businessman in the guest seat said, "Surely this is the son, Shanglu?"

Father Shang quickly said yes, with a respectful attitude.

The rich businessman went on to say: "Your son is really handsome and beautiful. I have a little girl in my family who just turned ten years old this year. If we make an in-law marriage and we will be married after the little girl reaches Ji, our two families will become a family. The business of the merchant will be determined by Li." Take care of it."

"No—" Shang Lu hurriedly said: "Xiaosheng has already cared about others, so don't delay Lingqianjin."

It turned out that the wealthy businessman was Li Hai, and his family's cloth business was the largest in Jinling City.Whether a businessman who wants to do cloth business can survive in Jinling City depends entirely on the attitude of the Li family.Li Hai came to the door this time because he felt that the merchant could no longer make fresh fabrics. The so-called survival of the fittest, he came to decline future cooperation with the merchant.

However, if he married a merchant by marriage, he would justifiably swallow the merchant's property and become a family, so he immediately moved a little bit of thought.

Father Shang also understood Li Hai's meaning, and hurriedly said: "The dog has little talent and learning, and is really not worthy of Ling Qianjin." He was thinking about how to refuse, but it was not for his son. Since ancient times, the parents have made decisions about marriage, so he couldn't refuse. It was because he didn't want the business to be merged by the Li family.

But he never thought about it, before he could figure out how to refuse, Li Hai spoke up.

"It doesn't matter if you don't get married, as long as you give me the embroidery, I will definitely not embarrass the merchant's cloth shop anymore." He pointed to the knee in Shang Lu's arms.

Everyone in the hall was stunned, Shang Lu hesitated and said: "Master Li, don't embarrass me, I can't give you this knee cover, this is... it was given to Xiaosheng by someone, how can there be any reason to give it to someone else? "

Li Hai ignored him, looked at Father Shang with a smile, and said, "Giving, giving, taking, how to measure gains and losses, you can figure it out." After saying that, he walked away.

Shang's father and mother were anxious, pointing to Shang Lu repeatedly and said: "It's just a piece of knee covering, is it as important as the family's property? If there is no accommodation, our family's cloth shop in Jinling will be closed! Lu Er ! Do you know that!"

Shanglu was also in a hurry, his parents had never been so anxious.

"But, Chacha embroidered it for me..."

Shang's mother thought for a moment, rolled her eyes, and comforted: "Lu Er, I know you and Ni Cha have been close since childhood, and we will not hinder this marriage. Even if the knee cover is embroidered by Ni Cha, it is just a dead thing. Why are you so persistent? Since Mr. Li has taken a fancy to this item, I will just give it to him. After my business gets through the difficulties, I will agree to marry you Nicha, wouldn’t it be a good thing?"

When Shang Lu heard this, his eyes widened, and he said excitedly, "Mother is saying that you will allow me to marry Chacha?"

Shang's mother smiled and said: "Silly boy, you and Nicha's childhood sweethearts have been exchanging letters for so many years. When did I stop you from communicating? As long as you like it, your father and I will not stop it."

Father Shang agreed after hearing the sound: "Yes, yes, the most important thing now is to overcome the current difficulties."

Knowing that there were difficulties at home, and with his mother's promise, even though Shang Lu was reluctant to part with Ni Cha's hand-embroidered knee cap, he had no choice but to hand it over. His mother was right, that knee cap is just a dead thing, and being with Chacha is the world the warmest thing.

After that, he wrote a letter and sent it to Huashanji, telling his parents that they agreed to be together, and let Nicha wait for the good news.

He also felt that Ni Cha would not care too much about the loss of his knee cover, so he lightly brought it up.Thinking that the two hadn't seen each other for many years, he invited a painter to draw up a portrait for himself, and sent it along with it.

Shanglu has Nicha in mind, and I don't know how she will react when she receives this letter. Should she be shy and angry at him for being bold, or... the more he thinks about it, the more he looks forward to receiving Nicha's reply. The day came, but he waited for ten days and a half months without waiting for a reply, and his heart gradually became restless.

He thought to himself: Could it be that he really minded that I lost what she gave her, so he ignored me when he got angry?

A few more days passed, and still no letter was received. At this time, he had already written more than a dozen letters and sent them over.He decided not to sit still and wait, so he prepared to drive a horse-drawn carriage to Huashanji.

He was stopped by his parents.

His parents put him under house arrest and didn't allow him to leave the house for half a step. He felt anxious, he didn't know why his parents had such an attitude now, and he didn't know why Ni Cha didn't reply to the letter.

