late at night.

From the depths of the Chen Mansion, there were also roars of laughter, the sound of music playing, and the singing voice of a singer.

Chen Liqin's direct officials did not wait for the banquet three days later, so they brought their servants, carried gifts, and crossed the threshold of Chen's mansion.

However, the excitement of Chen Mansion has nothing to do with Mingquan Garden.

At this moment, Chen Ji was lying on the bed in Mingquan Garden, staring directly at the top of his head in a daze. Dark clouds lay on his back beside him,

Let’s be in a daze together.

There are three layers of mattresses on the bed. The bottom layer is a palm mat woven from palm leaves to prevent moisture. The second layer is a freshly elastic cotton mattress, and the third layer is a silk sheet.

The bed was soft, many times better than the full-length bunk in the apprentice's dormitory. There was no foot odor or snoring, but Chen Wei couldn't sleep.

He always felt that there were many things to do before leaving Luo City, but he couldn't figure it out for a while.

Wu Yun stared at his round eyes: "Chen Ji, if you really can't sleep, you can sneak back to the hospital to sleep and come back at dawn."

Chen Ji was happy: "It's not that I have to stay in a hospital, it's just that I can't sleep when I get to my new home."

Moreover, those people who snore, turn over the quilt, and kick their legs are no longer in the hospital.

Chen Ji asked: "Wuyun, let's go to sea together after we rescue the princess? Let's also take a boat from Qiming to Lushun Port to Jingchao."

The dark clouds rolled over and meowed curiously: "Are you looking for your uncle?"

Chen Ji thought for a while and said: "If you don't look for it, you won't look for anyone. Let's go to the mountains to be hunters and live in a hut on the mountain. Then, in the winter, I will take you to catch the hibernating bears, blind bears, and silly dogs. In the summer, I will

I’ll take you to dig clams and catch cicadas. In late autumn, we’ll pick all the pears and make them into frozen pears to eat——————Then we’ll go farther north to see the aurora and ride the snow machine.”

He was trapped in the beautiful hometown that Wu Hongbiao once weaved, and even the dark clouds were a little longing for him.

Chen Jixin said that he was now an official in the innate realm, so why not walk sideways in the mountains? Dealing with animals is much better than dealing with people.

Wu Yun was curious: "Then if you hide in the mountains, there will be no ice currents on the Tiger Gate. You cannot reach the Tao-seeking realm before the age of thirty-six, and you will not live long."

Chen Ji's tone was relaxed: "Master has told me what to do if we live for such a long time. Longevity is a humiliation."

Wu Yun was silent for a moment: "But I think Master is very happy every day."

Chen Ji was confused: "Are you happy? We are in the hospital and we are annoying him to death every day."

Wu Yun said casually: "He just said it. Master was watching you guys playing in the yard through the crack of the window in the main room, and he was laughing very happily."

"Yeah."

While talking, there was a knock on the door outside Mingquan Garden.

Chen Ji lifted up the quilt and got out of bed, and walked into the courtyard wearing a coat: "Who is it?"

Chen Liqin said warmly: "It's me."

The old traces opened the door.

As soon as he opened the door, he smelled the aroma of alcohol and saw Chen Liqin's dark cheeks were reddish-purple, and his drunkenness was written on his face.

Chen Ji asked in confusion: "Why did Mr. Chen come here so late at night?"

Chen Liqin was used to hearing the words "Master Chen" and didn't even frown: "Why are you living in your own house and locking the door in the courtyard? Don't worry, our Chen family servants patrol at night and won't let bad guys in.

"

Chen Ji smiled and did not answer.

Chen Liqin suddenly realized that what Chen Ji was guarding against was not the criminals outside the Chen family, but the criminals inside the Chen family.

He was speechless for a while, and then said softly: "Won't you invite me to come in and sit down?"

Chen Ji turned sideways and said, "Master Chen, please."

Chen Liqin entered the courtyard and looked around: "Are you satisfied with this place?"

Chen Ji smiled and said: "Of course I am satisfied."

The two stood in the courtyard, suddenly looking at each other speechlessly, and the atmosphere was strangely quiet.

After a long time, Chen Liqin coughed lightly and said, "When you arrive in the capital, a separate courtyard will be set aside for you. Don't worry, it won't be any worse than Wen Zong and Wen Xiao."

Chen Ji cupped his hands and thanked him: "Thank you, Mr. Chen."

After saying this, Chen Liqin didn't know what to say for a moment, and Chen Ji was not in a hurry to speak, so he just waited quietly.

After a long time, Chen Liqin sighed: "Today, in front of outsiders, I can't expose the family scandal directly to them. The face of the Chen family is not my own. As the Chen family, you and I should maintain it well. We can't

It has insulted the beauty of the Chen family. If outsiders know about the family scandal, no one will really worry about it. They will only watch the jokes of our Chen family."

Chen Ji hummed.

Chen Liqin put his hands behind his back and stood in front of the wintersweet tree: "I know that you have suffered a lot over the years and suffered a lot of grievances. Don't worry, you will not suffer such unfair injustice in the future."

