Chapter 149: cost

Chapter One Hundred Forty Nine
"Miss..." Lingbao shook her hand and begged in a low voice.
"You don't have a brother, and he is not Lingyuan," Gu Shiba Niang held Lingbao's hand with her backhand, her eyes focused on Lingyuan, "There is only Young Master Zhu's here."
Lingyuan's face was pale, his hands clenched.
Lingbao looked puzzled, she couldn't help turning her head to look at her brother.
Gu Shiba Niang's eyes fell outside the door, and the dazzling Zhuzi lantern swayed in the autumn wind.
"In front of the young lady, there is always only Lingyuan." Lingyuan said in a deep voice.
Gu Shiba Niang looked at him, her face still cold.
"My Lingyuan, suffered by the golden thieves, has lost his family and lived in exile, dare to ask this young master Zhu, can you know the suffering of the drifting in the rich clothes?"
"My soul, my lifelong wish, iron horse and golden sword to kill thieves and revenge, practice good marksmanship, only willing to general Ye, dare to ask this young master Zhu..."
When she said this, she tossed her hand, Lingyuan subconsciously reached out and caught the slender medicine cutter, "Can you dare to think of killing the gold thief and collecting the old soil?"
"My soul is a little cowardly, but he is by no means an innocent person. He knows that his relatives will be worried and be shunned by the heart..."
"My Lingyuan, although it is a little unbearable, but I also know loyalty and filial piety, and will never recognize a thief as a father..." she said every word, "Dare to ask Master Zhu, how dare you call yourself Lingyuan" ?"
Throwing these questions over, Lingyuan's expression changed drastically, he stepped back a few steps, and the medicine cutter in his hand fell.
"Brother..." Lingbao finally understood a little, and looked at Lingyuan in surprise, "Master Zhu? How did you become Master Zhu?"
The noisy talk of those people just now played back in her mind again.
"Yes... Which Zhu family's young master?" She grabbed the skirt of her clothes, seemingly mumbling to ask.
"There are seventeen sons and twenty-eight virtuous grandchildren, and one person is above ten thousand. The first assistant to Zhu Chunming's young master," Gu Shiba Niang said in a deep voice, looking at Lingyuan, "Master Zhu, what I said is not Correct?"
Lingyuan's expression was complicated, and he moved his lips without making a sound.
Lingbao already screamed and rushed over to shake him, "Brother, what the lady said is true? What the lady said is not true, right? You are not, you are not..."
Lingyuan just looked at her with sorrow.
"You are not, you are not, you are... By the way, you must be Young Master Zhu's servant..." Lingbao shook him and said eagerly, begging on his face, "Brother, is this right? ?is this correct?"
"No..." Lingyuan finally spoke with a hoarse voice, "Miss is right...I am the son of Lord Zhu...one of the eighteen sons..."
Ling Bao stared at him blankly, as if he couldn't believe it, big tears rolled down his eyes.
How ridiculous, when the young master was sent to prison, everyone knew that it was because she had offended the very powerful Lord Zhu. She was guarded outside the prison of the Criminal Ministry. Everyone told her that the biggest official of the Criminal Ministry was Lord Zhu’s brother. The young master must not be able to get out. At the beginning, the family was ruined, and on the way to escape, the displaced people knew that General Ye had blocked the golden thief’s iron hoof like a god. Everyone looked forward to the day when General Ye would regain their homeland and return to their hometown. However, the godlike General Ye, who was victorious in all battles, died, and died in the hands of this Master Zhu. She still remembered that she and her brother were on the way to flee, and they were all worshipped and listened to the bravery of General Ye. Gun, in order to one day be able to follow General Ye's command. . . . .
How ridiculous, General Ye is dead, but the older brother who once wanted to follow General Ye to kill the enemy recognized the man who killed General Ye as his father. . .
How ridiculous, she stayed outside the prison of the Ministry of Justice, cursing the Zhu family to cut off children and grandchildren every day, but her brother was the son of Zhu family. . . . .
Seeing her sister's expression, Lingyuan felt a pain in her heart, stretched out her hand to hold her, "Listen to me..."
Lingbao had already thrown him away and screamed, "You are not my brother, you are not my brother"
"Boer, listen to me..." Lingyuan stretched out his hand to hug her and shouted.
Ling Bao raised his hand to beat him, but held it up high and finally did not fall, hiding his face and crying loudly.
"Miss..." Lingyuan looked up at Gu Shiba Niang with a gloomy expression, "Listen to me..."
"You said." Gu Shiba Niang stretched out her hand and raised her expression indifferently.
