Heartthrobs can't be unlucky all the time

A few days after returning from the hot spring, Ning Yu was alone at home. The eldest brother and the third child went to the city to buy goods for the winter and would come back in the afternoon. The second child was still in the academy.

Ning Yu was holding a feather duster, wearing an old third child's clothes, covering his mouth and nose with a square scarf, and was sweeping the dust from the eaves of the outer house.

Suddenly heard a strange voice from outside the yard,

"Excuse me, is this Zheng Xiuyuan's home?"

"Excuse me, is this Zheng Xiuyuan's home?"

The man called twice, and Ning Yu hurried out after hearing it. At this time, there was a man with a dusty face standing outside the door. A black square hat, holding a horse in his hand.

Ning Yu recognized this man's clothes at a glance, gray clothes and black hat, he was actually a servant of the Ning family!

His footsteps stopped at the gate of the courtyard, and seeing the servant looking over, Ning Yu subconsciously took two steps back.

"My little brother, are you Zheng Xiuyuan?"

"Brother? Brother? What are you looking at?"

"Cough cough cough, you, who are you?"

It took a long time for Ning Yu to recover his voice. He was stunned just now, and kept looking back to see if his brother had brought someone to find him.

"I am the servant of Ning Mansion in Huizhou. Some people say that Orion Zheng Xiuyuan has clues about the whereabouts of our second young master, so I came here to inquire."

After expressing his intention, the servant also took out a portrait of the second young master's accessories. Ning Yu saw that the most conspicuous thing on the portrait was the jade pendant he gave Zheng Xiuyuan?

Ning Yu instantly understood when he saw the missing person notice on which his accessories and clothes were painted.

He calmed down immediately, and asked a few more questions about how the servant knew that Zheng Xiuyuan had this jade pendant, and how he found it here.

Ning Yu claimed that he was Zheng Xiuyuan's younger brother, and his elder brother had entered the city, so he could just ask him if he had anything to ask.

The servant was also very smart, he didn't ask Ning Yu immediately, expressing that he wanted to wait for Zheng Xiuyuan to come back.

However, Ning Yu asked a few more questions, and found that Jia Ding came over without even taking a break from the inn. He knew clearly that this famous Jia Ding must be in a hurry to inquire about the news. Three to five days, ten days and a half months.

When the family member heard that it would take so long, he couldn't afford to wait. After struggling for a while, he still asked Ning Yu: "Brother, do you know that brother Zheng Xiuyuan got the jade pendant in the picture? How did you get this piece?" Jade?"

Ning Yu knew the question he wanted to ask very well, so he immediately put on a thoughtful look and said;

"My brother bought this jade pendant from a peddler walking around the streets a few months ago when he went to the market. I still remember that peddler said he bought it from a fishmonger. I heard that, eh , put your ears closer."

"It was picked off from a dead person!" Ning Yu said quietly.

"what--"

Jia Ding was taken aback, jumped up, and looked at Ning Yu in horror.

"Oh, don't be afraid, the jade pendant is a bit like the one in your portrait, but it's not a phoenix, but a pheasant with a long tail, and the workmanship is not so fine. Think about it, five What good jade pendant can you buy with Shiwen, right?"

"Brother, from your attire, your house must be quite rich. Could it be that the businessman you mentioned just now is trying to cheat money?"

After listening to Ning Yu's words, the servant looked at Ning Yu with suspicion.

At this time, Ning Yu covered his face with a square scarf and was wearing old clothes. Because he was dusted off just now, he looked very disheveled, just like a wild man in a mountain village.

But his eyes looked at the servant very sincerely. Seeing that the servant was not convinced, he crossed his arms and continued to add in a casual manner,

"If you want to see my elder brother's jade pendant, I don't care. My elder brother will be back in half a month. Let him take it out for you to see if it is a pheasant."

Ning Yu pretended to be indifferent and looked at the servant.

The servant thought to himself, this man is Zheng Xiuyuan's younger brother, there is no need to lie to him.Moreover, it is not that no one went to Ning Mansion to ask for rewards in the name of providing clues.

Did Liu Fugui really miss him?

"Brother, there is one more thing. I heard that brother Zheng Xiuyuan has a fiancée who suddenly appeared. Do you know what's going on?"

When Ning Yu heard this, he was stunned for a while.

But soon, he came to his senses, lowered his voice, and told the servant mysteriously.

