Thief Emperor

Chapter 179 A Little Feeling

Tired from the long journey, Li Yun slept soundly that night. When he woke up again, it was almost noon.

He got up and washed his face. As soon as he walked out of the room, he saw a little girl not far from his door, looking at him furtively.

"Dong'er!"

Li Yun shouted and stopped her.

"Sneaky, what are you doing?"

Dong'er stopped and looked back at Li Yun. She was a stubborn person. She would say a few words to Li Yun when she saw him in the past. But now, she lowered her head and said, "I, I'm in the county government office. Can't I take a look around?"

"I didn't say you can't watch it."

Li Yun smiled and said, "Is your young lady here?"

"No."

Dong'er snorted softly: "He's going out."

Li Yun was curious and asked, "Where are you going?"

"I'm out visiting the Dao. I'm going to make room for you and Miss Liu."

Li Yun was stunned. After all, several months had passed. He thought about it over and over again, but couldn't remember who Miss Liu was.

After a long while, he remembered that when he was in Linshui, he asked the daughter of Governor Liu to stay in Qingyang temporarily.

At that time, it was said that after Miss Liu found her family, she would leave Qingyang to join them. Unexpectedly, several months had passed and she was still in Qingyang.

Thinking of this, Li Yun felt a little funny and said, "Miss Liu is a loyal descendant, so we should meet her if we can. But why did Miss Xue run out? It's very chaotic outside now, so it's better not to run around. Where did she go?"

Dong Er looked at Li Yun's serious face, sneered, and said: "Silly, my young lady is in the back hall!"

After saying that, she turned around and skipped away.

Li Yun looked at her back, thoughtfully, went back to the house, changed into clean clothes, tidied his hair, then touched the wooden box in his sleeve. After making sure that nothing was missing, he went all the way to the back hall of the county government.

He was already very familiar with the backyard, and soon arrived at the gate of Miss Xue's yard. After coughing, he said, "Yun..."

As soon as he uttered a word, he realized that there might be an outsider present, so he quickly changed his words.

"Ms. Xue, I'm back."

There was no movement in the yard. After a long while, the gate opened. Xue Yun'er, wearing a light blue dress, stood inside the door. She looked Li Yun up and down, then smiled.

"Captain Li has finally decided to return to Qingyang."

Captain, that was the official position Li Yun held when he rescued Miss Liu. Apparently, it was Miss Liu who told her about it, and when she spoke of it now, it sounded a bit sarcastic.

Li Yun was about to reply when a figure in plain white clothes walked out from behind Xue Yun'er. The figure looked Li Yun up and down carefully, then bowed and said, "Liu Su of Qiantang, I pay my respects to you, my benefactor."

Li Yun then took a serious look at Miss Liu. She was thin, pretty, and had fair skin. She was wearing plain clothes, which made her look quite delicate and frail.

Very similar to Xiaolongnu.

Li Yun was absent-minded for a moment, and Xue Yun'er saw it. Miss Xue gritted her teeth and said, "You...you guys can chat. I have something to do and need to go find my mother."

Li Yun came back to his senses, took out the prepared wooden box from his sleeve, handed it to Xue Yuner, and said with a smile: "This is a gift I brought back for you from Yuezhou."

Xue Yun'er glanced at Li Yun, hesitated for a moment, then reached out, grabbed the wooden box, turned around and left.

Li Yun thought about it, then turned back to look at Miss Liu and said, "Miss Liu, I was ordered to suppress the bandits at that time, and everything I did was within my job. I don't deserve the title of benefactor."

After a pause, Li continued, "By the way, Qiantang has been recovered for some time, and now it has probably restored its previous order. If County Magistrate Liu has a mansion in Qiantang, Miss Liu can go to Qiantang and take back the family property."

"My dad..."

Miss Liu looked gloomy and said, "My father has been living in the county governor's office and has never bought any property. He does have some property in his hometown, but he has no sons. He still has cousins ​​in his hometown. Now that my father is gone, I am afraid it will be difficult for me to fight for the family property."

"Even the pension and grace given to my father by the imperial court will probably fall into the hands of those cousins."

In this era, women had no inheritance rights. If they had any, it was given to them by their parents and they had to have a son-in-law. Only then would this part of the property be considered to belong to the woman.

Otherwise, even if it is a gift from parents, it may be taken away by people of the same clan before marriage.

In a case like Liu Xiang, the imperial court would most likely provide some compensation, or even give him an official position through imperial favor, but all of these would fall on her cousin and would have nothing to do with her.

As for her family's property...

