Abandoned

Even though her eyesight was not very good, she still recognized Lu Feiluo and her brother whom she had never met.Lu Ningxue never thought that she would meet Lu Feiluo again in such a situation. It has been nine years, and things have changed, and the feeling of deep love seems to have disappeared with the wind, and the only thing left is sigh.

"Are you okay?" Lu Feiluo looked at Lu Ningxue and asked softly.

"Very good, it's getting dark, I should go back to the Taoist temple." Lu Ningxue was still not good at words. She knew that Lu Feiluo must be having a bad time now, but she didn't want to ask. She and Lu Feiluo had been strangers nine years ago. He tried his best to save her, and now everything about her has nothing to do with him.In the past few years, she has already had a beloved woman in her heart, and that person is Su Qingchen. She loves that person so carefully. She feels that the dirty self is not worthy of such a clean woman, and she dare not let Su Qing Shen knew his unethical feelings.

"Do you still hate me? Aren't you happy that I'm ending up like this?" Lu Feiluo was unwilling to be ignored by Lu Ningxue, so she stopped Lu Ningxue.

"I'm already a monk. Everything in the past is like the past and present. It's too far away from me. After a long time, I will forget it." Lu Ningxue said in a flat tone.

"If you don't care about all this, why did you come here on purpose?" Lu Feiluo asked.

Lu Ningxue didn't know why she came here, probably because this was the place where she was born and raised, so she couldn't bear it.

"He's your brother, Zihao." Lu Feiluo pointed to the boy beside her and said to Lu Ningxue.

"I've already been kicked out of the Lu family, and I'm no longer in the Lu family." Lu Ningxue said flatly.

"We were kicked out by the government. We have nothing and no home to return to. Can you take me in?" Even though Lu Feiluo knew that she had been sorry for Lu Ningxue, she had nowhere to go now, so she could only instinctively grab Lu Ningxue's roots. driftwood.

"I've been homeless for a long time, and now I'm just a boarder of Qingfeng Taoist Temple. I'm afraid I can't do anything to find a shelter for you." Lu Ningxue said truthfully.

"Ningxue..." Lu Feiluo didn't believe that Lu Ningxue would be so unfeeling to her, and would rather die than save her.

"This is 15 taels of silver and five catties of grain and rice. You can find a place to settle down by yourself." Lu Ningxue sent the painting to the general's mansion today. In exchange for the 15 taels of silver and ten catties of grain and rice, she gave half of the grain and rice to him. Lu Feiluo, and all the money was given to Lu Feiluo.The reason why the rice grains were not given to Lu Feiluo was because the Taoist temple was also short of food, and Su Qingchen, as a big sister, was worrying about food, so these two or three times, she took paintings to the general's mansion to exchange for food.

It is a troubled time and a severe drought. Food is more expensive than money. Even if you have money, it is not easy to buy food. Every household in the city dare not sell their surplus food. I don’t know how long this troubled time and severe drought will last. .As soon as the rice shops and shops in the city started to raise prices, the General’s Mansion issued a ban, prohibiting traders from selling grain at high prices, and those who disobeyed the order would be beheaded. Now the merchants who have stored a large amount of grain dare not openly sell grain at high prices, and they are not reconciled. Selling grain at a low price, they all declared that the grain was sold out, and they were all prepared to wait and see before taking the opportunity to act.Because Xiao Jiuzheng had reminded some wealthy merchants that there would be a severe drought, these wealthy merchants had stockpiled a lot of grain and sold it secretly. People have money but can't buy grain, so the Lu family wants to transport grain out of the city.

Lu Feiluo usually looks down on this little money, but when she was kicked out of the mansion, except for clothes, other valuables were not allowed to be taken out of the mansion. Thanks to her cleverness, she hid a few pieces of gold leaves in the soles of her shoes and in her belly pocket. But she knew that the Lu family was defeated, and the money would never be enough to raise their mother and son in a pampered way, so she still had the cheek to accept the food and money that Lu Ningxue gave her.From her point of view, this is a sign that Lu Ningxue still has old feelings for her.

After Lu Ningxue saw that Lu Feiluo had accepted it, she turned and left. She probably didn't expect that her soft heart would lead Lu Feiluo into Qingfeng Taoist Temple.

After Lu Ningxue left, she ran to the tea house. She still had more than a tael of broken silver on hand. Apart from food, the prices of other things were fairly stable. Although the price of tea had also risen, it was still available.Su Qingchen has no other hobbies and his only hobby is tea tasting.Lu Ningxue counted the money, and it was only enough to buy three taels of tea. Now she regretted giving most of the money to Lu Feiluo just now.

After buying tea, Lu Ningxue immediately went back to Qingfeng Taoist temple, because there were many people blocking the front door, so Lu Ningxue entered the Taoist temple from the back door.

