The courtyard is deep in spring

Chapter 173
"What's going on outside?" Ye Zhaoqing frowned and asked.

Liu'er was about to answer, but Murong Shen stood up suddenly: "Zhaoqing, you have a good rest, Liu'er, you are here to serve, I'll go out and have a look." After saying that, he turned around and strode out.

Liu'er looked at his back and blinked, then turned her head and sighed to Ye Zhaoqing and said, "Miss! Master Taifu has been guarding your bedside all day today!"

"I've been asleep for so long?" Ye Zhaoqing looked up at Liu'er with some doubts.

"Yes! Master Tai Tuo said that you are too tired and need to rest more, so the maidservant didn't call you." Liu Er looked at Ye Zhaoqing very gratefully upon hearing this.

The red pimple on it has actually been reduced by half.

It looks like it will go away completely in another day.

Miss, this is not smallpox!She is so caring.

"It's good to sleep." Ye Zhaoqing stretched his waist, looked up at Liu'er, lifted the quilt, turned over and got off the ground.

"Miss! This servant will help you!" Liu Er hurried over.

"No, I'm not sick." Ye Zhaoqing waved his hands, picked up the outer garment prepared by Liu Er energetically and put it on, went to wash his face, and sat down in front of the dressing table.

Liu'er hurried over to pick up the jade comb: "Miss, this servant will comb your hair for you."

"Okay." Ye Zhaoqing nodded.

Liu'er picked up Ye Zhaoqing's long black hair, combed it lightly, and asked, "Miss, what do you want for dinner?"

"Eat whatever you want!" Ye Zhaoqing said without thinking, she listened carefully, but the noise downstairs could no longer be heard, and she didn't know what method Murong Shen used.

"By the way, how is Ari now? Where is he?" Ye Zhaoqing asked suddenly.

Liu'er trembled immediately when she heard the words.

"Liu'er." Ye Zhaoqing noticed it, turned to look at her, and asked in a deep voice, "You didn't let anyone do anything to him, did you?"

"No." Liu'er smiled awkwardly when she heard the words, and explained: "But the young lady fainted suddenly, and the maid was afraid that it was because of him, so she ordered someone to guard him, and the Grand Tutor also knew about this matter! "

Seeing Ye Zhaoqing's eyes sinking, Liu'er hastily pulled Murong Shen out to back him up.

"I'm not sick at all." Ye Zhaoqing sighed helplessly when he heard the words: "You really made too much fuss."

"I'm sorry." Liu'er bowed her head and said, "I didn't do this on purpose..."

"Okay, I know you're just too worried about me." Ye Zhaoqing reached out to take the comb from Liu'er, and said, "It's just that Ari is really wronged, you go and release him now!"

"But, miss, this servant has to comb your hair..."

"No, I'll do it myself."

After Liu'er heard this, there was a look of disappointment in her eyes: "Okay, miss, the servant has gone."

Ye Zhaoqing nodded to her, then raised the comb.

Just when Ye Zhaoqing was able to straighten her hair, Liu Er came back with Ah Li.

"Master! Are you okay?" Ari ran towards Ye Zhaoqing as soon as she entered the door, and Liu Er who was on the side couldn't help shouting, "Slow down! Why are you running in such a hurry?"

Ari didn't care, but looked at Ye Zhaoqing worriedly, and he let out a long breath when he saw that she was safe and sound.

"You lied! The red pimple on the master's face is just because of anxiety and anger. What is smallpox!"

Liu'er heard his accusations, her pretty face blushed, and she stood there at a loss.

"Okay, Liu'er is just worried about me." Ye Zhaoqing smoothed things over with a smile, "Aren't you hungry? Liu'er, go and bring dinner! The three of us will eat together."

"Master! This can't be done!" Ari was taken aback when he heard this, and couldn't help shaking his head.

"It's okay, it's just the three of you here, so there's no need to pay so much attention." Ye Zhaoqing shook his head and glanced at Liu'er.

Liu'er glared at Ah Li faintly, then turned and went out.

In the room, Ye Zhaoqing sized Ari up and down, with probing eyes and a little bit of complexity.

