surnamed Wang

Chapter 227 Elm
After finally waking up until morning, Wang Gingquan went to an alley in the city with two dark circles under his eyes.

It was just dawn, and there were few pedestrians in the alley. A disheveled beggar was sleeping under a torn quilt.

Wang Gangquan stepped forward, stretched out his foot and kicked the other party. After the beggar mumbled "work starts at noon", he turned over and continued to meet Duke Zhou.

Wang Gangquan smiled slightly, took out an ingot of silver from his pocket, and threw it into the broken bowl on the ground.

With the crisp sound of "ding bell", the beggar who was lying on the ground and talking in his sleep just got up and pressed the broken bowl.

"What's your business, my lord?"

The beggar, about forty or fifty, showed a mouth full of yellow teeth and squeezed a smile.

"I want to see Su Qiaoqiao." Wang Bingquan said in a deep voice.

Right now, this seemingly ordinary beggar is Su Qiaoqiao's informant, and he is responsible for matchmaking any "business" on weekdays.

"Young master, do you have an introducer?" The beggar asked, biting the silver in his hand.

Wang Gangquan didn't answer, and threw another ingot with no expression on his face. With the crisp sound, the beggar's eyes went straight. This time it was gold.

The expression of the beggar who was squatting on the ground changed instantly. He picked up the gold and put it in his arms. Regardless of the introducer, he stood up quickly and looked around, and then said mysteriously:

"Master, come with me."

Then he took the lead in drilling into an alley.

After Wang Gangquan looked around, he followed into the alley.

The alley was already narrow, and it was early in the morning, so it was extremely dark.

Quan Quan walks in the alley, stepping on greasy things from time to time.I don't know if it's because of the moss growing out of the sun all year round, or something else.

After turning around in the alley four or five times, the front finally became clear. The beggar came to a house and knocked on the door with two long and one short rhythms.

Soon, the door was opened, and a woman in pink and white walked out of it.

"Lazy, didn't you agree not to pick up work during the day?"

The woman was Su Qiaoqiao. Due to the dim light, she only saw the beggars blocking the door, and completely ignored Wang Gingquan behind.

The beggar named Laolan was about to say something when Wang Quanquan behind him cleared his throat and said:

"Ahem, Miss Su, long time no see."

When Su Qiaoqiao heard the words, she noticed that there was another person behind the beggar. She looked at Wang Gangquan suspiciously.

"It's you? Didn't you just meet yesterday?"

Lao Laan is a clever person, seeing that the two seem to know each other, he hastily excused his stomachache and went to the alley for convenience.

Su Qiaoqiao frowned and waved her hand impatiently, while Wang Gangquan looked at her boots thoughtfully.

"Come on, come in and talk."

Su Qiaoqiao pointed to the room, and Wang Gingquan rubbed the soles of his shoes vigorously before stepping into the threshold.

……

"I don't care, I just want to marry Qiaoqiao."

In a certain high-rise mansion in the city, a good-looking young man was staring at the middle-aged man opposite him, who had a helpless expression on his face.

The middle-aged man's name is Yu Gongyue. He is a well-known wealthy businessman in the city. His family has been in business for generations and has accumulated a considerable fortune.

The young man on the opposite side is his son, named Yu Mu, who is the only seedling in the family and has been smart since childhood.

When Yu Mu was eight years old, he was able to write words and sentences that even the adults of the magistrate admired, and even the magistrate made a baby marriage with the merchant Yu's family because of this.

Yu's family has never had a scholar, and Yu Gong read the book and pointed to his son to study hard, and he will be the face of Yu's parents after he succeeds in his studies.

Unexpectedly, a child who wants to play a small and clever child will become more and more stupid as he grows.As he grew up, Yu Mu retreated instead of advancing, and the things he wrote became more and more nonsensical.

Until now, he lives up to his name, with a lump of elm, not only bad at reading, but also ignorant of business.

Fortunately, the magistrate is a trustworthy person, so he didn't cancel the engagement because of this, but it also relieved Mr. Yu a lot.

If Yu Mu is willing to live in peace, marry a wife and have children, the family property left by his ancestors will be enough for him to live and live for the rest of his life, but he just doesn't know what is good or bad, and he ignores the daughter of the county magistrate's family, and still admires him. A female snitch.

It was the first time that Yu Mu, who was only eighteen years old, was doing business for his father. He took hundreds of pieces of high-quality porcelain to Lin County for sale, and met Su Qiaoqiao who claimed to be the world's most thieves on the way.

The young Yu Mu was shocked when he saw Su Qiaoqiao for the first time, and watched Su Qiaoqiao move away the most precious vase with a blank expression.

Su Qiaoqiao, who thought the other party would yell at him, burst into a "puchi" laugh when she saw his foolish look. This smile completely hooked Yu Mu's soul away.