Her reaction was so indifferent, and Lingyuan's heart was like falling into an ice cave. He couldn't wait to speak, but if she didn't say anything, she would immediately turn around and leave, like a passerby from then on.
He has done so much, is this the result he wants?
"I left Jiankang at that time..." He took a deep breath and adjusted his thoughts to the best, so as not to make a mistake, "...I don't know where to be sold... "
He seemed to be back to the cabin that was in the cabin, watching the turbulent river fly by, and his heart was ashamed. As for the future, he cared no more about the future. Living and dying are no different.
"...I don't know whose house it is...I am only responsible for walking more than a dozen dogs every day, every day I eat and eat, and I sleep when I sleep..."
"Master Zhu's seventeen sons and twenty-eight great grandsons are either the minister of the DPRK or the leader in the fashion of talent. Master Zhu, just walking the dog and sneaking out of the name of a son, I'm afraid it won't be that easy." Gu Eighteen Niang said lightly.
As the saying goes, "father and son fight against tiger brothers." The high-ranking master Zhu, who knows the darkness and cruelty of the officialdom, knows this point even more. It is very common to recognize relatives among important court officials, especially generals who lead soldiers. The degree of intimacy between people is maintained by blood or in-laws. When is the most assured of their own sons, such as General Ye, in addition to his two sons, there are three other righteous sons, all of whom are selected from the army. It is very handy to use in battle.
But this Master Zhu, I don’t know if it’s because he doesn’t have a biological son or because he stands taller and he has no bottom in his heart. He is particularly enthusiastic about adopting a son. This is exactly what many people want. Some want Take shortcuts, and some want to avoid disasters. In short, until Lord Zhu fell, there were 20 righteous sons who passed the Ming Road, and among these 20 sons, many grandchildren were naturally derived, so that after Lord Zhu fell After the new emperor cleared the court, he went to the court the next day and lost more than half of the ministers.
These righteous sons and grandchildren who have recognized their relatives are naturally not for lack of parental care, but for gaining benefits, but there is nothing in the world that only gets good things that have not been paid. They use their godfathers and grandpas to do whatever they want to enjoy. Prosperity and wealth, but also must bear the fate of the tree fell and the sun san’s city gate was fired and the pond fish was destroyed. Therefore, after the fall of Lord Zhu, these righteous sons and grandchildren ended up miserably. For example, Gu Shiba Niang heard one of the great grandsons in her life. On the way back to his hometown, the dingy resignation was beaten to death by angry people.
These people are more than punishable for their crimes. Master Zhu raised them not because of the lack of sons, but because they need to come forward and join forces to eliminate dissidents. He is not dim-eyed. Whoever comes to give a smiley to call father and grandpa Never refuse.
Among these sons, there are those who are good at playing with pens, turning black and white, and are specifically used to slander their enemies and dissidents, those who are specifically embezzling and accepting bribes for the enjoyment of Lord Zhu's family, and those who specialize in spying on intelligence and network information. A bright future for wealth and wealth.
"So, why did Master Zhu win Master Zhu's favor?" Gu Shiba Niang asked again, her eyes were already cold.
Lingyuan's heart was cold, how could he forget... This young girl, who looked like a young girl, had the state of mind that she could see through the world and understand human feelings.
When asked by this sentence, what he originally wanted to talk about, the grievances between Master Zhu and Gu Hai he wanted to talk about, and the reasons he once thought were reasonable and normal, are how ridiculous and pale, Gu Shiba Mother didn't mention the grievances between the two families at all. She only asked about the interests, only his interests.
"...I accidentally saved the lives of Zhu Shaoye and Madam Zhu..." He said directly and simply, "There were some Madam Zhu and Zhu Shaoye who were on the assassination trip. I happened to follow that day and repelled Qiang easily. ...Repelled the people who came...wounded, Mrs. Zhu said that I was pitiful..."
"The assassin is the old man of General Ye or other people of righteous indignation." Gu Shiba Niang asked suddenly.
Lingyuan's face stiffened again, he moved his lips and said yes with his eyes down.
"You refuse to say that you are a strong man or a bad man, you can see that you still have some conscience in your heart." Gu Shiba Niang said lightly, "Also, you concealed your life experience from the Zhu family.
"Yes..." Lingyuan replied in a low voice.
"So you knew that Lingbao was looking for you, and you avoided seeing it." Gu Shiba Niang said.
She used a declarative tone, not a question, obviously without an answer.