"Master, what's wrong?"

Ari felt terrified when she saw her, and couldn't help but asked.

Ye Zhaoqing coughed lightly to cover up her embarrassment, she turned her head and looked out the window, and said, "Ah Li, this afternoon, many people suddenly came outside the inn and made trouble, do you know the reason?"

Ah Li's expression changed suddenly after hearing this.

Ye Zhaoqing just asked casually, she never expected Ahri's reaction to be so strong, she couldn't help being curious: "Ari, what's wrong with you?"

"Master, I..." Ah Li's face was ugly and pale, just when he was about to say something to Ye Zhaoqing, the door of the room was suddenly pushed open from the outside.

Ye Zhaoqing turned his head, and saw Murong Shen striding in from the outside, looking straight at Ari.

"What's wrong?" Ye Zhaoqing stood up involuntarily.

For the first time, Murong Shen didn't answer his words, but walked all the way to Ah Li's side: "Do you know Mr. Xu, the prefect of Jinzhou?"

After hearing this, Ari's face turned dead gray in an instant.

Looking at his appearance, Murong Shen knew that he had asked the right question. He glanced at Ye Zhaoqing who was also puzzled, and said in a deep voice, "Are you a servant of Xu Zhifu's family? They sent someone to look for you."

"I won't go back!" Hearing this, Ari's eyes suddenly widened, with crystal tears rolling in his eyes, and his chest heaved violently, as if he had been stimulated.

"Why?" Murong Shen asked with some doubts.

Seeing this situation, Ye Zhaoqing immediately stepped forward and asked Ari softly, "Why don't you want to go back? You are my apprentice now, if you really don't want to go back, I'm willing to find a way. "

"Master!" Ari suddenly called out Ye Zhaoqing's name after hearing this, and broke down in tears.

Murong Shen turned his head and gave her a dissatisfied look, a little blaming Ye Zhaoqing for agreeing so easily, you must know that he is the prefect of Xu, an official of the imperial court!
Ye Zhaoqing pretended not to see his face, just looked at Ari tenderly, and said softly: "But you have to tell me what's going on, why did the servants of Xu Zhifu's family come here to look for you, you, are you?" Did you escape?"

"No! They wanted to beat me to death! I escaped!" Ari shook his head.

"Who wants to beat you to death?" Ye Zhaoqing was very surprised when he heard this.

Ah Li suddenly rolled up his arms and sleeves, and raised his trousers a little higher, revealing his scarred arms and legs, with new and old wounds criss-crossing, looking very horrifying.

It can't be faked at all.

No matter how calm Ye Zhaoqing was, he was shocked when he saw these scars: "Ah Li! Why did they beat you up like this?"

When Murong Shen saw these scars, a trace of doubt appeared on his face, and he looked at Ari with a trace of sympathy.

Such a small child!He suffered so much suffering!

"My mother is a nanny from Zhifu Xu's family. She has been there since I was born. I grew up with my young master. He has developed an arrogant and domineering temperament, he hangs around the streets and alleys all day long, gathers people to gamble, and doesn’t do any serious business, the prefect Xu always despises him for not being a talent, and beats him every time he catches the young master going out to spend time and drink.”

Finally opened the chatterbox, Ari began to talk endlessly: "And after this young master was beaten by the master, he always wanted someone to vent his anger on, and I was the one who was responsible for letting him vent his anger. Every time the master Hit him with one stick, and he will beat me with two sticks himself!"

"My mother saw that I was suffering so much, so she went to the young master and begged bitterly, but Mr. Xu didn't care about my mother's kindness for raising him. At first, she was impatient, and then she stretched out her hand to push my mother. Poor My mother was hurt because she was worried about me. I was not angry, so I impulsively went to the young master to argue, and then I was beaten up by him and thrown out. In the end, I met the master and you. "

Ye Zhaoqing listened quietly to Ari and felt deep sympathy for his life experience. However, she glanced at him and saw the young man's face was full of tears, and he looked very scared. She kindly reminded him: "Ari, Have you ever thought that if you don't go back, your mother might have a hard time at Xu's house?"