Chen Ji cupped his hands and thanked him: "It would be great if Mr. Chen knows that I am innocent."

At this time, Chen Liqin turned around, took out a piece of paper deed from his sleeve and handed it to Chen Ji.

Chen Ji was confused: "What is this?"

Chen Liqin said: "The Superintendent of Ceremonies inspected the properties of Prince Jing's Mansion and the Liu family, and sold some unimportant properties on the spot. The piece in your hand is the land deed of the Taiping Medical Center. I know that you lived there for two years.

, I have feelings about it, so I asked someone to buy it back. I thought, although we are going to the capital, this can be regarded as leaving a memory in Los Angeles."

Chen Ji's expression changed, and he quickly unfolded the land deed, only to see five large characters written on the header of the land deed: Acquisition of Acquisition to the Household.

"Thirty-three capitals are presented on six sides. I have made it clear that I have crossed the fields, mountains and ponds. No. 12, Anxi Street -"

Chen Ji folded the land deed carefully and stuffed it into his sleeve. Then, he folded his hands and bowed deeply: "Thank you, Mr. Chen. Mr. Chen is thoughtful."

Chen Liqin looked at Chen Ji with a complicated expression. When he sent Dongzi cucumbers worth a thousand yuan, Chen Ji was not moved. When he said that he would arrange for him to study at Donglin Academy and pave the way for the imperial examination, Chen Ji was not moved either.

Only at this moment did he finally feel Chen Ji's heartfelt gratitude.

Chen Liqin was a little embarrassed for a moment, and he helped Chen Ji up: "What are you doing? You and I are just like father and son, so it is appropriate for me to do this for you..."

Before Chen Liqin could finish speaking, he saw Chen Ji go back to the house, put on his clothes, picked up Wu Yun, and strode out of the courtyard: "Mr. Chen, I'm going out for a while."

"Where are you going?" Chen Liqin looked at Chen Ji's back and raised his hand, then slowly put it down.

Liujiaxiang.

In a dilapidated house, a man's rough roar came from the house: "Back then I said don't study medicine, don't study medicine, but you kid has to go and learn it.

They say it can make money for me. I spent so much money to establish relationships and send you to study, but before the money was earned, the medical center was gone. Now all the money I spent has been wasted. What do you think of this account?

Calculate?"

In the room, a weak oil slag lamp was burning on the table.

The green bricks on the floor had corners missing, and the vermilion Eight Immortals table had its paint peeled off.

A man in his thirties was sitting on a chair, panting, his fat body trembling slightly, and the smell of alcohol was heavy in his mouth.

Liu Quxing knelt in front of the hall door with his head lowered. His mother knelt beside him and cried bitterly: "Master, there is nothing we can do about the hospital being gone. It has nothing to do with the stars."

"It doesn't matter?" The man sneered: "You mean it doesn't matter if it doesn't matter?"

Liu Quxing whispered: "Then what do you think we should do?"

The man narrowed his eyes and said, "Is the person who spoke to you at the Secret Service Yamen that day a high official? I have met him before. He was also an apprentice in your medical clinic, right?"

Liu Quxing hummed.

The man asked again: "I heard he is from the Chen family?"

Liu Quxing hummed again.

The man said: "He was willing to help that day, which shows that you still have a friendship as classmates. You can go find him tomorrow and ask him to arrange an errand for you. By then, you will be working in the Supervisor of Ceremonies. This dignitary in Luo City will not want to take advantage of you.

Who can control who?"

Liu Quxing insisted: "I won't go, I have no friendship with him."

The man picked up the wine bowl on the table and threw it at it. Liu Quxing turned his head to avoid it. With a bang, the wine bowl shattered on the ground in the small courtyard behind him.

The mother beside Liu Quxing quickly hugged her son: "Master, if you don't want to go to Xingxing, just don't go. There are so many ways to make money. Didn't I give you all the dividends from the Preparatory Bureau? That money is enough for our family to spend for several years."

"

The man smiled and said, "I get angry when I talk about money. I was doing well in the gambling house, but you wanted to bring trouble to me and cause me to lose all my money. You are a bad mother-in-law. Ever since I married you, you have never been like this."

What a blessing!"

The woman knelt on the spot blankly: "All gone? Master, you lost all the five hundred taels of silver? We had agreed at the beginning that if Xingxing failed to become an imperial physician, the money would be left to him to open a medical clinic. What do you do?

I can lose all my money."

The man stood up, put his foot on the woman's face, and turned her to the ground: "Is it your turn to question me?!"

Liu Quxing, who had been holding back, suddenly raised his head and straightened his back: "Don't hit my mother!"

The man paused for a moment, then slapped Liu Quxing on the face: "This is too much for me. I sent you to study medicine and taught you to harden your wings?"

Liu Quxing was slapped and turned away, then turned back: "Don't hit my mother!"

The man smiled ferociously: "I don't know how that old man in the medical center taught you, but he actually taught you to rebel against your father!
To be continued...