Chapter 35: A Night Walker Hears Shocking News

When the wild geese fly south, winter is coming...

That night, a horse-drawn carriage slowly came from the East Outer City to the West Inner City, where servants from Marquis Wei's mansion gathered in the courtyards, and stopped in the alley at the entrance of the house complex.

The young man sitting next to the driver turned around and said respectfully to the door behind him: "Sir, we're here."

With a "hmm" in response from inside, the young man got out of the car and quickly put the wooden ladder away. He lifted the heavy curtain and the person who got out of the car was none other than Li Yaoguang.

The young man was specially sent by Manager Qian to serve Li Yaoguang. He carefully protected Li Yaoguang as he got off the carriage. Then the waiter went up and moved two large bags of things down from the carriage.

"Sir, are these two bags of rice enough for my family?"

Her three meals a day were taken care of by Weimeilou and Yaxian Pavilion. She could bring back good tea, snacks and dishes on weekdays, and now her refrigerator is always full.

I stockpile some food from time to time, but it's only because this is ancient times when productivity is low, and I have personally experienced the lockdown due to the epidemic, and I have a deep fear of insufficient firepower, so I buy some from time to time and store them in the space.

Li Yaoguang would not elaborate on these, and only said: "It's okay, Brother Fusheng, I have asked Manager Qian to order grain for me from the grain store that supplies the restaurant, don't worry."

"Oh, that's good, that's good, I'm relieved. But sir, it's cold today, and I'm afraid it will snow in a few days. I wonder if you have enough charcoal at home. If not, please tell our shopkeeper."

"That's not necessary. We use less charcoal in Weimeilou, unlike Yaxian Pavilion. They use charcoal to make tea and boil water every day. I have already asked Manager Yang of Yaxian Pavilion to order a batch for me. I believe it will arrive soon."

"Yaxian Pavilion? Can they be trusted with their dog-eye attitude? And when the charcoal arrives, how will you get it back? Otherwise, I will go and pull it for you."

"That's not necessary, Brother Fusheng. The person who helps me deal with trivial matters at Yaxian Pavilion is an old friend of mine." It was this guy named Erqiao who led me to see Yang Gou, and it was he who personally drove me out. When I was invited by Yang Gou to visit Yaxian Pavilion again that day, the guy acted as if he had seen a ghost when he saw her. He had been very honest the whole time. "It's just a cart of charcoal. They will arrange it."

Hearing Li Yaoguang's confidence, Fusheng felt relieved and stopped asking questions. He just put the two bags of rice on his shoulders and greeted Li Yaoguang cheerfully: "Hey, I was also worried for nothing. The rice is heavy, I will take it back to the house for you, sir."

Li Yaoguang thanked him and followed Fusheng into the familiar alley. As she was about to reach the door of her house, a small figure emerged from the darkness and rushed towards her, hugging her thighs tightly.

Li Yaoguang was startled, and then he heard the black shadow crying under his feet, "Wuuuu... Cousin, cousin, Yangyang is scared, Yangyang's father is going to, is going to die, wuuuuu..."

A stone stirs up a thousand ripples. The familiar voice of the child pierces his eardrums. Hearing the word "I'm going to die", Li Yaoguang's soul flew away. He didn't even bother to see who the black shadow was that rushed out after the little guy. Li Yaoguang picked up the person under his feet and asked anxiously.

"Yangyang, be good, don't cry. Tell your cousin what happened to your father?" Why is he going to die?

Unfortunately, the child was too young and was so frightened that he couldn’t speak clearly. All he kept saying was, “Dad is going to die.”

Li Yaoguang didn't dare to delay any longer and hurriedly asked for help from people around him while holding the child.

"Brother Fusheng, something is wrong at home. I'm afraid I'll have to trouble you to go to Jishiditang in the front market and ask the old doctor there to come and see the patient." "Don't worry, sir. I'll go right away." Fusheng knew that the matter was of great importance. He dropped the bag on his shoulder, turned around and ran.

After watching Fusheng leave, Li Yaoguang took a closer look at the dark shadow beside him and discovered that the person was actually Mrs. Zhou's youngest daughter. Li Yaoguang was surprised, and then asked her with a solemn face.

"Xiu Jie'er, you followed my cousin here, do you know what happened inside?"

The visitor saw that Li Yaoguang had changed her usual friendly attitude and looked extremely scary, as if she wanted to eat her. She did not dare to hide anything and hurriedly told Li Yaoguang what she knew.

"I, I don't know. Cousin, I don't know anything! I only know that, a while ago, Master Yang ran to the corner gate crying and holding a handful of copper coins to find my mother. He insisted on going out to look for you. When I asked him, he didn't say anything, but just cried loudly. My mother was afraid that Master Yang would get into trouble, so she arranged for me to follow him out..."

Li Yaoguang laughed, "What do you mean you are afraid that my cousin will do something bad? You are just greedy for the copper coins my brother gave you, right?"

"This one……"

"Forget it, I won't bother with you. Come on, follow me to find your mother."

Upon hearing this, the little girl became anxious, fearing that this evil star was going to go find her mother to settle the score and ask for money. She wanted to stop him but had no ability, and she didn't dare to shout loudly, so she could only stomp her feet and follow him.

At the corner gate, because her daughter took Young Master Yang away, Mrs. Zhou did not dare to close the door. Not only did she not dare to close it, she also sat on a stool on the inside of the corner gate, sewing shoe soles while looking in.

Hearing footsteps in the darkness, Mrs. Zhou quickly put down her work, leaned over and called out, "Sister Xiu, Sister Xiu? Are you back, Sister Xiu?"

As the footsteps approached, the person appeared under the lantern in front of the corner gate. Mrs. Zhou was startled, "Cousin, cousin, why are you here?"

Li Yaoguang guessed that the situation in Luyuan was probably very bad. He was worried about his relatives and had no time to waste with this unscrupulous old woman. However, thinking that the doctor invited by Fusheng would have to come in soon, Li Yaoguang patiently negotiated with her.

Li Yaoguang shook the little guy in her arms, who was trembling all over, with his two little paws tightly holding her neck. She reached into her purse with one hand, and actually transferred a ten-liang silver ingot from space, spread it in the palm of her hand, and waved it in front of Zhou Pozi.

Suddenly, Mrs. Zhou's eyes lit up, and she stared at the silver ingot in Li Yaoguang's hand with a humble and flattering attitude, "Oh, cousin, you are too polite. What do you want me to do?"

"I won't waste my time talking to you. My people will call a doctor in a moment. Ask your daughter to bring the doctor to Green Garden. The ten taels of silver will belong to you and your daughter."

"Hiss! I'm afraid this won't work..." Even if ten taels is a lot, don't you have to be alive to get it? "Miss, it's not that I don't want to be flexible. It's really the rule of the mansion that outsiders are not allowed in on weekdays, not to mention it's the middle of the night, how can we let outsiders in and out?"

"Don't worry, outsiders are not allowed in. You just need to let the old doctor I invited in. He is over 70 years old and highly respected. He will not do mean things. If anything happens, I will take responsibility! When the person comes, let your daughter lead the old doctor to the Green Garden. After the matter is completed, I will give you another ten taels."

(End of this chapter)