Since then, Yu Mu has been in a daze all day long, often laughing foolishly by himself, his family members thought he had hit something wrong, and they found some experts to do it, but there was still no improvement, and it lasted for more than a month.

More than a month later, Yu Mu, who was still lamenting to the moon in the middle of the night, caught a glimpse of a dark figure turning over the wall of his house. Seeing the familiar figure, he immediately regained his spirits and followed behind at a distance.

The black shadow looked left and right, and finally locked his eyes on the Yu family's bank. After tiptoely prying open the door lock, he just pushed open the door, and pulled a silk thread hidden in the dark, and then the bell rang loudly, and the whole Yu mansion immediately became lively.

The servant held a torch, coming from all directions, the black shadow rushed into a house, unexpectedly bumped into Yu Mu who was peeking through the door.

The plot after that was very vulgar: Yu Mu dismissed his servants, Su Qiaoqiao, who was dressed in black, saved the day, and the two had a long talk that night and became friends.

From then on, Yu Mu lost even more desire to study and improve, and often slipped out in the middle of the night, following that female snitch to rob the rich and help the poor.

The paper couldn't wrap the fire, and when Yu Gongyue found out, he was almost so angry that he tied up his son and threw him into the woodshed.

After being locked up for a few days, I thought he would learn to behave, but I just released him, and he disappeared that night. It was not until the next day that I had tea with the county magistrate. I heard that the official seal of the governor was stolen last night. After a catastrophe happened, he immediately didn't care about drinking tea, and found an excuse to return home in a hurry.

Back at the mansion, for the first time in his life, Yu Gongyue hung up his son and beat him until the cane snapped.

Yu Mu, who was not considered to be physically strong, recuperated for more than a month before recovering. He settled down for a while, but in a few days he visited the county magistrate's mansion again. None left.

Yu Gongyue's method has been used all over the place, and all the good words have been said, but his son will not accept it.The father had no choice but to force him to die, which made his son reluctantly agree not to go out and steal in the future. The price was to take 1000 taels of silver from the family every month to help the people.

Although Yu Gongyue felt sorry for Yinzi, he was only such a son, and he couldn't watch the other party go nowhere, so he gritted his teeth and agreed to this "deal".

Afterwards, Yu Mu managed to be honest for a while, and then started to make trouble again.

……

"I want to marry Qiaoqiao."

"Impossible! You are already engaged." Yu Gongyue categorically refused.

"I don't care, I won't marry unless she is the only one, I will go to the county master to dissolve the engagement." Yu Mu insisted.

"Little brat, unless your father and I have lost our heads, don't even think about marrying that female snitch into your house."

Yu Gongyue finally got really angry. This time, it wasn't the first time Yu Mu mentioned it, and he said it all, but this little bastard is too stubborn to eat.

Yu Mu bent his neck when he heard this, and said something that made his father dumbfounded: "Just marry."

If he said angry words like "It's a big deal, I'll move out", Yu Gongyue could feel a little comforted in his heart, at least it shows that his son still has some integrity, and now he says "I will marry", it is clear that he is determined to eat himself.

"You rebellious son, are you really going to die of anger as a father?"

Yu Gongyue stretched out his trembling right hand, pointing at his only son.

"Mu'er, don't be angry with your father. What's so good about that woman surnamed Su? It's better than the county magistrate's daughter who knows the book and dali?"

At this time, Yu's mother, who had been silent all this time, spoke, the child is the mother's heart, but this heart makes the old couple too worried.

Yu Mu's expression froze when he heard the words, and he said seriously:
"Mother, the magistrate's daughter is good, but my son doesn't like it. Although Su Qiaoqiao is a snitch, my son likes it. Is this reason enough?"

"..."

Yu's mother, who had never read any books, didn't know how to answer for a while, but Yu's father at the side snorted coldly and said:

"There are a lot of fallacies, and I haven't seen you read a name."

"Father, this statement is wrong. Reading is for broadening your horizons and cultivating your sentiments. If you only focus on fame and fame, you will not achieve any great achievements in your life."

"Hmph, it's absurd. Being an official in the court is not considered an achievement, so what is an achievement? I think you are so promising in your life. I will discuss it with Huangzhi County as soon as possible, and let you enter the county government as a small official or something. .”

"Father, you know me. Flattery and flattery are never suitable for me. What suits me best is... to marry Su Qiaoqiao."

"you!"

Yu Gongyue almost spat out a mouthful of old blood, he thought the other party had already forgotten about it.

Unexpectedly, Yu Mu chuckled, and his eyes revealed a rare shrewdness, "Father, don't think I don't know you're changing the subject. Let me tell you, I won't do it again after suffering a loss once."

