Aoyama

Chapter 202 Land Deed
late at night.

From deep within the Chen residence came the sounds of laughter, music, and the singing of a singing girl.

Chen Liqin's direct officials did not wait for the banquet three days later, but came with their servants and carrying gifts, and broke down the threshold of Chen's mansion.

However, the bustle of the Chen Mansion has nothing to do with Mingquan Garden.

At this moment, Chen Ji was lying on the bed in Mingquan Garden, staring at the curtain above his head in a daze. Wu Yun was lying on his back beside him, also in a daze.

There are three layers of mattress on the bed. The bottom layer is a palm mat woven from palm leaves to prevent moisture. The second layer is a freshly fluffy cotton mattress, and the third layer is a silk sheet.

The bed was soft, and was many times better than the dormitory beds in the apprentice dormitory. There was no foot odor and no snoring, but Chen Ji just couldn't fall asleep.

He always felt that there were still many things to do before leaving Los Angeles, but he couldn't figure it out for a while.

"Dark Cloud, we are about to start a new life."

Wu Yun stared with round eyes: "Chen Ji, if you really can't sleep, why not sneak back to the clinic and sleep, and come back in the morning."

Chen Ji was happy: "I don't have to live in the hospital, I just can't sleep in my new home."

Moreover, those who snore, flip over the quilt, and kick their legs are no longer in the clinic.

Chen Ji asked, "Wuyun, after we rescue the princess, let's go out to sea together. Let's also take a boat from Qiming to Lushun Port and go to Jingchao."

Wuyun turned over and meowed curiously, "Are you going to find your uncle?"

Chen Ji thought for a moment and said, "No, we won't look for anyone. Let's go to the mountains and become hunters, and live in a hut on the mountain. In the winter, I'll take you to catch hibernating bears and roe deer. In the summer, I'll take you to dig out frogs and catch cicadas. In late autumn, we'll pick all the pears and make frozen pears to eat... Then we'll go further north to see the aurora and ride a sled."

He was trapped in the beautiful hometown that Wu Hongbiao had woven, and even the dark clouds had some longings.

Chen Ji thought to himself that he was now an official of the Xiantian realm, so he could walk freely in the mountains. Dealing with animals was much better than dealing with people.

Wuyun was curious: "Then you hide in the mountains. There is no ice flow in the Mountain King's Gate. You can't live long if you can't reach the realm of seeking the way before the age of thirty-six."

Chen Ji said in a relaxed tone: "What's the point of living so long? Master has said that if you live longer, you will suffer more humiliation."

Wuyun was silent for a moment: "But I see that Master is very happy every day."

Chen Ji was puzzled: "Is he happy? We are in the clinic and we are annoying him to death every day."

Wu Yun said casually, "He was just talking. Master was watching you guys playing around in the yard through the window in the main room, and he was laughing happily."

"Yeah……"

As they were talking, there was a knock on the door outside Mingquan Garden.

Chen Ji threw back the quilt, got out of bed, and walked into the yard wearing a cloak: "Who is it?"

Chen Liqin said gently: "It's me."

Chen Ji unbolted the door.

As soon as he opened the door, he smelled the strong odor of alcohol. He saw that Chen Liqin's dark cheeks were reddish purple and drunkenness was written all over his face.

Chen Ji asked in confusion: "Why did Lord Chen come here so late at night?"

Chen Liqin was already used to hearing the name 'Master Chen', and he didn't even frown: "Why do you bolt the door in your own house? Don't worry, our servants in the Chen Mansion patrol at night and won't let any bad guys in."

Chen Ji smiled and did not answer. He was not guarding against the bad guys outside the mansion.

Under the moonlight, Chen Ji opened the wooden door only a crack, while Chen Liqin stood outside the door, unable to go in or leave.

After a moment of silence, Chen Liqin asked, "Would you like to invite me in to sit down?"

Chen Ji moved aside and said, "Master Chen, please."

Chen Liqin entered the courtyard and looked around: "Are you satisfied with this place?"

Chen Ji smiled and said, "Of course I am satisfied."

The two stood in the yard and suddenly looked at each other in silence. The atmosphere was eerily quiet.