Lingbao's tears burst even more suddenly. She thought of how she went from door to door like a beggar, how she could beg for someone in a low voice, how could she endure those little servants’ verbal molestations, how she could not sleep day and night. The dead servant who killed the slave was terrified, and if he stuffed all the money, just ask the place to sneak a glance at the dead, wild dog, bald eagle. . . . .
"I have no choice..." Seeing her younger sister's body swaying, Lingyuan felt ashamed, "I..."
"You are not a last resort." Gu Shiba Niang raised her hand to interrupt him, watching him every word, "This is your price, this is the price you must pay in exchange for what you want."
Lingyuan looked at her, desperately unable to refute.
Yes, at this moment, when the girl's heart was torn open and asked, he knew that what he used to persuade himself was really just self-deception.
It turns out that this is the price. . . . .
"Master Zhu, this price is just the beginning. The more you get in the future, the more you have to pay..." Gu Shiba Niang looked at him, slowly approached, and stopped in front of him. Stretching out Lingbao, who is holding his arm and crying, "So, today, you don't want to take Lingbao away, you don't want to put Lingbao in the same situation as you..."
Lingyuan looked at her with a sad expression.
"Eighteen mother..." he suddenly muttered, "Don't... don't don't don't want me..."
Gu Shiba Niang's feelings of fright and anger were suddenly aroused by this expression, and she took a few deep breaths.
"When you were adopted as a adopted son, didn't you know what their family was?" After all, she softened her heart and asked this question that shouldn't be asked to convince herself.
Lingyuan looked at her, and obviously understood the true meaning of her asking this question. For the first time, he looked at her so close and straight, looking at the haunting face in front of him.
"I... I know." He replied hoarsely.
Gu Shiba Niang slightly closed her eyes and opened them immediately.
"Very well, at least you didn't lie to me again." She whispered, stretched out her hand to embrace Lingbao, and turned around, "You go."
"Brother..." Lingbao couldn't help it anymore, turned around and plunged into Lingyuan's arms and shook him, "Brother, come back, don't be the son of that villain's house, come back, as long as you come back... ..."
Lingyuan looked at the girl's bitter face, his face was also painful, but his eyes were fortitude.
"Your brother can't come back..." Gu Bainiang muttered without turning her head, "Since he deliberately wanted to make a fortune by gambling, he couldn't go back... for the sake of prosperity and wealth, he has nothing to bear. ..."
"No, I didn't do it for glory and wealth..." Lingyuan suddenly raised his head and said with a trembling voice.
"Oh? So there is something more important than glory and wealth?" Gu Shiba Niang turned her head slightly, looking at him unhappy or angry, "What is that?"
Lingyuan looked at her, his eyes hot.
"I am for you, for Gu Shiba Niang." He said word by word.
Gu Shiba-niang was slightly startled, Lingbao also stopped crying and looked up at him.
"I don't want to get ahead, and I don't care about glory and wealth. I just want to earn an opportunity, an identity, an identity that stands with you without being ridiculed by others, and can protect your identity when others abuse you... ..." Lingyuan looked at her and said in a deep voice.
Gu Shiba Niang looked at him, her face shaking.
This child is a haughty person. It seems that Gu Luoer's public humiliation was a great stimulus to him. Wanting money to gamble was only an incentive. The deeper reason was that he could not accept that he was so small.
Men are bloody, being insulted by a woman, and protected by a woman, it would be unbearable for anyone to change.
If it is really because of this, it would be much easier to wake him up and avoid him in the future after the downfall of Lord Zhu. "You are wrong. A mountain is always higher than a mountain. No matter how high you stand, you will inevitably be scolded. The only thing that can protect us is our own state of mind, not our identity..." She turned around. Body said.
"But, I need this identity..." Lingyuan looked at her and shook his head, "I need an identity worthy of you..."
Gu Shiba Niang was once again stunned when he heard the words, seeing the flush on his face and the eagerness in his eyes, she suddenly realized.
"You mean..." She didn't believe it, "You..."
"I am pleased with the eighteen mothers, I would like to have the eighteen mothers as his wife." Lingyuan said with a trembling voice and solemn expression when he took her words.
He must say this sentence. If he does not say it at this time, it seems that he will never have the opportunity to say it again.
The girl just turned around and her expression was indifferent. He had seen this expression. When Gu Shiba Niang faced Shen Anlin, it was a kind of indifference to the old and dead. He didn't want to, and he couldn't. When you have the opportunity to meet, you will once again become a passerby, and never taste the sorrow of no hope of seeing you again in this life.