This kind of life lasted for a year, until one day people in the family began to die suddenly, one after another, and soon it was the turn of Shang's father and Shang's mother. They didn't even have time to confess their last words. But it seemed to be strangled by something, unable to utter a word.

The whole family died suddenly, only he survived...

After hearing this story, everyone sighed.But this story is incomplete, and there are still many doubts, such as where did Ni Cha go?Why didn't you reply to the letter?Why did Li Hai want to take away the knee mask the first time he saw it?The sudden death of the merchant's family is even more bizarre, and why is Shanglu left alone?

However, these must have something to do with Li Hai!What is he hiding?

Bai Ruo moved slightly with a thought, and said, "The ten-winged flying fish is back."

"I'll go!" Su Ye's eyes were slightly angry, and he strode forward, unlatched the door and went out to bring Li Hai in. He had been blown by the wind and sand without the slightest appearance of a wealthy businessman, complaining.

"Hey, fairies, this place is so strange. I have never seen such a weird place. If I had known about it, I would not have come here. There is also this wind and sand, isn't it killing me!" He didn't care too much about the drink that was handed over, and drank it directly to strengthen his courage.

"Hmph." The village chief, who had been silent all this time, suddenly grabbed Li Hai's finished bowl, "It's not the first time you've come here, why is our village so weird?"

Li Hai widened his eyes, pointed outside and said, "The day is obscure, yin and yang are reversed, and the strong wind suddenly blows up, isn't that weird?"

Bai Ruoyi: "Isn't it your first time here? Have you been here before?"

Li Hai's forehead twitched, and he hurriedly waved his hands and said, "No, no, I've never been here before, this old man has a wrong memory, how could I come here."

The village chief stomped his feet angrily: "Although the old man is old, he has a good memory. It is impossible to remember wrongly. You clearly came here two years ago!" As he said, he quickly turned his head and tugged Shanglu, "Son, You ask him, Chacha was taken away by him back then!"

The village chief was so weird, he was always polite, but when he met Li Hai, he became so anxious.

Upon hearing this, Shang Lu took two quick steps forward, and looked at Li Hai with wide eyes, "Is she really taken away by you?"

Li Hai: "It's not me, nephew, don't listen to this old man's nonsense! Look, it's so weird here, and he has problems too!"

Bai Ruoyi: "Li Hai, you don't have to lie anymore, just tell me what you have."

"Xianjun, I'm not lying, I really haven't been here, this old man is weird, you have to believe me!"

Li Hai rushed over nervously, clenched Bai Ruoyi's sleeves tightly, the dust on his hands stuck directly to the snow-white sleeves, Bai Ruoyi frowned and brushed off Li Hai's hands.

Bai Ruoyi said coldly, "If you lie again, I won't be able to take care of your family's affairs."

Su Ye said: "You have already lost a son, so you are not afraid that your little daughter will have another accident? The matter is already like this, if you continue to hide it, do you want to keep the secret and let the whole family be buried with you?"

Hearing this, Li Hai prostrated himself on the ground, crying loudly, "If it's not because I don't want to say it, that person will never let me go no matter whether I say it or not! Back then, he fell in love with the Goddess and asked for it from the merchant. Asked about the whereabouts of that woman, and then asked me to take that woman away in the name of adoption, I don't know where he took him!"

Bai Ruoyi: "Who is 'that person'?"

Li Hai hesitated for a long time, finally gritted his teeth, and decided to say: "Yes..." Before he could say anything, he fell to the ground with a plop.

Everyone panicked, won't they be silenced?

Su Ye hurriedly went to check, sniffed and took the pulse.

"Master, he is very strange."

"...It's like... falling asleep."

Bai Ruoyi quickly glanced at the room, and his eyes fell on the wine jar, "There is something wrong with this wine! Which of you drank it?"

"I——" Shi Yu Nie raised her hand, but fainted as soon as she uttered a word, but fortunately Zhong Xu was beside him and supported him.

At this moment, the door latch fell suddenly, and the wooden door opened wide. The wind and sand from the outside, mixed with dead branches and rotten leaves, swept into the room, forming a cyclone in front of the hall.

The translucent wind and sand condensed faintly into a human figure, which looked like a woman. She sat suspended in the air, raised a wooden comb that seemed to be absent, and gently combed her hair that did not exist.

The unconsolidated mouth opened and closed, and slowly sang a song: "Since the king died for you, who will you live for? If you are happy to see pity, the coffin will be opened for you."