After a long time, Chen Liqin coughed lightly and said, "When you arrive in the capital, the government will reserve a separate courtyard for you. Don't worry, it will not be worse than the ones in Wenzong and Wenxiao."

Chen Ji bowed and thanked him: "Thank you, Master Chen."

After saying this, Chen Liqin didn't know what to say for a moment, and Chen Ji was not in a hurry to speak, just waiting quietly.

After a long while, Chen Liqin sighed and said, "Today, I cannot expose the family scandal in front of outsiders. The reputation of the Chen family is not just my reputation. As members of the Chen family, you and I should maintain it well and not bring disgrace to the Chen family. If outsiders know about the family scandal, no one will really worry, they will just laugh at our Chen family."

Chen Ji hummed.

Chen Liqin stood in front of the wintersweet tree with his hands behind his back: "I know you have suffered a lot and been wronged a lot over the years. Don't worry, I will never let you suffer such unjust grievances again in the future."

Chen Ji bowed and thanked him: "It's good that Master Chen knows that I am innocent."

At this time, Chen Liqin turned around, took out a paper deed from his sleeve and handed it to Chen Ji.

Chen Ji was puzzled: "What is this?"

Chen Liqin said, "The Imperial Household Department confiscated the property of Prince Jing and the Liu family, and some unimportant properties were sold on the spot. The deed in your hand is the land deed of the Taiping Medical Clinic. I know you have lived there for two years and have feelings for it, so I asked someone to buy it back. I thought that although we are going to the capital, this can be regarded as a thought left in Luocheng..."

Chen Ji's expression changed, and he quickly unfolded the land deed. He saw five big words written at the top of the deed: "Dividing the Land into Households Ticket".

"The thirty-third district, six sides, have been ordered by this government to measure the fields and ponds at No. 12, Anxi Street..."

Chen Ji carefully folded the deed and put it into his sleeve. Then, he folded his hands and bowed deeply: "Thank you, Master Chen, Master Chen is so thoughtful."

Chen Liqin looked at Chen Ji with a complicated expression. When Chen Liqin sent him a cucumber worth a thousand coins, Chen Ji was not moved. When Chen Liqin said he would arrange for him to study in Donglin Academy and pave the way for him to take the imperial examination, Chen Ji was not moved either.

Only at this moment did he finally feel Chen Ji's heartfelt gratitude.

Chen Liqin was a little embarrassed for a moment. He helped Chen Ji up and said, "What are you doing? You and I are father and son. It is my duty to do this for you..."

Before Chen Liqin could finish, Chen Ji went back to the house, put on his clothes, picked up Wu Yun, and walked out of the yard in big strides: "Master Chen, I'm going out for a while."

"Where are you going..." Chen Liqin looked at Chen Ji's back and raised his hand, then slowly put it down. ...

……

Liujia Lane.

A man's rough roar came from a run-down family: "At the beginning, I told you not to study medicine, but you insisted on studying, saying that you could make money for me. I spent so much money to arrange connections to send you to study, but before you made any money, the clinic was gone. Now all the money I spent has gone down the drain. How do you think I should settle this account?"

In the room, a faint oil-slag lamp was burning on the table.

The blue bricks on the ground were chipped at the corners, and the paint on the vermilion eight-immortals table was peeling.

A man in his thirties was sitting on a chair, panting, his fat body trembling slightly, and a strong smell of alcohol coming out of his mouth.

Liu Quxing knelt in front of the main hall door with his head bowed. His mother knelt beside him, about to cry: "Master, there is nothing we can do about the clinic being gone. It has nothing to do with Xingxing."

"It doesn't matter?" The man sneered, "You said it doesn't matter, then it doesn't matter?"

Liu Quxing whispered, "Then what do you say we should do?"

The man narrowed his eyes and said, "The man who spoke to you in the Secret Service Office that day, was he a high-ranking official? I have seen him before. He was also an apprentice in your clinic, right?"

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Liu Quxing nodded.

The man asked again: "I heard that he is from the Chen family?"

Liu Quxing hummed again.

The man said, "He was willing to help you that day, which shows that you two are still classmates. Go find him tomorrow and ask him to arrange a job for you. When the time comes, you will work in the Imperial Household Department. You can control whoever you want among the high officials in Luo City, right?"

Liu Quxing said stubbornly: "I won't go. I have no friendship with him."