"Prefect Xu is a person who pays attention to face. After all, my mother is Mr. Xu's nanny. If she is also beaten, Mr. Xu will get a reputation for being ungrateful. I guess he won't." soundtrack.

"I don't think so." Hearing this, Ye Zhaoqing glanced at her, shook his head and said, "You just said that Mr. Xu is arrogant and arrogant, and he has already pushed your mother and made her fall and hurt her." , then how could he still be so scruples about face? Also, you didn't tell the whole truth, did you? Is there anything else you don't want to tell? "

Ari didn't expect that Ye Zhaoqing could even guess this, he couldn't help being stunned, and then lowered his head.

"There are so many servants in the prefect Xu's family, why did you only hit you? This is something I don't understand." After hearing this, Murong Shen looked Ari up and down, and joked: "And you don't have long hair." A face that deserves a punch?"

"I..." Ari blushed upon hearing this, and lowered her head deeply, without saying a word.

"Let's do this! If you don't want to say anything, I'll ask someone to invite Mr. Xu out for tea, and the whole story will be clear." Murong Shen walked to the table and sat down, reached out to pick up the teapot and poured himself a cup. Tea, said slowly.

After hearing this, Ari's eyes suddenly revealed a trace of panic.

Seeing this, Murong Shen turned his head and exchanged expressions with Ye Zhaoqing.

This Ah Li is indeed hiding something.

"Master!" After a while, Ari raised his head suddenly, as if mustering up his courage, he walked up to Ye Zhaoqing and knelt down, took a deep breath and said, "Master, I didn't mean to hide anything, but that matter, Very unspeakable…”

Ye Zhaoqing saw the shame, anger, resentment, and sadness on Ah Li's face, and said in a strange way: "Could it be that the son of Xu Zhifu's family is as good as Long Yang?"

She was just guessing at first, but Ahri's face turned red instantly, and then she buried her head deeply.

"Puchi!" With a sound, the tea that Murong Shen had just drank spurted out.

Ye Zhaoqing instantly felt a little queasy in his stomach, what happened to the people in this world?Why does she encounter this kind of thing everywhere she goes?Ye Yuzhen died, so why did Mr. Xu do the same?

God!

"Did you take the initiative, or were you forced?" But at this moment, Murong Shen asked.

Hearing this, Ari looked up at him cautiously, and then replied: "I was forced to. In fact, I lied just now. Most of these injuries on my body were caused by Mr. Xu, but more Xu Zhifu sent people to beat him."

As for why the prefect Xu sent someone to beat Ah Li, Ye Zhaoqing understood after a little thought.

May I ask which father in the world is willing to see his only son like a man?It's embarrassing to spread such a thing, especially Xu Zhifu is still a parent official, and there are so many people who are older than him. In order not to make himself a laughing stock, he must kill this matter in the cradle!
As for Ari, the person who 'hooked up' with his son naturally became a thorn in Xu Zhifu's side. He didn't care if Ari was coerced or not, he just wanted to find a way to kill this person and make him silent. Just disappear.

The reputation is also preserved, and the official luck is smooth, why not do it?
"It turned out to be like this." After hearing this, Murong Shen gave Ari a deep look, and said, "It's fortunate that you met me, otherwise, your end would have been captured by the servants of the prefect Xu's family. be beaten to death."

Ari trembled when he heard the words, and hurriedly kowtowed several times: "Ari thank you master and lord for saving each other!"

"Before I go to see the prefect of Xuzhou, I have one thing to ask you." Murong Shen said, stood up and stared at Ah Li, and asked word by word: "Did you guess our identity early in the morning?" ?”

Otherwise, why did he just pass out in front of the inn by such a coincidence?Was it discovered by Ye Zhaoqing and the others?

"You guys, what are your identities?" After hearing this, Ari took a deep look at Murong Shen with a pair of puzzled eyes, and said honestly, "To be honest, I don't know now."

Ye Zhaoqing saw that he didn't look like he was lying at all, so he smiled and said to Murong Shen: "Okay, aren't you going to save people? Then go quickly! Don't be suspicious anymore, I believe that what he said must be true." Not a lie."