Lingbao's eyes widened and her mouth was covered. In this short period of time, her mood was extremely complicated. She didn't know whether her heart was sad, happy, love or hate. But at this moment, she heard her brother suddenly say this. In other words, the heart still couldn't help but jump faster.
The elder brother has not changed, his heart has not changed, he is still her brother. . . .
Gu Shiba Niang stared at him blankly, suddenly raised her head and laughed.
"Miss..." Lingbao was a little frightened and couldn't help but said, "My brother is true, Lingbao, Lingbao testifies..."
Gu Shiba Niang did not pay attention to her, but closed her smile.
"Okay." With a smile at the corner of her mouth, she stretched out her hand and patted, "Okay."
The two brothers and sisters looked at her with a panic on their faces. Her reaction was really strange, neither ashamed nor disappointed nor angry.
"Children's love, human nature, this is not abrupt," Gu Shiba Niang looked at Lingyuan, and said in a clear voice, "However, marriage issues, parents' orders, matchmaker's words, Zhu Gongzi, if you intend to I, then please go and ask Naifu, if you wish to hire me as a craftswoman, I will marry you."
Since she said that, Lingyuan felt her heartbeat stopped. When she saw her laugh suddenly, her heart sank suddenly, and suddenly...heard the next words, his heart chuckles again and stops. So that he felt like he was hanging in the air.
"Really?" He heard himself ask.
"Marriage matters, how can it be a trifling matter" Gu Shiba Niang replied with plastic surgery.
She must think Lord Zhu disagrees because she is Gu Hai's family?
This matter has already been said, Master Zhu also came forward to rescue Gu Hai, so naturally there will be no gaps in Gu Hai's family because of this, and he is even more happy to be able to turn fighting into jade.
Compared with this, Lingyuan is more worried about Gu Hai’s opinions. It’s hard to convince Gu Hai, but Gu Shiba Niang is a one-and-done person. As long as she decides, either Gu Hai or the Cao family. It will definitely not object.
Lingyuan took a deep look at her, turned around and strode away, listening to the excitement outside the door, and the carts and horses walked cleanly for a moment.
"Miss..." Until then, Lingbao tentatively said, "You... Are you true?"
Gu Bainiang smiled and did not answer.
"Miss..." Lingbao only felt that his heart was mixed, and he whispered softly and judo. "My brother has always been pleased with Miss..."
"I know." Gu Shiba Niang said.
"That... so the young lady... can... can..." A hint of surprise flashed across Lingbao's face and he raised his head and stammered.
"It's not him now or what I want..." Gu Shiba Niang cast her gaze out of the door, and a faint smile flashed on her face, "As it is, if we get some, we will definitely lose some. This is the price. , The more you want, the more you lose..."
A trace of puzzlement flashed on Lingbao's face, but a trace of exhaustion flashed on the face of Shiba Niang, knowing that today's affairs are also worrying to her. Since getting acquainted, her brothers and sisters have caused her much trouble. He held Gu Shiba Niang's hand and walked towards the inner hall.
"He soon understood." Gu Shiba Niang looked back at the door and muttered to herself.
After listening to his son Zhu Hao read several memos, they were all very agreeable, and Master Zhu looked at Zhu Xuan who had been waiting in a happy mood.
"You know the whereabouts of those few scholars, right?" He asked.
Lingyuan nodded.
"Then tell my uncle, let the Criminal Department arrest people." Zhu Hao said.
"It's frizzy..." Master Zhu glanced at his son with a bit of blame.
Zhu Wei didn't care.
Master Zhu no longer paid attention to him, but looked at Lingyuan again.
"You just rushed in, what do you want to say?" He asked, sitting up from the rocking chair.
"Father," Lingyuan knelt on one knee, bit his lower lip, raised his head and said solemnly, "I want to marry a wife."
Zhu Wei was holding up his teacup to eat tea, and he spouted it out after hearing the words. Fortunately, he turned his head quickly so as not to get Laozi all over his body.
Master Zhu was also obviously surprised, "Are you going to get a wife?"
Zhu Hao coughed and walked over to pat Lingyuan's shoulder, "... Brother, you are really good, as soon as a younger sister appeared, a daughter-in-law appeared again... What else, old mothers, fathers, uncles, uncles, etc. Yes, let's talk about it together... Our family is not afraid of ten or eight people..."
Master Zhu waved his hand to stop Zhu Hao from speaking, and looked at Lingyuan with a loving smile on his face.
"Xuan'er is seventeen this year, right." He smiled, "It's time to get married. Zhang'er is a father at your age..."