"Are you talking about the big one in my family? It didn't just appear suddenly, it was rescued by my elder brother "spending money" some time ago.

You know, it's too difficult for a family like ours to find a daughter-in-law. I didn't think about a trick and kept claiming that she was a "fiancée". This time, "she" went to visit relatives with my elder brother. "

Ning Yu thought, Zheng Xiuyuan did spend a lot of money to heal his leg, and he didn't lie.

Hearing Ning Yu's words, the housekeeper sized Ning Yu a few times, looked at the simple courtyard behind him, and nodded knowingly.

He expressed his understanding of the meaning of Ning Yu's words, and the servant also came from a family in a mountain village, so it is not surprising for these things.

He stood there and thought about it. This village is several hundred miles away from Huizhou. If there is really a jade pendant or news about the second young master, why is there no news?

Maybe it was Liu Fugui who was wrong.

Jia Ding thought he had already analyzed the current situation clearly, so he didn't say any more, it was enough to understand the situation, after he thanked Ning Yu, he gave Ning Yu some money, and then he got on his horse and left.

Ning Yu looked at the figure of the family member driving away, and weighed the weight of the copper coins in his hand, but the worries in his heart did not disappear.

Now, can he stay here forever?

In the afternoon, Zheng Xiuyuan and Zheng Xiujie came back. They bought some cotton-padded clothes, some quilts, various foods and black charcoal. Behind the two horses, each dragged a two-wheeled wooden cart, which was fully loaded. of.

It took them a long time to move the things on the wooden cart, and Ning Yu found that Zheng Xiuyuan not only helped him buy cotton clothes, but also had boots and hats.

At this time, he had already changed out of the old clothes he wore while sweeping the dust, washed his face, and helped Zheng Xiujie prepare dinner.

The three of them sat around the table and chatted.

Ning Yu didn't directly tell the two that someone came to see Zheng Xiuyuan today, he pretended to ask the boss of the Zheng family casually;

"Brother Zheng, do you still remember the jade pendant I gave you?"

On the first day Ning Yu woke up, Zheng Xiuyuan took Ning Yu's jade pendant, and he kept hanging it around his neck for fear of losing it.

A few days ago, when he went to the street to trade the prey he had recently hunted in the mountains with a fur dealer, the fur dealer happened to see the jade pendant hanging around Zheng Xiuyuan's neck. He was very surprised and asked Zheng Xiuyuan why he had such a jade pendant.

Zheng Xiuyuan kept an eye on it at the time, and didn't say that Ning Yu gave it to him, but only said that he picked it up. The fur dealer didn't believe his words, and looked pensive.

However, the fur dealer didn't ask any more questions, and only said that he would come back to trade after a while.

At dinner in the evening, Zheng Xiuyuan brought up the leather goods dealer and asked him about the jade pendant, and he told several people in his family. Ning Yu remained calm and continued to ask Zheng Xiuyuan;

"He saw the jade pendant I gave you? What does that person do?"

"The merchant's name is Li Fugui. He has been doing long-distance leather goods trading in Feiyu City for a long time. He also does silk products. He mainly goes to Huizhou to do business. What's wrong?"

Ning Yu was stunned for a moment, biting his chopsticks and wondering what he was thinking. Since the businessman was doing business in Huizhou and it was related to silk, it was not surprising that he went to Ningfu to report.

"I'm done eating."

Ning Yu had a worried look on his face, and he put down his chopsticks before taking a few mouthfuls of food, frowning, not knowing what he was thinking.

The two brothers were worried, and finally the third child spoke under the gesture of the eldest brother.

Zheng Xiujie was very clever. He started with a few fruits being pecked by a sparrow in the orchard today. He said that the oranges planted this year were already ripe, and he would take Ning Yu to the orchard in two days. They could pick them and eat them.

After speaking, he also demonstrated how to eat while picking, which looked very funny.

Ning Yu was amused by the exaggerated performance of the third child, and told him to stop making trouble. Then Zheng Xiujie asked why Ning Yu ate so little. Was it related to the businessman that the elder brother mentioned?

Ning Yu hesitated for a moment, then nodded.At the same time, as if he had figured something out, Ning Yu raised his head, looked at the two of them solemnly, and said;

"You haven't asked me about my origin, aren't you curious?"

The two brothers remained silent. Of course they were curious, but they chose to respect Ning Yu. It was Ning Yu's choice whether to say it or not.