The Liu clan was even less likely to give it to her, fearing that she would get married in the future and take the Liu family's property to someone else's home.

Miss Liu sighed softly and continued, "In the past few months, I have sent four letters to my married sister and my aunt, but there has been no news."

"If it doesn't work out, I can only go back home and seek refuge with my uncle."

She looked gloomy.

Obviously, she did not have a very good relationship with her uncle. When her old father was alive, no one in the family could do anything to her because he was an official in the court. Now that Liu Xiang is gone, if she goes back to her hometown, she will have to follow the arrangements of her uncle in her future marriage.

The family property will never be managed by her.

Li Yun frowned slightly and asked, "Where is Miss Liu's ancestral home?" "Ruzhou."

Li Yun said "Oh" and stopped asking questions.

Because I don’t know what to say.

He really had no way to intervene in this matter. He couldn't send people to Ruzhou to kill all of Miss Liu's family members so that she could inherit the family property, right?
Such is the way of this era.

If you want to change, you have to turn the world upside down and recreate it.

Miss Liu herself did not say much. She looked at Li Yun and wiped her tears: "Captain Li, are there no thieves in Qiantang now? I want to go back to Qiantang, no matter what, to collect the remains of my old father."

Hearing her say this, Li Yun finally remembered and quickly said, "If Miss Liu hadn't mentioned it, I would have almost forgotten it."

"After the rebels entered the city, the leader of the rebels, Zhao Cheng, was quite righteous. He collected your father's body, buried it outside the city, and even erected a monument."

"Later, your mother's body seemed to be buried with your father."

Miss Liu wiped her tears and asked in surprise, "Really?"

Li Yun nodded and said, "If Miss Liu doesn't believe it, you can go to Qiantang to take a look."

"I was just about to go check it out."

She gritted her teeth and said, "In a few days, I will go back to Qiantang to pay homage to my parents."

She bowed to Li Yun and said sincerely, "Thank you very much, Mr. Li, for telling me!"

"Little things, little things."

Li Yun sighed and said, "Your Highness, it's such a pity."

Miss Liu looked up at Li Yun again, lost in thought, and then said softly: "Sister Xue is still waiting for you, benefactor, please go and chat with Sister Xue."

Mr. Li clasped his fists and said goodbye to Miss Liu. After he left the small courtyard, he searched for a long time in the back hall before he found Xue Yun'er sitting under the pavilion.

Li Yun stepped forward and said with a smile: "What's wrong with Yun'er?"

"Make room for you."

Miss Xue turned her head away and pouted, "She is from a famous family, a lady from a noble family, and you are the hero who saved the beauty. It's simply a match made in heaven."

Li Yun knew that he couldn't continue the conversation on this topic. He coughed and said with a smile, "Have you seen the gift I picked for you? I saw it in the Yue Palace of the traitor Qiu Dian. I thought it was beautiful, so I stole it and even found a box for you."

In that box was a jade hairpin, which was in very good condition.

Xue Yun'er still didn't answer.

Li Yun sat opposite her and said softly, "Yun'er, I may have to be an official in Yuezhou in the future. Do you want to go?"

"You go and do your job."

Xue Yun'er lowered her head, her face slightly red: "Why are you asking me if I'm going?"

The future Sima Li smiled and said, "If you don't go, then I won't go either. I will still stay in Qingyang and be my own head."

"What nonsense?"

Miss Xue glared at him and gritted her teeth, "My father told me this morning that the court might want to appoint you as the Sima of Yuezhou. This is an official position you worked hard to get. How can you just say you don't want to do it?"

Seeing Li Yun's evil smile, Xue Yun'er pinched him angrily and said through gritted teeth, "You go and be your Sima. I have already found a Taoist temple. Next spring, I will become a nun and become a nun."

"From now on, Qingdeng Ancient Scroll will have nothing to do with you!"

Li Yun smiled, took the wooden box from her hand, opened it, took out the jade hairpin inside, and gently inserted it into Miss Xue's hair.

"Miss, you forgot that most Taoist temples are on the mountains."

He lowered his voice and said, "I am a bandit."

Xue Yun'er felt a little embarrassed and turned her head away.

"Have you...have you told my father?"

"Isn't this the reason you came back this time?"

At this point, Li Yun suddenly said: "The county lord seems to know my identity..."

Xue Yun'er became a little nervous when she heard this.

"I...I didn't say..."

Li Yun shook his head and smiled freely.

"But it shouldn't be a big deal."

"I'll talk to him about this in a couple of days."

(End of this chapter)