He stretched out his hand and twisted his beard, "Let's go, which daughter do you have a fancy? Dad will let someone protect the media and open up branches and leaves for our Zhu family as soon as possible."
There was no surprise on Lingyuan's face, he slapped his head heavily and said thank you father.
"What kind of family is this for being so polite, but it's a confession..." Master Zhu smiled, and gestured to Zhu Wei, "I won't help your brother up yet."
Zhu Wei smiled and stretched out his hand to help. Where did Lingyuan dare to really let him help, and said that he didn't dare to have Brother Lao, he stood up.
"Let's talk about it, which daughter?" Master Zhu asked.
A trace of hesitation flashed across Lingyuan's face, "Gu's family..."
"Which...?" Master Zhu asked with his ears back, and leaning forward slightly.
Lingyuan knelt down again, "Gu Hai, Gu Jia..."
"What?" Zhu Wei immediately lowered his face, "Is there something wrong with your brain?"
Lingyuan's figure trembled.
Master Zhu glared at Zhu Hao, "Why do you talk to your brother? No one apologizes like a brother."
Although Zhu Hao was spoiled and spoiled, but before he dared to confront his father, he was reluctant to hear the words, but he still bowed his hands, "Brother Hyun, brother has failed to speak."
Lingyuan hung his head and said not to dare.
"Is it from Gu Hai's family?" Master Zhu asked, with a trace of meditation flashing across his face.
After Gu Hai was released from prison, he used to summon Wang Wenjun on the face of Wang Wenjun, implying that he would let him out regardless of his predecessors, but this kid is really like a stone in a pit. Standing there with a blank face like that, without saying a word of thanks, it is really boring to be like the Qingliu admonishing ministers in the court, no wonder the emperor wants to send him away, not only to preserve his generosity and reputation Find yourself uncomfortable.
Such a person is really not suitable. Although it seems to have an old relationship with Wenjun Wang, the performance of Wenjun Wang is not very close. Otherwise, he will not wait until the moment of life and death to show up, but it is just to save his life.
"How is the girl's virtue?" He picked up the words and asked casually.
"She's fine..." Lingyuan said, thinking of the sentence mentioned by Gu Shiba Niang, he hesitated for a moment, and said, "She is a pharmacist, who makes good medicine. She is the apprentice of the great pharmacist Liu Gong. famous......"
Before he finished his words, Master Zhu's face sank, and he stood up, patted the armrest.
"How can I be a craftsman to make a fool of my family" he shouted.
Lingyuan was taken aback, looked up at Lord Zhu, his face was amazed.
"Science, agriculture, industry and commerce, the hierarchy is strict, and the door is clear. My Zhu family's generations of nobles and poems and rituals, no matter what your identity was, you are now the son of my Zhu family. How can you marry a craftsman is really the world's great jealousy." Shouted.
"That is, Na came in as a concubine and lost his status, at most he was raised in the outside room," Zhu Wei hurriedly introduced to his brother.
Concubine? Outer room? Lingyuan shook his head quickly, impossible impossible.
"My Father... She is really a good woman..." He couldn't help but walk a few steps, pleading.
"Xiu wants to say it again" Master Zhu interrupted him, "Marriage matters, parents' orders, I and your mother are in charge, so you don't want to say it again."
After that, he turned and went into the inner room.
"What kind of woman," Zhu Wei said with a grin, "Brother, you are still too tender. There are so many women in the world, you can't see it. It's not worth irritating a father for a woman. Come, come, bring your brother. You open your eyes, and it saves you that you have never seen the world and are as hopeless...
Lingyuan didn't hear what he said at all. He just knelt in a daze, his ears echoed with Lord Zhu's sentence How can you marry a craftswoman~EbookFREE.me~How can you marry a craftswoman?
When he was a slave, she was the gentry lady whom she could only look up to. When she just stood up and wanted to protect her, Gu Luoer's proud daughter scolded him with disdain, and at the same time she insulted her. Self-lost status.
Now that he has finally earned an identity with enough weight to finally ask her for marriage, she turned out to be a craftsman, and in turn, others will use this to discredit her... and stop him.
Is this the world's tricks, or the price Gu Shiba-niang said?
He gained prosperity and wealth, and an identity that everyone feared, but he lost the qualifications for independent marriage and the opportunity to stay with his beloved.
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To make up for what I owed yesterday, this National Day is so tired, oh oh oh, I won’t go out again this year, it’s really not as good as listening to the scenery as it is to seeing the scenery, and it’s worse than listening to the scenery. . . . . I'm exhausted. . . I was bumpy in the past half month