Unparalleled Concubine

More importantly, it is the Chinese New Year.

Li Xin came to this world at the beginning of the twelfth lunar month, half a month passed in a blink of an eye, and now it is the twentieth of the twelfth lunar month, and the New Year is coming soon. Although there is no way to spend this year with his family, as long as he is a descendant of Zhu Xia, he will always He attaches great importance to the New Year's Eve, so Li Xin still plans to have a good New Year's Eve.

Therefore, he is ready to go out to buy new year's goods.

Before leaving, Li Xin went to visit the charcoal seller. After a few days of recuperation, the old man's injuries were no longer a problem, but because his house was burned, his complexion was still not very good. , and the mental state is also a little sluggish.

Seeing Li Xin coming, the old man sat up on the bed, coughed, and said with some difficulty: "Master Li, do you have enemies in the capital?"

Although the old man had a hard life, he had lived for so many years, and he still understood some basic principles. His cabin was in such a remote place, and no one cared about it for more than ten years. Someone came to the house and burned the house, which must have something to do with Li Xin.

Li Xin bowed his head and said: "Old man, the matter of the house being burned is indeed related to the boy, but don't worry, the old man, this matter has passed, at most one year, the boy will pay the old man a house in the capital."

The charcoal seller shook his head slightly.

"The old man saw it early on. You are a capable person, but the old man built the cabin by himself. No house can compare to it..."

Li Xin smiled bitterly: "The house has been reduced to ashes, and there is no way for the boy to restore it."

The charcoal seller sat up straight and looked straight at Li Xin.

"So, the old man wants you to promise something."

Li Xin lowered his head and said, "The old man wants me to take care of the girl?"

The charcoal seller nodded.

The old man stretched out his head to look outside, and after confirming that the girl selling charcoal was not there, he said, "Mr. Li...you are a smart person, you should be able to tell that this girl...is not the granddaughter of the old man."

This thing... Li Xin really didn't see it, but the charcoal seller's skin was dark, and the charcoal girl's face was often dark, but her complexion was fair. At first, Li Xin didn't think it was a thing. What's wrong, now that I think about it, this girl really doesn't look like the granddaughter of the charcoal seller.

The old man coughed for a while, and his voice was hoarse: "Her surname is Zhong. There was an accident in the family, and she was entrusted to the old man. The old man has no skills. She has suffered a lot these years. You destroyed the old man's house. In the future, you will have to take care of her." I have to help the old man take care of her."

"The old man is kind to the boy for saving his life. The boy promised to spend the rest of his life with the old man, and he will not break his promise. As for that girl..."

Li Xin was silent for a moment, then laughed softly: "If I have a bite to eat, she won't be hungry, so you can rest assured."

The charcoal seller heaved a sigh of relief, lay back on the bed, coughed a few more times, and said, "Shi En shouldn't be repaying, but the old man has no choice, Mr. Li, don't mind..."

Li Xin shook his head slightly, and said, "Old man, I like to take a break. It will be the end of the new year in a few days. I will go out to buy some things, and then the three of us will get together to celebrate the new year."

The old man nodded slightly and coughed a few more times.

Li Xin stood up from the bed and slowly backed out. When he reached the gate of the yard, he found that the little girl had picked up a lot of dead branches from outside and was walking towards the house with her arms in her arms. Li Xin smiled. He touched her head, and said, "Girl, brother, go out for a while, you take care of grandpa at home, don't run around."

The little girl was wearing a thick cotton coat, and she nodded clumsily.

After locking the door himself, Li Xin took out the silver indemnity from the Jingzhao Mansion from his waist, and walked towards the nearest bank. Silver in this era cannot be used directly. It needs to be converted into copper coins in the bank before it can be circulated normally. , is essentially just a hard currency, not a currency.

After cutting a small piece from the silver block and exchanging three or four pennies, Li Xin walked towards the West Market in the capital. The various squares and cities in the capital are well divided. The North City is where the Imperial City is located, similar to Yongle Square. These places are all places where dignitaries live, while Datongfang, where Li Xin lives, is located in Nancheng, where ordinary people live. As for the market, there are two markets in the east and west, and the things in the west market are cheaper.