Although the Qingfeng Temple was rebuilt last time, and the scale of the Qingfeng Temple has been greatly expanded, more and more women have been taken in.Qingfengguan does not produce grain on weekdays, and all the grain is purchased from outside. Fortunately, Su Qingchen has always had the habit of storing grain.In addition to a lot of money given by the general's mansion before, more than ten shi of rice grains had been stored.It's just that in these troubled times, more and more women come to Qingfengguan. Originally, there were only 30 women's crowns, but now there are 70 women.Thanks to the fact that the young lady of Dugu's family is nominally in Qingfengguan, Qingfengguan can go to the government to receive three shi of rice grain every month. It could have received five shi, but because of the drought and troubled times, it has been reduced to three shi.Relying on three stones of rice per month to feed 70 to [-] people is only enough for the female champions to survive, but they cannot be full.

Every time Lu Ningxue went down the mountain to deliver paintings, except for one tael for pocket money, she would give all the tael to Su Qingchen for the expenses of the Taoist temple.In the past few months, the food has become more and more insufficient, so Su Qingchen asked her to exchange some food from the general's mansion. Although it is not much, it is better than nothing.

When Lu Ningxue came back, she handed five catties of rice to Su Qingchen. She grabbed her sleeve and waited anxiously for Su Qingchen's reaction.

"Even the General's Mansion has started to shrink their clothes and go on a diet. I'm afraid it will become more and more difficult to get food in the future." Su Qingchen took over the grain and rice, which was obviously reduced by half, and said with a serious face. She thought it was the general's mansion. Give Lu Ningxue rice grains.

"I met an old friend on the way, and I gave her the money and half of the rice grain." Lu Ningxue said honestly, she has been looking at Su Qingchen uneasy, she knows that the Taoist temple is also extremely short of food, but as a person in the Taoist temple, she Giving food to others seems not so good when you think about it.

Su Qing looked at Lu Ningxue's uneasy look, and sighed slightly in his heart.

"You earned this money from painting. You can give it to whoever you want. You don't need to feel uneasy. Over the years, you have given me all the money you earned from painting and used it on Qingfeng Temple. After all, it is Qingfeng The temple owes you." Su Qingchen said to Lu Ningxue in relief, these years, Lu Ningxue has subsidized the Taoist temple with more than 100 taels, which is not a small amount of money for anyone.Because of Lu Ningxue's subsidy, the lives of the female champions of the Taoist temple have improved a lot.

"What I do for Qingfengguan is what I should do." Lu Ningxue said in a low voice, she is so glad that she still has a little use, and can relieve Qingshen's worries and problems.

Ever since Su Qingchen stayed in Lu Ningxue's room a few years ago, their relationship has become much closer.When the Taoist temple was expanded, Su Qingchen asked someone to rebuild the firewood house. Although the room was still not big, it was much better than the previous firewood house. She didn't move out of Lu Ningxue's room.Because she found that it was more comfortable to live with Lu Ningxue than with a group of women, and it was just right to live with her and Lu Ningxue after rebuilding the house.

For so many years, Su Qingchen's treatment of Lu Ningxue is naturally different from that of other women's champions, and he will take more care of Lu Ningxue.

Seeing that Su Qingchen didn't intend to blame, Lu Ningxue breathed a sigh of relief, and then took out a small bag of tea wrapped in paper from her sleeve.

"I'll give you the tea." Lu Ningxue said shyly.

Su Qing looked at the small bag of tea, although it was smaller than the usual small bag, but she still felt warm in her heart, she knew that Lu Ningxue treated her very well, better than anyone else.As long as she goes down the mountain to deliver paintings and earns money, she will buy things for herself, such as wooden hairpins, shoes, fabrics, and even aprons, as long as she needs them, Lu Ningxue will help her buy them.On the contrary, Lu Ningxue herself rarely buys anything for herself.Su Qingshen remembered Lu Ningxue's kindness to her bit by bit.

"Thank you, don't buy me tea in the future, you should buy something for yourself." Su Qingchen said this every time, but Lu Ningxue was disobedient every time.

"I don't need anything." Lu Ningxue said with a happy smile, she just likes to be nice to Qing Shen.Although Lu Ningxue was born as a young lady, her material desires are extremely low, and she has never cared much about things outside of her body.

"It's a pity that you have no intention of cultivating the Tao, otherwise I think you must have more enlightenment than me, as if you have no desires or desires." Su Qing sighed deeply.

Lu Ningxue smirked guiltily, she felt that she was not without desires and desires at all, she felt that her greatest desire was innocence, but she never dared to show it.

"Dinner is about to start in the backyard, hurry up and eat." Su Qingchen gently touched Lu Ningxue's head and said softly.

"What about you?" Lu Ningxue asked.

"There are a lot of people begging for shelter in the front hall. I'll go and have a look. You should go back to the backyard to eat porridge first." Su Qingchen urged Lu Ningxue after finishing speaking. They would definitely leave porridge for themselves, but they would not leave porridge for Lu Ningxue , Now there is not enough food, everyone wished they could eat more, Su Qingchen was afraid that Lu Ningxue would not be able to eat, Lu Ningxue was already very thin, and couldn't get any thinner.