"I keep telling you that I am alone, but in fact, I lied to you."

Then, Ning Yu narrated his own background, starting from his mother.

His mother's name was Yue Ru, who used to be a singing girl in the capital.Yue Ru's father, Ning Yu's grandfather, used to be a small official in the capital, but because of factional struggles in the court, he was implicated and was tragically exiled.

Because of this, Yue Ru was also living in the land of fireworks. She played the pipa well without selling herself.Yue Ru's beauty and noble attitude attracted many people.

That year, Huizhou silk merchant Ning Zhenru went to the capital to deliver goods. He accidentally heard Yue Ru playing and singing.

I thought it was a happy relationship, but when Yue Ru followed Ning Zhenru back to Huizhou, he found that he was already married.

Because Mrs. Ning, who was Ning Zhenru's original spouse, did not agree, even Ning Zhenru refused to accept Yue Ru as a concubine.

Ning Zhenru had no choice but to place her outside. Later, when Yue Ru gave birth to Ning Yu, the eldest wife of the Ning family still disagreed. It took six years for Ning Zhenru to bring Yue Ru, mother and son back to the Ning Mansion.

At that time, Ning Yu was already recognized as the illegitimate son of the Ning family in the eyes of the world, and the servants called him "Second Young Master" on the surface, but they didn't know how many gossips were made behind their backs.

Yue Ru didn't live comfortably after entering the mansion. The eldest wife deliberately made things difficult for her. In addition to treating her like a servant and making her help her squeeze her shoulders and legs, and serve tea and water, even Yue Ru fell ill. They all asked Yue Ru to cook her a supper.

Ning Zhenru relied on his wife's natal family to make his business so big, so he couldn't criticize his wife's harsh demands, so he could only comfort Yue Ru and let her be patient.

Yue Ru couldn't stand the life in Ning Mansion, and after a high fever, he fell ill and left soon after.

After Yue Ru's death, the eldest wife of the Ning family also contracted a serious illness and became bedridden. Her symptoms were so strange that no famous doctor could help her. Ning Zhenru could only watch his original wife die with her eyes wide open.

Perhaps the death of Yue Ru and the eldest wife hit Ning Zhenru too hard. He never continued, and he only had eyes for his silk business.

Even the care for Ning Yu and Ning Ting is almost non-existent. Ning Yu and Ning Ting can only keep each other warm, which is a consolation.

Later, Ning Ting started to do business with Ning Zhen Confucianism, and Ning Yu lived a relatively stable life under the protection of his brother.

Ning Yu said that when he went to the temple to burn incense last time, someone forcibly took him away, as if he was going to send him far away, but he didn't expect to meet bandits, and then Ning Yu fell off the cliff and fell into the river and was captured by Zheng Xiuyuan. save...

He did not say what he had heard the coachman say about the master and the young master.Perhaps, he didn't want to imagine the truth of the matter.

After reminiscing about the past, Ning Yu also told the two about the visit of the Ning family's servant today.

"The fur merchant is so interested in a strange jade pendant, he should have seen it somewhere."

"This jade pendant is actually a pair of mandarin duck jade pendants. My brother and I each have one."

"Maybe, my brother has already got the news at this time and is rushing here."

Ning Yu calmly narrated his experiences from childhood to adulthood, but the two brothers felt distressed in his tone without any disturbance.

No wonder, they always felt that Ning Yu was too quiet and transparent.

No wonder, they always felt uneasy that Ning Yu was about to leave.

Although he has the status of a young master, he must have suffered a lot when his mother passed away at a young age and his father ignored him.

If there is no boss, will Ning Yu be able to... after falling off the cliff?

"Then your brother is here, do you want to follow him back?"

Ning Yu nodded.

In fact, he was still very curious. Knowing that his father treated him so cruelly, how would his brother react to his father?

The two brothers felt even more uncomfortable seeing Ning Yu nodding. They didn't know what to say, and there was a silence in the room.

But that is someone else's elder brother. Isn't it a good thing for someone else's family reunion?What qualifications and positions do they have to feel uncomfortable?

The atmosphere in the room suddenly became a little low.

——But Ning Yu pretended to be relaxed and smiled——

"Maybe, he'll come tomorrow, maybe he'll never come."

The author has something to say:

I've been rewatching Border Town recently, alas, Cui Cui is so distressing