Running account

"Stop, stop, give me back my monkey!" A fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy ran after a man dressed in women's clothing and heavy makeup on the street.

"No." The man roared loudly, but he didn't even intend to stop in his footsteps.

"My father bought it for me with a lot of money. If you don't pay it back, I'll have someone beat you up and keep on going!" The young man was angry with a little arrogance in his tone.

Hearing this, the man paused, and the skirt at the calf stopped trembling. He turned around and said, "A lot of money? I'm ashamed in my pocket, or... how about I promise you with my body?" Move slowly.

I saw that this person's face was thick and pale, his eyelids were covered with light blue rouge, and his lips were painted blood red like a child who had eaten a dead child. He stared at himself with wretched eyes while taking off his clothes.

The brushed clothes fell to the floor, and the man stripped down to a pair of obscene pants.The young man had never seen such a situation before, he was a little slow to react, he quickly covered his eyes: "Ah... ah... don't take off your clothes! Who wants you to promise yourself?" After speaking, he turned and ran away.

"Isn't this the lunatic young master of the Huan family? Why did he run out again and be ashamed?"

"I heard that this outfit also harassed the owner of the bun shop in the east of the city a few days ago."

"This Huan Chu has not been married yet. Mrs. Huan invites a matchmaker all day long, but no girl is willing to marry a lunatic."

"Poor Master Huan is still crazy with just such a son, so what if he has a rich family, I'm afraid there will be no one to succeed him."

When Huan Chu heard "no successor" amidst the discussion among the crowd of onlookers, Huan Chu was taken aback for a moment, and then realized that the monkey had long since disappeared, and murmured in his heart: "Freedom." Regardless of everyone's strange eyes, he let the clothes lie On the ground, just go back to the mansion topless.

"Beware of catching a cold! If you didn't pay attention, you sneaked out again, and my wife knew that I would definitely be punished. Why did you come back naked this time?" As soon as you entered the gate of Huan Mansion, Fu Bao, the servant who served you closely, hurriedly greeted you. up.

"Find me a purple dress." Huan Chu ignored Fu Bao, only wanted to change his attire, and strode back to his room after giving the order.

In the corner of the magnificent Huan Mansion is Huan Chu’s room. Two wooden stakes are buried on the left and right in front of the door; thin hemp ropes are tied to each stake; Under Fu Bao's care, the two hens are as fat as fat pigs.

After thinking for a while, the man sitting in front of the dowry in the room selected a beautifully carved square box from among the many makeup powders, opened it, smelled it, and then seriously dressed up.

Fu Bao pushed the door in with the clothes in his hands, and saw that his young master had changed into another still puzzling makeup, so he was not surprised: "Master, the clothes have been brought for you, put them on quickly, Madam wants to see you .”

"Oh." Huan Chu responded blankly, and waved his hand to signal Fu Bao to back down.

Huan Chu put on the clothes casually, then pulled the front of the clothes slightly to reveal the collarbone, rubbed the messy hair, looked at his face in the mirror, and smiled like a winner.

In the back hall, a thin, fair-faced woman sat on a wooden chair and blew the tea in a tea bowl for several rounds.

"Which girl did mother find for her son?" Mother Huan raised her eyes and saw Huan Chu striding in, dressed in messy purple clothes and with strange makeup.Putting down the tea bowl in his hand, he said: "If you dress up like this all day long because you are dissatisfied with my urging you to get married, then you don't have to. Who in Yuecheng doesn't know that the young master of the Huan Mansion is a lunatic? Even if you want to marry No girl will marry."

Huan Chu thought: "You are not tired of talking so much!"

Mother Huan said again: "I'm not looking for you today because of your marriage. Do you know the Ruan family in the film city?"

For a moment, Huan Chu thought that there was something wrong with his ears. For the five years since he turned 20, his mother always talked to him about marriage. Now this is... without thinking too much, Huan Chu replied: "I know, Ruan's family in the film city is as rich as an enemy country, why does mother ask this?"

"There is a token that needs to be returned to its original owner." Then he took out a silver ring from the skirt of his clothes and handed it to Huan Chu.Seeing that the size should be worn by men, the whole body has been polished and shiny by time, and the word "Ruan" is engraved squarely on it.

"Return it to its original owner? How can we have things from the Ruan family?" Huan Chu had never heard his parents mention this ring.

"Don't ask too much, your father has already written a letter to say that he wants to return this thing, are you willing to go?"

Rather than listening to his mother nagging about marrying a wife and having children all day in the mansion, it is better to go out cleanly, and without thinking about the reason, he said: "My son is willing to go."

Huan's mother glanced at Huan Chu from bottom to top: "Change into your clothes and freshen up, don't throw people to the movie theater, it will take three days, so hurry up and leave without delay." Then he went back to the room by himself.