The man picked up the wine bowl on the table and smashed it over. Liu Quxing turned his head to avoid it, and with a bang, the wine bowl shattered into pieces on the ground in the courtyard behind him.

Liu Quxing's mother hurriedly hugged her son and said, "Master, Xingxing, if you don't want to go, then don't go. There are many ways to make money. Didn't I give you all the dividends from the preparation bureau? That money is enough for our family to spend for many years."

The man sneered, "I get angry when I mention money. I was fine in the gambling house, but you chose to make trouble for me and made me lose all my money. You are a jinx. Since I married you, nothing has gone well for me!"

The woman knelt there in a daze, "All gone? Master, you lost all the five hundred taels of silver? We agreed at the beginning that if Xingxing failed to become an imperial physician, the money would be left for him to open a clinic. How could you lose all the silver?"

The man stood up and kicked the woman to the ground: "You are the one who questions me?!"

Liu Quxing, who had been forbearing all this time, suddenly raised his head and straightened his back: "Don't hit my mother!"

The man was stunned for a moment, and then slapped Liu Quxing in the face: "This is outrageous. I sent you to study medicine, but you became too independent?"

Liu Quxing was slapped so hard that he turned his face to the side, then turned back and said, "Don't hit my mother!"

The man grinned: "I don't know how that old man in the clinic taught you to disobey your father!"

Liu Quxing stood up and said fiercely: "Don't scold my master!"

The man slapped Liu Quxing in the face again: "Is that the old man teaching you how to behave?"

Liu Quxing turned around and said word by word: "I told you not to hit my mother or scold my master again."

The man laughed in anger: "What's wrong with me scolding him?"

Liu Quxing hesitated for a moment, turned around and went out, taking a kitchen knife out.

He raised the kitchen knife, trembling all over, and said, "Hit my mother again and see how it goes? Curse my master again and see how it goes!"

The man ripped open his shirt, revealing his fat belly: "Can you really kill me? Come on, chop your father..."

Before he finished speaking, the man hid to the side.

With a thud, the kitchen knife hit the eight-immortals table behind him.

The man was still in shock. If he hadn't dodged, the knife would have ripped him open. He turned to look at Liu Quxing, but saw a fierce look on his face that he had never seen before.

Liu Quxing pulled the kitchen knife from the table and said grimly, "Divorce my mother and sign the divorce papers now. If you don't, we'll both die!"

The man took a step back: "These years, you two have been eating and drinking my food..."

Liu Quxing took a step forward with the kitchen knife in hand: "Five hundred taels of silver is not enough to pay you back? My mother and I don't owe you anything! Do you want to write it or not? If not, I'll chop you to death right now!"

The man shuddered. "Write it! I don't know where you can live without me. This house is mine. Get out of my house tonight!"

Liu Quxing sneered and stared at the man as he wrote the divorce letter: "Press your fingerprints!"

The man cursed: "There is no ink at home."

Liu Quxing cut a slit in his palm, spread out his palm and handed it to the man: "Press it with my blood!"

The man shuddered: "You must be possessed by some evil spirit. I will ask the City God to take you away tomorrow."

Seeing the man press his fingerprints, Liu Quxing tore off the hem of his clothes to cover the wound on his hand. He took the divorce papers, pulled his mother and walked out.

As soon as he opened the door, Liu Quxing stood at the door, at a loss... Where should he go?

But at this moment, his mother whispered, "Xingxing, what is this on the ground?"

Liu Quxing looked down and saw someone pressing a piece of white paper with two silver ingots on the bluestone road in the alley in front of the door.

He bent down to pick up the silver, then picked up the white paper on the ground and looked at it: "This is... this is the title deed of the Taiping Clinic!"

The woman uttered an "ah", turned her head to look at the man behind her, and said in a low voice, "Why is the deed to the clinic here?"

Liu Quxing did not answer him but anxiously glanced at both ends of the alley. He saw a thin figure just walked to the end of the alley and turned into the darkness without looking back.

He ran as fast as he could to chase after her, but once he got out of the alley, he could no longer see the figure in the darkness.

Liu Quxing suddenly squatted on the ground and burst into tears: "Don't leave, all of you come back!"

(End of this chapter)