"En." Lu Ningxue nodded, then went to the backyard first, and ate a bowl of very thin rice porridge.

"Elder Sister, what should they do if they all stay at the gate?" The female Taoist nun who was guarding the gate asked Su Qingchen.

"You open the door, I'll talk to them." Su Qingchen said to the female Taoist nun who was guarding the door.

"We are starving to death, please take us in." The woman outside the door begged.

"The Taoist temple has no surplus food. If you are in need of food, go to the refugee resettlement office, where you can exchange food for work." Su Qingchen said.

"You are the ones who don't want to be saved, and you still practice Taoism. You are all deceitful people..." The tricky women cursed. They came from the refugee resettlement office. They really thought it was too hard, so they wanted to come to Qingfeng Hall for a meal.

"Who dares to make a noise here? If you disturb the cultivation of the young lady of the Dugu family, the young lady will blame you. Don't blame the pindao for not reminding you, and this ban was also ordered by the young lady..." Su Qingchen could only move out of Qianya Deter these refugees.

In Nine Cities, no one knew that the Dugu family could not afford to offend anyone now, and they were all silent.

The women who wanted to enter the Taoist temple gradually dispersed when they could not enter the Taoist temple.

There is only a mother and son, who have not left.

"Excuse me, is Lu Ningxue here? We are her family." After most of the people had left, Lu Feiluo suddenly asked Su Qingchen who was about to turn back to the Taoist temple.

Sure enough, Su Qingshen stopped and turned to look at Lu Feiluo and Lu Zihao.

"Who are you all?" Su Qing asked deeply.

"I am their aunt, and Zihao is her younger brother." Lu Feiluo replied.

"Then you all come in first." Su Qingchen hesitated for a moment, but still let the mother and son enter the Taoist temple, all of which were for Lu Ningxue's sake.

The Lu family, the richest man in the city, was confiscated of all his family property because of collaborating with the enemy to transport grain, while Lu Jinpeng was still in prison. The news spread quickly in the city, making other rich merchants who smuggled grain in the city feel extremely uneasy.One or two smart wealthy businessmen knew that it was impossible to sell grain at a high price, and they realized that Xiao Jiuzheng was just borrowing their warehouses to stockpile grain.Now the food is probably a hot potato, and the Lu family is trying to make an example to the monkeys, so a few smart wealthy businessmen discussed offering food to protect themselves.

The rich merchants were about to go to Dugu's house to surrender, when the guards of the general's mansion arrived, saying that the young wife of Dugu's family wanted to hear them, so they had to go tremblingly.

"The Lu family colluded with the enemy to transport food and blatantly violated the ban. Does everyone know?" Xiao Jiuzheng asked.

"The Lu family really deserves to die. In order to show our loyalty to the General's Mansion, we decided to donate all the food stored except for the necessary expenses of the Qian Mansion to the General's Mansion." The Qian family, the largest silk merchant in the city, hurried forward and said.

When Xiao Jiuzheng heard it, the corners of his mouth rose slightly. She just liked being so smart and knowledgeable about current affairs.

"My Sun Mansion is also willing to donate all the stored food to the General's Mansion." The salt merchant Sun's family also said hastily.

The other businessmen saw that both Sun Qian’s family had donated food, and they couldn’t do without it, so they all agreed one by one. In fact, everyone seemed to have cut a piece of meat from their hearts. After all, these food also consumed a lot of their money and energy. of.

"I believe that most of you are loyal to the General's Mansion. It's hard to guarantee that one or two people have different opinions. For the sake of insurance, it's safest to store your food in the General's Mansion. Of course, my General's Mansion will not treat you badly, King Ning premeditated Daye, my General’s Mansion wants to be the pawn of King Ning’s Daye, so now in the Nine Cities, we will concentrate our troops and financial resources to prepare for the war, and we really can’t spare any extra money to compensate you. How about this, how much food you donate, we I bought it at the previous year's price, and I will give you an IOU, if you succeed in your business, you can use the IOU to ask the government for money in the future, what do you think?" Xiao Jiuzheng asked with a smile.

All the rich businessmen have only one idea in their minds, aren't they all at the mercy of others now?And compared to donating food for free, it is not the worst outcome now. Although it is said to be an IOU, if the Dugu family can really win the world in the future, so many IOUs in black and white will not be ignored. There is still hope. Now we can only hope that the Dugu family can really win the world.

"We are honored to help Ning Wang's great cause, even if we don't take anything, we are willing." The rich merchants in the city said against their will with a forced smile.

"I have always kept my word. Although everyone has received the IOUs, they will definitely cash them in the future, but now if anyone dares to store food privately and be known by the General's Mansion, then they have other ideas. Don't blame us for being rude! "Xiao Jiuzheng said coldly.

Xiao Jiuzheng's words sent a chill down the spine of all the wealthy businessmen, and they didn't even dare to take a breath.