The next morning, Fu Bao dug some earthworms and squatted in front of the door to feed the chickens. "Squeak"——with a sound, the door was opened from the inside by a slender, white hand with distinct joints, and a tall and tall man walked out—with a face like a jade crown, a pair of smiling eyes, and pink and thin lips , a small sesame mole on the left side of the tall bridge of the nose.A black dress adds a bit of coquettishness.

As soon as Fu Bao raised his head, he opened his mouth wide in astonishment, stood up slowly, and rubbed his eyes vigorously: "Young...Young master?" After entering the mansion for three years, Fu Bao has been serving Huan Chu personally, because he knows that although he is not like the rumored That way, it has never been so normal, even a little too handsome.

"What? It wouldn't be like this after washing your face." Huan Chu didn't understand why Fu Bao had such an expression.

"You are beautiful without knowing it!" Fu Bao suddenly felt that the young master's usual makeup was too thick.

"Okay, are all the things ready for the road?"

"Your flute and the books you read on weekdays have been prepared, and you have enough money, clothes and other necessities, but... just do you still bring the piles of makeup?" Fu Bao asked cautiously, not knowing what the young master said. This is normal is a whim or a change of heart.

"Throw it all away." Huan Chu thought that buying these things at that time was just a protest against his mother's interference in his marriage, and he didn't really like to paint and paint, let alone a lunatic.

"Yes, I'll go right away." Fu Bao ran away with a smile, because he felt in his heart that with his young master's beauty, he didn't need those vulgar things at all.

There is a black-tailed wax beak in Huan's mansion.

Everyone has hobbies more or less, and Mr. Huan is no exception. His greatest hobby is to take the bird around with a teacup.

This day, when he was about to take this darling out of the house, he was blocked by Huan Chu who was walking quickly: "Father, can you tell me about the Ruan family's ring?"

Master Huan was a little surprised when he saw Huan Chu. After all, he was used to seeing his son's unusual side, and it was difficult to adapt to his sudden normality. .”

At this time, the bird in his hand sang several times, and Master Huan hurriedly said: "Hey, don't worry, let's go." After speaking, he took the bird out of the house.

Huan Chu: "..."

Huanchu turned around and went back to the room, seeing that Fubao had prepared everything, "You stay in the mansion to take care of Dahong and Erhong, and I will go to the studio alone."

Fu Bao: "Don't worry, young master, I will save all the eggs for you."

Huanchu instructed: "If Mr. Wen comes to look for me, just say that I have traveled far away, and I will look for him when I come back."

Fu Bao: "Yes."

The next day, Huan Chu was so confused that he took the ring and a large box of belongings and got on the carriage to the movie city. Although he was confused, he was in a good mood for some reason.

In the blink of an eye, three days have passed.

"My lord, the film studio is here." Some hunchbacked old drivers lifted the curtain with rough hands and said to Huan Chu with a smile.

"Thank you." He said, put down the book in his hand, took out a silver coin and handed it over.

Huan Chu got off the carriage and didn't ask where the Ruan family was, but went to an inn and asked, "Are there any vacancies?"

"Hey, which son is this, he looks like a fairy descended from the earth?"

"I don't know if I have married a wife."

"It seems that he is a son of a wealthy family. He is handsome and handsome. It is probably a blessing that has been cultivated for several lifetimes for a girl to marry him."

As soon as Huanchu entered the door, everyone who was eating on the first floor of the inn whispered.

The shopkeeper is a tall middle-aged man with good features. When a customer comes to the door, he puts down the account book in his hand and stands up to greet him: "Yes, yes, please come inside." Haven't taken the box yet." The shop clerk then took his eyes away from Huan Chu, took the box with both hands, and then the shopkeeper raised his hand: "Please follow me." Saying that, he took him to the innermost part of the second floor one of the upper rooms.

"Please rest for a while, I will order someone to boil some hot water for you to bathe, but what else do you need to eat?" the shopkeeper asked enthusiastically.

"Make some light vegetarian dishes and serve a pot of good wine. I'm done." Huan Chu yawned.

"Wait a moment." After the shopkeeper said, the waiter turned around and walked out.

"This person is dressed like a rich man. I don't know which family is so handsome. I'm afraid Chang'e in the Moon Palace would feel ashamed." The waiter muttered as he walked.

The shopkeeper patted the waiter on the head: "How can you compare a man with Chang'e? Do / your job."

At this time, Huan Chu in the room had already taken off his coat, shoes and socks and was lying on the bed, holding the ring from the Ruan family in his hand, looking left and right, but he didn't see anything.The journey of several days made him very tired, and he fell asleep after a while.

I don't know how long it took before the waiter knocked on the door: "My lord, the food is ready."

Huan Chu rubbed his eyes, got up, put on his clothes and opened the door: "Come in."

"It's getting dark, young master, let's eat first." After finishing speaking, he put down the food and ran away with his face flushed.