These are all Li Xin inquired about in the capital these days.

Although Li Xin has some spare money now, he is still sitting and eating, so he can only go to the West Market to buy things.

It's just that he just walked out of Datongfang, and he faintly felt that someone was following him. This feeling of being followed made him very uncomfortable, but according to the seventh son, these should be the inner guards of the imperial city, and they have no malice towards him. Li Xin also pretended not to notice, and walked towards the west city on his own.

After he walked out of Datongfang for about a block or two, two burly men stopped his way,

Li Xin frowned slightly.

"You two, this is the capital city, and the policemen of Jingzhao Mansion are still patrolling around. What are you going to do in broad daylight?"

The two strong men were expressionless, one of them glanced at Li Xin, and said in a deep voice: "Little brother, my son is here to invite you."

Li Xin smiled.

"In this world, is there any reason to block the way?"

The burly man's expression remained unchanged: "The two of us are also following orders, I hope the little brother will not make things difficult for us."

It wasn't until this time that Li Xin realized that after he came out of Datongfang, it was these two people who were following him, not the inner guard. If the inner guard followed him, he would have no way of noticing it.

Thinking of the Inner Guard, Li Xin looked back and found nothing unusual, but he still chose to trust the seventh son, so he raised his head slightly and said indifferently: "Lead the way."

If, as the seventh son said, there are people from the inner guard guarding behind him to protect him, then no matter what kind of monsters or ghosts he is, he should not be able to hurt him.

At the feet of the emperor, no one dared to challenge the emperor head-on.

The two nodded, and led Li Xin to turn several alleys on the street, and finally stopped at the entrance of a brothel beside the Qinhuai River. In terms of scale, it is a grade worse than Deyilou.

The brothel of this era is not the same concept as the brothel of later generations. It is more like a bar than a brothel.

Therefore, in the understanding of people in this era, visiting brothels is an elegant thing.

Led by two burly men, Li Xin came to the second floor of Ningcui Building. The two burly men stopped at the door of a room, bent slightly, and said respectfully, "Young Lord, you have arrived."

Hearing this name, Li Xin's pupils shrank slightly.

He knew who was going to see him.

The door of the room was slowly opened, and the young master Li Chun, who was dressed in white, had a faint smile on his face.

He looked Li Xin up and down, with a playful tone.

"So it's you. The last time I saw you on Desheng Street, I thought you were a beggar."

Speaking of this, Li Chun smiled even more.

"But I didn't expect that you are my younger brother."

Chapter 24 Wild Species!

Previously, Li Xin had met Li Chun, the son of Pingnan Houfu. At that time, Li Chun led a group of princes and grandsons to ride horses on Desheng Street, and one of them bumped Li Xin, but because Li Xin When he visited Pingnanhou's mansion, the young master was not at home, so Li Chun didn't recognize Li Xin at that time.

Li Xin looked calm.

"Half a month has passed, it's rare that the young master still remembers."

Li Chun clapped his hands and laughed, "No wonder you didn't want the money when I gave you the money. At that time, I thought you were trying to blackmail me, but it turned out that you were angry."

The eldest son of the Pingnanhou Mansion, who grew up in the Houmen, had no lack of meat since he was a child, and the descendants of the Li family all practiced martial arts since childhood, so Li Chunsheng was tall and burly, about half a head smaller than Li Xin, standing in front of him. When Li Xin was in front of him, he felt quite oppressed.

Standing at the door, Li Xin squinted his eyes and said: "If the young master called me to come here, it was just to say these things. I still have some things to do, so I won't accompany you."

With a smile on his face, Li Chun turned aside to let the door open, stretched out his hand and said in a false way: "It's already here, how about coming in and sitting?"

After a little hesitation, Li Xin raised his head and walked into the private room of Ningcui Building.