"It's always better to be cautious." After hearing this, Murong Shen finally withdrew his gaze from Ari, turned around and walked out.

Ali breathed a sigh of relief.

"Ah Li, are you afraid of him?" But at this moment, Liu Er who was beside him suddenly said.

"Yes." Ari nodded cautiously upon hearing this.

"Really? Then you have to be careful in the future! Master Murong hates the kind of people who betray their masters the most in his life. There was once a servant who secretly betrayed his master for glory, and when he found out, he snapped and broke his neck! "Liu'er stretched out her hands and made a gesture of choking her neck, staring at Ah Li viciously on purpose.

Ari screamed in fright, quickly closed his eyes tightly, but shouted loudly: "I will never betray Master!"

"What are you afraid of? Open your eyes quickly!" Liu'er was quite satisfied with the effect she had created, but Ahri's closing her eyes made him very upset, so she immediately reached out to open his eyelids.

"Okay, stop making trouble." Ye Zhaoqing reached out his hand helplessly and grabbed Liu'er's hand, saying, "Are you still hungry? Go to the kitchen and bring food!"

"Oh! I'm still stewing winter bamboo shoots and old duck soup on the stove!" Liu'er groaned strangely, and rushed out impatiently.

Ye Zhaoqing smiled helplessly at her back, turned to look at Ali who was still in panic and said, "Don't worry, as long as you go in time, your mother will be released too. From now on, you will follow me, and you won't be here again." Someone hit you."

"Master, is this true?" Ari asked cautiously after hearing this.

"Of course it's true! Can I still lie to you?" Ye Zhaoqing smiled, stretched out his hand to pull Ari up from the ground, and said, "Just sit here obediently and wait for the good news!"

After a while, Liu'er came back from the outside, holding a big tray in her hand, and said excitedly: "Fortunately, the maidservant went in time, and the old duck's soup is rich and fragrant. Miss, we are lucky today!"

"Really? It smells good, bring it here!" Ye Zhaoqing took a deep breath, and the smell in the air really fascinated her.

However, Ari, who had been overeating in the past two days, seemed very silent at this time, and he didn't know if what Murong Shen said just now had frightened him.

When the three of them sat down at the dinner table, Ye Zhaoqing took a look at Ari and said seriously, "Don't worry, you were forced to do those things, and no one here looks down on you."

Liu'er had already excitedly picked up the chopsticks, picked up a piece of meat and was about to put it in her mouth, but after hearing this, the meat stuck in her mouth and couldn't swallow it: "Miss! Can you not talk while eating?"

"Okay, don't talk." Ye Zhaoqing didn't care about whether Liu'er was big or small, she picked up the chopsticks, stretched out the chopsticks, picked up a piece of old duck meat and handed it to Ah Li: "Okay, don't think so much, eat it! "

Ari looked at the delicious piece of duck meat that was handed to him. This was something he hadn't eaten in more than ten years. His eyes were sour, and tears almost fell down.

"Thank you, master!" He picked up the rice bowl and caught the piece of meat.

Ye Zhaoqing lowered his head and went to eat.

After the meal, Liu Er was planning to take advantage of Ye Zhaoqing's getting up to read medical books, and order Ari to help her remove all the rice bowls on the table, but before she could speak, Ye Zhaoqing called Ari over: "Aren't you Do you want to study medicine? This is an entry-level medical book, which introduces many common medicinal herbs, come and take a look."

"Yes! Master!" Ari immediately walked over obediently.

Seeing this scene, Liu'er glared at Ari bitterly, and then tidied up by herself with her head bowed in resignation.

I don't know how Murong Shen solved it, but at noon the next day, when he came back from outside, he took out two contracts of selling himself and handed them to Ye Zhaoqing.

Ye Zhaoqing looked down and saw that it was Ah Li and his mother Wu Shi.

"Did you go to meet Xu Zhifu in person?" she asked.

Murong Shen shook his head when he heard the words, and said: "A person like him is not qualified enough for me to meet."

(End of this chapter)