A few vegetarian dishes and a pot of wine—Huan Chu felt that eating meat was a cruel thing, as if an animal put a knife on his neck and wanted to kill him to eat meat and drink blood.

After eating and taking a bath, the slightly drunk Huan Chu fell asleep in such a daze.

"In the guest officer, please."

"Your food is here."

"Here are two catties of sauced beef."

"You don't need money for salt, you want to kill me!"

"Come on, let me borrow..."

"There is no wild boar. Would you like to try fresh pheasant?"

"Guest officer, go slowly, welcome again!"

In the early morning, before Huan Chu opened his eyes, he was woken up by the voices of the guys downstairs who greeted him.He sat up with his eyes closed, his long black hair hanging down his waist, and his looming waist was extremely sexy. He groped for his clothes and put them on slowly. For some reason, he lay down and fell asleep again as if he suddenly thought of something!

At noon, the shopkeeper was standing in front of Huan Chu's door with food and raised his hand to knock on the door when he saw the door opened from the inside. Huan Chu glanced at him and said, "I'm a bit hungry. The store just came. Please come inside."

The shopkeeper came in and put down the food, and said: "My lord, take it easy. If you need it, you can find me downstairs." Then he turned to leave, "Shut up, does the shopkeeper know what interesting places to go here?" Huan Chu stopped The shopkeeper raised his eyebrows and asked softly.

"Master, you're an outsider, and you're here just for fun? If you're talking about a good place...um..." The shopkeeper thought for a while, and said, "The male and female hall across the street, there are not only prostitutes but also Longyang, If you are interested, you can go and have a look, it is really a good place." After saying "Yeah", it suddenly occurred to him that the guest didn't pay for the meal just now, so he hurriedly chased after him.

Huan Chu: "..."

"Do I seem to be such a frivolous person? Forget about being frivolous, Longyang? Tch~" Huan Chu muttered with disdain.

Ten days ago, in the middle of the night, Mr. Ruan of the Ruan Mansion was in his bedroom—"Today I have something to ask. The dog has lived for 25 years and has not yet married. I don't mind. It's just that his mother is worried every day that Huan's family will lose the incense, so she invites Mr. Ruan Find a safe person for the child, and fulfill my wife's wish." Master Ruan read the letter from the beginning to the end by the candlelight, knowing it clearly.

"Ma'am, take a look." He said, and handed over the letter.

"Master, what do you think of Ling'er?" Madam Ruan asked softly after reading the letter.

"That's exactly what I mean. If it can be done, it can be regarded as repaying the kindness of Master Huan." The two of them had the same idea of ​​matching the benefactor's son and their own daughter to get married.

"Tomorrow, I will discuss this matter with Ling'er. Go to sleep." Madam Ruan said, and blew out the lamp.

In the early morning of the second day, the cauldron in the Ruan Mansion's kitchen was bubbling, and a tall, icy-muscled woman was standing in front of the stove.

"Miss, you don't need to think about it to know that you are in the kitchen. Madam told you to come over." The maid Cailan trotted into the kitchen and said out of breath.

"I'll put some stewed meat for my parents to taste. I don't know if the craftsmanship has improved." As he said, he got up and took a large bowl to fill out half of the meat in the pot.

"Miss's cooking skills are probably incomparable to the old cooks in the house. Madam likes your stewed meat the most." Cai Lan stared at the pot and wiped her saliva.

"What does mother want from me?" Ruan Ling put the other half of the stewed meat in the pot into an exquisite food box.

"I don't know, miss, go and see for yourself."

Ruan Ling walked towards the hall with a large bowl of stewed meat in one hand and a food box in the other.

"Mother, if you taste Ling'er's cooking, will you improve?" Ruan Ling looked expectantly at Madam Ruan as she put a small piece of meat into her mouth.

"I don't know whose son is so lucky to marry a woman with cooking skills and good looks like our Ling'er in the future." Madam Ruan wiped her mouth with a handkerchief, and said in a slightly tentative tone.

"My daughter will not marry anyone! She will be filial to her parents all her life, and my father will try it too."

Master Ruan took the big bowl and put it on the table, he couldn't help saying earnestly: "You are also eighteen this year, do you have someone you like? You say that you don't marry anyone, how can there be a girl who doesn't marry?"

Ruan Ling's favorite thing is to stay in the kitchen cooking all day long; the thing she hates the most is listening to her parents nagging her about getting married, why do people have to get married?When I thought about this question, I couldn't help but get a headache, so I changed the topic: "It's been a long time since I went to see my brother, and I just made this stew today and I'll take it for him to taste." Before my parents could ask me any more questions, I ran away in a hurry.Miss Ruan's family was tall and long-legged, she left the gate of Ruan's mansion and ran towards the small courtyard in the mountains after a while.

"elder brother."