After I stopped being a lady from a rich family, I fought all over the capital

Chapter 337 Lychee
"what?"

Liu Wu didn't understand: "What's the principle behind this? Didn't you do a good deed to save lives? Why are you asking for retribution afterwards?!"

Song Lan smiled and asked, "What counts as good? What counts as bad?"

"Saving people is certainly a good thing..." Liu Wu met Song Lan's gaze, and suddenly became less confident.

He grunted in response and didn't dare to continue.

He worried that he was oversimplifying things and would seem foolish, which would lead the female ghost to dislike him and stop letting him serve her...

"What if the person you save is a bad person?"

Song Lan smiled and said, "If the person you saved causes other people who shouldn't have died to die, would your act of saving people still be considered good?"

Liu Wu blinked a few times, then quickly started scratching his head.

This problem is too complicated.

He felt that the initial intention to save people was good no matter how you looked at it.

But who knows if the person you save is bad?
Even if you know the person you're saving is a bad person, does that mean you shouldn't save them?

What if this bad person also intends to abandon evil and do good?

It's also hard to guarantee that someone who was a good person when they were rescued will remain a good person after they are rescued!

When people are young, they are inevitably full of youthful vigor, believing that there is fairness, justice, and reason in the world. But after being hit hard a few times, suffering a few beatings, and their family falling into poverty, they may never recover. They may become extremely stubborn and discard the morality and goodness they once believed in as worthless as worn-out shoes.

No one can guarantee that the person they save will remain consistently good or evil throughout their life...

Besides, isn't saving someone an instinctive reaction?

Liu Wu thought about it again and again, but still couldn't figure it out.

Naturally, I didn't know how to answer that question.

Fortunately, Song Lan didn't seem to mind, as if it was just a casual remark.

Besides, he was originally curious why he couldn't help send messages... Now, he's not curious anymore!
but……

"Can I send something else?" Liu Wu touched his nose, feeling a little guilty.

Song Lan raised an eyebrow: "What?"

"Lingnan is famous for its lychees..." If they could be transported to Chang'an, and at that same speed, they could be there in the blink of an eye!
Liu Wu couldn't even imagine how many powerful and influential people in the capital would fight tooth and nail to get their hands on such fresh lychees once they were transported to the capital for sale.

Song Lan glanced at him: "Lychees are also produced in Sichuan, and the distance is closer. If they are kept fresh, they can be transported faster than those from Lingnan."

"The powerful and wealthy in the capital mostly buy lychees from Sichuan."

In other words, even if lychees from Lingnan were transported here at top speed, the chances of opening up the market would be very slim.

Who knows, before the deal is even finalized and the lychees arrive, they might already be stale and rotten.

Liu Wu immediately deflated.

He really wasn't cut out for business.

Seeing him acting like a little dog in the rain, Song Lan chuckled and reached out, casually making a hand gesture, and immediately a bunch of lychees appeared in her hand.

Liu Wu's eyes widened in surprise.

"W-W-Where did this come from?!"

Even in Lingnan, lychees aren't ripe yet at this time of year, are they?
"Freshly picked from the tree."

Song Lan raised an eyebrow: "However, it's probably not the season yet; there are only a few ripe ones..."

I wonder if it's sweet.

"Taste it?"

Liu Wu nodded like a chick pecking at rice.

Song Lan couldn't help but ask curiously, "Aren't you afraid this is some kind of sorcery?"

Ordinary people would be scared after seeing something like this, right?

"What method?"

Liu Wu had already stuffed the entire lychee into his mouth.

Song Lan: ...

She shook her head helplessly and muttered disdainfully: Idiot!

Liu Wu peeled a lychee and carefully placed it in the lychee shell: "My lady ghost, please try this one, it's the reddest." Song Lan: ...

Being silly has its advantages; it's about being innocent.

However, these lychees really weren't very tasty.

Taking something without asking is not the behavior of a virtuous person, so she picked a wild, unclaimed tree.

Wild trees grow freely, without anyone thinning the fruit, fertilizing, or tending to them. The fruit piles up so much that the branches are about to break.

It's normal that it doesn't taste good.

I never expected this—

Song Lan paused for a moment, then, after regaining her composure, instructed Liu Wu, "Remember to let the little girl and Master Pei know you're safe. They're looking for you."

Then it disappeared.

Liu Wu: ...

Liu Wu: ? ? ? ?

Liu Wu: !!! !!! !!! !!!
What's going on? What happened? Where is the female ghost?!

He searched everywhere and everywhere before finally realizing that Song Lan was really gone!
Yes, that kind of "whoosh," and the person just disappears!

Vanished into thin air!!
For the first time, Liu Wu felt that he had such a profound understanding of the meaning of a word.

How could a perfectly healthy person just vanish into thin air?

He snapped out of his shock and remembered Song Lan's instructions, so he went to find Su Xianyun and Pei Yuanshi.

By the way, I shared the lychees with the two of them.

Su Xianyun breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing Liu Wu, then looked at the lychees in his hand and was greatly shocked: "...Where did you get these lychees?!"

"It's not lychee season yet, is it?!"

Most wealthy and powerful families in the capital city enjoyed eating lychees. Even those who didn't like them would prepare lychees during the season and display them in prominent places in their homes so that visiting guests could see them.

This is also a demonstration of strength.

After all, lychees are difficult to transport, and after traveling a long distance, they are not very fresh.

Being able to eat lychees isn't really that difficult.

As long as you can afford it, you can use ice to preserve the picked lychees. Even if they are transported from Lingnan to Chang'an, they will still be edible.

It is still fresh and sweet.

but……

Ultimately, food stored on ice is always different from freshly picked food.

As a result, in recent years, a new way of comparing oneself with others has inevitably emerged in Beijing.

That is, when lychees are in season, families in Beijing would hold all sorts of poetry gatherings and flower shows.

Poetry gatherings and flower shows are nothing unusual, but each family will, without prior arrangement, serve bayberries to their guests.

At this point, you should see whose lychees are the freshest and most beautiful in color.

To deliver the freshest lychees to the capital, one naturally needs considerable financial and human resources.

Even truly powerful and wealthy families would establish their own lychee orchards in places like Lingnan and Sichuan, where lychees are abundant.

Even the Su family bought two lychee trees just to save face.

"Given by the female ghost."

Liu Wu said with some pride, "Try it, it's very sweet."

The female ghost gave it to him alone, and not to anyone else!

Even Su Xianyun didn't get one!
Su Xianyun blinked, only concerned: "Given by my benefactor?"

As he spoke, he immediately looked around: "Where has my benefactor gone?"

Liu Wu shook his head.

"I don't know either. The female ghost just vanished in a flash."

He gestured wildly as he described the scene.