After Yu Mu finished speaking, he took out a folding fan in a timely manner, unfolded it with a snap, and shook it lightly. Matching his handsome appearance, it seemed to be a piece of cake.

However, the actual situation is that this is the first time Yu Gongyue has diverted his words. Before that, he always succeeded, but today he was seen through.

Yu Gongyue frowned, thinking to himself why this tried-and-tested trick didn’t work today, it seems that he will have to change it next time.

While he was thinking, he heard Yu Mu speak again:
"Father, don't always be prejudiced against stealing. Those who steal the hook will be punished, and those who steal the country will be lords. The reason why snitches are despised by the world is that they don't steal enough."

Yu Gongyue looked at a loss. He had always regarded his son's words as fallacies, but today's words sounded so reasonable.

Seeing that her old man was about to be persuaded by her son, Yu's mother quickly interjected:

"Mu'er, you don't need to listen to your father, but can you listen to your mother's persuasion, don't have anything to do with Miss Su, we don't care what she steals, it's always wrong.

Think about it carefully, it was because of her that you were tied to a pillar and tortured for an hour..."

It's good that Yu's mother didn't mention this, but when she mentioned this, Yu Mu's expression immediately became strange.

"Mother, if you hadn't shouted 'hit hard, he won't have a long memory' if you hit him lightly, why would my father kill me? How could the family law passed down from my great-grandfather be cut off?"

"..." Yu's mother was at a loss for words for a moment, but then she came to her senses, "Mu'er, it hurts my son's heart and mother's heart, do you know how long it hurt for mother's chest afterwards?"

Yu Mu looked at his own mother with a half-smile, he knew his mother too well, this woman from Kanto was the most jealous, and she couldn't bear Su Qiaoqiao's matter the most.

At the beginning, if my own father hadn't stopped me, I'm afraid my old lady would have greeted myself as an "unfilial son" with a rolling pin.

Mother Yu saw that her image of a loving mother could not persuade her son, so she gave up the performance and said bluntly:

"If you dare to marry that woman surnamed Su into your home, I will break your legs."

Both father and son were shocked when they heard the words.

……

Yu Mu returned to the room dejectedly, and slumped on the chair, "It seems that this matter will be over for a while."

Just as he was sighing, a figure hung down from the beam and landed softly.

"Hi, Yu Mutou."

"Why are you here? Are you short of money? I'll go and ask my father for it."

Yu Mu, who was originally depressed, regained his energy and lost the slightest slump. He yelled to get up, but was pushed down again by the woman opposite, and it was Su Qiaoqiao who came.

"You can save your father some trouble."

Su Qiaoqiao sat across from Yu Mu carelessly, poured herself a cup of tea, took a sip, and then revealed the purpose of the trip:

"I'm leaving here."

"Ah?" Yu Mu, who was originally high-spirited, immediately froze a bit, but then cheered up again, "Where are you going? I'll accompany you!"

Su Qiaoqiao's eyes were a little dim, she stared at the teacup in her hand and said softly:
"I can't take you this time, I'm going far away."

"..." Yu Mu's original enthusiasm was extinguished once again.

"Thank you for your help during this period of time. Your parents are right. We are not in the same way. There is no need to get together."

Su Qiaoqiao raised her face and showed a smile, but no matter how you looked at it, it looked like a forced smile.

How could she not know Yu Mu's feelings for her, but she was a snitch in the past, and it was impossible for them to be together. From now on, she has another identity, and this identity made the gap between the two of them seem to be blurred. It became a natural moat.

……

Just this morning, she was approached by a man who had only met twice.

He said a lot to himself, both about his mother and his own father.

The man who claimed to be his brother said a lot of apologies to himself, and also revealed his terrifying true identity.

Since she was a child, she believed that she had no relatives in this world except her mother. She cried for the first time in five years. She drove the strange man away, saying that she wanted to be quiet.

The man hesitated to speak, and left a portrait before leaving.

The person in the portrait is very similar to the person drawn on the piece of paper in her arms with a corner burned off, except that the one on the table is older.

……

Yu Mu knew the temperament of the woman in front of him, once he made a decision, he would do it without hesitation, no one could stop him.

The atmosphere became tense for a while.

Yu Mu took a deep breath, and finally squeezed out an ugly smile.

"Understood, you have to take care of yourself in the future."

The woman's face was tangled. After all these years, she was used to treating the other party as a follower, and she felt reluctant for a while.

"I'll come back to see you..." Su Qiaoqiao paused for a moment, then continued: "The lady from the county magistrate's family is quite suitable for you, and she looks good too."

"It looks good with you?" Yu Mu asked with a smile.

"Yes." Su Qiaoqiao smiled back.

……

(End of this chapter)